#the fandom is not a monolith
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the tomfoolery of being like 'if you don't like then block and move on' only to then go one many a rant complaining about being blocked by the very people who you don't want interacting with your posts. like. what the fuck is going on?
#this fandom is a joke and y'all are not serious people#disagreeing with a take is not harassment#asking you to not tag your character hate with the character name is not harassment#you are not being bulled#you are not being ostracized#you were a dick#and people are acting accordingly#if you want to talk about being a mature adult#then you need to accept that people don't want to fuck with you#don't want to have a conversation#they just want to block and ignore#as you and your friends have told them to do over and over since this bs started#the fandom is not a monolith#and you cannot expect it to be#grow the fuck up#and if you're going to malign my moots and act like there's some campaign to harass that one user#if you believe that? unfollow my ass right now
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What's actually biphobic is lumping all bi people into one bucket. Bisexual people are not a monolith - just because you are uncomfortable with someone (a fictional fucking character no less) potentially fucking around and exploring parts of themself that they hadn't realized existed before doesn't mean everyone is.
Some bisexual people are slutty (affectionate). Some date casually. Some only want serious relationships. Some don't want a relationship at all. Some bi people even *gasp* enjoy threesomes.
There's no wrong way to be bi and acting like there's a "wrong" kind of bi representation because it isn't specifically what you want to see is actually biphobic. Hope this helps :)
#the way fandom purity culture keeps evolving makes me sick to my stomach#i mean come on y'all#it's really not that hard#bi people are not a monolith#this is obviously related to 911 but applied in general
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Canon Azul: Avid capitalist, willing to cheat others into servitude, and quite competent. Takes amusement in toying with his prey. Despite this, he does have his own pride and is ultimately a teenage boy.
Fanon Azul: Literally the biggest woobie boy ever. Will cry if you don't tell him you love him every five seconds.
Canon Jade: Rather similar to Azul in mindset. He too is willing to mess with others for his own gain. However, unlike Azul, he doesn't usually have the motive of gaining anything, he simply desires amusement. Despite his ordinarily composed demeanor, he is also a teenage boy at the end of things, and does have occasional moments of vulnerability like in his tsum event.
Fanon Jade: Literally Satan himself. The actual incarnate of malice. He eats people. He ate your grandmother. Now he's abusing you.
Just- how are the fanon perceptions of these two fairly similar characters so different? How is it that when Azul ordered Jade to wring Floyd out, it was "typical capitalist octopus behavior", but when Jade complied, it was "super messed up, it's unbelievable he'd do something like that". I swear, Jade could breathe and there'd be someone out there calling him an evil bastard for doing it, meanwhile Azul literally could commit war crimes and that same person would say "awww little capitalist tako bbg"
#tina rambles#azul ashengrotto#jade leech#why#what did Jade even do?#is it his facade#azul has one too#his robes vignette?#because he was literally gathering that information for azul#who was very happy and willing to use private magicam accs#i swear to SOME people (not everyone ofc i know fandom isn't a monolith and this fandom is very nice actually ^^) azul can do do wrong#and jade can do no right
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as someone who's been doing fandom stuff for over twenty years, i think one of the most important lessons you can learn is not everything is for you. we're all nerds on the internet, banding together because we feel at least a little unhinged about our favourite shows/movies/ect. there's going to strong opinions any way you slice it, and other people's opinions won't always align with yours. maybe someone is obsessed with a character you don't like or a pairing that makes no sense to you, but that person still has as much of a right to be in the space as you do. that doesn't mean you have to interact with those ideas, i'm a big proponent of blocking whoever or whatever you need to, but you don't get to tell them to stop just because you personally don't like it.
obviously, there are cases where this doesn't apply. if a take is super racist/homophobic/transphobic or someone is using their personal headcanon to harrass others, then absolutely that's something that should be addressed. but if it's just something harmless that irks you personally, you need to understand that that is a you problem and not a them problem. and, quite frankly, if you can't come to terms with that, maybe fandom isn't for you.
#fandom#this isn't about the current discourse but it's also not not about that you know?#listen i have literally left fandoms before because i super don't agree with most of the takes#sometimes that's what you have to do#fandom is a community and communities are not a monolith you get to control#either learn to block the things you don't like/uplift the things you do or leave ���♀️
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lord knows I do not have the capacity to explain it right now but I have so much disdain for how heteronormative and nuclear this fandom is hellbent on making destiel and lord knows I have an even bigger hatred for how jack is used to fuel it.
#just say you hate actual queer men and fuck off girl#you don’t want queer representation you want something palatable and sanded down and. Buzzfeed-ified I don’t fucking know#or even just how basic masculinity is treated in the fandom like oh my fucking god. queer men are not a monolith of effeminate nail painters#I am so tired and angry and I want to fall asleep but I can’t so here you get this#cal.txt#spn#supernatural#spn fandom#fandom critical#destiel#dean winchester#castiel#domestic destiel#jack kline#baby jack#you treat cas like a diet woman and dean like he eats raw liver for breakfast and jack looks like fucking junie b jones for some reason#I hate it here I truly really do and yet I can’t leave because I also love it
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I love my sharksona so much.. HI MONOLITH
#furry#furry community#art#furry art#furry fandom#artists on tumblr#digital art#fanart#furrydrawing#furry character#furry oc#oc#oc art#sharksona#shark art#shark girl#monolith#digital drawing
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i'm a fandom person through and through but i wish more shows would give less of a shit what fandom wants
#fandoms aren't monolithic and like every bitch wants something else#so stick to the story YOU want to tell#i don't think there has ever been a good instance of fan service#or one that didn't become grating upon rewatches
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An interesting note about the movie is the way it approaches violence, there’s a bunch of interpretations already and I’m by no means the first. However, what I’ve noticed in my last few rewatches was how the film seems to take violence as a learned thing rather than an inherent human trait. (A much more common interpretation broadly).
In the book it’s much more clearly laid out but the group of man apes we follow are on the brink of dying out. They’re starved and a bit behind, the land they rely on to forage is bleak and picked through. They’re weak from starvation and overall very passive as even herbivores seem to knock them about and do better. There’s no memory, no thought really— they can’t go far even if the thought occurred to them. It is only through the monoliths influence that they begin to pick up tools, to hunt and fight and truly live instead of barely surviving. Now, violence was not introduced by the monolith - we see clearly the world around them is full of it— nor would tools be never used if not for its influence. It merely sped along the process, utilizing the time these man apes did not have. As the natural evolutionary time it would take them to realize this wouldn’t be met this group would starve before hand.
On the discovery we see a similar case of passivity, this time in the modern evolved man. This time the world surrounding them is not nearly as harsh and dangerous— in fact it’s coddling! While the nature of space travel is a incredible risk we see their world is comfortable and abundant. They have all the food, water, air, shelter they would need— in fact this world could operate very well on its own without them at all. Their position, unknown to them- or perhaps known deep down- is arbitrary. Hal is sort of like an all encompassing mother- their provider and world. They have no need for violence, though they know of it and are capable of it. In this case it is not the monolith’s influence but own instinct. This time man has the proper drive for survival and the tools to ensure that it lives.
On the discovery violence is influenced by circumstance- self preservation. Both from Hal (with additional influence of illness) and Frank and Dave. Interesting both the human and computer sides have the same goal: preservation of the mission and preservation of the self.
However evolved it shows there’s still a sense of primitive nature to the species as when a problem arises violence quickly becomes the only solution. Like with the ape men Dave and Frank must quickly abandon passivity when the land around them begins to fail (Hal, their world malfunctions. Just as the land around the apes is dead). They can no longer be a dependent. You can’t leave mother so you must kill her in this case.
To tie this back to- something- I was going somewhere initially. I think it shows a part of both the monolith’s plan but also a general lesson. To evolve past violence you must first know it.
There’s nuance to this, especially when comparing these examples of violence for survival vs. the more irrational type (war, countries fighting) examples we see later on. However I want to keep this brief so I can remain writing something coherent but the eventual idea is that humanity will evolve even past necessary violence into something like Dave becomes (again book has a whole thing on the alien theory. Strictly 2001 speaking)
#2001 a space odyssey#2001 aso#dave bowman#frank poole#hal 9000#2001 meta#fandom essay#the monolith#metaphor#symbolism#interpretation#meta
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Uh...
Where is all this Black Jason Todd discourse coming from?! Because, last time I checked, headcanoning Jason as Black is not exactly all that popular. Unless I'm missing a huge subset of his fandom; I've yet to come across the mob of He Did Nothing Wrong girlies who are deadass that Jason anti's swear run Butstan Twitter/Tumblr.
#Jace speaks#Granted#When I say 'all this discourse' I rly just mean seeing any at all#I've seen five posts about it in the past week#And that doesn't seem like a lot#But there's literally one (1) blog I've come across in the past month posting Black Jason Todd content#And it's run by a Black person#So#Anyway#Friendly reminder that I do not want to hear your thoughts about Jason being racebent to be Black if you aren't Black#The five (5) people I've found who headcanon him as Black since being dragged into this fandom about a year ago have all heen Black#And - I can't believe I have to tell people this but it bears repeating - race and class overlap#Idk#We ain't a monolith#Obviously there are gonna be Black people who find this headcanon to be distasteful#And that's fine#But *I* do not see the problem when it is Black people making the content#Emphasis on the *Black*#This is not carte blanche for white people to make these headcanons#I don't trust you motherfuckers#Jason Todd
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btw for reference whenever I talk about "the warrior cats fandom" as a whole, I am usually not talking specifically about here on tumblr but rather all the different fandom spaces I have exposure to (twitter, YouTube, and friend circles/discord being ones I participate in and reddit and the wcrpforums as ones i avoid)
#whenever I talk abt the fandom like it's a monolith I get a lot of people saying 'what I've never heard anyone say this'#so 2 be clear I'm aware the fandom is not a monolith but also I am not making up strawmen to complain at#a lot of people on different websites have different opinions#and also people do have bad takes on tumblr too sorry lmao. I think i had to block that confessions blog
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Yahoo! Everyone loves a shark girl! I was lucky to be allowed to draw Monolith, a very lovely lady owned by @eukoi (also an epic artist, go check em out!)
#fanart#oc artwork#oc artist#shark furry#shark anthro#sharks are cool#monolith#my artwork#my art#traditional art#furry fandom#gift art
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Why are some TB individuals on twitter always loosing their shit and behave like rabid monkeys under artwork that uses a dany quote or other Targ/Valyrian related stuff which has the green Targs pictured. Like these quotes are so inflationary used but y’all loose your shit when it’s under a green artwork. It’s not that deep and y’all playing 🤓☝️ just shows the insecurity you have. Like just scroll past it instead of throwing a tantrum like a child.
#hotd fandom#hotd discourse#the behavior I’ve seen makes me legit believe they’re children#anyways I had to post this since it’s not the first time I encountered this annoying behavior#I’m gonna tag this anti Team black but It doesn’t really fit since I don’t want to lump all together#they aren’t a monolith#anti team black#it are only just some quotes#chill out#pd talks#team green
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hi so I just watched Bridgerton for the first time (not done w/ season 3 tho) and you're one of my fav ao3 authors, so I was thrilled to see you've written some fic! I also looked thru your bridgerton tag bc I like your takes on media, and I saw that you considered an Anthony/Edwina fic at one point. No pressure but if you ever wanted to return to that idea I'd love to read it, I love Kanthony but I think there's potential for some interesting stuff with Anthwina (?) Anyway thanks for reading!
hah, yes, i do have a terrible widower AU fic in the drafts, and it might some day get finished and see the light of day! the bridgerton fandom is kind of crazy tho, and apparently incredibly intolerant of multishippers, but at least i know a few of you guys will appreciate it.
#doomed to be a multishipper and a fan of rarepairs in monolithic fandoms that have chained themselves to canon in toxic ways#replies#to write
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incredibly cold take but i really do not understand how bl*od/weave became the most popular origin/origin ship, both for each character or like. just in general. like they both make way more sense in a romance with wyll than with each other and more compelling cases could also def be made for gale/shadowheart (both having a crisis of faith and struggling to define their identity outside of said faith) and astarion/karlach (touch-averse vs touch-starved and jaded pessimism vs boundless optimism). hell i'd even see gale/lae'zel before i'd see gale with astarion. they simply do not like or respect each other. it's literally anders/fenris all over again tbh.
#madelyn rambles#i think the prevalence at least in fandom spaces#comes from either gale fans or astarion fans wanting to play their respective origin#to see all of their specific scenes and such#but they also want to do a romance#and for a lot of gale fans the next best romance is astarion#and vice versa#so it's become this monolith among a lot of fans#that act like it's just such an obvious pairing#and ofc ship and let ship it's not that deep#but they're really missing the forest for the trees here lmao#sometimes things that are popular or worse etc etc
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#minecraft#tumblr polls#rpf#it's been bugging me for the last few years#it seems everyone's opinions are all over the place#not that i expect any fandom to be a monolith#but i wanna understand where most of us are coming from#idk. if anything else just humor me here#yogscast#hermitcraft#dreamsmp
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thought of this bc of the last post but I hate when people say a certain historical figure was ahead of their time just bc they had progressive views or whatnot. And I'm looking at many things written about Roger Williams here just as an example, because yes, his ideas were hugely progressive, but they were also firmly rooted in 17thC nonconformism (and those things don't have to be contradictory!). To act as though he was just.. ahead of his time ignores the reality and nuance of his beliefs.
And, to say his progressive beliefs automatically make him ahead of his time, a product of the distant future rather than his present, is also to say that people in the 1600s weren't progressive; that progressivism simply didn't exist. Which clearly it did, and it always has. Roger's progressive ideas are inescapably a product of his time, just as much as the ideas of the Massachusetts Bay leaders who banished him are a product of the same time. The past is just as capable of producing opposing ideas as the present is.
There have always been people pushing and fighting for progressive ideals, and to act like everybody pre-2000 or pre-1950s or whatever all held totally regressive beliefs is to the deny the history and the existence of the people who were fighting for our rights and for the same things we're still fighting for now, and that's a disservice to them and to us.
#the past is not a monolith#there have Always been people fighting against the status quo#though conservatives perhaps would not like for you to know that.#history#history fandom#idk how to tag this
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