#there are characters in some fandoms i just dont vibe with

[crqelsummer]

also bc it still makes me batty going thru the respective mh*a tags: being critical of a character doesnt mean shitting on them while ignoring core pieces of them!! it just means you dont like them!!

[8cfc00]

augh who up feeling like they should be humanely euthanised for liking media the wrong way... sorry for fandomising certain characters but not fandomising others enough in the right way.

[13eyond13]

Can't stress enough how much I appreciate that many fans of this series are fine with pointing out and acknowledging the flaws in their faves and seeing those flaws as part of the essential flavoring rather than something to erase or constantly get offended about people noticing

[sonknuxadow]

also by read the comics i mean ACTUALLY read them. not gotten an idea of what scourge is like through fanart/fanfic or scanned some wiki pages or something

[cyronite]

im so used to how finely curated my fandom experience is with star wars that im actually suffering trying to navigate the fallout fandom rn.

[katyspersonal]

[starswallowingsea]

how do u take a post about how people treat aro and ace characters in media/headcanons and make it only about ace people.

[butmemostly]

there is not enough 92sies sprace. i know what you all are doing. 92sies fans did not get on their knees and pick up crumbs to ship spot and race for the rest of us to run off with it and apply it to livesies where not only do they not even directly interact, but fanon prefers because they find the actors more attractive, and then proceed to boil their characters down to 1-2 traits each and ship them in a weird almost f/tishy "dumb feminine man x angry masculine man" way. guys this is a class war not the yaoi war.

[x-neurotoxin-x]

It's always strange to me when ppl get several chapters into a fix then complain about it. Like homie you're 3 chapters in, you've read like 15k of this fic and now you're bitching? Lmao you look like a fan, why are you wasting your time reading and commenting if you dislike the story/dynamics/characterizations/etc? It's just not for you.

[redstrewn]

I wonder if vere doesnt get w anyone bc its just too easy to stop caring about others (im projecting)

Edit: no hes probably too passionate for that. He doesnt wanna get w ppl bc he knows he'll be a slave to love probably.

His fatal flaw is wanting power so love would be a weakness

[mixtercandy]

are your requests still open? and also do you have any fandoms/characters you REFUSE to draw?

don’t want to ask for things your uncomfortable with drawing, yk?

For the first part:

My requests r usually always open! it just takes time to get to some asks so its not like im never not taking rqs!

as for fandoms i refuse to draw-

•both of v*vzipop's shows r huge no-nos for me personally

•genshin is iffy for requests (unless its a comm or a close friend) so probably not

•i dont need to say anything abt terf-wizard-books or h*talia of course, i wouldnt touch that stuff

•most adult shows (i like bops burgrs tho) cus i know some of them have fandoms (wont name names)

and for characters

•william afton (cus he's like an old guy n i cant draw those, also can't vibe)

•most anipoke original characters cus im more attached to game characters n i dont vibe wit ash... (but i do vibe wit sawyer, horace & mairin tho!)

•like 2-3 of the girl pokemon protags cus i dont trust some of their fans (im so sorry girlies)

•h*soka

ty for the ask anon!! hapy to know theres ppl like u that ask abt boundaries & what stuff to avoid when rqs'n!!

[lovelikeatruck]

I wanted to go on a blocking spree on twt but mk fans get super aggressive over that so nvm I guess

[everyurlithinkofistoolong]

When ST fans interpret every antagonistic character to be a child molester for some reason

[curiouschaosstarlight]

(*Quick clarification, 'cause I feel like I should say this right away, I don't mind people not liking or even being really uncomfortable with certain characters, especially villains that have canonically done some really horrible stuff, even if I happen to really love the character in question! It's all in the Handling of the topic, and someone that's like "oh they're just not my cup of tea" or just don't want to talk about the character at all 1000000% has my respect and appreciation <3)

-claps-

So.

On the topic of demonizing characters that have violent or angry responses to their trauma

The thing about it that really gets my goat is the fact that I as a person have had anger problems ever since I can remember. I've had a pretty bad mix of anxiety and anger problems due to being traumatized, and have had to work really, really hard to get my knee-jerk temper under control, and really nothing fucks you up like thinking you're "fixed" but the reality winds up being you just were in a state of "nothing too stressful's happened lately" and then when things start getting incredibly stressful again, you realize you still have more work to do and you have to watch yourself way more than you thought.

I'm still not "fixed", and, after talking extensively with a therapist, I'm kind of just going to have to be okay with that; still trying to do right by the people I care about and not be an asshole about things, but I'm just going to have to live with the fact that in response to high anxiety and high stress, I become an angry person, and I'm not always going to be able to remember to take a step back from a situation when I feel myself getting heated (my success rate in this is going up at least)

So It Really.

Really.

Bothers Me.

When fandom tries to claim that a character isn't traumatized, or isn't traumatized enough, because their response to that trauma is to be violent and angry and malicious. And when they try to claim that because a character reacted this way, they're just evil and irredeemable and have no further depth to them, and any attempt to add depth (even canonical depth) to them is "wrong (and a sign the person doing it is an Abuser/Terrible Person irl)" or is "woobifying them".

And yeah. Part of what bothers me is that I tend to fall very hard for villain/antagonist characters that handle trauma badly, or otherwise have signs that they probably have some trauma they haven't exactly worked through, especially when that villain character gets to have a redemption arc. (And I do NOT mean that as "they cast away everything they were before and completely denounce and despise who they used to be and go through the whole repent and penance number". Give me more villain characters who are TRYING, who are STRUGGLING, who have conflicted feelings, who aren't an entirely new person and shouldn't be left to just wallow in self-hatred over it because!! no one!! deserves!! to wallow in self-hatred!! I want redemption arcs in the form of "person who did wrong is doing their best to be a better person" and NOT "character needs to suffer and be heartbroken and sad and unable to move on forever", I hate when I see people writing the latter shit, Idc what the character canonically did, no one who's genuinely trying deserves to be perpetually miserable and it is Highkey Concerning to see that attitude happen again and again) Plus, I LOVE media and character analysis, it is MY JAM, and.

Yeah.

I've got a lot of feelings that go into this kinda stuff. It's why when I see "no nuance!! just evil!!!"-type takes, that shit really boils my blood.

And is also why I don't actively participate in fandom anymore.

Like, yeah, I make some posts here and there. And I'd love to interact more with like-minded people -- I really love talking to others about characters and media and ships and all that good stuff!!

But I don't go searching for fandom stuff unless it's some art in a completely different language. After my last two fandoms went absolutely horrifically for me in two different ways, I think my trust in modern fandoms is just gone, and I don't think it's coming back.

There's only so many times a person can be told they're inherently evil (indirectly) or badwrong and stupid (directly) for a simple fucking opinion over goddamn fiction of all things.

[alister312]

wah

[radrobotz]

its kind of funny that i have slendytubbies ocs. and like. ive never actually played that ive never Watched gameplay of that maybe like a boss battle once for a couple minutes not significant enough for me to remember anything