#this also is not a vaguepost btw

[exoflash]

You know what. I genuinely find the view of villainous or morally grey characters in some fandom circles fascinating. More specifically, how fans of those characters are treated.

Note: i am NOT talking about meta, when a character does something crappy that's treated as perfectly okay. That's just bad writing. I'm solely talking about fandoms.

The MCU fandom is particularly guilty of this. There's a trend there where essentially, if you're a fan of a grey or villainous character, people will villainize said fans themselves and treat them as if they're saying "I think everything this character did is okay", rather than "I think this character is interesting from a writing standpoint", or even more common, "hehe. they're silly :3" Compare this to, say, the Doctor Who fandom, where people literally call the Master babygirl and scrimblo sckrunkle the third. Even though that character is arguably FAR more evil than, say, Wanda. Absolutely insane difference

Villains are written to be likable. Every character is technically written to be likable. It is not a thoughtcrime to like a fictional character, they are all pieces of a machine that function together. Liking a character does not equal justification of their actions.

Fandom needs to learn critical thinking and media analysis, desperately.

[sleepnoises]

i got laid off a bit ago, which is not!! the main point of this post, being laid off is a beautiful american coming of age ritual and i am growing from the experience, etc (i am also sulking so much as you might guess from not talking about it) (but materially i'm currently fine)

the MAIN point of this post is that a tumblr user keeps making posts about their niche hobby, like informational introductory posts, that are popular enough to drift across my dash. and all of the posts are ALWAYS sourced from my tiny former employer. this one guy loves doing unpaid promotion for my ex job so much. AND unfortunately they aren't responding to me thinking negative things at them really loudly!!!

[transgenderprototype]

Ill go onto someone's profile and their pinned post will have like "DNI IF YOU SUPPORT [insert artist] ILL BLOCK YOUR ASS IF YOU REBLOG THEIR ART anyway u can dm me if you want more info on why i have a vitriolic hatred for this person, i pwomise it wont be biased and full of bullshit :3"

Ill be like "okay thats fucking stupid, im not dm'ing them for what'll clearly be a biased response. I should probably look more into it.

I find out why.

"Oh these are lies. These are lies being spread because someone leaked a queer person's nsfw alt and found something they could twist into being "morally wrong" and theyre still continuing as the artist clarifies that what they drew isnt [whatever theyre trying to twist it into]."

[saucerfulofsins]

anyway have some of you considered that actually, maybe, some people in the fandom are upset with being told eddie cannot possibly suffer from internalized homophobia whatsoever because we're in our 30s ourselves and we were there as teens in the 2000s and shit fucking sucked and we carry the negative stereotypes we were fed with us every single day YAY!

[butchnavi]

GIRL THE MOST RANDOM ACCOUNT I FOLLOW ADDED ME ON CFS WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME

[doodlingwren]

It's 2024 can we please stop saying it's normal to trace or copying an entire drawing and pretending it's 100% your work? Just bc you changed the character or added clothes on a base you found on pinterest it doesn't mean you created original art

[friendofthecrows]

I miss that brief golden era from like 2012 to 2016 when the online witchcraft community was actually good and full of open minded people looking to learn more and share what they know plus maybe the occasional vampire middle schooler instead of the situation now where it's been taken over by capitalist tiktok transphobes who like to come up with ways to shift to hogwarts via their inherent magical vagina powers and then sell coated quartz to cure cancer instead of seeing doctors.

[raspberryjellybrains]

i hate being aroflux sometimes like wdym i yearn but only occasionally. turn that shit off.

[kikimorart]

i put a lot of Thought into my ocs and by Thought i mean i don't know what their last name is but i know the area they grew up relied on grains and root vegetables with lower protein intake in their diet

[scarycranegame]

ah yes. very good friends (they're homosexuals your honor)

[no-psi-nan]

Sometimes I come up with truly banger headcanons / ideas but I'm saving them for a project so you don't get to hear about them for a long time (or ever if I don't get around to finishing it or you don't read my fics) and that's very sad.

But I shan't kneecap my projects by killing half the novelty in them so it is what it is.

[kerryweaverlesbian]

*Taps microphone* hi, hello, sorry to disturb, ha, I'll be quick. I just wanted to say that - you can hear me alright? Yes, sorry, okay, just wanted to check, ha, alright - just wanted to say that there is misogyny in the cw's supernatural and it's not intentional and it's not hysterical women fans having only a surface level understanding of the text and it was called out in 2005 and should continue to be called out for as long as the show exists because it is pervasive, insidious, cruel and above all extremely fucking stupid and should be mocked from every rooftop. Thank you and good- goodnight, oh god, almost knocked over the microphone on my way out, haha, good thing nothing else embarrassing is going to- ahhh, uh oh, woahhhhh!!!!!! Oh no I seem to have knocked over the trays of custard pies laid out for this wedding that we are all currently attending and they're headed straight for the bridal party (and there are TWO brides because after all this is a feminist occasion as you all know!!!)!!! Somebody needs to dive across the room and eat every pie as they fly through the air before they can land!!!! No!!!!!! Not the mother of the bride's elderly diabetic old bitch (as in female dog for real)!!! She is sacrificing herself for the greater good by launching through the air and eating all the pies, but at too great a cost*!!!! Oh I've really beansed this one up!!!!!!!!!!

(*the cost is being very farty for a few days, but our hero does not know this at the time)

[kingsmany]

I genuinely think fandom does not understand how “gay” cishet men are for each other… like yes I am all for the headcanons and the ships but “there’s no platonic explanation” does not apply like ever, I have seen straight dudes literally slap each other’s arses and they’re still straight because they aren’t attracted to dudes, straight guys jokingly flirt with each other all the time

[hauntingofhouses]

hi, it's me. the fic writer that uses culturally-specific idioms in a very different cultural time setting and keeps confusing words like reign and rein. this is my story.

[aintnopartylikeaprideparty]

IM CACKLING FIRST YOU COME FOR MY NARRATOR VAGUEPOSTING AND THEN MY AFTON THIRST. HOW DARE U /LHLH

YOU CAN NEVER GET PAST ME>:))

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

[rotisseries]

just remembered in march how I scrounged through the entire ellabs ao3 tag on some sort of feverish mission after binging playthroughs of both tlou games in the span of about 3 days. who else here remembers that