#u can tag this with ur blorbos but it is actually about my original characters Claire Calloway & Grant Montgomery

[juniperhillpatient]

yes this character is lying about every single aspect of themselves & their backstory & life & religion & their entire personality is a facade & a mask yes the love interest still gets enough of a glimpse of their soul to fall truly in love but the terrifying thing is what if it doesn’t last once the mask slips away what if the only thing anyone could ever fall in love with is the facade

[sarahowritesostucky]

Can't find that katie_delaney author by searching them here but i did find you gushing about her ghlislaine manifestos so i thought i'd ask you instead: ¿what is it about the bottom Bucky tag— aside from fangirls treating an action as a hardcoded bioessentialist identity —that attracts low self-esteem fangirls who seem like they 1: looked at all the things violent incels and manosphere misogynists think about women (namely: that women are biologically wired to enjoy rape) 2: decided their oppressors' violent fantasies about them were sexy actually and 3: chose to reinterpret these PickUpArtist/"she's asking for it" rape-glorifying human-trafficking-adjacent manifestos as mountains of erotica/smut about barely legal (if not underage) gay kids being raped by a near one-to-one recreation of incel's ideal rapey rhetorical "Chad"?

And what does it have to do with stucky? b/c even if ur low-selfesteem-driven eroticization of patriarchal violence doesn't bother you, none of these chatGPT-tier smutworks have anything even remotely to do with the characters besides a name stuck on these caricatures. But the main point is: if you fangirls are gonna look at what Andrew Tate believes about women and decide it's sexy smut material to recreate one-to-one in ur poorly written erotica, can you at least do it faithful to the original manosphere rhetoric instead of making it "gay"/about ur male blorbos that u all treat as little more than vague face fancasts to ur incel smut? Regardles of WHY you broads displace violent misogyny onto other marginalized groups, at least if you made if you kept it faithful to the incel-rhetoric that inspires ur smut & wrote about heterodynamics, at least the rest of us wouldn't have to wade through the equivalent of sewage-filled floodwaters everytime some1 tries to open a gay tag. And maybe if instead of being like "what if what Andrew Tate says abt me was about my gayrape kinks" and instead kept it about yourselves, then perhaps the searches for literally 90% of gay terminology wouldn't be fucking useless b/c of fangirls misusing gay lingo to the point that contradictory get used are interchangable as tags in ur Andrew Tate-esque barelylegal gayrape fantasies.

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What on earth?!?! 🤯

Omg you guys, I just had to chuckle. This got so intense and just more and more hilarious the further I read it. People are wild, truly.

I'm so confused right now. @katie-delaney do you have any clue what this person is rambling on about??

To this Nonnie: I hope you're okay and have someone to talk to. Please seek out an activity that brings you joy, or get thee some ashwagandha or something. There is literally child marriage in Afghanistan right now. I can't believe I actually have to say this, but humanity's got bigger problems than whatever contrived, intersectional, queer theorist bullshit you're trying to saddle my gay rape fanfiction with.

💖Sarah

[roppiepop]

Fandom discourses are inherently messy bcs it concerns how ppl interpret text and media, but i feel like when it concerns mainstream cape comics character accuracy, at the base of it, you can’t really win.

Theres a conversation to be had about mcu adaptations and the motives of streamlining characters to fit ur multibillion dollar franchise under the evil mouse corporation, fucking over the aspects of representation they try to sell to you then having these mangled versions end up being the defining incarnation to the general public.

But for my purposes this is mainly concerning dc.

The nature of the serialization for these comics being a collaborative effort of ever-changing writers in an ever-expanding universe mean that for the most part, every decision made would disservice at least one character, and consequently piss someone off.

Having books where most of its supporting characters are fully developed with their own runs seem to be a double-edged sword where there should be plenty of material to draw from and build plots around, but only under the assumption that the writers read the comics of the characters they write about.

And then in the events that a character long neglected gets brought back and remolded to be a tag-a-long in someone else’s series, or a reboot nerfs a character real bad, with whatever trickle-down effect it causes, if said characterization ends up being adopted in canon longer than their original incarnation,

At what point does that first personality become the one actually considered ooc? How much consistent appearance of what you consider ‘bad writing’ has to be there before u have to accept that making them not be like that is the deviation?

Current decisions in dc of soft reboots and having all their characters remember what happened pre-new52, but not erasing the aspects readers hated from said reboot, and not at all exploring how that knowledge would affect the characters, coupled with how they dont seem to keep track of character developments in other books, make trying to keep up with continuity itself feel like an exercise in futility.

You might get runs with the intention of repairing damages that might fix characterization issues to a point, but also feels like a regression of all the development they should’ve had.

Depending on your comic entry point, your blorbo, and what aspects of said blorbo you connect with, how you interact and which canons you adopt would be wildy varied, and like, you probably wont be wrong for it.

Its also very understandable when regarding characters that have so much history and adaptations people end up going off more accessible and streamlined incarnations, like say, a free webtoon on a big platform or other fanworks.

Is it annoying when larger fanon doesnt fit how you perceive those characters and dynamics? Sure. Are they wrong? Well??? Again, thats free game.

Fandom has always been drawn to exploration and extrapolation, and the way mainstream superhero comics are written dont tend to linger on big character/plot beats. Theres plenty of play room and its easy to headcanon someone one way or another.

Sometimes it can end up creating a more in-depth and nuanced version of a character you’d probably never see in the hand of canon writers, other times they get flattened in all the wrong angles.

But being a fan of mainstream cape comics is so rarely rewarding, the nature of it really is to just pick and choose whatever parts of it brings you the most joy. No one wins in this dnsnsnsns.

That tweet that said ‘the best way to enjoy fandom is to keep it between you and 3 or 4 likeminded friends’ really is the best way to keep u sane in these things.