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Fandom Problem #9194:

I'm getting increasingly worried about people giving more care and worry over the well being of dots and lines that cannot feel over actual flesh and blood people and it DEFINITELY needs to be made into a discussion.

Please, you can love a character but they are not more important than a real person.

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Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

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This is the worst timeline. (x)

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every mother who’s critiqued her daughter’s appearance based on ~what men do or do not like~ owes that child an apology

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Fandom Problem #8933:

It feels more and more like GNC characters just aren't allowed to exist anymore. Nowadays anyone who doesn't strictly conform to gender stereotypes gets headcanoned as trans or non-binary, especially if they're a crossdresser or have issues with their gender in canon, even if there's a very clear reason for it that's not dysphoria (see Astolfo, Mordred, and sometimes Artoria from the Fate series). It'd be one thing if they stayed in their own little corner and stuck to writting fanfic about it, and some of them do, but some of them get obnoxious and attack people who don't hold the same headcanons or even accuse the people who created the characters of being transphobic if they do anything that contradicts their headcanons (like certain fans of Naoto from Persona 4 and Chihiro from Dangan Ronpa).

It honestly kind of feels like we're just reinventing gender stereotypes in the name of being inclusive or something.

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Fandom Problem #8927:

Feeling like a lot of the minors new to fandom are trying to LARP Logan's Run with the ageism. Pretty shoddy. Wait until they learn companies like LEGO actually have official terms for adults who still enjoy creating stuff with the pieces, and most published authors and fans of things in general are also adults.

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#read the god damn tags kids. #kids not everything is made for you.

Fandom Problem #8908:

I absolutely hate it when younger fans get into a fandom with dark source material. They ignore “MDNI,” and all the tags that tell them what to expect and still put us on blast as if we’re freaky weirdos for writing fanfics that are as dark as its source material. That’s not to say some folks go too far, but I mean like: if you’re reading a fanfic from the Song of Ice and Fire fandom, don’t b me shocked if it’s full of murder and incest.

We didn’t even HAVE tags when I first got into fanfics. People are literally spoiling their own stories to keep you from being traumatized.

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honestly wei yings misunderstandings about lan wangji were 100% understandable like imagine a nun yelling at you and insisting you cover up your ankles. and youre like holy shit this lady is old fashioned and a total puritan. then she reveals no actually i have a huge ankle fetish and being around you makes me so horny i want to become an enemy of the church for you. you'd never fucking see that coming.

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HC that Ning Yingying is transfem and Shen Jiu loves her so much because she made the “right decision”

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Fandom Problem #8821:

I have no issues with powerscalers. If you wanna debate, if unnamed character #325 from bleach could defeat unnamed character #624 from Naruto, go ahead. It's fine more power to you

But powerscalers who do it on posts not about powerscaling are super annoying.

If i say my favorite character is, let's say natsu from fairy tail, and you reply with "luffy easily beats natsu"

I hate you.

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I’m just gonna run full blast to the other side of the room. You’re good tho — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3DW2dnE

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Fandom Problem #8677:

15 years ago: "Never give out ANY information about yourself online!! Never include ANY identifying details on your profile! Keep yourself safe!"

Now: "Why won't you list personal identifying details in your bio? How will I know if you're actually a safe person? I have to assume you're sketchy and must have something to hide! Also here's an exhaustive list of all of my traumas and a detailed guide to the easiest ways to trigger me."

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Fandom Problem #8588:

It drives me crazy when people write a hurt/no comfort fic but then tag it with hurt/comfort instead of hurt/no comfort. I don't want to read a bunch of angst thinking things will get better at the end, only for them not to

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new scam just dropped

We know of the scammers that dwell on Discord, Twitter, or Bsky, and ask you to commission them, either giving you an AI generated picture or charging you 300$ and giving you something they commissioned on Fiverr for 5$ . I literally have a whole-ass guide on them. Then there's the ones who ask for commissions, trying to get you to draw their pet or whatever, then sending you a fake cheque or something, which has been very common on Tumblr. This post explains it well.

But now we're bringing the first type of scam (where someone tries to force you to commission them) onto tumblr! Our buddy miruuuwuu here is going to provide a really good example. Let's start with the circumstances this happened in. I got two DMs from this account, who had followed me few minutes prior to DMing. As always, I checked their profile first.

Few things to note in here that already told me this was a scammer: The account had a grand total of two posts in their profile, posted four hours ago. Nothing else. Completely empty account. The "femenine" name and the anime pfp already were kinda suspicious alongside this. A large portion of the "commission me" scammers will have a generic anime profile picture and a woman's name. The generic-ass description didn't help.

And well, since I haven't got this type of scammer on tumblr before, I decided to go along with it, because there's something inherently funny about some scammer trying this with someone who's specifically been doing guides about scammers for years. You will notice that my responses are rather mean, which... ngl I like being sassy about scammers what can I say

First initial impression: This person was trying very hard to try to be friends with me. Very weird from a complete random who just followed. The weirdest part here is, of course, how they instantly dismiss me saying "I'm not sure I think" about their random attempts to be like "you're my friend now" and simply proceed with their script. Now, this scammer is SLIGHTLY more specific than usual, since they mentioned DnD- which is closer to my interests than they tend to target. So uh, props to that I guess.

They inmediately tried to inquiry about my character. At this point, I know they'd be offering to draw them for money. I know these scammers tend to steal people's art as examples, so I just grabbed some shitty AI-generated tiefling from google. If they steal that and then try to use it as an example for someone else, I hope they can easily realize this is a scam. Notice how little they care about me being very rude and short-responsed: They're following a script. Afterwards, they sent me an example of "their OC". Alongside a massive AI-generated backstory that has no relation whatsoever to the character, which is supposedly a half elf.

I decide to poke a bit about it. Their response is pretty detached to someone who would actually know about RP or anything. "My setting's elves are green" would've been great. But nope, they immediately jump to trying to share me more examples of their art, and send me about 6-7 pictures in rapid fire. Some of them stolen, some of them traced, some of them commissioned from people in Fiverr for five bucks.

And then we jump immediately to the core of the scam: asking me to commission them. I already knew this was coming, but let's go for it. Their entire massive blurb on how they "work on paid and unpaid platforms" is extremely unhinged to read as an artist myself, but sure, whatever they wanna use to tell me why I gotta pay them. THE CRUCIAL PART HERE IS: YOU SHOULD NEVER COMMISSION PEOPLE WHO DMED YOU FIRST AT RANDOM! I have seen WAY too many people fall for this. If an "artist" DMs you to ask you to commission them, block them! Legitimate artists WON'T do that unprompted! I have way more information in the guide I linked in the first paragraph, but yeah.

At this point, these scams tend to go in different ways. If you insist you can't pay for them, they often will jump to guilt tripping you, or bringing some sob story on how they need money desperately. We had one in our Discord trying to convince two different people to commission them with entirely different stories (one of them was "I need to buy a gift for my wife" and the other one was "i need to buy hearing aids ASAP!!!"). DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SOB STORIES. They're just trying to get you to feel bad and agree even if you're suspicious.

This is the point where I just stopped going ahead with the conversation. They will try to haggle you. You tell them you have 100 bucks, they'll try to raise 150. A lot of artists online tend to have a pricing guide, a website, some sort of TOS kinda stuff. They won't try to see how much they can milk out of you by testing the waters. Again, please check out this guide if you're suspecting anything weird, or even feel free to DM me if you need someone to double check. Don't put your money on these scams: They will either run with your money, commission someone in the global south on fiverr for literal cents, or they'll just get you some AI generated mess.

Anyways, many thanks to miruuuwuu for helping me put together this post, very kind of them to let me know this scam is now coming on tumblr too!

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Fandom Problem #8500:

When people racebend, specicifally characters like Disney princesses and other fairytale characters, including Hollywood themselves and try to apply American race history to movies set in EUROPE, as well as the irony:

POC: "Representation matters because of white supremacy! Those Europeans abused and mistreated us and erased our culture!!"

Also them: "Rapunzel's German heritage has nothing to do with her character she can be a POC! Snow White can be Latina despite being German! The Witcher characters can be black even though the Polish influence is very heavily tied to the franchise!!"

In a nutshell: They're mad at Europeans for their mistreatment of POC and attempts at erasing their culture, yet instead of even reimagining European fairytales in a POC setting, such as Sleeping Beauty in Japan instead of France, they want to backpedal off the originals. They claim Europeans are appropriating and erasing their culture and how that's a problem, but they want to be tied to Europe. They complain about how evil Europeans are and how racist white people are but when you want a European to stay European, they suddenly want to be in stories that originate in Europe, the continent they complain about. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!!! Either you hate Europe and want your culture represented or you don't and need to stop criticizing people who criticize the racebending in The Witcher, Little Mermaid, Tangled (a lot of people want Rapunzel to be Indian), April O'Neil, etc. Why d you want to be tied to Europe so much when you whine about how bigoted Europeans are?

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"people are allowed to be grossed out"

ok. keep it to yourself. it's the polite thing to do. if i'm not enjoying food someone made, that i get to eat for free, i'm not gonna shit all over their cooking and personal tastes

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Proship isn't "pro fetishization." You're being lied to for political reasons. You don't know what words mean. Proship means you're anti harassment.

You are not pro kink if you're anti ship. You are a bootlicker if you're anti ship.

"be gay do crime! Unless you write fanfiction I don't like because then I'll sic the feds on you uwu"

If you disagree with this post, read it again.