#+ saw a ship that makes me uncomfortable that didn't have the tag i blocked so that made me feel even worae

[bluegekk0]

me: i'm having a pretty good day!

negative feelings i struggle to put into words: hi

[worriedvision]

Dan Heng with a reader who has been in a private relationship with him and getting more and more jealous as others talk about how cute he is, and them going to ask him out. Ofc he says no but it grating at them over time until they have an argument where Dan calls the reader overly protective and saying something he really didn't mean. Basically the reader stops meeting up with him at the usual date spots because they've had enough of worrying about others asking Dan out.

Gender neutral reader, I made it so the reader is one of the mechanics for the ship when they need repairs. Angst obviously, tagged as such

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"Mind if I watch?" You heard him ask, almost causing you to drop your tools before nodding, Dan Heng observing you quietly before giving you his number and heading off to a spot he later messaged you about.

Your idea of a romantic date with Dan Heng was you two sharing knowledge about your work. He told you all about his missions, and you told him about the unexpected chaos that came from being a mechanic. Over time, you both grew more confident with showing each other affection.

It was nice until your colleagues told you they were interested in him. Because of your agreement to keep the relationship to yourselves - to stop rumours - you nod along with their ramblings before seeing them rush off and admit their interest in Heng. Of course, your boyfriend let them down nicely while punctually by explaining he wasn't interested.

At first, you felt happy with the agreement. It made sense at the time, keeping things private, but that was until you saw people you deemed more attractive than yourself asking him out.

Try as you may, he insisted in not making anything public. When you try to explain that you were really uncomfortable with people asking him out, putting emphasis on the amount of people, you expected at least something nicer than a cold no.

"If you are uncomfortable with the idea of people being interested in me, the relationship wouldn't work publicly." Dan Heng states. "Not everyone will be put off by someone in a relationship."

"When you get approached by so many people, I can't help but feel jealous." You huff, keeping your voice down.

"If that is the case, you may want to reconsider this relationship." Dan Heng states.

You don't reply, simply sitting and basking in the final day you would show up to the date place. You can actually feel yourself dying inside at what he said. He was the one that wanted private relationship, but maybe the reason he wanted this was because you weren't attractive enough for him to be public with it.

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You had blocked him the next morning, after he left with the ship, and you do your best to keep him blocked. Knowing you couldn't just let go of the feelings you had, and Heng didn't seem to understand why it was so frustrating to see his partner being asked out numerous times, you knew it was for the best. Whenever he was around, you would magic up an excuse to work on a piece of equipment in an entirely different area.

Your mind wanders often to him, thinking of the idea of him already having someone he's public with. At the very least getting with someone he was attracted to, someone that wasn't you. It let you get better with your work in an effort to distract yourself from him, but doing any other activity led your mind down to him. As embarrassing as it was, you started to neglect your needs to the point the medical team had to pay attention to you and treating you accordingly.

Was he affected by you? Probably not, he was logical enough to keep himself going. You knew that he would figure out a way to contact you, even if it meant getting to you in person, if he was looking for you. He never did, and after the first few weeks you told yourself it was over.

Unlike Dan Heng, however, you were unable to move on.

[achairwithapandaonit]

fandom purity culture has me with my head in my hands. there was this fandom project thingy i was really looking forward to and then i joined the server and one of the rules was like 'if you're found to be making/consuming problematic content you will be removed from the project' and it just pissed me off so much i decided i didn't want to be part of a project like that and exited the server as soon as i'd entered it. like GEEZ. why does that matter? why does it even matter what people are making and consuming outside of a separate project? how do you decide what's problematic and what's not? why are you so obsessed that you're gonna police actual people's lives like oh so and so saw you reblogging something problematic so we can't have you tainting our pure and perfect project. like, damn, purity culture is a hard thing to grow out of (i know. i fell into it in my mid teens and it's still hard unlearning it), but at some point you have to accept that it doesn't matter that much. that people aren't that simple. that it's just words on a page. there're things that make me uncomfortable, but as long as i block the tags and avoid that content why should it matter? it doesn't affect me. i'm sorry if i've ever said otherwise (as i said, it's a hard thing to unlearn but i am unlearning it) but god, we're all just people, aren't we? who cares about other people's fucked up little ships. it just sucks

[ssamou]

╭ ಣ 🌸

whenever you realize.

i'll be the one to make a comment about everything happening lately since it is mostly centered around me and the fact you're meant to be my member. i don't feel comfortable doing this without explaining why it was done, it just wouldn't sit right with me.

so, this is going to be rather long if you (or anyone else) cares to read it.

originally you made yunjin for me so i could finally have a member after two years of having this blog. i thought yunjin would fit you, i really did. you didn't want anyone to know it was you.. and despite me being best friends with most of the people you lied to, i chose to keep your privacy and not say anything. i did this because i was in a similar situation where i didn't want anyone to know who i was, simply so i could start over after a lot of negative things happened to me. or.. at least i thought that was your reasoning at the time.

at first it was fine. i was excited to have chaewon's canonically best friend. but then, you started tying yourself up in a web of lies for a reason i couldn't understand. the more i was around in different servers, the more i saw you talking to yourself or about yourself as nearly three different people. you kept lying to the friends i cared a lot about on how all three of those people were different. when i came and approached you about this, you then even lied to me about how the third person was your friend and not you. i knew this was a lie instantly because it's very obvious in the way you type and your tone, who you are and aren't.

given the situation i decided to come clean to jeongguk and namjoon. we have a chat of just us three since we have been through a lot together in the past few years. i didn't feel right.. like i was lying to them and everyone else because of what you were doing. i broke my promise to you. i told them who you were. that you were both dani, jennie, and yunjin. in fact, i didn't even have to finish what i was saying. both of them already were guessing that all three of those people were the same person. i apologized to them for not telling them from the beginning, then i explained why i didn't and why i chose to now. obviously, they weren't the happiest of people since you've managed to manipulate them and others to talk to you about yourself but as another person. you don't do that. that's fucking weird and wrong.

over time, it started to become more and more obvious what you were doing. i stopped talking/interacting with you because it felt strange to me. it didn't take long for everyone else to start to put the pieces together when it came to you. we were all honest about who you were and then things started to spiral from there.

i don't understand why you felt the need to pretend to be different people entirely. especially when wanted to love you as you and give you the opportunity to fix your friendships/relationships with other people. instead you decided to use these different faces to find out how others feel about you without them knowing. you decided to lie about who's who like we didn't already have it figured out. that's something i'm still struggling to this day to understand what caused you to do that. it sucks even more because i let you continue to do that while knowing it was happening and not telling anyone.

but then it gets worse. you've turned yunjin, an idol, into another blog that chases after ships and smuts which made me uncomfortable. it's so strange to see an idol flirt/fuck someone twice her age all over the dash, then proceed to flirt with an anon, and then interact with a minor. i think everyone agreed that was a little strange. resulting in most of us blocking the man and a lot of your tags so we wouldn't see that stuff on the dash without being rude to you. because, yes, even though everyone's upset with your actions, we STILL decided to give you the chance and respect your decisions.

why? i have no fucking clue because, again, you continue to make the situation worse.

you decided to go on about yourself and interact with bts blogs—and this surprises me because i feel like you've been around here long enough to understand how our blogs work. when it comes to bts, lsf, and txt, there's a mutual agreement to not interact with members outside of those few. we do that for a whole lot of different reasons. maybe you didn't know, sure, though i'm not sure how. or maybe you didn't think you were part of that.. and to that i say.. you made yunjin specifically for me. or maybe you simply didn't care.

then you decided to interact with someone that a lot of us have severe problems with. that's when it started to draw the line between uncomfortable and fuck off. it showed your lack of respect for us and how little you truly care. someone said you didn't have a loyal bone in your body and i actually agree with them.

sure, some might say well i can interact with whoever i want! that's all fine and dandy, i'll accept that; but when it comes to someone that has caused severe issues for the friend group you specifically chose to make yourself part of, that's an issue. especially when you know of this person because i know i've said things to you about it, and i know joon probably has too. it's common respect for the friends you chose, which you revealed to us doesn't matter to you.

so why should we bother to continue to care about you?

i know people are probably expecting me to make a bitchy post, but it's hard to when i thought you were my friend. i truly truly thought you were my friend. hell i even defended you against my own fucking brother multiple times because i thought you were my friend. i snapped on hobi a lot, too, for your defense. i don't know why i did that anymore, i wish i didn't. but i did because i thought you were my friend.

but instead i allowed you to put me in negative positions for your own benefit. you didn't care about making chaewon's best friend, you didn't care about any of the things i've told you about. hell, you made that blog to fulfill your weird constant smut desires. and you will continue to put that as your priority over everything else.

i hope one day you realize the friendships you've lost today.. or maybe you'll never care, who knows. i just wish that, perhaps, you will eventually learn everything you continue to do wrong, and that not everyone will give you as many chances as we constantly did before giving up.

i hope one day you grow up and understand that there's more to life than written fictional sex/relationships.. then continue to realize that all your failed relationships and friendships is because of your obsession. your obsession for self centered attention, drama, and fake porn.

so here's to the near past year of me wasting my life defending you, taking care of you, protecting you, and keeping secrets i never should have.

all because i thought you were my friend. how stupid can i be?

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

I find it quite strange that you say that Siyeon and Eckles' age difference is creepy, when you shipped them a lot before, even if Siyeon had owner behaviors you didn't care. What happened? Just because they didn't stay together were you able to take off the blindfold? Because, be honest with you, if they had stayed together in that toxic relationship you wouldn't be attacking the characters so much right now.

I shipped Cha Siyeon and Iklies two years ago. Back then I was still young and the implications of abuse were much more subtile and harder to pick up on as not many chapters had been translated. At that time Iklies had been presented as Cha Siyeon's only safe route, ergo everything was much more toned down otherwise the plot twist wouldn't have come as a surprise. Naively I had assumed that Iklies and Penelope would end up together and raise a rebellion together freeing the other slaves. I wasn't familiar with the problematic portrayal of slavery and colonialism that seems to be so widespread in isekai as I had not consumed many manhwas yet.

You seem to be under the assumption that liking a character = endorsing the actions of said characters and shipping a ship = wanting such relationship irl. You are wrong. Even if Callisto committed genocide and Penelope is a groomer I'm not going to come into your ask box and demand you to stop shipping them or start a bullying campaign by writing out a callout post against you. I'm of the opinion that anyone should be allowed to ship whatever they like as long as it's fiction.

But does that mean that no one is allowed to share their criticism of characters with each other? Does that make it okay to shut down the voices of those, especially poc readers, who find the implications of the author chosing to despict the colonizer with aryan features as a hero and the indigenous boy who had witnessed the genocide and enslavement of his nation by said man's hands as a villain deeply uncomfortable? I don't think so. Specifically because it's so frowned down upon to point out the flaws of the fandom faves we have readers who say with their full chest that Iklies betrayed Penelope (slaves cannot betray their master), Delman deserved to be subjected to the genocide because some of them plundered at the borders (did the women and children plunder too?) and the slaves deserved to remain in bondage because they dared to rebel against their masters and it would make Callisto look bad in front of his citizen to free them (uhm what the fuck???).

Let's keep things civil, shall we? If these discussions bother you and you can't contribute without feeling the need to resort to insults and passive-aggressiveness, feel free to block the tag anti Cha Siyeon and anti Callisto Regulus or even block this blog alltogether. I'm surprised that you didn't do this already. I, as an Iklies stan, don't even have the luxury of blocking the anti Iklies tag as such consideration isn't shown by diehard Callisto stans who loved crosstagging their hate into the character tag.

Anyways as for the age gap thing. I'm generally not an age gap kind of gal unless it's under very specific circumstances where the narrative aknowledges the fucked up-ness ⬇️

I bought the physical copy of vadd this summer, saw the ages and went "hey wait". Sometimes you don't notice everything at once. And I'm not all knowing. I didn't know about South Korean laws on statuatory rape when I was younger. It's also not only the age gap that was an issue but the sum of all things together.

Now the last sentence is very funny. "if they had stayed together in that toxic relationship you wouldn't be attacking the characters so much right now." Anyone who follows me knows that this assumption is false. I'm happy to inform you that I ship lots of dark and fucked up ships and I love to point out and analyze in what ways they are toxic to each other. For example Nai and Vash? I literally call Nai an eco fascist and wrote an entire essay how it is doubtful that Nai even loves Vash. I called episode 11 and 12 a rape allegory. It's the Vashwood/Plantcest antis that are in deep denial that Trigun features incestuous abuse and not the Plantcest shippers who will happily explain the layers of trauma caused by Nai that Vash carries within him.

I ship Derrick x og Penelope but do you see me woobyfying him or wishing they had ended up together and being mad that they didn't? Heck no. If anything I'm mad that he got away with everything and Cha Siyeon even lets him hang around her daughter. My ideal ending is Penelope shooting with her crossbow at him and setting the mansion on fire. If it's true that he fell in love with 12 y/o Penelope at first sight that would make him a pedophile. I'm being honest. Someone needs to talk about these things because I don't think that even the author was fully aware of this.

[bookofmirth]

When I first joined the fandom (in February of 2023) I saw that it was a little toxic - ships and people not liking certain characters (and some being very extreme about it) - but recently things seem even more intense and aggressive. I see posts from 2016 (when ACOMAF came out) and it makes me so nostalgic and sad that I wasn’t in the fandom at that time, because things seemed carefree and happy. The cute edits (Moriel in particular even though I never shipped them), fanfics, and headcanons people came up with. It didn’t seem like there was so much negativity. People seemed to just be here for the vibes and to enjoy the books.

I know very recently a popular user on here got sent a rape threat on their Instagram through DM (I won’t tag them out of respect) and I had to click off after seeing it, because it left me so uncomfortable and disgusted. I think it’s cruel to send rape (and death) threats to someone just because of who they ship or them liking a certain character. How do people think that it’s okay to send something like that. The negativity is coming from all sides, there’s no denying that, but at the very least we should respect each other’s boundaries. The rape and death threats are pushing it. That’s doing too much. I’m having trouble articulating my thoughts into words, but I guess what I’m trying to say is that the fandom doesn’t really feel like a safe place, and I feel like things are only going to get more intense. I wish I was here when things were upbeat and positive. (I’m sorry that this ask was all over the place). -🦄 anon

Hello 🦄 anon, I hope you are doing well!

I feel bad for anyone who joined the fandom during or after the acosf release. I feel like you never got to enjoy the fandom as it's meant to be, people just staying in their lanes, enjoying the things they enjoy, and being horny about it. There were way more funny memes and just in general everyone knew how to not be dicks. We had disagreements for sure, but it wasn't like this.

but at the very least we should respect each other’s boundaries

Absolutely, if people could just exist and not worry about being sent threatening messages or being made fun of etc. it would be so much nicer. There's no reason for people to act that way and it just makes the fandom feel like it's full of landmines. You never know what's going to set off the next round of attacks. If I didn't already have an active blog, there is no way in hell I'd start posting things publicly in this environment. And it's so easy to not be an asshole? It's so easy for people to just scroll past content they don't like, and to block if it's that serious.

The fandom right now is in such a weird liminal space, not just because normally, it would be super quiet in between releases, but the crossover has muddied the waters and the series becoming more popular has brought new people in... it's like we are all waiting and in the meantime don't know what to do with ourselves. I unfollowed all sjm and acotar-related tags but when I do search them, it's all the same arguments we were making in 2021 and people being mean.

[romanticatheartt]

I want to rant a little so before y'all attack me I ship Elucien so pls chill the f out. As always my problem is the fans (AND NOT ALL OF THEM). And if you don't agree with any of this please be respectful or just unfollow or block me, I'm not looking for an argument :)

The hate Feysand or IC gets from different sides of the fandom is funny to me. When they don't want to blame their favorite character, they put it on IC. And I'm specifically want to talk about Eluciens.

It's a little long so ->

Idk what's their problem and I certainly don't want to know (I didn't even know there was a problem but apparently is) but I found this out unwillingly when Tumblr thinks I would enjoy these kind of posts or when people don't know how to tag properly lol

So it seems Eluciens have problem with IC because they don't let them communicate without being watched and if they leave them alone they'll be getting along instantly...

First of all have y'all forget the fact that they have been alone? After the war Feyre specially leaves them alone and let them talk. No one watches and there's no one there to make them uncomfortable. And If I'm not wrong there is one other time before he leaves for the search of Vassa. My point is the times they've been watched, was because IC didn't trust Lucien not because they have problem with his bond with Elain. The bond is sacred to them, they'll never have any problem with that trust me.

So the fact that you don't take into account that maybe Elain is really not ready to be with Lucien is beyond me. That you take away her agency and turn it into someone else's fault.

You don't want to accept that Elain just had a messy break up, she still mourns her human life, she's somewhere she doesn't belong to and is utterly lost. You want to completely forget that and blame it on IC while they're their biggest supporters.

I'm pointing out to Morrigan, Rhysand, Feyre, Cassian and maybe Nesta (after acosf)

Morrigan who's power is truth and asked Feyre to let them figures it out themselves even tho Feyre was trying to get them to talk to each other. She asked Feyre to not interfere even tho her intentions were good.

When Rhysand stopped Az because he knew there's no thoughts behind his actions. And when he didn't answer him about Mor or when he questioned the Cauldron he instantly had to stop it. (Probably because Tam/in said something similar about his bond with Feyre and he saw his brother is turning to someone he hates.) And while I didn't like the fact that he kinda decided for Elain, he also didn't know what she really wants but whatever it is he turns the events in favor of Lucien and Elain or let's say somewhere with less heart break. He wants them to at least have one chance before they do anything else. Because let's be honest if Rhys knew Az and Elain would've been happy together and Azriel would genuinely love her, he wouldn't have brought all those political reason as to why they can't be together. He would've find a way to make it happen. Rhysand is the person who wants for his family to get to their HEA. So it's completely obvious to me that he wanted to give Az reasons as to not think with his d*ck as always.

And they love LOVE to bash Feyre for even commenting on Cauldron being wrong. Listen so here's the thing: Sjm wanted to bring this question as a way to show that her mates are never wrong, they're suited for each other and 90% endgame. And since the first 3.5 books are 1st person and its Feyre's story, it had to be questioned by Feyre. This was an author's choice and not Feyre genuinely believing that. And it was a question that leads to Rhysand explaining how untrue it is. It was just a way for Sjm to show her mates are not wrong for each other. Feyre wasn't forcing this idea at all. She's new to all of this even tho she's been living with them for a couple of years. Compare to everyone else who has been born fae. She has the right to question things. (And they always come up with this question: what if someone question Feyre's bond with Rhys wouldn't she get mad? Um... No. Because she's seeing and experiencing the result of accepting the bond and it has clearly worked out for her. And beside being mates, she loves him. Being mated was a bonus point for them. So she probably wouldn't care if Cauldron was wrong. The mating bond isn't the only reason they're together. One day I'll write a post about the mating bond and why I think it can't be wrong but that's for another time.)

And Cassian is on board with them because he, like Feyre and Rhysand, knows how it's like to be with your mate. And we see him looking at Lucien with pity. And he also notices that night court is definitely not for Elain.

And Nesta literally said this in hofas:

“I’ve been in the Fae realms long enough to know that there are forces that sometimes guide us, push us along. I’ve learned to let them. And to listen.”

... I MEAN, I MEAN!!! *read it in timothée chalamet voice*

In acosf she called Elain out on her behavior. So you see, everyone is somehow rooting for Elucien and want them to at least give it a chance.

I said all this to prove that IC shouldn't be blamed while Elain (and maybe even Lucien we've never read either povs) don't want to take a step toward each other--for now. I guess it's just easier to blame IC for something that's literally not their fault. Everything they did after Lucien came into Velaris was understandable. They didn't trust him and he proved his somewhat loyalty to them or at the very least to Elain. And this was back in acowar so things has changed!!! But let's not forget that in the last winter solstice, Elain sat furthest from Lucien and it was her choice!! Her not giving Lucien a chance (yet) is her choice. Not wanting to be alone with him is her choice, please try to understand.

Still holding a grudge when circumstances has changed after acowar is just petty imo...

[imsodishy]

i like nancy but i see why people perceive it that way after the fight with jonathan but what i don't understand is why some people (i don't know if it's a lot or not) in the billy fandom don't like eddie?? i'm a billy fan too and i see a lot of posts against not eddie but his stans and it kinda drove me from the billy tag. i agree it's horrible what the duffers did with billy and how they handled his narrative but that's not eddie's fault but the writers'. i just wish we could get along and didn't have to decide which fandom we wanna be part of :(

Ok this is a little more complicated than the Nancy thing.

Because a lot of the hate (not all, but a lot) is reactionary to the outright abuse that a significant chunk of Eddie stans splashed around, focused primarily on Billy fans and fans of the Chrissy/Eddie ship.

They spread hate and outright lies about not just the characters, but the actors who portrayed them, as well as their fans. There were coordinated harassment campaigns waged on twitter that drove people from the platform, including Chrissy`s actress.

They invaded the Billy tag to fling their vitriol directly in our faces. It sucks that you didn't feel welcome there, but Billy fans didn't feel safe there and it's our goddamn tag!

I like Eddie, and I have friends who like Eddie more than I do, and I have friends who loathe Eddie, as long as it's contained to fandom opinions I do not care. But every time a stranger with an Eddie icon likes one of my general fandom posts that's gone wide I have to hold my breath to see if I'm gonna get a wave of anon hate messages when they notice OP had a Billy icon. If I make a post about Eddie I have to weigh whether or not to tag him, because I want my friends who have him filtered not to have to see it, but I don`t wanna draw a target on my back.

When fandom disagreements turn to personal attacks that shit is unacceptable. If you weren't participating in any of that then those posts you saw weren't about you.

The only advice I can give you is seek out fans who also like both Billy and Eddie, and block people who make you uncomfortable.

[ntt-react-and-memes]

ntt reacts to modern fan interpretations of them

Wally: "EXCUSE ME?!?!" He's gone completely red in the face. He dramatically drops his phone to the floor. "I AM NOT GAY, ESPECIALLY NOT FOR DICK!" He angrily storms out.

Kory: "None of these are even about me." She's very confused about the mustard obsession and why she hangs out with Jason (who she thought was dead but cool he's alive but also why is she there to just mom him he's Dick's brother???) She's sad that the only thing people seem interested in writing with her is romantic love or platonic love with ppl she doesn't know. Where's Donna? Raven? Her family??? The Mar'i fanart makes her very happy though and she decides to block half the internet and focus on that.

Dick: Refuses to talk to anyone about how much incestuous stuff he saw, and Kory takes him aside and tells him to go to therapy again. He doesn't know who half these people are and he is terrified to go home because he doesn't want his family tree looking more like a wreath. "Where the heck are the Titans? And who the fuck is Tim and why would I send a depressed teenager to Arkham while simultaneously hugging everyone I see and guzzling cereal??? It makes no sense!" *cries*

Raven: "I don't really care for those clothes. Azar! How can she bear to wear pants they are so uncomfortable!" *reads more* "I thought I was past the age of high school on Earth? I'm in college?" *reads more* *awkwardly side-eyes Gar* *evaporates into smoke* She comes to terms with this information by assuring herself Rachel Roth is not her, she's Raven, and will always be Raven. No need to worry about such trivial matters.

Vic: his eye twitches. "What do you mean i barely know the Titans? I don't have anyone else?!?" He sees something about being a founding member of the JLA and nearly passes away because "whoever wrote that is a dumbass who didn't do a lick of research"

Donna: she has mixed feelings because she loves that her relationship with Dick is explored, but no one's really exploring her. "And why isn't [redacted] there? My relationship with him is just so [redacted because Marv is a creep]." She searches around for opinions on [redacted] and realizes she needs to think about some things. The mention of her dating Kyle confuses her because who tf is he and she vomits slightly over being shipped with her friends dead brother.

Joey: He's happy because there's not so much stuff as the others, and at first believes he's been spared. Then vomits in his mouth because who tf would ship him with his friend's dead 15 yr old brother??? He cries at the fact the most popular relationship in his tag is Dick shipped with his dead brother, and joins Dick in therapy.

Gar: "I'm dating Raven??? Sweeeet!" He turns into a bird and swirls around the sky, then proceeds to harass Raven, asking her to be his girlfriend every time they interact.

~~ Bonus ~~

Roy: "Excuse me what the fuck?" He's pretty freaking disturbed that he's dating someone 6-7 years younger than him, is a complete idiot apparently, and accused of slut shaming Dick. "I'm raising a whole ass child-" Lian waves "-you'd think people would realize I can tie my shoes!" He goes on, covering baby Lian's ears. "And who the fuck changes someone's addiction-

[darkenedreaper]

Pairing: Ellen Ripley x Reader

Warnings: Fluff, Slight Violence

A/N: Tagging this with irrelevant tags, ie, people I write for and just to get it across, you don't like that? Block me

Summary: After Hicks abandons the mission, you run back in to save everyone, what happens when you come across a human enemy and Ripley is forced to watch with Newt.

MASTERLIST

Come Back To Me

You were both in the tank, listening to the comms and watch Apone's team and monitoring their heartbeats. Newt was sat in her seat after Ripley told her to sit down after seeing the team had entered the aliens feeding and cocoon bay.

By the screens in the tank, you had your hands on the table and were listening into Gormans headset while Burke was behind you. Ripley was standing close to you. It was a habit of yours to stand close to Ripley ever since 1979 and she was grateful. She knew how protective and silently defensive over her and she saw your instincts kicking in when her and Hicks would have a conversation. Ripley had always been attracted to you and your attraction to her was evident when you had 'hooked up' with each other just before the attack of the first alien. You had both agreed it was a one-time thing but you'd both know when you were jealous over the other.

Hicks hadn't taking a liking to you either, he knew the strength you had and your rank in Weyland Yutani, but he saw how close you were to Ellen and he decided to give her his name, resulting in her giving hers back. After that you sulked in the corner seat reading one of Hudsons magazines. Why did she feel uncomfortable giving you the permission to call her by her first name but she let him call her by it. You hadn't properly speak to Ripley for a few hours and she felt lonely and insecure without you around her. But she felt safer when your side was next to hers.

All of a sudden, the comms broke off and they were being attacked by a familiar enemy around them. You gave Ripley a familiar nudge on her arm and ran to load yourself with weapons as she grabbed Gormans collar yelling, "Do something!". She pushed him away before securing Newt in her seat while starting the engine of the tank and speeding off. You had put on overalls with tons if ammo and guns. As soon as you arrived at the drop off point you ran to the doors but halted as you felt a strong hand on your arm.

Ripley was looking up into your eyes with the most pleading and worried sick look in her eyes and she whispered loud enough for you, "Come back to me". You turned towards her and tilted your head to kiss her cheek, something you always did to only slightly settle her nerves. Her eyes hut for a second when yiur lips touched her cheek. And when she opened then she saw your heroic figure running off into the fire. As soon as she saw you gone she rank back to the cameras. She searched every camera for your voice or face and when she looked at Vasquez's camera she saw you pulling up Hudson along with Drake. You passed along fire weapons to the surviving members of the team.

Back at the camp, several team members had returned but injured and when Ripley and Newt looked around they couldn't find you anywhere. Moments after Ripley had screamed and shouted at Hicks for leaving you behind, until Hudson pointed you out, hand to hand fighting a human. She ran over to the cameras and saw the mysterious figure beating you to the point of exhaustion. You were barely standing, but still tried to fight on wobbly knees until he kicked the top of your thigh, making you collapse on one knees. You used you gun to aim but missed when he jabbed your jaw. As soon as you got up you used your gun but he pushed his hand onto your arm, making it aim at the ceiling breaking the rubble. As soon as your hand was above your head he punched the middle of your chest sending you backwards into the wall. You moved forward and pushed his face but you had to remove your hand and place it against the wall to brace yourself. His fingers were digging into your chest as if in attempt to rip out your heart, just as the mouth of an alien would do. Half his hand was spread across your face twisting your head to the side causing you to yell out in anger and pain.

Ripley was watching on the camera and nearly about to cry. She knew you were at breaking point when she saw you brace yourself against the wall. It made her upset as she had never seen you so weak. But her hopes were raised when you drew a knife from your side and stabbed him before twisting it in his injury making him back away and giving you time to run.

Hicks had tried to stop her from running out to help you but Newt bit his hand and waited for Ripley to get back with you. Ellen didn't even recognise your face, you were covered in blood and sweat and clutching your leg. She ran towards you and put your arm around her shoulders and wrapped her other arm around your waist. Her eyes darted from the plane landing and your droopy eyes. She helped you get up the ramp where Newt met you both and desperately tried to hold your waist. Gorman took you from Ripleys care and helped you lay on a bed while Bishop dealt with the bleeding wounds. Ripley bent down to the crying Newt. Ripley had a little breakdown herself into Newts shoulder but she was quickly comforted by Newt kissing her temple, something Ripley always did with Newt.

They had to strap themselves in but within a few minutes they could walk around the ship again. Ripley walked over to you and sat down beside you stroking your hand that wasn't injured. As soon as you woke you tilted your head to see her. She sat up a little straighter and had a small smile on her face which you returned.

"You came back Y/n", you knew she only called you that in front of strangers when she'd been affected and you knew how much she'd feared. "Always", you replied. She bent down and kissed your head before stroking your hair away from your eyes. Then for the first time in a long time she genuinely smiled at you. You Both knew it would be the start of something beautiful.

[abruisedmuse]

Just went to the elriel tag to look at their art because I genuinely love them but now I feel somehow. I am fairly new to the fandom and don’t know how things work and that people go all out for shipwars I didn’t know if you don’t ship a certain ship you should stay away from their content they made me feel so icky for shipping elucien they didn’t use the exact words of calling him a creep but there was so many insinuations I legit saw one say that if you ship elain and lucien your weird because why would you ship people that are uncomfortable around each other. Neglecting the fact that there is a reason and deeper meaning to why they have this reaction towards each other and it’s not because elain thinks Lucien is a creep he is literally one of the most respectful males in this series , honestly I didn’t know the fandom was a cutthroat place like this and I do love the contents but it’s a lot for me. I didn’t know who to tell since your practically one of the first eluciens I followed and looking at your page it’s feels like safe space so hope this ask is okay.

First sorry I'm late to the response (my little one was sick and I've been offline 90% of the day). And this is always okay! Anything on your mind Fandom or not send me an ask. I'm happy you think of me as a safe space ❤ ❤

E/riels are a special brand of wild and moronic behavior. Not all but majority of them are some of the biggest immature cyberbullies I've ever witnessed. I'm so sorry you had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with them.

Elucien is endgame. They can accept it and keep E/riel as fanon or leave the Fandom.

This is what I don't understand. Obviously not every ship in every book, movie, TV, etc will be Canon. We all have tropes we favor and characters we think would be good together. They won't be endgame. They might not even have a relationship. But that doesn't stop fanon. With fics, edits, art, head canons, whatever. Your ship can exist in Ganon. You can have this happy little slice of fanon heaven. I've done it time and time again.

You know what I didn't do? Change narratives in the Canon text to claim them for a fanon ship. I didn't provoke others online for shipping the Canon ship(now if they came for me or my friends it's on but I didn't go into random posts or ask boxes spewing negative. Calling them worthless or far worse because of it.) Anyway, I don't understand why E/riels can't just be satisfied in their own little fanon world. And leave everyone alone.

Lucien isn't a creep. He is kind and very respectful towards Elain. Three. He's given her three years and will continue to give her whatever time she needs to come to terms with bond. He'd never resort to some dumbass duel, cry like a selfish toddler that he's left out, or please himself to a fucking bottle of headache pills. Thats because he values. She means something to him. Even if they broke the bond, he would always be there for Elain. Unlike a certain bat boy who only wants her as a forbidden booty call.

Now that, that's out of the way. Let's talk about this Fandom. I'll be the first to say babes. Alot of this Fandom is toxic. And not just the E/riels. I've seen it from anti sjm, to anti/pro certain ships and characters. Tbh, if I wasn't apart of Star Wars or the HP Fandom. Shipping both Reylo and Dramione....I probably would have left this one.

I understand if you decide to leave this Fandom or take a step back (sometimes it's a good thing!).

However lovely anon. There's alot of us who do love acotar and although we know there's flaws in the characters and the books. We love it dearly. It's a special place in our hearts. You're Fandom experience is what you make of it. What I mean by that is simply if you wanna stay in the Fandom because the series itself do four things as often as you need too:

1. Block the tags

2. Block users

3. Unfollow those that make this experience negative.

4. Don't listen to E/riels (they've twisted so many narratives, have been consistently rude to artists and I believe well known bookstagram accounts too. Might add Vassa X Lucien shippers too. A few of them twist the narrative too in saying Lucien wants Vassa. When we were given those Jurian x Vassa moments. However, I've never had a bad experience with them personally)

Fandom should be fun, not stressful ❤

If you'd like a list of blogs in the Fandom who don't contribute to the negativity let me know. I'll try and get one for you. I hope if you choose to stay that your experience gets better. At the very least you'll have me ❤

[samsrowena]

hello a few days ago i kind of went on a stealth hiatus and i'm still probably not gonna be very active here because this whole thing really soured my desire to participate in the fandom (and my desire to return to spn because i was taking a break from watching before this anyway). but i didn't want to just leave all of this unaddressed because it's really bothering me. so let me make some things perfectly clear:

as i have already said before but apparently need to reiterate, i do not ship w*ncest/w*nkline or ANY i*c*st ships at all. i do not support i*c*st ships or the people who post about them. i do not follow ANYONE who makes these posts. if i see anyone interact with my posts with i*c*st URLs or reblog comments or tags, i filter their URL or softblock if they followed (sue me for not blocking every idiot i come across, sorry). and the only time i have ever interacted with these people is ACCIDENTAL (i often reblog from the #spnedit public tag and i don't always check the blog first) and in these cases i have almost always received an ask letting me know and i took appropriate action

however --and this is what got me unfollowed and blocked by several mutuals and accused of i*c*st in the first place -- which is absolutely ridiculous, mind you: i DO "ship" cashannah. this is in very loose quotes because this is a ship i've made about four posts in my entire 12 years of having this blog??? and it's a very minor and unpopular ship anyway (not once have i ever seen this be because of "i*c*st" though. only because cas was seemingly not interested in her the same way. and the desticule is not known for caring about non-destiel ships lol)

but regardless, listen when i say that if i thought for a single second that that relationship was i*c*st i would NOT support it. not in the slightest. now i'm not trying to deny "angelc*st" is a thing because i think it is (like the archangels for instance) but i do not consider EVERY single angel siblings (just like no one considers all the demons or even all the humans siblings. IMO it's the exact same thing). now if angel ships make you personally uncomfortable, that's fine and i completely understand. your reasons for engaging or disengaging with whatever type of content is perfectly valid. and the point of this post isn't to argue or try to change your mind on a ship. i'm just asking you to please be mindful of what accusations you're placing on people.

with all this being said, i am also NOT going to sit here and spend every waking moment of my life policing the interactions of every single person i follow. i do not want anything to do with i*c*st content and if i see it on my dash, i WILL unfollow. you will never see it from me either and i do NOT purposefully engage with it. but this absolute insanity of "oh em gee i saw this user like this user's post and that user was a friend of another user who did blah blah blah and likes blah blah blah" like?????? how does anyone have time to waste doing this

again if something makes you uncomfortable, no matter what it is, that is TOTALLY understandable. but these callout posts and block lists and anon bait bullshit is soooo incredibly immature. if you have a problem with something someone posts, you can handle it PRIVATELY. instead of publicly slandering one person over whatever "proof" you think you have and then dragging other people into it who aren't even involved and definitely do NOT deserve it

anyways if anyone actually read all this long incoherent rambling, then thank you to all of you are going to stick around after this <3 if you unfollow, then okay cool i guess. just don't accuse me of something i'm not please. k byeeeee

[rpbetter]

Wha-? Now people are labeling muns who just play devil's advocate and don't have strong feelings either way about what other people write? I didn't sign up to be a 'proshipper' just for not caring what other people ship. I don't care about a lot of things. Why the label for this particular thing? It sounds so dumb, like a way to yank in more muns who just want to mind their own business into drama and 'sides'. I agree with your post, I'm just angry at the rpc for being babies. And the labels...

I'm always angry at the RPC for being babies and the labels, it's alright, Anon.

I believe (and I could be wrong, because for the most part, I tried to stay out of any and all fandom-related things for years and years - I just want to enjoy the movie/shows/books, I don't need or want to discourse about that shit, you know?) that all of those terms originated in fandom, outside/predating transfer to the RPC.

I know when I encountered them initially, it was in fandom, not the RPC part of fandom...and at that time, it was just the label of people being "antis." A label they gave themselves by, literally, asserting themselves as "anti-character here-."

It's been my supposition that the RPC's transition to being more canon character and fandom-based than OC-preferred led to an organic transfer of more fandom-specific terminology (and behaviors). As places like twitter and tumblr became hubs of fandom and RPCs, they brought tags to the table. While that is an absolutely wonderful thing, it also means that we all started out tagging things with good intentions, only meant to be tags. You could tag something, pulling from a random fandom here, "anti-Daryl Dixon" from TWD and the plethora of fans who love that character could block it. It was a peacekeeping measure at that state, not a flag for discourse and drama.

Tag-language influencing and becoming an organic part of language, in general, is a whole other, though fascinating, topic, so I'm going to just leave that there. The point is, it happened.

And unfortunately, you quickly got people popping "anti-whatever" in their bios and blog descriptions. Not as a means of allowing others to avoid it, but as a means of making it really clear that they despised the character, fandom, ship, whatever. With purity culture 3.5 hitting in earnest, the reasons for despising those things became raised stakes. It wasn't a basis of simply disliking them anymore - you needed a dissertation how this thing was morally objectionable and destroying the world. Anyone disagreeing with you, by that logic, is morally reprehensible themselves and must be stopped. Raised stakes.

Actions cause reactions, too. People started making it clear that they were "pro" whatever, too. These became opposing designations, and honestly, I'm not sure who started up "proshipper" first. I only know I saw it being used negatively first, that doesn't mean it happened that way! What I've seen has been the entire ship/write/like what you want crowd being given that label negatively and taking it up themselves in the same way people are given to take up a lot of things they've been negatively called.

By "what I've seen," I don't just mean witnessing it happening in the wild lol it happened to me, as well. I reblogged a post about how shipping wasn't activism, and got an anon informing me that I was a disgusting proshipper (every time I reblog that, I get at least one person popping off in my RP inboxes, actually, it hasn't slowed down any). At which point, I, too, was very much like, I'm a what now? Yes, I am okay with shipping? What the hell is this person even on about?

So, it's my theory that in response to the anti movement, some people stated that they were "pro-ship and let ship" and thus...we got to be "disgusting proshippers."

Regardless, it absolutely is just another way of labeling people in order to single them out and/or keep feeding drama, yes.

And again, I feel you. I know labels, good, bad, reclaimed, whatever, seem to give a lot of people a grounded sense of identity, but I've always been uncomfortable with them. I don't understand the need for them, even if I get that they make others feel a certain way. I just want to feel the way I do, be the person I am, and have that person engaged with based singularly on my actions.

It's alright if someone else wants to freely label themselves in a way they feel is positive (though, I do wish that younger people, especially in the queer community didn't have this batshit pressure to do so, and correctly, the first time), but they've always felt threatening and restrictive to me.

As such, having people create and bestow a label on me for the purpose of designating me a problem is kind of an uncomfortable realization of why I feel negative about them. I don't like it, and it's part of why I don't like the bullshit of making this distinction in DNIs. By doing so, they're literally as hell singling people out...with a negative label they gave them for the criminal act of feeling like it's absurd to police fiction, instead, expecting adults to behave like adults when engaging with fiction and each other.

It's honestly forcing hostility and drama, when the point of being ship/write/like and let ship/write/like is not having that hostility and drama. It's merely a live and let live mentality, that's what y'all are attacking! The labeling is a rotting cherry on top that is so indicative of this same, legitimately problematic, behavior that goes on in the extremism I talked about in the post you referenced. It's...gross, let's just say that.

And I'm really sorry that it makes you upset, too! You don't have to label yourself, you can reject that and refuse to engage with those using it in this negative way. That makes me feel considerably less annoyed and disturbed! I'll totally joke about it, as I do fall into the designated parameters of being both "proship" and "anti-anti," but I don't actually label myself thus. I only consider myself a reasonable adult who has better and more serious shit going on than to worry about what fiction someone else is writing or enjoying.

Just...do be aware that, like myself and others, you're likely to be labeled if one of these hostile parties sees you reblog the "wrong" thing or make the "wrong" statement. You are being labeled in those DNIs for your viewpoint of wishing to avoid absurd drama. So, I'd advise, for your peace of mind, to try to avoid blogs stating that they're "anti" anything but drama/bullying etc., or who feel it necessary to put up those DNIs. You are who they're talking about, they just don't know it because you're not labeling yourself or being otherwise obvious about it :/

Try your best to avoid that changing, you deserve to peacefully enjoy RP! As disturbing as it is, as rightfully upset about it as you are, maybe it's a good thing you found out? In this way, I mean. Without someone bringing it to your inbox hatefully. Now you know what it means, that they mean you, and you can stay away from it! Try to look at it that way - there will always be people weirdly desperate to make their drama hobby everyone else's problem, you can only make an effort to stay out of it if you know what to look for, right?

I hope any of this made you feel better about the fresh hell that is the RPC lol keep doing you, Anon! You're not the problem, infantile drama mongers are <3

[shoezuki]

As someone who enjoys the whole marriage bit tubbo and ranboo got going on, I hate that everything I see about them I have to scour the tags and wording to make sure it isn't ship art because so much of it is just... uncomfortably toeing the line. Like I saw this one "incorrect quote" going around and I was like... how is this not shipping? Op didn't clarify either way so I just blocked em :/

YEA EXACTLY. i can understand ppl who find it sweet n enjoy it ofc like. it is Objectively p cute. but the way some ppl talk bout it n regard it just.... i cant tell whats Wack and what Isnt sometimes n its spoiled the whole thing for me now

[awryen]

This may be a terrible idea, but I wanna say something re: age and my art blog.

I am 30 years old. I'll be 31 in a month. And I draw NSFW things. Most of it is tame, but still NSFW.

But here's the thing: if you are a minor and following me? Well, I SHOULD be that adult that tells you to unfollow me, but I'm not. Not going to.

Do you know why? When I was your age (god that makes me feel old), I looked for the same things. I found smut doujinshi online, my best friends and I bought rather smutty yaoi manga (FAKE was the biggest one at the time stateside), I read the fuck out of NC-17/M/MA fanfic (my ships of choice being KakaSaku/Sparrabeth/SessKag/Snape x Hermione).

In fact, in 2002 (i was in the 8th grade) I was pissed as fuck that ff.net got rid of their NC-17 category. I lied about my age many times to read smut fic and look at smut art (y!gallery anyone?).

Trust me. I know you guys do it, too. So feel free to view my stuff.

But.

I will block anyone, minor or adult alike, if anyone tries to tell me I need to "protect" them by taking it down or anything of the sort. I tag them appropriately and place them under "read more" so if anyone is browsing and comes across my stuff, it'll be on them if they decide to click on it.

I just wanted that to be known. Now, should anyone under 17 be looking at this stuff? No. But I won't stop you and I won't ask you to go away. All I ask is that you guys protect yourselves. If it makes you uncomfortable, then feel free to unfollow or block me. If you enjoy it? Have at! I'm glad.

A/N: No one sent me anything weird or hateful, I just saw a post about how young people these days have an entitlement to be catered to when...we never had the same. My generation curated our spaces and content. If it made us uncomfortable, we blocked/back buttoned/avoided those things at all costs. We never demanded the creators to take them down or dox them or harass them in general (though there were the occasional bad apples who did).

If it didn't make us uncomfortable? We enjoyed it and appreciated that it was there. And I thank my mom for that. She wasn't one to censor me. All she asked was that I come to her if I had questions. Otherwise, she let me handle things.

And I want the young people today to do the same.

[buttercupbuck]

people seem to forget that one the beautiful things about internet nowadays is that you can mostly filter what you want to see or not

i do ship buddie and yes I believe some things are a stretch, but honestly? that's why I'm here and I find it amusing more than the opposite

i don't mind Taylor - I actually like her, even if there's a take or two that I not particularly fond of, and what do I do in this case? I ignore things. I read the beginning and think "ok, this isn't for me" and I just keep scrolling.

I used to not mind Ana either, I'd actually defend her, but then I saw what some disabled people were saying about her character and I decided "well, I'll stop talking about something I don't know" and I stopped engaging with it. But then the thing about GW came out and as a latina i was pretty pissed, so I took to block things about her, since most of the defending didn't feel right to me. And that was it, end of the story.

My problem with all of it is that the 911 fandom today is mostly buddie. and again as much as there many takes i don't agree with, it has to be recognized. There are means to keep in your bubble, mostly because people normally don't want to see things that are buddie negative so they'll avoid you naturally. But when someone posts something that will stir the mood of people and, knowing this, they deliberately put it on the tag where said people are going to see? that's looking for trouble. There's some things I have to say that aren't very popular around here that I don't tag at all because if you decide to fight me on that is because you searched for it or because someone else posted it in the tag - and seriously, go fight them, not me.

What I'm trying to say is that I think we all need to learn how to ignore things better and, more than that, I think that if I want to say my piece I can do it from the safety of my little bubble. And I'm not here to be called racist and misogynistic - which are very serious accusations and people use the words way too freely - just because someone went digging in my blog and decided they could come tell me their opinion.

sorry laying it all out on you Alicia sjshdkjsjs

I'm just tired and pissed and you're been pretty level headed about all of this

oof yeah the whole ana situation especially is so messy tbh bc im right there with you on your opinion on her - i used to be pretty neutral about her but then i saw posts from disabled people in fandom pointing out where she got it wrong in all of 3.12 and became less so. like i didn’t think she was some evil irredeemable monster by any means but the show also never made a point to correct her about it so idk like it’s just not my place to be like “oh it’s fine” bc nothing was ever addressed on that front and it’s not fine clearly

all of that to say that it’s totally understandable why people dislike her and don’t wanna see her on their screens. but i will say that even still, the language that some people use towards her and the way they choose to go after her (on things that are completely separate of those valid criticisms of her) are really gross. so like idk it’s kind of this thing where no i don’t think criticisms of her are inherently misogynistic/racist at all, but just because there *are* valid criticisms of her doesn’t negate the fact that misogynistic/racist language is still used towards her and then dismissed. imo just because a character did something offensive i don’t think it makes sense that we collectively don’t critically think about the way she’s treated by fandom and excuse things that make other communities in fandom (like latinas, for example) uncomfortable and hurt. like i just think about irl if a WOC made an offensive suggestion, it wouldn’t justify attacking them with racist and misogynistic sentiments bc it’s just not fucking necessary to make your point. So that’s kinda where i am with all that

oh and then the whole thing about GW came out and people who aren’t even latinx and clearly don’t actually care about the latinx community (considering the way they talked about ana before they knew all this, or even the way people talked about eddie as well) used that as a shield for their own racism and as a free for all pass to just say whatever the fuck they wanted to say. shdjdks sorry for the mini side rant but this fandom is so frustrating ahaha

but yes also agree that people weaponize big flashy words in this fandom without giving much thought to it lol and yes people also definitely go looking for shit sometimes and that’s entirely their problem. people can post whatever they want and if you go looking in a circle you know isn’t for you then thats on you. and the reverse is true - if you post something negative in a tag that is supposed to be a space for whatever that thing is, that’s also very much on you