#* fandom stuff

[spinnenpfote6]

My absolute favorite trope in LOTR parodies is giving Frodo - because of Elijah Wood - the most gigantic, huge, absolute bluest eyes possible. I love it when the little guy is 80% eyes

[femboy-god]

“the risk with this howell, is that he’ll just walk off into the distance. the bus breaks down, and he just walks off down the road, into the wilderness.”

[lesboylycan]

best captions of the show

[vladdyissues]

your blig, your fic, your takes on pompous pep are just *chef kiss*. I was never into the pairing but reading your takes on it, well, they all make sense. Vlad's desire to be desired and lived amd seen as a first choice, just wow! Daniel's need to be of service,his acts of service but it stemming from neglect. Like seriously he and Vlad were neglected by the people they care for. Whew! I just want these two to have that tender love and affection for each other 🥹

Same, anon, same ಥ﹏ಥ

I'm probably not adding any new insights to this venerable ship, but I'm so happy you found this blog and decided to hop aboard the SS Pompep. There's so much about these two that the show writers either a) hinted at but neglected to explore, or b) didn't elaborate enough to satisfy the fans' needs. The romantic angle appeals to me especially 'cause I'm a sucker for that enemies-to-lovers trope, but I love Vlad and Danny's relationship even if it's totally platonic. I mean, Pompous Pep or Badger Cereal, it's all good and I want more of it ლ(ಥ益ಥლ)

I guess we should all be thankful that the show gave us such a great premise with so much potential and yet left enough gaps that we could fill them with our fanfiction and fanart

👆 (Vlad's doing his part)

[goth-automaton]

When you have custom dark skin on AO3 and the site suddenly logs you out.

[saiditallbefore]

I know the genie is out of the bottle and you can't go back but dear GOD I hate the mainstreamification of fandom so much

I do NOT want authors or showrunners or actors to acknowledge us or talk about fanfic or fanart or fan theories! I do NOT want people asking questions of the canon creators and getting them answered (make up your own answers, like god intended!) I do NOT want companies making jokey advertisements aimed toward fandom!

I know that fandom was never entirely underground but like... I miss that fourth wall existing, you know?

[canonically47]

“there is no straight explanation for this” neither is there a gay one. there is however an aromantic one

[sagaduwyrm]

The reason I love the Red Hood being a crime lord instead of a vigilante is that Crime Alley, functionally, doesn't have the same problems as the rest of Gotham. Their main problem isn't the mad Rogues running around, it's the cycle of poverty, violence, and crime that they're all stuck in. And you know what one of the main ways to combat this is? Community. Organizing. Working together.

Except Crime Alley can't just choose to do that. Who would choose to join such a risky proposition instead of a gang that you know can help protect your family? So the Red Hood comes in and he looks like he's just creating another gang, the same as all the others.

Except he's serious about not selling drugs to kids or people in danger of overdosing. Except he protects the working girls fiercely, even if it loses him money. Except all the money he does make goes straight into the community if it's not making sure his employees are alright.

Working within the system is often a necessary measure to fix the system. Except the system in the case of Crime Alley isn't the government that abandoned them, it's the volatile, terrible gang set up. So Red Hood didn't just work within the system, he took it over and made it work for him instead.

Is this perfect? No. The other bats have valid disagreements with Jason's way of doing things. But he is doing so much good.

[justaboot]

Not to out myself as someone that’s been on tumblr for too long, but I’m so sad to see this new trend of people saying “I like this thing, even though the show isn’t airing anymore.” Like? That’s how things work! Keep enjoying them! Art doesn’t just vanish when it’s not airing, and it wasn’t made to be exclusively viewed live! 10+ years ago, the idea of saying “Ah, I’m still here in this fandom 2 years after the show was cancelled 😳” would have been BONKERS!

All these kids saying “It’s so sad the shows gone,” no it’s not!!! I saw your fanart yesterday! Last week you told me about my favorite character’s music playlist!!! I saw them running around in your AMV!

Where’s the longevity?? It was made for you!!! Not TV!!! It was made for keeps!!! Keep it!!! Please!!! That’s how art stays alive!!!

[wackypomko]

I don't understand this fandom sometimes

why are people surprised that jax is an idiot if in the first/pilot episode he acts like an asshole? by the way i have no problem with people now hating jax. i just find it funny/weird that people didn't hate him before when he came out in the first episode while he was treating gangle poorly by pushing her.

(BTW PLEASE DON'T HARASS PEOPLE WHO HATE OR LOVE JAX, THIS IS JUST A COMIC MADE FOR FUN).

[teaboot]

I don't know who needs to hear this

But if you go into the comments section on AO3

And type

Then replace image url (keep the " marks) with the url of a picture

You can leave fan art in the comments of a fic

[theleakypen]

Don’t Add Fanfiction To Your Goodreads Shelf

Hi folks, I know some of you like to use Goodreads to track all your reading and don’t want to distinguish between books and fanfiction.

I am, however, begging you not to do this. It is extremely jarring and disconcerting to be a fic author and find your works somewhere in the wild where you did not personally put them. Fics are not books, are not published in the same way as books, and exist in a precarious legal space.

Please don’t attempt to elide the separation that exists between fandom and the world of official publishing.

update to add: for those folks learning about this for the first time and freaking out, I did a reblog of this with guidelines about how to get your fic taken down!

[intermundia]

i just read about the "narcissism of small differences," aka the idea that the more a community has in common, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other, and i knew there was a reason my time in academia and fandom felt oddly similar lmao

[lilbeanz]

Lately I've been pondering alot on footwear in the wizarding/wixen world...

There's so much to tap into fashion wise...like what the hell does just "robes" even mean Terf-face McRowling????

And I feel like the fan base has done such a wonderful job to portray their own beautiful and unique designs and descriptions... but not so much on shoes 🤔

Like the most generic thing is for them to be walking around in muggle shoes or "loafers" or "dragonhide boots"....

Hell no. These mfs are walking around rocking THESE bad bois!!!

✨️S L I P P E R S✨️

At least for dress robes, formal wear, and those who are fun, fancy biatches on the daily......

[spangelmybeloved]

seriously, if you're complaining about how much you hate [X character], please tag that stuff "anti [X character]" instead of "[X character]". Some of you don't know any better but I'm honestly convinced that some of y'all are doing it on purpose so that your flame bait gets put in front of the people who least want to see it. I'm not saying to not to whine about whatever character/ship you hate, just to tag it correctly so that the people who follow the tag cause that's their blorbo don't have to see it. Please and thank you.

[tirsynni]

Please, please, please stop doing this shit:

"My story doesn't fit with these tags but I'm going to add them, anyway, because they're popular and it'll get my story attention."

"My fic doesn't actually include this ship but I'll tag it like that because that ship is popular."

"Yes, this is pretty much an original fic, but I'm going to use these character names and label it as this ship to get people to read it."

"Yes, my fic includes this pairing/these characters/these warnings but I won't tag them because people avoid those tags."

People have admitted to all of the above. People have admitted to lying about the content of their fic, deceiving readers, and omitting necessary tags for the point of increasing readership. Knock that shit off. Writers and artists are already struggling with readers viewing works as only content to be casually consumed and used up. We don't need writers treating themselves like influencers and their works like "content" to be peddled. Don't abuse tags and don't abuse readers. It makes the entire tag system useless when you do this shit.

And yes: if you flaunt breaking TOS to increase your numbers, I won't hesitate to report your ass. Knock it off.