#Fandomposting

[teaboot]

Behold

We have reached the “making little ceramic effigies of them” stage of Terminal Blorbo Velocity

[mi1kw33d-2]

ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

[symphony-calamity]

The Murderbot Diaries are so good because they ask big questions like "what if a machine wanted autonomy but didn't want to be treated like a human" and "what if your co-workers kept trying to talk to you about your feelings".

[automatisma]

It's so interesting to me that Slay the Princess is the kind of art that leaves little room for structured interpretation of the text because it's so good at exploring what is it about (almost everything you want to say about it is already in the text! just go play it again), while easily supporting a lot of derivative reimaginings, remixes and fanworks.

[aspennnnnnnnn]

theres something to be said about certain parts of the mouthwashing fandom making anya super pale and making jimmy noticeably darker skinned than the rest of the crew [excluding daisuke, usually]. its just something really odd ive noticed

[jerksbitch]

me? normal…? why, yes!

i’m so horny for dean winchester i’m about to start gnawing on steel rebar & concrete

[cat-hesarose]

Izzy Hands and broken promises

Now that I've had a day to digest the ending, I'm still in the "Izzy should have lived" camp but can better understand why it soured an otherwise great season finale for me.

Keep reading if you like rants about storytelling and queer catharsis from people with a Bachelor degree's worth of overconfidence and strong opinions.

Bar a handful of icks (Zheng Yi Sao getting outsmarted by Ricky, etc), I loved this season and don't see a wealth of problems that would not have been solved by two additional episodes. That said, Izzy's death is one of the things I can't see making any more sense if they had more time to explore his journey because his journey is what problematizes djenk's stated reasoning for his death.

In that one interview (and to be fair, we only have a brief window into his intentions as of right now), djenks positions Izzy as two things, specifically to Ed: a mentor and a father figure. And yeah, mentor figures often die. Their student surpasses them, or acquires a new narrative drive from their mentor's death to continue a quest.

Neither of these things feel like a fit for Izzy and Ed's dynamic nor their respective arcs. Neither does "father figure". Izzy was a love interest. He was described as a love interest. He confessed love to Edward. His mentor relationship was more established with Stede, if anything, who is an unreliable narrator and may well have been lying about Edward claiming that Izzy taught him everything he knows.

The journey that Izzy went on this season was parallel to Ed and Stede but it was with the crew. It's one big queerplatonic love story essentially, of him finding himself as an individual through the support they give and the space they hold for him. Season 2 Izzy Hands is, among other things, a love letter and showcase of the queer community's power to revive hope and purpose.

Izzy has the world's messiest breakup with Ed when they're both at their worst, and his healing begins with the crew of the Revenge. He only interacts with Ed again after bonding with, and growing through, the crew. So yes, it absolutely makes sense that his journey would proceed towards making peace with/saying goodbye to "Blackbeard". But it does not make sense that it would end there, with his death.

Djenks says that they're pirates, and people die. And yeah they do. But in the hand-wavy logic universe of OFMD it feels dismissive to say that about the death of a major character. And odds are, David "Izzy is my favourite character" Jenkins is not dismissive of Izzy, so that leaves tragedy.

My issue with that is, season 2 Izzy is no longer an innately tragic character. If you told me at the end of season 1 that season 2 would end with Izzy dying in Edward's arms telling him to go forth and change and accept love, I would've gone "that's sad but it makes sense." Because it would have, at the time. Season 2 Izzy departed from the trappings (so I thought) of the doomed fate of the bitter old repressed grimdark pirate when he put on the gold-painted wooden hoof and embraced his new role as First Mate of Stede Bonnet's gay floating kindergarten.

His death feels like a betrayal because, in a show that does queer characters Really Well, Izzy's arc feels like a broken promise. To say nothing of the politics of having a character attempt suicide, begin to heal, then say "I want to go" before dying, I wanted Izzy to want to live. It really felt like that was where his character was going, where his character was supposed to go.

Death for a character who is showing all this potential is only a natural ending in a tragedy. It isn't presented as peaceful or to punctuate another character's growth. Season 2 Izzy Hands had ceased to be reliant on and subject to Blackbeard. If anything, he was tied to the crew, who all stood back and felt much more removed from his death than they probably would have been if the show had more time to show their emotional responses. Having him die in Ed's arms, apologising for fueling Ed's destructive tendencies and encouraging him to be himself and accept love, feels like he got shunted off his new arc and back onto the old one. It feels like he went through all of that just to take a last-minute huge step back and re-subjugate himself to this character who does not reciprocate his devotion.

It makes me wonder if his death scene was one of the first ones written, before all that energy was spent giving him a new life and new connections and new, you know, new reason to live.

Anyway, that's how I feel about it. TL;DR Izzy's growth should have included LIVING HIS HARD-WON NEW LIFE and if I ever see djenks i'm going to cross the road and avoid eye contact.

[nectarinesinthesun444]

Ok so, since I made that last post about how I find it weird people are saying some platoon characters are gay I did get some people in the fandom responding, and I want to explain myself more

I have been in fandom spaces since I was 9 years old so I am very used to shipping culture and I have some favourite ships myself so this is nothing new to me, and I believe people can ship whoever they want. However, I find it annoying when people make posts analysing every little interaction about two male characters and saying that they’re gay because in all honesty, not every piece of media has queer coding to be unpacked.

I think shipping two characters for funzies when you know the canon absolutely reason for them to like each other romantically is absolutely fine, because I ship Meeks and Pitts (dead poets society) when I know that they are canonically platonic besties, just for fun because I think it’s fun to imagine if they were a couple and they are cute in any way.

I think that in some ways, male friendship isn’t really cared for in fandom which is a problem because every type of relationship is valid and deserves exploration. I feel that it really does just get to a point… Yknow where it just gets a bit ridiculous and tedious with people explaining why two obviously platonic fictional friends are in love. I know this is a scalding burning boiling hot take in fandom but it’s just my opinion and you can disagree, this is an open discussion.

A ship like anderperry (dead poets society) for example is veryyy much unconfirmed canon because the subtext is so in your face it’s insane, there’s like a billion different reasons and metaphors in the story of Neil and Todd that there is no denying it. But there are characters that have legit no chemistry romantically and zero subtext and in my opinion it feels ridiculous to seriously ship them

[bloodngutsr]

Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess

[seaturtlesayshuh]

They both live to consume, and if they die they'll die doing what they love.

I need to introduce them

[mi1kw33d-2]

[symphony-calamity]

"Average Tumblr user has fucked a train" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The Mechanisms fandom, who fuck 10,000 trains every Friday, are outliers and should not have been counted.

[automatisma]

I am actually not done thinking about Disco Elysium's parallels. The whole cryptozoological research shown as a futile endeavor that's kept alive exclusively by Lena's guilt and Morell's mad obsession while actually showing the Phasmid talking directly to Harry in the end being a direct parallel with Revachol's revolution and the prophesised Return! Harry's aching for Dora (who is repeately assimilated to Dolores Dei) as an impossible and self-destructive pursuit of static perfection just as what Dolores Dei was and will be for Insulinde and humanity as a whole!

[yoinkysploinkydoinky]

Okay guys I'm desperate I'm DESPERATE desperate PLEASE I'M BEGGING RECOMMEND ME GOOD ENKIVALDR FICS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I'LL TAKE ANYTHING FLUFF TO DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT PLEASE I JUST NEED MORE FICS FOR THEM I NEED STUFF TO DRAW I'M BEGGING HELP ME OUT ENKIVALDR NATION

[blubushie]

This may be a bit cringe or sad but what is a cosplay blog? I'm new to Tumblr and only know about ye old ask blogs that did art and eventually got dubbed over for YouTube

Think of it like an art ask/rp blog, but instead it's people dressing up in cosplay and photographing or videoing themselves to answer questions while in-character. It was REALLY common in the Homestuck fandom (hell my best mate in high school cosplayed as Karkat and I think Rose?? and ran a cosplay ask blog, which is why I know of it despite not being in the fandom) but by maybe 2018 it was just a widespread fandom thing where cosplay blogs were very common.

You never see them around anymore which is sad.

[aspennnnnnnnn]

i would fandompost on here a lot more but i fear there would be a bit of whiplash between my main ones. guy goes from posting about the teenage mutant ninja turtles experiencing ptsd to talking about his stupid cubitos having a beach day and getting sand in their teeth