#I’m looking at you

[paigesplatforms]

btw skipping triggering scenes in your favourite shows/movies doesn’t make you less of a fan. there are still scenes in multiple of my favourite shows that i cannot/have never watched, but i still love those shows with all of my heart.

whether it triggers past experiences and trauma, your fears, your sensory issues, your migraines, or it just gives you really bad second hand embarrassment. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SKIPS SCENES IN YOUR FAVOURITE MEDIA

[thejadecount]

These children can fit in so much trauma

[smashstappen]

Can we get raceengineer!Max or teamprincipal!Max fics now that we have visual proof of him looking hot on the pit wall.

[shapeshifter-from-fontaine]

Man tragic yuri got me fucked up. Screw your doomed by the narrative looking plot can’t you just let them give each other little forehead kisses every morning while they snuggle up together in the warm light gently pouring into the bedroom as they wake up to a new and happy day knowing they have each other by their side

[lunabug2004]

The Hawkins Memorial Hospital pics make me so nervous.

All my babies better be okay! (esp byler cuz what if they don’t get the opportunity to live up to their full gay potential…😟)

[catwouthats]

The Wayne Bat family is fucking hilarious to me.

What do you mean that all the other superhero’s have superpowers and than there’s them??? Some smart rich detective dudes who are in great physical shape and have a high pain tolerance… dressing up like winged creatures…

And almost everyone else tries to keep a low profile with their civilian identity… meanwhile these mfs out here going to galas and Bruce is a fucking playboy.

Tf kind of drugs do they put in the air of Gotham????

[benbamboozled]

Gotta say, straight up, I am just not interested in any story about Jason Todd learning A Very Special Lesson that “Killing people is wRoOoOoOoNg.”

Nerp, sorry, no thank you, that doesn’t read as character growth to me, it reads as corny ass horse shit.

[biscuitfacegrey]

Idk something about bilingual characters speaking mostly one language and cussing in the other makes me so stimmy

[llm-kursk]

I genuinely need to know. I have encountered more than one playlist where the most recent video by the creator is at the top, and as it autoplays you’re effectively going back in time.

I want to binge your videos, not have to skip back after every single one.

[vinnyandthephenomena]

sideburns addicts anonymous

[ndaths]

not “a constantly whining man possessed by a supernatural creature” being one of my favourite tropes

[goldrushenthusiast]

the marauders fan urge to manifest your sadness into their sadness and then into boygenius songs

[dantedeservedbetter]

Zane and Nana are simply one of the best pairings in my eyes but that’s solely because their height difference does not have an overwhelming GAP between them.

[lyrajellycat]

*puts old love songs on william afton playlist in an aggressively his obsession with henry way*

[lady-ashfade]

I found my ring- Which Mutual wants to be my imaginary fiancé ?

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

I have been seeing a lot of discourse on certain tags lately about fanfiction and writing fics that are “out of character”. And I don’t like conflict, so I was keeping my nose out. But now I’ve seen some things that I just can’t let go, and as the self-proclaimed fandom mom, I feel like I need to step in and state this loud and clear—

Fandom is for you.

The whole point of fanfic and fanart and cosplay and anything fan related is for you, the fan, to take a work that has already been created and have fun with it. Make it your own. Dive in and explore and do what you will. Fandom is meant to be a creative outlet where you can share ideas and art with other people who have the same interests as you.

THAT BEING SAID: it is never. And I repeat, NEVER okay to gatekeep fandom. And yeah, I fucking hate the word gatekeep. But it’s the only way to describe what I’m seeing happening. And so I’m going to use it again—

It is never okay to gatekeep fandom. It is never okay to gatekeep characters. And to throw negativity at anyone’s work, let alone come straight out and tell them that they’re wrong for shaping a character a certain way— I’m sorry, but where do you get off? I am completely understanding of wanting characters to stay true to the source material. I am completely understanding of having your own opinions about/expectations for a character and wanting them to behave a certain way. But YOU, my dear friend (or rather, we), are not the creator of those characters. Which means that we have no right to tell someone else what they can or cannot do with them.

The whole point of fandom is to let your imagination run wild. And if that means that a typically good character leans more evil in a fic, fine. If they make decisions you don’t agree with, great. If they do things that directly contradict what would have happened in the source material, even better!!

LET. PEOPLE. CREATE.

Let them throw characters into crazy situations and analyze how they react. Let them stretch them out like putty and poke at all of the soft bits inside. Let them shape them into something completely other just to see what happens. Let them be curious. Let them explore. Let them have fun.

Fandom should be fun.

And the second one person starts dictating what is right or wrong for a character or a ship, that’s the second it stops being fun. And that’s when fandoms die.

Don’t gatekeep something that doesn’t belong to you. Because again— It doesn’t belong to you.

You are allowed to have your own opinions. You are allowed to have your own expectations for characters. But who do you think you are, to flat out tell someone (or a group of people) that the way they write someone is wrong? That the way they have imagined something is wrong? That their creativity, their expression, their joy, is wrong? Or, as I’ve seen more recently, when someone gets dejected by the posts you’ve made telling them they’re creating wrong, you have the audacity to tell them “that’s okay, now that you know you did something I don’t like, you can reevaluate your work and try to improve!”

How dare you.

Because once again, I hate to break it to you, but you’re not the creator of these characters. And I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the actual creator is probably just so happy to see the diversity of idea that has sprung from their creation. So who do you think you are, to dictate an entire fandom?

If you don’t like it, move along. Click out of the fic, find something else to read. I understand having frustrations when things don’t go as you’d hoped, when a piece of work that you were excited about crosses those outer lines of your expectations and you feel disappointed. Again. But you know what? That’s your expectation. What about the person halfway across the world who reads the same fic and finds themselves in it? Finds a small piece of comfort that encourages them to hold on for just one more day. What happens when your words completely discourage the creators of your fandom, have them second guessing themselves? What happens when they lose confidence and stop creating completely? What happens when the fandom dies, and suddenly there’s nothing new to explore— to your standards or not?

You are allowed to have your opinions. Of course you are. You are allowed to express them. But you are never. EVER. allowed to tell people that they are wrong for making art that you don’t agree with. For using their imagination in a way that doesn’t fit into your small box of approval.

Let creators find happiness.

Let creators create.