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[bedlamsbard]

I have been dealing with how much some people hate Gambit for TEN YEARS and one of these days (not today) I am finally going to snap and pull this story. TEN YEARS. TEN HUMAN YEARS.

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Wow I love it when a little rant post about my silly video games and how I feel about them nets me anon hate. People are absolutely allowed to be disappointed by things they're disappointed by, just like they're allowed to be excited by things they're excited by, and share them in fandom spaces if they want.

Look just block me like a normal person stfu

Peace and love to anyone who is getting angry fans in their inboxes rn because they expressed a pretty mild opinion <3

[laurrelise]

i’ve been doing a bit of sketching 🙏🙏🙏 i started watching tua less than 2 weeks ago and im actually so hyperfixated on it im losing my mind

anyways working on aj carmichael next!!!!! 😝😝

[coffeebanana]

istg half of the post-s5 finale fics i see have some sort of disclaimer in the tags or summary (or i even just saw one in the title!!) saying the fic was written because the show sucks or the finale sucked or they just hated everything about it

and it's frustrating because i probably would have enjoyed a lot of these fics! but now i'm not even going to touch them because i don't want to engage with people shitting on the show

[edwardallenpoe]

Hey. Just wanted to put my two cents in, like everyone else on Tumblr dot com is. (It got pretty long so putting it under a cut)

I don't really care about what you think should happen to the fandom. Like. If you are going to continue to engage in the fandom without giving Neil any sort of gain is fine. I'm personally still on the fence on what the fuck to do now. But let's not make that the whole focus, yeah? What Neil allegedly did was fucking terrible. Like. Objectively worse than what JKR did when things first came out about her. Let's forget good omens and sandman and coraline for a minute (don't care if you still engage with those things or burn your copies and remove your tattoos, let's just put it down for a minute.) and try really hard to think. Because we all hated JKR. We burned her reputation to the ground. For good reason. But we can't even decide if we hate Neil Gaiman yet? Guys. Please. We have to believe all women. Plus he's a rich fucking white dude who has admitted to using his power for gain.

And if it turns out (which this is a 8% chance) that this is all not what it seems to be, or even all of it is fabricated, and Neil is innocent, we still gotta stop worshipping this dude. This has got to be a wakeup call that he's not some Messiah. He's a human dude in power who does the same shitty things human dudes in power do.

And I get it. You want to continue to like your stories that he helped create (key-word 'helped' bc he was a part of a team with a lot of these stories, including Sir Terry Pratchett) but me personally? I would be a massive hypocrite if I metaphorically burned my Harry Potter stories to the ground and put HP fans in my DNI because of JKR but said "separate the art from the artist" with Neil Gaiman.

And this is coming from any other Good Omens fan that became way too attached to the story. Like a lot of people have said that story helped in very. Very fucking trying times. It was my rock, some days the only thing keeping me going. The fandom has been an amazing place of creativity and community and love.

But so was Harry Potter. If you think about it. If any Good Omens fans were previous Harry Potter fans you'll know just how wide spread and open and creative and deep the hp fandom was. And this may just be me misremembering because it was a couple years ago at this point (plus everything with Neil Gaiman is still such news) but because JKR was spouting rhetoric that directly harmed us (us being majority queer and poc people) we drop-kicked hp pretty fast and focused on the artist and her shittiness.

Can we have the same attitude towards Neil? Can we separate the art from the artist long enough to fucking focus on Neil? When I say separate the art from the artist I don't mean "remove artist, continue to enjoy art" I mean "remove the art and focus on the artist, and study that motherfucker". How many video essays are their out about JKR? How many books referencing her terribleness? Without giving so much as a hint to Harry Potter?

Separate the art from the artist and focus on the artist and bringing him to justice. And believe the victims.

And yeah I can see your arguments against the source of the information and who the victims went to tell their stories, I can understand those arguments, but let's look at the data, okay? Let's look at what Scarlett and K actually said with their actual words and their actual messages and separate the source from the material. What Scarlett and K talked about is scary. Terrifying. I couldn't even read more than a little bit before I got triggered. I wasn't caring about how the source podcast was talking about it. What Scarlett and K said with their own words should be enough. Make your own judgements. If you can't look at a story without being influenced by the storyteller's hidden agenda and not have critical thinking skills????? I'm sorry but that's going to be your downfall.

Or better yet, if you can't believe victims because they have political views that differ from your own (which, they probably don't. From what I can tell nobody really fucking knows what Scarlett and K's political views are but it doesn't really matter) you need to really study and look into what you mean when you call yourself a "leftist". Because it's not very progressive or helpful to not believe or help victims because of their political views. Sorry. Is that wild for me to say? Idk

Uh anyways. I don't really care what you do in your free time when it comes to enjoying the fandoms. I don't necessarily think it makes you a terribly shitty person for still engaging in it instead of burning all your Neil Gaiman stories, and also like a lot of people have said (and since I'm on the same boat) treating fans like the scum of the earth when a lot of fans have had good omens as a way to escape and has become super dependent on good omens and are justifiably horrified by everything and trying to ignore it is shitty. But I'm personally going to continue to follow this story because I care about the victims. Not because I want to be guilt-free reading a fanfic about an angel and a demon. Because I care about real life people.

[katabay]

top 5 fandoms?

oooh, okay! so my top 5 to hang out in (which is not necessarily the same as stuff I draw fan art of, but ones where I’ve gone to group meet ups at conventions, attended watch parties/events for, actively seek out the tags for on twitter, etc) are probably

-Kamen Rider

-the bitter Sam fan side of SPN

-DMBJ

-Pacific Rim

-Guardian/Zhen Hun or the Yakuza franchise

[poisonouspastels]

FNaF fans I am grabbing you by the shoulders. I am looking you in the eyes. You're listening to me right now? Good. PLEASE REBLOG WORK ON THIS WEBSITE I am so, so tired of seeing so many talented artists, myself included, get their work shafted because the reblog culture in this fandom is DEAD for some reason. I will see POSTS upon POSTS about how people are tired of seeing 1000x Daycare Attendant AU stuff, but the moment that it comes to reblogging people's artwork, or fanfic, or non-DCA OCs, its liked and moved on from without a word. I also notice people tend to comment a lot here while also not reblogging the post, so please PLEASE consider if you have something to say: just put it in the tags of your reblog! I love the compliments, but you can give them while reblogging my work too so it helps me!

THIS is the reblogs to likes ratio of some of the top posts when you search FNaF on Tumblr right now. Only a fraction of people who have liked these posts have reblogged them. And I must remind you all: TUMBLR DOES NOT HAVE AN ALGORITHM Your likes do not help posts grow. Your comments are appreciated, but they also do not help artists get their work around. But you know what does? You reblogging. Do unto others what you would want done for your work, you hear me? Go support FNaF fandom artists. (And other artists too while you're at it.)

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

[ennard-is-near]

I feel like some parts (not all parts, but definitely some) of the FNaF fandom kind of has a hard time with morally grey characters and it gets on my nerves a little. I understand that this is a problem in every fandom, but specifically in a horror game where every character does bad things it’s really hard for me to ignore.

Below the cut is a few examples of what I mean. Keep in mind that this isn’t everyone in the fandom. I’ve seen incredible works of fiction that do depict the characters as more morally grey, but I feel like the characters are too often simplified to just good and bad and it grinds my gears. This is also just my opinion, the source material isn’t exactly well developed so you can do whatever you want with it and I’m not going to stop you.

If William isn’t killing people before The Bite of ‘83 and was a pretty normal guy and father before that, it doesn’t mean he’s a good person. It doesn’t absolve him of wrongdoing if he went a little wild with grief and got lost in the sauce instead of always being completely horrible and neglecting/abusing his children. But so often I see so many fics and other art depicting him as horribly and irredeemably abusive before that, usually for little to no reason. He can feel remorse for killing Charlie, he can care genuinely about his family and Henry, it doesn’t make him not the bad guy. It just makes him more complex. He’s the bad guy because he’s selfishly trying to bring back his son while completely disregarding all the harm he’s doing to everyone around him in the process.

Michael doesn’t have to have a deeper reason to have done The Bite of ‘83. He could have just thought he was being funny. It doesn’t mean he’s a bad person. It’s okay if he genuinely cares about his father even though he knows/ suspects that he killed those kids. He’s a kid himself, he makes poor choices because he’s dumb but clearly wants to do the right thing and make up for it. That’s what makes him good. Not that he only does good things, but that’s he’s just trying his best to help people.

Gregory isn’t evil but he makes lots of poor choices that hurt obviously sentient beings and maybe Cassie. Vanessa isn’t just an innocent victim but she can still be redeemed. Elizabeth is obviously intelligent and knows what she’s doing is wrong but is too desperate to care. Henry obviously has some weird guilt complex going on but should have spoken to Michael before setting him on fire and probably should have done something sooner.

And isn’t that more interesting? Isn’t it more fun when characters are complex and all fall on some scale of morally grey instead of being just good and evil? Personally, I don’t usually enjoy the depiction of William as cartoonishly evil and everyone else as completely innocent and good. And Again, I mean no hate to people who do enjoy this depiction of the characters, I’m just saying what I find most interesting in the characters.

Thank you for reading my long post <3

[thetisming]

im actually really worried that im not that interested in &j anymore like ivd been having a hard time writing about it and talking about it online and i mean i talk about it a lot irl but idk like people have been knowing more than me and im starting to feel so incredibly inferior that it's hard for me to enjoy it

[tothepointofinsanity]

[Also...this is a really big milestone...I don't really keep track of my follower count, but this is quite the number of people. I am glad that 700 other people like Sayaka Miki from the hit show Puella Magi Madoka Magica too. Thank you for your support of my art. 🙇‍♀️🙏]

[the-way-astray]

can you follow me back

katie's going to start accusing me of stealing her anons

[doctorcanon]

As a Black person who's been in nerd spaces for almost 2 decades now, the whole "I've never seen fandom be so negative before!" is starting to get on my nerves. Its always been this way, it's just that now you're on the other side of it or you can't ignore it anymore.

I was there when ff.net writers tried to run Black fic writers off of those C3 communities back in the day. I was there in the Gaia Online days of "I don't accept characters played by people with dark skinned avatars", being proudly displayed on Barton Town threads. I was also there when congoers complained about Black people "ghetto-fying" con spaces. I had to delete my old blog after being branded the "Sally Donovan of the Sherlock Fandom" .

Yes, getting dogpiled and hated on because of some kid's false moral outrage can be super disheartening. Yeah, the community is much bigger and chaotic than we could have ever imagined. YES, social media and the general state of the world is affecting how we cope with things mentally and we should all strive to be kinder to each other.

But some of y'all are STRAIGHT UP LYING about how internet fandom used to be and how much you participated in it. Your old forum account with your "anti-yaoi" sticker and banner signature are still out there, you know. Some of you here STILL use the same names you did 20 years later and you're just as guilty as the kids you complain about now. IF NOT MORE.

[technicalknockout]

whenever i get the urge to delete my old art off the face of the internet i remind myself of the artists who deleted their beautiful art that inspired me so much. i exist purely to spite their decision

[nyancreeperpony]

UGGGGH I thought I would get used to Phone Guy being named fucking Ralph, but I just CAN'T!

Like, as soon as I think "hey I'm warming up to the name Ralph for Phone Guy". I remember that's THE CANON NAME for the character and I go into an unquienchable rage!

I don't even hate the name "Ralph", that's the name of my psychitrist. I just hate that it's the CANON NAME FOR THE CHARACTER.

You know, the character that was practically FOUNDED on fanon for almost a decade! The character that honestly would honestly be better WITHOUT canon material because of much the FAN COMMUNITY made with him?! THAT FUCKING CHARACTER!?

Like with Vanny, I didn't LIKE what canon did with the character but I could live with it because like, the fanon versions lasted only 1-2 years at most. Plus with the leaks, we practically KNEW that Vanessa and Vanny were the same person, like it was obvious.

But 10 YEARS! Sine the begginning. Without ANY REAL WARNING!? NOW YOU FINALLY GIVE US CANON MATERIAL? Bogus man!

This is the last time I'm going to talk about this, I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of Autistic people not being able to change, but these are my feelings.

You can't just have a character be around for 10 years and just NOW give us canon information.

[kneworder]

some of you guys weren't raised on heroes (2005) and it shows