#fandom makes a lot speculations

[thelegendofalyssa]

Sometimes I forget that Tony was still keeping tabs on Peter during Homecoming, he just wasn’t making it really known that he was. I mean, he showed up to help Peter every time he needed it (when he wore the stark suit). He didn’t completely disregard Peter after CW even though it kinda felt like it from Peter’s POV.

Not that he didn’t make mistakes and didn’t NOT lead Peter to think so. I want to know what they were like between Infinity War and Homecoming. Did they have any contact or did they just go on their ways like nothing happened? Also I love that Peter is all, “I want to just lay low, I won’t be an Avenger,” and then follows Tony into fucking SPACE? Then partakes in the war of the universe ?

Anyway I need to know more about their relationship.

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[sagurus]

I was thinking about the fact that with most DCMK characters I use one distinct name for them, but when it comes to Haibara Ai / Miyano Shiho, I'm all over the place. So I wanted to see how other people most commonly refer to her.

There are definitely more options than just these listed but I didn't want to get too verbose / granular. Please feel free to elaborate in the tags to account for my exclusions.

[camaelczarka]

It’s super funny to me when someone has a fave vampire and so it means that vampire can’t possibly be responsible for the actual things they really did

[random-dragon-exe]

Also, I just thought of something interesting.

Fear and Disgust have a similar role.

They both have to do with protecting Riley. Albeit in different forms.

Fear- keeping her safe from harm through the things she sees.

Disgust- keep things away from Riley that poison her. Physically and socially.

But I feel that they can overlap.

For example, let's say hypothetically Riley has a fear of spiders.

Fear would automatically be included in this scenario yes, but I feel Disgust could have a role too.

Disgust can come with it and dislike the sight of spiders. For example: how gross she thinks they are. How the number is legs is pretty freaky to look at. How nothing should have that many eyes. That it could bite Riley and poison her.

What I'm trying to say is that both Fear and Disgust have to do with aversion, and keeping Riley away from the perceived threat.

They can come together and in a sense, bond in that way.

There can be other scenarios/things they'd want to keep Riley away from like:

Germs. Fear would be cautious of the potential risk of disease and Disgust would be caught up with getting away from anything that's unsanitary and gross.

Public speaking. It's the most common fear and Fear would want Riley to rehearse the speech, so she can remember what to say. Disgust would want Riley to look good in front of the audience to make a good impression.

I'm sure there's other things/scenarios that they can keep away from Riley that they can bond over, but that's all I can think of.

Also I may have taken inspiration from my own fears/aversions.

I have a fear of spiders and public speaking. Not so much germs.

[spotsupstuff]

here's a neat vid, go watch it if you haven't yet

there's Some things that i don't completely agree with personally, like attributing the Third sin to Materialism rather than Connection (i'd argue that the Ancients had no big issue with being materialistic, considering their golden attires and such- and that going with Connection overall better addresses both the core of Materialism and relationships overall) and then attributing the word Dynasty specifically to asian cultures but that's more history/word definition beef more than anything djgklsjlcgjkd

oh how i'd love to have a debate with this guy about Ancients...

[benkaben]

Gggggaaaaaa

[peach-pot]

(Heyo! this is, like, so out of the blue, but I wanted you to know how relieving it is to know there are other Dan and Phil fans/viewers still out there who like to steer away from relationship speculation. At this point it isn’t even discussed as speculation—the fandom’s assumptions are taken as “proven” fact, and it drives me up the wall. As if clean-cut normative romance is the only option, and as if it’s our place to know and discuss casually the intimate lives of two strangers.

It seems that any time dnp bring up parasocial relationships it goes over everyone’s heads except as a new buzzword to use in jokes/memes or some shit, lmao. But I appreciate so so much knowing that I’m not alone. No pressure to answer this, btw, just wanted to say thanks. Take it easy!)

yeah, could not have said it better myself!!! it’s similarly nice receiving responses to those types of dnp posts that let me know I alone do not hold this opinion.

[bi-chimneyy]

I think we all need to go back and relearn what canon means

[bakaramia]

‘Why is Amir acting like Vox hurt Alastor when fanart portrays the situation the other way around?’ headcanons and fanart aren’t canon, hope this helps!

[orcelito]

Discordant Accord is at almost 1,500 kudos. Which is wonderful that people still read and appreciate it, even with the multi-year hiatus! It's also a little bit funny to me tho that here I am fucking around in trigun for so long, but my other (still beloved! But also estranged) child continues to get attention and is also my most popular work.

For as much time as I put into it tho it does make me happy that it's still getting attention lol

[lurking-latinist]

🐈

[revvethasmythh]

That Specific Take TM is part of what led me to stop watching critical role entirely. Wouldn’t go so far as calling myself a “stan” of Nott, but I adored her. And I adored her progression into being comfortable with being Veth. But it feels like people see what they want to see far more than they see the character that’s been portrayed… TLDR I sympathize entirely, it’s kind of miserable to know so many people dislike characters you find very compelling for how they are portrayed simply because they are misinterpreting that portrayal at a rather fundamental level!

I actually do not think a take like that stems from dislike! Misinterpretation, yes, but misinterpretation is not always connected to disliking a character. Like, as many insane and wrong takes I've seen about Orym that have popped up during c3, the OPs of those posts often do not necessarily dislike Orym (at least, so they say). They just have a particular perspective that is not, uh, correct if you actually engage with the textual evidence. I think re: this take in particular, it really does come from a sense of disappointment that the dynamic between Nott and Caleb didn't maintain course, that the Veth reveal did irrevocably alter the dynamic.

Which--okay, there's a lot going on with that, and I think people who were overly attached to the "dynamic" over the individual characters involved tend toward Caleb-specific fans (hence how he's the listless sad boi of the post, the queer neurodivergent guy, while Veth is cast as a flat perfectly happy straight neurotypical woman (that was painful even just to write, but that is what the post is positing), and ignorant of all of Caleb's sad boi feelings--which of those descriptions is going to be more relatable/sympathetic to your average tumblr user, you know?), and if you were to track fandom engagement with Nott as a character, I feel like you would find a significant drop-off of investment in her after the Veth reveal. Because she yelled at Caleb, she altered the dynamic, her story separated from his story, she moved away from him narratively, and when the focus was placed more fully on herself and her character details, I suspect a lot of people drifted away from her. Because Nott was Caleb's funny sidekick and qpr and loving mother all rolled into one, and it's just not the same if she is a married woman, a mother, with goals of her own that may--and do--cause her to shift away from her very tight relationship with Caleb. In the eyes of a lot of people, she was there to serve at the altar of the dynamic, and her role was to support Caleb. Breaking the dynamic is a cardinal sin--it's similar to the way some people react so weirdly to the Nein all splitting ways after the finale. There's that deep attachment to The Dynamic, the Found Family, that rifts and conflicts and alterations to the dynamic are distressing to people and they'll come up with similarly incorrect metas full of projections and act like they're canon as a reaction to that.

So, instead of "dislike", I think perhaps the better word to sub in there is "disinterest." If people cleave so strongly to the original representation of the dynamic, when alterations to it are made they are disinterested in letting themselves be invested in, think deeply about, and care for the new dynamics created, because they're too tethered to a thing that was already lost--OR never really existed the way they're imaging to begin with.

[cannimumsable]

The pattern is that people straight up do not read™. or they read a 3-5 tweet summary of what happened and treat it as if they did. or because shonen expectations based on "the classics" is bullshit and significantly rotted people's brains when deciding wether an ending is good or not.

Which could be nothing right

yeahhh. i will forever regret reading the last chapter through leaks because it was a dreadful experience, and watching everyone ever shit on it for like a week after genuinely made me want to just get off the internet forever or something because i felt like an idiot for liking the ending (all this is my fault for getting too invested in both tumblr and mha etc etc).

All the "it's rushed" and pacing complaints barely matter to me at this point because you just cannot feel the pacing of something correctly when you're reading it exclusively through leaks. you can't absorb info like that. And don't get me started on the number of complaints and criticisms I've seen of the last chapter that are just provably bullshit (I saw someone say Izuku didn't get a statue lmao. yes he did, you just read the fucking leaks and watched twitter drama unfold instead of reading the actual chapter i fear).

[blueaphelion]

AU where everything is the same, except Middleton High is a hockey school

[plumsaffron]

If one wishes for Marinette to truly evolve and not want those good to her be dragged down for opposing her by association (as they already unfortunately are still and probably always will be) even further, or not want Marinette's delulu actions of presuming bad or seeking the worst or attempting or succeeding to ruin others as predestined to be valid by many so she should react terribly for any in the future that don't act how she thinks they should or seem lila like enough, the thing that should not be desired is the viewer or fandom's fetish folly against Lila.