#fandom talk

[canonically47]

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

[just-french-me-up]

"Im so sad [x] fandom is dead and buried."

look down at your hands

flex your fingers

feel the gnawing pull in your heart

and unearth it yourself

[venturelock]

Why do (some) Jegulus antis constantly feel the need to say that people only headcanon Lily as a Lesbian to make it seem like we care about her??

Cause I can tell you that is ABSOLUTELY NOT the case. Maybe it's the only reason you think people make her sapphic but that doesn't mean it's true.

Personally I headcanon Lily as a lesbian most of the time but my reasons for headcanoning her as that have absolutely nothing to do with Jegulus or James!

They always like to frame it to make it seem like all Jegulus shipper are misogynistic towards Lily when in reality they are the ones really centering Lily's character around a man!

Lily is her own person outside of being James' wife/girlfriend! And Marylily, Pandalily and PandaMaryLily are some of the best ships in the fandom and it's time people start recognizing that!!

[bluepandadraws-log]

Y'know...I was gonna go on a rant about the "Ragatha abstracts next episode/Episode 6" Theory, as well as a rant on how the fandom's been kinda weird about her after episode 4 dropped; but alas, my brain is too small to properly form the words.

So of course that means I gotta do a comic or something to get my thoughts out. My mind is weird and wacky so I do better with pictures and visuals with words to explain my feelings. Sooo... look forward to that Eventually™!!

[my-castles-crumbling]

My wife just had to say the words “You can’t talk about the Omegaverse at Thanksgiving. You know that right?” so I think I need a divorce.

[eternalera]

i hate when people go "why cant people just be friends :((( why cant we have strong platonic bonds anymore?" to ships

and do you wanna know the reason? like do you really wanna know the reason. okay well here we go ig-

(click read more for an actual analysis of why this doesnt happen)

no one writes strong platonic bonds well anymore.

at least they cant do so without it seeming romantic because of one thing.

shipping and romance.

without a doubt it has taken over our society as a whole and this is for quiet a few reasons, we literally have a holiday about romance, one of the many things moments people experience in high school is taking out their crush to a dance (of course many people take friends and make just as fun if not longer lasting memories), influencers share their lives on the daily, most fans are teens going through puberty so yknow what that means, and hollywood.

the main reason being of course hollywood.

with all of these reasons combined hollywood sees this and basically goes "oh look at all of these opportunities for romance and most importantly drama!!" and then they take it, make a romantic bond, get you attached and then proceed to put you through hell with it getting you addicted to it. but why a romantic bond? why not platonic? because its simple, when tv and stuff started pushing out they wanted to get people heavily attached and they didnt think or care about platonic bonds because why have platonic bonds when you can instantly take it to the much "juicier" step? aka romantic bonds?

now im gonna lump in all of our previous reasons together. its no big surprise that our lives TYPICALLY (most likely not for people on the ace spectrum) are heavily centered around romance and sex and so in order to relate to the MAJORITY (from what large companies can tell) of people they tend to make that platonic bond romantic to get people swooning over it and thinking 'oh thats what i want in a partner'

so we tend to perceive these actions as romantic when in reality... theyre typically not, not unless youre kissing or actively having sex these actions arent all that romantic. even holding hands isnt really that romantic. ive had several friends who desire no romantic relationship with each other hold hands and jokingly press their faces close together as if they were being 'romantic' with each other. ive in fact shared a bed with my friend a few times and found that yeah... theyre just my friend. these actions are not romantic. so why do we think that they are?

hollywood, from our past memories and "experiences" (experiences in quotations because lets be honest... its just movie watching) we see these actions as romantic because theyve been dont with romantic undertones. for example let me put the absolute stupidest thing thats been romanticized.

giving someone your jacket or umbrella when its raining. especially when its friend.

yes. hollywood was romanticized basic human decency towards someone that you care about. im 90% sure that anyone reasing this would gladly give their jacket to their friend if it was raining and they didnt want them to catch a cold, or if they had an extra layer to just simply give them. OR if they had an umbrella they would share.

because thats what you do for someone that you care for

but in hollywood this was romanticized by the enemies to lovers trope or the rivals to lovers or... whatever you want to call it- it was romanticized and soon enough they began doing it with everything. friends to lovers. (i dont know which trope made it romantic first so dont quote me on this the main point is that they made it romantic when the gesture itself is NOT)

point being, like it or not romance is something that was heavily implemented into your mind as a child and will always be there. and its why we cant perceive friends as 'just friends' anymore or whatever youd like to call it. the implication of past experiences with media will always be there and guess what? suck it up. its always going to be there and theres nothing you can do about it.

so yeah. thats why people cant perceive things as just friends and why strong platonic bonds quite literally cant really be written well anymore. unless of course they shove it down your throat with the constant 'oh youre my best friend!' but even then- oops it was romanticized by hollywood...

so thats my take on the whole situation. personally i think you should just let people ship whatever they want as long as its legal lol

[chilledcitrus]

People might assume that Draco is deeply loved in the fandom because drarry and dramione are so popular. The reality, though, is that Draco's role in these ships is often more about his narrative value than genuine affection for his character.

Many people see him as a foil or tool for either Harry’s or Hermione’s character development. Sometimes, it’s less about redeeming Draco and more about making him suffer, change, or submit—which can come across as a form of character hate disguised as a romantic narrative.

There’s also a tendency to either demonizing him into a villain who must be tamed or turning him into a woobified victim who needs rescuing. Both extremes often reflect the fantasy the shipper wants to explore rather than Draco’s actual character.

While I’m sure Draco himself is still very popular and loved in the fandom, the reason so many people ship drarry or dramione isn’t purely out of love for him. In fact, i’ve seen plenty of hate for him from their shippers as well.

[thebearme]

Before the fandom really starts boomin

I have seen fandom crash and burn because of shipping, don't let it be Dogman okay?

Idk about you but this series is a comfort to me, I came in during the pandemic and I frankly wished I joined soon. I hope we can keep this place like a comfort zone as long as possible, I know it can't stay like this but we can try to maintain what we have.

So please no one in the future harasses anyone for not shipping a popular ship. If anyone starts being weird in the fandom, just block and warn others of them. This especially applies to any proship stuff you find.

No need to put yourself in danger trying to confront them okay.

Also, people that don't ship Dogman x Petey or just see them in a qpr. YALL ARE COOL! The chillest people here and I hope you stay.

yall are chill like that

[chaoticdean]

I truly thought we went through this already but I just stumbled upon a post on a FB Destiel group where someone was asking if they could give constructive criticism to a fanfic author because they used “a lot of britishism” in a fic and that bothered OP.

As someone who’s neither a native English speaker nor a professional author… Please don’t do this? Like, I’m actually genuinely puzzled at the number of comments I saw under that post that thought it was an ok thing to do. The general fandom rule about constructive criticism is “unless author has directly stated they are ok with being given concrit, please refrain from giving it”. I thought it was a well-known rule at this point, but apparently not.

Even if you mean well. Even if your intention is to be nice. You don’t know how it’s gonna be received and perceived by the author. Do you really want to make them feel like shit because you thought your opinion mattered most than them sharing their work for free?

You have no idea how much strength it takes for someone to post a story they wrote for free on a free website so that you can read it on your free time. You have no idea of the struggles they might have gone through with their story. You have no idea who they are, and what that story means to them. Do not be a dick is literally the least you can do.

99% of non-native English speakers are taught British English in school. Hell, as a non-native English speaker, the only reason I write in mostly US English is because of how influenced I have been by the tv shows and music I’ve been listening to for two decades, but the basis of what I’ve learned academically are in British English. I was once told it was “clear I was Australian” because my characters were putting butter on their sandwiches, and even though I can laugh about it now, when I received this comment I remember feeling miserable and like I would never be as good of an author as anyone who has English as a first language.

You don’t know if the author is a native English speaker, and even if they are… You do realize America isn’t the center of the world, right? I’ve been told “well the show is an American tv show written by American writers, so if an author doesn’t write in American English, they are a BAD AUTHOR”. Exactly how entitled do you think you can be about something that’s given to you for free with no expectation? Click the goddamn X in the corner if a term you deem “wrong” bothers you that much, Stephanie.

[rabbidrabbitt]

How on Earth does Sebastian Solace swim???

Spoiler Alert: he doesn’t…. At least not well, hear me out

(Discussion under the cut)

Okay so I was playing pressure with my friends the other night and randomly I brought up the fact that I was very confused on how Sebastian would actually swim. He’s a mix of a lot of animals but the two animals that manifest most in his tail anatomy is sea snake and blue whale.

His tail is very long and, based on how he sits, moves similarly to a sea snake. However he has the tail fluke of a blue whale, which means in order for that to help propel him through the water, he’d have to move his tail like a whale.

It’s possible he does use vertical motion to move through the water, but due to the sheer length of his tail, it seems unlikely. That motion would probably be very awkward for a tail of that length. Whales are not really long for their size, their tail portion is actually quite short and majority of their movement comes from the end of the tail, closer to the flukes. The rest of their spines stay mostly rigid and straight (not fully but, there’s much less movement in the upper body)

This works well for whales, but in Sebastian’s case, his spine is not very rigid or straight, likely making a vertical movement harder for him, taking more effort to move.

We also have to take into account that he moves quite fast on land, as stated in his file, he is quick despite his size.

He quite obviously can’t use a vertical spinal movement on land, he has no legs, meaning it’s likely much more natural for him to move laterally (also considering he is mixed with more animals with a lateral movement, sea snake, shark, angler fish, etc).

Now I’m not well versed in physics, so feel free to correct me, but if he’s moving laterally in the water, his large tail fluke would likely cause a lot of drag in the water, slowly him down significantly when swimming.

Okay so why should I care? What does this yap session even mean??

My interest in this was piqued when my friend said to me that this was likely done on purpose to make it harder for him to actually swim.

His experiment was to give him gills, not to advance his swimming capabilities. In fact, creating a giant mutant creature, who you believe is a criminal who killed 9 people, you probably don’t want to give him a huge advantage in the water, you know, what you’re surrounded by. He probably can swim, of course he can, his job was underwater maintenance, he’s still many many aquatic animals. He can swim. But he was purposefully tweaked to be an awkward swimmer to keep a tight leash on him. Either that or because Urbanshade is shitty and they just find it entertaining or see it as a cruel joke…

Not only does this effect his swimming, but having a humanoid torso and a snake tail, it’s not entirely out of the question that he may suffer from spinal issues due to the structure of his spine. But I’m no biologist, I could just be talking out my ass.

Anywaaayyy, that’s all I have for you guys. What do you think? Does it make sense? Am I thinking too deeply about this. I haven’t seen anyone talk about this but I think it could be a sad reality for him. My poor beautiful abomination of an experiment… I love him.

[canonically47]

“can you people just let friends be friends!!” i shout into the mic. the crowd boos and throws tomatoes at me. “why, are you homophobic?” they accuse. i shoot everyone dead with my aromantic beam.

[dustbunnylair]

PSA 4 awareness.

[credits in video; og video]

i simply dont care if you "disagree", it's common sense, something people clearly dont have often anymore.

"it-it's just fiction, fiction doesn't affect reality!!" fiction impacts and influences reality. "it's a coping mechanism" literally contradicts the "fiction doesn't affect reality", if fiction doesn't affect reality, it's not a coping mechanism.

"proship JUST means anti-harassment-" yep! including inc*st and pedo ships! why normalize that?

yes, fictional CSEM is illegal.

^ another link to back this up [NCMEC]

[birdifulhuman]

Everyone in the malevolent fandom seems so genuinely nice, I have never felt so comfortable in a fandom before. I'm sobbing, y'all are so so cool

[bluepandadraws-log]

Remember folks, if you hate a ship REALLY BAD I insist blocking tags; it's in the Account Settings under Content you See, you can add tags to filter so you can't see them.

I say this cuz I WAS gonna rant about a ship I've grown to really not like, but I held back and blocked tags instead. I hate yucking up anyone's yum and ship wars are pointless lol

[we-ezer]

why am i shipping horses and hedgehogs now what dark power does this site hold