#fandom wank

[flame-cat]

"but senshi thought chilchuck was a kid for a while-" wow isnt it crazy how peoples perceptions of each other can change over time, especially as they learn more about each other. isnt it truly insane how people are capable of growth. isnt that bonkers.

[cacodaemonia]

Boggles my mind when I see people who are super into one of the Holy Trinity of Problematique Star Wars Ships—any clone ship, Rexsoka, and Obikin (and usually any master/padawan)—with DNIs or similar comments aimed at the other two parts of the trinity.

Like wow, how do they not see that they're treating other fans the same ways antis most assuredly treat them? 🤡

[lesbianralzarek]

hearing "wyll sucks and his fans only complain and never make their own shit. theyre the most toxic part of the fandom by far" would hurt in any context, but seeing those screenshots in the discord server created to organize fandom events for wyll fanart/fic was just... too fuckin much. their evidence? well, the wyll posts on twitter with the most engagement were the discourse ones, with people largely ignoring the fanart. yanno, like people might do with an unpopular character. ugh. not tagging him because his tag should be full of sunshine and rainbows and NOT discourse

[themarginalthinker]

Ok, I'll make a post:

Can people in fandom stop throwing others under the bus for how they enjoy and interact with a piece of media? And, more specifically, can they stop acting like their interpretation - just an interpretation, mind you, stretching into headcanon territory at that - is the only interpretation of canon. You are allowed to feel how you feel, you are allowed to dislike or even hate how other people are doing things. But they are allowed to do how they do, just as you are. If you must comment, I encourage you to do so privately.

Live and let ship/write/headcanon, people.

Thank you.

[fandom-hoarder]

How does Sam deserve it the most?? Are they seriously counting Gadreel as Sam, or is their hate boner for Sam just that bad

[safk-art]

before coming back here again after almost a year, I promised myself to avoid drama, sadly I know the person and this is no drama. I did not sleep last night because this situation was hanging behind my back.

I don't want to pick sides but I am beginning to see some guilt that I wish that person could face and I still think there's time to turn things around.

that person didn't want me to get involved, to begin with, but I had done some digging because something was off. I read your guy's posts I came across, reached out to individuals, and looked at my experience, I have to say I have been quite blinded by this situation. I felt confused and noticed things did not add up on their side of the defense.

So I decided to cut the connection with that person, they lied to me and I won't go any further with this, it's our private conversation and I don't want any more trouble.

It was hard for me to because I was close with that person, but I guess they put a mask on because of my art.

I wanted to mention this took me a while to write, because I am scared of what she might have done with me (Pi3) behind my back, and I shouldn't know.

 I don't wish any harm on anyone including her, I am here to enjoy sharing my art and I have my stuff to deal with on my end, so I hope things can move on soon and heal from this. 

This is probably the last time I'll be friends with something this close.

[controversialhpmemes]

[azure-arsonist]

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

[the-bar-sinister]

Look, I'm going to be honest, I don't care whether people feeding other fans' fanfiction into AI is "legal" or "illegal".

What it is, is rude, entitled, and disrespectful of your fellow fans.

[commander-krios]

I didn’t want to make this post but I really need to.

I have been part of different fandoms for nearly 15 years. I’m in my mid-30s. I have been here on tumblr for over 10 of those years. And no matter what fandom I’m in, there are always those people that makes things weird or toxic for others.

There are the people who insult or belittle people on their faves, in their art or writing, on how they interact with choices in a game.

There are the people who cross the line when it comes to devs or voice actors, etc and makes things creepy or sexual or push boundaries of these people.

There are the people who gate keep characters. Who claim that no one can romance their fave because they claim them. That anyone who does is making their character cheat and they will harass you as if we’re talking about real life.

There are the people who criticize everything about a piece of media to find the “problematic” things only to be able to show you why you’re a terrible person to like it.

YOU are the reason fandom is dying. YOU are the reason why people don’t want to share their art or their fic or their gifsets. YOU are why we lose these amazing people because no one wants to hear how much you hate the thing they love.

There was a lot of “don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything” when I was growing up but the internet has made you lose all kindness or respect for other people in fandom. It’s disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves.

When people stop making fic and art and gifs, you can thank yourselves for that. Because people can only take so much abuse before they give up entirely.

[shieldofiron]

What if I actually get this tattooed on my body

[doctortwhohiddles]

Friendly reminder that no celebrity has to stay single just so his fans can keep fantasizing about him. That celebrities do not need their "fans" approval when chosing a partner. That self-insert Mary-Sue fan fics are just that, fiction. Most actors will end up with an another actor, not a barrista or a librairian.

Unless your under 16, being sad and hurt that a stranger got married is not a normal reaction. And throwing insults, making up lies and harassing people over it is even worse.

Being a fan of someone does not give you a say in their personal life. Ever. Celebrities are not your friends, they're not family, they are strangers. Stop acting like they owe you something. They don't.

[qprstobin]

The fact people act like Steve wouldn't notice if a guy/Eddie was flirting with him at all, when part of the hilarity behind the big boy flirtation scene is that Steve CLEARLY knows something about the comment is off lol. That's why he looks so baffled. Steve can be oblivious about other things but come on Casanova over there is going to notice when someone is flirting with him even if it is a guy

[solisaureus]

look this is gonna be a hard to swallow pill for the pjo fandom,

but the sun and the star is coming out at a really important time in the USA -- homophobia is on the rise, books like this are being restricted, and policies are being debated and passed to exterminate queer and trans people from the public sphere. having a positive example of a queer relationship in fiction, especially as part of a mega-popular middle grade series, is going to be important to a lot of the queer 10-14 year olds that make up this book's main demographic.

i have never, ever seen a percy jackson book have such a negative reception online. and it's just a coincidence that this is the first queer-focused installment of the series?

people are seeing the extent of the hate and thinking they shouldn't bother reading tsats at all, that they have already heard enough from people who hate the book. I have had people reblog my positive posts and say "maybe i'll give this book a chance, this is the first nice post i've seen about it." that's really fucking sad yall.

maybe tsats wasn't what you expected, maybe it contradicted your headcanons, maybe you prefer ships other than solangelo. you don't have to like tsats. but the amount of vocal hate for it is ridiculous. other pjo books do not get this kind of hate -- picking apart and complaining about every tiny little detail, ridiculing the writing style of both authors, mocking the attempts at sincerity, even sometimes mocking people who did like the book.

i have never seen this harsh of a response before (and i'm old -- I've been a percy jackson reader since the lightning thief came out in 2005) and especially not from such large portions of the fandom to the point where people who haven't read it are feeling discouraged from doing so.

Please look at the big picture. your opinions don't exist in a vacuum. maybe this is a hot take, but at some point the hate is indistinguishable from how homophobes talk about queer fiction. i'm just saying there are better things to turn your anger towards, and if you hated this book so much just do what the rest of us do and write fucking fanfiction to make yourself feel better. fucks sake

[sporkberries]

Im sooo fucking tired of people disrespecting comics im soooo tired oh my goddd. “Its hard to get into comics dont even try” oh okay you can read a 300k word fanfic on ao3 but you cant read a fucking picture book? Are you serious?

[clownfessionsofficial]

"DNI if you ship ILLEGAL ships!!!!!"

Tell me you suck cop dick without telling me you suck cop dick