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kisakunt · 3 years

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NEW GAME: Introduce your mutuals to everyone and what do you think of them?

been seeing everyone n their mom doing this was wondering when it’d be my turn smfh. don’t have that many mutuals but there r some i don’t speak to so if i don’t include my fault

@miykui i hate this faggot so much like i’m telling you the god awful worst person ever the amount of fruity bullshit they send to me daily? the death threats i get if i speak to or ab other girls? if i look at other girls???? if i BREATHE NEAR OTHER GIRLS??? that being said. if you start being buddy buddy w them i will kill you and i am not kidding.

@shujiphoria hanma shuji’s gf. draken’s lil ex. this works very conveniently we’re practically forced to be acquainted bc i’m kisaki tetta’s one and only and y’all know bout me and mr. manjiro sano 🤨 it’s silly how i expected to hate them n i speak to them too much now. another gatekeeper

@rindouphiliac i actually hate this bitch some people are good at writing and some people are too good at writing and. y’all guess which one. however he just brought the fact our ship name is ‘blis’ to my attention so i’m dutifully forced to keep them around. part of the gatekeeping trio perhaps

@izukine @haruchiyo uhm idk my best friends tho they’re not rly active rn but if they were they’d be all y’all heard ab and that’s the truth 🤒

@honeyspalette not a clue why we became mutuals i think kuromi told me you were cool or smth and i saw you in my notifs???? i don’t know. didn’t read their shit til after we became mutuals n i was flabbergasted. shit so good. hinata is dead, kisaki is w me, and takemichi is w this bitch. she is possibly too nice for her own good also rly good at art yeah

@mtsuyas followed yet again bc of kuromi. hm. anyway this a shorty this my only other jewish person we rejoice we are #1 n their hcs r good as hell. they??? remind me of twitter ??? LMFAOO???

@sunaluvs / @fuyuluvs absolute rat fucking bastard of a person i hage you i’m gonna brutalize you you are so in love w me it makes you sick and everyone can tell. EVERYONE CAN TELL. it’s the truth. u want me. no. you NEED me. also too good at writing so die. funny n annoying and in love w me.

@xjland other gore enthusiast 💓 other baji enthusiast 💓 probably sexy i feel like they’re sexy. WAY too good at writing. pisses me off horribly. wanna extract the blood from their body. i hate you.

@titsuya new mutual but i alr got a bone to pick 😒 they don’t like kisaki tho so. grateful. GRATEFUL!!! go read their bj/hj hcs they’re yummy i came i cried i printed it out i tattooed it on my body #true

@maitani we met cos a dumb bitch was tryna fuck w us ?! disgusting.

#🖇AT THE HIP!#this is most of them

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whatthehelliswrongwithme · 3 years

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Voltron Part 39

Time for this thing to get wrapped up! Let’s start with season 8! After a pretty mediocre S7 that was a follow-up of a great S6, I’m hoping for something better. But, well. The general consensus seems to be, that this season sucks. But lemme paint my own picture first. Episodes 1+2 let’s go! :

Was the Tv-show a refernce to the 80s Voltron?

I like Altean Evangelion pilot’s design

YES! More Romura crumbs!

Lance has got some angst to work through

Okay, it is a direct refernce to 80s Voltron. And Lance is not supporting Kallura,

And I guess that’s also an Allurance and Klance moment, cause Hunk joked about a love triangle

(Yes, for a love-triangle there needs to be at least one queer person. Y’all just don’t get shapes)

Was the comment about “getting Allura a little wrong” supposed to be about the change of her skin colour? Cause if so. Well. yikes

Does anybody else think, that it’s weird for the Garrison to send these kids back into space, to end a war?

Gosh, why are Shiro and Keith so serious?

This episode is very clearly pushing Allurance, but I’m just sitting happily over here, with my Romura crumbs

Lance, why are you taking her to your family? On your first date?

Pidge reacted weirdly upon hearing the news. Jealous? Plance?

The banter scene between Pidge and her mom was weird...

Girl’s night out! They’re even joined by Maru and Maniac Pixie Dream Girl

Nice to get to know them more. Maru seems fun and I absolutely adore MPDG’s outfit

Moustache man is a “Hurt my kid and I’ll kill you”-sort of dad. And I’m here for it

I’ve never seen 80s Voltron, but I believe that Pidge’s and one of Allura’s outfits during the makeover scene, may be a reference???

The sunset-scene feels like it was written specifiacally for the Klancers

Their date is kinda cute

Random relative of Lance, who’s forced to sit at the kids table: I feel your pain

Keith x Secretary Lady? Okaaaaayy?

I’m here for Sailor Moon being more relevant again. But also, Evangelion Lady screamed so angrily, that she died... What is this? Grey’s Anatomy?

I’m so fucking angry right now, about Allura angsting over not having a family anymore. Not having “anyone” to return to. Meanwhile, Moustache man is right there!

Oh god, Lance dropped the L-word

I still don’t know how to feel about Allurance, because it were simply unrequited feelings for sooooo long

But good for the Allurancers for getting their ship canon

The Paladins each got their own colour-coded Garrison uniform. Good for them

I know, that Keith’s supposed to be the leader of Voltron and all. But why was he talking during Shiro’s goodbye speech?

[If anybody wants to fill me in on all the 80s Voltron-references I didn’t catch, they’re very welcome]

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Things I did not expect: A space witch-centric episode

It’s the cat! It’s the fucking cat! It’s Furry’s cat!!!

(I think it was originally space witch’s cat. But idc. It’s Furry’s cat. Bring her back!!!)

Smiling, young Zarkon looks so unsetteling...

Awww, she actually cares about her asshole-son

Space witch deadass just said: “Bitch, I don’t wanns be queen”

Lotor got his name, because both of his parents are mythology-nerds

Okay, so during the whole Quintessence-immortality ordeal Zarkon and space witch lost their memories. And space witch just took on the first name she heard. Cool, I guess???

That birth-scene is just the beginning of Wicked (Too bad, Lotor is purple and not green) (Seriously. The whole “Take it away”-thing and all!)

How many timmes are they going to say “Quintessence” this episode?

New outfit for space witch... nice

Space witch murdering those Galras... Gosh, she really is the difinition of Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss

Child-Lotor is probably supposed to be cute, but I still don’t like that bitch-ass motherfucker

Space witch is really fucking pissed at the Galra

Lotor took space witch’s kitty cat. God, even as a kid he was an asshole

The Altean Colony should really stop with their whole “glorifying and worshipping a single person”

(Good for Sailor Moon, that she got out of there)

How did random Altean village girl manage to get onto the magic-planet? Weren’t only the chosen ones supposed to be able to do that?

Did space witch use the magic-planet’s defences to create the Evangelion robot. Or was that just an extra thing she did?

Ooooooohhh. Lotor pulled a Pink Diamond and fucked up his first colony by not destroying the planet

I’ve said it since season3, but: The. Entirety. Of. Lotor’s. Family. Needs. Therapy.

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aroaceacacia · 3 years

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ok but same I was on twitter and saw “hermitshippers do not follow y’all gross” or something and i just. i JUST—

hermitshipping squicks me out but at this point, anti-hermitshippers squick me out EVEN MORE (due to 2019 flashbacks). so good job, antis. you converted an “anti” into a “neutral person who feels more comfortable with hermitshippers” lmao

yeah pretty much!!!

it's kinda like queer gatekeeping, right? I mean, a lot of aphobic exclusionists now seem to get treated that way you described, like even if a person isnt aspec they probably dont want to be around somebody who's going to act cruel/exclusionary. i know I'm not a trans woman, but I dont want to be around (or be tricked into espousing the ideology of) TERFs/TWERFs. (Edit: retracting this statement, leaving it in for posterity)

okay that makes it sound like I'm saying hermit shippers are an oppressed category, which I'm not trying to - it's the gatekeeping attitude I'm trying to compare it to

especially because im pretty sure hermitshippers know when and where it's appropriate to share that content? as the professor in pokemon emerald said to me, "there's a time and place for everything", and hermitshippers know that! i was friends w a shipper for Months before they told me they shipped because they just Didnt Talk About It in our shared circles. I can make peace and be friends and share connections with people who ship peacefully, but I feel uncomfortable around those who try and build a wall in the fandom by putting a group down like that.

I also used to be kind of uncomfortable with the concept of shipping hermits, but the discourse in 2019 pushed me toward neutrality and later toward being more shipper-positive. They're just vibing, bro, let them have their own space. find your own place to sit, theres plenty of room at the table

#asks #2019 talk #discourse #long post

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valkyrie0cain · 3 years

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wow, i haven’t been directly involved in fandom discord since my glee days. season 3, when it was airing live. that’s how long it’s been. i’m old, kiddos. (kurtofsky will always be better than klaine, sit down)

queer writers should write more queer stories/characters, that is an INDISPUTABLE fact and i won’t argue with it at all.

but imagine not remembering your roots?

like, we didn’t have positive representation back in the day. we were either the quirky best friend who had no sexuality or we were teased and killed (literally the gay best friend or the “faggot”, there was no middle ground).

imagine being upset at people for shipping two men from a fandom that, at this point, is ELEVEN years old.

y’all get your shows and your characters these days just handed to you on a silver platter (and tbh it’s still not enough and it’s not even close to good enough. maybe one in ten are decent/good, but shit, we had to MAKE IT ALL UP back in the day). and our characters still get killed off, still get pushed aside (hi, clexa and queliot).

imagine not being able to think past the 2010s when people were making this SHIT UP OUT OF NOTHING. Entire fandoms built around two characters standing near each other in the same scene (the 90s were a dark time)(i wanted to reference creek but now it’s the most stable relationship on sp hows that for a fucking plot twist thank you matt and trey).

stop being a privileged asshole and yelling at people who ship things. fandom is NOT REAL, dumbass. fuck, let people enjoy themselves and go be miserable on reddit.

and like, LITERALLY, we can have both. we can have amazing stories about queer people and we can also ship straight characters, ao3 wouldn’t be a functioning site if that wasn’t the case xD

and the CRAZY thing is, this is just mainly about queer people, don’t even get me STARTED on the trans/nonbinary/ace representation (i suggest watching Disclosure on netflix for a better understanding on POC trans people in hollywood).

yes, more queer writers, characters, stories.

no to gatekeeping fucking shipping and fandoms, literally this is making me cringe just to write, holy shit.

i’m too old for this stupid bullshit xD

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confessionsofa-roleplayer · 4 years

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I’m OP of 624182346490478592 and ngl, I’m gonna call the entitlement for what it is: entitlement. Maybe y’all don’t remember, but fandom culture has ALWAYS been counter to the mainstream. And that has always included ships (you needn’t look further than the first fandom zine). Yes, m/m is popular. But m/f is also popular. If you check blogs like roleplayfinder and counted the submissions, you’ll see that most of the time people are open to every relationship type, while the people who specify them tend to be split half half. If you scroll the indie tags, you’ll find a similar pattern. The only thing is that rp ads on rp finder blogs tend to also permit doubles (a ‘you play what I want and I play what you want’ situation) where your standard 1x1 indie single muse blog tends to be just “I write one muse and you write one muse”, which from a statistical standpoint, if everyone wanted to be able to ship what they want, and assuming we want an equal amount of m/m and m/f at the end of the day, we need THREE TIMES the number of male muses as there are female muses. This is just… not the case. It’s split probably more like 50/50 or 60/40 (m to f), but either way it’s nowhere near the perfect 75/25 ratio for all m/m and m/f shippers to have one exclusive ship partner. This obviously doesn’t take into consideration: 1, people tend to want multiple ship partners, 2, f/f ships, and 3, the muse’s actual sexuality which can be anything, really. Basically, the numbers just don’t add up. That’s why m/m shippers think there’s too much m/f and why m/f shippers think there’s too much m/m. Also, there have been multiple confessions about straight male muses wanting female muses to ship with them, like y’all should find each other or something lol or maybe you’re being picky, which is your right, but if you’re both picky and a whiner, people are obviously gonna get annoyed with you. It’s just like those people who complain they have no rp partners, but ghosted everyone who tried to rp with them and never attempt to reach out. It’s just not a good look and that’s why I’m peeved with y’all.

But that’s just from a numerical standpoint.

From a social standpoint, all the whining from m/f shippers comes off as rude at best and outright hypocritical at worst. “M/m is just about dick”, well, check the indie tags, a significant number of m/f starters are about getting dick too. “Stop writing m/m for woke points” ok so are we thirsty or are we trying to be “woke”? “Writing m/m gives you no woke points” ok so, apparently all m/m is “woke points” or “thirsty gay porn”, unless it is specifically vetted by (general) you as a “verified non thirsty non woke point ship” which is, in fact, gatekeeping at it’s finest. What business is it that someone writes m/m?? Just move on! There are other fish in the sea! And if you really want m/f why not just search m/f indie rp or something in the tags? Oh right, I almost forgot—only female muses and males you don’t want to ship with are in that tag, which is why m/m is the scapegoat y’all love to blame for the fact that everyone is selfish and that doubles rp doesn’t exist in the indie Tumblr rp scene.

Finally, from the viewpoint of someone who does, in fact, on occasion browse through non-Tumblr (or just general non fandom related) content, being straight is the social default, not that it’s the right one, but it is right now. Everything is geared towards straight people and assumed to be so by everybody. That’s why I’m saying Tumblr is fucking backwards.

Tbh though, I can’t even say “only on Tumblr” anymore bc ”I’m tired of everything being m/m” reads exactly like the people irl who are like “everything’s about the gays/blacks/minorities now, I wish we could go back to writing about NORMAL people”. So it’s y’all’s vibes that are off here. It just reeks of entitlement and personally, I’m rather sick of it. Nobody is entitled to a ship, and if you think you deserve a ship partner simply by existing and that the reason why your female muse can’t get dick is bc every male muse is gay, well, do I really really need to remind everyone about this subreddit called r/incel?

Clarifying further on this confession.

---mod Louise

#answered #discourse

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spiders-hth-is-an-outlier · 4 years

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Four Reasons You Can Pry Cass Out of My Cold Dead Hands

Look, I kept my mouth shut for like three goddamn years of Tumblr. That’s a lot, for me. I’m not famous for keeping my mouth shut, so, you know. Accept that I tried, and even though I failed, An Effort Was Made. Take that for whatever it’s worth.

Cass is the better spelling. It’s not just the correct spelling (though it is the correct spelling), it’s the superior choice of spelling, and here is why.

1. The Phonetics Are Good, Not Bad

You may see people point out that in English, single-syllable words with an A in the middle are typically pronounced with a short A sound. Bat, rad, van, pal. Cool, true! This would be a point, except that--

It’s typically NOT true of words that rhyme with, uh, Cass.

Now, there aren’t a ton of those words in English. One-syllable words with a short A sound and an S at the end are relatively rare! Which is cool, because we can pretty much look at all of them, ready, here we go:

ass -- bass -- brass -- class -- crass -- gas -- glass -- grass -- lass -- mass -- pass -- sass

What do you notice?

Sure, I’ll give you “gas.” It’s short for gasoline, and nobody ever bothered to add an extra S to make it match the pattern. So there you go.

But now take the second S off of every other one of those words. Usually you get a word that doesn’t exist in English, with the exception of “as” and “bras” (if you’re allowing plurals into the conversation). But of those two exceptions, now *neither one* rhymes with Cass anymore -- either the consonant sound changes to a Z sound, or the vowel becomes that soft ah instead of a short A. That’s what Kripke was trying to say when he says he picked the spelling because “Cas might sound like Caz.” He meant that, reasonably enough, people might be prompted to think of the only other one-syllable word in common use English that matches this pattern, which is ass/as.

But what about the other words? If you drop the second S and allow people to *guess* how they think the word might be pronounced -- well, who’s to say. Would you automatically rhyme bas, clas, glas, las, and mas with gas? Maybe you would. More likely, in my opinion, your best guess would be to either rhyme them with as, or to pronounce them as the non-English words they are -- bas relief is from a French loan, glas is Irish, las and mas are common Spanish words. None of them are pronounced with a short A.

So yeah, if you were randomly reading a fantasy novel, as a native English speaker, these are the calculations you’d make about how to pronounce a name: Das would sound more like dahz, I bet, while Dass is definitely dass. Vas and Vass. Ras and Rass. Shas and Shass. You don’t look at those and pronounce them the same way in your head; not if you’re an English speaker. You just don’t. And without the cue of knowing the full name, you wouldn’t for Cas and Cass, either.

2. Cass Is a Human Name, and We Call That Themes

Cass is a real, live name. People have it. The majority of them are women, and it’s short for Cassandra, sure, but it’s also a real, live, human male name. Really! Here’s a list of people who have that name in real life and fiction alike. For some of them, it’s a diminutive of single-S names like Caspar and Casimir. That’s a thing! Sometimes it’s just a freestanding name; Cass Ballenger the politician just had it as his middle name. Sometimes it does come from double-S names like Cassian and Cassius. Regardless, it’s just -- a name that exists.

When you name a fictional character, sometimes you just pick one randomly, but sometimes the name reflects on or points up something thematically. I have no idea if that was the intention in this case, but even if it was accidentally, something pretty cool happened. The made-up fantasy-faux-angelic name “Castiel” tends to be used by other angels, particularly ones like Raphael and Naomi who are speaking to him as real or presumptive superiors in a hierarchy. “Castiel” is the designation he was given out of the gate, when he was made to be God’s enforcer. “Cass” is the name Dean gave him. Cass is what his friends call him, and it’s symbolic of his relationship to humanity, which he consistently chooses over his relationship with angels. When he fell, or jumped ship, or however you’d like to think about it, he was given a human name, which everyone who regards him with even the slightest affection at all now uses. It’s good! That’s good! It’s a good use of a small thing to point up how differently different characters see him, and whether they emphasize his familiarity or his alienness. You lose that if you insist that his name is only an abbreviated form of his given name. You lose something from the text if you imagine he’s being called Castiel-only-shorter, instead of becoming a real person named Cass.

3. Just Don’t Be A Jerk, People Are Named What They’re Named

This is just, like -- decency? I know he’s not a real person, but it’s -- rude, right? You don’t correct the spelling of someone else’s name. Who does that? Do you have beef with parents who call their daughter Catherine Katie, because only Catie is acceptable to you? People are allowed to just do, like, whatever with names, it’s literally fine. You know what’s not typically a nickname for Dimitri? MISHA. But that’s his name, because it just is.

Yeah, it’s fandom. You can change whatever you like. You can have whatever opinions you want about how you would have spelled it, if you were Eric Kripke, or Chuck Shurley, or Metatron, or Dean Winchester. I have opinions about Isaac Lahey’s name in Teen Wolf, because it’s spelled Lahey and pronounced Leahy, and that’s bonkers! But that is how it’s spelled, and I just -- go on with my life, unharmed. Castiel isn’t a real person who will have real feelings about however you prefer to spell his name.

But the standard rule for polite society in re: how to spell someone’s name is however they want you to spell it. Normally not obeying that rule reads as passive-aggressive at best. Which is how we come to....

4. Fandom Gatekeeping Is Shitty, Actually

The reality behind the fervor with which Cas-people not just defend their choice to use the non-canonical spelling, but regularly flood my goddamn dash with weird, angry screeds about the fact that 100% of the world doesn’t use the non-canonical spelling, is that they are using it as a shibboleth, a marker of who counts and who doesn’t. Who belongs here and who doesn’t. I’ve always known this, because I’m clever like that, but recently I’ve seen versions of the Weird, Angry Screed that spell it out directly: people who spell it Cass are either new around here and haven’t learned How We Do It yet, or by choosing not to do it How We Do It, they are signaling their contempt for pro-Castiel fandom.

And honestly I understand that my reaction to this isn’t the typical one. I know that most people find those little signs and signifiers of who’s Team Us and who’s Team Them Over There to be comforting. There’s something that people just like about wearing the jersey; it makes them feel safe among others like them. I get it.

But much as I love fandom, there’s something I have always hated, and always will hate, about that kind of expectation of groupthink within fandom. I know, rationally, that part of the socialization is that you’re supposed to learn lingo and references and in-jokes -- you’re supposed to join the fandom by speaking like the fandom speaks. But there’s something, I dunno, almost threatening? There’s something crazy-making about taking this random, essentially irrelevant detail, and turning it into something that proves if you belong here or not. At best, maybe you’re “new around here” (which is okay? It’s fine, actually, to be new in a fandom and not yet realize that you’re supposed to be ignoring eleven seasons of subtitles? Why are you yelling at newbies, please don’t?), but at worst, we know because you won’t make this mental change that we’ve all agreed to make, that actually you’re not just an outsider, but an opponent. If you weren’t, you’d do what we all do.

It’s the most literal, direct example of fandom gatekeeping. If you know the secrets of how we speak and what we accept as real and important, then you’re cool and you can stay. If you don’t know, or you disagree with what we all got together and accepted as real and important, based on -- watching the show? -- then we know to stay away from you because you’re the wrong kind of fan. Not our kind. Wearing the bad jersey.

It’s shitty. It’s mean-spirited. It’s the worst kind of cliquish fan posturing, casting people with legitimately different approaches to how and why to use, change, or discard canon in their art and conversation as opponents in a dumb, made-up turf war, and it serves to intentionally carve the fan community into narrower slices of self-siloed echo chambers of agreement and validation, rather than requiring people to just -- get cool with the fact that different opinions exist.

Sure, not all people who spell it Cas are like that. Some of you seem nice. But man, I see the knives come out all over every time the Cass spelling pops up in canon, because a lot of y’all really take this seriously, beyond just habit and aesthetic preference. And even when it’s not said out loud, it’s clear to me that it’s not an argument about how the word looks on the page. It’s clear to me that those who won’t conform don’t belong and aren’t wanted, and people are afraid someone somewhere might not realize they don’t belong and aren’t wanted until they conform.

There was a time in my life when I’d find that really hurtful, honestly. That time is not now, because I have real problems, and what Supernatural fandom thinks of me really, truly, deeply does not matter to my life.

But it does bother me enough to write all this out, I guess, and I know that’s because I remember a time when I was younger and more isolated and fandom was really a social and emotional home for me, and I still have an idealistic fondness for the idea of a big-tent, non-gatekeepy version of fandom where people can just, like, be cool to each other about things, even things they disagree intensely about. There are still people in the world who need and deserve that, and it always angries me up a little when I see people deliberately wrecking that version and replacing it with one where fans have to performatively prove that they aren’t on the wrong team through weird little random tics that have to be repeated just-so, just the way you learned them. So I don’t do that, out of love for my imaginary version of fandom where no one’s asked to do that.

So yeah, the combination of those four factors means that I am never, ever, ever going to mend my ways on this topic, which is a privilege I have, as a person with basically nothing invested in anyone in Supernatural fandom. (I mean, some of y’all seem really nice, but none of my actual friends live here.) That lack of being invested in the fandom also, I realize, means that I have no social capital to spend, and people are unlikely to give a fuck what I do or why I do it, so all of this has really been -- basically meaningless. Still, I’m not really good at thinking things and not saying them, although I’m getting slightly better. Really! In general!

#apparently i have opinions

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sometimesrosy · 4 years

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Wow did you see all that drama with those Rey and Ben shippers and John Boyega who plays Finn? Now I have nothing against them all but some of them took it too far. So what John doesn't like a ship, there is no need to abuse him with vicious racist slurs on social media and he snapped back posting a video of their terrible tweets with everyone to see than they started playing the victim card even though they are the ones who tagged him in their racism publicly, no one to blame but themselves.

Oh rlly? I didn’t see the latest saga, but I saw the part about how they called him sexist for shipping rey and finn, and being vaguely smutty, which I think is hypocritical for a fandom that shipped r/ylo and made a mc heroine’s journey all about a man. And they were not nonsexual either. I saw those conversations. They were mocking him for portraying what they saw as the losing side in a love triangle (but it wasn’t really a love triangle and they didn’t win it if it was.)

I didn’t see his video but I SO believe it. And I believe they attacked him with racist slurs and then played the victim. I had a very similar experience in fandom on a much smaller level. I’m not famous, and I had nothing to do with the content created, but I also was attacked by a fandom of a “winning” ship in a shipwar whose fave then died. I have been called a lesbophobe... which is a very tricky thing because homophobia is wrong and the claim turns me into the bad guy, whether it’s true or not, the evil person, right? I’m the one who’s the bigot, according to that claim, and anything I do to defend myself is seen as evidence of of it being true, no matter my past history or present actions, and it was, in fact supported by straight up lies and misrepresentations. They did this by erasing my lived experience as a domestic abuse victim which I flat out told them from the very beginning of my critique. I was speaking as a abuse survivor on what I saw. They said no I was lying, that wasn’t real, i hated lesbians. And if it was real, I should be silent because lesbians were more important than abuse victims. And I also deserved my abuse and should die and couldn’t possibly understand the TRAUMA of seeing your fictional representation in fear for her life and having love be equated with pain (while being a DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIM WHO HAD LITERALLY BEEN IN FEAR FOR HER LIFE WHERE LOVE=PAIN.)

1. not true.

2. invalidating the trauma and experience of domestic abuse.

3. Silencing and re-victimizing the victim, not just denying the abuse happened but then adding to the abuse.

So like they attacked JB for being sexist, and then go after him for what they perceive as his weakness/character flaw. being black. They try to silence him (to which he’s like, no i don’t think so) and destroy his character by making him the villain. Using his race as the weapon.

I mean. I mean. What could they be thinking?

Why would they say shit like that?

So, I don’t have a very good opinion of fandom. Some of fandom is fantastic. There’s no where else I can talk about my super geeky love of literary analysis and symbolism in freaking science fiction and fantasy (my literary nerds don’t get genre stuff and my sff nerds are not really interested in the literary analysis obsession.) It has been a delight and a privilege to be able to con y’all into doing academic literary analysis for fun, like I enjoy. I mean. It’s not a con. I tell you what I’m doing, let’s call it a “seduction.” lol. It’s also great to find people like you especially if you’re in a place where you dont’ have a supportive community. It’s amazing for creativity and fanworks.

BUT fandom can be like a pack of hyenas. People who want power flock to this world, the internet anonymity, the power to gatekeep, the lack of self freaking reflection, this misapprehension that they can create canon to fit their preferences and fancies and whatever they say is real, and the fandom that shouts the others down the loudest is the one who gets to say what canon means.

To that I say POPPYCOCK!

Canon is canon, bitch. You dont’ get to control it because you have the biggest girl gang with the fastest hot rod. This is not Grease.

Those people attacking JB, being racist? They may think their ad hominem attacks give them control over him (like they thought calling me demon gave them control over me [hint: it didn’t]) but what it really does is reveal their OWN lack of character.

First it makes it obvious that they can’t separate fantasy from reality.

Second it shows their obsessions are out of control. (take a break kids)

Third it shows that they cannot discuss canon or argue their point with logic or evidence so they resort to non-relevant personal attacks, which means that either their position HAS no evidence to support it or they are not good enough at debating to defend their argument.

Fourth it shows THAT THEY ARE RACIST!!!! You don’t use a person’s race to drag them unless you think that race is inferior. A person’s race is not a character trait, y’all. This attitude is RACIST. and if you didn’t mean to be racist but went along with the loudest voices who are racist... YOU ARE STILL RACIST. Maybe not in the lynching way. Maybe just in the Nice White Lady (NWL) way, which is STILL RACIST. Those are the kind of people who think black people should stay in their place and sit on the back of the bus and say please and thank you when people are being racist to them, and always consider their NWL feelings when criticizing them because no one should ever make them feel sad for being racist. Not that they want to STOP being racist, just that they don’t want to feel sad about it so please don’t mention their racism, and while we’re at it, don’t disagree with them. Please and thank you, oh aren’t you a nice POC. You’re one of the nice ones.*

Listen. Fandom may be fun and we may feel like we’ve found a home here, but do not EVER be uncritical of fandom. It IS NOT a safe place. Not only can you be the target of racism and harassment and abuse and targeting, but you can also be the victim of people who are intentionally trying to manipulate you into following them and their agenda. Maybe their agenda is just to have more followers who love them, but maybe their agenda is to spread their toxic ideas and destabilize the very communities that are supportive to people who are marginalized.

To be truthful, watching the Star Wars fandom become this toxic clusterfuck ever since TFA came out was what made me realized my experience in fandom wasn’t personal or isolated, but was in fact a FEATURE of fandom, not a bug.

Y’all life does not have to be like that. And neither does fandom.

*this is sarcasm. NWLs expecting niceness when people are racially oppressed IS STILL RACIST.

#ugh

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keepcalmandreadfluffinpublic · 5 years

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“I Hope You’re The Last...” Part 1

A/N: Hello!! This is my first story... I hope it isn’t as bad as I think it is :)! Please enjoy and don’t plagiarize if ya wouldn’t mind :)!

Imagine: You are the last resort for peace among Asgard. Although Odin and your family have made it clear you are to marry Thor. Fate makes you choose between the Sons for the safety of Asgard depends on it.....

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Alfheim... that was my home. Not Asgard, no not some golden magical city, or the most glamours realm in the entire universe. Alfheim may not be dripped in gold but it was beautiful. The mere simplicity of my planet is what makes it beauty. No there wasn’t much but there was just enough, enough to make even the coldest of hearts melt. I let out a sigh hoping all my pint up anger will disappear.

“Now Y/N... Please remember that it isn’t only your reputation at stake.” My mother says flatly while looking out the window. I roll my eyes and scoff at her. “Oh dearest mother, how could I?” My voice laced with sarcasm. This earns the quick backhand from her. I no longer flinch or cower in fear like when I was little. I have grown used to the beatings my mother bestowed upon me. I have always been a daddy’s girl, something my mother despises. “In Vanaheim daughters were to be just like their mothers. Not follow their father into throne hearings or take up fighting.” My mother would constantly say. Although I never understood why she bothered. Normally I’d be gone before she could finish that sentence. My father was a kind and gentle spirit. He would never lay his hands on a innocent child. He let me take up defense training when I was young. He knew I was special from the beginning. Unlike Midgard, Alfheim is surrounded by magic. It is in the air we breathe and the ground we walk on. Citizens could access this magic by sacrificing their blood back to the planet. For they came from it they must return back to it. However, royals were special; our magic was limitless always around us. We don’t have to sacrifice blood for our magic, yet it runs through us; like a river ever flowing.

“Come child, tell me what troubles you.” My father sighs. I didn’t have to say anything for him to know. That is what makes our bond special, he could sense my aura from miles away. I sigh knowing it was useless to confide in him, but just maybe he’d hear me.

“Father I can’t do this...”

“And why not? Weren’t you born to be queen?”

“Well yes, but of Alfheim! Not of Asgard, not to someone I barely know!”

“Y/N... Life isn’t always easy. If it was then there would be no point in living, now would there?” His question takes me back a notch. How could this be useful is any sense? “Stop overthing dear you’ll hurt yourself.” He says with a chuckle. I sit at his feet grasping his hand. “Father how do I do this? I mean leave my home and you behind? How can I marry a man I barely know? What do I do? What should I do? Why isn’t easy?” I ask looking for his guidance. He reaches his had down to cup my cheek before letting it fall limp at his side. He looks tired and worn down; he closes his eyes and stills time. “My dear...” he opens his eyes to meet mine. His hand leaves mine to point my eyes towards the fleeting images. “What you see are memories of my lifetime. Here the palace of Asgard... where I did most of my studying with the Allfather himself.” He smiles fonding over his childhood. I gasp at the sheer beauty of the memory. Two boys around 12 running through the gardens with wooden swords. One smaller then the other but made it up by his stoutness. The memory fades into a new one, the same boys but older now each the same height. They walk to halls seeming to recite something. “This was when I helped Odin prepare his speeches. He was so nervous not wanting to disappoint he father.” He chuckles before flashing a new picture. This memory was different, it seemed to be harder to read. I scooted closer to see but the memory faded before I could. “Father what was that?” I ask spinning back to look at him. He smiles a sweet smile before shaking his head. “That was my farewell party. That was the last time I saw Odin for a melinium.” He nods back to the images. I reluctantly gaze my eyes back towards them. This time there was the same boy but with a girl. She was beautiful, her golden hair fell perfectly out of her braids and onto her face. The boy kindly placed the loose strands behind her ear before leaning in to kiss her.

“Is that you and mother?” I ask still staring at the image.

“Yes it is.”

“Y’all look so happy.”

“We were.”

“What happened?” I ask glancing back at my father to see his expression change from joy to remorse.

“She wanted the magic our planet offered, but could never accomplish gaining it’s full power. You see darling she wasn’t born of Alfheim therefore her magic consists of that of a citizens.” He says before sighing. He shakes his head and the memories fade away into the air. “You want to know how you do this?” He asks waiting for me to respond. I simply nod my head afraid to use my words. “The answer is you are my Daughter, Y/N goddess of magic, crossroads, and the moons. Your abilities have foreseen mine since you were 1000.” He says while pinching my cheek. “You are strong, brave, kind, humble, charismatic, independent, intelligent, honest, genuine, talented, and compassionate. You are everything a woman should be to be queen. Just because I will not be with does not mean you are less than any other royal there.” He states locking his eyes with mine. I smile a grateful smile hoping he would take comfort from it.

“You’re highness.” One of the ship hands says out of breathe. My father turns to him smiling. The boy waits for a sign to continue from my father. He simply a nods his head towards the boy before looking back towards the window. “We have arrived to Asgard. We are about to land your Majesty.” The boy says bowing before exiting the room. I sigh getting up from the floor, stretching my legs as I ascend upwards. I grab my fathers hands before leading him towards the door. If I am to be this princes wife then so be it. I will not dishonor my fathers name by running from my problems. We return to my mother who stands as still as a statue next to the window. She snaps her gaze to us before standing up to greet her husband. “My love you look pale. Shall I fetch the nearest healer?” She asks pressing a hand to his forehead. He shakes his head before grasping her little hands in his. “My dear do not worry. I am just overwhelmed that this day has finally come. Our daughter finally being betroved to the son of my oldest friends.” he says pressing a chast kiss to her hands. She looks down smiling at the sight.

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“My dear friend how long has it been?” Odin says while embracing my father in a hug. “Too long old friend.” Was all my father could say before returning the gesture of affection. I stand back a few feet from the group. I didn’t want to interrupt their mini reunion, but sooner or later I was roped into the formal gestures.

“Odin this is my beloved daughter Y/N!” My father exclaims proudly.

“She is quite the sight Alotl. Tell me dear what do you think of Asgard?”

I bite my tongue thinking before answering. “Well your highness I think it is absolutely stunning.” I say holding a tight smile.

“Tell me Y/N your father tells me of your extraordinary power. Would you mind enlightening us with your power?”

“Odin! This is no time for entertainment.” Frigga interjects sending him a stern look. I glance her way receiving a genuine smile. I smile back before her face changes. She looks like she is stuck in time, frozen a beautiful statue.

“Your highness are you alright?” I ask stepping forward. Odin follows my glance before moving to stand behind his wife. A confused look crosses my face as Odin does this. However before I could question the matter further Frigga falls backwards inhaling deeply.

“Frigga what did you see love?” Odin asks while helping his wife stand back on her feet. She stops and looks at you. You shift uncomfortably while her gaze remains on you. Odin looks at you confusion covering his worn features. “Princess Y/N may we have a word alone?” Frigga says turning towards the steps. I follow cautiously not know whether I was in trouble or not.

“You are the goddes of magic?”

“Indeed I am my queen .”

“You know your future is very unclear to me. That is something I am not used to.” She stops walking, spinning around to face me. She eyes me up and down before locking eyes with me. “Tell me dear your power is limitless?” She asks. Her eyes were no long staring at me but almost as if she were looking through me. “Yes your majesty.” I say standing a bit straighter. She nods for a second before looking back towards the entrance. “My dear I am afraid you future must change course for the good of Asgard. You will marry a Odinson, however; I am not sure which” She says turning back around to continue walking. I stand still my feet glued to the ground. My head starts to fog with ideas of what the Allmother has just seen. Am I not good enough for Thor? Am I a danger to the Odinson line? Was it a mistake coming to Asgard. I feel my stomach start to turn as endless scenarios fill my head. The Allmother stops walking for a second glancing back at my rigid form. “Y/N if you wouldn’t mind following me to Hiemdall.” She says turning around completely. Her words come out groogy and quiet. She makes her way towards me lightly placing her hand on my shoulder. Giving it a reassuring squeeze before smiling again. “I do not wish to frighten you my dear.” I look up at her. Her eyes were hopelessly searching mine for any form of emotion. I swallow the lump forming in the back of my throat. Standing straight once more I nod toward the queen, signaling it was ok to walk towards Hiemdall.

I followed her down every hallway possible in the palace before reaching Hiemdall. He was at the edge of the Bifröst where the gatekeeper kept watch. “Hiemdall.” Frigga says capturing the attention of the man. “My queen how may I be of service?” He asks turning towards the queen. He was a large man deep in color. His eyes were blood orange making it hard to not focus on them. He held a beautiful sword as if it were apart of him. “Hiemdall, I am having trouble seeing into the princesses future. Please tell me what you see. Who is her betroved? What does her life in Asgard I store for our people?” She asks looking deeply into his eyes. His gaze falls on me causing me to look down. What felt like an eternity as passed before he spoke. “My queen what you ask is who does she betrove?” He pauses glancing between the queen and I. My body seems to hang onto his every word as if it were the air I’m breathing. “My princess you will thrive in Asgard. You will become a gracious and loved queen. However, fate keeps you in the pool of love. You will be betroved to a son of Odin, however; which is in your control.” He says before turning to the queen. “She will be the savior or the reason Asgard falls. I have seen both endings, however it must be her decision who she chooses to marry. In alteration in her choice will end badly for all the realms.” And with that he turns around back to his station of keeping watch.

“Your majesty I do not understand.” I say plying over his words again and again.

“It appears to be that you will not be married as soon as we’d wish.”

“I peg your pardon?”

“It’s the prophecy! That a princess will be the key to Asgard’s servival, but also the destroyer. If we do not tried lightly I am afraid of the concequences to our actions.” She pauses and looks into the distance. Before waking towarsa Hiemdall. They converse over matters of high importance that I must not be able to hear. After a few minutes of discussing Frigga comes back with a smile. “Ah child Hope is not lost for I know the answer now.” She says walking past me. I follow hot on her heels. “What is the answer my queen?” I ask praying to Odin she tells me. She quickly turns to me causing me to almost run into her. “You will have to choose very wisely princess for your powers are not yet finished. Soon my dear you will see the answer and save us all.” that was all she said before leaving me standing there alone on the Bifröst.

#loki #loki laufeyson #loki fanfic #loki odinson #loki x reader #loki imagine #loki/thor #loki x you #loki of asgard #thor odinson #thor #thorki

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janiedean · 5 years

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Bro the Queen thing was just for a laugh lol let gay people make jokes

bro, if you had said ‘let gay people make jokes that make them sound like four year olds that just found out kindergarten exists’ I could have taken you seriously, but since you still can’t get into your thick performative activist heads that it’s not funny for anyone except maybe the three of you, I’ll explain you a few brief facts:

one: ¾ths of queen are straight so assuming they wouldn’t understand song they wrote and played (beyond somebody to love) already shows that you haven’t thought this joke through;

two: freddie mercury made a goddamned point to not make his sexuality a selling point or the only part of him people would be interested in when listening to his *music*, so your dumb jokes are something he would most likely fucking hate;

three: sorry to break it to you, but with all the sales queen had, going statistically, I can assure you more than half of their fanbase is straight, so congrats on assuming millions of people don’t get the bands they like;

four: music is an extremely subjective thing that tells different things to different people regardless of the original target of the song. I’ve seen articles titled ‘how I, a lesbian person, realized springsteen’s music wasn’t just for male cishet middle-aged guys’ in which people said that to them, a song that’s blatantly about a guy who killed someone and hightails it out of town and hopes that the border patrol doesn’t stop him, felt like it was about wanting to leave somewhere you had to stay in the closet and felt suffocated because you couldn’t come out. now, that’s nowhere near the original meaning of the song, but if for the lesbian author that related on that level… who the hell am I to make posts like ‘lesbians don’t understand springsteen songs’? spoilers: no one;

five: one reasons queen actually made it big was that their songs are actually very much relatable on a bunch of different levels and as I explained some ass who made jokes about how *straights* wouldn’t get I want to break free (written by a straight man btw but I see that now at least y’all are having the decency to pick songs that freddie wrote to throw shade at the straights TM, huh?), just that ONE song can be relatable for, FOR EXAMPLE, people with depression, people stuck in a phase of their life they hate, someone getting over a bad relationship and lgbt people who want to come out. and the lyrics to I want to break free are hardly extra complicated or difficult or obscure. of course then you have borap which no one still understands and freddie refused to explain but like… it’s IT CAN BE WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT regardless of whether their lyrics are obscure or the entire contrary. that was what made queen sell the number of records they did - because they make songs people can relate to, genius;

six: the fact that your ***joke*** assumes straight people can’t in any way shape or form conceive a life where they feel like they’ll be forever alone and no one will love them or they will never find a relationship says all about how **funny** it is because it implies dehumanizing an entire category of people and assuming they don’t have feelings or can’t conceive what y’all go through, which then turns into People On This Hellsite sending straight people TM the worst kind of bullshit and vile anons just because since we have no feelings and we’re supposed to take all your dumb unfunny jokes then it’s fine. idk, since I’ve been here according to you I should have laughed at:a) people telling me at thirty I was too old for anything and I should look for a husband and get married already;b) people telling me I was a homophobe/half of this dumbass website blocking me on sight for informing y’all that straight women find men sexually attractive as a general rule - no, really;c) someone telling me once that they hoped I’d find someone I would trust implicitly and give all of myself to in bed just to have them tell me the moment after we’re done that I was ugly and unlovable and I deserved to die alone;e) being called a bitch/homophobe an insane amount of times for pointing out that straight women who don’t look standard attractive have issues;f) people questioning why I went to therapy because I happen to relate to a character in a straight ship that they hated and the reasons why I went are Issues That Character Has.that was just the first six instances I could think of because they were personal but I assure you, your rhetoric about straight people TM being dehumanized aliens who hate y’all isn’t helping literally anyone;

seven: as someone who has fucking struggled with years with the issues the somebody to love narrator has (I did look at the mirror and felt horrible/almost cried when I was a teenager, I did wake up each morning feeling like shit for half of my time in uni, I’ve been struggling with managing initiating contact with other people since high school fucked me up in that sense, I’ve been told that I could never be attractive enough to find someone who’d love me and that I was too brainy or ugly or extra or threatening for men to even look at me and so on) and who has always found that song immediately relatable which is why, surprise surprise, out of all the songs freddie mercury wrote on his own for this band - not counting the march of the black queen but that’s another story - somebody to love is absolutely my single favorite and has always been since the second I heard it, because to me it was relatable at seventeen and it’s relatable now, the moment I read that fucking ****joke**** I literally felt a bout of vomit rise up in my throat, my stomach closed up and for a second I felt like crying as your joke was implying that my straightness disqualified me from understanding/liking a song I’ve loved and felt deeply for half of my life, but I suppose that doesn’t mean anything in comparison to the fact that you **gays of tumblr** need to have a laugh at the expense of 85% of the planet and not, idk, homophobes? no, you never say HOMOPHOBES COULDN’T UNDERSTAND QUEEN or whatever the fuck it is, you say straight people can’t. if you don’t see where the fuck is your problem I’d advise you to really go back to kindergarten because usually you realize that other people have feelings at about that age and I have a feeling that if this is your reasoning for saying I should shut up and have a laugh at my own expanse, well, you’re just an asshole;

eight: newsflash, bro, some people use music to cope with just about anything. I’m not the only person I know who has a fairly damned visceral personal relationship with the music she listens to, to the point where I can do the art is not the artist thing np with just about any media except music - I can watch a movie made by a person I despise or whose political views I despise, if I think it’s a good movie, I can’t physically listen to music from people I despise or whose political views I despise. heck, every time my local rock music station airs current lynyrd skynyrd’s music I mute it because their lyrics make me want to hurl and I actually do like the melody half of the time, but I can’t listen to them. and I know people who are way worse than me about this. if you show up basically telling me (or whoever else) that bands we like and helped us through whatever fucking shit life threw at us are now Not A Thing We Can Like Or Understand Anymore you’re being an asshole and for a thing that makes no sense because the beautiful thing about MUSIC in general is that everyone finds the music they like relatable for different fucking reasons even if it’s the same artist and your dumbass attempts at **gatekeeping** bands that existed since before you were born and straight people listened to since before you were born and whose records they bought before you were born is honestly just so fucking ridiculous and really kindergarten-level that if that is what you need to have a laugh I advise you to develop some sense of humor, because you sure as hell ain’t got one.

good enough for you? your joke wasn’t funny. deal with it e stacce.

also: I’m fucking done giving a shit about what kind of dumbass jokes at the expense of **straight people** y’all think is cool to make on here. are we oppressed for being straight? sure af not. but since most straight people on here are actually allies and support your rights and uh, are also human beings that aren’t just useful when you need someone to reblog your info posts informing us that ***straight people can reblog!!! :)))*** underneath after having reblogged your fucking jokes ten minutes earlier, I really don’t give a fuck about your need to have a laugh at the expanse of other people’s feelings and I’m going to reblog all the people telling you that y’all ain’t funny until my fingers fall off.

ps: did you send this message also to the pansexual user who called that dumbass OP on their bullshit before I did? just for science.

pps: grow the fuck up, it’s been time since years and y’all have about played all of your ‘it was just a joke’ cards a hell of a long time ago.

#queen for ts #I'm not tagging this any further but honestly anon inculati #faccia il nostro cavaliere cavaliere ancora a te #va bene va bene va bene in verità #tumblriani vil razza dannata #per qual prezzo vendeste il cervello #sopra l'ultimo neurone tutto tumblr piangerà #eeeeee mi avete veramente fracassato i coglioni che non ho complimenti :DDDDDDDD #personal for ts #i'll regret sharing this but whatever the fuck right #vomit mention cw #Anonymous #ask post

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lexpistachio · 6 years

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idk if anybody has asked before, but. why do you even involve yourself w/ omgcp anymore if you have so many issues with it? i'm seriously just wondering.

Yes, I have answered that here AND here. Goodbye

is my short answer. I have some rambling thoughts after the cut

1. On “involvement”: i don’t know how y’all can take answering a few asks every two weeks or so as active involvement lol. i do have involvement in other fandoms: i make gifs and manips on a regular basis. i occasionally make fic recs and mixes and participate in fests. i spend money.

1.a. let me tell you this thing here with this sideblog barely meets the minimum effort.

1.a.1 talk is cheap and opinions are free 1.a.2 i’m actually typing this while making gif for another fandom and watching tv? 1.a.3 if the comic stops being free, i’ll gladly, gladly stop reading 1.a.3.1 it’s right there

1.b I recently read a post that described a thing that’s been bothering me for a while now, about this trend in fandom which automatically alienates fans who have critical opinions. The exact quote: “You’re encouraged to never interact with people who produce or consume content you don’t like, you’re told that tags are only for positivity and acceptance, and any criticism is by definition cross tagging and hate.”

1.b.1 I wholeheartedly agree

1.b.2 the effect of this, as described in the same post, is fandom being an echochamber, to the detriment of any person who contradicts the groupthink. and i guess that’s the case here, to the point that three (i assume, separate) people had to question my participation

1.b.2.1 gatekeeping??? 1.b.2.2 mild sealioning??? 1.b.2.3 three people really?

1.b.3 i’ve repeatedly said i don’t mean to take away what other people take away from this comics. i have opinions, and i air it out.

1.c i hate to be that gal who sings praises about ye olde peaceful days of fandom, but my decades-long experiences does lend itself to that sort of interaction where someone says something critical, and someone disagrees, and then at the end of the thread, there are no hard feelings and everybody carries on.

1.c.1 it’s the ship wars that are wanky 1.c.1.1 that’s why some part of me will always be convinced that the kent parson hate largely protrudes from people initially seeing him as a threat to the main ship. anywho

2. i’ll always fully participate in any kp/jz fic i encounter. there’s your sarcasm-free and fully positive fandom participation

3. but always, always: less enthusiasm, more thinking. it’s a good rule to live by i think

#omgcp_critical #Anonymous

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