#question stuff

[thrumbolt]

7, 19, 20 for salty ask!

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now? Nesta and Cassian. They were my favorite thing in book 3 and then book 5 came along and well, you know how it went. Generally Cassian. He was my favorite IC member and now he just annoys me. Sigh.

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom? That some people take these books so damn serious. All the discourse about problematic this and abuse that, as if any of these characters were real. Also how it all leads to the hate messages and fighting and drama because someone likes the wrong characters or depicts them wrong or whatever. It's all so damn stupid.

20. What is the purest ship in the fandom? Tamcien. Some people might disagree because of all the angst from book 2 onward, and sure, but especially if you go to pre-book 1 I feel it's very pure. Just two boys who lost everything taking care of each other. ;_;

[limetarte]

I think shifting in a way to use the universe, in a manipulation and abusive way is wrong. Shifting to change appearances to one that fits this reality’s beauty standards, for example, I believe it’s wrong, instead of addressing your internalized systems (the oppressive systems) and accepting not just your appearance, but also the appearance of others, you’re using the universe to shift in a reality where you fit this reality’s beauty standards on purpose while keeping those oppressive beauty standards. And find that super wrong, and have to call it out because who else will? especially considering the fact that from what know the universe can’t defend themselves against such stuff and even if it had the power to, it couldn’t really, other people would have to call it out. Shifting to an exploitative reality for the sake of exploitation is also super wrong, for example, shifting to be rich in a capitalist world. Like y’all should really question your internalized oppressive beliefs instead of accepting them and shifting to a different reality to fulfill them. Do y’all see now why it’s fucking wrong? /rh

Also it’s ignoring morals and ethics and anti intellectualism that make people defend their wrongdoings by saying “this entity is unbiased, and it’s neutral”. Stop, it’s not true, it’s impossible to be unbiased and almost no moral thing is neutral. The ones who say this, really just say this to get away with doing wrong.

And both make [..] super angry and that’s valid.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[rtz669]

guys what's your methods? personally i think about doctors examining me, works like a charm

[wardensantoineandevka]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[kimabutch]

One of my favourite questions for figuring out a character’s motivations is which qualities they most fear being assigned to them. Are they afraid (consciously or unconsciously) of being seen as stupid? Ungrateful? Weak? Incompetent? Lazy? Cowardly? Intimidating? Like they actually care? etc.

It’s such a fun way to explore into who they are, why they do what they do, what they don’t do out of fear, and how they might be affected by the events of the story. And I love when characters have negative motivations—trying to avoid something (in this case, being seen a particular way) as much as they’re trying to achieve a goal.

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[bookwyrminspiration]

every time I think about my gender I get confused so I simply stopped thinking about it. it is not my problem

[vivitalks]

i need a compilation of zac oyama's PCs getting nasty. like i need "do you have a fucking warrant" and "loser says what" and "who do you know in this room right now" and "i know a story about a real creep who had a scroll" and "where is your bulb now" and every version of "i'm gonna do the work to love cody" all in one place. for science.

[malowisp]

Do you ever just ?

[thrumbolt]

5 for the ask game?

Alright you two!

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you? The fandom tried hard to ruin Nyxlin for me, but didn't quite manage to accomplish it (still one of my favorite Tamlin ships). Maybe Elriel? I thought they were kind of cute together at first and didn't mind either Elriel or Elucien. But so many Elriel fans were so anti Lucien and anti Tamlin it really made me keep a distance (same with Feysand tbh. I never was a huge fan in the first place, but now it's like...ugh no thank you).

6. Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated? Hmmm, maybe Azris? Hate is a strong word as I never hated the ship in the first place, I just was super 'why though?' about it. But @elleybug's amazing art really did a lot to sell me on it. At this point I will be so upset when SJM will make Eris inevitably straight. Sigh.

[sojatoals]

i've always wished that this show explored more of house in his pre-house md era because of scenes like these. on one hand, we get crumbs of how house was like from stacey's perspective...

... whereas on the other side of the spectrum, we get this from wilson:

[somanyfandomsorkinafs]

(I am ~buzzing~ with ideas…. Allow me to release some)

Once Danny was an adult, he decided to join Ellie in her ‘permanent world tour’. It’s better than staying in Amity where the opinion of Phantom hasn’t gotten much better. Besides, the portal caused the veil to get weaker, allow ghost to wreak havoc where ever they want.

He’s met a lot new ghost cause of this too. Old as Mycenaean Greece to non humans who came to Earth and died there. Danny’s learnt so much from them that he’s basically a walking in Encyclopaedia.

So, Danny’s decided “fuck it.” and has it became a part-time history teacher. It’s fun! He knows the details by heart and is able to make it more fun than just droning on about the same old wars and whatever. He enjoys it, the kids enjoy it and the ghosts having their stories told!

Of course, this does cause some problems when people try to correct him. Danny’s argument? “I got them correct sources.”

And when anyone asks him how knows his sources are correct? “My source was there when it happened.”

Cue the dc world thinking that Danny’s just some immortal guy whose decided to use his immortality for good(TM)

[angelofdumpsterfires]

how i feel about all the changes in s3

[acewithapaintbrush]

I understand everyone's frustrations about the Lilo & Stitch live action remake, it pretty much dumps on everything that made the animation great. But I hope amidst all that anger and frustration we don't forget that the lead actor is a little girl who, as far as I can tell, is the perfect Lilo not just in front of but behind the camera as well and who is probably living her absolute dream right now

Air your grievances about the movie itself, the way it changed the story, the way it massacred the characters and the lessons and is just plain bad and unnecessary as loudly and as vocally as you want so that hopefully Disney finally gets a fucking clue. But also keep Maia herself out of it because one day she might read this stuff