oh my god FLOYD........ The band breakup iM CRYING... I love your OCs and the ex band mates lore so much 😭😭 You did a great job with your description of bipolar as well!! I was diagnosed bipolar 1 a few years ago, if you have any question about it and how it feels/some anecdotes feel free to ask! :)
Oh my gosh I was not expecting this! Thank you for the offer, I will definitely take you up on it sometime soon. I've done a bunch of reading but it would be something else completely to talk to someone who deals with this issue themselves. But I am happy that the research I've done is approved, especially since I think, from how I imagine Floyd behaving, I think he has bipolar 1 too, but I'd have to read more to say that confidently.
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It think one of my fav thing about the FNAF fandom is the fact that Fazbear entertainment fits into any AU as the cooperate villian.
For example, If I were to tell you "In this Au, Fazbear entertainment makes candy instead, but they make sentient candy to torture and farm the candy from" Every last one of you out there would be like "They would."
If in this Au, the animatronic are slave of any kind (manual labor, factory workers, or any kind of exploited labor) everyone would nod their heads and just say "Yep, that's fazbear"
If in this Au, you tell me they are essentially caretakers of rare species, SCP's, cryptids, or anything other kind of mystical creatures, but are so bad at their jobs that most of the species they care for are constantly sick or dying, everyone would just solemnly swear its a Fazthing
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OFMD Critique: Bad Faith, Fandom, and Respect
All right. You know what? Screw it. I saw one post I just cannot ignore anymore that encapsulated all of my problems with the fandom right now. Personal rant incoming.
I understand that there's a nuance to the discussion of season 2 of Our Flag Means Death, and that there are people going a little too far with both their critiques and their support of the show. But oh my God, I'm tired of being straw-manned and made fun of for legitimate critiques of the show.
I just used the block button on someone in this fandom for the first time. Some of you might think I'm overreacting for this, but I saw a post that I could not on any level stand. This person, who I will not name names of, because I'd rather just block them and never deal with their level of bad faith again, took their one legitimate criticism of those of us who critique the show, the back and forth on whether or not Izzy's death was homophobic or not, and used it as the first in a literal list of straw man critiques that no one I've read in the OFMD Critical tag has made (and I check it like once a day bc I like reading meta, sorry), proceeding to absolutely make fun of the legitimate critiques that people have of the show, parodying them in the worst possible ways. They took our legitimate critiques about everything from the sexist handling Zheng Yi Sao's character, the absolute ableism of the finale, the questionable optics of the handling of trauma, etc. and stretched them into things that they very much were not (two examples were that we were crying ableism bc of something to do with seagulls and that we thought the problem in the Stede&Zheng dynamic was the "emotional labor" involved).
Now I'm pretty sure this post was a joke. I *think* it was a joke. But how in the world am I supposed to feel comfortable in the main section of a fandom like this when the comments and replies to this post were full of people agreeing sincerely that this is what the critical section of the fandom is like? How am I supposed to feel when I just see people making fun of me for my analysis of the show? I love this show. I adore season 1 and I'm clearly still making fan related content (moodboards) for season 2 along with my critiques.
Sure, I vibe way more with fanfiction than the actual canon at this point, but I still genuinely engage with the show. And to have the critiques that I made in good faith, regarding issues that I sincerely care about such as ableism, sexism, homophobia, and the handling of trauma, made fun of and taken out of context and straw-manned to their extreme, makes me feel so absolutely unwelcome in this fandom.
Other than keeping up with the couple of fan series that I'm currently still reading, I don't know if I can stay in this fandom any longer. I can't say that I'm excited for the new season if this is the kind of response that any good faith critique of the show is going to get. I can't say that I feel safe or comfortable when there are this many people ready to dog pile on me for a critique I made with ACTUAL TEXTUAL EVIDENCE to back it up.
I would like to thank all the people who have been making excellent critiques of the show. Their meta-analysis is what got me into making my own critiques, which I was nervous about making in any other fandom. I don't think I've in any way tagged them all, but just a few I can remember off the top of my head. Go read their critiques/meta- it's really good!
@sky-fire-forever @carrymelikeimcute @blue-b-bro @bougiebutchbinch @treesofgreen @sixstepsaway @alex51324
And from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has engaged with my mood boards or my critiques or anything else that I've made, as well as the amazing writers and artists in this fandom (such as @ruecrown, @aletterinthenameofsanity, @fool-for-luv, and @possumsmushroom). You guys have kept me going with my love for the show and engaging with it for a while now. Despite the stuff that is making me take a step back now, I really did love this while it lasted! I'm still planning on making a few more mood boards, but other than that, I'm going to take a step back from engaging.
Hope this post can spread enough support/joy your way to counteract the ache I'm currently feeling!
Sincerely,
Ashley (aka @khruschevshoe)
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the vex candy treat?
okay so the idea is that vexes but instead of having to eat human meat to keep in control and be yknow normal they have to either eat human(player) meat or something sweet, so convex has an incredible sweet tooth and they have candy stashed LITERALLY EVERYWHERE
scar and grian are talking over at grian's base and scar just goes "wait, munchies!" and pulls out a bag of candy from under a random rock, they have them EVERYWHERE in the most random places too!! after grian saw that he went on a mission to find where all of the hidden candy at his base is but he just couldn't find anything amd everytime scar had the 'munchies' he would just pull it out from some place grian did not check somehow
its also an idea that possiblity human meat tastes a lot like candy or is just very sweet to vexes, hence why sweets and flesh have the same effect of just not making them too silly. also evokers used candy to calm down vexes to keep them under control
basically this whole hc:
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Rivalshipping where they both know they’re using the other as a proxy for Him, where they both have this deep irrplacable hole in their hearts that will never be filled no matter how much they try, but damn do they try. Where they don’t want to duel each-other because it’s too familiar, but it’s the only way they know how to interact together. Rivalshipping where I don’t know if I only love him because He did, how much of this affection is muscle memory? Rivalshipping where Kaiba compliments the parts of Yugi that aren’t completely his: I love your hair, I love your deck And it’s so painful for both of them because they can’t keep dancing around this issue but neither wants to stop. Rivalshipping as you will never be the same as him, as Identity is a fickle thing, do you dream of a happy ending? I want to never dream of you again. Rivalshipping as trying to hard to see each-other as their own people, but it’s hard to even see themselves as their own people. Falling in love with Orpheous and wishing he could play that old song for you.
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