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my-castles-crumbling · 5 months ago

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Me at age 13, exhausted at school after staying up all night to read fanfic: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and I can stay up reading without any consequences!

Me, an adult, exhausted at work after staying up all night reading fanfic: Fuck.

#marauders #harry potter #marauders era #marauders fandom #fanfic #the marauders #harry potter marauders #fanfics #fanfiction.net #fan fiction #fanfiction #fandom #fandom culture #fandom problems #reading fanfiction #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3fic #archive of our own

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evviejo · 6 months ago

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repeat after me:

tumblr is the reblog website

this is not instagram or whatever other like-based social medium, likes don't matter that much, your experience is not shaped by an all-knowing algorithm, but by you and reblogging is the lifeblood of this godforsaken corner of the internet

if you love tumblr and if you want to show your appreciation for the creators of the content here, you reblog

#tumblr #tumblr woes #reblogging #is this post prompted by the gifset i posted a couple of hours ago #which is at 21 likes and reblogs?#yes indeed #my obsession is keeping me going for now #but i can't guarantee how long it will last #somehow older fandoms don't have this big of a problem with not reblogging #i wonder why 🤷🏻‍♀️

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the-bar-sinister · 5 months ago

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"How can you stand the fact that gross, disgusting fiction about (x topic) exists??"

It's simple, I know how to be polite and ignore fiction I'm not interested in, and I don't base my concept of morality on what I personally consider to be icky or distasteful.

#fanfiction #fan fiction #fanfic #fandom wank #fiction writing #writer problems #darkfic #dark fic #whump community #🔪🔪#archive of our own #ao3

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trans-jon-rights · 13 days ago

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I keep seeing posts that are like "season 1 Tim would be friends with this character" or "season 1 Tim would make archives team watch trashy movies with him" or "season 1 Tim would do this, or this, and season 1 Tim is so friendly and nice with everyone!". And like. There is nothing wrong with headcanons. But I feel like it's very demonstrative of the larger fandom problem of completely ignoring canon to favour a carefully crafted, wildly spread and completely incorrect fanon.

Because believe it or not, season 1 Tim is.... not like that. When I first listened to TMA, before I had any interactions with the fandom, I didn't perceive him like this. Then I started interacting with the fandom, and I, too, saw this interpretation and said, "Oh! I'll add that to my belief system!". But I recently relistened to season 1, and realised how wrong that was.

Tim is "the hot one." Sure. That's canon, Basira said it in season 2. However, Tim is also an incredibly closed off and secretive person. And actually, canonically, he doesn't have many friends at the Institute. Which makes even more sense than him being friendly with everyone. He arrived at the Institute traumatised by The Stranger of all things, making him very distrustful of everyone. Yes, he became friends with pre-season 1 Jonathan "don't talk to me I'm busy" Sims, but Jon was also a traumatised person who was desperately looking for answers.

Sasha (who, by the way, I find is way too often ignored by the fandom) is the friendly one. Sasha became friends with Tim and Jon, Sasha tried her best to make Martin feel accepted in the Archives, Sasha is the nosy one who gets into everyone's business. Not Tim.

#maybe its because i spent the last few months bathing in the aa fandom #which suffers even more of this problem of “lets ignore canon because our version is better”#but coming back to tma briefly has made me realise that and its Bad #anyways thank god im into street fighter now. there isnt much of a canon to midinterpret #tma #the magnus archives #tim stoker

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veethebeequeen · 11 months ago

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Me looking through AO3: ughhh I need to find a fic to read

My 62 open AO3 tabs: 👁️👄👁️

#dead gay wizards #marauders #marauders era #the marauders #marauders fandom #the marauders era #oh these dead gay wizards i love you so #the maruaders #marauder era #i don't have a problem i can stop whenever i want to #fanfiction #rosekiller fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #fanfic #marauders fanfiction #ao3feed

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shamefullyontheside · 7 days ago

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way too much "i want to kill sans for banging my mom" and not enough "i want to kill asgore for harrassing and stalking my mom" and i truly cannot understand it

#soriel #this fandom has been misogynistic towards toriel for a literal decade hating her for every flaw they can jump on #i keep seeing things about how ashore deserves better than toriel as if toriel is the problem and not the man waiting in the bushes #to harass her #kris can hate sans or whatever like a teenager sad about their parents divorced but im a grown ass woman #i see sans making toriel happy in a way that literally brings her back to from when she was as rowdy as rudy commented #and cannot think of anything other than good for her #seriously #GOOD FOR HER #excuse her for thinking her kid was at noelle's house doing their project instead of fighting a titan #doing that thing they said they would be doing

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cozylittleartblog · 11 months ago

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Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

#columbo #knight rider #art #michael knight #kitt #comic #highlight reel #crossover #telebeast #there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public #this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy #if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo #this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them #niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet #not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao #stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio #cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps #this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march #is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool #ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN #COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page #i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier #action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write #more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3 #there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty #i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes #the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔

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bluecrocss · 10 months ago

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Adult PJO fans: "I can't relate to her if she doesn't look like me" "this is disrespectful to book!Annabeth" "I can't see her as the same character if she's black" "blonde, white women are soooo underrepresented in media. No one else can understand 😫"

Meanwhile, the actual demographic the show and books are for:

(@/walkersriptide_ on TikTok)

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Caveats in the tags.

#I'm doubling down since the leahbeth anti's lost their mind with my last post lmao #The existence of book!Annabeth and show!Annabeth are not mutually exclusive #Obviously I'm being hyperbolic but as an adult PJO fan it's crazy that the most hateful rhetoric comes almost exclusively from other adults #The show isnt for us. The books also aren't for us. u can be nostalgic but ur creating problems that arent problems for the target audience #They literally won a kids choice award #The show's not perfect but the kids like it and they love the cast #Weirdos #percy jackson #pjo series #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson fandom #pjo #leah sava jeffries #pjo tv show #annabeth chase #percy jackson and the olympians #mine

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saintlucretia · 11 months ago

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the feeling when your fictional crush is so wild you can't even defend them:

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lazylittledragon · 4 months ago

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i am losing my entire shit right now, this single panel caused a nuclear disaster in my ig comments when someone said "halsin just saying 'astarion's partner' instead of his name feels icky"

which is such a fucking reach by itself but descended into this in about 5 seconds

#ramble #i keep getting older but the fandom bullshit never changes #i'm in pieces rn i am begging this person to get some real problems #i feel like it's an offence to even MENTION the pyramid of harm/hate on this???? like that's a Thing #but offhandedly referring to someone as 'person-you-know's partner' isn't a MIGROAGGRESSION IT'S A DESCRIPTOR SFDHDKSSDK #am i on shutter island. is this real #literally every job i've worked. 'oh xyz's girlfriend came in today'. 'i met so and so's partner yesterday'#HOW DO I EXPLAIN TO AN ADULT THAT CALLING SOMEONE 'PERSON'S PARTNER' IS A VERY NORMAL WAY TO REFER TO SOMEONE THE OTHER PERSON DON'T KNOW #i know it literally doesn't matter but as like. a storytelling thing #in my mind halsin has probably known astarion a LONG ASS time and he WOULD know dorian. he went to the wedding akfhdfh #ashe does not give enough of a shit to remember people's names. he's been at that arena for 30 years and forgets there's even a hockey side #ALSO IT'S NOT REAL #i need to put my face in some moss i'm dying

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my-castles-crumbling · 24 days ago

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Me: I fucking hate editing. Wife: Oh, so you like the actual writing part of writing better, then? Me: Marginally. Sometimes that's awful, too. Wife: .....then why do you write? Me: Because if I don't, the voices in my head never leave me alone. Wife: ....so when's your next therapy appointment?

#fic writing #writing #writeblr #creative writing #writers #on writing #fanfiction #fanfic writers #fanfic writing #fanfom #fandom #fandom things #fandom problems #fan culture #fandom culture

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zhelin-thames · 6 months ago

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So after "test mission" [Batfamily pov]

[In the Batcave]

Danny: [spinning in Bruce’s chair] So, does this make me an honorary Bat? Dick: Only if you survive Bruce’s approval process. Danny: Please, I’ve fought ancient ghosts. What’s he gonna do? Scowl me to death? Damian: [glaring] Father doesn’t scowl—he instills fear. Danny: Uh-huh. Cute sword, by the way. Does it come in “not compensating”?

Jason: So you’re the ghost kid everyone’s talking about? Danny: Yup. Half-dead, full of sass. Nice to meet you, Zombie Robin. Jason: [narrowing eyes] …I like him.

Tim: You set off LexCorp alarms during a recon mission? Danny: Hey, I got the job done. Tim: Bruce hates when things get messy. Danny: And yet he still lets you work here.

Stephanie: You can fly? Can you give me a lift? Danny: Sure! But it’ll cost you. Stephanie: What do you want? Danny: Snacks. Lots of snacks.

Alfred: Master Danny, your presence has certainly brightened the manor. Danny: Aw, thanks, Alfred. You’re way cooler than my ghost butler. Bruce: [entering the room] You have a ghost butler? Danny: You have a butler-butler. Same difference.

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rambunctioustoons · 2 months ago

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get wrangled and maimed tax. entertaining that clown's gotta be a full time job for real.

#my art #daycare attendant moon #moon fnaf #moondrop fnaf #moon x y/n #moon x oc #moondrop x y/n #moondrop x oc #masc y/n #rhys #doombop!#moon needs enrichment like an ipad baby!! give it the ipad or it is causing problems on purpose!!! lmaoo #dca fandom

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divinit3a · 8 months ago

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hand kiss :)

#very demure. very trustworthy #fnaf dca #dca fandom #fnaf daycare attendant #dca fanart #fnaf sb #moondrop #daycare attendant #fnaf moon #moon fnaf #dca x yn #dca x y/n #moon x y/n #pom draws #playing along #i feel good enuff to draw again. I shall make it everyones problem <333

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somewhereincairparavel · 8 months ago

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JASON GRACE PLAYS LACROSSE AND TENNIS. I CAN'T AND WON'T BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS-

#also he loves physics and history 😭 it's canon #algebra too i think? i remember reading about how he found algebra interesting but I can't find where I read it #he also played mario party six with leo. he said it in blood of olympus #pjo artists do you see my vision??#i need more jason as a normal teenager :<#my boy would've THRIVED as a mortal overachiever student :(#the things he could've done and explored w in the mortal world....#heartbreaking considering that this is implying jason took as many subjects/activities as he could in edgarton around the time he heard the #sybil prophecy. to take his mind off of his problems. as a coping mechanism :((#pjo #pjo fandom #percy jackson #pjo series #jason grace #pjo hoo #pjo hoo toa #trials of apollo #pjo toa #toa pjo #toa #hoo toa #heores of olympus #the trials of apollo #the burning maze

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anneapocalypse · 1 year ago

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"Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings" is a warning.

It is a warning that there will be no further warnings. That's what it means. It was designed into the structure of AO3's tagging system for a reason. If you only want to read fic with specific, distinct content warnings, you should not read "Chose Not to Warn" fics. Period. If you choose to read them, that is on you.

Regardless of whether you think the author is an asshole for any other reason, regardless of what you think of the fic they wrote, they're not the asshole for using that tag correctly and as it was designed.

#ao3 #tagging #fanfiction #fandom problems

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