#toxic fandoms scare me

[scrapimmortal]

h-hi tgcf fandom 😳🥺

[dixidin]

"Tadc fandom is gonna be like welcome home-" the video has barely been out for a while can you SHUT THE FUCK UP???

[lunathewafflelord]

Sometimes it seems like the anti fandoms are more toxic than the actual fandom that the anti fandom people hate on, it's actually really sad.

MLP fans will know what I'm talking about

[sunkillerlovechild]

i finally forced myself to watch 9-1-1 and im going crazy

i got hooked cause of buddie edits and stuff and first of all they really dont do justice to how crazy they both are about eachother

secondly i got to the tommy part and its kind of like watching a car crash but also so on point for buck and eddie's relationship

[fenharel]

fandom can be so exhausting sometimes :c

[m-v3nus]

ik everyone likes to rant abt the death of media literacy and yada yada yada something something. But genuinely can ppl bring back implying things? Especially when in the context of a very complex subject it feels weird when you expect these characters to turn to the camera and go "Don't do this, this is bad and is a reflection of some inner turmoil in my character arc" then go back like nothing happened

The number of times ive seen content where some viewer is saying the creator has glorified something (especially mental health or unhealthy dynamics or the most evilest thing [toxic yaoi/yuri]) when in fact they've done the opposite. showing the effects of their actions and beliefs and how it slowly kills and tears them apart.

but fine take your weirdly 2d depictions of fandom favorites

[thepandalion]

and today in "why is fandom so antisemitic" just blocked two more followers in my sideblog, which makes it about 10 of what would have been almost 35 followers over a couple months. because the "all israelis are evil" bs is really big in mcyt circles.

also haven't watched the new season of hc because I don't want to touch the fandom anymore and enjoying things alone isn't as fun when you know there's a fandom. but also the fandom is full of people that wish I was dead so I dont want to be there either. which means right now the only things in my life are the jewish bloggers I follow (love yall) and doing daily challenges in microsoft solitaire. and university ig but it's the weekend and Im trying not to think about my homework rn

also gave up and made a "btw Im israeli plz stop following me if u want me dead" post on the sideblog. hope it works ig.

[noctilionoidea]

If I’m being honest the way some monster high fans act remind me of when I was 5 or something and mlp g4 came out. I was so fucking pissed about rainbow dash being changed so unrecognizably. I was mad about every little thing and it’s so weird looking back when I’m not even into it mlp anymore.

like, yeah of course you can be upset it isn’t a revival. You can (and should because there are fans who are hurt by such) critique the gross colourism of clawdeen. Even the rampant change in lagoona’s design (which is what reminded me of the rainbow dash in the first place). You can critique it for being too childish or loosing its edge. All of those are true. There’s definitely even more. Just don’t act like a five year old over it please

[twpsyn-who]

I'm going to my parents house this week and I wanna try (heavily underline the word 'try') writing some Mungrove. 

The question is WHAT I write cuz I have so many AUs but they have the same. fucking. plot.

We have :

Merman AU where Billy and Eddie knew each other since little, but Eddie got captured by the lab at some point. He got away during the massacre and has been living with uncle Wayne since then. They meet again when Billy moves in Hawkins.

Lab Lovers AU where Billy and Eddie are from the lab (5 and 6, cuz not watching the show gives me the liberty to do whatever I want with canon) and got away during the massacre (or with 8 jury is still on that one). They get separated when they find their biological families and meet once again in 1985, when Billy moves to Hawkins (This one also have : Billy joining the Hellfire Club's table from the start ; Billy and Max actually being close siblings; so much fucking codependency they literally can't survive without each other)

Childhood Friends AU where Eddie has been living with his father in California up to age 13 until he had to move with his uncle. They were best friends (and their first kiss but shhh). Both with shitty fathers, one got away while the other had to stay. Two boys, one faithful promise that keeps the hope burning while also slowly killing it. What happens when Billy moves in Hawkins and meets Eddie again? (I have two ideas for the childhood friends AU, but the other one I plan to write regardless of whether or not I do this one)

Soulmates AU where when your soulmate dies, you die. This one also features Steddie, but it will be later on (the story focuses more on Billy and Eddie's relationship up to the moment Billy dies and Eddie doesn't because he does have another soulmate keeping him alive). Billy is really shitty in this one (in the others I'm making him more tolerable). No, it is not Harringroveson. Eddie is the only one with two soulmates.

Lowkey I wanna do them all, but again : they have the same plot. I guess I could say the soulmate one is a little different, mostly because of the ending, but other than that they kinda go the same way yk? I just love the idea of Eddie suffering after Billy dies.

Yeah they are all angsty and I can 100% guarantee you that Billy keeps dying at the mall. But there's fluff! In some of them. At the beginning. Depends on AU. I love you guys. Please don't kill me.

[enderman-ezra]

I hate to be that guy but I am actually worried about everyone from Twitter migrating over here

I feel like Tumblr in the past couple years has been such a nice space for me where I’m not afraid to share my opinions or be cringy and I’m genuinely worried about losing that, I hope Tumblr doesn’t adopt the same energy as Twitter

[samwinchesterakgae]

idk about you but the only good deancrit i’ve seen comes from people who don’t hate his character (usually dean girls, sometimes cas girls but unfortunately i’ve had to disengage from samgirl crit of dean bc a lot of it completely removes the context in which events happened) - samcrit i’ve seen has been pretty decent but the bad crit often seems to come from like a reactionary perspective - like people are upset about disingenuous dean crit so all their samcrit is disingenuous as well? idk i do have a lot of people blocked tho so maybe ive not seen the really awful opinions. the worst part about crit meta on here is that a lot of people treat it like a reflection of your own morals and that if you’re a sam or dean fan then you’re automatically a bad person if they don’t like that character and it’s ridiculous.

Honestly I think this is a fair assessment, and I’m definitely mostly surrounded by the samgirl/samdean side of the fandom (I have a handful of deangirl/destiel moots whom I cherish though). I don’t think it’s impossible to provide valid criticism of a character you dislike, but there does have to be a level of understanding. Really, with a fandom as large as this, it all depends on which corner you day venture out towards. A lot of it is definitely reactionary too, and I think a part of that has to do with the misunderstanding of what media criticism is. It’s not hate, it’s analysis. If I made a post saying, this brother did this shitty thing and here’s my interpreted reasoning for why, that’s not hate, that’s analysis. From what I’ve seen, a lot of fandom crit comes from a place of thinking, well nobody calls out this shitty thing a character did so now I’m going to because this character is so clearly a bad person.

Like you said, it’s a cycle of mess: someone posts disingenuous dean crit, so another person defensively posts disingenuous sam crit, so someone gets defensive right back, and the cycle continues. Not to mention a lot of crit too is attempting to untangle fanon interpretations of a character, which is a whole nother can of worms (like erasing dean’s toxicity or painting sam as the saintly helpless victim). The worst part is, there’s some kernels of truth to these types of criticisms, but the conclusions are always so wild and taken out of context. It’s not a crime to dislike a character, but I do think it is a bit unfair to misrepresent that character. People are better off sticking to their own circles and curating their dash, instead of feeding into fandom toxicity.

[karmaisamess-x3]

Oh that’s gore (an awful hc that op is trying so desperately to pass as canon and is condemning other people for having a different view on the character) of my comfort character…

[starlooove]

Dickbea JayDana timtam I will always love u

[letstrywritingmaybe]

I’m trying to write the next part of the sibling verse and I’m a little undecided over how things should go… so I’m thinking maybe I should just try and start the lying verse instead. I’ll edit the first part of the POV series later, I’m planning for a lunar new year update since it’ll be my day off. But we’ll see. I should also edit my Valentine’s Day ficlets too… I’ve not been on it at all writing wise with being busy amongst other issues… also trying to talk myself out of a big purchase but I’m kinda the worst at that cause I’m all about experiences and it’s literally on my bucket list! There’s a reason why I keep saying I’m self indulgent as hell, in all aspects of my life I’m like this *sigh the problem with being an impulsive fangirl with no chill. I’m supposed to be a responsible adult and I do not act like it

Just an addition, yo this lie verse is so typical lots of love vibes, like this is all my fics. Literally, I say this as if I don’t write fics that are like my vibe, but still. I’m just reading through my overall outline and I’m like this is what I was thinking??? Definitely very reminiscent of when I started this writing thing. Which means I hope I can keep it short, but also I’m impatient which is why I fail. I never wrote it cause too many other ideas but also cause I’m so bad at executing my visions cause I’m too impatient! Basically what I’m trying to say is, authors who can write slow burn well and keep things not super sappy I applaud you cause I could never. My brand really is just a fangirl with a bunch of ideas she speeds through cause she cannot keep focus and do it justice completely. And this is why I could never do this professionally, it’s an art and I’ve definitely not mastered it. Not even close

Unrelated thought that I’m just gonna let sit for a moment cause I don’t wanna get into it, but I’m generally curious over what the rest of the shippers think about the level of attraction between them and how extreme it can be. Cause I have my extreme of toxic as hell and girl you need run via the adoption divergent of the marriage verse. But generally I prefer softness and it’s what I typically write. But some fics I read make me want to explore the more extreme side… okay for real gonna go to bed now. Nighty night 😘🩵🌙

Update: I’ve sorta edited the valentines event ficlets and I’ve finally settled on a summary of sorts for the lie verse. And I wrote one whole sentence! Tomorrow I’ll have to edit the pov verse. I’m still unsure over the sibling verse, so it’s on the back burner. It’s a good thing I never make promises to update regularly cause I’m the worst at that

Update 2: I’ve started the lie verse and I’m undecided how long each chapter should be? Cause I also don’t know how many chapters there will be either??? Decisions, decisions… I’m 1.5k into chapter one and I’m at a good stopping point… but idk.

[eldritch-m0th]

whenever i hear the song London Bridge is Falling Down i get violent Black Butler flashbacks

[ineffabells]

Serious question: for those who put 'tcest DNI' in your ao3 tags, what's the reasoning? Do you actually think that a random tcest fan is going to come into your genfic and comment "cool story but wish you made them f*ck" or smth?? i just really can't imagine anything like that happening, which leads me to think that the tags more just being used as a middle finger to tcest fans?

i've never seen a fandom before where dnis were common in ao3 tags but it makes me feel kind of ick