#well the fandom isn't old

[yubsie]

So while I was writing “Uncomfortable Chairs” I kept joking about “I hope all seven remaining Wes/Hobbie shippers like this fic!”

Well, pleased to announce...

They did :p

[niuniente]

Wow, so many saying in the last kudos-comment-bookmarks post that they comment only if the fic was SUPER GOOD. 72,2%(!!!) said they NEVER comment! (wtf???????)

So you want to give support only for insanely good writers? No support, in a form of comments, for beginners and not so good writers? And 72,2% of the fics deserve no comment because what? You didn't feel like commenting?

You think beginners keep writing if they don't get any "I liked this! Keep going!" support? Yelling into the wind and hoping someone hears and replies?

That's a hobby, you know. Not a profession. You expect a professional level stuff from a hobbyist, writing on their free time a fic they want to share with you, because they loved the idea, the same characters, the same ship or/and the same fandom as you do?

I'm speechless.

I'm going to go Abe Simpson here and say that when I was young, the courtesy was to comment on every chapter on each fic you read. That was the norm. The bare minimum expected from readers was to leave at least one comment at the end of the fic.

THINK HOW MUCH MORE PEOPLE WOULD WRITE, DRAW AND CREATE IF THIS LEVEL OF COMMENTING AND INTERACTING AS A PERSON, NOT A FACELESS KUDOS, WAS STILL A NORM!

I don't really like the shift in the fandom where nothing is expected from those who enjoy the stuff others make, except consume them silently.

It is not that much to be asked nor that difficult to be polite, kind, and type; "I read this. Thank you for writing!"

No, I won't listen to "UWU you're forcing us to comment! I don't like it!" Learn some fandom manners and be kind to others. Have empathy to those who create to understand that things won't magically appear on their own to AO3 or anywhere else. Someone has made them. It's not too much asked and no level of anxiety can't be THAT BAD that you can't type - even anonymously - just "TY" if you can't muster up anything else. Or leave a little heart. Or thumbs up emoji.

Acknowledge the hard work of those who offer you free stuff of your favorite fandom. That's your basic courtesy as a member of your fandom and I promise, it makes the other person happy - and more inspired to create more free stuff.

[dustykneed]

Hello! Random whipper snipper! Share a WIP of your work!

ooh, with pleasure. six the musical araleyn fanart? in the year 2k24? more likely than you think xDD

i realize this looks finished, but technically i'm still deciding whether to add a background or not lol. still, for the sake of sharing a proper WIP, here's a line or two from an araleyn brainworm WIP that i started reworking yesterday (mild tw for religious guilt and period-typical internalized homophobia from aragon's pov):

She remembers sharing her bed with Anne at Henry's behest, remembers the nights of tossing and turning and trying not to think about Anne asleep next to her-- remembers waking up to dark hair spilling across her pillow and the press of blood-warm bosoms against her own, softer than sin, as hot as the Devil, remembers lying still as death, mouthing prayers into the heat of Anne's neck like an act of penance.

[astral-schools]

enjoy your stay!

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....

Oh yes he would!

One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014

GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017

In fact he already has ☺️

[holdoncallfailed]

can i admit something so embarrassing. i've been reading fanfic for a television program i've never even watched just cos sometimes i want to read something sexy and trope-y and mindless and i'll kill myself before i read a published romance novel. so now i have an understanding of the show's canon based only on fic and it's gotten to the point where i'm attached to certain characterizations and i get annoyed when they aren't written "in character" despite my not even knowing who these characters are. i am creating vast and complex worlds in my mind

[goldies-cryptobitch]

Tfw you keep seeing the same person vagueposting about your friend, whom they treated shittily, and the overwhelming urge to post the entire conversation of them being an abhorrent, boundary-stomping jerkwad for the Trollhunters fandom to see in case this person has been badmouthing said friend to others, and to only be held back by the knowledge that it might make friendo upset if I were to post the screenshots without her approval...

Just let it be known that if a certain villain stan in the Trollhunters fandom is talking any sort of shit about Goldie in people's DMs, please know that this person is an unreliable narrator and is literally the only person Goldie's ever had to straight-up block due to them CONSTANTLY overstepping boundaries and trying to twist her words in an attempt to make her sound horrible. Normally I wouldn't comment publicly on this at all, since it happened over a year ago and there should be no reason to still be bringing it up, but the fact that I just saw ANOTHER vaguepost about the situation that was posted merely a month ago makes me worry that they might also be talking shit about her in DMs if they're still hung up about it after THIS long. And I don't like the idea of somebody doing that to my friend with severe mental health struggles who isn't even around to defend herself these days. :/

[talesfromthecrypts]

The "roleplaying" part of CRPGs really hurts gamers' brains

[anothermonikan]

Y'know yeah I think Medic and Heavy are gay on purpose. I don't think it's a fanon thing. I think Valve intended them to be queer. Yeah

[rosalesbeausderholle]

At the end of the day, it just really sucks when you can't even enjoy a new release by your favorite artist because the greater internet has decided she's their acceptable outlet of misogyny and they have to comment or hate on her every move every single time.

[marie-viola]

Alright check it

There is no canon year but it's fun to try and make an estimated headcanon year. And that's what Ima do.

The "new games" in the hobbeez store look like

Dream cast 1999

Ps1 1994

It's safe to say that the year (older) is around 2000.

Probably before 9/11 definitely.

The vibes are there

So in conclusion,

It's summer of 2000 or 2001

Probably 2000 since the dreamcast was just a year ago and Sunny says it's "new"

Sunny is the "youngest" out of the group.

His bday is 7/20

Thus, everyone else's birthday comes months or years before that.

Oldest to youngest:

Hero 1/1

Mari 3/1

Kel 11/11

Basil 2/18

Aubrey 5/23

Sunny 7/20

Summer of 2000... and "four years ago" they were twelve because "Sunny turned twelve" birthday picture.

Summer of 2000 ages

Hero 19

Kel 16

Basil 16

Aubrey 16

Sunny 16 depending on the month

1996 was the year the album photos were taken and when Mari died.

The gang was 12 and Hero and Mari were 15

The years they were born if the year in game is 2000

Hero 1/1/1981

Mari 3/1/1981

Kel 11/11/1983

Basil 2/18/1984

Aubrey 5/23/1984

Sunny 7/20/1984

*mic drop*

Their ages currently (April 2024)

Hero 43

Mari (alive) 43

Kel 40

Basil 40

Aubrey 39

Sunny 39

😨 YALL ARE OLD!!!!

They reaching the FORTIES 😭

They're Millennials :0

Hero and Mari are old enough to be my PARENTS.

💀💀💀

[blackbackedjackal]

i agree with you that this holier-than-thou trend of shitting on common motifs is eyerolling, but i do want to point out that the original poster meant no harm (you can see if you check the replies). obviously, that doesn't erase the hundreds of people who Do mean to disrespect artists.

appreciate you! stay golden!

Oh I wasn't vaguing about that post, just in general. I get tired of seeing "look at these tropes" and then point to a past artistic movement with multiple known artists and hundreds or thousands or whatever smaller artist who may have just not been know or wanted to be known. more along those lines :0

[randomnameless]

Do you agree that anyone that uses death of the author as argument shouldn't be arguing about a text? Because according to them all interpretations are valid so why argue against other people's interpretations?

Mmh...

I guess it's part of the duality of fandom life - people want to talk about the game are very involved in it, but they also create fun headcanons to explore said game's lore/setting/characters.

So in way, participating in fandom and even writing fanfiction, or saying stupid things like "hc : Nabateans attach a great importance to golden trinkets" is, in a way, pushing your own interpretation over the game's.

But at one point, it depends on what you want to argue about.

Argue about headcanon? Uh... it's like arguing about what topping you prefer on your ice cream. It's your ice cream, your tastes, so you can prefer chocolate cookies or peanuts and it's, you know, not open to discussion as in "talking with you made me realise peanuts are was tastier than chocolate chip cookies".

I like to talk and discuss and see other people's headcanons because it's fun and when some of ours match we can nerd about pointless things like warm rocks or nabatean laying eggs, but you won't see me being an ass and tell them "uh your headcanon sucks, you should put blue cheese on your ice cream".

Now, arguing about canon?

FE16 (and Fe Fodlan in general) is a game where the devs forgot to hire a continuity game and thought letting the world "vague" would make it look "deeper and richer" than it is. 10k years of lore, after all. And we have at least 2 unreliable narrators, that are Lords so who are protagonists and usually should be believed... expect that the game shows us they're full of nonsense regarding various topics.

But, unlike headcanon, canon isn't subjective, it's the same game (well... depending on the audio, it's not) everyone played, some people were kind enough to create a website where every line (+ dub!) is available, so it's not a question of interpretation as much as going to read and check the datamine website and the hundreds of YT videos, were people recorded their PT.

Was Burnie surrounded by flames, effectively preventing her escape from her pyre, or not?

Does Cyril mention to Mercedes how he only ate every couple of days before coming to the monastery (so under House Goneril's good care and in the Almyran army) or not?

Those things can be easily checked, and there's no interpretation.

If you don't like canon, you can churn out headcanon and have fun developing them, maybe finding people who like them and expend them themselves!

But for various reasons (is it because fanfiction has a bad rep since the 2000s for being something, idk, teenage girls write? or because it's not seen as very serious (tm) as a redshit post?) some people in the Fodlan fandom don't really want to confess they don't like the canon, and prefer the headcanon/fanfiction version of the game portrayed through a certain fic that, in turn, influenced how canon is perceived by some devoted fans.

(and let's not forget the lolcalisation that, too, didn't like the base game and edited it for ~ reasons ~)

And imo, Death of the author, in those fandom circles, is a roundabout way to say "the canon is not conclusive so i interpret the situation as this, but it's totes not my headcanon nor a fanfiction bcs i'm no gross fangirl, it's still canon, but my interpretation of the canon"

Tldr : Arguing about headcanon is as pointless and fruitless as starting a shipwar, and in the 2020s apparently it's too shameful to confess liking/writing fanfictions, so instead you like and write "your own interpretations of canon or how it should be" instead, using various theories like "Death of the Author" to validate your creative process, bcs fanfics gross'n'bad'n'only for lonely teenager girls, i guess.

[eliseliedl]

wish all fandoms were as dedicated as tv-related fandoms fr

[sylvies-kablooie]

btw i haven't made a post about it since i started, but if you didn't know, i run an account where i watch the x files for the very first time and liveblog the whole experience! it's been really fun. i have to take it slower lately because life has me busy, but if you're interested in reading it, maybe now is a good time to join because of the less frequent posts.

anyway, feel free to check it out! it's @mulders-too-large-shirt. i have a link to all of the episode reviews in my pinned if you want to start from the top.

[hyruviandoctor]

One day you wake up and the fandoms you grew up in have changed their methods of survival during the dry spells, and you no longer recognize your home