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the fact that this is completely understandable and rather descriptive makes me rethink what i’ve done with my life
#i understand it perfectly but you couldn’t fucking pay me to read it
Tag: fandom
“Why do you like the villains when they did terrible things but dislike the heroes for doing annoying things”
because this is fiction and im here to be entertained; being annoying and unlikeable IS a much, much graver sin than any fictional atrocity any villain commits
Also, when bad characters do terrible things, it’s usually highlighted and signposted by the narrative. When the heroes do annoying – and, sometimes, also terrible – things, the narrative usually intends me to ignore it, or think that those terrible things are actually cool and justified.
I don’t need to disapprove of the villains because the narrative is doing it for me. But when I have to read against the text to disapprove of the shitty stuff the heroes get away with, that’s more work and, more importantly, frustrating and unrewarding work, because you know there’s never going to be any comeuppance for these characters. Which makes it ten times as annoying.
This, this, this cannot be said enough. When the “hero” (and the people supporting them) blatantly gets away with doing bad stuff, while the villain gets put down for literally everything, it’s too close to real life for me. It’s just not fun anymore.
I don’t need a stalwart hero who can do no wrong, but when they fuck up very badly I DO want to see them get held accountable
Please don’t let fandom ruin something you love. Walk away and unfollow the fans and enjoy the thing by yourself, or find a limited circle of people who ignore the discourse, or get your irl friends into the thing and collectively ignore the Internet community, or blacklist from here to the moon if you need to and only ever scroll through your rarepair ship’s tag on AO3. But don’t let fandom distort a show or a movie or a book or a comic you used to love so badly that you can’t enjoy the original anymore. Please. It isn’t worth it.
what even is the top/bottom thing in fandom
presumably people perform multiple types of sexual intercourse??? and no one is more dominant in a relationship bc it’s between equals? unless it’s a bdsm thing or abuse in which respectively okay and wow no
i dont understand
do people not switch it up in relationships??? ive never been in one so idk
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Flowershop au, Coffeeshop au, Fake Dating/Marriage au, and Soulmate au
Tag your horsemen.
pestilence: flowershop au
famine: coffee shop au
war: fake marriage au
death: soulmate au
The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Some people are… too powerful to be mere mortals.
theenglishmanwithallthebananas:
theenglishmanwithallthebananas:
one day all the people in this fandom will move on and many will become accomplished writers out in the real world and they’ll be original and unique and never betray their fandom origins, but one day you’ll pick up a book off the shelf at a bookstore and it’ll be written in second person present and you’ll just Know
a book in 2020: “She absconded down t-”
me, crying: “I found one”my favorite part of this post is i didnt even specify which fandom and 1300 people still knew exactly what i meant
okay so i’m rambling and this probably won’t make much sense but i kinda wanna ask anyway
i wonder how different fandom is for people depending on the age they found/entered it
bc for me i stumbled into fandom at a very young age. i’ve almost grown up with fandom. it’s been something that’s helped me through mental illness and social isolation, has influenced how i critique media, shaped my worldview. i can’t really imagine the person i would have been very well if i hadn’t found fandom. fandom has in a way shaped me and how i consume and react and think about all media in a very profound way.
i think it was inevitable, too. considering my personality and tastes if i hadn’t found fandom when i did it was only a matter of time.
fandom is almost – a part of me. it’s in my bones, it’s an essential part of my makeup, it’s lead me to so many different things that have affected me and changed me (music, books, other media, politics, social justice, psychology, sexuality, relationships, gender, cultures, language) at a very young age for a very long time.
what’s it like for people who entered fandom when they were older? when they had already developed a lot as a person? i grew up with fandom, but what is someone’s experience with fandom when they found it at an older age? how does it feel? what is different?
fandom is…not easy, but there, for me. it’s almost always existed for me and i can’t imagine what it would be like without it. i’ve grown with it. we’ve grown together.
what’s it like to experience fandom in a way other than that?
We’ve all seen a lot of posts telling us we need to comment/kudos/reblog/love our fanfic authors or they will stop writing. I know, I’ve shared them.
But those posts never talk about what you, as a reader, get out of it. So here are my entirely selfish reasons that you should engage with fanfic (writers) that you love:
1. Free, quality content on your blog in the time it takes to smash reblog.
2. It’s good for you: people who “practice gratitude consistently report” higher levels of happiness, lower blood pressure, feel less lonely and other good shit.(x)
3. It’s not just writers who read those comments and reviews, you might find yourself a flail buddy. It just feels good to say “this is the BEST” and have someone else say, “I know, right?!”
4. The actual author might respond to your comments, follow you, start chatting to you or publicly thank you for encouraging them to write more.
5. If you start putting out fic rec lists, people might come to you asking for more recommendations. Who doesn’t like to feel like their thoughts and opinions matter?
6. Get so inspired you have to make art for a fic? Writers looove that – you could find they say thanks, share your art, use it as their header (on their blog or fic – seeing your picset at the top of a fic you love is just jandjdjbdudndj) or write you a fic.
7. And, of course, you’ll make a writer happy. And happy writers write more fic. Even if they never, ever engage with you, just knowing you’re there reading and caring means you get more fic to read.
8. All the ways we have of showing writers some love makes you a part of something. Fandom can be weird and wonderful, and at times utterly mental. But being in the club feels pretty damn great.
@kmomof4 @pocket-anon @artandteaandstuff @effulgentcolors @mahstatins @like-waves-on-the-beach @justanotherwannabeclassic @shipping-goggles
I love this very positive take on leaving reviews! Everyone wins, I agree. 🙂
I read so much fo’ free, the least I can do is give a well deserved shout out. It’s slightly selfish, because it means you may get more stories.
forget harry potter aus and hogwarts sorting i know im in too deep with a fandom when i try to figure out character’s classpects
just moving along like everyone else 