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[hannahwashington]

"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

[hannahwashington]

Okay fuck it yeah I'm making the post idc abt backlash. First of all the hidden agenda fandom doesn't exist anymore so whos even gonna have an issue. But if you do feel called out um. Maybe thats ur problem idk bc I'm not aiming at anyone in particular here.

Anyway long ass ramble abt the tiny dead Hidden Agenda fandom below the cut

This is mainly something I noticed looking through the very limited amount of Hidden Agenda fics on ao3, but it's VERY obvious on there. The vast majority of fics on there are centered on Adam and Finn, which I can understand more since they have an interesting backstory and are well written characters, sure. But then you look at the others and the other characters that are centered are... Riggs and Calvary?

In the actual game ofc Becky and Felicity are the main characters. Both of them not only are pretty objectively interesting characters on their own, and even more so together. On top of this they have the most shipping potential of any two characters in that game, it's literally basically canon, it's not even subtext atp it's literally just text. NO other two characters have that amount of chemistry in the game, and yet there is a noticeable lack of gravey fics in that tag. And I'll stress again bc I know how defensive people got last time I made this kind of observation, I'm not pointing fingers or calling anyone misogynistic/racist/homophobic BUT. but. When the two mcs are women, one of which is poc, and they're implied to be lesbians, and they get sidelined by the fandom despite being the focuses of the game... it's kinda hard not to assume there's some kind of bias there.

And on another point, it's similar when it comes to supporting characters too. In a way I'm disappointed but absolutely not surprised that Adam/Finn is prioritized in fan works over Becky/Felicity, but when characters like Riggs and Calvary are also given more attention than them it becomes way more suspicious to me. Riggs is a fine character, I like him enough and I can see why others might like him more, but wbk he doesn't really have all that much relevance. Calvary is even more confusing bc he basically JUST exists to be a creepy misogynistic asshole and as unlikeable as possible. Thankfully I haven't seen him getting a lot of attention but the fact that I've seen him getting any that isn't entirely negative is... hm...

Now there ARE in fact male characters that can be both relevant and likeable: Tom and Karl. (I talk shit abt Karl bc it's a joke I started with friends, I'm gonna drop that for this post obv bc we're being fr here) these two are pretty obviously more relevant than Riggs or Calvary, they're literally Becky's partners (Tom can even replace Riggs' entire role lmao, and if he's replaced himself it's by Karl) and I'd say they're also both likeable characters on their own too. And yet I'm pretty sure I found maybe one??? fic with them in it? Probably should have mentioned this earlier but yeah, they're both poc.

So like... I feel like it all comes down to what Becky/Felicity/Tom/Karl have in common and then what Adam/Finn/Riggs/Calvary have in common. It strikes me as questionable. But like maybe I'm just an annoying snowflake though idk🤷‍♀️ /s

This turned into more of a ramble than anything and I'm aware i'm also yelling into a void bc I'm posting entirely for a dead fandom that barely existed to begin with, but tbh this stuff applies to most if not all larger fandoms as well, i'm just looking at it from what I've seen in the remnants of the HA fandom. Again I am not attacking anyone here, I am making observations. If you're like mad or something I'm just gonna assume you didn't even read the whole post. Yes ur allowed to like characters, but I am also allowed to address what I've noticed about what characters seem to be more liked than others.

#objectively correct posts #hidden agenda #years ago when i played HA for the first time i went into ao3 and found a barren wasteland #like why are we not talking about gravey? my friends gravey? #god. anyways. good post.

[hannahwashington]

I love subjects and topics

[hannahwashington]

I noticed you haven’t been online in 10 hours, is therapy finally working?

this websites hate mail game is ruthless

[hannahwashington]

hes trans but he doesnt actually know what the word trans means

#crash bandicoot #crash #my effin fave #kiddoqueue

[hannahwashington]

always a fun question to imagine what your own psychonauts mindscape looks like but mine currently could probably only be described as "total clusterfuck"

[hannahwashington]

i need to create i need to create i need to create i need to create i need to create i need to create i need to create

#burn all uni projects always forever.!!!! #dw guys ill just be like this for like another week then ill be fine again probably

[hannahwashington]

wait no everything else is cancelled. just found out fucking babymetal is still around

#havent they been around for like. ever

[hannahwashington]

look at him

[hannahwashington]

hmmm

[hannahwashington]

This was shared as a "bad" joke but I was so charmed by it I've been thinking about it for days.

[hannahwashington]

uni killing me with hammers during lesbian visibility week is NOT ally behaviour and i should be compensated with money and sweet treats also. and a trip to the movies

[hannahwashington]

slightly late to the party buuuuut happy lesbian visibility week<333

[hannahwashington]

im always forgetting that there are celebs that are literally my age. i saw one of those "(x) though the years" videos and it said 13 in 2016 and i was like "huh ... wait that's how old I was in 2016" and my brain short circuited

#thats illegal.

[hannahwashington]

(sits up suddenly) i have to get covered in charcoal dust again

[hannahwashington]

baby snoopy this, baby clifford that, baby gromit blah blah blah. what about baby kermit???????

[hannahwashington]

this post is for you. yes, you! you are so deserving of a good, happy, content life. you are so strong and resilient, and i am proud of you. you will make it through all this hardship and come out the other side doing better than ever.