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I think some of you would do well to learn how to engage with characters in a way that ISN'T sanding off every identifiable canon trait to turn them into blank slates for you to project whatever maximizes their relatability/fuckability for you personally. Or at the very least recognize that when you refer to that character what you're really referring to is your wish fulfillment OC who just so happens to have the same name and face

#THIS #fandom stuff #fandom screwery

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#shipping #humor #fandom stuff

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Ritcher post sotn

#richter belmont #sotn #symphony of the night #castlevania

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calling that word document a draft by the way im dodging it haha

#humor #look it's me

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"nerd spaces, as they’ve become more open and accepting to People As A Whole, have become more and more hostile to the autistic folks who created them" - can you elaborate? (i am curious)

if you find something that went on in geek/internet/fandom culture for 10-30 years before abruptly being labeled “cringey” or “creepy”, especially if it’s something mostly innocuous-  you’ve found a social norm set up by and for autistic/ADHD folks.

here’s some concrete examples. I’m deliberately picking things that are innocuous, and often associated with female-coded/artistic fandom, because if we start getting into male-coded/systematizing fandom - criminy, I’ve already poked the TERF beehive tonight, I don’t want to also poke the “innocuous things autistic people do are misogyny!” beehive. 

it used to be fairly common practice for people on the internet to outright explicate the body language and tone of voice they wanted you to read what they were saying in, either with emojis (”you really think bananas aren’t a fruit? O_o”) or with texted RP reactions (” *raises eyebrows* you really think bananas aren’t a fruit?”) people always explained this as ‘tone not translating well over text/the internet’. it is now considered Deeply Cringe. some of this is certainly due to the rise of emoji - but using too many emojis is also Deeply Cringe, and asking for clarification on what emotional information someone meant to convey is Deeply Cringe and/or Tone Policing. 

“squeeing”- making high-pitched excitable noises while waving one’s hands at approximately eye level- is a common way that autistic/ADHD folks, particularly autistic/ADHD women, express happiness. this used to be such a common thing in fandom that we had a specific word for it, and it was a multi-purpose expression of delight regardless of how old you were. Now it is Deeply Cringe. it is at best infantilized (”ew, teenage girls”) and at worst, treated as somehow creepy (if someone wants to mock the concept of squeeing, they always bring up yaoi paddles, even though the two things aren’t remotely connected).

there used to be meta everywhere about the significance of simple interactions between two characters- a hand touch, a shoulder bump, or a moment of eye contact. People would lovingly dissect the kind of significance these interactions had, often reading a whole lot more into them than was probably ever intended. Folks started mocking this kind of meta, and you really don’t see it anymore... outside of fandoms around non-Western media. (The Untamed is the one that comes to mind, though I’ve seen it in anime/k-pop MV fandom too.) I have to wonder if the reason “omg they LOOKED AT EACH OTHER” meta became Cringe has less to do with Slash Fangirls Being Homophobic and more to do with the fact that it was folks on the spectrum analyzing ordinary human interaction like an anthropologist from Mars.

There’s a bunch of other stuff like this. If we go into systematizing fandom and the controversial kind of autistic trait, I could go on for hours. (...which in and of itself is controversial...)

I think there was a space of time where most of the folks in geek spaces were either on the autism/ADHD spectrum, or had a kind of brain that plays really nice with spectrum-y brains. if you went into a geek space, you adopted geek - read, autistic- social norms, or you’d go “why are these people so weiiiiird, ew” and leave.

but there got to be a tipping point where there were more allistic people on the internet than autistic people, and soon enough there were enough allistic people getting into Internet Culture and Fandom Culture that the megacorps decided they were worth paying attention to, which brought even more allistic people into both... and they rejected a lot of the norms that autistic people set up for their own comfort and brought in neurotypical social norms instead.

(in the case of the three bullet points up there: “it’s not acceptable to ask someone what kind of emotion they’re trying to convey, and doing so is a dominance display”; “smiling and laughing are the only acceptable ways for adults to show happiness”, and “it’s weird and creepy to overanalyze other people’s behaviour, and doing it is somehow dehumanizing”.) 

I am the last person who will ever say that it’s bad for people to enjoy things, or that fewer people should get into geek shit. Everyone deserves to find things that make them happy, and geek shit is healthier and safer than a lot of the alternatives. ...but at the same time, it does sting, knowing that the social norms I find most comfortable are the exact opposite of what most other people prefer. :T

#fandom screwery

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you heard of "hating female characters for traits people would find interesting and morally grey in male characters", now get ready for "calling female characters annoying for traits they would consider interesting or quirky in a male character" and its twin sibling "accusing a female character of 'holding grudges' and 'being selfish/unforgiving' over something that people would consider 'traumatised' and 'still feeling hurt' in a male character"

#fandom sexism #fandom screwery

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#humor #video

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The hardcore way to eat ramen: 1. Boil water 2. Eat block of ramen 3. Drink boiled water 4. Snort flavored powder 5. Fuck bitches

#humor #gif

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Life lessons.

#interesting stuff

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Which version of Alucard is your favourite, Lords of Shadow, or Symphony of the Night timeline?

LoS Alucard alllllll the way.

Like, I love overdramatic main-timeline dhampir. But he’s pretty one-dimensional, and really never gets the chance for good character development on screen (except kinda in the radio drama, which no one besides me cares about).

Trevorcard, meanwhile…I can write paragraphs upon paragraphs about how much I love his story in Mirror of Fate, but that would pretty much just be me summarizing the whole plot. Suffice it to say, the fucking moment when Alucard reached out for Simon’s face but was too ashamed to actually touch him, my emotions were not okay.

And then, LoS2 happened and he actually gets a character arc that involves him and his father reconciling their relationship! All the violence, angst, and awkwardness comes together with Dracula and Alucard actually learning to live together as a family again. 

Sorry main-timeline CV, but “Dracula gets reincarnated into someone who Alucard remains his usual distant asshole self to and the narrative never dives into the complexities of that potential relationship” has nothing on LoS’s resolution, in my eyes.

#SAME #trevorcard #alucard #trevor belmont #mirror of fate #mof #lords of shadow 2 #los2 #los 2 #lords of shadow #los #castlevania

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#dracula protecting baby trevor is too pure for this sinful earth

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This is my favorite LoS2 screencap because it’s literally “don’t talk to me or my son ever again.”

#trevor belmont #dracul #gabriel belmont #lords of shadow 2 #los2 #los 2 #lords of shadow #los #castlevania

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i feel like tumblr doesnt know about the pain and suffering that is english tap water,,,, girl there are stalagmites inside me

#humor

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whoever is running the sparknotes twitter account needs a raise

#hamlet #william shakespeare #pride & prejudice #romeo and juliet #humor

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Vampire!Sara :"D

#sara trantoul #lament of innocence #loi #castlevania

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

#fandom stuff #humor

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#humor #lgbtq

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i love when people draw 2 characters cuddling and it looks like this

#cute stuff