#99 fandom problems

[99fandomproblems]

Hi Lilah! There hasn't been any canon content for my otp recently. I'm afraid my fandom is slowing down.

Hi, Nonnie!

That can happen with fandoms if there hasn't been canon updates in a while. Fandoms go through lull periods, it's natural. Even fandoms that have had constant canon fodder for a number of years can experience a lull or a change in fandom engagement. It's simply one of those things that happens in life, change happens to everything eventually.

The great thing about fandom is that you can revisit your favourite parts of it! Revisit your favorite era by rereading old fics, reblogging your favourite posts, leave another comment thanking the creators for their work (I can guarantee they'll appreciate it when they see it).

Fandom will always be there for you to enjoy in any capacity you need it. You can rewatch your faves, then open fandom and search for your faves too. Nothing is stopping you from doing that any time you want.

A lull in new fandon content doesn't mean you have to cease in fandom activity or stop engaging with it. I'm sure the creators still making content would love to hear from you.

Perhaps you'd like to make some new content too? Maybe it will inspire other creators as well!

I've seen fandoms of Rarepair ships consist of 1 writer and 1 eager reader. Sometimes that's all you need to enjoy yourselves in fandom!

And older fandoms who haven't had canon content in years or decades still thrive and create, despite slowing down or having lull periods. I've seen them receive a boost again with any new reboot of canon, so there's always that too.

So don't despair, Nonnie, fandoms will carry on! All they need is a few dedicated fans. Fandom will always be there for you. ❣

#99 fandom problems #answered asks #canon #fandom culture #niche fandom #fannish culture #mod lilah

[mxtxfanatic]

Jc stans: Why are jc-antis so obsessed with us? We just stay in our lane 🥺

The main mdzs tag: “Jiang Cheng is the real protagonist (or at least the secondary lead)!” vibes in like 80% of the posts

The main Jiang Cheng tag: fanon, fanon, thirst art, thirst gif set of cql, “Jiang Cheng is the hottest most sexiest single mom in town who everyone wants to fuck and Wei Wuxian should be honored to have been killed by him 😤” posts

The “canon Jiang Cheng” tag created specifically to talk about his canon personality because jc stans didn’t want canon talk in the main tag: “we’re reclaiming the tag for jc!” posts, “why don’t people like jc when he’s so [insert fanon]?” posts, canon followed by jc stans complaining about the canon, more fanon

My fucking For You page despite having been mutually blocked by most large jc stan accounts and exclusively following blogs with canon depictions of him: “isn’t jc so funny??? Isn’t jc the bestest single mother jiujiu ever??? Isn’t jc the greatest brother ever to that ungrateful servant wwx??? Isn’t wwx so mean to jc??? Don’t you think jc is hot??? Who wouldn’t want to fuck jc??? Wouldn’t you???” (and a lonely wangxian art post)

Jc stans: It’s such a mystery why there’s so many people who just don’t like jc or us…

#mdzs #human gripes at fandom #because WHY am i seeing jc stan content on MY page? #NOBODY i follow likes his fanon but yet that’s 99% all i see #and i know it’s because it’s 90% of the fandom #but it’s the rest of us that are the problem somehow #the more something is forced down my throat #the more imma start making this whole damn place uncomfortable #if I can’t get rest y’all can’t either #jiang cheng #canon jiang cheng

[laststandx3]

@stolperzunge, something like this?

Medieval AU 🐎🛡️👑

#but let me tell you the king costume dept was like what if those were people with dark sweaters #like i could make more gifs but edash just looks like some guy with a weird coat #and omg adnag is holding a cup in 99% of the scenes #cornelius hickey #billy gibson #idek how to tag this now that ive seen the scenes in the king that man isn't billy bc he smiled more that once and wider that 3pixel #is that really a billy au if he smiles? and the answer is only if he smiles to hickey #inspired by the roman au by noeavoiding and manicpixiedreamjop #this has been like a domino of influences and that's what fandom is 💞 #anyway everybody say hi to my new laptop that only crashed once. at this point i might be the problem. but maybe no. i mean it's not that #windows actually needs all his 'system' folders. trust me i know it

[catgirl-catboy]

Can people in problematic fandoms ADMIT they are in problematic fandoms, and stop being holier than thou to everyone else.

Like, nothing wrong with liking trash, I am a certified trash enjoyer myself, but know your place.

#this is about sp fans that start fandom wank #like to 99% of the world you are the problem kay #problematic fandoms

[mantisgodsdomain]

Fun fact about us: we really, really like doing crossovers, whether between different Things or just between different AUs of the same Thing. We deeply enjoy throwing things into each other and seeing the relative "normal" interact, tinkering with different potential outcomes of the same general thing, fucking around with culture clash and alternate realities, and all of that fun stuff.

Unfortunately, we also get into flavors of media that isn't quite finished a lot, and we often really want to throw together AUs that we have to write ourself together with things, which means that we're nearly constantly running into the same handful of roadblocks: it's really hard to write about stuff when people have no idea what you're talking about, and it's also really hard to write about stuff when you don't know half of what's going on.

This means that a decent chunk of our writing that is finished tends to stay in drafts - fics based on information that needs to be revealed in stuff we haven't yet written, fics based on media where half of the things we need to know aren't yet revealed in canon, and similar situations easily make up our second most common category of "finished but unpublished" and "finished except for That One Thing" fic (our first most common category is "we need to come up with a decent opening and writing a good hook is hard")

This is, of course, a hell of our own creation. A problem of our own authorship, that we still consistently fail to escape because of our sense of pride and unwillingness to turn out anything that isn't at least half-decent. Similar to the way that we force ourself to reread any media that we write fic of for the sake of accuracy before we can publish it. It makes things take longer, but allows us to ensure quality - though it may hold us back from a certain degree of self-indulgence, mischaracterization is the thing that bothers us most, and if we release a misreading or mischaracterization, that'll haunt us more than any level of soul-baring ever count.

Anyways, all of this is to say that peak self-indulgence for us looks like an isekai Dungeon Meshi/Runaway to the Stars crossover where we stick a handful of characters into the dungeon and let them just kind of cope with that for the forseeable future and the only thing stopping us from doing this is a sense of pride and the fact that Runaway to the Stars doesn't actually have finished & published books right now.

#we speak #writing #no clue if thisll go in the tags for either of those pieces of media. tag search is very inconsistent on that. #if you're looking at this from a fandom tag then hi #this is the same force that keeps 99% of our hbg fic in development hell and the same thing that keeps our multichapters in limbo #if you see us say “we're writing something” and then we don't post it then theres like a 80% chance that its one of three things #either we couldn't make a decent intro we ran into a “need to post this before this” error or we ran into a missing info error #assuming that we didn't get stuck on the reread ofc #sometimes this will also make us into a massive hater because we put large amounts of effort into making things Consistent and Functional #and then we run into authors that Don't do that and we're like “what the hell dude why is your world so sloppy theres holes in here” #the problem is that we unfortunately probably thought it through more than you and now we're in the pit again #anyways. do you guys think that the dungeon could spawn monsters that are edible for talita if she got hungry enough in there #can the dungeon manufacture centaur macromolecules. could talita eat dungeon meat. could the dungeon make centaur safe meatplants #we answer this question in twenty years when rtts is done and published and we can finally write fic for it

[la-muerta]

WIP title tag game

Tagged by @junemermaid! ❤️ Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I'm in the middle of posting two Shadowhunters fics and one RWRB fic at the moment so I'm gonna skip those. These are a few of the fics across a few fandoms that I actually have something to talk about beyond just ✨vibes✨ I guess 😆

Legends Only (Shadowhunters)

Salt & Burn (Shadowhunters)

Paradise Lost (Shadowhunters)

Every Me & Every You (Shadowhunters)

a love like this (莲花楼; Mysterious Lotus Casebook)

who you are is someone who leaves (RWRB)

dirty deeds done dirt cheap (陈情令/魔道祖师; The Untamed/MDZS)

No pressure tagging: @rebelren, @sfjessii, @kasper-tag, @dani-dabbles, @sasamelons, @dragongirlg-fics, @crankyfossil and anyone else who wants to play!

#tag games #wip title tag game #shadowhunters fanfic #rwrb fanfic #cql fanfic #LHL fanfic #fandom life #I have 99 problems and my evergrowing WIP list is all of them

[tasmanianstripes]

Maybe it's the result of my main fandom for the majority of my life being one where canon just genuinely doesn't exist, where there are so many different canons and literally any sort of interpretation of a single character is correct and can range from a moronic maniac with a chainsaw to a depressed old asshole boss, but

Literally who gives a fuck about canon?

Especially when the character is practically a blank slate or if it's an AU

Like, I'm sorry, but if you're butthurt about a mischaracterisation of a fictional character in an Alternative Universe then I don't think you understand what an AU is

#thylacines can talk #Maybe that's the reason I do not have the same violent reaction to mischaracterisation 99% of fandom spaces seems to have #I genuinely think that getting butthurt over somebody not writing a fictional character exactly how they appear in canon is the stupidest #most juvenile pet peeve you could ever have. Literally WHY do you care so much? It's words on a screen. Calm down. #I think it's only a problem when you believe that it's canon or try to shove your own interpretation of a character or AUs onto everybody #else. Otherwise...literally who cares? Somebody else treating characters like dolls is not hurting me. I'm not about to get legitimately #annoyed over fictional characters in a children's cat book. Unless it's like. Bigoted. But then I criticise the person's beliefs not a #goddammed characterisation of a fictional character. #In the fandom I was in most of my life a trigger-happy clown with a chainsaw canon and an old deppressed asshole boss were seen as the same #character and only had like. One design detail in common. And literally nobody batted an eye. You could write a dynamic between two #characters being incredibly hateful and toxic and somebody else could write them as old friends or an old married couple and both of these #interpretations would be equally canon. A single guy could have two wildly different personalities and backstories and he'd still be #treated like the same character as long as the two looked vaguely similar physically wise. Sure there were interpretations of characters #that were more popular than others but literally the only people who would treat one specific interpretation as canon and shove that #interpretation onto everybody else would be people who came from different kinds of fandoms and let me tell you. They were annoying as fuck #So coming from that kind of fandom into more generic mainstream fandoms feels like such a culture shock. Genuinely cannot comprehend why #people care so much. #'oh this character is so far from canon they might as well make an oc' okay...cool...and? #Maybe they don't want to make an oc?? I mean come on. It's fictional characters. You're an adult. It's not a fucking English class #People don't come to fandoms to study book literacy they come here to have fun. Literally WHO CARES if somebody's interpretation of a #character has only name and looks common with the canon version. WHO CARES. ITS WORDS ON THE SCREEN. Who are they hurting if they're just #making AUs in their own corner and not shoving it in anyone's face? #Idk I just see a characterisation I don't agree with and just go oh. Kinda weird but go off. And move on. #This got longer than I meant it to but whatever #I mean if you have that pet peeve but aren't an asshole about it. It's also whatever. That opinion also doesn't hurt anybody. It's only #people who act so butthurt about it and shit on other people having fun that I have a problem with. If you put it on your own blog and #criticise that sort of content in your own space instead of coming to somebody and going 'hey. I don't like what you're doing'. Then I #couldn't care less. Again. That's kinda weird but go off #It's kind of like. I like horror but I dont care if you dont like horror and talk about it in your own space. But I'm gonna care if you #go up to horror fans and go 'hey I think horror sucks' or 'I dont like horror so you shouldn't either'.

[bowl-of-wyrms]

Him 🥰

#I need a Napoleguin plushie #I have 99 problems and a Napoleguin plushie would solve at least like one of them #wizard101 #pirate101 #p101 #kingsisle #pitty101 #wizzy101 #pitty fandom

[hostiae]

this isn't about anyone or anything on my dash/said by mutuals/it's just thoughts bc of some trends i've seen recently that i'm just like ???.

#ooc. // #people talking about “purity culture” make me so uncomfortable #and tbh it seems like a huge red flag #people being icked by sick shit posted on a very public website #is not purity culture #i say this as a horror writer #with a blog filled with disturbing content #pushing the envelope into some depraved shit and acting like everyone else has a problem #reminds me of edgelords in horror fandoms #there is stuff i will never write about #or engage with #and i will block if i see #i don't post callouts #but i will warn my friends if i see a blog that i know would trigger 99% of people #don't be gross and then blame others for being uncomfortable #purity culture is very very different #i'm just #do people even understand what purity culture actually is? #it just feels like a buzzword lately #to pass the blame on the people uncomfortable #and no #just no

[frankthesnek]

Random fanfic thing:

If I open a story in its own tab (not my AO3 tab) it will get read. Today? Tomorrow? In a week? I have had specific fic tabs open for literally weeks and looked at them daily like, bro fucking read that! Nah, don't have the time but I want it RIGHT there for when I do.

#99% of the time it ends up a bookmake whwn i do read it #i just want it ready when i have the cjance to read #i have 2 right now #been there for swveral days #i will read them! #i swear #fic reading #ao3 #fandom #fanfic #reader problems

[99fandomproblems]

There's so many good writers for my otp I feel like my writing isn't good enough to share

Hi, Nonnie!

I'm a little sad you feel this way, because fandom is all about the word you've already said:

Sharing

Of course your writing is worth sharing!

This is what fandom is for, sharing. You never know who out there is dying to read exactly the sort of fic you've written, and you won't know until you share!

If you're shy about sharing fan content, consider using pseuds and Anon features, give yourself some creative freedom! Using a pseud can be so freeing for writers and artists. Space and freedom to create and post what you desire.

I hope you will, Nonnie! Rooting for you ❣

#99 fandom problems #answered asks #pseudonym #fannish culture #fandom #fanfiction writer #fanfiction #mod lilah

[thecapturedafrique]

so can we acknowledge how 90% of the hate alya gets is rooted in racism or are we still pretending that can’t possibly be true since our lead is asian

#ml fandom salt #it’s closer to 99% tbh but i didn’t wanna send folks running to the hills immediately #also ​if you see this as an attack against marinette you are probably part of the problem beloved ❤️

[soubiapologist]

i don't expect any of you to understand the reference but alice cooper. from riverdale. is a little like if a loveless character was really really really fucking funny

#in that she a darkly realistic portrayal of Your Yes Your 🫵🏻 Insane Mom #i have never seen a more.... i don't want to say ''realistic'' because riverdale exists in this like. absurd parody dimension both-- #on purpose and on accident but like. #nothing that EMULATES the FEELING of having a Crazy Mom who has no idea she's crazy #and thinks she's justified in literally everything she does and is just like. a complete fucking controlling nutcase who is making-- #literally everything worse by pretending she doesn't have trauma #of course it's also very silly but rvd also wants you to take it seriously so it's just like having an (AWESOME) aneurysm the entire time #you have to have a very specific sense of humour to enjoy rvd if you like like. #sardonically sitting around watching increasingly absurd things happen to characters you have zero investment in other than laughing at-- #because they just live these deranged lives that are beyond parody and just like bitching at your TV for fun with like a friend then i thin #--you might like it. #like you absolutely cannot get seriously invested in the plot or characters if you want to enjoy it it's hard to explain #but it's also like kind of like loveless in the way that the fandom was originally people doing Shipping and then getting increasingly-- #annoyed when it didn't do what they wanted and dropping off #and in the process missing out on the craziest train derailment of all time just like absolute complete lunatic shit #and it seems like it keeps trying to self flagellate for the first like. half #and in riverdale's case it's REALLY funny and in loveless's case it's really um. scary (affectionate) #also like 99% of the people who watch rvd seem to not understand that it's supposed to be insane and 99% of the people who read loveless-- #miss that it's supposed to be HASHTAG SCARY #like rvd also exists in this weird dimension where you're supposed to think it's funny and they're trying to piss you off on purpose #but they're also trying very hard to like Discuss Social Issues and it end up very funny because they're bad at it but GOD It's so sincere- #while standing next to the campiest insincere shit EVER it's so fucking funny #meanwhile loveless's tone problem is like yun kouga is just a crazy person. #i mean roberto is also a crazy person but yun kouga is like a tortured crazy person. and he's like. the guy who would make glee crazy-- #person. does that make sense. #no one is reading this don't worry about it. smiles.

[majorbaby]

was it a mash take 👀

you betcha

#i've already addressed it here just in a generalized way #because what bothered me about it is a general problem with how people choose to complain about fandom #by framing those complaints as being objective or moral truths rather than what they are: personal opinion #about some mediocre white guy 99% of the time. so why are you bringing bigotry into the picture lol #thinking about it still because if it were a mash-specific difference of opinion it would have barely registered #unfortunately there is no corner of the universe where such nonsense cannot be witnessed

[its-pluto2]

Yes, the Bad Batch are whitewashed.

Yes, the clones in the SW animations are whitewashed.

Yes, the whitewashing should be eliminated.

Yes, the whitewashing is bad.

No, the whitewashing should not be justified or ignored ever.

And yes, if you reblog a gifset of Rex or Cody or Wolffe, you're reblogging a gifset of whitewashed clones voiced by the same white actor.

And yes, if you hate on someone for making content of TBB using original footage and still use the original footage from TCW and/or are okay with the same content with original footage of TCW, there's a bit of a double standard there.

#listen to me #plenty of fans do what's in their power to understand #artists unwhitewash clones in their art #writers unwhitewash clones through their words #and many people have taken it upon themselves to sign petitions and write letters and just understand #but we have got to get over the hypocrisy #you can't police everyone you please and then turn around and still be part of the problem #moral superiority is a dangerous thing #just do what you know is right to not keep these harmful acts and stereotypes #but maybe the fandom should just be so over the whole policing others thing #you're not going to change a true bigot's mind on tumblr and we've seen that before #star wars #the clone wars #the bad batch #bad batch #clone force 99 #tbb

[fredersen]

i feel kind of validated from that post because i may or may not have like minor trauma from a friend group i was in that was exactly what OP was describing

#it feels good to know that it’s not just childish bullshit #i mean it is but it’s also a real problem #i dislike the ‘anti’ approach to fandom but idk if i’d even call myself proship because #why do i need a label for ‘not believing in thought crime & engaging w/media like 99% of people do’ #if anything the phase where i was hypervigilant about problematic media deserves a label