#JUST FOR SOMETHING TO FEED THE FANDOM

[lunamo23]

A Grian cosplay from concept to creation

The initial concept vs final creation

Here are the concepts for the elytra/wings. I really wanted the, to look like a minecraft elytra from the back and then show grians signature wings underneath

Here a a few photos from rushed photoshoot done with the cosplay (in ridiculously hot weather) Can’t wait to get to wear this thing to a con and get some better photos.

I have many more photos of make this cosplay during construction and the actual making of the wings as well as bunch of other weird and wacky photos from the shoot, cause it’s not a grian cosplay if things aren’t slightly unhinged

#my brain is one again hyperfixating on a british minecrafter #the sillies just feed my brain dopamine #someone notice the grain earrings thank you #grian #mcyt #cosplay #grian cosplay #hc #hermitcraft #hermitcraft cosplay #hermitblr #what this? me contributing to this fandom doing something else than art

[statementlou]

Louis might not be chucking bricks at No. 10, but people are responding like he’s never displayed leftist politics or challenged a government position on anything. He supported demands to the government about a fix for UK touring musician post Brexit and Marcus Rashford’s petition about food insecurity. He fought the police about their social media use in 2018 and criticised the UK government position/support for factory workers in the pandemic. The things he speaks about are usually UK issues and meaningful to him or his family and friends. He’s also most likely to speak when he isn’t working. Also that specific anarchy has a punk anti authoritarian message as well. That statement fits Louis pretty well. He has been a poster boy for not sitting down and shutting up and doing what you’re told since 2012. If he was he probably wouldn’t have a solo career and he definitely wouldn’t have sold out the O2.

I like this point about him speaking out more when he's not working, I think that's a really great and useful observation and makes so much sense. I feel like it makes sense in two ways right now: like first, I don't blame him for not wanting to do things that would jeopardize how beautifully everything is going for him right now after the number of setbacks and troubles he's had to get here, it must feel so precarious. And knowing for a fact that any political statement you make will spawn a dozen tabloid stories and all kinds of outrage is bad enough, but add to that the fact that it's simply impossible to predict which thing will turn into a huge viral mess- it's a lot. And second, he's not just working, he's been on TOUR! I've been around musicians my whole life and one constant is that tour is time outside of normal time and life, it's a bubble, it's only paying attention to right where you are and what's in front of you and the people there with you and everything else is put off and neglected, is for when you get home (and have massive post tour letdown depression and fatigue). I'm not saying he can disconnect with the outside world entirely... but putting everything on pause? I would be surprised if it were any other way, and I would be surprised if he's been following the news and counter news and so forth closely enough to feel comfortable speaking out publicly about anything when it will be so scrutinized and picked apart. I would add to your list supporting the rail strike (something we wouldn't even know about if it hadn't been tossed in as an aside by an interviewer in the print only version of a piece, he didn't post about it or anything) and attending and posting about the BLM protests (not to mention telling people to pirate his stuff come on how punk is that), and I agree he is much more likely to speak out about UK issues which makes sense: most people are most moved by issues that are close to their lives in some way, and it's his brand. And I agree that even though as an anarchist I love talking about what anarchism as a political ideology actually is, the symbol does also have a common meaning in the world as just basically standing for anti-authoritarianism, and Louis as a guy who rejects authority and the status quo is nothing new at all and one of the reasons we love him, and in the last few years I feel like he's been going further in that direction both aesthetically and politically, and we love to see it! Plus he has pretty much always sported this slightly punky aesthetic to some degree, even when he was being dressed up like a little ken doll he snuck in skater looks and indie band tees and so forth (something something it's part of why his fanbase was so primed to love his new sound and it wasn't the risk he feared it was because people were always drawn to him who were already into that aesthetic even when his sound wasn't that yet) it's not like it's just a brand new out of nowhere side of him or something.

#I'm not sure I would include the food petition on the list- I realize the bar is so fucking low #that supporting charities that feed children is considered political #but charity stuff is a different category for me... although rashford's specifically was #basically formed as a loud way of criticizing the govt for not doing more and explicitly linked to that... so yeah nm maybe that does fit i #even though its a charity org #I have actually been thinking s lot about how his footy fandom would be such a good way for him to sneak in some palestine support #he could just like a post by a player you know? instead of saying something #and it would still be a risk and a statement... but also one that could slide in like listen #I like posts by football players every day what? #or even jsut one about it being fucked up that so and so got fired by their club for making statements #so many layers of remove that could be ustilized #anarchism #comrade louis #blah blah blah #PS note for non brits (not that I am) number 10 refers to number 10 downing st the england equivalent of the white house basically so like #the government

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Junicrane/Starstruck Ramble

I will not be brief, all under the cut

To clear some things right off the bat:

No corpse, no proof with Juniper. Obligatory this is set in a canon where he's alive and adjacent to the agency in some way.

Reggie & Juniper are just gay to me, but I don't mind any interpretation of their sexuality

The games are set in 1967/68 to me (based on a couple bits in game) which is before it was legal to be gay in America at least (1971), which is relevant to how I interpret canon as being somewhat grounded in reality, despite unrealistic elements.

This is just an insane amount of headcanons/elements of and AU all culminated into one post. I will talk about some headcanons like they're just facts because they are established in my head, and it saves me over explaining literally everything, however I will explain some parts a little bit for clarity.

Alright. Actual beginning of the ramble:

Juniper is a character to me who had gotten so lost in his job as an actor and a social presence that in the end his whole life revolved around that 'role'. Because of this, by the time he's put into the situation where he's around the Agency, he basically knows nothing about himself, though he doesn't realise at first. Furthermore, what little identity he had has changed in so many ways. He's no longer a beloved famous actor in the prominence of public light, he's legally dead and he tarnished his career just before he was supposed to die, with the bonus of that making him lose the majority of his estate. From that, he also has horrific facial scarring from the electrical burns from literally having his face fried. I believe a friend of mine made a post about this a while ago (I also think they were the first to think it up also), but, to me, Juniper has a permanent trimmer in his right arm (aka his dominant hand) from the electrical current and it is messing with his nervous system.

All in all, he's not doing great, but he's too proud to admit that he's not doing great, because if anything, what's left of his ego is all he has as a defense since he's deep in unfamiliar water.

Before ending up around the agency (I have multiple interpretations of this, so I'm just going to bring it up generally), he'd never actually seen Reggie, and his only impression of him is a single voicemail, which was his only reference he had to later impersonate him. Juniper probably has very little feelings other than the ones he projects onto him because of Phoenix and that, at the very least, he's physically attracted to Reggie to some degree (that's like the beginning of how everything else would tumble into place in this sort of interpretation at least).

And on Crane's side? His feelings towards Juniper are probably very intense and muddled. On the one hand, he adores musical theatre, and that's his now ex-favourite actor. The thought of just casually being around him blows the bit of fanboy in him away at first because THAT'S the GUY, plus the inklings of a celebrity crush which still poke at him. And then there's the rational side of him, which knows Juniper has committed absolute atrocities on the side of Zoraxis, and hates him for that. Then there's how much Juniper comes off as an asshole at first because he refuses to cooperate with anything the Agency tried to put in place. He finds Juniper endlessly frustrating, and yet he's stuck working with him since, afterall, he's the one who knows the Agency's history with Juniper the best. I imagine him acting a lot like how he does IEYTD 1 around Juniper.

At this point, I'm just describing the pitch for a romcom.

I think the start of their relationship with one another largely started with Juniper trying to wind Crane up. It was a way of getting his attention, and I don't think Juniper knows why he's so dead set on that at first, because I don't think he realises he has a crush on 'this grump' at first. (I think that's actually the fun part about these two, because it's almost like a role reversal of the celebrity crush dynamic. This ex-big name actor has a TERRIBLE crush on an average joe and it is KILLING HIM.) But of course the Agency keeps them together because Juniper is at least conversing with Crane, so it's a start.

Through one way or another, they actually get talking casually, at least mildly at first. It takes Juniper a long time to fully deconstruct the wall he's built, and the thing is, Crane isn't the one trying to deconstruct it, at least at first, because yeah, Juniper realises if he wants Reggie to actually like him in any way, he can't keep winding him up. So they talk. Small talk at first, something rhythmic and almost easy to keep to a script. And over time that turns into actual conversations. Genuine ones in which Reggie rips out the occasional one of his jokes which Juniper is endlessly endeared about. The way he smiles just before he makes them, like he wants to chuckle at what he's about to say before he says it. That's probably when Juniper realised that he does have some vague crush on him, and that it wasn't going away.

This is what kickstarts John I can't-buy-you-things-to-impress-you-so-acts-of-service-it-is Juniper to do little things for him. It mostly starts off as him trying to make Reggie his tea how he likes it. However, the nerve damage in his arm makes that hard, as the weight of the kettle and trying to pour is hard all of a sudden. And he refuses to accept that, so he tries for a very long while. Long enough that Crane would go to investigate what was going on. And when he does see Juniper leaning over a cup with the kettle as he uneasily tries to pour it, and when Crane asks Juniper responds so matter-of-fact that his intention is nothing but genuine. And it catches Reggie off guard because Juniper hadn't done anything like that up to that point, and his very apparent vulnerability is so clearly on show.

It shifts something between them.

From that point on, conversations are longer, more familiar. Both of their attitudes soften, and Reggie makes more jokes. Juniper learns how to better use his left hand while strengthening his right back to a point where it could be used again. Slowly, they're both spending time with one another not because they have to, but just because they can. Little bits at first, not too far outside what they already were doing, but those little bits turned into long bits to a point where the other person's company was genuinely desirable.

As time passes, Juniper probably realises that he doesn't genuinely know much about himself or what hobbies he's into, because he never really had the time when he got big, and his home life in his youth wasn't bad, but it wasn't picturesque. I think Reggie would pick up on it, and absolutely try to introduce him to some things he's into. Some things stick, other things don't (corn husking very much stays Reggie's passion, and John will go with him sometimes because it's him, but it's not something he strongly cares for). Crane introduces him to a lot of music, and it's something that becomes a staple between them, with tracks they listen to more than others (tragically, I know relatively little about 60s music so I couldn't really say what). Occasionally they dance, never anything intense, think slow dancing, but the closeness is nice.

Through all of it, Juniper is battling the worst crush of his life, and he can't stand it, because I think he struggles to read people since he doesn't have anything like a script or a director to refer back to, so he has no idea if Reggie likes him back or if he's just desperate for that to be true. I think because of that any sort of confession between them would be incredibly raw, not only because of the time they live in making it hard for them to be truthful about how they love, but because it's a complete show of Juniper who's worked to be this better person. I don't exactly know how that would go, mainly because I don't have one set version of their dynamic, this post is just a generalisation of main consistent points.

Reggie does like him back, because he's gotten used to Juniper being just this guy, not a figure in the public eye, not a Zoraxis lackey, and not any sort of Agency operative (despite being under their care to some degree). He's someone he genuinely cares for, because they've given one another the time of day to learn one another, and I think because Reggie was a field agent, he was a lot better at reading Juniper than Juniper was at reading him. Eventually Juniper's company becomes something he could see around him for the rest of his life, and I think he accepts that he likes Juniper a lot more gracefully.

I think any affection directed at Juniper would at first be met with him feeling a little muddled. Reggie was a very physically affectionate person when he could be, and sure the initial flirting with one another came with the occasional little touches, but everything now was so deeply intentional. I also don't think Juniper would almost ever get over the novelty of being able to kiss him, or many other gestures, because it made the fact that they were together so very real, and it was great. I do think it comes easier to Reggie, and it's a big way of showing how much he cares, so it's important for Juniper to try and show it back because he knows how much it means to the other.

I like the idea of them eventually living with one another, too. I think Juniper would have always had a quiet little daydream of sorts where he does just live a domestic quiet life, and he can with Reggie (well, as close as they can get between the Agency and Zoraxis always being at odds), and he loves that, and he loves him, and it's immense.

I think they cook for one another a lot, it helps Juniper work on his dexterity in a controlled environment, which means a lot because it's a huge point of insecurity (that and his scars). He does improve, and Crane is proud of that and shows it and it's great. I also think they'd probably cook together too, because they can deal with being in the kitchen together and they work well with one another. It's probably a good way for them to unwind because over time they can do it in relative silence.

As I said before, I also think music is a staple in their household, and that Reggie listens to things on vinyl almost all of the time because he likes the background noise. Sometimes Juniper will catch him chuntering along to the music which he finds endlessly endearing. I wouldn't put it past his dramatic ass to also join in to fluster Reggie, but I also don't think Reggie would mind that terribly because Juniper has listened to the music enough to know the lyrics, and that's huge to him.

I don't think they are without rough patches, no relationship is, but I think the good part about them is that they're willing to talk about it (... eventually). They're used to long conversations, and while they're often less fun conversations, they're needed and they know that, and it works out.

Alright. I think I'm done for now. I haven't mentioned everything, but this definitely got the worst of it out of my system. If you ever want to hear any specific thoughts my ask box is open but other than that, behold my general dynamic for these two which has been festering in my head for years. I think they're great

#ty right-agent for explicitly telling me that this would be welcomed you a real one #i had a massive babble to my friend abt what if they all feed me to the hounds for speaking #and he said “girl that fandom is like 12 people big they need you to speak” and yeah that also helped #i have a hard time talking if I'm not asked/prompted to that's why i adding tags is great for me. that and i like the format #anyways. #THESE TWO.............dear lord can you tell I have been unwell abt them forever.. #this is propeganda (/j) for them. btw. please you have to understand the potential here. it's so good. #it's slowburn <- my (probably) demiromantic ass cannot handle romance without a build up and this set up is perfect (it will never happen) #also i find it easier to write ANYTHING between these two from Juniper's perspective because i find it easier to get into his head #idk reggie is like the gay version of the: what is he thinking of? i could take a bear in a fight. audio ive heard. #whereas with juniper i have him trapped under a microscope #im going to tag this now so i can use the remaining tags to RANT #ieytd #john juniper #reginald crane #junicrane #starstruck #i expect you to die #<- being BRAVE!!! #when I get really excited i start getting like this internal shaking feeling and uh. yeah this rant started that #the worst part abt that is it also triggers my tourettes so like. double whammy. excited about blorbos? jail :( #but. yeah I uh. yeah. sorry this IS so long..I did warn but . AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHAUUUUUUAHHHHHHHHHHHHH #also i did this rant in 2 parts. last night and this morning so yeah uh. yeah. #god im so messed up about these two #make me a boat by the family crest came on while wroting this and while it's mainly a roxanix song to me......AUUUUUG..... #i struggle to find music for these sillies because they have such a specific vibe to me amd I've not quite managed to find something which - #- genuinely feels correct for them and it drives me up the WALL #GOD NIGHT SHIFT JUST CAME OF SHUFFL.....all my ieytd songs are coming out to drive me up the wall....... #FINISHED I've been adding tags as I've gone alonga #thank you for reading hope you enoyed and if you didn't im sorry

[theluckiestrose]

Silksong needs to happen soon if only for this guys sake

They are Sufferingggg

#hollow knight #silksong #i have no idea who skurry is they just came up on my feed randomly #i mean. just look at this shit #dude modded out the art assets so he could play hk differently just one more time #fknnnnnnn wild man the core hk fandom is desperate rn give em something

[evilkitten3]

the hardest part of reading naruto fanfic is frankly not sorting through all the stuff i don't care about or trying to ignore awful characterization. it's trying to survive the attempts at japanese. why couldn't my special interest have been in literally any other language.

he would not fucking say that. he would not fucking conjugate verbs like that. he would not use that honorific for that person. that one isn't even an honorific at all. you're killing me

#personal #vent post #naruto #naruto shippuden #fandom crit #google translate is not your friend. just write english in italics or something i promise you it will serve you better #like ok i'm obsessed with language and other people aren't i get it but. come on #i feel like that comic about people overestimating what people outside their field know #''surely everyone knows that figures of speech vary by language. ofc everyone understands the differences in sentence structures'' #''clearly the cultural differences that even i struggle to comprehend will be properly interpreted by people who don't share my interest'' #i love language. i hate language. i'm going to feed myself to whatever lives at the bottom of the ocean #it gets worse the older the fic is too

[spacebar2]

So you're telling me

3,000 PLUS people saw my post and went "yeah that's pretty funny I'd reblog that"

Then got put on a hermitcraft archive thing???

Amiga....

#Not saying it's bad I just think it's funny lol #Also its funny that I've been claimed by the hermitcraft community twice I think? #I don't even watch hermitcraft yet my feed always has some desert duo art going on lol #That or something about cactus #You guys get really sad over cactus #Meanwhile us dsmp fans weep over discs and the song hallelujah #It's funny how the two fandoms are so different yet so similar lol #Btw the art is amazing:D I love seeing it on my feed I feel like a parent looking at my child's incredibly good art #Mhm yes I see the mustache man and the cowboy and the zombie girl looks incredible!! Keep going you funky dude #Space's ramblings ig #hermitcraft

[craycraybluejay]

i think we should collectively mock people who think putting a prompt into a computer is creative expression let alone art

#anti ai #ai 'art' #look. if you're useless at creative fields and have no inspiration then maybe thats not for you? #maybe yoy should try something else? #if you genuinely cannot come up with an idea you care about enough to make then dont???? #no ones holding you at gunpoint forcing you to be a cool and quirky tortured artist #you're not in middle school any more the artsy kids no longer need you to put yourself in their group #you can just like.. do something you have real passion for that you're good at??? #its like trying to be a doctor when you really want to be a chef but more pathetic #being an artist isnt a lucrative job like medicine #literally either put in the work or stop pretending #literal corpses are more creative than you just accept it #why the fuck would you steal from real creatives to feed the capitalist machine #just to claim youre sooo creative just like ur cool fandom writers fr #stop. write something or dont but dont do this to the writers you claim to respect. you are stealing and plagiarizing and #shitting all over peoples passion

[aysepuramu]

Honestly congratulations to y'all that have been in DBH fandom for YEARS. The headcanons drama get very annoying over time like, I've always been in fandoms but I never saw people literally bashing on each other's hcs like that instead of just completely avoid discussing about something they don't like. I mean it's ok to discuss PACIFICALLY, but it's literally a hc war at this point. I think it's so cool how some fandoms can simply ignore each other's hcs and enjoy whatever without accusing people of shit because of a certain hc (example: in DBH I've seen some accusing people who see Connor and Hank's relationship as family to be homophic and ageist and others accusing people who see their relationship as romantic of being pedophiles pro-incest.) Does anybody that have been in the fandom for more than half a year has a tip of how to keep at least half your sanity in this fandom by maybe, not scrumbling across hc war? I don't have the patience to block half the fandom like some people do lol. I simply don't want to let this ruin the experience for me by making me insane. No, I'm not willing to leave the fandom because I'm obsessed with this game, I've just been in tons of fandoms in my life and none were like this. 🫠

#detroit become human #dbh #im going insane does anyone want anything #just talking about something thats bothering me a little in the lastest 2 months #no fr how do you guys manage it #im currently working on more fanart dw there will be more art #its just #i needed to put that off my chest #nothing personal its just that im a chill person #i dont like drama cuz it gives me anxiety #but drama seems to like showing up on my feed huh #im just a poor lil brazilian artist #intakavel o dbh fandom #hashtag

[vse-kar-vem]

me on the bokris ao3 tag obsessively refreshing while everyone else is on damon's instagram 💔💔

#vee rambles #HOPE HE DROPS SOMETHING!!!!!! JAN !!!!!! JURE !!!!!!! NACE !!!!! im sorry for beinng so cynical about it earlier this mornkng im excited now #also the sad lack of bojan pictures throughout the day ☹️ hes alr gotten bored of giving us heart attacks #anyways #vee vse-kar-vem! you might ask. why are you in bed at only 11 uk time ? #dearest follower. i would reply. i have come down with a bad case of the shivers and stomach pain and hip pain and joint pain. this is what #being a joker out fan does to a girl... 😞😞 my youth my vitality all stripped away to feed the joker out fandom machine 😞😞 (joke) #anyways thank you everyone love you guys (no reason just wanted to talk about how amazingly talented and clever all the people in this #fandom are 🥺 i could literally never uou all make running this tumblr blog worth it for me #and kris .... after yesterday ..... count ur days

[benevolentcannibal]

clears throat watching wci i've been thinking. what if sanji is a bitch to zoro because: he reminds him of his brothers.

sanji isn't bitchy to the rest of the male crew but it almost pains him to be nice to zoro. now, zoro is a very chill dude and doesn't have static with anyone but sanji (which sanji escalates tbh) . sure this could be played as a joke but oda is good and wouldn't come out and have sanji say that.

on top of that zoro is also very very far from how his actual brothers are and that could piss sanji off more. zoro is physically stronger than sanji, masculine, ribs him about cooking and skirt chasing but he doesn't mean any harm.

It's very interesting seeing this play out without zoro there because his job is the crews protector and that includes sanji. gestures to thriller bark

#this isn't a zosan post dni (jk) unless #seriously this ain't a zosan and i'd need to see how sanji acts post wci because i keep seeing that something happens in the manga so #cannibal speaks #tbh i like pudding and sanji alot cause they are both just odd balls and it's so funny seeing them interact #i don't really like talking about fandom meta because i'm not about to spoon feed ppl screenshots cause i'm almost 30 #literally analysis is fun and i've always been good at it

[halforcdad]

Regarding your post on fandom and Yas, it's definitely weird and honestly concerning how intense they can be. I'm new to the fandom and honestly find it very hard to participate in it, because people on twt can be so Intense™ sometimes but there's almost never new content on Tumblr unless there's a new ep and even then it's really just gifs and not like...conversation. So sometimes when I'm in need of new content I go on twt and see some very aggressive fans and I...go back to tumblr and look through my own reblogged Kacy post lmao I just want to talk to Kacy fans why is it so hard

twitter is a wild, wild place, but i agree that it definitely is livelier there than here. i feel like it definitely attracts more of the louder, younger fandom, because half the people ik here are too busy with their jobs/grad school to even watch the episode within the first week of airing let alone post nearly that much (though theyve got a lot of older adults there too tbh, who are arguably more intense than the younger fans). i only use it casually to watch edits and see bts stuff and i still get overwhelmed and leave pretty quickly.

tumblr was def more active when s1 was airing and the kacy angst was at peak capacity, but lucy being absent and the lack of a significant kacy plot this season is probably what's contributing to the lack of conversation unfortunately. it will probably pick up though when new episodes start airing again next month so youll be able to strike then!

a lot of those gifmakers have a lot to say if you message them! and idk if you read fic at all, but all the writers for ncis: h ive interacted with/messaged on here/twitter are very cool and more than happy to talk about kacy!

if im remembering correctly, there are a few kacy discords floating around here that im sure you could jump in as well if you ask about them

if all else fails you just gotta keep making posts in the tag and scream until someone hears you! LOL

#asks #i wish i had smth better to say but it really is just that you gotta send asks/message people first im sorry LOL #none of my friends watch the show but i still talk about it and force feed it to them and they indulge me LOL #im sorry its hard i feel like fandom always is but hey you sent me an ask so youre already doing it #sometimes you gotta find whos posting the most about something and message them and theyll almost definitely respond #and as always curate the hell out of your experience find a few good people and hunker down and ignore the more intense crowd #there are a lot of fun and very smart people here!

[deathtodickens]

Haven’t been drawing Bering and Wells because I’ve been fighting for my dispatchers lives.

Sent this to my lieutenant since our dispatch has been sprayed twice and still being attacked by mosquitoes.

Actual quotes from my dispatchers. No need for dramatizations. They are the most dramatic. And I applaud them. Because one day I will write a show definitely not loosely based on them. And any likenesses to persons real or imagined will be purely coincidental.

#dickens draws #I do have Bering and Wells drawings in the backlog I just haven’t been motivated to post them #like I get very annoyed when I cannot write something to accompany the drawings #and I could just post them but no #I shan’t #I refuse #I wish to draw and then write and then post and then bask #because that is more entertaining for my future self #like a few years from now when I’m in my own feed reminiscing on how I used to draw a few years before #the problem for me is that I have been getting self conscious about the subject and so not posting #which is wild when I should just be drawing for myself and those of you who continue to put up with me and relish in this fandom #no one else #oh but also there’s ages so #I guess I’m not being as neglectful as I thought #teehee

[u-hobbs]

weird, the moment I felt that first kill was quite a powerhouse was not because people keep posting netflix charts, but when ALL of the tumblr blogs I follow, moots and not, post something related to first kill...

Its like avengers endgame but for wlws in tumblr

#first kill #m.txt #like literally im not exaggerating #and im not complaining #im just astonished jeez #normally i see at least 3 fandoms in my feed #but now its all first kill #and two popular iconic blogs changing their url to something related to fk??

[light-lanterne]

hmm, wonder why people are unfollowing me lately

#🌙 #🧸 #have they just moved on from the fandom ? or did i do something ? #i don't typically pay much attention to this stuff but someone said something about it the other day and now i see it #will do my best not to let this feed my anxiety >.<

[redlikelove]

sometimes I'll just see the tip of a drama iceberg passing for a fandom I'm not in where people just complaining about this subgroup of fans who are Doing Things Wrong and I'll go "glad I'm not there but even so maybe we just need to apply more judicious self content regulation?"

#blocking is free! I love doing it for the slightest things #I just use it as a ''get these posts out of my sight'' button at the drop of a hat #If i have a bad encounter the rare times I go out into wider fandom of the things I love #I just Don't Go Back There. frankly I dislike engaging with wider fandom in general #fandom for me is me and my group of friends' Correct Opinions. #at that point if someone does something Funny™ you can just... talk about it civilly? #that's another thing I feel like we could give a try more often but we don't want to have that conversation! #stop talking Red #on reflection ''we don't want to have that conversation'' feeds into that so revision: #it seems a wider trend is to immediately condemn anyone with an opposing opinion without giving them the space to grow from that opinion. #I do not like that and wish we could work towards a better place of understanding! #not ''tone policing.'' just asking to show a little more compassion for the human on the other side of the screen #EDIT: this was about Dragon Age stuff lmao #I have since taken my own advice and blocked those involved!

[hella1975]

I'm watching the hunger games with people who's opinions I don't agree with HELP they literally don't get the implications of children murdering eachother like I do

(hella I've been reminded of you all day lol this is my 2nd ask about my day kfmsks)

that's genuinely so sweet i dont think you realise how much i appreciate things like this

oh bleugh i hate it when people just dont get a piece of media and ur just kinda sat there trying not to rant like 'you're all missing the fucking POINT'

#and the hunger games too? id be furious #something similar happened to me recently #okay so im very ashamed by this considering the fuss i kicked up about it but i CANNOT resist a show with dragons in it #so i eventually pirated all of house of the dragon and low and behold #youd have some of the most detailed worldbuilding ever and beautiful dragons and a ginormous budget for a fantasty world #and youd be enjoying it and then BOOM violence against women for literally no reason #it bugs the fuckkkk out of me but at least hotd has HUGE wlw undertones and the two main characters are actually women #and are COMPLEX? im not giving any compliments for this bc it's just not good enough but still it wasnt as awful as it has been #(*Looks at game of thrones*) #AND ANYWAY there's this woman in it called alicent hightower when i tell you i will defend her with my LIFE #and it's the typical 'female character made strong due to the trauma inflicted upon her by men' #and she is literally torn from her closest female friendship (love interest?) BECAUSE of men #and it becomes the ENTIRE FUCKING PLOT OF THE SHOW god it bugs me anyway #and it's made me superrrrrrrr protective of her bc not only do i adore her but she deserves so much better #like she's supposed to be the villain and the fandom are so thick that they treat her that way but im just like alicent get behind me #AND MY SISTER SAID SHE HATES HER #LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SHOW AND MY SISTER JUST OUTRIGHT SAID SHE HATES ALICENT #I WAS LIKE NO YOU STUPID BITCH THIS IS WHAT THE MEN WANT ARE YOU JOKING YOU'RE FEEDING INTO IT #and i didnt know how to EXPLAIN to her why she was so wrong so im just there like why am i always right about everything #and everyone else is always so stupid why why why god im not you're strongest soldier #so yeah <3 #ask