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pratktcven · 6 years

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Hi! I have currently fallen into the world that is Shance and Voltron and all the ships because they're all so wonderful sweet and make my heart feel so warm??? But I'm worried because I've seen how mean fans within the fandom can be and I have all these ideas to write but I'm horrified to share them due to the amount of hate that people get for simply loving something that makes them happy. I'm just...a bit scared, I think. I'd love to write and share headcanons but aaah!

First and foremost, welcome to the fandom! Voltron is an amazing show with amazing characters and an engaging plot, and it’s great to interact with other people who love it. I’m very biased, but Shance is a great ship, and there are a lot of wonderful people in the community.

That said, I understand your reluctance. Ship hate and those who disagree with your views can be difficult to deal with. Luckily, I am a seasoned fandom veteran with over 15 years of experience under my belt, and I’ll let you know what works most for me.

01) The block function is your best friend. Blocking someone isn’t mean or uncalled for, and you don’t have to justify why you do it. Personally, I block for antis and annoyances. Seriously. If I’m in a general tag, and I don’t like what someone is saying? I block them. It doesn’t have to be outright vitriol; if you get a bad vibe, you get a bad vibe. Block them and save yourself a headache.

02) Don’t be afraid to unfollow. There’s this weird stigma against unfollowing on this site that I don’t get. People change. Their interests change. Their opinions change. Blogs reflect that. If it’s a change you don’t like, why clog your dash? Unfollow them.

03) Be yourself. This might seem like a weird one, but it’s true. Like what you like. Be passionate about what you’re passionate about. Don’t let other people dictate what you enjoy or how you enjoy it. I have... a lot of stories about how other fans have tried to tell me how to like a ship or how to interpret a moment in a show. Sometimes this pressure is direct, but a lot of times it isn’t.

04) Create what you want. This relates to the above, but it bears clarification. I’ve written things that some people don’t like. Scratch that. I’ve written a lot of things people don’t like. Sometimes I get hate and—I won’t lie—I get mad. But you know what? No one—absolutely no one—has ever been brave enough to do it off anon. The support I get from fandom in general is amazing and those are the opinions that matter.

05) Clapback, but don’t get into a fight. This is something I do to help control hate. When I get a message or comment that’s rude or uncalled for, I address the issues presented, post it, and leave it. This helps me process my emotions about the issue and gives my blog transparency. Sometimes, other people will comment, either supporting me or the anon, or the anon will try to goad me into a fight. But the important part is to leave it alone. This is the hardest part for me. I’m naturally confrontational, and immensely stubborn, and all I really want to do when I get hate is rip someone to verbal shreds. Instead, I keep those following rants personal. I... have somehow developed a ‘Don’t fuck with me’ reputation on my main and my writing blog which... fair.

06) Turn off anon. I cannot recommend this enough. If you’re getting a slew of hate, chances are it’s one person. I’ve personally never had to do this for an entire platform; hell, I’ve never had to do it for tumblr, either. I did have to disable anonymous commenting on a single story on AO3 several months ago but! This is the first time in fifteen years that I’ve had to do something that drastic. And I only did it because they were starting to harass other readers.

07) If you disagree, be respectful. Literally what it says on the tin. There have been times when I’ve read a headcanon and said, “Oh, wow, that is totally out of character, what show have you been watching?” or read a story that had an unnecessary plot twist or went on for forever and rehashed the same conflict five times. But that’s the thing about fandom: my interpretations are my perceptions, and while I believe them to be more right than someone else’s interpretations, this does not make them true. So I say nothing and move on with my life. Or I talk about it privately if I can’t let it go without comment.

08) Make like-minded friends. This is probably the hardest thing to do, but it’s super worth it. One of my closest friends is a fandom friend I met 8 or 9 years ago . (Holy shit, @faorism, can you believe it’s been that long?) Don’t be afraid to start conversations with people and don’t be afraid to leave them, either. Sometimes people just don’t click. Also, how many friends you have, and to what degree, is entirely up to you. I honestly only talk to one person semi-regularly about voltron—@kitausu is a gem for putting up with me, honestly—but I am super busy irl and tend to have my head in the clouds. Everyone else I’ve interacted with has been nothing but a sweetheart.

In general, I think that fandom is a positive and exciting place, but ultimately, it boils down to this: your experience is your responsibility. Don’t worry about what other people think or say. Don’t go looking for hate but don’t ignore it, either. Post the stories you’ve written and the headcanons you have. Personally, I’m super excited to see what you’ve created. ♥

#i made this post public but let me know if you don't like that #savedbythenotepad #asks #cal speaks

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sergeant-angels-trashcan · 6 years

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hey look here is a star wars post with spoilers so don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie yet

oh man ok so SO MUCH happened in this movie

there was at least two movies worth of plot here

so let’s start with the good:

the cast. freakin phenomenal. they all have great chemistry together. also, is it actually getting more diverse by the second??? who knows

space husbands being cute. also, Poe, are you the one who repaired the back of your Finn’s jacket. who did that.

members of the resistance died, and it was important. they mattered. a lot of times in movies like this, it’s easy to be like “oh yah a side character died whatever” but I think the last jedi did a good job of preventing us from doing that

creatures! lots of cool new creatures

luke. crotchety old man luke skywalker just wants you to get off his damn lawn, Rey.

Leia fucking jedi-ing herself back into the ship, I will FIGHT YOU. Force sensitive Leia. I honestly thought this was going to be The Moment we got that headcanon that’s been floating around that Leia’s force sensitivity manifests as literally no one being able to hit her when they shoot. It wasn’t, but this was pretty damn cool.

fight scenes!!! they were dope, okay. the one with Rey and Kylo??? that was awesome. And one-liner Finn putting the beatdown on Phasma “you’re scum” “yea REBEL SCUM” my HEART

yeah you know what Rey and Kylo outsmarting Snoke and then Snoke’s guards. they trusted each other for like five whole minutes!! fought back to back, it was badass. imagine what a team they would have made had not luke and kylo and snoke fucked things up

Leia Organa and her reckless flyboy son Poe Dameron. literally everything about their interactions just said “this is Leia’s actual son and heir” sometimes space mom has to get mean and punish you but it doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you (also, sidebar, I would love to hear Oscar Isaac’s take on working with Carrie Fisher in this movie since they had a lot of interactions)

Rey offering KyloBen a chance at redemption. Him rejecting it. All these characters realizing that if he doesn’t want redemption then he doesn’t get it.

Poe and Rey!!! Meeting at the very end!!! Space husband, meet space wife. Our mutual space husband may have found another space wife, so there’s that.

Rose and Finn having the biggest kindest hearts

yoda’s sass still going strong.

Luke astral projecting himself to the resistance so he didn’t have to actually interact with other beings and then vanishing into the ether after dealing with his problematic relation because fucking same dude

basically, if you cracked the plot apart and look at each individual story arc, there’s lot of solid, feel good stuff there.

the bad:

there was so much plot and then subplots to those plots. each plot had like, two subplots, so even if you break it down to Rey’s story and the Resistance's story...

The Resistance storyline has two miniarcs in it--Poe doing what he can on the ship, and Finn and Rose trying to find a way to sneak on to the Resistance ship

I feel kind of like Poe’s story was supposed to get us to like him, love him, hate him, and then love him again. His entire story arc is predicated on the fact that he doesn’t follow orders. If he’d just sat tight, followed orders, Finn and Rose wouldn’t have had to go do their thing...I liked their thing, but I think it was just predicated on a flimsy plot device. The reason could have been stronger. I appreciate that commander Laura Dern wasn’t incompetent, but this made Poe seem more unsympathetic to me.

honestly i just felt like there was a lot of lost potential and baiting that happened? I felt like the force-sensitive Leia thing could have been explored more--force sensitivity in general. There were at least two separate occasions where I was sure we were going to get a “use the Force, Luke” moment, one with Poe and one with Finn. I was SO READY for Force-sensitive Poe, aiming mechanism down, making the shot anyway. Finn’s moment was interrupted by Rose saving him, so that was okay.

Rey’s parents. REY’S. FUCKING. PARENTS. You know what, Kylo Ren? I don’t believe you. You are not a trustworthy source of information. I am just SO STEAMED AT THIS. There was a buildup to the reveal. This is how Snoke was going to get to Rey. This is the main thing Rey wants to know. If Rey’s parents were junkers who abandoned her, I would have liked a flashback. The fact that we didn’t, and that Kylo is the only one who tells her anything, makes me think this was kind of a cop out in case there’s blowback about it (or, if you want to be nice, that they’re saving it for later??). There were just so many moment where it seemed like we were on the cusp of finding out--Yoda talking to Luke, Luke talking about the students Kylo took with him (and wtf why didn’t we find out more about that??). Snoke talking about the heir of Darth Vader, where i was fully prepared for him to say that it was Rey. Snoke is fully capable and willing, I’m sure, to upsell Rey’s parents to try and get her to come over to his side, but he seemed to care a little much for them to be nobodies. “You were nobody, but now you can become somebody” seems more likely to be Snoke’s hard sell in that situation

And then the “you’re not here but I can talk to you/sense you/connect with you physically” device--used by Luke and Leia, Luke and Kylo, (maybe Leia and Kylo?) and Kylo and Rey. Look at those groupings. Those first two have something in common, don’t they? They’re related. This is a device that is used primarily by people who are blood relations. Could this be a coincidence, or more likely something nobody cared about? Absolutely. If it wasn’t on purpose, I’m pissed. That’s super obvious.

And then when Kylo and Rey fought together!! Skywalkers!!! Together!! Why won’t you let me have this???

Like, okay, I get I’m very invested in rey as a skywalker. I understand the idea of having her be a nobody. That the leaders of the resistance are all nobody in particular, but will become legends in their own right. if that is the case, though, I feel like the movie went out of its way to give us long pauses and important parallels that feel a lot like baiting.

Going along with this, assuming Kylo Ren wasn’t lying: I could see how Kylo/Rey shippers can get a lot of fodder from this movie. I was pretty sure that was where we were heading until 1.) Poe looked at Rey with some big ol’ hearts in his eyes and 2.) we saw Luke and Leia interact in a very similar fashion as Kylo and Rey. This was one of those there-but-not devices and involved exactly the same hand touching. we got a closeup of it. we were supposed to draw parallels, I’m just not sure which ones. drawing attention to two different male-female pairs and having them physically interact in the same way but then assuming that one is supposed to be siblings and the other potentially romantic seems...weird.

and lastly, when yoda burns down the tree, what i would have given for Ewan McGregor to be leaning against it with a classic obi-wan clapback for yoda.

i mean, okay, clearly if the answer about Rey’s parents hadn’t come almost entirely from Kylo, if there had been an actual trustworthy character confirming this, I would be screaming my love for this movie. it was busy, but good; the way Rey’s parent reveal went down just made me more aware of all the lost potential.

#star wars #the last jedi #star wars spoilers #the last jedi spoilers #this is your captain speaking #look i have a lot of feelings

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bloojayoolie · 5 years

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