#and not even in a fun way

[rollercoasterwords]

hey guys btw there is actually never a good reason to loudly and publicly talk about how much u dislike a fanfic!! Like. let's break this down for a sec:

i don't like it

ok, understandable. i've dnf'd lots of fics because i didn't like them. but the people writing fanfiction are doing it for free and for fun, and you don't know anything about their lives. they could be a young writer just starting out! they could be an older writer getting back into writing after years of being unable to! they could be someone going through a rough patch whose only source of joy right now is writing their silly little stories! talking about how much you dislike a fanfic literally does nothing except hurt the person writing it. that's it. it is not productive, it is not necessary. even strangers on the internet deserve basic human empathy.

ok but i really don't like it

babe, i feel u! i'm a hater too. rant about it privately. shit on it in private messages or group chats with friends. u can dislike something without dragging its creator into the town square to throw tomatoes at them, yknow?

ok but i really don't like it AND it's popular

ok? shouting about that on the internet doesn't make you cool or special or unique. it just makes you kind of mean and, honestly, bitter. like i said before, this is fanfiction. nobody is paying for it. nobody is profiting. there is no standard that these writers are obligated to meet. clearly, other people like the work. why not let them enjoy it in peace?

no u don't understand it doesn't deserve to be popular there are better fics that deserve it more!!!

talk about those fics then!! post about how much u love them!! uplift those writers!! ur tweet or tiktok or tumblr post is not going to suddenly make a popular fic lose all popularity, no matter how undeserving u perceive it to be. if this is actually coming from a place of frustration because you feel like there are other fics that deserve more attention, then just give those fics attention.

no but it's problematic

mmm ok. let's sit with this one for a second. i want you to ask yourself--is it really, really problematic? is it perpetuating harm against a marginalized group? remember, this is fanfic; it is outside the consumer economy, and the stories it tells will almost never make it to a mainstream audience. so is the story actually hurting people, or is the author just exploring something that you're uncomfortable with? because if you're just uncomfortable, then assuming the work is tagged properly, the best course of action is to just click away. as uncomfortable as it may be, people are allowed to write stories that you might find upsetting or gross or weird, and those stories existing is not inherently harmful in and of itself.

it is actively reinforcing harmful stereotypes/rhetoric/etc

okay! ok. if you are deeply concerned because you feel that this fic is genuinely harmful, then go to the writer. leave a comment. send them a message on tumblr or twitter or tiktok or wherever. explain your situation and see what they say! nine times out of ten, i'd bet that an ao3 writer means no harm and would be willing to listen and address your concerns. in fact, they might even be grateful to you for being kind enough to make them aware of a problem and educate them on it. every ao3 writer i've ever spoken to is an incredibly kind and thoughtful person; you don't need to immediately go on the attack

the writer is unreachable/nonresponsive/not willing to address or change the problematic thing

alright. if you truly feel that this fanfiction is actively harmful and can't reach any kind of conclusion with the writer, and you want to warn others who might read the fic, then do that. do that. make a post that says hey guys btw, x thing in this fic is not a good representation/perpetuates a harmful stereotype/whatever the problem is. and leave it at that! you don't need to go further and insult the writing or the person who wrote it. that is helpful to exactly no one, and if your goal is actually to make the world a better place, then you should learn how to draw attention to an issue in a way that encourages actual dialogue instead of dog-piling and personal attacks.

anyway the next time you feel the desire to post about how bad you think a fic is, feel free to use this as a guide before u do! xoxo

#like i genuinely don't understand u guys sometimes #why do i keep seeing posts w hundreds or sometimes even thousands of likes #that are literally saying nothing except #i think this fic is bad and i don't like it #if someone was making cookies and handing them out for free and u didn't like them #would u go stand next to that person and shout about how shitty their baking skills are?? #or would u just move tf on!! #bc they are doing something nice for free!! #and if u don't want to eat it u don't have to!! #like if u post abt disliking fics u are literally just mean #im sorry but u are just mean #and not even in a fun way #i love talking shit i love hating on things!! #i do it in PRIVATE #in PRIVATE!!! #where it's fun for me but i know it won't hurt anyone's feelings unnecessarily!! #some of u guys treat fanfiction like a product to consume and it's NOT #it's a gift! #it's a piece of art that someone is giving u! #so for the love of god stop thinking like a fucking little capitalist consumer for a moment and think like a human being w empathy!! #ranting and raving #txt

[ninja-go-to-therapy]

Hardest thing to go through is when you finally watch a show that’s been hyped up to you and it’s bad

#and not even in a fun way #Just like. boring #kat’s meow

[dude-iloveu]

#doodle doodle to ignore reality #see me screw up myself in real time #and not even in a fun way

[fuckalicent]

aegon finding out about the prophecy would be like the final alignment of tiles in his rage-filled puzzle. i fear he would turn into the joker after that

#already serving boyfailure supreme on a silver platter… finding out the prophecy? yeah he’d go absolutely batshit insane #and not even in a fun way #i mean i would find it fun but #hotd

[thefemininedressmaker]

not a single song was good, taylor. not a single song.

#and not even in a fun way #ttdp #taylor swift #if you are going to fail do so in a way we can all enjoy!!!!!!!!

[ponytailcoby]

Red, White and Royal Blue was so bad

#and not even in a fun way #red white and royal blue

[queenqunari]

ngl sometimes when I’m feeling bad about my body I go back to my half Orc cosplay post and read through the mildly-thirsty-to-absolutely-unhinged tags/comments people left on it.

The tumblr queers got my back.

#like ppl say validation from men comes easier but lemme tell you #straight men have fucked up standards and are gross about it #and not even in a fun way #also the way they’ll body shame you while wanting to fuck you??????? #horrendous behavior. into the pit with ye

[unreliablewitness34]

The new iasip episode was good for about 13 minutes, then it ripped out my still beating mac girlie heart and trampled it like it was my gamepiece and I just lost chardee macdennis

#and not even in a fun way #love lost actually #iasip

[creempyeyes]

so many found footage horror movies out there. so many of them bad

#and not even in a fun way #just boring bad #can a24 get on making one of those elevated arthouse horror films in the found footage format please #AND ITS NOT DIRECTED BY ARI ASTER (flying ice cream truck stops inches above my head)

[campcrow2]

So an update…..the pain I’ve been having I’ve now decided is 10000% the stent that they put from the kidney to my bladder and I found this out because I moved my 75 pound dog and immediately felt an intense pain in my crotch so……..fuck my life till it comes out on the 11th but also to take it out they don’t put you out. They slide a small tube camera up your dick and I wanna say I’m not into sounding and I hate the idea of all of this so….fuck my life transplant saved me but GOD at what cost????

#I’ve had more doctors around my penis in the last month #and not even in a fun way

[rebuke-me]

redesigning bmc costumes one: jake dillinger

so i hate all of the bmc costumes and wanted to redesign them in ways that keep their personality but make them look like actual teens (which i acknowledge wasn’t the goal with broadway but god damn) starting with who i hate the most lmao

so i wanted to keep the base elements the same: bright colours, layering, sporty, kind of looks like he doesn’t know how to dress himself. but i also eradicated the patterns for the most part. 

this is almost dead on the vibe i’m going for. he wears comfier clothes, with pants being baggier. he likes bright colours, some of which match better than others. lots of lettermans and graphic tees, but also:

jerseys over hoodies. i see this and go yeah. thats jake right there. tbh i dont think he’d wear much white, actually. 

this is also a potential vibe, keeping with the same silhouette. bright colours, eyecatching, and fun, without making you distracted and making your brain hurt (at least, too much)

i think he’d also vibe with baggy jeans and sweatpants. anything thats fun but comfortable.

if anyone’s interested, i do also have a pinterest board for all the characters redesigning their outfits!!

#sorry broadway costume lovers #i hate the print mixing #its so god awful #and not even in a fun way #it just makes my brain hurt #however. i do like the bright colours #and the layering #be more chill musical #bmc #be more chill #jake dillinger

[alex-just-vibing]

woooooooo

#my stuff #the other stuff has been getting on and off better #but now im feeling weird about my gender #and not even in a fun way #and im questioning if my childhood did actually fuck me up more than i thought

[inthecourtofthecrimsonmage]

bothering your only friend/homoerotic rival/boyfriend/the only one who is mentally ill enough to see your toxic behavior as a good thing, because you don't know how to have a healthy relationship.

Pantucci (the catboy version) belongs to my friend August :) Perhaps an early part of Edwin's adventure soon after he was expelled he left from Ishgard for sunny La Noscea. Oh, the trials they will face...

#ffxiv gpose #ffxiv oc #elezen #how do you do custom emotions? edwin just looks deranged #and not even in a fun way

[the-walk-of-weary-souls]

So I've had this idea of an Avatar fic in which the Sully Twins both make it to Pandora as well as arriving a lot younger than Jake does in cannon. Reading a fic that is almost exactly this same scenario just made this idea shoot right back to the top of my thoughts again. Unfortunately I have two main ideas that have been bouncing around in my head and I can't decide which one I like more so I turn to you. So for my story they were either born on Pandora or taken to Pandora while they were still pretty young.

(So sorry but I really can't resist making it m/m but that won't affect this summary/ idea pitch at all just warning those who are interested in possibly reading this if I write and publish it. Even if you're not interested in m/m feel free to read this and take inspiration)

(Option 1: Born on Pandora)

Army Nurse Camille Sully was only married to the love of her life for four months when tragedy struck leaving her widowed. Her husband however managed to secure her the opportunity to go to Pandora, a planet he'd enamoured her to with his constant gushing stories about it. Though it hurt to go alone seeing as she had planned to go with her husband before his demise, she couldn't bare to stay on this dead planet that had taken everything including her husband from her. Besides it felt wrong to waste her husbands last gift to her, or well as she would later learn his second last gift to her.

Thus she embarks on the long journey to Pandora sinking into a deep Cyro sleep completely unaware of the absolutely miniscule lives that had taken root in her belly. By some miracle the babies are perfectly healthy despite the six year delay to their should've been due date, though they are a little odd...

In this AU Jake and Tommy become the first human babies born on Pandora and are to be sent back to earth with their mother as soon as their bodies are able to handle the trip, only for the head of SciOps at the time to hear of them and get some ideas. Children are the most adaptable of humans after all. RDA quickly jumps onboard with this idea.

As an effect of experiencing cyrosleep at such a premature age the twins are a little bit like mediums. Not sure exactly how far I'd take this medium idea but it could be anywhere from connecting to eywa easier to literally seeing the dead, or being like natural shamans seeing the natural spirits around them. Once again not sure how far I'll take this 'sensitivity'

The humans utilise the young Sully's to try and get closer to/manipulate the Na'vi seeing how weak they are to children. Even making avatars that grow with the twins for them.

The RDA are really scummy and basically hide the fact that the twins even exist from Earth to avoid legal trouble and press backlash. Though they are confident that even if the twins birth is discovered they can haggle their way out of trouble eventually.

Their mother is not happy with them being used as basically science experiments but can't do much as they threaten to send her back to earth and have an 'accident' happen on the way back.

This story is definitely closer to cannon with Camille actually being the Sully Twins Mom (At least according to Wikipedia) but in fanfiction Canon should be played with so I don't really care that the twins base backstory varies so much from cannon in the second idea

(Option 2: Young Sully Twins go to Pandora)

Only thirteen years old The Sully twins are not in a good place. Orphaned and in a pretty awful foster home with way too many foster children in it. The two are practically only one step above homeless if not even worse off thanks to the ever rampant crime they face in their daily life.

They're desperate to get out so desperate in fact that when strange official looking doctors come to test all the people in the area and return to the twins with an offer a couple weeks later, they're less cautious then they probably should be.

Or

By pure chance the first batch of Avatars candidates contains one candidate with a gene which allows them to bond with their avatar body with ease. RDA being greedy corporate Scum see this as the optimal way to avoid losing millions to the occasional dud avatar.

Tommy and Jake are 13 and living in a crowded foster home when they test positive for this gene, RDA greedy and corrupt as they are, aren't against coercing and practically kidnaping them to utilise said genes.

In this AU foster care has gotten worse and worse with clearly unfit candidates not only easily getting foster kids but also greatly financially benefiting from it and foster homes that easily slip inspection. The twins live in an overcrowded foster home with awful living conditions, disgusting and often non filling food, nausea inducing bathrooms, little to no helpful adult monitoring as well as the house being dead centre in the less desirable part of the city.

This story is a lot about the twins learning that not everyone want's to use them while still having an intimate understanding of the dark underbelly of humanity.

Eventually the twins (And maybe a few others) bond so well with their avatars that they are able to link even without machinery though there is still a limit to how long they can stay without ill effect. They have increased this limit drastically but inevitably they always have to return to their human bodies.

In this version the Twins harbour a muuuuch deeper resentment for the RDA because this isn't the only thing they know.

The humans utilise the young Sully's to try and get closer to/manipulate the Na'vi in this idea too, though in this version the Na'vi only end up horrified by the state of these two younglings and are sort of praying for the day where they can just yoink them and give them all the love an affection they deserve and more.

#avatar #avatar james cameron #na'vi #jake sully #thomas sully #tommy sully #avatar rda #sully twins #the rda suck #and not even in a fun way #not me an asexual making dirty jokes and giggling like a little girl

[shootyrefutey]

I hate the Mortal Kombat fanbase so much, it’s so straight (derogatory)

#every day I see people horning over the blandest women or the same 5 guys it's tiring #and not even in a fun way #not art

[britishraptor]

I’ve just realised the source of all my anxiety is because I finally comprehended something that people generally aren’t supposed to, and it’s ruined my entire outlook on life and the world and almost sent me to inpatient care and. You know, eldritch horror is a lot more fun when it’s about powers and cool monsters and not the sudden and unrelenting inevitability of mortality

#just a rant #luna rambles #I watch horror games and horror podcasts and horro manga for fun #and now they cause me pain and terror #and not even in a fun way #fan fucking tastic