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suite-dee-reynolds · 1 year
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Wait, you've been a Sunny fan for 8 years?! You've got to tell us how it's been in that time!!! What's the vibe been like here in that time and how has it changed? What were the big fan theories? Was r/iasip always such a hellhole dumpsterfire? What are the big things from the fandom back in the day that we don't know about but should?
Ooooh lets see what I remember-
Charlie reigned supreme- like really and truly so many blogs and so, so much content was Charlie Charlie Charlie, everyday, all the time and I mean he still is insanely popular but definitely back in the day Charlie in the show and of the cast was easily the most popular, like it felt like 7/10 posts were about him. Glenn was next in line but I do distinctly remember Kaitlin and Rob didn't have as much content about them, at a certain point I kinda was the Kaitlin Olson tag, that's not me being up myself I just used to be in her tag constantly and it'd be a lot of posts in a row of just me- the girls of the series def didnt always get the love they should and I'm not really sure that's changed much ☠ But yeah this was also around the time that everyone was also going gaga about Pacific Rim so that def made Charlie even more popular too.
Macdennis has always, always been a popular pairing but their popularity 100% has skyrocketed the past few years, and I mean SKYROCKETED. Like they're on par with some wildly popular mlm ships nowadays and it's lowkey so funny to see em in the ring with like. destiel 😂 now when I go in the tag it seems half the posts feature mac and dennis, which is notable to me bc Mac especially was kinda... Unloved is not the right way to phrase it bc fans have always loved him but Rob/Mac def didn't get /as/ much love back in the day. Like people often spoke of him as the weakest character but after season 13 I think he's gained more appreciation.
Fans have def gotten much bigger on theories and stuff these days, I'm sure they had em back then too but it wasn't as prevalent and none particularly stand out, it was usually just the "X characters are secretly sleeping together" type beat. I also remember a popular theory that everyone was going to die in the inevitable series finale but then the show never got cancelled and I dont know what that was about?
Reddit has always been messy and there def was a pretty big us vs them type vibe between sunny fans back then- though it was less reddit vs tumblr and more "straight dude bros" vs everyone else like I remember so many posts being like "Ugh straight dude bros don't get the show" I probably made some of those posts 😂 Lots of "Mac isn't actually gay" too which is very, very funny in hindsight- No one ever thought they'd canonize his sexuality.
Ummm... Probably the most notable thing to me tho is seeing how popular the cast has become, like 8 years ago Danny was the only "Big name" Like the media absolutely spoke of the show as these no name people and Danny Devito. I mean that was not totally the case for Charlie, he was becoming more and more popular and gaining traction in the mainstream with pacific rim and the likes but with Glenn, Kaitlin and Rob they were definitely not super well known outside Big always sunny fans so seeing them go from that to Rob being besties with Ryan Reynolds and stuff has honestly been super interesting and funny. Like I remember posting rob and kaitlins wedding pictures and getting so many people going WAIT THEYRE MARRIED?? it was hilarious to see the transition.
Yeah those are probably the biggest changes I can think of- it's gotten more popular which explains most of it, shipping has def become a much bigger thing as well, ships were pretty chill back then, there wasn't too much fic or art so thats different now :)
OH BUT ART! There's always been wonderful fan artists but nowadays wowee!! some amazing art for the series, like much more abundant! That's the gist of it :)
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samaspic31 · 1 year
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It always baffles me how much people believe that their ideas about gay sex and shipping come from nowhere when it's clearly just thinly veiled homophobic and sexist stereotypes that fem=bottom=submissive we’re all unconsciously taught growing up in homophobic societies (with racist undertones anytime half of a ship is not white). i believe it to be unconcsious bias, im not blaming people for not having unpacked why they jump to headcanon the character performing the most traditional masculinity to be a top, but it’s getting tiring. Especially when authors refuse to question themselves when getting callled out for fetichizing, say, latino men and reducing them to sex-obsessed, domineering, possessive, bordeline abusive partners. I promise you your tendency to make the more traditionally masculine one a top with a dominant attitude does not come from yourself entirely. It’s not something you just “happen” to consistently repeat your work for no subjacent reason. You have every right to hold these headcanons, and to like exploring these dynamics, i sometimes even agree with those interpretations myself ! But we all should be careful and conscious of the why, what pushed us to hold these headcanons, and check it’s not rooted in shallow gendered and racialized stereotypes.
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allastoredeer · 5 days
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I'm with you there on preferring bottom!Alastor and getting squicked out by top!Alastor. The squick is worse for me when searching radioapple than radiostatic stuff, and I think it has more to do with the egregious amount of uke-fication of Lucifer that I've seen. Vox and Al get it sometimes too, let's be real that's gonna happen in any mlm ship. But I feel like it happens SO often to Lucifer, mostly cause he's small and cute, that people completely forget he's the oldest and most powerful entity in hell.
He would NOT be genuinely scared or intimidated by Al or any other sinner for that matter and Al would NOT be able to physically overpower or threaten Luci. It just feels so wildly out of character for me that any of the appeal of the ship/characters is gone at that point.
Like, for real, no shade to anyone that likes that, go on and get your food. But my extreme dislike of it has me now avoiding bottom!Lucifer radioapple like the plague just so I don't risk being subjected to it.
I think...I think you just described why I feel so squicked out by bottom!Lucifer and top!Alastor 😦 Like, I couldn't figure out what exactly about it was throwing me off, but you just said it perfectly!!
That's literally it! It's the uke-fication of Lucifer. That's it. Lucifer would never feel threatened by Alastor. He would never be overpowered by Alastor. So when I see depictions of Alastor successfully intimidating Lucifer, or overpowering him at all, it just throws me out of the story.
Lucifer's been alive longer than Hell. Alastor's measely 100+ years of being alive is nothing compared to his millennia+ lifespan. And yeah, Lucifer is the strongest person in Hell, he could beat Alastor in any fight, no question. He has no reason to be scared or threatened by him.
And look, there are ways to get Lucifer to a point of being afraid. There are always a way to make characters act in a way you wouldn't typically see. In fact, Lucifer, the biggest, baddest person in Hell, being threatened by something would be a huge thing for his character and for the story. That could totally work!
But when it comes from Alastor just going into his demon form, or looming over Lucifer, I just 🥲 it takes me out of the story. I can't. Alastor may be a big bad Overlord, and he's dangerous for sure, but like...power-wise he is just not on Lucifer's level and Lucifer knows that--Alastor knows that--and this is what makes their dynamic so, SO interesting, especially if they're in a relationship or slowly building into a relationship. That's what makes it so spicy and flavorful. The push and pull. The insecurity and emotion. The complex dynamic between them.
I think you're right about it making bottom!Lucifer and top!Alastor lose its appeal. I went back through my Twitter bookmarks yesterday and found a few top!Alastor's & bottom!Lucifer's that I've saved, but I've come to dislike that generalized characterization of it so much that I avoid it it like the plague too.
And like you said, there's no hate to those who enjoy it. This is fandom and people are allowed to write, draw, and do what they want. It's all fiction and it's not hurting anyone.
I just don't like the top!Alastor & bottom!Lucifer dynamic in most fan-arts, and I don't click onto fics with it cause I just don't want to subject myself to an unenjoyable time 😂 I'm here to have fun too, afterall.
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pocketgalaxies · 6 months
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thinking about how delilah will say the shittiest most manipulative shit ever to laudna and she just takes it but the instant delilah mentions liliana one (1) time laudna immediately goes "shut up." thinking
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aritimena · 2 months
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I’ve seen an uptick in frustration with shipping culture in fandom and I get it, it’s annoying to see a fandom tunnel-vision on two guys making out when the rest of the cast is as if not more compelling.
but like, is it a stretch to say that shipping works are probably more common because it’s easier/faster to write/draw two characters interacting and it gets increasingly harder the more characters you add?
shipping will happen regardless but if there’s a specific uptick in it, then maybe it’s tied to the content-ification of fandom and it’s “more lucrative” to make works about pairs
anyway talking about fandom as if it’s a business makes me ill so that’s just a theory
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maddy-ferguson · 5 months
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women will literally accuse women and esp lesbian circles of "not unpacking ""man-hating""" alleged ""misandry" sweetie xo" getting offended ppl aren't appropriately uplifting how "men are amazing and awesome and attractive and i won't be shamed for thinking so" as if appreciating men is a real counter opinion than blame whatever gave women of every sexuality instance to be jaded weary cautious and tired and who'll complain every now and then and continue on with her life until she dies putting up with patriarchy. just welcome to the "woke" internet where misogyny's over and "man-hate" "shamed for not hating men" is worth springing to defences for
yeah i've only seen people talk like men's rights activists and think they're being unbelievably progressive on tumblr it's kind of fascinating. like i can see how seeing people hate on men could mess with people and stuff but you can't demand men appreciation posts that's literally the whole world outside of idk your tumblr dash (or even on your tumblr dash because fandom misogyny from people who think they're not misogynistic at all is really something). men get praised for "babysitting" their own kids like be serious? it's very let men be masculine
i don't think being like men are soooo gross and we hate them is actually constructive and it can definitely veer into transphobia (you'll always be a man/"a male" and thus a danger to women/why would you ever want to become a man they're the enemy and the bane of society etc) and homophobia relatively quickly?
but the way people ON TUMBLR ""combat that"" is often so off to me like if the most basic feminist principles offend you then i'm not really sure where to go from here. i remember seeing a post that was like "men aren't your enemy. they're your friend/brother/father/colleague/neighbor" with a lot of notes and like i don't know how to tell you this but that's literally who's most likely to harm a woman, the men she knows?😭 and obviously not every system of oppression is exactly the same but would you say the same thing to someone criticizing white people like...just very weird
i think women who are attracted to men and dating them making jokes about how they only tolerate being attracted to men because they have no choice and especially the whole i'm bi so i love every woman and only find 1 in a 1000 men attractive (very often said while in a relationship with a man) thing is obnoxious and annoying for like everyone who has to hear it lmao but also when women who date men make jokes about it (not about them being ugly or unattractive or whatever but about them being bad partners in general) it's like. what else are they going to do like you said they're gonna endure patriarchy for the rest of their lives and as girlfriends/wives/mothers they go through the most it's very bleak? idk. it's not like you can date a better man yourself out of patriarchy
of course men aren't a all as bad as the worst guy you can imagine and they're not all out to get you or whatever but saying things like "men don't all benefit from the patriarchy rich men benefit from the patriarchy but jake, 23, is not oppressing you" is like. kind of insane. jake, 14, was oppressing me like have you never interacted with boys in school😭 and it's not like it was entirely their fault we all have to outgrow misogyny it's just you know society etc but some of them never outgrow it lmao and just...the takes you see on feminism on tumblr are astounding i hate it here
#and like i do think that young guys who feel bad about themselves only having people who make them feel worse and who actively make them#worse like incels and idk youtube algorithms to turn to is a problem but like. again it's the same thing as white people who feel bad about#being white to me in a way like are women and GIRLS supposed to coddle them and say it's gonna be okay you're great even when they're#like actually harming them by being misogynistic to them? that's already what they're taught to do always#the notes on that male loneliness epidemic post i reblogged a few weeks ago still haunt me like OH MY GOD#and if you think misogyny isn't as prevalent anymore you're very naive. and probably misogynistic yourself#i'm not even sure young men being more feminist is true (well it's probably true when you compare it to like the 50s) but even#when men ARE like yeah women shouldn't have to do everything i can help with chores (the use of the word help is already a red flag lmao)#when you look at what they actually do they still do way less like i don't have links because these are tags on a tumblr ask but i read#somewhere that men think chores are 50/50 when they're only doing like 30% of the work? like it just seems hopeless#sometimes i'm happy and then i think about the mental load#sorry for not uplifting men 24/7 you can just hang out on the steve harrington tag or something there's actually a lot of people doing that#when someone said um does the ronance fandom not seem terfy to you...because of a post that was like can the lesbian ship ronance#be about the lesbian ship ronance not about steve A MAN#like you can't make this up#i meant it when i said the average tumblr user would benefit from being exposed to more misogyny like i swear they forget it's even a thing#like obviously they wouldn't BENEFIT from it lmao but their posts wouldn't be as dumb and that would benefit me🙏#ask
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thedevotionaltour · 2 months
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Daredevil #16 - "Enter...Spider-Man!" (March 1966)
Written by Stan Lee Art by John Romita Sr. (pencils), Frank Ray (inks)
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stagefoureddiediaz · 1 month
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the space mobile being so prominent behind Shanon got me thinking thoughts and all up in my feels - space theming continues around Christopher and his parents and I'm watching with my eyes on stalks at this point
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ghastimart · 1 year
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a burnish vulpine. call that a firefox (+ bonus silly christmas doodle as a warmup)
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jonathanbiers · 1 year
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so we all know i exist out of spite right? it is my main motivator
anyway from now on every time i reblog something to do with edancy or hellcheer or ANY ship with eddie and a character that is a woman and one of my followers says something weird and frankly kinda icky about it i'm going to add one sentence to the edancy pegging fic i thought up today. just out of spite
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pepplemint · 11 months
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Should I genuinely block vashwood. I don't want to because a lot of it is pretty bomb but there's also so many bad yaoi takes. Would my life be better if I blocked it
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noelledeltarune · 1 year
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see again i like don’t care about shipping in any meaningful capacity but bowser x luigi makes me so sad because everyone had such high expectations for it from the trailers and just kind of preemptively got into it. and it snowballed so hard into it’s own thing even though that one moment literally was the extent of it (and dare i say it! i DIDNT think it to be a moment of romantic/sexual tension at all..)
that initial boom still hasn’t actually lost momentum either 😭😭. and it just makes me so sad and kind of annoyed seeing people act like bowser and luigi’s ✨forbidden love✨ is the most important relationship in the movie when the entire plot is centred around how much mario and luigi mean to eachother….. we literally got back to back to back m&l cutscene level interactions for me to just see people reinventing fanon papyton like…
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dashiellqvverty · 6 months
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are people like. aware that all the ships from kids cartoons currently winning in the femslash polls are like. canon as well as very central to their shows?? you don’t have to like cartoons to each their own but SOMETIMES the way people talk about them im like oh so you know nothing about these shows. i am saying this as someone who dislikes both lum.ity and c.honi (for very different reasons) like i have no stake in who wins that poll.
i am just like you know luz is Thee main character right?? you know catradora was the whole plot of the show right??? no they’re not good because they’re representation that alone is not enough to make something a good ship (see: lumi/ty but also ch/oni) they’re good because they’re like. interesting and fleshed out characters. catradora and lu/mity and korrasami and bubbline aren’t showing up in the top 100 because they’re frequent side pairings in m/m fics like none of those fandoms have m/m ships that even compare in popularity. like not that this isn’t a larger problem of femslash ships (and like the preference for sanitized couples Is A Thing as well 100%) but like that is not what’s happening Here
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bidokja · 1 year
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some of yall are avoidant in the strangest ways when it comes to acknowledging the presence of emotional interconnection - and the decisions driven by them - amongst characters in a story. especially romantic, but i've seen it happen for like. literally anything.
i say strange cause i'll see someone say "X story is about LOVE!" and then turn right around and say that acknowledging the fact that a character's choice is partially or largely fueled by that love cheapens their narrative or deprives the character of agency. as if love, a strong narrative, and chracter agency cannot possibly coexist. ???
and sure, yeah, in certain circumstance it IS simply incorrect to make out a character's motivations to be driven by/for another character. but sometimes it's like. you think the very presence of this interconnection - romantic, platonic, familial, or otherwise - cheapens the narrative even in moments (or within entire narratives) where these connections are The Whole Damn Point.
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stanielman · 2 years
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Why are we not voting for elmax? Or Nancy’s visions? Because we care about the intention behind scenes.
Take the boobies scene vs the van scene for example.
Boobies scene: the intention is clearly laid out in the dialogue. There is one way to interpret the scene, there’s nothing extra that seeing directions in the script adds
Van scene: there are many different interpretations to this scene, including the direct intention of the creators which is not always clear in the dialogue/acting choices. So seeing the script, we can ALL understand that it is canonical that Will is lying about El’s feelings and we can ALL understand that Jonathan knows that he is because that’s exactly what they say they are trying to do when it was something left up for interpretation upon initial watching (that will stay that way until we get answered questions and wrapped up storylines, the duffers can’t just give us all the intentional dialogue at once because they trust their audience’s intelligence).
We know what Nancy saw because she told us what she saw. And we know how it made her feel because she showed how it made her feel. Her emotions and her words are not up for interpretation, it’s clear in their deliberate choices
Whereas the Will and Mike scene purposefully makes unclear choices to leave questions unanswered. And we know that is does with how coded their scenes have been throughout this season.
The elmax scene is the same thing, we see that they’re happy to see each other and we see that El revives her. There are no unanswered questions because this moment (like Nancy’s visions) isn’t a storyline that’s been stretched out across five seasons (like how Mike and Will’s relationship has been), it’s directly related to the action and main plot and questions need to be answered NOW.
We’re voting for byler because we want to understand the coded scenes and cautious yet deliberate acting/direction choices and want to know which interpretation lines up with the director’s intention. As the director’s intention is what is going to propel us into season five.
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jrueships · 2 years
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Steph/lebron or lebron/kyrie? thoughts?
tbh i don't really have any on either ! im not a big follower on any of the players listed, not cus like they all suck and their ships suck or something, it's just ! the players happen to just not be my favs! i don't hate em, but i don't u know? love them enough to take real interest and learn more about them myself, and that's just a personal me thing! i feel like id know more about bron/kyrie and be more interactive with them if i came into the fandom earlier to watch its VERY interesting storyline unfold in all its dramatic king and shadow chaos, but i was busy shaving my hedgehog and i don't have enough of the fueled want to go back and check their details myself. BUT!!@ again that doesn't mean EITHER is bad, and since i don't have the experience to speak GOOD good on either, i don't have the experience to speak the BAD bad on either! Both the ships are like! There! And it's cool, do whatever! They're cool !
#it's like zach i dont fuck with him both pos and neg hes just kinda there for me and thats cool!#when it comes to me viewing ppl how i view zach i just kinda let em be!#i do know some surface level funny facts but im the kinda person who needs to dive in myself and rlly get to explore#the unexplored for me to be comfortable enough to put them into writing or smthin#and with them i just dont know/wasnt there to know#it's whatever! write what makes YOU happy!!#tbh im kinda surprised there isnt a lot of bron/kyrie talk here? maybe it's more of a wattpad ship?#or maybe theyre all hiding??#yall dont hide!! just cus people dont post it on the daily DOESNT mean yall cant!!!#post whatever ure into!! love what YOUR heart has decided to love!!#ull find ur ppl!#so yea! i dont have any big thoughts to say!#ive seen stuff that give me a basic idea on the ships and it's very cute!!! i like seeing it!#but cus i personally havent spent time to know it fully it's also kinda quicker for me to notice some things that make me a little :/#BUT thats just cus IM not seein it thru a place of LOVE so it's really not that deep? u know?#like u can make a point without being a hater i mean?? idk#just some things ive noticed were like.. theres some things sometimes where it's like. okay. it's getting weird#like smaller = automatically uwu baby omega bttm or fckin whatever lol taller being big controlling alpha dom#lightskin being babyfaced innocent ethereal angel virgin baby whatever. paired with the more aggressive oo big bad tough fckin whatever 🙄#and it's not problems that sit in just THOSE ships only it's just that those ships/ppl are so BIG and prevalent#u kinda see surrounding issues more clearly. like. idk. if steph had a darker complex... would Everyone#really like. treat him the way they do rn. kinda thinkin. BUT ALSO U CAN THINK THAT ABT A L O T of things which SUCKS but true#it's just a more ?? prevalent pattern example??? idk.. u can also see it sometimes with the boston jays but again#it's an overall issue u shouldnt always apply to One thing cus it's Way bigger than that and should be treated as such!!#SO YEA tho do what u love! write em in a way that others will see ur love! and love them too!#write them ! the way they !! are!! because ppl will love that! feed em ALL the things!! DO UR LOVE JUSTICE#and ur love will find you THRU !!!#sorry i couldnt like! go crazy over em! i think their dyanmics are rlly cool and u should def ask more ppl who know more abt it!#theyre a good ship!! find the ppl that know it and see it as such!!#ted asks
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