#annoying canon version only

[saintsenara]

As someone who isn't the biggest Hermione fan and keeps it quiet because greater fandom LOVES her, I'm honestly gagging for more of your Hermione takes. Especially your takes on fanon Hermione, who I can't STAND. Have a good one x

thank you very much, anon - there are dozens of us!

hermione is certainly the character i struggle to find common ground with the most - and this has been the case since i first read philosopher's stone as a child.

[which has actually been a really fascinating pop-culture experience - i think we tend to overlook, both because the media landscape and its representation of child and teen girls has changed since the 1990s and because of jkr's increasingly harmful views on gender, just how groundbreaking hermione was as a female protagonist in media which wasn't marketed primarily or exclusively towards girls. there is a reason why so many girls and women identified with her when the books were coming out - and it was very interesting for me growing up to not be one of them.]

the cause of my beef with hermione is for the incredibly petty reason that i find people who possess many of her more... striking traits quite difficult to deal with in real life, particularly if they don't acknowledge [which people in the hermione vein often don't...] that these traits are things it might benefit them to work on in their interpersonal relationships...

but this doesn't prevent me recognising that canon!hermione [and any real person like her] is interesting - and that her more annoying traits work well with her more straightforwardly admirable ones to create a fully-rounded character who, from a fanfiction perspective, is a great vehicle for all sorts of tropes, themes, and storylines.

which brings us - of course - to fanon!hermione...

fanon!hermione is, at her core, another brick in the wall of mary-sues. she's beautiful, and so clever she can solve millennia-old puzzles without batting an eyelid, and she's preternaturally emotionally intelligent, and she's morally spotless, and she's always right, and the story's preferred romantic partner worships the ground she walks on, and anyone who doesn't like her is punished.

i don't think - to be clear - that there is anything wrong, per se, with people wanting to write fanon!hermione [nor, to be frank, with other flawless fanon versions of female characters, oc mary-sues, or self-indulgent self-inserts - i'll defend the right to have fun with characters to the death]. this is a hobby, and people's way of engaging with that hobby doesn't have to appeal to me - it's fun escapism sometimes to write a character who is wonderful and perfect and beloved and has a sexy partner; and when it comes to accusations of writing someone "out-of-character", let she who is without sin cast the first stone...

but i also think - and [sigh] here comes some discourse - that fanon!hermione is part of a slight... girlbossification of female characters in the harry potter fandom [and presumably in others, i just don't follow closely enough to know] which i've always been a little uneasy about.

i understand why this happens - this fandom, like many, has an overwhelming preference for making blorbos of male characters and for imagining these characters in slash relationships. the treatment of female characters in slash subfandoms - i.e. tonks in wolfstar spaces; lily in jegulus spaces - is often straightforwardly misogynistic, and even in cases where it isn't, female characters are often shuffled quietly to the sidelines, except when they pop up - often suddenly in a queer pairing of their own - to benignly cheerlead the male couple.

and i think it's good that this is challenged - as i also think it's good that the heteronormative vibes of a lot of slash are challenged - and that we, as a fandom, are increasingly interested in female-centric works [whether focused on a romantic pairing or otherwise] and discussions. i hope these continue to take up fandom space.

but i have also noticed that the way female characters are written and talked about in these context is - as i've said - quite #girlboss in its approach. the focus is on women as clever and competent and feisty and unruffled and brave.

[including female villains, there are a lot of girlboss bellatrixes knocking around...]

and great! it should be! - but from what i've seen this also comes accompanied by a resistance to the idea that women can also be boring, unintelligent, self-infantilising, vain, arrogant, ignorant, talentless, meek, domestic, rude, dislikable, conservative, incurious, complicit in their own victimisation, plain wrong, and so on, and not only still be worthy of exploration, but be worthy of these characteristics not being automatically considered bad things for someone to possess and it not being seen as letting down the sisterhood to explore a woman who possesses them.

and, sure, hermione cannot be described as many of these things - but she is...

self-righteous; cruel; petty; from a privileged class background in the muggle world which blinkers her understanding of the class structure of the wizarding one; stubborn; terrible under pressure; shown by the text to be intelligent largely due to an ability to rote learn; a people-pleaser with a tendency towards a slightly hagrid-ish blind loyalty; extremely deferential to authority and willing to tolerate cruel treatment from authority figures [i.e. snape]; the most childlike of the trio [she takes her schoolbooks on the run and reads through them for comfort! she's an enormous animal lover!]; interested in one of form of stereotypical femininity [knitting! wearing pretty dresses!] even if she rejects the form of stereotypical femininity liked by e.g. parvati and lavender [and anyone who thinks she's not going to get along with her mother-in-law because molly's a housewife is dead wrong - she's having the time of her life helping put together a sunday lunch at the burrow]; possessed of a filthy sense of humour [i will never understand why emma watson said that the key to playing her was to be prim...]; someone who obviously wants to be liked and to be loved; and so on...

[and also, by the end of the pre-epilogue narrative, eighteen. she's often written in fics in a way which makes her sound like she's seen a lot of life - especially if the fic wants to claim she's "too mature" to bother with men her own age... but she hasn't - she's a teenager, and the reason she's so unpolished and abrasive is because literally all teenagers are unpolished and abrasive. it's just one of the mortifying agonies of growing up.]

we should love this. it makes her thorny and messy and mixed-up and human - and i am perfectly delighted by explorations of her character which delve into unravelling this tangle.

i just like her less as someone who is there to be right and beloved and uncriticised.

unless it's by ron. everyone should be uncomplicatedly adored by their wife guy.

#asks answered #in defence of... #hermione granger #annoying canon version only #we love unlikeable women in this house #reject the girlboss paradigm

[wolviez]

i dont think 97 would do it but morph should just have boobs sometimes

#x-men #xmen #x-men 97 #xmen 97 #morph #sorry why is this what i tag #ANDA ALSO SORRY I KEEP MORPHPOSTING LOLL THEYRE NOT THE ONLY THING ON MY MIND JST. HAPPEN TO DECIDE TO POST MORPHSTUFF #listen its not everyday an oldass series just suddenly comes back and i get to see my 'obscure' fave again #and they accidentally make them like the weird version of them in my head i imagined while rewatching but its canon now #im allowed to be a little annoying abaout that ok. #anyways moobs (morph boobs) #actually it would be fcking hilarious if they prove me wrong. definitely not anytime soon w the way 97s going rn ACTUALLY COULDYUO IMAGINE #the horrors. dont look at morph

[risingphoenix761]

Fandom things that used to irritate me in Phantom of the Opera circles: giving all the credit to ALW, reducing Raoul to a crybaby rich boy or worse, reducing Christine to a doe-eyed idiot with no agency, reducing Erik to a murdering incel and throwing out the complexity of his character, the idea that having a tragic backstory means you're not accountable for your actions, ship wars in general, and Love Never Dies wholesale.

Fandom things that irritate me now in Phantom of the Opera circles: people universally referring to him as Erik Destler.

#phantom of the opera #it's a small detail that ultimately means nothing #but #canonically speaking Erik does not have a last name #any last name he's given in any adaptation is specific to that adaptation only #and it's annoying to go into the tag for that version to find maaayyyyybe three posts that have anything to do with that version #i came here for a particular Phantom and you're keeping him from me

[unhinged-jackles]

they're so evil for this they're so evil for this they're so well and truly fucked up for the loki/mobius queerbait like come on guys it's 2023

#nothing is going to happen between them and it's so annoying bc then why are they written like that #shot like that #framed like that #i am pissed off #we have canon queer loki #who's obsessed with the only woman version of himself #and for what #she doesn't even want to count as a loki #they did the straight presenting version of selfcest #it's not even the fun kind #and the loki/mobius dynamic is so good #and it's actually fulfilling to them both #while loki and sylvie are always at odds and want different things #pissed off fr #loki #loki spoilers

[nero-neptune]

that disney+ peter pan and wendy trailer looks monochromatic and boring as hell. i say this as both a hater and a peter pan connoisseur. lost girls exist (bad And wrong). costumes look just ok. where's the whimsy? why is every color in that trailer some uglyass shade of green and brown? mary blair did Not paint dozens of works of art for the 1953 production of peter pan just for its next gen disney reimagining to be this bland. and ugly. i simply must reiterate how Butt Ugly it looks.

#im not even gonna get into how there's lost girls and that goes against one of the biggest aspects of the story #also sorry that yara shahidi is getting hate for playing tinkerbell. she doesnt deserve that #unfortunately she's in a color by numbers green tinted cgi hellscape of a disney remake and i cant help her #the Only thing i'll give 'em is that the lost boy hideaway is cool looking. but 2003 did it better idc #i'm just. so annoyed about the lost girls (who are canonically too clever to fall out of their prams and get sent to neverland duh) #god i am such a hater but that trailer looked Ugly. just color scheme wise. it looks uglyyyy #idk if they were going for a touch of gritty realism and a more 'big kid' take on the story #but when you think 'neverland' i really doubt youre thinking greyish green and yellowish blue and dirt brown #who did the color correction? i just wanna talk #and if its a remake of their 50s cartoon version why abandon all the Color? #peter pan #peter pan and wendy #rambles #i was honestly going into that trailer with an open mind and i can forgive a lot. but i cant unsee an ugly color scheme

[evie-doesnt-write]

Hot take: If I had to pick between Will Byers main character-ism or Byler, I would not hesitate to choose the first person. Like I fucking love Byler but if it came at the expense of Will’s character arc, I’d rather not have it at all

#it’s so annoying when will’s character is just reduced to his relationship with mike #with mike like i also want him to get character development and get insight into him #but like he’s arguably a less important character than will. that’s not a jab on mike #like it’s okay to be a side character or at least not fundamentally intertwined into the main narrative #he will definitely play a role and hopefully a big one where his strengths will shine and he will be able to be the best version of himself #but will is will fucking byers #the story started with him and is going to end with him #el is the only character who rivals him in this regard #(it doesn’t matter if he was sidelined he’s still a huge part of the narrative) #he needs to finish his coming-of-age story #to come to terms with his trauma and vecna and sexuality #and while i want byler to be canon too. if it meant taking away attention and focus from his actual character than yeah #stranger things #will byers

[constantvariations]

Jaune is the Sakura Haruno of RWBY send tweet

#rwde #both are canon dorks w zero rizz yet are somehow gigachads shipped w anything that moves #both have relentless crushes on obviously uninterested parties while shitting on the one(s) who have crushes on them #both lose their heads in the heat of battle and someone nearly dies as a result #both are duel tanks and healers #both are fucking annoying as shit and i wish theyd get off the screen #both are written by misogynistic men that cant write a satisfactory story or cinch obvious m/m pairings to save their lives #instead shoehorning in a sloppy het romance where only the woman's interest was abundantly clear while the mans was never even established #i am filing for custody as we speak bc they both could have been SO MUCH MORE #at least theres fanfic #theres an ongoing nart au fic where sakura stops holding herself back and ends up becoming a master fuinjutist at 14 #its called Hellbent by LuckySeven and its really good. highkey recommend #favorite version of sakura hands down

[lylilorden]

the absolute unsatisfaction of having to scroll away from a rancid take without even being able to block the op for their shit opinions bc they're deactivated

#unrelated (totally) (completely) (thoroughly) thought but like #if you have to drag another character to make yours look better (to you) in comparison #and if your characterization only shares like twenty percent of their canon characterization #do you actually like that character? or did you just think they're hot and tragic and work backwards from there? #because like fine! whatever! its fandom its free you CAN do whatever #but some of you act like the versions you made up are the real ones and respond accordingly and its really fucking annoying

[sonknuxadow]

Is. Are ppl getting confused bcs Uncle Chuck calls him 'sonny'/sonny boy as like. An affectionate nickname/term of endearment???

no its not that, most of the people who actually believe sonic is named sonny probably dont even know who uncle chuck is since a lot of them dont know much about sonic lmao

basically theres an old sonic series bible from the 90s by sega of america who wanted to give sonic a backstory while also ignoring what sega of japan wanted to do with sonic. its all a bunch of obviously non canon stuff that was never referenced in the games at all like sonic originally being a normal hedgehog named sonny who lived in nebraska and had 5 sisters. i dont feel like getting into everything but if you wanna read about it theres a page on the sonic wiki that summarizes it i think. but all of these ideas were abandoned decades ago and aren't canon

a few years ago some youtuber made a video going over the stuff that was in the sonic bible and it got a couple million views which caused a bunch of people who know nothing about sonic to just. accept everything in the sonic bible as canon information. so now theres a bunch of people in the notes of my post trying to tell me that sonics birth name is canonically sonny and its making me become the joker

#i saw another post going around a while back that was about states that video game characters are from or something #and people in the notes kept saying sonic is canonically from nebraska NO HE ISNTTTTT #people are so obsessed with spreading misinformation about sonic . not just with the sonic bible thing but like in general. so annoying #asks #sonics backstory in the fleetway comics is actually loosely based on the backstory the sonic bible suggested #but it doesnt take EVERYTHING from the sonic bible. #from what ive seen it only takes the idea of sonic originally being a brown hedgehog who was friends with eggman #so not anything about sonic being named sonny and living in a bush outside a restaurant in nebraska #fleetway readers correct me if im wrong i tried my best to fact check but ive also never actually read it so #even if it was a straight adaptation of the sonic bible though the fleetway comics arent canon to the games or any other sonic media #so they shouldnt be taken as an accurate representation of game sonics backstory #once again i dont think theres anything wrong with taking stuff from the sonic bible and using it as headcanons if you want #my problem is people treating stuff from the sonic bible as canon information and spreading misinfo #from what ive heard theres several contradictory versions of the sonic bible because they couldnt make up their minds #and again none of it is used in the games so like. why are you taking it seriously again

[trashpremiium]

deeply enamored by the fact every character pair my partner and I play in roleplay games boils down to "deeply serious and awkward character who doesn't like people and silly goofy character trying their absolute best to crack them (morally ambiguous) (one or both might have committed atrocities) (queer) (may or may not be in love depending on your view of 'in love' and it's proximity to romance)"

#i'm thinking about our damn murder mystery characters from last night (friends bday murder mystery party) #the fucking..... silly goofy little guy (whore coded) who is also a serial killer #and the police psychologist working on the case that cares enough about them to say they're innocent #even after knowing damn well they did it #and leigh and jonah are a less morally ambiguous version of this #(i mean. jonah did commit murder. but that was under extreme duress) #and then perse and blight #who are funny bc they're the first of our character pairs #the only ones who are canonically In Love (and fucking lmao) #and they're switched from our usual dynamic #of me playing the serious one and her playing the goofy one #anywho #i'm posting on tumblr dot com because i've already spammed all my friends #and i don't wanna be annoying <3 #zephyr talks #dnd posting

[floreren]

also! im sorry (not really) but jean deserves so much better than being mikasa’s back up plan

#one thing i dislike abt her is that she constantly puts eren before literally everyone and everything else like Girl Have Some Perspective #canon mikasa i’m sorry but u annoy me. i love u but only the version of u in my head that goes to therapy #aot spoilers

[4giorno]

underappreciated thing from the stuffpack reveal: they only said they were incorporating "nordic" design. they didnt say scandinavian 💖

#you KNOW its only bc there are finnish ppl in the team lmaoooooo #i dont trust americans NOR swedes and norwegians to not use nordic and scandinavian interchangably #hjffjdjdjf trying everything to ignore how sad it makes me that im not looking forward to todays gi livestream or the next version #like do you know how soul crushing it is to not be excited abt the game you love the most and dedicate everything into lol #also if one more person tries to put colorblind wrio on my screen i will throw my phone down the stairwell LMAO #you are literally just as annoying as the fans who say blind ppl cant look in the direction of a person sitting next to them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #at least the ppl who dont see him as blind (which like congrats canon is with you) dont make weird mental gymnastics hcs #bc they dont want to ignore the teaser weirdness but also dont want it to be too inconvenient for their yaois #.................... ANYWAY that got out of hand bye now #actually kidding people also need to fucking stop calling arle a mama(bear) like why are yall so weird #we know she uses masculine titles like father and king #rlly disappointed to see this behavior even from a great youtuber with smart videos #and the quotation marks are literally just for us the audience for our clarity (even tho i think its dumb) #for example the term king is not in quotations bc we already have the clarifying quotations for father #the characters dont say it any differently or bend the sentences in stupid ways #so you should stop being weird too :)

[skyriderwednesday]

Hmmm... so if ASiS takes place in 1881, and I've said that Enola was nine the previous year...

Then evidently this version of Holmes and Watson meet when Sherlock is a few days shy of 24.

#fic writing #fiddling with a more idk canon-compliant enola idea? #and i like sevens so this version of her is 14 years younger than sherlock and 21 years younger than mycroft #(she must have married very young) #so at the time enola is ten in a moderately large house with only her mother and a handful of staff #while her eldest brother establishes himself as the british government #and her other brother is about to become quite famous #(i think it's funny that if you got all of the sherlocks who inhabit my brain in a room...) #(the one with a little sister would be the baby of the bunch) #((idk what i'm taking from books/movie/etc. yet [tho EH2 is probably garbage to me in this endeavour])) #((my basic concern is making sure that events outside of enola are happening in basically the right order)) #((so holmes and watson have each other at the right time/are doing their early cases in the right order)) #((and so on)) #((right now she's sitting at home with mum reading her brothers' letters over her shoulder and reading the strand)) #((deeply annoyed that mycroft writes very infrequently and sherlock replies to letters on a several month delay)) #((and also doesn't seem to be able to read her handwriting)) #((it's not a her problem - he's dyslexic and children's handwriting is a weakness in general)) #((but enola doesn't know that)) #(*she married young as in mrs holmes btw) #pseudo acd compliant enola au

[rescuefield-arch1]

but on a somewhat serious note i think that 19yo claire would have loved the whole american dream thing where she has two kids a dog and white picket fence, but that died with her innocence in RC. and as her life got more messy her concept of dream life evolved along - she's got kids, she's got a house she worked so hard to own, she does have romantic relationships here and there - it's not the way she pictured it but it's there and it still matters so much.

#i think ( canon ) claire will never be the happiest version of herself bc that part is dead and buried #and it's fine she's accepted that there's nothing normal about her or her life and that she can't be like the civilians she keeps safe #she tries to date outside of her circle and it's a disaster. she loves the normalcy they love the thrill of what her life represents #but she's always very aware of the fact that it's short lived bc there's no stability whatsoever in her life #and the thrill quickly becomes something her partners end up resenting when she's always been clear that #she will never retire. claire will die on the battlefield there's no other way things can go for her and has accepted it long ago #the only marriage that has actually worked for her is the one with her job ironically. and it takes away so much from her #her civilian partners don't get it the way people in her circle do which is absolutely annoying if you ask her #𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙎 𝙇𝙊𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙀 ⎯ dev

[sparkles-and-trash]

I legit just had to block someone on twt who claimed that an abused child shares the blame with the abuser for what it did to the family.

Normally I’m big on seperating fiction and real life, but… this one just got to me.

It may be a personal problem, but honestly that kind of thinking is a red flag to me.

#yea it was about the todoroki’s #the same person who keeping posting about cAnOn tOUya and how they’re the only person who gets it and all fanon versions are wrong and bad #like… we KNOW fanon isn’t canon #that’s sort of the whole point #just because you lack the creativity to make or even just immerse yourself in someone else’s au #doesn’t mean everyone else is Dumb #Twitter is annoying me again lol #rambles #vent

[elftwink]

been reading fanfiction at the front counter at work as of late because our fiction selection that's available to read online is sparse, there's only so much academic non-fiction a man can read especially when he's just blindly in the catalogue looking up random keywords in the hope of finding something even mildly interesting, and i haven't been able to get out to my local library to fix my library card that doesn't let me log in and possibly has no associated email to access their ebook collections. and i can't do anything at the front desk that doesn't look work-related so i've been downloading pdfs of fics and emailing them to myself to pass the yawning void of hours between the 3 whole patrons who are there during the semester break.

anyway im telling you all this because i sent a few to myself and all but one (1) fic i was like oh my GOD he Would Not Fucking Say That. but i had nothing else to do not even work related tasks so i read them anyway. woe is me. i will learn nothing from this and do the exact same thing tomorrow probably

#good idea generator #they werent even bad in fact one in particular was infuriatingly well written #i just didnt like the characterization choices. and they committed one of my pet peeves #which is so unreasonable but it's using a shortened form a characters name (usually in dialogue) #and spelling it differently than the character's actual name. like adding or changing letters #this is such a non-issue but it INFURIATES me especially when the character doesn't even get referred to by a shorter name in canon #i know this sounds like nonsense im trying to think of an example #ok like. some c/r fic authors will shorten 'jester' to 'jess' and i HATE that #it should OBVIOUSLY be 'jes'. where did the second 's' come from. who the fuck is 'jess #when i read pjo fic i used to like straight up leave fics if they spelled a shortened version of 'percy' i didnt like #and once i read a fic where someone referred to nico as 'nick' and it made me so fucking furious #fucked up that you made someone call him that at all but the LEAST you could do is spell it 'nic' #and before you say anything i do NOT care if the other letters are necessary for the name to follow pronunciation rules #names do not have to do that and this is a written medium. i already know how to pronounce it #its the normal way you'd say the first or last part only of the character's name which i already know #this also annoys me in original fiction but fanfic is also usually adding the nickname which makes it feel more unnatural #like its weird if characters refer to each other formally in the source material and inexplicably much more casually or closer in fic #but the spelling is the main thing. i have Problems