#but it applies to so many fandoms

[cannibalprophet]

historical accuracy in fics is so funny to me. googling if they had grapefruit spoons in 1845 but also letting two men get married. fuck homophobia, tell me about cutlery.

#yes this is about #the terror #but it applies to so many fandoms

[archiveofourcrows]

there's something so special to me about older fandoms who have gone through the nine rings of cringe and every stage of internet fandoms and still are going strong somehow

#this is about pjo lmao #but it applies to so many fandoms #shitposts from crow

[madnessandentropy]

If you say a healthy relationship where the characters respect each other and are an equal level is "boring" you are an instant red flag to me, because every person who says this turns out to be a piece of shit that glorifies abuse and, if they are a creator, generally suck at storytelling as well

EDIT: Just to clarify I don't mean you can't enjoy toxic ships. I didn't get it across well, but what I'm talking about is fans who ignore blatant abuse and try paint it as a "spicy romance" and dismissing healthier ships/couples as "boring and vanilla". If you refuse to acknowledge a relationship is toxic and instead glorify/romanticise it while saying actually healthy ships are too boring then you are in fact a red flag

#thoughts #this applies to so many damn fandoms #vivziepop critical #helluva boss critical #hazbin hotel critical #spop critical #spop critisism #anti catradora #anti spop #lo criticism #lo critical #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus

[nartml]

Nah, you know what makes my blood boil?

Seeing characters degraded, vilified, and desecrated in the name of ship wars.

No, Aang did not strip Katara of her agency nor did he only accept the "digestible" parts of her, leave my baby alone.

No, Zuko isn't just a selfish colonizer, bro did not have one of the greatest arcs of all time for you to reduce him to that.

No, Katara wasn't just a mother to everyone, for fuck's sake, did we watch the same show?

I can go on and on and fucking on, but all I'm gonna say is I'm fucking tired of y'all's shipping discourse.

It was never that serious, it will never be that serious.

I think that both Zutara and Kataang are great ships in their own right, with their respective pros and cons. I also think it comes down to personal taste.

Of course, people can have differing opinions on characters, regardless of the inclusion of ships or not. But at the very least, stick to your own.

Ship and let ship. Remember when this was fun?

Don't invade spaces that aren't yours to start trouble, and stay appropriate with the tags. Fandom etiquette, it's pretty neat.

Y'all suck the joy out of everything.

#the way i can apply this to half of the ships amd characters i like #ive seen things #ive seen some crazy shit #heard some wild takes #take a chill pill #and sit your asses down #kataang #aang #zuko #atla #shipping wars #shipping discourse #fandom etiquette #this applies to every ship btw it just so happens that i stumbled upon yet another kataang vs zutara ordeal and im fed up #ruining it for the rest of us #i get it and i do think the passion is beautiful and a show of how many emotions and how much love these characters still make us feel #but hot damn enough is enough

[shortmexicangirl]

you know when you’re watching a show and you just see the moment when a non-canon ship is born and know the fandom is gonna take it and run

#miraculous ladybug #this is about kitty noire x scarabella in the new ep #but honestly this applies to SO many ships & fandoms #atla #aot #zukka #zukki #zukka is literally the entirety of the boiling rock #and zukki is specifically that scene where chit sang says ‘hey fellas look at your girlfriend’ to the both of them #like off the top of my head the first encounters/ship moments that stick out to me: #zoenette #tyzula #eruri #(<- except that’s ones canon fight me) #marigami #lukloe #zutara #eremin #hitchannie #jeanmarco #i feel like id be here all day if i listed them all #but it’s all in the SUBTEXT #just those moments… u know…

[mccromy]

Character: *is canonically violent and abusive but has a sad backstory*

Normal people: he isn't real and it's cool and fun to explore his character in different scenarios

Freaks: he was right actually AND he is a poor little boy, he was MISUNDERSTOOD. actually those children were abusive towards him first but the narrator was unreliable so :/

#i AM talking about Shen Jiu but I got hit by a flashback of another fandom doing this exact same shit you know what I'm talking about #i do like fics with SJ!! i don't hate him bc he's not real :) and I do find him interesting #but some people will just... be absolutely convinced that he's just some tsundere baby and actually lbh did deserve to be you know #whipped and starved #svsss #like not in a jokingly way they'll actually believe he is a good person and like.... reduce his character to a tsundere?? #the fun of him is how complicated he is!! he's got reasons but not justification #he was unjustly accused of shit he didn't do he was justly accused of shit he did do #he didn't want to kill lqg he did want to kill lbh #he loved yqy he stayed in the cang qiong sect for him even though he hated it there #he was incapable of loving anybody else #he was not incapable of caring but he was so traumatized he kept recreating his traumas #but now with him in the position of power #anyways this can be applied to a lot of characters #not only sj like #severus snape remember that shit jesus #and many more

[samaspic31]

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.

Anyways

#this sadly applies to so many fandoms. but it’s so prevalent in Star Wars shipping communities #sam posts stuff #begging y’all to talk to actual gay men and learn about queer femininity and how detached from submissiveness it can be #if I have to read one more fic that treats the fact the feminine half of a ship is the bottom as obvious I’m throwing myself off a cliff #fuck it #dinluke #that is also rife in xreader writing communities but im not tagging that

[asharaxofstarfall]

you go into the critical tags of a male character and its like "yeah he abused women and murdered innocent kids but he's not outright terrible" and then you go into the normal tags of a female character and they're calling her an evil bitch for like, protecting her children or something

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #fandom wank #anti asoiaf fandom #this applies to so many characters #anti daemon targaryen #anti daemon stans

[bee-plate]

Ok but. You know those ships where it’s like “boy this would be so cute if one of the guys wasn’t insane and the two of them led normal lives not filled with death and trauma”

#dead plate #this is specifically about Vince x Rody #But honestly this applies to so many other fandoms as well #like there’s the aus where no one dies #And then there’s the… darker ones #vince x rody #vincent charbonneau #rody lamoree #vince dead plate #vincent dead plate #dead plate rody #rody dead plate

[juney-blues]

i am MORE than willing to admit that this specific issue that i have is entirely inconsequential, and that i care far too much about it because i have turbo autism and a sense of priorities divorced from reality

but i'm gonna keep talking about it anyway, it's my blog, you cannot make me log off and touch grass, i will never touch grass.

why is it that people are so weirdly intent on headcanoning june egbert as Literally anything other than a trans woman y'think.

why is it that after the june egbert plot spoiler was revealed there was just a massive influx of "j egbert" "enby any pronouns genderfuck" egberts lmao, like even when you're making the character transfem you have to keep in that masculine edge, never make her a pure trans woman. "don't worry it's okay you can still call him a guy"

like i don't wanna be mean to people who genuinely take joy in that interpretation of the character for any reason, but also i do not trust this fandom's track record with being normal about trans women specifically lmao

#juney.txt #i have so many bad takes about junecourse floating around in my head #specifically about the parallels with how irl transphobia has been applied to me #and how the fandom at large has handled june egbert as a concept #''can't we just call him by his initials and keep using he/him for him?'' #i;m BEYOND aware this is inconsequential bullshit that i care far too much about. but also have you considered dying for my amusement? #prolly a fitting punishment for not enjoying this character in the same way as me i think

[flurry-bace]

look. I know they're queerbaiting us. I know it. hOWEVER-

#GRAHDFGFYWSGFGSUFHOU #you know what i mean #PLEASE #honestly this applies to SO many ships and fandoms #sonadow prime #sonic prime #sonic prime s3 #sonic prime season 3 #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonadow #shadonic #sonic x shadow #shadow x sonic #queerbaiting #sonic prime s3 trailer #sonic prime season 3 trailer

[nerdy-girlramblings]

NOT 👏 ALL 👏 FICTIONAL 👏 CHARACTERS 👏 NEED 👏 LOVE 👏 INTERESTS

#seriously I want to see a character happy and thriving without a love interest #Especially in ya #this applies to so many fandoms #im not anti romance i promise #fandom #bookish #nerdygirlramblings

[romulussy]

genuinely funny (and mildly irritating) to see so many people up in arms about gerri's refusal to comfort roman lol. when the stone cold killer bitch is a stone cold killer bitch :/

#character thesis statement! #what's irritating is the people who are like she OWED him that much like. no the fuck she did not! #don't get me wrong it's like. an upsetting scene for roman(gerri) girls #and if she HAD chosen to comfort him in some way i would have fucking died #but at the same time there are so many takes from people who love to apply nuance to and invest thought in roman but won't do it to #those around him and it like. renders everyone else a villain or a caricature or a prop #and this isn't unique to roman stans it's everywhere in fandom spaces but like. lol. you know? #it’s not always blorbo against the world it’s not always black and white. etc.

[echotheghostyghost]

Me: they're so silly!!

The character in question:

Would murder me if given the chance, foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog, a feral dumpster rat.

#echo rambles #murder drones #cyn murder drones #this can apply to so many fandoms #i'd be out here for hours #spamtom #deltarune spamton #jevil #jevil deltarune #cult of the lamb #lamb cult of the lamb

[anti-spop]

ah yes i love fandoms making jokes or sexualizing abuse bc it's so funny/sexy when a badass woman abuses their significant other

#i post #listen you can like badass women and probably want them to step on you #but abuse is not the same thing. #i'm so tired of seeing it #this applies to so many fandoms it's not even funny #abuse tw

[mangofanarts]

Aypierre and Bad really do need a duo name..........

#qsmp #badboyhalo #qsmp aypierre #they hang around with each other so much.... #it would be surprising that they don't have a duo name if their duo wasn't underrated fandom wise ;-; #I think they've called each other partners in crime before but I don't really want to call them that because that could apply to so many #other characters and it's too vague