#did I bring the fandom back

[the-crimson]

It kinda always makes me sad when people talk about arospec characters on the qsmp and only talk about q!Jaiden and q!mike without mentioning q!bbh :( like honestly q!bbh’s relationship with q!forever and how ambiguous it is is 100% an aromantic experience I’ve had.

People assuming my relationship with my partner is romantic when it’s not - at least not in the way they imagine - or assuming it will eventually turn romantic as if what we have isn’t good enough and I hate seeing the same thing happen to q!bbh

Idk I’m just sad and tired of q!bbh’s arospec identity being erased or forgotten or valued less than q!jaiden and q!mike because he has such a popular ship and complicated relationship with another character even tho cannon 4halo is incredibly aromantic/queer platonic in of itself :/

(Also q!forever is arospec/lithoromantic as well so in general their ship is incredibly aromantic/queer platonic from like every angle

#qsmp #badboyhalo #it’s just exhausting #like I don’t care about fanfic or headcannons or what ever #but it always hurts when bbh is left out of posts talking about arospec characters on the qsmp #when cc!bbh explicitly said he’s playing q!bbh as arospec #:( #just cuz one of his relationships looks allo from the outside #but is incredibly aro when you actually know the characters involved #I love 4halo as queer platonic boyfriends #but I hate what the fandom did to them #bring back the times when it was like ten of us screaming into the void about them #one of the reasons I prefer starhalo rn honestly

[fly-away-flynn]

#This Fandom is a headache #People left who I did not want to see leave but also some of the people here are… Not great #The Harrassment The discourse it is old #I remember a time when I was the center of discourse #We should bring that back #Lol #lotf #lord of the flies #lotf fandom #Everyone. Calm down #It is not deeper than a screen on your phone I promise

[flareboi]

what if purple never calls him dad

#what if the word ‘dad’ is something purple doesn’t like. #what if it carries a bad connotation for them and a bitter reminder for mango. #family doesnt always have to look like one thing yknow? i dont think those two would have a traditional dynamic in that way #maybe purple does consider him their parent. they just dont call him ‘dad’ unless its in third person #and theyre fine with that and so is he #king is his father figure yes but he’s also a mom. a big brother. a sister. their dynamic just isnt captured in purple calling him ‘dad’ #maybe his name is the best way they can say it. the best way they can appreciate him #because for purple a father is someone who hurts you. someone who leaves you #i think ‘purple calls him dad on accident’ is a cute idea #but honestly it would make more sense if they called him mom on accident instead. or if it happened when they were afraid. not comfortable #(this is presuming orchid is his mother and navy his father based on the pronouns used in the react vids iirc) #because why would purple refer to someone he sees as a parent with the title of the one that presumably did not raise them? #and on mangos end #i think u can kinda tell who in this fandom has never lost a loved one in how they characterize him #guys. grief doesnt leave. it never leaves. #you just learn to live with it!!! #mango is not okay just because he has a new kid to take care of. i would know this my bio mom passed and i have a stepmother!!! #she does not fill that void and i do not expect her to because it cannot be filled. but she brings a lot new to ease the pain and is a #wonderful part of my life #the same thing here #mango will never ever just .. go back to how he was #he will never be the same since gold died. and thats okay #purple will not change that. they will merely add something new #their dynamic can be beautiful and nontraditional and a showing of how grief can change you #it doesnt have to be ‘replacement dad and replacement son’ #its so much more #oke. tag rant over #fett rambles #ava #uhh should i tag the chars

[doll-elvis]

fan merchandise truly reached its’ peak in the 50s when Elvis came onto the scene

photos courtesy of “Elvis in Texas” by Stanley Oberst and Lori Torrance

#an e.p permit ?!?! #where could I aquire such a permit #elvis fans needed non-smear lipsticks for all those backstage smooches #petition to bring these all back #if the Colonel ever did anything good it was designing merch #he was right to plaster Elvis’ face on everything #elvis presley #elvisaaronpresley #elvis #elvis fans #elvis fandom #elvis history #elvis photos #50s Elvis #50s

[necessarymeanstoanend]

(nude face + gore version posted below the cutoff)

alex forbes,

the year is 2009 and he walks into some sort of public function on Halloween. he wanders around the trivial arrangement, scanning faces and searching for anything that might pique his interest. the skull makeup is what catches his eye at first, a symbol he’d trained himself to look for and take comfort in. there should’ve been no good reason that a painted face was holding his attention for as long as it was, there were countless skeletal costumes running around, yet somehow this stranger was keeping him captive. maybe it was the well tailored suit (serving as a lack of overall costume) that paired plainly with this man’s gothic face-paint, maybe it was hour of night, or maybe it was the fact that this stranger wasn’t a stranger at all. the longer alex looks, he begins to see, a now grown man; who looks suspiciously like the boy he shot in the face three years ago. it’s hard to tell with all of that makeup, but a familiar whisper re-inhabits the back of his brain and he knows his doom for certain, the boy man is none other than the once brilliant and corrupt young student, nigel colbie.

sharing these as well bc you all should know by now that i can’t help but have 30 different versions of the same drawing.

#nigel colbie back from the grave to haunt alex #does he want revenge? or does he want to be adored again? #is he wearing the skull to taunt alex with the whole ‘maraclea’ ordeal? #we are so content deprived in this fandom that i’m writing one shots for my silly little drawings #is the face paint symbolic or did i just REALLY want to draw nigel in skull makeup?! #the original idea was that nigel was applying skull face paint to bring balance to his actual skull that was showing from his bullet wound #then somewhere along the way i just became ungodly obsessed with the skull symbolism and couldn’t help myself #yes this was inspired by gideon the ninth/narrow the ninth #do y’all see the appeal? (probably not) #congratulations if you made it this far into the tags #(i have the nude faced verison with the gore too. i’m so fucking indecisive lmao) #art #fanart #like minds #murderous intent #drawing #like minds 2006 #nigel colbie #nigel colbie fanart #digital art #artist of tumblr #tom sturridge #the sandman #skull #maraclea #round brush is my best friend #halloween #one shot #fanfic #like minds fanart

[theophagie-remade]

People who fancy themselves intellectuals on this hellsite love to condescendingly bring up fandom issues to minimise them or go on about whataboutisms when the question simply is do you think people deserve to be told they ought to die or be abused over fiction and fantasies or nah

#''uwu fiction and reality have a complex relationship akchtually'' no shit. literally the only people who doubt this are the ones who #started making problems for everyone else. sorry you were too busy acting like you're above it all to notice #(why are you even bringing it up then?) #i'm pretty positive most people in fandom would love it if it was possible to go back to openly entertaining complex discussions about the #matter in more general settings and not isolated communities. if only Some People weren't always ready to start harassing others #over things that in the grand scheme of things don't really matter that much :) #but well. for how Above It All they like to act these people always do turn out to be anti-lites so... #fiction talk #+ another thing that annoys me is the whole. ''what do these terms even mean there's like 10 definitions🙄'' like. #eg i don't call myself proship because despite its origin as a term it Does give off the impression that this is just about ships #but still it does mean ''i mind my own damn business'' and that's what pretty much everyone who self identifies with it will tell you #so really. is it really that confusing. is it. or did you just ask what it meant to an ~anti~ and got Their definitions of it. #mytext

[abijahfowler]

ok anyone else notice that during the siege like. yes they has guns to a sword fight playing while it was JUST abijah BUT when they were waiting for heiji to open the door and then when he’s on screen fowlers conquest started playing

which the only other time it plays is.. during their orgy in the brothel

thats all

#i just think its a unique sound design choice thats all #squints #cute date idea: overthrowing the shogunate #this is making me feel like i did when i was 14 and scrounging for subtext in other fandoms man this shits bringing me back to my roots #yapping #fowdo #blue eye samurai

[nmoroder]

You know i used to have these surges of art coming through my hands at night. They're back, these surges. And i love Klogg can you tell

1st pic almost quotes Bible cuz you know, TenNapel himself said the Neverhood story is biblical in nature so yeah it comes naturally

2nd is Hoborg's humanized design through years (he hasn't really changed between '21 and today)

3d pic says "there are things i will never forgive myself for" and it echoes the headcanon that Hoborg had great guilt for what Klogg had become bcuz of the crown and was actually terrified of seeing and touching him

4th pic is abt this story i composed a couple of years ago, in short it's the segment where Klaymen and Klogg had to fight Some Guys and Klay obtained a blaster a while ago. yeah and Klogg had a blast using a spear which promptly broke after a dozen of hits

6th pic references the latest askblog post (and psst is the short summary of where they're gonna be heading next)

#neverhood #humanization #moroderdraws #klogg #hoborg #klaymen #one of the things im really happy about is kloggs human design. i mean #back in 2012 when i created it he was already perfect #i only had to change a couple of things to suit my current style and thats it #truly means something haha #im glad he stayed with me thru these years. neverhood truly is the source of my autism power #not srs im not diagnosed with autism. its just that undying thing inside your soul that keeps supporting you #and it often happens that thinking and making art abt neverhood brings me out of a hole i myself dug and fell into #like it did now. i was in a major crisis for the last 3 months or so #and im coming back to art. back to frequent drawing because god knows i needed it #i feel alive. thank you fandoms for being there. #aight sorry for a vent dump im just being emotional over things ive loved for over a decade haha #hope yall feeling good atm!

[nostalgia-tblr]

one problem with getting into Fiction Franchises like, oh let's say the MCU, long after they started is that 1) there are things that refer back to things I don't know about and 2) i don't know what i don't know about, and in a way that latter is more of a problem at least for me.

i managed an episode of wandavision and was left thinking "this seems like it's good, but i have no clue what's going on here so it's not going to work for me is it?" and i am reliably told it's supposed to be Mysterious Mindfuckery but i, a noob, was unable to work out without external clarification what i wasn't supposed to know. if you see what i mean.

i notice the mcu movies (at least as it progresses?) don't have numbers on them, and we know when they're direct sequels because there's a subtitle. and if you come at these later you need to get a chart to work out whether you should watch thor: ragnarok before or after thor: the dark world. which is easily done if i am determined to get things in the right order, but any effort is too much for someone.

so while i am willing to consider the idea that the later mcu films/shows are just Less Good than the early ones (personally Doubt so far but I'm not opposed to the idea) it's very easy inside a fandom to lose sight of what your thing looks like to the casuals who make up most of an audience, and frankly the mcu is currently Very Large and confusing.

who are all these Mrs/Captain/Miss/etc Marvel ladies and which of them have already been in films I might or might not have seen? how many ant men are there prior to this one? am i supposed to know who the baddy in this or that film is? which of these side-characters are from something else?

doesn't-seem-related-but-it-is: i was surprised to discover that the general mcu fandom view of the loki series was not that it was some sort of AU situation that could be thought of an entirely separate from the main series of films. because that was pretty much why it was the one to hook me, i think - it explained the relevant backstory with clips and yet also this is a different loki so if i don't want to go and watch however many films he was in i don't have to. i would expect him to be to some extent "out of character" because it carefully explained to me that this is not really the same character as that identical guy with the same name who was in some number of films. there's a woman one and an alligator one but don't worry they're all from AUs anyway.

#that said i did actually assume the alligator was from a comic or somesuch thing #because richard e grant is CLEARLY wearing a comics costume of some sort despite me knowing nothing about comics #but it felt like if i didn't know that it'd be okay cos they're from some Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence thing anyway! #anyway it's very easy to discount the Noob Experience with anything but for older ongoing stories it's crucial to their future #for ex: i didn't know what an infinity stone was but i did get that they were A Big Deal and that the TVA had a silly number of them #idk how that scene worked if you did know but for me it was the right level of 'referring to a previous story' #and i have in the past year-and-a-bit come to terms with the fact that Proper Loki is not an alligator in ANY of the movies :( #thor ragnarok's also pretty noob-friendly from what i recall though it didnt lead to me looking into the rest of the marvelverse back then #hottest take: the problem facing tumblr loki fandom currently is that the newer things are NOT actually completely terrible #so they did bring in a newer audience who didn't know the older material and certainly didn't know The Tumblr Consensus on things #and as mentioned half of them came in via an AU so our perspective was different from the start #and then OH NO DISAGREEMENT AND CONFLICT ENSUES!!!!!! #mcu tag i guess

[livsmessydoodles]

redesigned/updated my campersona for chaos theory!!! i miss these kids sm 😭😭😭

#plus a little doodle of them post-nublar cause i think i never did draw my sona into situations after s4 came out hjfjggbjfj #also “maninho” means “little brother” in portuguese!!!! fun fact! #need jwcc fandom to bring campersonas back they were a HIT back in dinotwt #jwcc #jwct #camp cretaceous #jurassic world #jurassic world camp cretaceous #jurassic world chaos theory #chaos theory #sona art #campersona #darius bowman #sammy gutierrez #brooklynn jwcc #ben pincus #livsmessydoodlez #livsmessydoodles #my art

[tvuniverse]

Listen i just want to preface this by saying I don't even personally hate Tommy, but that's not really the point i want to make so here goes nothing.

The way a lot of people act as if it's impossible to dislike him because the characters have moved on so so should we, right? and that's the thing right here, as poc we're always being told to move on. We can't express our feelings, we can't hold grudges, we can't complain about issues without making it something more than it is, we always have to just... move on.

I know people are going to say it's just a show, it's not that serious, but the issues it touches on and the way fandom speaks on those issues are.

I've seen a lot of comparisons between Tommy and other mains, how each of them are flawed and have screwed up one way or another, and you're right, but it's still unfair to compare him to them. We've seen each of the main characters experience guilt, or be ashamed of their action, we've seen them apologise, put in the work to actually grow, and they have. There's not enough time in an episode for us to see that for side characters. In this case, Tommy didn't do any of the above and that's normal, he was a plot device to show some very real societal issues, and especially what people of colour/women might go through in the workplace, and once he served his purpose he didn't get much more beyond a few scenes where it seemed like everything was fine between him and chim/hen. It would be more appropriate to compare him to the buckley parents, (who appeared in more or less the same amount of episodes) like if people suddendly started saying no one is allowed to hate them because they got their redemption, their kids more or less forgave them, they more or less tried to be better parents. And yet it's still not enough for a lot of people, because how they treated their children, the shit they've said to them, hits a little too close to home for a lot of people and so no matter what the show says or does, they'll still be mostly hated by the audience, and that's more than okay. But if margaret buckley is your favourite character than by all means be my guest. And listen, i love this show, it's all about hope, and it means everyone gets a redemption arc, as short as it is (sometimes even just a sentence lol), but we won't always be satisfied with these arcs, especially if they don't feel proportional to the hurt the characters may have caused to our mains, so we'll all have different reactions to them.

I swear liking a morally ambiguous/grey character says absolutely nothing about you, but making excuses for them, antagonising people who might dislike them (for good reasons) or acting like suddenly triggers don't exist for people, does say something about you. One of my favourite characters is literally the worst person ever, an actual bigot, but i won't ever write essays about why people are not allowed to dislike him actually because he's my babygirl.. i very much understand why people would.

All of this to say, everyone will have different opinions about Tommy. Some might love him, some will be completely neutral or at worst slightly uncomfortable/bothered by him, and some will straight up hate him, and all of these are fine. Live and let live, love whoever you want to love, and hate whoever you want to hate, but please stop trying to dictate how others should feel, i'm begging. And this really does go both ways.

#i never ever get involved in fandom discourse. ever #my blog is my safe space and so i just want to reblog some silly gifs of my silly little characters and move on about my day #but nothing gets to me more than being told to 'move on' #anyway i know the casual (and not so casual) racism is rampant in this fandom but boy has this week been hell #but just another week in this fandom i guess #(also i know some people hate him just because of buck/eddie and this is a whole other discourse i won't get into) #anti tommy kinard #not really but just in case #fandom discourse #also i said dehumanisation because that's what he did to chimney #acting like people don't exist until they do something that's beneficial to you and that's when you'll finally treat them as human beings #that shit hurts like crazy but it doesn't get talked about enough tbh #and that's also kind of why i think it's hard to know if he's really Grown or if it's just a case of 'these people are the exception' #and we can't really know until we actually see him interact with other minorities #but that's just my opinion #also i know we're all tired of this discourse and i'm sorry to bring it back but every day i've opened this app and saw something about it #and closed it right up lmao #i just needed to get this off my chest once and for all #i'll go back to never getting involved in fandom discourse again #anyhoo #i'll probably delete this at some point knowing myself

[tvrningout]

promise i’m not disappearing again! i just got unexpectedly busy these last few days, but i’ll be around to write either tonight or tomorrow!! i hope everyone’s doing alright and enjoying their week so far 💜

#get ready to ramble | ooc #i got an interview thursday and i wanna AAAHHH y’know but it’s fine it’s fine #alsoooo what if i did something silly like bring back some kny muses… i dunno but lately i miss them #i might do a lil rewatch and if i do that then i’ll likely find my inspo for those muses again #but i’m not sure that i’ll branch very far into the fandom/rpc itself #i met some cool partners bc of the rpc but i’m also a lil wary these days #anyway anyway!! i gotta get ready for the day — gonna see some friends B) #be good and be safe!! mwah mwah!!

[scoliosisgoblin]

Do you miss Rick n Morty’s old voice or do you prefer the new one?

I don't really care? I mean, Rick's voice already would change every season. if you compared voice lines from each season, he'd sound drastically different

I don't really notice Morty's voice being too different (CAUSE THEY WONT GIVE HIM A LOT OF VOICE LINES LMAO), but it is REALLY good imo

I do like how mature Rick's voice sounds now, he does sound more his age than before (especially when he's yelling), but that's about it

#of course even if I missed the old voices I wouldn't argue about bring them back #I hate Justin Roland for the shit he did. idc if anyone believes hes a better va I really don't care #rick and morty #rick and morty fandom #rick sanchez #morty smith #Rick and morty voice actors

[millenniummmbop]

God I love the ship names in ygo you'll be reading a post that's like "omg I looooove killshipping they're so insaaaaane" and you're like "oh shit who's that" and u go to look it up and it's like 2 of the most murderless normal guys in the entire show

#older fandom ship naming conventions were so fucking insane we need to bring these back #like they're clearly chaotic but there's also little stories behind each one and i just think that's fun :) #killshipping isn't anything right i tried to come up w something generic as an example that wasn't like #an actual ship that's already existed for like 20 years #pkmn does this type of naming too icr what other older fandoms did this #i remember i was curious about this a few months ago so i looked it up on wikipedia but it was mostly a short list of like #different naming conventions and the time periods u saw them most #where is my extensive history of fandom shipping culture 5 hour video essay where is it #ignore me

[spookifrost]

fuck around find out????

#how did that last wip get that many notes good lord #thank u sweet circle face fandom #also i lied i cant bring myself to answer nice asks i forgot to way back in march #just know my heart is full of appreciation and shame ✨️

[wayytooobsessedd]

“Why are you so upset about it? They weren’t even a main character.”

The character:

#stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things fandom #eddie munson #eddie munson deserved better #the duffer brothers did eddie dirty #joseph quinn #i know it’s unlikely to happen but bring Eddie back #i think it’s my year henderson #i think it’s finally my year #eddie munson is a hero #kas the destroyer #vampire eddie munson #the duffer brother only kill of supporting characters but what else is new? #what are the duffer brothers doing? #supporting characters #Eddie carried stranger things 4 #a breath of fresh air #hellfire club