#fandom is supposed to be about COMMUNITY

[captainshyguy]

this is gonna sound a little mean but idc, i have literally never been in a more self absorbed fandom than the m*rio fandom. im literally begging u people to learn how to have conversations that arent just talking incessantly about your own projects and thoughts. please for the love of god learn how to listen to the people ur supposed to be conversing with and actually acknowledge what theyre saying im gonna turn into the fucking joker

#this may be surpisungly but people dont often like being talked as as if they could be replaced with a lamp! #and then having their stuff completely ignored bc they have served their purpose (being a wall to talk at) #fandom is supposed to be about COMMUNITY #not hundreds of people shouting into a void #and the people who do actually listen getting complely walked over and taken advantage of #watching this happen to people i care about dearly is making me chew the fucking walls #like for the love of god read the room. #luke rambles #if anyone wants to fucknig argue abt this i will block u im not in the fucking mood. have some damn self awareness #alos it goes without saying this is not about any mutuals ur the poor bastards this is happenig to ily

[royalarchivist]

I love the QSMP. Not only has it introduced me to many amazing international creators, it's also introduced me to the French and Brazilian community, who are so sweet, funny, and chaotic in their own unique ways. I love seeing fans sharing their culture and learning from one another, and I myself have learned a lot this past year. I think it's incredible how QSMP brings so many different people together – all of us united in our love and passion for this project and its goals.

But passion can often evoke strong emotions, and these strong emotions aren't always positive.

The past few months, I have seen multiple waves of hate, bad-faith generalizations of communities, and racist remarks directed at fellow fans – especially those who are part of the French / Brazilian community. This kind of behavior is inexcusable, and is in direct conflict with the mission of QSMP, which is to break language barriers and unite communities.

We are a global community with a variety of people from different backgrounds. Miscommunications may occasionally occur because of cultural differences and/or language barriers, but we should use these moments as opportunities to learn and engage with other people rather than assuming the worst about them and starting fights.

Although certain issues can be resolved with communication, sometimes it’s better to block and move on. Avoid spreading negativity or hate, and save yourself the headache of interacting with people who are just looking for someone to argue with.

No matter what community we're a part of or what languages we speak, we're all here to have fun. Please remember to be kind to each other. We have more in common than we have in conflict.

#QSMP #mod talk #Additionally: we should avoid stereotyping entire communities for reasons I hope are obvious. #I think everything will work out in the end #I don't typically see this kind of stuff on here but I figured I'd post this anyways since I'm posting it to Twitter too #It's understandable that emotions are high because of everything that's happened to the QSMP community the past few months #but it's very sad to see fans attacking each other #everyone's a bit on edge it seems. I rarely use my personal Twitter but I opened it today and saw some close mutuals snapping at people #then after stepping away and calming down coming back to a conversation and apologizing #it's sad to see everyone in this state #So... comments from the peanut gallery I suppose. I do hope this helps someone though #I don't usually post things like this because frankly- #I don't think every single drama / controversy / whatever necessitates a public statement from every single member of the fandom #but I've been thinking a lot about this #Anyhoo. Hopefully I can start sharing clips again tomorrow. I've been moving the past week and life was hellish #hopefully things ease up a bit now

[catsinaspacesuit]

I feel like i could spend a 2 hour therapy session just talking about the roller-coaster of emotions I've experienced today because Courtney Miller and Shayne Topp decided to announce their maybe fake, maybe real marriage.

#i had never posted about smosh here or even tried to interact with the fandom outside of YouTube comments before #the way this had me running to the community because how tf am i supposed to explain this to anyone else xd #shourtney #courtney miller #shayne topp #shourtney wedding #smosh

[rambunctioustoons]

kiss kiss ✨

#my art #sun x oc #sun x y/n #sun x reader #sundrop x y/n #sundrop x reader #dca community #dca fandom #rhys #/ ur supposed to... close ur eyes when u kiss guys. or not wtf do i know! #im really really normal about hands and very mushy looking kisses I pRoMISe you #akdakjd #i like to think they dated and just held hands and didnt smooch for awhile #sun gets excitable and just smushes Rhys's face way more than necessary AFKAKDKA #rhys gazer

[rewritingcanon]

“omg this fanfic changed my life and the author will never know it 🥺” LEAVE A COMMENT U PUSSY ⁉️😭🙏

#THERE IS LITERALLY A WAY TO LET THEM KNOW U LIKED IT OMF 😭😭😭😭‼️‼️ #unless its an orphaned work than yeah they might not know #but WHY do i see people lamenting over this on both tumblr and tiktok likeeee??? #im not going to sit here and pretend not commenting on a fic is socially acceptable if u rlly liked it that much 😒 #and then people will be loudly complaining about why fics get abandoned smh #yall r cowards fr 😭👍 #fanfic is literally SUPPOSED to be appreciated it’s supposed to be communal omg omg i hate yall 😾👎 #it changed ur life that much but you cant leave a six worded comment underneath. thats some funny business #hashtag tweak out #harry potter #hp #multi fandom #pjo #percy jackson #haikyuu #marauders #jjba #attack on titan #jojos bizarre adventure #grishaverse #jjk #jujitsu kaisen #hpcc #am posting this on the wrong acc bcuz i saved it as a draft and cant switch. how embarrassing

[zukkaoru]

so then talk about them instead of whining that other people are having fun with what they like. if those other ones are so interesting than make that content in place of behaving like a child because someone else is actually enjoying themselves.

omg guys look my first bsd fandom anon hate ask 🥰🥰🥰

#first bsd fandom anon hate and it's over a post that only had SIXTEEN notes at the time! wow! #anyway i actually am very much enjoying myself too i love being a hater ❤️ #and i DO talk about the rarepairs and minor characters i like literally All The Time #but there are so many and i am only one person and i would actually like to be able to go to the beast tag and find stuff #about characters and relationships that are actually relevant #i'm not going to like. go into the ask boxes of beasts.kk enjoyers and anonymously criticize them for liking it 😐 #but this is MY account and i can post whatever i want #and i would LOVE to read fics and enjoy art and posts made by OTHER PEOPLE #bc fandom is a community and i don't *want* to be the only person talking about the things i like #i want to be able to rb other people's fics/art/headcanons too #i want to inspire them and i want them to inspire me bc that's how fandom is supposed to work! #anyway don't come back i will figure out how to block anons specifically for you lol

[kurokoros]

While “write for yourself” advice is good in theory the point of it is rendered somewhat moot by the fact that fan works are... about community. Writing for yourself is a very good umbrella statement. You should do something because you’re passionate about it. You should write the stories you want to tell, regardless of popularity, because it makes you happy.

The problem with that advice is that by and large the issue people have isn’t with writing, it’s with posting. Personally, I can write 10K of notes for a story with zero issues. It’s purely for my own enjoyment because no one gets to see those notes but me. I write for myself, but I haven’t posted anything in almost a year and a half. I haven’t posted anything because I don’t see the point in putting so much effort into something that no one else is going to read when I’m already content with the notes I’ve written. Interaction (or the lack thereof) has a direct impact on someone’s motivation to work on fanfiction or fanart, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t working on something in private with zero intentions of posting it.

At the end of the day, if someone really wants to write, they will. But that doesn’t mean it’ll be fanfiction. And it doesn’t mean they’ll post it for other people to read even if it is fanfiction.

#I'm tired of write for yourself advice in the context of fandom #because fandom is SUPPOSED to be about the community aspect #you interact with a fandom because you love the characters or the world and want to talk about it with other people #and when that doesn't happen you're not going to keep engaging with that fandom #also lets be real here #'write for yourself' is largely said by people who ARE getting feedback of some kind #and it's very easy to write for yourself when you're already getting some form of validation for it

[orcelito]

I love....... community 🥺

#speculation nation #i love sitting around in this fandom and chatting with people and just #feeling like an actual member of the community #ive got my server with its lovely people and i chat with artists and fellow fic writers and an assortment of other people #and it's just... so nice. drama free within my personal experience #just enjoying talking about interests with fellow fans. #it's refreshing! i feel like im actually part of the fandom! #didnt feel like that with p5. probably in part because of the fact that i had my blog hidden #but i just. really didnt like so much of the fandom either. #ive got my gripes with some corners of this fandom but i leave them be and they leave me be #and that's about all i can really ask for i suppose #this isnt brought on by much Specifically. im just like #well the sheer number of asks i got from that ask game is part of it. ive NEVER gotten that many for one before. #and chatting with artists 🥺🥺🥺🥺 and people liking my posts... and just #feels like im a part of this fandom rather than an outsider looking in. and that feels really nice. #i still wanna get back into analysis posts sometime bc i still have so much more to study about the manga #but for now i will continue puttering around with my writing. and every so often i will throw out offerings to my readers. #still working on today's thing. i just wanted to express this

[quietwingsinthesky]

maybe i should just put proship in my bio already

#read this in the most exhausted tone you can imagine. #a tone that says 'yes. fine. if we're going to be forced to label ourselves now i align with this. but this false dichotomy shit is stupid. #mostly just want people to stop following me when they've got 'proship dni' somewhere on their bio #because what the fuck does that mean. look me in the eyes right now. how the fuck. am i supposed to know. #what each and every person's individual definition of proship is. how am i supposed to know where you draw #your arbitrary line of what is and is not okay to write about. #i cannot read your mind. i don't know you. get off of my page until you can clearly communicate your boundaries. #and at that point hopefully you'll also be able to think critically about shit enough to realize that anti/pro shit is nonsense. #i write noncon because i think its hot. i will also tag that shit so that it can be avoided. that is the agreement out here. #gosh sorry. that was so overly aggressive. im very frustrated. #ive been in this fandom a long time i am. very very tired. i just want to write my samifer in peace. make some angels kiss each other.

[drewsaturday]

obviously different people say different things and you can support something existing while still complaining about things not being to your taste as long as you don't comment it on actual creationssss

but sometimes it does get mentally chaotic seeing posts saying you should be allowed to write whatever you want and bad art is okay etc etc and then i scroll down a little more to see people having incredibly high expectations for things that people make for fun and for free in fandom spaces and it's like...

i think there is a gap between seeing our tumblr peers tm as people and creatives having fun, but ourselves as consumers expecting perfect content. you are demanding perfection from those same people you claim to want to support.

???

#txt #i really wish fanfic dot net weren't dying because lowkey. #although the etiquette over there is abysmal i kinda feel like the expectations for fics posted to ao3 is weirdly high #obviously i have my own personal standards but it really does get on my nerves sometimes #to see such a clash between 'uwu two cakes theory!!!' posting and then 'god this trope in fic/this art style/this vidding style #etc etc is sooooo annoying/tired/overdone/bad/ETC' #again it's not always from the same people and we do contain multitudes or whatever i am sure im hypocritical too and #there are things that do deserve discussion and you can have your own preferences as long as you don't make it a creator's problem #and to be okay posting the things you make publicly anywhere you need to understand there #will be people coming at it from both angles i am just #mostly confused about how prevalent those clashy mindsets are within the same spheres i guess #support creators and reblog things etc but only if they're not being cringe haha #and what is cringe changes depending on the month instead of being grateful people are making things at all #as usual i need to remove myself from caring and start creating things #rather than scrolling through so much of these discussions i forget that oh right making things #is supposed to be fun actually and that's what outweighs those negatives #but alas i am here #making nothing and wishing fandom felt more like a community the way it used to for me #instead of finding ways to cultivate that myself lmao #at least having minimal free time excludes me from the content mill grind for now : )

[fandomfuntimem]

PSA

If you aren't sure how much vision someone with a white cain has, don't block their path with the intent of them hitting you. Just fucking ask them how much vision they have. I can garentee you they will probably be happy, or just comfortable with telling you.

Don't laugh when you prove they can see. Cuz not everyone with a white cain is entirely blind. Some have one for identification. Meaning their vision is bad, but they can funtion without a cain. It just makes it easier than doing the whole shpeal about how eyes work, or habing to deal with drivers trying to signal you when you cant see. (This is a legal thing that is very common in the visual impairment community. When I got diegnosed my specialists made getting me a cain a first priority.)

Some kid tested me today and I whacked him with my cain. He laughed at me and ran away when I yelled at him and asked if he wanted to know how I can see him. Little pussy didn't even want to deal with the consiquences. Next time he tried that shit he is getting a face full of metal lockers.

Its fucking insulting when people I don't know try to make a game out of my vision. I think that kid also asked my friend with tourettes if their ticks were contagious. Don't treat disabled people like they're play things to science experiments. It's dehumanizing

#funtime speaketh #text post #not a fandom #i know im supposed to be a fandom blog but this shit gets on my nerves #its been bothering me all day #im probably gonna do a whole post about my disability later #also i try to stay out of speaking for the disabled community #i am far more 'abled' than a lot of people in the visual impairment catagory #but this shit makes my blood boil #i know so many other kids who are almost entirely blind and he could have done that to then #drives me insane #disability #disabled #disabilties #visual impairment #visual disability #bullying #rant #vent

[mixmangosmangoverse]

(Vague post)

Popular analog horror has gone down the antisemetism rabbit hole so I no longer feel bad about using a vaguely similar idea. I think we need a Jewish analog horror ARG in fact

#Nah they’re not just supporting Palestine if they talk about Israel spreading propaganda and ‘getting what they deserve’ #And ‘facing consequences by powers less cowardly ‘ #Oh yeah I’m sure you’re not antisemetic when you’re threatening that more powerful countries will nuke Israel off the planet uh huh mhm #Anyways if anyone wants to join me in creating a completely jewish analog horror arg hit me up it’s our time #mango rambles #personal fruits #jumblr #ישראבלר #Not naming names but the fact is you can probably think of like. Five examples #Cool cool this doesn’t make me scared about content in the future at all. #I sound joking and all but I’m actually legit terrified #No space is safe for me #Not the magical girl fandom. Not the animation fandom. Not music or art. And now not even online horror #I legit have no place left. The only ones accepting me are either run by Jews or VERY small communities that don’t care about politics #When we say we are alienated now- think of what I just said #Every group has run me out of it. I can’t talk about anything I like without fearing for my online safety. #And people think this is an appropriate price for me to pay despite being a disabled queer mentally ill person. Someone who they’re suppose #To protect. WHO they still claim to protect. But when you add Jew #Or heaven forbid Israeli #To the mix. Suddenly you don’t get inclusivity anymore #WHO CARES if your hopes for the future rest on you creating art because you’re never gonna be able to support your family or get a real job #Should’ve thought about that before you parents were born in Israel if you wanted to be treated as a human being #Fuck everyone. My hopes for the future are legitimately so gone I’m always looking forward to dying so these people can be happy. #All I want is for everyone to be happy even at my expense. Sure my family will grieve #But millions of people will cheer for my death. That outweighs it. It’ll bring so much more happiness if I die. #This is my state now #I hope all you fucking Americans are happy. The country is going through a mental health crisis caused by you and you’re laughing #And tearing down posters of our cousins and siblings and friends. Laughing about it #And then go on to pretend to punch fictional nazis when in fact you are supporting real ones right now #I’m so done with everyone. Sorry about how series these tags are

[halforcdad]

really saw someone call lucy immature and compare lucy not telling kate she was looking for a new apartment to lucy getting upset at kate for not telling her why she made the move from DIA to FBI (to point out the hypocrisy of not communicating) like what is context

#ncis hawaii #i hesitate to call the discussion around the sneak peek discourse and blow it out of proportion but y'all LMAO #not every slip-up in communication is a huge problem thats just real life i thought we wanted imperfect characters #comparing lucy getting upset bc of the big reveal that kate cared enough abt her to stay in hawaii and turn down a big promotion #after a looong day of compounding emotional turmoil and thinking kate was gonna die #does not really compare to lucy doing this and not telling kate #and lucy wasnt mad at kate for not telling her she was moving to fbi she was mad bc kates whole thing was keeping secrets #and not being upfront abt feelings and how much their relationship meant to her until it was too late #looking for a new apt probably is a thing you would normally tell your SO to be fair but like #this is obviously supposed to be a feel-good ep for kacy and i feel like some of the talk around it and esp lucy has not been in good faith #its just one sneak peek but fandom is all about over speculating and discussing and theorizing and i love that #but some ppl are a little too quick to dogpile on lucy always lol #i also dont think lucy masterminded that as her way of telling kate to get a reaction #bc she seemed genuine when she said is everything okay and pleasantly surprised when kate brought up how often shes over #like lucy probably thought this was all nbd just another thing i have to do and wasn't even thinking abt moving in but obv im speculation #might delete this later i didnt expect to get so spirited over the discussion #I was focusing on lucy saying her life is just work gym and kate like wow thank u for my life #communication is always a work in progress whether youve been together for 5 months or 50 yrs

[frostiifae]

it's so funny how i've circled all the way back around. i used to hate the idea of being associated with anything popular because having feelings on things other people like makes me vulnerable to being criticized by them. and then it turned out that things other people like are good! and now i'm back around to hating being a jalter fan because people don't like jalter the right way

#feyranting #zzzzz #like it's not fun. i don't enjoy talking about or being shown jalter. even when it's good. #i'm just mad that we HAVE to clarify things about her. i'm mad that i feel like i have to be prepared to defend my enjoyment of a character #like if i play samurai remnant i won't talk about it with anyone. why would i? who am i going to talk to about it? #part of the point of fandom is supposed to be that you get to engage in niche communities that are all on the same page about something #but what do you do when the things you enjoy are beyond the average reader of your fandom? #i'm sure that sounds pretentious but w/e i keep living it and it keeps sucking so here i am

[tilia-cacophonous]

WAIT pause pause pause everyoene, I was todays ten thousand to learn that akechis VA robbie daymond is a va for league of legends???????

#rambles #he voices KAYN apparently. what! #the expression i mustve made kjhfghj 'ROBBIE?!???' #since im already making a lol post. the recent lore retcon update is Such a mess. suuuuch a mess #it will be so hard for them to make it cohesive. and then theres the situation of the characters that have multiple backstories??? (EKKO?!) #this prob means that ill actually have to watch arcane to keep up with the new unified lore :/ dont get me wrong #ive only heard good things about it but im not ready at the emotional rollercoaster it apparently is. #maybe i should liveblog all the things ill notice that have the potential to cause problems for the overall runeterra lore ahahahah #officially outing myself as a person that has been keeping up with league's lore for Years i guess 😅 i suppose i need to make a statement t #that i dont condone riot and their business practices. nor the shit lol community does 😬 absolutely awful in so many ways #my fandom tag for lol is runeterra btw #VA UPDATE gangplank and kindred wolf are voiced by the legendary matt mercer. Morgana and zoe are voiced by erica lindbeck(p5 futaba sakura #and nami and yuumi by cassandra lee morris (p5 morgana. I knew yuumi sounded familiar!) #i dont recognise anyone else but Swains VA was also apparently an actor on game of thrones and thresh's va was in barbie fairytopia lmao

[soullessjack]

every day I remember that this fandom simply does not care about autistic people and, much like every other fucking thing I experience as an autistic person, the concept of it being a collective found family becomes increasingly alien to me. love this place.

#we really just can’t win I fucking hate it here #like this is my special interest. this is my community. I’ve met so many people through it that ended up becoming lifelong friends #I’ve been here for almost ten years and it’s meant everything to me for ten years. it’s kept me going through so much shit. #it’s more than just a show and more than just a fandom and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever been apart of #and like I didn’t realize I was autistic until like late 2021. I didn’t even realize SPN was my special interest until then either #I didn’t realize JACK was my special interest. but knowing that he is autistic means so much to me #and its meant so much to other autistic ppl in the fandom. somebody at MomentoCon even mentioned it to Alex last weekend for fucks sake . #it’s real and it’s special and it’s important to us but #but no we can’t have that. make him a fucking baby. toss every interesting thing about his character into a fucking volcano #and relegate him to being a fucking prop for everybody else. #I don’t know how else to tell you this but you are literally infantilizing an autistic person. you are being ableist. intentionally or not. #and the way you all seem to just. idk. double down on your own ableism? or excuse it? #or literally ignore autistic ppl who try to point out how ableist and weird your behavior towards an autistic character is? #it’s a lot of things. it’s so many terrible things and terrible feelings. but above all it’s disheartening. #it hurts to know that even in this space where everyone is family and everyone belongs. I’m still on the outside looking in. #I’m still not /really/ a part of everything else. it’s a horrible feeling and I don’t wish anyone to ever go through with it #but maybe you fucking should. maybe then you’d realize what you’re doing. or maybe you won’t. maybe I’m screaming into the void again. #which I literally always am w this topic anyways. nothing but screaming into a vast empty void that’s supposed to be my big special family #but whatever I guess. #spn #supernatural #spn fandom #spn family #spn famdom #jack kline #autistic jack kline #tfw2.0 #destiel #sam and dean #castiel