#fandom rambling

[strawberrus0da]

Can we talk about the little nod he gives Flapjack like this was planned and synchronized I’m

#hunter #flapjack #hunter toh #flapjack toh #toh #the owl house #fandom rambling #any sport in a storm

[shinakkyo]

🍉🍈🫐for the fic meme!

🍉 Do you prefer to write short fics or long fics? Multichaptered works or single ones? Why?

i used to write shorter fics when i first started writing fic (like between 1200~5000 words) but somehow lately i seem to only write over 6k words??? but i guess i do prefer writing longer formats! and one-shots all the way, im way more comfortable to write without the commitment of regularly updating something lol

🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.

i hate the word blorbo lol i could go on and on and on and on forever talking about hakkai-chan and why he's the best character that was ever created (like i do on twt) BUT im picking john wick for this just bc i think about him so much... i like the hc that he's good at cooking in a general sense, like someone who has the technique and could easily make anything if he has the recipe, and is also good at improvising bc he understands flavor combinations? i like writing about food as comfort & as a love language so on my jw fic this was very present!!!

🫐 What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)

tkrv fandom: hakkai-chan, obviously. famously in the last 5 characters of the official popularity poll, most fics on the tag only have him as a bg chara/bg relationship/barely mentioned. and yet. he's my one and only. i would commit credit card fraud for him.

jjk fandom: my fav underrated thing is probably the manga itself LOL im sorry to everyone who thinks gg's writing has gotten worse/the story got boring/the plot is convoluted but that's just shounen manga baby!!!!! and i think gg is doing great things to the genre!!!

i don't think jw has that big a community to call a fandom tbh lol it's like one of my fav franchises ever but let's be real. it's kind of a flop. a cult classic, if you will. and most fics are x reader which is fine!!!! but not something im interested in reading 乁⁠[⁠ ⁠◕⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠ ⁠◕⁠ ⁠]⁠ㄏ and im not that much in touch with wednesday fandom outside wyler shipping so idk i think at least for this ship i want to read weirder stuff lol & there's an appalling lack of xtian guilt on the tag!!! there should be more!!

#fic writing #fandom rambling

[mirajanefairytailmage]

Fandom Rambling (04/30/2022)

I watched Vincenzo in December 2021. I watched The Untamed in March of 2022. I watched Word of Honor this month (April 2022). These three seem to be the ones I've been thinking about the most lately. It really shows on my blog. 🤣 Especially with Word of Honor.

With Vincenzo, I can't stop thinking about Jang Han-seo. His ending still bothers me. Like, after all the hell he had to endure, they went and did THAT to him. HE DESERVED BETTER, DAMN IT!! 😡Ok Taecyeon portrayed the villain so well, so major kudos to him for that. I still can’t stand nor forgive Jang han-seok, though. I’m still not over the heartbreak of Vincenzo losing his mom after reuniting with her. 😭

With The Untamed, I can't stop thinking about Xue Yang. His betrayal to Xiao Xing Chen. This man also has me conflicted because of his backstory. As tragic as his backstory is, he could have chosen a different path. Instead, he’s a villain. I love the plot twist of Nie Huai Sang being the mastermind behind the downfall of Jin Guangyao. I admit I cried at his downfall, only because of how devastated Lan Xichen was. It broke my heart to see him like that. That scene where Lan Zhan showed up with Empire’s Smile melted my heart. He remembered and decided to break the rules and bring the drink to Wei Wuxian. Also, that habit Wei Wuxian has, where he touches his nose is absolutely adorable to me.

With Word of Honor, it’s the way Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing had me crying so much, that I ended up with several migraines. 😫 Their relationship had me becoming an emotional mess through out the entire series. Another thing I think about a lot is the fact that I have conflicted feelings towards Scorpion King. That man was a villain all because he wanted the love and approval that he craved from Zhao Jing. Also, it broke my heart the way Cao Weining was betrayed by his master like that. It was another one of those moments where a character sought approval from another character, only to be betrayed or hurt in the end. 🥺 I don’t know how to explain it, but I have a soft spot for Ye Baiyi. He seems grumpy and snarky, but I love that about him. 🤣

#fandom rambling #kdrama #cdrama #vincenzo #the untamed #word of honor

[goldensunset]

a real blorbo is someone you can both write a lengthy and serious/sad analysis on yet also constantly and i mean constantly make stupid jokes about

#peach rambles #hall of fame i guess #this post was about volo pokémon. among others #i have seen almost every fandom i’ve ever even heard of tagged here. good for y’all ig

[fiannalover]

"Kill yourself" is basic. "I hope your fandom gets a new installment that is objectively a great work but also tonally dissonant from the previous ones in a way that generates a huge newbie boom of people uninterested and hostile towards the history of the franchise" is smart. It's possible. It's terrifying. It's happening right now.

#fian rambles #ok to reblog #fandom

[somanywips]

I hate that planned obsolescence is starting to reach fandoms. I hate that fandoms are starting to die after two, three years, I hate that whenever you stop getting content that means the fandom will die and be gone.

I need people to stop trying to brush off old interests as being 'cringe' as soon as you lose interest, or worse: make it seem like it's imoral to like something that they themselves held so dear before.

Fandoms are meant to last for years and years, the moment content stops being created is the moment we truly thrive because we keep creating the content ourselves the way we love it and expand on the things that are already there for us.

I don't care if you lost interest on something, it's fine and normal even, but stop trying to blame and make fun of people who still do love the fandom and the content and the things we can create.

I need people to enjoy fandom again

#wips rambles! #fandom #I don't know #I never know anything

[camilleflyingrotten]

#sorry for the rambling yesterday #I’m kind of sad I contributed to ruin some people experience of fandom with my nonsensical sht #tho I’m trying to not post everythg here lmfao #now back to posting #good omens #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #Twitter #procreate #digitalart #my art

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[roguelibrarian]

[grabs your shoulders and shakes you] something being widely accepted fanon does not actually make it "basically canon" and it doesn't mean people who don't incorporate it into their fics or acknowledge it are doing something wrong

#fandom kvetching #rogue rambles

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

PSA Regarding Hateful Anons

Tumblr recently made it a requirement for you to be logged in to send asks anonymously. If you receive a hateful ask, don’t publish it - report it to Tumblr. It can be traced back to the user that sent it and with enough reports that person’s account will be suspended.

Share to raise awareness but also to make the clowns who think this behaviour is acceptable think twice before acting brave behind the guise of invisibility.

#kind of a fandom ramble?

[strawberrus0da]

tfw you play a whimsical fashion dress up game where everyone solves conflict through dress up battles but the canonical lore reason for those dress up battles is a blood curse inflicted on everyone in the land that prevents anyone from physically harming another individual lest they be put through unbearable pain themselves

#love nikki #love nikki dress up queen #ln #lnduq #fandom rambling #random rambling

[plaguedbyvisions]

there’s just something about the weight of a hammer in your hand. feels so right

#rambles #this is a dyke post btw #everyone tagging this as fandom shit get off the computer and go build something okay <33 #peace and love #those of you making it about wanting to bludgeon someone to death are fine tho

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

#unforth rambles #this wasn't really prompted by anything #I'm just sick and tired and distractable #or i should say it wasn't prompted by anything recent or that happened now #like no one has disrespected me #but as i hit the point that it's regularly taking me an hour plus every single day to queue things for the danmei art blogs #i just think of all the times people go WAIT YOU RUN ALL OF THOSE??? BY YOURSELF??? #like i just don't think a lot of people realize how much work it is to really do background fandom labor long term #and i appreciate places like rec blogs and networks and events and just everyone #y'all are awesome #thank you so much

[liimonadas]

randomly rememebered a very silly maya content creator AU i came up with like 2 years ago. its just dumb fun haha

#this is kind of an extension of my hc/au of having the aa cast be people who grew up in the early 2010s (social media users) #in this au maya is a prolific steel samurai extended universe fandom member and starts making videos in like 2018-2019 #edgeworth also posts online anonymously but it takes him yearsss to show his face online #getting a segment in her massive video essay compels him tho #yea im just rambling abt my goofy ideas atp if you wanna know more i can share #maya fey #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #ace attorney #fanart #art

[yourstrullyme]

"binge-worthy show" man fuck that

i want my shows one episode followed by a whole ass week of going a little insane over it with the people on my phone, writing fics theorizing and going over every single scene through amazing gifs and meta, before the next ep drops and the cicle begins anew

#meegs rambles #yes this is about willow 2022 it owns my heart #and also its fandom like we are small but i apreciate u guys all so sosos much #willow #willow series #willow disney+ #willow 2022 #willow (2022)