#fandom wank cw

[starseverance]

I've been stepping back from tumblr for a while because shipcourse makes me get angry and I don't like being angry, but honestly...

The fact is that antis often create proshippers* by treating neutrals negatively. I can't count the amount of people I know of whose neutral stance didn't last long because antis pressured them to state opinions or spread rumours about them.

I would ask "how hard is it to leave people who don't want to be involved in shipcourse alone?" but I already know that certain groups of people find that very hard indeed. Certain groups of people put their personal need to make themselves feel morally superior by harming those that they deem "bad" before everything else, and that includes the boundaries and needs of others.

When neutrals are harassed by antis, policed by antis, and continually pestered to pick a side, they won't pick the side that made them feel like they had to choose. These are nuanced issues and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but more and more people are adopting the proship label because antis are harassing them whether they use it or not.

Antishippers talk the big talk about people being manipulated into becoming proship, but unsurprisingly, a lot of people prefer to be around people who don't make being in favour of harassment over fiction a core part of their online identity.

I may not be neutral, but shoutout to the people who are, because they have to put up with much of the same crap that proshippers do. People have the right to not take a side, to have criticisms of both viewpoints, to keep their opinions private, and to enjoy their fandoms without the fighting. Or at least I think they do.

*And for anyone who is confused or conflicted about what proship means: I would advise you to use the definition given by people who use the label, instead of people who hate people who use the label.

#discourse #sev's thoughts #shipcourse #i am aware that this will serve as a magnet for unsavoury people looking to twist my words and stuff #but I can't not say this #proship #fandom wank #proshipper #proshippers please interact #cw shipcourse #cw discourse

[hasattory689]

Kinda ironic how the ace attorney fandom, who has the word "ace" in it, is packed full of aphobic lgbt+ exclusionists.

Headcanoning a character as asexual, aromantic or as aroace is as valid as any other queer headcanon. Even if some here have the IQ of a rock and cannot comprehend that.

#ace attorney #vent post #lurking #aphobia mention #ace #aro #aroace #lgbt exclusionists dni #i was lurking on some blogs that I enjoy #and i saw a post talking about not imposing headcanons onto others or claim they are canon #and how that type of behavior got someone nearly doxxed for having an aroace hc of a popular character who is hc as gay #and in the comments there was already someone saying that aroace doesn't equal queer #and that that person should be sent to russia or the middle east #so they could be confortable #not only was that xenophobic as fuck #and islamophobic #but fucking acephobic as well #just bc someone in the past didn't make mile edgeworth gay in their minds #fucking wild behavior #less smoking grass and more touching it #internet brainrot #fandom wank #fandom drama #cw aphobia #cw exclusionism #Lgbt exclusionists can go fuck off #sexuality wank #lgbt headcanons #queer headcanons #fandom police

[calicostorms]

Fellow gentiles as The Terf (JKR)’s Game comes out this month I am gently reminding all of us that we should be thoughtful about centering ourselves and our experiences (eg. trans people) when speaking about this game given that the entire premise basically builds off blood libel and antisemitic tropes.

We should be doing more to care for our Jewish brothers and sisters and ensuring their well being, and that begins with acknowledging that even without the anti-trans agendas she pushes, she has pushed antisemitism within her books for years and though not directly involved, her upcoming game does the same.

Basically, all this to say: boycott the game for her transmisogyny, obviously, but the antisemitism should not be secondary to that, especially given the spike in antisemitic violence right now.

#calico speaks #fandom wank #just. putting this out in the world bc im seeing a lot of posts anti jkr bc of the terfism but not the literal blood libel game rn #we cant ignore that this game would not be acceptable even if she was not a terf guys #even in a world where she was not a terf there is still the antisemitism and racism to be reckoned with #cw jk rowling

[lewishamil10n]

man all the recent comments about how "val is so much happier now that he's no longer in mercedes" annoy me soooo much. and it's not even because i'm a merc fan! i agree his situation at merc wasn't the best, but the way people go on about how mistreated he was and how he's finally Free is so fucking annoying. not to mention straight up inaccurate.

first of all, can we stop woobifying the grown man who's made his own choices? thank you.

now that that's out of the way — valtteri's journey in f1 is something that's kinda super fucking personal to me, but also to him, right, obviously. because he was so fucking intense back when he was in williams, even initially at merc, and a lot of it was because he put so much pressure on himself to succeed. keep in mind he doesn't come from money, either. his parents are working class. it's not a stretch to imagine how much they must've sacrificed for him to be able to be where he is. that is an insane amount of pressure to succeed. on top of that, he was constantly told his body type is holding him back, that he needed to lose more weight, that he needed to be lighter. to the point that he had a motherfucking eating disorder. that he went and got help for, yes, but god, EDs fuck with you so bad. so fucking bad, take it from me. i don't think his eating habits got healthier until the current weight regs were announced. fucking imagine your team telling you that you need to starve yourself and be lighter or your car won't be fast. fucking imagine remembering all the shit your family went through just to get you into this exclusive sport for rich people, so now you HAVE to make it worth it.

on top of this, valtteri joined merc after the whole nico shitshow went down. i don't doubt that's part of why toto only kept him on one-year contracts (despite being his friend, and his manager prior to merc) — because drivers on one-year contracts live in constant fear of their seat being taken away if they put even a toe out of line. on top of that, valtteri, who wanted so bad to win a championship that he believed the one-year contracts and all that was worth it, was competing with lewis hamilton. he says it himself that it took him a long time to admit to himself that he's just not as good as lewis. but god, he TRIED, he tried so FUCKING HARD, man.

the valtteri we see now, the fun goofy guy who's living his best life — it took a lot for him to be able to become this valtteri, okay. i genuinely think he's one of the only drivers on the grid that actually realized how terrible the sport was for his health, and who then decided he wasn't going to let it ruin him. that's why he's letting himself be happy now. it's not because he was being held down and tortured by merc specifically or whatever narrative people fucking love peddling. it's because he's finally happy with who he is and where he is in life and he's letting it show instead of making racing his entire existence.

like it's literally so fucking irritating because it's so obvious who actually loves valtteri and who just loves slandering merc. valtteri himself has been given so many chances to slander merc, he's been baited well n good by the media all last year, and he's never said a single bad thing about them even though he so easily could. if he hated it so much why does he still hang out with lewis regularly. why does he still travel with toto in his jet? because they're his friends. he doesn't hate them, he doesn't blame them. but ofc people ignore all this when spinning their shitty narrative that victimizes valtteri for no fucking reason just to prove a point. god if you cared this much about drivers being treated badly you'd have a better case to make with checo in rbr or danny ric in mclaren or mick in haas (but that's another post for another day lol).

TLDR — stop fucking acting like merc tortured valtteri for realsies and he's 'enjoyable' now because he's 'free of them' fuck you he was always enjoyable y'all just want any excuse to shit on merc

#valtteri bottas #f1 #remy.txt #OOPS i kind of went on a rant SORRY (not sorry) #fandom wank #sort of?? #salt tag #eating disorder mention #eating disorder cw #ask to tag if i've missed anyhing

[prettyboybillyhargrove]

I just realized S2 Billy's(17) first scene is high school girls checking him out and catcalling and S3 Billy's ("freshly" 18 like some of y'all like to call) first scene is grown ass women checking him out and catcalling.

Seriously I know Duffers are piece of shits and everything but how could they get away with so much creepy shit? Why no one is confrontating them about sexualizing teens/kids (i talk about this before but Mike/El kissing a billion times is totally them sexualizing the kids i don't accept criticism about this) why not even one person comes out and says you guys are fuckin grown ass men in your 30s why the fuck you're shooting a show with this much kids where you sexualize them? Like? They're doing this for some type of people ig? I'm not even saying the part where they force Sadie and Caleb to kiss when it was not in the script and their excuse was "you looked so nervous we had to do it ahahahahaha" again these are 35+ men the kids were 12-14 at the time.

#stranger things critical #fandom wank #technically #billy hargrove #billy antis dni #im serious im not gonna answer any of you #cw workplace abuse

[suncaptor]

no for real why is whether or not someone thinks Dean would be better at making his bed than Sam a litmus test for how much they fundamentally do not understand the characters.

#incoherents #to be clear this is NOT dean crit i do not care about someone making their bed i certainly don't #it's just soooooo funny. like do you understand either of these characters at all #wank cw #(bc fandom wank. again. do not actually think this matters. in fact making ur bed well is if anything cringe fail) #(that was a joke) #spn #supernatural

[ijustreallylikecaptainamericaok]

How about 1, 15, 23 for the air your grievances ask game?

Hi! :-)

What's your biggest __[insert fandom]__ pet peeve(s)?

Oof, okay... I think my biggest pet peeve with the M/C/U fandom is how greedy certain pockets of it can be. When 80-95% of either the canon or fandom is catered to you, I don't get complaining so hard about the slim percentage that doesn't. It's infuriating. But I've talked about that a bunch in the past.

Something I don't think ever talked about is how this fandom drives me up the damn wall as a music nerd. The biggest example is folks describing the Guardians soundtracks/"Qu*ll's taste in music" as "80s music." No. No, they're not. They're mainly the 70s. I know, I counted, after the fandom nearly gaslit me into doubting my own knowledge. In fact, out of the trilogy, IW, the Gro/ot shorts, and the Holiday special, only Vol 3 and the Holiday special contain any 80s songs. (And for record, this isn't me shitting on the 80s or anything. I'm an 80s baby and love tons of music from that era. This is just me being an insufferable know-it-all, lol.)

Another one is constantly framing Sam's recommendation of Tro/uble Man as some kind of come on. Like, first of all, that album is mainly a score and the few lyrics that do exist on it are not sexy. Second of all, oh my God, there's more to Marvin than just sex jams, holy shit. It's very obvious that some are only familiar with stuff like "Let's get it on" and "Sexual Healing" and that's it and... I can't help it, that makes me so sad.

15. Name an aspect of __[insert character]__ that you think gets frequently overlooked in fanfiction characterizations/deserves more attention/exploration

I think fandom's really dropped the ball with post-EG Steve. We could've had sprawling epics with Steve creating timeline after timeline where he had full lives with every Av*nger and Guardian and whoever else and having D*ctor Who style adventures across space and time. But, noooope. Nada.

I'll also never understand how I've only ever seen one fic where Professor H*lk and Steve raise Baby!Scott. That's comedy gold, right there. And how the hell did Sh*-H*lk not spawn a ton of St*ve/Jen? Not to mention all the cool concepts WI? has given the fandom on a silver platter only for them to be completely ignored.

23. Share an unpopular opinion you have RE: __[insert fandom]__

At the risk of being skinned alive, I know that even people who don't ship St*cky romantically will say that they still love them as friends instead. And I... don't. I can't get into that dynamic, even platonically. Most of their relationship is told rather than shown and what little we are shown doesn't endear it to me at all. Fandom can scream "till the end of the line" until it's blue in the face, but that doesn't make up for its problems in the slightest. (And frankly, I think that was the main purpose of the line to begin with, but that's a whole other rant.) I mean, B*cky spends most of T/F/A coming off (to me) like a condescending prick towards Steve and then spends the rest of Steve's time in the films deliberately staying as far away as humanly possible. It feels very one-sided to me, overall. And why should I revere that period, but especially so when dynamics like the ones Steve has with S*m, N*t, and P*ggy exist? Dynamics where the love and respect is quite clearly mutual and they actively want to be in his life? There's just no contest as far as I'm concerned.

Now, in fairness, theirs isn't the only dynamic in the films that's way more tell than show nor is it the worst offender in terms of the discrepancy between what's told and what's shown, but again, those are other rants.

Sorry about this getting kinda long. I'd been holding that first rant in for a loooong time, lol, so thank you for sending this in and giving me the chance to finally get that off my chest. XD

Air Your Grievances Ask Game

#bulkyphrase #replies #fandom woes #fandom wank #long post cw

[echoes-lighthouse]

I will never be over people who prefer to make a canonically fucked up and abusive relationship into a 'uwu great father figure and their innocent little bean' rather than people who lean into the disturbing shit and make it romantic.

Like, yes, both are valid approaches and both of them are also fucked up approaches but the fact that one of them tends to get all holier-than-thou about it will always make me crack up.

#also the 'great father figure' one makes me worried #i'm like 'you know that isn't actually good right?' #whereas the people writing the fucked up romance shit #i'm like 'yeah you know you're writing something toxic i don't have to worry about you' #anyways #this is specifically about black butler and skulduggery pleasant #but i'm sure there are other instances #proship #ask to tag #i'm not sure what the content warning here would be #cw age gap #i guess? #fandom wank #fandom negativity #negativity #feeling spicy might delete this later :P #tw discourse #discourse mention

[the-bar-sinister]

If everyone who works at AO3 does that work without compensation who the fuck do they think should be combing through works.

"The people who did this weren't compensated for their time" No one is!!

"Only paid specialists should be doing this"

So you think their budget should be tens if not hundreds of thousands bigger, and in the mean time nothing should be done about it??

If the answer to that is no, then what the fuck do you wanr, they didnt do The Best, but they are doing Their Best, and it is better than Nothing At All.

Hopefully they improve in clarity and guidance for the volunteers and hopefully they give more support to those troubles by what they find, but god damn. This work is done for free. What else do you expect? Miracles??? Perfection???? We're human, what you see is what you get.

Exactly, anon, exactly.

People are treating OTW like its another tyrannical corporate oppressor with its boot on the throat of the masses, instead of what it IS, a grassroots organization of passionate volunteer fans.

People, this is not who the guillotine is for!

#archive of our own #ao3 #pro ao3 #organization for transformative works #otw #fandom #fandom community #fandom wank #cw csem mention

[discluded]

I know you have always said that you don’t like negativity in your blog but everything that is going on with MA and the movie is pissing me off and I just went back today to check on my guys 😩 but all these solo fans I’m sick and tired of them. I know Apo’s way of dealing with all of the negativity is to ignore it but like it’s coming to the point that these loud and very wrong mfs are burning bridges between MA and people in the industry. Like the artist that worked on the poster and ads, (I saw a Thai fan say he is super popular to work with and that so many non fans were getting interested in seeing the movie bc of him and these dumbass solo fans started to bash him and he had to apologize for not doing a good job. Like do these idiots not think ! If they keep this they are just sabotaging opportunities for their fave ) idk MA don’t owe us any explanations on their work stuff bc if everyone else would have common sense and job nobody would have time to be crying for any minimal stuff happening, but at this point if BOC can literally block the negative comments and maybe release a statement with both MA maybe their solo stans can get lost ? Idk like I really want these losers away from MA I can only imagine how they are going to act when their series is going to be released I don’t even want to think about the fact that if they are not a couple in that series it’s going to another headache coming…this is so fkn tiring like all these freaks need to go out and touch some grass bc the only real enemy their faves have at this point is their fans (them )

I had to rant to someone, it’s ok if you don’t post it I just needed to let it out. 💓

no, i'm tired of this too. if it's just fans causing drama amongst themselves, I can ignore it, but this is actively interfering with Man Suang promo now, and harassing media outlets and sponsors in a way that will make them not want to support Apo/Man Suang. How can you call yourself a fan and disrespect him like this? with "fans" like this, who needs antis 🙄

#cw fandom wank #man suang promo