#fandom weirdness

[tyxaar]

You know, a phenomenon in fandom I rarely see talked about is how often fandoms just sorta adopt bands, Usually indie stuff. Tally Hall and TMA, MCYT(particularly Life SMP) and The Crane Wives, Lemon Demon and uh… a lot of fandoms, and a bunch more I don’t know. It must be really quite amusing from the artist’s perspective. Like imagine you’re just making music one day then find out that a good chunk of your audience likes watching block people on youtube go through elaborate unscripted death game drama.

#tyx’s ramblings #the crane wives #life smp #mcyt #the magnus archives #tma podcast #lemon demon #tally hall #fandom weirdness #fandom #i suspect that this phenomenon starts with a small pool of crossover fans #then spreads out as people are introduced to the band or the fandom through exposure to animatics and analyses and the such

[samasmith23]

Sometimes fandom debates just baffle me... aka, “Judas Traveller vs. Carlie Cooper”

I remember awhile back when Linkara did his review of the Spider-Man: Clone Saga opening arc “Power & Responsibility,” I saw quite a few people in the comments section of that particular video debating over which Spidey character they felt was worse: Judas Traveller or Carlie Cooper?

A debate which... originally quite surprised me when I first encountered it...

If you don’t know who Carlie Cooper is, she’s a police officer and forensics expert who was named after Joe Quesada’s daughter, and was introduced at the very end of the infamous Spider-Man: One More Day (aka, my most personal HATED comic of all-time...) as a potential new love interest for Peter Parker. Because of this, a lot of longtime Spider-Man fans seem to really HATE Carlie’s character, with many of them going as far calling her "an annoying Mary Sue/Carlie Sue" (BTW, "Mary Sue" is a meaningless and misogynistic phrase that's been weaponized by toxic Comicsgater & FandomMenace chuds...).

Now me personally, I don’t have much of an opinion about Carlie as a character since my only real exposure to her was in Dan Slott's Superior Spider-Man. And honestly... I enjoyed her just fine there. I had no real strong opinions about her character but appreciated her subplot in that series wherein she was one of the few to discover the mind-swap before later being turned into one of the Green Goblin’s minions, and Osborn learned about Otto possessing Peter’s body when he stole Carlie’s journals.

And interestingly enough, Carlie she hasn’t been seen much in the comics since the ending of Superior Spider-Man, where she now has goblin eyes due to remnants of Osborn’s serum.

But yeah, I don’t have much of an opinion of Carlie Cooper, so I neither like nor dislike her, and would still say that Judas Traveller is a far worse character since not only is he incredibly out of place as a Spider-Man villain since he's initially presented as this god-like immortal being (SPOILERS: Traveller was later retconned into just being a mutant who suffered a severe nervous breakdown when his ability to to alter both others and his own perceptions of reality awakened...), but his motivations of wanting to study "the true nature of good and evil" are incredibly weak and vague, and he ultimately contributes NOTHING to the overall Clone Saga narrative.

Even Spider-Man assistant editor Glen Greenberg stated during the online essay "The Life of Reilly" (which chronicles all the behind-the-scenes events surrounding The Clone Saga), that NOBODY working on the Spider titles at the time had any idea who or what Traveller's deal was supposed to be:

And yet weirdly enough, I still saw commenters arguing that Carlie was the worse of the two characters, even though from what I can tell she actually had clearly defined goals and motivations as a character. I sadly cannot say the same for Judas Traveller...

Still though, it does kinda say something when Otto Octavius' love interest from Superior Spider-Man, Anna Maria Marconi, is a much more popular and beloved new character among Spider-Man fans than Carlie was...

#spider man #clone saga #superior spider man #judas traveller #carlie cooper #peter parker #otto octavius #doctor octopus #doc ock #green goblin #norman osborn #joe quesada #dan slott #glenn greenberg #jm dematteis #howard mackie #mini essay #fandom weirdness #tangent #anna maria marconi #debates

[theowritesfiction]

once every few months, I will get this PM on FFN saying "hi there like generbending"

And I'm like... why am I being asked this question? (if it's even a question, there's not a question mark) I have nothing against the concept, but if you'd actually looked through my body of work over the years, you would know that it's just not a feature in my stories?

Just weird. If you like genderbending, why not look at writers who have a history of having written such stories. Or if you have a specific character you want genderbent, you can always write it yourself?

#fandom weirdness

[tadfools]

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

#this isnt bg3 specific btw im seeing a lot of fandoms rotting cause of this #ao3 #archive of our own #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 #PLEASE YOU GUYS INTERACT WITH THE THINGS YOU READ #you’re not being weird or annoying!!! it doesn’t matter how old the fic is!!! #you can just say ‘I love this’ or ‘it’s three am and I haven’t slept yet cause I was reading this’ #you can copy and paste a paragraph you like and add ‘!!!!!!’ after it #theories in the comments! mention when you think you’ve found foreshadowing!!! #if there’s a part where you have to physically put your phone down and smile off into the distantce? TELL THE AUTHOR #you can leave comments every chapter too!!! ITS NOT ANNOYING

[arggghhhsstuff]

forever obsessed with percy being weird. off-putting. strange even. a cryptid maybe. an urban legend if I may. my boy is the son of one of the oldest, most powerful gods, has been in FBI's records since the age of twelve, fought and won two wars against immortal beings, went to hell and back. I think he's allowed to be a little odd.

#percy jackson #cryptid percy jackson #<- there are only 3 fics under this tag on ao3 it's making me so sad #because i have THOUGHTS and HEADCANONS and IDEAS but i don't know how to write #demigods being less humans than they are in canon is a favorite headcanon of mine #they get to be WEIRD and SCARY and POWERFUL #!!!! #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #pjo #pjo hoo toa #demigods #percy jackson fandom #percy jackson tv show #pjo show #yeah

[fortheloveofdeaddove]

*ahem*

That's just me though.

#its one thing or another #fandom weirdness #what are folks even up to #clout chasing #Youtube

[altschmerzes]

"these characters' relationship is just too weird to be platonic" "they can't be Just Friends they're way too weird" "they may not be dating but whatever they have going on is way too weird to be platonic" i'm starting to think none of you guys know what 'platonic' means tbh. anyways, skill issue.

#gav gab #i love bizarre and inscrutable and completely and entirely platonic character dynamics :) #brooooo when are fandoms gonna stop being so fucking weird and reductive about platonic relationships lmao

[filmnoirsbian]

People who say 2019 cats is a crazy/weird masterpiece have never seen an actually crazy weird movie in their lives I'm so sick of 2019 cats propaganda it's not even entertaining bad it's literally completely devoid of creativity and artistry and I'm SICK of people acting like its anything more than bad acting and bad cgi the visuals aren't even that weird!! Nothing pisses me off more than someone acting like 2019 cats is anything more than a poorly made normie film. It's a "weird" film for disney fans that's it.

#go watch rubber go watch eraserhead go watch pink flamingos go watch mad god and tbh even THOSE are like. well known weird films. #scratch the surface of weird cinema I'm begging u #tcp #is there a 2019 cats hate fandom im there im in it

[piratespencil]

This is so funny to me. Reducing them down to their simplest attributes. Turning them into symbols.

#this is some bouba kiki shit #also!! i said this in the tags of another post but i've finally gotten to the point in my op reread where i've hit the moment #when i stopped reading op back in like 2014 #that's almost ten years ago holy shit!!!! wild #i know a lot of what happens in later arcs bc i've been keeping up with the op fandom online #but it's weird to be reading chapters that i've never read before... new and fresh op content #(i stopped reading around chapter 750 btw) #(and this is from the sbs at the end of chapter 757) #one piece #zosan #kk talks about stuff #kk talks about op

[theregencyreticule]

Y’know, over the last couple of days, this photo kept coming to mind. (Don’t know why that would be….🙄)

If I were really clever and didn’t have puking children, I might make a meme with it. However, not *really* feeling the inclination right now.

Will just say- why why why must people continually jump to conclusions? I really don’t understand.

#fandom weirdness

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

imagine how bizarre this fandom looks to the outside world. we're all gay asf and screaming about two middle aged men and making the most random references. we send neil the most unhinged asks and get equally unhinged replies. try looking at the tags "archangel fucking gabriel", "bildaddy the shuite", "welsh seduction machine" and assorted years like 1941 and 1827 or whatever else without context.

#good omens #i mean we are a little weird #let a friend scroll through my blog bc she wanted to watch the show and was so confused #good omens fandom

[starchaserdreams]

#jegulus #dorlene #marylily #moonwater #marauders #marauders era #dead gay wizards #starchaser #sunseeker #pandalily #nobleflower #this is such a weird fandom because it's like 90% of ships

[stellaclaw]

boiling hot take but i literally dont give a fuck that mapleshade let the clan believe her kits were birchfaces. her clanmates can be mad but exiling a queen and her kits is fucking deranged i dont care what lie she told. “she deserved what she got” her kids deserved to die because their mom fibbed??😭 her kids deserved to die because their mom did crimes LATER???😭😭 “um but she chose to cross the river” if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around.

#stellatalks #warrior cats #mapleshade #if i was just physcally assault and kicked out of my home on threat of being mauled i would simply make perfect choices #like ‘deserved what she got’ v much implies her kids deserved to die. since ‘what she got’ was mourning dead children #‘so you think murder is okay’ DID NOT SAY THAT. I SIMPLY DO NOT THINK LYING IS WORTHY OF BEING EXILED AND HAVING UR CHILDREN DIE #im not even a mapleshade fan i actually prefer freckle💀 i just think the fandom is SO weird about her in particular

[buggachat]

honestly just in general it's very exhausting to try to analyze media that is literally meant to be analyzed, only for the replies to be filled with people arguing not against your analysis, but against the premise that the media can be analyzed at all.

i don't even know what to say about it without starting to really betray my frustration, so i'll just settle with— just don't engage with analysis posts? I'm serious. if you're typing a response to a media analysis post, reread what you've written and ask yourself "is this comment/response against the very concept of analyzing the media at all?" and if the answer is yes then delete it all and go sit in the shame corner. throw your curtains away if you want to so bad and stop telling me that I'm not allowed to hum and haw at the fact mine are blue

#ml fandom salt #I suppose #and no amount of adding ''stop telling me to not analyze the media'' on my analysis posts stops people from saying it anyway #and yes. the leaks count. stop telling me that the existence of outdated leaks invalidates all analyses of the completed material #and no. just like every other time i've said this. me saying that i don't care about the leaks is not an invitation for you to try to #convince me to care about the leaks #do i tag this spoilers? it feels weird to. i mean this to be a vague overarching thing about media in general #also of course any ''or maybe the writers are just bad'' arguments ALSO are included in this. YOU guys have been my bane since FOREVER #would you guys consider commenting on fanart with ''umm.... drawing seems pretty pointless lmao'' rude? #i know this is not the first time i've made a post like this and i'm sure it won't be the last

[sofipitch]

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfiction writer #fanfic writers #polls #i'm honestly just curious #bc I usually go to exclude AUs immediately at least the modern setting one #i like fix it fics but usually I like the series for the canon setting and if I'm looking for fanfic it's bc I want MORE of that fandom #but maybe I'm weird stay tunned to find out