#fanwank for ts

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

pirate poll but it's one round and i'm cool about it

#this is the first poll i've ever made dfshfjfl. go wild. i literally don't care #yes i have a favorite but i want to see a redux of this for funsies #i did specify fictionalized for stede for fairness but please feel free to drag the real guy as well #this is the pirate opinion and critiquing queer media webbed site so go off #black sails #our flag means death #james flint #stede bonnet #and in case anyone's tired of this from the other one let's get a preemptive #fanwank for ts #but this one's gonna be straightforward and may a pirate win #polls

[boltlightning]

i log onto tumblr.corn. i see someone post the most fundamental understanding of a piece of media, but stated in the most condescending way possible, as though this is a revelation for the unwashed masses. i add a few more tags to my filtered content. i log off of tumblr.corn

#this is a b/g/3 subtweet #i've been in the da trenches. it's bad in there. dare i say: it sucks #please. my media literacy #ignore me #fanwank for ts

[yo-namine]

"Kairi was wrong to joke about not bringing Riku on the raft just because his darkness was making her uncomfortable." I have kicked men out of ubers for less.

#fanwank for ts #my posts

[emcads]

“when i say enemies to lovers I mean competing for class president!!!” i’m begging you to consume media set outside of a high school

#fanwank for ts #competing for class president is NOT enemies it's rivals at best. #i want geopolitical consequences. i want them to both try to kill each other and be unable to actually pull the trigger. #i want them to know everything about each other because 'keep your enemies close' but it means they accidentally fell in love #do not say you like enemies to lovers and then not commit i stg #✘; I HAVE SEVENTY TWO EXAMS AND I HAVE NOT STUDIED FOR ONE ( ooc )

[anghraine]

Apparently the people who missed the card are now getting confronted with MtG's Aragorn art, with the expected results. I'm just sad we can't see the grey eyes (but they definitely got the "shaggy dark hair, flecked with grey" down).

I've wanted Aragorn's canonically greying hair for ages and there it is + an incredible character design.

It's certainly, hmm, noticeable that a certain strain of Tolkien fandom's pretenses to fidelity when it comes to character descriptions are largely limited to skin color and they're cool with endless variations on inaccurate pop culture Aragorn as long as he's pale. This Aragorn looks spectacular :D

#leafstranger #respuestas #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #legendarium art #racism for ts #aragorn #andúril #lord of the rings

[via-whitmore]

So I just saw a post tagged “fandom is for teens first.” And I just.

I definitely understand there are instances of older people improperly acting towards younger people. I definitely think that media for children and teens needs to have spaces for them and young people need to feel safe online regardless of their interest.

But to say fandom? All of it regardless of content? The act of engaging with media online like housewives didn’t write the Spock/Kirk zines where we got the term slash in the first place? Mm mm. Super Ageist. You don’t have to become a passive consumer when you turn twenty and you can be over twenty in fandom without automatically being seen as a bad influence. It shows a true lack of understanding for the fan culture that got us here in the first place. Also all the teens are eventually going to age. Do we kick them out as new fans of old properties roll in? I think it smacks of “younger people having fun is more important than older people having fun.” If you grow out of it that is totally okay. Life is supposed to go in phases. But many people get into fandoms as older folks and there should be a place for that.

Also like...all the media you consume regardless of the intended age range is made by people in the age range that is apparently dangerous so. Like?

#fanwank for ts #get off my lawn I guess??

[emperorren]

Wait are people actually feeling suicidal over Daisy’s words?

A word of advice from someone who has been in fandom for.. .too long, tbh. Don’t lose your sleep over actors giving their opinion on shippy stuff. Really. Actors don’t have a clue of what shipping is, and those who think they do end up doing... what Daisy did, i.e. try to sound like they have a nuanced understanding of the discussion and controversy surrounding the pairing, which often results in parroting anti arguments without even realizing it.

Actors trying to tackle ship discourse = bad, bad news. But also irrelevant. One, Daisy was clearly stating her opinion on the dynamic as it is by the end of TLJ. Two, she said something similar (minus the “I can’t get behind it now”) pre TLJ and we STILL got a reylo-heavy movie. Three, she has said plenty of positive things about Reylo, and Kylo, and Kylo’s redeemability, which she also reinforced, unprompted, in this particular interview, hinting to the fact that things might change drastically in TROS. Four, even if she genuinely dislikes Reylo (and tbh I don’t get how she could, purely from an acting/artistic perspective, because it’s SO good for her character to be involved in such a high stakes dynamic, and so good for her personally to have a superb actor like Adam as her acting partner), it’s going to have ZERO impact on the actual outcome of the movie. They don’t write a multimillion dollar franchise around this or that actor’s personal feelings lmao. No matter how important he or she is. Watch Mark fucking Hamill be eternally pressed about Luke’s arc while nobody at Lucasfilm gave a rat’s ass and went through with TLJ Luke as per plans anyway.

You also need to be aware that there are going to be many moments like this in the months to come, and it’s likely going to get even worse after IX, when actors will be no longer contractually obligated to stay tight lipped or afraid of getting an earful from their bosses. Chances are John will come out and say “I was pissed that f/rey didn’t happen over reylo”, or that Daisy will go on record saying certain scenes were uncomfortable for her to shoot or that she would have preferred Rey to not have a romance at all, or that she wished she could have done that trajectory with John’s character, shit like that. 

At the same time, actors are also rarely consistent about this sort of things. One day they will praise the dynamic, another day they’ll make shitty jokes about it, depending on what they feel like focusing on, what part of the audience they’re addressing, what’s the tone of the question, etc. That’s because, again, they don’t lie awake at night thinking how this dynamic will evolve, they don’t have feels, they don’t have (necessarily) a clear and set in stone opinion of what the pairing should be were they in charge (also because they’re not writers, but performers).

The point is you can’t let ANY of this ruin your enjoyment of this fictional dynamic, or taint your fandom experience. Chances are there will be other interviews in the next months where Daisy says the exact opposite anyway. 

#suicide tw #fanwank #star wars worry #daisygate #negativity for ts

[him-e]

I just wanted to say thank you for the positivity in the past two years. There were a lot of red flags wrt TROS, the buns, the mask etc. but I still appreciate your positivity and your attempts to make of it all via meta. It was all the most shallow option in the end, but at least we didn't spend two years dreading everything and being glum, and I think optimistic bloggers are to credit. Sure, TROS slapped us in the face, but I'll cherish the time I spent in the fandom before that. Thank you

Thank you, I’m glad we’re not regretting having been positive in the first place. I’ve made this mistake many times before, and it seems I never learn: giving mainstream fiction writers too much credit.

Perhaps I don’t want to learn, because learning THAT means not being able to enjoy fiction. I can’t engage with a story if I can’t trust the writers to be competent and passionate about it. It’s the barest requirement for me to do spec and meta, let alone become emotionally attached. Not engaging with fiction but merely consuming it passively seems like a nightmare to me.

I never planned ahead to get involved with Reylo or the sequel trilogy in general—I saw something of interest and ran with it, as I always do, because I can’t afford turning down something that ignites my imagination and makes me want to immerse myself completely in it. I welcome every scrap of passion and creative spark I can find in my life, and I treasure it until the end. Perhaps more than I should, but that’s how I am. I like the feeling of being consumed.

So all things considered I regret nothing, not even staying positive. It’s been 4 wild years, and it was completely worth it, and there’s still a lot of spark we can use from what we created and will continue creating in spite of canon. I said that bad writing was always a possibility behind the corner, but the sequel trilogy had a good track record with that for the first two movies, so I had no reason to just assume “bad writing” as the likeliest option. The visual red flags could be chalked up to JJ wanting to reprise his imagery for the characters, and I didn’t find it particularly worrying. I only started feeling anxious when the JPX leaks came out—I had this gut feeling that they could be true, but I let myself silence it. Not because I wanted to hope blindly, but because I couldn’t reconcile such a shapeless, bullet-point mess with the solid three-act, character-driven story that TFA was, and I couldn’t see why the standards of JJ’s writing would sink that low.

I didn’t, of course, realize that DLF had in fact every intention to retcon TLJ completely. But there was no way I could know that: they LIED to us about it through and through.

I feel like a clown, but only a little. We weren’t wrong—we were given false information and false advertising, by a franchise that didn’t fulfill the promise created in the first and second movie of the trilogy.

#fanwank #fandom #anti tros #sw negativity #reylo positivity #anon #asks #sw asks #sw for ts #reylo for ts

[timeladyjodie]

So I saw a Debate™ going across my dash, and something bothered me that I want to comment on... But I also don’t want to comment on the post and get sucked into the drama. So here is what I wanted to say:

Fans have no right to guilt-trip artists into writing/drawing their ship. Yeah, it sucks if you like a rare-pair. I am on both sides of this scale in DA, to pick a fandom as an example--on one hand, I ship Cullen/Inquisitor, which is probably one of the most popular ships in the fandom with 6k fics on AO3 alone if you combine some tags. On the other hand, I also ship Bethany/Sebastian, which is definitely a “have fun with your ten fanfics, and three fanarts” ship. So I know both what it is like to ship “the popular ship” as well as the ship no one but you and a couple of other people care about. 

And you know what, it sucks to have a ship where it’s just you and three other people in a canoe. I get the frustration of seeing a popular ship get ALL THE FICs while your ship has next to nothing. But you do not have the right, ever, to try and guilt-trip people into writing/drawing your ship. Fic writers and fanartists write/draw because they enjoy making art for fandom to consume. And they do not get paid for this. Nothing is going to suck that drive away faster than telling an artist/writer “don’t draw/write that ship you normally do, draw/write the ship that I like, because no one else does! Feel sorry for me!1” Even if they did agree, do you really think the art/fic would be that good if they were taking time to create something because they were guilted into it? I do not think said art would turn out very good. 

TLDR: People should make things because they want to, not because someone is harassing them to do so. 

#Allison says stuff #fanwank for ts

[grendelsmilf]

bryke book 1: wow we really like asamis character. she's directly involved in this nonbending revolution as both the daughter of a criminal funding this terrorist organization and a non-bender herself.... let's make her drive the conflict between mako and korra, and force her into being part of a silly love triangle that she's already too mature for and clearly would want no part in! then we'll have her father almost murder her and then never bring that up again. yeah we love asami she's great bryke book 2: now that the equalist movement is over (with no loose ends to tie up or anything of the sort) we don't really have use for asami. especially considering she's a nonbender...... bryke book 3: we're going to reintroduce airbending to our narrative! now we can make all these nonbenders airbenders and it will be so interesting watching their reaction to having bending! like bumi, who now must struggle with his inferiority complex as the only nonbender in his family, and learn to control his airbending without trying to overstep on tenzins boundaries as an airbending master while also finally being able to participate in that culture! asami, as an industrialist who relies on technology to make up for her lack of bending, has nothing interesting to grapple with this season! we'll just let her hang out in the background, occasionally do some backflips and save the day with her engineering savvy. her company??? where?? don't worry about all that! she's just the hot nonbender bff to the avatar! bryke book 4: yeah we love asami. she's the love of korras life obviously. here's this new character WU, he's annoying so it's funny

#the lok discourse #fanwank for ts #asami sato #listen.... asami as an airbender would've been so good #i know i'm not the first person to think of this #but think about it #it was the one element korra struggled with #if instead of teaching opal airbending she could've taught asami airbending???? #and asamis even less spiritual than korra #it would've been such a compelling arc #without it having to be the forefront of her character #why does no one ever address how hard it must be to be a nonbender??? like that would frustrate the shit out of me??! #and asami was directly tied to the avatar of her era #for basically her entire life #it could've been grand #grand i say #o #o.tv

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

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#off that last post: absolutely laughable the number of posts i see on my dash these days about “letting people like villains!” #that are made by users i blocked YEARS ago #bc they screamed & cried & shit their pants every time they saw someone else say #“i think fictional villain k.ylo r.en is neat! it would be fun if he and fictional hero rey kissed :)” #bestie if you can't be normal/stay in your lane about other people shipping unrelated adult disney characters in space #then i don't trust you to have mature and reasonable opinions on anything else fandom-related #fanwank for ts #star wars

[earlgraytay]

^This is from a discussion about Kylo Ren. NGL, as a survivor of religious abuse, this triggered me.

Look. If we accept the premise that the Jedi are a religious order... Ben Solo was and is, by the standards of his family’s religion, unclean. He is impure. He is tainted. “There is a darkness in him.” According to the Novel Of The Film, from the time Leia was pregnant with him, she sensed that darkness. 

...And this is not to say that Han and Leia were abusive parents, or that Luke was an abusive teacher. But the principles of a religion can themselves be abusive, and kids aren’t stupid.  

If your religion says that People With Dark In Them are Bad and Dangerous... and you’re a kid who’s heard your parents mention in whispers that you’ve got dark in you... and you see them worry when you get angry over something little, in ways that other kids’ parents don’t... you are eventually going to put the pieces together. The pieces that say that you are Bad and Dangerous. 

The Organa-Solos sent Ben to Luke partly so that he could learn to control the darkness. And like, we all saw how that turned out, but put yourself in Ben’s horrible gothy shoes for a sec. 

You were sent to go study with your uncle, because you are Bad and Dangerous and you need to stop being Bad and Dangerous. There is a little voice in the back of your head telling you that you’re not Bad and that people say you’re just Dangerous because they’re afraid, but listening to that voice is Bad and makes you Bad. You go study with your uncle. It’s your last ditch hope, your last chance to have the people around you stop treating you like a total monster.

...and then you wake up in the middle of the night to find the guy who’s supposed to fix you standing over your bed, for all intents and purposes looking like he’s about to kill you. 

This isn’t just a ‘my uncle tried to kill me’ thing. It isn’t just a ‘my master tried to kill me’ thing. This is a ‘the person who was supposed to make me Not Bad anymore has decided that I am too Bad to be allowed to exist; I have no hope left’ thing. 

...If you really think you’re Bad- or impure, or sinful, or touched-by-the-Dark-Side, whatever you want to call it- you will lose your goddamn mind. You cannot live your entire life without thinking that there is something good about you. The best case scenario is crippling anxiety and/or depression. And if someone comes to you when you’re in that place and says “no, you’re not really Bad- the thing that makes you Bad is really a gift, and as long as you do what I say, you’ll be worth something”... that kind of thing is a lifeline.  

You are hurting; if someone says they can make it stop, you’ll listen. And if that someone happens to be an unscrupulous sack of shit, and they can manage to convince you that they are the only person that you should trust, and they can make you feel ‘good’ enough that you want to stay with them but keep you vulnerable and hurt enough that you won’t think about leaving... yeah you can see where I’m going with this.  

...And no, that doesn’t mean that Ben Solo Is A Cinnamon Roll Who Did Nothing Wrong UwU, and no, I’m not triggered because someone insulted my problematic fave. I’m triggered because this is the same kind of thought process that goes into “well, why didn’t you just call the cops if he was hitting you?” or “well, if the pastor was touching you, why didn’t you just tell your parents?” 

IRL trauma survivors do not always do things the way they “should” or “ought” to. Trauma survivors can get pretty fucked in the head. And sometimes in the process of trying to get out of that bad situation, whatever it is- you fuck up. You hurt yourself; you hurt other people. You make really, really bad decisions and you know they’re bad but you don’t see any other choice. Obvious, ‘safe’ choices seem dangerous. ‘Normal’ seems scary and confusing. That’s one of the many, many fun ways in which trauma fucks up your head.

Hurting other people is wrong, and being a survivor does not give you an excuse to hurt people. But at the same time, one of our society’s favourite ways to blame trauma survivors for their trauma is to go ‘well, you didn’t react in the Correct, socially acceptable way, therefore you must have really wanted it/you must have done something to deserve it/you must be Tainted and Bad’. And the thing is, no matter what your trauma was and no matter what you did, you will never be able to react in the Correct way. Sometimes something as simple as ‘being male’ or ‘not crying’ can mean that what you did is Incorrect, and therefore you’re not really traumatized or you’re some kind of monster.  

... It bothers me a lot that people are willing to do this kind of victim blamey bullshit in the name of fandom-SJ. Applied to a fictional character? Yeah, it’s pretty harmless. And I know OP is very much against victim blaming when applied to real people, so I’m trying not to assume the worst of them. It’s just a show, I should really just relax.

But ... gotta say, it doesn’t make me feel like your corner of fandom is a safe space for trauma survivors when I hear you throw around this kind of crap. :I 

#the earl speaks #the Earl grumbles #the earl gets salty #fanwank #yes i am aware i am engaging in fanwank #but i am triggered and if i don't explain why at length it won't go away #star wars for ts #kylo ren for ts #trauma #abuse #csa mention

[yo-namine]

Okay, one more thing and I'll shut up.

I guess what really bugs me about the "KH1 is also Kairi’s fault because she hurt Riku’s feelings" stuff is that – aside from it not being true because she quite literally did nothing to him – is that it comes off as kind of entitled? Especially when you consider the whole "Riku is actually the light" argument fans were pushing post-KH3.

It’s like, if Kairi does something good like saving Sora in KH3 – something totally unique to her abilities as a Princess of Heart – well, Actually, she couldn’t have possibly done that herself. Riku should get credit for that.

But if Riku does something wrong – like letting his ambition override his love for his friends (something that lays the foundation of his entire redemption arc in this series) – Kairi deserves the blame. Because she should’ve been nice to him or something (never mind that she is, lmao. She just teases him the same way he does her. Because they’re friends.).

And I used to just chalk all this up to standard shipping nonsense (for obvious reasons), but honestly, sometimes it really does come off as straight-up misogyny. Like sure, a male character did something wrong, but this female character should’ve stopped him. Or she could’ve prevented it by placating him more, or by giving him whatever it was he felt entitled to.

And it’s frustrating because Riku is a fascinating and well-written character, but that’s mostly due to his redemption arc which you can’t fully appreciate if you ignore his single-mindedness and entitlement at the start of KH1 and instead just blame Kairi.

And I’m not saying everyone who claims Kairi owes something to Riku for KH1 is doing it to be an asshole or even consciously doing anything, really. Odds are that it's just one of those fanon interpretations that got so popular everyone forgot it isn't actually supported by canon.

But I do think it's part of a larger pattern of how fandoms treat male characters who fuck up vs. female characters who have the audacity to acknowledge that he fucked up (like Zuko fans with Katara, or Snape fans with Lily), and that really bothers me. And I think it bothers me more in this case because – again – Kairi didn’t even do anything. She would be justified in being mad at Riku, but she never is. By the time you get her to the Traverse Town waterway, it's clear that she sees Riku a victim who needs help, not a perpetrator. Kairi merely made a single (accurate) observation about him back home that wasn’t even critical of him in any way, and fandom blew it out of proportion.

Anyway, this post is too damn long, so TL;DR: Kairi Did Nothing Wrong in KH1, and I just wish fandom would give her less flack for things she doesn’t do and more credit for what she does do.

#my posts #fanwank for ts

[pharah]

Just let people have their fun. 

Jesus Christ. 

(Also, you stan Moira. You lose moral high ground on the fact that you stan a lady who has experimented on and killed people in canon, and whose stans are consistently awful towards the First Nations/Arabic woman because she gets in the way of their ship.)

#Jesus Christ #[Pounds sign into the ground] No fun allowed! #And don't worry #Overwatch isn't dumb enough to make any of the ships canon #They'll give nods and hints but won't make anything official #It would be suicide to do so #But Jesus Christ #Ovw can't even give a nod to a popular ship without people losing their minds over it #This fandom is all kinds of messed up #Fanwank #McHanzo for ts

[anghraine]

For no particular reason, eleven things I’m really enjoying at the moment:

1. Some very dark hot chocolate my mother got me.

2. Audiomachine’s music (especially “Nevertheless, She Persisted,” “Morningrise,” “Peculiar Magic,” “Hallowed Dawn,” and ... I’ll stop there).

3. The phrase “it’s six to one, half-dozen the other” (indicating that there’s no difference). I don’t know why I like it so much, but I do!

4. Every WOT post on my dash so far (especially the ones appreciating Moiraine, of course).

5. Other people sharing my undying resentment of the treatment of Faramir and Denethor in the LOTR movies.

6. Playing Christmas songs on the piano.

7. D&D!

8. My multitude of Dreamwidth icons.

9. The possibility of visiting Portland (OR) in the relatively near future.

10. Thinking about scenes and details for the fantasy series I’ve only partly written (consisting of a complete—for an in-desperate-need-of-revision value of “complete”—draft of a novel, parts of two novellas, a couple of half-finished short stories, and one semi-complete short story that only works as an extension of the novel).

11. Having a clean kitchen.

#i also really like audiomachine's 'journey through the portal' but it's so perfect for a scene in my novel that i'm biased #anyway #not putting the pressure on by tagging anyone but feel free to also do it if you feel inclined! #anghraine babbles #my little piano: music is magic #audiomachine #linguistic stuff #english #tv: wot #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #pj critical #jewel of the seashore #denethor #christmas for ts #dungeons and dragons #dreamwidth #original fic rambles #writing #cascadia blogging #pdx #meme #(ish) #meme prattle #adulting

[via-whitmore]

I think the mistrust of adults because everything is on fire is responsible in a big way for the ageism in fandom.

#fanwank for ts