#ofc not the whole fandom

[helpallthenamesaretakenblog]

people don't talk enough about percy and silena's friendship enough

#silena taught him how to ride pegasi #she was the only one to not bully him in som #Percy believed in selena to go convince clarisse to join the war #when the whole stereotype of aphrodite girls was that theyre not capable of anything other than being pretty #and people forget silena canonically hugged percy #Idk i think their dynamic is neat #in a platonic way ofc #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo #rick riordan #percabeth #pjo fandom #pjo tv show #heroes of olympus #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv series #silena beauregard #annabeth percy jackson #percy pjo #percy and annabeth #percy series #sea of monsters #percyjackson #the last olympian

[whamss]

"Making Rosemary tea drinking lesbians is bad" says Internet User, but not because it strips them of their characterization and turns them into carbon copies of each other, destined to sit in the background while other characters (men) have character arcs around them, but because they aren't Silly Enough. No no, we don't need to flesh them out, we just need to turn them from Wise Lesbian Couple to Comedic Relief. This will fix everything wrong with fandom depictions of them. *Wipes sweat from forehead* Woo! Being a feminist is so tough!

#talk tag #homestuck #if you cant tell im starting to have feelings #obligatory ofc its okay to write rosemary being funni but man is it exhausting when the bare minimum or rosemary thought seems to be #“wait a second! rosemary arent tea drinking lesbians! theyre secretly really funny” with no thought past this #trust me i like writing them fail as much as the next person but yk these are characters right? #you know that they exist outside of each other... right!?!??! #rosemary #rose lalonde #kanaya maryam #recent developments in fandom have managed to invent a whole new flavor of rosemary for me to hate #that accidentally perpetuates all of the issues w them that people have been pointing out for years #anyways i miss them

[krash-and-co]

the real 35 portland row is located on tumblr dot com btw

#idk I referred to 'welcome to the fandom' as 'welcome home' and it made me think lol #we got the art the chatter the lighthearted banter the friendship the thinking cloth with mug stains #the photos on the wall and letters in the mailbox #a whole ton of rooms‚ treasures displayed and passing down #shenanigans galore ofc #so yeah actually!!! #we are in portland row #ofc we are #we couldnt read about a home without subconsciously making one of our own that reflects it #or maybe it just brought out the 35 portland row we already had #maybe that's why we were drawn to it #and why its what we create #or whatever #idk I'm thinking too deep about fandom on the shitposting website #(or not maybe im right) #Lockwood and co #35 portland row #lockwood and co books #lockwood and co netflix #Lockwood and co fandom

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i like ghostflower (hell I draw fanarts for them) but I’ve decided I like the version of them in my head more and will just stay away from the fandom in general cuz I’ve seen some discussion and they just make me go “what on earth are y’all on” 💀💀💀💀

#“miles will immediately forgive gwen when he sees she’s gathered a whole team to save him WHAT #he’ll save himself first then befriend Miles G. and Miles G. will start hissing like the cats when that team comes and Miles looks upset #like I firmly believe miles will only talk to Hobie and Margo after all that cuz they r the two that stand by his side thru whole that #like that take is so insane when Hobie is the reason Miles can run away in the first place and Margo risks everything to allow Miles leaving #AND HE KNOWS #u don’t even need a scale to see who Miles will associate with safety and protection more after atsv #also “miles keep getting up after he’s beaten down cuz that what Gwen told him to do in itsv is ALSO insane cuz WHAT #the thing she said when she and others were berating and crowding Miles for not knowing how to be Spider-Man just FEW DAYS after he’s bitten #?????? #THAT THING???? #not his mom’s words or his uncle’s or idk THAT’S HOW HE IS??? #*walk in the tag* *walk out immediately* #u don’t have to make them the only person in each other’s life to prop the ship up especially in this case cuz it makes no sense 😭 #actually the first point srl piss me off cuz that team was only possible in the first place cuz of Hobie and Margo and Miles laying #the groundwork by just being a sweetheart he is #charming and inspiring ppl so ofc these kids will rally behind him and team up to save him #ykno LIKE IN THE COMIC TOO??? #ppl just have to take the only thing I don’t like in the movie (miles suddenly obsessed over Gwen when they didn’t even interact that much #in itsv) and magnify it x100 in fandom #if she ain’t a gremlin girl that is trying her best to regain Miles’ trust but it’s a slow process and Miles needs space and time first then #I don’t want it

[mamawasatesttube]

just thinking out loud here but i feel like a lot of popular perception of kon esp in online fandom spaces is colored by his joie de vivre and all the times he's silly and goofy. which i do of course adore!! i love when he's silly and goofy. but comparing that perception to, that of like, clark or kara, i feel like kon gets shunted into the box of "dumb comic relief character" a lot more easily. lots of factors probably contribute to that (sb94 having a bad rep, while no other kon comic really goes into a lot of his tragedy; conflation with the side of the fandom that doesn't read comics; the fact that comparatively postcrisis kara doesn't have a team the way kon has yj and clark is seen as a more capable adult, so other characters in the jl get the "dumb comic relief" short end of the stick more often; etc) ...

... but what really gets me about him is that he does embody a lot of the same traits as the rest of the kryptonian superfam. he's so extremely kind. he's got that same noble heart as the rest of them; he cares about everyone and he wants to protect everyone. and he's so, so lonely. he struggles between cultures and worlds where he feels like he doesn't belong to either. he is so strong and capable and holds so much power that it scares him.

cradles him gently in my hands. he contains multitudes... come closer don't you want to love him 🥺

#rimi talks #i'm mostly drawing parallels here between kon clark and kara: #the almost divine loneliness. the struggle to fit in. the kindness and deep deep love and desire to help others. #ofc that isn't getting into Every member of the superfam like linda or kenan or anyone else bc that would be a MUCH bigger post #but i'm mostly picking these 3 bc. well i'm a postcrisis girlie first of all. and also theyre the 3 i think fandom acknowledges most? #at least in my perception of it! (now whether fandom acknowledges them in accurate ways. well no bc nobody knows kara past the basics. but. #(that's a whole other post. this one's about how kon DOES in fact also share the loneliness and noble heart and everything with them. augh) #kon #i was really tempted to go pull panels from rots/sb94/etc to illustrate each point (loneliness nobility kindness etc) but #im SUPPOSED to be writing fic right now. theres a dick on that page that aint gonna suck itself #so back to the writing mines with me. but i was just thinking about kon. (i know. shocking) #also i had to go hunting for the 🥺 emoji bc my recents are entirely filled with fish lately. fjhdskjfh #anywhoozies. mines. farewell

[zomnommbie]

tmw you find out Baldwin IV was an actual war criminal 🥰🥰

#satire #ive known this whole time #still love him tho #platonically ofc #king baldwin iv #kingdom of heaven #kingdom of heaven fandom #kingbaldwin #baldwin iv #kingdom of heaven 2005 #koh #balduin iv #baldwin-iv

[silverquillsideas]

Doodles of Geminifourth at bmmf on 10th Dec 🥺💖

#geminifourth #My school president #Moonlight chicken #gemini norawit #fourth nattawat #thai drama #Thai bl #Artists on tumblr #Digital art #Fanart #Character art #portrait #They were so cute that day the whole fandom was in shambles 😭💞 #So ofc I had to draw them 😭 #@silverquill

[crazy-fangirl2524]

No you guys don’t understand. Neil was playing as a way to try to live and how he wants to try actually living instead of surviving. Winning against the ravens doesn’t matter to Neil, winning against his father does. But the books don’t end with Baltimore. It ends with the raven game. But this game means more to Kevin than it can ever to any other characters. All for the game. Neil can survive without exy. He can run away and start a new life. But kevin day does not have anything else. This entire series is for kevin day

#yes yes ofc ik Neil also cant survive without Exy it’s his way to live BUT technically he can still run away (after trk ofc he cant hes in t #too deep but if you think about it this entire series starts and ends because of Kevin day #Neil josten May be the protagonist and Andrew minyard May be the love interest but Kevin day is the whole point the center of this entire se #series #this series wouldn’t have even happened without Kevin day if another team seeks out neil josten he wouldn’t have joined he only joined for k #Kevin and the series ended with neil bargaining for everyone’s lives including Kevin #Kevin is actually the main character #if you think about it the series could have make sense with Kevin day as the protagonist too #I’m so deeplg ingrained in aftg sm I just urgh I just I love them so much #this reread might take longer than I thought because of how much I’m stopping to analyse everything and post about it lmao #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #aftg series #andrew minyard #aftg fandom #neil josten #andrew joseph minyard #aftg incorrect quotes #aftg reread #aftg trilogy #aftg kevin #kevin day #aftg neil #aftg andrew #aftg andreil #tfc incorrect quotes #incorrect aftg #incorrect aftg quotes

[not-a-21st-century-girl]

There's something i think about a lot in the context of how gomens fandom tends to blindly follow everything neil says and view it as 100% canon, even though he himself said multiple times that's not how his words outside of the actual text should be treated.

It's the way modern fandoms, from what i see, are becoming too dependent on creators of their canon. Fandom culture, as a whole, is built on the death of author concept, on the idea that authors lose their power over their texts the moment they finish them. For years fandoms were something that creators of the canon used to look down on, or ignore, or disapprove — but no one cared, because the very idea of the fandom implies that you can do what you want and go against anything author says, or even against the things that are actually part of the canon, just because you don't like them.

But in the last idk how many years fandom culture grew bigger and more noticeable, and gradually stopped being perceived as something freaky or weird, and for canon creators, it simply became... more profitable? more logical? to interact with the fandom rather than ignore it. And ofc there's also the fact that fandom culture is and was largely queer culture, and it's becoming more and more normal to make mass media for queer people (which is a good thing!). So there we get more and more official social media accs being friendly with fans, PR-companies playing with hints on a popular ship, authors talking about their fandom and awnsering its questions, and canons themselves catering to fandom's needs, or whole canons being created with those needs in mind — "look, we have a new series with a queer couple that has a dynamic you people love! Come and write fanfics about them and we won't be mad at you like everyone was before!" And it works, of course it works, because we finally get what we want, we're finally being taken seriously! Things are finally being made for us!

And, obviously, it isn't inherently a bad thing. It's probably an inherently good thing even. But with that attitude becoming more and more common, the line between the "official" stuff and fandom becomes more and more blurred. And then... if the creators of our canon are friendly, surely we've got to be friendly too? If they're saying things we like, it would only be fair if we, too, would try to at least not say things they don't like? They've created that book/movie/series/etc that we all like after all, so the least we can do is be thankful and acknowledge what they have to say.

Which is all well, of course. But the way i see it, the moment fandom bends to meet the canon's authors' wishes, it loses its purpose. The decorum — the fanworks, the ships, the discourse — stays, but the very core if it is missing. It's not about bending the story any way you like it, no matter what author or anyone else thinks, anymore. And it frustrates me a lot.

#for the record: there are obvs a lot of the factors affecting everything #so ofc I'm not saying this whole thing with #fandom becoming louder > authors starting to make things for the fandom > fandom starting to try to not make authors mad #is that simple or that straight #but it's kinda there? #not really #good omens critical #but kinda related

[swallowtail-ageha]

Agree with the antis thinking that liking certain characters exposes you more to grooming but in the complete opposite way (antis have spent their time shunning so much fans of certain characters and making fandom spaces inhabitable for them to the point where some minor who likes that character will be more susceptible to grooming made by people who say "oh i like that character too! We're only us two against the world :)))"

#mostly because... thats quite literally how ive been groomed lol #maybe if the e villious fandom werent so hostile to ma fans i wouldntve ended up relying on tamara #as one of the few 'safe' adults #like ofc the whole thing is tamara and linda's fault and tamara and linda's fault alone but like- #they actively created the perfect ground for me and my friends grooming yknow?? #anyways. as you can see i have been thinking a lot about all of that in this last year #during the trip to greece i finally ended up talking about it with someone i know irl and honestly? that was fucking liberating

[itswhatyougive]

Feeling cute, might make a Steddie doc with all compiled evidence of their respective queerness and attraction for each other in canon

#would anyone be interested #i know the byler fandom has one for their boys #whenever someone says that steddie isn't canon #i have a whole arsenal of counterpoints #but i want something on hand so ppl can see it all together as a big picture #ofc you aren't going to change everyone's minds #but there are some ppl who just never looked too closely #and then once they see it they realize #steddie analysis #steddie fandom #steddie tag #steddie nation #eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie #st tumblr #steddie tumblr #stranger things tumblr

[pennumbra]

#(the furry patreon artist one is facetious I'm not sure it translated LMAO) #ofc this post isn’t too serious- happy new year!! #I feel like I didn’t rly make much progress on last years rezzies #and I didn’t post a whole lot #but that’s how it goes sometimes! #hoping 2024 is a good year w lots of inspiration #and I’m grateful for my friends and my gf and the fandoms/communities I’m in! C: #poll

[wc-m0ch4]

Really enjoy the theory that Sonic x Shadow Generations was named that way so that search results would show the game instead of Sonadow

This is particularly because of how much more Sonadow fanart/edits/fanfics I've been seeing as of late BECAUSE of the title LMAO

#like actually the best and worst marketing to have sonic x shadow gen come after all the gay ass clips we saw in Sonic Prime LIKE– #Frozen made people forget about the whole Walt Disney's body preserves in ice thing #Sonic x Shadow did the opposite LMAO #god I fucking love gay people I wish they were real #god I fucking love hedgehogs I wish they were real #literally don't know who at Sega thought they could stop people from being gay #bro we are literally spreading homosexuality and indoctrinating children #^^/J /J /J /J /J /J /J I SWEAR /JJJJJJ #I like to imagine there was one younger employee in the conference room trying so hard to be like 'guys... this isn't gonna work...' #and the ceo goes 'ofc it will! what'll they do? call it canon? make more art?' #cut to the present the ceo is all: 'un-fucking-believable' #'these bitches gay... good for them... BAD FOR US' #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sonic fandom #sonic x shadow generations

[antisociallilbrat]

Ya know I love the It fandom bc I can literally post about any ship and I won't get comments or reblogs that's like "Omg they're besties!".

We all know they're dating. Who's the 'they' you may ask? Idk take your pick from the Losers, mix and match if you will.

#side eyes the whole stranger things fandom #where rare pairs go to die #also ofc Bev and Eddie are the exception to this post #is this a rant? #idk ig it can come off as passive aggressive #even though that's not my intent #just tired of seeing by/clair and el/max stuff that's posed in a romantic light #and the comments are !! Such best friends!! #sam rants #i tag that to be safe #okay im done posting for the day #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrack #mike hanlon #ben hanscom #beverly marsh #stanley uris #bill denbrough #it 2017 #it 2019

[fairmoephelia]

i think it’s important to understand that isaac is simultaneously much weirder and much more normal than the rest of the coterie thinks and they will never once get it right. rey thinks isaac is about to start cutting off his own limbs? he just wants to make sure serif is armed for the fight, that’s all. the group thinks he might be vulnerable as he uses his new powers? he’s fine, he’ll just be extending his bones into blades. these conversations happen minutes apart. incredible

#this also relates tangentially to my belief that some of the things isaac is doing that people are confused abt #can be explained by him having a higher humanity than the fandom as a whole has assumed #like i think we all get wrapped up in the tzimisce fleshcrafter human furniture stereotype and forget he’s very young #violence and threats don’t seem to phase him much but that is probably due his time spent with the gang possibly from a pretty young age #being used to it doesn’t necessarily mean he enjoys it or seeks it out #at least not more than the rest of the coterie or young kindred in general #(ofc to be fair this could also go the opposite direction and hint at something much darker like him keeping the coterie around for plots) #i put a whole meta down here damn #new york by night #ny by night #nybn #isaac brooke

[pixiedust-poppers]

If you would’ve told my younger self there were more Jizzy non-shippers now she would’ve been ecstatic and then promptly disappointed as to the reasonings of why lol.

#‘bc they have a bro - sis relationship!’ ok cool! would love to see this dynamic between them more! post more hcs and fics about it #‘bc they’re kids!’ welcome to fandom ppl will ship two cartoon puppy’s together and have you stepped foot into any other kids fandom #or fandom in general ofc they are! this is nothing new #but sure ok. valid response #But never- #and not ‘ppl write them like shit and turn Izzy into the most basic bitch ever and Jake does all the cool shit while she’s just there’ #<- can tell you are not as mentally ill about Izzy as she is #like good god Wattpad is FULL of that shit😭 especially the damn hospital and nuclear family shit #also the ‘love’ portrayed between them was the cheesy shit oh my gooood and then the whole ff tag became full of it #painfully traditional and boring #or Jake was a shit husband and it was like Izzy girl if you don’t get out of this marriage 😕 #I think their funniest dynamic is when Izzy is secretly his biggest hater at times because she’s stuck in his shadow #now they’re both intelligent but Izzy is the brightest out of the three of them yet her contributions will always be overshadowed by Jake #he could never hate her BUT… sometimes he does think she’s planning on killing him #and he keeps his distance #ok rant over #pixie quips about jatnp #pixie yaps abt fics