#purity fan culture

[mywitchcultblr]

I just dealing with censorship in my country and fuck now there's a threat of censorship in AO3 from Tiffany G. I'm a Muslim but this shit makes me saying Jesus fucking Christ. Look, perhaps some westerners cannot comprehend it... Because you never really experience hard censorship. But you wouldn't want it... You don't want censorship. Do not vote Tiffany G

She's not your savior... She's NOT and she sounds like a politician from my country

Edit: Tiffany apparently working as a technical support for government organization

#censorship #tiffany g #ao3 #archive of our own #fandom discourse #government #freedom of speech #purity culture #fanwork #fanfic #discourse #china #chinese fans doesn't support her! #pls dont send them hate! the problem is tiffany and the government! #of the people and for the people!

[arnold-layne]

ah, what an interesting video about hating on [80s rockstar] you have posted here, gen z tiktok user. did the virtue signaling feel good babe? was the harassment of [80s rockstar] fans fun? did the validation you got fill the void in your soul

#i get glimpses of hair metal tiktok through a mutual and im just. #gurl you hate on axl rose but watch pam and tommy #and yknow i would get it if these ppl just disliked hair metal and the like in general. still doesnt excuse the wank but at least #there is no hypocrisy here #but the majority of haters are also fans of different bands and i just. gurl. they all suck #some more some less but you will find incriminating material on 99% of them #you either dont support the entire genre or take off your puritan dress and show everyone you are wearing assless chaps like the rest of us #there is no completely unproblematic pieces of media as well as creators. learn for yourself how much youre willing to excuse #and enjoy your fave music without constantly justifying yourself #where do these people get the energy for hate. give it to me i will put it to good use #hair metal #arnold's diary #80s rock #purity culture

[sharonisthebettercarter]

i'm realizing very quickly that i have a raging hard on for media that explores the detriment of war and weaponry, dives into the hypocrisy of human tribalism and false dichotomy, and heavily criticizes capitalism--of course with the pretty no filter horror bow<3

and i'm okay with that<3<3<3

#fallout #the boys #fallout amazon #the boys amazon #really doing an incredible job #helps that they're actually making an effort to honor the source material and messaging if not just being huge fans from the start #and saying sayonara to purity culture #i like that trend #it gives us much better adaptations #lol #military industrial complex #tribalism #capitalism #art #horror #meaningful media #food for thought #if ya haven't yet #if ya like fallout ya might like the boys #if ya like the boys ya might like fallout #any recommendations on the same vein?

[kaldurcalm]

I'm never going to judge someone for what they read, write, or draw.

I am going to judge you if you're mean to them about it. Block. Report if you think it's necessary. Blacklist. Move on. Those are the only appropriate actions for you.

Wishing harm on an actual person is far worse than anything they could ever create.

#I'm not in a good mental place so i can't be as protective as i want #and i haven't found arguing to be productive #but if you dislike something i enjoy i just unfollow. #if you like something that hurts me i just unfollow. #that's usually about it! #I'm not above having a spat and I'm still a little concerned about real world implications of certain fans' media analysis abilities #but genuinely. let's go put this energy into educating about palestine #or hounding companies until they adopt more sustainable practices or something #I'm not saying feelings about words aren't valid I'm saying the energy seems better used elsewhere #you are not helping anyone. you are hurting people. full stop. #vent about it if you need to but purity culture does not help. #I'm gonna add this to my pinned post #i think this is why I'm on a few blocklists and it took me actual years to realize that

[shinesurge]

that thing where you're sailing along in your little boat and a very very big shadow passes underneath you and you both go on without interacting but you are suddenly aware it's there,

#i just got recommended an 'anti-radqueer' blog and scrolled passed this while i was blocking everybody lmao #i have no idea where the poison in the well water is coming from but i guess it does #have the benefit of growing my blocklist every time this shit comes up lmfao #it's fucking WILD that this same person who posted this is a fan of a blog supporting purity culture #furries make jesus sad but yandere is a term to be reclaimed by borderlines i think i will walk into the sea today

[gu6chan]

almost 3 years surviving in the Drakengard fanbase I realised and the best advice I have gotten from it is that you have GOT to be more shamelessly horny about your faves. you have GOT to be more shameless about your faves and ships and opinions or whatever in general and I'm literally not fucking kidding

#Drakengard #Drakengard 2 #this fandom's rampant purity culture; WHATEVER good intentions it started from; has literally fucked so many ppl up so im begging #if you're a dod fan please make it your mission this year onwards to make these people afraid of judging and shutting down others

[krotiation]

damn i miss mid-2010 fandom culture

it feels like we went from “like whatever you want and have fun” to “like whatever you want but if you like this specific thing you will be publicly judged and made fun of”. like obviously we had a couple nuts making fun of others back then too but it wasnt as accepted as it is nowadays. seriously, take a fandom that has been declared cringy today and think about how it would be treated 10 years ago

#IK THIS IS LIKE THE SECOND TIME I MAKE A POST LIKE THIS but this isnt anything thats based on my own interests and experiences #more so just things ive seen lately specially after s4 of stran/ger things came out and people on tiktok had a meltdown over fans cosplaying #WHICH I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE HAD THE SAME THOUGHT cause ive definitely seen some people defending said cosplayers #also. really weird. but ive seen some asshats criticizing people making crossovers as well #meanwhile we had rise of the guardians #the secret trio #and oh my god BAD END FRIENDS #we're not even gonna get into crossover ships man those were the days #like ngl ive had moments where ive seen a crossover of sorts and thought wtf this doesnt make any sense why did you do this #but i dont have the right to judge considering i thrived off of crossovers when i was in middle school #ffs i made an h/tf and oso/san crossover as a joke i REALLY dont have the right to judge #i have no idea where i was going with this post i just miss how we viewed fandoms back then #i rewatched gra/vity falls and ive just been slapped with nostalgia from being into it while it was still ongoing and i mISS IT #i swear i can make an essay on how tumblr banning po/rn was the beginning of the end for fandom culture #oh and theres also purity culture but thats a whole other issue to get into #txt

[bitingfaggotry]

with iwtv the problem is both the lack of media comprehension and inability to understand different frameworks of analysis coupled with purity culture in fiction/fandom

so you'll see people making parallels between lestat wearing all black after the DV scene in episode 5 and louis wearing all black while talking about claudia in ep 4 and conclude that black = villain and present day louis was the true villain and not louis is in mourning clothes while talking about his dead daughter

and you'll see people make this analysis and not approach claudia calling lestat "massa" or the fact that lestat never apologized for his violence towards both of them and 17 other million small things that point to his terribleness because there is an avoidance to things that paint him as the antagonist that the show is screaming from the rooftops he is

you can like fucked up characters! You don't have to analyze it in detail or apologize repeatedly for liking these characters, you can simply acknowledge that theyre fucked and move on. its so much more interesting to like fucked up characters and not deny their behavior in order to feed some mindset that whatever you like in fiction is what you like in reality. I'm enjoying the horror narrative of domestic abuse so much its some well formed horror (of color) and i personally cannot wait to watch them kill lestat the satisfaction and angst that will come with it im so ready for

and knowing that its fiction means knowing your tastes are not shared by everyone. the amount of people I see write off lestat's abuse and racism as "its just fiction" "oh he's a fictional character" to fans of color is so annoying. Because its the same people who were talking "not my lestat" or complaining about claudia's implied SA. Like they know that they dislike certain things in fiction yet they shame others for being the same?

so, my take is that you are allowed to like fucked up weirdo fiction, especially in horror which as a genre is its whole thing! You arent allowed to dictate what others are uncomfortable with or critiquing or are simply analysing as a piece of horror media.

disengage and block people whose takes you disagree with

#all i want is space for black fans to enjoy what they want and critique what they want #i do not want purity culture against shippers and i really do not want fandom racism against both shippers and meta writers/critics #let fandom be a plurality! and block liberally! #interview with the vampire #i feel the need to put this out there because i hate fandom for both reasons and its not that hard to make sure this shows fandom #doesnt go either way or both or some other awful way that alienates people who are here to have fun with fiction!

[titaniasthings]

This is a run-on, grammatical mess. read through if you can but…

I don’t know i could be wrong and maybe it’s just me but i feel that while fanfic appears to be getting more angsty, i think recent fanfics maybe are lacking punch or bite that older fanfics have had. Fan fiction at its core ( to me) has always been about media analysis. In order to write the fic you must’ve understood the source material to a point. In order to transform a work you had to have gotten it in the first place. What i think is happening is because of anti-intellectualism and people not having the desire for looking deeper mixed with people having almost over personal attachments to fiction is creating these wide yet shallow writing. It’s beautiful writing still but doesn’t seem to stem from much other than the writers personal feelings and experiences. There is a lack of exploration or added complexity when it comes to recent fanfics i’ve read. Some of it feels like purity culture forcing people into right or wrong depictions.I might just be an old man yelling from my porch, i think there is plenty of wonderful fanfic out there. I just can’t help but feel like it’s all been watered down a little. I also kinda blame tiktok but that’s another post honestly.

#fandom #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own #anti intellectualism #media literacy #media analysis #reading #fiction #fan culture #booktok #tiktok #purity culture

[waywardsalt]

i. get the vibe that the more mainstream zelda fans are allergic to the idea of liking characters who like. do bad things

#the groups and works i avoid are ones that make characters who do generally questionable things into morally good/perfect people #idk. whenever people get nasty or w/s it seems to be when people ask reasonable questions abt the series’ morality #recent example in mind but like. idk. with more personal/petty examples i feel like people will just sand a character down to being nicer #or more decent to fit some mold and maybe while its still similar to canon its a lot less interesting #idk this is just a mini rant ill delete it later. god forbid we enjoy characters who make bad choices and are mean #idk i dont usually leave my little hole but it feels like the worst zelda fans are deep in purity culture regarding characters #and don’t analyze the text beyond what youre told and never going any deeper bc it would require thought and discomfort #idk ig with [character] (cuz i know thisll get picked ul by tag stuff) i just. dont like how he just gets turned into a decent guy? #like hes an asshole but thats it hes more pleasant than anything? its not not canon but its not interesting. its neuters him #yknow? like hes down for robbing people at the bare minimum shut uo about tax fraud he’s a thief literally in the text #im going off the rails. bht i feel like people lash out at characters who are unignorably grating or morally impure #and sand down the ones whose flaws can be ignored. ofc i feel like the main 3 esp with these last few games get the worst of it #and i can get why considering the issues baked into how this series work but it just makes a lot of things boring

[piosplayhouse]

Midnight posting but I just suddenly had an epiphany to the time I saw a callout post where the first problematic point mentioned was that the person being called out was a fan of a queer series that had significant dark themes in it and that this therefore meant that they were an apologist for these things and were romanticizing them but the problem is . The series in question was written by a well known psychological horror author.. like I'm not going to lie but the way some people try to paint that people who consume queer content with dark themes are automatically romanticizing problematic representation or whatever instead of just recognizing that queer content can extend into other genres besides just fluffy uwu mlm wlw couples is kind of weird

#i know this phenomenon is probably justified by like ohh but the prevalance of bury your gay trope in historical media but speaking on this #scenario it was specifically like . an author known and accepted within the community for writing very dark shit #purity culture fandom like on tumblr is so bizarre to me because i mainly lurked in communities where it was completely #acceptable to read this sort of problematic content with the automatic expectation that it didnt have any bearing on your character and #was dark and twisted and psycohologically complex and stuff #like you wouldn't tell a junji ito fan that theyre fucked up and condone whatever was going on in like layers of fear or we #its not different just because it has a queer coat of paint i thought equality was the goal #anyway theres prob several things wrong Abt this but im sleeby goodnight