#they are the only downside of this fandom

[annannjay]

little studies of the ofmd cast!

i either forgot how to or have never drawn these charas before so it was a much needed exercise!

#my art tag #fanart #ofmd #ofmd art #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #our flag means fanart #our flag means gay #there’s no way im gonna tag everyone #i really enjoyed s2!! #the only downside was the toxicity in the fandom.. #like i haven’t seen this many rancid takes before yikes #tho maybe i was just lucky to be in chill fandoms?? idk #atm working on part 2 of this bunch!

[iunpackmyadjectives]

This has been said before, but I just love how wild ninjago shipping culture is

Four guys all living together and fighting crime? Yeah their poly ship is of one the most popular in the fandom

Which one won a “best ship” tournament? The (probably ace) robots of course

You want middle age men in love? We got two that are very popular, take your pick

The various of female side characters that were created almost exclusively to be love interests for the male leads, why not ship them together?

You want the main character shipped with a kid he used to go to school with and has only been in like two episodes? Almost universally considered better than what was almost his canon ship

You like the canon ships? Great for you, we got stuff for that too and we’ve added some much needed depth

Any flavor you want them, whether it be enemies to lovers or doomed by the narrative or canon compliant, it probably exists somewhere

And is shipping not your thing? There are more gen fics than anything else

#god i love this fandom #idk maybe a certain fandom for a certain group of streamers lowered the bar for me but still #The only downside to this is that we’re probably never gonna get a ship on any “most popular ship” list lol #ninjago #ninjago kai #ninjago cole #ninjago jay #ninjago zane #ninjago pixal #ninjago garmadon #ninjago vinny #ninjago dareth #ninjago ronin #ninjago skylor #ninjago lloyd #ninjago brad #ninjago nya #polyninja #pixane #scruffshipping #survivalshipping #amberphoenix #samuraishipping #greenflowershipping #ninjago jaya #ninjago kailor #This post taught me the tag limit lol

[isbergillustration]

Rare Pre-Death Portrait of The Boy

#ink #acrylic paint #markers #posca pens #colour pencil #sketchbook #illustration #artists on tumblr #my art #ink & other liquids story tag #the downside. to writing about tattoo artists. is i have to come up with so many fucking tattoos for them #like. 70% of these are various fandom references #clearly the crow is the only canonical one #and the nero quote obviously. for the irony

[little-laurance]

This fandom ain't perfect, but all 12 of us are having a great time

#thats a lie there are prob like 100 of us #maybe #but we're so small #never been in a fandom this small before it is so cozy #I love seeing the same 6 people posting for aphtober #I love seeing the same 20 people posting headcanons #I love seeing the same 14 people in my notes #like actually it is great #we are neighbors #only downside is the fics </3 #wish there were more #aphmau

[eatingrosescollab]

Every time I think I know how to spell something in the Penumbra, I am wrong. wtf you meant “AUrinko”?? M’tender-who now?? Jet Celiac-disease. Why are we doing this.

#the only real downside to audio mediums #tpp #the penumbra fandom #the penumbra podcast #the aurinko crime family #m’tendere #don’t even get me STARTED with Second Citadel

[monards]

getting so irreprerably sad over those people who only judge rhine on a base level she is soooo much more than that pllldssseeee

#this is the only reason I’m happy there’s no symbiosis or silver thread fandom to mis characterize #downside; I wish there was people. #I don’t think everybody needs to know Rhine lore #it just makes me sad when they only take it at face value :(

[emerson-grimes-apologist]

Happy Deep Thoughts Thursday! I'm bored and thought this would be fun.

#me personally: #it gets a little boring and lonely here sometimes bc of how little activity there is #and i don't think anyone should feel obligated to be super active in a fandom if there are other things they'd rather be doing #(fandom is about having fun after all; it's not something you force yourself to do) #but still... sometimes i feel pressured to post stuff consistently #because it's only me and the tiny amount of people that make up the fandom who are preventing it from dying #(not that anyone is pressuring me ofc; i mean just pressure from myself) #so i think those are the downsides of such a small fandom #but that said i do like how close-knit this fandom is #everyone knows each other and is friendly with each other and that's so charming and unique #like you all have been so nice to me and i don't think i would've had that experience if this was a big fandom #so yeah. i do think i prefer the fandom the size it is #but it would be nice if it was just a liiiiittle bigger (but still small) #just so it isn't as empty #but i wanna hear you guys' opinions too!! #/no pressure ofc #candle cove #musings

[followfire]

I’m saying something quite obvious already but omg it’s so good to use characters as role models when facing difficulties

#I just managed to have a difficult conversation with a friend/colleague and didn’t back down or leave out part of what I wanted to say #and found motivation in telling myself “Jean wouldn’t back down” #I was like “Deal with the issue like Jean would deal with the Fatui” and then I did that #Downside from this: I also only go home very late so that I can get more work done because “Jean wouldn’t just go home and rest >:(” #On another note #I’m going to need a lot lot of “Jean would do it” this weekend #Because I’m going to participate in a short animation project #And by participate I mean be one of the two directors so… yeah #But sure #how could this go wrong? #It’s not like I have debilitating social anxiety or anything haha lol aaaaaah #(I’m complaining but I’m actually very happy and grateful that I was selected to do this. Just a bit anxious...) #(Also the project is about horse riding so I’m VERY excited about it!!) #Fandom Life #untaggged

[autistic-katara]

shout out to stranger things for being the only fandom less toxic on tiktok than on tumblr

#idk maybe it’s just a 2022 vs 2023/24 thing but the fandom on there when i was in it was like barely bad #like it was still kinda bad but there was way less overblown discourse and ppl were just generally more respectful of different opinions #i had mutuals who were mlvn shippers guys #i only have one of those now #nd we only started talking specifically bcz we both wanted to see the other sides view #(love u mutual who’s name i don’t actually know we’ll always be united in our love of kataang) #but yeah i had alotta mutuals who shipped stuff i didn’t had different opinions on the character etc #like the main downside was a bunch of ppl who hadn’t been in fandoms before acting weird abt stuff but if u could ignore that it was fr nic #unlike whatever’s going on on this hellsite #idk #stranger things #ryan shut the fuck up

[if-th3n-else]

On the bright side, the selfish gremlin I am, is happy to have a good TV show adaptation not being trendy and having to enjoy it without all the annoying mainstream drama. I don't like to share my things with a big audience.

There, I said it.

#his dark materials #i know i know it's selfish #but the way every popular series are treated nowadays #i absolutely don't want that for hdm #and that's why i don't really want adaptations of any Sanderson books #i mean bookwise it's a pretty big fandom but these are books so it's contained if you know what i mean #but yeah.... #we only need the lotr movies as high fantasy adaptations anywah #the rest is just too good in our brain to be touched #and readers have the best imagination #plus it's so cool to see fanarts having totally different takes on characters #only downside is no pretty gifsets TT #but hdm is kinda blessed to have such a good adaptation overall (not everything is perfect but still) #with pretty much the smae small fandom than before #i just want Dafne and Amir to succeed #i mean Dafne already did before #still they shouldn't have fucked up the schedule and let us enjoy the beautiful emotions created by having one episode a week #anyway #nothing but selfish love for my stuff 💜 #and this is why i never really engaged with a lot of fandoms #im at peace in my own #just social anxiety stuff lmao #i should add that you have the misfortune to be my friend and having or not but especially not seen a piece of media i have been into #then you're gonna have the rant i restrain myself from posting online #and they are... long

[blorbosexterminator]

Raquel and Alicia would be in the berlin spin off? What do you think of that? What possible plot line that could have fit in with them?

This simultaneously came as the biggest surprise related to the spin-off possible and also completely unsurprising LMFAO. A few weeks ago, @roccinan and I were joking about this exact same thing and went if 'what if instead of everyone else, Alex Pina gets Itizar to play Raquel in the spin-off, wouldn't that be insane?' And as always, the conversation took so many different turns and twists and we joked about everything but I think we both concluded that it actually wouldn't be that insane and that it's HIGHLY plausible if he did want to do it. Because Raquel is a major policewoman/detective in Madrid and it would actually be very interesting if we watched her rise as a policewoman in parallel to Andrés rise as a thief; they are both young and still haven't made that formidable name but they are incredible at what they do and show this potential and as a viewer knowing how they end up it would be very cool. And the other thing we talked about would if basically Raquel is just running around the city always constantly 'nearly' catching Andrés but he always slips out of her finger at the last moment and maybe she doesn't know 'who' exactly she's looking for, and maybe she does.

What I want to say is, they are many scenarios they could fit in because it's not at all weird that a major policeman like Raquel would be working on a major heist case in Madrid. And putting Alicia in too, makes a lot of sense because they graduated together and it's very likely they worked together on some cases, and also very cool because their dynamic obviously have a lot of fans. And it's basically two spin-offs in one: one based on Berlin and his rise, and one based on Raquel's younger years in the force.

That's on one hand, on the other, it was a genius marketing trick by Pina because he's basically ensuring at least 80% of the original audience will watch the spin-off now. Either because they genuienly just love Raquel (which most general audience and also fandom do), or now they will be waiting for any 'prequel' thoughts on serquel (and the serquel fandom is hugel), or for Alicia, the s3 villain that gained a huge amount of fans.

Bottomline is, I think it's something that is making me way more excited for the show (and I already was) and will have the same effect on many other people. And I think it promises that the show will be pretty fun, playful, and paying homage to the original show. So overall, a good move (they obviously can ruin it in the show itself, but until now, it seems very promising to me); I can imagine a lot of storylines that can organically involve Raquel and Alicia, and on a marketing level, I think it's genius to ensure the show is watched by enough people to get a second season, which I believe what Pina wants and is planing for.

#I also think it's cool in other dynamic introductions #like Alberto when he was maybe still a good boyfriend but with red signs that the viewer see how it'll end up #(there is something always insanely cool to me about a viewer knowing the character's future that they don't know themselves) #we can actually have German as a character which could be very fun to see the man that a woman like Alicia loved that much #and maybe (PLEASE GOD PLEASE) we can get my dude my man my icon Tamayo #and also Prieto because I actually find him fun #the only downside to this is the expected annoyance from certain parts of the larger fandom who won't shut up about rapist berlin and how #they cannot stand him even though they are willingly watching a show that's named after him #and who will be loudly complaining about the lack of serquel because they would be 100% expecting it to be a serquel spin-off now #and/or complaining about why the romance between Raquel and Alicia isn't the central thesis of the berlin show #but also that would be enough talking about the show to convince netflix that it's popular enough to be granted a second season lol #but fingers crossed that we all enjoy it and that it's genuinely just a fun good show that adds to lcdp rather than takes from it #(and that we get an answer to 'you didn’t even tell the truth to your own brother son of a bitch' lik #lcdp #Berlin netflix

[lilnasxvevo]

I am reading the best fucking smut fic of my life and I keep thinking it’s only like 11 chapters and I’m almost done and then it’ll be over :( and then every time I click next chapter and it brings me back up to the part of the page that has the word count and chapter count I remember that it’s actually THIRTY-THREE chapters and the tags assure me there are sex scenes in every chapter and there are 91k words of just mostly kinky threesome porn and I am in actual pervert heaven

#the only downside is that it’s for a fandom I’m not in LMAOOOOOOO #i don’t remember how I got here but the ship is bingliushen from svsss

[starlit-mansion]

I see a lot of mention of the "lemon! warning: boys kissing XD don't like don't read! *poking character with a stick in the author notes* please don't sue me i only have 4 dollars and a ham sandwich!" era of fic and its attendant tropes

But i think there should be more nostalgia for the "five times X happened (and one it didn't)" trend, that shit genuinely slapped and it's a shame it died out like... just a few years before tumblr, which is a punchier delivery format than livejournal

#really dating myself to an extremely specific time and cohort of fandoms but still. #it's good! #also i mentioned them to corv and they were like 'oh i did not care for those i only wanted longfic' #so it's really not universal but i liked it. it was the upside to an era with..... lots of downsides #(ie badly informed stabs at dealing with homophobia and marginalization... there still being a lot of gender essentialism in the water... #and a lot of grossly mischaracterizing some vaguely attractive minor character to be a ship vector and/or ubiquitous pair the spares ships)

[yourstrullyme]

it might be an old term because i haven't seen it used in a while but i gotta say i love the great lesbian migrations

just seeing the same mutuals/people i follow go from one wlw show to the next, comparing characters and meta, getting to read about all your favorite pairings from the same amazing fanfic writers, and discovering other people who you maybe did not interact with in x fandom but meet in z fandom and realize they also love x so its like a double bonus kind of thing

wlw are awesome people keep it up babes

#just seeing someone posting about say willow 2022 with a warrior nun pfp or a clexa url?? top tier shit man #personal #meegs rambles #wlw #fandom #the great lesbian migrations #i remember the first time i heard that term used a lot was at the time of lexa's death #dark days but i met a lot of wonderful people #also during the the wilds premier #and warrior nun #amazing shows amazing people #only downside would be that most migrations are triggered by either death or cancelation :)

[moth-time]

the itch to join an fma discord to have more ppl to talk about the blorbos with vs the mortifying ordeal of joining a new place and navigating an established social dynamic

#moth talks #i only know of two servers and one of them is centered around a fic i havent read #while the other had rules i didnt like #ach #the downside of joining a fandom years late #tumblr just kind of sucks for conversation

[fabulouslygaybean]

i love writing fics that fill an incredibly specific niche. half the comments i get on my works that do that are just "holy fucking shit ive been waiting for someone to write this for so long, i owe you my life" and it makes my day every single time

#i wont say what niche it is but. in a lot of fandoms there's only a handful of fics about it if there's any at all #smth kinda interesting though is that after i publish these fics ive actually seen ppl publish fics about the same topic that are very - #- obviously heavily inspired by my works. which is INSANE #its very flattering but also vaguely disappointing lol #there was one that i saw that more or less just recycled an entire convo that i wrote for one of my own fics. that was wild #i do love writing for incredibly specific things but it has its downsides lol