#this fandom is tough sometimes

[littlestsnicket]

time of contempt!yenralt is geralt not trusting yennefer and being too scared of upsetting her to say it and sleeping with her anyway and the way netflix!geralt is different, that would never work.

i don't think the writers aren't fighting yennefer's arc in season 2 nearly as much as they are fighting this other version of geralt. and well... i wish some nuances of character interaction had gone a bit differently in season 2, but the thing that irritates me more than anything else in adaptations is when changes are made and the production backs off on them rather than following through. so whatever. i'm more interested to see what they do than anything else.

#the witcher #witcher season 3 #witcher spoilers #i guess? #adaptation #i will still defend the overall narrative thrust of season 2 i think it was inspired and interesting #but i do also think fandom at large took somewhat different things away from book!yenralt than i did #(but listening to the audiobooks now i still think my take is very valid) #i love book!yenralt so much narratively but it is also very bad in terms of functional relationships right up until the end #in my head they get their happily ever after but it's telling that they have to be outside of their own time and space for it to work #also i like netflix!geralt #i just also want to murder people who are like #henry cavil cares about the source material so much #because like... a lot of these things are on the record as being his choices #and i don't think they are necessarily bad in terms of the show telling it's own story (which i like a LOT in an adaptation) #but his decisions are a giant snowball of inaccuracy #in a way that is not deliberate and intentional like i think many of the things the writers are doing is #and the writing staff is left to have to keep making that story work #idk #this fandom is tough sometimes

[straycalamities]

I hope this is okay to ask but are you still pals with other mods ever since or just with some? Or just still mutuals but don’t talk much? You don’t have to answer if you’re not comfortable with it!

well, it's been over a decade and relationships ebb and flow all the time and people change, or situations change. and you can't keep the exact same relationship with someone for that long i don't think. at least not in my experience.

so yeah i've had my positives and negatives with fellow mods. they've come and gone. some of them have stuck around, and others have moved on. it's just how it goes.

some of them i'm still on good terms with, we just don't keep up. others we're comfy-but-quiet mutuals. and others i'd say we're still friends, even good friends. and then there are the ones where it happened to go real sour, unfortunately. it's just a lot of different folks from a lot of different strokes of life and a bunch of things have happened. i feel like it's to be expected.

#asks #Anonymous #and this is true for the entire fandom no matter the length of time the persons been in it #or fandoms in general #or life in general #so yeah ive had to get used to seeing a lot of ghosts constantly when new ppl get into the old archives each year #and it's very strange and sometimes bittersweet and sometimes it's really tough and hard #but i don't wanna leave so i endure and i try to let it roll off my shoulders #but that's why everyone should be respectful of what they're getting into when they kick up the dust of the old bygone eras #there's a deep deep well of history there you can't even begin to know

[littlemisspascal]

My mom had throat surgery yesterday and also has a messed up ear causing her vertigo that she’s got an appointment to fix at end of month.

Me: Are you sure you’re feeling up to the grand prix?

Mom: No heckin way I’m going to miss seeing Charles Leclerc in person. Don’t ask ridiculous questions 😤

#i forget sometimes i get my fandom dedication from her lol #she’s a tough one

[crimeronan]

having so many girl blorbos at once is like. i'm going to get a good grade in being really obsessed with shit that only 3 other people on earth care about enough to have established headcanons, something that's both normal to want and possible to achieve,

#thank goodness i write about 80% of them interacting with the mainstream male faves or i'd be a goner #i say that in a tongue-in-cheek way but actually #when i want people to actually read my f/f stuff or my platonic stuff.... i DO put men in it #sometimes in the background sometimes in the foreground #the exact same way i get people to read my poly fic by baiting them with the mainstream monogamous ships #and my fic is largely mainstream fandom these days for a reason. if i didnt want immediate gratification i'd be writing about my OCs #who are also.... all crazy dykes. i don't have it in me to make a token man for a fandom to get attached to. #devin WAS a man until it became so clear that she is not. we need more desperately sick tired angry transfem all pronouns failwomen #it's a tough job out here for someone who's crazy about women but someone's gotta do it

[lynsstrange]

fyi now that my initial feral manic episode over ttpd has cleared im going to be pretty scarce on posting again likely. I don’t know how I forgot it in the first place, but just being on here again a few days has helped me remember why I tried taking a break in the first place. The negativity and doomscrolling really isn’t worth it. The anxiety I get when im stuck on here long periods of time isn’t worth it. love you guys, but im going to step back a bit <3

#it’s been tough out here as a swiftie and a watcher fan the past few days #to put it lightly 💀💀 #and I could really do without the toxicity rn #like. im a semi stable teen girl. my hyperfixations are what keep me stable #and in the words of blondie herself. it just gets loud sometimes #fandom is supposed to be fun but good god do some people on this website make it intolerable #im doing pretty well btw. this isn’t because im spiraling or anything #I just want to do anything I can to help stop a spiral from happening yk and this stuff just builds #anyways sayonara for a bit ✌🏻

[skrunksthatwunk]

1 and 17 for the ask game :]

1. hmmm i think akiyama tbh? i feel like people boil him down to shweepy lil malewife (and I'm guilty of this too) a little too often when he's literally a loan shark who makes desperate people jump through bizarre reality tv bullshit to get help from him, stuff that's kinda unnecessary when he's got scrooge mcduck money. it's literally his main shtick as the lifeline of kamurocho. i think he's fundamentally meritocratic and odd and also he was volunteered to kill a guy so kiryu didn't have to which is just. he's down to kill ok you random civilian you. and i think it should be explored more!! i don't think that i have a great grasp on his character but i feel like he's more sleazy and cold and weird and maybe even shallow than people make him out to be? let him be morally gray. if you love him love him anyway, those bits included, yeah?

17. i am SHOCKED there is not more haruka-centric content??? like stuff from her perspective, about her life, exploring her experiences and feelings, etc. she's a pretty important character and yeah she's like young and whatever but that's OUR girl y'know. she's our sweetie pie give her the spotlight. doesn't even have to be fluffy either go make her be angsty and/or evil idk. i think ppl wanna focus on kiryu in their interactions and i get that bc i love kiryu being a father stuff but she's a person too is all. also saejima is quite important and he's barely in short form content??? he gets more attention in fics but no one wants to draw him. are you scared of his big bald head???? well I'm not. should go draw him he's funny

#look if mine fans can make fun of mine for being a stock bro akiyama fans shoukd do the same thing #also ik haruka's bit has a lot to do with misogyny on both the studio's and fans' part but like. still #not a haruka nor an rgg fandom specific issue for sure #ALSO SAEBABA???? i was SHOCKED to find that there was barely anything for them relatively speaking. theyre gay as hell wym #baba my beloved im so sorry girl #anyway thank you for the ask!!! i thought question 1 was gonna be tough but i actually feel pretty good about this one #my takes dont tend to be very hot and my view of characters is flexible enough that most interpretations work for me #but yeah akiyama has committed capitalist crimes and needs to go to stinkboy guillotine jail #tbh im not crazy about akiyama overall but i think if i played the games he's in again that could change...? i gotta spend more time with #him to figure him out basically #some of it's bc he gets the most attention in y4 and his stuff sometimes rubbed me the wrong way #but then again i ignore several Fucking Bad things going on with that game and saejima particularly so why not for aki too yk

[toumoromoro]

A tough fight were every attack kills you in one hit. You need to think fast while your health is rolling down, pretty good use of mother’s rolling HP mechanic.

Too bad the rest of the game fucking sucks.

#touhou #now hear me out I know people say to skip the first game and just play the sequel #but since the 2nd game continues from where the first one left off #I felt like I had to play it #The story is just not good the humor is bad even by 2007 touhou fandom's standards #the dungeons are boring and repetive and it's easy to get lost since sometimes rooms look exactly the same #The overworld sprites are bad building are just boxes painted gray #With all that out of the way I really like the battles and the boss sprites #The only reason I keep playing are the boss battles they can get really tough but never unfair #all the bosses so far have been really fun #I give it a 4/10 so far

[bare1ythere]

Sick and tired of being overly sensitive. gonna eat rocks about it

#shut up me #vent #i guess? #i have a head ache so im sorry if this sounds weird #someone says something negative about a thing I like that I agree with and yet my brain shatters in two #ive been thinking a lot recently about taking a break from being so chronically online #but like.... 80% of my social interaction and 50% of my hobbies (fandom) are on here #itd be really tough #but man. I just cant take the negativity (even negativity i AGREE with) sometimes. It makes me so sad and its so frustrating #because I dont know how to handle feeling emotions. I just let them completely take over and its exhausting #fun when positive! but otherwise exhausting #i should be able to handle it but idk! brain no worky! #waugh

[weedle-testaburger]

i fucking hate the way i sometimes feel like if i get into a thing, the fans won't want to be friends because i really like other things that they dislike. why do people have that stupid ass mentality about people's media tastes

#like sorry but if you consider it a dealbreaker that i like sp or su or whatever that's tough shit #and nothing you say will make me turn on that stuff it'll just make me dislike you #not to mention how within fandoms i sometimes feel pretty isolated #mostly for liking bits other people don't (like some of jodie's era on doctor who or season 4 of stranger things) #and having to deal with seeing a loooooot of hate for them and try not to get mad at people for it #i just try to roll my eyes and keep scrolling

[penguinsledder]

Sometimes I see the Three Houses discourse about how some ppl disliked the routes system and the whole school sim and how it got very dating sim-like

And like, it's valid to have your preferences or be a purist who prefers well, a purer form of the media in question

But there's a small part of me that gets sad, because frankly, I disliked tactics games. I gave them a shot in 2014 (FE: Sacred Stones and FF Tactics), and decided it wasn't for me. I got super drawn in by the school and dating sim aspect, I'm not gonna lie, and I really did enjoy those parts a lot! But they also served as a gateway to appreciating the strategy aspect more. I ended up enjoying the battles, got invested in training my units, and went through forums to figure out good builds. I do auxillary battles for fun now. I can see myself giving other titles in the franchise another chance.

And idk, to see people hating a lot on the reasons I even got into this series ... makes me feel like a fake fan or smth hahaha.

Being in the fandom the past few months has been super fun but with Engage causing some of this discourse to surface (not the most toxic kind of fandom discourse I've seen, mind you, but still), just makes me feel kind of ... bad? Like my love for the game is somewhat not as valid because I latched onto the "easy" game or the "untraditional" game.

Breaking traditional game mechanics isn't always a bad thing yknow :( We got BOTW (which I also loved, as someone who isn't into Zelda), and I think the entire gaming community is better for it. You get to rake in a wider variety of fans who might use these untraditional games to get into the traditional ones. And even if they don't, a group of people out there thoroughly enjoyed this game that you may not necessarily like. Maybe you're not the target audience for this game, and that's not a bad thing :(

Tldr: kinda got a bit sad at the gatekeeping vibes some discourse I saw had hahahaha

#this was kinda incoherent but lol just some thoughts i wanted to write down #i am no stranger to discourse and ofc i don't expect ppl to accommodate my hurt feelings #i've been in fandom long enough LOL this is a tough place sometimes #but yeah just some thoughts about how it feels on being outside the gate hahaha

[afterplaidshirtdays]

gonna finish laundry bc I deserve a functional closet and watch spn for the rest of the evening. I might liveblog, idk. Weird weekend. Extremely unsure what the vibes are.

#Being a swiftienatural blogger is tough I tell ya what #these fandoms wear the same hats sometimes #but when one is in shambles…..idk

[optimusxmello]

Pros: The show that came out in 1993 DOES have some fics to it on ao3. The summaries and tags sound interesting for the characters, and the ships have me craving for content.

Cons: No paragraph breaks

#it's tough out here sometimes #i'll have to add to this fandom when I can #fandom #fanfic

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

am a little bitter that multiple of my primary interests only surge in popularity (aka people only ever talk about them) during the september-october(-november too sometimes but usually only the beginning of the month) period of the year. they are a year-round thing for me and most of the other people who are into them year-round too either have me blocked or are blocked by me.

and things like the general rise of gothlit fandom in recent years has made the non-hammer tags mostly unusable for finding people to follow/talk to about my interests besides OMG Friend Jonathan ! + the rampant bigotism is so bad it makes me sick to my stomach with stress and disgust. so even though now i can find people who like one (1) of my interests the tags are too oversaturated for me to actually benefit from it. and still none of you want to touch the hammer films, which is truly where my interest hits its highest peak 😭

#in a sulky mood tonight! #myevilposts #it's tough being a year-round halloween boy in this anti-whimsy society basically and i'm suffering. #hammer fans pls interact i am deprived ! #sometimes i'm all happy that my interests are niche and sometimes it makes me feel othered and physically ill #with loneliness. #and like the way fandoms die so quickly when they aren't being actively fed new 'content' #also makes sad. #i understand losing interest in a hyperfix but it's so weird bc it's happening en masse and #i know it hasn't always been this way bc i've been fucking around with fandom-y stuff since i was tweenaged. and i'm 17 now. #going to recirculate some of my older posts and maybe i'll feel better.

[the-fabulous-51]

one of these days ill post about my ocs on here and then you’ll all be sorry (positive)

#mine #its been tough being a fandom of one for these guys #but im shy #and all of it is held together with headcannons that are either lightly borrowed from others or dependent on my own hcs #that i forget are hcs #which also goes for the ones ive borrowed from folks on ao3 #i sometimes forget what is and isnt cannon tbh #i should probably specify that they're not humanized bc im pretty sure the people that know me know me from my humanized cars stuff on ao3 #theyre planes #well 3 planes one helo one semi and a forklift #theyre in a club <3 #at a university #bc im a college student and something something write what you know #which makes it sound like im in a club (im not i dont have a life) but one of my besties is president of one #so im like an unofficial member #anyways one of them is a passenger jet and ive basically got this whole story for him laid out but it really paints the WoC world in almost #a dystopian light? idk #im just Fascinated with the mechanics of how a world like that would work and then bc im a master of angst when i want to be #i kinda made some fucked up conclusions #but dont worry! hes not alone! hes got a buddy. a Best Buddy. #and hes going to college to achieve Goals and earn a Degree #i love him sm #my son #his name is george #and his buddy is sam #hes george's aide so he helps him do things like read books and navigate a college campus with a 30-some-odd wingspan #sam is the forklift i was talking about #oh and theres the main guy who was the m ain guy before i hyperfocused on george #his name is john and hes an atr-72 but not a passenger one he runs cargo #anyways hes the main guy cause he starts the club

[neos127]

enha boys + variety shows

synopsis. headcanons in which your group along with enhypen are on a variety show together and fans seem to notice the connection between you and one specific member… genre. fluff pairing. enhypen boys x idol!fem!reader notes. if there are typos…they’re not there then!!

lee heeseung

being the oldest of the group along with heeseung, you were both paired together when playing the whisper challenge. heeseung tried to contain the smile on his face when he sat across from you, knowing that all the cameras on you both could pick up his reaction. it was cute to see you so flustered while trying to guess what word heeseung was trying to tell her. you would never let the boy know, but constantly looking at his lips made your stomach twist and you wished you could kiss him at the moment. sometimes you would zone out, missing what heeseung was trying to say because you were too distracted by his face. your members would laugh while you put your face in your hands in embarrassment.

your clips with him went viral on twitter later for how intimate your eye contact with him was and how you seemed to be doing the ‘triangle method’ with your eyes. heeseung texted that night you after seeing the posts— the notification made you shriek and drop your phone.

park jay

your group was featured on enhypen’s en-o’ clock episode for a game of mafia. it got intense quickly with everyone yelling and accusing each other. the chaos was amusing but in the midst of it, you were the calmest one. jay became suspicious of you, believing that you were the mafia since you had barley contributed to the conversation. when you locked eyes with jay, you smirked, causing the boy to blush a bit. he was sure that you were the mafia and got all of the boys to vote for you when the time came. turns out— you were simply a villager and the mafia actually ended up being sunghoon. you wanted to throw people off, it was funny that way. especially jay who seemed to react the way you wanted him too. it was fun to tease him and watch him become all flustered.

engenes and [your group fandom name] freak out over the interactions between you two. you’re described as being very flirty towards jay while he looks at you as if you hung all the stars in the sky. so much for being subtle…oops…

sim jake

since your group only debuted a year ago, you had not yet been subjected to the classic haunted house game. when the company finally set one up, your group was paired with you brother group, enhypen. you and jake were paired together for the challenge which made the boy excited yet nervous. he had a huge crush on you ever since he first saw you in the company building, preparing for your debut. when the two of you started the challenge to go through the abandoned building and look for clues, you were immediately jump-scared. you swore jake screamed louder than you did. he grabbed you hand and immediately pulled you away, running in the opposite direction. jake wanted to seem more tough and have a vibe of ‘i’ll protect you’ but he was sure he already ruined that. the whole challenge basically consisted of the two of you screaming, grabbing onto each other and falling all over the place. but you wouldn’t have done it with anyone else.

fans on twitter were obsessed with the chemistry between you two. the way you conversed and bickered as if you were life long friends was something they adored. and the light touches and lingering gazes that suggested more than friends was immediately pointed out and analyzed like crazy.

park sunghoon

being paired with sunghoon for the heart flutter challenge was nerve wracking to say the least. you were positive that the boy knew about your feelings, and he would definitely be taking advantage of it. once the cat ears were on your head, they began to move slightly only by you looking at sunghoon. he laughed and your heart raced because of his pretty smile. it was obvious that he was making you flustered and your group mates could be heard teasing you in the background. you tried to defend yourself and make sunghoon flustered as well, but it was hard to without seeming overly flirty.

on twitter everyone is talking about how much you were blushing around sunghoon. while it was a bit embarrassing for you, it was worth it to see all the shipping comments and videos.

kim sunoo

your group and enhypen did a special weekly idol video together. you both had back to back comebacks to promote and fans loved seeing the two groups interact so the company decided to do something about that. you felt nervous being there especially since you had the biggest crush on one of the members, sunoo. you tried not to look at him too much, scared that the camera would capture your lovesick stare. what you didn’t catch was sunoo staring at you as well, a small smile on his face whenever you talked. he thought you were adorable, and he could tell that you were slightly nervous which made you even cuter to him.

later that night when you’re scrolling on twitter, you see a bunch of screenshots, videos and even edits of you and sunoo. everyone is talking about how the two of you looked and smiled at each other the whole vid. some people tried to deny it, saying that you guys were just being friendly. but it was obvious that the stares were anything but friendly.

yang jungwon

your group along with enhypen were on a variety show together. being considered their ‘sister’ group, you were paired up for a lot of activities together. one of the challenges in this show was random play dance. being the main dancer, you knew a lot of different group choreographies and were able to execute them well. being a secret enhypen fan, you were able to dance to their songs perfectly which caught jungwon’s attention. his eyes sparkled as he watched you, feeling flustered from seeing a pretty girl perfectly execute his group’s choreography. when ‘bite me’ came on, he immediately joined you, making all of the members yell out in surprise. one person wolf whistled (jungwon swears it was ni-ki).

enegenes go absolutely insane over the two of you dancing to ‘bite me’ together. everyone used to call the two of you ‘siblings’ considering that you were both young leaders and main dancers. but after seeing the way you looked at each other, people decided that it was a little too intense for ‘siblings’.

nishimura riki

being the maknaes of the group, you and riki were paired together for the telepathy challenge. the both of you stood back to back, headphones on so you couldn’t hear each other’s movements. your groups members would hold up a sign in front of you and riki that said the same word or phrase and if you could both make the same move or action, you would get a point. you and riki proved not to be very telepathic considering that all of your moves were different. that was until you both had to act out the word ‘dance’ and started doing the ‘sweet venom’ head move at the same time. both of your groups yelled out in excitement, causing you and riki to turn around and give each other high fives.

one clip of you two went viral where riki holds onto your hand a bit too long during your celebration, his eyes only trained on your face. when the boy sees it he feels extremely flustered, but he sends the clip to you with a winking emoji, hoping to send a subtle message.

©neos127

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[c-is-for-circinate]

It feels like there's this narrative that fandom keeps wanting to explore, with Steve Harrington, about this very specific type of martyrdom where self-sacrifice is an expression of a lack of self-worth. And, like, yes, write the narrative that's meaningful to you, and yes ok Steve does admittedly get beaten up a lot, but -- legitimately I do not think this narrative is actually Steve's story.

Like, without gendering things too much, there is something in the Steve fanon that I keep seeing that's so reflective of the specific kind of sacrifice and societal pressures exerted on girls, specifically -- this story of 'you make yourself worthy and worthwhile by carving pieces out of yourself', of believing that you must always give and never receive to justify the space you take up in the world. Yes, boys can experience this same pressure (and obviously trans and nb people of all genders run into it as well! sometimes a lot!), but especially in the mid-1980s cultural context where Stranger Things takes place, it's just...really not likely to be a dominant narrative for Steve to be operating under? It doesn't even really match the Steve we see on screen -- who is happy to make sacrifices for the sake of others, yeah, when needed, but who's not particularly kind or giving unless somebody asks first.

And Steve does get hurt a lot on other people's behalf! And this is a problem! It's just a completely different problem than the one fandom keeps writing.

Steve, and I'm going to say this forever, is a story about toxic masculinity, which the show may or may not even know it's writing. The archetypes influencing Steve's character as it shows up on the screen (and the stories and messages that Steve would actually be surrounded by in his actual life) are not deconstructions of suffering heroes who never should have had to fight in the first place and were destroyed by it. That's the Buffy the Vampire Slayer story. Steve's not Buffy. Steve's cultural context is Indiana Jones.

Steve is The Guy! And part of being The Guy is that you're expected to take the hits -- not because Steve is less important than the women-and-children he's supposed to protect, but because, the story says, he will get less hurt. Why should Steve get in between Billy and Lucas? Because Steve is an eighteen-year-old athlete and Lucas is in middle school, and of the two of them, Steve actually stands a chance. (And yes, Steve got badly hurt there, and Max had to save him -- but if Lucas, if Max had taken that beating they would not have been running through those tunnels later.) Was somebody else better-qualified to dive down to the uncertain bottom of a cold lake in the middle of the night? Steve doesn't list his credentials there as a way of justifying some ideal of martyrdom; he is literally the most likely person on the boat not to drown.

And make no mistake: when Steve's pulled into the Upside-Down, he survives the bats long enough for backup to get there. Realistic or not, he's apparently tough enough that he's physically capable of hiking barefoot through hell without much slowing down. Steve is the tank for the same reason as any tank: because he literally has been shown to have the most hit points in the group. You cannot honestly engage with Steve in this context without dealing with the fact that he's right.

AND THIS IS A PROBLEM! This is still a problem! But it's not the same problem that fandom seems to expect. It's not an expression of caretaking or the need for self-sacrifice; it's not an issue with Steve valuing himself less. It's an issue of toxic masculinity so ingrained that Steve doesn't even recognize he's suffering from it, because one of the tenets of toxic masculinity is that Big Strong Guys don't suffer. It's just a concussion, it's fine, he'll walk it off. It's not that Steve thinks he deserves to get hurt, or even that he's less deserving of safety than the others. It's that absolutely nothing in his cultural context allows him to admit that he can be hurt in a significant way.

There's still so much tension that can be gotten out of this situation, I swear. There's so much that can be explored in writing! Hell, the show itself is deconstructing some of this trope, believe it or not, by giving us a Steve who absolutely can take all the hits thrown his direction but still doesn't know what the fuck he's doing with his life. It turns out that doing his job as The Guy is only mildly helpful in horror movie situations (mostly by buying time for smarter, squishier people to do the damage from behind him), and somewhere a little worse than useless in everyday life.

But Steve does not go out of his way to self-sacrifice, he really doesn't. He just does his job. He's The Guy. Of course he's not going to let a kid or a girl or some scared skinny nerd who just learned about monsters yesterday take the hits. Of course Steve's got this.

#Stranger Things #do I dare character-tag this #does this count as an Unpopular Opinion if I'm calling out fanon #eh let's be bold #Steve Harrington #and #toxic masculinity #which is apparently just A Thing I Post About Now