the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.
The worst broad change in fandom culture is that disliking something or having preferences/opinions is somehow out the window for achieving moral highground or "being right" about what is canon/the intention of creators. You can dislike something just because you dislike it!!!!!! Get a private account and be a hater with a small group of likeminded individuals and stop fighting randos online like a fool.
Instead of tumblr sexymen there's now tiktok favs, in which 90% of the people have not seen nor taken part of the media that man is from, will take part in the Fandom as the least liked type of fan, then finally take part in the media and either end up hating the media because it's not just an HD tiktok edit, or hate the character because "they didn't know he was mean ;w;"
There's also a heavy influx of people who don't know how to tell an oc from Canon and get mad when people call them out for falling for/making edits/etc of someone's oc as if it's not incredibly weird
So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????
I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.
Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?
dropped the walrus vs fairy question on a group of psychologists today and not only did the majority agree the walrus would be more surprising, the one with the strongest background in research responded to the ‘but fairies aren’t real’ argument with “are your beliefs so inflexible that you’ve never considered you might be wrong about what’s real and what’s not?” and honestly i haven’t recovered