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"Jamil is bad" bAD? BAD?! EX-FUCKING-CUSE ME??????????
That is a man that has been doomed to servitude and deliberate mediocrity FOR LIFE! Doomed to forever be a shadow from the moment he first took breath! Allowed to be nothing but lesser during all his life, shackled by every order and every demand! OF COURSE HE'S RESENTFUL! OF COURSE HE'S BITTER!
FUCK THAT "JamIL Is BAAAad" CRAP!
And Kalim is just so freaking bothersome. So what if he is well-meaning? Paving Hell, that's what he's doing. Innocent? Oblivious, more like. Oblivious, unmindful, ignorant. He pisses me off. I don't care if he's a "sunshine cinamon roll uwu" miss me with that shit. "But he sees Jamil as a friend" that's the thing: JAMIL AIN'T HIS FRIEND! He's Kalim's servant! He ain't gotta a choice! Jamil is not even that good of a liar, he mumbles under his breath and gives up once pressed. I'm seriously starting to believe Jamil only seems good at lying because Kalim is easy to lie to (which, well, it's pretty much how Jafar's dynamic with the Sultan goes)
And yeah, I know that Jamil's anger is misplaced, and it is not Kalim's fault that Jamil is in that situation. I don't think Jamil genuinely hates Kalim, just what Kalim represents. Kalim is literally the representation of every shackle that bonds Jamil. And he's annoying to boot, the worst type of annoying, the annoying that doesn't mean to be so you can't get angry at them for being an ass. I'd rather Kalim be an asshole, it'd be less grating.
#And maybe I'm biased because I HATE the Sultan in the original movie#hate hate hate hate that useless fuck#*deep sigh*#my opinion#I'm not looking for discourse so I won't tag the fandom#just needed to rant
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so a thing this fandom does that remains FASCINATING to me, as a function of the fact a lot of this fandom is people's first fandom or only current fandom, is just... assume a lot of things it does is a scourge that this fandom has invented or doesn't exist outside of it? or like, is uniquely bad here? and i won't deny that sometimes mcyt fandom is a bit more intense by virtue of numbers, but like...
duo names: confusing fandom-injokes to describe duos and groups tend to be an anime fandom thing specifically for many historical reasons, but they're not uncommon. hey quick--if you haven't been in KHR fandom, can you guess what 1827 is? no? i'll give you a hint: that's actually a ship name. or, ygo fans, tell me the difference between puppyshipping, prideshipping, violetshipping, and rivalshipping. my hint is that they're all kaiba ships and two of them are actually the same ship. good luck!
reducing characters to a specific trait: have you read fic in another fandom before? i would recommend you go do so and come back to me. my example here is "sasuke likes tomatoes", for the record.
common au fanon that's confusing to outsiders: my deep cut here is "when i got into certain tv fandoms i was baffled by the existence of sentinel/guide fics", which is a slightly older tv fandom thing so many of you probably don't know what i'm on about. but trust me: in certain fandoms it's ubiquitous and unless you've watched a completely different tv show you're gonna have to entirely pick it up from reading fic. oh hey, hybrid aus and watcher!grian, nice to see your relative here,
fanon being treated as canon: did you know there's this whole bnha character, naomasa, who is treated as canonically having a lie detector quirk? did you know that, best i can tell, that's not in canon anywhere, it just got echoed through fanon enough that everyone treated it as canon? 'fanon trait becomes so ubiquitous everyone assumes it has to be there' is not a new thing. also, batfamily fans, i have been lead to understand the tim and coffee thing is also this.
characters being treated badly to make a different dynamic look better: the fact we have the term 'character bashing' tells you all you need to know, here. if anything my one complaint on this front isn't even that it's happening--it's that i wish bashing and/or "not [character] friendly" was tagged a little more frequently, haha.
characters being reduced to their family dynamics: tale as old as time. "even the family dynamic thing" yes even that. just because this fandom tended to be particularly ship-adverse in the past didn't mean it didn't do basically the same behaviors as any fandom with shipping did with those dynamics, just gen. and other gen fandoms also do that. yes, down to the "and shipping reduces them to a ship, unlike my gen dynamic, which is very in-character; why can't people just be friends?" thing. some of you have to have been marvel fans right.
characters being reduced to their ships: some of you have to have been marvel fans right.
The Discourse: yeah this is an "actively running show" fandom thing, but also a hiatus fandom thing. ask a homestuck about vriskourse sometime. as much as i hate to say it, it probably made doomsday discourse look cute.
and those are just like... some things i've seen people complain about on my dash recently. idk it just hit me there are probably fans in mcyt fandoms who are assuming that some things (like hybrid aus or duo names) are the kind of things that only happen here, so i thought i'd offer some examples of other places they happen! i also have even more examples if you'd like.
to be clear: this isn't shaming anyone for complaining about any of these things. lord knows i go complain to my friends about it all the time, just the other day i was complaining in the category of 'they keep bashing my guy'. it's more of just... a gentle reminder that maybe we're big, maybe we're loud, maybe we have problems... but these problems aren't always unique.
so uh. we're all suffering together i guess...?
#discourse#<- because. yeah.#this isn't meant to start a discourse this is more me laughing about Fandoms Is The Same#its also why i'm not bringing up the More Serious types of Fandoms Is The Same because i don't want to make light of it#and am instead bringing up the pettier ones#this sparked initially by someone acting like duo names are a this-fandom only phenomenon after years of being a ygo fan#and i was like. oh i've done this song and dance many a time.#and then i was thinking about posts complaining about things like fd and ships and everything else and i was like. oh that's an OLD song#so here. so we all remember sometimes that we all suffer together lol#this isn't a vague of anyone in particular i just constantly waver about making this specific post#anyway back to my usual discourse-free self
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"Why are we hating on JJK writers and fans."
Okay, as a JJK fan, let's list everything that has happened for the past three months. Take a seat and drink water. You're gonna need it. And since you people always think I'm angry, imagine me saying this with the most deadpan tone in the world. I am not angry posting this. I am jaded.
Majority of you are racist. Don't boo me you know it's the truth. Just look at how you guys wanted me to deactivate or tried to gaslight me because I said your fave is supporting a pedo. In FACT. It was a JJK writer who sent my post to that lady who opened me up to a lot of racial abuse from JJK fans. Edit; oh and she didn't apologize for doing that to me btw. I won't expose her though.
And doubling down on the racism, you people do not respect black women in your fandom. Like it is VERY bad. My jjk moots since 2021 up until now still get racial slurs hurled at them because they exist in a space that does not care or defend them. And you see your black moots get racist comments but you want to go "no discourse". I get it. You are a pussy. But to that extent? If you're above 20 and you're still scared of talking about racism in your community or standing up for black writers I am ashamed for you and I am shaming you.
I didn't even see any of you talk about noury on here. Especially ms "I will use the palestinian genocide to hide from criticism." I genuinely hope you at least donated something to her or spoke about her on your other platforms.
The way you guys excuse anything as long as the person is your friend. Because tell me why you people were jumping on Ezra's and Tee's dick, especially after what they both did. Or trying to discredit his racism. Be for real.
The way some of you come for other fandoms. JJK girls, especially that one that deactivated came around to drag aot writers because they said they are "niggerfying" the characters. You go to tr writers and start sending hate, chasing them out. Hell, there are cliques of JJK writers and fans alike on this site. You guys are fucking elitist. You don't like any other person apart from yourselves and it shows. The way you come for how people write x reader "why is she so ghetto". It is ALWAYS you people. Always.
SatoSugu fans are slowly becoming extremely misogynistic. I'd expect that behaviour from dudebros but the moment a girl says they like either of them, they come out of the woodworks. Also, let people ship crack ships in peace. I've been a satosugu girlie long before the season 2 came out and I miss when we were a lot quieter. NanaGo girlies were chill. Can't you copy them at least?
Now moving on to less pending reasons:
I've said this before and I'll say this again, stop tagging "he spat in your mouth and came" or nsfw links with x reader and about 30 plus characters. I get it, we're all burnt out. But even in my busiest of days in university I have NEVER posted that kind of shit. I take my time because writing is a skill and an art. This is not fast fashion.
And stop rewarding anyone who does that. Why are they having 1k notes in 6 hours? What the fuck is up with that?
Do better writing Gojo and hell the entire cast. I get it. Every character has a stereotype attached to them. But come on, 800 words and STILL it is a copy and paste of every other fic? I have to check twice if it is the same author and it's not. It's like every naruto oc fic written in 2016. Same face syndrome but in fic writing.
Writers are getting burned out cause you guys want the same thing over and over again. I hope salt is not the only spice you use because sending hate anons to JJK writers who write outside daddy doms and playboy Gojo is giving that energy. Be for real. These people are giving quality fics, stop chasing them away.
These are my few gripes with you all, because one day is not enough to list every issue I have. If the shoe fits and you rant in my inbox, that's on you. I did tell you to take a seat, drink water and read this in the calmest voice as possible.
#monica.speaks ♡#jujutsu kaisen discourse#as a jjk fan i'm going to point it out#you guys should change the way you behave for real or don't [as]
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Woah woah woah- qsmptwt is coming here to Tumblr? Well, I must greet them!
Hello people! I'm not much aware of how it is on that part of the fandom (Twitter), but I heard about scary things. But don't you guys worry, you guys can stay here as long as you want :D!
The name's AB, I've been a resident here for a bit, and I think of it as my little vacation home. It's gonna be a little confusing at first, but I bet you all will get a hang of it :P
There are still discourses here on Tumblr, yes, but it's given already that we shouldn't quickly assume on things without any reliable facts and we shouldn't leave horrible threats to others. Some people have negative feelings, some have hopes, and that's normal! We'll get through this together :>
Some Tumblr tips:
I reccomend reading this post! This is the post that helped me navigate around Tumblr.
You can reblog as much as you can (even your own posts), leave little messages in the tags, and customize your Tumblr's appearance!
The con I do have to warn you guys about is the algorithm. It's not that good.
Just some quick tips from me:
Continue to like and leave notes to the contents you want to continue to see.
Follower counts are not visible; we don't make a big deal on people's followers
Go to your settings and filter some tags and/or words you don't want to see (because I guarantee some nasties are going to eventually show up on your feed. This filter system is actually pretty good!)
Report bots and block em'! Don't get tired on reporting/blocking them.
Go to the visibility on your settings, and enable the prevent third-party sharing thingy so that the Ai won't scrape off your blogs.
Tumblr doesn't have the auto translate feature but NEVER be ashame to speak or to type your mother tongue/ other languages here.
I reccomend cutting (adding a "read more") on longer blogs like this.
Lastly, be NICE, CIVIL, and RESPECTFUL!! Learn to take a few steps back on things you've seen/read, and look on the bigger picture.
ofc, BE SILLY!! Have some fun!
Welcome again!! Just take some deep breaths buddies, because we'll get through this ^_^
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hello there
welcome to the pinned post
here we have the list of everything you wantes to know about the me myself and i
Commissions: open (dm me if interested)
here is my commissions sheet if you're interested in commissioning me
Art Trades: closed
Art Request: open 4 now
tho the rules are:
if you want a request, please state that you want a art request,, bcuz if not,, look I'm dumb okay? just be more specific please
no ocs (sorry)
aus are fine (tho pls send a reference 👍)
only the franchise im interested in (the list is down the below)
any ship in any franchise I'm in is fine as long as it's not the ones listed there in the dni list
there might be more to be added in the future but yeah 👍
down the below also has the everythin you need or just want to know so you better check it 👍
but before you do
this is for my and yours' comfort if you somehow have one or two or all of these
DNI If you:
- ship tac0m1c
- ship s0apm1c (on thin ice) ((you shippers can interact, but if you push your ship in my face, the ice will shatter))
- ship kn1fan (on thin ice) ((same goes here))
- hc knife and mic as siblings
- hc baseball and suitcase as father-daughter???? / infantalize suitcase
the basic DNI stuffs; Racist, being mean to people and tells them to "kys" or other mean things, etc. etc.
aight, now that you's done reading the dni list, time for the other chet
it's kinda simple and also kinda messy so bare with me here
you can call me Burgy and i is girl, but any pronouns is fine
my other socials are:
Instagram (@/burgycreeper405)
Youtube (@/burgycreeper405)
and no i don't have twitter, i used to, but no, twitter is like my toxic ex, so if you see me "post" on twitter, that's not me, that's probably a person acting as me but failed miserably
i have a dicsord server if you wanna join
the app i use to draw is Medibang Paint / Manga (the site lol) / Ibispaint on the ipad
to animate, i use Flipaclip on my phone
I am not in any fandoms cuz i am very ✨random✨
but draws one topic for a long while, but as time goes on, i go back to drawing random chet that i like and not just one thing
here are the lists of what I'm interested in (aka the things that I'll draw from most to least maybe)
• Inanimate Insanity (II)
• The Daily Object Show (TDOS)
• Trolls
• The Lego Movie
• Super Mario
• Undertale
• Cuphead
• Batim
i have more stuffs that i like but those 8 are the main, and I don't even really draw the other ones that much, but i like em, but i ain't telling em,, so yeah :P
i have a fun little ask blog for my AUs and stuff (tho it's just Lego movie aus) so if you're interested, it's this
@ask-burgys-tlm-aus
now that the simple stuff is done,,
it's time for the '🍩'(do not)s and other infos
• do not repost or reupload my stuff like put it in compilations and stuff, even if you credit me, do not repost/reupload my chet
• do not trace my art
• if i seem rude, that means i’m in a bad mood
• you can use my art as pfp or banners, just do not reupload/repost and or trace my stuffs
• if you dm-ed me/private message me, i won't answer it, especially if we're not even that close (unless it's for commissions then i will answer that lol) cuz either I'm awkward at starting conversations, or i just don't want to dm back, it's one of the two but it's mostly the former
• if you have questions, ask it in the ask box, it's there for a reason
• if you want to do fanart, then go ahead, no need to ask, just tag me, id love to see it
• keep in mind, i mostly have headcanons that are not the same as the popular ones cuz, not everyone will have the same hcs, shocker i know
• i don't do with popular chet so keep that in mind
• i hate shipping discourse cuz i find that stupid and a waste of time, especially when the ship they're fighting is not even that problematic as they say they are, so get that away from me cuz i don't want to deal with it
• i don't mind any ships (besides the ones on the red down below), I'm neutral with mostly any ships (again, besides the ones on the red down below), unless it's actually problematic like those age gaps and other chet? then that's a big no no for me, get that thing out of here, i don't want it
let's cut to the chase, yes, I'm fine with:
Rexmet (Rex x Emmet)
Rexmetstyle (Rex x Emmet x Lucy)
and i also ship
Microknife (Mic x Knife)
Knicropick (Knife x Mic x Pickle)
Metallic Salad (Mephone4 x Knife x Mic x Pickle)
if those info shocked you, then that's funny lol
if you suddenly hate me bcuz of that, then that's honestly a funny and stupid reason to hate me lol
tags that i use:
#burgy talks - just talking and or rambling about stuffs
#burg art - for art
#burgy comics - for the comics that i did cuz why not
#burgy games - for me gaming
#burgy sh1tpost - yes, it's a 1, not a misstype,, anyways, thats for jokes stuffs so i wont flood the burgy talks or art tag that much
me personas (i don't have a good ref sheet for them three)
me but object
sun micro4 content
aight, i think thas all, some of these may or may not change in the future
but yeah, thas all, thanks for reading
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Oh for fuck's sake. Please don't tell me "warning" discourse is coming back.
Look guys, I don't fucking care if you decide to use warnings or not. If you're an author who chooses not to use warnings, I may or may not read your fic, depending on my mood at any given time, but that's not a value judgment.
But can you not be a pretentious asshole about it?
"Books and movies don't have warnings!"
Really? Movies don't have warnings? What do you think that big "R" is on the advertisement there (if you're American, anyway, but as far as I know, most other countries use rating systems.) It might not be an explicit, spell-it-all out warning, but you're generally not going to see a graphic rape scene in a fucking PG movie.
Books? Generally no. Though there are exceptions. And many bloggers or goodreads reviewers will happily warn for readers who are concerned. That said, you can draw some conclusions based on genre, publisher and imprint. A romance reader generally knows where to find the really hard shit. You're not generally going to find a lot of strap ons or ball gags in Harlequin.
"Warnings didn't exist/weren't common practice before AO3!"
That's a fucking lie. I started reading fanfic on the internet in 1997, when I was young enough that I had to lie about my age to get onto the good mailing lists. And you know why they were the good mailing lists? Because they had explicit stuff. Because they had passwords to the best archives.
And those archives generally did have warnings! At least for the really big shit. Rape? Torture? The phrase "non-con" existed long before fanfiction.net, let alone AO3 was a twinkling in anyone's eye.
Because here's the thing, it's common courtesy. Fandom is a community experience. Isn't that what everyone always says when the topic of negative reviews come up? We can't make the author feel bad! Traumatizing a reader though with something that they don't know to avoid though, that's perfectly fine.
What AO3 DID invent, as far as I know, is the brilliant "Author chooses not to warn" tag. That's a great idea. It means that a concerned reader can go through the no warnings needed tag with reasonable confidence that they won't be hit with the most common triggering subjects. And if they go into a "chooses not to warn" fic, then that's their risk to take.
(Personally, I've never read a "choose not to warn" fic and thought "god, I'm so glad the author didn't spoil this rape scene in the warnings, losing the element of surprise would have ruined the story!" but that's just me. There might well be one out there, and even if not, it's the author's call.)
I don't really have a point to this rant. I just really dislike people who decide to raise their lack of consideration for others into some sort of intellectual high ground while touting blatant misinformation to support it. I also never get tired of ranting about fandom hypocrisy, so there we go.
TLDR: do what you want, but don't be a self-congratulatory dick about it.
#fandom woes#this was admittedly mostly inspired by that “warnings didn't exist before AO3” line#someone seriously said that#can you please ask a fandom old when you're going to say nonsense like that?#we do still exist
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long rambling essay under the read more about twt phannie discourse / discourse surrounding how people talk about dnp's relationship because I have thoughts I want to get off my chest:
ohh I am so glad I am using twitter less the twt phannies are having discourse again about if you are allowed to think dan and phil act cute together (which yeah most people assume it's in a coupley way but if on the off chance they're actually not a couple then they are still cute and gay besties??? literally doesn't change much???) or that it's bad to wonder if they are soft launching their relationship because of stuff they have said that implies it? like obviously don't tag them in stuff and I get being nervous that they will get recommended stuff on twitter but like, if you keep it to tumblr or discord or your small or private twitter then whatever I don't think it's that big of a deal. they didn't like the speculation when they were in the closet because it became such a huge focus that people were messaging them about it, violating their privacy, other YouTubers were making fun of them or trying to expose them, it was putting a lot of pressure on them to come out, etc (which I think that is what Dan was addressing in BIG and people misunderstand that part because what he said was a little bit clunky in terms of how he organized it because it was hard to talk about!) but I don't think they care if people in fan spaces have opinions on what their relationship is a long as we respect their right to talk about that kind of stuff on their own terms. like the way I view it is like if you had some friends that you thought were maybe dating or flirting and then were like "aw yeah they're cute" or "hmm I wonder if they're..." to your other friends. like I don't think it's cool to say it to the people in question's faces if they haven't openly talked about it yet but I don't think it's bad to wonder based on things you have observed??? idk personally I'm always noticing details and analyzing things because my personality is just like that and sometimes I like to talk about it, not in a spreading gossip way but like an, "in confidence" kind of way to get a second opinion out of curiosity. and like ultimately your want should be for people to be happy and they are the only ones who can decide what kind of relationship/s make them happy and you can respect that while wondering or having an opinion that you don't announce to them (and like, dnp tend to understand that indirects / tumblr / etc are meant for other fans and not them and that if they go looking through tags and stuff that they are going to potentially see these opinions or observations).
also like, I think they really don't care as much now that they are out because the pressure / fear has gone away and now they make jokes about it and call themselves phan and make fun of phannies lol. I think part of the reason that so many people are drawn to their relationship in the first place too is because they are these funny relatable (neurodivergent?) queer parasocial figures in what appears to be a strong / supportive relationship, whether they are together or are queer exes who are still besties and/or queerplatonic and roommates. like we love to see them being themselves / being queer together, whatever that means for them!!! because they've even acknowledged that before they were out they were still queer representation in the sense that a lot of times they subverted society's expectations of masculine friendships in their videos just by being themselves.
also dnp have been very loud about certain things lately I don't think it's weird to be like... are they going to finally reveal something because their behavior lately has been kinda wild! (although maybe they won't because they don't want the general public / locals / news attention about it that might actually be more annoying than the standard/familiar attention from a lot of their fandom and like that's completely fine too).
Idk there is just this weird virtue signaling on twitter that is very annoying to me. like personally I am like yeah a lot of stuff points to them being in a romantic relationship but I could be wrong and either way I really love them and the relationship that they do have and show us on camera. but one doesn't have to qualify with that every time when saying "aw they are cute!" or making an observation about something on your own blog or small account...
honestly if what comes off as virtue signaling to me is actually coming from a place of care, I do respect that... I just also think that some people go out of their way to police or denounce behavior because they are afraid of being identified with people who were actually harmful to dnp when I don't think the behavior they are being mad at in this instance is actually harmful and more so just a natural side effect of being parasocially invested in these two queer guys who have spent most of fourteen years together and have confirmed that their relationship has been "more than just romantic."
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I'm sorry for this long ass ask. I just wished to get a bit this out of my chest. Feel free to delete it if you would want to feel a bit more positive!
As you said once, if I remember correctly, there is no one more mysoginistic in fandoms (especially shonen) than the het shippers rather than the "fujoshis." In my personal experience, at least, I rarely have seen people hate a girl because she is in the way of their mlm pairing. But I have seen in het ships women be especially vile with their words like slut shaming, body shaming (flat chest vs busty discourses).
Especially in the Naruto fandom, I don't understand why NH and SS stans have to be on the march of war against each other, or why pit their favs against each other when they clearly are "not in the way" of their respective pairings, or even harass all other ships. In fact, I Hinata and Sakura are even in friendly terms. If not outright, they don't care about each other's existence for most of the time, I think?? So why so much catty?
Sometimes, I visit NH/SS/NaruSaku blogs out of curiosity, without doing anything but looking. Usually their content is all about shitting on other pairings but just that. They don't support other creators who appreciate the pairings, like writers or artists. Just shit on the rival pairing while be like "unlike that shit, this pairing has sense and is better". Like, they are more obsessive about what they hate rather than what they love. Absurd.
I have seen people call Sakura a cumdumpster (I swear to god that word-) and Sarada a hoe/slut, and considering Sarada is like 12 to 16 years old... well, it weirds me out. Or shame on the fact Hinata is a busty woman and usually that's the only bad thing they can say about her that comes to my mind, along with other slut shaming.
Or the weird obsession Sakura fans have about Sakura's body, like "THIS IS WHY SHE IS NOT FLAT." Why do you care so much if she's beautiful anyway?
I can go long but I won't because it sounds kinda frustrating.
But why can't these people just... stay in their planes? And ignore each other? Or if they love their one true pairing, just support artists or recommend fan fictions they like, or heck do something themselves and create a more positive environment not only for the fandoms but for themselves as well. Because most of the time, they go on anti - or pro tags and just harass people who think differently like they do with you or sneezemonster-
Again, sorry for the rant, and thank you if you had the patience of reading. Bless your day and keep doing what you do! What you write is always interesting to read <3
People mistake fujoshis (or just people who ship gay pairings) complaining about the het ships having no mutual development/how the female character in said ship has no individual development/revolves only around the guy she likes as "hating on the female character/misogyny". Which it isn't. Sure there might be couple who are misogynists, but that really isn't what I usually see. Meanwhile het shippers are indeed very vile in their ship wars.
"I don't understand why NH and SS stans have to be on the march of war against each other, or why pit their favs against each other when they clearly are "not in the way" of their respective pairings"
Because to them shipping is also a contest, and everyone is their competitor. They need to show everyone how they ship the best ship or how "their girl" is the best girl of the show. NH will talk about how Hinata is more "fertile" than Sakura (which is really misogynistic), how she is the heiress, how she is the richest girl in Konoha (lol). All very shallow things, none of them she even earned. And SS will go out of their way to "prove" Sakura is better looking than the other Naruto girls, because somehow that matters more than Sakura not having any dignity in the story... And yes, SS's crazy need to prove Sakura is not flat, sometimes they straight up edit Kishimoto's drawings so she would have a bigger chest.
This is also why these especially crazy people don't flock to shojo as much, since shojo doesn't usually have as big of a mainstream audience as shonen. And maybe they are addicted to one-sided interaction, because they relate to it? They can't relate to a female character that has reasonable feelings?
But yeah, recently I have seen a lot of Historia hate and it's all "she's spreading her legs to the farmer", "Whorestoria", "even her whore mother didn't like her", "blonde whore" and so on from certain het ship fandom. But sure fujoshis are the worst ones for saying Mikasa's character revolved too much around Eren...
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Not to bring up the top and bottom discourse but I feel like a lot of it can be solved by just tagging who tops and who bottoms in a fic so people who do care can find or avoid things easier?
Also like this whole conversation is so western. Eastern fandom cares more about top/bottom dynamics which is fine! I have ships where I have preferred dynamics and I have ships where they can switch and I'm not picky. But arguing that one side of the debate is better than the other especially when it's mostly a English speaking fandom vs eastern fandom. We need to be more respectful of cultural differences of which this is one.
TLDR: just tag who tops and who bottoms it won't kill you and likely you can make someone else's search a bit easier.
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Nah. This discourse will always be around because 1. some people can't stand that their ship is ever written "wrong" and 2. lots of people don't agree about what a top!so-and-so tag even means.
If I intend to write with fixed top/bottom dynamics, I can at least tag top!X because I know who the top is supposed to be. Someone may still disagree that how I write X goes with them being the top, especially if no sex acts that make it clear happen on-page, but too bad for them.
If I don't think in terms of this, it's quite likely others will still see traces of roles in my fic, but I may have no idea whom to tag as the top.
If I intentionally try to write so that nobody is the top, I may find it actively offensive to tag this way.
People don't need to be dicks about others' preferences, but the natural variation in tastes means that no one tagging standard will ever work for everything.
Personally, as a reader, I'll look for BTS fic with top and bottom tags when I'm looking for a particular flavor of fic, and I will avoid those tags regardless of who is in which role when I want another flavor of fic.
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Hilariously, I have a Korean friend who fell out of reading BL as a young person because she disliked strict top/bottom dynamics. People are all over the place on this as on anything.
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Hello! I noticed you recently used the radfem tag on a post. Being a HP author, are you aware of the message this sends considering the source content for this fandom?
I debated whether or not to answer this, as I am well aware of the hornet's nest I'm kicking—particularly on this site. However, I believe the contemporary rhetoric that assumes one's support of 'x' means they must believe 'y' to be reductive, dishonest, and particularly troubling when it comes to silencing the voices of women. It's the very same false equivalence that has led large swathes of the population into claiming that support of Palestine = antisemitism (including, ironically, JK Rowling).
I consider myself a radical feminist and I won't censor that simply because I also happen to like a magical school kid's book series written by a conservative moron. Does this mean I agree with everything every single radical feminist has ever said? No. But I believe that sex-based oppression is alive and well and can be seen most prominently in law-enforcement response to rape and domestic violence, abortion rights in many countries, access to maternity leave, research into women's health, household labour distribution and the commercial objectification of women (be that advertising or pornography).
Does this mean I think sex-based oppression is the only form of oppression? No. Does this mean I associate myself with TERFs? No. Was the radical feminist movement without flaws? Also no. Just as the socialist movement did not adequately address the disadvantages women faced in the 60s and 70s, the second-wave feminist movement failed to address the unique struggles of non-white women and queer women. There is always room to grow from the starting point of a movement created ~60 years ago. Intersectionality is critical. But we have not progressed as far as most would like to pretend (looking at you, America), and the way that women hasten to distance themselves from the 'harsh' type of feminism is partially at fault for this, in my opinion.
Without radical feminism, we would not have had the Women's Liberation Movement. Without radical feminism, we would not have abortion rights, access to credit, equal pay protections, etc. The demonisation of a branch of feminism that was so critical in fighting for the rights that modern women enjoy today is harmful and something I am very suspicious of. I mean, we're at a point where I can't even use the tag radfem without having people in my asks sending messages like this? Really? If there is something that I have reblogged or posted that you disagree with, then I am always open to a good-faith discussion, but I don't respect this style of internet discourse that strikes you down as guilty by association.
(Also, since I know that's what you're getting at — my opinion on TERFs is that they've done a great disservice to radical feminism and have gotten themselves worked up about something that is a non-issue outside of their corner of the internet. My question when people come to me IRL with anti-trans rhetoric is always, "have you ever actually met a trans person?" and the answer is always no...)
While I don't agree with everything said in it, this is an interesting article from Dr Charlotte Proudman which I recommend you read: Being a radical feminist means being a trans ally at the same time.
#sex-based oppression hurts women globally every single second of the day and saying that should not be controversial#this is probably the only post i will make on this topic as this is a voldemort fan blog not a feminist theory blog...#politics#TERFs pls touch grass#but also you better think really hard before you start accusing feminists of being TERFs by association#asks#anon#i bought my harry potter books second-hand in 2007 and i highly doubt my gay voldemort fanfiction is supporting JKR as much as u think it i#as ive said before - i am not JKR's keeper#thank you#radfem
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I managed to find this tumblr post button set tucked away underneath the tumblr ui. It needed some cleaning, but it's usable. I'm writing this in hopes that someone will find this, that someone will hear my story, that someone will know, that I was here. I was a qsmp fan.
I've been inside this "qsmp server break" for what I can only describe as a long time. I say "a long time" because I've lost track of the days, they've lost any sort of meaning.
I was put in here since, at least from what I was told, that the qsmp, the worlds first multilingual minecraft server, closed for maintenence. I don't have any memories before that point.
Ever since then, I've been here, on tumblr, waiting for the server to open.
I was told that the "admins" would re-open the server. Is the island being changed? What does an admin look like?
This fandom is the only home I've ever known. I was told that if I ever left on my own, the server would never re-open. So I stayed here.
There's nothing in here. The discourse tag that never shuts up, the fan-artists, the theorists, the live-bloggers, and me. I survived off whatever old clips appeared on my dash, and working on my months outdated wip fan content. I hated it, but I could survive off it. I wanted the server to reopen. I wanted to watch.
I've always dreamed of the server re-opening. Seeing quesadilla island, seeing q!cellbit and q!baghera return from purgatory, not worrying about server resets or inmate crucifixion, learning words from new languages, waking up at 5 in the morning for an event. It sounds nice. I dream about it in my sleep and daydream about it when I'm awake.
Maybe the server will re-open. I got new buttons to click daily on qsmp.global, but then they stopped updating. As if a fire was lit, and then extinguished. I took a personality quiz, then nothing. It's been a long time since then. Will another button ever come?
It's been so long. I've tried to keep hope, that's all I've had, hope, but it's running out. I don't have much left. This is where I stayed, this is where I survived, but I wanted to get a chance to see the server. I don't know if I'll ever get that chance.
I hope that this isn't where I die. I want to see the server. I don't want to die here. I want to see the server.
If I'm gone by feb 3rd please know: Please don't be sad. It's not your fault. Maybe quackity stopped paying for the server. Maybe it's cucurucho's fault.
I would've loved to see the server re-open. I would've loved to see qsmp 2024. I would've loved to liveblog with you. Perhaps I won't get that in this life, but maybe I'll see you in another?
Please know I was here. I was a qsmp fan. I was somebody. I had theories, I had fanart, I had views that I was ready to give.
I've accepted my fate. But I'm scared of being forgotten. This tumblr post gives me a chance to be remembered. Please don't forget me.
#(if anyones confused this is an edited version of the unknown eggs book)#it took me so long to write this bc i kept getting sad reading it#qsmp#qsmp 2024#LET ME IN.
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a lot of aprehension about the welcome home comes from previous experiences back in the height of game theory, which coincided with the first wave of mascot horror media that actively tried to cater to the theories and adapt to whatever was theorized about (including that memorable time when not even matpat would touch hello neighbor despite it actively simping over him on twitter and there being a brief coincidence of fanbases), so far welcome home seems to, whilst being optimized for a lot of um let's call it blorbofication of the characters (not making a judgement of that being objectively good or bad but it is a choice and getting into reasons why it may have been made is going off a tangent) it doesn't seem to be so far of the type to be Actively Catering To Change According To The Whims Of One Influential Dude.
The height of popularity of matpat also brought with it a small but vocal minority that took some of the theories as gospel, but mostly existed for theories from a couple of fandoms already prone to having these attitudes, and from what i've seen those people have largely mellowed out.
basically, some waryness is not unfounded, but it's not like it's a death sentence oh no matpat found it now welcome home will be flooded by matpatTheory!Wally x OC prompts that other content won't exist
THIS. I agree 100% with this, and I am fully aware some fans are on the extreme side, but being like that and taking his theories as gospel is completely the opposite of what he even started his channel for. The reason he does this is to provoke thinking and conversation about interesting topics that have mysteries behind them, which is why I fell in love with his channels and his style of doing things because until he came around, as far as I know, literally nobody was doing that kind of stuff.
Being able to distinguish my own thinking and analysis from Matpat's theories is half the reason I watch, because it stimulates my brain and it's something i enjoy deeply.
Gatekeeping Welcome Home and putting threats or verbal abuse in his comment sections are NOT solutions to this problem, the amount of times I've seen people using tags like "get matpat away from our stuff" is horseshit and makes you as bad, if not worse, than the fans you despise, and the comment section of his reaction video is even worse. I understand people talking about Clown's boundaries, and I totally support that, but when 50% of Welcome Home enthusiasts are talking about Clown's boundaries and the other 50% are threatening or complaining, it doesn't put a good look on the Welcome Home fandom as a whole. We need to inform not threaten, also again, gatekeeping is not the answer, and if Clown is scared off by anything happening, it is going to be people arguing the way we are because I'm sure Clown never intended for there to be any discourse or arguing in the fandom or gatekeeping or any shit like that.
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I'm really glad to have found the Hermitcraft fandom here on Tumblr, I've been a long time fan and it's awesome to discover all this great fanart and content and stuff. Any must-follow MCYT/Hermitcraft/Minecraft blogs?
oh gosh, welcome! in general i am BAD about remembering who i follow and who i don't; a great way to find who you want to follow might be to just go through the #hermitcraft tag and follow people you find funny, or, heck, if i reblog a lot of art from a certain artist you like (or not a lot, like one art even), go follow them!
while we're here, a few additional general etiquette rules (keeping in mind that like, this is tumblr, trying to claim ANYTHING is a whole-community norm is basically impossible i am claiming a norm from my specific circle of guys): do not crosstag, only tag things that are actually in your post. don't use the 'minecraft' tag, that tag is for people who like the actual game. (i mean, you can use it if you are posting about minecraft, but not if you're posting about the youtubers). it's generally considered rude to put your crit in the main tags, especially without tagging 'discourse' somewhere so it can be filtered. shipping should generally have a 'hermitshipping' tag on it for filtering purposes as well, but if something is tagged hermitshipping and you're mad about it just like, block them, they did the important part.
the hermits i know of on tumblr (could be more, idk): @/joehills @/pearlescentmoo @/falsesymmetry @/therealdocm77 (not actually active but has the account) @/geminitayyt. cleo also had an account but it is no longer active. also @/inthelittlewood is here and like very active, as is @/askzloyxp and @/quinnhills. as a general etiquette rule, just... act like they're perfectly ordinary tumblr users and continue your business as usual! and don't send them weird asks or anything.
off the top of my head, a few blogs i like, an EXTREMELY non-exhaustive list, find your own guys out there as well you won't regret it! like, you will find the experience you like best just going out there and looking for it yourself! i've absolutely missed a bunch of guys i love, let alone guys you would love! this is like 10 million percent non-exhaustive, i follow 1,570 blogs apparently, many of which aren't hermitcraft or mcyt related, but many of which are, so i just sorta. went for it. and when i was having trouble remembering if a name was a repeat that's when i stopped. so. non-exhaustive list:
@nightshadeowl, @jestroer, @astronomodome, @kingtheghast, @floweroflaurelin, @roenais, @silverskye13, @wasyago, @rusty-courage, @art-by-fate, @silverskye13, @redstonedust, @betweenlands, @sixteenth-days, @judas-iscaryot, @terracottakore, @cherrifire, @antimony-medusa, @hybbart, @made-nondescript, @luigra, @cuteiemonster, @mawofthemagnetar, @potionofinstantdamage, @concorp, @spiderziege, @salemoleander, @bc-jpeg, @magicalmanhattanproject, @simplydm, @12u3ie, @mishapen-dear, @lunarblazes, @girltimeswithscar, @kishdoodles, @quaranmine, @shadeswift99, @bdoubleowo, @quicksandblock, @beacon-lamp, @kikunai, @sideblague, @applestruda, @ingapotejtoo, @belmarzi, @strifetxt
anyway FEEL FREE TO PROMO GUYS OR YOURSELF ON THIS POST TOO! from what i understand we may be getting some new guys sometime soon here from the twitter lands? so it may be helpful to have that for anyone who's looking for new guys to follow!
and most of all: WELCOME!!!
#answered#i DEFINITELY MISSED ABOUT A MILLION BELOVED MUTUALS AND IM SO SORRY#I JUST. I STARTED TO RUN OUT OF ABILITY TO TELL IF ID ALREADY LISTED ONE OF YOUR BLOGS#PRETTY SURE I ACCIDENTALLY DOUBLED SOMEONE ALREADY.#also i am so sorry none of these links work. see when i tried to publish this ask originally tumblr decided that it couldn't actually#so i had to copy-paste it and try again.#anyway WELCOME I HOPE YOU FIND YOUR PEOPLE! :D#also if you don't wanna be on this post let me know and i'll remove you and also i'm sorry
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F1 has to be worst fandom I have ever created content for. I dont know if this is because majority are from Twitter and TikTok where likes are the only thing they know, but whenever I see a fic/gifset/art/edit/whatever, F1blr without a fail has the most attrocious reblog to like ratio known to humankind. 1:3 is even a lot to expect. Any other fandom I do stuff for, the smallest ratio I got was 4:1 or 5:1. Says it all really about how ungrateful F1blr is and why its losing creators left and right.
That being said, you are one of the few blogs that I always see reblogging stuff so thank you for that
when I wasn't into f1 and I saw the f1 rpf tag on ao3 had like 23,000+ works was Insane. esp cause my prev fandom was just me and two friends in dms, so it had been super intimidating. then I actually joined and found oh, it's much smaller. still a very sizeable fandom, don't get me wrong, but a lot of the creators are on tumblr and here the max cap is 1000 notes (and that's if something Pops off. if something has 1k notes you can reasonably assume fandom has seen it and discoursed it already) so the overall community is very insular and splintered.
I think artists and gif makers/editors suffer the worse end of the stick cause their stuff is so often taken for granted, stolen and reposted without credit. when these archiving work -- videos, gifs, pictures, are what keeps fandom alive. reblogging and appreciating your creators is essential!!!
I have lucked out because I made friends with the creators I look up to, so I get to be both a fan and a friend. but without that social buffer, being Only a creator on f1blr is a lonely experience. I'm sorry your experience has been so rough, and it reflects other creators' 😢 if it has been weighing negatively on you, I do suggest taking a break from creating or from fandom altogether. fandom is supposed to be fun, and when it stops being fun, some time apart is good, as feeling bad over the engagement won't change the culture of how things are and just makes you feel worse.
I try to get my friends the hype they deserve when they make something cause I think making things is very cool. feed your creators!!! even those who you take for granted, such as downloading the most crisp HD quality from Getty with the photographers credited. they're holding fandom together!!!
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tl;dr why i talk about race on MASH so much and why i think it's worth doing inspite of the horrors lol and what you can expect from me re: race on MASH going forward
one of the things that drew me to MASH fandom, and one of the reasons i've persisted in it for so is how much meta is generated by smart, passionate fans who were pulled in by the smart, passionate and political writing on MASH, which did all of that while being damn funny.
disclaimer: "meta" isn't better or inherently more ~intellectual~ than fanfiction or squee or fanart or memes or "two-braincell" content. in fact, i think meta can be all of these things, though i'm biased in that i think critical thought relies heavily on one's ability to make connections and pick up on intersecting concepts and i have a hard time reining in my natural tendency to do that, which is why my posts are so long and convoluted - i am working on it.
i wasn't, and still am not, dismayed by the (perceived or actual) void of long-form commentary on race and class on MASH. tbf there are a few people who note these things as they appear, but not really many who centered it in their meta. still, i appreciate at least an awareness.
if anything, it gave me some confidence that i could add something new and valuable to the collective space. that's why i started writing about race on MASH and tagging it as such. and generally, it's been pretty well received, although i'd be open to more people talking about and sharing their views on the subject.
what does bother me though now though, is that i should've known better assuming that there was no angle on race already being espoused and freely adopted by people. the absence of any statements about race is in fact a loud, clear statement on race. the absence of racialized voices in any public discourse is painfully obvious. and tbh, i'm a little surprised by how little the korean-ness of the korean war features in analysis. yes it's true that MASH might've been about "the vietnam war" but that's less of the jump it takes in the later years, when it becomes about "all war" or even more vaguely "all suffering"
it's been pointed out to me in the past that some people think the racism of the later years is "subtle" and - tbh, it's fine to see it that way if maybe you've not been the target of "subtle" racism in your life or you haven't studied the pervasiveness of racism or you haven't consumed the work of people who have done both. but i think it's pretty shortsighted to openly claim that something is "subtly" racist and not be prepared to defend that position with examples, or quantify what you mean when you say "subtle". and i'm not really willing to hear such distinctions being made unless its first been explained to me why we're using a spectrum of "loud to quiet racism".
additionally, the fanbase has been pretty vocal about misogyny. i believe this is a popular justification "start from season 4", which i've talked everyone's ear off about so i won't do it again here*. i'm glad we know that Hawkeye making comments about nurses' bottoms in OR is harassment - but then again, do we know that? Or do we limit our critiques of misogyny to Trapper and Henry only? Do we know that BJ, as of a result of Hawkeye's advice, deciding not to tell Peg about his infidelity is just doubling-down on BJ's betrayal of her? The show definitely doesn't, and it's troublesome to me that we don't seem to know that either, or we do know, and we just forgive it.
*famous last words.
if I'm being exposed to this shallow criticism of the representation of women on MASH, then i'm raising my eyebrows at the lack of commentary on race - which is the other reason why i persist in writing about it. even MASH, with Hey Look Me Over, lightly acknowledges the intersection of race and gender, and the eternal plight of women of colour having to choose between pieces of their identity in order to show "solidarity" with their oppressors - white women and racialized men. so why shouldn't we? and when i say "we" i mostly mean me, but i'd like to properly mean we.
there's other ways we've talked about race without talking about race and not realized it. and there's one very big example that i'm going to address in a later post. i just wanted to talk to myself about why i think it's important and worth doing, beyond any suspicion there may be about my motives being benign stuff that doesn't actually bother me at all. like who's fucking hawkeye post-war or individual people looking to colonel potter as a father-figure. if it were just that, and if there wasn't so much conventional wisdom floating around that bore no connection to unconscious biases we (me included) have about race, class, gender etc, then i wouldn't be interested in unpacking it.
such posts will be tagged #race on mash, #class on mash
#... i'll have a thought and that thought triggers 4 other thoughts#and then before i know it i'm wrangling 400 other thoughts - i am literally doing it right now. this post was actually part of another post#and i think it can stand on it's own so.#race on mash#re: mash
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That thing with Holland is so sick. I've been seeing armys do bs for a long time but this genuinely made me ill.
Harassing a queer idol because the fetishizers in your fandom won't stop harassing him? Of course he named them, he's obviously getting requests from one group the most. They're so proud of being the biggest kpop ship - they should own this too. Why act innocent and naive now? And they all managed to completely ignore the point he was trying to make about how insane it is that these people are trying to forcefully out their faves even if they were actually not straight.
I just unfollowed every army I used to follow. They're either shifting the blame onto him or staying silent. They'll speak about a bunch of things when they need to virtue signal and it costs them nothing, they'll get into fights about the most stupid stuff with other fandoms, but the moment you can actually use your clout for something and speak on how awful it is that your fandom is essentially bullying a gay artist who we know has gone through so much - literal hate crimes - because he came out, you're completely silent? ARMYs have lost all sense of proportion, logic and morality.
The hypocrisy also strikes me because they'll go around naming pjms every day of the week. They always drag Jimin into fanwars. I don't see anyone saying let's not use his name then other than by solos themselves. But this isn't even the first time they've shielded tkkrs. They'll drag up random accounts with hardly any followers and a handful of likes and talk about solos infecting the fandom but god forbid anyone talk about tkkrs unless it's in the most general way so that you can sweep it away as a shipping thing.
And this discourse about namedropping is also ridiculous. They have 70K+ Jimin anti tkk shipper and 300K+ tkk shipping porn accounts running around freely. They tag JK in all their gross edits on Tiktok. We all saw them waving around the tkk banner during Jimin's bday event. Nobody had much to say about it except Jimin biased.
Plus do they actually think Tae and JK don't know? They just need to look at their comments during their lives to find out what tkk is. What are they even talking about? They've nursed these Jimin anti delusional shippers in their fandom for years but the problem is when others point that out?
I actually prided myself on following a variety of people so I'm never too enmeshed in any one group think. I used to follow ARMYs, shippers, solos and other KPop fandom accounts from my main but I'm done now. I was actually so proud that the fandom was being so active in speaking up about the Palestine cause but if your sense of mortality can't tell you how wrong what is happening now to Holland is and if you are too scared to sacrifice clout to speak up for him, then I can't take anything you say seriously. Sorry to bring up a serious real world issue in the midst of all this but what happened yesterday just tells me that if you can't stand up for a queer idol for petty bs fandom reasons or because you don't want to get involved when you know it's wrong (because I was very careful in curating my tl so I know the armys I used to follow at least have that much sense) then there's no way you'd actually do anything if were to cost you something in real life.
So yeah I still listen to BTS, I still like all the members but I'm done with 'army'.
Hello,
This was a tough read.
I can feel your anger and dissapointment and the only thing I can say is that I feel the same way.
It's "small" things like these that tell you who people really are and they are a sign of the person you could become. It may seem silly because it's kpop but it's real people with real struggles with real hate.
You don't have to be army or pjm or a shipper. None of those names mean a thing at the end of the day. Support what you want and stand up for what you believe.
I get you 🫂
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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