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My wife (ao3) has gone to war (is down) and I don't know if she'll ever return home again (the wonderful people at ao3 are working diligently to bring it back up ASAP). I don't know if I'll ever recover (I'll be fine) but I'm being very brave about it (I am NOT being brave).
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psi-spectacular · 13 hours
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"I hate (insert media here) because of the fando-"
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Today we have a fandom anti being a literal monster. They're upset because an account on Twitter that reposts wacky tags from Ao3 called out someone for being pro-genocide. Specifically stating that this is 'weird' of them to do that. Like, way to tell the world you advocate for the murder of women, children, newborn babies and innocent civilians because you're an anti. The cognitive dissonance is insane with antis. They continue to prove that they're dangerous and violent people everyday.
The user's post in question.
The post they are responding to.
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anneapocalypse · 1 year
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So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.
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thevioletcaptain · 11 months
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i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.
it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.
it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)
it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.
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littlefaeella · 2 months
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if you use the words freak, weirdo, creep, degenerate, or other words frequently used by homophobes, racists, and other bigots to discribe the people you don't like, i'm going to assume that you are a homophobe, racist, and or some other kind of bigiot
i don't care if you have a pride flag in your icon or the word bigots right next to freaks in your dni, if you use their language in the same derogatory way they do i am going to assume you are one of them
calling yourself and others a freak or a weirdo or a degenerate in a fun and reclaiming way? great! fantastic! calling others a freak or a weirdo or a degenerate in order to shame, bully, humiliate, or frame them in any way as lesser then you? your just another bigot, don't care if you're queer, you're just a bigot in a queer hat then
just say you don't like the people you don't like, just say that you hate them if you hate them. you don't have to use and shouldn't even want to use the language of bigots to get your feelings and opinions across if you aren't a bigot!
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kay-selfships · 1 year
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glad my other post reached its target audience lmao
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steg5rr · 4 months
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Transgender-ideology in fandom culture
cw might be an incredibly incoherent niche rant idrc
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I can't be the only person who is somewhat involved in fandom elsewhere and noticing the eventual decline of tomboy-ish girls and masculine women be normalised.
I believe there's a certain pattern popping up among fandom spaces online perpetuating as the result of popularised terms such as 'T4T' (Transgender for transgender.)
Bear with me, but take 2 female characters who are romantically involved with each other. People on the left engrossed in fandom culture will start to interpret the more masculine of the two as trans-masc or the other way around (The more feminine individual progressively starts being labeled as trans-fem...)
It's disheartening seeing all the women I love from different media being interpreted with top surgery scars and being translated to either fit 'trans-masculine or trans-feminine' identities. Like... can women no longer be gnc anymore... Do we seriously need to start classifying them as men-adjacent..?
It's like we're winding the clock a couple decades back. People are questioning the authenticity of female homosexual relationships, just because there is no male present.
AND if you were to mildly express your dislike for a specific headcanon relating to gender identity, people would be quick to label you as a bigot or transphobe.. yawn..
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randombook4idk · 3 months
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"that season is full of filler episodes so skip ahead to here where the action kicks in."
sir, those "filler" episodes you're talking about, uses it's time to y'know develop the characters and y'know develop their relationships and y'know build up the plot and it's mysteries and y'know give us reasons to care about all of this in the first place, so when the huge action plot stuff does happen, it doesn't feel hollow or unexplored or full of wasted potential.
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slothyykittee · 18 days
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I hate when this happens I hate when this happens
Also posted on twitter!
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sighed-the-snake · 3 months
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At what age does it become intolerable to participate in online fandom?
At what age do you start telling people they're too old to be in a public fandom space because it skews young?
I have been online since the literal beginning of the internet. I've been in chatrooms in one form or another for my entire life, without issue, without anyone telling me I don't belong there. It has been my primary mode of socialization since I was 14. Some of the most important people in my life are people I met online.
But then I turned 40 and suddenly, my presence in a chatroom is creepy.
It wasn't creepy when I was 35 and I was the admin for a huge Discord server full of mostly teens and 20-somethings. Nobody complained when I was 35. They called me their server mom.
But 40 is apparently the limit. I tried to join a few public Discord servers last year and was politely shooed away each time because I was honest about my age.
The obvious solution would be to find spaces with people my own age, right? Except those don't really exist. If it's a fandom space, the overwhelming majority of people are going to be teens, 20-somethings, and a small population of younger 30-somethings. Those are the people who are talking about the things I also would like to talk about.
Even the people I follow here on Tumblr are mostly in their 20s.
There is not much of an online peer group for older Millennials and Gen X. I found and tried some non-fandom, general servers, and they were desolate and stale. A lot of us grew up without computers at home, barely even had computers at school, so the internet never really became a big part of our lives beyond things like Facebook, or Twitter, or discussion boards. Things you spend a few minutes looking over before bed.
But I don't want those things. Tumblr has been great, the Good Omens fandom has been amazing, but I don't want to check throughout the day if someone has replied to something I said hours or days or weeks ago, I want to talk to people, but those places are populated by an age group who tells me it's not appropriate for me to be there anymore.
It's so damn frustrating and lonely. I didn't do anything wrong. I'm not doing anything wrong. I just got older.
I'm just a married gay woman with a kid in school who wants to giggle over an angel and a demon and how in love and stupid they are. I feel like it shouldn't be this hard.
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anneapocalypse · 2 months
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"Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings" is a warning.
It is a warning that there will be no further warnings. That's what it means. It was designed into the structure of AO3's tagging system for a reason. If you only want to read fic with specific, distinct content warnings, you should not read "Chose Not to Warn" fics. Period. If you choose to read them, that is on you.
Regardless of whether you think the author is an asshole for any other reason, regardless of what you think of the fic they wrote, they're not the asshole for using that tag correctly and as it was designed.
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tippenfunkaport · 7 months
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"[Canon Bisexual Character] should have been [gay / lesbian] so they ended up with [Same Sex Character]!"
Wow. That's so interesting! Because there is literally no reason you can't ship that bisexual character with the same sex character as is. No one on earth is stopping you. Bisexual people are attracted to the same sex. You can ship away without changing a single thing about them!
But you keep insisting they should have been lesbian or gay so they could date the same sex and... gosh. It almost seems like... you just hate that they are bisexual!
Huh. Fascinating.
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survivalove · 4 months
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blah blah something something about how fandom gravitate towards more individualistic characters because they’re easier to understand compared to community-oriented characters whose character development is very much tied to their culture/nation because understanding a single character is easier to understand than a character AND an entire culture, especially when said culture is based off a marginalized community that exists in real life 🫠 and said fandom is majority WHITE.
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