"Always viewing media through a critical lens is almost as bad as hate watching! This is why fandom is so toxic!"

I will say one thing about stans, they are an endless source of comedy.

You can think critically about things, I promise it won't hurt you and it's not hateful to the creators.

Try starting small, like not getting mad that others think critically about media.

desperately need people in the hazbin fandom to know that just because you have trauma it doesnt mean your coping mechanism is automatically good or can't be criticized. coping mechanisms are incredibly complicated and very hard to talk about but just because you have trauma doesn't mean you get a "free pass'" for your behavior. coping mechanisms can be harmful not just to you but other people as well.

disclaimer: i do not want to put other's coping mechanisms down, or argue that it's all either black or white (bad or good). like i said, it's an incredibly complicated process and thing in itself, but that doesn't mean you can do *everything* (and not be criticized). please don't take this the wrong way.

- sincerely an anon who is in the process of trauma therapy.

This this this this a thousand times this☝️☝️☝️

This video breaks it all down perfectly, and it’s exactly what we need to hear in 2024. Being a barb after everything Nicki has said and done is just pure nonsense. I stand behind Megan thee Stallion and Jennifer Hough and fuck all the abuse apologists and cult-like stans who will say otherwise

me who has read a thing 3+ (usually more, lol) times: *talks about racism in the thing*

people who have no actual argument against the racism I'm pointing out: Well clearly you just didn't even read the thing!!!!

Even @imsebastianstan didn’t win an award, he won something more more important long time ago. What he won is - our hearts 💙💙💙. He is the most talented, kindness and in general perfect human being who is for us, his fans, his Stans, true Winner of every possible category on this world. His talent is enormous and it’s shame of HW that they don’t see it or they don’t want to see it and admit it. As I said before, for me @imsebastianstan is winner of my heart and nothing or nobody will ever change it 🏆💙. Thank you @imsebastianstan for everything 💙💙💙. #sebastianstan #sebastianstanfan #sebastianstanimagine #sebastianstanfans #sebastianstanisporn #sebastianstanhot #sebastianstanphotoshoot #sebastianstanphotos #sebastianstanislife #sebastianstanlove #sebastianstanisperfect #sebastianstaneyes #sebastianstanisruiningmylife #sebastianstanyouarebeautiful #sebastianstanfanclub #sebastianstanprotectionsquad #papichulo #384 #sexyseabass #standom #sebastianstanedit #sebastianstaniskingofmyheart #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #foryourpage #emmyawards #emmys #pamandtommy #pamandtommyonhulu https://www.instagram.com/p/CicWuLWokdO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Can we talk about how much pop culture has changed? Like do the teen choice awards even exist anymore? People don’t even seem to care about the Oscar’s now! It’s like nothing is prestigious or exciting these days

It’s all about being viral now and then people forget you after your 15 mins are up. I also can’t blame people for not caring about the oscars. There are a lot of amazing films there, but most of them you wouldn’t know existed til its oscar season.

* Vent

I long for the day I can find works for my favs & ships on Twit TM again without having to block / mute endless Takes (and often outright not-well-disguised hatred!!) by Stans TM who clearly never gave a sh*t about my favs' storylines and contributions in the first place (despite claiming that they did while they consistently erase said favs out of the narrative calling it ""Positivity""...)

{Sure, Jan.}

(And also my fandom is so close to getting it while still being so far.)

{Gif by Me} {DO NOT re-post}

(They'll even admit that new characters to the franchise are good, and then you all continue to completely ignore {x} former new character while treating them & their supporters incredibly harshly, because you can never admit you were wrong in your treatment of them.)

(But Don't Mind Me it's definitely not Fandom Bias rearing it's head again...!!)

Anyway I long for the day I can properly find things on Twit TM again without immediately running into untagged hate and character / series bashing.

This Has Been A Vent {while I also test out no rb feature tHANK}

And someday I'll be able to use those banners less finally

{These two still apply though}

if i was an idol stan and my fav moved away because of their pro wrestler husband i would hate that mfer for life

Can you recommend some good twilight fanfiction?

Boy CAN I?!

So for some Carlesme goodness which is sorta my cuppa Lyon's tea, ive written a few which you can find on my ao3 account here. There will be more to come to which i always post here if you're ever curious.

Some other fics holding up this standom:

Ties of Trauma - the love of my life @youareonlyastory (au Carlesme fic with juice to make you squeal into a pillow. Check out all her works they're honestly golden)

For Appearance's Sake - @palmofafreezinghand (gorgeous canon fic, please check out of all of their oneshots they're to die for, one of my all time fave writers)

This New Life - @carllisle (another canon compliant Carlesme fic, but Ellie died and went to lotr heaven so dont go harrassing for more fics, or do idk she might love it. Specialises in well written Carlesme smut.)

Cullanos - more goodness by Ellie only this time it's au and it's unhinged and sexy as hell

@stregoni-benefici has some delectable Carlesme fanfic on their blog, feel free to check out her tags!

We've also got some cult classics like Stained Glass (canon fic) and it's companion pieces, as well as @fiddlesolo 's fanfic tag, full of Carlesme goodness and glorious oneshots.

As for non-Carlesme twilight fic, theres a plethora but i'm not as familiar. Honestly, @jessicanjpa or @panlight be better suited to give you honest recommendations for other pairings!

Hope this helped! :)

Poor media literacy is an issue but the much bigger problem is people's refusal to learn it. Many even go so far as to get mad at those who show basic media literacy.

And there is a simple reason for this. For many, media is filtered through the lines of fandom and the default mode of fandom is stanning.

Stans only want to hear the positives, so they will accept the wildest leaps in logic if it ends in "produce good" and reject the most obvious problems because it says that something is wrong with what they like.

And that hurts their ego. So they decide to make that your problem. That's why many can't even stand the mildest criticism said in the most placating way.

This is why you get so many saying that there are many with poor media literacy, but what they mean is others are not stanning enough for their comfort.

IM COOKING

Stop it with the viziepop hate you 雌犬 , عاهرة, fena , galla, 母狗, tæve , chienne , ,cagna σκύλα, and Finally you teef

When I'm in a braindead competition, and my opponent is a VivziePop Stan

"well clearly you didn't actually read the series you're criticizing otherwise you wouldn't be criticizing it"

you know you're just making it clear to literally everyone that you have no actual evidence to back up your claims that the series isn't bigoted, right?

Hi! I love your blog and I love Tim’s character in the Batfam. I keep on getting Tim Drake hate on my dash and you are right the fandom is mean to him. Like I think the reason why the fandom hates him so much is because he started out normal. Like No intriguing backstory or trauma like the rest of his siblings but he was a kid who cared and got involved. But over Tim he got traumatized and yes, it did change him but that’s what’s interesting. He is relatable because he is normal like the rest of us. He could have had a normal life (though debatable. Also I sort of compare him to Peter Parker) He got involved because he did not like the fact that Batman was destroying Gotham in his grief so someone had to step up. And that person is Tim. The only person who could do something and come out in the end despite trials and tribulations. The person who do not know when to quit. Sorry I decided to do some Tim Drake Appreciation in this blog! This is way I play Gotham knight because that was the Tim I grew up with.

Heh, no worries, I appreciate the ramble. I'm the same way! I was so excited to play GK precisely because I could play as my favorite boy and the game delivered full-tilt.

Honestly though, I don't think normalcy has anything to do with the hate Tim gets. You didn't use to see vitriol like this aimed towards him during my first run in the fandom, during the 00s. Nah, the vitriol stems from the way that "Robin" has been twisted in the eyes of fandom to be treated less as a job or a specific narrative role and more like a golden apple with "to the bestest character" written on it.

It started with Steph's publicity-stunt, when DC made it such a big deal that "OMG this one has BOOBS" that it wound up biting them in the ass, since it made the whole storyline more important than they'd ever been intending to treat it (or her). That planted the seeds, which then started to spread thanks to the rise of standom and their tendency to refuse to allow their blorbos to ever be in the wrong or have negative traits.

So when Jason and Damian started their respective in-universe rivalries with Tim, instead of reading them as intended (as external expressions of Jason's struggle to deal with the world moving on after his death and Damian's insecurities about securing his father's affections, respectively), the stans twisted it into, "My blorbo can't possibly be wrong! So clearly the problem is with him!"

It is extremely annoying but, all you can really do about it is block frequently and curate your own happy little corner of the internet where those people just don't exist.

I made the mistake of scrolling the dash last night, hoping to re-engage my Loki fandom feels, only to be reminded of why I've more or less quit this fandom - which, for the record, is bc I don't know if it's purity culture or "woke" culture or just "for the love of god, I'm begging you to touch grass" culture, but I'd like to engage with my blorbo without running into posts spouting takes like "saying Loki has small, slender hands is a feminization kink (and therefore bad)." Like?? I think there's something inherently anti-genderfluidity(?) to assume that men can't have small, slender hands or that having small, slender hands is automatically a feminine trait, and also Loki does have small, slender hands, and also even if it is being written as some kind of a kink, so what? Why are we kink-shaming?

I mean, I don't know, it just seems like there are more and more and more things that are being shamed, or criticized, based on an arbitrary sense of morality that undermines fiction as a creative, explorative form of art and it's just beyond exhausting - and fucking obnoxious - at this point.