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nevermindirah · 11 months

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hey so in like 2014 when I was new here I read something in the about of somebody I thought was really cool. something along the lines of "if you want me to follow you back please have a tagging system". which is a fine thing to say! it's only, I (redacted lengthy explanation about my trauma)

anyway I'm trying out this new thing where I finally let myself chill out about tagging! this is an announcement probably nobody needs but here it is anyway :)

I'll now be using tags only for these reasons:

so I or y'all can find a post again later

so y'all can blacklist things

because a post is giving me thoughts/feelings which demand public expression

for the bit

in case any of y'all are relying on my tags, here are the things I plan on consistently tagging for now:

content warnings (you're very welcome to ask if there's something you need me to tag for! I'll continue to tag for the stuff I've already been doing, but there might be things I don't think of as content warnings that I’ll miss, just ask if that's a tag-needed thing for you)

fandoms (my tagging of characters and ships is about to get way less consistent but the overall fandoms will stay)

spoilers (for the first few days of a show / weeks of a movie)

public figures (it won't be super comprehensive, the goal is to chill about tagging. fyi my tag for Joss Whedon is joss whedon't. I will never, ever, ever forgive that man for his harms to real living human beings or for Age of Ultron)

"us policy things" for life advice type posts that only apply to US-Americans so that those of y'all who live outside of my extremely ourselves-centric country can blacklist it if you want

oh and by you I mean non-mutuals as well as mutuals! all y'all are great! anon is generally always open if you'd rather ask for tags that way, just don't be mean :)

many of my amusing-myself tags will continue with enthusiasm, such as my various TOG brotps and kitty, puuuuuuuuuuuuppyyyyyyyyyyy, and the pan-animal friend-shaped! bc look at their sweet faces!!

why did I feel the need to post this before allowing myself to post something without any tags at all? (redacted further unnecessary explanations about my trauma) :)

PS: please continue to tag your Matthias Schoenaerts content. I'm extremely relieved that I've successfully separated the actor who did an icky, very-triggering-to-me thing last year from my beloved babygirl Booker, so no need to tag Booker posting on my account. but separating the actor from other characters is hit-or-miss and I continue to need to avoid content about the actor himself. maybe by the time TOG2 gets a press tour he'll have publicly said that he believes Amber Heard and separated himself from his serial abuser pal?? SIGH

#fandom friends

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wickedpact · 3 years

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Are you at all scared that an OG sequel might do something that retrogrades or diminishes the beautiful Nicky/Joe dynamic. We all have such high expectations of a sequel, but I do not want it if it means losing what we already have.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not especially i dont think

i have two concerns re: new content (referring to both the sequel and tales thru time)

1. joe or nicky or joenicky getting Done Dirty is a concern but admittedly not a huge one. i mean, the way greg talks abt joenicky u can kind of tell theyre his babies, as much as andy is the lead of the comics and nile is the lead of the movie, greg talking about joenicky is different than greg talking abt any of the others. & on top of that gina also loves them and as director she generally gets the biggest say. im sure skydance & netflix have caught on as well to the fact that joenicky are fan favorites, so i doubt theyll do anything to fuck them up at least.

(and tbh, joe and nicky got treated verrrry well in both the comic and more so the movie, considering the fact that their existence is only barely relevant to the plot, and their dynamic really only adds uh, narrative flavor, i guess. nile and andy’s relationship, for example, is important bc it has to do with nile’s [and andy’s!] character arcs thru the movie. joe and nicky, however, arent leads, only sort of have thematic relevance, and just barely have plot relevance [they get kidnapped and thats mostly it]

of course the group comes off as more of a family bc of their existence, and theyre kind of the emotional backbone of the team, but in terms of the story the movie is telling [ie. nile becoming immortal and adjusting to it] they only.. kind of contribute. greg mentioned once that one of the producers suggested that the van scene get cut bc it doesnt contribute to nile’s story...... which... is true, but i think we can all agree the movie is better with that scene in it

which is all to say............ joe and nicky get treated very well considering their (lack of) role in the story, so im not hugely concerned theyre going to get sidelined or written poorly in the sequel bc they were handled so well in tog1- since they didnt really need to be handled well in tog1, but they were anyways)

so.. i suppose its a concern in that its technically a possibility, but them getting written poorly isnt at the top of my list of concerns for future tog content

1b. tho admittedly if they do get any kind of crusades-era content (flashback, prequel, whatever) i do worry about their relationship coming off as like.. . .. .. Pocahontas, But Gay!™ which. urgghghskggkdksggggggh

2. this is less of a concern about how they’ll be written but rather a concern of how theyll be reacted to, but in fandoms where there are usually big content droughts between things getting produced, people tend to....... get really attached to headcanons, and even a few months post-tog1 i have seen a lot of that in this fandom, and i see a lot of people arguing over characterization (like.. porn disc-horse aside) and honestly i have straight up seen so many posts that are like ‘why do people write [character] like [canon traits that the character canonically has, in canon] and not [random ass hc the op has and seems to believe is canon for some reason]??’

so i kind of have a concern with tog2 or tales thru time.... like, proving popular hcs wrong and people arguing over it. having hcs that divorce from canon is fine! its just when people try to like... ‘enforce’ their hcs by passing them off as canon it kind of becomes a problem, and i just know there are probably going to be arguments about new canon.

#especially since ppl who seem to dislike the tog comics are getting rlly hype for tales thru time #i dunno i think it all bodes poorly #you didnt ask for sucha long response anon but here it is #Anonymous

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