sadly, I’ve had the same experience. I honestly think people are scared, and the ones who aren’t scared are just entitled I think, as the last anon was alluding to. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
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I think you’re spot on with this about “content” and expectation. I have been making a concerted effort to take “content” out of my vocabulary and use “media” and “works” or “fanworks” instead. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Honestly I think this is a large part of it. I know anecdotally I stopped commenting on things on tumblr for a long while because I was terrified that someone would be offended somehow… context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Let’s talk about how much comment culture has changed in the last 20 years… In 2002-2003 I was writing a multi-chapter longfic for the fandom X-Men: Evolution. The fic was OC x canon and the canon character was Toad– one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
oldinterneticons: I dream about being with you forever Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
oneterabyteofkilobyteage: original url http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin/3899/ last modified 2006-06-10 01:37:20 Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
oldinterneticons: The world in my hands, there’s no one left to hear you scream Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
oldinterneticons: Ultimate yaoi fangirl Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
2myuu: Source: xxharryosbornxx
I have become aware many of my friends don’t know what a “kink meme” is, or how to find them! Put simply a kink meme is a community based around prompts for and trades of smutty fanfic for a given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The two most important fandom skills are: 📌 Ignoring things you don’t like 😔 📌 having fun!!! 🥰
The problem again and again comes back to fancops not understanding, and not wanting to understand, that people have experiences that are different from their own. They want everyone to be “normal”, as in “like them.”
Thank you so much!! I think it’s nice to have friends that are a mixture of age ranges! Admittedly, we’re often the oldest or close to it in any given fandom group online right now but that’s not always the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, LJers – users of the then-popular blogging site Livejournal – woke up to find that their Friends lists were showing a large number of names that had been crossed out, or strikethrough ‘ed. It turned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
melonberryshake: blackheart-biohazards: marshemillow: blackheart-biohazards: Ya’ll. Ya’ll it is the 19th anniversary of our livejournal account. can’t believe you’ve been on LJ longer than some users here have even been alive. Right? Hehehe. We’ve been in fandom a looooooong time! 💖💖💖[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be entirely fair, anon, I think the constant admin meltdowns and general instability of message boards and forums are one of the reasons people prefer these large, impersonal social media empires. That said, look at Elon and twitter…
Ya’ll. Ya’ll it is the 19th anniversary of our livejournal account.
❤️🔥 There is nothing special and bad about sex in fiction. ❤️🔥 Abusive, ‘nasty’, illegal, or taboo sex in fiction isn’t any worse than anything else bad in fiction. ❤️🔥Reading or writing about a type of sex in fiction will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-proship-hellhole: luckyspot: doberbutts: Back before Rowling outed herself as a great big TERF and HP became a taboo subject I literally had a [former] friend berate me for several days and then deliberately pick fights about it weeks and months[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s some of the reactions when we shared this post around 🤣 Otto: All Your Base Are Belong to Us is a classic. Practically the father of meme culture. Show some respect to your elders. Peter: Badgers, Badgers, Badgers still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Proship” means you don’t believe people should be harassed, threatened or insulted for the fiction and art they create, even if you personally find what they’re making to be gross, upsetting or in some way immoral. “Proship” means you believe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
wolfsgravity: blackheart-biohazards: Thinking about how small the active self ship/ f/o community is. If we imagined the current community on the old web, we could easily all be sharing the same busy, active message board, with an irc chat and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thinking about how small the active self ship/ f/o community is. If we imagined the current community on the old web, we could easily all be sharing the same busy, active message board, with an irc chat and a dozen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve lived through the worst of it. We had Something Awful threads and Encyclopedia Dramatica articles, etc, about us back in the day. We try to treat fancops, harassers and trolls online like we would any real world terrorist or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
acediscowlng: sometimes it absolutely blows my mind that there are just subsets of fandom communities that just. do not know. how the pro anti/ship discourse started. like. they just do not know. that it was a ship war. it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes the specific way some fancops talk about “proships DNI” exits the realm of sounding like enforcing a social boundary, and enters the realm of sounding like a child on the playground screaming: “EWWW!! EWW!! COOTIES!! DONT TOUCH ME THEYVE[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Ship and let ship” (aka proship) is an inherently more ethical and moral stance regarding fiction than harassment and censorship (aka antiship).
cureaesthetic: Compiling a list with all the genshin “problematic” ships’ names because for the love of everything it’s impossible to search for anything tagged “A x B” since Tumblr wil give you anything tagged as “A x” and “x B”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shipping Glossary het ship: A ship between a male character and a female character. OTP: One true pairing. Refers to the shippers prefered ship for the characters involved. self ship: A ship between a canon character and the shipper themselves,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🌟 The golden rule: treat others as you would want them to treat you. In fandom terms: ship and let ship.
xxanette: on fandom does anyone else get, like, maudlin for the way fandom used to be? like, ive seen so many writers delete their fics and burn all ties with their fandoms bc fandom itself killed their love of it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Is there like, an app or mobile friendly site that mimics old oekaki / tegaki boards? Or something? –🔍⚔️
dead-pidove-do-not-eat: Ngl, yeah it does kind of concern me that old fandom attitudes are being washed away and replaced by increasingly sanitized and shame filled viewpoints. It makes me so sad to think that some of the niche and weird[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The pains series” referred to a series of images commonly circulated on the old internet with the intent to cause pain and disturb the viewer. These images were passed around untagged, uncensored and unwarned for, often under deceptive links, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yep. Up until The Voltron Discourse, and The Reylo Discourse after it, spicy ships were the norm. That’s because conflict is the core of good storytelling, and good storytelling is the key to an appealing ship.
They really would not have survived the experience! These children have never even heard of the “pains” series. They’ve never been on DeviantArt and seen whole accounts dedicated to editing pictures of cartoon women to look more like the Grinch.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tumblr arguments really are like having the world’s most rapid fire passive aggressive newspaper editorial exchange. One used to have to wait whole days or weeks to get anon hate from “Concerned Parent in Missouri’. Now it takes seconds.
Please feel free to use our carrd to help you make your own! We were privileged to learn html and site design largely from neopets sites and fansites in the early 2000s, so we are more than happy to share[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thank you, you’re too kind! I’m really glad you’ve enjoyed our fic! 1 we answered here! 68. Are there any fics that influenced you to write the way you do? The fics that influenced us the most are a couple[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Assuming you’re trying to avoid dating websites and apps (which I would suggest avoiding) my advice is to seek out 18+ furry spaces, be that discord servers or art websites (try furaffinity). Also fetish roleplaying spaces. Even if you’re not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m so sorry that that happened to you, anon, and glad that you got away as unscathed as you did. I really wish that kids online these days understood; being honest about your age does not make you safer. Assuming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right? The specifics were toxic but the idea that you don’t actually know who any random stranger is on the internet is very important. I hate seeing all these kids disclosing their age, location, diagnosis etc constantly. Like man when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Can’t win ‘em all! I wish teenagers who wrote smut knew not to go around telling everyone how old they are. “On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog” as we used to say.
We don’t mind at all! Thank you for being so polite as to check! <3 Please go ahead!
olderthannetfic: Crying with laughter here. DW has actually robust servers. It’s the one that’s still up and still has a community. Deceased Journalfen, home of Fandom_Wank, is the one with the famous “the servers are robust” thing. There were lots[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
keepcalmandcarriefischer: zackisontumblr: pseudologla: zackisontumblr: i have 3 moods: skips every song on my ipod lets the music play without interruption plays the same song on repeat for days What’s an iPod? been on tumblr so long my text post is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anon, I do support love, and kindness, and peace. That’s what being proship is all about. Writing fiction and drawing pictures hurts no one. And yet you, and antis who harass people, go around committing actual real emotional and psychological[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thewebcomicsreview: It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. Kids who grew up in the 90s manga boom weren’t old enough to get scanners and the like, so the first webcomics were Newspaper comics based on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tuffdwightwest: Not gonna put this specifically anywhere but I have an idea for a dark pairing and I actually am for the first time in my life having anxiety about it due to Antis. I honestly find writing things like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem is the majority of antis consider all fandom, regardless of source material, to be ONLY for kids. If you’re an adult they think you’re a weirdo who should get out of fandom. Any fandom. “Go do your taxes.”
copperplatebeech: ruby-white-rabbit: averagemarvelbitch: You know what’s sad? Having to tell my adult patients that they don’t have to be boring fucks who hate everything to be considered adults. Seriously, people have a very weird idea of what it means to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If antis had been a thing when I was in fandom as a teenager/early 20s (2000-2009) and they went around telling people what ships were ‘bad’ and ‘immoral’– I would have absolutely been the little asshole to deliberately come up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
noa-ciharu: marshemillow: People here in fandom spaces always being like, “Why can’t all the freaks and weirdos just go away!!??” as if history’s most influential literature wasn’t written by the “freaks” and “weirdos” of the world. You think a “normal”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Pretentious”. You mean we actually type full sentences, use paragraphs and punctuation? And spell check? Also, we’re the boring ones? Ya’ll can’t handle spicy fanfic. To my knowledge, Reddit doesn’t show you things you haven’t interacted with unless you’re on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
neil-gaiman: dduane: atlinmerrick: twistedchickness: twopoppies: Why would I be embarrassed for having interests I enjoy? My guess is that you’re really, really young. And that maybe you don’t actually have solid relationships with adults who have lives outside of parenting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤝 💕 The ancient self shipper emerges from the depths, trailing long forgotten blorbos through the mists of time…
proshipping-kitten: I wonder if the antis who believe that anyone over 25 should be off raising children and not in fandom are scared Do they fear a future where they will have to abandon all their interests and ‘grow up’?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lagomorpheme: jayaxer: The most well-known image I ever drew from the year 2000 an image so integral to the y2k web that i still somehow have the original saved through multiple hardware failures and a dozen changes in hardware (file’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
marzipanandminutiae: thediktatortot: Fandom is so different now and it’s becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves. I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately. Ya’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ You belong in fandom no matter how old you are. ✨ You belong in fandom no matter what you ship. ✨ You belong in fandom no matter what characters you like. Don’t let anyone tell you you don’t belong[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
2003-2005ish era self ship art from my photobucket! Array of S/Is with Syndrome, Otto Octavius, Snively (from Sonic) and… sigh…. Stinky (Casper 1995).
theslowesthnery: did i just see with my own two eyes a drawing of two fully clothed men kissing tagged with the mature community label standards regressing to ffnet circa 2003.
Goofus bullies and harasses people who write fiction that he doesn’t agree with. Gallant believes in ship and let ship, and a welcoming fandom community.
beingatoaster: woke up this morning to a comment on a fic saying they hoped I didn’t mind them commenting on such an old fic, and the fic isn’t even a year old, so I’m going to reiterate: I can’t speak[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-apocryphal-one: janekfan: raimagnolia: frostyemma: domicileensnared: jetru: saltwaffle: full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009 remember when writers had to be all like:“omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
anexperimentallife: theslowesthnery: asgardian-viking: theslowesthnery: it’s especially funny when you see the people who say that kinda stuff get older and their idea of the cut-off age just kinda moves further and further back. like they’re 20 and they say “if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💀 What fandom have you participated in, or wanted to participate in, that you consider the most intimidating?-@chaos-event-horizon
Hhhhhh…. The Homestuck fandom without a doubt. There were a a lot of good parts but toward the end it just got out of control. I was also part of the Harry Potter fandom back in the day when the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤗 What fandom did you have, or want to have a self-insert for as a child? Ninja Turtles! (the 80s cartoon). I had little daydreams about a character who got turned partway into a fluffy white persian catgirl! 🤣 💌[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Personal Fan History Ask Game Send an emoji to find out more about someone’s history in fandom! 💕 Who was your first fictional crush? Do you still have a place in your heart for them? 📝 What’s the oldest idea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Assuming that someone who thinks 30 is old must be a child isn’t ageism, dear. Describing a child as a child isn’t ageism. Saying that someone can not do something because of their age or must do something because of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
LMAO. The immaturity and entitlement in this ask is overwhelming. Firstly, the fact that you signed up to tumblr for “wholesome content” is a) hilarious, and b) your problem, not mine. Learn to curate your content; block blogs and tags[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💕Shipping and fandom are for fun! ✨ If someone is making your shipping or fandom experience less fun, it is always okay to block them. You don’t need another reason!
Here’s the suibait from the anti who’s mad their opinion aligns with proship. Note the ageism. I’m a real fucking fictionkin, asshole, and I don’t want to be called a ‘kinnie’, so jot that down.
olderthannetfic: notgeorgelucas: tzikeh: olderthannetfic: – I’m dying. Nonnie, seriously? No, that’s mean, I know you’re serious. It’s just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn’t a direct link to the past. Astolat and Cesperanza floated the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
antishipping: Adults who still write fanfiction really need to just grow up and get a life. Because it’s totally kids that are dedicating their time to typing up 600k+ words, constantly proof-reading every chapter they produce, making sure their work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
emeraldcas: also it’s super suss that the “drop your interests! you’re too old!” posts are always about women. why don’t you go to a football game and tell random dudes they’re too old to be interested in childish games
kawaii-pigeon: xxharryosbornxx: xxharryosbornxx: olderthannetfic: – I only ever saw a few. I presume the trend spread organically from people seeing them around, but I don’t know who started it. It started with a fic writer who was a technical writer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…