whereserpentswalk: I read a fic tagged with leopards voreing faces, and I ended up reading about a character having their face vored by a leopard. There is no way I could have foreseen this. Obviously the problem is that people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes its like two halves of a single fandom are engaging with two completely different pieces of media and sometimes it’s because those halves of fandom have had completely different trauma/completely different reactions to trauma– and sometimes it’s because one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: hey enjoyer of media who participates primarily in fandom of said media. whats your opinion on this female character and DO NOT use the word “girlboss”, “mother/sister”, or allude to her being the groups guardian. you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
13. worst blorboficiation Alright. I’m rolling up my sleeves. Let’s fucking do this. Leon. S. Kennedy. There are two prevailing blorbofications of Leon in fandom and both of them fucking suck. He’s either characterized as a completely milquetoast normie husbando[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Technically TECHNICALLY speaking, your attitude counts as “proship”– which means “other people can write what they want and I’ll avoid what I don’t like.” It’s people who identify as antis who use the term “proship” to mean “revels in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh my fucking lord, I just realized that pro-censorship person was a SOUTH PARK blog. what the fuck.
They think of themselves as good little nice sweethearts who help people and they don’t want to think about how their views are the views of repressive, pro-censorship authoritarians.
I think a way to flag a character tag as a “main character”, “supporting character” or “background character” and be able to search by that would massively improve AO3. Like, to be able to search for only fics that flag[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
yaoist: zoobus: yaoist: ntrlily: studentofetherium: witchofanguish: The overtagging on ao3 is getting more and more unbearable. Not sure if my tolerance has been going down or if it’s objectively getting worse, but at least in terms of wattpad-type posting, definitely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
reddbuster: Don’t kill me for this but methinks maybe some people on tumblr do not know what a toxic relationship is both in fiction and irl. like I’m seeing people calling their ships “toxic yuri” or whatever because their relationship[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sociallyanxiousdragon: Freak fandoms need to get used to freak fans existing again Curate your online experience all you want but you can’t watch the shota show and be mad underage ships exist and you can’t read the incest comic and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
komaneko-kun: people that comment about polyships or OT3s with stuff like “i’m sorry but i just CAN’T see them w anyone else…impossible, its just CAN’T be…” are so funny bc do you realize how weird that would be if it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them? The fandom straight up put us off of ever watching the new She-Ra thanks to the way they all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1. the character everyone gets wrong Leon S. Kennedy, but nobody is ready for that discussion. 25. common fandom complaint that you’re sick of hearing Tired of hearing people say AO3 should have an app. AO3 doesn’t need an app.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores Since it came up lately in fandom wank, the basketball picture of Rebecca in Wesker’s drawer, and the fact that RE:0 pairs him with her in a special mode. Like,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s not enough yuri/femslash/wlw fanfiction, blah blah blah everyone is morally obligated to write femslash.. If you want to see it– Fucking WRITE IT then!! AND don’t fucking complain and throw a shit fit and start a callout post when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catgirl-catboy: “Murder is okay to glorify because nobody is getting off on it.” You sweet summer child. Everything is somebodies kink, write that down. I’ve met many people that enjoy gore and murder in a sexual way (and most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right? I can’t imagine looking at that picture and not thinking it looked like a sexual act or sexual metaphor. Honestly, maybe all this is so on my mind because recently we were thinking about, and looking for the imagery[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wild that the fandom pro-censorship crowd harps on such mundane things like age-gaps and consensual incest when I can run into things like the image below just out in the wild with no warning. cut because I am not going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
naryrising: jackwolfes: thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. ➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging. ➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way. ➡️[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
neil-gaiman: Nobody knows why. They also disqualified Sandman Episode 6 (The Sound of her Wings) without giving a reason. Here’s an article. Personally, I feel that the Hugo Awards committee should apologise, and that the upcoming Glasgow Worldcon should publicly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
for the most part “this story about teenagers in high school should be about adults instead” just translates to “My personal comfort zone won’t let me enjoy a story without feeling socially guilty that I’m emotionally connecting with characters that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tired-fandom-ndn: Me: If you don’t enjoy children’s media and YA because they have child or teen protagonists, then you should look into media made for adults with adult characters. People on tumblr: So you think adults are never allowed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
heyjudelaw: lizziemack: When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am Bitching once again that the fandom pro-censorship crowd cries and screams and wails that everyone has to respect their triggers forever and no one should be allowed to post anything that even mildly makes them uncomfortable– –meanwhile here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rian-yagi-vibes: crazilily: despazito: Some of the palworld rig comparisons absolutely look sus but if something like this won a plagiarism lawsuit it would actually set a horrible legal precedent for artists please learn what plagiarism means and think very carefully[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What do you consider “canon” to a piece of fiction? only the material directly presented to the audience as part of the story. story + secondary sources involved with the writing (interviews, artbooks etc) all above + non-writer sources on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We talk a lot about the decline of comment culture in fandom spaces these days, and I recently saw a post that reminded me of my prevailing theory about why that started. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
treesah: spandexbutterfly4lyfe: soft-october-night: I’m sorry who the fuck is out here claiming they read classic lit to learn how to have a relationship. Chronic shipping brain is truly embarrassing at a certain point The tweet is a reaction against all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some realizations that I had about outlining that helped me write: 💫 You don’t actually have to outline the entire story from start to finish. 💫 You can ‘outline’ just by noting down thoughts, elements, scenes or ideas that stand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tmmyhug: yes! i do like [problematic thing]! and unfortunately i am under no obligation to defend my interests to strangers on the internet. good day and thank you for your time
Not every idea an author has ever had is related to their bad opinions, so? 🤷 It’s important to acknowledge that good art isn’t only made by the ideologically pure. But as for where you draw the line– I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
unpopularfanopinion: blackheartbiohazards: if pro-censorship fans were in the habit of going into bookstores or libraries, or hell–the amazon kindle marketplace– and looking at the content that’s available there, they would perhaps for a moment at least give pause to wonder[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
if pro-censorship fans were in the habit of going into bookstores or libraries, or hell–the amazon kindle marketplace– and looking at the content that’s available there, they would perhaps for a moment at least give pause to wonder if they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
frameacloud: “DNI-Related Controlling Behaviors: The use of a DNI to try to enforce control over anyone who so much as ‘likes’ a post of theirs to an unhealthy degree, often backed up with social shaming, harassment, and callouts. The DNI[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mxsickfuck: I mean yeah it definitely wouldn’t have even become a thing if we all could just learn to leave each other alone Honestly I have just flat stopped using the terms “proship” or “anti”. People who are in support[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
holysmotez: whogivesa-ship: evilwriter37: grumpy-old-fandommom: bettsfic: glorify, romanticize, fetishize. these are words i see thrown around constantly in relation to fanfiction, without regard to their actual meaning or context, for the purpose of censoring taboo content. by taboo, i mean stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If only we had learned the right lessons. Unfortunately now we have a bunch of fandom “Jack Thompson"s running around.
when the pro-censorship crowd insists loudly that their glorified violence is *totally fine* because they think “nobody is fetishizing or getting off to it” I am just like– Are they willfully ignoring all the media that eroticizes and fetishizes violence?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔸Sexual content in fiction should not be treated as worse or more terrible to write or to read about than violent content in fiction. 🔸Normalizing, trivializing and even glorifying violence in fictional content– while othering, and villainizing sexual content– is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
just-antithings: every damn time The normalization of violence and the villainization of sex.
Hold on a second– terminology-wise, if material found in the official body of a narrative is “canonical” are alternate universes and headcanons heretical? Are fandom fanons major heresies? Is information about a character canon or heresy? Yes I think it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sexybritishllama: strap in folks it’s time for another neopets drama update some background reading before we begin: back when neopets wanted to introduce customisation (i.e. dressing up your pet) in 2007, they decided to ‘convert’ all existing pet art to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔸It’s okay to imagine any fictional scenario. Imagining something bad doesn’t make you a bad person or mean you want it to happen. 🔸It’s okay to write any fictional story. Writing a fictional story about bad things does not make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mean we did freak out and went unhinged and tanked like three previous blogs about it 😹😹😹 So I guess the answer is just ‘practice’. We’re learning when not to engage. Thank you though, the reminder is inspiring to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
steh-lar-uh-nuhs: deramin2: bemusedlybespectacled: transfaguette: it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshippers-against-censorship: necroproship: cosmileech: Antis will literally call u a pedo with no context, further watering down the word until it means nothing. Your literally normalizing pedophilia more then we are by calling everyone you don’t like it. Now when I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
whumpacabra: “real whump- ” is when I put a blorbo in Unpleasant Situations. the physical and emotional extent to which these Situations are Unpleasant has no bearing on the reality of a blorbo having a bad time. the presence or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had to ignore that youtube video for *months*, every time the algorithm brought it up on my page. A person cannot be groomed by a piece of fiction. Grooming is an intentional act that is perpetrated on purpose by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thestrangestthing89: Instead of Boycott Stranger Things, I want a campaign to get this show to raise the rating to R and take it out of the teen show category on Netflix. Give this show back to the OG fans –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided this needed its own post, so– Here’s some context for “"The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.” and “Your personal interpretation of the content of a piece of fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ Fiction writers are allowed to put elements in their work that make their audience uncomfortable. ⭐ Fiction writers are allowed to put elements in their work that are tasteless or crass. ⭐ Fiction writers are allowed to put sexual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: In case it wasn’t clear: Yes. Even as a proshipper, I firmly believe every single person creating content that has the potential to be unpleasant, triggering or upsetting should be responsible for making sure it can’t be seen as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
pro-bopass: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx: lovesthecure: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx: Writing prompt: What do you think was the commenter’s original perception of this post? How did that perception change with the added context of ‘proship’? Consider this user’s thought process and what preconceptions you think might[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anon, I am so sorry that that happened to you. The amount of harassment and public hate that creators face these days is unhinged and untenable. I wish I had real advice for you, but all I can say is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
captainjonnitkessler: Heartbreaking: This person is making great points but they’re being a huge fucking asshole about it so you can’t reblog any of it
myfandomrealitea: thecacklingcreep: myfandomrealitea: log6: it would be a little easier if the people who were “coping with childhood sexual abuse” by making content that is perfectly described as “child pornography” seemed a little less gleeful about it. But what do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
pro-bopass: proshippy-fox: A Japanese user found out about the “proship/anti” stuff and said this in response. I recommend reading the whole thing, but here are some screenshots. ALT ALT ALT Basic gist is that antis are causing trouble for overseas[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could successfully use my fiction writing skills to eroticize, romanticize and glorify a ham sandwich. I don’t know why people think you have to approve of topic as a person in order to eroticize (etc) it in fiction. “You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whenever I see someone making an argument for banning or restricting fiction about some real aspect of the human experience, like sexuality, rape, csa, abuse, etc– all I see is the pro-censorship crowd as the Marge “it’s true but you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People who are not legal adults, both children and teens, have sex and sexual, and pseudo-sexual experiences one another. That’s a real fact of the real world, whether someone thinks its good, or moral or not. It is a fact[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mewvore: heres a reminder to go masturbate instead of engaging in that incendiary argument going on on your social media feed
💞 If you keep at it, you will finish writing your story. 💞 You don’t have to write a lot at a time to finish your story. 💞 You don’t have to make sure everything is perfect, or even good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dead-pidove-do-not-eat: dead-pidove-do-not-eat: I honestly hate when people try and paint my villainous fave as not being a perv when there is so much evidence that he is one just because they want him to be palatable. If you can’t handle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you can enjoy a character who is insane, violent, murderous, manipulative, and genocidal, but freak out at the idea that the same character might be sexually interested in adult but younger women, maybe you should a) reconsider why your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey anon, thanks for checking in. Here’s a list of people who shouldn’t post on wattpad: ✳️ People who don’t want their writing’s visibility to their audience determined by the algorithm. ✳️ People who don’t want the website they’re on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hadeantaiga: Why, though? The characters aren’t real. They are not real people, and they literally cannot experience harm. You cannot harm a fictional character! I, the author, am a real person. I am obviously consenting, because I’m the one writing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantly frustrated with the infantalization of women characters in fandom. That person is a fictional character who has been presented from the beginning of the narrative as an adult woman with a career in law enforcement. There is nothing creepy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
❣️All fiction writing is serious writing. ❣️Alternately, no fiction writing is serious writing. ❣️Don’t let people shame you for what you want to write, or tell you you should be writing something else. ❣️You are not ‘wasting’ your talent by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh okay, I found out why the resident evil tag was trending, and it was because the purity wank crew were harassing some RE dead dove style ‘x reader’ writers. So that sucks. I will not be linking to any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rosesradio: honestly the biggest thing i’ve learned during my time here on tumblr dot com is that interaction is loads more genuine than media consumption. like idc if you ship the most bloodthirsty animalistic incestuous cannibals, if you’re a nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
niece-jemima: niece-jemima: niece-jemima: olderthannetfic: prismatic-bell: moddeydhoo: prismatic-bell: olderthannetfic: – Laugh in their faces when they try shit. Bullies like smelling blood in the water. They don’t like being told they’re stupid children whose opinions don’t count, whether that’s by you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: This is an odd thing to say on my tumblr where people come to engage. Half the reason people are here in the first place is that they miss LJ-style social spaces or their more active tumblr communities from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🖤 Whether or not a taboo, unpleasant, or illegal subject in a piece of fiction has been ‘romanticized’ or ‘glorified’ is an entirely subjective opinion based on a personal reading of the text. 🖤 You cannot assume that an author[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: chaosisbeauty23: olderthannetfic: olderthannetfic: – I didn’t know there was Anne McCaffrey fandom discourse. On the other hand, it’s been 30 years since I read one of her books. Wankiest fandom on Usenet! Can confirm. The canon police from her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: olderthannetfic: – The best way to make them stop is to ignore them or laugh at them… even if that’s not how you feel on the inside. Joke’s on them: they’re giving you free advertising. It is actually pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ailoveuu: “As long as it’s not-” no. All ships are valid. So long as the person shipping it knows it’s fiction, there’s no real harm being done.
On the current AO3 Controversy I have now gotten 2 asks in the last 24 hours that want to know my opinion on the current accusations against AO3. The smart thing for me to do would be for me to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
versegm: No joke you guys NEED to get more comfortable blocking people. No more insulting people in public over different blorbo opinions no more making 2k long posts on how whatever ship you don’t like shouldn’t exist we’ve grown past[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
madam-o: orange-catsidy: Fandom Wank needs a revival as a phrase AND a forum.
🔹 Fictional characters are not real people. 🔹 Fictional characters do not need to be protected from authors. 🔹There is no moral difference between writing about good things happening to a character and bad things happening to a character. 🔹Fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hazel2468: godmodebeginswithlesbians: shadowkat678: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: “we need less sanitized queer stories” yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories “we need less sanitized queer stories” youre the one saying the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
leupagus: leupagus: leupagus: leupagus: It’s really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters. No seriously it’s REALLY fucked up when you treat characters as if they were real live people while you treat people like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
felinedragon: truly annoying when people act condescending about how they don’t care about “shipping discourse” because they’re a Real, Mature Person and it doesn’t matter in Real Adult Life. a us congressperson got called a pedophile in mainstream media for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They discovered a neat hack. It lets them accuse people of a crime so bad that reasonable people are reluctant to try to defend the accused. It also allows them to imagine the most extreme punishments on the accused. Also,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cosmileech: proficgen: being an anti must be so stressful like, imagine shipping two characters and then the creator reveals they’re actually related? Like what do you do??? stop shipping them??? fr????? What if it turns out that the other character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshipwatermelonwriter: “Fictional children cannot consent” Nothing fictional can consent to shit, because that would require them to be.. Let me say this in the nicest way possible. Be real, living, breathing human beings with thoughts of their own.
olderthannetfic: olderthannetfic: This kind of thing is easily answered with the works search. It’s only annoying if you want a bunch of different data for a chart. Currently, the works with >1000 comments number: 17,026 On a different note, IDK[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mywitchcultblr: “Romantizing ascendant astarion is dangerous because it might lead to people actually condoning abuse” bullshit that I keep seeing is the same as “teenagers playing GTA is a concern because it might lead to violent behavior” that republican keep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 It’s totally okay to avoid fiction with subject matter that makes you uncomfortable, disgusted, or upset. 💖 It’s never okay to try to force other people to avoid fiction with subject matter that makes you uncomfortable, disgusted, or upset.
olderthannetfic: puntointerrogativo: olderthannetfic: alexseanchai: olderthannetfic: wolfjackle: olderthannetfic: – *dying* Out of curiosity, I followed the link. It was way, way funnier than I could’ve predicted. I was expecting some sort of right wing conspiracy nut job, but this is way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: wolfjackle: olderthannetfic: – *dying* Out of curiosity, I followed the link. It was way, way funnier than I could’ve predicted. I was expecting some sort of right wing conspiracy nut job, but this is way better. If you came[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a rule of thumb: ➡️ When the post does not have a large reach, or wide audience, and is unlikely to be seen by many people– do not engage. ➡️ When the post has a large reach, a wide[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…