#-and that any bad storyline will be praised and elevated if it has superficial crowd pleasers like big fights and power scaling)

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It's definitely not the most widely held belief in online fan spaces (at least not at it's full potency, I think a watered down version is more widely felt imo) but I do think some fans approach art and fandom with this weird idea that because a bad story disappoints or even hurts the fans of a work, it's like. A personal and/or moral failing of the creator for making that bad story. And it should be treated with the same gravitas as something with more far reaching consequences and implications. Yknow?

#ramblings of a lunatic #the stuff got me thinking about this (broadly) doesn't even apply to this post it just got my brain going #i have a lot of thoughts about how wild the blogging style is across a lot of comics fandom tumblr #about how it's one of the few fandoms I've been in that genuinely can't claim to be more chill than twitter #bc even though twitter is structurally the platform more designed to produce outrage engagement amonst ppl #comics tumblr is genuinely just so naturally vitriolic that it completely matches twitters energy without those structural flaws #like as in there's no real environmental excuse for everyone being crazy it's just like that here #and the occasional toxicity i stumble upon just kind of made me start thinking about this #i do think a lot of ppl on comics tumblr have valid complaints about the works #i just also see ppl treat disappointing stories as moral failures aside from any ~problematic~ content featured in it #(and also. problematic content exists on a sliding scale that logically should effect critical response but doesn't often in comics spaces) #it's like those callout lists that start w/ ships the target doesn't like and ends with their illegal human trafficking ring #girl let's prioritise a bit #i also think that tumblr is an incredibly insulated environment from comic fan spaces as a whole? #like the sledgehammer approach to crit and the ridiculously high expectations for a famously stupid medium #is in some ways a direct response to the supposed vibe of irl comic spaces (often not dominated by marginalized ppl- #-and therefore socially focused crit of the works is shut down/ignored/not engaged w much- #-and that any bad storyline will be praised and elevated if it has superficial crowd pleasers like big fights and power scaling) #and i think there's some merit to that #but i also think that comics Tumblr suffers from the a lot of the chronically online fanspace hallmarks #there's always going to be a different tone when it's me and comics cashier bitching about gotham war #than it is seeing ppl online post in such a manner that discussion is actively discouraged (bc there's already a didactic tone to begin w) #anyway none of this is unique to comics Tumblr (minus the being equally as rancid as twitter) #and it's not like I'm not having fun. I'm actually having a lot of fun analysing the few moments I'm not having fun bc of All Of The Above #comics tumblr is an ideal test subject for my experiments #and i need to make more art so i can nestle deeper in the bushes to watch the wildlife from afar #anyway. at least 60% of you are alright. 20% I'd argue are even cool. #10% of you are right but annoying about it and 10% of you would've done great as catholic crusaders #but unfortunately were born as queer 20-somethings in the 21st century