#bg3 toxic fandom

[sailorgundam308]

okay but you're right about the petite tav thing (also idk if you know but someone's lame ass "callout" post about you being a bully and how you'll never get commissions is circulating)

like in a game where you can create nearly anything with a tav it's boring as fuck to make them look copy pasted of every conventional girl irl. ive always thought that, it's why I can't read certain super popular fics in this fandom because the tav absolutely rips me out of any enjoyment (cough, the arrangement)

but it's not fair for people to be harassing you over your opinion, it's your blog if they don't wanna make themselves upset maybe they shouldn't be lurking on your page

It's what I think. I have no interest, never had, in any media, when a protagonist is the pretty standard petite girl. It doesn't resonate with me at all and, therefore, they come across as very boring to me.

About the post circulating about me, I know about it. It was made by 2 girls who didn't like when I said I don't like pairing Astarion with the aforementioned pretty petite tav type. They then devolved into, apparently, some sort of Alex Jones, calling into question my values as a person, made up what I said and whatnot. They've been flooding me with hate messages for a while, stopping short only of telling me to kill myself. But then, of course, I'm the bully in the story. lol

It's very much their problem. Anyone following me, reading what I say, knows what I stand for - and what I don't, cause I tend to say it pretty clearly.

And I agree with you, too: tumblr is a collection of personal blogs of people with differing opinions. Unless someone is attacking or harming a real person, or being an actual bigot, it's all a matter of thinking differently about things. And that's not an issue.

You'd think people who claim to be so inclusive would understand that not everyone has to agree on things - and that you shouldn't dig the internet for content that will piss you off because you feel like going on a moral rampage for the sake of feeling superior. You WILL find content to make you angry. Thing is, some of that will be justified. Some, apparently, will just be me saying im not into X type of pairing.

Sound's pretty easy to do, but some folks are actually pretty incredible in regards to the amount of effort they'll put to go after someone they (don't know) but decided they dislike.

One of the girls saying she "took a screenshot" of what I said is from a discord I'm also a member of, and I think she got jealous cause I only posted Karlach x Astarion art and they shipped him with a different character. The other one is just a hardcore harasser. I got all their hate messages saved. Maybe one day I'll post it so people can see what kind low level stuff they said to me. It was WILD.

In any case. I never deleted the post where I said I think Astarion doesn't look good with pretty cutesy girly tavs cause I DO think that, and there's nothing wrong with me saying it. I'm not talking about any real person, nor even any tav in particular. But people like to distort shit to make waves then feel morally superior.

Thankfully, my commissions are doing great! I don't beg anyone to hire me, and as with everything else online, no one is forced to anything - commission me or even interact with my blog. There is a block function here and I use it often - it works wonders.

Anyway, thanks for saying that. Truly. This whole thing was pretty upsetting at first, but I soon realized there was no conversation to be had with thesef people - they don't want to talk. They want to tear someone they don't know apart to feel superior and "win".

It's nice to know not everyone bought into the gaslighting shit these two (and probably now more ppl) are spouting.

:)

#ask #anon ask #tumblr drama #bg3 toxic fandom #toxic tumblr users #online harassment #harassment #bg3

[paarthursass]

"wyll's too nice i'd like him more if he were a little meaner and angrier" you guys couldn't handle vivienne de fer having a complicated relationship with the oppressive system she was raised in. you couldn't handle liam costa making a minor but well-intentioned mistake. you couldn't handle preston garvey having a recurring fetch quest.

you couldn't even handle early access wyll who was angrier and grappled with moral quandaries more. and you can't handle wyll as he is now when he playfully teases astarion.

#sophie.txt #if wyll said some of the shit astarion does you guys would be calling him toxic and manipulative and irredeemable #black characters never fucking win in fandoms #if they're even the SLIGHTEST bit morally grey then they're irredeemable and hated #if they're morally good then they're boring #there's no fucking winning #baldur's gate #bg3 #wyll ravengard #antiblackness

[cinnamonfairyfluff]

*looks up Gale of Waterdeep on tumblr*

Me: "Look at all these pretty arts and memes of my favorite character! Hooray!"

*looks up Gale of Waterdeep on tiktok*

Tiktok: "Gale is awful and annoying! I made my durge chop his hand off! I let him sacrifice himself!"

*they proceed to list all the things they hate about him, consisting of all the neurodivergent coded traits and behaviors he has as a character*

Me, who relates to Gale because of his neurodivergent coding: "🥲 oh... ya'll would hate me too then, huh?"

#this fandom is lowkey toxic #bg3 discussion #bg3 #bg3 screencaps #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 fandom critical #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #baldurs gate gale #ableist bullshit

[little-red-fool]

Honestly one of my favourite things about the fandom is that Raphael fans are literally so chill.

#ive never really seen any drama or toxicity from this side of the fandom and its wonderful #we just want to be weird about our old man in peace #like i can obsess over him without judgement and its great i feel so at peace #bg3 #bg3 raphael

[callmegaith]

You should kill me, kill me, kill me Not the real me, real me, real me I don't see him breathing You don't need him, need him, need him, oh And I always think about you when I'm sitting in the dark Swear I feel your breath putting pressure on my arm But what the fuck do I know? I'm sat here waiting for some truth to be told Better, know you could be wetter Pussy so bad he pulled a weapon My love, I don't know what you're selling Too bad I'm bought in descension Oh, God, I don't know what to get Two-two minds, I'm not losing again

some fun wips

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #oc: asbeel (bg3) #oc: thardohr (bg3) #ship: guardian angel #fandom: bg3 #dream guardian #dream visitor #Asbeel my beloved #they're so toxic for each other i love them #when the they/them pussy so strong it makes u wanna destroy the world 😩

[gameguy20100]

Anytime I try to give Minthara a chance I'm reminded of the people who swarmed my last post about her telling me that since I'm a man my trauma means nothing and I should kill myself.

And I feel genuine discomfort and anxiety flare-ups.

Hating a character because of their fans is 100% Valid. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#BG3 #personal #vent #toxic fandom #tw suicide #bg3 fandom critical

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

I just saw Gale slander and I remembered the internet isn’t a place where everyone can romance anyone and no one will decide to dis the characters and people romancing them

Like, I respect all y’all romancing who you want to romance, can you just do the same? It’s not hard.

#bg3 #I hate the lingering toxicity in fandoms #bg3 romance

[sanasanakun]

OK, since i'm sleep-derprived/jet lagged and it's my world yall are just living in, I'm gonna tell you all another one of *Hot Takes* (I can't find the goddamn squiggle line fuck).

Anyway, I think it's dumb when people hit the "No, they can't make durgetash explicitly canon because in my Durge's backstory they wouldn't like him/she's gay/etc." My brothers and sisters in christ....Durge is not your character. They are a defined -origin- character with their own background. Sure, like...you can sort of mold them cause they lost their memories and all that. But you cannot unwrite what they are/were (a monster, a necrophile, a child killer, and more) or anyone they associated with beforehand. They are the Ted Bundy of Baldurs Gate, bro. And they were canonically besties (or more) with Lord Enver Gortash. So, like if Larian made their relationship (explicitly) romantic that's fair game and I don't see a problem with it.

Just play Tav if you want the total blank slate experience. But the Dark Urge's past isn't like debatable when it comes to whether or not Larian can put stuff in there that you disagree with. Cause they can lol also Durge is like canonically pansexual idk what to tell yall.

#The dark urge has sex with corpses and people are out here complaining about them having a potential crush on Gort lmaooo #And by potiential I mean they were madly in love with one another in the most toxic of ways #This is literally only addressed to one person on Twitter who posted the most annoying tweets every conceived #Otherwise it's all good yall no one else is being annoying #and I'm just lowkey a bitch when I'm sleepy (like rn) #idk what to tag this as imo #uhhhh #the dark urge bg3 #Baldurs Gate fandom critical #bg3 fandom critical #gortash bg3

[bogunicorn]

I'm in a mood right now and I'm going to load my queues back up soon so my blogs are more than just bland salt, but truly fandom was a mistake, I don't think I'm having fun with it at this point, and I want to just go back into my hole where I reblog or RT fanart and shitposts and just avoid anything with a whiff of discourse.

And, yes, that means avoiding the legitimate conversations, too, bc a lot of people don't know how to act in the mentions of those. I want to be ignorant of fandom shit, the real world already sucks so much ass.

#bog post #ugh also i have to work today and I'm getting a late start #crankiness all around for me #stay salty #I'm legit getting gunshy about sharing my BG3 OCs or headcanons in public #bc I've seen the things people say about the types lf PCs i make or ships i lile #even ostensibly people i agree with generally #and the vitriol and open blanket judgments in such a 'young' fandom #(vs like the DA fandom which has had years to get THIS toxic and specific and shit) #is just... man i don't know #i know the early access was out for a while but things exploded into a legit fandom on launch #i feel like I'm just chilling here with my drow PCs and my m/f ships #and it's a coin flip of whether or not i can just browse fandom tags without catching a half dozen strays #i know 'not all' whatevers #I'm an adult who can process whether or not something is ABOUT me #but that processing still takes work and it's wearing at me #fandom is meant to be fun and this isn't fun

[watersdeep]

Unfortunately, the rise in popularity of BG3, and thus its fandom, has made me realize why I stepped away from large fandom spaces altogether and just chat with a small group of people about my interests.

#some of yall are toxic as fuck #and downright annoying #this is coming from someone who was in the trenches of the one direction fandom back in their formation to their breakup #and a supernatural survivor #i legit left the big BG3 server because of all the drama #rambles and more rambles ugh #thank you frontal lobe for finally forming

[astarionsdarkconsort]

This is a Ascension vs Spawn Argument Free-Zone

There's two very valid endings for the character we all love, I don't want anyone interacting with my posts trying to argue that one is the "right" option or why you're bad for liking one over the other. And this goes BOTH ways. Yes, I prefer Ascendant storyline. Doesn't mean the Spawn storyline isn't also a great ending for Astarion that I've enjoyed exploring, too. Even if you want to argue in defense of Ascension, I don't want the drama. I am up for a discussion about the pros and cons of either ending at any time, I just want it to stay civil.

At the end of the day we all like the same fictional guy

#i'm just tired of the drama #its not like Im directly receiving hate but I do see it around #I rarely interact with popular fandoms so I forgot how toxic it can be #Astarion #astarion bg3

[thechaoticdruid]

You know something I really like about the BG3 Fandom is I really don't see a lot of Ship wars. Actually I haven't seen any people fighting over ships personally.

(Probably because in a way all the ships are both canon and not canon. Cause you can pair all the companions together, but in a Tav/Durge run no one gets together aside from our OC and their chosen companion.)

It's really refreshing because ship wars can get so toxic and so nasty. And I have seen so many people make up complete bullshit just to prove that their ship is canon. And then just attack people who say the slightest negative thing about a ship or just state the fact that those two characters don't like each other in that way.

It's ridiculous and it's honestly why I'm really not into shipping canon characters together. I'm not going to mention any ship names of course because I don't want to attract the rabid shippers. But bruh.

Honestly I do kinda like all the Ships in BG3 at least a little. And even the ones I don't like it's not really that I hate them I just don't vibe with them for some reason. Though I will admit there is one I despise and pretty much everyone hates it. But as I said before I am not listing any ship names.

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #fandom #toxic people #discourse #Some shippers have no chill #like this is a fictional enjoyment #not an identity

[redlyriumidol]

honestly its a sign of how dead the dragon age fandom is on here these days that out of 6k notes clearly being cycled through video game fandoms nobody tagged that revenge/healing post "anders" even though it's so clearly About Him lol

#there were other characters and even someone with a dragon age url who i think tagged a bg3 character. u have forgotten ur roots my son #idk bg3 but i struggle to believe any other character could possibly fit that post as well as anders does lmao like Thats His Whole Thing #anders dragon age #i checked to make sure nobody had already made the joke and i was disappointed! anders nation we can do better! #also as someone who returned to this fandom recently its been shocking honestly. in some ways good bc its much less toxic lol #but i need the content. ig it's been 10 yrs and it will probs pick up with the da:d reveal #also i realise im part of the problem bc i left lol

[bhaalsdeepbat]

I have a group of friends that I met through DA cosplay and we all agree that the BG3 fandom can't hurt us bc we all were on tumblr and active in the DA fandom at the peak of its popularity.

#bat rambles #i'm also now just laying here sobbing over fenris i love him ur honor #like we all are v confused abt the claim that the bg3 fandom is the most toxic #i was also into OW for a while and like #the OW fandom was theeeee most toxic both IRL and online #honestly i think OW might be the worst fandom i have been in full stop #and now i have to pay for my sins every time i say my cat's name (mercy) #also when i say i was active #i wrote two fenris fic and cosplayed Hawke and Morrigan #so if wasnt even that active but #my other friends #that was their special interest and now we all are bonding over moving onto BG3 together ☠️

[ectochoir]

Is it coincidence that all the people I’ve been friends with who became BG3 fans ended up being assholes and terrible people? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is a pattern.

#technically the pattern is ‘left mcyt fandom to main bg3 instead’ #which is insane why are all of you coming out as toxic after you fuck the stupid vampire #he’s not even hot