#bonding over fandoms

[janerart]

Sometimes when Crowley misses Aziraphale, he visits some blameless baby goats 😔

#I had an itch #so I did a quick sketch #the baby goats remind him #of when they bonded over the Job debacle #good omens fanart #good omens #good omens 2 #crowly x aziraphale #aziraphale #azirasheen #azirowley #aziracrow #crowley #michael sheen #david tennant #ineffable idiots #ineffable partners #ineffable fandom #ineffable divorce #ineffable spouses #good ineffable omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable lovers

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

the great thing about tua is that it’s one of the biggest shows on netflix rn but the fandom still feels like 30 people drawing on brick walls in chalk and passing handwritten notes to each other at the back of a classroom

#we just have nice vibes here #small fandoms are the best you know #maybe it’s just on tumblr and my 15 tua mutuals keeping each other sane #but I always get a shock when I find a marvel thing I like and suddenly I’m at a festival #everyone’s shouting and there’s nine kinds of discourse #like we have our moments but it’s nice here I love y’all #we’re all just bonding over terrible wigs and manifesting abba in s4 #tua #the umbrella academy

[renaissanceousia]

making artist!percy canon is one of the best changes they did in the show bc percy drawing annabeth in his sketchbook to remind himself she's real? immaculate.

#if there's one thing i need them to change in s2 it's this #it's better than keeping a photo you guysss walk with me here #also i'm gonna add percy and rachel bonding over their shared interest in art #bc their friendship is so important to me #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo spoilers #pjo fandom #pjo tv adaptation

[hkthatgffan]

Just noticed this in both seasons of Gravity Falls.

When Dipper screwed up in a major way while with Stan or Ford, the episode ended with them both having a Pitt Cola and him being cheered up and motivated by them.

It happened at the end of Boyz Crazy after Dipper ruined Wendy and Robbie's relationship and angered Wendy...

And again at the end of The Last Mabelcorn when he nearly memory wiped Ford and broke the machine.

IDK about you, but I just love this small little bonding thing he has with them. Nothing like an S&P approved drink and some Grunkle motivation to get you going again!

#gravity falls #dipper #dipper pines #stan pines #grunkle ford #grunkle stan #ford pines #stanford pines #stanley pines #gravity falls season 1 #gravity falls season 2 #Boyz Crazy #the last mabelcorn #alex hirsch #Pitt Cola #Look at these dorks bonding over peach flavoured soda #wendy corduroy #mabel #mabel pines #gravity falls fandom #something for all the Grunkle lovers who follow me #lol #adorable #adorkable

[arcadeichu]

Had to make this warm up drawing of John and Jack because I owe this to the many for my animation wip of these two.

Here's the wholesome father-son content y'all deserve while I work on the animation.

#absolutely sobbing over these two #father son bonding #digital art #red dead redemption community #rdr2 fanart #rdr2 #john marston #jack marston #red dead redemption 2 #red dead fandom #red dead redemption fanart

[intercosmiiic]

Martyn after all the other reds are dead:

#fandom #life series #secret life smp #secret life #hermitcraft #i feel as though this is the start to martyns evil arc #hes gonna destroy everyone #he lost his big dog brothers and sister #mumbo also had a terrible time. ohh dear #he didnt have a chance #MY WIFE!!!! #lizzie ldshadowlady is dead #grian mourning the loss of his butler/knight in shining armor #smallishbeans mourning his wife #they should bond over this #i have fanart ideas but i never have motivation to make them #big dog #ldshadowlady #smallishbeans #inthelittlewood #grian #mumbo jumbo

[grungebutsoft]

just found out that my 14 y/o brother watches hazbin hotel because i was singing “you didn’t know” and he started weighing his opinion on the hazbin songs. not upset that he watches the show at all (but it did take me a little by surprise) because i definitely started watching hazbin and helluva boss when i was 13 but i AM upset that he thinks “stayed gone” is better than “loser, baby” which is a hot take ig

#hazbin hotel #helluva boss #hazbin hotel songs #we did agree that respectless is a little overrated #but i don’t know if he sees the dynamic between angel dust and husk #he just really likes alastor’s singing voice which is so valid #vivziepop #hazbin hotel alastor #radio demon #angel dust #hazbin hotel husk #huskerdust #our sibling dynamic is unmatched #we’ll argue about how loud each of us are being on our respective instruments then bond over fandom shit #anyway #tags #tumblr tags

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

can you imagine how obsessed we'd all be with renegade nell if we'd gotten it back during the robin hood bbc/merlin bbc days

#a DREAM come true!!!!!!!! #but now i feel like we're all so scattered amidst the one zillion streaming services that we just can't bond over it #the way we would've in the late 00s as a more united fandom society #dollsome's deep thoughts #renegade nell #this show is like prestige hokey bbc family show fantasy in the most *chef's kiss* way possible

[rhaenin-time]

#hotd #asoiaf #hotd critical #team black #fire and blood #anti team green #asoiaf fandom #these people love to cite daenerys this one time #as if “a dragon is not a slave” doesn't just mean you can't FORCE a bond #not that it's a fucking free-for-all game of finders keepers #targs derive their power from their monopoly over dragons because they have the power to enforce that monopoly #that's how ownership works #Rhaenyra was not just the heir to the throne she was also the future head of the family + highest ranking dragonrider #If she didn't want Aemond to have Vhagar and if she would have had Viserys say NO had Aemond asked then yes he did indeed “STEAL” Vhagar #again because he knew he would be told NO #a non-misogynistic jaehaerys would have sent his ass to the wall #the whole point of that scene in F&B was the important matter (vhagar) was pushed aside because viserys didn't want to deal with 'drama' #and because of aemond's eye rhaenyra was not in a position to push #So yes actually it was a pretty good trade for aemond

[pupperish]

I feel like dsmpblr is in the best state it could possibly be in. Barley anyone still cares about the prospect of new content and we're all just kinda chilling cause it would take too much work to move fandoms

#Tommybarks #It's also dead enough to where discourse is a lot more manageable #Like I don't see how people unfollow all the people they followed for fandom content cause they aren't apart of said fandom #You people are so fucking cool and it would be awful of me to simply unfollow you all when we still can bond over media we loved even if we #Have moved on. Fandom is such a beautiful experience #Also ik this is just kinda my corner of the fandom but idc

[queenofmalkier]

Okay, I just have to say it to anyone feeling isolated or picked on or like the Main Character standing against Amazon's Wot-Show wrongs: nobody is mad that you don't like the show. People have different opinions! Different expectations! In a series this long there's dozens of things people will disagree on in terms of importance and that is normal!

You know what nobody likes?

The condescending, holier-than-thou attitude of some individuals who don't like the show who have decided that It Is Actually Bad And Terrible and anyone who likes it is Wrong.

Who constantly invade show-friendly spaces, who review bomb, who basically act like five year olds having a tantrum in the middle of Target.

People who I'm sorry to say don't seem to understand that there's no one way to adapt a series. Think of it like the works of Shakespeare and move on with your day.

The way I'd do it is going to be different than the way you'd do it, which will be entirely different from the way a third person will do it. That doesn't make any of us wrong - and YET you get mad when reasonable people point out that when you say the show is an Evil Bad Wrong No Good Bad Adaptation Without Question you are discounting those of us who think it's honestly not bad.

And then those same people wrap themselves up in a mantle of hurt and victimhood because everybody is being mean to them! Nobody understands!

Honey, we understand talking to you about the show right now is like talking down some drunk guy in a Denny's parking lot who is screaming at the curb. You aren't making rational points. You are Big Mad and trying to make it the problem of anybody who doesn't think the way you do.

I know I've made an effort to be understanding and empathetic about it, I've tried to explain my reasons for enjoying the show while seeing the point of others who hate it, but I'm tired of only receiving "that's cute you think that but Actually I Am Correct still" in return.

There's no growth, no learning, no further understanding. At this point it's bitching to bitch while pretending to be the only one knowledgeable on the subject. It's screaming about "that's not what I'm asking for!" while, actually, the complaints you're making are very much asking for a perfect 1 to 1 adaptation or some secret third thing that remains a mystery to me.

Either way, I love ya'll, I love WOT, I hope like hell this is a taken as the I Don't Know What Else To Do intervention, come-to-maker post it's meant to be but if it's not and you're angry maybe think about why.

#wheel of time #did I write a lot of this months ago? yes #was I in a mood? yes #but you know what it was true then and it's true now #I absolutely value the opinion of the many talented people in this fandom #I think we're all so joyous and genuinely happy to bond over meta and lore and jokes #that the few bad apples don't really ruin things #I fucking love it here #but also? I'm done babying the bad apples #improve your attitude go touch grass whatever you gotta do #so we can all fucking get along again while agreeing to disagree

[bolithesenate]

not a single day passes where I don't think about the implication of legends(?)-comics jedi master Vima-Da-Boda

she *has* to have been in her prime during the clone wars, which puts her right into the time frame of anakin 'stress ulcer over my secret wife's secret pregnancy' skywalker.

why am i saying this?

because this woman, a jedi master from a *geneological jedi dynasty*, also got pregnant, had a whole daughter and TRAINED HER AS HER OWN PADAWAN (the daughter then wdnt off and fell and got herself killed but thats besides the point)

what i'm saying is that between Vima (and the whole Sunrider Dynasty tbh) and Yula Braylon (who hid her child but Yoda explicitly states that they would have helped her had she told them) and the several other jedi with close family bonds in and outside the order WHY do people keep insisting that the jedi were anti-family hardliners?

the jedi order, at least in legends, has *always* allowed its members to marry and procreate if they choose to. you can even train your own children! it happens all the time!!

ki-adi mundi has five wives and idk how many children, plo koon's niece is a jedi, adi gallia and stass allie are cousins and both became high council members, vima trains her own daughter as her padawan and yula could have announced arath as her kid no problem.

and that is not even going into jedi families in the old/high republic times (remember, the order's most famous grandmaster, nomi sunrider, became a jedi at 30 after her already jedi husband was killed and she too had a daughter which she trained as a padawan)

also, you know, canon is free real estate anyways.

but for those who are so hellbent on saying that the jedi are anti-marriage/family hardliners, no they are not & they never were.

i hope that helps 👍🏼

#im not saying this to discredit anyone who wants to play with the concept of a vow of celibacy/non-attachment jedi order #i'm just saying that thats not what the source material implies #you know you're free to do whatever you want in fic 🤷🏻‍♀️ #i just am a staunch defender of the jedi order being quite a bit more open about things than large parts of the fandom think it is #like. what reason could there POSSIBLY be in-universe for someone to not just grab the next best nomi sunrider holocron #and have the recording of THE grandmaster herself tell anyone off that tries to go 'all familial bonds are attachment' or whatever #seeing as the sunrider line kept producing jedi over literal milennia i think their existence alone should shut up any naysayers #but whatever #i think about the sunriders way too much tbh #random boli thoughts #star wars meta #me writing #jedi order #the jedi

[chthonic-cassandra]

Had a moment writing that commentary of going, yeah, sorry everyone, I really do write Dracula/Mina, it's really fucked up Dracula/Mina but that's still what it is!

#when I was first in the fandom people got upset because my stories about them were too fucked up and not romantic enough #and now I am sure that people are uncomfortable because they think they are too romantic #but I've just been over here writing the same kinds of things about the two of them traumatically bonding for nearly 20 years #personal #my writing #Dracula

[fromtheseventhhell]

When Dany and Arya are the first Targaryen/Stark duo to interact and people start seeing the light on Daenarya >>>>>>

#daenerys targeryan #arya stark #daenarya #deserves to be one of the top asoiaf ships but this fandom is full of small brained misogynists 😒 #justice for my girls they deserve so much better then being misinterpreted by their haters! #just look at the material...the parallels! the foreshadowing! the shared values! the similar story beats! #them being literary mirrors to a doomed couple that haunts the narrative?1?1? literally no one is doing it like them! #two exiled princesses forced on the run after the murder of their families who both find themselves in braavos at one point #and then it all comes to a head when they MEET in Braavos?! #they're gonna bond over hating slavery wanting better for the smallfolk doling out karmic justice and being THE westerosi IT girls🫶🏾 #has so much more flavor for me then jonerys I fear #shoutout to the five Daenarya shooters we're just big-brained and ahead of the curve

[red-balloon12]

One thing that’s been bugging me is how often people make Marinette and Chloe bond solely out of their mutual dislike/hate of either Kagami or Lila. Why can’t they ever just bond over something like their mutual passion for fashion or maybe Marinette teaching Chloe how to bake or them shopping? Are these two really that incompatible with each other to the point where the only way they can bond is by hating on another person? Or do y’all just dislike Kagami/Lila (especially Lila) that badly?

#miracuous ladybug #ml salt #ml fandom salt #we as a community need to do better with this in particular #and this is the same energy as having Kagami and Marinette or even Lila and Marinette bond over Adrien

[samarecharm]

i love makoto so much but fanon does her so much better (the good parts of the fandom) because in the game her character is so lack luster. they butchered her confidant it is so borning and not even about her. they made her a cop. A COP. they pushed this "canon waifu" role onto her (before sumire came along and did it Even Worse). and it SUCKS because SHE IS SO MUCH MORE!!! SHE IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!! SHE COULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER!!! the way i feel about canon makoto is the same way i feel about the canon ryuji events post komoshida where he's horribly mistreated and used purely as comic relief: i ignore them <3 my game now <3 never happened <3 my ocs <3

You are so right. I generally apply this to all characters in p5 bc the game does such a shit job of staying consistent with character arcs and personalities. Theres a desperate need to throw in perverse jokes at the expense of female characters and a need to show that the police (as a whole) are reliable people who are not influenced by things like money and power; only the BAD cops do that. Not to mention this obvious fatphobia and homophobia but i feel likes thats a given.

But back to Makoto. Shes a victim of bad writing just like everyone else. Ryuji during the kamoshida arc was fighting with self loathing and genuine anxiety, and aside from the like. One comment on Panthers outfit in the metaverse, hes more than well behaved. All of that is shelved as soon as Kamoshida is gone and replaced with him being weird comic relief (and the focus of alot of sexual jokes that were nonexistent in the beginning of the game). Anns arc about self love and empowerment is completely dropped as soon as the nasty bad guy is put away (so that its good to be weird about her w the Good Guys). Makoto loses her a chunk of her personality to be the mature waifu which is INSANE to me bc shes like. Not okay or normal at all 😭😭😭 she THINKS shes responsible and so does everyone else on her team, but its an act! She doesnt know shit! And she doesnt know that she doesnt know shit bc shes respectful and adults dont care about anything as long as u respect them!

Its very telling that for literally every single thief (and goro), you can see the exact moment the writers gave up on adding anything of worth to their characters outside of the social links. Its like they didnt know what to even do w the characters at their disposal after their main arcs were complete. No mention of friends hanging out without you, no mention of having group hangouts. Everyone is treated as a core, important member of the friend group DURING their arc, but outside of it, they are acquaintances at best. Theres nothing in the game that convinces you that these guys are legitimately friends who care for each other and do Friend Things. And i describe it like that bc there IS a game that treats them all as friends, and its strikers! Strikers/Scramble genuinely feels like the game p5 wanted to be; a road trip w your team where they stay up at night talking to each other and hanging out and doing things together that dont necessarily include you, the player. Its refreshing and lovely but it sucks that u get that kind of attention to detail in a ‘spinoff’ title

#chattin #i hesitate to use spinoff bc its a pretty big game #and theres an amazing plot with wonderful characterization #and their handling of jails and jail owners is LEAGUES better than the bs they tried to make up w palace users #and all the thieves feel like family. and not in the annoying fandom way; like #were family in the same way a family is forged and tended to. i love you. no one is left behind. no one is made to feel inferior another #its really good and honestly if u want more interactions between everyone i really recommend a playthrough #but yeah #p5 sucks #i love it but i love the version of it i made in my head LMAO #maybe p5r did a better job w the dialogue and some questionable scenes #(i wouldnt know. i didnt play it lol) #so maybe thats what people need to be using as a point of reference #but i only plyed p5 so this is what i have; a group of people who show up for meetings and then go about their life #and that kinda sucks. why make this wholly unique experience in which these teens can only relate to each other #make them bonded over their shared experience w this unbelievable world #and then not only make them NOT interact; but have the end be ‘okay by akira.’ and leave it at that #they just. didnt know what to do w anyone #they needed their girls to be waifubait and the boys to be an afterthought #they needed a buffet of older woman for pathetic men to fuck through their self insert #and they needed a story convoluted enough to keep people stuck trying to figure it out themselves #its bad. its so bad. its so fucking bad. but i have to be here. WE have to be here. #bc who else is going to take these characters out of hell and treat them right ??!!!