#fandom critical

[witheredoffherwitch]

Y'ALL CAN EXCUSE RACISM?

Let's get one thing straight: I have no part in this chaotic mess (infact, I have blocked all the accounts mentioned below), but it's grinding my gears how it's devolving into another petty fanfic drama: case 607. I know this drama is getting the attention for certain individuals who are demonstrating mean girl behaviour and gossiping about other writers behind their backs. However, I am solely focused on addressing the racist and discriminatory remarks made by these individuals in the leaked text messages.

For those not in the loop, there's been a huge drama in the fanfic community involving leaked text messages from a group chat of four prominent members. In these messages, two users - Fae and Bel - have admitted to sending hate anons and talking smack about other writers behind their backs. Two other members left the group after it was revealed that B tried to make amends with someone who these two, Em and Ange, don't particularly care for. As a move to clear their names, Em exposed all the texts, trying to prove that Fae and Bel are the real villains here.

But wait, there's more! In these same chats, Bel not only mocked fellow non-English speakers but also bragged about sending rat emojis to an 18-year-old Pakistani writer who was already receiving racist anons. While everyone is focused on getting back at these two women for being shady af, it's mind-boggling how Em and Ange are suddenly jumping on the anti-racism train.

These two ladies stayed in the same chat as a fellow Pakistani writer was driven away because of racism, knowing full well that one of their own was contributing to it, and said NOTHING! Zero discouragement, no condemnation - they only hopped off when things got personal.

So here it is… I've had it with all of you hypocrites. You praise and encourage these women at every turn, feeding their egos like they're the second coming of Beyonce. But let's not forget who's always stirring up drama in this fandom - hint: it's these same people with a sense of entitlement the size of a planet. The issue is groupthink and y'all have all jumped on the bandwagon. You're worse than HBO's marketing department because just like their shitty teams, everyone involved here SUCKS ASS. You don't have to pick a side because they are all petty, mean losers. Bel and Fae are facing the consequences of their actions, which they rightfully deserve.

However, Em's exposé on Bel's racism seems more like an opportunistic move and it's disappointing that so many of you are supporting it. It's a predictable cycle now; there will be a half-hearted apology, an announcement of a hiatus, and then tons of people will flock to their inboxes to shower them with praise and excuses. It's ridiculous! I know there are many who feel the same way as me but are afraid to speak up because they don't want to upset the "village elders" and risk losing their connections and engagements. It's a joke atp!

Instead of taking responsibility for their own wrongdoings, they will come up with a list of 10 different cyber crimes by others to divert attention from their own nonsense. These very same women have confessed to creating multiple fake accounts, secretly stalking servers without mods noticing, and constantly harassing individuals through anon messages.

Yet, we are supposed to consider them as examples of moral integrity and ethical behavior? 😒

#fandom racism #fandom critical #house of the dragon #aemond targaryen #hotd #asoiaf #anti hotd #anti hotd fandom #fandom drama #racism #daemon targaryen #hotd fandom #fandom bs

[dandelion-bride]

Imagine if people took all the time and energy they spent demanding Durgetash scraps from Larian, and spent it on encouraging the writers and artists in the community. Imagine what that might look like. Think of the work we have, and how much more we could have if the fandom spent their efforts internally.

#fandom critical #bg3

[spellbooking]

I can't believe I have to bring this up again, I'm sorry if this isn't anyone's cup of tea so please ignore this if you see fit. But the Baldur's Gate 3 companions are supposed to be seen as pansexual. It's outrageous how sidelined I feel as a gay man who exclusively ships male Tavs with male companions, ESPECIALLY Gale and Halsin, who are explicitly pansexual companions. I will never dictate how people write fanfics or make their tavs or anything. But seeing the blatant erasure of these companions pansexuality is maddening.

I will always use my blog as a way to advocate equality, love, sexuality, freedom of expression, etc etc. My content IS very queer based so of course not everyone can resonate with it, but it can still be supported. It is frustrating to see people talk about Halsin, Gale, Wyll, etc as exclusively heterosexual. Why do we have to gender talking to Halsin about baking? Why do we have to gender Gale talking about BOOKS? As another blog has said: I am not trying to police how people choose to enjoy the game or interact with the fandom. "If you want to read, reblog, and create content with Gale x one gender exclusively, then go ahead. Just keep in mind that he is not heterosexual. Especially when making posts about how he treats a partner, his approach to sex etc. Or when writing about him in general" to quote @dreamingofthewild. This goes for all companions.

These companions like all genders. As someone who HAS a pansexual partner, it is so so discouraging. I'm starting to see more and more stuff indicating that these companions prefer a certain gender EXCLUSIVELY. As inclusive as this game is, this is just so discouraging.

This is meant to start healthier discussions and to be mindful of the fandom as a whole. Support queer artists, queer art, queer content, queer fanfics, etc. between companions and same sex relationships. These companions can be in a relationship with a tav of the opposite gender and still be pansexual, but if we are making content and writing tidbits that INDICATE they PREFER a certain gender, this is where the problem lies.

#tay.txt #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #fandom critical #gale of waterdeep #halsin silverbough #gale dekarios #etc etc

[galedekarios]

mystra, among many other things: body snatches a woman (totally consensually dw!!!!!!!!) so she can make her more open to the idea of getting courted and adept at seducing with the ultimate goal of getting impregnated so she can pop out the seven sisters, while also never telling the man who is courting said woman and thinks the woman truly favours and loves him and never is told otherwise

mystra: leaves the woman a husk of herself, so deteriorated that she's more dead than alive, to the point of where the man feels forced to help her die and then proceeds to manipulate the man emotionally and physically until he is finally allowed to die, only not really bc she uses him to serve her even in death

a clown: uwu mystra is true neutral and would never do abuse ))): gale doesnt have a direct abuser and is the outlier among the companions, also here's how everything is actually all gale's fault in the first place )))))):

#ch: gale dekarios #ch: mystra #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #fandom critical #abuse cw #pregnancy cw #mind manipulation cw #idk what else to tag this with but jfc #defending mystra isn't really the hill you want to pick ngl #also again it boggles my mind how some ppl need to be spoonfed every single thing abt a character & their struggles #otherwise it's 'non-existent' for them #tbd

[celluloidbroomcloset]

The more I think about it, the more I do wonder if some of the source of the more problematic ships/fan headcanons surrounding Izzy is based in the concept of love/sex as a reward for service or suffering. (Note: I am not at all saying that what follows is 100% correct - mostly just proposing a hypothesis. I'm riffing on @naranjapetrificada's post here, but I didn't want to go off on a treatise on someone else's post that wasn't even directly about this.)

Izzy’s world is upended with Stede’s appearance. He goes from being the trusted second in command to Blackbeard to being thrown off the ship (by his own making, already). All of his suffering (in his own mind) can be traced back to Stede and consequently Stede and Ed’s relationship. The narrative forms him as an antagonist not just to Stede but to the narrative's central concern, the entire reason for telling the story: the Stede/Ed relationship. He is the opposition of the healthy, happy, queer couple, and at each turn, he suffers for it.

In Season 2, his suffering is compounded to the point that he loses his leg in a really traumatic way, at the hands of a man he claims (in the same episode) to love. This leads into his being offered grace by the crew and the start of some shedding of his toxic masculinity (which has been the real enemy all along). And this is where I hypothesize that some fans start shaping him into someone who is now deserving of a reward. Izzy has changed! He’s grown! He’s doing better! Doesn't he *deserve* a reward for that?!

One of the forms that this reward must take is love/sex - and since the focal point of the entire show, as well as the causes of Izzy’s suffering, are Ed and Stede (the happy queer relationship) then his reward must be one or the other, or both. Having suffered and having come to better terms with his gender and sexual identity, he deserves the reward of romantic love and/or sex.

This is all, of course, not right, and the show never even hints that love or sex should be treated as a reward. Neither Ed nor Stede show any desire to provide Izzy with this reward (and honestly, I don’t think that Izzy the character expects that either, even if his fans might). But I do think that some of the anger and some of the “fix-it” mentality of the fandom subsection comes from the fact that Izzy’s character growth is not rewarded by romantic love or sex. (This ignores as well that he does find love in other ways, via his friendship with the crew, but this is also not typed as something he DESERVES or is rewarded for his good behavior.)

Stede in particular, I think, becomes a focus of the combined fan ire and desire because (in their minds) he was the original catalyst for Izzy’s suffering, he has obtained the reward of Ed’s love (thereby depriving Izzy of it), and he can be fitted for the enemies to lovers arc (plus he’s white and there’s undoubtedly racism at play here, as many have discussed). This might even be extended to Ed's love for Stede: that Ed was in some way rewarded for becoming better, that Stede's love healed him and therefore Izzy—who is so much more deserving, right?!—should also be offered that love.

Again, this is all based in toxic, erroneous assumptions both about the characters, about the show, and about love and sex, but all those assumptions have been made by stories in the past and are baked into a lot of mainstream culture.

The "fix-it" nature of ships like Stizzy and Steddyhands come down to some fans believing Izzy is not being granted his just rewards for his suffering and character growth in the form of love and sex specifically from the lead couple who have caused his suffering.

At least, that's what I think is going on.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #edward teach #not gonna tag the other guy right now #fandom critical

[jacevelaryonswife]

Hi, I’m Myrella and I don’t think I’m very important in this fandom, but I’m still a person with a strong opinion against racism. See, I don’t have many friends or mutuals here, I don’t like and I don’t seek to get involved in certain dramas that happen involving content creators because I believe this is a place I look for when I want to distract, not to see the shit that happens for things that don’t interest me, but there is also a big problem that many people don’t care about or practice: racism.

As Brazilian woman and person of color, I incisively condemn the act of racism and xenophobia. I DON’T WANT to be involved with people who at the first opportunity will distill hatred against my nationality and my color, I DON’T ADMIT to be conniving with such acts and such people, so I ask everyone to perform such acts to block me IMMEDIATELY! I don’t want to be in the same space as this kind of people, my blog is a safe place for all people and I don’t accept to be the mutual of a problematic shitty racist/xenophobic.

I saw many things today about people I admired far beyond work, things that I had no idea happened, happened and happen at the moment. I’m still trying to filter everything that happened and find out if things that were exposed are true, but in advance, I don’t want to interact with people who practice or do not see a problem in living with racist people.

This is me, a Brazilian woman who will not be intimidated by people in this fandom and on this platform

#hotd fandom #racism #hotd #anti racism #fandom critical

[controversialhpmemes]

#anti marauders fandom #anti marauders fanon #anti jegulus #anti wolfstar #marauders era #james potter #sirius black #regulus black #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #fandom problems #fandom discourse #fandom critical

[cheezewhis]

Makes me sad how it's so easy to block people on here and to just go about your day, talking about something you like, yet there are grown ass adults who dedicate their lives to complaining about other tumblr blogs????

Like there are iwtv blogs that istg never even talk about the show, they just throw hate at the most popular blogs for no reason. You don't like them? Block them and move on. The most powerful thing you can give someone is attention.

Stop whining about someone else getting screeners! We'll all get to see the show who gives a fuck about who sees it first. You know why amc gave some people screener? Cause they have fucking jobs! They contribute to the fandom instead of just bitching about people they don't like all day. Also being jealous about who gets screeners doesn't actually make the people who get them evil. Grow tf up.

#vent post #just stumbled on another random hate blog thanks tumblr algorithm #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #fandom critical

[shyjusticewarrior]

A reminder:

Robins: Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, Damian

Batboys: Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Duke

Batkids: Dick, Barbara, Jason, Tim, Cass, Steph, Damian, Duke

Batsiblings: Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Cass, Duke

#dc #dc comics #comics #comic books #batfans #fandom critical #robins #batboys #batkids #batsiblings #dick grayson #nightwing #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #red robin #damian wayne #robin #batgirl #barbara gordon #oracle #stephanie brown #the spoiler #cassandra cain #orphan #duke thomas #the signal #batfamily #found family #this has been a psa

[anneapocalypse]

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

#yes i'm just going to come out and say it i'm talking about sera #not exclusively but i am talking about her #'but her writer actually iS A--' you don't know that! it doesn't matter! and i don't care! #just say that you do not like the character. #people will reblog posts about the latest actor or YA author or whatever getting forced out of the closet and be like #'wow. :( that's terrible.' #and then GO RIGHT BACK TO DOING IT #when are we going to learn #when are we going to stop doing this BEFORE somebody is forcibly outed #because in practical terms #that means you have to be okay with queer characters being written by straight people. #you have to stop weaponizing that against writers you don't like. #you have to be willing to critique the writing on its own merits #without using the writer's (assumed) identity to prop up your arguments #that's how it works #but who wants to actually change the way they talk about media #when tearing apart people's identities for clout is far more entertaining. #gwaren exports #fandom problems #fandom critical

[sunlitmcgee]

#fandom critical #<-for many this isn't a specific thing #queerplatonic #arospec

[hneycmb]

Why is it that brainrotted fandom idiots will go "fandom is a space for FREAKS and WEIRDOS it's not your safe space 😡😡😡 if you don't like it you can LEAVE 😤😤😤" but then when someone asks them to stop treating black people in fandom spaces like shit they're all suddenly like "but ummmmm it's my safe space 🥺 the real world is mean and scary this is the only place I can go 🥺 racist harassment is my coping mechanism why won't you let people enjoy things 🥺"

#talking #fandom critical #racism #antiblackness

[pixiecaps]

now this may sound crazy but did you know women and men can be friends without it needing to be dubbed a familial dynamic

#qsmp #discourse tag just inn casee #fandom critical

[jaskierx]

okay there is a post going round about how izzy’s death means the writers are saying that only ‘socially acceptable’ queers get to have a happy ending

and first. what is socially acceptable about an entire ship full of pirates with diverse genders and sexualities and ethnicities and body types sailing off into the sunset while their two co-captains open an inn

and second. none of us are socially acceptable. ‘socially acceptable queers’ is an oxymoron. we see this every single day in the homophobia and transphobia that happens around us, that’s all over the press, that’s perpetuated by governments

you could be the most squeaky clean, socially acceptable, cishet passing, white male ordinary normal queer in the world and bigots are still going to call you a slur and try to deny you your basic human rights

if you think the show has stopped being groundbreaking because it killed off one of its entire cast of beautiful diverse queer characters then you never appreciated how transformative it is in the first place

#ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #fandom critical #lyse.jpg

[theoddest1]

Aight, bro. Why do people keep making merch of Angel chained up and such? Why? It's practically fetishizing his abuse at this point. I would love a concrete reason for WHY this is something they decide to do. If there is a good reason that isn't tied to it being "sexy" I'd looove to hear it.

And there go Viv eating this shit up and encouraging it. Ofc she would.

#vivziepop critical #vivziepop criticism #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin critical #hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust #hazbin fandom #Angel Dust #fandom critical

[cassberry]

Just as a note from someone who's been in mcytblr for years now, qsmpblr you really have to start reblogging more posts.

Out of all the mcytblr fandoms I've been in, qsmpblr has some of the worst reblog to like ratios I've seen and that's incredibly sad because there are so many talented people in this space.

Reblogging is super important because it moves posts out of a tag and as the Tumblr search system is atrocious, a lot of those posts are lost to time if not reblogged.

The only reason people are able to find old posts a lot of the time and keep them circulating is because someone reblogged it. It keeps the qsmpblr ecosystem alive when you reblog stuff!

I have 3-4 year old posts from hermitblr and trafficblr that still get notes to this day because people find them on other people's blogs.

I'm not saying you have to reblog every single post you come across and I'm not trying to make you feel guilty if you don't, that's silly. But if you like something maybe consider reblogging it as well.

Think of it like a corkboard on your wall, you get to display a cool post whether it's art or a text post for others to see, and the poster is happy that their post has been acknowledged. It's a win-win!

#qsmp #fandom critical #<- just a light crit <3 #qsmpblr has been so lovely i just want everyone to be appreciated #i've had so many artist friends get really discouraged on qsmpblr because their posts get no notes #other than likes that is #(i have a theory that its because we have such a large ex-twitter population here) #(reblog things please) #(likes do nothing) #berry.posts