#it's not hard

[probablyasocialecologist]

#c'mon guys #it's not hard #covid19 #coronavirus

[occasionallyprosie]

So, apparently there's some fandom discourse, and I just want to throw my two cents into the pile.

I get wanting things to lean more into canon, I do, but to shame or hate or talk down to others for not making things what you view as canon characterization is not okay.

This goes especially for fanfiction and fanart, because first of all, everyone's view of every character, every scene, every minuet detail, is different. Secondly, fanfics and fanart are 1) freely made, 2) freely given, and 3) the creator's work. They can do whatever they want because it's theirs, and you know what you as a reader/viewer/consumer can do?

You can read the fanfic. You can analyze the art. You can tell the creator what you enjoyed, and heck, if the creator has said they're okay with it, you can offer constructive criticism (I cannot emphasize the constructive part, or the part where they've said they're okay with it, enough).

However, you can not take this work that came from someone's heart, something they tore out of themselves and gave to you to view, and throw it on the ground. If you don’t like it, you "give it back," you walk away; you leave.

You. Do. Not. Tear. Them. Down.

You do not send hate, you do not demand change, you do not tell them they're wrong, what you do is walk away. Don't like, don’t read.

I do understand wanting to see your characters, that one comfort character, portrayed "correctly," but that Does Not Mean you can scream and yell at people who don’t fall into your category of correct.

If you’re that desperate, draw/write it yourself.

But no matter what: be nice, be kind, and if you don’t like a fic or you don’t like an artwork, there's this lovely feature called a back button, or the scroll feature. Tumblr also lets you block things, AO3 lets you filter stuff out. If you don’t like it that much, make it go away. Don’t make it someone's else's problem, especially not the creator's.

#relevant #linkeduniverse #linked universe #discourse #sorry to get serious #I don’t like doing it #not here at least #but I felt like I should #it's not hard #to be kind

[punkymaysnark]

Palworld has sold 3 million copies in just two days.

I'll keep saying it!

ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN FAKE AS SHIT ABOUT BEING AGAINST AI.

Edit: I know the immediate defense is "Palword wasn't made with AI!" Fine. But the company that made it is still very pro-AI.

#first there was the endless assault of unfunny ai generated pixar posters and now this #then there were waves of ai voice covers #now palworld gets a pass because “it's fun!” #i used dall e like once when it was new and then it came forward that AI was stealing from artists and I immediately stopped #it's not hard #anti ai #fuck ai everything

[triaelf9]

*sees some fanart*

*sees that it has a mistake from the canon*

*continues scrolling and doesn't hop on to correct the artist who just wanted to draw a cool thing and doesn't need to be 'um actually'ed*

#it's not hard #just keep scrolling just keep scrolling scrolling scrolling #even if it's my personal least fav #when they draw Asami taller than Korra #I JUSTT KEEP SCROLLING B/C BEING SHITTY WON'T SOLVE ANYTHING

[crazycatsiren]

Like, really, you can just, you know, respect people's boundaries and not "bless" them for any reason once they tell you they'd rather you not do that.

#religious ramblings #witchblr #paganblr #boundaries #respect #wicca #cultural christianity #it's not hard #who raised y'all

[stalkhome-sindrone]

HOW FUCKING HARD ARE SUBTITLES FOR MATT PRODUCTION

YOU LITERALLY USE THEM EVERY SEASON WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND

#accomodate your cast memebers or don't cast them #it's not hard #bb25 #big brother 25 #big brother

[lastoneout]

can't believe on twitter, a website periodically filled with jokes about executive dysfunction, is now forcing a bunch of queer people to patiently explain how easy it is to simply not fucking do something

#babes it's so easy to just not buy or play a game #what's not clicking??? #as someone who grew up incredibly poor like GUYS it's so unbelievably easy to just not do a thing #I'm just not doing like five things rn #it's not hard

[shysheeperz]

Me @ the Luffy tab

#@ all the people whining and complaining about it #sucks to be u i guess #meanwhile i'm having the time of my life #monkey d. luffy #one piece #opla #luffy #like it's such an easy thing to ignore #i've managed to ignore the 'for you' and 'your tags' options this entire time #it's not hard #and when it gets changed to something else i'll simply ignore that too #i honestly wouldn't have even noticed it if people hadn't been pointing it out #lol

[getvalentined]

Shout out to some rando demanding that someone posting about the Sephiroth Valentine Theory make a discord server to get the discussion out of the tags here on tumblr.

Like...everyone here knows that you don't get to choose what other fans talk about, right? You don't get to tell other fans to leave just because you're not interested in what they're discussing?

As long as it's about the character (rather than like a cat that has the same name, which I see a lot) it technically belongs in the tags. It's generally poor etiquette to put hate in tags, sure, but talking about a popular theory that's been around for over a quarter century, related to two major characters in a work of popular media? That belongs in the tags for those characters, and for the media in question. That is literally part of what tags are for.

I don't know how some people reach this level of entitlement, but if you can't deal with other fans talking about things you don't like, maybe you should make a discord server where people are only allowed to talk about what you like.

Good lord.

#fandom vent #fandom bullshit #not tagging this #because it's not related to the actual media #or the characters #but to the fandom itself #which is different #just #good fucking god #you're not the arbiter of fan discussion on social media #no one is #just scroll past #it's not hard

[didthekingdieyet]

Hey good news! My auntie has a friend who works at Highgrove and APPARENTLY Tampon Charlie is not a well man at all and she reckons that he won’t survive to be king for very long! I mean you only have to see his gross bloated red fingies to see it’s true. Keep up the good work with your blog, I’m looking forward to the day you announce that nasty inbred simpleton has joined his “beloved Mama and Papa” in Hell. x

YOOOOOO if he died that would be very nice. (although i would once again have to make a new profile picture and i JUST did that)

#although i would once again have to make a new profile picture and i JUST did that #it's not hard #i'm just kvetching #not a countdown #ask response #he does not look well #but that may just be his british vibe

[chrissy-kaos]

Can u really fix cars baby face

No. I just like jacking up my car up and squeezing my fat ass under it getting dirty and shit just for a picture... smh.

#there are female mechanics.. #yes i can work on and fix cars #yes i can rebuild engines #smh #yes i can service vehicles #it's not hard #ask ask ask #ask anything #ask me anything #asks #i love how men think women aren't capable of doing “men things” #i can do anything you can do better

[theres-a-clown-in-the-cheese]

TFW I come across people who are still fans of that stupid TERF wizard boy franchise in 2024:

#why can't this fucking horrible harmful franchise just DIE #anti harry potter #anti jk rowling #anti hogwarts legacy #“b-but it was my CHILDHOOD” - IT WAS PART OF MY CHILDHOOD TOO and I walked away from that shit #it's not hard #and miss me with that “separate the art from the artist” crap #yeah with some works you can do that... but with HP you CAN'T #her fucked up views are all over that series #and she's so influential that she's ACTIVELY CAUSING HARM #and every dime you put in her pocket just enables her to do that #and the story sucks anyway

[sixty-silver-wishes]

dang it may be 3 am but seeing all these dumb takes on soviet history by tankies has made me Really wanna get back on shostakovichposting

like . soviet history is never as cut and dry as many people on multiple sides of an ideological argument will have you believe, but I will say that researching it properly will make you hate tankies

#rambles #anyway thinking of the lady izdihar video where she was like “the 30s soviet union was a lot of experimentation #and sometimes those experiments didn't work out right!" #like collectivization and censorship and the holodomor and the great purges. ok #like is soviet history nuanced . sure; history always is #but acting like the 30s was just “experimenting” as if stalin was completely naive and had the best intentions is Fucking Stupid at best #and at worst very harmful #I will acknowledge she's very well read but she's also extremely biased #and overly positive views of history in general aren't the way to combat overly negative ones #literally just . tell the truth and show nuance and state the facts and cite your sources #it's not hard #like I have opinions on plenty of historical figures and events #but if I'm trying to inform people on them in a serious context I will just state the facts as I know them #proper historical research is so so important guys

[the-one-who-died-at-the-end]

Help me I've been trying to start reading this book for two days now but every time I'm about to do it my brain decides to do something else instead, and then it's been two hours and I can't stop watching historical clothing videos to pick up that book, so I started bringing that book literally everwhere I go and I still can't pick it up and JESUS.

#JUST READ THE BOOK GOD #I'm not asking for much just to read a book so I can go back to my reading period #It's not hard #Right??? #Book #Books #Reading #Reader #im procastinating #Procastination

[ancientbeast]

day 700 of begging people to just say "christianity" instead of "religion"

#and maybe don't make negative sweeping claims about religions you don't have experience with. #it's not hard