#oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit

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You know "using AI for writing is bad" arguments are hitting a low point when you see folks acting as though fandom and by extension fan fiction aren't direct products of capitalism

#oimoi rants about pointless bullshit #like yes there's fan fiction as a *response* to media and that can be transformative in nature #but however transformative fanfic exists because of capitalism and pretending otherwise is fucking stupid lmao #whether that's ye olde spirk fanzines or beast wars aus on ao3 if it's in fandom it's part of how brand ips are monetized under capitalism #and therefore cannot be divorced from capitalism #also writing with ai *is* writing the question is just does it have as much value as a peron writing and *who* values it as such #it's like how ai art is still art lmao #anyways good morning everyone <3 #fandom

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hey uh so why are people suddenly saying that bury your gays is canceling a show with Sapphic leads? Obvs I'm not suggesting it doesn't suck or that homophobia/lesbophobia isn't a factor, but. Uh. Bury your gays has a fairly narrow definition and last time I checked "real life show gets cucked by network" isn't covered by it

#hello?????? #like by all means complain but don't suddenly apply fake phrases about exploitative narratives to real life shit #like bury your gays and networks killing shows are 2 very different issues #and they shouldn't be conflated. like fr can we stop applying fandom bullshit terms to rl situations and vice versa???? #fandom #oimoi rants about pointless bullshit

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Love to see folks bitching about TROP because it’s not “lore accurate” or doesn’t look Tolkienesque or gives off WoT/GoT vibes while said folks are also making direct comparisons to the Peter Jackson movies of all things, like yes there are actual things to be wary of regarding the series but noooooo they just have to be clowns that bring up the fucking movies as though they were the pinnacle of faithfulness to the source material lol

#tolkienposting #the rings of power #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #i don't mean all criticisms are like this or that everyone in the fandom is like this ofc. this is regarding a specific trend in #specific parts of the fandom that i've seen that i think is immature at best and *incredibly* iffy at worst #like if you hate amazon and therefore hate it bc it's amazon then that's valid. good for you i suppose #but going insane over lack of female dwarf bears while bringing up the dwarf women from the hobbit movies (where there aren't any major #characters who are female dwarves and not every female dwarf is shown with a beard) is kida ridiculous #like yeah would it be cool if disa had a beard in the promo poster? yes ofc #but nitpicking over physical appearance can lead down a. uh. bad path #like i've already seen people going from ''why doesn't disa have a beard?'' to ''why's she black FORCED DIVERSITY SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT!'' #so like. i'm not saying everyone annoyed with the costuming is racist ofc bc that wouldn't be true in the slightest #i just get wary when folks whine about new elf character's hair and then talk about the long hair from the white elves in the movies #(y'all who're bringing up actual cool concept art/cosplays are aight ofc) #overall most of the criticisms 1 feel v shallow 2 are based on folks preferring the (lore inaccurate!) movies and 3 are seriously tiptoeing #the line between wanting to respect the source material and wanting things to look a certain way bc you don't like that trop's not all white #tho again it's specifically a group not the fandom as a whole. ain't saying otherwise so send me angry dms or asks lol

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I have seen so much shit online about how “John Walker is a Homelander ripoff” or “fake Cap gives me Homelander vibes” like ????? Nah dude, U.S. Agent’s been around since the fucking 80s, Homelander’s comic version showed up in the early 00s and even then the show’s version is very different from him. Being a villainous deconstruction of a popular superhero who embodies a heroic archetype is not new or unique.

#also walker has not been shown to be anything like homelander yet #and if anything homelander's a ripoff of miracleman lmao #who's already a villain-ish superman #well honestly kind of a villain-ish hyperion #whose original version was also an evil superman #you get what i mean lol #fandom #the boys #marvel #mcu #the falcon and the winter soldier #tfatws #homelander #john walker #u.s. agent #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #same vibes as that one post that's like ''people saying x story rips off y story and then start describing the hero's journey'' smh

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I’ve joked about it before but I do genuinely feel for Lewis Tan. Dude cares about the MK games and lore more than I ever could, he’s super invested in the franchise, and he was obviously very happy to be cast as the lead in MK2021...and the lead was a generic OC whose power is literally getting his ass kicked by superior characters. He would’ve been a great choice for almost any of the actual game characters (I’ve seen a lot of people throw around Takeda’s name in particular), but for some reason that just couldn’t happen I guess. God.

#mortal kombat #mortal kombat 2021 #lewis tan #cole young #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #why cast lewis tan if you're not gonna utilize him #the man can act why won't you give anything to work with

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Goddammit, the Sandman fandom was mostly chill but now that the casting's been released all the fucking weirdoes decided to come out of their basements and start stupid drama. We really learned nothing from the whole Good Omens fiasco, huh.

#oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #the sandman #fandom #good omens #"death was white in the comics'' bro she was fucking *snow white* like all the other endless #they're not real people #''desire never used they/them'' yes they. uh. did. overture referred to them as such but the change may have happened earlier #''they made john a woman'' no they didn't. john's casting was never announced #''they made lucifer a woman'' lucifer was never a man. neil's angels have never had gender in any work iirc #y'all are just petty #i guess i expected better but i'm still not surprised

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New Black Widow teaser asking me “How much do you really know about the elusive Natasha Romanoff?” like bitch how the fuck am I supposed to know anything about this character when she got sidelined in every fucking movie until they decided to kill her off for Maximum Man Pain™ in Endgame?

#and then it immediately recaps all the shit we saw in the fucking movies #by ''elusive'' do you mean ''inconsistently and poorly written''? #marvel #mcu #black widow #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit

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Anytime I see a Star Wars post where it’s “X character is a Mary Sue” I want to fucking die because. Dude. It’s Star Wars. The main character is Space Jesus. Revan, who you will see on almost every “Top 10 Best Characters” or “Top 10 Most Powerful Jedi” list is literally a player character. Legends!Luke killed an actual eldritch Force entity. Kyle Katarn has done every cool thing ever as well as your mom AND your dad. A character ain’t powerful unless they’ve had some ultra-cool ultra-rare never-before-seen power that was invented for them specifically. Nobody’s gonna give you the Smart Guy Award™ for pointing out obvious bad or inconsistent writing because Star Wars might as well be called Obvious Bad, Inconsistent Writing: The Franchise.

#god #''obi-wan is a mary sue'' how. HOWWWW #personal #star wars #fandom #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #also i'm so sorry for reminding y'all about abeloth but i was making a point okay #does bringing up our lord and savior kyle katarn make up for it tho #and i KNOW i say starkiller is a mary sue but that's because he's starkiller and my favorite and he's stupid and i love him

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Can't wait for The Boys s3 to be released so that I can watch MCU stans endlessly compare Soldier Boy to U.S. Agent and argue that he's just a John Walker ripoff and it'll all come full circle.

#if walker's a homelander ripoff and soldier boy's a walker ripoff then is soldier boy a homelander ripoff despite existing first in canon? #again for the record walker is not a homelander expy #u.s. agent and homelander are two ubrelated characters #tbf soldier boy and walker are infinitely more comparable but the boys was already filming before tfatws was released so 🤷‍♀️ #basically some people don't seem to get that there have been numerous heroic archetype deconstructions in comics over the decades #and that they can share similar traits while also existing independently of each other and embodying different themes unique to them #homelander is very different from miracleman who is very different fron the plutonian who is very different from omni-man #and all of them are deconstructions of superman #the boys #marvel #mcu #tfatws #the falcon and the winter soldier #soldier boy #john walker #u.s. agent #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #fandom #also i'm not. like. trying to start shit #i just can already tell that this is gonna happen is all #fandom never learns

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Starkiller is OP because he redirected the path of an already-falling Star Destroyer and still had to dodge out of the way but Luke Skywalker killing Force Cthulhu is not only okay but actually preferable to anything that Disney!canon has done with Luke. 

#*sigh* #this is sarcasm btw #this is shit i see with the fandom all the time lol #it's so fucking dumb #nihilius EATS A PLANET #vitiate also EATS A PLANET #nomi severs a very powerful former jedi knight/sith lord's connection to the force #but these are all ''cool'' and ''reasonable if you look at the context'' but starkiller is just too OP #again i think starkiller is a mary sue and kinda sorta OP #when compared to canon characters #but compared to the rest of the legends? he's fucking normal lol #star wars #star wars legends #star wars: the force unleashed #tfu #starkiller #galen marek #luke skywalker #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit

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It’s kind of weird to me that some (though obvs not all and honestly not the majority of) MCU Tony stans will literally say any stupid shit to make any criticisms against his character somehow seem ingenuine or meritless. I saw a post comparing Tony’s and Wanda’s traumas as well as their different responses to said traumas that has gained a little traction, and honestly I was kind of pissed off about the assumptions made about people who criticize Tony??? At one point the OP literally said that most people who “won’t forgive” Tony only dislike him because he’s a man and a billionaire but will forgive Wanda because she’s poor and a woman.

Um, okay then.

Folks, we are talking about fictional characters. They are not real people. Perhaps they may mean a lot to you, but these people are not and have never been real. That being said, Tony, in the context of the MCU in particular, is one of the most privileged characters in the films. He is a white American man who also happens to be a billionaire. He established his personal success by selling weapons to the US military which he knew were being used on villages overseas. Yes, it was Stane who made deals with the Ten Rings specifically, but Tony actively and enthusiastically did business with the military up until he became a victim of his own weapons. I’m not trying to diminish Tony’s arc or attempt to demonize him as he is a well-developed and complex character, but I’m rehashing his origins for the people who have apparently forgotten what he was like pre-Avengers. The point is, the man has a shit ton of privilege that he both actively and passively benefits from in literally every movie he’s in. 

Wanda was born in Sokovia which I honestly dislike for various reasons, mainly because the MCU has (as of now) erased Wanda’s longstanding identity as both a Romani and Jewish woman in the comics while also portraying her and Pietro’s MCU identities as Eastern Europeans in a negative and offensive light, but that’s something for a different time and lost her parents to weapons sold by Stark Industries at the age of ten. Ten. She and her brother were apparently in such a bad situation that they grew susceptible to Hydra’s rhetoric and volunteered for a program that no one else survived. Does that excuse what she does in AoU? No. Does shit like Pietro and Vision dying excuse what she does in WandaVision? Also no. That being said, her circumstances are vastly different from Tony’s, and I’m not going to say that Wanda, who has not mastered her abilities in Civil War, being unable to stop an explosion that she didn’t cause from hurting people is just as bad as Tony, who has access to a shit ton of money and advanced tech as well as his 500 doctorates, in AoU deciding to experiment with alien tech that was used to mindfuck people (including Clint, whom Tony seems to be on friendly terms with as of AoU) to create ‘a suit of armor around the world’ that the rest of the world had literally no say in (examples of “collateral damage” on both parties’ parts that the Tony stan post gave 🙄) because it’s not. It’s not the same at all.

They both have severe trauma and survivor’s guilt, and they both react poorly and out of grief and fear (Tony creating Ultron/siding with the Accords without considering individuals who can’t just “stop” their powers like he can take off his armor and I’m not saying Cap was right either but Tony was definitely in the wrong as well/Tony attacking and trying to kill Bucky, Wanda joining Hydra/using her powers on the Avengers/creating the Hex). Hell, they could even be foils in some way. However, their situations are so different that it’s not fair to minimize criticisms of Tony’s actions because they acknowledge the privilege the character has in-universe. We’re kind of supposed to be critical of people with privilege, y’know, not ignore it. Tony isn’t supposed to be a perfect character without flaws; in fact, his MCU version was created to intentionally show development over a period of time instead of instantaneously so as to not jar the viewer.  His development mitigates but does not erase his flaws. I actually like that about his character a lot. Because he is one of the smartest and richest and most privileged people in the MCU, however, I’m going to be much more critical of him than I am of other characters, just like I’m more critical of Doctor Strange, or Hank Pym, or even Danny fucking Rand. I’m not going to ignore the fact that the character is a fucking billionaire who made money off of weapons used by the US military for the war in Afghanistan just because he said a funny thing that I can relate to lmao

I do think a lot of viewers are writing off Wanda’s actions because of her trauma, and I don’t agree with that. Wanda being hurt does not give her the right to hurt innocent people. She, like Tony, is a very flawed yet very complex and interesting character, and I’m glad she’s starting to get a larger role within the MCU. I also think it’s dumb how some viewers are trying to blame everything that has happened in WandaVision on Tony (especially in regards to Vision’s body because there’s no way Tony had any say over what happened there, Tony is not Vision’s creator, Vision is not Tony’s creation). However, I don’t see why this is a reason to compare everything about her, including her criticisms, to Tony Stark because not everything about their respective situations is equivalent mainly due to their different circumstances and privilege in-universe.

And you know what, if people don’t like Tony just because he’s a billionaire white American man who once made a fortune off the US military bombing villages overseas, then they’re completely fucking valid. I personally wish they could look past that and instead focus on his evolution as a character, but, like, profiting from war is pretty fucking awful, so I don’t see how getting hung up on that is a problem on the part of the audience 🤷

#why do i even bother with this shit lol #there's like two people who actually know what post i'm talking about but i don't want to link it #my intention is not to start a flame war or some shit #and i'm not attacking tony stans #or tony stark really #i don't hate him i am just very critical of his character mainly for the reasons i listed in this post #fandom #marvel #mcu #wandavision #tony stark #iron man #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #long post

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God, sometimes I forget how fucking weird Star Wars fans can be. I mean, I like Starkiller and all but I'm not gonna go apeshit and accuse people of fucking libel for not liking Starkiller the same way I do. At the end of the day, Star Wars is a silly science fantasy story that ripped off the likes of Valerian, Flash Gordon, and the New Gods and isn't some profound work of art, Anakin is hardly the most tragic figure in all of cinema let alone all of fiction, and hating the sequels should not be a personality trait. Some of y'all need to quit whatever you're smoking and try to be a decent person for once.

#yeah this is specifically about that racist blog who keeps harassing people who criticized the portrayal of the tusken raiders #she's a fucking freak lol #except it's not funny she's just really racist #and she tried to call ME racist bc me (a white american) pointing out a flaw in her (a white brit) logic means i'm racist obviously #anyways she's @englishlady if you wanna block her racist imperialist ass #star wars #fandom #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #and yeah she did actually accuse someone of libel for not liking her star wars opinions #she's a superfreak superfreak she's superfreaky #also i am not accusing these folks of being addicts or saying addicts are like these folks. that's a joke #i had a smoking problem back in high school and i like to poke fun at it sometimes

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I have not interacted with fandom in a while but some of y’all who are calling Ainsley a sociopath/psychopath need to realize that spending a few hours on the World Wide Web™ doesn’t make you a fucking psychiatrist lol

#prodigal son #ainsley whitly #fandom #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #seriously some of y'all are being fucking gross #malcolm does shitty things and it's ''cool'' bc uwu broken white boi is going ''dark'' and that's ''hot'' #ainsley does shitty things for similar (or even more justifiable) reasons and suddenly she is Evil and A Certified Crazy Bitch

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Ugh I really hope the rumors about Doctor Strange being Peter’s new mentor in NWH are overblown or straight-up not true. In case I haven’t made it clear in the past, I really do not like that Peter, who in the comics before they made him a CEO or some shit, honestly got pissed and avoided that era originally struggled with relatable things like paying the rent, got a billionaire mentor who made suits for him, caused the origins of his two main film villains, and gave him control of expensive tech like the drones in FFH, but in my opinion Doctor Strange makes even less sense as a mentor to Peter than Tony. Tony, at least, has some similar traits with Peter (super fucking smart/desire to do good/doesn’t always consider consequences of actions or how they’ll affect other people) and wanted to make sure Peter didn’t repeat Tony’s mistakes, and even though I dislike it, both he and MCU!Peter are also connected in that they use the same tech. I know it’s not good to jump to conclusions before we even have a first look or a trailer, but I just don’t see how the Sorcerer Supreme is relatable enough to Peter to be an affective mentor. 

Not to mention that not every adult has to (or even can) qualify as a mentor figure for a teenager???? Back when I was in high school (and even now if you count 19 as still being a teenager lol), I had friends and acquaintances who were older adults, with some old enough to be my parents, and while I respected and still respect them, I don’t see all of them as mentors. Some of them are just much older friends that I can talk to about interests I don’t share with friends my age. Some of them are just older adults who happened to work the same shift as me. 

Idk, I guess after Tony and Fury both playing the role of Peter’s mentor (with Tony honestly taking place of Uncle Ben in the narrative) I’m just kind of bored of the idea that every prominent adult male (barring Happy and the villains) in the Spider-Man movies has to have specifically this relationship with Peter. 

#personal #mcu #marvel #spider-man #spider-man: no way home #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #tony stark #iron man #stephen strange #doctor strange #peter parker #mcu spider-man

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random Star Wars fan: makes a joke post about not allowing Obi-Wan to be slandered

that one freak who gives Anakin stans a bad name:

What a fucking loser lmao

#get over yourself lmao #p much every main character in sw has been written to be a mary sue at some point (ESPECIALLY anakin) #star wars #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #also had no idea she changed her url #this one isn't as Yikes at first glance #but yeah. star wars fandom (especially anakin fans) beware. this blog is fucking weird

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It's so weird to me whenever I see folks on the World Wide Web talk about TFU and then some motherfucker will comment "ehhh...I prefer Fallen Order myself" unprompted, like yes it's a good game and sure you can prefer it over other games but what does Fallen Order have to do with TFU? People still act like you can't like both Legends and canon even though liking both results in maximum Star Wars enjoyment and that is entirely too bad for them 🙃

#star wars #star wars legends #star wars canon #star wars: the force unleashed #jedi: fallen order #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #oimoi rants about pointless fandom bullshit #also galen and cal meeting would be so much fun and y'all know it #tho cal is much older obvs #once the prequel fans stop shitting on the st then we will finally get pur canon vs. legends battle in full