#this fandom sucked me in

[romijuli]

It’s not that I don’t LIKE the Fandom Popular Pairings, it’s that I find the assumption that everyone ships them and the general all-consuming nature of said pairings to be kinda exhausting,

#the funny thing about me getting into pro////////seka is that i can FINALLY articulate this #because it somehow feels worse than in any other fandom I’ve been into #that said I’ve been thinking about this for a while #also hi. if you’re here to throw some ‘have some originality’ comment please don’t that’s not the fucking point. #it’s not ‘they suck because they’re unoriginal’ it’s ‘it’s very frustrating to feel mildly positive to neutral #about a ship everyone keeps shoving down your throat’ #people can be like this with any and all ships. it’s just that the popular ones tend to have this attitude be totally inescapable

[oopbackinmymcdphase]

New Athena P lore video dropped quick post Octonauts fanart @what-is-my-aesthetic

(the videos so good y'all I've been waiting for this since the ripe old age of 3)

#athena p #octonauts #this is just the mcd + yt sideblog at this point #am i saying captain barnacles set my standards for men? no #is it true? yes #almost an axalotl but with the dashhound hair suits this so well #this was so fun to draw #watch me get sucked into the octonauts fandom *cries in 7 fandom blogs*

[yanderestarangel]

Bi Han without mask....

GUYS...HEAR ME OUT PLEASE...

MY HONEST REACTION:

I have something inappropriate to say....

#yanderestarangel #bi han mk #bi han #bi han sub zero #sub zero mk1 #mk1 #mk1 2023 #bi han mk1 #hear me out #i love him #i need him #I'd suck his dick like a damn popsicle #😭 #I'm on my knees for this man #thoughts #mortal kombat fandom #mk 1 #mk memes #mk 1 2023

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I started reading Dungeon Meshi last week, became instantly charmed and captivated, and blitzed through the entire manga in 4 days (and changed my profile picture about it). With that in mind, I would just like to say...

I love your dungeon meshi art so so much

CHILCHUCK!!!!!!!!

Thank you kindly! I love Dungeon Meshi a lot, so I'm happy to see so many people get into it for the first time.

CHILCHUCK!!!

#ask #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #I feel like chilchuck was overlooked in the pre-anime fandom a lot (which sucked as an OG chilchuck fan). #So I am thrilled by how much love he has been getting. He is a great character and so much fun to draw. #Great comedic straight man while also having some really hard hitting emotional moments. #I think he needs a union mandated vacation after this dungeon expedition -and a drink with an umbrella in it. #Veering off topic for a moment: #I started drawing this at the same time as the Dragon comic (I had chilchuck brainrot) #and since then two of my dungeon meshi comics have hit over 10k notes. Which is bonkers! #A year ago I was getting hyped over a post reaching past 100 notes...I never thought I'd be here. Thank you for all the love and support. #I may have started as a MDZS blog but drawing for Dungeon Meshi has had a huge impact on me *and* my art. #This Chilled Chuck is thus a mini celebration for a incredible milestone B*) #I'll keep my weekly dungeon meshi posts going until the season ends so please keep looking forwards to it!

[theminecraftbee]

okay, so in a rare moment for me, there's a discourse thing i want to bring up, and that thing is. okay. so on iskall's stream there's this thing that can happen where someone brings up a criticism of his content or vault hunters. frequently it's self-evidently wrong, but sometimes it's not. and then iskall spends the next thirty minutes shadowboxing this guy, explaining himself, and completely derailed. and this is an iskall trait we all know and sigh bemusedly about, because he cares about the community and wants people to understand his intentions! he wants the community to understand his decisions!

however, it's not the community as a whole he's fighting; he is in fact, arguing with One Guy, who often doesn't represent the wider community, and who normally won't have their mind changed. hell, sometimes it's believable that they're satisfied having just managed to upset iskall, and they'll leave, no change to their mind, perfectly pleased that iskall's responding at all (that's what i firmly believe the people who poke at the 'you don't upload enough and that means you're falling off and a bad person' wound are trying to do, at least).

in the vault hunters community, we refer to this as iskall getting One Guyed, and it's typically viewed as bad, because it ends up focusing an entire moment on a single guy's negative opinion as opposed to on the larger picture. and it's an understandable thing to have happen! but it's frustrating to watch from the outside.

and so now i am looking at that cat poll. and the way everyone is still shadowboxing someone who has since apologized. and the way i would have never ever known about any of the negative comments about jellie if it weren't for fellow mcyt fans constantly putting them on my dash to dunk on them. and it's like. if you look through the notes most of them are just... normal? it's only a tiny few of people (and the pollrunner, who has since apologized) who were being dicks. it's a very, very ignorable demographic.

but. well. there was One Guy. and we had to correct them.

and folks, i don't know how to say that i almost never see "lol mcyt is cringe" type comments unless one of you puts it on my dash. both because i don't go looking through the notes of things that are likely to have them or go looking for reasons to be upset and because it's just... not that common! very frequently these days it is, in fact, One Guy!

i have almost never seen that poll on my dash without at least one instance of the One Guy. instead of being for fun, it's mostly become about explaining ourselves to someone who will not listen and will not change their minds, and treating this as a the whole of the Other Side of that poll, when most people are being... fine. they're fine! the majority of the people voting for the other side are doing it for perfectly normal reasons that don't require fighting about.

and man. let me tell you. after spending as long as i have watching vault hunters development? it can be just as frustrating to watch a fandom get One Guyed as it is to watch iskall.

#discourse #i am immediately turning notes off for this post as a heads up because i HATE discoursing but #man. i feel like i need to point this out. #sometimes you'll be happier if you go 'that was One Guy huh. better just block them and move on. i won't change their mind.' #one day this fandom will learn. #cat of the year poll #<- for those also trying to block it #also i know in many ways this is just me contributing i'm aware of my flaws #but sometimes i think this fandom needs to step back and realize it doesn't really need to fight the world. #sometimes someone says a mean thing. that sucks! you do not need to fight them for two days about it though. #and we do this with polls but also other people's innocuous comments SO MUCH. #so here i am.

[laufire]

jason's lazarus pit was golden jason's lazarus pit was golden jasonslazaruspitwasgolden jason's lazarus pit was golden JASON'S LAZARUS PIT WAS GOLDEN

AND PIT MADNESS IS *NOTHING*

#can't you read the TWO universally accepted good jason stories #(utrh and lost days) #they're good jason's there. the pit? gold. the madness? NOT FUCKING REAL #your story? WORSE FOR NOT KNOWING THIS #talking to the void #my thoughts #fandom nonsense #dc comics #jason todd #before someone comes at me about how people can write what they want and canon isn't sacred and blah blah #yeah i know. you'll notice I'm ranting about this in my personal blog! instead of leaving it in someone's inbox! #in my personal blog i can say express my own opinions! #and my own opinion is that the pit madness trope SUCKS and if you use it your jason writing is BAD #and also at this point I've developed a violent pavlovian response to the word ''green'' but that's neither here nor there #bitter lau tag #dc #dc thoughts

[gorgynei]

[ID: A digital painting of two werewolves against a dark red background. Both have black fur, with it thinner around their muzzles, where they have light brown skin. They are cuddled together to form the shape of a heart with their shoulders and heads, and orange cursive font reads, "Lets be freaks together". End ID.]

what if i was an ugly werewolf. and u were an ugly werewolf too...

#rereading rfw makes me feel craazy about werewolf4werewolf i need to be sedated a little. a lot #aceart #werewolf #making non fandom art SUCKS what do i tag this as x_x #my art #werewolves

[dayurno]

honestly you can say anything about the ravens (and you'd be right to) but you can't say the concept of them isn't delicious. a group of collegiate athletes in their intimidating raven motifs and their black uniforms who are basically bred to become the best of the best in a bloodsport. the adrenaline rush of every game being a competition between yourself and your teammates. knowing you're not just gearing up towards court but following in the footsteps of the alumni before you. the parties and the victories and the mindless sex and the way everyone around you somehow seems to always be thinking the same thing as you are. you are never alone and you will never be again if you just do as we say. who knows the kind of relationships that can happen in a place like that?

#<- her ass would be easily sucked into a cult #BUT SERIOUSLY THEY FASCINATE ME. delicious as a concept #i think we as a fandom have a tendency to take the piss on them because theyre theatrical enough to be noticeable #and because neil himself does not respect them nor riko #but it is easy. i think. to lose sight of their humanity #of their morning classes and their college parties and their personhood beyond what the cult stripped from them #yes its fun sometimes to oversimplify the ravens #and they were terrible whenever they could #but i dont know. i dont know really where i was going with this. just musing i guess #its interesting to me #all for the game #aftg #kevin day #jean moreau #riko moriyama #the foxhole court

[brainrotisseriechicken]

(heaven is you,)

(heaven is you,)

(heaven is you.)

everything else was stressing me out so i drew a bunch of hands to relax (thus me not bothering to polish them) (did its job for the first couple hours then i got anxious again)

#dr kondraki #dr clef #clefdraki #scp fandom #scp foundation #scp #scp fanart #fanart #illustration #pushing my prosthetic fingers clef agenda #taking a break from clefdrakiposting after this but dont hold me to that im probably lying to myself #and the song ends there the rest of it doesnt exist god it really does suck #surga itu epep #the third one should get to have its own dedicated post its so much better than rhe other two #thoughts aplenty #its past my bedtime and the beasts are going after me goodnight

[loverboy-havocboy]

worst thing is being held hostage by a group of antis and being anxious over what they'd do if you as much as insinuated some clones just suck eachother dry sometimes while also being afraid of talking to new people T-T

i am so sorry you're in this situation. fandom is supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a community not a threat.

forging new connections can be so scary/difficult, but i just got into the clone wars fandom like? last summer? and i have so many AMAZING mutuals and they enrich not only my fandom experience but also my life. i'm positive i'm gonna miss some, but shout out to my cloneshipping (and cloneship-friendly) mutuals, many of whom create cloneshipping works and all of whom would be happy to have you.

@lothcatthree @insertmeaningfulusername @elismor @meebles @ithillia

@merlyn-bane @mamuzzy @riinoaheartilly @catbuir @brokenphoenix99

@riinoaheartilly @cacodaemonia @marbled-polecat @the-starry-seas @whiskygoldwings

@violentcheese @gun-roswell @wolveria @leeleebee @executeness

if you're a cloneshipper (or just not an anti), reply or reblog so we can help our comrade feel safe in fandom like they deserve <3

#and obviously me!! i'd be so happy to talk about clones sucking each other dry with you!! because they do!! #fandom should be fun #cloneshipping #ask havoc #wreaking havoc #the anti saga

[lilyrizzy]

nico hischier, family & home

the athletic / guess how much I love you - sam mcbratney / the ny times / the players tribune / the hockey news / giovanni’s room - james baldwin / markerzone / regrets - hether / electra - euripides

#i got emotional reading interviews all afternoon so...have this I guess lol #i've never made something like this before so maybe it sucks but the vision would not leave my mind lol #the photos are all from pinterest so not tagged #hope someone enjoys this! #nico hischier #new jersey devils #web weaving #special shout out for lorna for translating articles & generally letting me drag you into this fandom #this is why you're my ride or die xox #this will flop bc no one follows me for hockey BUT #i like it

[exx-bee]

here you are in the straw house, feeding the straw dog. // straw house, straw dog

#ive become obsessed with drawing clef looking absolutely miserable #clefdraki makes me. violently unwell. they suck and its awesome #i love . miserable old man yaoi #dr alto clef #dr clef #clefdraki #implied #at least thats the intention #scp foundation #scp fandom #scp doctors #scp art

[fistfuloflightning]

the old fox’s efforts to get a laugh out of di feisheng

#help I’ve been sucked into the mlc fandom and I don’t think I’ll be leaving anytime soon #I binged half the show in abt a day and binged spoilers for the second half #I’ve always been a sucker for detective xianxia and this is no exception #and feihua grabbed my attention right away #prob bc they make me think of emotionally competent liushen/liujiu #mysterious lotus casebook #feihua #li lianhua #di feisheng #my art

[lunarriviera]

BONUS:

#are these the best most well-laid-out textpost memes of which i am capable? no #am i going to redo them to make them better? also no #these were saved from the great laptop death of 2023 #right after said laptop got wiped #so it's a miracle that they exist at all #thank me later guardian fandom #or rather #let me thank you #because you saved my life during the pandemic #love you all madly #seriously i'm sorry these suck #but there's love behind them #guardian #zhen hun #zhao yunlan #shen wei #ye zun #chu shuzhi #da qing #zhu hong #镇魂 guardian #weilan #lin jing #guo changcheng #镇魂

[hexcii]

Crazy to think I’ve been a fnaf fan since day one and after all these years, the characters I got fixated on is the fucking daycare attendant

My brain got stuck on the jesters

#Hexcii says stuff #They sucked me in with their tomfoolery #fnaf #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf dca #Sundrop #moondrop #dca fandom #daycare attendant

[secondbeatsongs]

when you're into the Big Ship™ in a Big Fandom™, you have the luxury of having an OTP - a real One True Pairing, where you can read about just them for ages, and you will never run out of fics, and everything is perfect and beautiful and nothing hurts

but when you go to a smaller fandom, you'd better pray to whatever god you worship that someone else in this room ships the same thing that you do, and that if they do, they're writing more than late-night crackfic, because you're on thin fucking ice!

and how small is your small fandom? is it less than 100 fics? maybe even...less than 20 fics?

welp, then it's time to make peace with that god and either open up a text document or learn how to ship everything, because it's swim or drown babey! and your ship is sinking fast

anyway all of this is to say that after hanging out in small fandoms and shipping less-common pairings for a while, going back into a Big Huge Fandom™ is wild because suddenly it's like...wait, why didn't I ship these people again? I don't remember. why was I only sticking to one ship in this fandom?? boring of me, honestly. these guys should make out.

#sbs rambles #fandom #fandom stuff #ao3 #basically. I hung out in superwholock for so long back in the day #but then I got weird and cool and moved on to smaller and older and stranger fandoms #and decided to throw a party and have fun and enjoy all of the small and weird in those fandoms #and now rewatching media for a big fandom I'm like. huh. sucks to be everyone else I guess. they're missing out on some wild dynamics here #because I'm havin a blast #and like. when I mean small fandoms I mean SMALL #my one fic I wrote for one tv show makes up 25% of that entire fandom on ao3 #(double checks) #oh!!!! new fic in the fandom!!!! #my one fic only makes up 20% of that entire fandom on ao3!!! #time to throw a fuckin party! 🎉🎈🎊🥳 #anyway it's really funny because based on this some folks are going to assume what ship I'm into in a Big Fandom now #but buds. you can laugh at me #I'm thinkin about sam and cas #what's up with those guys? #fucked up actually. they should hold hands about how much they love dean #:') #but also supernatural is way more fun if you watch it out of order #that's what I've realized #now if only the RNG would give me something in season 1 or 2 T_T #also if you're at the point of reading fic on livejournal or wattpad in the year 202X you've reached ''small fandom'' status #that's the rules