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I still use Facebook to keep up with real-life friends and community, so I'm in a bunch of fandom groups to keep my feed varied, instead of solid walls of FB ads and news articles.

Over the past week or so, there has been massive, incredibly petty drama in a fandom group I have since left. The details of that drama aren't important--what's important is that the drama and discourse is about a completely different television show than the group is supposedly about. Over the span of a week, the entire group has become a rancid discourse pit of fighting over something completely off-topic. Several members have posted and commented asking why the group has veered so off-topic, and have been shut down by the people perpetuating the discourse.

Lines have been drawn, the admins picked a side, and the end result of the shitshow is, "if you like [Show B], you aren't welcome in this group about [Show A], and we're going to keep shit-talking [Show B] until everyone who likes it leaves. No attempt will be made to steer the group back on-topic."

The reason I bring this up is to give a reminder PSA:

If you are in a fandom space, and that fandom space is more invested in shit-talking other fandoms or group members than it is in discussing the actual subject the fandom is about, you are in an unhealthy space. It's not worth it. Go find a better space where the vibe isn't "rancid hater pit that's only interested in picking fights and choosing sides."

You and your fandom experience will be better for it.

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I think so much of the outlook over fandom would change if many people treated it like it is: a goddamn hobby.

A fandom group is no better nor more revolutionary than a knitting club. It can replicate any real world biases and discriminations and it can also be used to raise money/group people towards causes. It can foster connections that will turn to actual real political action or it can just be a gathering of people who don't know much about each other outside of it.

It can be lovely to experience when you're surrounded by a lovely group and it can be hell when the group is full of cattiness and pettiness . It can be inclusive or it can be exclusive when you're surrounded by bigotry.

Because it's a group of people - it's going to have problems. And when there's a conflict or people are pointing shit out, it needs to be solved so its members aren't spit out in the sake of "avoiding drama". Because it's a group of people, it's not automatically changing the world in a blaze of self grandeur. Because it's a group of people with a common hobby, it can impact its members lives for the better and give them a space to express themselves.

Fandom is a goddamn knitting club. It's not this inherent great, subversive force of good nor this den of evil that's traumatisizing the children. Chill out.

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i finished reading your story and i must say that, while it's alright, there's so many plot holes because the characters made irrational decisions and didn't think logically 100% of the time. consider fixing this next time please

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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

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Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

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moral injury is not uniquely isolating but it's isolating in its own unique way. feels like most people only know how to respond to another person's moral injury with "you're right, you're an asshole" or "you're wrong, what you did was justified". where is the fucking nuance. i want "you fucked up, but there needs to be a way forward for you, so what now? you still get to keep trying to be good"

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This might suck to hear, but if you’re a people pleaser that is motivated by praise and avoids disagreements, you are easy to manipulate.

When I was in therapy after surviving years of domestic violence, my therapist had to tell me that my personality was primed for abuse and we needed to work on that so I would be better equipped to see the red flags and respond appropriately in the future.

I’m still working on this, and it’s been 8 years. If you tell someone how you want to be treated, what behaviors you don’t tolerate in your life, what you’re looking for in that relationship, and they react negatively, don’t compromise yourself. Just move on.

This one’s for all the praise-kink girlies: differentiate, self-actualize, stay sexy

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so basically any time you run a popularity contest you'll always end up with the most boring, least interesting, safest option with the most inoffensive mass appeal as your winner

and this is why i hate fandom spaces because fan content follows the same guidelines

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10 Days left!

10 days left to back "Jill O' Lantern: Final Cut!" Jill thinks you should back it. Especially because it means you'll get to see more of Jill. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jillolantern/jill-o-latnern-final-cut

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Just a reminder that your wips? Amazing. Your characters? Wonderful. Your world? Lush and palpable. Your writing style? Incredible just by being yours. An imaginary future audience isn’t nearly as important as your feelings for your own creations. Your writing is your own. 

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Hey you know what's super funny about the idea of "good bi rep"?

For a character to be canonically bi you have to make sure and establish that they're attracted to multiple genders. Not all mediums allow you to get inside every character's head or show what they're thinking. Flirting can be read ambiguously, and god forbid they flirt with a character who's not into them and be read as pushy or predatory. So it can be super handy to just mention an ex or two! But you better not mention too many exes because that would make them a slutty bisexual which is (checks notes) bad, and you definitely better be careful about making them poly, because that might make them, uh... greedy. Oh, and those exes? They better be perfectly amiable breakups with no conflict or drama, because it's bad to represent queer people in toxic or abusive relationships (especially queer women! very bad), and you definitely can't have them have lost a partner if the partner was queer because that's "bury your gays..." You should probably also eliminate all trauma from their backstory, just to be safe. You should probably also make sure they're not involved in crime, deception, or anything of the sort, because that would make them "deviant" and a stereotype.

But don't worry! Once you've carefully crafted your nice, monogamous, experienced-but-not-too-experienced Lawful Good bi character, you will be rewarded with your audience deeming them "boring" and quickly passing them over for other characters. :)

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WE DID IT, YALL! @kdinjenzen finally caught up with One Piece and tomorrow's episode marks the end of her journey and the beginning of another! Now we ALL get to theorize, but there's no theorist quite like our WILD THEORIST, Kdin. Make sure you're subscribed to us on your favorite podcast platform of choice! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayotalkshow

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Baaa

#FIONA!!! #so nice to see her on my dash again #very cute OP

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Sometimes we could all use a reminder. (source)

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really close to saying fuck it and at least getting a quote. this also got me looking into printing my (60k+) fanfics be cool lol

planning on dming my friends who collabed on this and seeing how they’d feel and talk bout how to split the money.

considering my works have never really been popular i’d be surprised if theres enough interest to even get it printed.

but incase there some left over i’d like some of it to go to Hawaii.

Welcome to the start of my Hellbore Month! I’ll be posting Winter/May every weekday of December and it will be compiled into a free zine later. This post is the masterpost showing off the cover and opening letter cuz…. i forgot to include that into the count and dont wanna post more than one thing a day >.<.

Links will be added and updated as the month goes on.

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One of the reasons I made this zine is to show people you dont have to be “good” to make something. One reason I made this zine is to BEG people NOT to give up on their passions and the things that make them happy.

So many talented people give up because they’re not being seen, they feel like they get no recognition, that their hobby is a waste of time and I’m begging yall not to give up on that.

Please continue to make things that make you happy.

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last reblog then i'll vanish again lol

"You are preaching how you want to help them be won't go the extra mile makes you a hypocrite."

That's crunch and burnout culture that was so ingrain into Roosterteeth that it leaked into the community.

If people pull that shit on you, leave them. Don't let people ring you dry, know your worth.

im eyeing all the “but what about all the employees who lost their job” people

ya what are YOU doing about it?

how about you STOP BEING PERFORMATIVE and go support them on their personal stuff.

And I’m speaking from someone from Hawaii. A minority from a place illegally occupied. A place where we have to slut out our culture to appease and appeal to the majority (yay Tourism). If Hawaii were to get real and actually show how TIRED we’re all of you haoles taking advantage of us we’d rot. What do yall think is happening with the survivors oh Lahania’s Wild Fire. Yall performative asses ditched them immediately.

But back to “sad that the abused workers at Roosterteeth are unemployed and free from abuse”

Seriously DO SOMETHING to help them if your so sad. it cost $0 to watch them on twitch. or comment on their post saying “I like [RVB, Deathbattle. etc] I’d watch more if you and a few others made it again” AND ACTUALLY DO IT. because empty promises is part of yknow being preformative

and part of not being performative is doing your own homework

But i doubt yall will because RT was the company that built itself on being performative. And yall are fans of that.

FNDM wants more RWBY from the people who tries to work their animators through the Texas freeze. 🥶 🥶

#preeching bow i want to help them??? #nah im CRITICIZING pple being performative #cuz its this attitude that helped RT hurt and abuse so much pple