Animeluver812

26 | Bi | She/Her | A fan of anime, video games, and tv shows primarily

[beardedmrbean]

Congratulations on the cat

[mailboxxi]

mihawk

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[quakerjoe]

[toskarin]

Tumblr Code.

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is horrifying weapon attack

[aokozaki]

The response will be collapsing into a bloody heap!

[toskarinfr]

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one fells me with a single wicked blow now!

[onedirectionforever]

“you support gay rights so you must be gay”

i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you

[onedirectionforever]

turns out i am gay

[monsieurenjlolras]

holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

[mywitchcultblr]

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

[thebirdkiwi]

he was a llama

[fritextramole]

a llama?! he’s supposed to be dead!

[bookwyrminspiration]

i understand words and phrases. my dialogue is natural and in character. i know where the plot is going. my word count is reasonable. i am not scared of my document

[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[transfemmbeatrice]

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

[beardedmrbean]

[animentality]

[starlitsecrets]

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

[graculusdraws]

[road-rhythm]

[the-garbage-void-deactivated202]

There's this weird tendency among fandom types where they'll take a character, and insist that they are fans of them, before changing their design, age, pronouns, backstory, blood type, species, hometown, favorite color, zodiac sign, medical history, and every other facet of their being.

They will then violently insist that this version is superior to the canon one and act like they "fixed" them and it's like. Buddy that's not the same character anymore. That's just your own oc commiting identity fraud. Like. I get the desire to experiment with different interpretations of a story. But first of all it's okay to just make an original character if that's what you really want to do. And second of all, are you even really a fan of the character you "fixed" if they're a completely different person afterwards?

Like. Idk dude for somebody who claims to be a fan you sure don't seem to like them as they are :/

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Gonna remember "buddy that's not the character that's your OC committing identity fraud."

[flipocrite]

ship of OCtheus

[themandylion]

I think the reluctance to create original characters and pop them into fics (or just talk about them on a blog or social media) ultimately comes down to 2 things:

It can be difficult to drum up interest in something original when you primarily hang out in fan creative spaces (e.g., "I like the way you write fic but why would I read your original story about characters I have no preexisting emotional attachment to?")

Every time someone makes an original character that's as well-rounded, balanced, interesting, and/or powerful as a canon (usually straight white cis male) character, they're accused of making an Mary Sue (or, less often, a Marty Stu). Fandom (an amorphous group that heavily skews both female and queer) repeatedly tells itself and its members that original characters (which often reflect at least part of their creator's identity—female/queer/POC/etc.) being as smart/capable/powerful/interesting/complex as canon protagonists is Bad and people who make such OCs should feel Bad.

Point 1 is unfortunate. Sometimes there's no crossover in interest between fans of fan works and fans of original works. This seems strange considering how many fans of fan works start out as fans of a media on which fan works are based, but there really are those who prefer fan works to the original. (How many times have you read a fic you felt was better than than the book it was based on?) Sometimes this is because they've been burned too many times by media that had a lot of potential from the outside, only to look deeper and discover most everything that made it interesting was removed to make it palatable to the largest audience possible. Fans searching for a certain je ne sais quoi (representation, emotional depth, character development, relationship complications that don't boil down to lack of communication, etc.) that rarely makes it to mass-market media may choose to forgo all original works in favor of fan works. While original works from indie creators may also contain all the complexity these fans feel mass-market media lacks, they're less likely to take a chance and invest time/money in something whose quality they can't be certain of.

Point 2 is a straight-up tragedy. Until fans stop policing themselves and others into believing the lie that fictional characters must follow certain specific guidelines, we will continue to see fan writers and artists creating interesting, complex original characters using the names of canon characters. Because they've been told creating memorable and unique original characters is a bad thing that only 14-year-old girls (derogatory) do. And the worst thing that can happen to someone on the internet is to be accused of being a young teen girl, because then no one will ever take them seriously.

The fans yearn to create OCs but have been slapped down and told NO! so many times they have instead change canon characters to the point they're no longer recognizable instead. And that's horrible.

[animentality]

[assignedmale]

[amazoogle]

it's Tuesday all day today and there's no known way to prevent this

[watermelontuesdays]

AU where Shane and Ilya don't hook up or have a decades-long secret. They don't really know each other at all, except to play each other.

Shane comes out of the closet sometime after Scott does, and in some random, lighthearted interview, they ask him what he's looking for in a man. And Shane's just, off-hand like, "Well, he'd have to have at least one Stanley Cup. Obviously." And when he gets a good reaction from that, he keeps going, like "Needs to be amazing at hockey. Definitely needs to be at least an All-Star, if not a captain. Hot too. If he can't bench-press me, I'm not interested."

And it's all in fun, except two days after the interview prints, Ilya Rozanov shows up at his door like "knock, knock. I am here to apply for boyfriend position. Do you need resume? I brought my Stanley Cup ring, just in case."

[hardlyhinged]

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