asexual alice

curiouser & curiouser

[narasnooze]

  my insane rare ship mind:  ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ  that’s all i need, folks

[bearer-of-knowledge]

WHY

THEY

(Source: Otomedia August 2015)

HAVE

(Source: Otomedia February 2015)

TO

(Source: Koushiro’s Profile from Otomedia February 2015)

TEASE

(Source: Otomedia October 2015)

US

(Source: Animedia November 2015)

SO

(Source: Otomedia December 2015)

[seventeenlovesthree]

@digiweek​​ 2021: Day 1: Beginning (1998) 

When Izumi Koushirou (9) decides to join the football club in third grade, he doesn’t intend to become a star player. Or make any friends. He just wants to join a sports club in which he could blend in before returning back home to his beloved computer. When the teams of the different grades get merged, he becomes nervous - he obviously didn’t expect to get approached by an upperclassmen in such a friendly manner. A fourth grader named Yagami Taichi (10), whom he had never met before. A year before they’d go to Summer Camp - and falling into a strange new world, experiencing quite a different kind of adventure together. Koushirou doesn’t know yet that Taichi will become his best friend - and, one day, maybe even more than that. But this is just the beginning of their story… 

Keep reading

[rod00dles]

Hot Take: What the fuck?

I don’t know what Gen Z is smoking but jeez y’all need to lay off. Shipping is no fun anymore because everyone treats fiction as reality and feels a sense entitlement. For example, I’m sure the BNHA community would really hate the YGO fandom, seeing that we ship everything and a n y t h i n g. God, I can just imagine it now if YGO was a mainstream modern anime:

“You can’t ship that because it’s clearly toxic! He took over his body and killed people.”

“That’s abusive! He killed his father and tried to snuff him out of existence.”

“They are in high school and therefore no matter what age you are as an audience, you are not allowed to be attracted to a ✨fictional character✨.”

“It’s the ✨pedophilia✨for me. You can’t ship a sixteen year old with a three thousand year old spirit. That’s gross.”

“You don’t have the right to draw or write *mature content* about these characters that don’t exist because it’s gross and that makes u a ✨pedo✨.”

“They are all clearly homos and anyone who opposes is irrelevant and stupid.”

“That ship doesn’t makes sense so I’m gonna harass you and bully you until you conform with my ideals. Or kys.”

“It doesn’t matter if this is canon, my ship is better and I will do anything to make it known.”

“You cannot like this person because they are ✨abusive✨ and I am ✨triggered✨.”

“This author dare do something so controversial in their story? They are officially ✨cancelled✨.”

You see where I’m going with this right? Over the last like six years, this has become the norm. People have become hella pressed about fiction and it’s fucking batshit crazy. The YGO fandom is a great example of people minding their own business and letting people ship tf what they want because it doesn’t hurt anyone.

Why has that changed? What happened to crack shippings and being able to write “lemon” without someone holding a knife to your throat? Making fan art of something without someone coming to it and saying you’re wrong for shipping it? Or calling you homophobic or abuse apologists? Why has this become the norm now? Why are people so toxic under the guise of entitlement?

I’ve been shipping cartoon characters since I was in fifth grade and I’m still gonna do what I want cuz you literally can’t stop me but I want to know why this has done such a 180.

[yorujiyyy]

ださいスカジャンと城之内兄妹

[luoziluo]

sh

[1xii-deactivated20240304]

DONE! Well... I've always been a huge simp of Seth and Jonu.. what do you think about them?

[olderthannetfic]

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

[umegasa]

[grifalinas]

“We as a fandom have to talk about-” No. No we don’t. You can talk about it if you want to. That’s fine, if that’s how you fandom then go for it. I hope it works out for you because I want you to enjoy your fandom experience. But if I’m in fandom for reasons that’s counter to, then I have no obligation to talk about it. I don’t have to talk about anything except what I want to.

“Okay but you have to talk about your fave’s flaws-” No! No I don’t! I have to be able to acknowledge those flaws when they come up. I have to be able to admit that my character has flaws, and accept when others talk about those flaws. But I don’t have to talk about them if I don’t want to. If I want to only focus on the better aspects of my fave, even if that means just shallowly talking about how hot they are, I can. That’s my choice, that’s how I’ve decided to enjoy them.

Fandom is meant to be fun. Fandom is meant to be a hobby. I don’t have to talk about any aspect of my favorite story or ship or character or writer or anything if I don’t want to. You know what’s not fun? Having to talk about the ways my favorite thing is bad every time I want to talk about it. Having to point out my favorite thing’s flaws instead of the things that makes me enjoy it. Having to disclaim before I get to sing something’s praises because “yeah I know it’s shit BUT”. No. I can know something is bad without needing to talk about it.

[bongfucker42069]

Idk dude this sounds like a really great rationalization for wanting to ignore the parts of something that are problematic and not wanting to have to unpack that

[grifalinas]

Listen. If the way you fandom is to spend all of your time on critical analysis and unpack everything that makes the thing you like problematic, if that’s what you’re about, then go for it. I mean it. If that’s how you get on, then you do you, and I stand by what I said above, I hope it works out for you. I want everyone to be able to enjoy their fandom experience, even if I can’t wrap my head around why the way they fandom is enjoyable.

But I don’t owe anyone anything. If I don’t want to have a big public discussion about how problematic my favorite thing is, then I don’t have to. That’s my choice. I don’t have to perform a requisite level of discourse to be able to enjoy something; I can just enjoy it, and no one else gets a say in that.

It’s not a rationalization, it’s reality. I can fandom sans discourse if that’s the way I choose to fandom. End of sentence.

[starcitysirens]

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)

[falconfart]

HE FUCKED KING SHARK?

[eggingforfreedom]

[madamslayyy]

The comments really are a gift that keeps on giving

[shadow-mystic]

IT GOT BETTER

[kryptonians]

For the record the director confirmed John bottomed

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/07/justice-league-dark-apokolips-war-john-constantine-king-shark/

A DC Comics superhero bottomed for a mutant shark and it’s officially been declared as canon

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War revealed that hero John Constantine dated King Shark, with a writer confirming Constantine bottomed. Yes,

[midnight-spectrum-again]

[shinosarna]

DC FINALLY understands what the fans want.

[a-random-fandom-friend]

(From the link up there : )

And she also added :

[brendaonao3]

Look, there’s a reason why The Shape Of Water won Best Picture at the Oscars, alright

[ilyone]

I can’t believe a DC cartoon got bi representation better than the whole MCU, but here we are. Everything about bi!Constantine and this post is perfect, and canon ❤️❤️❤️

[gothkaiba]

good stress relief :+) [twitter]

[lord0f]

It’s time to D-D-D-D-DDDDDD DUEL (with swords!!)

@shinayashipper proposed an Utena AU and i got...VERY attached to the idea woops

‘scuse me sorry im dropping my gay all over the floor

[kyokostar]

“𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘰𝘩’𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮.”

Yugi by KYOKO

[kyokostar]

“The day you were born.”

Yugi by KYOKO

2020.6.4

[milkshake-fairy]

✨ 𝒩𝒶𝓇𝓊𝓉𝑜  𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎  𝒰𝓏𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾 ✨

[severusdefender]

severus every day for 5 years: i hate that boy. he sucks. he. is. the. worst. i hate him!

dumbledore: then you’ll be happy to hear that in order for voldemort to die, harry has to die first

severus: