Riley's Guide to Buttering Flies @butter-your-flies - Tumblr Blog

hey im riley im new i live in las vegas my chemical romance makes me dance

(if you get the reference kiss me)

RYRO NOSE ENTHUSIAST

I use she/her pronouns and I am 18

i dissapear for months and come back for a week at a time

Vote me for president! (this isn't a thing anymore im just overly attached)

I usually don't tag for spoilers not because I hate everyone and want to ruin it for them but because im lazy so follow AT YOUR OWN RISK

Main fandoms (this updates like once a day if you're like wtf is riley into now just check this)

Really there's no accurate way to describe the fandoms that I am in so currently I'll consider this a Bandom, dnp, and Zelda blog, but those are obviously not the only things I enjoy and blog about. Follow at your own risk I am all over the place

updating as i gain more fandoms: arcane, nevermore, house md, stranger things, undertale and deltarune

DNI

Trump supporters

People who hate on nonproblematic ships and oc x canon ships (you're annoying)

Also rpf haters because you're annoying and it's really not as big of a deal as you think it is

Blank blogs

Racists, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, zionists, terfs, and other bigoted dumbasses. This is not a space for you

Basically if you suck leave

If you're under 13 you can interact but there IS mild (most of the time) nsfw content on my blog

dr pepper haters

Other Stuffz

Most of my posts are untagged shitposts or vents or just personal stuff in general so uh yeah...I used to tag it but I'm lazy and honestly if you don't like it just don't follow me

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#I FINALLY MADE IT #intro post #the legend of zelda #tangled the series #rapunzel's tangled adventure #vat7k #revalink

sandersstudies

A lot of you on here sure don’t like the idea of making any kind of sacrifice for the benefit of others huh

sandersstudies

Some of you act like doing minor inconvenient acts of kindness is equivalent to donating a kidney as if it’s not those acts that form our communities and make the world go around.

sandersstudies

Return your grocery cart. If you’re able-bodied offer your seat to someone who is not. Help your friend move. Drive your sister to the airport. Make sure drunk people have a safe ride or walk home. Pet-sit for your coworker. Participate in a meal train. Volunteer in your area. That’s what friendship and community is about.

jethroq

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I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.