Where All My Fandoms Collide

Side blog for the only purpose of housing my various interests and silly internet bits in one place Main blog: the-quixotic

[the-quasar-hero]

>Predominately Black led piece of media becomes popular.

>Among the characters there are one or two White characters with minor and/or distinctly antagonistic roles.

>White tumblr users focus entirely on said White characters.

>Tag of Black led piece of media is filled with posts about White character(s)

>Rinse. Repeat.

[the-stormwagon]

I think the most charitable interpretation of this is that people connect to characters that are like them, and that the experiences of Blackness is so alien to them that the White characters are the only ones that White people connect with. Combine that with the fact that Tumblr is so White as a platform, and you get this issue.

It’s still bad and racist, but it is understandable. People should still do better though. (I’m not trying to justify, I’m trying to come up with an explanation)

[the-quasar-hero]

Please don’t make me say it.

[tartrazeen]

We don't need you coming up with an charitable interpretation.

[buckys-robot-arm]

Prev tags too good to leave in the tags

[kedreeva]

My dad visited yesterday and ask if Earl had something stuck in his throat... I explained that no, that's just his Very Sexy Neck Bump. He laughed and said he had no idea, he's not a peahen. I said WELL if you WERE, you would find him and his neck bump irresistible!

[kedreeva]

In case you were wondering just HOW sexy Earl's neck bump can get, here's another picture, taken just after he did a Big Sexy Yell

Man. If you were a peahen....

[bedupolker]

Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!

[bedupolker]

It's about to happen*

*in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada

[oddlittlestories]

Wait wait House MD road trip idea

Some or another group - take your pick really - go on a road trip and get stymied by these guys!

Cameron insists they wait. So does Wilson. House acts like he doesn’t care but SO does. Kutner spouts off fun amphibian facts. Thirteen fights with Amber over the playlist. House shuts it down by playing is own. Taub and Foreman hate it (or do they). Park and Adams have a cheeky make out in the bathroom at the rest stop after some Revealing Personal Something.

Someone gets food poisoning.

[willgrahaml3cter]

i love the idea of house acting like he doesn’t care if they all get run over but actually would be devastated aaawww

also the amphibians are so adorable 🥰

[bedupolker]

fandomposting on a post about personal relationships or something: kinda dorky idk

Fandomposting on a sci comm post with headcanons on how characters would react to amphibian scenarios: based asf, keep it up

[fcbswiatek]

this is frying me so bad

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[heedra]

In elementary school, my best friend and I had this game we would play where we were school supplies living inside a child's desk and going on slice-of-life adventures inside it. And I remember that a key component of our school supply society was a sort of religious schism that existed around the purpose and nature of the giant hand that occasionally reached in to grab different citizens, use them, and then return them, because most school supplies considered this an auspicious and enviable moment of being selected for a greater purpose and allowed a glimpse of a vast truth, but pencils considered it a horrible portent of doom because they always got sharpened during it and came back smaller and closer to death. We were third graders btw.

[gasteracanthacancriformis]

have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

[gasteracanthacancriformis]

my prized possession is this loveseat I bought from a divorced dad who couldn’t tell me anything about it and in the years i’ve owned it i’ve never been able to find out who made it or where it came from. it’s got nails and finger creases and palm lines but they’re all kinda hard to see in this pic.

[sepdet]

[emeraldwhale]

[kleefkruid]

[scoutsmoocrew]

This person needs to be arrested im going to cry

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

How do you go through all the effort of setting up a sous vide to do this????

[swagforbirds]

never tell me that magic isnt real ever again when this is clear evidence of a person transmogrifing Meat into Wood

[thyrell]

i can transmogrify meat into wood by lookin at pictures of titties if ya get what im sayin

[weaselle]

hey, we all love tiddies here but this person has perpetrated a crime against nature and we need you stay focused

[daysleftofsecondterm]

My main account got @-ed on this scam (no I won't say which one), and it occurred to me that some of the people here might not realize this is a scam.

It is. Do not click any mystery links. DO NOT give them any personal information. And DO NOT respond to messages like this.

[beardedmrbean]

thankfully most of us would rather see this place burn to the ground than hand over more information to staff so this kind of thing isn't going to do any good

[daysleftofsecondterm]

I know, but considering the chaos the gaza bots caused (and are still causing) I figured it’d be best to say this out loud early on

[notatzimisce]

I will never shy away from the word goon. goon is the only way to describe a particular type of henchman, lackey, or thug. look at these guys. they're goons.

[gundamlfrith-remade]

severely underrated gag imo is the one where a character turns very slowly and the sounds of stone grinding against stone is superimposed over it

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

when i was a kid i was taught to be safe online. never give out my name, location, or any personally identifying information. i was told to immediately block people who ask for A/S/L. i was taught to always hide who i was, use a pseudonym, only share my email with people i absolutely trust.

and now im supposed to give my legal driver's license to every single porn website and use my email and sign up for ads and junk mail every time i want to read an article and agree to webcrawling ad tracking surveillance to do anything online anymore.

but yeah, its for kids safety. sure. i bet the panoption is much safer than the club penguin and nickelodeon dot com that i had as a kid. so glad we got rid of kid friendly spaces and in turn had to make the entire internet advertisement friendly. so glad we tore down that public park and replaced it with a strip mall and parking lot next to a police station

[cloudabserk]

[hbmmaster]

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

[hbmmaster]

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for

[anxietyproblem]

[pitviperofdoom]

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

[beatrice-otter]

#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’

tags via chimaerakitten