throughkeieyes

[hawt-me33]

Coming into a fandom late

[baxterdamus-deactivated20130513]

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

[valorious]

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

[leatherpatches-deactivated20150]

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

[fauxmoux]

Accuracy at its best

[street-of-mercy]

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

[my-reylo]

all of this shit…lol

[nerdsagainstfandomracism]

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

[not-so-secret-nerd]

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

[jupiter235]

This gets better every time I see it. 

[sageblackrose95]

@fuboos-mess

[inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac]

Being in a dead fandom…

[illogicalarchive]

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

[erilias]

The accuracy hurts.

[fanfic-yes-please]

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

[it-is-bugs]

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

[sweetferalbaby]

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

[teaganvamp]

This just gets better..

[hamboj2]

@mi-kleos

[thatcrazysonicchick]

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

[knightofbloodcancer]

Fandom hell in general

[morathavictoria]

Yes.

[marvelanimelover]

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

[stop-talking-babe-deactivated20]

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

[raise-cain-archived]

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

[crochanblackbeak]

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

[kateriverameliawolfe]

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

[ishipwhatiship247]

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

[ravenhilarious]

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

[swanqueen-author]

Being in a fandom that actually works together

[commanderunhingedmongoose]

Why is this so true? All of it.

[pillowprincesslexa]

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

[hangingfire]

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

[priory-of-stars]

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

[marianagmt]

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

[batbyte-alghul]

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

[tirnel-sutcliff-spears]

I love this. and it’s gotten better

[cartoonjessie]

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

[brit-is-bookish]

All of these are me. Lol

[thehikingastronomer]

Being in a fandom on Tumblr

[julietsemophase]

And it reached its epic conclusion

[lucien-the-leaf]

Cannot resist this at this point

[softqueerbuckley]

ALWAYS REBLOG

[baatarthefirst]

The test results conclude...

Kara: Lena accused me, ME of being a hypocrite!

Alex: Well there was that time when you were mad at James for being a vigilante with Winn as a sidekick…like you hadn’t done the same when you first put on the cape.

Alex: And you were mad about Mon-el hiding his identity from you….like you did with Lena.

Alex: Oh and the time you tried to tell *me* not to mope after a break up when you’d just spent half a year being much worse.

 Alex: And you told Irma ‘we don’t kill’ after killing Rhea. Oh and then you’re completely okay with J’onn killing Manchester Black, too. 

Alex: And ‘Lena making weapon that will kill Daxamite invaders is a-okay’ while ‘Lena making weapon to kill Kryptonian World Killers is evil’.

Alex: On that subject ‘Lena making a image inducer that will help aliens but can and will clearly be used by any tom-dick-or Harry that wants to commit crimes is great! Lena using a space rock that like five people in the world can work with to help human diseases is horrible’. 

Alex: And you do seem to think your reasons for keeping secrets are always justified while everyone else needs to be completely forthcoming with you. 

Alex: And you wanted to use Myriad after you told Lena it should never be used so…

Alex: Kara, I love you, and Lena may be going down an evil road here… but you DO have some hypocrisy issues to work through. 

Kara: Alex!!!

Alex: Well you admitted it not too long ago! Remember?

Kara: Error 404. File not found.

Alex: Of course it isn’t.

[general-svein]

Anyone interested the podcast Katie mentions is called “You’re dead to me” it is a BBC Radio 4 podcast available worldwide I think.

BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead To Me - Downloads

Podcast downloads for You're Dead To Me

[leighlew3]

Hi! I have a question. Supergirl as a show feels like it's written by people pulling it in different directions. Like, a lot of well-written shows don't feel like that to the point that I forget there are multiple people writing it. As someone familiar with the behind the scenes, why do you think that is?

Normally I’d guess maybe it’s just too many cooks in the kitchen, yeah. You’ve got Berlanti who oversees it all, then you’ve got the showrunners. You’ve got other producers. You’ve got the writers. And of course at the very top you’ve got The CW and Warner Bros TV and DC Comics. But… so does Arrow, The Flash, Black Lightning, Batwoman, Legends, and hell even Riverdale. 

I’ve said it before but there’s no logical explanation for why this show has been so messy and so troubled so many times over its 5-year run. And it’s a shame, because Benoist is the most talented lead. You have the most talented actor in the Arrowverse, if not on your whole network, as well as one of the most multi-dimensional female characters from DC Comics along with endless ripe source material, a great supporting cast… and yet.

There really just is no explanation I can come up with other than - as beloved as they may be by the cast and lovely as they might be as people - showrunners with extremely limited creative vision and overall perspective (as writers). 

It very much reminds me of what’s happening with Fear the Walking Dead right now. A show that started off fairly okay despite mixed reaction, lots of talent on the screen, lots of potential, and a loyal audience… had new showrunners come in recently and absolutely demolish the show, destroy all the original characters (even killing the female lead and replacing her with a man) and adding in way too many pointless newbies. They have no direction. The show is boring as hell. It’s universally panned to the point where critics and fans are laughing at how outrageous it is. And all along the way, the ratings have gone down down down. 

In any effect, the issue then ultimately falls back on the network and/or property owner to step in. It’s mind-boggling how they have Supergirl, a show whose ratings have dropped so dramatically year after year, with an audience that is consistently upset and demanding to see certain things, and arcs/episodes that are panned time and again by critics and the media… and you just let it ride. You just leave it be. You don’t step in and replace the showrunners. You don’t demand they change the direction of the show. You don’t encourage them to take any risks. Instead you let them flail about aimlessly, continuing to make the same storytelling mistakes time and again and again and again. And you even let the crossover writers neglect and crap on your characters from that show.

So it just seems like you have a network that doesn’t really care about Supergirl as a show or character, and showrunners who simply don’t know how to elevate the material or formulate basic, consistent, engaging storytelling without endless plot holes, inconsistencies and borderline offensive tendencies. 

And hey - maybe I’m wrong. But… the proof is in the pudding. If the ratings were strong and the majority of the audience and critics praised the show, there’d be no leg to stand on when being upset with the direction of the show. People complaining would be the obvious minority and it would be totally reasonable to shrug them off as just “immature fans whining about not getting their way”. But, as reflected by the ratings, critical reviews and other factors… 

[femaleheroes]

Morgana BTS

[ghostsinthedaylight]

[inkeiworld]

The love of my life

[misslane]

[inkeiworld]

*gasp* 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[whiledancing-deactivated2021043]

it all revolves around you

[levan-art]

Don’t ruin their relationship please dont please dont please dont  please dont please dont please dont  please dont please dont please dont  please dont please dont please dont  please dont please dont please dont

[lavidaextraordinaria]

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

[frenchshower]

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

[thepioden]

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

[sarah-mcelroy-deactivated202601]

[femonologue]

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

[optimysticals]

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

[alessariel]

@brainsforbabyjesus

[brainsforbabyjesus]

okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).

We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.

[digitaldiscipline]

The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).

This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.

[violent-darts]

OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*

[drunklenaluthor]

wall-e sc au where kara is one of the androids left on earth to clean up and welcome humans back so she’s programmed to understand human behavior and lena is a shiny new android sent by the colony to check if the earth’s atmosphere is habitable again and her directives are more precise like everything’s the same except the only thing rusty abt kara is her flirting

[drunklenaluthor]

“lena?” 👉👈

lena: *dead stare, actually has no power*

kara: *scoots closer* “i made u a flower.” *puts a paper rose on her hair* ☺️

[drunklenaluthor]

kara having obsolete parts tho so when lena tries to revive her she has to frantically search for parts in kara’s old shabby “house” and when she boots back up kara cant remember anything and just stares at lena uncaring

[drunklenaluthor]

look me in the eye and tell me this square yellow trash baby who spent hundreds of years in solitary and saved humanity with her no nonsense girlfriend doesnt exude kara danvers energy

[vox-ex]

I mean this is pretty much how I imagine Kara would react the first time Lena holds her hand so yeah, same energy for sure

[drunklenaluthor]

that scene tho… my heart. is in shambles.

[karazrel]

can we also talk about how lena was downright screaming by the end of that confrontation? she’s always been emotional but those emotions only ever come out in the form of cold words or silent bitter tears, she’s never been this volatile in her anger or pain. she’s met every betrayal with composure, she simply walked away from andrea and didn’t even cry when she left jack, even when lex told her about supergirl her reaction was still somewhat measured but one step from kara was enough to completely unhinge her. it just says so much about how deeply lena is hurt that she’d lose all composure and comoletely destroy her little boxes when forced to confront kara and her betrayal.

[yikes-im-clexatrash]

How much is Lena allowed to hurt Kara before it becomes too much?

I don’t know how I feel about giving Lena a pass at intentionally hurting Kara because she feels entitled to her secret. I’m on the side that Kara doesn’t owe her identity to anyone. Just disagree with the writing choices regarding this.

[dkgwrites]

I know I’ve said this before, and this is just an opinion, but the issue is not around the secret. It’s the friendship. Kara went into the friendship planning to lie to a Luthor. It would be nice to say that Kara didn’t see a Luthor and treated Lena as she would have anyone else, but that isn’t true. How many people did Kara tell far more easily? How long did it take her to tell Nia just because Nia needed someone to trust in her life? How quickly did William get an invite to the DEO? Is that because the CW puts plot before character development? Yes, and that’s an entirely different issue, but that’s what we have to work with.

The Luthors and the Supers have a complicated history, and it is something that Kara didn’t ignore. She even called Lena on it when Lena Asked Supergirl for her real name. Fine, but under those circumstances, you don’t go forward and pursue a friendship with Lena knowing you will lie to her day in and day out. How does that end in anything but disaster? If Lena were anyone else, if she wasn’t a Luthor, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Even if Lena was someone who it turned out had a history of betrayal, then Kara could have inadvertently stumbled into a bad situation from which she needed to extract herself. Kara knowingly made a bad choice when she made friends with Lena because it would be built on a lie. The sensible thing would have been to keep the relationship with Lena distant and professional as Lena requested. (We don’t need to discuss continuity, but there we go.)

If we flip the switch and Kara’s identity was always known to Lena but Lena had approached Kara as Tess Mercer, her identity secret, and pursued a relationship with Kara, would the same hold true that Lena’s identity as the sister of the person who tried to kill Clark and the daughter of the person who had Jeremiah/tried to kill aliens is Lena’s business and nothing she ever needed to tell Kara, or maybe, just maybe, would Kara have a right to feel betrayed upon finding out who Tess/Lena really was? Now imagine if Kara had killed Alex to protect Tess before finding out that Tess was Lena. Sure, we can say that it’s different because Supers are good and Luthors are evil, but Lena isn’t Luthors. Lena saved all aliens, the people or Argo city, Supergirl a number of times, etc. The problems she got into (hiding Reign and opening the portal for the Daxamites) wouldn’t have happened if she’d known that Kara and Supergirl were the same person.

It’s a lot more complicated than a secret identity when you put in the Super and Luthor relationship. Kara screwed up when she thought she could have a friendship with Lena and have their family history not be a factor. It wasn’t ill-intentioned, but Kara has the paving contract for hell here.  No matter Kara’s intentions, Lena’s pain is just as real. Even if Lena’s pain is justified it doesn’t mean her actions are just. They’re both wrong, and this is all a toxic mess. I don’t think we can confuse Kara’s secret identity with every action she takes that might be peripherally related to it. 

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

The conversation is less Lena feeling entitled to Kara’s secret and more Kara feeling entitled to Lena’s friendship despite knowing the price of admission is complete honesty. 

I would actually even argue the “complete” qualifier there. At no point has Lena ever asked Kara for more information than she was willing to give. If Supergirl had remained a distant public figure, I’m sure Lena wouldn’t have minded the obfuscation. 

But the fact that she was allowed to bond, argue, face humiliating judgement, and work closely with Supergirl as an entire separate identity from Kara Danvers– that’s the break in honesty. The fact that Kara condemned Lena as Supergirl in one breath, and then turned around and hugged her in an elevator as Kara Danvers is the break in honesty. 

All Lena asked for was honesty and trust– not just to receive it but to be allowed to give it without it blowing up in her face. It was a request she made repeatedly, a requirement that Kara was well aware of but refused to meet. I can understand and appreciate her reasons for that reticence, but that doesn’t make it right, and it doesn’t make Lena’s justified rage and desire to strike back in kind a “pass.” This fallout is not just a reaction to the reveal. It is the culmination of three years of hurt and betrayal and humiliation slamming into Lena all at once. 

Lena is intentionally hurting Kara, yes. But always keep in mind that Kara intentionally hurt Lena first. For years. 

[inlustwithmyships-deactivated20]

Those two last ones tho

[corvidaedream]

i love the idea of ghosts not being dead people but just places where time is kind of thin

like one of my friends & his girlfriend have a ghost in their very old new england house that's apparently an old timey little boy who does shit like jump on the bed and slam doors but if they tell him very sternly "daniel, stop that" the activity stops immediately

and i love the idea that years ago theres this rowdy little 19th century boy just being alive and playing in his room but if he gets too loud sometimes, the ghostly form of my 21st century friend shows up and is like "Hey! Cut it out." and then vanishes and no one believes this child

[rebekahgaveup]

"A man does something, it’s strategic. a woman does the same thing, it’s calculated. A man is allowed to react, a woman can only overreact."

[narraboths]

[inkeiworld]

😮

[forevergayteen-deactivated20250]

[inkeiworld]

😅