Milk 459

Milk, 20, She/Her, I Draw stuff sometimes :) Currently in my Star Wars/MCYT/MLP/D&D/Arcane Era. Always in my Hippo era ✨😪🦛- I make tons of themed playlists on my Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/milk459?si=xF5x581ZSN-smj8ahUIvGg 🦛: @hippo-posting ( you can use my art as pfp or in edits n stuff just credit me pls )

[chunkysoup22]

The princess of love and the queen who feeds on it 💕🕸️

[kangsyeosang]

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[tronmike82]

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

[darkshrimpemotions]

Supernatural

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

[pessimisticfanboi]

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' owes its box-office success to women

The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

[drunkenhills]

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

[vbartilucci]

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

[jediorgana-deactivated20260403]

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

[geraltcirilla]

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

[annaknitsspock]

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

[nova-arcania]

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

[ridleymocki]

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

[ridleymocki]

Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!

I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.

Fictions are a cornerstone of human cultures: they are created, shared, discussed, modified, and valued. Yet, philosophical accounts which p

[pebbldd]

elemental quartet come home, elemental quartet we miss you

[lasagoofs]

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[jackhawksmoor]

gen x-> millennials-> gen z-> gen alpha

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[itsjustdigit]

Watermunch announcement for The Flight

"hi guys,

really kinda shit news for me that i truly never thought i'd have to give, but i've been thinking about tf!water these past couple days and what to do with his story. the truth is that all this news has been HORRIFIC on my irl health, mentally and physically. i'm really grieving and as much as I would love to do justice to this character, he really wouldn't have any compelling narrative arc without his sister.

i've tried to figure out really ANY way i can bring him to a place of peace through this, and all of them seem really incomplete. obviously a grief story would make the most sense, but the idea of performing grief while actively grieving irl fills me with nothing less than dread.

i was truly incredible friends with these people, and knowing that tf!water started out so entwined with them just makes me so uncomfortable to continue. i want to grieve this in solitude, and not have to roleplay it in front of an audience.

so the flight prod team and i are working on a new character for me, that is as far away from tf!water as possible. so i'm going to be playing a woman called tf!ellie (my irl name)!! concept art will come as soon as it's finished 🩵

i will miss the gender euphoria, and i will miss being cranky and mean. i know you guys will miss him too, but i think this is the best solution to an unwinnable situation.

SPOILERS FOR TF!WATER'S CANON END

||tf!water canonically carried tf!avid and tf!marm to a far away part of the realm. never to be seen again. he believed the academy was an unsafe place to be for his family after the rot hit, and he wanted no part in it.||

i'm genuinely so sorry, i loved that guy. but it's just not something i can do anymore. i hope you are all okay with this decision 🩵"

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[4xlov]

[gros-chat-fait]

The Banners years.

[vertigospirit]

the seekers

[enitsirk]

Siblings!

[starry-blooms]

Nuke statement part 3

Sbk official statement

Musi statement

Cleo statement

Water’s statement

Peep statement

Leon statement

[sugar-petals]

we, as a society, need to see xlov more in reality show because... the comedic timing!!! hyun is natural at this. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXy-BspyB1q/?igsh=MXgweHhnZWRlcW40Yg==

hyun is a slapstick genius. remember the moment when he shrunk himself on music bank to match everyone else's height lmaoo

[starry-blooms]

Vikings statement

JayDraws statement

Natures statement

Legundos statement

Doovid statement

Part 1&2 of Nukeri’s statement

[laoisemai]

I love The Flight SMP Maddy she is just so cool! Absolute Queen

[pityboy]

affirmations for when you have to send emails

[milk459]

Just found out about Avid and Marmalade, I had kind of fallen off flight SMP stuff for a bit but it’s rly disappointing to hear, I was just starting to get into their stuff, just shows that you never truly know ppl :/

Anyways, I don’t support them and I hope everyone’s doing alright 💕

I think my slight break from the flight will continue for a bit after all this 😭, I love it it’s just a lot.