Dias

just a little bit tired 🇧🇷 She/It

[jncos]

No money: I need food

One money: I need a cool silver ring with a skull on it

[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

[just-spacetrash]

in my little pony universe youd go to a job interview and theyd be like so how does your cutiemark reflect your dedication to this position. And every time youd have to spew some bullshit about how your cutiemark of two tennis rackets actually means youre a team player and good at multitasking and view the market like a playing field. or whatever. and you wouldnt even get the job

[fvckw4d]

Thanks to Equestria v Sugar Sprinkle, cutie mark interview questions are considered hiring discrimination, so if anypony asks you any cutiemark related questions or even alludes to any questions about your cutiemark such as "In your own words, describe your life purpose" you can and should refuse to answer. Know your rights, ponies.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The upside to the adhd forgetting that you made yourself a drink thing is thinking to yourself “man I could go for a drink right now” and looking to your right and seeing a drink has appeared there. Thank you, past me. I lost you somewhere but you have still provided.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Here’s the thing. Refusing to accept a compliment can be mildly insulting to the person you’re refusing the compliment from.

It’s like you don’t believe them or don’t respect their opinion basically.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I know, I also have self esteem so low that accepting a compliment feels physically painful but basically calling the person who’s complimenting you a liar doesn’t help anybody including yourself.

[sabertoothwalrus]

its wild that no ones even pointed out that two of the tumblr sexyman contenders were in the same show together

[sabertoothwalrus]

[notatyrannosaur]

Nekomura Iroha V2 my beloved

[prenbyw]

Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.

[hinako-supremacy]

op i love your fish so much i made it a png

they are now a school of fish

[teaboot]

Posts that prove that despite about 300 thousand years of technological development, humanity at its core hasn't really changed all that much

[nitw]

*jumps up and down waving my hands and yelling in a crowd* DISCORD WAS NEVER MEANT TO REPLACE FORUMS AND WIKIS!!! IT'S JUST EMBELLISHED CHATROOMS WITH MULTIPLAYER GAMING FEATURES AND LOOTBOXES AND SHIT!!! PLEASE PUT FAQS AND MESSAGE BOARDS OR AT LEAST A DIRECT EMAIL-BASED SUPPORT SYSTEM ON YOUR WEBSITE!!! 1GB NEOCITIES DOMAIN ZERO DOLLARS

[prinnay]

[Spectra Knight]

[redstonedust]

nostalgia bait is much less effective when you have memory problems. "hey its that thing from your childhood, don't you love thing from your childhood?" i wouldnt know </3 i forgor.

[espanolbot2]

...But his backstory was the plot of A Christmas Carol? And he was Scrooge before as well because THAT'S HIS NAME!?

[heydocverdant]

Ah, but that’s just the backstory that notorious communist Charles Dickens wanted us to know! This bold reimagining will feature a hot young Ebenezer “Eb” Scrooge (played by Johnny Depp, who is definitely not in his sixties), and focus on his origins as a feisty and witty capitalist wunderkind. Cheer on our brave underdog as he gets addicted to multiple hard substances, physically and emotionally abuses his fiancé Belle, and then permanently destroys her career and reputation by playing the victim in a public farce of a court trial! The brilliant minds at Paramount have done it again, folks: pure box office gold, spun out of only the finest of horseshits!

[espanolbot2]

#wait this is a movie that exists ??#I think I’m going to forget this after this post#the Squeakitties post left a bigger impact on me than this movie’s existence

Not only does it exist, but Depp was apparently wandering around SDCC in full character and make-up to promote it.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It's rare that I'm moved to hysterical laughter these days it really is

But upon being blessed by seeing perhaps the stupidest fucking movie tagline in the entire history of the medium here with "Before he was Scrooge...he was EBENEEZER"

I have to admit

I full on cracked up. Like I was cackling like the fucking JOKER to the point that my girlfriend came in from the other room like "Babe, there's no way what you're looking at is THAT funny"

And then I showed her

And she fucking lost it as well

This is like a fucking College Humor sketch. This is like something SNL would make up

Also?

Not only does it exist, but Depp was apparently wandering around SDCC in full character and make-up to promote it.

Are we sure the dumb boozebag cunt wasn't just drunk off his fucking ass for the third or fourth time that morning?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

#not to be that girl#but we KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO SCROOGE TO MAKE HIM SCROOGE#that is in fact the fucking point of the ghost of Christmas past

I cannot wait to watch....the Pitch Meeting video that Ryan George makes ruthlessly mocking this utter dogshit :D

"So you got some Content for me?"

"YES SIR I DO

Let me ask you

Have you ever wondered: How did Ebeneezer Scrooge BECOME Ebeneezer Scrooge?"

"I've never wondered that once"

"Oh really?

Not even a little bit curious?"

"No I mean I've never wondered about it because A Christmas Carol just straight up tells us"

"Wait it does?"

"It's like 50% of the plot of A Christmas Carol"

"That's gonna be a problem then"

"You didn't KNOW that?"

"I'm gonna level with you I've never actually read it or watched any of the adaptations"

"You didn't do ANY research before deciding you wanted to make a movie based on this?"

"I didn't no"

"Ohhhhhh WHOOPS!"

"WHOOPSIE!"

[bloodyshadow1]

...a Christmas Carol is scrooge happy ending. Where he rediscovers his love for life and his fellow man. Why would anyone want to watch the depression and greed spiral that leads him to become a hateful miser who needs 4 ghosts in 1 night to change his ways?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"Ahhhhhh see

Right away you're not asking the right question!"

"I think I was"

"Nope!

That was a DUMB question!

Ya big dummy!

The RIGHT question is: What moderately popular celebrity can we get to play Ebeneezer Scrooge?"

[heydocverdant]

I saw that apparently they’re positing pre-Carol Scrooge as a “lovable misfit”, which is. certainly one way to portray the Epitome of Miserly Vice that is Scrooge

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

He's gonna have a wacky and eccentric meet-cute with Belle right after he forecloses on an orphanage leaving countless homeless children to die a slow horrible death on the freezing streets of Victorian London!

But don't think about that, instead just focus on Johnny Depp doing his Jack Sparrow voice, which is the only voice he can do when attempting an accent! :D

[julaa-a]

Pearl

[mollyjames]

It's never too late to escape from the secret underground government facility you were raised and go on a telekinetic rampage across the city before mysteriously disappearing into the woods

[digitalmyyth]

What is forcefem question

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

[syn4k]

[lakemojave]

Also you guys are gonna shit when you see how awesome my cane is

[lakemojave]

It's unfair how much this thing owns i need to take this thing out even when my leg is healed.