nothing important that does not include you

josefir | 28 | they/them | finland

[neptunecity]

𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒂 ⋆₊˚ | also posted on Instagram & Twitter

[fakelawyerbug]

I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.

[salmon-n-hazel]

Forget me not

My print shop: INPRNT

[sailorbrazil]

thursday..... and i bet you wish you were her

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[tylostoma]

sometimes water tastes so good and you drink it in such a ferociously passionate way that you frighten yourself

[cutecipher]

a cat is a sort of machine that dispenses hair all over you and everything else in the room

[margle]

straight women need to start fetishising sapphic women so there can be more femslash fan fiction. we gotta outsource and get more writers on board. I want it to get to the point where two women cant be on screen together without having a 80k space opera fic written about them. I want show runners to be scared of cancelling sapphic shows because legions and legions of fans will come after them. dont tell me my priorities are wrong.

[abalidoth]

straight women, you have been summoned for yuri duty.

[mortalityplays]

do you know how funny it is that the CEO of this website has an active blog here and posts regularly about his management decisions and business philosophy and he is so widely and deeply despised by the userbase that he averages 3-6 notes per post. the admin, our lowtax. everyone knows his URL and has shit to say about his decisions and he's still a zero note warrior. on a purely functional level he might be a worse poster than elon musk.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

the most insufferable cunt you've ever met speaking in cutesy uwu voice: "um actually, you're doing feminism wrong. youre supposed to be nice to men when you do a feminism. otherwise, you're just being sexist and androphobic"

[daughter-of-sapph0]

"lets stop arguing and make out instead"

translation "shut up and make yourself sexually avaliable to me"

[marimbles]

underrated tumblr feature is being able to catch up to yourself on your dash. so there is an END POINT. and you can say “ah, I have reached where I left off, there is no more to see! I’ll take my leave now and come back later when there are new posts.” instead of being stuck forever in a bottomless algorithm pit digging deeper and deeper till you have to summon monumental strength to climb out

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

[roadhogsbigbelly]

like playing a first person shooter isn't going to turn you into a school shooter, but that doesn't mean that Call of Duty isn't like. explicitly military propaganda.

or (for a more specific but also weirdly common example) enjoying horror movies isn't going to turn you into a serial killer, but if you watch a lot of horror where the killer is "a gender confused man who kills women whilel dressed in drag, because his repressed female split personality hates his attraction to women because it gives her gender dysphoria" than you should like. be a bit criticial of what you're enjoying. or something like that.

[unsolids-your-snake]

But at the end of it, the point shouldn't be "certain kinds of stories should not be enjoyed by anyone bc they will warp you" and more like "please use your brain sometimes when watching/reading/playing things because every single story has messages in it about important ideas"

Even if sometimes the message is "the author/artist etc put zero thought into this idea bc it's something people make blind assumptions about"

I don't even think you Must Perform Criticism Of Thing Or It's Bad And You're Bad

Just like, have thoughts idk, be curious about what things mean, have that be something that matters to you sometimes

[polystyrenequeen]

i feel like when people complain about a lack of female + lesbian representation (for lack of a better word) in fanfiction, the reaction of “just go write it yourself then” pretty severely misinterprets the original argument. people who point out the gender disparity in fan content aren’t usually complaining about the lack of “food,” they’re making a point about the subconscious biases and systemic injustices that lead large amounts of people to be overall disinterested in the stories of women, despite many of them being women themselves. yeah no one can force you to write anything but m/m, and they shouldn’t, but have you seriously never stopped to question why you and the majority of most fandoms write it almost exclusively? why source material with an equal division of gender, or even a bias towards women, will still somehow end up with a fandom dominated by m/m pairings? you seriously think that’s 100% fine and normal and has nothing to do with internalised misogyny?

[reticent-vampire]

"What's human blood taste like?" INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.06

[cryptotheism]

Don’t you have to read good books to be a good writer?

You need a balanced diet of Peak, Dogshit, indulgent tripe, top 40 shit, almost-peak, niche peak, and experimental avante garde shit.

[evilsanlang]

day barely even started and I already had to hear "thank you for being our wives, sisters, aunts" and "keep being women and giving birth and being delicate unlike us men" as compliments for international women's day

[evilsanlang]

here's to women being transgender childless dykes forever and ever and ever

[chiropteracupola]

It's Another Beautiful Day of Not Being On Mount Everest. just how Every day of my life will be Another Beautiful Day of Not Being On Mount Everest, on account of how I am Never Ever Going There.