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various tv, film, and theater producers for the last 50 years smacking themselves in the forehead like fuuuuck how can we make it easy to understand why carrie is alienated from her peers and callously bullied at school WITHOUT making her a hideous fatass like in the book

#and if by any miracle they manage to do it the audience will find a way to make her the villain

sandersstudies

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

phantom-threaded

Nosferatu 2024, dir. Robert Eggers

sarahsscrapbook

If there was any justice in the world Samson 28yearslater would be tumblr's next big blorbo. Committed terrible acts while not in control of his own mind and body? Check. Has memories of a time before that he can scarcely keep hold of? Check. Has a loving friend who stands by him no matter what? Check. Oh hey did the actor come out and say he considers that relationship to be a love story? Why yes he did. Check. Not entirely human in some sense? Check. Big sad eyes? Double check.

C'mon people.

manu-script

I think it's insane that even in the most leftist and "progressive" spaces the idea of equating morality with looks is alive and present and no one fucking bats an eye at it. like racists and mysoginysts are always portrayed as fat and hairy and generally unkept, as a contrast to the morally good and attractive leftists of course; people will have no problem being genuinely fucking awful about someone's appearance if they're deemed to be a "bad person". and the worst part is you point all of this out and people act like you're reading too much into things like no dude you gotta start using your brain more

memecucker

leo-fie

Doesn’t "proshipper" just mean "ships character from media"? How is there a derogatory term for that? What where the circumstances under which it came up and gained popularity?

belovedhades

proship is usually used irt ships that are deemed "problematic" usually stuff like incest (canon or implied), big age gaps, unbalanced power dynamics, abuser/victim pairings and stuff like that

leo-fie

God forbit someone enjoy fiction!

Seriously, the difference between fiction and reality has been lost in some parts of english speaking fandom culture. I get that some forms of fiction make you uncomfortable, because some forms of fiction make me very uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean they are immoral to produce or consume.

blurrymango

Proshipper actually just means "anti censorship and anti harassment" actually. But yeah.

switch-up-snowfox

Honestly the definition just depends on who you're talking too because anti's (as they call themselves) adore spouting deluded nonsense about what their opponents believe.

big-smiling-monkey

You are watching a puppet show

goblinwithartsupplies

For actual clarity proship is pro as in opposition to anti. Like pro choice or pro gun (random common examples don’t bring irl politics here).

the anti shipping community says it’s short for problematic but if you go back to the origins in the X-files fandom it’s: “proship want main characters together” “antiship want main characters to remain friends and coworkers and not be romantic.”

The MODERN antishipping community originates from the Sheith vs Klance ship war.

Fans assumed all the paladins of Voltron were teens as the original Netflix description described them as a group of teens.

At a con during the after the first season Shiro’s voice actor said Shiro was 25. That wasn’t a writer or show runner but a voice actor. Later made canon if I remember right.

Klance shippers used that as ammunition against Sheith shippers. Saying Keith was 16 so it was illegal. So obviously Klance is morally superior because they’re both minors 🙄. Baby’s first fandom activity.

Later its revealed that Keith was 18 in the first season and Lance is 17. The Klance shippers don’t care and still say Shieth is still illegal. Which yeah irl that’s hella suspect but again they’re fictional characters.

They did that with other ships too: “Pidge is 14 you can’t ship her with a 17 year old!” Pidge is established as 15 in season 1. A 2 year age gap isn’t that bad and again fiction.

So on and so forth until The Klance shippers basically ran any ship that got in the way of Klance off of tumblr and Voltron fandom spaces. After Voltron ended and the fans moved on they dispersed into new fandoms spreading the same thing about ages and being “gross and toxic” to “ship sibling” coded characters, and the characters are just best friends. Except now a majority of them don’t even realize it steamed as a way to win a ship war.

So of course a lot of newer and younger fans are taking everything at face value and act like liking fictional crimes means you support it happening in real life. But only sex related ones. Even if they’re not actually a crime like “pseudo incest because they’re found family”.

Basically, the reason modern fandom sucks is we’re still stuck in the Voltron fandom.

#*chuckles*#oh klancers #your bad behaviour will be forever remembered #and we will be trying to recover from it forever and ever

birdandmoon

Heat waves.

2well2water

no one cares that you shave your legs because of sensory issues shut the fuck up forever

2well2water

really galling amount of people misinterpreting this post so i'd like to clarify. i'm saying that when discussions about patriarchal beauty standards and the way women are heavily shamed and coerced into eschewing their own natural state of being (hairy) are occurring, it is unhelpful (AT BEST) to interrupt and say that the reason YOU remove the hair from your body is because of sensory issues. that's not what we're talking about. stop asking for validation for doing something that society at large wants you to do. stop derailing the conversation because you feel uncomfortable about being made aware that you, for whatever reason it is, adhere to harmful, unfair and ridiculous beauty standards. you're stepping into the middle of an important conversation that needs to be had and making it all about you. shut the fuck up forever.

2well2water

also quite frankly i think a lot less people would experience sensory issues if they let their hair grow out so that it isn't bristly and rough and irritating. and i cannot help but wonder why these sensory issues aren't as predominant in men. maybe you're uncomfortable with the hair on your body because you've been taught to be uncomfortable with it. just a thought.