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idk what batman villain needs to hear this but your theme IS unique and creative, your puns and gimmicks ARE witty, your costume IS cool and fashionable and you DO have a chance of defeating the batman. you are a valued and important gotham citizen <3
DC confirming that Tim always kind of knew he was queer he was just too focused on everything else going on to properly acknowledge it (batman urban legends 10) was based as fuck tbh, ask a homophobe what their top ten fav Tim drake moments are and it’s possible during at least one of them he was thinking about kissing guys we just don’t know which one-
There’s a reason the guy who finally bagged him was the one he spent time with when he was retired
Wait I’m sorry parent/child incest fic?????? Why does that exist? Why do you KNOW that exists?????? What the fuck 🤢
I feel like you can sort of tell how long (or not) someone has existed in fannish spaces by how outraged they get about things like this. Like rings in a tree trunk lol. I've been in so many fandoms. At least one, but often multiple at the same time, since I was a teenager. I've seen just. Everything.
Sex pollen. Mpreg. Incest. Monster fucking. Tentacles. Pairings like Snape/Hermione that would be crazy abusive and illegal if they were real. Wild kinks. The babygirlification of all kinds of villains. So much RPF (the 'I sincerely believe they are secretly a couple' kind and the 'this is fictional but it's fun to imagine they're in love' kind.)
You learn to just scroll past shit you don't like or unfollow people or filter tags. The tldr of fandom is that humans are weird as fuck. And creative, and unhinged, and traumatized, and talented. And amazing. And every single thing that you clutch your pearls about 'well surely someone doesn't want to read/write THAT!' - someone does. Probably lots of people do. And those people are perfectly normal. In their offline lives, they're parents and siblings and they have jobs and friends and they go about their lives and they don't cause any harm. And that's the sticking point. There's this really concerning, frankly highly Evangelical idea that if someone enjoys the wrong kind of fiction, they are obviously a Bad Person. But nothing is that simple, and thought crimes aren't real, and you definitely have some thoughts or ideas that someone else would find fucked up. You don't have to like every kind of fic that exists. I certainly don't. But shaming people for their harmless fantasies about fictional characters is so boring. I saw Goody Proctor enjoying a Toxic Ship! Good for you, I'll alert the pope.
babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world
The blog post is pretty great too.
how do you pronounce the acronym NSFW in your head?
i read it as the letters themselves ("en ess eff double yew")
i read it as what it stands for ("not safe for work")
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i always read it as Not Safe For Work and not the letters just because the actual words contain less syllables
The Myth of “Fans Killing Shows”: Here’s the thing I fundamentally disagree with. It wasn’t the fans who “killed the shows.” It was the writers who killed it.
I came across this Tumblr post and here's why people blaming the fans for the writers fatal flaw is just wrong.
And now I'll get to the most unpopular opinion I've ever shared online - fully aware that what I've already said very few people on here would agree with: I don't think it's Rob Thomas who killed the show with his ill-adviced decision, it's the fans who did that. Not that they are not aware of it, but they still refuse to take the blame for it, as if there could not have been any other reaction. And clearly they don't regret it. After they paid to bring Veronica Mars back once before. They collectively decided that season 4 was a crime against the fandom and that it never happened. Therefore making it impossible for anyone who did not feel the same way to get more content and have some closure. I know I don't get to be mad about that, but it is sad. And I've been on the other side of this a few times and stopped watching a show after a certain point, but that never triggered a cancellation. I've seen favorite characters killed off many times without it ever leading to a fandom turning hostile like that, sometimes even ripping everything else apart about the show. And it's not even like Veronica Mars was a cosy show where people didn't die. It was neo noir. It started out with her solving the murder of her best friend ffs. So, how did this happen? How did one character's death kill the show? Was it because he was the main love interest over more than a decade? Why does it now feel like he was more important than the protagonist? Or was it maybe because the fans campaigned for it's return and even funded the movie? Was it because they felt more invested in a way and later betrayed although they did not pay for the last season to get made?
I know this take circulates a lot: “The fans killed Veronica Mars. If they hadn’t reacted so strongly to Season 4, we’d have gotten more.”
But after watching this happen over and over, across shows I love, shows that shaped me, shows that built entirely new corners of fandom culture. I just don’t buy it.
Fans aren’t killing shows. Writers are breaking the emotional contract, torching the narrative spine, and then blaming the audience for the smoke.
And if Veronica Mars were the only example, maybe we could write it off. But this specific heartbreak, this implosion of trust, has now happened on too many shows, in too many fandoms, with too similar a pattern to chalk up to “one overreacting audience.”
It didn’t start with Season 4. It didn’t start with Logan Echolls. And it didn’t end there.
It’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Game of Thrones. It’s The 100. And on and on.
This is a cultural pattern. A breaking point between audiences and creators, and VM is just the case study where people still argue about who struck the match.
The pattern is the same every time: the writers kill the relationship they spent years telling us mattered most.
This is the part critics pretend not to understand.
Fandom doesn’t melt down because a character dies. Characters die constantly in television, and people grieve them, yell about them, move on. They melt down when a character dies in a way that breaks the story’s thesis. Let's take a deeper look:
Veronica Mars: Logan Echolls
Years of storytelling, marketing, PR, revival hype, and arc-building told us:
Logan is Veronica’s person. He’s the love story that grows with her. This relationship is the heart of the show.
Season 4 then kills him in the last 90 seconds as a plot device. Not a turning point, not a thematic evolution, just a twist that contradicts everything the show told us about her healing.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Nick Blaine
Four seasons of narrative work (and two books) told us:
Nick is June’s equal, mirror, moral counterweight, and match. Their love is radical, raw, complicated, feminist, and central.
Then Seasons 5 and 6 decide:
Actually, punish him. Actually, flatten him. Actually, the story is about motherhood, not womanhood or desire. Actually, June belongs with the safe man.
That isn’t a character arc. That’s an ideological pivot.
Game of Thrones: Daenerys Targaryen
Eight seasons told us:
Daenerys is the heart of the myth. She breaks chains. She frees people. She’s the emotional and moral center of the show’s grand design.
The final three episodes say:
Forget that. She snaps because… trauma? lineage? vibes? The woman who liberated millions is actually a tyrant.
A series that built itself on emotional logic ends on plot logic. The single most disorienting pivot a story can make.
When the ending contradicts what the story was, fans don’t feel shocked. They feel gaslit.
Killing the love interest isn’t the issue. Killing the thesis is.
This is the part nobody wants to talk about, because it forces a reckoning with the power and legitimacy of fandom interpretation.
Logan wasn’t just Veronica’s boyfriend. Nick wasn’t just June’s romantic partner. Daenerys wasn’t just another lead.
These characters were:
thematic mirrors
emotional anchors
narrative engines
symbolic structures
the emotional grammar of the show
and the embodiment of the protagonist’s arc
You don’t just rip those out. Not without re-breaking everything around them. It’s like pulling the keystone from a bridge and then blaming drivers for falling into the river.
Why does this keep happening? Because TV writers mistake cynicism for prestige.
This is the actual disease that keeps killing fan-beloved shows:
Prestige = tragedy
Prestige = subversion
Prestige = women alone
Prestige = punishing love
Prestige = nihilism masquerading as maturity
It’s a worldview that sees romance arcs, emotional continuity, loyal love interests, or morally gray partners as “cheap,” “fan service,” or “too soapy.” And because of that mindset, writers keep doing one of two things:
1. They kill the love interest to seem edgy or surprising.
2. They rewrite the protagonist or their partner beyond recognition.
And sometimes both. Either way, the show loses the very thing that made it groundbreaking. The fans didn’t kill Veronica Mars. They mourned what the creator killed first. If a fandom was powerful enough to:
campaign for a return
fund a movie
keep the discourse alive for a decade
pull the show into the 2010s streaming era
…then maybe, just maybe, they had a point about the story’s emotional core.
People didn’t walk away because Logan died. They walked away because his death dismantled the show’s moral vocabulary.
Just like:
People walked away from The Handmaid’s Tale, especially 6x10, because they dismantled the show’s feminist thesis and punished the very arc they built around love, agency, and liberation. (Ahem Hulu's TT because I will be shocked if it's not heading for a similar exit.)
People walked away from Game of Thrones because the finale dismantled eight years of character logic and replaced it with plot convenience.
This isn’t “toxicity.” This is narrative literacy.
Fans understood the assignment better than the people writing the final chapters. The truth is this: fans don’t kill shows. Shows kill themselves when they decide the audience was wrong about what mattered.
And here's the irony that never gets talked about: Writers taught us what mattered.
They built these love stories. They crafted these arcs. They centered these relationships. They marketed these dynamics. They put these characters in promos, posters, finales, interviews, season-long narratives. They told us these bonds mattered.
So when they then turn around and say:
Actually, wrong. Actually, silly of you to care. Actually, this was never the point.
Of course people walk.
It’s not immaturity. It’s not entitlement. It’s not “fandom killing the show.”
It’s the audience refusing to be told that the story they meaningfully engaged with for years was a mistake.
i think everyone should have known dick faked his death during the spyral era based on how casual bruce was about it. if dick had actually died bruce would’ve crawled into the grave with him.
Obi-Wan is like I got the kids in the divorce. They aren't even my kids. Or my divorce
enough of your middle aged man blorbos whos your specialest middle aged woman. if anyone tags a woman under the age of 40 on this post ill kill you in real life
With three movies to compare between, I really appreciate how each Knives Out movie explores justice from a different thematic angle, not based on the murder that was committed but based on the cruelty that led to that murder.
In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.
In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.
In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.
This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.
This is also why Benoit Blanc is the uniting figure but never the protagonist of these movies. He's an agent of legal justice in that he's the detective and it's his job to figure out whodunnit, but the protagonist -- Marta, Andi and now Jud -- is always the character who delivers thematic justice.
Truly, truly, TRULY the movies of all time. I don't think I've watched better movies than these
Kindness is the only way to survive.
DUDE, SOFT
The only Valid Bruce Wayne
wow batman your kid is gnc af
other fandoms when their show loses any of its budget: we're fucked, it's all over.
Doctor Who fans when the show loses most of its budget:
This costume from the 2012 miniseries 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑬𝒏𝒅 was first worn by Indira Varma as Mattie Wise. It was used again the next year in the series 𝑽𝒊𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 on Maude Hirst as Helga. See more photos of this costume at Bit.ly/AncMed020
i love that star wars comic where padmé's surviving handmaidens hold a last stand against vader but honestly if i were them i would have dedicated the rest of my life to the most comprehensive and inescapable fake haunting in the history of the galaxy. man should not be allowed two successive heartbeats without seeing his dead wife's face gazing soulfully at him across the room and slipping away before anyone sees. literally what else is the point of being a highly trained operative capable of perfectly imitating your best friend if not to torment her husband for decades after she's gone.
they had to specifically tell me i couldn't
"Of course I'm afraid. Everything's a disaster. You just want me to be ashamed of it." WE STAN STEPHANIE BROWN IN THIS HOUSE.
