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Fandom Problem 4215:

Seeing people create character analysis for male villains and label it "a case study in toxic masculinity". But it's not even that. The villain is simply just an abusive entitled asshole. That's not exclusive to toxic masculinity or anything else. They're just a bad person.

I am among the few who actually doesn’t mind the new winx remake. I love adaptions because it gives old series a new chance and adds some new fresh content. Adaptions aren’t always amazing and the winx one had its share of problems but otherwise there would be no new winx content. I always think of adaptions almost like a fanfic. No matter how bad they are they can’t change the original or take it away. It’s just an optional extra content for people who want to watch it. I don’t like how they turned the girls against one another and made it all about boys, but maybe moving forward they will grow way closer and we’ll see the Stella we’ve all been waiting for and the character development would make it even more amazing. I also wish Terra would’ve been confident and happy instead of holding the “fat girl” cliche and while they did whitewash Flora, I don’t think they did the same with Musa, obviously they ignored her original roots but they still casted a woman of color in her role. I grew up watching Winx and am disappointed with some of the remake but there’s always room for improvement and it gives me new appreciation for the source material.

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To all creators of highly succesful adaptions everywhere

First, I'm proud of you. You did a marvellous job and brought joy to so many. You very likely expanded on the source material in ways that enhanced it beautifully.

But adapting is not creating.

Think thrice before you say "I can do this myself if I run out of source material."

No, likely not. Listen, I have every faith in your abilities as a creator. If you want to file off the license plate of your fanfic, go right ahead. Make something, twist it in different ways. Just don't think you can create official new content for your adaptions.

Game of Thrones is a recent example, but Call the Midwife suffers from the same ailment. The Handmaid's Tale. Yes, there will be occasional flashes of brilliance too, but it will likely still disintegrate like ratatouille without tomatoes.

The first problem is - there was likely a reason the creator stopped creating where they did. Cinderella 2? What on earth is there to tell?

Secondly. Your style is different. It just is. Probably your style harmonises beautifully with the creator's style. But if you take out an element - even if what makes the adaption succesful is the subversion of that element - it's gonna show. The lack is there, deafening in its silence.

The only way I have seen it work is if you essentially create a spinoff - take a side character that is compelling, but not necessarily only because of how they play off of your protagonist. I maintain The Handmaid's Tale, the series, should have become A Wife's Tale and focus on Serena Joy. Are there any secondary characters in The Queen's Gambit that merit their own story? I can only think of one, Georgi Girev - a teenage boy set to have everything the USSR can provide in terms of luxuries and status, but who can't quench his desire to defect. Hell, you can even have him face off against Beth Harmon again - with her now the unwitting antagonist, somehow blocking his path to escape or unable to help because that is not something she understands. But Beth herself? Don't do it. That's not your work.

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People end up hating shows, movies, comics, etc and brand them as "cursed content" not for bad writing, not for being weird or obnoxious, but because they were popular. When something gets too popular, it usually either attains a massive fandom, or a massive amount of hater bandwagons. And that leads to toxic fandoms.

There's usually nothing wrong with the media in question. People tend to despise said media because a youtuber said it was trash or someone on twitter started a fandom war because of it. In the end, most "cursed" medias aren't even given a fair chance and are branded as bad. It has nothing to do with the media and everything to do with popular interaction.

Fandom problem 4230:

Saw a post on twitter from a so called "critic" who has it out for one ship in particular in the show he "critiques" (i put those in quotes because this guy only skims bits and pieces of the show and complains about it). He has such a hate boner for the ship that every time the voice actors of that ship make a post about it he always jumps on it and tries to tell them "You're a professional voice actor. Stop talking about your ship and voice act."

As if the VAs aren't human and can't talk about things they love. It's annoying as shit.

Those long periods of time no one is producing anything you actually like in your fandom. Bonus points if you found a really good story and it's had a really long pause compared to how long they were updating it before and you're worried it's going to be discontinued

Those who dig on smut fic for being physically unrealistic, as if anything in mainstream pr0n would actually be good irl. We're here for aesthetically hot trash, not a nature documentary.

There seems to be a huge false dichotomy when it comes to redemption arc discourse on Tumblr. You either can forgive everyone for any crime, and praise every arc no matter the execution (because all uses of a trope are equal, don’tcha know), or you can never forgive any character for anything and hate all redemption arcs.

I once had someone assume that I was ignorant of the issues with the criminal justice system in America because I didn’t like a redemption arc in a kid’s show. The dude had been implied to have committed numerous atrocities including using war orphans as child soldiers (and he started the war that made them orphans), but if I can’t forgive him, apparently I also support long prison sentences for drug addicts.

Bratan, one of these crimes is not like the other.