#beth fandom

[obstreperoushoney]

Dear Beth fandom!

I’m sure it’s already been said by someone with farther reaches than I, but do yourself a favor and listen to “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten. It is sweet Beth through and through!

Just don’t do it while you’re driving because you will start crying and then crash your car.

[a-serious-piggyback]

I mean, the Beth fandom may be split between a variety of teams right now but at least we can all agree that we hate that damn dress?

[aeroknot]

Raise your hand if you're a Bethyl shipper and you'd trade the ship for Beth to come back.

(In this case it's my hope you’d understand raise your hand means like or reblog.)

[aeroknot]

i do a lot of psa's... because i care

Hey I just want to assure some of my followers that just because many of my TWD posts have been rather negative the past few days, I'm not completely renouncing the fandom as of right now, and as I was telling D last night, if Beth doesn't come back, I'll probably step away for good from the show itself because I'll need to heal and catch my bearings, but I'm not gonna desert my otp family (I never drop non-canon OTP's if it's an OTP I'm ride or die no matter what happens in the source material) or leave the bubble of Beth appreciation for life (or any of the characters that I wish they'd stop mistreating) and actually like the biggest blessing out of this whole debacle is the bonds I've formed with many, many, many of you

seriously I'm so honored and happy to be part of this fandom and even though I'm just SO MAD at the TPTB of this show that I once adored and admired, please don't confuse any of my vitriol toward them as any sort of regret or feelings of dislike toward the fandom and any of you guys

[aeroknot]

Whats the problem with that account sharing your stuff. It just means more people get to see it, and its almost the msp anyway. Hope that didnt sound rude :)

Well, first of all, of what I saw that was mine— it wasn’t even a theory of mine that they used. It was MY IDEAS and MY OBSERVATIONS about what Beth Greene meant to Daryl Dixon and why it wasn’t ok for the writers to take her away from him the way that they did. It wasn’t even promoting a theory or getting other people to believe Beth is coming back— it was actually stealing MY THOUGHTS on a subject and claiming them as her own. That’s like stealing someone’s essay for class homework, not ‘promoting’ theories.

Secondly— Yeah. I want people to know. I want people to be interested in the plausibility of her coming back. But the people who wrote these theories deserve to have credit for them. Do you know how much time some meta can take? The very first meta post that I posted to this website took me five days. FIVE DAYS. That was five days of me sleeping a little, eating a little, and re-watching whole seasons, editing my paragraphs, and A LOT of notes. Hours and hours of work that developed into over 20,000 words. That’s equivalent to the amount of words/work that goes in fanfic. If this IG was posting other people’s fanfics, would you still support that? Would you still think it was harmless? I hope not. 

My friends and I are sharing our ideas because we want people to see our points of view, and this person is not crediting our ideas. This person is not engaging with us in a trustworthy way, or any way that shows respect.

It’s theft of intellectual property, it’s deceitful, it steers away people from the ACTUAL MINDS behind the words, and it’s just morally reprehensible. I’m not going to ignore it or excuse it because it ‘furthers the cause,’ and neither should you. It’s REALLY EASY to say “hey, these aren’t my words, these are aeroknot's” or whoever else's, and link to the person's tumblr page or the actual post. It's incredibly easy. It would take less time than it must take them to screencap it and collage the words onto random photos to copy+paste the link to the source.

Also, this person has been nothing but immature since I’ve contacted her. She blocked me, then posted a passive-agressive ‘apology,’ which was really just her trying to shame me for not “being grateful” that she’s sharing our ideas to a wider fanbase. Um. I have a LOT of followers, and the ability to REBLOG my posts exposes them to A LOT MORE.  I’m not worried about people seeing my ideas. But now, sadly, I have to worry about WHO sees them.

As Beth would say, “It does matter” and “It’s not okay.”

[katwithlove]

What does the Beth Fandom do when we get hate? Block that Sucker out. 

[aeroknot]

I hope you stay with us. We all love you here!

I’m stayin’ ‘til I’m gone! Which is my roundabout way of putting that I jump from obsession to obsession quite often, as one could infer from my archive… but between you and me and 500 others, I don’t foresee leaving the Beth fandom for at least a few more months, and that’s at the very least. ;)  She’s too important to so many.

[katwithlove]

I have so many crystal clear screenshots of clear now x.x that it's ridiculous