🔥 -scorch ‘em, dadgar
- Hottest take on your fandom. *DEEP INHALE* If you genuinely don’t enjoy the game, characters, or storyline, etc, it doesn’t automatically mean that it’s bad. If a character starts getting used more, and develops differently than what you had headcanoned or if you rp them and they developed in a certain way because of rp, that doesn’t make the canon bad, or wrong. Especially a scene is tied to something that happened earlier in the story that you haven’t experienced or had forgotten about. (There’s like. 25+ years of material to work with. It’s a lot to remember.) Khadgar isn’t MY, character. He just happens to fit a particular muse that I enjoy writing and is a character I vibe with. I’ve written plenty of drabbles with the muse and none of them are canon. If Blizz does something similar SWEET, we had similar writing idea vibes, and if not? That’s cool too. (There’s also the issue of if they somehow came across something I wrote, even if they planned to do something similar they then might not be able to because that becomes an awkward legal thing, which is why, barring rare exceptions, you shouldn’t spam game devs with your fanfics and such because then either they can’t do something or they’ll have people grabbing pitchforks for being ‘theives’.) Thaaaaaat was a tanget, brain please. I DIGRESS. Your “jokes” that take a massive dump on the devs aren’t funny. Never have, and never will be. Period. PERIOD. You’re not going to like every character, you’re not going to have happy feels at the end of every quest, every plot. You’re not going to always pick up on the foreshadowing leading up to an plot twist, and you’re not always going to be surprised by certain twists. None of these things makes the writing bad. And I’m going to say it again. Just because you don’t like something, or don’t understand why something is happening because it’s related to lore that you’re unfamiliar with, doesn’t mean it’s bad, and it certainly doesn’t give you a pass to be an asshole to the people who created the thing, or people who genuinely enjoy the thing. And don’t you dare sit there and think any sort of flavor of “I’m not like this!” Because a lot of you are, a lot of the bigger names in the community are. Even though I’m a nobody in the community, or I may not seem like I’m around much, I’ve been around for a long time, and I’m more than aware of what people have been posting, what they say in the tags. I’ve watched people, people who are/were popular, spend ALL their time being toxic because Blizzard didn’t follow their headcanon or whatever. They would ignore parts of that character's story or personality because THEY wanted Blizz’s character to fulfill a specific role for them. Their contribution to the fandom is mostly toxicity and they will passive-aggressively make you feel guilty for liking ANYTHING. And then people parrot that negativity because they don’t want to be ostracized from the popular person. If you go into a well-liked tea shop and discover you don’t like anything on the menu, do you pitch a fit and start insulting the employees and customers? Or do you go, “eh, this isn’t for me” and go elsewhere? It’s fine to suggest flavors they don’t have, it’s fine to ask for extra cream or sugar. It’s fine to go....”Ah! I think this cup was brewed too strong for me, can I get a different cup?” Also blaming currently employees for a cup of tea that was made before they worked there (or worked for that particular team) is also...???????? ....?????????? If you genuinely find yourself disliking everything about WoW, (baring depression monster being a butt and making you loose interest in everything you normally enjoy) then instead of staying with the game and being miserable and yanking everyone down with you. Stop playing the game. Come back when the story, theme, xpac or whatever is something you like! But for the LOVE OF GOD. Stop saying something is bad just because you don’t like it, and take a moment to reflect if the anti-dev thesis you’re about to write is actual, constructive criticism because you see the potential in something that juuuust needed an extra day or two of dev work. Or if you’re just upset that something didn’t go the way you thought it would, or wanted to, and you’re lashing out because being wrong about a character’s development or story progression, especially with a character or aspect of the story you have a deep attachment to, makes you feel invalid or like a mistake, or like you misunderstood everything, or you’re inferior somehow because you saw a different path things could go and ended up becoming emotionally invested in it, and lashing out is an attempt to feel validated that you’re not awful at writing, character dev, etc. Don’t forget, they’ve got to plans things months, (sometimes even years for some major things) in advance and we’re not privy to their dev process or what’s to come. We get a new x-pac every two years, and a year after a new release is when we roughly get an announcement for the next one. You know that feeling when someone crabs about your OC? Or the RP they’re involved it? If you don’t like toxic jerks telling you that you’re playing your own OC’s wrong, and that if you don’t play your own character a certain way then you’re a bad writer, etc, and you tell them to just unfollow if they don’t like your content THAT much? Seriously fam, if you feel like fandoms are toxic waste dumps these days, take a moment to look at what you’re contributing to the fandom. If it’s mostly negativity and toxicity directed at the canon content and the creators, or supporting people who thrive on doing just that? Then you’re part of the problem. Be instead, part of the solution, and step back and take a moment to reflect on what’s the best and healthiest way for you to do that. *Drags hands down face* Because I don’t think some of you realize who you’re hurting, or how deeply you’ve hurt some people. Because imagine telling someone that they should write for Blizzard, and then turning around to make “Blizzard can’t write” jokes.
