#fandom comparisons

[starryskiesabove3]

When you’re in a doomed siblings competition and these are your opponents:

Honestly they’re the same betrayals in different fonts.

[lilyminer]

Hey sis, I’m back to make arbitrary connections between fandoms which share very few fans in common <3 The human brain is nothing if not good at forming connections, hope y’all don’t mind my nonsense.

So one thing I find very endearing in fandoms is when there’s two characters who fans don’t just think of as boyfriends/girlfriends or in a casual kind of relationship, no, people overwhelmingly see them as married. I’m fond of domestic fluff so this is always a joy for me.

Here’s where the two disconnected fandoms come in but bear with me. My two examples of this are hilarious in how different their circumstances are:

Firstly we have Ineffable Husbands(Good Omens). Who are shipped almost exclusively as life partners in all senses of the word. Crowley and Aziraphale are both immortals who go back to before the god damn earth came into existence. Their love for each other is canonical and infinitely complicated by thousands if not millions of years of history.

. . . Ok now we got Burakhovsky(Pathologic). And guys, why the fuck does everyone agree these two gotta be spouses? And why did I 100% agree from day 1? They’ve canonically known eachother for twelve days total, not even two weeks. Yet a good portion of the shippers are out here having vivid (sometimes 131,000 words vivid looking at you Just The Beginning) fantasies about these two settling down and raising children together. And I agree!! Something about the specific kind of tragedy this game puts them both through in less then the amount of notice you need to give to quit a fucking job and how they treat each other throughout just convinces you they should live a peaceful quiet life together!

I just find the comparison so funny. Also in both the grumpy one has very obvious snake theming. Which isn’t relevant to this comparison but it is also something!

[freedfromthegalactichivemind]

I just want to take a moment to wonder / baffle at how different fandoms can be. It seems like some things are constant between all fandoms - an abundance of smutfic and art, self-insert and OC character-creation fun, people inserting characters into popular memes, people making the wildest aus (Let's fanart them as werewolves!" and the like). However, there are just such interesting differences. In Spop fandom, I will never, NEVER get over how much visceral HATRED exists for Hordak on one "side" of the fandom and how much of the same kind of hatred exists for Catra on another "side" of the fandom. Additionally, discourse over Glimmer and etc. It seems like all the people in this fandom (who haven't just said hang it all to just make cute fanart and funny comics) talk about are WAR CRIMES and "who deserves redemption more?" in a show that is clearly about restoration and kindness. Horde Prime's destroying planets aside, I can count the canonical deaths in this series ON ONE HAND. And everyone's upset at all of the war crimes committed in a largely non-lethal local-to-the-main-setting-planet war on this... almost utopian planet where we'd all probably like to live. Meanwhile, over in Trigun fandom... The body count is in the literal millions and not in passing mentions of genocide Jell-O at dinner, but in triumphant arms to the sky as a burning fleet of spaceships incinerate in the sky in a deliberate attempt at a genocide (not as a side-effect of ruling). Many on-screen deaths of characters you get to KNOW. There is this huge complex moral dilemma centered around the survival-needs of a population that depends upon sentient beings that are both dependent upon them and overused and abused by them. There's another huge complex moral dilemma revolving around the justification of lethal force vs. the prices of a life of chosen, ardent pacifism. It's not a Y-7 series by any means and the manga / comics version of it gets really super dark (yet somehow Trigun Stampede made the Tesla-arc even darker, bravo, I'm gonna be sick). And yet the villains - from the mini-boss assassin characters to the ur-villain who LITERALLY WANTS TO DESTROY ALL OF HUMANITY and also wishes to manipulate his hero-brother to his side through severe traumatizing emotional torture... it's like... there are loads of people in this fandom who are "Oh, Millions Knives is my favorite character!" and it doesn't seem like anyone bats an eyelash. There are probably more fandom essays exploring Knives' side of things and why he feels the way he does and how his character-arc makes sense than even people in any way actively against him. Yes, most people in this fandom "side with Vash" (as do I), but it's like... we understand the villain here, or try to, and here's a fandom where people find sympathy for and "humanity" in the blatantly cruel person who on-screen slaughters swaths of people in some of the most gruesome ways possible. It's like, in this fandom, if someone's a Knives-fan, or a Legato-fan, or a Midvalley-fan, or even those of us who love the greatest villain of all, he who shines in the darkness, BRILLIANT DYNAMITES NEON!!! (oh, my two-episode wonder, missed you in Stampede oh so much, my sparkler-smoking baby...) it's like... no one cares? It's like "Yeah, they're great characters, aren't they?" It's just so... different. In the non-fatal sparkly princess show, everyone's scrutinizing everyone else for liking characters who do (largely non-lethal) WAR CRIMES! and then the mature-anime/manga fandom I am in where there's this whole extinction of humanity and the uses of their adjacent created-resource-species at stake everyone's like... chill. And enjoying the villains - and different ones, at that, is NORMAL.

[lost-technology]

The annoying thing with having a sideblog is being able to see someone's blog via the regular / base blog and then finding out they've blocked your sideblog for some reason and you don't know WHY. Or, in some cases, some of those mysterious likes / reblogs / supposed activity going on on your sideblog you can't see because someone blocked your regular for some reason? Anyway, managing sideblogs can be a mess. Also, I am wondering what I've done in Trigun fandom specifically to annoy a person or two. Considering that I found someone tonight via a mutual's reblogging that I was going to reblog because "Oh, how cute!" got me an error-message and I found out that I couldn't put in a reply on my sideblog name because it was faded out and "I don't know them from Adam" as the old saying goes, I'm just left puzzled as to why I got a block. I haven't been fighting with anyone in this fandom. It's not like the last fandom I was involved in very heavily where there was a LOT of fighting. Oh, well, I figure I could have been blocked over the pettiest of things. Maybe I don't ship somebody's ship. Maybe I do ship a ship they don't like or have reblogged art thereof. Maybe they just think my art is fugly. Maybe a friend of theirs doesn't like me for some reason (maybe going back to the fighty other fandom). Maybe it is something as simple as my age pinned up on my blog's welcome message. I make no secret that I'm an old swamp hag and I know that some younger people don't want to interact with anyone over 30 regardless of morality/pleasantness/fandom opinions or whatever and blocking is the easiest way to do it. I don't know, it's just a little aggravating not to *know* because I have this nitpick of wanting to know if I am doing something wrong so I can attempt to adjust my social interaction accordingly. (I think I just might have typed the most neurodiverse sentence ever...) Well, it is at least much better than how things went in the last major fandom I was in - which happened right around pandemic lockdown when everyone was losing their damn minds. The projected insanity lead to people in some branches of the fandom on a pathological need to put up callout posts dissecting people's bad takes on their problematic faves and people screaming at each other that they were "abuse apologists" and people projecting their real life traumas into everything and taking "people enjoy X-villain I don't like" personally. I'm serious about these giant rambling callout posts... It was insane. And it only all died down when people in the fandom learned to liberally use the Block button so they simply did not have to see people who had takes they didn't like on their blorbos and associated ships anymore. All in all, Trigun fans seem to behave better with simply Ghost Blocking For Mysterious Reasons.

[lightanddarklove]

I have an archetype I adore and it’s the content I’ve been consuming since 2003 baybee

Let me know if I forgot anything and also I can totally make more slides for this if you want some more.

[starryskiesabove3]

Possibly weird take

That I may be very alone in seeing but Kim Ji-uk in the kdrama ‘No Gain No Love’ with his long unkempt hair (minus the glasses) reminds me soooo much of L Lawliet from Death Note.

Like if Death Note was live action this is exactly who I would picture as L. Idk if it’s the voice, mannerisms or the fact that his character is also a little distant, cold and logical.

[starryskiesabove3]

My four fave captains 🫡

[starryskiesabove3]

Yet another Fandom Comparison:

Merlin and Nick Miller being absolutely unable to lie or else their bodies betray them and shut everything down