#fandom complaining

[anistarrose]

>sees cool art

>"oh i should reblog this"

>sees it's tagged with a bunch of characters and ships that aren't actually present in the post at all

>"oh i shouldn't reblog this post actually. because of The Spite"

[anotherbeastarsblog]

I was writing a post about how Beastars would've benefitted from having an herbivore villain and I was three paragraphs in before I realized Yahya was already there he was just the worst written villain in manga history.

[quicksiluers]

If people actually listened to that podcast that joe and anthony did, theywould  actually get...the context...of what they were sayin, but nah guess not.

They joked that in a comics, you can keep drawing a character however young you want for years, then joked that everyone is getting old. But in the next freakin sentence, they said that these two movies are about closing the book on this story of the MCU. There are new, exciting, different stories to tell. Loki has been living on borrowed time, he was supposed to die in The Dark World. They reshot that. And that allowed for this idea in the franchise that death doesn’t matter. But it does, consequencs matter. Loki failed Thanos, they said it in the first Avengers. If he failed him, he would wish to be dead before Thanos found him.

As of fan of a handful of dead charcters, yeah it sucks. You love them and it hurts. But stories need to end. Where was Loki going to go without Thor, in the franchise? Was he going to betray Thor again and then get back into his good graces, again? Where else would he fit into this new MCU they are trying to put together, with new characters and worlds? The moment Loki took the tesseract from asgard, his fate was sealed, I said that the moment I saw it happen in ragnarok. He died trying to help Thor, trying to kill thanos, and it was noble of him to do it. 

But stories end and this is where his ended. Steve’s story will be ending, Tony’s will be ending, hell Thor’s could be ending all next year. This is to make way for the new characters to carry the franchise, to keep it fresh and growing to new audiences. 

Anyway, that’s just me

[dyingsighs]

Concerns:

1. Obi-Wan spinoff movie. WHEN.

[anistarrose]

enjoying a explicitly textually queer M/F ship is so rough, like. in one corner of the fandom, you get people characterizing them like the queer woman (who is attracted to men!) has inherently settled for less by getting with a man (whom she is attracted to!), and therefore she would spend the entirety of their relationship yearning to be in a Real Queer Relationship with a woman instead. obviously you hate that corner of the fandom, so you run away as fast as possible — in search of fanworks where they actually like being with each other — but on that side of the fandom, you wind up drowning in fics where the main premise is "a man and a woman show each other some form of kindness, and then every supporting character in the story tells them there was absolutely no platonic explanation for what just happened, and they're out of their fucking minds if they interpret it as an act of friendship — because, as the love interests and audience alike would be dumbasses not to know, the only true explanation for two people (in this case, a man and a woman!) actually caring about each other is of course obvious and indisputable romantic attraction." like. is anyone else tired of this. why are my only options "not really queer, therefore inferior and impermanent" and "literally just heteronormativity."

come on now. the source material literally showed you how to write queer M/F better than this. you literally have a better template. i wouldn't say queer M/F has it worse than other categories of queer relationships in fiction/fandom, not by any means, but it sure as fuck does not have it good, either! for fuck's sake, the m-spec fans, and the a-spec fans, and perhaps even especially the transhet fans deserve better than this.

[anistarrose]

it's weird that "there is NO platonic explanation for this" always has a sort of implication of "that's why this ship is real and you should ship it," some sort of undertone of winning people over to said ship, because literally not once ever has that sentiment had that effect on me lmao. like, first of all, i am now thinking of platonic explanations so much more than i was previously, because you put me up to a (very easy) challenge. if you say something wrong, i will start thinking about why you're wrong. you must accept this. and second of all, you're being so annoying by demeaning platonic relationships unnecessarily that, thanks to my newfound neural synapse between "[your ship]" and "annoying people," my overall impression of that ship sure isn't gonna improve, are you kidding me? like, at best, i will stop perusing that ship outside a few hyper-specific blogs and AO3 accounts that I have vetted rigorously as Able To Comprehend Caring About People Platonically — but far more likely, I will simply decide the ship itself deserves blacklist hell and my eternal ire, despite the fact that I might've felt neutral or even vaguely positive in a parallel timeline where shippers weren't so annoying. you are not selling anyone on your ship by posting "friends don't DO that" garbage; you are making people who know how relationships work roll their eyes, and not-ship your ship way harder than before. i don't think this will stop anyone, but as a matter of conscience, i think you should know.

[anistarrose]

now please don't position this, or interpret me as positioning this, as a competition with f/f fanworks, but. when we rightly talk about fandom misogyny, and disparities in how little fandoms care about female characters or about f/f ships, it also bears mentioning. that. well. a lot of fandoms really don't show interest in friendships, canonical or potential, between two or more women, too.

[anistarrose]

This isn't even the main problem with the rhetoric of "you can't headcanon that autistic character as asexual because it's infantilizing," but do people saying that ever realize that, like. If a character has even the lightest seasoning of neurodivergent-coding on them, certain people will infantilize them Regardless of whether ace headcanons are in the picture. People will see a grown adult character who's socially awkward but knowledgeable about a certain topic, and without hesitation, decide to write them as what can only be described as an allosexual who barely knows what sex is. Quit blaming ace-spec autistics in fandom for the weird ableists.