#fandom fears

[adrianacartoonfangirl]

//Vent You know that scene at the end of "The Hobbit" (the South Park episode) where Wendy finally caves in and posts a Photoshopped picture of herself despite her better judgement? That's lowkey how I feel. That I have to post a ship drawing, regardless of the ship and the quality of the drawing, in order to get ANY kind of engagement/attention Unfortunately I genuinely only have two and a half ships (Stendy, Henrietta x Michael, and the "and a half" being TimJim); and I just don't have any ideas or desire to draw them. But if I ever did, people would eat that up but not my dozens of other drawings that I actually poured my heart and soul into that have nothing to do with ships

[heretherebedork]

I live in a trashcan when it comes to BL, and I'm perfectly happy living in my trashcan and encouraging everyone else to find the trashcan of their dreams.

However, going to be honest, a BL about BL actors falling in love honestly makes me a little nervous. The plot itself doesn't bother me - YongJie is my favorite character in History4 so I'm in no position to judge anyone for anything.

But given issues in BL about fanservice and pushing actors to act like their dating.......ugh.

Like obviously, we should all be able to enjoy whatever fiction brings up joy, and if this fits into my trashcan, I will gobble it down and let it bring me joy. But....I just worry........

I do not deny that the idea of actors falling in love within a show does make me a little bit... apprehensive for how it will be handled and how it can be handled.

But if it's wild and over the top enough, I can probably handle it.

Call It What You Want did something similar and handled it surprising well but that was also a director and an actor and was trying to be realistic about the real world consequences which I don't think War of Y is gonna try so... very different.

Also calls back to Lovely Writer with the discussion of the shipping versus the real life relationships and the idea of wanting that lie to be real versus wanting to lead their real lives...

So this isn't the first but it is one of the first to be this specific unless we look to the Philippines for the maybe-to-exist sequel to Boys' Lockdown that's about the actors falling in love but, honestly, I had a lot of qualms about that too.

There have been others, I'm sure, but they're not super common and I'm kind of glad about that.

This is one where the show is not what I'm worried about, it's the fan reaction. And having seen some fans lately... I do worry. I get it. I've seen a few too many people using the word crush to discuss friendships between actors and it does make me DEEPLY uncomfortable.

But that's not the fault of the people making the show and it is an interesting thing to see and explore and I like the idea. I just worry about the fans taking it as Fan Service rather than Fiction.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

How do you stay positive about season 13 when everyone is flying off the handle with rumors right now? I swear a person I follow just claimed that Jack is supposed to be "eye candy" for the "under 20s" crowd because the boys are getting too "old" and he's gonna replace them somehow all because a pic if him in a tan jacket with a tie. She claims he's the "new Cas." She got all this from ONE picture and I am losing my mind because it sounds bat shit crazy. Like, what?

I think you answered your own question :D because... people will always come up with the most ridiculous scenarios. Someone will call me ‘positivity police’ for saying this, probably, but let’s be real: people have always reacted negatively to spoilers and promos and interviews, expecting the Worst(TM), and that just ended up not happening. One is allowed to have feelings and fears, but there’s a line between fears and... well, expecting that every other character introduced in the show is going to replace Cas as the third most important character in the show (look at Jack in the promo poster for the season... oh, wait, he’s not there). One can wish Cas was in more episodes or that his arc went like this or that, but he’s never been written out/replaced/been put in a female vessel permanently/been given a female long-term love interest/being sidelined while Dean is given a female long-term love interest/etc.

I have made my blog during season 10 but I have been regularly stalking keeping up with spn blogs since late season 8 and, well, nothing is new. People have always taken every rumor/new casting/speck of dust in the frame as a sign that Cas was going to be cut out of the story or diminished in importance somehow or be played by someone else than Misha (I remember when people said Erica Carroll was going to play Cas because she looked kinda like a female Misha... instead Hannah ended up being played by a man. Glorious). Although I must say that if they’re now saying that Jack is going to diminish the importance of Sam and Dean too, well, that’s new and the person deserves a creative award because I don’t think anyone has ever been afraid of that...

It’s September and it’s That Time of the year: we don’t really know anything but the bits that we’re fed from a table we are not allowed too see yet. It’s like, there’s an entire wedding cake with multiple layers and topped with an array of fruit... and we’re given a blueberry. Yes, the blueberry is part of the cake but also... just one thing. And people are going to speculate that the dessert is a fruit salad or a blueberry pie. Actually scrap that metaphor - it’s like we see all the ingredients (minus some that they keep hidden in the pantry...) that they’ve used to make the cake. We can imagine what the cake will end up tasting like but we can’t really figure out what it’ll be like exactly like from, like, a bag of flour, a carton of eggs, some bags of fruit, a bar of butter... just think of Alexander Calvert as a bar of butter. Or vanillin. Or a slice of mango.

Over the years I’ve seen meta writers on tumblr try to persuade people of a fundamental truth: that promos (the pictures, the videos, just like the interviews and all PR) are misleading. We’ve seen people convince themselves of the most negative scenarios from the few seconds of a clip, and when the episode aired that obviously didn’t come to be true. It has happened over and over. I guess it becomes irritating to see people still jump to conclusions despite a history of promos ending up just very, very incomplete information, but people will be afraid of what they’re afraid. You just gotta roll your eyes and scroll on.

Season premieres always sweep away piles of panicky scenarios. That’ll happen in a few weeks again :)

[toastgull]

Fandom Fears #3: This just in...

[toastgull]

Fandom Fears #5: A Genuine Concern.

[caramelsilver]

Often I look at a post on tumblr.com and think... is this just generic funny picture OR is it part of a fandom I don’t know anything about, and if I reblog it people will think I know of it...!!??

[youkicklikeanineyearoldgirl-cm]

I just thought of something. 

Okay, so JJ is a huge family person, right? So what if the reason she went to work at the pentagon was because someone she loved was in danger? Alright you following me? 

Okay, and then she got kidnapped because she was getting in the way. Making the person who was in danger vulnerable and then something bad happened to that person. 

Like, everyone in the CM fandom right now is focusing on JJ and her kidnapping, giving the writers the perfect chance to slip something in. 

[jh0ltz]

Fandom Fears

reblog if you're afraid/suspicious of any of these things:

wifi, spending christmas in london, fake staircases that lead to an imaginary 2nd floor, tally marks on your arm, BAD WOLF graffiti, statues (particularly of angels), the words DELETE and/or EXTERMINATE, having more than one shadow, people who are SAVED but not SAFE, potatoes, cracks in the wall, spoilers, paradoxes, satellites (particularly ones with the number 5), little red warning lights that never go off, "cold-burning" stars, little innocent English villages, anyone who calls themselves "the master", when somebody knocks on your door four times.....

am i missing anything?