#fandom logic

[gryficowa]

Fandom is like: Canonically a character is not aroace, so we can ship them with a character of the same gender even though they are canonically not gay

I recommend analyzing these logical somersaults in queer spaces that exclude aro/ace people

[lilisouless]

"My ship is more popular, therefore is better"

"every single person that gushes about that ship gets the girl out of character if it even gives her one, focusses on how it benefits the man and only the man and the girl is pretty much treated as a self insert"

Yeah, phallocentrism is popular, doesn't make it good

[flawersblu86]

as much as it bothers me Aaron made his choice at that moment and he can say otherwise, Robert also did the same thing with Chrissie and even worse but when it comes to him he can say what he wants HIS GREAT instead Aaron can't say anything he gets pilloried 🙄

[psyga315]

RWBY Fandom: The HTDM are trying to make the Staff so powerful, but they ignore the limitations!

Also RWBY Fandom: {ignores how Cinder implied she had the staff make fire}

Also Also RWBY Fandom: {ignores how the show itself purposefully ignored its limitations via loophole abuse}

[thatblondeperson]

Comic book fans be like: sees half a panel of a character doing/eating something and makes that an entire facet of their personality

[melinoekelapsi]

Don't you just love how people are now commenting on outdated Pink Diamond/Pink Pearl speculations with "YOU GOT IT WRONG" in light of the new SU bombs, as if everything involving Pink WASN'T a huge secret before? XD How is it so hard to grasp that a two year old fanmade interpretation isn't a perfect carbon copy of the recent canon reveal? More importantly, how is it so hard to simply look at the date the art was originally posted?

[hirakdesherrani]

Is Omkara really a bad husband? I don't get it why is Rikara fandom upset with Om only, and not Gauri?

Hi anon! 

Erm, okay, I’ll try and answer this, but this is just what *I* think. I can’t speak for the entire Rikara, or even Gauri fandom. I just know what some Gauri fans think, and most of us are pretty extreme, so please don’t take this as ‘the’ answer on this topic. I’m sure Omkara fans would have something different, maybe completely opposite, to say to this. 

Rikara as such was never the story of two individuals. DBO was Gauri’s story, and in IB whatever was supposed to be *their story* was half-baked, and at best, a few good scenes. Like I said somewhere else, Rikara had only 150 episodes (DBO+IB) of shoddy, hopscotch development. For the PH, their story ended at Bareilly. 

But here’s the thing, its easy to say that move on, and most people have tbh. Problem is that the characters are still there and, more importantly the actors are still there in the show. I remember during Qubool Hai season 1 when Karan Singh Grover was replaced with Raquesh (thats his name?) as Asad, most of us stopped watching and caring. For us, Asad was KSG and no one else. Similarly, if now Shrenu (or Kunal) were to quit, whatever is left of the Rikara fandom, will vanish in a day. The problem is that they are still there in the show, which is where all the disappointment comes from. (I’m in no way saying that they should quit, its their life, jo marzi kare, plus competition is hard in acting industry).

Coming to your question, is Omkara really a bad husband?

Umm, is Omkara even a husband? Are Rikara even married? Are they even in a relationship? These would be better questions. Baar haal, to answer your question, it all depends on assumptions. Television is a visual medium, and especially for the Indian audiences, everything needs to be shown properly. Thats why we have elaborate consummation tracks (unlike Pakistani serials, where they never focus on this aspect except in MNYH and Aunn Zara). If the audiences are not shown anything, they are free to assume what they want. 

Why does Rikara/Gauri (or even Shivika fandom) assume that Omkara is a bad husband? The answer is two fold: Firstly, throughout DBO, and in most of IB, we have seen Gauri doing so much for Omkara from saving his life multiple times, to almost sacrificing her own. Omkara in comparison has done NOTHING for her. This is the primary problem which irks most Gauri fans because the relationship is so unequal. Every single female in the Oberoi family, including Pinky, deserve better. But Gauri tops the list in deserving a better guy. Which is ironic considering that among all the men, Omkara is the most sensible and an actual nice guy. Its just that his sins against Gauri have been huge. Gauri has forgiven him, the fandom has not.

Secondly, since November whatever visual evidence we do get shows Omkara always involved in his brother and bhaabhi’s lives and their issues, not sharing anything with Gauri, to the point that he and Rudra seem sort of obsessed with his brother. Gauri is just there in the capacity of a dance partner. One could replace Khanna (though Khanna belongs to Shivaay) with Gauri, it would make no difference. What really made the fandom mad were two particular instances where Om seemed to be getting touchy-feely with Anika. I haven’t seen those scenes, but I did read a lot of comments on Twitter to the tune of “Om apni biwi ko chhodke bhaabhi pe line maar raha hai” and all that. I didn’t see any such complaint with regard to Rudra/Leenesh, which means that Leenesh maintained/remained in character, so here the fault lies with Kunal (and maybe not Omkara) for slipping out of character. 

These two reasons combined give the impression that Omkara is not being a good husband. The fandom was probably waiting for months to see Omkara doing something for Gauri. Instead of that, they see him flirting with Anika. So, of course they declared Om as a bad husband. 

Coming to you second question, why is Rikara fandom upset only with Om and not Gauri?

Like I said before, Gauri has already done more than enough for Om in DBO. She forgave and agreed to help this man against Svetlana, when 36 hours earlier he had left her to die/be raped at Kali’s hands. What more can Gauri do, than what she has already done?

Secondly, its not that fans are not upset with Gauri. They are upset with Gauri too, but about different things. If fans are upset with Om for being a bad husband, they are upset with Gauri for becoming a mannequin. Fans are in fact, more pissed with Gauri than Om. The Bareilly track in October really elevated Gauri’s position ‘cos she was first 4 Lions heroine who actually asked the man whether he holds himself to the same standards that he held her to. Fans had really high expectations from Gauri after this. Of course, all of that came crashing down. Fans really want Gauri to demand her place in Omkara’s life, to not be a meek and submissive wife but take what is hers, and basically to dump Omkara because he is not making her a priority. 

Which is why Indiaforums and Wattpad are flooded with fanfictions where Gauri leaves Omkara. These fanfictions are not a result of Omkara being a bad husband, these are a result of Gauri not being a self-respecting woman. 

Fans at the moment are disappointed with both the characters. The dislike against Omkara seems more, because he is visible as a brother while Gauri isn’t visible at all. 

The point is, none of this matters. The popular belief propagated by Shivika fans is that only Shivika brings TRP. Whether this is true or not, I don’t know, but Gul seems to work on this theory, and thus, there is never going to be any Rikara in foreseeable future. So, Rikara fandom, whatever is left of it, just reads fanfictions now, ‘cos at least there we get to see Gauri dumping Omkara and living her best life away from him and stupid Oberois. 

[livisgay-blog]

like Robert literally tried to kill Aaron’s mother (twice), his father figure once (which unrevocably damaged their relationship) and theatened his nephew (a freaking toddler) 

He did this to all the people Aaron loves so much, to the people Aaron definitely does want in his life, while being in a relationship with him. He did this while pretending to care in some way about Aaron, and he by the way has never apologised for any of that, other than a vague manipulative comment about “not knowing how to deal with being in love with Aaron uwu” 

And none of this is considered as a reason Robron shouldn’t be together, all of these instants have been dismissed as “lol Robert makes bad decisions” and “wow guess we better hope Aaron doesn’t find out about that” (that being, trying to kill his mom) and the worse: “wow Paddy could kind of make an effort”. 

but now Adam (Aaron’s best friend for years) is being somewhat more assertive than usual in telling Robert (someone he never really liked) to fuck off and y’all are raising alarm bells about him being “overbearing” and “isolating Aaron” when Aaron literally does want to be isolated from Robert because he fucking broke up with him 

like i’m not even surprised but also are you kidding me