#fandom meta

[totally-not-zierde]

I haven't posted since ages but REALLY they are still bashing female characters for being "in the way of the M/M ship" what the heck in the 2009 is this shit

The next step is adding "here lemon!" in the middle of the fic and "SLASH! This means men!! Men having a relationship!! Don't like don't read!!" as a disclaimer

[picaresquecadence]

yet another ao3 ships stat update for the boys

butchlander has exploded in work count after dethroning butchie as the most popular ship, which has somewhat stagnated since mid-April

great things are happening for the soldierlander nation. sorry kimchie I’m rooting for yall

congratulations deeplander fans. now in the top ten and even beating out homewell

[apcqlypse]

guys its okay like nobody gaf. go outside i beg of you

[winoblio]

occasionally I see people go like "man you could get away with saying some wild shit back in 2016 undertale but barely any headcanons in current deltarune" and that's definitely true but I think the reason's a bit deeper than just 'times have changed'. Instead, I find it lies in the fact that old undertale and current deltarune were fundamentally different kinds of fandoms.

2016 undertale was what I call an 'AU-centric' fandom, which was why there were so many AUs. What this also meant was that each individual post or fanwork was compartmentalised into its own space, which allowed for a) canon to be pretty much obsolete as people went wild and made what they wanted, and b) a hell of a lot of contradictory works/headcanons/ideas.

On the other hand, current utdr (especially deltarune), is something closer to a theory-centric fandom. This means that a majority of fanworks are considerably more grounded in reasonable canon as opposed to the more buck-wild style of classic undertale, as well as probably the worst drawback of the current fandom, being that people often attribute any work as something indicative of the creator's personal theory or headcanon about the game. This leads to a lot more dogfighting within the community as non-canon-compliant works are sometimes thought to be genuine beliefs about a character/theme; this isnt to say that nobody personally headcanons the same things as the work they make, but I think its important to remember the fact that headcanons can be directly contradictory to canon, and also to remember our roots in that things dont have to be exactly as canon is so long as a claim about the canon character isnt overtly made.

[That last part is basically just a rambling about older, more gendered depictions of frisk and chara, and how perspective on those depictions has evolved from simply being self-contained fanart into enby-erasure, an evolution in perspective which i personally disagree with.]

Anyways, thanks for coming to my shitty ted-talk yall. I made this at 2:48 am so its pretty poorly formulated. Might make a longer, slightly more clear version at a later date. Don't count on it.

[shanesmouth]

a symptom of my ocd that is particularly present in 1) fandom and 2) writing work emails or anything really is that i reflexively predict all the ways i could be argued against or misconstrued or "you weren't nuanced enough about this"-ed while writing every single word. for me this is an ocd symptom because it triggers compulsive rumination, disproportionate amount of time spent rereading and adjusting phrasing, and reassurance-seeking. but i feel like it's pretty common for people without ocd who are in fandom spaces to also have learned to do this reflexive and preemptive self-criticism. like im trying very hard not to live my life like eminem in the last rap battle scene of 8 mile where he beats his critics to all the disses of himself thereby disarming them a;sldkjf;adslkjf

[bbg100]

It used to be that fanfics were made by mega nerds who usually read fic on the side and primarily read published works. Now there's people who Exclusively read fanfic and i really sincerely think that not reading outside of fandom has an impact on your ability to write fics of different genres. You cannot write a good mystery fic if all you read is coffee shop fics. You need to read published detective fiction.

[bbg100]

So polities version of my earlier post

Not every character is going to talk like someone from the city

Not every character is going to be politically correct

Not every character is going to be mature and emotionally intelligent

Your characters (even in fic) not being all in agreement with each other or even with you, the author, is the key to writing good stories

If you don't care about the canon characterizations you should be tagging your fics with ooc

[fitzfreak]

It’s so interesting to me how much “x reader” stuff there is in The Pitt fandom. I think maybe it’s a result of it being such a popular show and one that, I would argue, is similar to heated rivalry in terms of being some people’s apparent first foray into Fandom as a whole.