#fandom negativity

[perlaret]

frankly 911 needs to stop ending its season finales with these sappy epilogue montages and deliver a real nail-biting cliffhanger for once, they're so committed to form that it's to the show's own detriment at this point bc i was so engaged for the first 45 minutes and then suddenly: absolute nonsense with no substance to the catharsis they're trying so hard to deliver

[ilyannarozanova]

I'm gonna start this off by saying I do not give a rat's stinky ass about HR book canon but I've read enough post-episode 6 fics to recognize that people are heavily favoring Ilya's fears and sacrifices over Shane's when it comes to TLG. Is this largely due to the same unexamined biases that caused Rachel Reid to make that god-awful list contrasting Shane and Ilya while writing that book? Probably! God knows she's given plenty of evidence she prefers Ilya over Shane just from her notes and recent comments alone. Which. Can I say. Yikes!

So. Anyway. Here's why the "oh poor Ilya he had to sacrifice everything and Shane didn't appreciate him enough" narrative pisses me off so bad.

Ilya wanted a second passport. Getting an American passport without marrying an American citizen is hellish at best, and impossible at worst. He WANTED to settle in Canada, and since the Metros probably couldn't afford both of them and being on the same team would be too risky at that point, Ottawa was a good option regardless. They needed a star center. They were willing to pay for one. Unless he wanted to go to the West Coast, Ottawa was a pretty good stepping stone on the path to a CA passport even if Shane wasn't part of the equation.

Meanwhile, Shane spends TLG terrified that if he's outed he will lose everything he worked his whole fucking life to gain. The respect of his peers in the world's whitest, most violent, hyper masculine sport. The support of a fanbase and team that drafted him and supported him since he was a rookie. His closest friends on the team, if they don't react well, and he has no reason to believe they'll be #pride #gayrights about it, especially if it comes out that Shane is gay for Rozanov.

Shane spends so much time being terrified that his career and personal life will be ruined and lo and fucking behold, when he's outed, that's exactly what happens. So Shane Hollander, Mr. Canada's Golden Boy, Mr. Lives Breathes And Eats Hockey, is forced to sacrifice his captaincy, his fans, his team, his legacy, and his mental and physical safety without even having a real choice about it.

Idk maybe I'm being dramatic but it just pisses me off when people baby Ilya because apparently "he moved to a Canadian team that could afford him and turned out to be extremely queer-friendly so he could (by his own choice) be closer to his boyfriend and get citizenship" = "he sacrificed everything for Shane who doesn't appreciate it because he's oblivious and selfish" while Ilya makes jokes about Shane's ED and how Shane isnt captain anymore and never acknowledges how fucking brutal it is to be in Shane's place. As if the whole situation is not life-shatteringly devastating for Shane.

Overall it just lands very wrong to me. Like maybe this is a hot take but #myilya would never kick Shane when he's down like that; in fact, farther down the line once Shane is comfortable on the new team and they've won a cup or two #myilya would probably offer Shane the captaincy (or co-captaincy ideally) because he knows it means more to Shane than it does to him. Because giving Shane that public power and control and chance to prove he's just as good a player and captain now as he always was would not only be devastatingly romantic, but would make a crazy statement about Ilya's trust in and respect for Shane in front of the whole world.

They are equals, but off the ice the world will never see them that way, and Ilya, who apparently sees "the dark side of hockey", has to know that. So having Ilya, the womanizer who starts fights and plays rough and brags about his huge dick and showboats with his shirt off in interviews, go "no fuck you all that's my fiance and he's the captain we deserve and I'm proud to be on HIS team" would be soooooo good. Again. Maybe a stupid hill to die on. But it's my hill and I shall die on it with pride #myhill

ANYWAY. Fandom and author bias has once again got me riled up on this fine morning how are y'all doing

[cellworm]

i don't even care about sounding insufferable i HATE HATE HATE those so called "dsmp fans" who say that they loooove dsmp so they remember it once a year for one week in the summer and tweet shit like "i'm so dsmp pilled this summer ha ha ha you guys" and then you look at what they have to say and it's all just ctommy and tweets about how he was sooo sweet and innocent like he was such a babyyyy but then all those weird creepy adults came in and all they ever did was abuse wittle poor chommy who was NINE YEARS OLD and was literally JUST A BABWYYYY😢😢😢😢 AND THese fuckers FLINCH like they heard a gunshot when somebody DARES to mention a name that isn't ctommy or ctecho or ctubbo or cdream(who's name they only mention to say how bad he is)because they don't remember that other characters exist or think that all other creators are ALLL pieces of shit and groomers etc etc and also they don't remember women and say their name only to mention how everyone is misogynistic. They don't remember SHIT from actual canon and they only remember their fluffy funny sbi fanfics where everyone is a big family and ctechno is literally cphil's son and chommy is his son too and also they're his ONLY sons because cwilbur's name is forbidden and if someone implies his existence they start throwing a tantrum because for them dsmp was never actually something artistic and they only think about characters as cc's themselves so that's why sbi is a family and that's why there's a suspiciously empty seat that is meant for cphil's actual canonical son because ha ha who would've thought that these so called fans ACTUALLY care about what DSMP REALLY IS WHICH IS A MINECRAFT STORY ROLEPLAY. NO cbedrock bros would not touch foreheads like wittle kitties and ctecho would not fondly call ctommy a gremlin for stealing his resourses while also smiling and laughing and also they would not cuddle in sleep and also wittle babwy ctommy would not come to big bro techno cause he has nightmares😢😢😢😢 and cphil would not call ctommy a sunshine and would not treat him like he's his son and i'm only talking about sbi part because these fucks are unfortunately(or luckily i don't know anymore) the ones that i see the most but BE SO FOR REAL WHAT IS THE POINT IN SAYING THAT YOU'RE DSMP PILLED ONCE A YEAR AND CLAIMINGTHAT YOU LOVE DSMP ONLY TO TAKE AWAY EVERY BIT OF CANON THAT ACTUALLY MADE IT INTERESTING AND COOL AND ACTUALLY GOOD???????? i DON'T have anything against changing canon a little and playing with toys but at what point we acknowlege that there is nothing left of the actually good bits of story and all that we have left is a fucking SLOP for likes and hit tweets omg

[tonyskittymug]

"Zutara shippers are straight"

"Zutara shippers just have a crush on Zuko"

"Zutara shippers just want Katara to be with a bad boy"

"Zutara shippers just want Katara to be with an older man"

[fourfan-27]

The wings of fire fandom is SO annoying sometimes

First of all I KNOW that a lot of the fandom are children, but so is a decent amount of the osc and I don’t find this problem in there that much. They just CANT HANDLE OTHER OPINIONS. Especially the Pinterest side of the wof fandom. If you say that you hate qibli or think he’s a flawed character, they will COME AFTER YOU. If you ship Qinter and not moonbli they will come after you saying “isn’t qibli in a relationship??” Or “they’re just friends this is so annoying stawp it” ITS SO ANNOYING !!!! You can’t try to reason with them either 🫩

Second of all most of them are suck in 2020, ESPECIALLY with their humor. Maybe object shows have just altered my humor too much but the wof fandom is SO unfunny. Like- get better jokes? Most of the memes are cringe and just unfunny. I should inject my osc humor into it. A lot of the fandom on tumblr is better at jokes tho, tbh

Their hate on the graphic novels is also VERY annoying. How about YOU try drawing a 200 page graphic novel full of DRAGONS. I think the art is just fine and it’s ok if you don’t like it, but gosh these kids slander it to the point that you can’t even tell WHY they dislike it.

they’re also allergic to headcanons and rarepairs

sorry for the rant but this fandom is SUCH a trap

[sinmonger]

that buzzfeed post being homophobic and quite frankly disrespectful to hudson's actual girlfriend... like people already take their rpfing too far, even in fandom spaces, but they're breaking containment and letting it get into the public and then hyping up the public posts about it.. its not okay

I haven’t been this heated in a long time. I do NOT care who people ship in a fandom space - legit if you ship Connor and Hudson in a FANDOM ONLY SPACE then I love that for you, live your best life, I GET IT. But BUZZFEED CANADA? not only is it misogynistic and homophobic as fuck to call Connor Storrie a “Mrs” when he publicly identifies as a man (and the idea there is a MRS IN A GAY RELATIONSHIP??) but then to completely ignore the existence of Hudson’s very very real girlfriend? I keep my mouth shut about a lot when it comes to HR to keep my peace and my followers peace but this is worth it.

[brooklyn-house]

hey riordanverse fandom... don't make me tap the sign

[artemis-pendragon]

How it feels to block people who prioritize sad fictional white men over every other character's story arc: