#fandom rant

[kawareo]

"Imagine still posting fanart a whole year after the game came out" brother what are you talking about

[blazethecheeto]

something about the final climax of thunderbolts not being this huge, explosive battle where the villain is irredeemable and the heroes summon the power of the galaxies to stop them-

but how the final climax was quiet. the darkest shadow, a void falling over new york. it wasn't loud, there wasn't any screaming. it descended upon the city and the people didn't have a chance to react before it swallowed them whole.

how the team's battle was internal, inside their own minds, instead of a huge punchy shoot-off. (especially with this group's skill set, it was unexpected) how they all fought through the shame and guilt and their worst nightmares only to embrace each other anyway. the villain fighting against himself only to realize he is allowed to be loved, despite it all.

how they are all fucked up and have done terrible things but saved the city by holding each other tightly, so tightly that bob realizes the void isn't all he is, and light always comes again.

this movie had so much heart, it made me feel something for a team again, we are so back.

[wenclair-more-like-whenclair]

All it takes for a character to be interpreted as heterosexual is simply for the character to exist. A character can never kiss a member of the opposite gender, hook up with one, or show any signs of attraction and still be viewed as straight. Meanwhile, two members of the same gender can have the most intimate onscreen relationship, flirt, check each other out, show visible signs of being in love with the other, and somehow none of that is enough to even SUGGEST that they might be queer.

What a gross double standard. Sexuality is not “straight until proven otherwise” like so many believe it to be. Newsflash to all the straight normies out there, your favorite non labeled, sexuality unconfirmed character in your favorite show is NOT STRAIGHT just bc they haven’t been confirmed as queer. Use your fucking brains for once. It’s all about diving into media and picking up on subtext until that subtext suggests queerness. Then, suddenly, everyone loses their fucking ability to interpret a piece of media. Have you considered that: if all signs point to them being gay then maybe they actually really are just gay???

[starzzsys]

Canon sugawara will always mean more to me than fanon. That stupid teenage boy acting like a teenager is always better to me than making him some hyperfem "mom friend". Yes he's caring and supportive but he's just like any of the other boys. His first instinct when he sees his friend after he's been injuried is to punch him in the gut repeatedly 😭

This man does not baby anyone on that team dude. And I love him so much.

[glitter-stained]

As much as I agree that the portrayal of Jason's time in Arkham does not depict Jason in acute distress or anything and depicts Dick's intentions as a positive, I do believe some of y'all need to be way more careful with how you talk about forced institutionalization like. It was a fucked up thing of Dick to do. I keep seeing arguments about how Dick had good intentions and Jason didn't suffer and I need you to understand how beside the point that is. Dick shouldn't have put Jason in Arkham because forced institutionalization is bad. The both of them are extremely lucky that they were in a comic book and that the narrative was on Dick's side, but that doesn't change the fact that forced institutionalization is bad. "but Dick had made sure Arkham was reformed before sending Jason in th-" forced institutionalization is bad. There is no amount of reforming a goddamn asylum that will erase the fact that forced institutionalization is bad. It's true that the way fandom discusses that specific event is sometimes very divorced from canon, but the way some of you talk about it makes it clear you have swallowed dc's propaganda hook line and sinker and so it bears repeating: forced institutionalization is bad. Stop making posts about how actually, Dick was so heroic and kind for putting Jason in Arkham. Stop making posts about how putting Jason in Arkham was fine because he isn't shown to be tortured in it. Stop. Forced institutionalization is bad and dc lied to you

[kr108958]

It actually sucks how racist the Teen Wolf fandom is (don’t even get me started on that disgusting collection of fanfictions where Scott is getting tortured in various ways).

It’s just so frustrating because why did I see someone reduce Deaton to just Scotts boss? The man who is literally a father figure to him and constantly helping him with the supernatural. Like no he’s not just some guy that happened to be Scott’s employer when he was a kid. He’s literally family at this point.

Seriously are we forgetting how he was the one who showed Scott how to absorb pain which is a huge act of kindness we see Scott constantly do not just for his friends but strangers as well? But sure let’s ignore the father-son relationship they have Deaton is just his boss.

[skeletonwithaskinsuit]

If your goal as a creator is to police your fandom, I mean this so sincerely-

STOP MAKING PUBLIC CONTENT!

If you can't handle what you're fandom does, you shouldn't be making public content in the first place. If you want to create content but don't like fandom, leave your content for yourself.

Not only would your fandom be presumably insufferable to you, YOU would be insufferable to your fandom!

"How my fandom would mischaracterize my OCs😒" don't make your content public then.

"My fandom loves a character I don't want them to like!😫" don't make your content public then.

"My fandom is shipping characters I don't want to be shipped together!🤢" DON'T MAKE YOUR CONTENT PUBLIC THEN.