#gen fandom

[buffyspeak]

ship wars are so fucking boring. why does it have to be “my ship is less problematic than yours and actually the narrative doesn’t make sense without it” why cannot it not simply be “i find this dynamic more compelling but to each their own”

[obviousandhidden]

it’s silly to expect to never see spoilers for something that is literal decades old and it’s not wrong for people to openly discuss things you may see as spoilers for said decades old media

also

it’s unnecessary and mean to intentionally go into someone’s comments or dms and go out of your way to spoil a story you know for a fact they are experiencing for the first time and did not invite spoilers for, even if it is decades old

both of these things are true

[obviousandhidden]

I think it’s really tiring when people refer to things like “sibling-coded” characters and characters who are siblings as if they’re the same. Like responding to people shipping two characters you view as “sibling-coded” as if it’s incest is… interesting to me. And that goes for more dynamics than just that btw. Found family is not the same as a family related by blood. Just because you see a group of fictional characters and want to assign them all specific familial titles and roles, doesn’t actually mean that’s what they are or that other people can’t view them differently or ship them. Even if you think it’s weird and creepy.

[obviousandhidden]

sometimes I'll watch a show and dislike or at least not particularly care about a female character. then I'll venture into the fandom spaces and I'll see that same character get sidelined or ignored or criticized a little too much and all of a sudden she's my darling wife or daughter and I love her and I don't want to hear a negative word about her

[obviousandhidden]

refreshing the ship tag for a rarepair that never got a lot of attention anyway but now their show has been over for a year and everyone else has lost interest and moved on and I am still here... waiting... just in case

[obviousandhidden]

I love fanon and headcanons and ships that are so widely loved that any outsider looking in would assume they’re canon without question as much as the next person but holy shit it’s annoying when people act like it’s actual fact and any other interpretation or preference is objectively wrong. even when I also love the thing, whatever the thing may be, it pisses me off so bad when people act like we didn’t make it up