#oh fandom

[jeannetterankin]

I really love ao3

[selfconsciousfangirl]

Look, I’m old enough not to care if the thing I like isn't popular (I’m also old enough to be okay with the thing I like being popular), but I look at tumblr search ranking and what on earth is that all about. How come this place hasn’t gone insane over half man. It’s got layers upon layers of fucked up relationship dynamics, insecurity, internalised homophobia, abuse, miscommunication. You have Richard Gadd saying that the biggest tragedy is that these two men couldn’t say I love you to each other. What more do you want

[codswalloping]

Are you ever just staggered by the amount of mind-altering endorphins you can inflict on yourself by sitting at your laptop and Making Imaginary People Have Feelings

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

What the fuck is breastfeeding discourse.

I'm going to take a a guess and say it had something to do with Dany??

ahaha. Yes, in this fandom, you might think that "breastfeeding discourse" should involve characters who actually breastfeed on page, like Dany or Lysa. Or even something to do with the Sam/Gilly sex scene in AFFC. If only we were so lucky.

No, in actuality this refers to a wank from several years ago (2020) in which an Ar*ya stan wrote an essay discussing the scene in AFFC where one night the (13-year-old) Sansa refuses to let Sweetrobin (her 8-year-old cousin) sleep in her bed (and locks his room to prevent him from leaving it) because, quoting the book: "She would not have minded if he only slept, but he was always trying to nuzzle at her breasts, and when he had his shaking spells he often wet the bed." ...Anyway, this stan said that this scene proved that Sansa had no natural maternal instinct and would be a bad mother who would not breastfeed her children. Unlike Ar*ya (11 years old), who took care of Weasel because she did have a natural maternal instinct (to go along with her natural beauty vs Sansa's manufactured beauty) and would be a good mother and who would certainly let Sweetrobin in her bed and nuzzle at her chest and even pee on her. And would breastfeed her children, of course.

(Mind you, this argument was also in service of promoting Ar*ya as Jon's true love and the warm motherly sister he should sleep with, not his cold abusive superficial bitch sister Sansa. Of course.)

If you're interested despite all this, there's a response post to the wank that treats the subject far more sensibly than it deserves, imo, but all credit towards them for trying. I particularly like that they pointed out that at the end of the chapter Sansa goes back to letting Sweetrobin sleep in her bed again.

[forcearama]

I love when people here randomly become obsessed with something I've never even heard of because suddenly I see this flurry of posts where people will post stuff like "it's SO like Jesperynne to lie to everyone all the time hahaha amirite" and I'm like....is this your OC? Your friend's OC? Your wayward child? Your alter ego? A friend of ours whose name I didn't know? How many hours of bullshit would I have to watch/how many dumb books do I have to read to understand this? WHAT IS THE CONTEXT HERE -- I'm in my 40s OK? I'm not on a first-name basis with every weird thing you people like 😄

(I say this with affection; I love nerds and there's a reason I'm still here over a decade later. It just makes me laugh.)

[shiz0-0]

¡TW!> Blood, $u!¢¡de

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OH FUCK, I'M ALIVE.Sorry again that I didn't post anything on Tumblr.I don't have time to post anything because of my studies, so I'm sorry again

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

I think the reason a lot of people don’t believe him — or feel disappointed about his recent relationship with the paps — is because it’s known that he or his team calls them as part of the job. So it feels weird to see him act annoyed or uncomfortable when he knows he’s going to be papped (I’m not talking about that specific video). Like, if you know you’re going to get papped, just keep a straight face and move on. You don’t have to cover your face or look upset at the camera. I think for a lot of people it feels awkward to watch him do that because it doesn’t come across as genuine. And yeah, there are aspects of his career that aren’t fully genuine, but seeing him act like that can feel a bit cringe. It really makes you doubt everything about him, like are you who you're shown to be or are you just a good actor that is pretending all the time to be someone else to sell more and be portrayed as a victim? And it’s not even about whether people believe he’s in a pr relationship right now or not. I'm talking about his solo pap pics

What I hate about this sort of thinking is that it combines huge assumptions about what is happening with a controlling and narrow mindset about what sort of behaviour is acceptable.

You jump from his team call paps sometimes (I think it's a reasonable assumption that they do - although I"m not sure we can be certain) to - we can be sure that he knew he was going to be papped every time we see pap pictures

But why would that follow? Pictures of Harry sell - why would paps come only when his team called? There's so much black and white thinking in this - either paps are called all the time or Harry would never call the paps. But what if sometimes they're called and sometimes they're not. Sometimes he's seen and sometimes he doesn't. He doesn't know what's going to happen before he leaves the house. Sometimes he hopes he's not going to be papped and is disappointed when he is.

But even more importantly - so what if he knew he was going to be papped and still looked grumpy/covered his face? Lots of people do heaps of things they hate doing for their jobs all the time. Demanding that everyone perform happiness for anything that they're doing as part of their job is grotesque.

It's wild that you're calling looking unhappy while you do a work task ungenuine. People genuinely have a full range of emotions while doing work tasks.

[lotus--pond]

fun activity to do with a group of friends: if your friend group starred in a TV show/movie, how would the fandom mischaracterize you all?

We came to the conclusion that I would be perceived as one of those "my traumatized son" "protect at all costs" "legally not allowed to swear" "precious bean" type characters bc I've had lots of not great stuff happen to me in the past year and I'm also a bit of a people pleaser and my hobbies are ones that are percieveed as like nerdy and soft (plus other things that tend to get characters infantalized: autism, anxiety, being nonbinary, being ace etc etc)