from the choose violence fandom asks - ty jadekins!!
11) number of fandom-related words you've filtered
it seems the only fandom words i have filtered are spiderman related dhfsadmfmg i was just seeing a Lot of content on my dash at one point?? i'm mostly very chill about fandoms i'm not involved in and utterly supportive of my moots' other interests but it was just too much ig. maybe i'll unblock him and give him another chance
17) there should be more of this type of fic/art
spit. spitting. i hereby declare Spit In My Mouth Spring please submit all contest entries directly to my mouth
I'd say most of the caharcetrs from Bojack Horseman. Mostly Bojack Horseman himself though.
16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
Coffeeshop aus. I think i might be too finnish for those, but like. I will be nice to cafe workers and try to make their days as easy as they can be. Cause I know that service jobs can be an absolute hell. I would not want anyone to stall the line by flirting with the barista just trying to get their paycheck they are probably being paid way less then they deserve to. It's just such a stressfull enviroment to me, I have hard time getting in to these very romantic, slow and warm aus, where worries about pay, the work conditions, the economy are not talked of, of course cause it's only for romance. Might as well be a grocery store au!! I have had way stronger crushes on grocery store cashiers than on coffeeshop workers!
23. ship you've unwillingly come around to
Was not too in to Denji/Asa/Yoru at the start. However. They unfortunately do be living in my head rent free. Even if i see their relationship still closer to platonic, with sexual elements. I can see it as a romantic thing, but also. I think they are first and foremost friends.
19) You're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
I really shouldn't like Rudy because he becomes a villian in the comics. But... I admit it. He's my favourite character.
20) Part of canon you found tedious or boring.
Omniman's entire character. "Evil superman" was overdone before I was even old enough to read. (To let that settle in, I'm 30 and was able to read at roughly 3 and a half.) And trying to make me feel sympathy for an abusive parent isn't going to make it better.
4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?
Having concrete evidence that I was lied to about a significant thing
8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about
That Eddie only Doms or Tops and would never Sub or Bottom. Everyone does both until proven otherwise as far as I’m concerned. Also that Domming/Topping are interchangeable terms. They absolutely are not.
21. part of canon you think is overhyped
Eddie’s arrival at the 118. What I mean by that is the ridiculous amount of times I’ve heard about people being encouraged to skip S1 and go straight to S2 because Eddie/Buddie. If you are skipping S1 and the absolute treasure trove of character building there, I’m afraid you’ve already lost.
3: screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
“Jango Fett isn’t a real mandalorian because the only real mandalorians are New Mandalorians and No One Else”
Like. how. What????? Wh.
I was so rattled i just instinctively blocked the OP of that one like. If you want to say he’s not a mandalorian, there are reasons (like TCW canon. I disagree and fully think he IS mando but it’s a reason). but the new mandalorians being the only legit mandos is Not One of Them.
6:which ship fans are the most annoying?
I say this as someone who is at least Somewhat fond of the ship. But codywan–
AGAIN. I CAN ENJOY THE SHIP SOMETIMES. But some fans are a bit…. Intense. And the vast majority of codywan also suffers from major OOC behavior from both of them, which is not my fav. I would just like to browse commander sunshine’s tag in peace please.
16: you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
Two things that are kind of linked to each other:
One: the obsession with obi-wan being a redhead (he is, generously, strawberry blond at best).
Two: making stewjoni people very,,,,,,,,,,,,, uh,,,,,,,, unique in sexual biology, for the express purpose of obi-wan shipping. It’s. odd.
25: common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing
Legends vs canon discourse. Drives me nuts. On one hand some people think that everything legends should be trashed because it’s not canon anymore, but on the other hand some Legends fans are rabid about their hate for canon. Personally i think it’s fun to try and mesh the two together. Its a fun puzzle : )
ohho damn not even a specific fandom? char you crave violence. ok in that case
JAKE
FUCKING
ENGLISH
begin rant .
like hooooly shit ive seen portrayals of jake where he doesnt even swear people just replace it with “gadzooks” or “by jove” BRO!! LET THAT MAN SAY FUCK !!!!! were not dealing with some proper little gentleman with a posh british accent. that is an unsupervised aussie who is a-ok with rolling up ass-out in a loincloth for halloween cause he was raised in the woods
like dont get me wrong jake is polite and mannerly and jake gets nervous and avoidant about a lot of shit but like. im so tired of people just treating him like some little dipshit baby himbo doormat who doesnt know whats going on around him
NOT EVEN TO MENTION how hes just reduced to his RELATIONSHIPS with OTHER PEOPLE like it even gets to a point in CANON where hes treated like less of a person and more of solely just an object of attraction like can the man PLEASE have a say in his own shit please. ive gone through the jake tag looking for Just Jake and every time its practically only been dirkjake
like holy shit jake is so nuanced and layered. he has interests beyond the avatar movies and hes capable of knowingly being a dick and hes strong and able to fend for himself without cowering behind dirk or anyone for that matter and jesus christ he is not just Dirks Boyfriend. lord god jake you deserve to go on some kind of uninterrupted killing spree
3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
I don't have a screenshot, but I do remember seeing a post that said Elena is a manipulator who is the way she is because she plays on social dynamics to get the most powerful people to protect her, and hides behind them, using them as shields. This is a very weird take because if it was true Elena would've played on Elijah's emotions for Katherine, or made deals with/seduced Klaus rather than stay with her friends and the Salvatores. Also, it is Damon and Stefan who manipulate Elena and not the other way around, she simply reacts to them and tries to hold on to as much of her agency as possible. So that was something I vehemently disagreed with.
6. which ship fans are the most annoying?
Klaroline. They actually bullied Leah Pipes and sent her death threats until she left the show, they bullied Phoebe for playing Hayley who 'comes between' Klaus and Caroline, hell, they even bullied Joseph's wife for marrying him, and I've heard that a lot of the stuff was extremely racist.
Also, I know this asks for one, but they are tied for me, Nian shippers. Ian and Nina are actual people and not characters on a show, there's no need to ship them, and there's certainly no need to send death threats to Nikki Reed. It just gets embarrassing at one point.
9. worst part of canon
Um....only one? Well, I know a lot of people have expressed their disappointment about the doppelgänger connection not being fleshed out, which I completely agree with, but I think I'm going to go with the sire bond.
There's two I wanna dissect - the first is Tyler's bond to Klaus, and the second is Elena's bond to Damon, and the different ways in which they are treated by the narrative.
Tyler's sire bond is treated like it's a bad thing, and rightfully so. We see many uncomfortable scenes which show Tyler's absolute devotion to Klaus, all of it coming to a head when Klaus makes Tyler bite Caroline. Tyler is a victim, a victim who is, at times, shamed for being connected to Klaus in that way. But once it is clear that Tyler doesn't have his free will, people want to help him. The Mystic 'gang' collectively decides not to involve Tyler in their plans because they know he can't help himself. Bill Forbes helps him break the sire bond, and it is acknowledged that the best thing for Tyler is to stay away from Klaus.
(There is a tangent here about how Klaus and Tyler are two sides of the same coin and how the two of them are foils to each other, but we'll discuss that some other day.)
After this, Tyler has a need for revenge against Klaus, rightfully so, and initially everyone is ready to help him. In short, despite how Tyler is treated on the show later on, during s3-4, most characters acknowledge that sire bond is bad, and Tyler should stay from Klaus.
Now, this is the thing I hate most about canon - Elena's sire bond to Damon. This was supposedly based on feelings Elena had for Damon when she was human. At first, we see Elena being a 'wrong' vampire, unable to drink animal blood, blood bags, anything that doesn't involve hurting people because Damon said so. To put this in perspective, as a new vampire, Elena starves herself almost to the point of death because of the sire bond. Then, we see her break up with Stefan - which I did not think came out of nowhere - and hooking up with Damon the next night or something. This is when we learn that she's sired to Damon.
At this point, knowing what we know about Tyler inability to refuse Klaus' orders, we can draw the conclusion that Elena could never have refused Damon's demand for sex due to the sire bond. At best, this is dub-con. And yet, the whole 'Elena and Damon slept together' thing is treated by the narrative as simply hooking up, or even, as the resolution of sexual tension that was building over three season. When the cause for the sire bond is revealed, we are told that it is because of Elena's feelings for Damon, effectively blaming Elena for the existence of the sire bond. (With Tyler and Klaus, Klaus' actions are blamed for it, once again, rightfully so.)
Even after the knowledge of the sire bond, Damon refuses to let Elena go. Stefan is hurt that Elena's 'in love' with Damon and slept with him, and Stefan, the same Stefan who spends all of season 3 wanting to take revenge against Klaus for stealing his free will, never once acknowledges the fact that Elena slept with Damon at a time when her ability to consent was compromised. In fact, Stefan acts like the victim in this situation and sleeps with Rebekah (who murdered her) for the purpose of getting back at Elena and when he's confronted with this fact, he tells Elena she has no right to be jealous. Some epic love. But, this is how Stefan treats Elena during the sire bond situation.
Caroline, while knowing about the sire bond, despite herself being a victim of Damon's, simply blames Elena for breaking Stefan's heart. Jeremy doesn't seem to know or care, but both him and Bonnie get a pass because they were going through shit in s4.
Basically, when it comes to the sire bond between Damon and Elena, the narrative treats it as a romantic thing, something beautiful that came out of their feelings for each other instead of treating it as the fucked up thing it is. The victim in this situation is blamed, and no one wants to keep Elena away from Damon because he might hurt her, they want to keep her away from him because otherwise Stefan's feelings will be hurt (at this point, I'm through with both the Salvatores and their 'pain', cry me a river).
In conclusion, the worst thing about canon is not just the sire bond between Damon and Elena, but the way the narrative treats it.
12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
John Gilbert, I think. It’s an odd choice because he’s a dick, leaving Elena and Jeremy to fend for themselves after their parents’ death and then criticising Jenna for a job not done well was terrible. But other than that, he was in town to keep the Salvatores away from Elena, which I can get. His seventeen year old daughter/niece is dating a hundred and fifty year old vampires and his brother is a creep preying on her, I’d want them away from her too.
He doesn’t go about it in the best way, but he does his best, and eventually, he gives up his life for her, so that she can choose whether or not to become a vampire. I hate that he sees all vampires as monsters but that hate was something he was likely taught until he came upon some vampire feeding on/killing someone innocent, playing with them the way we Isobel, Katherine, and Damon doing as well, and his hate took a life of its own. I do appreciate his dedication though, he teaches himself to be resistant to compulsion, and at least tries to protect people, even if he is extremely arrogant.
I’m not saying people should like him per say, but I don’t think he deserves the hate he gets.
