alpacas are heroes

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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whumpster-dumpster

Character A tilting Character B’s chin up to get a better look at their face and the evidence of the fight. A delicately thumbs away the streak of blood by B’s mouth, saying nothing as they examine it. After a brief pause, B’s heart skips a nervous beat as A looks them dead in the eyes. Their voice is quiet and tense, their anger barely restrained.

“Who did this to you?”

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Pinned Post young sylvgrid or ashe/yuri or dedue/anyone i will write this
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stickandthorn

One of the worst parts of current internet culture is that it makes good old fashioned complaining so difficult. I don’t wanna cancel anyone or bully anyone, I’m not trying to form a hate mob I’m not calling anyone out, i just wanna bitch about something. Because complaining is fun, good for you, even. Is that too much to ask? Where is the room for shooting the shit?

re-jet-irony

Also, just because I’m bitching about something and saying “I wish people would…”, especially in fandom, I’m not saying that I think people shouldn’t do whatever it is they are doing that’s annoying me, I’m just good old fashioned whining that it’s annoying me and I wish I could more easily find the things that don’t.

idealisticshoujohearts

tbh this is why I try to bitch and complain about my BEC in private these days, because it IS hard to separate just plain complaining/venting from entitlement and bullying sometimes.

reblogged for truth i need to remember this tbh
damnfandomproblems
damnfandomproblems

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Fandom Problem #4148:

There is a huge problem with American fans demanding that everything has to always carter to them and their social issues.

They see a show with a character who is a cop or similar occupation, who are shown in a positive light, and they instantly scream it's propaganda. When in the country the show comes from there aren't any problems with corruption like in the US.

Or they see an anime and whine about not having more of a diverse cast in regards of ethnicity to carter to a wider audience, when the show is supposed to specifically carter to Asians and so the cast is Asian.

The same goes when a show specifically talks about social issues in a different country, where many vocals American fans either try to make it about the US or dismiss it and even make fun of it as if it weren't a real problem when it does not reflect their personal experiences.

And that same problem happens in fanworks as well, where non-American fans get hate for making fanworks that American's deem problematic in their cultural view as if non-American have any reason to know what might be going on in the US at the moment.

I'm sorry that things aren't going well in the US and you all have the right to talk about the issues that you have. But stop expecting everyone else to carter to you in fandom spaces. Other countries also have problems and not everyone in the world can keep up or cares what might be going on in the US when they do not live there.

reblogged for truth american fans american politics the world is not america other countries besides america exist let non-american fandom spaces exist us-centric fandom fan entitlement
damnfandomproblems
damnfandomproblems

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Fandom Problem #4147:

I hate hate hate "she doesn't NEED a man" as a way of indicating that a woman is supposed to be 'strong because it suggests that, if she HAD a boyfriend that means' shes completely helpless to do anything without him, when that's not really what relationships are supposed to be FOR? Maybe, just maybe, she'd LIKE to have companionship? Not necessarily a hero, savior, or errand boy?

We don't say that male characters "don't NEED a woman". Even "progressive" people keep defaulting to seeing M/F couples as "guy = Person who Does Things & girl = Mindless Trophy & Sex Receptacle" and that the only way to have a Girl who Does Things is if she stays a pure single Virgin Mary or gets paired up with a woman.

idealisticshoujohearts

I think it says more about the person’s values and attitudes towards women if they believe a woman becomes “weak” or “stupid” or “worthless” once she falls in love with a man, or that men and women can never be partners instead of slotting into heteronormative gender roles. Especially when we’re getting more media where m/f pairs ARE more like partners and trying to get away from the “woman is man’s trophy” 50s stereotypes.

(Or the “woman wears the pants in the house and the man is a big dumb child” stereotypes of the 90s, but that’s a whooooole other nasty can of worms.)

And sometimes? f/f fans can be just as bad about gender roles, and I remember back when f/f fic mostly had the women getting together because one of them was hurt by a man. It was icky then and it’s icky now.

fandumb fauxminism fandom misogyny
damnfandomproblems
damnfandomproblems

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Fandom Problem #4128:

"If THESE characters who start out as friends become a couple later on that's bad because it just plays into the message that men and women can't JUST stay FRIENDS without it turning romantic!!"

Well, THAT'S not really true, both of them are shown to maintain close friendships with people of different genders without romantic or sexual feelings ever being implied (at least when you're not looking at it through "ship anything that breaths" goggles).

It's "problematic" if friends slowly fall in love over time, it's "problematic" of two strangers immediately like each other, I don't know how you think people are SUPPOSED to get together then?

idealisticshoujohearts

They’re supposed to hate each other passionately, bicker like children, then fall into bed a dozen times before one of them gets kidnapped or almost dies and they realize their true feelings.

shipping look i love a good etl too but don't diss ftl