Fourth Post!

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Post about fandom! Or whatever! Whether it's a rave about some obscure series, or an essay dissecting every last reason why some internet-famous author should rethink their career, someone will probably read it at some point! We also just chat about life.

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Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Because we wouldn't need meme if our fandoms could get it together!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Another subscription to a completed fic. I'm not sure if I should interpret it as 'please write more with this character' or 'I click buttons at random'.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favorite AO3 authors wrote a 'fic for my all-time favorite pairing. I've been looking forward to this ever since it was first teased almost a year ago.

Unfortunately, it also contains one of my least favorite tropes. Nothing wrong with the trope itself; it's just a personal squick of mine. I read it anyway because there are very few things I draw a hard line on and I really do enjoy this author's writing, but I definitely came away feeling conflicted.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

When I see terven ppl in fandom sharing works from total misogynists who spam the word "terf" everywhere I'm always like "huh?". Reblog whomever but idgi; I'd feel like I was just giving them a stick to hit me with.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

It's never something I see in fandom because I think fandom demographic is still predominantly American, but I feel like it's reasonable to panic af in a soulmates verse when everyone is dating their soulmate and you just realised you're some flavour of not straight.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not sure if it’s because of a newer wave of newer fans were massively into the Spiderman stuff and only want to write creepy pedo stuff, or that I was spoilt with HP and classic Star Wars as large fandoms in the past, because there’s a fic that seems really obvious to me that I assumed loads of people would write as soon as Spiderman Homecoming came out, but it’s been years and nobody has.

Why can’t I find a fic in which Peter says yes to joining the Avengers at the end, and then gradually realises over the course of months that there’s a reason Tony tried so hard to keep him out and free, and that he can’t actually leave. This feels like a basic, bread and butter fanfic, and yet either nobody is writing it in this fandom or it’s being so thoroughly flooded with “Peter discovers Tony loves him. Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sonic. Also, Coulson is alive.” that I can’t find it.

I can’t see any fics that just change one thing and let it play out like this.

Re: Fandom Venting - Remove a fic

[(Anonymous)]

What it says on the tin, nonnen.

If you could remove one type of fic from your fandoms and Thanos-snap them out of existence, what fic would it be? What would you do with UNLIMITED POWERR?????

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

There's a canon event which - if we took it seriously - is really fucking dark and fascinating to think about but I've not found a single fic that takes it seriously.

Everyone just wants their smut .__.

One day someone will write that fic and it won't be me.

Right?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

One 'fic trope I'll never get into is degradation kink. I just want to fight anyone who talks shit about my favorite character. Doesn't matter if it's his fictional boyfriend or if he's getting off to it or what, no one is calling my boy names on my watch.

...I don't know if fandom needs to get it together. I think I need to get it together.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Big Bang entries for one of my favorite ships started being posted, and the entries are pretty damn good. There's some that definitely aren't for me (there's at least three trans headcanons I've seen so far and a metric shit-ton of ABO), but there's also some that definitely are. Helps that my taste is, as the kids call it, 'basic af' and I really love AUs with any form of creativity, but I'm really happy about the sudden influx of new content after several months of literally nothing worth reading.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I read a fic where a TIF complains about straight women visiting gay bars. Oh, the irony.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Feeling very "not like the other girls" recently because one of my (male-dominated) hobbies has been overrun with underage Genshin fangirls who refuse to shut up about pronouns, think top/bottom jokes are the pinnacle of humor, and can't stop inserting gacha game discourse into everything. I shouldn't be this way but I am tired.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I just read a long essay about why this character has to be gay and most of the reasons continue to be shit.

I never really understand the point of long fan essays about orientation or ships when most of them boil down to "I like it that way"

So just do it, man, you don't gotta justify yourself to us...

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 Tag: [character] is a bird
Expectation: Bird AU
Reality: [character] is a TIF

My disappointment is immeasurable.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

For fuck's sake, the problem with surprise dick F/F fics that aren't tagged isn't the 'fetishisation of transwomen' can we not think about transwomen for one fucking microsecond?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/win7nd/the_best_gay_ships/

Edit: I'm putting this here because in like, 10 minutes or something, a whole argument happened and I didn't even realise it.

This is a wholeass mood

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Not quite a vent, but I find the tone here creepily corporate:

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/23103

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

One of my fujoshi friends apparently doesn't know what a yaoi paddle is. I feel old.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Elect Tiffany G for the lulz*

*Don't actually elect Tiffany G for the lulz; that's how we got brexit

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Why, for the love of Turkish coffee, does my new fandom seem to have a collective obsession with big dicks and with people screaming "I'm coming"?

The last is so tacky I can't believe my fandom supposedly has adults.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I miss forums so much.

I wonder if part of the whole kids invading our spaces could be due to Discord replacing forums, and how it's easier to quickly cultivate a community while focusing on the parasocial aspects. This makes it harder for information to stick around in topics where people can find it. It makes it easier for people with social skills to hang out with other people who are interested in the social side of things, even when conversation strays from the topic at hand. From my experience, this seems to amplify the risk of creating an echo chamber, where only people from a specific background get along.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

The canon ship is F/M.

Just because people like the canon ship and want to write it doesn't mean it's 'queer erasure' bloody hell fandom aghsfsfsugduiiufhgdgufbfuebh

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

There are three characters who are collectively referred to as AGP. I cannot stop autofilling 'autogynephilia' in my head when I read it.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Catching up on the fandom commentary after having watched Digimon's Last Adventure Kizuna.

The sheer amount of snarky and careful 'not gonna touch this' side-references to major fandom drAmA surrounding sequelitis is hilarious.

Re: Fandom Venting - BLEACH

[(Anonymous)]

Casual complaint that IDG why people are recommending the Bleach TYBW arc. It's like the fucking worst of the lot, the series kept going downhill since the SoulS arc or the Fake KT arc, wdym it's something to get excited about...