fandomeldersintheirthirties:

How fandoms came from “villain is literally the most interesting character in the story” to “anyone who likes the villain supports real life crime” is truly beyond my comprehension.

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somanywips:

I hate that planned obsolescence is starting to reach fandoms. I hate that fandoms are starting to die after two, three years, I hate that whenever you stop getting content that means the fandom will die and be gone.

I need people to stop trying to brush off old interests as being ‘cringe’ as soon as you lose interest, or worse: make it seem like it’s imoral to like something that they themselves held so dear before.

Fandoms are meant to last for years and years, the moment content stops being created is the moment we truly thrive because we keep creating the content ourselves the way we love it and expand on the things that are already there for us.

I don’t care if you lost interest on something, it’s fine and normal even, but stop trying to blame and make fun of people who still do love the fandom and the content and the things we can create.

I need people to enjoy fandom again

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vyvilha:

“I can fix him” not in a “I can make him into a better person” way but in a “if he was my character I would’ve handled his story better” way

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huffy-the-bicycle-slayer:

Welcome to our hellsite, Redditors!

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dduane:

veronicamarsconfessions:

🪷

Always RB: because there is never enough love. And fanfic love is some of the purest.

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nancylou444:

How is nobody talking about this:

But wait, it gets better:

Then it got better:

Mark Hamill got no time for stupid people. 💖

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stuttersteps:

this is how we do it… the a/b/o uprising starts now

spank-the-villain:

agentfrostbite:

emilie786:

deepspacedukat:

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wanderinginksplot:

creativitycache:

catboyanthem:

noritaro:

yeah uh… don’t do this :)

as a fanfic writer! who has a few semi-abandoned fics! if you do this i will personally bite you with my teeth. you are disrespecting art and the love people put into their work by pretending that an AI can even compare to it

I am vibrating with rage at this. Not just for the childish grasping whine of “I want it NOW”, unsatisfied with the millions of other free works of love offered up for entertainment, and not just for the complete ignorance of what makes a story; the arrogance to presume that the ending the author will make is irrelevant and that a substitute that goes completely in a different direction is just as good.

I FURIOUS BECAUSE THIS PERSON FED THE ALGORITHM WORDS THE AUTHOR NEVER WANTED A CORPORATION TO OWN. THOSE WORDS WERE FOR FELLOW FANS, FOR THE JOY AND LOVE OF THE ART AND SHE SPIT ON THAT. SHE FED THE CORPORATION THOSE WORDS. THEY WON’T LET THEM GO NOW. THE AI REMEMBERS AND LEARNS AND STEALS FROM THAT WORK FREELY AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY OFFERED IN FRIENDSHIP

She just fed the beast the screaming heart of a person who only offered friendship.

I want to split my thoughts between those of a reader and those of a writer.

As a reader, I don’t read AI fics. Period. Seeing the time and effort from someone with a passion for a piece of media means more to me than reading a fast, completed fic. I get the temptation to write that way, but it’s literally worthless to me.

Now, as a writer with several unfinished WIPs:

Do not do this with my fics.

It’s hurtful for all of the reasons creativitycache detailed so eloquently above. The idea that people would care so little about creators that they prioritize their own wants above those of the creator sucks. Fan creators are not just content farms, and attitudes like this only prove how far we’ve fallen from being a community.

If you have questions about how an unfinished work would have ended, contact the author! 99% of the time on a truly abandoned WIP, they’ll tell you what they originally had planned.

I love posting fic chapters as I write them. I love the feedback and live reactions of readers. But posts (and people) like this make me want to only post fics when they’re finished. And, without that reader feedback, I honestly doubt I would finish many fics at all.

Don’t do this.

I HATE AI AND I HATE THE UTTER DISRESPECT THAT AN ACTION LIKE THIS ENTAILS.

I swear to fucking god, if anyone does this, they deserve to have their fanfiction reading privileges revoked PERMANENTLY!!! THAT IS SUCH A SCUMMY THING TO DO. DON’T EVER DISRESPECT FANWRITERS LIKE THIS. WE PUT SO MANY HOURS AND SO MUCH CARE AND SO MUCH OF OURSELVES INTO OUR WORK - WORK THAT WE DO NOT GET PAID FOR.

DON’T BE A SHITHEAD.

DON’T DO THIS TO MY FICS OR ANYONE ELSE’S.

I’m in agreement. Not cool at all.

Yeah, don’t do this. It’s disrespectful to old authors, discouraging to new authors, and undermining the entire community. For the love of God, if you don’t like reading unfinished fics, FILTER THEM OUT. If you can’t find what you want to read, GO WRITE IT YOURSELF. That’s how I got started in fanfic

You are robbing yourself, the author, and everyone else. While I dislike what AI is doing, I also recognize that it’s the inevitable future and we’re all gonna end up getting attached to a little robot, but that is not a license to be a thief.

DON’T STEAL PEOPLE’S WORK

This is so devaluing. This says to the author, I’m not here for the quality of your writing, I could get the same result from a glorified toaster. This is how low my standards are and how lowly I think of your fic.

laskulls:

people who try to “remind” you of your favorite characters’ horrible actions make me laugh. “Let’s not forget they did this and that” yeah I haven’t forgotten, I’m just too busy putting him in a cute outfit

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wilwheaton:

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flootzavut:

flootzavut:

The bot situation is so bad right now that I have to stop myself from automatically blocking new followers. I completely mislaid the previous post about this I made so here’s a new one:

New Tumblr Users PSA!

Please put something in your bio, change your pfp, reblog a few posts, show some sign of human life. This lets us old and jaded tumblrites know that you are, in fact, a person, and not a spam or porn bot trying to get engagement in order to appear more legit.

If you are attached to your default icon, here’s a picrew that will help you add signs of humanity to it without completely abandoning your cute little geometric buddy:

Default Blog Icon Maker ~ meiker.io

Make your own default very normal not at all suspicious icon! With lots of options to choose from, being mistaken for a bot can be a thing o

meiker.io

It really doesn’t take much to let people know you’re a real human being, and it will save you from the disappointment of being blocked by the folks you wanted to follow before you even know what you’re doing here.

Welcome to tumblr. It’s a blue hellsite. You’ll love it. Just please fly your human flag so we know to welcome you and not to zap you!

The bot situation has got worse, and the bots are getting better at making tumblr-sounding urls, so flying your human flag is becoming more vital to not get blocked.

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bemusedlybespectacled:

prosocialbehavior:

headspace-hotel:

no-terfs-no-swerfs-no-fascists:

doublism:

my instagram explore page loves showing me those like erotic dark romance novel tiktoks and i really have to wonder: why do all these straight women desperately want to fuck a mafia boss

Okay, let’s try and break this down.

Sexual fantasies are, by their very nature, transgressive. Yes, even the fluffy, romantic ones. As long as general culture remains negative about sex and sexuality in any form that isn’t cishet procreative sex within the confines of matrimony with the woman not as an equal actor but an object sex is performed onto, this is going to remain true.

And the thing about fantasies is that our brains like to take the things we crave the most and mix them up with our fears, anxieties, pain, and trauma into a melange of, sometimes, truly epic levels of fuckery.

But here’s the secret - things we fantasize about, from the most wholesome to the bizarre to seriously fucked up? They are very, very often NOT what we literally want.

Being into dubcon or noncon doesn’t mean you actually want to be raped or rape. Being into monsters doesn’t make you a zoophile. And fantasizing about violent, obsessive men doesn’t mean you wouldn’t run as far the fuck away from a man like that the second one of them set their sights on you.

If you’re really interested in the subject, I recommend reading My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday, a compilation of anonymously submitted women’s sexual fantasies. And, as it turns out, women fantasize about a lot of really violent, uncomfortable, and just plain screwed up stuff.

And, for most of them, even when they don’t actively realize it, it’s about reclamation. Of fear, of trauma, of loss of power. It’s about THEMSELVES and how THEY feel. As weird as it’s gonna sound, the men featured in those fantasies don’t really matter, they’re just a vessel, a manifestation of the extreme version of what you’re dealing with and/or crave. A safe, cathartic way to experience something profoundly unsafe, unwise, and terrifying.

For women fantasizing about criminals, villains, monsters, and anti-heroes, it’s very often about the idea that someone like that - intense, violent, with single-minded focus, and immense power - would love her, want her, always put her first, go against all his instincts/training for you without a second thought and be a clear and present danger to everyone but warmth and safety for her and only her, and burn the world itself down for hurting her in even the slightest of ways. It’s a sexual version of the fantasy of having a pet tiger, one that would never, ever attack you or hurt you in any way.

And just like the people who want to boop the forbidden snoot, the women fantasizing about their fantasy Mafia Boss Lover are very well aware of the fact that 1) men like that don’t actually exist, 2) the criminal world of their fantasy has all but nothing to do with reality, and 3) that the thing they’re actually fantasizing about is being loved, wanted, and safe… just in a REALLY intense, exaggerated way. And, let’s not mince words, there’s also often a more or less strong D/s dynamics at play in the scenario, too.

Now, you can choose to be judgy bitches about it (goodness knows plenty of you in the replies, comments, and tags are), in which case I would suggest you examine why you’re feeling such a profound need to shame women for enjoying themselves in their own little world, or you can apply the YKINMKATO mantra and understand that straight women, living in the constant state of preyhood, sometimes consciously or subconsciously reclaim power over that situation through transgressive sexual fantasies.

Also, fuck this idea that queer people only fantasize about healthy and wholesome relationships, romantic, sexual, or otherwise, as if at least half of Tumblr isn’t simping for, oh, for example, Hannibal fucking Lecter. Do you have ANY idea how many Mafia and Thug BL content there is out there?! FFS, Tom of Finland, a WWII veteran who fought against Nazis, drew art of exaggeratedly masculine men in Nazi uniforms in pornographic situations as a way to dissociate himself from those traumas and fascists themselves as far back as the 1950s!

So yeah. Less judgement, and more taking some responsibility for curating your online experience if seeing someone’s kink truly offends you this much.

“Booping the forbidden snoot” is a good way of putting it

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I’m going to try to explain this without sounding completely deranged but like, okay: IMO, there are two kinds of fantasies. let’s call them horses and unicorns.

a horse fantasy is something that is theoretically possible. I do not currently own a horse, and the reality of owning a horse would involve boring stuff like paying for its food and mucking out its stall, but it is something I could do in real life. like, horses exist and can be owned by humans. lots of fantasies can fall into this category: traveling to a foreign country, living in a cute house with just you and a cat, winning a marathon, basically anything that is technically achievable even if it would be difficult to do so in real life.

a unicorn fantasy is something that is definitely (or almost definitely) impossible. I do not currently own a unicorn, and there is no version of reality where I could own a unicorn, because unicorns are not real. the actual logistical issues that might arise from owning a unicorn, like paying for its food or mucking out its stall, are completely immaterial because it’s not something that could ever actually happen. and like, it’s in my brain! I control it! I can imagine a unicorn that only eats marshmallows and shits potpourri if I want to!

I think the disconnect comes in when people assume that a unicorn fantasy is actually a horse fantasy. to use the tiger example from upthread: you can own a tiger. you can’t have a completely domesticated tiger that would never hurt you, not even by accident. so saying “I want a pet tiger” is a unicorn fantasy, because everything necessary for that fantasy to work (it being completely domesticated and incapable of harming you) are not things you can have in real life.

now, serial killers/war criminals/normal criminals/etc. are all things that exist. and there are definitely people in relationships with them in real life! so it’s tempting to assume that something like “I want to fuck a serial killer” is a horse fantasy: something you would want to do, and could do, if given the opportunity.

but for the vast majority of people, that’s not the fantasy. the rest of the fantasy (“he’s a serial killer, BUT he only kills bad people and he’s nice to me and is both able and willing to protect me from literally anything and has sex exactly the way I want to because he magically knows what I want because, again, this is happening in my brain”) is what makes it a unicorn.

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