Fandom Gripes Thread

Discussion in 'Fan Town' started by keltena, Feb 6, 2017.

  1. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    I’m much more a fan of “if you like x, you may also enjoy y”.
     
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  2. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    i appreciate the apology, chel, and i understand that you didn't mean it that way.
    yep. :D:D:D

    that's much better.
     
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  3. knifecentipede

    knifecentipede guillotine-chan

    To quote cryptovexillologist on tumblr, "summarizing villains as “MRA redditors” or similar is consistently the least interesting lens possible". We get it, "all media is political" is your favorite praxis, but this isn't what it fucking means.

    Bonus points for when you just know they're attracted to the character / most of the fandom is attracted to the character so they feel the need to constantly show how Not Like That they are. Alternatively, bonus points for when they hate the character for weird personal reasons and try to make it seem less weird with quasipolitical memes (remember "you know Mercy is a creepy white savior libfem"? yea)

    Also please stop doing that to my kinnie ass. I don't like go mad when my kins are misinterpreted, but having any villain ones in fandom culture bent on sneering at villains can be really frustrating
     
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  4. Rehsepay

    Rehsepay Teacup Dog

    See also the trend of referring to villains as incels, especially when it doesn't make any fucking sense. I saw someone call Megatron an incel! Megatron!
     
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  5. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    Oh my god, that's beautiful, I'm dying
     
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  6. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    the Virgin Tarn vs the Chad Megatron
     
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  7. rats

    rats 21 Bright Forge Shatters The Void

    someone do a transformers doodle of "all women are QUEENS" "if she BREATH, she a THOT!!!!" "AAAAA" please
     
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  8. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    Megatron, the sadsack beta who can't find anyone to fuck him. None of these mechs will give someone like HIM the time of day. Megatron practicing his pickup artist game. Megatron negging Optimus. Megatron peacocking with his giant helmet and his fusion cannon.

    Also, courtesy of kintstruggle user @applechime:

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  9. applechime

    applechime "well, you know, a very — a very crunchy person."

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  10. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    (even if you've never read transformers and never want to read transformers, I cannot push bonnini's megop enough, 11/10, highly recommend)
     
    Last edited: Jun 15, 2018
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  11. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    agentcaito has fucking infinite energy for starting stupid baby fights in the rvb fandom and i have no idea where the fuck he gets it from

    he is literally the personification of MOAR FITE

    (brought to you by agentcaito trying to start a fight over zodiac headcanons today)
     
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  12. Saro

    Saro Where is wizard hut

    that was... a trip
     
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  13. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    I misread that without the "even" and for several minutes I lived in a magical land where you could only appreciate a link about Transformers if you swore never to experience the source material. I kind of miss it.....
     
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  14. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    to be fair, there's some transformers source material you'd be better off never experiencing

    (michael bay's transformers is the worst)
     
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  15. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

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  16. Nobody's Home

    Nobody's Home I'm a Greg Coded Tom Girl

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  17. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    I had that comic open in a tab for mooooonths because it made me laugh my ass off every fucking time I saw it and I wanted to share it with someone. Eventually I closed it because I could never find anyone to share it with. It was a sad sad day, replaced now by a happy day because I have finally found victims an audience who might also get a laugh.
     
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  18. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Look, fandom, I don't think anyone could deny that prejudice and emotional abuse play a part in a kid growing up dangerous and morally dubious, but solely blaming the Abbeydwellers for Veil's actions is a disservice to the billions of abused kids throughout history who did not grow up to be literal murderers. It's also not analogous to any prejudice between human groups because, for example, black people don't drink human blood as infants and potentially grow up to eat whole people.
     
    Last edited: Jun 17, 2018
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  19. shmeed

    shmeed plant me

    this characters arc was about how she's a child who was sexualized by gross men against her will and treated as a replacable object until she broke free of her brainwashing by fusing with the faceless enemy monster characters
    but I guess we're gonna draw her fully human, in bikinis and lingerie, looking shyly at the viewer, in a sizable chunk of fanart. neat
     
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  20. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    My ongoing bitterness about the fact that Tamora Pierce actually did the "retcon this character's sexuality by Word of God for Representation Cookies" thing that people accuse JKR of with Gay Dumbledore, and these characters regularly make lists of "CANON ACE REPRESENTATION IN YA!"
     
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