Fandom Problem #5434:

I really wish people would stop blaming the MCU for literally everything Hollywood does that they don't like. Blaming the MCU is like blaming Spielberg every time a movie bombs or blaming EA every time a big-budget video game gets bad reviews.

“do you write for work or just for fun” none of the above. this activity is neither profitable nor enjoyable

me every time I post something

reading the comments in that “is RPF ok” poll is so fucking distressing, istg. the majority of comments seem to fall into “sure, it’s fine as long as it’s just fluff/not shippy/what they would do IRL” or “no that makes me uncomfortable so clearly it’s bad” with a side of “well if they consent, it’s fine.” which… i suspect that last one is a big piece of how we get people confronting celebrities with fic, which is actually not okay.

fan fiction has become too mainstream. it’s not meant to be something you talk about on The Voice, and you shouldn’t be reading fics on tik tok and hashtagging them so that millions and millions of people see them. because when that sort of thing happens, we get this push to sanitize everything - the RPF, the kink, the dark fic. this is the same fight as “there shouldn’t be kink at pride because uwu makes me uncomfy”. rpf, like all other fan fiction, is FICTION, and thus there are no moral lines in it about “well, it’s ok, but don’t write about them killing anyone” or “well, it’s fine, but don’t ship anyone underage.” y’all are the same as the book banners going to libraries and weeding out “objectionable” books, you’re just too caught up in “but it makes me feel weird” to realize it.

yes! some things will make you uncomfortable! that does not make them morally wrong. also! some things will seem fine to you, and still be morally bad. please, for the love of all things holy, go learn that.

RPF is not my bag but I will climb the hill to defend it

we don't know those people, we're not writing stories about them, we're writing stories about dress up dolls that share their image and their name

I read a fantastic series about Eric Bana as an architect living with builder [project manager] Karl Urban, to my knowledge these people have never met, but the story of Eric and Karl and their middleclass drama was great, I read it entirely as a queer romance novel

that's how ALL RPF is at it's core, it's no less fictional for having the names of real people

you don't get to pick and choose the parts of fiction you don't like because it's an all or nothing bag, because if you weed out any of it you'll lose ALL of it

that fun little tag that only you and four other people like that probably isn't objectionable but you don't want other people knowing you read - that'll go

because given the opportunity they will cancel ALL of it, every IP owner sees us as a potential financial drain, a possible threat to their hegemony and we cannot give them ammunition - we cannot fight their war for them

it doesn't matter if you don't like it, you need to be on this hill, because given the opportunity they'll bulldoze it and to paraphrase Joni Mitchell - put up a parking lot

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

6. Content creators are not your parents and owe you nothing, not even a breakdown on why their content isn’t problematic. You don’t get to demand a dissertation denouncing any and everything unhealthy in a piece you don’t like. Move on.

7. Tagging is a nicety but not an obligation. You can message people, politely, and ask them to tag things, and many people will, but understand that it’s their blog and they aren’t obliged to say yes. Unfollow and block when you need to. Circling back to number 1, you are responsible for curating your own experience.

8. Don’t be a jerk. Remember at the end of the day, there are actual living, breathing people behind each screen name. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face in real life. 

I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this.

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this

Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It's so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here

For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:

It's ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself

Fuck Chick-fil-A. That homophobic chicken isn't even that good, y'all are literally simping over chicken that tastes like it was made at a White cookout

The sauce:

The chicken (deep fried):

Air fryer version:

Fresh lemonade:

Lemonade milkshake:

Whatever thing you love at chikfila you can make yourself fairly trivially (if! you are able to cook! which I know not everyone can).

Simply look for a "copycat recipe" for the item, eg, "chikfila copycat chicken recipe."

There are literally thousands of extremely dedicated food bloggers out there who have long ago perfected there at home versions of stuff.

Chik Fil A contributes to groups who think trans people should be forcibly sterilised

No chicken is that fucking good

well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.

HEY

For all you WONDERFUL FIC WRITERS who made the mistake of following me

LOOK AT THIS

@ao3commentoftheday =D

actually @ every fanfiction writer whether you wrote something that got thousands of reblogs and comments and became a staple in your fandom, or you wrote one fic and deleted it, or you write mutilchaptered fics that never get a final update, or write short fics, or long fics, or used to write and now you don’t, or you deleted/orphaned your works, or you only share with friends:

thank you.

sharing your writing is hard. and sometimes it’s thankless. sometimes it’s such a negative experience that I wonder how anyone does it at all. but you are needed; you are wanted. whether or not we properly acknowledge it, you are a vital part of fandom culture. thanks for sharing.