ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
fandom pet peeves
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
lol a specfic thing comes to mind right away
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
a thing you find in certain tags on tumblr
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
when someone will discuss a character and only refer to them as "so and so's abuser" and never by name and that is all they are forever
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
like we can and should discuss those things and don't deny that it is an appropriate label but also like the entire discussion is different if that's your starting point lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
and it's even weirder because it tends to go along with making the character they want to defend seem worse? because making a complicated situation black and white removes a lot of nuance on both sides
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
the opposite end of the fandom spectrum from the woobification is whatever this is lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
but this is part of my ongoing frustration with media literacy and puriteen tiktok logic so it is a mild pet peeve at best
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
no, you're right lmao
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
I find Fan Discourse so repellent I stay out of most spaces because I just can't handle the lack of media literacy
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑 : YEAH i do not follow tumblr the way i used to for that specific reason but i scroll through tags sometimes mostly for memes lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
and i run into stuff where i'm like wow really
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
or even worse these days when it's all regurgitated ip, people taking the stance of "it wasn't specifically what I wanted/was imagining/was looking for And So It Is Bad"
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
I'm so sunk into HotD and navigating around "I wanted it to be more like the (intentionally) misogynistic book/I want every episode to be a battle/I just don't care about what women feel" is... exhausting
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
oh my god yeah lmao
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
like i don't get it
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
there were choices made that are just so much better
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
also anyone taking the book which was upfront written from unreliable sources and being like IT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED is another level of absurd because the entire point was that it was a lot of biased accounts
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
like I just want to ask every commenter who thinks season 2 was "terrible" what they DO think is good television
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
like is it wrestlemania
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
LOL
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
it's a really hard story to tell too with all the necessary time skips
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
so many people complained that s1 skipped too much and went too fast, then people complained that s2 is too slow and showing too much development
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
lmfao like ok
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
yeah i think a lot of people just want to find things to be angry about lmao
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
i keep trying to remember when i actually did engage in the discourse if it was like this
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
BUT ALSO
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
i am so far removed that i didn't even realise that there is a not insignificant amount of people who engage in fandom and don't even consume the source material
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
like at all
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
it's like fully understanding the character via the lens of fanworks and memes
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
and then having like
an opinion on it
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
like beyond show fans being like "i never read the book" it's like
this is baffling to me who does the opposite and wants to know all the details but this came up on discord the other day and i was amazed lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
amazed and a little horrified?? like what is the point
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
it sure did explain where some fandom takes come from that kind of spread and persist and then you look at canon like "where did you get that from"
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
my other pet peeve is stupid and it's just
if i want to find fanfiction i have to write it myself lmao
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
it may be that it exists but i get tired of wading through all the x reader stuff to find it and it's harder than it ought to be to filter all of it out
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
I do remember something like that from the jonsa era of fandom psychosis, some of the biggest pushers hadn't even read the series or had just read sansa excerpts and WOULD STILL make arguments that jonsa was endgame for the books, too
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
it was staggering to read
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
JONSA
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
that one always gets me because why even
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
because she is the 1 character with tags on AO3, she is a girlfan's self-insert and they wanted her to win the best boyfriend
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
I really can't understand it as anything more than that lmfao
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
that..... kind of makes sense lmao
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
in a time before the rise of x reader shit everyone did just project hard on a character and bend them to fit the self insert even more than usual
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
i guess it's a good thing people are just mask off about that but also did it have to take over everything else lmao
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
yepppp and it wasn't nearly as hilarious to me as × reader posts are hahahaha
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
scrolling daryl tags is the worst, I swear no one had been paired with the fiction reader more than him
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
oh no
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑
and it's all so drastically ooc for him, it's amazing
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
oh i bet it always is
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
daemon's are always thinly veiled this person was just writing matt smith rpf
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