Mudkipper
Starrbar 🌻I genuinely did enjoy problematic ships in a vaccuum until fandom got shitty about it. Now I enjoy them rebelliously. Congrats, y'all, you made me worse. :3
Laura 🏴☠️🏳️🌈Omg this is brilliant lmao
"When I decided to “stop whining and go do something” about the sorry state of the web, it was (partly) due to seeing how much time fannish folks (me included) were wasting on increasingly less-useful discourse. This was honestly a great decision, and I wish I could say I then never discoursed again." 💀
from @essentialrandom https://indiepocalypse.social/@essentialrandom/112090290079775007
Ms Boba (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image As part of my series recounting the history of @[email protected]'s April 1st jokes, I wrote an article on the impetus behind robinboob.com, the NFT parody/ships marketplace we launched in 2021. RobinBoob's reception went way beyond what I expected, reaching around $3k in earnings/donations in the first week. It hasn't quite matched that since, but it's still a well-loved source of entertainment for fandom folks + pocket money for our projects. Read it on my blog and let me know your thoughts! https://www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/april-1st-tradition-part-2
There seems to be two kinds of personal Carrds:
No personality info or interests, just links to socials and commission info, very professional.
Plastered with everything under the sun, especially all the things that enrage and scare them.
It's easier for me to make fun of the byf/dni thing now that I've realized what an utter waste of time it was for me to do that. I doubt anyone read my huge metric ton of disclaimers unless they were already super interested in me, and if anyone I was trying to explain myself to had read it, there's no way in hell they would have learned anything or changed their initial impression of me.
The only reason I even caved and started writing all that shit to begin with was because I noticed how much worse people would get harassed online if they were outed as a "proshipper" instead of just having that all over their profile to begin with, so I guess I thought I was putting up a safety net. Like when me n my brother were kids and he knew I was about to tell on him, so he would blurt out the truth first to lessen the blow.
I still catch myself sometimes, starting to explain and rant to any antis reading, instead of the people I can affect, and who I should be focusing on instead: the people I can help. Gonna take me a long time to dissolve that burning wish to change the minds of persecutors. ><
But yeah, fuck the dni thing. It's so stupid, and sometimes when I'm bored, one of my favorite things to scroll is screenshots of strangers' AWFUL and contradictory dni standards. They're almost always antis, but that's not surprising.
tikliShipping can be a way to imagine things we’d actually want to happen (in canon or to ourselves). Shipping can also be an enjoyable way to explore other possibilities, no matter how unrealistic they might be. Both approaches are fine and everyone can ship however and whatever they want.
Read “You Are Not Shipping the Way I’m Shipping and That’s Okay” on Pillowfort / Tumblr.
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3668559
#Fandom #FandomCulture #Shipping #ShipAndLetShip #FandomDiscourse
tikli: You Are Not Shipping the Way I’m Shipping and That’s Okay
TL;DRShipping can be a way to imagine things we’d actually want to happen (in canon or to ourselves). Shipping can also be an enjoyable way to explore other possibilities, no matter how unrealistic they might be. Both approaches are fine and everyone can ship however and whatever they want.There are two distinct ways of shipping. (I’m not saying there are ONLY two ways, but my focus is on these two here.) I’ll refer to them as ”What If?” -shipping and ”Letter to Santa” -shipping.[READ-MORE]”Letter to Santa” -shipping is about what you want. It’s wish-fulfilment and hope. Shipping lets you experience things you want to happen, either for the characters in canon or for yourself in real life. It’s escapism and longing. It’s indulgent daydreaming of sweet things with low stakes. It’s creating the things you don’t have, but wish you someday will. You hope your ship will become canon, because ”why would you ship it if you didn’t want them to end up together?” Shipping is just imagining it happening in several different ways, before it happens canonically. You are rooting for your ship.”What If?” -shipping is about curiosity and imagination, and there are no limits. It’s like getting a chemistry kit and starting to do experiments, to see how different things react when put together. There are several different combinations you can try, and you can have different flavours, play with different tropes, go wild. The characters and the canonical material are there to be transformed into something new. Canon gives you a big bucket of play-dough in all the colours of the rainbow and you can do whatever you want with it. Scary, fluffy, cute, sexy, immoral, funny, disgusting, angsty, violent, romantic… You are just playing, creating different things because something inspired you and doing it in an environment where it hurts nobody. It’s titillating because it is NOT real. It is safe. Like a horror movie or a haunted house in an amusement park.People who use one of these approaches don’t always remember/understand that not everyone ships the same way. This can lead to misunderstandings and conflicts.If a ”Letter to Santa” -shipper thinks that everyone’s shipping tendencies are motivated by ”realistic” wants and hopes, and a scenario from a ”What If?” -shipper is something they wouldn’t personally want, they might ask ”why would you ship that?!” Why would anyone want an abusive relationship? Why would anyone want these two characters to have it bad in the next season? Why would anyone crave pain, hurt, angst, abuse? To a ”Letter to Santa” -shipper, having a ship like this translates to ”you want this to happen to yourself or to these characters in canon.”If a ”What If?” -shipper thinks everyone’s shipping tendencies are motivated by trying to come up with new and exciting cocktails using the ingredients you’re given, and they witness how ”Letter to Santa” -shippers keep creating domestic fluff and romantic scenarios of the characters finally getting together and kissing for the first time, they might ask ”why are you so boring and unimaginative, do you hate having fun?!” Why would anyone stick with just one ship and put them in cutesy vanilla scenarios over and over again, with no actual stakes or conflict?One Correct Way to Ship does not exist. Ship and let ship.[/READ-MORE]
tikliAs spin-off from the Fandom Elder Izzy memes, I'll introduce you to Fandom Elder Buttons 😂
@IzzyCanyon @[email protected] #MemeMonday #OFMD #NathanielButtons #Fandom #FandomLife #FandomDiscourse
A thread of my Fandom Elder Izzy memes. Expect profanities 😈
So far there are 18 of these, but if the inspiration hits, I might make more at some point. For many of these, I owe thanks to Lux (luxbeatrice .carrd.co) for being my muse.
@IzzyCanyon @[email protected] #MemeMonday #IzzyHands #FandomElderIzzy #Fandom #FandomLife #FandomDiscourse
I wrote a little bit about #IzzyHands and abuse/trauma some 5 months ago, and I guess I could just share a link to it here, too.
Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3174038