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A blog for you to submit problems about your fandom that make you want to pull out your hair. From problems about you not being in the same country as your fandom to problems about other fans, all problems are welcome.
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Anonymous asked:

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Well, OP did refer to "American/western/cartoon" art style as "dumb blob drawings", which sounds pretty derogatory and generalizing to me. Then said if they wanted to see that, they'd go to an American fandom. For starters, American (etc) art styles aren't all, or even largely, "blob"-like. To me it smacks of someone who doesn't actually know what they're talking about. I can actually list quite a few animes with "blobby", soft styles.

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It's stupidity like that which led to concard failing.

Audiences, regardless of gender, want visually appealing designs.

Too many people who complain and gender "sexualization" are the fun police and need to know when to shut their yaps.

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7139: There is nothing wrong with being queer or straight and liking BL for any reason. Straight people are a big part of the population and yes it does make sense that straight women would indeed like BL. It's not crazy or out there to say and it's erroneous and erasing to act like 'most' women BL fans are queer or that it's somehow bad if they're not. It doesn't matter. Nobody plays this game about men liking media full of women. People make what they want to and like. If they are queer, that's fine, if they are straight, it's also fine. Stop playing this game that your vision is true and someone else's is false.

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Anonymous asked:

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I mean, obviously it's a personal preference thing and it's not worded in the best way but OP's entitled to their opinion and it belongs on this blog... I think as long as they're not attacking the artists and themselves or calling it ugly in their comments then it's fine that OP doesn't like that particular style. Personally I can see where they're coming from, too.

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This has the same vibes as when antis go "thats racist" or "thats sexist" to fanfictions where the main character is a racist sexist pig. Like do you think nobody knows the character isn't racist or sexist? Or are you really trying to make it sound like depiction is author endorsement, therefore author is racist and sexist? Unless you're five years old and/or an anti, you should know that depiction isn't endorsement or a treatise on what the writer thinks.

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Fandom Problem #7146:

I hate when people who don't like a character (because they're bad person or whatever) say you can't headcanon them ace/aro because it's ''offensive''. *I* am ace and i am hcing this miserable bastard ace whether you like it or not. A-specs are not paragons of virtue and aro/ace characters should not have to be either.

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Fandom Problem #7144:

The modern intersection of fandom and politics. Listen, I attend protests. I've done my part offline to try to change the world for the better.

I am so tired of tumblr users that care more about fiction than real people.

"This ship is bad LGBTQ+ rep!" okay, but how do the shippers treat real people?

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Fandom Problem #7142:

If i was indie creator and fandom of my creation start to grown toxic i would simply just delete everything, i would not be able to handle all stress,i know how was stressful for the creators to Try to follow the expectations of a ever growing fandom and also would be funny, imagine if Rebecca sugar in the peak of toxic fandom just delete steven universe with out a trace (i know that steven universe is not indie but šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø)

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Fandom Problem #7141:

I will be the first to admit that I do not like OC/ReaderxCanon pairings, and it's for the sole reason that authors insist on changing the canon characters to fit their precious OCs rather than making OCs to fit in with canon.

I've lost count the number of posts regarding canons being paired up with readers where the canon characters are WILDLY out of character. I mean beyond "he wouldn't fucking say that" territory.

If you want to write OCs, fine, whatever. But please, for the love of god, DO NOT change the personalities of canon characters to fit YOUR OCs. Write OCs to FIT IN WITH canon instead!

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Fandom Problem #7139:

Female BL fans: "Most of us are queer."

Some idiot, every time: "The reason BL is so popular is because almost all BL fans are completely straight and are exclusively attracted to men and thus like to see media focused on men!"

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Fandom Problem #7138:

The sheer lack of tagging to distinguish AUs from canon in the Undertale fandom

And the most annoying part? Literally, it's so easy to fix

Posting AU stuff? Just add this tag alongside all the other tags: undertale au

It's a simple and easy tag to understand and would fix all the goddamn clutter and mess and make it so people who just want to see non AU content to be able to find that, because right now it is impossible to filter out all the AU content

I don't really care for AUs, and not being able to simply avoid AU content is starting to make me hate AUs. I just want to see fanart for the actual game and not AUs man. I want to enjoy the original material. Why is it such a struggle to just tag AUs as an AU?

(And before people offer just blocking the individual AU tags, there are hundreds making and posting their own individual AUs and own individual tags, it is literally impossible to filter all the individual AU tags and also impossible to block all the people posting AU stuff)

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Fandom Problem #7137:

I don't have a problem with feminine male characters, I enjoy quite a few, but I absolutely fucking despise people in Fandom who make masculine/serious/dangerous characters into soft, sweet, and dumb little boys who like pastel and let you put makeup on them and wear skirts.

Again Im not against such characters existing. I just wish people would stop doing it to characters that very much aren't like that.

Alright he is not your prince charming

He is my rugged old man in a fishing shack in the middle of nowhere with a cellar full of various homemade wine and moonshine and a little "play" corner for the two of us

He's not gonna hug you sweetly while you making dinner and call you "baby girl". He's not gonna comfort you for spilling the salt. He's not gonna carresss your face that has tiny cringy tears in your eyes and call you a "good girl"

He's gonna walk in, slap my ass and call me a whore. And I'm gonna move my dinner preparations out of the way because I know he's gonna lift my body over the counter and fuck me from behind without a care as to how I feel. Then I'm gonna make his dinner with his seed dripping from me and take a quick shower before it's done because I better not dare sit for dinner dirty or dare serve him late.

Say what you want but I like him because of his character and do not need people trying to "fix" him or make him more "palatable"

The appeal is there and just because it doesn't appeal to you and your teenage rotted brain of what men are "meant" to be like doesn't mean it's wrong.

There are characters like what you want them to be. Stop trying to change, or "purify" the ones that aren't for the love of fuck.

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Fandom Problem #7136:

In every fandom, there is always one or two content creators that loathe OCs, calling every single one of them "Mary Sues". But when they write a female character from canon, they change her background and personality, using the same "Mary Sue" cliches and tropes they despise so much that the character is completely unrecognizable and gloat "see, you don't need Mary Sues when canon is so much better!"

Sweetie, you just took a canon character and made her into a "Mary Sue". You've proved nothing.

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Fandom Problem #7135:

People talk about pornhub only showing one type of dick and it's enormous (true) but I'm sick of only seeing one type of dick in fanart porn, too. That thing is as wide and long as a lava lamp and I think it would kill me. Why is it always circumcised? Where's the variation in skin colour and shape?

Not to complain to any individual artists; I can't draw so I'll take what I'm given and be grateful. But small dicks, fat and not long dicks, uncircumcised dicks, dicks with hair in the way - variety is the spice of life!

Blorbo from your shows/ games has no confirmed dick. So yes, you can picture it enormous, a model dick. But also... what if it was something else this time?

(And ofc, this is not the only or the most important angle from which we could improve body diversity.)

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Anonymous asked:

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Me, reading toxic ships where one character's an abusive caretaker, and the other character can't get out of the situation, so they eventually fall in love with their caretaker and find comfort in how strict they are...Am I ableist? Is the writer ableist?

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