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There's headcanoning for fun. And then there's this garbage.
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Also, I remember reading an AU or whatever where Lupin's genderfluid and I was this close to hanging myself from having to read 'bout it.
Basically. Tumblr has a penchant for this shit. Thank God the Cowboy Bebop fanbase on Tumblr doesn't pull that, though. Besides the occasinal Tumblrite, it's mostly just fanart and gifs.
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I hate it when people make stories like that. They have so many things they can do with the characters, and they choose to erase canon identities for the sake of forced inclusion.
Fanfiction that stays true to the source material is generally the best, and different interpretations can be interesting so long as they're well-written. Even a poorly written story can be salvaged if there's effort put into it. But tumblr isn't your best bet when it comes to fanfics of that caliber.
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It's lazy, it's forced, it's a pain to read, and it shows that you likely rely on inclusion in order to spice up your writing, as opposed to, I don't know, relying on actually good writing techniques to get your story across and let it happen naturally.
I guess that's true. I was never too much of a fanfiction reader, so I wouldn't know. Sticking to the worldbuilding is especially important, although seeing people expanding and improving upon it as they add on to it is interesting. It's like filling in the gaps the canonical media never provided. Too bad Tumblr does a shit job at it.
Fanfiction.net is no better, and AO3 can do an okay job, depending on which media it is.
I guess that's true. I was never too much of a fanfiction reader, so I wouldn't know. Sticking to the worldbuilding is especially important, although seeing people expanding and improving upon it as they add on to it is interesting. It's like filling in the gaps the canonical media never provided. Too bad Tumblr does a shit job at it.
Fanfiction.net is no better, and AO3 can do an okay job, depending on which media it is.
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It was Fujiko Mine (the token hot chick of his band of thieves who sometimes works with him, but mostly works alone) and she at least fought back by having a boxing glove spring out of her crotch (yeah, anime is weird and I don't understand how anyone can be a hardcore fan).
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I agree. I've read plenty of bad fanfics/trollfics in my day and that's helped me to avoid making the same mistakes with my own work. What's amusing to me is that most tumblr fics read like they were written as a joke.
AO3 is pretty good. I've found a lot of decent works there.
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I actually find it really disrespectful to the original creator of the work when people shove labels and orientations onto the character that the creator obviously never intended them to have. Yes, there's such thing as open fan interpretation and headcanons but when you're literally saying "NUH UH THIS ESTABLISHED HETERO CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY A GAY POLYSEXUAL GENDERQUEER NONBINARY TRANSLESBIAN FUCK YOU I SAID SO" then you're really shitting on what the creator wanted the character to be. It's okay to have personal ideas about characters based on little traits or actions you noticed. But when you act like an asshole and shove your ideas onto the character while dissing anyone who says otherwise then you should probably call it quits.
I think I remember reading a distinctly haughty tumblr post about the author of The Outsiders expressing her concern at tumblrfolk labeling her straight characters as gay or genderspecial snowflakes as she'd cemented them as straight hetero males which ultimately fit in with the setting and time period she'd had the story take place. Tumblr's response? LOL LET'S JUST SPAM HER TWITTER WITH GAY FICS AND FANART THAT'LL TEACH HER FOR NOT KNOWING ABOUT HER OWN CHARACTERS!
Just make your own shitty ocs.
I think I remember reading a distinctly haughty tumblr post about the author of The Outsiders expressing her concern at tumblrfolk labeling her straight characters as gay or genderspecial snowflakes as she'd cemented them as straight hetero males which ultimately fit in with the setting and time period she'd had the story take place. Tumblr's response? LOL LET'S JUST SPAM HER TWITTER WITH GAY FICS AND FANART THAT'LL TEACH HER FOR NOT KNOWING ABOUT HER OWN CHARACTERS!
Just make your own shitty ocs.
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THIS. And then when their headcanons are reiterated over and over again to not be canon both through the source material and the creators themselves, they wanna throw a huge fucking reach about queerbaiting and whitewashing and it's so fucking stupid. It's like what fictionkin do; they can't come up with their own characters to let influence their lives, so they just steal someone else's characters and shit all over them for their simplistic pleasures. It's awful.
As someone's who been working on a novel for a while, I'd be fucking pissed if someone did this to my characters. Like no, fuck off and go impose your inability to write on your own shitty, underdeveloped characters. My main characters are enough lolcow material as it is, I don't need you expanding upon that, thank you very much. Besides, they're all an esjaydoubleoo's wet dream in terms of diversity, and yet you still feel the need to make all of them muslim polyracial trigender foxkin? Fuck off.
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Sometimes, I wish that authors would backlash against the shippers by writing character deaths based on the amount of harassment they get. Nothing says "No, it's my character" quite like forcing their fans to sit through a funeral with a greiving heterosexual character of the opposite gender.
Then again, there are those who still say Maes Hughes was gay for Mustang, despite the widow...
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I think it's funny that this guy has such a narcissistic way of thinking, that he probably just looked gay with what he was wearing. Lupin's style is flamboyant, but not for that reason.
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http://bluerangers.tumblr.com/post/159880656499/some-of-my-lgbt-headcanons-for-cartoon-characters
uwu, a 19 year old obsessed with preschooler shows and inserting their gay fantasies onto them. interesting to note how he likes the latinos being this special snowflake level of gay/trans.
uwu, a 19 year old obsessed with preschooler shows and inserting their gay fantasies onto them. interesting to note how he likes the latinos being this special snowflake level of gay/trans.
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Let's be real here, modern fanfic was pretty much founded on making everybody super gay.
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At times like this, it makes me glad this blog exists.
On another note, why is tumblr so obsessed with Voltron? It feels like a ripoff of Evangelion to me.
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Don't forget this one, too.
I don't know. From what I've seen of it, it looks like a sanitized version of Evangelion, so that's probably why.
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I don't really care if people make fanfics with idiotic things in them. It's really easy not to read them. It's when they suddenly insist their shitty ship or whatever is actually canon, vandalize the Wikipedia article to try to make it true, and otherwise act like shrieking troons about it going around forcing it down people's throats that it gets on my nerves.
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Actually, the series is different. First of all, the lion robots can assemble to make a bigger one (instead of each having a giant "cyborg" each), they're fighting an evil empire with a huge fleet, live with a princess and her pet mice after being in an academy and the original show came a decade before Evangelion.
My guess is that since it's art style is close to Legend of Korra's and they added more diversity, that got their attention.
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I can't even tell what half of those flags are supposed to be. They're just vague lines.
Voltron was actually pre-Evangelion. It was a weird half-American, half-Japanese venture back in the 80s, when robots were literally everywhere. But the one Tumblr's obsessed with is a reboot by the studio that made Avatar--which is pretty good, but Tumblr's cancer has made it virtually unwatchable.
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:powerlevel: I love homosexual things as much as the next evil cisgay :powerlevel: but I will NEVER understand why fujoshit straight girls on tumblr love shipping Keith and Lance from Voltron. They absolutely hate each other. For background: Lance is a sleazebag that only likes women and constantly flirts with every female he sees. Not to mention the fact that if they really are staying close to the canon as the directors stated, Keith will most likely end up with the alien princess girl (there have already been scenes where they get somewhat close to each other).
But just like the way they deal with Overwatch and every other franchise out there, if there's two skinny males, no matter how often these men talk about women they love, they WILL be shipped together by yaoi tards to the point that they get mad whenever canon subverts their "headcanons." Look at: Sherlock, Supernatural and as mentioned above, Lupin.
When it's not that, they will claim Pidge, the only female paladin, is a "trans boy," despite her backstory and reason for crossdressing being revealed. Hell, the same girl gets happy when the black paladin called her by her real name, "Katie (?)" Tumblr will insist she is trans because crossdressing/drag/traps (reverse or otherwise) makes them angry and they have to take it to the extreme or it's "problematic," which is incredibly ironic.
I will never understand why they choose the most sleazy obviously straight characters to ship together. I'm assuming it's because these girls find straight men displaying heterosexual behavior intimidating. They only want "soft boys uwu" or whatever.
The new Voltron fandom started out as people clapping over cool robots, and it suddenly took a turn for the worst where it's just "Klance" garbage left and right from here on out, completely burying what the actual show's focus was. There is no episode discussion, just delusional fujoshits.
They've even harassed VAs on twitter over stupid ship wars.
But just like the way they deal with Overwatch and every other franchise out there, if there's two skinny males, no matter how often these men talk about women they love, they WILL be shipped together by yaoi tards to the point that they get mad whenever canon subverts their "headcanons." Look at: Sherlock, Supernatural and as mentioned above, Lupin.
When it's not that, they will claim Pidge, the only female paladin, is a "trans boy," despite her backstory and reason for crossdressing being revealed. Hell, the same girl gets happy when the black paladin called her by her real name, "Katie (?)" Tumblr will insist she is trans because crossdressing/drag/traps (reverse or otherwise) makes them angry and they have to take it to the extreme or it's "problematic," which is incredibly ironic.
I will never understand why they choose the most sleazy obviously straight characters to ship together. I'm assuming it's because these girls find straight men displaying heterosexual behavior intimidating. They only want "soft boys uwu" or whatever.
The new Voltron fandom started out as people clapping over cool robots, and it suddenly took a turn for the worst where it's just "Klance" garbage left and right from here on out, completely burying what the actual show's focus was. There is no episode discussion, just delusional fujoshits.
They've even harassed VAs on twitter over stupid ship wars.
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The more you know, I guess. I can definitely see why Tumblr would latch onto it like that.
Oh good God, they did the same fucking thing with Chihiro Fujisaki from Dangan Ronpa, and it's just... uggggggh... were you even paying attention to the show?
Despite being a guy, Chihiro was so feminine, that he passed off better as a female. And just to avoid harassment, he lived as a woman because it was easier for him. However, this gets revealed after his death; he died in the workout room. It turns out he was starting to go there to so he could appear more masculine and be taken seriously as a male again. Basically, he lived as a woman for so long, that he ended up getting gender dysphoria from it. If that doesn't scream the opposite of being a transgirl, then I don't know what the fuck does.