Everyday I Look Up Simon Belmont On The Same Like Three Social Medias And Find No New Fanart Or Discussion

Everyday I look up Simon Belmont on the same like three social medias and find no new fanart or discussion posts of him, so I guess I gotta do everything myself then huh—

wake up babe, new reason to ditch FANDOM/Wikia just dropped

Previosuly

corporate monster infested with ads which devoured Gamepedia and other companies (feat me on their shit policies, SEO and migration process)

turning entire articles into ads if paid enough

limited functionality preventing admins to even fight vandalism

merging and removing of LGBT+ wikis (and forced domain change for educational [think serious] wikis to "fandom")

official wiki status has no meaning in controlling shit

very much censorship (same good ol' allergy to adult stuff)

gets paid by US Navy to advertise their events (one, two)

Alternative free wiki hostings (aka wiki farms)

Miraheze - started in 2015, non-commercial - no ads and runs on donations, wide array of MediaWiki features, wide array of allowed types of wikis and content, much autonomy for projects, custom domain and private wiki options

wiki.gg - started in 2022 by former Gamepedia staff, limited to video games, accent on involvement of game devs and thus hosting official wikis, has ads for anons (but only of games having wikis here)

Telepedia - started in 2022, limited to entertainment (although might allow other themes upon review), has ads for anons, replicates Miraheze structure

WikiTide - started in 2023, no ads and runs on donations (but also tied w/ premium version called WikiForge), largely replicates Miraheze but has stricter content policies, custom domain option

Other free options I'm aware of are either too limited in allowed content or are very outdated/unstable in technical department to recommend here (or in case of Neoseeker - I'm completely unfamiliar with it, and can't say anything about it), but you still can check them out, alongside paid hostings, on this MediaWiki page.

If you (or your community) are brave and dedicated enough you can go with self-hosted MediaWiki instance (aka independent hosting), like JoJo Wiki (who started on Wikia and succeed at overtaking the SEO) or NIWA wikis. This option, of course, requires funding and technical knowledge, but it's still very much possible.

How to find existing alternative/independent wikis

try to use "-fandom" filter for search query in Google, or use other search engines like Bing or DuckDuckGo

Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension - it modifies search engine results and performs redirects based on its centralized list of independent wikis; a new indie wiki has to be requested/submitted to get added [ Firefox / Chrome ]

Redirect to wiki.gg browser extension - same as IWB but for wikis moved to wiki.gg (as I understand, works automatically without dedicated listing) [ Firefox / Chrome ]

(simple) Redirector browser extension - in case the wiki is neither on IWB or wiki.gg, and it doesn't filter out search results - only performs redirect on whatever you get; a redirect has to be set manually - see this tutorial [ Firefox / Chrome ]

Fuck FANDOM, support real people, support indie wikis

Hello tumblr 😎 (I am totally not horrified by the concept of starting another new social media account and not knowing the unspoken social rules here yet)

Anyone else experiencing some weird skipping issues on here? Like I’ve been scrolling through my recommended or even just other people’s blogs and suddenly tumblr will either jump a few posts forward or a ton backwards and I’ll have to scroll to find my place again. Honestly probs just a mobile issue (alas mobile is the only platform where I have all my photos accessible so I have to use it on mobile) but man why have a mobile version if you’re not gonna fix the bugs on it :/

It also to me just feels wrong when I see people claiming Annette wasn’t “important” before this. That she was a “nothing burger” character. Like as if anyone who isn’t a fighter, hunter, or a literal villain isn’t worth as much as any other character, inherently lesser than everyone else. Especially since she’s Richter’s girlfriend, like isn’t family and the common people who they’re fighting to protect in the first place??? And yeah sure she didn’t have many cutscenes as other characters in the games she’s in, but in a linear platformer game context it would’ve been jarring to have lots of cutscenes showing her perspective if not executed correctly, and Rondo was already unique for the series by having animated cutscenes like that at all (I am aware that technically CV3 had the “take him with you” cutscenes and Belmont’s Revenge had the “you cannot stop me father” cutscene before this, but these were gameplay sprite based and not separate animations). I feel like it would’ve been a ton more source respectful and interesting if we would’ve gotten to see her interacting with the vampires and the other captives in the show, heck we could’ve gotten a plot around her trying to escape with the other Rondo girls since she does resist Dracula in game. Scenes of her and Richter during the beginning town fire and how they got separated in the chaos. Flashbacks to wholesome relationship moments between the two that characterize both of them and add more urgency to the already high stakes of her kidnapping.

Huh, it’s almost like taking concepts from the source material and elaborating on them for a different media is what an adaptation is supposed to do.

I have to say this as a feminist woman who is also an author after seeing how Netflix intends to reinvent Annette (from Castlevania) as another strong female character....

The person in distress (damsel or otherwise) will always have a place in fiction because it is ok to be a victim. Seeing yourself in someone isn't just your skin colour, your pronouns or what is below your belt. It is what you have experienced. People who have experienced being in danger, needing saving or being at someone's mercy in which someone saved them need a character they can connect with just as as we need characters who can inspire us to do the saving. The victim character reminds us that there is no shame in being a victim and that is not your fault you experienced something bad. And if you are in that situation in the here and now, don't let your shame and fear hold you back from asking for help.

This is why I for one thing Annette should not have been changed. Plus, she could still have been fleshed out as being more than a love interest. She wouldn't be a femme fatale, but maybe be a good communicator, be resourceful, be brave despite being captured and have empathy even for those on the dark side kind of like how Princess Peach is not just Mario's love interest who needs saving all the time.

And for once, this goes far beyond just the race swapping. The Annette is not Annette. Her backstory is wrong, her personality is wrong and her profession is wrong. This is a new character entirely and they should have treated her like a new character with dignity not force her into being Annette'.

THIS is the real Annette.

And she deserves to be showcased as the real her just as much as any other character who is iconic to their series and you could fleshed her out to be more than just a victim as she was because real life victims are more than their trauma.

Please, let's respect characters and let us teach girls that it's ok to have experienced danger. You are not at fault. You did not fail yourself. You are not weak. You were unlucky. It's ok to be scared. It's ok to still be scared. It's ok to seek support. It's ok to admit you were attacked.

If we don't teach girls this, we are actually setting them up for danger because should they be victims, they will be more ashamed than ever to come forward and bring their assailants to justice.