Disliking Characters Who Aren't Straight, White, Cis Men Isn't Inherently/always Racism, Internal Prejudice,

Disliking characters who aren't straight, white, cis men isn't inherently/always racism, internal prejudice, misogyny, homophobia, ect and every time I see valid criticism of a character being met with a siren wail of "bigotry!!" I want to physically transform myself into that Benfleck smoking meme.

When I say I hate the 911 fandom, things like this are what I mean. These came onto my dash within 3 posts of each other and were the first 911 posts I saw when I logged on.

Do not reblog or support content from @cyberdelph.

They're a repost account using stolen artwork and although they include a link to the original content they do not actually have permission to be reposting it and are in many cases violating the original artist's personal rules.

I've reached out personally to several of the artists and they weren't even aware their art had been taken. Artwork has been stolen from DeviantArt, Lofter, Pillowfort, Instagram and Twitter. Cyberdelph is unfortunately not the only "art sharing" (i.e; reposting other people's artwork) account on this platform but they are one of the biggest and have somehow managed to evade being taken down.

I'll be cross-tagging some of the fandoms and ships they use to broaden awareness.

Fandom analysis and "activism" are healthy and indeed important to a point, and will almost always relate to you or your beliefs on a personal level, but if you're at the point where you can no longer objectively approach a discussion or fandom as a whole, or you're at the point where you cannot separate fandom and your real life, you need to take a step back.

If you're at the point where you're spending the majority of your time relating to fandom doing nothing but complaining and getting in arguments and treating fandom spaces like warzones and protests, you need to take a step back.

If you're blatantly making up things that are non-existent in canon just to be angry about it, you need to take a step back.

And just to clarify; taking a step back in okay. Its not a bad thing, and its absolutely not meant to be an insult. Sometimes we just get to caught up in something we need breathing room to be able to readjust ourselves and realign ourselves, and that's a perfectly valid, normal, human thing. We often use fandom spaces as outlets, but if its reached the point where you have an unhealthy obsession with negativity in those spaces, its no longer good for you. Its no longer just an outlet, its a feeding loop of toxicity.

Sorry to ask this. Did you block an account called glitchedcodex recently? They aren't a bot

Its more than likely, unfortunately right now this account has been fed into a script for bots, so I'm being followed by 50+ a day. I've been blocking any accounts fitting shared criteria.

My apologies; I'll unblock now, please feel free to refollow/tell them to refollow if they're still wanting to, I'll keep note!

Tags and summaries are actually part of your storytelling. Please, for the love of god, stop making summaries that are just things like;

Read for the story

Idk I'm bad at summaries lol

Non-ownership disclaimers*

Character/Character slash fic

DON'T LIKE DON'T READ

[Ship name] highschool AU

[character] meets [character] and they work together and fall in love

Read the tags and check it out

*Which, by the way, you don't need to do, because AO3 does it for you. You don't need to tell people you don't own Marvel on AO3. AO3 would bodyslam Anne Rice for you.

Please. For my sanity. Even if you just copy and paste an interesting paragraph from the story. Your summary is supposed to summarise the story. Its supposed to tell you about the story. Your tags are also designed for that purpose; to tell the reader what you've written.

Is it an AU? Canon divergence? Crossover? Fusion? Who's dating who? Who's gay and who's just a himbo on thin ice? Is it 90s slasher gore or just a little MTV style blood splatter? First person? Third?

You don't have to tag every single aspect of the fic, especially if you want to keep some parts of it secret to not give away scenes or plot points, but please, at least give the reader enough to have a general idea of what they're going into. At least give them enough for them to decide if the fic is something they want to check out, because I know I'm not alone when I say I'll just scroll past a fic that has absolutely no visible information or detail. No matter how high the wordcount.