my desire doesn’t know anything yet.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

only ever liking male relationships and calling a relationship with a women in it 'het slop'

'she's just not that interesting compared to [insert male character]'

only talking about female characters in a shipping context

treating a female character as an accessory or self-insert next to the male character

calling a female character toxic or bitchy for the same things that a male character gets coddled for

'if you want more fic/art/content about female characters/wlw ships make it yourself'

yuri but it's only genderbent yaoi

saying a female character 'deserves better' and then sidelining her completely

claiming that favouring yaoi is 'escaping misogyny'

a complex female character being used in fics solely as a yaoi cheerleader

female character's mental health gets ignored in favour of a male character's development

female character being reduced to a mom or sister character when they aren't related to x character at all

'her character was so underdeveloped' but then their fav is a man with much less screentime

'fandom isn't activism'

the tag about a female character being 80% shipping content

complex female character being called bitchy while an equally complex male character is adored and coddled

killing a female character off in fic

not listening when women in fandom point out something about the source material being sexist

calling a female character overrated

male character's sexism being excused because 'he didn't know any better/he's mentally ill/he didn't mean it in that way'

giving a male character/mlm ship the same traits that an existing female character already has; while not engaging with that character at all

female character in a straight ship being written ooc because the author only wrote the fic because of the male character

'mean lesbian' trope

'stop dictating how people should play with characters'

'it's not that deep'

canon sapphic ship has about 10% of the fic compared to the non-canon yaoi ship

calling women in fandom hysterical for being upset at how the source material treated a female character

LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho

CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)

CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start

DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background

EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):

tabliss for the new tab theme

stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout

enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors