The Fandom Phantom

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

the Hero has too much free time and it's getting on the rogues gallery's nerves

increasing the responsibilities of the Hero's personal life to mess with their work-life balance

psychological warfare (manipulate the hero into a dysfunctional relationship with the most toxic love interest possible)

Goon 1: ok so what's Hero into anyways. like, interests, hobbies

Goon 2, examining the secret files: they uh...don't actually seem to DO anything except fight crime. is fighting crime a hobby?

G1: could be. more importantly is it a hobby you can bond over with a partner?

G2: yeah I guess you could fight crime with a partner. but they've never shown any interest in a sidekick or teamup before...

G1: hm so no to a crime fighting partner then. okay well how about a partner they could fight crime against?

G2: like a supervillain?

Practical-minded, she responded: Don't forget the coupon we got in the mail, there's a discount on rings. Ever helpful, she sent him a photo of the coupon code.

He left her on read. When he came home, he was cagey and grumbling, and when she was like "Did you remember to use the coupon" he was like, "I don't know what you're talking about, why would I be buying jewelry, etc.," not meeting her eye.

Few weeks later he took her out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, spent the entire night grumbling under his breath and shaking his head in disbelief, before going "아이씨" and pulling the ring box out of his pocket and slamming it down on the table. "How the hell did you know," he said, begrudgingly impressed.

She was like, "It's really not hard" and then was like "Did you use the coupon" and he was like "Yes I used the coupon"

In which Shang Qinghua, Mobei Jun, and a wild Shizun appear! May the chaos begin.

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Rating: Gen

Archive Warnings: NAWA

Category: M/M

Relationship: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Charakters: Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Mobei Jun, Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua

Additional tags: tags and ratings may change, amnesia, post canon, minor injuries, post marriage extra, post Bingge vs Bingmei extra, background moshang, establish Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, established Mobei Jun/Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu has internalized homophobia, minor original characters, no beta we die four times like Shen Qingqiu

Language: English

Words: 5,999

Chapters: 2/?

Summary:

"Bingge?!"

"…Ge?" Luo Binghe's expression quickly shifted to one of mild amusement. "Shizun whats wrong?"

Who's your shizun?! Shen Yuan jumped up, leaving Luo Binghe sitting on the floor with an astonished expression on his face. This couldn't be right, right?? The last thing Shen Yuan remembered was dying and now he was about to die all over again because not only had he managed to transmigrate into Proud Immortal Demon Way's scumbag villain Shen Qingqiu, he had done so at a point in time where the demonic Emperor Luo Binghe had already captured him!

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Or:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

AU where MBJ is a lightning demon instead of ice and SQH freaks out everytime MBJ want to touch him because it reminds SQH so much of how he died in previous life.

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(1) lightning Mobei Jun

(2) SQH: don't touch me don't touch me DON'T TOUCH ME

I AM LATE WITH THIS, HI.

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.

Happy New year's Everyone ✨️

I hope you guys enjoyed my techno drawing and my Philza drawings, I'll keep doing more of them

especially more comics and stories and hope you follow me on this journey

Batfam: lol Dick only did that because he is so extra

Me [vibrating]: trapeze artists tried unsuccessfully to nail the quadruple for 70 years because the flyer picks up enough velocity on the spins that they reach 80 miles an hour and hit with so much force it can dislocate the shoulders of the person trying to catch him and rip the skin off their hands in big flaps 

Bruce starts training baby Dick

Teaching him kicks and blocks and all his good good ninja shit

But this child Will Not Stop doing flips

Bruce tries to instil his whole “economy of movement” thing at first

Assumes yeah, it’s circus boy zoomies

They do a couple nights on the streets

Dick’s finally pulling out the quads

(Maybe he did cut back on flips a leeeeettle in training until Bruce shuts up but he is Not leaving this on the table)

Bruce gives him a Stern Talking To one night

🦇: We said no flips chum. No unnecessary moves, it leaves you too vulnerable. What if someone just catches you cuz you won’t stop getting extra air for flips?

Baby Dick just. Stares up at him. Big innocent eyes.

🤸🏻: Mr Bruce why do you think I did not do quad flips in training sir?

Mr Bruce realises he assumed the child was listening to him. Big mistake.

🦇: Why were you not doing flips in training chum?

Dick smiles.

🤸🏻: Well Mr Bruce my parents always told me to never ever ever do quads with anyone but them sir.

Bruce, always emotionally harmed by Baby Dick’s orphan stories, is more confused

🦇: Chum you are doing them at criminals?

Baby Dick nods

🤸🏻: Yes Mr Bruce because by the time I get to four rotations I’m going faster than highway speeds and I think you need to keep your arms but they do not! 😇

(Apparently they also added new rules and scoring around quads recently!)

But it’s absolutely not the “oh there is only one person on earth who could be doing this” which is nice because it means Tim actually still had to do some additional legwork and deductive reasoning beyond “count spin”

(I’m not actually sure when the quads got big in gymnastics though; it might have been less frequent back then?)

Shen Yuan posts photos of his paintings, posts his poems, scenery from Qing Jing, writes scathing reviews, musical pieces, catches up on old web novels, ect

Xiang Fei posts new web novels under the same name, better than his old one with Shen Yuan's editing help, binges as much anime as he can, maybe researches indoor plumbing

Maybe the system lets them share it with their husbands, Luo Binghe begs Shen Yuan to post photos of his food too, which Shen Yuan would have been a little too thin faced to eagerly photograph like he wanted until then.

Mobei-Jun creates fancy ice sculptures for Xiang Fei to show off, towering things depicting battle

The pidw fandom is confused, the number one hater neet PeerlessCucumber actually lives like a monk? Like a xianxia made real? A talented artist and scholar with a doting husband that posts divine recipes on his profile with pictures?

AirplaneShootingThroughTheSky has a husband too?? He made that sculpture? Okay it looks sick as hell

Now I'm just imagining what if the System did allow them to personally message their family (Shen Yuan's family) to reveal secrets for some extortionist price, but Shen Qingqiu just smirks and flashes his big credit card (Binghe) and pays up

Because god, imagine finding out no your brother/son didn't run away actually he, of all things, transmigrated into that shitty stallion novel he wouldn't shut up about

And that IS the protaganist he wouldn't shut up about

"Woah didi I have to admit whoever gave you plastic surgery did great"

"Yeah about that-"

Luo Binghe crying before they voice call like "What if Shizun's family hates me!?"