#dear fandom

You don't attack real people over fictional characters.

If you do you need to check with yourself.

There is some bad blood, ugly arguments happen, and it could get worse but don't ever go after real people.

I've been struggling to figure out how to start this, where to start this because this post has been a long time coming, long before this guild ever came together. After the events of yesterday, I realized that I couldn't stand back anymore and just passive aggressively reblog guides on how to leave comments or on how to support your content creators. It‘s long past the time to do this directly.

I want to talk about bullying, specifically the bullying that content creators experience in this fandom.

I've been in the supercorp fandom since the early days and have been in fandom in general for more than two decades, which means that I have seen a lot of bullying in every fandom that I've been in, but I have never seen anything like what I see in this fandom. And I've been in the glee fandom, okay? That's saying a fucking lot.

There’s a disturbing trend that pops up once every so often but it seems to be ramping up so much more recently. A huge part of me understands the frustration in how our lives have been disrupted by all that’s been happening and how helpless it makes us feel that we can't control how we end up manifest that energy. But it is still no excuse to be a dick. There is no excuse to bully and harass content creators. I don’t see what kind of gratification anybody can get out of acting so callously towards another person.

I'm not even talking about things like, "update soon" or "when are you gonna update" or "it's been x amount of time since you last posted, are you still creating". I'm addressing the ones similar to what was on a recent post we reblogged here.

This is one incident of many, and one too many. Nobody should ever have to receive a message like that, least of all somebody who wants for nothing but to simply contribute to their fandom. Whether you like their work or not is a non-issue. Your personal preferences and opinions are yours but you want to know something really crazy? You don't have to share any of that, especially if the creator didn’t ask for it, Like, you can keep it all to yourself. But when you are choosing to do so, that makes you the asshole.

This painful shit, with all the baiting and bad writting remind me of Legends of Tomorrow season 1 with Sara and Snart (still not over them btw) out of the blue they announced that most loved character is out for good, because actor is leaving BUT he did came back.

And the only way I can see The Magicians go is to leave Quentin out for whole season 5 only to tease his comeback in the finale.

I know it just seems to be my hope that they actually didn't do something unnecessarily cruel and BAD for viewers and ratings

BUT (I know lots of buts and ifs) for now all they did was to atract viewers and have awesome ratings right? Even if the ratings drop in season 5, because of the shit they pulled, announcing that Q will be back for season 6 in the finale would be a great move to not only get viewers back, but also gain new ones.

And if season 6 would be their final as I heard it would be perfect play for them.

...I wanted to share some thoughts about the things some people say about Eldarya (and especially the spin off) being to expensive. 

If you buy a picture/ commission, a normal price for something digital lies between 5 to 30 bucks, depending on the stile, coloring, ect. Also most times it is more like a mini-job for the artist. 

Eldarya is a game that doesn’t use the pay-to-win concept and can be played for FREE. You don’t just get an illustration, but there is a group of people who writes, programs, draws, moderates, updates and checks on the game AND you can make decisions that have an (maybe small but hey!) influence on the story. It’s their job. They need to be paid. And considering the amount of work that stands behind this Otome Game, five bucks for an episode is more than cheap. You don’t even need to play it to continue the story!