#le discourse

Blorbos are wonderful beings, I would even say beneficial for one's mental health, especially when enjoyed as an offshoot or fork of the original character.

My emotional support Dork Lords are distant cousins of their counterparts in JRRTs text. And that is the whole point.

There is no need to defend a blorbo when engaging in discussions about the text. That gives more capacity to analyse the characters in their textual contexts. No playing "sides" required.

in truth, there are a couple of other reasons my fandom motivation has been low.

first off, one of the things I've heard people were roasting me about was an idea I brainstormed in a small, private discord server, that I haven't even come close to implementing yet. I feel this is not only very bad faith, as there's no way to know how I'd execute the idea based only on my discord messages, but also a complete violation of the privacy I expected in an invite-only group like that.

second, in another, larger discord, I've been accused of making assertions I was nowhere close to making. it seems like so much of what I say and write is taken in the worst possible way, and that's not a fun thing to deal with.

it crushes me to know that the people I thought I was on good terms with are so two-faced. it makes the entire fandom environment seem unwelcoming, even though so many of you are truly so great. but if I can't so much as spitball ideas on discord without getting shit for it, let alone write my actual fic, why try?

I dunno. I don't WANT to abandon all the progress I've made. it seems so silly and stupid to let all this affect me even a little bit. I like to think of myself as a pretty strong-willed person who doesn't give a shit about fandom drama, because it truly is so petty and I have actual problems to worry about. but it's because of those actual problems that I just don't have the energy to deal with stupid fandom problems as well.

Louis (and consequently, Harry) have made the decisions they’ve made for reasons we’ll never know. But one thing we DO know if we still choose to believe they are together and in love is that their relationship deserves protection and privacy in so far as they can manage it within the legal entanglements they’ve found themselves in.

We know that 2015 was a time of several heightened legal battles. We know that there were more than one professional “standoff”. So, if you continue to choose to believe that Harry and Louis are a long term couple, then by default you are staking a claim in the belief that they chose to carry out and still CHOOSE to carry out their relationship on the terms they can most comfortably describe as their own.

apparently another bigot thought it was a good idea to reply to a thread of a group of friends talking abt: johann and vani and star signs (those friends happen to be vn shippers)

WITH A LOWKEY NSFW VNJN FANART THAT HAS A HUGE "DON'T REPOST" WATERMARK ON IT

that bigot's acc is also v empty, they just have replies harassing vn shippers and telling them to 'stfu'

and I find the bizarre action to be extremely funny bc it's extremely unnecessary

little funny detail I forgot to add is that bigot misspells 'lgbt' as 'lgtb' lmao

Oh anon, I was watching that madness unfold like

The lack of provocation and sheer randomness of the hater’s attack. The idiocy of spamming Van*jeanne porn on the thread; yep, that’ll show those dastardly Vanoe shippers! As though simply viewing that art would beam little mind-control lasers into their brains compelling them to like Van*jeanne. 😆 The jackass not even bothering to make their OWN Van*jeanne porn for this purpose, but stealing someone else’s (they didn’t even TRY to remove that watermark. Low-effort king 🤪). And like, dude…buddy…if you’re going to say with your whole chest that you hate the queer community, at least make sure you spell our acronyms correctly. 😂😂😂

Me, used to this, having seen the rise and fall of pizza, sixpenceee, memeufacturing, fishingboatproceeds, iamfish, etc: