What ‘Fiction Affects Reality’ Does Mean: Major movies, TV shows, comics and books have a large cultural impact and can alter how we perceive issues like race, lgbtqa+ rights and environmental change as a society, and while this does not mean that all media should be ideologically pure, we should be critical of the media we consume and support in an effort to be progressive, as well as ensure that media is flagged with appropriate warnings and age recommendations.
What It Does Not Mean: A group of less than 1,000 people on the internet writing and enjoying a ship that is morally questionable is going to shape society to accept things like pedophillia and abusive relationships, and therefore we should waste time and effort on harassing those people in a meaningless moral crusade because they clearly are monsters who cannot differentiate between media and reality or see issues as black and white.
I legit saw someone refer to AO3 as a “major media company” as their justification for why they should get rid of questionable fic, and all I can beg you is please, go outside once in a while if you think that a fanfic site, even a popular one, is a “major media company.”
Fandom: where if you draw the COVER for a tawdry romance novel referenced in someone else’s story, the creators will fall all over it, put it on a notebook – blank, of course – and put it up for sale…
…but if you _write_ a tawdry romance novel, all you’ll get is uncomfortable jokes made about it, and you’re expected to hide in a closet and never admit that you did it.
I’m kind of emotionally done.
Where fanartists get to work on professional gigs and be compensated and praised every week, and fanfiction writers get maybe a joke or two at their expense while writing jobs get handed to people in the extended family who haven’t watched more than 10% of the show and never written a comic before…
Fandom: where if you draw the COVER for a tawdry romance novel referenced in someone else’s story, the creators will fall all over it, put it on a notebook – blank, of course – and put it up for sale…
…but if you _write_ a tawdry romance novel, all you’ll get is uncomfortable jokes made about it, and you’re expected to hide in a closet and never admit that you did it.
my first wondertrade in oras and i got a machamp incredible
all it knows is dig
level 31 and it just knows dig
what am i supposed to do with this
is
is this machamp’s name “homo matsuri”
as in
“homo festival”
yea this is good
Some more interesting information:
“Dig” in Japanese was originally “Ana wo horu,” which translates to “Dig a hole,” with the direct object’s being “Ana,” “a hole” and the verb’s being “horu,” “dig.”
The common writing of “ana,” “穴,” is the same as a colloquial term for the buttocks, “ketsu.”
“Horu,” in addition to it’s more standard definition, is also a slang verb meaning “to have anal sex (between two men).”
Your new Machamp is named “Homo Festival,” and it’s only move is to fuck a man in the ass.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 