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[girlofprey]

Well. I never really got round to writing anything or talking to anyone about Far Cry 5 on Tumblr, although I certainly considered it, but already the fandom seems to have gone down the tubes. Weirdly enough, I haven't actually seen anything myself - I search a very specific tag - but there's this one woman on there who's pretty active, and nice, and writes well, and she started talking about how you can have whatever fantasies you want, actually, and it's okay to like villains, and your kinks don't say anything about you other than what you enjoy one way or the other. Then she started talking about how awful people were in the fandom, and anyone who liked the more hardcore stuff didn't have to engage, and how people were apparently screenshotting her old posts to 'call her out' for stuff. Again, I never saw these conversations, but apparently they were happening constantly. I saw one post of someone saying if you ship some sibling characters together, you can get the fuck out. And then last night I saw a post of someone saying they'd realised the fandom was toxic af, because a lot of people in it were either 'accidentally promoting bad things' (what the fuck, honestly?), or telling the people who were accidentally promoting bad things to kill themselves. So there we go.

To be honest, some of the stuff people were writing was that kind of version of my kinks I find kind of uncomfortable and nightmarish, and kind of boring really. But plenty of people don't like what I'm into, and people are sometimes working through stuff while writing about it, so who am I to judge?

At least I got some nice fic ideas and gifsets to look at, while it lasted. What gets me is that it's Far Cry, though. Like - maybe people are young, and have never played one of the games before? But literally the point of most Far Cry games is that there will be baddies who are awful, but also charismatic and slightly sympathetic in some way, and there'll be characters you're working with who are on your side, but are kind of morally grey (or bad) in their own way. Who goes into a Far Cry game not expecting that? Who goes into a Far Cry game and judges anyone who likes the villain? But a lot of fandom baffles me these days, and Tumblr itself, so eh I guess. It's a fucking shame though.

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[breyzyyin]

Tumblr scares the ever-loving crap out of me whenever it comes to fandom stuff, sadly. Which is a shame because I've met some rather nice people who have talked about adding me if I ever got an account myself at A03 and I'm just...way too terrified to do it on account of all the horror stories I have heard about Tumblr at large. I only ever lurk on very specific tags there, and while it isn't too bad that way...even then, you'll still find some very unpleasant bashing and harassing posts or comments, and it just really makes me wonder why people just can't be respectful anymore. That kind of stuff isn't exactly new to fandom, but Tumblr in particular seems to bring it out to an unbelievable level. And it is definitely a fucking shame on all accounts.

It is good that you were able to get some nice fic ideas and giftsets though at least! :D

[girlofprey]

You're right, Tumblr is a shitpile most of the time. Even a bunch of small-time tags I saw some awful crap - I actually had to give up on Tumblr for a while, and just started going back slowly for a few things. It is unfortunately where fandom largely seems to be these days. And the gifsets. I just don't get why some people are so desperate to feel superior to other people, and to hurt them - or to let their own anxiety take over them, enough to hurt other people over it, I guess. But idk. Fandom is weird and a shame nowadays.