i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave”
at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it
like full disclosure is that i do a lot of nerd shit too obvs i was like all in on carnage for maybe a year and i do buy some action figures, plushies, tshirts and shit. so i arguably participate in a lot of this stuff. i just think it’s important to talk about how fandom social groups function in general, and to really try and peel back why so many fandoms become ‘toxic’ as soon as they seem to get big enough to do so
i don’t think that being a part of a fandom makes someone a bad person because i really just think it’s a part of how people socialize and all that good stuff, but it just aint all that pretty when you get to the guts of it.
-having a shopping addiction and being rewarded by your peers (collectors come to mind, but even buying art one can’t afford may apply for instance)
-protecting BNFs or even creators in general because you would rather consume the content they make over empathizing with the real people they may have hurt
-conspiracy theories with no basis in reality either used to defend or explain a properties poor performance, reception, or something similar
-not allowing criticism of any form in fandom spaces, then othering detractors as “antis” “haters” or something similar
-a general detachment from reality and escaping through fandom (maladaptive)
-fandom being used as a way for abusive individuals to have control and take advantage of those that look up to them
-really just about anything you can think of that would develop from thinking a product is more important than other human beings
i think we’ve all see how strong identification with a fandom can lead to some really uncalled for (maybe even uncharacteristic of those who participate) shit, like death threats and harassment in general being a pretty big one, generally leveraged towards people who don’t actually have control of the situation at large and aren’t actually to blame for much of anything. not to say this is a blanket statement for every instance of death threats and harassment though, but ‘hate’doms like insertwordheregate are a good example of what i’m talking about
edit: or v2 which would be death threats and harassments waged towards critics in the name of defending the property/fandom/identity, which happens every other day
‘fandoms’ basically feel inherently toxic both because of consumerism and how they are easily manipulated to create a harmful+bigoted environment. so people should be more than willing to call this out rather than tiptoeing around it.
which isnt to say like, don’t not be a fan of something or whatever, but that it’s important to not fall into the trappings of vehement defense or disownment thereof that has more to do with the protection of the fandom, property, or a personal sense of identity rather than the merits of the property itself… and to also be grounded in the real world with the knowledge that these properties are still made, more than anything else, to make money, and that there is never any one person or attribute to blame or martyr for it’s successes and failures. bigotry enters the discourse when shifting the blame in this fashion to characteristics that may be seen as progressive, or by characterizing the properties detractors as, say, sjws, from which it just snowballs
Can’t wait for kh3 to come out and for every scene with Roxas in it I’ll just be shouting like IT’S RUCKY because I just can’t call him anything else now
I’ll let you in on a little secret: when you get better at lifting weights you also get better at lifting everything else. The muscles can’t tell the difference! They’re fucking idiots!!!
i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave”
at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it
like full disclosure is that i do a lot of nerd shit too obvs i was like all in on carnage for maybe a year and i do buy some action figures, plushies, tshirts and shit. so i arguably participate in a lot of this stuff. i just think it’s important to talk about how fandom social groups function in general, and to really try and peel back why so many fandoms become ‘toxic’ as soon as they seem to get big enough to do so
i don’t think that being a part of a fandom makes someone a bad person because i really just think it’s a part of how people socialize and all that good stuff, but it just aint all that pretty when you get to the guts of it.
-having a shopping addiction and being rewarded by your peers (collectors come to mind, but even buying art one can’t afford may apply for instance)
-protecting BNFs or even creators in general because you would rather consume the content they make over empathizing with the real people they may have hurt
-conspiracy theories with no basis in reality either used to defend or explain a properties poor performance, reception, or something similar
-not allowing criticism of any form in fandom spaces, then othering detractors as “antis” “haters” or something similar
-a general detachment from reality and escaping through fandom (maladaptive)
-fandom being used as a way for abusive individuals to have control and take advantage of those that look up to them
-really just about anything you can think of that would develop from thinking a product is more important than other human beings
i think we’ve all see how strong identification with a fandom can lead to some really uncalled for (maybe even uncharacteristic of those who participate) shit, like death threats and harassment in general being a pretty big one, generally leveraged towards people who don’t actually have control of the situation at large and aren’t actually to blame for much of anything. not to say this is a blanket statement for every instance of death threats and harassment though, but ‘hate’doms like insertwordheregate are a good example of what i’m talking about
edit: or v2 which would be death threats and harassments waged towards critics in the name of defending the property/fandom/identity, which happens every other day
‘fandoms’ basically feel inherently toxic both because of consumerism and how they are easily manipulated to create a harmful+bigoted environment. so people should be more than willing to call this out rather than tiptoeing around it.
which isnt to say like, don’t not be a fan of something or whatever, but that it’s important to not fall into the trappings of vehement defense or disownment thereof that has more to do with the protection of the fandom, property, or a personal sense of identity rather than the merits of the property itself… and to also be grounded in the real world with the knowledge that these properties are still made, more than anything else, to make money, and that there is never any one person or attribute to blame or martyr for it’s successes and failures. bigotry enters the discourse when shifting the blame in this fashion to characteristics that may be seen as progressive, or by characterizing the properties detractors as, say, sjws, from which it just snowballs
Can’t wait for kh3 to come out and for every scene with Roxas in it I’ll just be shouting like IT’S RUCKY because I just can’t call him anything else now
I’ll let you in on a little secret: when you get better at lifting weights you also get better at lifting everything else. The muscles can’t tell the difference! They’re fucking idiots!!!
My friends call me Super or Kon, any nickname that sticks is fine. i’m not kin with superboy or any character, i just like him a lot… I talk/care too much about comic books. I’ve got a lovely boyfriend I’m real weird. You might not like that. Sorry. I’d have a byf or whatever but I’m so tired, just don’t be a bigot.
Alignment: Chaotic Good!
Current obsession(s)?: beats me honestly...
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