I have noticed something that really really started to bother me the more I thought about it ( Read more... )

I don't mean to come across as crass by naming the project, but I've run across this petition for a USUK movie ( Read more... )

( Uh-oh, I said it... shipping. And why. In the same sentence. )

In case it's not obvious from my icon, I actually love Feliks, and Pol/Liet is one of the finest pairings to cross my fandom-consciousness since I was in the Wicked Lovely fandom and shipping Irial/Niall as though my life depended on it *lol random fan history tangent*.

But that's the thing. That works for Feliks, as the short, valley girl-accented ( Read more... )

I hope that this doesn't only bother me.  I'm not talking about Studio Deen whitewashing Seychelles, Egypt and Turkey, since someone already covered that.  I'm talking about the fans not doing their research and rendering a lot of non-white countries lily white.  I've seen too many examples of this.  People who make Greenland OCs tend to especially ( Read more... )

I'm going to preface this with the fact that I dislike seme-uke dynamic in general. It's just something that miffs me off in so many different ways.

For example, I understand that people have a hard time seeing diminutive Italy top Germany. I get that. But he is still a man. Seriously.

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Please, for the love of God, stop cosplaying as Nazis. Please. I don't even know how hard to beat this into people's heads. When I see a Nazi!Prussia or a Nazi!Germany, my first instinct is to cover my nose and go hide in a corner.
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I'm sorry, but I really have to rant about this. I hate so much when people do really offensive cosplays or do horrible things with them, like that whole Nazi salute thing that happened, or "raping" other cosplayers, or making jokes about current tragedies.

For a while I thought that people kinda got better about it since there is so much backlash, ( Read more... )

Okay, everyone ( Read more... )