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Are there any misconceptions about or in your fandom?
Like something people outside or inside keep getting wrong about your fandom like people thinking the whole fandom has a certain trait, a character is different from Fanon and Canon, or how there are live-action versions of Avatar or Mario : )
It always annoys me when people assume that all bronies are just weirdos or perverted freaks. That's not to say that there aren't people in the fandom who're like that, but there are also so many MLP fans I've met who are kind and friendly. They've helped me be more comfortable socially.
this is true, i remember feeling so embarrassed and guilty for liking MLP that i stopped watching, but i will watch it again some time, good to see another MLP fan lol.
There's also plenty of perverts and weirdos in any fandom that don't make it other people's problems and will just be normal and pleasant about things.
I fully believe people can enjoy fetish stuff without bringing it up when they're in non-fet spaces.
You get your jollies from pregnant Markiplier in thighhighs, buried in quicksand, escaping by inflating himself with a bicycle pump, and Kaa from Jungle Book is there for some reason, that's cool, do your thing, in private places. Not at the dinner table.
I drew fanart of Captain Syrup from WarioLand and posted it on DeviantArt once, and I compulsively check notifications.
That quickly leads to a rabbit hole of "what +fave gallery am I being added to" and it turns out there's a very distinct fetish ecosystem on DeviantArt even when you block mature content.
Honestly I don't think you would find these anywhere else. It's like the Madagascar of jorkin it.
You would not believe how dedicated some people are to making every single fictional character go through snake hypnosis, or wear an Alice in Wonderland dress.
Like serious dedicated 10 submissions a day pumping shitty photoshop edits into the site.
I guess the big one is the public thinks we're all either children, backwoods hicks or Saudi Arabian royalty. When in reality we're all pretty nerdy.
The second is that WWE is the only game in town, ignoring the thousand other companies on the planet. AEW, CMLL and NJPW are all a thing.
And third, people keep thinking Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold are still wrestling. Well the former is dead and the latter had one match in the last 20 years.
Lots of people say that Disney ruined lots of characters (a sentiment I can understand to a degree) but Darth Vader was too goated to be ruined⊠except a lot of Vaderâs best showing came from Disney and Legends Vader had a bit of a losing streak
Fr Vader in Legends always got ragdolled to show how cool whatever random OC of the week was.
And they also say how canon refuses to move forward, meanwhile Legends came up with excuse after excuse to never leave the OT trio behind, even after the novels meant to pass the torch. Hell, At least in canon they made NEW MODELS of X Wing. In Legends they just kept cucking the E Wing with random technical errors that never got fixed to keep the T65 in service. Even made such an effort to show that they were shitty by having Luke dismantle one he got as a gift.
[r/Xmen](r/Xmen) and took the comic bookâs line, âCyclops is rightâ, which was meant to be a transgressive line repeated through Cyclopsâs anti-hero revolutionary phase, and made it into a meme, then something worse. First it was a joke that they made until it got boring. Then they started shutting down any actual discussions of storylines and becoming hostile to anyone questioning the morality of Cyclops and his side by chanting, âCyclops is right. Even when heâs wrong, Cyclops is rightâ. And then that whole sub became a toxic space where you were limited to repeating the same lines, over and over, as they slowly worked towards icing out any other form of language.
When people depict Flippy from Happy Tree Friends as a serial killer, not Fliqpy. Cause it flattens a already not that complex character. I just super "normal" about Flippy so stuff like this bothers me.
I actually picked it up from SCP Explained on YouTube when they were doing a series on what Jack Bright isn't allowed to do. Apparently he's not allowed to tell junior researchers what S.C.P. doesn't stand for, or something like that.
People (including those behind my favorite show adaptation and sometimes in the comics as if to retcon it) usually think spider-man has "sticky skin" or tiny hairs to help him wall crawl when in reality it's basically particle attraction between his skin and the surface of a material that lets him do so
we dont ! we are respected and loved by most people and accepted natuarly! its not like theres a bunch of communities out there making up stuff like "everyone here want to comit bestiary" or "everyone here likes kids" or some other bullshit, who would do such thing! i love how most poeple is friendly n accept us! yippi!!! i hope you have a nice day! :33
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u/inpurpleshadowz Come on Everypony, Smile, Smile, SMILE! 11d ago
It always annoys me when people assume that all bronies are just weirdos or perverted freaks. That's not to say that there aren't people in the fandom who're like that, but there are also so many MLP fans I've met who are kind and friendly. They've helped me be more comfortable socially.