/ffs/ - Fujo Fandom Sperging

Tumblr nonas, I have a suggestion.
Now that communities are a thing, could we make one dedicated to only oldschool fanblogs?

Example ruleset:
-No posting about yourself. No pronouns in bio. No mental health in bio. You can do this off on your main blog, not on your fanblog. Fanblogs should be kept pure and enthusiastic.

-Members should embrace the oldschool fandom philosophy of 'don't like, don't read', 'fiction is not endorsement' and 'no minors allowed'

-No posting wildly alternate AU versions of characters. (Yes, this means we might have to axe coffee shop AUs, but it also means we don't have to deal with trans stuff, it also means history-based fans don't have to see modern AUs in a fanbase overrun with them)

>>3973
Sorry but that sounds like shite, there are plenty of fandoms I like where characters are so outright doomed or dead that AUs are basically the only fics with happy ending and no angst, plus I just like them.
>Members should embrace the oldschool fandom philosophy of 'don't like, don't read'
>wants a sweeping AU ban because she doesn't want to read it trannyshit or not

>>3975
Op of >>3973
That's not what I meant, nona. AUs that diverge from canon are fine, such as 'Character lives AU'.

'Wildly alternate' should refer to whole-setting AUs, such as coffee shops AU or Western AU, or changing an aspect of a character to be completely different from canon, such as 'AU for Evangelion where Asuka is a blob from outer space'.

This is mainly because I've been in fandoms where people seem very hesitant to interact with the OG setting, and prefer writing AUs instead, often while wiping away 'problematic' aspects of the series. This is not great when you really love that setting and want to see more of it.

Also, because it seemed like a plausible way to keep the trannies out without openly telling them to fuck off.

Either way, I welcome all points of view on this, feedback on what could be changed or how the rules should be worded, or if a rule seems strange it can be changed.

Maybe whole setting AUs are fine as long as it's fanart, not too often, and the characters are recognisably themselves?

Do discuss.

Same but forgot:
-All blogs need to have a theme so that they can be seen on a computer and look different from when they're viewed on phone. Preferably navigable by a tags index. This filters out low-effort blogs.
(Reposting because I'm not sure if the terminology was correct.)

>>3972
>How is the current fandom climate on your platform?
I pingpong everywhere. I have the fortune of liking one current juggernaut ship and it is way more prolific on Twitter than tumblr. For whatever reason (Taste. It's taste.) jp fans like this ship while western fans for a time really preferred the "less problematic MLM" ship, lol. Using "MLM" over yaoi/slash/"m/m" is a red flag to me now. Most of my other fandom interests are too small/old to get a proper read on.
>Tips for surviving the platform and making network with other fujos?
Don't be subtle about being a fujo. Make an effort to reach out first because we are all socially inept and/or once-bitten-twice-shy about stepping on a discourse landmine.
>Current feelings on social media/forums/discords?
I hate discord specifically because you can't anonymously lurk, but understand that it's nice to have a gated community when fujo hostility is so high. I'm still sad about the tumblr porn ban because of the fandom diaspora it caused. I re-regged to aarinfantasy a while back but it's pretty slow and more BL than "fandom" focused. Twitter sucks shit but as long as that's where all the artists are there's nothing I can do. Bluesky exists but has yet to import many fandom types. Dreamwidth has the fandom types but it's so slow/dead I don't consider it a contender. I'm keeping an eye on bobaboard dev but like pillowfort I just don't think they'll be able to capture an initial audience large enough to snowball into a viable alternative.

>>3976
You're not going to keep transfic writers out like that becaue they rarely ever acknowledge it as an AU, they think of it as 'headcanon' that can plausibly insert to canon as it is. As in, they see X male character in canon as being trans, and it doesn't matter if it's set in the past before they could even do a modern gender transition or if their childhood has been seen on-screen. And even if you put a blanket ban on trans headcanons you'll still get cuntboy. At this point it might as well be as unavoidable in slash fandom as futa is for yuri, unfortunately.

>>3979
Random ponder, could it be possible to create groups and just not allow trans headcanons in it? Like, it would be fine if they were posting it outside the group, so no penalizing people for doing it, just not allowing them to do so in the group?

Would people get permabanned if they made groups for non-trans stuff only?

>>3980
Ban or not there's no way you can enforce that on Tumblr without stirring up controversy. Once it gets out that a community doesn't allow trans content you're just going to get a bunch of callout posts and people joining the community to troll and spam their headcanons out of spite. It'll even dissuade people who don't care about trans stuff from joining because then they'll be associated with a transphobic community. The only thing you can do is do a "quiet" ban on it, i.e. establish a majority who don't like trans/cuntboy from the start with your friends or something and ignore anyone who posts stuff like that and they'll fuck off sooner or later from the lack of attention. Or make it a private community and vet people's blogs before letting them in without explicitly stating they're rejected for trans shit.

>>3981
At this point, I wonder if it's just worth the controversy tbh. Enough of us are sick and tired of it. Reddit gets to ban dicks from their porn and vagina from their homo porn, we should be allowed to, too.

Private sounds like the best option at this point, sadly. Fujo group when?

>>3981
"vaginal sex makes me dysphoric so i'm curating this community for myself"–now they are super hitler if they push it.

>>3983
Could we do this, and maybe make it a secret-ish community and only allow 'vetted' people to join?

>>3984
Can you join through a side blog or would we need to make a new blog if our main blog isn't focused on BL?

>>3976
This is too nitpicky imo. AUs are wildly popular in fan spaces, regardless of how OOC they are, and it will do nothing to curb trannies. If you're going to try and curate a community that shares a philosophy of "don't like don't read," you can't also create such rigid rules. I agree with the other nonas who think it'd be most reasonable to just create a private community where you only allow in people you think would be a good fit. But honestly, I think you might struggle with finding a sizable community to begin with. Tumblr is dying as it is, and there aren't very many well-organized, old school fan blogs, much less impersonal ones with carefully selected desktop themes, no whole-setting AUs, no moralfag sensibilities, and no trannyshit. You're probably going to have to compromise on at least one or two of those things, and if it was me, I'd think the AU thing is the least important of them. If you're fine with a tiny community, of course, do whatever you like. Good luck either way, though.

>>3986
Ideally side blog. Depends on how tumblr rolls it out.

>>3985
Good point, anon. Sounds like the AU rule should be curbed and more focus towards keeping trannies out.

>>3972
I honestly don't really have a platform. 4chan would be closest, but it became lame, shit and riddled by SNS tards the last years. I never liked tumblr and cannot see how it would have gotten better. Casually posting my art there and talk to a few people that use it and all I see is infighting over "problematic" headcanons, posts and ships. I don't want to interact with that community since it means getting dragged into drama.
>>3976
Personally hate AU like that as well. The setting and premise are half of the reason for why I even care about a series, alternative routes/endings are something else. I guess it's impossible to ban that stuff but I wish there was a place like that since you cannot even filter it without also filtering "character survives" fics, it's sometimes enough to kill my motivation to even look for fics, since most of the series I am into are like 50% coffeeshop/school AU shit or more.

I remember liking Reverse Falls AU art a lot. I wished it had more Dipper Gleeful x Yellow Bill Cypher, though.

>>4093
>The setting and premise are half of the reason for why I even care about a series
NTA and saged for off-topic, but I have never understood the appeal of AUs of that nature. Of course, it's fine for people to like what they do, but for some reason, when an AU diverges heavily from canon (I'm talking, like, a high fantasy series has an AU set in 1950s America or something), I cannot get into it. I like the characters for who they are, and changing the setting and their life experiences fundamentally turns them into different people entirely. I usually end up thinking, "you could've just changed the names of these characters, and I legitimately couldn't have identified them as the same people."