So its already the end of 2025…

I will say this decade has been batshit in a way different from the 2010s. I guess if theres one thing about this decade that has change my perception of everything, its the slow unraveling of the expectation that everyone around you wants to fucking live. Like I can’t trust the people around me to not willing destroy themselves (and by extension everyone) for reasons incomprehensible. I don’t understand it but maybe its because I didn’t pay close enough attention.

Thats too grim and I’m so tired of everything so lets talk fandom crap. Heres the worst fandoms I got into throughout the 20s

Shortly before the 20s started I was kinda into the Bugsnax fandom. I did have a Journalist-sona like everyone else, but I slowly lost interest after a while. It didn’t help that the fandom was just unusually cruel to the one black-coded character in the game. They were fucking trash can muppets but one didn’t sound white enough ig so she was the target of ire that no other character got. Basically people were calling the character abusive and discouraging the fandom from drawing her or shipping her because… she was eating another character’s bugsnax….. yea that was dumb af, as racism tends to be. One character was an out right bully (shown within 5 mins of the game starting) but apparently it was ok to ship her with the character she was bullying (right on screen) because she had a valley girl accent. Sure you’re concerned w the black woman being abusive to her partner, so lets take him and ship him with another character that tried to fight him on screen. Sure ok. Yea I’m still sour its not like this isn’t a reoccurring issue in fandoms to this day or anything.

So I took a break after that. Can’t remember how long but either in 2020 or 2021 I got into the Your Boyfriend fandom ( Yea it was because of Manly). I actually had a tumblr around that time and thats were I mostly engaged with the fandom, like posts and finding fanart, theories, etc. And no joke it wasn’t long before I saw a video of the creator of the game saying that after they finished the base game, she wanted to make a sfw version for kids to play. I didn’t think the worse back then because I didn’t know anything but I still felt like that WAS off. At the time the game was nsfw, the fandom had massive backlogs of nsfw art and they couldn’t be fucking serious about trying to carve out a safe space for kids.

And I’ve explained what happened in this fuckass fandom before but long story short the creator behind the game had some fucked up allegations. The team working on the game had fucked up allegations. The boot licking orbiters had fucked up allegations. Some popular people in the fandom had fucked up allegations. People were saying unhinged things to defend it. At some point it was too much and I left. At least the game does not have a good rep outside the fandom and you can’t bring it up w/o someone bringing up the fucked up shit.

After that I was kinda fizzling out on fandoms and social media I even left social media around this time and started my own blog site. Got into Spooky Month a bit (which was fine. Might even do some art for it later if I feel like it). I also got into Welcome Home and Digital Circus for a short time. Now, both fandoms had a similar issue of everyone just… quickly consoooming it in every way possible until it became a dry worn out husk. Its all just quick dopamine hits until you get bored and move on to next thing. I’ve criticized it before when a content farm vid showed a design for a goth fem Jax and everyone was mindlessly drawing it for likes without considering that maybe we shouldn’t give attention to this bs. Around that time I was just getting annoyed. I guess I really faded out of fandoms shortly after that and really locked in on my webcomic. I might do a little fanart here and there but thats not my focus anymore.

Ok, I think I should mention this last one since I do occasionally post secret ship art of it. So I wanna talk about Love and Deepspace because this game has been out for TWO YEARS and the fandom is a mess. From petty squabbling to Holy Shit How Has No One Been Arrested.

I made a post earlier this year about the Caleb situation and apparently there was a recent trailer for the next multi where he blatantly calls Mc “little sister”. So the card dropped today and apparently they outright ditched the “adopted” part of their relationship and are just blood siblings in this card. This is a pretty big deviation from the EN and CN version where they’re useually childhood friends/adopted. So I’ll voice my new thoughts on the situation: theres no reason to write their relationship like *that* other than to be edgy, they weren’t portraying their relationship like *that* before this, and people are right to feel uncomfortable with it. As far as I’m concerned unless they’re going all in and are going to show Caleb as the monster he’d be in a relationship like this, theres literally no point in doing this. Abusers and their apologists don’t need positive pr so show what really happens. The company chose to write their event that way and its worth discussing. Actual incest victims were playing this game and they just sprung this on them w no warning. Like wtf.

Quick note: Once again, I must restate that its not your place to tell people how to feel about art that mocks, berates or sugar coats their experiences and trauma (not that you need personal experience to feel uncomfortable). There are just a lot of condescending finger wagers in this fandom and I feel like this needs to be said.

The only good thing to come from this are all the black players giving Caleb the n-word pass because apparently he’s black now. Dark skinned players are such an after thought in this game wtfuuuck lmao.

So I think the real issue is that Infold as a company keeps marketing themselves as progressive (allowing different skin tone customization/ women centric/ mildly challenging gender roles/ etc) but they never follow though on it (skin tone lighting is really bad/ no hair variety/ no actual mindfulness/ etc). They drew in a left leaning audience that doesn’t usually get into the romance genre (because its 95% patriarchy slop) and had a higher expectation. Because I made a post earlier about the modern lack of interest in romance stories in America and how part of that is how we’re tired of narratives that paints being convenient to men as the end goal. LADS did make it look like it would be the opposite but now I’ll have to keep my eye on things. And make no mistake, the whole games not like this. The other characters are legit more chill (Zayne had that one weird myth we’re not going to talk about here). I just hope this isn’t the start of a massive down slide.

On another note I got some of the worst news: Saw 11 was fucking cancelled early this year. What am I going to do with this retro Peter Strahm shirt now???? Yea apparently the Saw series was bought out by Blumhouse or something and due to creative differences everything was cancelled. I guess thats just fucking it then.

So, yea. I guess thats it for my last post of the year. Really everything has been exhausting and moving forward I think I want to keep focusing on my original stuff with an occasional fanart. I’ve been making some personal merch of my ocs as well and I can’t go back. I’ve considered going back but I’m not sure if I can commit to it. I’ve just moved on. Welp, nothing else to do but prepare to be a new person in the new year. See Ya!