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⌈ Secret Post #7057 ⌋

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Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[philstar22]

What are the worst interpretations or takes you've seen in fandom?


Inspired by a youtube video I saw that claimed the Empire was actually a good thing and even though Vader and Palpatine were villains, Palpatine actually intended good? Just weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMFDMPOe3k

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

The super right-wing Lord of the Rings fans that think the hobbits are pussies and the only "good" characters are Boromir and Aragorn. I'm usually able to avoid them in my day-to-day, but soooometimes they come out of the woodwork and invite themselves into my little hobbit hole.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[philstar22]

That's just sad.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

Sadly, those fuckers have been around for years. They suck.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

They might be some of the same people as the above anon mentioned, but the people who think LoTR is 'fantasy action book series about manly men who FIGHT' who have clearly never read the fucking books.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[philstar22]

I think a lot of people have only seen the movies, which is fine, but they also often only have surface takes on even the movie, know the generic fantasy tropes that badly mimicked LOTR and thinks those tropes actually are LOTR.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

Other LOTR Anon.

There's some overlap, but the ACTION! RARRR! guys usually at least think Gimli and Legolas are cool. The super right wing-y guys get The Ick from Legolas and Gimli, even though they're absolute badasses.

I love how tender and sweet all the characters are to each other in LOTR.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

Right-wing fans and... just about anything, honestly, but I've been thinking especially about how they do or don't interpret songs and bands (Rage Against the Machine, *political*? Well, I swan).

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a Green Day concert where Billie Joe did the whole “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” chat and there were some dudes in the parking lot after bitching about Green Day going woke and I was just so amused and confused.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of people take "yeah, the Republic had a lot of issues and wasn't perfect either" to mean "The Empire (and First Order) were right, actually" and... Come on.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

MDZS/The Untamed

Lan Wangji is autistic and his reserved nature is really super cute social awkwardness that's way relateable, his habit of not talking much means he's non-verbal, and playing the guqin is his stimming.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

OMG, it's eloquence, not non-verbal! *shakes fist at cloud*

While we're on the subject of MDZS/The Untamed: WWX practices Gui Dao, NOT Mo Dao. About 90% of the fics just have him doing demonic cultivation when that is explicitly not his thing.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[kaijinscendre]

So many about Steve Rogers. Especially things like he'd be racist, support Republicans, or be right wing in any way.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

Right?! Steve Rogers was probably a socialist at least, given how and where he grew up. He would be for unions, democracy, social programs to help everyone, and given the make up of the Howlies, thinking he would be racists is a huge reach.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

I agree.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

This isn’t on par with everything else already mentioned but in the Dungeon Crawler Carl fandom there is a loud contingent that are adamant the series is anti capitalist. They’ve been having meltdowns about the glut of merch and sometimes they’re abusive to other fans.

But the series is about class warfare. It’s demonstrated and mentioned in canon many, many times. How these fans miss all that is beyond me. My hope is that they ragequit and just go away.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

The usual 'This character is designated as a Top/Bottom'. Also when people get mad at you for not following THE headcanon that everybody had suddenly decided was basically canon.

(I'm looking at the Project Hail Mary fanbase. I'm more than fine with people head cannoning the main character as AroAce, but throwing a tantrum because there's people shipping him with other charaters is reminding me of my days in 2000s Deviantart fandom groups - where people would make such a stink about yaoi and 'Not everything has to be gay!!')

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

UGHHHH YEAH. I was in a fandom where ONE fan had a strong top/bottom preference and got big enough early on to cement it, to the point where decades later I have received nasty comments about daring to write it both ways. Which only served to turn me off the popular interpretation completely. I don't mind people interpreting characters as strict tops/bottoms, or only writing it one way, but the BULLYING over it is so out of pocket to me. Like... some people *are* strict tops/bottoms, some people have a preference but it's not one hundred percent, some people have no preference, and some people don't engage in penetrative sex at all! And you can interpret fictional characters any way you want! But so can I and everyone else who disagrees with you!

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

When people argue that certain male characters CAN'T POSSIBLY be gay/queer because they've had canon hetero relationships. First of all, sexuality is a spectrum. Second of all, it's fandom! Anything goes!

This is especially enraging when the character's canon setting would put extreme pressure on them to marry and produce children regardless of feelings.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

There was a dude who insisted that Hannibal couldn't be in love with Will, even though it is explicitly stated in the show that he is, because he had sex with a woman on screen. *sigh* My dude....

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

With the Avatar the Last Airbender movie being leaked it's also been bringing out some of the usual worst takes, like how Aang, the twelve year old who is the last survivor of a pacifist people, should have murdered the Fire Lord. The ones that really consistently bug me are the ones involving Jet and Hama though, which tend to involve a lot of willful blindness and an insistence that if you're a survivor of oppression you should have carte blanche to commit as many atrocities as you want because Freedom or something.

The worst one I think I saw was this really weird reach with Hama where they were trying to make some kind of Israel comparison and talked about how Hama was righteous for killing Fire Nation civilians because they were an illegitimate state on stolen land?? You could make the colonizer argument with Fire Nation soldiers on *Earth Kingdom* land because they did actually invade there but the whole thing with Hama is that she's still in the Fire Nation attacking random villagers. The Fire Nation homeland is their actual land, they didn't steal it from anyone. It was just such a random willful blindness to what the show was actually depicting in an attempt to make a parallel to real world events that don't track at all.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

For me, nothing will ever beat that one "All major Disney villains are queer coded" thinkpiece that included Gaston on the list.

My recent bugaboo is all those attempts to reframe a female antagonist as the victim and real protagonist because they conflate sexist writing with internal logic. It happens with a lot of teen/tween movies, and I'm specifically thinking of The Parent Trap and High School Musical. Sure, we could do with much fewer characters who reinforce ideas like women who don't want children are evil, or ambitious talented popular girls are just bitches. But that doesn't magically change that they are what they are in-text and that as long as you're aware of where the tropes come from, these are not serious realistic movies and it's more fun to view them as entertaining antagonists than wring your hands over their imagined victimhood.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

For the Batman fandom, that Dick/Babs is incest. It was fine when they first got together, but while they were together Babs grew to have a sisterly relationship with Steph and Cass. Because Steph and Cass also have a sibling relationship with Dick, Dick and Babs are now basically siblings too, so if they got back together it would be incest.

Totally rancid take.

This one might be controversial

[(Anonymous)]

TW for child sa