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Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

if you appreciate it, don’t repost it. Reblog the artist’s post instead of making one of your own. Let them see all of the excited tags in the reblogs and replies or commentary that people add on. If you come across something on a google image search, try to trace it back to the owner. If someone tells you who the artist is, credit them - but also try to find and reblog their original post.

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are great, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. If you want the author to write more things like that, let them know - even if you can’t comment! 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people. 

Vague season 4 spoilers

Rewatching Season 1 and Armin says something like “To rise above monsters we must first abandon our humanity” to Eren and honestly... I think he took it a LITTLE TOO FAR.

Rein it in a little, man.

im not sure if anyone has talked about this but its driving me insane.

In the JLU episode “the man who has everything”, its supes birthday and diana and bruce go to visit him. bruce just gives him, like, a hundred dollar bills, claiming he doesnt know what to get him. diana, though, was going to give him a rose before it got crushed in battle. all she says is, “theres a new type of rose called ‘the krypton’” or something like that. nothing much else.

In the og comic of the same name, its bruce who gives him the rose.

not only that, he admits that he fucking INVENTED a new breed of rose for him!!! this part has been mentioned before, but thats not my point.

im not sure why they changed it, but i might have an idea.

i have a theory that the showrunners saw this shit and went “this is TOO gay even for them. we cant put this in the show, just have the woman do it. we cant have the kids getting any funny ideas” which is so fucking funny but also fucked up. let the men have their romantic gifts and i think they should revive the show and have an episode dedicated for just bruce and clark to have romantic evening to compensate for this #wakeupamerica #censored

my march 2025 fanart for fanfic is from

Crawling under skin, my heart offered up to the feast by unacalluna (u must be logged in on ao3)

i rly love this au concept (im a sucker for forensics…) and i was rly cheering luffy on as she tried her best to seduce permanently-married-to-her-work law ☺️

please please please leave comments and kudos for the author too!

Absolutely gorgeous

Happy Samhain from Harry and one of his hissy pals

Hello I love draco and his long nose lol.💕🤗

How's draco holding up with his family these days 🐍

ranwan comic ranwan comic !! on todays episode of how can my shizun be this cute…

Book 12 spoilers

“Parts 1 and 2 of the Clive sessions, which I’m assuming will continue until I die.”

“Aren’t you immortal?”

“Don’t remind me.”

Jason is stuck with Clive for eternity. Oh nooooooo

My idea of Humphrey x3 I love him so much!!

It’s the way Shirtaloon wrote Belinda and Sophie to be codependent, had Belinda be in love with Sophie, and then didn’t write them in a relationship together.