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I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones

concerningwolves

Trekkster Gods

No internet

fledgeling fandom

women run everything

seriously where the fuck did we go wrong

fandom wouldn’t exist as we know it without these women

conventions, badges, quite a lot of taboo but also lots of fun

closely-knit communities

mostly discussions in magazines

hogging the phone so you can chat with your friends

(while trying to pretend the rest of your family doesn’t exist)

basement meetings

fanart what??

Dawn of Networking

tin-bucket sites and forums

the badly assembled DIY IKEA kits of the internet

these were strange places

i’m too young to know firsthand but I’ve heard the stories

they were like,, inhabited by eldrich beings

who would sell souls in exchange for fanfics

early RPs

nobody was quite sure what they were doing

but!! You could connect with more fans quickly!!!

made obsessing less lonely

yay

“I was there Gandalf”

Live Journal

small internet communities

the name “Ann Rice” strikes fear into your heart

also hatred, lots of hatred

adding every warning and rating under the sun, hiding behind NSFW filters even if it isn’t necessary, praying you don’t get reported or deleted

you get reported

your friends get reported

nobody is safe

fuck.

Citrus Cheesecake

DeviantArt and ff.net

bright shiny eyes

children everywhere

“more of a lime than a lemon >//< but also kind of just a lemon with fluff?”

where did all the adults go? Where were they hiding??

pls don’t flame

A/N *dances away from your flames because idgaf*

omggg such a nosebleed!!!! XD lol

characters and authors having conversations in the author’s notes

Archive of Our Saviours

ooo we found the adults

mass migration by younger fans to Tumblr, Ao3 etc

looking at fandom’s earlier stages like “I have no memory of this place”

ratings that had nothing to do with fruit

(thank gods)

fandom grows up

we are all grateful

we have proper websites to call home

wanderers can finally settle down

many fans are Tired

We’re here again, Gandalf

your elbows are explicit

cats are explicit

there are legends of a paradise of pillows

but none of us wants to leave hell

blue blue blue

a well-respected petblr is flagged as explicit

will we be here in January?

who will survive?

those with sense watch the chaos from Ao3, sipping mocktails

but we’re not really scared

nothing can kill fandom

not even god.

vaspider

Tag your era. :P

azinine

I was like that girl at the middle of Dawn of Networking and now here I am hiding from Covid19 so yay! Go me! 🏁🏁🏁

TUMBLR You -----

I’m tired. I’ve been going back and forth with this effing Tumblr them for the past 2 months looking for ways to fix it and it just won’t. And then it seems my Tumblr was tagged as explicit. I don’t know if cussing is explicit to them but dammit. I’m tired, disappointed and I’ve been struggling with this effing website for too long it’s making me depressed. I just...... I don’t know.

#so tired of this #its not funny #tumblr full of bugs errors much crying because this is pitiful #help please #send help

queenstylinsxn

Reblog if you’re bisexual, support bisexual people or are actually a bunch of tiny velociraptors in a human suit

mysharona1987

honeynuyt-deactivated20250308

I don’t know who Megan Kelly is but I wanna piss her off

dis bitch

“Verifiable fact” 😭😂

I’d PISS ON HER tbh

btw Saint Nicholas, whom Santa Claus is based on, was a black guy

and we don’t know exactly what jesus looked like, but here’s an artistic reconstruction of an average 20-something male from his ethnic group at the time

DOES THIS LOOK FUCKING WHITE TO YOU

vulpinehopes

I want this post everywhere

klimtsonian-unofficial

jesus was represented more or less accurately as an ethnically jewish arab man up until the reign of pope alexander vi, in the late 15th century. since he was viciously persecuting roman jews during this time, alexander wanted to make them less sympathetic to the public, and did so in part by ordering that portrayals of jesus be based off of his son, cesare borgia.

the reason “jesus is white” is because someone purposefully attempted to alter the perception of history to benefit his goal of persecuting a targeted ethnic group.

nyokoko

Wow, more proof the Borgias were trash.

tobermoriansass

alright so i know we are all into punk sirius who is hot on slumming it in his teens, showing just how connected to the working classes and the great unwashed he is by living in a tiny poky flat in London, BUT I submit, for your delectation:

everyone lives au in which sirius decides to reverse stick it to his fam by joining forces with andromeda to become the hot new socialites in magical britain, hosting charity balls for postwar rehabilitation and like, vampire & werewolf charity fundraisers - lavish affairs in which the rich and the beautiful are subtly pressured into outbidding each other into donating more and more absurd amounts of money or else risk being socially ostracized FOREVER because they won’t receive one of those EXCLUSIVE invitations to number 12 Grimmauld Place & this INFURIATES narcissa who CLEARLY is the HEIR to the social lives of the black family and will not be USURPED by her black sheep of a sister and the family’s wild canon and dissolute disowned heir, her cousin lbr she probably bitches about this to Bellatrix’s portrait ad infinitum and Bella’s just like why don’t I have my WAND why can’t I cast spells and make her SHUT UP she and Draco grow very close in those months with Narcissa’s wailing incessantly about how NO ONE will attend any of the Malfoy’s social events and also FANCY!!!! ANDROMEDA HAVING THE AUDACITY TO DISINVITE ME FROM MY OWN ANCESTRAL HOME!!! AN INSULT NOT TO BE BORNE!!!!

anyway, Sirius obviously throws each and every single piece of furniture in Grimmauld Place out and strips it down, knocks down a couple of walls and adds in some elegant french windows and with Fleur’s help redesigns the place entirely because for god’s sake, victorian gothic is SO last century and besides, if we’re really doing pureblood decadence the only way to go is French Rococo lbr and everything is now MIRRORS and GILT and frankly ridiculous furniture that is IMPOSSIBLE TO SIT ON but everyone adores even when they’ve been standing in six inch heels for three hours running. Walburga Black obviously has kittens over this redecoration and this meticulous stripping away of their HISTORY (we can trace our family all the way to the Norman conquest! Your great great great great great great great great great great grandfather fought alongside King William at Hastings (unlike the Malfoys who only LIE about their involvement, just so we’re clear) she shouts until Sirius reveals his party trick aka the elaborately brocaded silk curtains he’s installed to be pulled over his mother’s painting so she becomes yet another one of the #quirks of Grimmauld Place, an entertainment set piece and nothing more).

Meanwhile in the library Sirius probably donates half the books to Hogwarts and then redoes the entire place in homage to the Brighton Pavillion (You see I’m not entirely unpatriotic, he tells the portrait of his fuming father) and then installs CARD TABLES at which the rich and the famous can do things like LOSE ENTIRE FORTUNES and also the family diamonds - all in the name of charity.

Also, most importantly is the draw Sirius exerts on the entire wizarding world because he obviously cultivates an eccentric and bohemian persona and insists on receiving guests for one hour only from a chaise longue in one of the parlours where he reclines in these hideous brocaded silk dressing gowns, with bottles of sal vol and assorted smelling salts around him and he only ever extends a single well-manicured hand to everyone: twelve years in Azkaban, he says faintly to everyone who visits, but the healer says I should recover my nerves soon (no one knows when ‘’’’’’’’’soon’’’’’’’’’ is, but this goes on for at least ten years after the war.)

And obviously each and every single one of his relatives stuck in their portraits are clawing their eyes out or shrieking in horror about WE HAVE BEEN REDUCED!!!! REDUCED TO BEING NO MORE THAN THE LAUGHING STOCK OF BRITAIN!!! except possibly Regs who is amused at just how terribly transparent & crude his brother is at the art of provocateuring.

two-bitoutlaw

#so what you’re saying is sirius black as the next oscar wilde (tags via rooonil-waazlib)

jono74656

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

deadcatwithaflamethrower

#so what you’re saying is sirius black as the next oscar wilde (tags via rooonil-waazlib)

sanjuno

I hope i got this prompting right. (If not, sorry! 1st time to try responding to things like this. =S) So LelouchxSuzaku, suzaku turning into his namesake and being cursed to guard/protect Lulu since he failed the previous timeline/canon.(yes that's timetravel right there hehehe) erm... if i did this wrong just ignore it hehehe. >_> >_< ^///^

CG: Freaky Friday#4/13 – Abandon Thyself

“The strongest soldiercannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart,and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.” ― Susanna Kearsley, TheFirebird

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azinine

This is... like... wow! Amazing! Thank you @sanjuno for this absolutely gorgeous fic. I never thought my prompt got through from what i'm sure are dozens of prompts back then. I've been dead from social media since i've been concentrating on reading so much xanxia/wuxia/martial arts chinese novels. (Think chinese version of dragon ball only much, MUCH longer with Thousands of chapters, i'm not kidding) I want to thank my phones notif as well for reminding me that Yes my Tumblr is actually alive. lol!

@sanjuno you are an amazing writer and I wish you would never get tired or inspired of writing fics. Ever. Thank you again. So now I need to go back to backtracking what i've missed from you. xD

#sanjuno #code geass #sanjuno's fic #luluxsuzaku #fanfic #lelouch #kururugi suzaku #fanfiction #lelouch lamperouge #suzaku kururugi #lelouch x suzaku

acewizard

ok so since the Russo brothers confirmed that animals and plants and the like all died in the snap,,,,,,, that means dogs died too,,,,, and lemme tell ya if ANYTHING happened to my dog earth wouldn’t even NEED the avengers I’d mcfucking d e s t r o y thanos myself because NO ONE FUCKING MESSES WITH MY DOG NOT EVEN A CRUSTY ASS RAISIN WITH A ROCK COLLECTION

itistired

Me, after watching my cat turn to dust: :)

Every single (living) Avenger, getting tf out of my way: How is she holding that many knives

ruby-white-rabbit

Did John wick write these

fuckstev-deactivated20240104

ithelpstodream

cookie-sheet-toboggan

so is Victory

ashermajestywishes

LOVE TRIANGLE

bsparrow

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

justrollinon

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all

acciowine

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

krustybunny-deactivated20221129

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

spectrometon

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

quentineliot

Rb for that art doe

identicaltwinhalfbrother

Dignity here to join the girl posse.

brainwad

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

becomeunsolved

reblogging for the second time

athelind

ALWAYS REBLOG

madnanc

Earth’s Mightiest Heroines.

itschinyere-deactivated20200201

Note to my ex.

Today my professor told me every cell in our entire body is destroyed and replaced every seven years. How comforting it is to know that one day I will have a body that you will have never touched.

mieshasmoore-deactivated2021091

This just made me feel so warm.

iamfrenchfrie

thank you.

bronze-for-birdy

Important especially for victims of abuse, remember your body is yours and it heals in more ways than you realize.

punkpoemprose

Okay, so I just want to say that this isn’t necessarily true. Most of your cells have died and regrown several times in seven years, but some haven’t, and some have died and won’t return. The seven year cell renewal is a myth perpetuated by popsci in magazines everywhere.

That being said, anywhere they may have touched you, your skin, your hair, your nails and so on, was changing the moment they departed your life, even before that. Your skin became skin they’ve never touched within 27 days. Your hair grows (on average) six inches per year, so depending on how long yours is, you were rid of their touch there within a few years tops. Your nails will completely regrow within six months tops. You were a body they never touched within three or four years. You will be a body they never touched within three or four years.

You have been rewriting your body, you are your own, you are constantly changing, and you are the only one who owns your body 100% of the time.

lamiacea-deactivated20210106

I’m here for correcting science myths in supportive ways.

clarulitas

manticoreimaginary

Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.

aprilsvigil-deactivated20140416

But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her.

tiny-detective-agency

I can’t stop watching this.

sassy-hook

#I watched this for too long to not reblog

freshprincemomma

Whoa.

crossedbeams

Okay so this is true, but a tiny part of a wider truth.

Ginger Rogers was a FUCKING BADASS. Ignore for a sec the rampant sexism in Hollywood (they once bleached her hair blonde in wardrobe without telling her beforehand), the fact that she fought her whole career against typecasting and stereotyping from fellow actors (Katharine Hepburn famously said of the Astaire/Rogers partnership “she gave him sex. He gave her class” ) for starting out in musicals, and went on to have a career lasting over fifty years, winning a Best Actress Oscar (Kitty Foyle, 1940). But… JUST focusing on the Astaire movies…

Not only did she dance “backwards” in high heels, the dances were a task in themselves. Astaire was an absolute perfectionist and choreographed for himself, so as a younger, less experienced dancer Rogers came in at a disadvantage and worked her ass off to match him.

Then there’s the filming complications… these numbers were filmed in ONE TAKE. So one thing goes wrong and you have to start over. Maybe you make a mistake or maybe your dress flies up because…

Ginger had to contend with her wardrobe. Dancing in heels is the norm at this time, but dancing in a dress designed for cinema cameras… not so much. They were heavy, embellished, uncomfortable, restrictive and cumbersome and essentially a third member of the dance, strapped to the body of one partner.Not only did she have to dance and look good, she had to control the dress too!

Take this routine from Swing Time… (it gets going proper at 1:30ish)

This dress has weights, YES WEIGHTS, sewn in to the hem to make it fly out and create a visual effect. So it’s heavy, it hurts if it hits you, and your partner gets mad if it hits him. So you gotta control it.

Well it turns out all these factors on this set, this particular day aren’t going so well. So you’re doing take after take, here’s no labour laws, so at 4am after 18 hours you’re still going, even though part of the routine requires you to spin up those curved stairs with no rail at high speed….

Okay so now back to those high heels. In Ginger’s autobiography she vividly remembers this night as the night she bled though her shoes. They did so many takes, her feet blistered, bled, and the white satin high heels she was wearing finished he night pink because they were literally full of blood. And still they keep shooting. She keeps dancing.

The take they use in the film is the last. Early hours. Bloody feet. And she spins, acts and bosses out until that last second. Because she was that professional, talented and bloody minded. This is the last set of spins…

So I say once again. Ginger Rogers was a badass.

She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards, in high heels, wearing a 20 pound dress, exhausted, injured and standing in a pool of her own blood. And watching her perform, you would never know.

aimmyarrowshigh

Foz Meadows on Portrayal of Sex in Media

evillisa-hell

I agree, all men should learn about women’s sexuality by reading My Immortal.

fozmeadows

Hi friend! Foz here. Just a couple of points:

- I’ve specified good fanfiction in literally the first tweet. While this is, obviously, a value judgement wherein YMMV, My Immortal is famous for being arguably the most terrible fanfic ever written, and is therefore demonstrably not what I’m talking about. Similarly, I’ve seen other responses to this post bring up 50 Shades, which, despite its popularity in mainstream circles, is pretty much universally regarded as being not just terrible fanfic, but an excruciatingly bad and dangerously inaccurate portrayal of BDSM that romanticises abuse. So no: these are not the droids you’re looking for.

- Here’s the thing, though: you already knew that. The decision to respond to this post with a flippant reference to a fic that’s notorious precisely because of its poor quality is exactly why I used up precious Twitter characters to specify good fanfic, even though I shouldn’t have had to. Every mode of artistic expression is composed of good, bad and mediocre works, but when it comes to genres that are traditionally viewed as less worthy or literary - like fanfiction, or romance - we have a reflexive tendency to conflate the bad with the whole, such that the good is implied to be either exceptional or nonexistant. I specified that I’m talking about good fanfiction, not because I think such fics are an exalted minority, but to pre-emptively combat the assertion that they are, and then you’ve gone and made it anyway. So, thanks for that.

- But while we’re on the subject of quality, let’s make a very important distinction. Though fanfic is a largely unmediated medium, it’s not bad; it’s amateur, in the very literal, dictionary-definition sense of engaging or engaged in without payment; non-professional. While there’s a stereotype that lots of ficwriters are teenage girls - which, why is that always wielded as an insult? oh right, misogyny, carry on - a lot of us are, in fact, grown-ass adults of varying genders, some of whom also happen to write professionally in other contexts; like me, for instance. I’ve read fanfics that are unquestionably as good as, if not better than, many professionally published works I’ve read, some I’ve simply enjoyed or felt meh about, and others where I’ve mounted up on my Nopetopus and ridden off into the sunset after the first paragraph. It’s a grab bag, is what I’m saying, but if you think that’s an inherently different spectrum of enjoyment over quality than applies to any other medium, then I’d politely invite you to reconsider the matter.

- In conclusion: fanfic might not be your bag, but it has its own culture of editing, collaboration, publication, criticism and dissemination, its own conventions and subversions of same, its own extensive history and trope awareness, and, yes, its near-unique status as a medium invested in female sexual desire. That doesn’t mean there aren’t other things straight dudes can do to learn the mystical ways of What Women Want like, oh, say, talking to them, always bearing in mind that women are not a goddamn hivemind, but given that there are a frightening number of guys out there whose first or primary exposure to any type of porn is whatever degrading mainstream het they can scrouge up for free without virusing the hell out of their PCs, then yeah: I’m gonna go out on a fucking limb and suggest they maybe balance it out with some fanfic.

This might be the best summary of the power of fan fiction and its inherent lessons about women’s sexuality that I’ve ever seen.

arialerendeair

Originally posted by charlotte-charmante

solitary-woman

And if you look to your left you’ll see a well written, well thought out piece “In Defence of Fanfiction”.

bloodravyn

What’s up everyone. Greedfall is woefully under-publicized, and was not shown in any of the E3 conferences despite having a presence at the Expo. So I’m trying to get the word out there.

They just updated their website with a ton of information about the plot and the gameplay, but I also know what people around here want to see THE MOST in games so… HERE YOU GO.

Please pay attention to this game please, it has a great premise and I don’t want it to flop lol.

#rpg #gaming #pcgame #GreedFall

nirishoxford

Reblog this if you like Lord of the Rings, just do it, ask no questions all will make sense later.

spare-mee

Saw this somewhere else and felt the need to post it cause no one else ever really tells you this stuff

justshannary

My mom never really noticed. She noticed when she was breast feeding my little brother and blood started coming out instead of milk.

thecornercoffeeshoppe

My mom said she felt and saw a little lump in the shower. She was lucky enough she found it at stage 2

love-affair-with-fandoms

My mom had a mammogram. The radiologist thought the spots were just regular calcium deposits.

Turns out it was triple negative breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nods. Mastectomy, radiation and chemo saved her life.

This could SAVE a life.

dont be embarrassed to reblog, this post could be life saving

trumpetnista

Signal BOOST and pass it on. I had a breast cancer scare before (luckily it was just scar tissue…) and information like this kept me calm and collected at the doc’s.

xsorrowxlightx

As a cancer patient myself, who found my own cancer through a supposed LARPing injury last year, i know how scary it is and how important it is to catch it early. Please spread this around!

the-gladdest-thing

listen to ur boobs

yungsadprincexx

its all in the boobs

letsdeadlyfart-deactivated20140

hoW MANY TIMES AM I GOING TO REBLOG THIS ! SORRY FOLLOWERS , #sorrynotsorry

seraj-ade

Always reblog!

purpleguavas-deactivated2014030

REBLOG,THIS COULD SAVE SOMEBODY!!! DONT BE EMBARRASSED!!!

ayamccabre

Reminder that anyone who grew their own breast tissue can get breast cancer. That includes trans women, intersex peeps, and cis men who may not have been aware there could be some breast tissue in there. The only way to be sure you don’t have any at all is if you’ve had it all removed. If you’ve had tissue removed for reasons other than cancer, they likely didn’t remove all of it. If you find something weird, regardless of who you are or how you identify, get it checked out.

lgbtqkidsrock

All of you should reblog this. Breast cancer affects everyone and there’s not enough information about it.

#breast cancer #cancer #reblog #health

littlesystems

Fandom:

Adults: *create a space for other adults*

Minors*: *come into that space*

Minors: this isn’t a safe space for kids!!

Adults: …..uhh no, it’s not.

Minors: why are you personally attacking me personally?

Adults: ….????????…………

Minors: I know you want to fuck children

Me: *looks at fic with one character that’s in his 40′s and another that’s in his 50′s, with no children in sight*

Me: ………please get out of my house

(I still get a lot of responses to this post calling me a pedo and I am t i r e d of this bottom-of-the-barrel quality discourse)

* this obviously doesn’t apply to all minors, and to all those minors (like me, when I was your age!) that manage to enjoy and participate in fandom without calling everyone a pedophile, I appreciate you.

littlesystems

Adults: we want to write/draw porn of these fictional adult characters.

Minors: that’s not appropriate for children.

Adults: yep! that’s why it’s tagged as explicit and has a warning for mature content and also is tagged for various sex acts in case you’re not into that.

Minors: that type of content makes me uncomfortable.

Adults: we totally get that but that’s why the tags and warnings are on it.

Adults: look you even have to agree:

This work could have adult content. If you proceed you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

Adults: so if you’re not into that type of thing then you can just skip over it.

Minors: it make me uncomfortable.

Adults: ……then… don’t… read it?

Minors: no.

Minors: you should stop writing it.

Adults: no.