oh no, oh well

chris, 30s F || this is my fandom sideblog that I use more than my actual blog

[cat-claw]

follows & likes come from my mainblog, аոtеlսсаոіtу.

my ao3 is hуpothesistest; currently writing for smallville.

big list of tags for filtering as needed ⬇️

smallville: smallville, clex, luthorcest (smallvillain for my own smallville posting, which usually isn’t maintagged) jujutsu kaisen: jjk, jjk manga spoilers for anything post-S2 of the anime, jjk modulo for jjkIII, satosugu itafushi chosoyuki yutamaki tenken nanahito takaken gofushi tojigumi makimai goken sukufushi itaken itasuku... that's probably it. and character names house of the dragon/fire & blood: lucemond, aemond, lucerys, hotd kpop demon hunters: kpop demon hunters, jinumi sk8 the infinity: matchablossom, kojiro, kaoru, sk8 yuri!! on ice: otayuri, yoi ennead, blue eye samurai, bucchigiri?!, donten ni warau, witch hat atelier, buddy daddies, koisuru boukun: i tag the fandom name

For practical reasons, I don’t “content warning” tag for dark themes (see above fandoms!)

[cat-claw]

on a scale of 1 to please don't, how obnoxious is it to title fic chapters using jenny holzerisms

[empty-sigh]

so who wants to play fight until it slips in

[cat-claw]

hand is fucking Huge

[nohthentic-deactivated20181211]

[butterflypeaflowertea]

feeling this old mitski tweet so hard lately

[notlayingroses]

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!

[missgoldnweek]

[wizardysseus]

the writer’s urge to ask your friends “do you wanna see a little somethin’ i’ve been working on?” when the little somethin’ you’ve been working on is 800 words and ends in the middle of a sentence

[themangopdf]

joan didion, south and west: from a notebook

[girlwithapomegranate-deactivate]

thank you for following me I have nothing to offer

[phansomedevil]

honestly i think the secret to staying happy in fandom is to take no shit, spread no shit, and find your people. don’t get too invested that you can’t laugh at it all sometimes, and don’t seek out negativity. the more you look for a pattern of ugliness in an assortment of people who all happen to like the same thing, the more you’ll find it. if you try to be positive, considerate, and empathetic, fandom will reflect that back at you.

[lexkent]

lex luthor + his death wish (part 2)

[cat-claw]

yesterday i got a weird amount of kudos on an old christmas fic and searched the url on twitter. and found out people have recced it for psych med-induced ED and prostate оrgasm and butt hair

[ekkolocat1on]

When I saw people saying this book is basically a canon clex fic I didn’t expect that to be proven right immediately 😭

[cat-claw]

on a scale of 1 to please don't, how obnoxious is it to title fic chapters using jenny holzerisms

[intimatum]

Sandra Cisneros, “I Am So Depressed I Feel Like Jumping in the River Behind My House but Won’t Because I’m Thirty-Eight and Not Eighteen,” in: Loose Woman: Poems