Typical Fangirl

Current obsession: Everything Spooky and Kooky

[filmcityworld]

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That beautiful sound reprise

this is from the beetlejuice play

[calladraws101]

Executioner Duties

[honestlynotgonnalie]

executioner alastor my beloved,,,, anyways made him a fit for the role yknow yknow gotta,, match the husb,,,, and allat,,

[miyootnoot]

NEW HOLYSHADOW DOODLE

What did he do💔

[ajyyna8]

[lacebraonirica]

The deer that embraced the light (2026 version). 🌟

[lacebraonirica]

The deer that embraced the light (2026 version). 🌟

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[batter-sempai]

Never thought I'd see the day the Pope and Jhonen "Jhonny the Homicidal Maniac" Vasquez would agree on something, and it's against AI.

Keep fighting against AI everyone.

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[eroscestlavie]

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[mysteryteacup]

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[insecuregodcomplex]

[starlighz]

Alastor really has reshaped my opinion on aromantic representation

Before Hazbin Hotel I was on the bandwagon of "It's not good to have the only aromantic character be an evil person". Because it is an overused trope that further others aromantic people

But now I genuinely couldn't care less about it. Now I'm all "Is it representation aromantic people can identify with?"

And the answer is yes

Alastor is so cathartic

He goes against everything Hollywood taught to look out for

And yet, he's so tangible. You want to cheer for him! He's having so much fun!

In this allocentric world, aromantic people are used to keeping their mouths shut. We rarely correct people when something arophobic has been said, even by other queer people

Because why bother. They might not even know what aromantic means or worse, they do and they don't care

We constantly have our opinions and worldviews be challenged and called "wrong" even though they're entirely subjective

Alastor busts the mold. He is so unapologetically himself. He does what he wants because it's fun

If he doesn't want something, you'll know, he'll snap back

And then he'll laugh at you

And gosh, who wouldn't want to have that?

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

[loveridden1999]

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

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