Unrepentant Fangirl

SciFi/Fantasy addict, cat mom, multi-fandom multi-shipper. This blog isn't particularly thematic other than that it's a reflection of my thoughts and interests. Everything from Marvel Fandom to LGBTQIA Politics to chronic illness are fair game. Updates are sporadic. Panromantic Demisexual, She/Her/Hers/They/Theirs

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SPEED DATING🤍

-a buddie mini comic

[thatgayunoriginalbastard]

Fanfiction Jargon Study

Hey y'all! So I know I haven't posted much lately BUT college has been crazy. And related to that, for one of my classes I'm doing a study on the relationship between time within the greater fandom community and understanding of fanfiction-related jargon. Below I have the link to the survey which will just have three multiple choice questions relating to your relationship to fandom and then a list of 15 terms to define if you know them. 

Please reblog this or otherwise share the survey link with anyone you think might be interested so I can have as large of a sample size as possible for this. The form will be open until April 24th. 

Thank you all so much! 

(and yes, I will post the data when I get it all collected for all you fellow nerds)

Defining Fandom Jargon

A survey to determine the relationship between the understanding of fandom jargon and the time one has been in the fandom community

[thatdisasterauthor]

Did it! I do wish it had "Canon Divergence" as a term to define, though. I will continue to insist that AU and Canon Divergence are two entirely different things, despite them becoming homogenized over the last half decade or so.

[thatgayunoriginalbastard]

The original list was 30 terms but I was told to cut it down, but shockingly "Canon Divergence" wasn't one of them, so I'm glad you pointed that out!

I have thought about doing this thing again over the summer just for personal purposes with a lot more terms and a longer time to collect data. This version is very limited by the fact that I have to do this in a short time frame and get professor approval for things, thus causing things to be a LOT simpler than I'd like. If I did this again I'd address some minor issues that people have pointed out as well as add more terms (both older terms and just more terms in general lol).

[thatdisasterauthor]

Fair, fair! I am very familiar with having to limit studies due to time/professor constraints.

[venusavrt]

that’s what i like about you! 🏜️

[seaglassdinosaur]

Okay but it’s fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.

Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless they’re planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitch’s games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.

But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, that’s the point.

We didn’t really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitch’s perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.

Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.

[gayeddies]

You think Bobby knew he was coming back?

8x12 / 9x12

[gayeddies]

I'm glad you finally enjoyed Nashville, Buck.

[eddiesilverstar]

That’s what families do. No matter how hard it is or how far apart they are, they find a way home. Even if they have to fight like hell to get there.

[ilya-rozanova]

I could.

[shadowfromthestarlight]

The thing that I find most annoying about signs in store windows advertising that they're welcoming to LGBT or that they accept everybody is that I really just assume that anyway. The sign is literally just a virtue signal and it's not there for any other reason, because every store is supposed to be open to the public by default. I would think it goes without saying you're not going to turn away a black person or someone wearing religious garb or a gay couple that walked in holding hands. If you did, word would get out immediately and you'd be in trouble. The signs are really a turn-off tbh because they're just so dumb.

[ghostlycow]

It's like a restaurant putting up a "My cooks won't spit in your food!" sign.

[generallemarc]

If I was walking past a store with a sign that said "immigrants welcome!" my first thought would be "what did they do to suggest that they weren't welcome?", because why would you need to specifically tell members of a specific group they can walk in and buy things, that they can do what you want as many people as possible to be doing because that's how stores work, unless there was some reason for them to think they couldn't or shouldn't? That's the vibe it gives off.

[isaacsapphire]

The only sign of this type that’s actually telling people any new information are the “we speak [non-English] language] come on in” in the non-English language. There’s some auto shops in my area that list three or four languages, and obviously a shop advertising some ethnic treat or shampoo or whatever in a non English language says “immigrants we got the stuff you missed from home”. Like, that’s the real, non virtue signaling way for a store to communicate “immigrants welcome”.

That said, I have seen gay flags on shop doors where it really did mean something; gun shops aren’t default assumed to be gay friendly, and it’s not a zero cost move to openly announce a gun shop is gay friendly.

Sometimes it’s a “we don’t spit in your food” sign and sometimes it’s a “we are nut-free” sign, you know? It’s contextual.

[rosebramblewolf]

this is huge actually

[attackoftheskydancers]

I used to think like this, but then Lauri Carleton was murdered. It's actually extremely brave to announce your support for a marginalized group in an era of increasing hate crimes and gun violence.

Daughters remember woman killed in Pride flag dispute as ‘fighter for equality'

Lauri Carleton was shot and killed in August 2023 following a dispute over a Pride flag outside her Lake Arrowhead shop.

[cardassiangoodreads]

As a lesbian myself I hard agree with prev:

#as a gay person i actually like seeing pride flags on businesses bc i know that if i go in there with my girlfriend#im not going to get bizarre attitude or hostility from the people who work there#which is not necessarily a given! some people will take your money while treating you horribly and its bad!

Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere. In more hostile environments, it's very heartening to see that if you are in a group that can't be sure of that. And as this article shows, it's not like people who put those signs up are not assuming risk!

I'm so tired of this very insular Tumblr attitude that is so disdainful of allyship, assuming it must always be performative and fake - when allies have often been a (sometimes quite literal) lifeline for marginalized groups throughout history. It shows how much people who say these things live in a bubble, at a complete removal from anyone who has lived lives unlike their own, presently or currently. Go to a small town in a red state, you sheltered children. Or at least just like, leave the Internet once in a while, since I'm sure that is the real issue with a lot of people who make these posts.

[bigbigbigtruck]

Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere.

[kppigpen]

I live in one of the bluest areas in the US and these kind of signs are still absolutely necessary. Because the assholes are all around like fungal spores and it can be the difference between them shutting up and fucking off or taking root and becoming regulars and inviting all their asshole friends.

[aranock]

Yeah as a trans lesbian living in Sask its relieving when places have that up, because its kinda the norm to not be treated well. Places doing that place themselves at risk to an extent. My uni regularly had nazi vandalization of our pride walk, theres a pretty famous video of a guy harassing volunteers who were painting the pride walk on broadway a few years back, and Ive heard of other instances around town. It has risk attached. It also makes me comfortable going places with my girlfriend, it makes me know staffs probably not going to harass us or stand by when I get called slurs in front of them(has happened many times usually when Im alone) or some weird transphobe in Harry Potter merch stalks me through a store(happened twice, the second time security of their own accors stopped the stalker just from how weird they were being following me). Its super helpful when medical places show it because discrimination is common, thankfully the pharmacy my gf and I go to has a really supportive staff, they display and wear pride flags and then back it up with how they support trans people going there for HRT. Sure a flag can be performative but not here, not when you can get harassed for it, not when its relatively uncommon. This reminds me of the people who whine about pronoun circles and other things and it tells me they've never lived somewhere thats norm isnt being queer supportive.

[hahlilvndr]

“city that traditionally decorates their doors with garlic found to have no vampire problems, therefore hanging garlic is useless vanity” is a hell of a take in the vampire states of america

[dasenergi]

Mister Rogers

[therobotmonster]

Dang, I gotta start feelin’ better about myself.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

self compassion as resistance is such a powerful message

[evilkitten3]

extremely unsexy of adhd to make me both very annoying and very sensitive to the concept of being perceived as annoying

[evilkitten3]

#perceived to my marrow by a two-line tumblr post. fantastic way to end the year. anyway love me.

"kill them with kindness" WRONG! adhd tumblr post 8d6 psychic damage

[evilkitten3]

#something something people have to stop being so relatable i don't want to have to perceive myself

woe! perception be upon ye

[djo]

i wish it was socially acceptable to let out the most agonizing scream from time to time like i know it wouldn’t fix anything but it would certainly make me feel better

[onehand-oneheart]

Captain Dad appreciation post

[emziess]

@eddiediaznetwork​ event: favorite moment: Silly/Playful Eddie Moments

[marz-rm]

abc hire me instead of that man no watermarks and no bubbles version only on patreon

[assiraphales]

imagine dealing w an international crisis involving precious artifacts and someone is like ‘don’t worry I know a guy’ and it’s a dorky connecticut college professor named henry who slips into his slutsona and suddenly he’s capable of saving the world w the power of his whip & fedora

[assiraphales]

you don’t know where the guy is. you don’t know where the guy is going. but you do know he’s on the case w a 98% success rate and his tits are out

[assiraphales]

I said what I said!

[xavantina]

#this man gets uncomfortable and overwhelmed when 20 y/o college girls hit on him #but take off his glasses #put on his fedora #and this man is ready to find Atlantis in three to eight business days (via @sansakenobi​)

[coffeedrgn87]

It’s impossible to argue with anything above.

[theanishimori]

previous tags are on point: #hat ON archeology APPLIED tits OUT

[rhube]

Honestly, a slutsona that you only slip on when you're not talking to students is a slutsona that's being appropriately applied.

[oshell-on-ice]

Imagine loving a guy so much you almost kill yourself to find his baby boy in a tsunami, you claw at the earth when you think you've lost him forever, you crawl under a fire truck to drag his bleeding body to safety with an actual sniper shooting your way, you accept the fact he put you down as his boy's legal guardian in case he dies with barely a protest, you agonise when he quits being your job partner, you take said son to the zoo all the time, you get jealous like a dog pissing on a tree when he has a new friend, you're there when he begs you to fix something you can't fix and you can only hold on to his shoulder to try and shoot the pain, you go to him the second some ugly man dumps you, you throw a hissy fit about him leaving to Texas and sabotage his house showing, and then, you cave. You cave and you give up your housing situation to help him, you move into his house and you let him go. You let him go because you love him that much.

And he looks at you like you set his world on fire and built it back anew, and you hope he looks through the rearview as he drives away, hoping he'll miss you half as much as you'll miss him.

He will. You were struck by the same lightning, you'll forever share a heartbeat.

[somebodycall911onabc]

He will. You were struck by the same lighting, you’ll forever share a heartbeat.