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strawberrycamel

we really should be calling it fanworks, not content

strawberrycamel

I'm here for fun and community not to rp a mega corporation's underpaid social media intern

why do people need to be domesticated animals for petplay,. u r my lion i bought you illegallu and you are trying to kill me. go

mostlyghostly66

Baba is fridge magnet

starlitsecrets

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

important-cat-pics

#cats

proxima-bee

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

cleric-chono-is-my-everything

can you imagine how good fandoms would be if fans thought of women as human beings

baronfulmen

can you imagine how many good shows would still be around if executives thought of women as a desirable audience

#true and real

earhartsease

#eat the rich

molluscappreciator-deactivated2

#darkest dungeon #dd plague doctor #dd grave robber #dd fanart

consulships

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

literaryreference

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

tricky-pockets

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

asteroidtroglodyte

Tremendously comforting, really.

bunniope

toastbutteregg

random-jot

Standing directly in the doorway to achieve peak mental health.

meowtalhead

#cats

crimsonservbot

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?