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My early sci-fi fandom rooms in Animal Crossing:
first a club room for their small gatherings (some fans at the time estimated there were only 200 or 300 "actifans" in the whole US). Here they gathered their fanmags (the word "fanzine" was a work in progress), their professional mags like Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, and others, most named under the same basic scheme which must have made things rather confusing. In these days "fanfiction" and "fanart" were not about other people's characters and worlds, but only served to distinguish which original science fiction had made it past an editor to be professionally published. Plenty of fans dreamed of going pro, and if a piece was rejected from a promag, they might just send it to a friend and have it mimeo'd into a fanmag instead. (Not printed! Literal printing looked great, but it was incredibly expensive back then, and running a printed fanmag/zine with a machine that had to be rented or borrowed sent a number of fans into the red.)
The fanzine side of things is represented by a little cartoonist setup: Harry Warner, Jr. wrote an article in 1941 about all the physical work that went into putting a fanmag together, estimating that it took him about three hours a day to assemble and mimeograph his well-viewed publications, Spaceways and Horizons. In 1939, Warner estimated that Spaceways had a circulation of 110.
At the time, there was hot debate over the split between hard science fans, who thought the purpose of fandom should be encouraging young men to go into real scientific careers, and the more carefree set who enjoyed sci-fi (called scientifiction or stf. at the time) for the story and art aspect. Hugo Gernsback was the most prominent advocate for the hard-science view, and among fans there was William Sykora, who led a fan club called the International Scientific Association. Sykora's resignation as the ISA's chairman would prove to be the spark that lit the flame of fandom's biggest early feud: New Fandom vs. the Futurians.
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in 2024 I felt like I was ready to articulate exactly what troubled me about the way that Neil Gaiman cultivated an image and a particular relationship with his fandom and then. well. and the thing is that it would still have troubled me if he hadn’t turned out to be an evil rapist and was just kind of a self-obsessed guy with poor boundaries, but now it’s impossible to talk about that lol.
I am interested in what you have to say. I am interested in your perspective on this matter of reputation, fandom, and social/parasocial relationships.
I have tried but honestly I can’t really rewind my own brain to 2024 before the scandals broke and when it was all fresh in my mind due to the excitement around the Good Omens show. Ultimately it came down to having bad boundaries with his own fandom… the “rockstar” thing was very purposefully cultivated, and he got way too comfortable publicly encouraging a really extreme degree of hero worship in a way that felt deeply irresponsible from a public figure.
Like… his tumblr was quite active, his askbox was open, and he no doubt received dozens to thousands of asks per day. The ones he chose to publish were frequently over-the-top “you’re literally the reason I’m still breathing” “your books are so important to me I’m going to name my ovaries after you” type shit that’s like… personally I think you have to be a little bit of a creep not to find kind of uncomfortable. He would never attempt to graciously de-escalate or redirect that sort of interaction and really normalized it as the way to speak to and think about him while also courting the down-to-Earth and accessible Tumblr uncle thing. Just. Like. He made himself irresistible to a kind of psychologically vulnerable young queer woman hungry for validation in a way I had thought was shameless and irresponsible and retroactively think was very calculated.
Somebody PLEASE tell me why the Tomodachis can have fights between an adult and a child where the adult tells the SMALL CHILD, "I won't forgive you"? Imaoka made Chibita depressed and I wanted to pick him up and drop him into the ocean
Marechiyo Omaeda is the only female character in the manga Bleach
pride and prejudice: the pecking order…. hhhm
Please clap for my cursed Ograbme, I am not an artist
Less than a quarter of the agreed upon number of aid trucks are entering the Gaza Strip and much of it is commercial, meaning that people need MONEY to buy their basic needs. Money that they don’t have as most people don’t have income and lost their livelihood during the genocide.
The Sameer Project was forced to reduce water by 50% last week, stopped grocery vouchers for 100 families, reduced hours in our two medical points and is no longer taking individual medical cases.
DISASTROUS is an understatement for the situation in Gaza so we beg you to mobilize, fundraise, donate, send emails, share and do everything you can to support our people in Gaza!
Donate to the Food & Water Campaign https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")
http://account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")
If you have the means, consider donating to the Khartoum Aid Kitchen which feeds around 20,000 people a day in Sudan, who are suffering from extreme starvation.
The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khart
Some recent posts of theirs with information about what they do:
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James Morgan McGill: A Life (compiled by the most extreme of Chuck haters)
-Age 4: Born, haloed; mother and attending doctor Chuck McGill angrily smashes the halo against his little bald pate
-Age 9: Steals a pie cooling on his father Chuck McGill's windowsill; shot 15 times in chest by responding officer Chuck McGill
-10-30: {SCENE MISSING}
-30:
-30-40: Crucified atop Mt. Golgotha by Chuck Pilate; Kim Wexler attendant, weeping
-40: Sold to One Direction by Chuck McGill for candle money
-{SCENE MISSING}
-40-whatever: Chuck McGill's Hate Rays force Kim to grow bangs and sign haunted divorce papers
-Walter "Chuck McGill" White lures Jimmy underneath a cardboard box with a stack of dollar bills
-{SCENE MISSING}
-50????? 60????: Cinnabon purgatory
-The Lord of the Rings: Return of the Kim
-109: Assumption into heaven; Kim Wexler attendant, weeping beneath the fluorescent prison lights
-The Scouring of the Shire
While I'm at it, why do so many reasonable (?) people hear Chuck say, "Jimmy started working at the store when he was 9, and when it started failing, I discovered large amounts of money missing from the books", and interpret this as "when Jimmy was 9 Chuck already wanted him dead for stealing from the till", instead of the much more logical "Jimmy was 18 or 20, probably not working there anymore, by the time Chuck checked the books, and he made this assumption based on witnessing Jimmy's ongoing bad behavior and scamming by that older age"? Because obviously a number of years passed between "Jimmy 9" and "Chuck angry", based on simple logic, the sum of $14,000, and the fact that Chuck says, "over the years," in his story. Time travels one way. Chuck thinking Jimmy began doing something at 9, later on, doesn't mean he was ever "beefing with a 9-year-old".
Sometimes I like checking in on the BCS subreddit and seeing people talk about their version of the characters, like when they talk about Chuck as if he spent his life being, like, Confederate General Ebenezer Scrooge, which actually seems to be countered by a number of things in canon. He talks about wanting his house to be filled with music and friends! He can sing ABBA songs, his ex-wife still cares about him and he freely admits that he still has feelings for her in public, he has an entire building full of people come out and give him a round of applause when he comes back in for an hour or two—he was not a no-fun social recluse before he got sick. He resents Jimmy's charm not because he's completely inept himself, but because Jimmy is so good at it that he can get himself out of trouble effortlessly. Even with their parents, who should value them both equally; even his wife, the one person who chose him above everyone else, and should be reliably on his side and able to see through Jimmy's cheap tricks.
it's chuck miigill's island, everyone else is just living on it
The Hoshino > Yamato thing
So I want to start by saying that I personally gravitate towards extremely niche ships where I'm often the only person who's interested. Because of that, I try to keep a very high standard of what I consider "intentional subtext". I've seen a lot of fandom theories where the person is clearly just spiraling and making things up out of a desire to validate their ship and make it more popular, and I really don't want that to happen to me just because I wound up in a space where no one is peer reviewing my opinions.
However. Lux-Pain does contain the following things:
An explicitly gay adult man with romantic feelings for another man
A lot of very intentional yaoi bait with the teenagers
A fujoshi character who comments on the above
According to a link on TVTropes, shortly after the game's release, the director commented on Atsuki/Liu Yee being popular with fans (on his now-dead blog)
A location (the radio tower) that references a real spree killing incident, the one that sparked the "denpa" genre as a whole
So, taking all of that into account, I don't think I'm reaching too far to say that Hoshino and Yamato's sad little aborted revolution is somewhat reminiscent of Yukio Mishima's attempt to overthrow the Japanese government, and that Hoshino's crashout where he thinks of Yamato as his "soulmate" seems like he could very well have feelings for him.
JIMMY PESTO: Just buttmogged some ZYEWmers
TREV: Ahhh 😂 you said butt
JIMMY PESTO: Ahhh 😂 I did say butt
JIMMY JR: Dad, me and Zeke don't want to be in your picture.
ZEKE: Now, hold on. I might. Depends on how buttmogged I am. (Looks at picture) Dang!