Love Endures Beyond The Memory of Its Form @gophergal - Tumblr Blog

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Name: Gopher, Gooey, Smaug (I've been collecting names I like the sound of, so call me whatever you wanna)

Age: Adult. Minors welcome, but please do not interact with anything tagged "Gopher Spice", "N S F W", "Spiceish", or "N S F W ish"

Current Brain Worms: Transformers

Other Fandoms: Team Fortress 2, Slasher Movies, Mortal Kombat, Fallout, MLP G3, Warrior Cats

Always Remember: Don't Like Don't Read (DLDR), Different Strokes For Different Folks, Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO), Ship and Let Ship (SALS), and Appropriately Tagging Things Is Awesome (ATTA)

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Requests: Open, but selective

Commissions: Open, Info Here!

I'm Gopher3188 on Discord, if you wanna chat (tumblr DMs hate me for my shit internet and big soulless eyes)

#gopher update #info #hey look finally got around to making a new pinned woahhhh

eugeniedanglars

it’s wild to me how there is literally ZERO correlation between what a piece of media is like and what its fanworks are like. 2014 captain america fans were out there writing poetry and full-on academic papers inside of their fics. sonic the hedgehog and my little pony fandoms are both famous for drawing fetishes you’ve never even heard of. les miserables fans spent most of their energy on college aus. there is literally no consistency or observable pattern and it’s incredible

eldriitchmurmurs

#my theory is that fanworks reflect what people found missing in the canon#so like. sonic and mlp. obviously#les miz want les amis to be happy and alive and goofing around#and uh. mcu fans want the mcu to be well-written (via dicaeopolis)

#gopher hoard #real...

kriminalistic

boat prowlie design

#strong desire to chew on his thighs....#good art #transformers

bludoktor-blog

just let the man wear a fursuit into battle

#good art #tf2

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite Non-Disney princess.

#Mipha botw #gopher hoard

chimaerakitten

So we all talk about being in fandoms for things that are charmingly bad, and being able to acknowledge that they’re charmingly bad. But of course some people are in fandoms for things that are Actually Amazing. There are people out there who write fanfiction for The Best Science Fiction Novel Of The Twentieth Century. Or who draw fanart exclusively of The Best Movie of All Time. And there are even more people who are in fandoms for things that are Actually Pretty Good, which is not quite amazing but is closer to it than to Charmingly Bad.

And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of this—the very great danger—is that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.

And then it is shattering to discover that no, bad things can still stick a fork in your brain. 😔

chimaerakitten

So I understand why the “transformative fandom gathers around things that are not good because there being a problem makes people desire to fix it” model is popular. I even agree that it’s accurate in many if not most cases. However it is not what this post is about. Plenty of people do transformative and creative fandom activities for things that are very, very good. Simplified models do not encompass everything.

And frankly, it’s starting to really get on my nerves when people read “I think this thing is good. I wouldn’t change a thing about it and frankly I don’t even think there should be more canon added to it, but I am still going to write thousands of words of fic, make a cosplay, and draw fanart” and then completely misunderstand and respond with “yes I agree—I like things that are good too. But I never feel the transformative/creative fandom instinct for them because they are too good.”

Some people do not feel it. Other people do. Stop misreading me to avoid having to adjust your mental model of how fandom works.

blessphemy

one of the ways a Canon work can be fandom bait is by missing something that fans want to fix, i.e. "it's bad", but i think this is only one way out of multiple that something can be fandom bait.

compelling worldbuilding (invites interaction with the setting)

interesting gimmick (see: daemons, drift compatibility. subcategory of compelling worldbuilding)

shipping bait (duh)

original character bait (in-universe categories/factions and design elements that make it fun for people to create their own characters)

compelling narrative (invites interaction and tweaks to the storyline: AUs and fixits and so on)

basically anything that invites interaction and recombination. but fandom also has a sort of multiplying effect: the larger the interactive audience of fandom is, the more likely it is to generate ideas and works that draw in more participants. so:

network effect (the larger the established fandom, the more likely it has subfandoms and infrastructure that appeals to niche audiences)

chimaerakitten

Yes this exactly, thank you bless.

Things that have space to play in are fandom bait, but space to play in does not equal holes.

#I've never considered that frankly. hmm. will ponder this #gopher hoard

making y'all look at my discord pfp for pride month

#gopher edit #transformers #maccadam #thundercracker #it's a low effort edit but it's mine lol #got the screencap from textsfromcybertron btw

mmmmm cornbread......

#gopher rambles #I made myself a pan of cornbread and it's so fucking good. I WILL toot my own horn about it

tfoutofcontextcomicedition

THE PRIDE MONTH POST

freedom is the right of ALL sentient beings 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#transformers

dailymothanon

Rare Redferno posting… what’s the occasion?? Wife (@wxnter-rain) birthday!!!!!!! She loves redferno (and thunderfire… I just went with Redferno cuz I don’t get to work with red that much) a lot so 💋 obviously… I gotta do her this service… I had a lot of fun working on them!! And they’re super cute… they look like apples to me 🍎

#transformers #good art #ough they're so cuuuute #that height difference makes me want to chew concrete (positive)

cranberrycosmic

Thundercracker's first appearance in the very first issue of IDW Generation One (Transformers: Infiltration, issue #0) and his last in the final issue (Optimus Prime, issue #25)

#transformers #his bowtie.....BUSTER'S BOWTIE.... him face.... something fascinates me about how his first appearance is in alt (a weapon & cog in the #machine. easy to mistake for any other) and his last is in root mode (a creative individual with aspirations #and a life he's made his own. unique and appreciated for his own merits). I love him