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avantgarden-er

In fair Saskatchewan, where we lay our scene

#Saskatchewan

harompe

andromache the scythian would not have shaved armpits

#that's what I've been saying!!!!#she's 6000 years old #the old guard

resetme

My stomach's in knots and I'm stress-grinding my teeth, and it feels like my soul is being suffocated. You know, just your standard paradise stuff.

Chidi Anagonye ☀️ The Good Place (2016-2020)

#chidi anagonye #the good place

startedwellthatsentence

Hey Tamora Pierce fans,

How often do you remember that a major premise of the Beka Cooper books was that their society was slowly falling back into patriarchal and traditional roles of womanhood? And that it took like 200 years after that for them to get back to women in leadership positions?

Because like. It’s about once every two days for me.

#i always thought this was a fascinating premise to explore #less fun irl #tamora pierce #books

thisweekinfandomhistory

Grab your floaties! This week, V and Emily travel back 25 years (gross) to the spring of 2000, when the internet was the Wild West and everyone was an asshole. Or maybe not everyone, but wow, this one e-mail list for The Sentinel sure was. We discuss the difference between tags, warnings, spoilers, and censorship, and we also discuss just how much has changed in the fandom landscape over the last 25 years in terms of expectations and norms. Get ready to be kind of mad at people in the past! (Sorry to the requester, @erilyn-oz)

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#have a long drive tomorrow and im excited to listen #this week in fandom history

aardvaark

leverage season 1 plot

#leverage

kitsnicket

The biggest “your experiences are not universal” thing I feel is whenever anyone talks about the universality of girls planning their weddings since childhood because. Well. Not me. God bless

kitsnicket

“The universal girlhood experience of—“ [LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

januarium

The Rose family used to have several million dollars. Now they don’t.

A Schitt’s Creek fan vid, with thanks to the Rosebudd Motel and the vidding community for their support with my first ever vid!

Source: Schitt’s Creek Music: If I Had $1,000,000 by Barenaked Ladies

Also on the AO3

januarium

This just got some notes so I rewatched it. Can’t believe it’s coming up on five years since my first vid! I think I actually did a pretty good job. Needs more Ted, though.

#this is wonderful #fanvid #schitt's creek

elizabethminkel

In 2024, everyone wanted a piece of fic, from AI grifters to traditional publishers to ravenous audiences. Where did that leave the people w

In a normal year, @flourish & I would have made a list of five big fandom trends for our annual "Year in Fandom" round-up. But the podcast is on hiatus, and I was left with MANY THOUGHTS about fanfiction seeming to break containment this year and nowhere to put them. So this is a "Year in Fandom" segment of sorts, about a set of related fanfiction trends that I'm pretty unhappy about!

I get that sense that a lot of fandom folks are, like me, worried about the way the ground seems to be shifting beneath us: in meta after meta, I’ve seen frustration over a larger but increasingly passive fic readership; dismay that traditional publishing has a growing influence over a practice that partly exists in opposition to it; and anger that some guy can just copy-paste your work and charge money for it, and no one outside of fandom seems to care.

What happens when fanfiction scales—but participatory fan communities do not? Read or listen to an audio version via the link above!

ellipsus-writes

🪭 Always on point.

#fandom #fanfiction

sean-kkendrick-deactivated20160

For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost - We won't take our place on the shelves. It's better to fly and it's better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves. - Seanan McGuire, Wicked Girls

seananmcguire

Wow.

#seanan mcguire #stories

writing-prompt-s

Science fiction is full of first contact stories, but is there a such thing as LAST contact? Decide exactly what that means, and write about it.

elidyce

It was too late, when the humans came. They were a young species, still exploring outwards, vital and thriving.

We… were not.

War had ravaged us, and sickness, and war once again, until our population dwindled beyond the point of recovery. We struggled against that, of course… we used genetic manipulation, and cloning, and even more desperate measures. None succeeded. When the humans came, we were sinking into apathy, only a few tens of us left. We had begun to discuss whether we should commit a mass suicide, or simply wait to fade away.

And then the young species came, in their clumsy ships, and they asked us why we were so few.

“We are becoming extinct,” we told them. “We have passed the point of recovery.”

It is custom to avoid the races that are dying – once a species reaches the point of inevitable extinction, even war is suspended, and the fiercest enemy pulls back. The custom was born of plagues and poisons that could be carried forth from a dying world to afflict a healthy one, but it has the implacable weight of tradition now. After we are gone, after they have waited for the prescribed period of quarantine, there will be a fight for our world. Habitable worlds are few, and this is a good one, with plenty of free groundwater and thriving vegetation. It is a bitter thing to be grateful for the custom that allows us to die in peace, but we are grateful.

But the humans don’t know that custom, and they do not leave. They seem distraught, when we tell them we are dying, and try to offer their aid - but their technology is behind ours, and it is too late. When they realize that they can’t save us, though, they do something that bewilders us.

Keep reading

#stories

dancecinema

GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford

fandomwithjoy

Masters of their craft.

trollprincess

My favorite thing about this sequence is that if you don’t know who Hines and Baryshnikov are, and I tell you one is a ballet dancer and one taps, you should be able to figure out who’s who based on their specific movements, even though the choreography is the same.

#this is so cool #dance

aimmyarrowshigh

MLMay 20214: 100 Slash Drabbles

001. Toys - Chidi Anagonye/Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)

#this delights me #the good place #fic rec

astronicht

Good morning. This is the best fic comment I have ever received.

#this is so relatable

justpastryvideos

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kiragecko

[Video shows a person decorating a cake. The icing is a gradient of white to purple. It has decorative swirls of mixed black, white, and purple, as well as white shells, and purple and black ruffled streamers. One side has “i’d rather eat cake” in black cursive, with a line of black hearts going around the rest of the cake.

Voiceover: “As highly requested, here is a cake for all of my ace followers. A lot of you were saying an ace cake would be perfect for this series because of ‘all the memes, all the memes’ and I was like, ‘oh my gosh, what. are. the. memes?’

“And so I looked it up, and you’re totally right, I could not have missed this one. And also, wait to the end, because I added an extra special message just for you.

“A lot of you have expressed feeling sometimes overlooked by the queer community, or underrepresented during pride month, and I think you’re absolutely right! There’s not as much representation for the letters that come after L, G, B, T, but I do think it’s amazing how your community, in particular, has been able to stand up and be seen, especially on the internet, despite not seeing a lot of yourself in mainstream culture. So keep being you, the world needs you, and I hope this cake can brighten up your morning, and have a great day.”

End ID.]

#this is so pretty #cake #asexuality