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@lucayabutterflies-blog
so what does a girl gotta do to get sabrina carpenter to cast peyton meyer as her love interest in a music video…
‘cause whatever it is, i’ll do it
What about her casting Corey tho????? Them together would be like Matt Bennett in the One Last Time mv, but waaaayyy cooler
okay actually yes, that would be brilliant. i would die from excitement,
they’re also like the most attractive besties i ever seen
Lucas: I can't believe you just called me a butthead. I don't think anyone's called me a butthead since the third grade.
Maya: Maybe not to your face.
#stillsavinggmw
Reblog if you still want more seasons of gmw just as bad now as you did when it was canceled.
Lets see how many still care
so what does a girl gotta do to get sabrina carpenter to cast peyton meyer as her love interest in a music video…
‘cause whatever it is, i’ll do it
What about her casting Corey tho????? Them together would be like Matt Bennett in the One Last Time mv, but waaaayyy cooler
I Never Watched GMGoodbye
Hey guys, I know it’s been like 5 years since GMW ended but I just felt like this is the only place where I could vent.
So, back in the day, I put off watching the final episode because I wanted to film a react video to it (for my youtube, y’all should def check it out here). However, since I’m an insecure little pussy I never ended up filming one because my friends—at the time, mind you—thought they were boring. Which I hugely regret now because my reaction to it then, when I was still in the ship-bubble, would've been so much better than it was today.
In conclusion, I recently got Disney+ and so I just watched Girl Meets Goodbye for the first time. And when I tell you I SOBBED.
Tearjerking moments:
1. When they opened their apartment to all of the old cast members.
2. Mr. Feeny.
3. Mr. Turner telling Shawn he should've adopted him.
4. Mr. Feeny!!
5. Shawn offering to adopt Maya. “I’m Maya Hunter now!*
6. The whole scene where Smackle talks about feeling sadness for the first time, hugging Riley and admitting that she cried. “SADNESS! I’m getting good at emotions now.”
7. Farkle telling Riley that he will always love her, and that he has since the first grade.
8. Sabrina crying in the Bay Window.
9. Topanga deciding to stay in New York. (!!!!!) (Why didn't they get a 4th season????????)
10. Flashback to Cory talking to Josh in the finale of Boy Meets World.
Funny/Cute moments:
1. Smackle asking questions to change the class subject.
2. Ava dressing up as Twiggy.
3. Maya kissing Farkle on the cheek.
4. Eric almost doing the Feeny call (although I don't remember why he’s mad at him).
5. Eric saying “hey Morgan” to both Lily and Lindsay.
6. Lily and Lindsay’s forth wall break by switching in the middle of their conversation with Auggie.
7. Augava in the Bay Window. “I’m Mister..A-va Morgen-stern! Yeah.”
8. Ultimate Rilaya moment in the end, HELLO???? (maybe I’m just gay)
Cringe moments:
1. Every time they alluded to Josh*ya and R*cas being endgame. 🤮
I would like to thank everyone who I met while regularly updating this blog because I honestly don't think that I would’ve survived middle school without having my online friends to lean on. And I know that I fell out of touch with every single one of you after the show ended because I stopped coming on here. But you really did mean a lot to 14-15 year-old me who struggled with having no real IRL friends for a long time. So thank you.
This post was really sentimental and I feel kinda shitty about it now so I’m gonna go to bed.
Goodnight. I miss Tumbling.
okay but hear me out
That scene in movies where a character who isn’t used to opening up is suddenly hugged by another character and there’s that moment of hesitation where they hold their hands out awkwardly like “error 404 what do i do” before slowly lowering them and hugging back…
that’s quality content okay
maya: “if you got hurt..i don’t know what i would have done.”
me:
Okay no hear me out right I’m rewatching GMW (for like the 5th time leave me alone) and I’m on the episode where Maya and Riley ‘fight’ over Farkle because they realise how amazing he is (and he rlly is 🥺). But I can’t help comparing it to when Riley wanted Maya to fight for Lucas. They promised to never fight over a boy again, which Maya was determined not to do, but maybe Riley was comparing it to the one other time in their life when they had. Riley had seen Maya ‘fight’ her over Farkle, yet she wasn’t doing the same for Lucas. In Riley’s mind, maybe if Maya wasn’t fighting for Lucas like she did for Farkle, then she didn’t really like him. But we know for a fact that while Maya loves Farkle, it’s not romantic. So it makes sense that her reaction to both boys is different.
basically it’s 2020 and I’m still bitter about them byeeee
Maya: Wow, Riley is so pretty.
Lucas: Oh come on, Maya. Don’t be jealous, you’re pretty too.
Maya: I’m not being jealous, Huckleberry, I’m being gay.
reblog this and tag it with if you use google docs or microsoft word it’s for science
OMG ITS BEEN SO LONG
I haven’t been on here in forever,, quarantine makes you find old memories. Hopefully I can start doing this for real again, I remember this community being so much fun so hopefully I’ll find the time <3
i’m so bored in quarantine that i have dove deep into my google docs of my lucaya fanfiction and can i just say that 1) some of it sucks and idk why we thought it was good and 2) i kinda wanna edit it all and actually finish it but whomst is going to read lucaya fanfiction in 2020
Who wouldn’t bro, we’re all in quarantine and need something to take our minds off isolation. Go for it! ‘Cuz I’ll definitely read it!
On Fanfiction
I was cruising through the net, following the cold trail of one of the periodic “Is or is not Fanfic the Ultimate Literary Evil?” arguments that crop up regularly, and I’m now bursting to make a point that I never see made by fic defenders.
We’re all familiar with the normal defenses of fic: it’s done out of love, it’s training, it’s for fun. Those are all good and valid defenses!
But they miss something. They damn with faint praise. Because the thing is, when you commit this particular Ultimate Literary Evil you’ve now told a story. And stories are powerful. The fact that it wasn’t in an original world or with original characters doesn’t necessarily make it less powerful to any given reader.
I would never have made this argument a few years ago. A few years ago I hadn’t received messages from people who were deeply touched by something I wrote in fanfic. So what if it’s only two or three or four people, and I used someone else’s world and characters? For those two or three or four people, I wrote something fucking important. You cannot tell me that isn’t a valid use of my time and expect me to feel chastened. I don’t buy it. I won’t feel ashamed. I will laugh when you call something that touches other people ‘literary masturbation.’ Apparently you’re not too up on your sex terminology.
Someone could argue that if I’d managed the same thing with original characters in an original world, it could’ve touched more people. They might be right! On the other hand, it might never have been accepted for publication, or found a market if self published, and more importantly I would never have written it because I didn’t realize I could write. The story wouldn’t have happened. Instead, thanks to fanfic being a thing, it did. And for two or three or four people it mattered. When we talk about defending fanfic, can we occasionally talk about that?
I once had an active serviceman who told me that my FF7 and FF8 fic helped get him through the war. That’ll humble you. People have told me my fanfic helped get them through long nights, through grief, through hard times. It was a solace to people who needed solace. And because it was fanfic, it was easier to reach the people who needed it. They knew those people already. That world was dear to them already. They were being comforted by friends, not strangers.
Stories are like swords. Even if you’ve borrowed the sword, even if you didn’t forge it yourself from ore and fire, it’s still your body and your skill that makes use of it. It can still draw blood, it can strike down things that attack you, it can still defend something you hold dear. Don’t get me wrong, a sword you’ve made yourself is powerful. You know it down to its very molecules, are intimate with its heft and its reach. It is part of your own arm. But that can make you hesitate to use it sometimes, if you’re afraid that swinging it too recklessly will notch the blade. Is it strong enough, you think. Will it stand this? I worked so hard to make it. A blade you snatched up because you needed a weapon in your hand is not prey to such fears. You will use it to beat against your foes until it either saves you or it shatters.
But whether you made that sword yourself or picked it up from someone who fell on the field, the fight you fight with it is always yours.
Literary critics who sneer at fanfic are so infuriatingly shortsighted, because they all totally ignore how their precious literature, as in individual stories that are created, disseminated, and protected as commercial products, are a totally modern industrial capitalist thing and honestly not how humans have ever done it before like a couple centuries ago. Plus like, who benefits most from literature? Same dudes who benefit most from capitalism: the people in power, the people with privilege. There’s a reason literary canon is composed of fucking white straight dudes who write about white straight dudes fucking.
Fanfiction is a modern expression of the oral tradition—for the rest of us, by the rest of us, about the rest of us—and I think that’s fucking wonderful and speaks to a need that absolutely isn’t being met by the publishing industry. The need to come together as a close community, I think, and take the characters of our mythology and tell them getting drunk and married and tricked and left behind and sent to war and comforted and found again and learning the lessons that every generation learns over and over. It’s wonderful. I love it. I’m always going to love it.
Stories are fractal by nature. Even when there’s just one version in print, you have it multiplied by every reader’s experience of it in light of who they are, what they like, what they want. And then many people will put themselves in the place of the protagonist, or another character, and spend a lot of time thinking about what they’d do in that character’s place. Or adjusting happenings so they like the results better.
That’s not fic yet, but it is a story.
But the best stories grow. This can happen in the language of capitalism—a remake of a classic movie, a series of books focusing on what happened afterwards or before—or it can happen in the language of humanity. Children playing with sticks as lightsabers, Jedi Princess Leia saving Alderaan by dueling Vader; a father reading his kids The Hobbit as a bedtime story as an interactive, “what would you like to happen next?” way so that the dwarves win the wargs over with doggie biscuits that they had in their pockets and ride to Erebor on giant wolves, people writing and sharing their ideas for deleted outtake scenes from Star Trek and slow-build fierce and tender romance with startling bursts of hot sex between Hawkeye and Agent Coulson.
A story at its most successful is a fully developed fractal, retold a million times and a million ways, with stories based on stories based on stories. Fanfic of fanfic of fanfic. Stories based on headcanons, stories based on prompts, stories that put the Guardians of the Galaxy in a coffee-shop AU and stories where the Transformers are planet-wandering nomads and stories where characters from one story are placed into a world from another. Stories that could be canon, stories that are the farthest thing from canon, stories that are plausible, stories that would never happen, stories that give depth to a character or explore the consequences of one different plot event or rewrite the whole thing from scratch.
This is what stories are supposed to be.
This is what stories are.
Fandom and fan creations are a communal act. They do not disguise how they are influenced by each other. They revel in it.
Literature was once a communal act, too. Film as well. It’s only once we decided to extend and expand the idea of copyright and turn stories into primarily vehicles for profit that we rejected this communal structure. The literary canon shouldn’t be all dead white men. They didn’t build the novel. They didn’t build theater. They took what was already there and said “This is mine now,” and we believed them.
Creativity is communal. There is no such thing as the lone genius on a mountaintop. Ideas are passed around, handed back and forth, growing all the time. Fandom is what human creativity looks like in its normal form. Fandom is like this because humans are like this.
We didn’t just borrow the sword. We remade it because we saw in it the potential for something better. And we did that together, all of us.
And it is also way more accessible, let’s not forget that.
Maya: What do I hate most?
Lucas: People?
Do you ever get that feeling
that you’re exploding with joy while reading a fanfic or watching a scene with your OTP but it’s 4 in the morning so you can’t just jump around like a squirrel and scream you lungs out so you just wiggle in the sheets and press your hand against your mouth with withheld excitement while making strange suffocated noises??? Because I do
You can call it fire and ice but we work so well, and we don’t even know why
WHY IS SUCH A LUCAYA SONG OKAY … ITS ALSO SUCH A B O P (via lucayaismyotp)
