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When you see a fic with an intresting description only to find out it's 1 paragraph long
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Dude I am so serious about system accountability
Like it is the BIGGEST red flag amongst systems, regardless of their origin stance, if I don’t see any accountability for their collective actions I loose so much respect. I don’t care where you are in healing or recovery, or what you’re going through, an alter/part’s actions affect the whole fucking system so the whole system takes accountability and deals with aligning consequences.
Whether it’s loosing a friend, getting yourself checked at the doctor’s, getting banned on social media, etc. every part is going to have to suffer the consequences of one’s actions. You can’t just leave a wound untreated because “oH wELL iT wAsNt Me!!”, you know that’s bullshit. It’s not any different for issues that don’t directly affect y’alls physical well-being.
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over two and a half millennia later and lesbians is the same
somewhere a group of weird little girls is accidentally practicing a ritual that got forgotten 3000 years ago. brings me peace
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Do you ever think you'll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you're supposed to grow out of. I'm just curious what your plans/goals are since it isn't exactly an art form that people take seriously.
Ah, fanart. Also known as the art that girls make.
Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it’s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it’s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it’s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they’re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.
That’s the art you mean, right?
Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.
It’s interesting though — the culture of shame surrounding adult women and fandom. Even within fandom it’s heavily internalized: unsurprisingly, mind, given that fandom is largely comprised by young girls and, unfortunately, our culture runs on ensuring young girls internalize *all* messages no matter how toxic. But here’s another way of thinking about it.
Sports is a fandom. It requires zealous attention to “seasons,” knowledge of details considered obscure to those not involved in that fandom, unbelievable amounts of merchandise, and even “fanfic” in the form of fantasy teams. But this is a masculine-coded fandom. And as such, it’s encouraged - built into our economy! Have you *seen* Dish network’s “ultimate fan” advertisements, which literally base selling of a product around the normalization of all consuming (male) obsession? Or the very existence of sports bars, built around the link between fans and community enjoyment and analysis. Sport fandom is so ingrained in our culture that major events are treated like holidays (my gym closes for the Super Bowl) — and can you imagine being laughed at for admitting you didn’t know the difference between Supernatural and The X Files the way you might if you admit you don’t know the rules of football vs baseball, or basketball?
“Fandom” is not childish but we live in a culture that commodified women’s time in such away that their hobbies have to be “frivolous,” because “mature” women’s interests are supposed to be marriage, family, and overall care taking: things that allow others to continue their own special interests, while leaving women without a space of their own.
So think about what you’re actually saying when you call someone “too old” for fandom. Because you’re suggesting they are “too old” for a consuming hobby, and I challenge you to answer — what do you think they should be doing instead?
#I love the fact I’m ‘weird’ for writing fic but some guy painting a team logo on his beer belly is normal
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This whole modern approach is also seriously undermining just how important fanfiction is - from a historical standpoint.
The concept of fanfiction formed and forged the earliest stages of literature in Europe. Because the majority of authors in France, Germany and Great Britain looked at that funky little Celtic dude Arthur and thought “hey, he’s neat. I wanna write about him”.
The entire concept of a book outside of religious purposes was born out of fanfiction in my country.
There is no “first canon” for Arthur where he came as the prince of Camelot, with his sidekicks Lancelot and Merlin and his endgame love interest Gwen.
Arthur was some random hunter when he started out.
Someone’s fanfiction made him a prince.
Someone else’s fanfiction gave him a round table.
Someone else’s fanfiction gave him Merlin at his side.
Someone else’s fanfiction gave him Morgana, gave him Gwen, gave him his swords.
And, to this day, we still write Arthurian fanfiction. Literally last year there was a movie adaptation that is, by all intends and purposes, fanfiction, because it wasn’t even close to a literal adaptation of the source material (The Kid Who Would Be King). Heck, BBC’s Merlin, itself an Arthurian fanfiction, remains one of the biggest fandoms that people today write for on AO3.
You were a joke in the middle ages if you tried to write your own stuff. Who’s interested in your stuff? You were only a respected author if you wrote fanfiction. The most famous medieval German authors are famous because they wrote fanfiction about some knightly OCs they created who served on Arthur’s court. That is the literary legacy of the middle ages. Arthurian fanfiction.
Yet somewhere along the way, this concept of “I find x story/element cool and want to elaborate on it more, shift the focus onto an aspect of this original source material” has gotten this “eh, it’s fanfiction” connotation and lost respect.
Even though this very concept is still being used - even outside of the actual medium of fanfiction - and it is still being used for the very same purpose it was used for in medieval times. Original movies often don’t get as much recognition as adaptations of existing source material that the audience is familiar with. People see a movie about a character they’re familiar with and seem more inclined to buy a ticket to see the 10th new interpretation of Batman or Superman or Snow White. How are these new interpretations of familiar source material that usually add to the lore, reinterpret characterizations and dynamics, any different from fanfiction?
But heaven forbid we call The Dark Knight Nolan’s Batman fanfiction. No, fanfiction is that silly thing that we can’t take seriously, but that new Joker movie, that however is high-end art.
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This. Fanfiction is variations on an existing theme, simultaneously making use of and satisfying people’s existing love for a story that they’re happy to consume more of, and cultivating the synergy between an existing story/mythos and a new author who, in interacting with characters they’d never have created themselves, creates something that neither they nor any of the story’s previous tellers could have made all by themselves.
Fanfiction is the new whole being greater than the sum of its parts, and fanfiction is the story being made limitless, retelling by retelling, and it is wonderful.
It’s also worth noting that Batman himself only came into being because of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a series of books about an extravagantly rich foppish playboy by day, daring hero in disguise by night (I mean, loosely. He also fopped by night and heroed by day, but you get my drift). Written by a woman no less.
Batman is a transformative work with a modernised crime-fighting SP but also borrowing strongly from earlier comic books, and yet it is seen as definitive.
Coming back here to say that I think the derision for fanart also has some of its roots in our capitalist hellscape.
It’s the age old “If thing not make you money, why you care about thing?” that’s so prevalent in the system. Of course some people do make money with their fanart, but I think that is still part of the scorn.
It’s supposed to be something you do not just for fun, but for practice, people like this think. Once you’re good at it, you can drop it and make money by focusing on your OCs and original work!
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“As the businessman finished his frankly unwelcome proposal, Alcina’s eyes flickered with venom. The dragon paused, exhaling smoke, before she ripped into him…”
Lil drawing in a local cafe. 😊 🍷🦇
Here is a very silly question. On a fourth wall breaking level lol. What do you think Alcina would think/say if she knew she has so many LGBT fans, particularly sapphic women fans? Would she be happy for it? As a lesbian I've never felt so much kinship with a fictional character (minus u know.. the murder and cannibalism part lol).
Oh, I love this question!
Alcina has a bit of a god-complex of her own and is even described as a de facto cult leader in the castle in some of the dev interviews, so I think she would be very flattered to know her influence extends past her domain. Her intentions might not be the purest towards her followers, but between her hypothetical career as a singer and her position in the castle hierarchy, and even more so in Novitiate where she purposefully created a sapphic environment in her domain by often hiring women who didn't wish to marry and displayed certain inclinations, this is exactly the sort of attention she would thrive in receiving. She might have some criticisms to make in regards to modern wlw culture - *cough* the fashion *cough* - but she'd be happy enough that her story resonates with others. She is living the evil lesbian dream, isn't she? I would dare say she would even get some sense of personal validation from other people looking at her and having their gayday loudly beep, as being a lesbian (and a femme at that) can often make one feel horribly invisible and experiencing this over many decades has left her with some scars of her own.
She might not be progressive in her beliefs other than what benefits her directly or good-natured in any form - she was very adamant that she would be able to take a wife, for example, but I doubt she ever lost any sleep over the fact that other women in the village and beyond could not do the same - but I do think she would reciprocate that feeling of kinship in some way. She would much rather see her maids fall for each other than some field hand from across the gates, that is for certain.
And though I cannot reconcile with the characterization we see from the game the notion that she would be a wholesome and accepting advocate to other members of the community that aren't also sapphic, as her prejudices towards "the other" clearly run deep, she would not be unnecessarily cruel, either. If anything, she recognizes the struggle of being an oddity. Her reaction to being more generally called an LGBT+ icon would probably be something along the lines of "Well, of course that is the case. We are known for our good taste after all".
And to give a bit of a silly answer as well, in Novitiate she tends to come and go from the public eye, so it isn't impossible that once the deal with The Connections is settled and they no longer have the BSAA breathing down their necks, Alcina (under her current mortal fake identity, of course) gets approached by some fancy publication like Vogue but for vitners to give an interview about her wine business. For whatever reason they think it'd be fun to include the daughters and wife for the photos and it turns into this huge editorial that carefully paints them as very rich but also very normal and totally not vampires. You know, elegant family portraits or tastefully romantic shots of her and Maria with Alcina's answers to the half-bland questions on the sides. And then of course the sapphic side of the internet hears about it and suddenly everyone is talking about the goth milf duo who adopted a bunch of gay kids and is living like royalty in the European countryside. Alcina now has more applications for chambermaids, gardeners, drivers, and butlers (and children lol) than what she knows what to do with.
Fandom Alcina: My precious maids falling for each other in my castle? Pour the wine! A sapphic celebration shall commence!
Game Alcina: *chained to the dungeon walls are a pair of rotted, dry-ass female corpses just barely holding hands*
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I don’t care if its real or not, its so full of chaos I have to reblog!
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