this is a clare edwards hate blog

mischa ; they/them ; 28 fandom sideblog; i follow from daggerstag 🍃

[feroxargentea]

Calling all X-Files fans still out there!

AO3 are archiving all the fanfic from the 1990s paper-and-ink fanzine DTA (Dreaming the Answers), published by cj2017 and me. But it's been 1000000 years and we no longer have current contact details for any of the authors!

If your fic was published in DTA and you want updated username/contact info adding or your username removing, or you don't want your fic to be archived at all, please contact the Open Doors project and let them know, or contact me. More info is here on the announcement post on AO3.

Please spread the word, thank you!

[spock-shock]

My other #controversial TOS ship opinion is that the fandom is sleeping on the possibilities of Bones/Uhura. Her unflagging romantic tendencies at war with her pragmatism .... him trying to overcome his prickly divorcee vibes via Southern gentleman charm..... they could really fuck each other up.

[attic-bird]

“What kind of biology”

[junefiress]

im no longer warning people about the sixties sfx in tos instead grabbing them by the shoulders and screaming there are aliens made of bubble wrap and latex and so much glitter. most of the episodes are blatantly filmed in southern california or three rotating sets featuring either pink orange or blue rocks. people jump off walls and pirouette when they get "punched". the ship beeps. a lot. too much for realism. spock goes into heat. dont worry about it. the point is there is no BUT. im not going to say "its very silly but its fun" ENOUGH! it's silly AND it's fun!!!!you will learn to love it all because when was the last time you looked at bubble wrap and a back garden and saw another world? remember how much fun it was? do you want to try again?!?!! do you want to play!!!!

[lightningarmour]

My girlfriend spent two weeks editing together every time Kirk says "Spock" throughout the entire original series and films.

[grimbeak]

9th doctor era was simply The Best One im sorry. shaved head leather jacket doc martins telling people to kill themselves. sweetie pea retail worker universal union organizer who became god for him. their stray cat horny little boytoy bottom who becomes an unkillable eldritch horror because of their love. did i mention the first guys a dilf and the other two have daddy issues.

[firstofficerkittycat]

debatable what thee most insane k/s slash moment is but no one talks about how 'when i feel friendship for you I'm ashamed/understand jim I've spent a whole lifetime learning to hide my feelings/love- you're better off without it and I'm better off without mine/have you noticed her? you're allowed to notice her/ SINNER REPENT/we can go back in time to any planet, any era/we may risk it some day mr spock' was e5. season one episode five. cannot stress enough that the entirety of star trek was 2 and a half hours long when this happened

[medraut-pen-draig]

on amok time again: they really did "spock experiences primal alien mating drive and murder fuck ritual," and didn't even play with "and this is an excuse to see our prim and proper mr spock get sensual with a lady!". like he expends ALL of his hot dominating fantasy uncontrollable lust rage energy ON KIRK. they wrote that and had ONE chance to make spock have any scandalous, carnal housewife jerk off material romance they wanted with any sexy space woman in the universe, and they chose kirk. when he does interact with a woman he throws a soup at her

[trudemaethien]

1D OMEGAVERSE NONCON was what took out AO3

so, we all suffered through ao3’s recent downtime:

so i got curious, because i was bookmarking things when the site went down and wouldn’t it be funny if i was the one who broke it lmao (😔no it wasn’t me but i helped)

https://archiveofourown.org/bookmarks/2147483647 is this

absolutely iconic 10/10 no notes good job team 😂

[four-get-me-not]

Stained glass ao3 logo :P

[jokeboy-deactivated20260221]

SEX WITH A BISEXUAL LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!

[quinn-fabae]

uncle andy saying he heard all about it on AM radio to the lesbian farmers is *chef kiss* so fucking funny

[clementine-kesh]

actually the best fanfic is written by tired grad students who are writing partially to process their weekly theory readings partially to get over their most recent situationship and partially to satisfy their weirdest kinks

[hms-no-fun]

i like rocky horror picture show idk

[hms-no-fun]

i think it's very easy to call richard o'brien a piece of shit because of a couple bad interviews and if that's too much then it's too much. but come on, the man is 83 years old. his apprehension about modern gender theory is not even remotely uncommon among queers of his generation, especially drag performers. but whatever, if that's a bridge too far for you in any context, fine. but the way folks act like he's this uniquely villainous figure just does not make sense to me. basically everything he ever made flopped terribly. rocky horror is remembered as a "so bad it's good" movie (though i've always thought it was just straightforwardly good) and most people don't even know that shock treatment exists. this is not a rich man filling generations of people's minds with terf rhetoric and donating countless dollars to anti-trans organizations!

in fact, since everyone loves pulling out that 2020 interview, here's a few choice quotes from o'brien in 2023:

like okay, here he is expressing some skepticism about being *too* openly queer in public, which i don't really agree with. but he immediately waffles on it! again, this strikes me as bog standard for how old school gay culture has aged in those who survived this long.

now here he is admitting that he was a conservative in his youth, which very much tracks with his muddled politics today. yet again, not uncommon for gay people of his generation! meanwhile, he takes the time to praise the welfare state and admonish the rich and right-wing. wow, what an awful regressive transphobe he is, i guess!

wait just a fucking second!!! here's richard o'brien outright identifying as transgender!!!!! you'd think that would be part of this conversation at least a little bit, right? if we're pushing the idea that rocky horror is out-and-out dyed-in-the-wool transphobic? but because he still uses he/him pronouns and doesn't buy into the totality of modern gender theory, i guess that doesn't count for anything.

look, again, you don't have to like or care about rocky horror picture show and you don't have to worship the ground o'brien walks on. i totally get feeling alienated by a supposed pillar of queer culture that everyone says is supposed to represent you. but you can't throw it away without throwing away a piece of queer history. you can't cater to your own feelings of resentment without excluding others who don't share those feelings. also, richard o'brien is a working class queer who survived the AIDS epidemic and actually got to grow old. do you realize how rare that is? i think it is perfectly possible to acknowledge his weaknesses as an artist & public figure without tacitly citing him as an ally of jk rowling with an equivalent level of reach and influence. it's just not true, y'all, and acting like it is just makes you look like an asshole. even if his art is categorically not for you, this man is not your enemy. please chill out a little.

[sam-keeper]

for various reasons* I was looking through geocities pages from 2001-2002 the other night and wound up looking at the websites of trans women sex workers from the period, and one trans woman *psychiatrist* from the period, and I was struck by how many people seemed to identify with and embrace Ray Blanchard's typology. it's really under acknowledged by very young queer people just how much people like Blanchard or various second wave feminists, yes even TERFS, deeply structured queer discourse for decades. decades in which, notably, there was a policy of social mass murder directed at queer people. to demand the denunciation and censorship of art made by those generations, in that context, on the grounds that it is the same as a contemporary fascist hate movement, just feels totally grotesque to me, bluntly. it feels profoundly disinterested in the experiences of people who lived through this period, people YOU should be trying to stand in solidarity with.

if all you want is a mirror to see your politically pure queerness reflected infinitely, log off and go find a perfectly still pool to stare into. you'll make a lovely and inoffensive flower, I'm sure.

*attention deficit disorder

**who really should shut the fuck up if they're going to be picking fights with literally everyone speaking on this subject while running an AVATAR LEGEND OF KORRA FAN BLOG. please feel a LITTLE shame.

[mayamatiln]

I know this is a stretch and I don't know if anyone is on here anymore but I am desperate... does anyone have access to the 2015 short film with Olivia Scriven in it called Mature Young Adults?? It got deleted from Youtube and I don't have it downloaded anymore and I am desperate. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP

[torsamors-deactivated20250510]

happy pride

[quantumshade]

russell. russell t davies. russell listen to me. if you let billie piper doctor lezz out you will be reincarnated into a lotus flower