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[songdancepsychopaths]

Hello! My name is Lauren, I'm a old fandom lady living in Sydney, thinking about Black Sails, Phantom of the opera and gothic nonsense.

Fanfiction:

"No Ordinary Skeleton" a genderbent femslash Leroux- based retelling of Phantom of the Opera

"Five Days with Johanna" a Sweeney Todd (stage, mostly) sequel from Johanna's POV as she processes and uncovers everything.

Black Sails:

We Need to Talk About Eleanor Guthrie

Eleanor Guthrie Part 2: Charles Vane

Eleanor Guthrie Part 3: TradWife Era

Max, The Room and the Temptation of Civilisation

Flint is the Master of the Trolley Problem

Anne Bonny's Self-Actualisation

Vampires:

On Nosferatu and Dracula, Mina & Ellen

Good Omens:

Why God shouldn't be the good guy

In which I describe being Aziraphale, an idiot who for 6000 years didn't realise she was in love with her best friend

Doctor Who

Some fandom history

Phantom of the Opera:

The disrespect of Phantom of Manhattan

My Ben Lewis story 💜

Musicals:

Best original song and Movie Musicals: An unnecessary Deep Dive

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[messvoid]

Let gremlin Armand behead people!

[fruitgravies]

the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

prints • insta • twt

[subaru-copilot]

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

[girlnumbers]

float like a butterfly (nervously forgets end of quote) green like a pea

[phaptomoftheopera]

thinking on raoul and erik parallels again today (musical specifically) and how they both tend to steamroll over christine instead of asking her what she wants- but their motivations are from opposing sources (raoul has never been told no and erik has only been told no)

[queenoftheimps]

Louis: googling whether it's weird to pay someone to be your daughter and to make out with said daughter's girlfriend Lestat: considering becoming a mother to triplets Armand: -covered in smears of viscera- I've decided to become an attentive father :D

[lestatgothic]

this gothic princess omgggg

[persephone-rots]

we gonna be a family, uncle les?

[ldrloversblog]

He is me

I am him

[songdancepsychopaths]

[elliespectacular]

"you wouldn't want that in real life" yeah i know it's called playing pretend, try to keep up

[nicoletteolivier]

Hello, Tumblr Support? Hi, how are you? I'd like to order more reblogs and followers, please. Yeah, I'm pretty good at blogging.

[from-aldebaran]

Saturday, July 4, 2026 • 9 p.m. EST: Tomas Ambt Kofod, Sibylle Glosted & Christian Lund (Copenhagen 2019)

So to celebrate Independence Day here in the US, we will be highlighting the Kingdom of Denmark and its autonomous territory of Greenland by showing the fan favorite Copenhagen 2019 performance!

@wheel-of-fish has streamed this performance 8 times previously, as recently as December 20, 2025. But with a large number of people possibly unable to attend this weekend, I thought I would stream something that is guaranteed to be repeated again and again in the future. Fish and @glassprism have both called this one of the best casts and one of the highest quality recordings out there, with some amazing acting choices, including unusual quill placement and the boop heard 'round the world. I first saw this at a Stream before I had seen a live version (that was not the Restaged), and I specifically remember how well it captures the overall beauty of the show.

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome!

⭐Link and password will be posted here at 8:45 the day of the stream.

⭐For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ 

⭐Remember to follow @from-aldebaran for stream posts going forward.

⭐PFPs featured on the Saturday Streams banner are left to right Streams Founder @operaofthephantom, 300 Club Streams Host @wheel-of-fish, new host @from-aldebaran, and our Phantom Founder, Gaston Leroux. Massive thanks to @opera-ghost for the PFP additions to Fish's original banner design.

⭐ Gifs by @wheel-of-fish

[orchisailsa]

HEY. OKAY. SO. I went off in the groupchat this morning a little and I think I want to say this in public to ALL of my fellow Fandom Elders. I have been a fangirl online for thirty years now, and YOU KNOW WHAT? I'm tired of my peers apologetically calling themselves ancient grandma fandom mummy hags!

It's not weird that we are here! There are SO MANY OF US! We're not outliers, we're not oddballs. We are occupying a space we CREATED and we are still fucking here, having fun with all our younger online friends, which is COOL AND GOOD and NOT EMBARRASSING ACTUALLY. It's fucking rad.

Look. We *built* online fandom, comrades! We built it with Angelfire and Geocities and the fucking telephone cables we unhooked from our phones to plug into our enormous, boxy desktop computers to suffer through glacial download speeds that today's children can't even fathom. I think we should all agree to stop apologizing for being here when this is our fucking house. An excellent sentiment (not mine):

To all of my beloved young friends - remember this when you get older. You don't need to grow out of fandom. Who the fuck cares if it's cringe? Childlike joy is something to CELEBRATE, NOT SOMETHING TO BURY AND HIDE!

Fandom costs no money! Fandom doesn't require gas mileage or plane tickets! Fandom promotes human connections! The world is cold and miserable and full of pain. Don't fucking give up simple things that fill your heart with joy just because you feel like you should now that you have arbitrarily grown 'too old' to enjoy them.

[lunarriviera]

you know what, as someone who wrote kirk/spock with ballpoint pen in her spiral notebook and later was a MSR on listserv, i will ABSOLUTELY accept "fandom upperclassmen" over fandom grandma, since i'm not even anyone's MOM except the cat. (also it makes me think of x-men first class and i like the idea of being sir patrick or sir ian)

[larameansxf]

You know what, I'm okay with "fandom elder." I am an elder. I found fandom in the mid-/late 90s -- MSR on alt.tv.x-files.creative, Ephemeral, and Gossamer. My first website was on Angelfire, next was on Geocities, Tripod after that I think. I was around for the Shipping Wars (Shippers vs. Noromos) and the No Mulder No Watch folks after season 7.

I'm Generation Jones, a term I found on Reddit. Late Boomer/early GenX. I'm 3 years older than David Duchovny, 4 years younger than Anthony Stewart Head. I was an active fic writer 1999-2005, then Life Happened.

In 2024 I was back home, stagnating creatively. My elderly dad was living with me, diagnosed with dementia and declining. I was balancing a full-time job, taking care of Dad (with some help from my self-employed sisters), sinking deeper into a decade-long chronic depression. I started watching The X-Files again in the evenings when Dad would start to sundown, and good lord, did that show still ROCK. I started watching more, found the X-Files and X-Files Fanfic subreddits, found out about Tumblr, and most importantly started feeling like I wanted to write again.

Dad died in April 2025. I posted my first new story in 20 years three months later. I posted all my old fics to AO3 and I'm still writing new stuff -- will be posting a new fic hopefully next week.

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that fandom -- specifically THIS fandom, The X-Files fandom -- saved my life.

[crimsolyn]

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

[poolboydivision]

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