#fivethingsunmixed

[incorrectshakespeare]

Iago: Hey, wife, get me my captain’s wife’s handkerchief. I swear this is not for an evil plot in any way shape or form.

Emilia: Seems legit.

[saltskinandasociopath]

braywashed has chosen me. my time has come.

FIVE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY.

1. finishing a crossword puzzle.

2. playing with dogs, even if they knock me over with their big dumb stupid heads. 

3. torturing people with porn. 

3a. writing torture-porn

4. baking. shut up. 

5. watching people’s slow descent into madness re: new fandoms. 

The five people I NOW CHOOSE (if they want to) ARE: freakishlytallaustralian, conniecorleone, frankcastles, fivethingsunmixed, and womanlymuppet.

[honestlyvan]

fivethingsunmixed replied to your post:fivethingsunmixed reblogged your post:but like...

Fair enough! I had a feeling it was directed specifically at fandom, because of the way you worded it, but it still gave me things to say.

yeah, fair :P rest assured, I do get it -- and my problem is exactly that I get it, and others writing this character... don't.

[honestlyvan]

fivethingsunmixed reblogged your post:but like shit if your definition of a happy ending...

…I don’t think you get why people like to end their stories with ‘and they lived’ instead of ‘and they lived happily...

You had good things to say in that post and I recommend people go read it for the general discussion about storytelling..

And I agree with you, but that post was made in reference to a certain character arc, which frustrates me when people call it a "happy" ending, since, you know, it actually is the kind of "and now his story continues elsewhere" ending.

It's a hopeful ending, but considering everything that character went through, it just chafes me when people treat it like "and then he went off and became amazing and all was good", when so many of that character's personal problems remained unsolved. It was not a happy ending, that was my whole point.

Of course, I forgot to tag that post for fandom talk, so I can only really blame myself for the misinterpretation. Your post is a good continuation of what I was trying to say.

[honestlyvan]

fivethingsunmixed replied to your post:Sometimes I wonder how many of you follow me...

I follow you because you’re my friend.

:)

[tacticalnymphomania]

fivethingsunmixed replied to your post:My dad said something shockingly enlightened...

Your dad baffles me. But at least he recognizes that society is weird and somewhat awful. Years of having you for a daughter must have had a positive effect. :-D

My dad baffles me too. I also recently found out (during an argument about Ferguson) that Margaret Atwood is one of his favorite authors.

And thank you, that's a super sweet thing to say!

[honestlyvan]

fivethingsunmixed replied to your post:fivethingsunmixed replied to your post:This shit...

Yowch. I thought your superwholock post was pretty on point, tbh…and pretty much summed all the reasons I don’t really get involved in fandom anymore. It’s scary out there.

Thanks.

And yeah, it's... not nice out here. But then again, LJ wasn't much better at times. This shit's always been around.

And as much as I dislike talking about any one site as a collective, when it comes to fandom, you kind of have to because tumblr fandoms get a lof ot their base code from LJ fandoms which, as beloved as they were, were  clusterfuck monoliths with way too many tentacles that were most fucking shit up in the exact same way.

For every culture, there is a counter-culture. While on LJ you'd have better inter-community relationships, you'd also get community myopia and the tendency to alienate individuals, on tumblr, it's easier to criticise the umbrella in which all the offending parties fall under, even when that umbrella is not that well defined or even cohesive.

From a cultural, conversational, communal standpoint the similarities between this and the emergence of social media as opposed to image boards and forums as the main platform for conversation is actually incredibly fascinating.

[honestlyvan]

fivethingsunmixed replied to your post:This shit again? Stop making a spectacle out of...

Dare I ask?

Just me being sick and tired of tumblr having this attitude that it's not bullying if the target annoys you.