#older fans

[meowchelle16]

Older lapidot fans! (no creepy old men pls) does any of u want to adopt an insecure teen with daddy issues that uses lapidot as a coping mechanism?!

Someone PLEASE SAY YES (I just want to talk to the older fans, in a not weird way, I'm weird ig I don't bond w ppl my age, its always older or younger than me by a few years)

[astercontrol]

Anyone else remember the days when it was just the default assumption that whoever was powerful enough to own the copyright on your favorite media was like, at least 95% a terrible person

like, obviously you were a fan, so that meant they were capable of an occasional good idea here and there. Or maybe their ideas were 100% dogshit on the intentions level, but you still found something in them that resonated... and you still took those wins, even against the express wishes of the creator or owner. because where else could you get them?

And regardless of how or why the good bits happened, the person obviously was an evil ball of sexist racist homophobic transphobic slime. because practically everyone with that kind of power was. or at least pretended to be, right? Whenever a famous person strayed too far from that rule it was always a fucking scandal.

And so of course you hated the copyright owner. And of course you didn't act like they had any authority on anything regarding the property or its fans! Whatever they said about their own interpretation of their characters-- or their opinions about fanfiction writers-- was irrelevant and was treated as having the absolutely zero weight it deserved

And anyway, their views about fans creating fanworks could range from "sad nerds with no life" to "plagiarists I'm gonna sue" but were rarely positive in any way

....which reinforced the already strong feeling that fanworks primarily, above any other relationship to the almost-always-shitty property owner, were a weapon to use against them

I don't know what my point is here. It's just... I do remember those days. and the contrast between that, and a lot of the assumptions taken for granted about fandom these days, has been feeling.... very strong to me for a few years now

[sunshineandlyrics]

24 November 2024

[twopoppies]

Hi Gina, I’m a 50-plus woman who finds great joy in the music from all the 1D boys and many other young artists. And why shouldn’t I? No one ever tells a man he can’t have hobbies. No one ever says he’s too old to go to a concert or watch a sport or play a video game, and men definitely don’t have any shame in it. So I’d say, if it makes you happy, listen to and celebrate the artists you love, no matter how old you are.

Agreed!!

[towlerknows]

ty for being on here as an older woman.....sometimes it feels like the world is demanding i stop being a person with passions and weirdnesses as a grow older b/c i'm female and it sucks. it sounds silly but it literally means a lot to me to have examples of women online who just make it clear w/ their presence how dumb that is and that i'm allowed to like things forever.

That's so nice, thank you for the message!

You are absolutely allowed to like whatever you like at any age. In fact I don't even know what an age appropriate thing for me to like is if I think about it. Should I be knitting or embroidering? Lots of young people do that, but I don't have the patience.

Should I be reading philosophy? Already did and got bored with it 20 years ago.

My 80-year old mom gambles online and watches Graham Norton on YouTube, idk if that's age appropriate or not!!

But liking an artist that is by most accounts one of the greatest of all time? Well, that sure doesn't seem to be an age-restricted thing if you ask me. That's just having good fucking taste!

Now excuse me while I listen to my 80's Playlist and watch M*A*S*H til the Vancouver show starts :)

[tweekscoffeebean]

im seeing a lot of discord round older stranger things fans who also ship byler. Just a friendly reminder that some of us are actually LGBTQ + and didn’t have this kind of representation when we were younger. I don’t think its weird or what not for adults to support a ship of two gay teenagers because of the reason we support it. The more representation we have the better it is for everyone in queer spaces. If byler does end up being canon that means we would have had a slow burn best friends to lovers ( the name of the trope ) gay/ queer love story of two MAIN characters on one of the most popular shows in the world. Do you people not grasp what this could possibly mean? So before you all start calling us names, and accusing us of untrue things, maybe stop and think how we as queer people just want better representation all around. We want representation to be so normalized that we no longer have to deal with homophobic crap we see now a days. You all know the homophobic crap that has been said about Will. How people have said it would ruin Mike’s character to be gay . How the possibility Mike could be bi/ pan has been completely dismissed and erased. How the general public have accused us of ‘pushing the gay agenda’ or why do we have to make everything gay! The fact people were being homophobic towards Noah. Like this is a huge problem . So the more representation we get, the more being queer is normalized ( like it should be) the less of this crap we should hopefully get. I don’t really think there is anything wrong with queer people wanting representation , and really the issue shouldn’t be the fact that we have older fans who are shipping but the fact that homophobia still exists in this fandom.

Also out of all the younger characters Will is my favourite and he has basically suffered and known pain the entire show so why wouldn’t I want him to be happy? What kind of message would that be telling queer people of all ages if the gay kid whose suffered the most out of his peers doesn’t get an happy ending. It would be horrible. It would tell us we don’t’ deserve happiness or love. It would be repeating a hurtful cycle found in media a cycle that hopefully stranger things will take steps to help break.

Lastly why are older byler shippers/ stranger things fans being called out when Milkways legit want El and Mike to sleep together and for El to get preggers at 14. Like i think it should be vary obvious which part of the fandom here is sexualizing characters, and it ain’t the older byler fans.

Just my two sense from an older queer person.

[anakinsafterlife]

To all my fandom oldies, I am looking for a fanfic that was online in the mid-nineties, so it was probably geocities or angelfire or tripod or something like that. Anyway, it was a Star Wars prequel style fic written before the prequels were released, even before the first rumours came out of Lucasfilm. Anakin was an officer in the Republican army, and his wife was an admiral (I remember that her name was something original and *not* Arcadia, which was always her name in fics of that period). The fic takes place primarily after she asks for a divorce or right after they get divorced. Anakin is not onboard with the separation, but because his wife has connections in the upper echelons, he can't oppose it. So he goes to a bar and gets angry-drunk (I think Palpatine might have been in the bar with him, but not sure about that??), and then crashes his speeder on the way back home or to wherever he was staying. He's massively injured, and this ends up being the reason for the life support suit.

I can't remember the name of the fic at all, or the name of the webpage, but if anyone has a copy of this secreted sonewhere, or at the least some information that I can plug into the Wayback Machine, I would be terribly grateful. I do know that it was someone's individual webpage, and the story was never posted to any of the bigger archives of the time.

My sincere thanks to anyone who might respond or reblog for signal boost. May the Force be with you!