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it’s about belonging to something -izzy hands
and that pretty much sums up fandom
Representing Autism In Fan fiction
I spoke to the fanfic writer @anotherbechloeshipper about their fic Chloe and the Music Therapist and how she tried to represent her experience as a parent with an autistic child. I also talk to the fanfic writer @ridiculously-over-obsessed who is autistic and what it means to them about having autistic representation.
Listen to the episode right here: Chloe and the Music Therapist - Autism Representation
If you want to check out Another Bechloe Shipper's story you can here: Chloe and the Music Therapist
Other Stories Mentioned in our discussion include:
Unspoken By @suituuup
Bechloe Week 2020 - Day 6 - Hospital - Megan Gets Her Tonsils Out by @anotherbechloeshipper
Piece of the Puzzle by Aussiebabe290
(Just Like) Starting Over by @pocketdragon
We also had our fanficiton highlights this week including:
Trouble and Temper by @suituuup
Rubber Ducky by 22_Ti aka @wordsofmyreality
B4L by @late2dparty
In a masterclass of media literacy and fandom as a force for change, Supernatural fans are making the show more entertaining AFTER its…
and y’all gotta read this too!!!!!!
I remember readind your genderfluid Harry for the first time. It was like a breathe of fresh air. Since then I've read it like 7 times. Always make me feel better. And I think that fic is the one that made me dream of me following you like a lost puppy and you always patting my head everytime you looked at me (it was weird but fitting). Your fics are amazing. Hope you have a nice new year ❤
djskaljfkdahgas omg???! This is so cute?!?! THANK YOU nonnie, this ask completely brightened my day and it means a lot to me knowing that something I wrote could break through for you and gave you such joy!
❤️❤️❤️❤️Ahahaha if ever you’ll feel like talking to me non-anon feel free to, you would never bother me, I love making friends! But even if you don’t, I hope we can connect through my blog❤️❤️❤️. Thanks for sticking with me, eheh. ❤️❤️
Toss a Coin to Your Fandom
I’d like to take a sec to say thank you most sincerely to the Witcher fandom. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a fandom that was really at its peak, and that’s taken a toll on my interest in writing. So I’d like to show you something. Take a look at my fic output. For several years, I was writing at least 100,000 words of fanfic each year. Then, recently:
2019 - 26,000 words 2018 - 37,000 words (thanks mostly to Reverse Big Bang participation) 2017 - 14,000 words 2016 - 22,000 words
Already in 2020, I’ve posted 46,000 words, and have more than 10,000 already written but not yet posted. So in the first two months of this year, I’ve more than doubled last year’s output.
Some of that has to do with the excitement of fun new source material, sure, but a lot of it has to do with fandom. As another writer put it, readers in the Witcher fandom bring their A game to the comments. You would not believe how motivating it is to hear from people that they found something you wrote meaningful, or that they have a theory about what’s going to happen next, or when they want to share something your fic made them think about, or discuss a headcanon about a character, or quote back some bit of prose they especially loved.
And yes, we all write for ourselves at the end of the day, sure, but knowing that someone else out there cares if I turn out the next chapter is a helluva drug. So, in short, thanks for being really great and supportive so far, Witcher fandom. Y’all are off all of the following: the hook, the chain, the charts, the grid, and most importantly, the wagon (as they used to say). Thanks for getting my writing motivation going again!
Opinions on the new VLD S5 trailer??
This is probably not what you meant but
0:05 - I really feel like putting Matt and Nyma in the same scene is an ill-thought out plan, like they just met each other and they probably already have a secret handshake, five in-jokes, and a plan to take over the universe.
0:09 - Where’s Shiro this time?
0:12 - Did Keith keep that crappy little Galra fighter? Like, they couldn’t at least upgrade him to a real Galra ship after taking 1/3 of the Galra Empire?
0:14 - Look at all the cannon fodder… As much as I appreciate the cryptid hunters of this fandom, I’m still not 100% sold on that being Sendak in the back. Willing to buy Sendak from Dreamworks just to put him back in myself tho, just sayin’.
0:30 - When will Shiro’s real haircut come back from the war?
0:31 - Why is Lotor so extra? Why he spinning? That twirl was entirely 110% unnecessary. Theory confirmed: Skirt is there just to look cool while he pirouettes across the battlefield.
0:36 - Lance said “devil.” I can’t believe he’s finally expanded his curse word vocabulary past “cheese” and “crow.” EDIT BECAUSE IT JUST OCCURED TO ME: I bet the trailer is pulling a fast one on us and Lance’s line about “deal with the devil” isn’t to Lotor at all–it’s about Zarkon and whatever deal they’re trying to make with him!
0:37 - Who touched my son. Who made his single bang into plural bangs. I WON’T HESITATE BITCH.
0:39 - Wow Coran, who would have guessed.
0:42 - I’ve listened to this three times now and I’m pretty sure Zarkon is saying “They’re making a one-time offer,” not “I’m/We’re making a one-time offer”? So someone is offering something to Zarkon, not the other way around? Hmmmmm…
0:44 - I feel like being stuffed in a cyropod is not what Lotor had in mind when he decided to crash on Voltron’s couch. Also, I’m not one of the people who believes Lotor is going to come out of this completely on the good guys side, but I still suspect we’re going to see a plotline in which Team Voltron’s lack of trust in Lotor is what fucks them over royally.
0:45 - Matt Fucking Holt is literally the poster child for “be careful who you call ugly in middle school.” The hero we both need and deserve. Also it looks like he, Shiro, and Pidge may be in a showdown (or a “trade off”?) with Zarkon + Lotor’s generals? If this is the precursor for that long ago Matt, Shiro, Pidge fight scene leak in which Ezor is also present, we know that things are of course going to go south…
0:51 - Can I just talk about how much I hate the lion swap plotline? I hate it so much I can actually taste the salt in my mouth when I even so much as think about it. As a way of expanding on the characters’ capabilities and shaking up their dynamics, it would have been a great short subplot, maybe a few episodes worth of mixed up colors. But allowing that mix up to drag on over an entire other season and then leaving it that way for months as we waited for the fifth season has left fans entirely adrift: do we accept the swapped lions as permanent because they’ve let them sit that way for so long in our minds? Or do we not consider them permanent, because none of the characters have bothered to swap their armor to match which is probably a deliberate visual warning to viewers not to get comfortable with the swapped colors? Are we supposed to be happy for Allura getting a lion, or sad for Lance becoming a second-rate replacement for Keith again? It’s just been poorly managed all the way around.
And as much as I wanted to think an active sixth lion is completely unnecessary and would be a pretty wide divergence from the original series, at this point, adding a “White Lion” is honestly the only thing that could possibly fix the six paladins/five lions problem the series has created, because they left Allura as a paladin too long to force her out of that role now. If Allura takes on the role of flying a different lion, Lance can take back Blue, and Keith will have room to return to Red without displacing Shiro, who has become too well-loved to really remove from the team. And that just leaves Lotor (who will obviously complete Sincline at some point, but… Eh, if the plot isn’t going to cast him aside after one or two more seasons, the writers might as well slap sacred Altean powers on him and let him be the wormhole opener in Allura’s place…)
All that said, I honestly don’t have enough faith in Voltron’s writers to believe that they will tidily resolve the mess they created with the lion swap, and so I suspect this lion in the trailer will either be Allura unlocking a new power in Blue, a hallucinated White Lion ala the original series, some form of vision or flashback, or some other less hype-worthy thing than we fans actually want it to be. PROVE ME WRONG DREAMWORKS, PLEASE.
0:54 - They suddenly remembered that Keith can use the awoken form of his blade instead of just the dagger form. Good job, animation team, just seven episodes late.
1:03 - I don’t know why people are so obsessed with the idea of Black Paladin!Lance or that excited about Lance getting a “leadership arc” in the first place. It’s almost like people’s interest in and ability to empathize with this character hinges on their perception of him as a blank slate on which to project all their own personal heroic and romantic fantasies–uhhh I mean, whoooo!! >___> Leadership Lance! You get ‘em tiger!! Even though there’s a 99% chance that all these moments are coming from the same episode, in which a Robeast is also present, so it’s highly likely that the long-desired “leadership arc” is going to amount to one episode of leadership to defeat a pointless monster of the day before the writers forget Lance is a main character again. (Sorry, I’m just a bit salty, especially on Shiro’s behalf, and also exhausted of Lance being the fandom’s vehicle for self-insertion.)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Trailers lie, meng. I’m keeping my expectations low.
Netflix announced on Thursday that “Sense8” will get a two-hour finale special. The streaming service recently canceled the series. Watch the announcement below. More to come…
This. THIS. THIS!!! This is proof of the power of fandom. Congrats Sense8 fans!
Love. Wins.
Hey guys, I need your help to prove the power of Fandom. I’m writing my thesis on Fandom as an unused market share and I have a bet with a classmate, that my survey will not get more than 100 answers because “Fandoms are stupid and a waste of time”. Please answer and share my survey to help me prove him wrong.
