#wizard.

[dindjarindiaries]

I wonder what was going to happen with that other girl in the group (I think her name was Cinta or something), she was still on the planet and was walking outside when the others had escaped with the money. Was she gonna be picked up later on or was she going to be left behind???

That’s a great question! Apparently there’s a clip or two from trailers that she’s in that we haven’t seen yet, so my guess is someone will probably go back for her. (I hope, she’s a wonderful character!)

[thegoddessofwwe]

[rubberhoze]

with ‘someone’ i assumed you emant ‘anyone ever’ so heres cagney x one (1) wizard

[silverqueen]

bananabellina replied to your post: “I found a scientific study on the question: “What is it like to be...”:

*whispers* what's RPF

Real-person fanfic. It's, er... fanfic about celebrities, mostly.

It gets a bad rap because people think it's mostly just writing sex fantasies about your favorite celebrity, but it's actually way more complicated and more benign than that.

I just got into a really fascinating discussion with somebody on LJ about how people use fictionalized alternate universes to retell, say, the story of how their favorite band got together, building on common references that the fanbase already understands and adding to and embellishing them.

Basically the way that different world cultures have oral origin stories that get passed down and embellished, fan cultures use RPF to do the same thing.

itsrevolutiontime replied to your post: “I found a scientific study on the question: “What is it like to be...”:

yesssssss are you writing akus fanfic?

Actually, going off what I was saying above, we already do that a lot on FYAK. We don't write actual fanfic, but we make up little snippets like "Dan gets separation anxiety when Alison goes away and texts her until she comes back" in reference to the fact that, one time, Alison left the band for a while to record with Robert Plant and AKUS didn't end up recording another album for seven years.

It's not fanfic per se, but it's clearly fictionalized jokes that create common reference points for the fandom to talk about the history of the band.

Just recently Africa and I imagined an alternate universe origin story in which AKUS is a band of pirates. We plotted out which band member would hold which crew rank and how they would've ended up in the pirate business, using references to the actual history of how the band was formed and functions IRL as wink-wink-nudges to other fans.

It was a silly joke on one level, but on another, it was an exercise in how history often gets collaboratively constructed (we both drew on what we knew about AKUS' formation, but we obviously weren't there to see it) and then transmitted through distilled, easily digestible allegories.

There's a good chance that several years from now, there will be new fans in our ranks who primarily learned about AKUS from us, and they'll be using shorthand references like, "Well you know, Jerry could have been the captain of his own ship but he left to join Alison's."

[lalalaylasykes]

flight to disney with the cutest boy in the whole world in a couple hours.

[lalalaylasykes]

I am the luckiest girl in the entire world.