Talythia Starseeker

[higgsbison]

don't mind me I just slapped a rain filter on the vimes and it made it rly nice and moody

[ao3commentoftheday]

ways to avoid seeing fics with a wall of tags

1. Desktop browser extensions like AO3 Saviour  [instructions here if you need them]

2. Public site skins available at archiveofourown.org/skins

This one shortens the individuals tags if they’re long/chatty:  Freeform Tag Truncation for Blurbs

This one lets you set the number of lines of tags you want to see and puts any tags beyond that number of lines into a scrolly box:  Shortening long tag fields

This one hides the Additional Tags:  Blurblings Hide freeform tags

This one hides everything except the fic title, author, and fandom:  Blurblings Hide nearly everything

3. My Preferences under the heading Display, you have the option to hide additional tags. If you want to reveal them, there’s a link that says “show additional tags” and it will, y’know, show the additional tags.

4. Create a site skin and block the individual works you want to avoid. [instructions here if you need them, including adding the block to a skin you’re already using]

5. Use Filters on your search and remove the author(s) that you don’t want to see

This is off the top of my head, so if you have more ways please do share them in the notes!

[silavut]

Story Collection

Hello, everyone. Just thought I’d post these in one complete list to share for those who may be interested that haven’t yet seen them.

Blue Sky by Waffles (EPUB 14MB)

Blue Sky by Waffles (PDF 8MB)

PM Wheatley by Waffles (EPUB 2MB)

PM Wheatley by Waffles (PDF 2MB)

Portal Stories Collection by Various Authors (EPUB 6MB)

Portal Stories Collection by Various Authors (PDF 3MB)

The Trial of the Bow Trilogy by ElvenWhovian (EPUB 6MB)

The Trial of the Bow Trilogy by ElvenWhovian (PDF 5MB)

Portal Stories Collection (ZIP 44MB) [Includes all the above in both EPUB and PDF format.]

Blue Sky the Web Comic Complete by ElvenWhovian (PDF 220MB)

Vessel of Fire Trilogy by ElvenWhovian (EPUB 54MB)

Vessel of Fire Trilogy by ElvenWhovian (PDF 22MB)

ENJOY! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to everyone!

1/30/21 Here is a NEW collection:

Generational Science by kbb306 (alias User724) (ZIP 1.6MB) [Includes both EPUB and PDF as usual.]

[mostlikelynothuman]

first, LOVE your blog =) Always a pleasure :3 second, can you recommend any fics where Danny's secret is out or about to be found out? like you know, Valerie or his parents or the school finding out and how he deals with it? that would be great =)

yeah okay so lemme tell you a secret;;;;;

revelation fics are my guilty pleasure

HERE WE GO

now I’m not sure whether you want most of the fic to be about the process of people finding out or most of the fic to be Danny dealing with his shit or if the revelation is just a side part of the fic so HERES ALL OF THAT

Phantom’s Sketchbook by AkoyaMizuno

Masks and Plunge by Cordria

Of Field Trips and Phantoms by Ironinkpen

A Secret Uncovered by Darth Frodo

Little Earthquakes by A Perplexing Puzzle

You Should Be Dead by SaphireDragon11

The Reality of Virtuality by Artgirl4

Secrets Revealed by RedHeadsRock1010

The Scrapbook by Dragon Elexus

Something Special by Tay1019411

Tortured Truth by Darth Frodo

The Right of It by The Wicked Wench of the West

Green Jacket, Red Sleeves by LunarMothim

Connections and Confessions by Lynse

Unexpected Revelation by TallieCat

The Great Experiment by Kagome51

Karate, Judo, KungFu, What was That? by Artgirl4

A Jock and a Hard Place by AnneriaWings and Haikujitsu

Vulnerable by Anneriawings and Haikujitsu (its been years and I’m still screaming about this fic oh my god)

Danny? Phantom? and He’s a Fenton? by Erratta

Critera of Life by Darcyjackal

Stargazing by EverAfterGirl

Sounds in the Dark and In the Light of Day by Sleepyreader13

In the Stitching by Colette Amelia

Shift by CaptainOzone

Adjustment by Michael J.J

A Gift of a Heart by Alexa Piper

Disclosures by Me The Anon One

Photoshop by sarahhaley

Life and Death by Erratta

Jack Fenton’s Son by what-happened-2-nice

Detention at Starbucks by zizzy333

The Bruises by YAJJ

Do Superheroes Exist? by Golden Lunar Eclipse

Reality by Alexa Piper

Dangerous Trust by Tay1019411

Mother’s Intuition, Like Father, Like Son, and To Live and Learn by nycorrall

Not So Simple by Ella.Rose.x

Couldn’t be any Prouder by May-Rene

Dog Tag and Check-Ups by Happyleif

The Return by inukagome15

Mount Ivory by MoonrockBlink1772

Autograph by sarahhaley

A Thermos for Valerie by Bluemoonalto

Insight View by Raina Wolfe - Lateraina

Psychoanalysis by Eelfie

Ghostly Lament by SummersSixEcho

Crashing and Burning by GriffinRose

Not A Ghost by SerasianWind

Just a Night by CaptainOzone

No Exit by Elle Aitch

I Used to Love ThreeDay Weekends by zipporah grace

Karma has a Sense of Humor by Vitaliciouscreations

Endings and Beginnings by Cordria

Lurking Shadows by QuickWren

An Unlikely Alliance by Represent

Going Up by Danny Phantom SG-1

Dancing Lights by DizzlyPuzzled

Fatigue by DBack47

The Heartbeat After by Platonic

oooh boii this got even longer than the last one uhhhhh sorry??

OH and heres a bunch of field trip fics because I didnt really include any about the school finding out his secret

Stranded With My Class by RedHeadsRock1010  

Strength by WildFireBurnsTheForest 

Backpack by Coronalgnis 

Of Field Trips and Phantoms by Ironinkpen 

A Phantom Marooned by LordPugsy 

Field Trip by Destiny Obake 

Journey of Secrets by WolfKael  

The Elevator Game by Raina Wolfe - Lateraina 

Freeze Out by Raina Wolfe - Lateraina (Sequel to The Elevator Game) 

Entering The Mind Of An Unsuspecting Halfa by I heart the Hitachiin twins 

Personify: Into The Mind by NoSignalBlueScreen 

The Survivalists by Unlucky Alis

Accidental Portal by Emmazippy577 

Misery Island by lilyt789 

Worst Ski Trip Ever by sourpopsicles15 

have fun!!!!

[mostlikelynothuman]

HOW DID I FORGET @narwhalsarefalling TANK FOR SAVING MY SORRY BUTT

a gentle nod to Complications and its sequels, Exceptions, Hopes, and It’s In The Genes, all by HiddenAuthor

[mostlikelynothuman]

me @me you are a mess

IM SICK OKAY DONT LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT

The Hunt of a Notorious Ghost-Kid by Narshe

A Flaming Realization by goldacharmed

Memory by Cordria (this fic messed me up for a couple days tbh I still dont think I’m over it)

The Idea by QuickWren

[mayasynth]

Everyone Go Read The Murderbot Diaries Right Now

[pancakeke]

OK I have watched MANY videos and here it is for all you kids to learn your viral/meme video history, here are some premium vintage meme fodder:

Hampster Dance (1998) Rejected (2000) All Your Base (2001) Tidus Laughing (2001) The End of the World (2003) Badger Badger Badger (2003) Hyakugojyuuichi!!! (2003) GI Joe PSAs (2003) Llama Song (2004) Banana Phone (2004) Ddautta (There She Is!) (2004) Charlie the Unicorn (2005) Cillit Bang (2006) Caramelldansen (2006) Metal Gear Awesome (2006) Leekspin (2006) Marissa Stole the Precious Thing (2006) The Mysterious Ticking Noise (2007) Powerthirst (2007) Paffendorf (2007) Splash Attack (2007) Caipirinha Dance (2007) I Take a Potato Chip… (2007) Nico Nico Douga Medley (2007) Ronald McDonald Ran Ran Ru (2008) Danjo (2008) Giga Pudding (2008) The Ultimate Showdown (2008) Balsamic Vinegar (2008) Sakura-Con Commercial (2009) Shamwow (2009) Slapchop (2009) OK GO- Here It Goes Again (2009) Stu Making Chocolate Pudding at 4 AM (2010) HEYYEYAA (2010) Galo Sengan (2011)

There are probably more that I’m missing. Some of these videos are part of a series (GI Joe, Potter Puppet Pals) and I didn’t count shitty videos like those idiot laughing babies.

[bleutempete]

Oh my fucking god, I was a retro memer

[pensivelyplayfulme]

I can’t believe we’re already calling Charlie the Unicorn vintage, I feel so old

[pancakeke]

Charlie the Unicorn would be in 6th grade if it was a person.

[augustsun]

GI JOEEEEEE

[etrosgate]

and don’t forget these classics

They’re Taking The Hobbits To Isengard (2006) Numa Numa (2006) The Gummy Bear Song (2007) The Duck Song (2009) White & Nerdy (2009) Trololo (2010) Nyan Cat (2011)

[theultravioletcatastrophe]

Anyone remember Mr. T Vs Unicron (2003)?

[kingknife-deactivated20200302]

FUCK

[pure]

can’t believe there’s no mention of the most iconic of them all: WTF Bomb, ima firin my lazar, and Ninja Info Cards

[stripesandteeth]

How could this list not include the greatest 2007 meme of all time, the dramatic reading of a break up letter???: https://youtu.be/MBHOL1PcPR8

[drawyourocslikethis]

What about - 

Chocolate Rain (2007)

Fork in the Garbage Disposal (2007)

I Can Break These Cuffs (2008)

Do You Like Waffles? (2008)

Fukkireta (2010)

Spitting While Kissing (2011)

Navy Seal Copypasta (2012)

[tamhonksss]

Here’s some more

My Roflcopter Goes Soisoisoisoi (2004)

Kitty Cat Dance (2004)

Fast Food Rockers (2006)

Shoes - Kelly (2006)

Geddan (2007)

Neurotically Yours (Foamy the Squirrel) (N/A)

Tunak Tunak Tun (N/A)

[weaponizedhorse]

Someone add lllams with hats. I can’t believe potter puppet pals is 10 years old now

[moriahari]

The ancient times

[masqueraccoon]

Llamas with Hats

[stokerbramwell]

Wow I managed to miss a few of these back in the day. I’m not sure whether I regret that.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

the navy seal copypasta could not POSSIBLY have come out in 2012. there is no FUCKING way.

[revolver-starman]

I’m familiar with or was around for like…. 95% of these. Man. It’s time to revisit some old friends

[writing-prompt-s]

You were once the demon king. “Defeated” by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the “hero” has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

You are told at seven that you won’t ever do anything good in your life. You grow up knowing that it doesn’t matter that you help your younger sister make her letters properly or that you’re the one who stays up late with mother when too many custom orders come through the tailor shop. It doesn’t matter that you don’t want to hurt anyone or control anyone or anything of the sort. It doesn’t matter that your name means Light in your mother’s native language because as soon as they realize that you’re the Demon King, no one ever calls your name again.

You are chased out of your village the moment your powers bloom at fifteen years old, and the skies turn black with your fear. A rock hits you between your shoulder blades just as you make it to the main road and you stumble, falling to your knees in a mud puddle at the very moment the skies open up.

“She’s cursing us!” the midwife who delivered you screams over the thunder. “She’s damning us with her!”

Your mother is crying, but she doesn’t raise a hand to help you. She did everything she could, keeping your Role a secret all these years. She won’t risk anymore with another little girl to take care of.

No one tells you that you have a choice. No kind stranger drags you out of the rain and into the warmth of their home where a wise sage tells you it is not how we are born, but what choices we make.

Instead, you take the little pack your mother hid for you in the depths of the forest and sling it over your shoulder. There’s money, provisions, and more wraps to cover the evil mark on your left bicep.

“Your destiny will find you,” your mother told you only hours ago. “I forgive you for it.”

She meant the words as a comfort, but you only heard condemnation in it. Without having killed so much as a fly, she is already blessing you with forgiveness.

Keep reading

[icreateblackimages]

The Nutcracker dance you’ve NEVER seen before!  

[ayemuhhfucka]

fuckin amazing 👏🏾🔥

[birdungehrl]

this is the kind of art I want to see in the world

[pthalocy]

watch it without sound and you still know when every note falls. That’s some Damn Fine choreography!

[azriona]

OMG, the smile on the guy in the middle. LOVE.

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Heaven Gaia spring 2021 couture

[comcast-official]

@zombieella

[beggars-opera]

I don’t know if I can contain my “The Muppet Christmas Carol has better costume design than most Oscar-nominated period dramas” rant until after Thanksgiving you guys, I have…so many Thoughts

[beggars-opera]

Ok, buckle up kids.

Basically they did not have to go as hard as they did here. A Christmas Carol covers 60 years of fashion through flashbacks and they still manage to do nearly everything right. 

I’m mainly going to be talking about the human actors here because it’s harder to judge Muppet costumes proportionally, but those costumes are still on point 90% of the time.

First off, A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, and anyone who knows me knows I love the absolute train wreck that was mid-19th century men’s fashion. Do you like plaid? GOOD, BECAUSE IT’S ALL PLAID. Mixed with whatever else your little Victorian heart desires, color schemes be damned. Go wild.

This of course means I absolutely love Fred.

This outfit is hideous and it is also 1000% on point.

We also get to see him in a different outfit the next day, along with his wife and some friends.

First off, MORE PLAID, good for you. Second, I can literally find near-identical images of both these ladies’ dresses just by googling “1843 fashion plate”, I shit you not. To the damned year.

A good part of the story involves travelling through Scrooge’s life, so we get to see the costumes varying wildly over the course of several scenes. This was a time when styles were changing rapidly, and you had to keep up if you wanted to be fashionable and keep up appearances. Fashion changed so fast that you can often pinpoint an outfit to within a year or two like the ones above. 

First, we go to Scrooge’s childhood school. Given the timeline that’s normally put forward Michael Caine is definitely not old enough to play Scrooge, but ignore that for now. Let’s say if Scrooge is 75ish in 1843, it’s about 1783 when we see him leaving school and going off to be an apprentice. We actually see a few years of Little Scrooge fashion, but it’s fairly standard stuff. Scrooge doesn’t have a super childhood and his clothing is pretty plain, but it’s totally on par for the time. Why this haircut though? It makes me sad.

Then we jump ahead a few years and it’s about 1789. The whole group is attending the Fozziwig Christmas party and have gotten tarted up like they’re about the storm the Bastille, including Gonzo and Rizzo.

Again, they look absolutely ridiculous and it is absolutely accurate. 

Now, this is super ostentatious and a lot of people would have considered it way too French for their taste in this time period. But it definitely did happen (I’ve seen stripey bubblegum pink menswear in person) and like. It’s the Muppets. So, Rule of Funny.

Scrooge and Belle are dressed way closer to average Londoners of the time, and it’s worth noting that both are supposed to be somewhat poor. Fozzy pays everyone well but Lil’ Scrooge is still a skinflint and Belle is just getting by. They’re both looking darn good but their clothes are much more understated than everyone else’s and maybe even on the verge of out of style. 

Even their hair is pretty good. Including his. Also, holy shit does this guy look like he could be a young Michael Caine. Like, he doesn’t actually look how Michael Caine looked when he was that age, but if I didn’t know that I would totally buy it. Wow.

Then we jump ahead another ten to twelve years or so. This is the period I know the least about, especially when it comes to outerwear, so Jane Austen stans please comment. I don’t think it looks too bad though.

Here’s a couple of fashion plates from 1801 and 1803 for comparison.

I’d also like to point out that there is a wide variety of costumes based on social class that we get to see in the 1843 “present” that you wouldn’t really notice. So while the Scrooge family that’s doing alright for itself is wearing the latest looks, the rest of the town is not. A few of the women in the crowd dancing around Scrooge during “It Feels Like Christmas” are wearing dresses a couple of years out of date. Not too far, but you can see some looks from the tail end of the 1830s before women started shrink-wrapping their sleeves onto their arms.

You can see something similar to these outfits from 1839 in the crowd.

Contrast this with Mrs. Cratchit, who is living in poverty and has put on her absolute best dress for Christmas; it’s silk but it’s ten years out of style. 

This would have been the height of fashion in the early-mid 1830s.

And that’s important for making a world look real. Fashion was super important back then, but even so average people weren’t necessarily chucking their clothing out every year to keep up with the latest fashions unless they could really afford to. You would get there eventually, but you don’t want everyone in your universe, rich and poor, to look like they just stepped out of the latest fashion magazine. 

It’s absolutely astonishing to me that they put so much effort into this. I don’t tend to go down the rabbit hole of nitpicking historical costumes in movies as much as some, but when a movie that you never expected does it very right it just throws me for a loop. 

Was everything perfect? No, I don’t think any movie is. But this is the damn Muppets. They were under no obligation to do this. Add to that the fact that it’s one of the more accurate renditions of the story, to the point of including a ton of the original dialogue, both through the characters and through the narration, and they just created a masterpiece. 

[pyrrhamood]

[gnatsattack]

I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.

[berlynn-wohl]

I saw this post about an hour after I saw a post that said, essentially, “There should be a word for that thing where [exactly describes ‘squeeing’].”

I feel like the time has come to produce something like this:

[transformativeworks]

citrus 

[naknaknakadile]

@vergess

[vergess]

Squee: The noise you make when something is so good that all you can really do is squeak or squeal. A high pitched sound of delight, often accomanied by hugging yourself or others.

Squick: A fic/art/concept/topic that is repellent to you, so you reject association with it and instead retreat to your personal comfortable spaces- all the while remembering that someone else’s comfort is not your own.

YKINMKATO: Also called “kink tomato.” Abbreviation meaning “your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay.” Used to explain why you are rejecting art or fic brought to you by someone else. A solid mantra to recall instead of sending flames in people’s comments

Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.

AMV: “animated music video” or “anime music video.” Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as a “PMV” (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.

Filk: Combination of the words “film” and “folk,” this is a music genre, to which “fan songs” and “fan parody covers” belong. If you don’t really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al Yankovic’s Saga Begins

BNF: Big name fan. You know that one person who is just so fuckign popular in your fandom? Their art is always on your dash, everyone knows their fics? Being spoken to directly by them is basically being noticed by everyone ever’s senpai? That’s what these people are called.

DL:DR; Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, or “too long, didn’t read”), DLDR means “don’t like? Don’t read!” It’s a reminder that you are under no obligation, ever, to expose yourself to uncomfortable (or, squicky), or potentially harmful (or, triggering), material. Not ever. If you don’t actively like something? It’s not worth your time. Skip it.

Gen: or “genfic” “genart” etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be called “episodic” ro “slice of life” in addition. 

Lemon: Work containing strong pornographic elements

Lime, or Citrus: Work containing mild or implicit pornographic elements

Sockpuppeting: The surprisingly common scenario of someone making a bunch of fake accounts/sideblogs to send themselves reviews or hate, to try to increase views or drama surrounding a work. The accounts they make are called Sockpuppets. 

WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just called “fluffy.”

Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. You’ll know it when you see it.

Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? That’s the whump.

Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words. 

Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call these “humanstuck” or “humanized AU.”

Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didn’t like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Just… Just go look at this.

 Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably won’t ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that you’re probably not going to write. But hey! You might! And until then they make great sideblogs/askblogs/tumblr posts.

Casefic: Fanfics that try to create an episode-like feel for procedural and crime dramas, moster of the week shows, etc.

Jossed: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a series, and whoops, turns out we were all very, very wrong.

Kripked: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a show and, hot damn, we fucking called it.

Secret Masters: The people who run the websites/ communities/etc that we all do our fanning on. Less relevant now that we have things like tumblr, but when everyone had to run their own archival and social sites for each fandom, it was more important to pay our respects to the strange and powerful beings that brought us all together and gave us our fannish homes. Think the staff of AO3, for example.

Bashing: When a writer purposefully writes a specific character as a horrible, horrible person so that they can throw them out of the storyline, usually to allow their OTP to get together without trouble. Distinct from fridging in that it doesn’t require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main characters’ lives for being an abusive hell beast. Generally, a type of character hate. Be wary of people who bash women, queer people, and POC with consistency: they are not safe to be around.

[ryttu3k]

‘Squick’ also has an alternate horrible meaning for Harry Potter fans who were in fandom a while back. Dear god.

[callmearcturus]

Drabble: A fic that is EXACTLY 100 words. Often used as a creative exercise in telling a story in a very small constraint.

Ficlet: Fic that clocks in somewhere between 100 to 2.5K words.

Crossover: A piece of media in which two or more source materials are treated as the same universe. Characters from Fandom A can meet characters from Fandom B. (The Doctor Goes To Hogwarts And Meet Harry Potter!)

Fusion: A fusion takes the characters of one source material and *surplants* them into another universe entirely. Characters from Fandom A cannot meet characters from Fandom B. (Dave Strider is part of an Inception team!)

TPTB: The Powers That Be. Almost always redundantly referred to as “the TPTB.” A collective term for showrunners, actors, producers, writers, et al, anyone who is part of the team that creates the source material.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. A shorthand way of saying “this is how I see it/have experienced it though I realize others might have a different perspective.”

Tinhatting: Often used in RPF fandoms, the situation where some fans are convinced two celebrities are in a relationship but its being kept a secret.

[mintamenapie]

Shout out to all your internet friends who are gone.

Those messenger screen names that haven’t logged on in ages, some before detailed profiles were a thing on those services.

Those emails that are long since abandoned, some with domains that no longer exist.

Those online friends you knew years ago and who then helped shaped you in some way, who you just can’t FIND anymore.

Those people who once were, and hopefully still exist IRL, that seem to have no known internet life anymore.

And those who have actually passed on, and their online lives are now a memorial to them.

I miss you all. I hope life is/was kind to you, and maybe one day, we’ll somehow connect again.

[writing-prompt-s]

Science fiction is full of first contact stories, but is there a such thing as LAST contact?  Decide exactly what that means, and write about it.

[elidyce]

It was too late, when the humans came. They were a young species, still exploring outwards, vital and thriving. 

We… were not. 

War had ravaged us, and sickness, and war once again, until our population dwindled beyond the point of recovery. We struggled against that, of course… we used genetic manipulation, and cloning, and even more desperate measures. None succeeded. When the humans came, we were sinking into apathy, only a few tens of us left. We had begun to discuss whether we should commit a mass suicide, or simply wait to fade away. 

And then the young species came, in their clumsy ships, and they asked us why we were so few. 

“We are becoming extinct,” we told them. “We have passed the point of recovery.” 

It is custom to avoid the races that are dying – once a species reaches the point of inevitable extinction, even war is suspended, and the fiercest enemy pulls back. The custom was born of plagues and poisons that could be carried forth from a dying world to afflict a healthy one, but it has the implacable weight of tradition now. After we are gone, after they have waited for the prescribed period of quarantine, there will be a fight for our world. Habitable worlds are few, and this is a good one, with plenty of free groundwater and thriving vegetation. It is a bitter thing to be grateful for the custom that allows us to die in peace, but we are grateful.

But the humans don’t know that custom, and they do not leave. They seem distraught, when we tell them we are dying, and try to offer their aid - but their technology is behind ours, and it is too late. When they realize that they can’t save us, though, they do something that bewilders us. 

Keep reading

[sosuperawesome]

Ursula Goff on Instagram

[darkshrimpemotions]

I weirdly love that there are crotchety fandom elders around who say shit like “in my day, (insert fandom term) meant this specifically, but now you kids just use it to mean any old thing.”

It seriously gives fandom such a sense of heritage and family, like yes grandma, tell me more about how you had to write fic uphill both ways in the snow when you were my age.

[unanon]

I’m approaching crotchety old grandma.

[laurenthemself]

No but this is me.

DRABBLES ARE EXACTLY 100 WORDS NO MORE NO LESS AND DON’T FUCKING TRY TO TELL ME OTHERWISE.

[pilgrimkitty]

This is me also. A crackship is NOT the same as a rarepair and the two terms canNOT be used interchangeably.

[lil-miss-choc-deactivated201812]

YOU CAN ONLY HAVE ONE OTP.

It’s literally right there in the name. It is your ONE true pairing.

[pilgrimkitty]

I get around this one by have one OTP for each fandom. It’s my OTP for that fandom.

[nubianamy]

I am a crotchety old fandom grandmother and I approve this message

[ladybubblegum]

the drabble thing irks me SO MUCH it makes me feel like an old lady yelling at kids on her lawn

[stupidlullabies]

#oh fandom #THE DRABBLE THING #DRABBLES ARE 100 WORDS #ONE GODDAMN HUNDRED WORDS EXACTLY #jfc that’s what made them such a fun and interesting challenge #was getting it to exactly 100 words #and the rush of FINALLY getting there after picking and poking #or the sheer dumb joy of nailing it within a word or two on the first shot #so you only had to do the most minor editing #do not give me a fucking 8000 word fic and call it a drabble #ThAT IS NOT A DRABBLE (via @wasoncedelight)

IF IT IS MORE THAN 100 WORDS IT IS A FICLET NOT A DRABBLE OMG WHY DON’T YOU JUST CALL IT A HAIKU WHILE YOU’RE AT IT???

[gethporno]

I WILL DIE ON THE DRABBLE HILL!!! GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

[mynameis-not-littlegirl-deactiv]

WHY DON’T YOU JUST CALL IT A HAIKU WHILE YOU’RE AT IT

[radical--softness-deactivated20]

I didn’t even write fic except for that one brief period between 2007-8 but I HAVE DONE A LOT OF INTERNET OKAY so even I know this to be true. Fandom culture grandmas are awesome.

[gritsinmisery]

All of this.

[desert-neon]

A squick is not a trigger! Triggers are real and dangerous things for some. Mild discomfort at an idea, theme, or plot point does not fall into that category.

Say it with me, kids: a squick is not a trigger!

[ruffboi-mags]

I, too, will live and die on Drabble Hill

[neil-gaiman]

I failed miserably the last time I wrote a Drabble. I could not get it down below 102 words. Eventually I gave up, and made the first two words the title, Nicholas Was. And then I retired from Drabble writing.

[legendary-discourse]

I’m so sick of the ageism in fandom spaces.

There are teenage antis everywhere complaining about “fandom moms” and anyone 25/30+ enjoying a fandom.

These kids need to learn that adults are still people. They still have interests and hobbies.

You don’t hit an age where suddenly all your passion and enjoyment for cartoons/movies/games just vaporises, and you put on a suit and become an entirely new person with no interests outside of work and childrearing.

The ironic thing is, a lot of these teens are probably experiencing it too. I know I was at that age. People were constantly telling me I was too old to like cartoons. They said I should watch “grown up” shows and go out partying like the other people my age.

Telling adult fans they’re too old to enjoy a show, or that they should “go do their taxes” or “go have/take care of some kids” is literally no different.

Maybe they’ll finally realise when they become adults and the new crowd of youths start chasing them out. But I sincerely hope that the newer generation with have more sense than that.

We’re adults. We’re not too old to enjoy our favourite media. But we are too old to put up with your ageist bullshit.