I Stumble Through A Carnival Of Horrors

Shoobs or Moth/30/chaotic good/it•they•xe•he/agender. Dyke. Talk to me about vampires and genshin. Deceptively into Baldur’s Gate 3. Icon made by me :3

[fluff-e-boy]

Don’t worry I’m vaccinated and neutered

[fluff-e-boy]

And those nice ladies at the front desk will put me in a funny cardboard box if you don’t have a carrier to take me home in

[fluff-e-boy]

Bad salesman

[depsidase]

[shubbabang]

[noodleddragon]

[depsidase]

[hellinglaozu]

[fangs4faggots]

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

[depsidase]

[girlkaramazov]

just helped an old old man log into his outlook account and we succeeded and he said “young lady, go in peace. we have accomplished this mission.” what an electrifying way of speaking…

[hotvampireadjacent]

[amygdalae]

I absolutely adore dogs but I think dog haters are (usually) more justified than cat haters wrt their reasoning

[amygdalae]

your average cat hater: I don't like how they r bitchy and ignore me/ won't let me manhandle them

your average dog hater: I have been mortally endangered by an ill-trained dog

[witchedwicked]

For me it’s always been more of an issue with shitty dog owners. Everything that’s ever reinforced my fear of dogs can be traced back to an owner that let their dog do whatever the fuck without care of consequences, not for other people or the dog itself.

[flootzavut]

That part. I have never met a dog that scares or annoys me where it isn't their owners' fault. Like I'm sure it's possible, but that's never been my experience.

[pocketss]

houseplant type friend

[rabbitkinglune777]

once again this is gonna sound mean as hell but

why should I give a fuck Abt ur indie project if there are 0 ppl of color especially black characters.

[dogpuppy]

[abilusanji]

The thing about fanfiction after writing original fiction for so long is that it feels like taking weighted clothes off. If I wanted a cool plot twist or a reveal or a mystery I had to set up all the expectations myself. I had to set up the red herrings, the clues, the boundaries of what was reasonable.

In fanfiction I drop a name from canon I never referenced before and it will carry the weight that a hundred pages of set up would carry in original fiction.

Do you have any fucking idea how intoxicating that is.

[abilusanji]

The shared language of a fandom in fanfiction is so amazingly conducive to a type of story telling that we lost when public domain was gutted as a legal concept. And it’s such a thrilling way to make stories and I weep for how rare it is to encounter.

Like you sort of get a ghoulish attempt with star wars style “look it’s revan” but it’s still only a handful of people who get to play. With fandom everyone gets to play with the full toolbox, with infinite chances to try.

[dsudis]

It’s striking me really hard after reading this post–so much of what is considered the ~canon~ of western literature really arises out of this situation where everyone who wrote (i.e. a tiny minority of educated men and the very very rare educated woman) was operating with a common set of referents. There were just so few books, back then, and if you were educated enough to write, those were the books you had read, and that your teachers had read and told you about. Everyone got the same references.

We talk about the Divine Comedy being Bible fanfic and so forth, but it really was in a way we don’t always articulate–it wasn’t just that it was repurposing other stories the author had read. It was the product of an author who felt himself a part of a community that had this shared set of referents. He only had to allude to things, and his intended readers knew all of the context. Being in modern fandom allows us to be part of a community that likewise shares a canon and shares references and influences, something that is increasingly lost in modern copyrighted fiction where everyone is constantly desperate to be original.

[flootzavut]

“…Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”

― Henry Jenkins

[loveridden1999]

[catsandwich-deactivated20240213]

This is a literal sexual harassment training video we had to complete

[quendergeer]

i assumed this was porn

[kurhanchyk]

i think they should allow everyone in the world to vote in american elections

[anthonybourdyke]

[aetherograph]

It's not really possible to do this practically but actually I think "only the Indigenous people get to vote or hold federal positions of leadership for a while" would fix a lot of shit VERY quickly, starting with the systemic dismantling of the illegal Settler state.