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Turning this LDR themed blog into a generic music/pop culture blog.
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âwhy are you in fandom when youâre 20+â
because we built this kingdom, motherfuckers, with the trekkie zine housewives before us.Â
So hereâs a story. One Fourth of July I was walking down the street and ran into a BNF who Iâd met a couple of times at a slash-centric con. It turned out she lived in the same building as one of my boyfriends at the time, which was nearby, so she invited me to stop by. She had a small group of friends there, and one of them was an older woman with short, white hair.
âHow old are you?â she asked.
I told her my age, probably about 28 at the time.
âIâve been reading fanfiction longer than youâve been alive,â she said.
Hereâs another story. A couple of years ago at GeekGirlCon they had an âelders speakâ panel. It included some women who had organized Star Trek cons in the 70s and 80s. So, first off, we really have always been here, this is a kind of geekiness that has always belonged to women. And they talked about women doing fandom back then secretly, about having to ask their husbands for money so they could travel to meet other fans. And two of the women on this panel were a couple whoâd met each other in fandom.
One of the main reasons I go to slash cons is to connect with my foremothers in fandom. A lot of them arenât on Tumblr or Twitter, some never even really got into LiveJournal. But theyâre still here, doing their thing, having Fourth of July parties and emailing with their friends about fandom. Our elders are our history, our proof that we have always been here, that âmedia fandomâ (fandom of Western TV and movies) is our house that we built with our hands.
respect your fandom mothers and grandmothers you ungrateful little buggers
Itâs just hilarious to me that kids on here think that your interests fundamentally change as you get older. Your responsibilities change and, hopefully, you start looking at things and evaluating with more life experienceâŠ.which, btw, is why a lot of the over 30 people here side eye the shit out of you guys many days. Because lived experience and life experience makes you see things in a different lightâŠeven fictional stuff. But you donât just all of a sudden turn 30 and become this boring person who has no interest anymore in all the nerd things and fandom you liked at 15 or 20 or 25. You are the same person. You still need an outlet for your interests and you still crave those safe spaces to geek out the same way you do as a kid. Weâve always been here. Other women came before us.
FYI In 1993, the most popular Superman website was run by a woman named Zoomway. She was a life long Superman fan who started the site after Lois and Clark hit the air and she had thousands of women (many of whom were older btw) who followed her site. She wasnât some 20 year old kid. She was a grown woman with life experience decades older than most of you who was writing feminist commentary about Superman and attending fan expos before any of you were born. I was only a kid when I first starting reading her writing and she was the one who introduced me to Superman fandom. She died of cancer a few years ago and her loss was deeply felt.
Women older than you built literally every iconic fandom you post about on here.
I need the community Iâve found within my fandom more now at 43 than I ever needed it at ages 18 or 20. The more life wears on me, the more I live and love and lose, the more I treasure this space of flails and joy and analysis over episode ephemera, shared with a chorus of voices flung far and wide around the world, small sections of which have become friends, shining lights who I look for whenever I log on.Â
I joined fandoms when I was 18 and Iâve never looked back.
Been in fandom 20+ years and counting <3
(also, omg ZOOMWAY)
First fandom 40 years ago. Still here. Squee is for life, not just for kids.
Fandom for 23 years, and I still smile at the memory of Zoomway and her absolute awesomeness.
Stumbled on my first Star Wars fanzine about 36-37 years ago.
I wrote Star Trek fanfic for the first time in 1978.
Weâve been here all along and weâre not going anywhere.
I wrote my first Trek fanfic just after ST:TOS premiered. I didnât even know that fanfic was what I was doing: didnât even know the genre had a name. Later on, when I was in nursing school, I came to know the women in New York who were in the process of organizing those first Trek conventions of the 70s. I worked some of those cons and made friendships there that last to this day. The people who ran private presses dedicated to K/S slashzines and presided over dealersâ tables piled high with them are now pro writers and editors with worldwide reputations⊠and they are still fans.
Which is as it should be. Fandom isnât something you need to grow out of to prove your adulthood (or justify it to others). And itâs their own insecurities that people trying to push that position on others are running from. So fuck that noise. Long-term fannish lives are the original Slow Burn story⊠and itâs one weâll still be writing for years to come.
For the love of the craft and the adventure, at any age and with anyone. Thatâs what makes this such a wonderful experience!
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We mere mortals can only dream of living such a long and colorful life :)
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Over the Garden Wall is almost ten years old and that both feels too old and unbelievably young.
I remember first watching this in the backroom of a museum on my ipod touch in late August in 2015 and it still feels like itâs been a pillar of Americana for the past thousand years.
Over the Garden Wall is timeless and ancient and boiled out of the aether of American folklore and happened to be caught in animated form like a photograph of a lightning bolt, and itâs also the most 2010s-ass thing I've ever watched.
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American Girl stories were the best tbh
Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We donât disrespect American Girl in this house
Donât you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.
Felicityâs story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.
Samanthaâs stories centered around the growth of industrial America, womenâs suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.
Kitâs story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.
Mollyâs father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.
American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But theyâre always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you donât have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.
Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.
A slave doll. Please. Read the books.
Donât forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.
And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or Julie, who fights against her schoolâs gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.
These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And thatâs without even mentioning the âgirl of the yearâ series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.
American Girl is probably going to be the only exposure young girls are going to get to history from a female perspective. This is actually kind of important considering that in history classes we dont really get that exposure. We dont hear about what women felt and endured during these time periods cause schools are too busy teaching us about what happened from the male perspective, which is not unimportant, but we need both. Girls need both.
These books were such a crucial part of my childhood and shaped my love of history, which still ensures today. These books can be a young girlâs first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive âweâre all Americansâ tripe) and looking at history from more perspectives than just that taught in school. They also are an example of how women have ALWAYS been part of history, which some people would rather us not believe.
I think Kit and Kaya were the newest American Girls when I started âaging outâ of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!
I wasnât gonna say anything, but you know what?
Nah.
OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.
Iâd like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesnât skimp when doing their research and they donât make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:
Dude Kayaâs my absolute FAVORITE of the American Girls, I had an entire collective volume of all her stories with like, a glossary of terms used in the languages of a couple different Native American tribes (not just the Nez Perce, but a neighboring tribe that shared a river with them during a particular part of their migration cycle and who they mingled with often), as well as a guide to some of the Sign Language they used to overcome the language barrier between tribes. One of my favorite characters was her blind older sister, because she was so uniquely vulnerable and strong, far more cautious and mature than Kaya but also so vulnerable and dependent on others? And there was this one arc where she was LOST in the WOODS and it was SUCH an engaging story, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! I even made my own doll for her because we had a spare Kaya doll that had to have a haircut.
Felicityâs my second favorite, but mostly because I never got over the moment of shock and realization that hit me when Felicityâs best friendâs grandfather (who was loyal to the king of England) was INPRISONED FOR NOT BEING AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY. BY FELICITYâS BROTHER. AND HE WAS GOING TO BE TARRED AND FEATHERED, AN ACT THAT WOULD KILL HIM. It really made me take a step back, because in school weâd been learning about the lengths revolutionaries would go to to drive out the colonists, and I never considered that a lot of those acts were cruel. An old man getting tarred and feathered no longer seemed like an act of rebellion, but an act of genuine cruelty. And like⊠it made me realize that itâs important to be accepting, even of those whose world views you donât agree with. Itâs important to punish those who genuinely hurt others, and prevent others from being harmed. And it was also the moment when I realized that the history taught in American schools is⊠INCREDIBLY biased.
One of the best things about the American Girl books is that they donât ever just show one personâs perspective. They do their best to surround the main character with characters whose beliefs and experiences will challenge their own, and they do their best to show these characters being FRIENDS. And then they show how, even though these two characters care deeply for one another, their cultural differences still cause unique struggles, because there is almost always horror on both sides. And for Kaya, they didnât do a colonists vs natives thing, they instead showed the cultural differences between two different tribes, which was incredible because it reinforced that diversity of culture that indigenous tribes had.
I just. I love the American Girls books. SO MUCH.
Total appreciation if they took the time to a) get consent from the First Nations group and then b) work with them on research. Because thatâs so much better and more respectful than A LOT of portrayals of first nations groups around the world, especially in popular American media (cough cough SMeyer)
You can also customize dolls to look like you/your child. This includes wheelchairs and hearing aids. They have a variety of skin tones and they DO SHIT RIGHT
Also if you thought the original AG books were mature, the spinoff Girls of Many Lands is even more adult. Like one of them, the Black Tulip. Leyla Koptem was in a story about her parents having major problems and even parts involving a, shall i say, âwomenâs menagerieâ if you know what i mean, in 1800s turkey. AG is not all tame, hell, one of the more recent Girls of the Year, Lea, had to save her brother from poachers who planned on KILLING HIM. Yeah.
The Addams family was, in fact, both magical and supernatural for its depiction of a healthy, loving, supportive, and fun married m/f couple.
This is now officially an Addams family appreciation post
In order to depict such purity and love in a m/f relationship, one must first set the foundation that these people are odd and not the norm. (per media standards)
They cared about their children, their childrenâs interests, and wanted the kids to always be true to themselves. How peculiar!
Gomez and Morticia never showed negative jealousy towards each otherâs past love interests. Even going to far as complimenting them for being special to their true love. How bizarre!
They could forgive almost any character flaw in a friend or relative. The only thing that could not be forgiven was betrayals and pastels. Weird amirite?
Morticia is a womanâs woman. She allies herself with other women instead of competing with them. She even seeks to understand women different from herself and her beliefs. Strange.
Gomez wants Morticia to have whatever Morticia wants. He doesnât give her permission, he actively supports her and motivates her. Fa-reaky.
I seem to recall once reading a review that said that Gomez and Morticia were the only couple on television in the 1960s whom you could actually imagine producing children.
Being like Gomez and Morticia should be anyoneâs relationship goals.
Being like Gomez and/or Morticia should be anyoneâs LIFE goals.
* Herman and Lily
