Tag: fandom

greenbergsays:

Do you know what fandom has done for me?

Fandom made me feel normal. Fandom taught me about myself, taught me sexuality and gender and taught me that I don’t have to listen to people when they tell me I’m too harsh on men or that my expectations are too high. It gave me people to talk to when I felt alone and it gave me a voice when I thought I didn’t have one.

But more than anything, fandom has given me fanfiction.

I’ve been writing fic since I was twelve. I wasn’t any good in the beginning – none of us are – but fanfiction and the constant feedback helped me to realize the pitfalls of my writing, the tactics I fell back on again and again.

Fanfiction taught me how to develop a world. It taught me how to develop characters as individuals, it taught me about character flaws and character strengths, and about motive and emotion and so many other things.

Fanfiction has given me a expansive vocabulary that surprises most people.

Fanfiction has allowed me to explore sexuality and gender and kinks to my heart’s desire and all without ever having to face the judgmental looks of the real world. Because I am a female and a female shouldn’t have these thoughts or urges, a “proper female” should not know about the things I know about.

You know what else fandom and fanfiction has done? It told me otherwise. It told me that I was beautiful and perfect just the way I am. I don’t need to change and I don’t need to be ashamed and anyone who makes me feel like that is an asshole.

You might not think I’m a good writer and that’s okay. On my worst days, I’d agree with you. But in my bones, I know I was born to do this one thing. I was born to write and fanfiction continues to help me develop this skill into something I can hopefully call my career one day.

Fandom is the breeding ground for the next generation of authors and screenwriters and fanfiction is the tool we use to get better.

So don’t you dare mock fandom and don’t you dare mock fanfiction because it is so much more important than your shitty television show will ever be.

magpieandwhale:

prozacpark:

danceanthems:

this is just a general notice that if you haven’t read the the msscribe story or the cassandra clare plagiarism debacle on bad_penny, you are really missing out on the depths of the TRULY ridiculous in fandom history.

The msscribe story has to be the most awesomely entertaining wank report in the history of fandom EVER.  Like, I stopped reading wank reports after that because nothing will ever live up to that. 

Our gift to future generations.

Outside: Oh, you read my fanfic and you liked it?
Inside: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART WERE THE CHARACTERS ON POINT DID YOU LIKE THAT ONE SCENE THEY DID THAT OR HOW ABOUT THAT ONE PIECE OF DIALOGUE DIDN’T IT SOUND JUST LIKE THEM TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU LOVED IN GRAPHIC DETAIL
Outside: Thanks!

Very different [to Orpheus’] was the reward of the true love of Achilles towards his lover Patroclus – his lover and not his beloved (the notion that Patroclus was the beloved one is a foolish error into which Aeschylus has fallen, for Achilles was surely the fairer of the two, fairer also than all the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still beardless, and far younger).

Plato, Symposium (179e)

#ahhh yes here it is: #my favourite proof that people have had the same arguments about fictional relationships since ancient times #’no but this character is totaly the one who tops you guys don’t know what you’re talking about’ (via scribblingface)
“YOUR HEADCANON IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD”: fandom practice since 400 BC

(via bibliothekara)