I engage with fiction in a normal way. don’t look at my blog

Andrew Garfield on consent and privacy

Hey, I wanna talk about how we do fandom! I've come to realize that I, personally, tend to differ from many others in that I highly prefer to only engage with a text as it's written, so I don't tend to really like fanon/extremely ooc characterizations and I find it hard to get invested in ships that aren't canon. My way of doing fandom isn't better or worse than anyone else's, but I am curious about how much of a minority I'm in! So:

*We've all seen ships of characters not from the same media and stuff like shipping the concept of ennui with the color blue, okay, I'm asking what you, personally, find compelling!

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

we need to make it incredibly uncool and lowbrow to care about celebrity. knowing anything abt a celeb's life outside their body of work should be seen as deeply freakish and bizarre

if i ever write something that gets adapted into a film/tv show, i'm gonna include a clause in the contract that specifies if they show characters texting and those characters are friends, there needs to be a visible message history or they lose the rights

this part of stevie nicks’ interview with rolling stone is taking me out

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

Find something you like > read everything by that author > look at their bookmarks > find something you like > repeat until you hit too many dead ends at which point go into the specific tags I want.

Using a kudos ratio is bonkers because it doesn't count rereads, or hits from multiple chapters

at least they keep falling in love in every universe on ao3

it's me and the four people on ao3 who understand my favorite character in the exact same way against the world

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

I'm a patron of the arts (I reblog on Tumblr dot com)

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

hot take apparently but i think it's good for white people to relate to poc's art. i think it's good for straight people to relate to queer art. stop acting like we're different species who could never possibly understand each other what the fuck is wrong with you

i find it really strange when people try to like decode what a character 'really meant' by reading cast or director interviews to the exclusion of textual analysis idrc what those clowns think unless it's supported in the actual work in which case i don't need the extra commentary do i. there are lots of questions you can't answer on an analysis limited to the text, like what are the broader cultural meanings or implications of character doing or saying xyz. but the question of what, internally, did they do / say/ mean is kind of like... intent is pretty irrelevant it's down to what actually appeared in the work innit

People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

i knew this screenshot would come in handy

Small fandoms are great because I'm convinced if I logged in after the nuclear apocalypse, the same 5 fuckers would still be online, posting their headcanons, now slightly more radiated.