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One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.
But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:
“Ew you’re an adult why are you in fandom” Kid, if being mocked for fandom shit wasn’t enough to stop me when I was an actual 15 year old, hearing it from a 15 year old when I’m 30 is genuinely hilarious
It is kind of amusing when teenagers think their highschool peer pressure shit is going to work on adults. Like, lol you have no power here fetus. My mortgage is a bigger emotional threat to me than you are.
Cringe culture no longer works on me. I was PEAK cringe. You know nothing of the early days
You merely adopted the cringe
I was born in it, molded by it
Then they can leave the space?? They don’t own that shit.
I’m not gonna stop posting fandom shit at 23 years old bc some 14yr old feels “weird” about it, brat can hit the block button and get off my blog lmao
you, a 23 year old, reblogged this from a 15 year old onto a blog with “smut” in the url
fuck off, creep. follow your own advice and get the hell off my blog.
adults leave children alone and let us have our own space please
Well, then go away? Leave fandom on tumblr, AO3 etc. and create your own space? Because as much as you don’t want to hear it, adults created fandom, and it’s kids who then came and wanted in.
The entitlement coming from you minors on this post makes me feel sick. Block people you don’t wanna see, use the screening option ffs. Get off your “I don’t wannnnnaaaaa seeee addults wahhhh” high horse, damn
Adults: *in their own lane**created the damned lane**happily cruising along at 69 mph**waving to other adult motorists as they pass**having an all around pleasant drive*
Minors: *in their ‘student driver’ vehicles, blasting onto the highway you built, merging without right of way, forgetting to use their turn signal, cutting you off* Get off the road, grandma!
I’ll leave fandoms when I’m a corpse in the ground and not a moment sooner.
Well if this whole post doesn’t perfectly summarize the problem with modern geek culture.
Child: Get out of muh fandom, old timer!
Adult, who built and supported the fandom before the child was even born:
What exactly makes those people “uncomfortable”? The sole fact that adults have hobbies and media they love and that they participate in fandom activities?
I am not talking about “staring conflicts”, “being rude” or worse things.
People are uncomfortable that other people who are older just exist in public space (and I consider fandom being a public thing)?? The fuck?
Wow, what an atrocity. Everybody knows that you should leave fandom when you’re 20 years old, no interests for you, no fun! (No, fuck this mentality actually)
We were nerds in the era where that got you shunned and bullied, your baby tantrums mean nothing to us.
What’s baffling for me about the modern fandom babies is their obsession with morality.
When I was a kid, moral guardians kept presenting every geeky thing as morally questionable at best, or downright amoral:
Computer games - inciting violence
Dungeons and Dragons - promoting satanism
Popular YA Literature - not “real” literature and various problems depending on the title (for example satanism with Harry Potter)
Cartoons - stupefying / toilet humour and/or inciting violence
Anime - sexually perverse and/or inciting violence
Comics - stupefying at best
Because of that nowadays, whenever a toddler starts a rant why Title X is morally problematic I automatically block out the noise, because I’ve been dealing with self-righteous bullies like them all my life.
There’s a reason I repeat “dare to offend” while writing. Question is: who am I afraid of now?
Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.
Henry's been amazing for a long time.
Whenever I find myself getting invested in a ship….
Real human lives matter more than fictional characters. Even characters and stories that mean a lot to you. People matter more than fandoms. If you bully and harass people because of their ships or headcanons, you need to stop and reevaluate things
true friendship doesn’t necessarily mean sharing the same fandoms; it means being willing to listen to each other talk even though it might be about a fandom you don’t know shit about
they make
us
laugh
and they
make us
cry
but they teach us love
hope
and friendship
and that even
when
we fall
they will always be there
to pick us back up
so get up
brush yourself off
and smile
we’ll always be here to catch you when you fall
Why does this not have more notes?
#FOREVER REBLOG
this for real made me tear up
All of the feels!
even in fandoms people feel the need to fit everyone into a box. we have to identify as shippers and stans of certain pairings/characters and if we critize or dislike something about said ship/character people tell us but you ship/stan them, you can’t do that. you need to play your part in this, you need to ship/stan them; you’re not allowed to change your mind.
Exactly. I hate that this happens. Why do we always have to hate on each other when we have differing opinions? Why can't we just live and let live, think and let think, say and let say, ship and let ship?
idrelle-miocovani reblogged your post:
Aragorn Nymphadora Neville Arwen
It's cool how you open with LotR, fill in with HP, and then close with LotR. It's not only an ANNA SANDWICH, but a FANDOM SANDWICH!
I approve!
Clearly my professor is a fan of Joss Whedon and Farscape
And obviously Giles would have his MLIS as a librarian
the most accurate post ever
I AM EVERYTHING! HAHAHAHA
Yep… I am 90% of them.
Wow, I am most of these...
I swear to God if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police.
