Do you ever get reminded of that one really intense longfic that you had every intention of writing and had meticulous notes and complicated outlines for but then something happened and you aren't in the fandom anymore and you still have the desire to write the fic but it's slightly hollow now because it's a good idea and you think it would have been a great fic but you haven't been in the fandom for literally years and you don't have that bit of passion for it that you did when you were writing it and have just a weird moment of nostalgia where you want to reread it but it never existed

get out of my house

Rude

Meanie

How dare you

"x ship is normalizing incest-"

Buddy

If game of thrones hasn't normalized incest by now (pulling over 10 million views in the 7th season alone) then a small fandom ship most certainly won't

Spn ran for fifteen fucking seasons, it ran for over a decade, and wincest was consistently one of the two or three most popular ships. And it had no measurable impact on real world abuse. Maybe you think fandom is uniquely dangerous (why, idk, but this tumblr after all) but a pretty good rule of fandom is that if Spn couldn't do it, fucking no one else is going to manage it.

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Best way I’ve seen this said. I’m saving this.

"i saw your name in the kudos list of the devil's sacrament"

Okay, but what were YOU doing in the kudos list of the devil's sacrament? 👀

The All-Ships Ship Week!

A ship week for all ships, every last one of them! Your OCs too. Open to everyone 14 & up. The fleet sails from October 21-27

🚢 event info & prompt list

🚢 discord info (18+)

The downloads are here! Just in time for the 10-day countdown

Since it's already the 21st for some of you, we are setting sail!

event rules + prompts | the AO3 collection

cliché but classic trope: when the person who almost died wakes up in a hospital bed, looks around and sees the object of their affection sleeping uncomfortably in the chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days.

You can pry that trope from my cold dead hands.

cliché but classic sub trope of this: the person who almost died tells the object of their affection “you look like shit” despite the fact that they are the one in the hospital bed and almost died.

Another sub trope- they are slumped over, head lying on the bed, holding the other person’s hand in their sleep.

so im hearing @astolat is god??? what's your 10 commendments my liege

My best stab! lol

I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”

“They are STUPIDLY competent at EVERYTHING except each other.”

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

So true

It just struck me how unusual it is that Star Trek TOS had no smoking. Not on the Enterprise. Not while people are relaxing on shore leave. Not by desk admirals. It was the 60s and this was actually pretty unusual. Go under-the-radar accurate predictions!

(after reading through the notes) Leaving aside the concept of Roddenberry purposely having thought about this and ruled smoking out of the show (which is absolutely possible): it strikes me as likely that if they had ever wanted to depict smoking in an episode, they’d have had to have fire marshals present on the set. Which would have cost extra… and ST: TOS was already routinely the most expensive TV show shooting in LA at that point.

Anyway, I’m curious about this now. I’ll go ask David Gerrold: he might very well know.

#star trek#fan: 'hmm. i wonder this about star trek'#famous writer who has written star trek novels and an episode: 'good question. i'll ask the guy who wrote the tribble episode he might know'

That's some very important context that shouldn't be left out.

The four pillars of tumblr -

1. Fandom

2. Cute Animals

3. Rambling posts about special interests

4. The random shitpost. Including, but not limited to - drunk posting, making fun of historical and political figures, true stories, and trolling those guys on twitter.

The floor is made of memes. And the roof is made of discourse in the tags.

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:

I can’t even tell you how many times this has happened to me. Half the fandoms I follow? This is why I follow them.

do NOT sort by kudos the real play is to find the most prolific writers in the hockey rpf tag and go to their profile to see if they’ve written a single bizarrely high-quality fic for the fandom you’re actually looking for

This exact thing happened to me. I don’t even remember what fandom it was for. I just remember finding a feast in the middle of a snake pit.