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How many stories have you written? For what fandoms? List and link your top 3 below.

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Too many to count...and too many to remember if you include drabbles, haha!! 

Fandoms, um...MCU, The Walking Dead, The Purge, The Night Manager, Only Lovers Left Alive, Kingdom, Star Wars: Rogue One, Animal Kingdom (Film), Crimson Peak, Criminal Minds, Bloodline, The Hobbit/Tolkien works, Pushing Daisies, American Horror Story, Rick and Morty, X-Men. 

Hard to pick a top three, but I’ll try:

Criminal Minds: Breaking the Bonds - I’m just super proud I pulled this one off, honestly, LOL

MCU: FrostBitten - birth of my favorite OC, Ulfr, and my first real deep dive in MCU, if I recall.

Only Lovers Left Alive: The Nurse - I, haha, actually used this one as inspiration for an original piece that got published.

((I’ve no idea why I picked that gif, I just liked it, lol!!))

a blog: *follows me*

me, an aged monarch lounging on my fur-strewn throne, gesturing for my servant to bring me my monacle: Bring them here! Bring them here, I say. Let me look at them.

guards: *drag the unwitting blog before me*

me, peering intently at the new blog and poking them with my scepter: Is this a real person? Hmm? What have you to say for yourself? What are your fandoms? Your interests? Speak up, these old ears aren’t what they used to be.

guards, tentatively: they do seem to be a real person, sire. We found them in possession of several memes and a fandom rant.

me, subsiding back into my sumptuous furs and waving them away: most extraordinary. It has been an age since there was a real person, but just as well, the dungeons have been overflowing with those tacky pornbots. This newcomer may remain in my domain. Make them welcome. And fetch me a quill! I feel a ficlet coming on…

this is the funniest thing i have ever read

one of my favorite things about fanfiction is how many writers don't necessarily consider themselves fans of the original work. lots of writers just saw the movie or read the book and were like "that was unsatisfying but now I have yet another canon to fuck around with"

not to be confused with writers who have never seen the original work, and never intend to, but saw what other fic writers were doing and were like "this character dynamic fucks, baby got to get in on this"

Interestingly enough, I’m reading an advance copy of a book* right now about modern myth-making, that posits “(Myths) often burst forth from works of rather prosaic literary merit. If a story is too carefully crafted, the characters too finely drawn, it can’t be altered without losing the essence, and so becomes a poor vehicle for myth.” This slapped me in the face because I often think that works that are too good are also bad for fanfic, because there’s no room for the what-ifs. *The book is The Modern Myths by Philip Ball.

when someone casually mentions the thing ur obsessed with

EVEN THE LOOK IN HIS EYES IS THE SAME.

#me when there is fandom drama

*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade* 

hey….

nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.

 it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.

*leaves the way i came*

This is possibly the healthiest post I’ve seen on this site

Fandom is meant to be an oasis, folks, not a battleground.

I've seen discussions sometimes about how fanfiction-based fandom culture is heavily influenced and dominated by people who are not cis men.

One thing I haven't seen discussed as much though is how much of fandom in general is shaped by neurodivergent people.

I mean, you have autistic and ADHD people with special interests or hyperfixations collecting information and writing detailed meta, connecting very strongly with characters and fandoms. I would not be surprised if the percentage of autistics in fandom communities was significantly higher than in the general public.

And that's not even getting into other types of neurodivergencies and how they influence fandom culture.

I sometimes see people try to divorce fandom culture from the idea of being a "geek", and I understand that this is sometimes because of the association with the sexist geek stereotype, but I also know that there is a connection between the two concepts, and it's probably us neurodivergent people.

I also think this is why at first I was like "my fandoms can't be special interests, that's just how fandom is"

Yeah, because a lot of people in fandom have special interests

I’ll go slightly further here, and say this (well. this plus ableism) is the root of a lot of current issues in fandom.

Back when I started being in fandom, a couple decades ago, I’d argue that damn near every single person in fandom was autistic or ADHD.  You’d only join fandom if you were obsessive and were chill with doing things that weren’t socially acceptable.  (Because being a fan absolutely was not socially acceptable at the time!  We went to ridiculous amounts of effort to hide that we were fans!)

And fandom culture was absolutely shaped by this.  The standard behaviors in fandom were those of happy autistics.  That’s how you were expected to act.  You remember “squeeing”?  The visual image of it is generally someone so happy and excited they can’t physically contain it so they make a high-pitched noise and flap their hands and - a squee is literally just a happy stim. And so many fans at the time did happy stims that we gave it a special fandom name!  So even if a neurotypical person happened to stumble in, they’d learn that the “social norm” in a fandom space is basically just “act autistic/ADHD” and assimilate.

But then... fandom got mainstreamed.  It became socially acceptable.  And then the neurotypicals started showing up in large numbers.  And instead of assimilating like they did before, when they were the minority, now that there were a lot of them they started going “what the heck is this! why are people here acting so weird!  this is embarrassing!”

...and then we got cringe culture within fandom.

No one says “squee” anymore not because fans don’t squee anymore - happy stims don’t just go away - but because the neurotypicals showed up and told us “squee” is a cringy word and concept.  Which they had ALWAYS told us out in public, but we used to have fandom as an insular autistic/ADHD-dominated space where we were safe and free to be ourselves.

You know how everybody talks about how cringy and embarrassing 2012 tumblr was?  Dude.  We were literally just acting like happy autistics, because that’s what we were.  It’s just that - like you always have - you think autistic/ADHD behavior is cringy and embarrassing.

This isn’t new.  “Cringe culture” isn’t new.  It’s just a new euphemism for the exact same ableism that’s always existed, with the only difference that now it’s coming from inside fandom.

All those posts saying “if these people were bullied more they wouldn’t act like this”?  They’re not just bizarrely tasteless jokes.  They’re because the people making those posts were bullies.  Are bullies.  Fandom used to be where the sort of people who were victims of peer abuse went - where we went to be safe from bullies and be openly ourselves - but now the bullies are in here with us.

On the happier side, while mainstreaming has resulted in a lot of neurotypicals showing up, autistic/ADHD people are absolutely still the backbone of fandom.  We’re the ones collecting tiny bits of info and connecting the dots to write galaxy brain meta.  We’re the ones churning out new content every single day, rain or shine.  We’re the hyper-verbal ones writing 250k fics and the ones who hyper-relate with the characters and make incorrect quote posts so spot-on they sound canon. They may think we’re embarrassing - but they still need us.

SO MUCH THIS!!!

Fandom would be nothing without neurodivergent people. Because there’s nothing on this earth that can rival the white-hot intensity of an Autistic or ADHD person in full-blown hyperfocus or special interest mode.

I have and always will squee and support the squee!!

(And the squick, alternatively, which I also recall going the way of the squee over the years.)

do you have these fictional character phases too? like, you watch everything, end up reading tons of fanfics, creating scenarios in your head with that person, ... & then suddenly, you change the fictional character & repeat that process?

i have a disease that makes me ship characters that have never even interacted and it’s called being a fucking genius.

I agree.

I'd like to remind fandom of this once again today

250 Erotic Prompts

Found the basics of this on another site; copied, edited (for inclusiveness), and pasted it here for anyone interested. (Original/Source here)

1) Blindfold

2) Under the Sheets

3) Chains

4) Fingers

5) Chocolate

The rest are below the cut…

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How about any of these prompts - click the “keep reading” to see them all - BUT you can pick any genre? So…

Character/Pairing/Fandom + Prompt + Genre = Drabble

Send via ask, anon is fine, one request per ask, max 2 prompts per request, OCs/readers are fine.

((If unsure what fandoms I write for, just ask. Please be patient with replies. And, please, no “First Time + smut”…I’ve written that for nearly every character now and it’s gotten old lol))

So…Wanna play??

Doing this again, with some updates, so please read the guidelines above! Thanks and let’s have some fun!!

((Ends whenever I say))

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