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bestie got the concept art book for The Hobbit and—

HELP

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The saddest thing is that, in recent history, the term "FanFiction" has even been used in a pejorative way. It is no more a creative and natural process on an interactive scale between what the story was and what it becomes after passing through the sieve of several readers/audiences who consume it and, in turn, modify it through the insertion of a more multifaceted and plural vision, due to the number of people/fans invested in the process of interpreting and replicating what they understood from it through their own points of view and worldview, as well as their ability to create new elements (headcanons).

Perhaps the terms have never been the same, "fandom" and its creations. But giving each story an author and solidly defining Copyright, within a scheme of capitalization of these works, marginalized fans to mere consumers of a product. Whose action in the fan community is not seen as part of the artistic and creative product as a whole original thing.

From this point of view, Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes seem closer to what we first call Fandom than tales, folklore, myths, legends, which are also full of self-insertions, and retold and revamped from the perspective of the teller, not the "original" (which, for me, also makes them "FanFiction" and fandom work, but indistinguishable because we don't know which was the original. But one gained more stage and relevance over time).

It's not a question of being Star Trek or Sherlock Holmes, both were already in a world where copyright already perfectly separated what was "original" and not "original". And if you stop to think about it, this differentiation of what is canon or not came from a variation of religious texts.

Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes did not invent the notion of fandom and FanFiction. Once the difference between original and non-original was defined, and what would imply copyright infringement, fans were left to work in the gaps. And this process was called "fandom".

But let's face it, the desire to recreate something that already existed and/or to get together to discuss the content has always existed.

In this case, neither Star Trek nor Sherlock started this, they were just the loudest and most enduring within this legacy that we call "fandom culture".

But the people who invented these terms were the ones who marginalized fan creation as mere "non-canonical" and therefore inferior content.

So which is considered the oldest fandom? ( By what is considered a fandom by today’s standards) Sherlock or Star Trek?

Star Trek fandom basically created the idea of fan fiction, but Sherlock fandom nagged the writer to bring Sherlock back from the dead so the series didn’t end.

Sherlock or Star Trek???

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I finished The Count of Monte Cristo and all I can think about is the Eugénie Danglares and Louise D'armilly romance. What do you mean? Can someone tell me, is there already a fandom for this ship?

[p.s: spoilers] Furthermore, Dumas makes several references to Eugénie, the fact that she doesn't like men, that she is always paying attention to the beauty of other women in the plot (Haydée, for example), among several other conversations about women in the plot that are revealing. Let's be honest, she is compared to the Greco-Roman goddesses Diana (Artemis) and Minerva (Athena), she is compared to an Amazon too if I remember correctly.

They say she is very beautiful, but has something that is not at all feminine and acts in a way that is unusual for her "sex" to be. Her closeness to Louise is revealing. Eugénie is described as strong too (the opposite of Louise, who is described as being "very feminine" and "delicate").

But nothing could have prepared me for the ending, I thought it would remain just subtext, but it wasn't. I almost couldn't believe it when they have their happy ending. Like, Eugénie dresses "in men's clothes", looks even better in them than before, and jokes with Louise as if their complicit escape was similar to a very well-consummated "bride kidnapping"? Really?

I swear, I didn't expect that. And I loved it. And they are caught in the same hotel room, people gossip and talk badly about it (homophobia), and Eugénie despises the inconvenience of the gossip. But the important thing is that she and her beloved have a happy ending together.

And I was like: really? It's a book from 1846! They should be something like a queer icon, but I've never heard of them why??????

Their romance and that of Valentine and Maximilien were the only ones I liked in this book.

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maybe some les mis girlssss?

i said MAYBEEEEE

btw my friends say they like it when I draw without a thick black line, but I'm not sure…I'll probably keep the line style for comics (because it's easier and faster) and leave the more painterly style for individual works

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One of my favorite throughlines of Tolkien's works is cunty gay uncle accidentally putting beloved nephew(s) in mortal peril:

Leaving your nephew in charge of a politically hostile powder keg to go on a mission that will almost certainly kill you.

Leaving with your nephews on a mission that will almost certainly kill all of you against a legendarily evil creature.

Leaving your nephew with the most legendarily evil mcguffin of all time and them having to go on a mission that will almost certainly kill them.

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drink with me

exr steal for @lesmisshippingshowdown!

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Professional in the role of casting an actor to play Grantaire: yes, I read that part! I did, and I chose to ignore it.

I love as a community we have all forgotten how Victor Hugo written that Grantaire is supposed to be ugly and they have put the most attractive men to play Grantaire. I love that.

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Ineffable Husbands❤️

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Bilbo's party! I wanted to paint fireworks, so I had to paint these ones.

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A. J. Crowley, but inspired by Merida (from Brave).

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Sherlock Holmes: Look how focused he is on taking notes on the case! John H. Watson: *blushes, looks away and goes back to drawing the object of his affection* P.s: Incorrect quote, but I LOVE this Watson.

@contact-guy Look! He really has a sketchbook!

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Is Aziracrow Canon?

The weirdest thing is that at the end of the book/and Show S1, we know that Adam has changed elements of reality (there are books in Aziraphale's bookshop that weren't there before, for example), so it seems like Adam has rearranged some things differently. Before the nightingale sings, we are told:

“They went to the Ritz again, where a table was mysteriously vacant. And perhaps the recent exertions had had some fallout in the nature of reality because, while they were eating, for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square…”.

That is, it could be that Adam, upon seeing Crowley and Aziraphale, rearranged the universe so that something more romantic could blossom more evidently between Crowley and Aziraphale. But this cannot in any way be used to say that they were not in love before, since Adam looked deeply at both of them, back at the air base, and Crowley thought:

“Adam turned and appeared to notice them for the first time. Crowley was not used to people identifying him so readily, but Adam stared at him as though Crowley's entire life history was pasted inside the back of his skull and he, Adam, was reading it. For an instant he knew real terror. He'd always thought the sort he'd felt before was the genuine article, but that was mere abject fear beside this new sensation. Those Below could make you cease to exist by, well, hurting you in unbearable amounts, but this boy could not only make you cease to exist merely by thinking about it, but probably could arrange matters so that you never had existed at all”.

And, then, Adam said to Crowley and Aziraphale too: “"I don't think you need to go worryin'," said Adam gnomically. "I know all about you two. Don't you worry".”

It is also impossible to say that A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square is not an implicit/subtext reference to Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship, since the lyrics make very precise references to elements of the book/show, so it is to be assumed that the song was placed in Aziraphale and Crowley final arc, on book, specifically, and also on purpose.

The show uses the same principle; in the series, the song "Bicycle Race" plays very literally when they run over Anathema, as well as playing "I'm In Love With My Car" very literally in relation to Crowley and his car, so I must assume that it was also literal when they played "You're My Best Friend" when Crowley was going to Aziraphale's bookshop (p.s; this song was written by Queen's bassist, John Deacon, for his best friend, better known as HIS WIFE).

Aside from another curious fact, there is a correlation between the couples in this plot; Anathema & Newt, Tracy & Shadwell, and Crowley & Aziraphale, they all have something in common:

(1) Each of them has their own arcs to finish their plots;

(2) their arc is closed in duos, they are considered as couples and their arcs are closed together ("Anathema & Newt", "Crowley & Aziraphale", and "Tracy & Shadwell", respectively according to the final arcs in the book);

(3) they all had everything to hate each other, Anathema was a witch, and Newt was a witchhunter (apart from the fact that his ancestor killed her ancestor), Shadwell cursed Tracy all time, and called her a Jezebel (as if it were the most unlikely thing for someone like him not to repudiate someone like her), as well as Crowley is a demon and Aziraphale is an angel (which should make them enemies), but in the end all these characters end up together and on good terms;

(4) They all end the plot as a couple, although it seems that with Anathema and Newt and Shadwell and Tracy this is more explicit, while with Crowley and Aziraphale, it is more implicit (So you see, the exposition of Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship using the plot of other couples to show the parallels didn't start in the second season through Maggie and Nina, but this has already been noticeable since the book);

(5) If you stop to think about it for a moment, even Adam's final arc (which is the last arc of the book) is a love story, but here it's a story of his love in relation to the world he lives in and how much he's willing to appreciate it.

It is also important to remember that, although I am equating Crowley and Aziraphale with the other humans in this plot, we should not take this too seriously because they are, in fact, mythical creatures (occult/ethereal) and not really human.

They can mimetically simulate some human behaviors (like breathing, the book emphasizes several times that they don't even need to do that, but they do it anyway), so they simulate human behavior when they want to, but that doesn't mean they do it completely (for example, Az can eat, but never needs to use the bathroom, both can drink, but don't detox the same way we do, Crowley can sleep, but for an extensively longer period of time than a human being). The point is, they can adopt some human behavior, but they will adapt it to their own way and preferences.

So we could say that they are a couple, but is not the same as we do as "couple” as human, they are a couple whatever that means to them and how they adapt that to their way of existing.

This is why humans mistake them as a couple at various points in the book (Shadwell and Anathema, for example), but the truth is that humans translate Aziracrow relationship into human aspects, the behavior they exhibit within the human aspect is similar to that of what we call a “couple”, that’s why they seem like a couple for us. But, for real, whatever they are to themselves, it is, in fact, ineffable. Although this is, undoubtedly, a love story.

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Sherlock’s conscience is super pissed he didnt confess his love for John in this moment

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Eric tries to flex his RIZZ wings with Muriel and Crowley isn’t having it.

Daddy? Sorry.

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Aziraphale + Crowley = ❤️

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I was a little sad when I did this and somehow It comforted me