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Lord of the Rings - Forbidden Edition

PANEBOŽE KAM JSME SE TO DOSTALI S TOU PITOMOU AI 

:D :D :D 

A nejhorší jsou teletubbies. Všude vlezou a strašně rychle se množí.

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tag of the week:

@fishwink :

#'and that's where we're going to put the bunny pavilion' 〰 'next to the super extra talismanically soundproofed jingshi' 〰 'with the indestructible bathing area' 〰 jiang cheng 〰 is going to have to bleach his brain ✳

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Fanfolks today need to remember how important The Premise was.

Y'all have heard of The Premise, right?

See, historically there have always been people who saw an extra layer of gayness on certain pairs of fictional people (you just thought of several), and people Back Then even wrote their own fanfic (or as they were called at the time, "pastiches"), but the first widespread queer fanwork to really define the fanfiction genre was KIRK AND SPOCK. Kirk/Spock. K/S. The very first slashfics.

Why this work was vastly, overwhelmingly written by straight women is a discussion for another time, but it was, so that's the main perspective I'm gonna consider here.

How do you - a statistically middle-class, 30+, stay-at-home wife and mother - how do you write slashfic ao3-style in the 1960's before the internet?

Carefully.

Through letters with friends, phone calls, pen pals, and sometimes - sometimes - clandestine meetings of small groups. Whole novels were written communally, round-robin style, by sending typed or handwritten additions chapter by chapter to each other. These were all underground, some deep underground; even the early Trekkie fanzines of the time wouldn't touch them.

And keep in mind, few of these stories were explicitly even sexual! But they were all about a very, very close relationship between two men. In the 1960's.

Guess how cool everyone else was about this.

Actually, for their part, Gene Rodenberry and the other writers were fine with it, saying that they had deliberately written the characters to be two halves of a whole, and if you wanna read it that way, yeah sure, go right ahead. Shatner and Nimoy took it all in good humor, and seemingly still do, each guy basically gesturing to the other and chuckling "I mean, who wouldn't?"

But elsewhere there was vicious backlash against The Premise, and not just within the fandom. This was still at a time in the US and UK when various "sodomy" and "decency" laws made no distinction between homosexual sex acts and just, like, directly lighting another man's cigarette with your cigarette in public. (That, sadly, is not a fucking joke.)

It was probably the closest some suburban cishet women came to understanding the pain of being in the closet. They had to protect this secret from their friends and family at all cost. There were cases of divorces where women lost custody of their children because their writing had come to light.

Can you imagine having such a burning desire to write for your OTP that you were willing to lose everything over it? Even if you were never caught, you still had to be willing to wait weeks, months, to receive a letter in the mail that you had to carefully intercept, read in secret, and then add your own chapter t, also in secret, and then send off, perhaps never to be seen again.

These people were goddamn heroes, and they laid the foundation for the world we live in today. A world where we can read, write, comment on, or share - in a matter of seconds! - literature about two background characters from two different franchises enjoying a really specific kink involving vacuums or something. And that's objectively amazing.

Raise a toast to our fanfiction elders, who simped in the darkness so we could simp in the light of day.

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Zack over Andrea (FF7R mod)

A Big Thank You to @emeraldblonde for creating this video!

GIF set made by me

Bonus

Now, I'm stuck with an AU plot bunny about Flirty Honeybee Boy Zack and Stubborn Delivery Boy Cloud.

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AU MOODBOARDS - mer!Eggsy/lighthouse worker!Harry AU

what could such different creatures have in common save for the loneliness of being the only light in the dark void of the sea.

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lotr behind the scenes

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Here's a way to get started into meditation.

Try this 10 minutes every night and tell me what you think!

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** Permission to post it was granted by the artist Do not repost/edit the art without permission Please, support the artist on their pages too **

Artist : 清风澈

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shaped like a friend!!

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No jo, ale teď čekám na tu episodu!

The Untamed intro - FRIENDS style !

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actually the only thing in cql that i want explained is how jiggy got his hands on king théoden of rohan's sword

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I kind of want to see a goose scream at a Ringwraith now...

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…‿ℒℴνℯ⁀❣🌹

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WATCH OUT ZACK IT´S BEHIND YOUUUUUUU!!!!

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