#Take that fandom

[lifeinacartoon]

Honestly, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Am I alone in this, or do other people also experience imposter syndrome when writing? Somehow, I find it so much easier to post on Wattpad, but as soon as I consider posting on AO3, I get this knot in my stomach. It feels like I’m not good enough. I have posted there before—in fact, I have quite a few stories there—but it still gives me major anxiety. I have to push myself and pretend it’s not AO3!

What do you do to overcome this, if you’ve experienced it? Or what advice would you give anyway?

[fbfandomthings]

Gary Barlow looking damn good!

[patheticblorbloscholar]

Spider will get multiple "I see you" moments. As he earns his "stripes" his place amongst the people. Not only will Neytiri see her son but Jake will be eaten alive with the guilt of not embracing him sooner.

Avatar 4 and 5 are going to especially emphasize Spider's belonging.

[fivedollarradio]

I posted 1,783 times in 2022

788 posts created (44%)

995 posts reblogged (56%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@hard-yearned-wisdom

@a-froger-epic

@freddie-mercury-rising

@idontknowhowthisworked

@quotespile

I tagged 639 of my posts in 2022

#freddie mercury - 252 posts

#brian may - 27 posts

#jim hutton - 19 posts

#peter tork - 14 posts

#new to me - 13 posts

#roger taylor - 13 posts

#queen - 10 posts

#freddie's boyfriends - 8 posts

#rip - 6 posts

#cutie - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 125 characters

#and i'm going to keep posting pictures of my hands holding things until you all see the entirety of my nail polish collection

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Marc Almond on clubbing with Freddie Mercury:

“I went down to Heaven nightclub, and Freddie was there. And he came over to me and said: ‘Cheer up, girl! You always look so bloody miserable, dressing in black and writing all these miserable songs. Come with me, girl. We’re gonna go for a dance.’ And he threw me over his shoulder and carried me on to the dance floor.”

I know all stories about Freddie are apocryphal, but I really want this to have happened exactly like this, with Freddie heaving Marc over his shoulder. (Well according to Phoebe, he did like to pick people up, literally.)

And on Bowie:

I wonder how he felt when Bowie recanted his claims of being bisexual in the early 80s. “Oh, I never really thought he was,” he says. “Bowie was an artistic free spirit and he probably did dabble a bit. It was the saying it that was great; no one had ever said that before.”

I agree with this, and what writer Simon Reynolds has said about Bowie walking back being bisexual. He’s important to LGBT culture, sure, but I think fans need him to be a bi icon more than he was one.

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18 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

#4

Freddie deserves a better biography. Not another Lesley Jones book or any of the cobbled together “journalist” penned bios, but something sensitively written that could introduce him to new fans in a proper way. A while ago I went looking for a particular book about Bowie, and even in my branch library, there was an entire shelf devoted to him. Freddie? Lesley Jones’s book was there, and the one Mark Blake book about Queen, but that was it. It’s baffling that there isn’t anything better. The best ones, of course, are the memoirs written by Jim and Phoebe and a few others who knew him, but they’re hard to find (I have an e-book of the Minns book and link to Jim’s in a PDF file that I can no longer find), and the language in them is dated. And even those feel... incomplete? 

One of my favorite bands for the past twenty years is the Replacements. I know American indie bands of the 80s have little presence here, but I spent an inordinate of my time and dedication to a band that a whole lot of people haven’t heard of. But in 2016, Bob Mehr wrote a really excellent bio of them called Trouble Boys. Before that there was a middling “oral history,” one photo collection and a documentary about their fans. For a band that stayed a “cult” favorite, that’s more than I could have asked for. That no one can seem to get an artist as big as Freddie right is really unfair.

24 notes - Posted January 26, 2022

#3

The reason why Mary’s comments that Freddie “saved her” from getting AIDS by leaving her sounds selfish either way it’s interpreted is that she, a woman, and straight woman at that isn’t “supposed to get AIDS,” as was the prevailing narrative at the time. “Innocent victims” were children and women with closeted partners who were HIV-positive. Gay men, IV drug users were “asking for it” with their “risky behavior.” Casual bigotry is still bigotry. Generational context can only take you so far.

27 notes - Posted November 2, 2022

#2

Image of Phoebe shopping at the cosmetic counter for Queen’s makeup. “I said vital beige, not soft beige!”

32 notes - Posted January 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Now, I’m not a barbarian. If I am entering the home of someone from a culture in which wearing street shoes inside is a sign of disrespect, or if my shoes are covered in snow, mud, blood, condiments of any sort, lava, excrement, concrete dust, or biomedical hazardous waste, I’m of course going to take them off. And I don’t really need to be told to do so.

But barring shoes outright just to keep your floors clean is bringing a gun to a pillow fight. Turns out there’s already an effective old-fashioned way to achieve your goal of a clean floor while neither insulting my hygiene habits nor endangering my delicate, vulnerable, long-suffering feet: It’s called a doormat.

How sensitive of you to acknowledge different cultural values, but don’t wear shoes in someone’s home if they ask you to remove them because IT’S NOT YOUR HOUSE. Your delicate. long-suffering feet? Seriously? Baby.

44 notes - Posted February 10, 2022

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[shyjusticewarrior]

At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

[redpapercraness]

all four of my sonic 3 movie trailer redraws in one spot 🫡

[canonically47]

“there is no straight explanation for this” neither is there a gay one. there is however an aromantic one

[lilacpaperbird]

*white knuckling the bathroom sink* do NOT infodump ppl about the fact that the first spn fic was a wincest one and that it was posted mere hours after the pilot and that the founder of ao3 was a wincestie and that the first fic on ao3 was wincest too and that the omegaverse as we know it was created by wincest shippers for jared/jensen fics *pointing at myself in the mirror with a shaky hand* ppl will think you're weird and off-putting you need to control yourself–

[salamispots]

do you think Link's used the master sword to chop up veggies

[lifeinacartoon]

I thought of a prompt I thought I’d pick on Howard for a change lol .The one were Howard gets lost in a woods and mark and Gary try to find him. Normally it’s mark getting lost so I thought Howard dose this time

I hope you like it! "Lost and Found"

“This is normally your thing,” Gary muttered, crunching through the fallen leaves. “You’re the one who always wanders off.”

Mark huffed, glancing around at the dense trees. “Yeah, well, Howard’s full of surprises.”

They’d been walking for hours, shouting Howard’s name, hoping to hear some sign of life. The woods were thicker than they expected, and the sun was already starting to dip behind the treetops, casting long shadows.

“What was he even doing, wandering off like that?” Gary continued, more to fill the uneasy silence than anything.

“Dunno. Howard’s got that whole 'zen' thing going on these days. Probably off meditating in the middle of nowhere,” Mark said, trying to lighten the mood but failing. He was getting nervous. It was always him who got lost. This didn’t feel right.

A sudden rustle broke through the trees, and Gary tensed. “Did you hear that?”

Mark held his breath, straining his ears. Another crack of twigs. “Howard?” he called, voice breaking slightly.

The rustling grew closer, and then—there he was. Howard emerged from the bushes, looking sheepish but unharmed.

“Where the hell have you been?” Gary demanded, relief obvious in his voice.

Howard grinned, wiping dirt off his hands. “Just… got a bit turned around. I was trying to find the perfect spot to… reflect.”

Gary rolled his eyes. “You’re as bad as Mark.”

Mark threw his arms around Howard in mock exasperation. “Mate, leave the getting-lost thing to me, yeah?”

Howard chuckled, pulling both of them into a hug. “Deal.”

[liimonadas]

randomly rememebered a very silly maya content creator AU i came up with like 2 years ago. its just dumb fun haha

[patheticblorbloscholar]

Want some proof Spider Sully is canon? I can't believe the fandom missed this.

Talk about spoilers

[strange-wanderings]

You use "aces and aros can be in relationships" to justify shipping canonically ace and/or aro characters. I use "aces and aros can be in relationships" to justify headcanoning characters canonically in relationships as ace and/or aro.

We are not the same.

[evenlyevi]

Something simple as a cooldown, have some bunnies!

[puckpatties]

i love you forever and ever girldad chilchuck

[thirdtimed]

one more pearl & tilly for the road