#and i think thats beautiful

[kamily-art]

"No one mourns the wicked"

[msmimundo]

I just rewatched the whole of Phineas and Ferb and I'm convinced this man thinks Perry lives on his little platyhouse Pokemon mystery dungeon style

[clearwingedmaven]

Alright, so. I've got little time and some ideas, so I'll do a brief thought process on the death of Sherlock Holmes in 1893, and the fandom as a whole.

Firstly, getting this out of the way. Sherlock Holmes was not the first modern fandom. That honor most likely goes to Charles Dickens and his work, especially the Pickwick Papers. There is evidence and record that fan merchandise, like joke books, tobacco, and shoe horns, were made with Pickwick Papers characters, especially Sam Weller.

However, Sherlock Holmes is probably our first instance of a global fandom where consequences quite literally created a literary and cultural firestorm. This isn't an exaggeration.

ACD's relationship with Holmes is... strange. Of course, he wanted to kill off Holmes, and move onto other books. (Historical novels, mainly, or Spiritualist manifesto), but there was always a love hate relationship, and we see that most predominantly through fan letters.

Almost immediately after Holmes’s death in 1893, there was shock. Scandal. Mourning. Fans exchanged letters in newspapers, trying to reach out to other fans to figure out what just happened, and what to do next. Holmes was dead. And for all anyone knew, so was the series.

So how'd they cope?

By creating communities. Discourse communities, to be more apt. They exchanged letters, asked questions, and talked through newspapers. Each one plucked from 1893 and 1894 show grief and confusion: for a fictional character.

People even started seeking out Joseph Bell, the man who inspired Holmes, in order to try to fill the void. There's even record of fans venturing to Reichenbach Falls in costume to pay tribute to their fallen hero. And this kept happening. For years. The world lost not just a character, it was their friend.

Keep in mind! Victorian literature was a family affair. Many people would gather around and read stories and books together, so the firestorm went further.

Until, it made ACD change his mind, and bring back Sherlock Holmes. (Can we call it bullying? Perhaps. I call it a unique circumstance of cultural phenomena.)

So where does it leave the fandom?

Ah, that's the question. This fandom, uniquely, has a distinct honor of being one of the oldest living discourse communities, an exchange of reader response, engagement, and including even more material.

So to the fans: from the fanfic writers, to the game makers, to the cosplayers, to the fans of adaptations near and far, to the editors, to the artists, to the dreamers and thinkers...

It is, given the nature of the fandom, that you are all a part of history, as part of one of the oldest(and still going!) Fandom discourse communities.

Keep that in mind. And keep going. 🙂

[qarameiio]

the lasting legacy of a learned habit

[achillesisnotcomingdown]

A family can be a himbo who very easily ressorts to cannibalism, a bisexual who brings croc tops into the dungeon, a struggling lesbian with the worse haircut in the world, some hag femboy who hates every second he spends with the others, and a daughter.

[simplydnp]

im so glad we're all holding hands and immediately shouting about the ii parallel with the hair & dreams that dan has of phil. phannies i love being part of the hivemind with you <3

[and-make-it-double]

ok so the one thing i've learnt so far is that destiel hysteria never ends

[justaz]

something something gwen always wearing lighter colors as a serving girl something something merlin always wearing darker colors something something gwen marries arthur and wears darker colors

[mish-mash-marsh]

It was always them: Benjamin and Oliver

Some fanart I made back in 2023 of Benjamin and Oliver from Lucids. (I didn't post the art at the time)

Today I chose to go back and rewatch the series for the billionth time, and its still as silly and beautiful as ever.

[luamoonart]

Mordecai WIP

@lackadaisycats

[amaranthdahlia]

actually obsessed with afo and kudou's dynamic . that panel rlly said kudou symbolically reincarnated just to find afo and kill him this time around llmafoeodkwf just full on hating btwn these two that the universe makes them find eachother again

oh , while we're at it heres some shitposts i did ab them too (theyre so funny istg)

[garbageboistinkmandeluxe]

Tutti frutti: shows his face for like 3 seconds at the Grammys

The starved people:

[colavoxi]

hush would bite a lemon like an apple, make that "oh godoh fuck its sour" face, and then do it again.

[so-tarafyd]

shhhhh pls have my goofy mammon and his kiddo doodle

[unknownteapot]

amangela’s ‘see you at work’ was “you’re insane” “so are you ;)”

[tonguetyd]

One of my (many) favorite things about STumblr is how we’re all like “I’m so normal about [insert literally anything, no matter how big or small]” as if there is ANYTHING REMOTELY NORMAL ABOUT THE BAND WE ARE YELLING ABOUT. Like let’s be real we left “normal” way back when we accepted the ancient deity worship concept, yet here our asses are 😂😂😂