#but NO this is our pure ship

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

[sasunarualways]

I love how the newest Naruto game is basically just a giant SNS fanfic about their roles being reversed 😭

[whoblewboobear]

Imagine being a sorcerery student showing up to class early for once and riiiiiight when you’re about to open the door you hear the weirdo barbarian teacher calling your teacher pet names Like 👀

Jace will be getting shit from his little chaos gremlins about it until the day they graduate 🫢

[ellipsiseffervescent]

Kataang and Zutara communities accusing each other of being sexist towards Katara, colorized

[angel---eater]

Okay but like, canon au where Dirk is actually plural. Hal is an alter, but they're just about to hit true awareness when Dirk makes that brain capcha, so Hal still firmly believes that he's also Dirk when he's in the shades. Dirk's had suspicions, but Hal has no idea because of amnesia barriers.

The strange, almost indescribable feeling of being empty and deprived of something before you even knew you had it with you. Them feeling that. Hal gets a body eventually, and its wonderful that they can touch each other and be together in the same space separately, but they are constantly missing the absolute intimacy of feeling each others thoughts and emotions. Neither of them can communicate very well, so they just make do with clinging to each other like koalas and pressing their foreheads and temples together on bad days. Closest they can ever get to sharing a brain again. In an ideal world they'd have both, but they can't. It's one or the other

[fandom-geek]

vaguely fascinated by osana sov's naming choices. she chose for her daughter a name that can mean "bitter (strength)" or "lady" in two ancient languages (hebrew and aramaic) and for her son a name that means "old friend" in another ancient language (old english)

like every other golden age character has a name that's pretty normal by our standards, which tbh includes mara, then osana just names her other kid uldwyn. then again, even osana's name is either a variant of the hebrew hosanna or after an obscure and possibly fictitious old english princess-saint whose name means something along the lines of "godly solitude", so i suppose mara might be considered the odd one out

[dalekaiken]

I know Rouge and Shadow have the same birthday because they debuted in the same game BUT consider this: Shadow has no actual birthday because he was made in a lab, not born. So, Rouge was like "You know what hun, we're besties so you'll get the same birthday as me ❤️"

[irrationallyexcited]

an essential read for many 911 fans at the moment

tldr:

"...it might help to remember that ships don’t have to be canon in order to be transformative and meaningful on both a personal and cultural level. Look at Star Trek’s Kirk/Spock: that ship never became canon, but it remains one of the most compelling ships ever created, and within canon it gave us one of pop culture’s most enduring symbols of love — their hands touching through the glass.

Henry Jenkins famously said that queer fanfiction "is what happens when you take away the glass." And, sure, it’s increasingly possible that savvy creators might go ahead and take away the glass for us. But that doesn’t negate the power of fans being able to do it on their own, without anyone’s help.

Shipping is exciting, fun, and often a progressive and empowering experience. And if a ship ultimately becomes canon, so much the better. But when shipping becomes an ideology, tantamount to a religion, it makes a story’s creators pretty much tantamount to gods. In essence, even though that level of shipping may grow out of a wish to maintain parity with creators, it’s ultimately de-empowering to fans, making them dependent on creators for validation.

But fans are validated through their love for the source material; they’ve never needed more than that. Turning that source material into a game to be won only turns all involved players into winners and losers.

And when that happens, sooner or later, we all lose."

[windydrawallday]

Will all of you excuse me a moment if I interrupt my dinosaur hype to show off this cutie pie of a werefish/deep one? His name is "Lotto", and he is the monster form of my human OC Vincent in a casual Call of the Sea AU I share with a dear old friend x)

[zehl0w]

Unfinished comic that I’ve bee sitting on for literally over two years. Anyways when you and the bestie have a complex situationship that very quickly spirals into something so agonizingly one sided (unless….? 😳)

[femslashspuffy]

Why is it Armand’s responsibility to reconnect his husband with his ex. He has every right to reject relaying Lestat’s “ily”. Louis is honestly really fucked up for stringing him along for decades gestating all this insecurity but he plays victim and everyone forgives him. I was obsessed with him last season but this season’s kinda put a strain on my relationship with him especially when I see everyone letting him get away with his abuses

It's not his responsibility and I do understand why armand didn't do it I'm just saying that omission is really giving away Armand's motivation. Still though why is it Armand's responsibility to reconnect with Lestat at all? Louis did not ask him to do that Louis is actively saying "no no no" he did not want this. Armand is NOT doing it out of responsibility or as a favor like he says in the show, he's doing it to scare Louis back into his arms and because of that he can't relay Lestat's love because he is still scared Louis would choose him.

And as to Louis abusive behavior I don't care about that as much. I get what you're saying but the show isn't really about choosing the better half of each toxic relationship for me. They're all toxic and they're all abusers from one angle or another and actually I like the show better when they're doing it out in the open like that. The Loustat domestic violence scene is my favorite in the whole show

[loveharlow]

i will write for thomas one day. he has literal been my fictional husband for the last THREE YEARS! we've been over this y'all like he is my soulmate in another universe. no questions asked.

[liyazaki]

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[angel---eater]

man... im constantly wanting to talk about this one weird new flavour of homophobia that intersects with pluralphobia and the current Moral Panic about art on this site but i know for sure im gonna get dunked about it which is, yknow, the entire problem. but it effects our life and how we navigate social spaces in a massive way so it feels like its a thing that should be talked about in fictive spaces. because were people and not characters. im like almost brave enough but every time i go to type something i chicken out lol. but i also kinda wanna vent about it

[luvuomi]

my job as a sub teacher often makes me brainrot scenarios of ‘zuha interacting with kids/being a teacher …

like he’s so kind hearted by nature that i can just imagine him being super patient and gentle with children and naturally, all the kids love him. if they see him in the hallways they’ll instantly run up to give him a hug, wave or call out his name🥹

the kind of teacher who plays with with his students during recess or does activities ( especially arts & crafts ) alongside them. he very much has an emotional connection with the kids which is why so many love him! including the parents !!

[loveinsomesacredplace]

This is a positive and optimistic Jelly fandom space, remember the mantra is fuck those books, book 3 cannot hurt you, season 3 is a blank canvas - why not fill it with joy and light?