#i will always be there to talk about dead fandoms

[roseganymede95]

So I’m working on the next longfic and honestly, I am so happy I’m doing this.

It just never occurred to me that this was allowed? It’s like, as a kid who thought adults were boring, it never occurred to me that I would still want to have fun as an adult. I always thought I would grow out of this.

But now I’m an adult, and I still want to have fun, and holy shit! There are people out there who want to have fun too! And we can talk to each other! And create together! And be excited about things!

When I was in high school I would have denied to your face that I had ever head of fanfiction. But now I’ve written over 250,000 words of it. I’m proud of it. I’m happy about it. Unfathomable to younger me.

Anyway I love joy and I love other people and the Dead Boy Detectives fandom is incredible.

[braveseeker3]

okay, let me talk a little about texaid's history. what i know of it at least.

(disclaimer: not a fan of this ship, do like the dynamic though. only got into fandom long after ao3 was created.)

the earliest fic in the texaid tag on ao3 has an upload date of 2011 - amusingly, when i selected vortex and first aid's tags on ffnet and checked the pairing box, there was a grand total of zero fics. oops. i turned off the pairing box, which brought zero up to seven. i swear there were a lot more texaid content on ffnet, but i guess not tagged. (how much texaid got nuked in the ffnet purge, i wonder?)

anyways. on ffnet, the earliest fic was uploaded in 2008.

i have very little experience with both livejournal and dreamwidth, and i'm not going to try digging through deviantart for texaid, so we'll ignore them.

part of the "foundation" towards shipping them comes from this:

first aid is a protectobot, a team focused on emergency response. an ambulance, a firetruck, a police cruiser & motorcycle, and a rescue helicopter of some kind.

vortex is a combaticon. his team consists of a missile truck, a jeep, a shuttle (the odd one out here), a tank, and himself - an attack helicopter.

first aid is characterized (in g1, at least) as a pacifist medic. vortex as a torturer/interrogator who delights in causing fear and pain - an airachnid before airachnid, you could say. protectobots and combaticons were not only opposites, but rival teams.

you see it, yes?

the "freak on freak" had no basis in canon, to my knowledge, until idw1 and its' definitely-not-a-pacifist first aid who liked to collect the badges of dead autobots, had a crush on springer, and shot pharma in the head for killing ambulon

and on the blades thing - i swore i'd never seen a blades/first aid fic. i was very surprised when keferon said that blades/first aid was probably the original because to my knowledge the big ones were always blades/slingshot and texaid for them respectively. . . ? someone who was around then can correct me if i'm wrong lmao

Hey, so, question from someone who isn't exactly new to transformers but hasn't touched the whole of IDWs yet and has only consumed shows where these characters do not exist in

But is Texaid a ship that happaned because of the au and you and everyone else in the au the only ones who ship it or are they like Blurr and Swerve where they interacted literally just twice and that was enough? (Tho I am aware they also only technically happen because of the AU for you, the ship has existed before because of that)

Entirely made up, entirely fanon~

I’m pretty sure originally people were shipping First Aid with this helicopter guy from his gestalt - Blades. And then at some point it was revealed in IDW that First Aid is kind of a fan of Springer - another helicopter from Wreckers. So naturally everyone decided that First Aid has a type ahahah

And since Protectobots and Combaticons were kind two rivalling teams in G1..well. Oh look~ there’s a helicopter in the enemy team~ I bet we can make it work~

There are some art and fics but in canon they barely ever stand in one frame lol

[doublel27]

i joined thai bl fandom about six months ago, and although i will keep watching thai bl/gl/ql shows, all this latest stuff has been the final nail in the coffin of my enjoyment in fandom. i've been in fandom for about 20 years and i think along with the dead internet we very much have dead fandom. where communities used to be about fic, fanart, fanmixes, etc now it's just criticisms. do people really enjoy this? constant negativity? i appreciate your voice here and am grateful somebody is standing up for people. there are too many bad faith discourse generators in this fandom unfortunately.

Thank you so much! It breaks my heart that you feel this way. The fact that people don’t feel safe to speak publicly or reblog stuff because of a small vocal minority is incredibly sad and disappointing. I am also a fandom old. 24 years baby!

I mean, I don’t think the social media and increasingly isolationist views have helped with fandom, but this energy has been in fandom for a long time. I survived Cassandra Clare’s minions in the fandom that shall not be named and someone having a tantrum (to years after I had said something and left the group) where she deleted an entire EZ-board full of years worth of X-Men role-play writing because more people stood up to her. It keeps happening and always does when people get into feedback loops and don’t engage outside of narrow focus.

I know it seems like a lot of people engaging in bad faith discourse, but this experience has shown me how small that circle is despite how loud and how much they write and reblog each others posts. But also how many people don’t engage with them. There are so many people doing beautiful things in this fandom: edits/gifsets, fanart, fanfiction. There are wonderful things happening, but it does require some hunting.

Someone was talking about creators of gifsets using (fandom name)edits so people could avoid everything in the tags and I wonder if a bunch of us could use consistent thaibl(type of art) as well as (fandom name)edit so that there are some tags that are focused on creation.

Because we can’t change the behavior of bad actors. I have no intention of changing their behavior. That’s not why I said anything. I said something because people deserve a fandom experience where they’re not harassed. And people who are harassed deserve someone to say that’s not okay.

I’m sorry you’re leaving fandom, but sometimes it’s necessary if it’s not bringing you joy! And you can change your mind. I was never coming back to fandom after X-Men, and here I am.

But my ask box and my DMs are open. 💜💜💜

[frankensteinposm0]

« But you are everything to me. »

I might turn this into a comic but I have to think about it. Anyways the sillies 🫶🏻

[pnfc]

i haint watched the dang chibisode and idk if ill actually watch it with sound on sdfjk but i have a hurt feeling about them casually imbuing perry with speech for a one off gag because the idea that he needs to talk to communicate is fake. we had 4 seasons of wacky magic hijinks cartoon where perry never needed verbal speech to communicate. they couldve done this gag at any point in the show but they didn't, and the fact that they didn't felt significant. perry's muteness is such a core part of his character, to me, to the way i conceive of him/write him. i don't wanna overreact to a goofy little side cartoon (even tho i'm doing it anyway) but it's still the characters, and it still upsets me! ok that's it i've said my piece

[dustykneed]

Hello! Random whipper snipper! Share a WIP of your work!

ooh, with pleasure. six the musical araleyn fanart? in the year 2k24? more likely than you think xDD

i realize this looks finished, but technically i'm still deciding whether to add a background or not lol. still, for the sake of sharing a proper WIP, here's a line or two from an araleyn brainworm WIP that i started reworking yesterday (mild tw for religious guilt and period-typical internalized homophobia from aragon's pov):

She remembers sharing her bed with Anne at Henry's behest, remembers the nights of tossing and turning and trying not to think about Anne asleep next to her-- remembers waking up to dark hair spilling across her pillow and the press of blood-warm bosoms against her own, softer than sin, as hot as the Devil, remembers lying still as death, mouthing prayers into the heat of Anne's neck like an act of penance.

[totallynotasimp67]

DMC x CoD

Sorry, I saw a DMC 3 edit while I had CoD scenarios in my mind, and this is the brain child from it lmao

The CoD boys with a reader who’s half demon, think Dante and Vergil from Devil May Cry, but only like a couple people know, imma use the 141 boys as I’m a tad more familiar with them

The only people who would know would be Laswell, Price and a Doctor under a strict NDA, like so strict if they broke it they would probably end up on a missing persons list

Reader would normally go on solo missions, in and out info grabs mostly, but when they have to go on team missions they prefer being a sniper instead of an infiltrator so as to not give away their secret

But one thing leads to another and Reader is the only one still able to fight and Reader gets shot multiple times, similar to the way Dante gets impaled in the beginning of Devil May Cry 3, the enemy think they’ve won, the 141 can’t help but look away at the scene unfolding before them, that’s when Reader speaks

“This party’s gettin’ crazy!”

The group of people in the compound all stare in shock and disbelief at Reader who by all accounts should be dead, bullets that were once lodged in reader now falling out as the wounds begin to heal

Grabbing their pistols, a wicked grin drawing readers face, they speak once more

“Let’s rock baby”

You can decide where it goes from here, BUT if u do use this, ur obligated to tag me in it so I can read ur masterpiece

Devil May Cry Cutscenes incase anyone’s curious, the part I’m referencing starts at 7:42

[ninashiki]

i feel like almost everything in utena has sort of already been extensively discussed in the last two (almost three) decades of utena's existence (not that there aren't new interpretations to be made, there always are) besides black rose arc (mikage+mamiya+tokiko). which is why they're so much fun to think about. i think the need to read between the lines makes it unfortunately easy to misunderstand or look past obvious stuff if you don't pay attention, but to me it's always been really obvious that mikage's arc is a literal representation of the erasure of queerness in ohtori (society?) by akio/everything he represents. and that's so fucking tragic! nemuro was never able to find a name for his desires. he lived and died as a puppet in the shadows.

[smile-files]

the best thing about being very attached to classic children's shows is that most of my friends have engaged with them (they watched them as kids). the worst thing about being very attached to classic children's is that none of my friends are currently engaging with them (they watched them as kids)

[al-luviec]

still haven't moved on from zane in this episode (aka I hit tag limit again and am unhappy about it)

[todayisafridaynight]

Dunno why the rgg fandom has been so dead lately hoping that the announcement brings people back cause it really doesn’t feel like how it did before ☹️

it hasnt even been two weeks since i got an ask like this i need yall to wait a minute

[professionalbalbberer]

I have a new dead boy detectives obsession did I tell you that yet lol

[eyrieofsynapses]

person: hey listen up. what if Sherlock Holmes were, you know, queer--

me: *sitting forward* I'm listening (actually I was on the same page years ago)

person: right! SO what if Sherlock and Watson were gay--

me: ...you've lost me.

so anyway. anyone with aroace Sherlock and/or queerplatonic Sherlock & Watson takes, hmu, everyone else go home. you're valid and ily, you're great, but also: idc

[blahaj-blastin]

I will never turn down the opportunity to hear about someone’s OC or WIP. I love hearing people talk about stuff they made and are passionate about. It makes me so genuinely happy.

It doesn’t matter if we’re strangers or best friends. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the verge of publishing or it will never see the light of day. It doesn’t matter if the lore is deep and developed or if you literally just came up with some dude two minutes ago. Tell me the things! I love the things!

[giolovesyousm]

"i feel like I've never been alive [...] for years, I've been risking nothing. I have no idea what I am or what I want to do"

-charlie dalton

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Listening to "Out There" from the Hunchback of Notre Dame again and I'm like damn that really is a q!Fit and Madagio song huh