#murder most unladylike fandom

[relationshipnotfound]

please give me an idea for what I can draw PLEASE I AM SO BORED 😭

[redbreastedbird]

Is smut allowed to be written about the mmu characters seeing as in the canon of the books they're now all over 18? A prominent person in the fandom has smut fics up and it's causing debates so I thought I'd ask

I am going to answer this in the same way I’ve answered other asks like this in the past: to tell you that in this case, what I think doesn’t matter. I know what I think as an individual human being, but Robin Stevens the Author does not have a single opinion on the subject, because nothing she has to say matters in this case.

The joy of fandom and fan response is that it happens completely separately to the author or creator of a story. We can engage with fans if we want - I do like to, it delights me to see that you care so much about my books - but we literally can’t guide fan response because we cannot get inside your brains. If your soul moves you to see my characters a particular way, or imagine them doing a particular thing, I can’t stop you. I can think what I think on a personal level - again, I definitely do, there are some fanons and takes that I like more than others - but as Robin the Author it’s not my place to comment publicly on that. I have personally been in fandom for enough years to see other creators try to do that, and see that it always goes horribly wrong for them.

So I could tell you that there are Right Ways and Wrong Ways to interrogate my texts, but it wouldn’t be useful or productive and it would only lead to people getting (correctly!) angry with me. What I am going to do is as always refuse to read fanfics based on my characters (because it feels a bit invasive of the fic authors’ privacy, and also because it keeps me away from any potential legal challenges from fans who feel like a story I write is excessively similar to their fanfic). Then I am going to tell every single one of my fans who gets in contact with me that I think they’re great and valid and brilliant.

I will say that fandom arguments are absolutely soul-destroying when you are part of them. I sympathise entirely! It is hard to disagree about something you love, and hard to realise that the way you see a thing is not the way that other people see it. What I have learned after many years of arguing on the internet is that you can only control your own response to a thing. Other people will be out there having responses you absolutely hate! The only productive thing you can do in this situation is send your friend a private message complaining about it, and then have a really long and satisfying private discussion with them about how right you both are and how wrong everyone else is.

[necromancer-at-abattoir]

The Small Fandoms

Can we just get some love for the small fandoms? The tiny ones? The barely there ones, with people who've read the books, but can't find anyone else who has, even though there are people out there?

Ponniyan Selvan, The Dandelion Dynasty, The Inheritances Games, Jeeves, Snow Like Ashes, Raybearer, Enola Holmes, Sheena Meyer (LITERALLY NONEXISTENT) Murder Most Unladylike and others (add them in the comments)

[neptune-139]

Nostalgiavember Day 2 - Found

Crossover: Miniscule and Murder Most Unladylike

[deepdeanvsweston]

Saw this thing that was like, if your childhood favourite character and your current favourite character were trying to kill each other who would win, and well I'm sorry Bertie Wells but Twilight Sparkle does have the powers to fucking obliterate you

[productofaritual]

Watching bbc Sherlock is fueling my mmu interest which is in turn fueling the bench trio detective AU in my head. How much more multi fandom can my brain get is yet to be determined, but we will see where it leads

[justarandombrit]

Me on my way to associate every piece of media ever with The Goodbye Song 🏃🏃

[ilyfynn]

you guys I posted the first chap of murder au anyway because I realized the draft was gonna delete itself if I didnt

the same applies for flower shop ngl

I don't like how I've written it out so when I finish the whole fic I will probably write it out all over again 💀

[detectivesocietyforever]

woah so I just joined and I have no idea how to use this app but hello! I'm aurelia and a massive murder most unladylike fan, so much that my whole tiktok account is based on it! yayy!

also just read the extract from body in the blitz and I love it so much! too much. I'm afraid my obsession with moua will become as unhealthy as the one with mmu.

[saetgvia]

siblings

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Binny Welcomeeee

BertieBott'sBeans what is this

Binny we can plot against our siblings

MayTheForceBeWithYou NO! LET'S TALK ABOUT STAR WERAS!!

BookLover may your spelling- what is weras

MayTheForceBeWithYou weras, wars wtv same difference

BookLover it is not-

BertieBott'sBeans stfu i love squashy, im not plotting against her

Binny not even a teensy weensy little prank?

BertieBott'sBeans alright, maybe a tiny one

BookLover oh lord- hold up

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Hazelnut what is this-

Binny ROSE!

BookLover i had to do something T-T

Binny this was not the way to do it-

MayTheForceBeWithYou exactly.. don't think hazel will like this chat

BertieBott'sBeans ya think??!!??!?!

Hazelnut lemme add daisy-

Binny NO

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BertieBott'sBeans dazed-

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Squashy BERTIE

BertieBott'sBeans yes darling sister?

Squashy stfu 🤬

Binny dazel, haizy: exit this chat

Hazelnut dazel- haisy- also incorrect use of a colon

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Gossipgirl27 huh

Binny try using more advanced vocabulary kitty

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Trashcan seriously

stupid bin? binny?

Trashcan i cannot with you rn

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Trashcan ah sweet peace.

[redbreastedbird]

what do you think about lavinia x kitty as a ship? i’ve taken quite a liking to them recently and adore the angry tenis player and fashionable student vibes they have

OK so I’ve had versions of this question so many times that I’m starting to get really fascinated by it because I think it speaks to how much fandom has changed in the last 20 years.

I mean, in general, it still astonishes me as someone who first entered fandom in 2004/5 that creators now are so open and willing to engage with their fans. Neil Gaiman is out there hammering away on his keyboard 24/7 to give Good Omens fans answers about whether Crowley likes pancakes or not and I think that’s wonderful. (He must be so tired). There’s so much more connection between creator and fan and usually that’s a great thing (until it’s a very bad thing, please see the Star Wars fandom).

I come from a time (again, this is less than 20 years ago!) when you simply did not include creators in fandom. Partly there was a lot more anxiety than there is now about the legality of fan created works, but partly we knew that in general we would not like the answers we got back. This was the era of your options being absolute frozen silence or furious denial in response to questions about whether two characters of the same gender might be together romantically, and it really burned the community as a whole.

So, you know, if you felt moved to write an 80,000 word fic about two characters who had never exchanged more than 3 words in canon falling in love you would simply go and do that, and everyone else would just nod approvingly. There was no representation of the kind we wanted on screen or on the page, but there was in fandom, and they were totally separate spaces.

But obviously now we’re in the wonderful era of there being actual queer books and TV shows and movies that people are fans of, and creators and actors want to be part of those fandoms because everyone is suddenly seeing the characters in essentially the same way. Which is so nice and so refreshing, but I do think it’s created this feeling among fans that ideally the creator should give the OK to a fanon relationship.

I absolutely love hearing your fan interpretations - you often think about characters in a way I haven’t, and that can be really interesting. Sometimes, as it tends to do, fanon and canon get pretty far apart, and I also think that’s absolutely fine.

But I do definitely want to say that you don’t need to ask me whether you can ship, or whether it’s right to ship, two characters. If your heart moves you, go for it. Go wild! Fill your boots! I made them up, but you make them live.

If you’re asking whether a particular ship will get together or stay together in the series, I usually can’t say (because of spoilers!) - unless I definitely know it won’t happen, and then I don’t want to tell you that because it’ll just disappoint you.

So what do I think of Kitty x Lavinia? I think that it’s great, I think that you’re great, I think that you should go write a 80,000 word epic about them. I won’t read it, because that’s legally and personally a little weird, but you should absolutely go for it if you want to.

[thethousandthhaunt]

Ahhh I love this way round too!

MMU AS BBC GHOSTS HEADCANONS

Ok so firstly who's who:

Hazel - Alison

Daisy - Thomas

Beanie - Kitty (that feels rlly weird to say)

Kitty - Fanny

Lavinia - Julian

Amina - Mary (I STRUGGLED SO MUCH WITH WHO AMINA WOULD BE AND I JUST SETTLED ON MARY SINCE SHE WAS THE LAST ONE 😭😭)

Aleksandr (mmu discord coerced me into spelling it like this and i havent looked back)- Mike

George - The Captain

May - Robin

Nuala - Humphrey

Eric - Pat

Button House is obviously Fallingford

We're gonna say for this that it was a very distant relative of Aleksandr's who fled Russia alongside his grandmother (Countess Demidovskoy) and left Fallingford to the Countess

The Countess decided to give it to Aleksandr for a place to live in England so he doesn't have to go back to America and deal with his family trying to get him to take over his dad's company

Hazel and Aleksandr are married and have decided they're going to live in England

Just like in the show, Lavinia pushes Hazel out the window causing her neck injury and, Lavinia being Lavinia, feels no remorse whatsoever

Hazel finds that she sees May like a wee sister

since I hc the Countess as a very Orthodox Christian I feel she may have rubbed off on Aleksandr a bit and so when Hazel tells him she can see ghosts he isn't just as on board as Mike is

he then whips out the rosaries and holy water and begins blessing the house with the Russian blessings his grandmother taught him even though he isn't even that religious

all the ghosts just stood watching him, Daisy making fun of the length of his arms

Eric carries Nuala's head around most of the times and tries to stop the others (May, Lavinia, and Daisy) from playing football with her

quite often they would just sit down and talk about their lives with each other and would occasionally gossip about the other ghosts

Kitty is nicer than how Fanny actually is and when Hazel has gotten over the fact that she can see ghosts, Kitty gets Hazel to tell her everything about what's trending and how her and Aleksandr met

Eric, Beanie and Nuala have dance parties every week and always try to get George to join in

George follows Aleksandr around and pretends as if he's Aleksandr's second in command

Daisy becomes extremely melodramatic about Hazel and constantly tells her how they're literally like Sherlock and Watson and how Hazel should unalive herself so they could run off the the holiday home in Fallingford grounds and start a new afterlife together where they're hopelessly in love

Hazel constantly has to tell her that she is happily alive and married

Aleksandr does a seance sooner than Mike does it in the series and ends up seeing a shadow of a rat and smelling burning due to Amina walking through him to follow the rat and freaks out

Amina then has to go get Hazel to restore Aleksandr to normal

George and Lavinia meet up in the library every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evenings to talk about mostly politics but also other things and they tell the other ghosts they're having a "grown ups meeting" and no one else is allowed

These "grown ups meetings" quite frequently involve Lavinia getting Aleksandr's computer and them both cyberbullying with Lavinia teaching George modern slang

Beanie's sister is Clementine and that's why no one liked her and poor Beanie had to go through a hard time after her mum died

BARCLAY IS UNCLE FELIX

Aleksandr shared his wagon wheel with him

Daisy had a big fat crush on Hazel (if it isn't obvious with her being Thomas)

George also has a big fat crush on Aleksandr but isn't just as obvious and dramatic as Daisy and the only ghost to actually notice this is Lavinia

Kitty's husband is Hugo and he pushed her out the window after creating a manwich with the butler and the gardener

i have been thinking abt this for ages and I've finally done it and let me know if you want a part two!!

also I am literally just thinking about Lavinia as Julian like it's just so perfect thinking about it makes me so happy I don't know why

[deepdeanvsweston]

Having a rarepair in a big fandom: tough, but there are other people out there. Likely no fanart, but maybe a few fics on Ao3. One blog that's really really passionate about the rarepair if you're lucky. Lots of ships in a big fandom so people don't massively care about ones that aren't popular.

Having a rarepair in a small fandom: cricket sounds. Tumbleweed. Only a few ships so people desperately put their all into them seeing as they are the only ones and thus have to be popular. People are liable to collapse when they hear the names of a rarepair come out my mouth.

[vicaliciouz]

RIPTIDE - vance joy feels like..

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** interact if ur in these fandoms i need more fandom buddies

It never leaves you

[justarandombrit]

The feeling of semi-jokingly looking up a book series you used to love when you were younger, expecting to find maybe three Tumblr posts mentioning it, only to find an entire fandom, with pages and pages of headcanons and fanworks you missed out on.

[lasagna482]

Someone please give me fic recommendations 😭 I don’t even know what fandom I wanna read for rn (ok that’s a lie it’s arcane but I need to finish season two first) so I’ve just been rereading murder most unladylike fics I’ve read like ten times already but please I need more!! So like rwrb check please pjo ig? Magnus chase ig? Outsiders uhhhh mauraders that won’t tear my heart to pieces and that heavily feature the girls heartstopper but again ig a focus on the girls, derry girls, uhhh i can’t think of anything else rn sadly pleaseeeee and thank you in advance lol