#surviving the 2010s

[zachafoster]

Survival Instinct During Mental Illness and Great Changes

Got another notice from the city housing authority yesterday, stating that I was approved for yet another waiting list on yet another apartment complex. Been burned too many times to get excited about it. I filled out the online application. Yet I expect nothing to come of it. I’ve just settled in for the long haul. It’s very possible a wheelchair accessible low-income place ever comes open…

[despazito]

First day of act normal lessons

[wastedskins]

Lollipop Chainsaw, 2012

[thedarkbluevoid]

Where are you? Come home as soon as possible, it's getting dark.

Cry of Fear (2012)

[horechattalove]

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[prenzea]

this is kind of a joke but i seriously think we should bring back rickrolling because the amount of people i saw that were actually, seriously pissed/upset at the rtvs crew for bbvrai was wild lmao

youtube link that says "omg hlvrai 2 is here!" but it's just a rickroll? perfect. incredible. exactly what rtvs did last night but it was a 5 hour breaking bad roleplay.

[atomicradiogirl]

save me rick grimes timothy olyphant save me

[moociaoafterdark]

CoD fandom after becoming popular: Ewww why are there so many of those self-insert OCs! This is so cringe, why did women find CoD, I bet they haven't played a single game! And don't even get me started on all this cringe yaoi, bro! Gross! Meanwhile, one of JJBA fandom's most popular jokes:

Metal Gear Solid, just Metal Gear Solid:

[andromeda3116]

i feel like a lot of Discourse (read: fandom wank) happens in places that have forgotten or never learned the death of the author theory

(which i know is not sacrosanct but it is very useful for handling fandom spaces, particularly fraught ones)

for those who don't know, the death of the author theory goes like this: as far as the work is concerned, the author dropped dead the second that the final word was published, and thus cannot comment, object to, clarify, or expand on anything that is not on the page.

my understanding is that it's most strictly used to mean that that the author's interpretation of the work doesn't matter, but can be expanded to state that nothing which is not on the page matters. imo, the expanded definition is particularly useful for fandoms and needs to be adopted on a larger scale.

because what it means is this:

it doesn't matter what the creator(s) intended. it doesn't matter what they said in an interview. it doesn't matter what the actors think, it doesn't matter what supplemental materials say or imply, even if they're signed off on by the creator(s). it doesn't matter if everyone involved in making it hates your interpretation and says that it's wrong.

they don't get to say that it's wrong. they dropped dead the second the last episode/book ended. their interpretation is simply one more in a vast sea of others.

listen to me, fandom spaces. i am taking your face in both of my hands. embrace the death of the author. you will no longer be bound to the (possibly fickle) words of the creator(s), your interpretation can no longer be the wrong one. if the text can be used to support it in any way, even twisty ways, it's valid. you don't have to jump through hoops to defend it against haters who say you're wrong.

the death of the author. open your heart to it. live it. be free.

[downtownsleaze]

I'm a little too far from....home.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Four friends travel to a lakeside cabin for a carefree weekend, the fun turns into a nightmare when 3 of them end up locked in a hot sauna. Every minute counts and every degree matters as they fight for their lives in the heat up to 247°F.

Mod Sus, certified finn, going batshit crazy explaining why this is so goddamn stupid and wouldn't work:

Mod Z can confirm the above. They had a whole rant about it with Mod Sus

[xxdrowninglessonsxx]

me online vs irl

[fanofspooky]

Horror sub genres #15

Survival Horror:

Fall - Frozen

247°F - Backcountry

Cube - Buried

[wastedskins]

Miu, Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water, 2014

[thedarkbluevoid]

I wrote a happy ending, just for myself.

Cry of Fear (2012)

[spoonstrek]

I love hanging out with my extremely mid-30s dog-dadcore friend because I can just scroll through the House MD tag showing him posts and horrifying him with all these high effort fandom posts from just the past week for a primetime procedural medical drama that ended over a decade ago.

I do this every week so he can't deny it's just an extremely active fandom. He hates it so much.