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[mbirnsings-71]

Hello... I've fallen into the void send help-

[hooked-on-elvis]

[FAN STORY] While taking photos backstage, Elvis started singing a song, "in a very low and soft tone".

On November 10, 1971 Elvis performed for a crowd of over 15000 at the Boston Garden in Boston, MA, at 8:30 pm. He wore the Black Pinwheel jumpsuit with the Gold Attendance belt. Here is the story of one very special fan who saw his concert that day.

Danielle Thibobeau © Danielle, Elvis, Lise & Tom Hulett.

This photograph was taken backstage at the Boston Garden on November 10th 1971, and there's a nice story behind this event. The little girl held by the man is Lise Thibodeau with her sister Danielle and Tom Hulett from Concert West. Lise never expected in her wildest dreams to see Elvis in concert, and much lesser to meet him. Several fans made the trip from Quebec City to Boston for attending Elvis' concert there. Danielle brought her sister near the stage and try to find a spot where she would enjoy the show. The security didn't want her to remain there although Lise wasn't able to use her seat in the 27th row on the main floor because of her condition. Colonel Parker noticed the incident and asked to Tom Hulett to take Lise in her arms and to follow him. Danielle thought they were going backstage for resolving this matter, and were in no way prepared for what was about to happen. When they arrived backstage Colonel Parker opened a door and both women got shocked when they noticed Elvis was behind it. Lise started to cry and never stopped until the meeting was over. Elvis gave her a red scarf and tried to comfort her. Unfortunately Lise and Danielle were barely able to speak English, and Elvis realized rather fast it was impossible to communicate with these two fans. Someone arranged for the photographs to be taken and while doing this, Elvis started to sing a song in a very low and soft tone. I guess he somewhat hoped Lise would calm down a little. They were really excited at that moment and none of them were able to identify the song.  After the meeting Lise and her sister returned in front of the stage, and remained close to the stage for the show. [Sadly] Lise had several health problems and passed away in the early eighties. Source/credits: elvis-collectors.com

Pictures of Elvis' performance at the Boston Garden in Boston, MA, on November 10th 1971.

Man, this story got me emotional. 🥹 THE MORE I READ ABOUT THAT MAN, THE MORE I LOVE HIM. 🩷

I've read somewhere that Elvis said music is the universal language. I wonder if he thought about singing a song to express his feelings when the fans couldn't understand his spoken words. Maybe he was just singing away casually, any random song, but we know how EP always had a song in his mind that could fit practically any moment - he was a quick thinking guy and he knew an infinitude of songs. We see this happening on, for example, the Elvis On Tour outtakes. I do believe the song Elvis was singing was telling that passionate fan something special and E hoped they could recognize the song right away. It's a shame they didn't but even so, just for the way Danielle spoke about that moment, we can be sure they were able to feel Elvis' concern, love and gratitude for their love and support.

[eywaseclipse]

Hey guys, not trying to be rude. But most of those gofundme Palestine accounts are scammers. Most people would not go to a platform such as tumblr. Instagram is the main media outlet for the people in Gaza, along with tiktok due to the high volume of shares and views. Let’s put our thinking caps on here. I know we all want to help. But the copy and paste asks and suspicious emojis? It’s best to not fall for the traps. Some may be real, but the majority are scammers. And someone had to say it! Let it be me I guess

This is a classic phishing attempt, and it’s really unfortunate because it only harms the real people of Palestine trying to get their family to safety. It’s best to share resources and links to official .org sites to donate!

[ratinthevoid]

[kazoosandfannypacks]

You're my rival. Of course I think you're pretty.

[blueskittlesart]

WHAT IF... instead of basing the movie on any of the games... it's based on the 80s cartoon? "Ex-CUUUUUUUSE me, Princess."

you understand that this is the worst-case scenario. right. it's important to me that you understand this

[pardonmydelays]

"what's your role in the fandom" i am a clown who writes the most terrible posts only liked by two of my mutuals out of pity

[yujeong]

Maybe it's Ottessa Moshfegh's novels infecting my brain lately - and @loveliesblood too, because we had the same thoughts about this - but has anyone else pondered on the pure filth surrounding the safehouse arc?

And by that, I mean, how disgusting the whole concept truly is.

Tbh, I mostly mean Pete here: we're talking about a guy held in a secluded room - a room that's never ventilated, that's never cleaned and that has 2 inhabitants in it, counting the hedgehog - who's wearing the same underwear the whole time, who hasn't taken a shower in days, hasn't brushed his teeth, barely goes to the toilet (and we don't even know how that was happening, the possibilities for filth are endless), who gets the duvet dirty with the noodle soup, who sleeps on the same sheets the whole time (Vegas never changes them), with his greasy hair and his dirty feet and his unwashed body and his saliva and his sweat and everything.

What I'm trying to say is, that room is a health hazard and probably smells worse than a barn by the end of it.

All of that, of course, makes Vegas' fascination and pure obsession with Pete all the more enticing in my mind. He craves the filth of Pete, he craves the foul taste of his mouth and his ass like nothing else in his life. Just like Pete craves Vegas' emotional filth, hiding below all the layers of his slick minor family heir persona he can't even maintain for long while stuck in there.

Idk if it's too gross to think about (it is), since the fandom had lost its mind by Vegas eating Pete's ass because he was... sitting on the grass... with his underwear on... but to me, and to Amaranth, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

And it's also incredible inspiration for more missing scene fics 😌

[lornasaurusrex]

I miss you Lorna… this is such a mess

This is an old message and I had several other similar messages, but I miss you guys and hope you’re all doing well!! I’m sorry to see nothing has improved.

I saw I was kindly mentioned by @awesomefringey and some other commenters the other day, so just wanted to log in and say hello and log back out for a few more months. 💕

Sending so so much love to all of you. Take care of yourselves and each other, please.

The video is still on YT.

[sockdooe]

I’m so fucking tired of this god forsaken fandom

Can we stop trying to villainize shiro. Can we fucking stop trying to villainize shiro for five fucking minutes.

This is what I mean when K/L shippers can’t fucking make a better Voltron because they can’t even see their own bias for their favorite character.

I’m so done with this fandom.

Like I actually can’t do it anymore.

[is-this-even-relatable]

I’ve seen this a few times and I wanna address it. In the phandom, as a fan of Danny Phantom, you can be a fan however you want.

You’re not wrong for liking what you like. If you don’t care for AU’s and fanon and all the rewriting and fix-its and shipping… then good on you. If you watched the show as a kid and are a fan because you like canon and the show itself makes you happy, then good on you. If you discovered the show recently or as an adult and are diving into a new passion, then good. on. you.

We all love the show, or at least the concepts and vision behind it, that’s why we are fans. (especially the theme song, THAT I think we can all agree is a hecking banger.)

ASIDE 1: What this post is addressing is the concerns from some people who only like canon, or prefer majority of canon over fanon, about feeling left out of the phandom. I’ve also heard some people, who grew up with the show, who’ve said that Butch Hartman is their childhood hero, and feeling awkward and off to the side in the phandom, while people bash on him and the show.

While yes there are problems, and I truly recommend everyone who reads this looking up “Why don’t people like Butch Hartman?” or “What did Butch Hartman do?” and doing a bit of research on your own, this doesn’t mean you can’t still have that childhood respect.

It’s a bittersweet sort of thing, where someone doesn’t turn out to be as great as you’d envisioned they were. Where you have respect for them from the past, and are learning that they’re not who you thought they’d be, and you feel betrayed because maybe your trust was misplaced. But that’s not on you, and you shouldn’t be shamed for wanting to preserve that memory and keep the innocence of your childhood heroes alive.

I myself, have had a huge part of my childhood and formulaic memories, had to be reevaluated once I got older and realized that hey… that was definitely problematic. I was a kid, and didn’t know any better, but the organizers definitely did. I’m glad to have done it because those experiences really mattered to me, but I feel guilty for thinking that because I also now have the knowledge that it wasn’t right. Cultural appropriation is a huge disrespect to the things I thought I was respecting when I was young. So although I appreciate the memories and the time I spent and who it made me today, I can say for a fact I do not condone the ones who orchestrated it, because I have become an informed individual. Because I know better. So I will continue to love the ideals introduced to me, but I will go about it the correct way.

In that thread, I do think that it’s good for everyone to educate themselves on the media you consume, especially on subtle contexts and perhaps why some things get spread around like “butch hartman sucks” rather than just accepting or rejecting hearsay without confirming it for yourself. If you don’t know something, seek to understand it!

But, and I stand by this, any existing or future issues with the show’s aging or it’s creator does not give anyone the right to make any other person feel unwelcome. And if anyone, phandom or otherwise, yells and kicks and screams and or otherwise has a hissy fit at you for liking canon or anything like that… then fuck em.

Nobody can stop you from loving what you love! We are all on earth together, and you truly only live once. So don’t waste the amazing time you have doubting yourself. Don’t spend time reading and consuming content that you don’t want to. If you wanna read canon fics only, never reading crossovers, then you. go. damn. do it.

If you’ve never created anything in your life, never drawn a doodle or written a blurb, you are still a part of the phandom, and we are happy to have you. Leave comments, likes, and reblogs to show your presence and appreciation! Tell the content creators you like the most that you appreciate what they’ve done!

In the end, we are all just people, who one day found ourselves reading/watching/looking at a silly ghost boy who was just 14, and found that we couldn’t look away.

[mla0]

i hate when people portray michael and/or patrick as some kind of master manipulator who was terrible to shaun and stormy. like, in the past, michael sometimes got portrayed with little autonomy, or as childish and overly innocent in a weird way. that in itself is an issue with the treatment of mentally ill characters (infantilization), but the solution isn't to argue that he's actually a monster who only wanted to hurt and mislead people. the same goes for patrick. i don't enjoy the "goofy flirty mass murderer" interpretation for very similar reasons, because in the canon patrick did indeed do some wild shit but i think it's a stretch to say it was out of malice, except maybe towards eric lol

obviously there will be different views of these characters and this isn't meant to be gatekeep-y or anything, i'm just concerned with how certain portrayals can quickly slide into negative biases towards mental illness. i think if you're going on this route you might want to ask yourself why, and consider how it could make the mentally ill people within the fandom feel when they see their own symptoms portrayed by their peers as synonymous with being dishonest or manipulative

[rosalesbeausderholle]

At the end of the day, it just really sucks when you can't even enjoy a new release by your favorite artist because the greater internet has decided she's their acceptable outlet of misogyny and they have to comment or hate on her every move every single time.

[james99999]

Ok i have other drawings in progress but *sigh* i caved in

Give me a character, a pallete and an emotion to draw!

[i do not give any promises on when i'll be done or if it will turn out looking decent]

[vashti-lives]

So like, I have a lot of complicated feelings about the whole discourse around comments and how people comment so much less than they used to but one thing I think people my age have forgotten and younger people have no idea about is that in the era of LJ and the height of ff.net there were A LOT more negative comments than there are today, at least as far as I can see.

For one thing, in the mid 2000s really fucking mean negative comments were so common there was a term for them "flames" and people would regularly mention them in the authors notes of their fics. "No flames or I will delete this story" "flames will be used to roast marshmallows and which Inuyasha and I will eat while laughing at you" "this story contains SLASH! that means boykissing!!! DON'T LIKE DON'T READ! NO FLAMES!!!!!!" etc. You get the picture. It was a different time don't judge. This happened more on ff.net than it did on LJ but it definitely also still happened on LJ.

If you've ever looked into the whole Ms. Scribe thing and puzzled over why anyone believed her, this is why. She was making shit up for fame and attention but lots of authors experienced similar harassment that was actually real. I know people like to be like ~in my day people knew how to use the back button~ but let's be real. Some people weren't using the back button they were going into the comment section to be homophobic and explain all about how you'd burn in hell one day.

I'm not saying nobody gets mean comments anymore but the fact that we don't have a special word for it now and people aren't constantly talking about it in their author notes strongly suggests it's less of an issue.

Even aside from that in 2024 we have commenting etiquette that just, didn't exist in 2004. Its commonly understood now that offering unasked for critique is bad but like, that didn't come out of nowhere. "Are people allowed to send critique to the author of any fic they read?" was an absolutely HUGE fandom fight that got hashed out again and again for years before finally settling on, "mmm let's not." In 2004 this was not a settled debate and imo leaving unasked for critique was much more common, and in fact people who were coming from closed forums and things like yahoo groups felt it was *good* etiquette to always leave critique because that's how it was done in their much smaller communities, which were often more focused on improving specific skills.

If it is true that people leave fewer comments now* we might be experiencing the reality that you can't have your cake and eat it too. The more rules we have about what kind of comments you can and can't make the more people at the fringes are going to decide its safer to just not comment because what if they do the wrong thing and make someone mad? Several years ago my dash was just awash with artists begging people to reblog their art and also awash with artists complaining about the tags people left on the art they were reblogging, it was extremely clear to me that this was a choose one situation. EITHER your art gets reblogged a lot and sometimes people say dumb shit or you shield yourself from bad tags and get a lot fewer reblogs.

There are a number of posts going around right now about how don't you know authors can SEE the comments you leave on bookmarks!! And I've often thought that the end result of this campaign is going to be even less engagement than people are already getting. It's not going to result in nicer comments in the bookmarks its only going to result in less bookmarks.

TBH I actually think getting less negativity in your inbox might be worth fewer comments? Like, I'm not sure fandom made the wrong choice here but I do think continuing to police the kinds of comments people leave is going to continue this cycle so if you really really want your readers to engage with your fic you are going to have to accept that some of those comments will be shit like "UPDATE PLZ" or whatever. I don't think there's a way to get less of the bad comments without getting fewer comments period.

*In addition to everything I've written above there is a part of me that thinks the biggest problem is just that AO3 has a hit counter and LJ didn't and so when people were primarily using LJ they just didn't know how many people read their work without ever interacting. Combine that with the fact that everyone is functionally writing for much smaller fandoms because there aren't mega fandoms like there used to be and you get authors who feel like they're getting less engagement without actually meaningfully getting less engagement, because their OFMD fic isn't getting the number of comments that their 2010s era SGA fic got. Even when they understand OFMD is tiny compared to SGA they don't have the hit counter for their SGA fic to see just how many lurkers there were. the ratio might actually not have been as far off as you think!

[soullessjack]

Amara: I brought your mother back to show you that she isn’t just the perfect mother image in your head and is actually a whole complex flawed human being with her own life

spn fans: oh my gawd mary is such a terrible mother why doesn’t she love her sons immediately and want to just be their mom again she’s literally worse than john