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i need them badly

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*white knuckling the bathroom sink* do NOT infodump ppl about the fact that the first spn fic was a wincest one and that it was posted mere hours after the pilot and that the founder of ao3 was a wincestie and that the first fic on ao3 was wincest too and that the omegaverse as we know it was created by wincest shippers for jared/jensen fics *pointing at myself in the mirror with a shaky hand* ppl will think you're weird and off-putting you need to control yourself–

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literally rio this episode

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Her mother can’t have her

Agatha Harkness and Rio Vidal in Agatha All Along 1.05

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Cannot believe we’re getting canon middle aged lesbian witches on a Marvel tv show airing on Disney+. It’s an amazing day to be a lesbian

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Agatha Harkness and Rio Vidal AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024) 01x04 | "If I Can't Reach You / Let My Song Teach You"

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"A long time ago, I loved someone. She is my scar."

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AUBREY PLAZA as RIO VIDAL in 01x01 "Seekest Thou the Road" AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024)

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AGATHA HARKNESS and RIO VIDAL Agatha All Along (2024) dir. Jac Schaeffer

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On being an older fangirl

I was probably 10 years old when I first conceived of what was, looking back, fanfiction. Me and my best friend would lie in bed together on sleepovers and I'd make up stories about what happened after the end of our favorite book, "The Westing Game." She'd ask me for more stories, and I'd tell her more, inventing them as I went along. "Then what?" she'd say.

I was 14 when I went to my first convention. I had discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was 1987, and my youth pastor was a huge Trekkie. He took me to a one-day crappy Creation con, but it was amazing to me. I met Nichelle Nichols. My dad showed me the Trek movies. He and I watched TNG together.

When I went to college in 1991, my dad used to videotape TNG episodes onto VHS tapes and mail them to me, so I could keep watching (I didn't have TV in my dorm room).

By the time I was a senior, we had Trek watching parties in the dorm lounge, where the TV had cable. Star Trek: Voyager had started up, and I wrote a column about it for the college newspaper. I joined a mailing list about it, with people in it that I still know today.

I got my first computer that could go online in 1995. I was on newsgroups. I discovered Doctor Who. I went to Trek conventions where we still passed around fanzines containing fic and art and smutty K/S fan creations.

Then it was Harry Potter. Then there were websites. Then there was Geocities, where we could all make our own little spots. We organized them into webrings. We talked on newsgroups and mailing lists. There were fanfic archives. Then there was fanfiction.net.

Then...there was LiveJournal. And we could interact in entirely new ways. We could form communities, and debate things, and fight over canon, and get into ship wars. On LiveJournal, I met my best friend of 22 years. I was in her wedding. She's my sister of the heart (which is what she calls me).

Then there was Tumblr. And Twitter. And now there's Discord. But it's all the same.

I am the same.

I am still that little girl who made up fanfiction in her head to entertain her best friend. I am still the one who was amazed to find communities on the internet - which was so new, so raw, so uncommodified - where others like me could meet. I found there people to meet in real life.

I am still that twentysomething going to her first major convention, being told that someone loved my fic, being asked about my writing process.

I am still that thirtysomething watching something I wrote blow up. Seeing friends from other fandoms find me in new ones, finding them there, too. Forgetting which fandom I know someone from, because I've known them for twenty years.

I still know some of the people who created those early websites, those mailing lists, those archives. I still meet people in new fandoms who say "Oh, I read your fic in [fandom] fifteen years ago!" There's no feeling quite like having someone remember something you wrote for that long. Or meeting someone whose fic meant a lot to YOU, or who you talked with on rec.arts.drwho.creative in 1997.

Aging in fandom is a gift. Being middle-aged in fandom is a joy. Having people who still read what I write and ask "Then what?" is a blessing.

It breaks my heart that so many people see it as something to be ashamed of, when it is one of my life's greatest gifts.

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i love being unhinged bc i actually did just watch the actual legitimate canonisation of rhaenyra targaryen and alicent hightower’s romantic relationship and literally no one can tell me otherwise

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Sisko: I lost my wife to the Borg and dedicated years of my life to creating the perfect weapon against them Picard: I lost a part of myself to the Borg in ways that have haunted me beyond death Janeway: skill issue, I blew them up and rescued a funky lil lesbian along the way

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Sometimes, duty is the death of love.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 2, Episode 8, “The Queen Who Ever Was”

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022—)

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DAENERYS STORMBORN OF HOUSE TARGARYEN, RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE IRON THRONE, RIGHTFUL QUEEN OF THE ANDALS AND THE FIRST MEN, PROTECTOR OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, THE MOTHER OF DRAGONS, THE KHALEESI OF THE GREAT GRASS SEA, THE UNBURNT, THE BREAKER OF CHAINS.

THE PRINCESS WHO WAS PROMISED!!!!!!