jackthevulture:

No offense i didnt spend my entire childhood being made fun of for my interests, fear judgement all the way through my teens and early adulthood, and learn to love what i love free of shame so I could be made to feel bad for enjoying something harmless because “the fandom ruined it/made it cringey” 

A 50-year Trekkie bestows Star Trek history upon the next generation: How fandom and fanfiction sparked the galaxy’s most controversial romance

spockslash:

skyywalkerfen:

legobiwan:

stars-inthe-sky:

A wonderful piece about fandom history, friendships, and legacies.

Dee called AO3 a “candy store,” and said the fan art she has seen, in particular, has been overwhelming. “I cannot get over the art,” she said. “We would have jumped at this. I would’ve given my right tit for all this art when I was in my twenties. Because you couldn’t reproduce it, you couldn’t send it out, but [now] there’s this fabulous art coming out every single day.”

Yes. Yes. Yes.  This is how it happened.  Excellent article.

Thanks to the author for permission to share this here, and for being
just a really nice human being, and big thanks to the artist who did my
mom’s portrait, above. -Zachary

A 50-year Trekkie bestows Star Trek history upon the next generation: How fandom and fanfiction sparked the galaxy’s most controversial romance

keydreamer:

angel-with-a-pipette:

Unpopular opinion:

I hate how the fandom now only sees Kairi as a means for Lea to remember Xion. She’s been put on the sidelines for ages, her clones get more attention and love than her and now she’s being relegated to being a copy herself.

It’s unfair.

PREACH

Just because we’re upset about them getting sidelined does not excuse doing the same to Kairi. We–and they–deserve better than that. Let’s lift up all our girls and give them the chance to shine.

Fandom Gothic

red–thedragon:

kari-izumi:

dedicatedfollower467:

  • You are 187 chapters into this fic. You have been reading continually since you began. You must find out what happens next.
  • An unfinished fic ends on a cliffhanger. It hasn’t been updated since April 1832.
  • A new show has taken over Tumblr. You see the gif sets everywhere. Intrigued, you go looking. You cannot find the show. Five days later the posts disappear as if they never existed.
  • Your favorite author posts a new fanfic. It is a different fandom than the one you followed them for, but still one of yours. This keeps happening. You suspect the author may be stalking you.
  • The gifs of the new trailer come out before the new trailer does. People shush you when you question this. You cannot ask questions about the space-time continuum.
  • You find a new person to RP with. You send them a message and they respond two years later as if there was no time gap. It is possible that for them, there was no time gap.
  • This fanart looks nothing like the character. And yet. It looks exactly like the character.
  • A shipping war begins. You watch the body count climb higher and higher as it becomes more violent. Blood streams from your face and you clutch your weapon to your chest. Afterwords, the survivors sometimes stare with blank eyes and mutter “Harmony…. Harmony…”
  • That character is clearly a Slytherin. The rest of the fandom seems to think they are a Huffelpuff. There is something wrong.
  • There is a new coffee shop au for your ship. It is exactly like every other coffee shop au for your ship. It is exactly like every other coffee shop au for every ship. You begin to suspect there has always only ever been one coffee shop au.
  • You dare not say the true name of Binkydonk Cucumbershoots. Demon names have too much power.
  • The Supernatural fans have a gif for everything. They cannot be stopped by mortal means.
  • You begin reading a fic at four in the afternoon. When you next look up it is nearly dawn, and you don’t know what day it is.

I feel called out

  • This fanart looks nothing like the character. And yet. It looks exactly like the character.

did you mean: every unmasked rvb character drawing ever

Reblog if you are into Polyamory Shipping/Ship

red–thedragon:

dragonfly-the-twink:

red–thedragon:

science-husband:

ssironstrange:

fearstainedxwinter:

It can be your OT3, or maybe your OT3+

you bet your motherfucking ass i am

drpepperony
winterironstrange
frostironstrange
thunderironstrange

basically any ironstrange+ ship tbh

Frostironstrange

Thor/Bruce/Valkyrie

Peter/Shuri/MJ

Megasoundstar (don’t @ me)

Ratchet/ambulon/pharma (also don’t @ me)

The entire djd but slash this time

There’s more but it’s six am and I don’t remember them djsjshsb

@red–thedragon I’m @-ing you only cause I wanna say yeeha those are some good ships man

I ship the same

I have an unfortunate tendency to look at one person murdering the other and go “ooooh ship” and lbr I just don’t want to deal with the fallout from that so that’s what I meant by don’t @ me lmfao

Sorikai

Team Free Love

Joyfire

Mcspirk

lbr I prefer OT3s, they eliminate needless drama