Reel Me In

Yknow, when you keep insisting that adults can’t enjoy fandom or play video games or what cartoons or whatever, it’s other young people that you’re hurting the most. Because the most you’ll do to adults is offend or annoy them with that nonsense, but when you plant that idea in a kid’s head, they grow older with the horrible dread looming over them that the things that bring them happiness and comfort have an expiration date. When I was a young adult, I was genuinely depressed about the thought of getting older because I thought I couldn’t keep enjoying all my hobbies, like I had to give up everything I enjoy once I reach [x] age.

Getting older in fandom mostly just means:

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Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

#new who began and ended with billie piper 👍

Y'all, it gets better. She found out.

update:

“Aren’t you supposed to kiss a handsome stranger at midnight?”

Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

“I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later