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HEY. OKAY. SO. I went off in the groupchat this morning a little and I think I want to say this in public to ALL of my fellow Fandom Elders. I have been a fangirl online for thirty years now, and YOU KNOW WHAT? I'm tired of my peers apologetically calling themselves ancient grandma fandom mummy hags!
It's not weird that we are here! There are SO MANY OF US! We're not outliers, we're not oddballs. We are occupying a space we CREATED and we are still fucking here, having fun with all our younger online friends, which is COOL AND GOOD and NOT EMBARRASSING ACTUALLY. It's fucking rad.
Look. We *built* online fandom, comrades! We built it with Angelfire and Geocities and the fucking telephone cables we unhooked from our phones to plug into our enormous, boxy desktop computers to suffer through glacial download speeds that today's children can't even fathom. I think we should all agree to stop apologizing for being here when this is our fucking house. An excellent sentiment (not mine):
To all of my beloved young friends - remember this when you get older. You don't need to grow out of fandom. Who the fuck cares if it's cringe? Childlike joy is something to CELEBRATE, NOT SOMETHING TO BURY AND HIDE!
Fandom costs no money! Fandom doesn't require gas mileage or plane tickets! Fandom promotes human connections! The world is cold and miserable and full of pain. Don't fucking give up simple things that fill your heart with joy just because you feel like you should now that you have arbitrarily grown 'too old' to enjoy them.
TBH, middle-aged Star Trek fans were exactly who was frothing at the mouth on BBSs in 1998.
Iâm suddenly laughing at the idea of a cliche noir detective story written in the brutally concise style of Hemingway.
A woman walked into my office. She had legs. I noticed her legs. âI have a problem. I need your help,â she said. They always said that. I knew her legs werenât the problem. I hoped she might want my help with them anyhow.
âCan you pay?â I asked. Of course she could. Her shoes were worth more than my rent. She could pay. âI can pay,â she said. Her eyes were wet. I wondered if anything else was wet. Probably not. I am not handsome. Not since the war. She was looking at my scar. Lots of people do. Most look away. Not her. She did not look away. She looked at my scar and I looked at her legs. There were two of them. I liked that about her. I liked that a whole lot. âWill there be danger?â I asked. There always is. This city bleeds danger, then drinks it right back up again.
âIâm afraid there might be danger,â she said. She had the voice of a beautiful woman. She also had the face and body of a beautiful woman. She was beautiful.
The light from the window was striped. It made stripes on my cigarette smoke. The end of my cigarette crumbled into ash. My marriage had also crumbled into ash.
âI can handle danger,â I said. I patted the butt of my gun. My gun was a Colt. My gun and my scar were all that was left from my time as a soldier. My gun, my scar, and the nightmares. I looked her up and down. âI am good at handling things.â
âItâs about my husband. Heâs gone missing.â
She was not wearing a ring. It means something when a woman does not wear a wedding ring. Usually, it means that she is not married. âSeems your ring has also gone missing,â I said. I hoped her dress would join it.
Her red mouth curved upwards. She was smiling a little. âI donât wear it outside. A diamond that large would only invite trouble.â
âIn my experience, trouble doesnât wait for an invitation.â I looked at her legs again. They were both still there. âWhen did you last see your husband?â
Rent-lowering gunshots:
QUEER IS NOT A SLUR
We reclaimed it way back in the 1980's. It is the accepted term used in academia, in colleges and universities ALL OVER THE PLACE.
I can't believe we have to have this discussion AGAIN. During PRIDE month.
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i do love that gandalf presumably threw a hobbit at a problem one time, and then it worked so well that he just. kept doing it.
the wizard equivalent of turning it off and then back on again is just "have you tried introducing a hobbit into the situation?"
Stop hiding your tags
I like the idea that Bilbo wasn't the first Hobbit he'd tossed at a problem. Every generation or so, he grabs a hobbit and sends them on an adventure.
i mean i have great news for you XD
Love that this implies that Gandalf had a problem with a fairy once, brought in a hobbit, and the hobbit solved it by proposing to her.
gandalf when his chosen Handy Dandy Hobbit of the moment went rogue on problem solving but also potentially created even MORE helpfully enhanced hobbits down the road
I laughed so fucking hard at this
Who Was Using Woobie and When
I did a cursory LJ search, which will admittedly not get everything because the search sucks and because so many people deleted, but I did find:
2004 estrella30 talking about the woobie factor in the context of Sports Night
2005 morganlogan on the starsky and hutch com coyly saying that "I'm afraid many woobies were harmed in the creation of these stories."
2006 garnettrees posting an essay on Nightwing as woobie
2007 elspethdixon reccing a fic with woobie in the title on ship manifesto
And many, many more, including the occasional Asian fandom. But from what I remember, this term was really socked in in LJ slash circles more than in other parts of fandom.
The 2010s is when this escaped containment to the TVTropes crowd, frankly.
Poking around more, the pre-2003 LJ uses of 'woobie' start being more about security blankets or sound more ad hoc... aside from a bunch of Smallville commentary. I wonder if a search of late 90s slash mailing lists would turn up anything interesting.
BTW, just because I found it amusing, the examples above are ones I grabbed because I recognized the names and they're still around.
I have bitched about this before. I will bitch about this again. Do not test me.
Niche pet peeve
Alright fellow writers, we need to have a little talk about clothes. The hem of a pair of pants is the finished edge at the end of the legs. The finished edge at the top of a pair of pants is the waistband. You can certainly reach the Funtime zones by reaching under the hem of a skirt, or a loose pair of shorts, but if you write "he slipped his hand under the hem of their pants," I am picturing lower leg groping at best.
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sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.
I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?
and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.
cops r Some Guy with a Gun
do we want Some Guy with a Gun in this situation? answer is usually "NO"
This is legitimately useful reframing. A while ago I started replacing the word "cop" in my vocabulary with "a man with a gun." It really puts things into perspective.
This homeless person is making me uncomfortable. Should I call [a man with a gun]?
My neighbor is having a loud party. Should I get [a man with a gun] involved?
There are some teenagers skateboarding. Do you think [a man with a gun] would get rid of them for me?
It makes it very clear what you're saying. I can call a man with a gun to threaten or hurt someone mildly inconveniencing me. You're not calling the cops, you're calling A MAN WITH A GUN into a situation that does not warrant a firearm handled by a volatile lunatic who will not be held accountable for his actions.
yeah i drive the truck that isekais all those lonely 20yo NEETs and bored salarymen. itâs a really hard job. they keep sending me to workplace counselling after each hit. âitâs normal to feel guilt at ending someoneâs life,â they say. how do i tell them thatâs not what makes me feel guilty? âbut itâs okay. heâll live a better life in another world.â yeah, with 100 girls who could have lived normal lives but got drafted into being in these boring dudesâ harems. how many womenâs lives have i ruined. and they donât even know. they donât even know
Sounds like you need "His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai" by CabbagePreacher, an actual fic on AO3 about famed abolitionist martyr John Brown getting isekaied to such a world and going on a rampage abolishing harems.
140 CHAPTERS?
Dead Dove Summer The Bingo Cards:
Welcome to the start of Dead Dove Summer!
I have three bingo cards for y'all, One "Lighter" Side with various kinky prompts, a "Darker" side with more taboo/dark prompts, and a Mix 'n' Match board of the two for those that want to dip their toes in on one side or the other.
You can use them as ask prompts, or come up with ideas all on your own! Go for different bingo configurations or go for a blackout! Tag this blog when you do a fill
Most importantly, have fun!
Special thanks to @mancatrex for providing the boards to my paintings! âĽ
The Lighter Side:
The Darker Side:
Mix & Match:
See a list of the prompts themselves below the cut:
Beautiful cow who is mooing at you
@videogamecows
COWPOST RATING: INCORRECT
that is not one of those
I WISH TO PET THEIR NOSE
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"I want to be a dragon."
#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like âi believe i have successfully played a âpractical jokeâ on you :)â#riker loses it & claps him on the back like âwow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that againâ Perfect.
Actually itâs 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer âround numbersâ, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.Â
After all, comedy is timing.
