Fandom Heretic

a lot of places have a culture that valorizes never sleeping and not eating right and not taking breaks and stuff like that. 

fuck that. I want like

look at how comfortable and well rested I am. I am well-nourished, I take bubble baths, and I have a good work-life balance. 

self-care has made me strong. has running yourself into the ground made you strong?

I will destroy you. and then I will have a pleasant lunch.

Imagine if Julie and The Phantoms and Young Royals, for example, have audio commentaries from the people who made it? Imagine if it's an option on Netflix, like the subtitles, that when you click it (like on the dvd boxsets), the commentaries would be made available?

I see a lot of people implying that wille fucked up by denying it was him in the video or that simon shouldve said i love you back or stuff like that and as much as these choices hurt, they were 100% necessary imo.

Wille never wanted to say anything about the video. For him the ideal way to proceede was not do anything at all, play the waiting game. Not deny whats true, but also not officially come out either. This is consistent with his personality and prevents the least amount of fall out. If he denies it’s him in the video he’s lying and leaving simon to deal with the public alone, which is something he definitely doesn’t want to do. But if he came out, he’d have to deal with so much crap much sooner than he’s ready to. And meta-wise, that would put a huge strain on his relationship with simon. Think about it: he would have come out for simon and then all the shit he would go through would be directly linked to doing it for simon as well. It would really throw wille’s mental health under the bus in favor of simon’s, which is unhealthy. But he wasn’t really presented with the option of “dont do anything”. Per his mom’s request, wille had to say something, address the video somehow. And yeah, maybe he could have just completely gone out of his way to disobey his mom, but guys. This is a 15 year old boy. Even if he has an unhealthy relationship with his mom, he still knows she loves him and trusts her. (That trust is misplaced but he has very little way of knowing what a truly healthy relationship looks like. But thats for another meta). So when she says “the only way to make this go away is to deny it and this is your only chance” its the perfect way to trigger’s wille’s emotional response to hunker down and hide. And so he says what he does. He doesnt want to hurt simon like that, he tried his best to support simon, but at the end of the day they had conflicting needs, and its not fair to put wille in charge of both his and simon’s needs being fulfilled.

And simon responds exactly the way he has to for his mental health. He cant continue to be in a relationship where his needs arent being met. Like sara said, hes willing to let the people he loves shit on him because of how much he cares. But he cant continue to put wille’s needs over his own, as once again, that’s unhealthy. So he tells wille that, and puts his mental health first. But in order to truly put his mental health first he cant continue to sacrifice himself for wille’s comfort. He cant say ‘i love you’ back and make himself vulnerable (and it out be ooc for him to backtrack like that anyway).

He is just way too nice for his own good. I think this is his first time getting this kind of response and outreach from fans and so of course he's thankful and would probably reply to every single one if he could, but the requests I'm seeing on Twitter are getting weirder and more aggressive and I really think he should take Omar's advice that it's okay to say no to fans sometimes.

“Representation isn’t about pressing things into places where they don’t exist. It’s about portraying reality as it actually is, because we don’t do that.”

“ when you do stories about the working class or the lower class, it’s very obvious. Then, you talk a lot about class. Journalists ask you those questions, those issues are debated. But when you do stories about the upper class, the class issue isn’t brought up in the conversation surrounding the piece.

“When we depict the working class through Simon and Sara, I don’t want it to be portrayed as the working class is usually portrayed. That it’s dirty, poor, problematic, with problematic family relationships.... it also shows how the working class can be.”

“that it’s still hard to be homosexual or bisexual or LGBTQ+ at these schools. You think that the rest of Sweden has come far, we’re at the forefront, we have democracy and equality and equality between the sexes. But there are people at these schools who might be together with their roommate, but that’s not talked about until a long time has passed”

“I think it was important that this LGBTQ+ theme that it isn’t a sign, that it just exists in the world.”

As filmmakers at some point you have to take a stand about reproducing certain stories around LGBTQ+ characters, and instead just let them be people and characters who “happen to” have a certain sexual orientation or a certain identity, but that’s not at the forefront, it’s there as part of their character.”

“Creating representation is just about saying: Let’s look at the whole world. Let’s look at all the stories that can be told and that aren’t told, and are actively disregarded”

“That’s what I like about making this into a youth series, we constantly show and we trust our audience. We don’t have to tell our audience how they should feel and think or what is right or wrong”

“ so important to have a wide search in casting, and not be stuck on a particular skin colour or a certain clothing size, or whatever”

“in film or tv, you look for the things you’re familiar with. It’s a vicious circle when you don’t see people like you portrayed. Then you don’t think you stand a chance, and you don’t apply for things.”

“And then somebody is watching this and seeing themselves in it. Maybe they cry maybe they laugh, it’s magic”

“That we talked about, was that we’d cast real young people. That they’d look like real young people, because a lot of the dramas I watched, I loved everything, everyone I saw... but I was never able to feel that “she looks like me”, we might think about the same things but that person is gorgeous. We have the most beautiful cast in the world.. but they look like real people.. it’s so damn important ” “and most importantly they’re not 30 year olds playing 16 year olds”

That’s something.. the pressure, that anxiety, that coverage that isn’t just like normal media, but anybody could film you... that’s something we worked hard on in this series because it’s something that is part of everybody’s not just young peoples lives.”

“Whereas now, you’re meant to have YouTube channels or you can look at the whole Megxit thing, and just posting or participating in the media where ordinary people are. This causes that last wall to fall, in front of the small private space you may have”

“You want to get famous. You want attention. You might think that you want attention, when you might need acknowledgement. But attention doesn’t have to be positive. It can be very damaging. Everybody needs that acknowledged. To feel that you’re capable and pretty or whatever it is. That you are enough.”

“Those who become known on social media... often have a particular socioeconomic background. You must be able to afford to buy things or be able to generate collaborations.. the class structure is perpetuated”

“At that age, you feel a lot of things very deeply. You think it’s your last chance. Or, “I will never” it’s rewarding to dramatise and work with..

@dc - here are my demands:

give me damian with wiggly teeth n gap-toothed smiles

give me damian baring his teeth at a villain to Intimidate™ them but it kinda falls short bc he’s missing his whole-ass front tooth

give me damian constantly wiggling his tooth day in n day out so much that it hurts but in that weird, addicting kind of way that you just can’t stop doing it

wiggly teeth annoy the fuck out of damian n they’re really distracting to him but he doesn’t let anyone pull it out bc the league used to do that really harshly, like even if the tooth was just a little bit wiggly n it hurt him :( 

just yanking wiggly teeth out is fucking terrifying to me jfc

give me bruce angsting over the fact that he missed his baby’s entire childhood only to realize through a really nonchalant remark at the dinner table that dami still has a good amount of baby teeth left n it just hits him like a fucking freight train that his baby is still a baby

suffice to say the batfam takes tooth fairy shenanigans wayyyy too far

give me damian + the fam fighting a bunch of criminals in a dark alleyway and damian spends the entire time distracted, wiggling a loose tooth n a goon gets a lucky shot in

the guy punches him across the face hard. it goes by really fast so all dami can really remember is stumbling and falling and the next thing he knows he’s spitting out blood and his tiny baby tooth. his tiny. BABY. tooth.

everyone just stares at it for a good five seconds before the batfam goes fucking feral on that poor dude’s ass

damian amidst the chaos thinking ‘huh that was efficient’ n purposefully seeking out random bad guys to fight so they can knock his wiggly teeth out baby that’s not healthy jadsdnjkasd

give me damian bein small enough to hide behind his dad & older siblings

like yeah the brat’s as confrontational and in-your-face as you can get, but conversations can get overwhelming n sometimes he just doesn’t want to interact w people

so he just,,, ducks behind the nearest batfam member and waits for the other person to stop talking so they can leavvvvveee

he’ll periodically peek out from behind whoever he’s hiding behind to glare at the other person

it’s a wonder how brief and concise conversations can be when there’s a tiny angry little gremlin glaring at you

family members with capes are most preferred bc they’re more easy to hide behind - so that means tim, steph, cass n bruce

but damian hides behind jason a lot too bc he’s so small n jason’s so much bigger than him, it makes him the ideal hiding spot

“uhhh jay?” “yeah?” “not to freak you out or anything but i just noticed there’s a big lump in the back of your jacket.” “no there isn’t.” “um??? yeah there is? it’s right ther-” “what fucking lump. there’s no fucking lump. shut up”

jason would rather die again than admit it but he likes it when dami hides behind him, it’s like a silent show of trust n it makes his Big Brother Instincts™  (that he totally has) go completely insane 

he even considers getting a cape just cuz it would make it easier for damian to hide but ultimately decides against it bc a cape and a leather jacket?? would look kinda stupid

plus damian doesn’t seem to mind the capelessness so.

the first & second time damian instinctively hides behind jon’s cape to avoid a conversation, poor superbaby is very very confused

the third, fourth n fifth time he turns bright pink

by the sixth time he ends up just absentmindedly staring at the other person w a bright red face and a half-lovestruck expression n that other person just. slinks away.

sorry i had to add in that little bit of jondami y'all know i have no self-control

give me big brother tim. GIVE ME BIG BROTHER TIM JFC

tim is designated Big Brother With A Cape™ and fuck everyone who thinks damian wouldn’t exploit that

im talking these two cuddling on rooftops in the middle of patrol or a stakeout bc damian gets cold really easily

like damian would just be sitting in tim’s lap and tim would wrap his feather-cape around them

they look like one ginormous bird-lump-thing

for some reason they naturally gravitate to cuddling on ledges and yeah dick does not get Good Vibes™ from that, but he knows they’re capable n he trusts them to take care of themselves 

is it ooc to make them love each other? maybe. but fuck canon so.

give me one of the other batfam members finding tim and dami nestled together like this on a ledge and they’re just like

“what the hell are you do-” “we’re roosting. fuck off”

“scoot over im joining” “nope. this is strictly a robins only activity.” “…wtf i was robin too?” “no i mean current robins only” “but you’re?? not robin either??” “im red robin dumbass it’s in the name”

“im changing my name” “you can’t just fucking do that.” “too late im Robin-Hood now.” (it goes on n on ‘night-robin’ ‘bat-robin’ ‘signal-robin’ ‘spoiler-robin’ etc. etc.)

tim lets them join even tho they’re all cheating cheaters who cheat

damian was just knocked tf out in tim’s lap the entire time so he doesn’t have to listen to all this bullshit :)

I've already seen like 5 content creators making videos about Rey Kenobi the first few minutes it is announced, and it just keeps coming. But none of them dedicated a video to talk about John Boyega's treatment and most of them just went "yeahh cool lemme retweet enough activism for today." And opening older wounds... lmao no one defended Kelly Marie Tran with the same intensity either when the issue first came to light.

How cool. Well, let's suggest a few:

Nnedi Okorafor is wonderful. Her book Who Fears Death is stunning.

Nalo Hopkinson is one of my favourite authors. Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, Skin Folk (short stories), The Salt Roads and other remarkable books are out there waiting for you. (Nalo was also a huge support for me when I wrote Anansi Boys, reading it, guiding, and working with me on the Caribbean dialogue.)

N.K. Jemisen is a powerful and brilliant author. Her new novel, The City We Became, is a glorious fantasy about the personifications of cities, and Lovecraftian abominations with Lovecraftian tendencies.

So I’ve been working on writing Merlin fanfic and, like a moron, I decided I wanted it to be more historically accurate because the actual canon is a shitshow about that.

I start doing some writing, some researching, and discover that stirrups won’t arrive in Britain until the 10th century or so. King Arthur is like… early 500′s roughly.

So no stirrups. That’s not a big problem. Except it is argued that it might have been a major contributor to feudalism. Which, ok, good to know. So Arthur is pre-feudalism, got it. Shouldn’t change too much, right? (wrong)

Oh, what’s this that feudalism requires for those new wealthy landowners?

Fucking. Primogeniture.

(friendly reminder: this is the right of inheritance for the firstborn son. Like for land, or titles of nobility… or kings)

So if my research is right, King Arthur didn’t have an inherent right to the throne because he was the firstborn male heir. He was fucking ELECTED. (or maybe a lady in the lake threw a sword at him, who knows, this is all myth anyway)

But the fucking kicker?

The thing that DOESN’T EXIST in King Arthur’s time?? Because feudalism won’t show up for several centuries?

Fucking.

Knights.

In summary, the story of King Arthur is just modern day fanfiction from medieval/feudal Europe with rampant OCs, overpowered everyone, too much fucking drama, and like three different werewolves.

There’s literally a book exploring this and how modern retellings have continued the spirit of High Medieval versions called Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy. Because silk and potatoes, like stirrups, knights, and feudalism, also didn’t exist in post-Roman Britain.

please reblog this post, especially if you live outside of the philippines. please help us.

i didn't make the carrd, but it's one of the most useful links right now. #JunkTerrorBillNow needs the most urgency, but there are other issues present too.

i hope you can give me a few minutes of your time! please help us junk the anti-terror bill which is being legislated into law to strip us of our freedom of speech. wih this, the government can point at anyone and call them a terrorist. any criticism, even if it’s a joke or A MEME can be used by the government against us. 

i no longer feel safe to express my discontent on my various social media accounts nor do i feel safe to do the following because i might be tracked down.

if you have a few minutes, please e-mail this text with the subject “JUNK TERROR BILL”

“We urge for the rejection of the so-called “Anti-Terror Bill” to protect the fundamental rights of the Filipinos to freedom of speech.” 

PLEASE send this e-mail to:

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so @iant0jones reblogged the following post and her tags (pictured below) coupled with this other post, gave me an idea for an AU:

Ianto worked in a museum before Torchwood, right? so i’m thinking maybe he’s tasked with sorting through boxes and boxes of WWII materials, and they include one entire box of correspondance between Jack and one of his lovers from the 1940s, and so Ianto is carefully archiving all these love letters and enclosed photographs and souvernirs and he develops a weird history-crush on this American volunteer RAF Captain who was having an illicit affair with a Welshman soldier who was stationed somewhere else during the war, and he’s following the story obsessively like it’s one of those soap operas his mother likes so much, reading about these two star crossed lovers reminiscing about the last time they met and handling the little presents they’d send each other with the utmost care, and he’s dreading reaching the end of the box because he doesn’t want their love story to end, even as he knows this happened 70+ years ago and it probably didn’t have a happy ending because… well, WWII. and queerness in the 1940s. as a queer man himself he’s captivated. this is why he loves history. 

eventually, he reaches the last letter, and he learns how it ended: he was right, it ended tragically. the letter is written by Jack to his dead lover who fell in battle and he never sent it, he wrote it and put it in the box where he put all the other things he had to remind him of his lover, he wrote it to tell him goodbye, because he didn’t get to say it in person, and if Ianto cries when he reads it then well, there was no one else in the archives with him, so no one could prove it.

fast forward a few months and he’s caught in the crossfire between Torchwood and some aliens, and it’s not the blue-skinned funny-looking aliens with the tentacles and the weird weapons that almost give him a heart attack, it’s Jack motherfucking Harkness, not looking a day older than in the WWII-era photographs he would send his lover in the 1940s, who comes out of fucking nowhere and tackles him to the ground behind a black SUV to get him out of the line of fire. he’s even wearing the fucking coat, the one his lover always praised in his letters, and Jack is surprised when the civilian he tackled knows his name, but he’s even more surprised when he ends up being vital in neutralising the aliens without any casualties. quick on his feet, resourceful and terribly handsome, Jack can’t help but notice…. maybe they have a vacancy at the Hub this young man could fill-

his thought process is interrupted by Ianto grabbing him by the lapels of his coat and demanding an explanation. not about the aliens, he was born and raised in Cardiff, after all, this is hardly his first alien encounter (Torchwood 3 is not as good at keeping secrets as they think), but about the box of WWII-era letters he spent weeks on, and damn is that where his trunk ended up? Jack hadn’t thought of James in years. 

the problem with being immortal, Jack thinks, is that mortals tend to think your personal possessions are historic objects they have a right to take and display for everyone to see. 

long story short: Ianto gets a new job, Jack is eventually convinced by Ianto to leave the letters to the museum for the new the lgbt+ history collection they’re putting together (Ianto steals any incriminating photographs since Jack is still strutting around the UK and he needs to keep his longevity a secret), they promptly fall in love and in bed together (roughly around the same time), they fight aliens and build a family (a.k.a. the team), the end. 

also because Ianto is a historian and an archivist he keeps asking Jack the most weirdly niche questions about how life was in the past, and sometimes Jack has answers and sometimes he has no idea what Ianto’s talking about even though he lived through that time, but that’s okay because Ianto never minds if Jack doesn’t know, and he’s always so happy that Jack indulges him. plus, it’s so nice to have someone to talk to about the changes that come with time and about the decades he’s lived through; even if Ianto hasn’t lived through them himself, sometimes Jack thinks he knows more about them that Jack himself does. and Jack hasn’t had someone to talk to who understood how history works, how varied and contradictory and real it all is, since back when he was still with the Time Agency. but Ianto gets it. Jack wishes his vortex manipulator still worked, then he could take Ianto back to see the past for himself. Jack’s never met anyone who’d enjoy time-travel more. (maybe at some point Jack finds a way to take him on a few trips…)

ianto jones + being a reliable & efficient king