#firstofoctober

M: A person who got you into a fandom and what fandom they pulled you in to.

This is a good question because I'm like a weird skittish cat and have to be tricked into getting into something. Lol. I actually think all my major fandoms have been mostly coincidence. I got a Harry Potter book from a scholastic book order. I got into Doctor Who randomly after clicking a link to some pirate streaming site in 2008 and watching Blink without any context. Tales from the Borderlands came with the Telltale bundle I purchased when I got my ps4 because it was the cheapest way to purchase all the twdg games. I watched Arcane because Tumblr told me there were lesbians.

I guess maybe the most clean-cut one is Life is Strange, which I played the day it released on Mac at @thereisnolaughterinschool's insistence. Good call. Gonna play it again tomorrow.

W: 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms.

In no particular order and using a selection of fandoms where I can easily name one lol:

Viktor (Arcane)

Sasha (Tales from the Borderlands)

Clementine (Telltale's Walking Dead Game)

The Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Ellie (The Last of Us)

I could NOT decide between Max and Chloe lmao. Items sold together. Do not separate them

Z: What’s a ship that you want to ship publicly, but everyone on tumblr hates it so you keep your mouth shut about it?

Well if that was how I felt why would I tell you :P

oh I AM pleased to have the opportunity to recount this story: 

Whatever shakes out, though, he’s never forgotten the lesson he learned while acting as an extra during The X-Files‘ third season.

“I swear to god, I was starving and I grabbed a hot dog off the craft services table,” he says, laughing. (For those not in the know, extras aren’t usually allowed to touch food put out for a series’ regular cast and crew.) He was fired on the spot.

“And this woman said I would never work again in Hollywood. I would be blacklisted and I would never, ever work in the business!” he says, laughing harder.

Michael Bublé Celebrates NBC's Christmas in Hollywood, Revisits His Season 3 X-Files Stint Gone Wrong

100% agree. Their relationship status is so inconsistent in Season 11 but I feel like where they are in This is the most in character. They are so comfortable with each other while still being adorable, and basically co-habitating. (Thanks to the line “we can’t go to our home” OUR home!)

lol I feel like Generation Z never had to post fic on fanfic.net with a disclaimer along the lines of: “I don’t own Harry Potter! I am only a poor college student, please don’t sue me!”

The thing is, fanfiction is still kind of a legally grey area. These characters that we write about are, for the most part, copyrighted properties. They are not ours. For the most part, fanfiction writing has become well tolerated across the board, but that was not always the case (see Diana Gabaldon and Outlander series). But otherwise fanfiction is pretty well known and well tolerated. Which I think is great! Unless you have a burning desire to write Outlander fic, you can pretty much write as much fic as you want for Riverdale without worrying that RAS and the CW are going to pursue you for it.

Still, the key is that fanfiction is a hobby, we do it for free. We are not profiting off someone else’s work. As soon as you profit off someone else’s work, I don’t think it is a legal gray area. If that author or rights-holder decides to make an example out of you, I don’t think you will win that lawsuit. To me, its analogous to opening a fast-food burger restaurant called MacRonald’s and putting up golden arches as your logo. McDonald’s will shut you down for that, and few would dispute MacDonald’s rights to do so.

Realistically, is Marvel or the CW or Star Wars or whatever going to spend the time and effort required to go after you if you are selling fanfiction for $30.00 a pop? Probably not. But IMO, I think they could, and I personally would not take the risk.

I do think there are some legally gray areas in between all of this. If you write fic in return for a donation to charity (which I have done), is that legal? TBH I don’t know. Probably no rights-holder would come after you for that from a PR perspective. 

what podcast? a hdm one?

5. what’s your comfort show?

Well sometimes it’s whatever show is currently my favorite which changes, but the ones I consistently go back to rewatch and find comforting are how I met your mother, friends, and parks and rec

28. who would be your dream cameo on your favourite show?

hmmm this is a hard one. Partially b/c I don’t have 1 favorite show so this is really just what came to me first, but I’m currently watching Dr. Quinn and honestly an X-Files crossover ep where Mulder and Scully solve an x-file in Colorado Springs and Scully and Dr. Quinn being their awesome, strong, dr selves together would have been the best! I can totally picture it and I bet it would have happened if they were on the same network 

50. what’s one TV cliche you love?

I feel like this is basically synonymous with my fave fanfic tropes, soooo mutual pining/slow burn romance and found family are two of the biggest