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I’m getting lamer by the minute
19 yr old me used to rock the fuck out of my groovy slashcast bag
25 yr old me is tired of people asking what it means and stopped using it :(I still have mine stashed away somewhere! I break it out for cons. :-)
"You want tangible, social benefits to writing fiction? There are people walking around today because other people wrote words that spoke to them. That’ll do."
Warren Ellis (via annie-hall)
alright listen up ya ding dongs cause im gonna lay it down
the reason queer people project onto characters, making them trans or queer themselves in their interpretations??? It’s because
we are not
represented
at all.
And when we are, 95% of the time it’s a horrible stereotype or as a written off one liner, which might as well not be there for all the good it does.
Us projecting onto these characters and making them relateable to ourselves has nothing to do with anything except making feel more comfortable or accepted within the small spaces we create for ourselves in fandom.
You have the canon, because chances are that character WAS written as straight or cis. So like, writing a huge essay to explain WHY A CHARACTER CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRANS OR QUEER IN ANYWAY is just you enforcing what we already know and what we already are told every day of our lives. That we don’t exist, that we have to prove what and who we are.
You’re not telling us anything new. SO us??? deciding to say a character is queer, ESPECIALLY if that character has a narrative related to queerness but has been cishet-ified by cishet writers, literally has no harm on anyone. at all. You don’t need to have everything, so let us have this.
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Relevant to our last episode!
(Source: eatsleepcrap, via vungus)
"Fan fiction is one of the great unsung popular literary movements of the past 50 years, but finding what you’re looking for online can involve sorting through mountains of inadequately-tagged and frequently dodgy text. Archive of Our Own makes it easy: it’s the most carefully curated, sanely organized, easily browsable and searchable nonprofit collection of fan fiction on the web, and it serves all fandoms equally, from The A-Team to Zachary Quinto and beyond."
Archive of Our Own makes TIME’s Best Websites of 2013 (via janoda)
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Episode 41: Fandom Goggles (Even the Kids’ Shows Aren’t Safe!)
S L A S H C A S T
Episode 41: Fandom Goggles (Even the Kids’ Shows Aren’t Safe!)
iTunes| Download Directly | Episode post on our web page | Episode post on our LJ
Featuring:
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A look at the latest in LGBT news with Wook77
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DJin7 talks with Tripperfunster in the Insider Interview
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Kriken and Elanorofcastile pimp Stan/Kyle in South Park fandom
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Elanorofcastile and xtinethepirate, Michelle and Tim talk about My Little Pony and more in the Metachat
Banner by sorkinisms!
Listen! Enjoy! And reblog!
(Source: 8armstoholdyou3heartstoloveyou, via pepperroxd)
"Fan fiction is making teenagers better writers and better satirists, and allowing them to explore sexuality in a way decided by them rather than dictated by the entertainment industry. A purity ring doesn’t carry much meaning when Ron Weasley is pulling it off with his teeth."
The Guardian. (via lucyripley)
“A purity ring doesn’t carry much meaning when Ron Weasley is pulling it off with his teeth.”
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(Source: derbydoom, via until-you-begged-for-mercy-twice)
Vulture tells Mark Ruffalo about Science Bros. Mark loves it, plans to call RDJ about it.
From Vulture:
Does that mean he’s never heard of “Science Bros,” an Internet subculture celebrating the friendship of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, the characters Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. played in The Avengers?
“No, what is that?” he asked.
And then the giggles began.
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- “Yes! It’s me and Robert! Look at this! There’s thousands of them!” Ruffalo tried to contain himself. “It’s called the Science Bros. This is awesome. I’ve never heard of it. Why hasn’t anyone told me about that?”
- “So, are they all quasi-homoerotic?” he asked. “Like tinged with … ” Yup. “That’s cute!”
- Is he now a Science Bros shipper, then? “Yeah! I love it; it’s awesome,” Ruffalo enthused. “I endorse it 100 percent. You know what it is? It’s open-source creativity.”
- Ruffalo couldn’t wait to drop his newfound knowledge bomb on Downey Jr. “I’m going to call him and tell him, and he’s going to laugh his ass off,” Ruffalo said. “He’ll love that.”
I give it until the premiere next week, where Ruffalo is supposed to attend like all the Avengers, until RDJ figures out a plan to troll the fans on the red carpet, in any way.
I’ve said it on twitter when I saw that but this is by far one of the HEALTHIEST, most AMAZING reactions to fanwork I’ve ever seen.Slow clap, Mr Ruffalo, I adored you already but this GOLD.
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