The fanfiction trope/tag you DO NOT like to read
Fluff
Hurt/Comfort
Hurt/NO Comfort
Dead Dove Do Not Eat
No Beta We Die Like Men
Smut
Cannon X Reader
Cannon X OC
AU (Please tell us what kind in the tags)
Other/Combo (Tell us in the tags below)
See ResultsIf you would ever so kindly reblog for larger sample size, I'd appreciate it <3
i got polls now so i'm kicking this off with something that's been eating at me for a good month or so
this poll brought to you by people calling kazuki and rei from buddy daddies--an anime where, by mere premise alone, they are parenting a child as daddies together--"unshippable" because canon isn't really giving them much in the way of romantic chemistry, and me realizing with a start that people are operating on such vastly different definitions of "shippable" than me that we might as well not be talking abt the same thing at all
my own long answer is: for me a ship can exist as long as the characters exist. period. some things will make me more or less likely to ship them (canon interaction, subtext, motifs, premise, structural parallels etc) but on principle any ship can be "shippable" as long as the barebones elements of a ship, that is to say two or more entities that can be regarded as separate (does not even have to be two different characters per se--selfcest exists), are present. nor does the ship have to be necessarily romantic in nature! as long as you can smash em together in whatever fashion that is a ship and it is shippable. i personally cannot imagine being someone who requires canon to feed me textual chemistry or an overt basis for a ship for my imagination to run in that direction, but i think that depends on the canon and characters also
i really need to stop being surprised when people are like "well there should at least be something in canon to go off of" bc that is like. technically the "normal" way to read media. i forget that most people are not clinically insane over characters
My criteria: Do I think it would be interesting?
That's it.
we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we?
LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!
oh you sweet summer child
Fandom is such a weird place. Like I watched a tv show and thought “wow, these two nerds have a lot of chemistry and I’d like to dedicate a large chunk of my life to thinking about them” so I went in search of other people who also thought these two nerds had a lot of chemistry and then it turned out that a shit ton of people were talking about these two nerds having a lot of chemistry and now it’s 4 years later and we write each other porn on holidays.
anyone else already trying to figure out their yuletide nominations
do you ever have a notp that you antiship so hard that you actually get nauseous when people mention it
pairing you really love
pairing you couldn’t give a shit about even if you tried
Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.
Fandom is people you don’t tell your mother you’re meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.
Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.
Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky’s law and Godwin’s law and Murphy’s law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you’ve ever had them.
Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn’t care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.
Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.
Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.
Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.
Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.
Fandom is where you found yourself.
http://hesychasm.livejournal.com/187818.html (via onelastwaltz)
My husband came to me today and said, ‘I just spent $50 and I think you’ll think it’s silly and a waste of money and I’m sorry.’ I asked him what it was and he said he pitched in for a fanmade billboard to try and keep his NBA team alive and wake up the owners. He looked so sheepish!
I was all, ‘do you even know me?’ as if spending money on your fandom is a waste.
(via wickedcherub)
If you’re new to fandom, don’t hide it from your mother! You’re all in a music club, book club, or part of my writing group. Except for those of you who went to school with me and later moved away.
if you ever feel bad about yourself just remember that if you were a fictional character people would probably love you for all your flaws and quirks and mannerisms that you probably hate so just remember that okay ilu
not if you’re a girl, they don’t
Dan Humphries vs. Carrie Bradshaw in the first round of the teen bracket of Fandom March Madness is a thing of beauty.
yeehaw, i tied for 30th in the fandom march madness brackets this year. did i hear you say that 30th place isn’t impressive? WELL, DID I MENTION IT’S 30TH OUT OF 578? YEAH. BOOM.
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Even Puddings can get brain freeze! 🥶
SHOCKING PROOF that ORANGE CATS have BRAINS!!!
Not enough brain to stop him repeatedly going back for more, lmao.
