Having a life in Fandom is a bit like the life cycles of a butterfly, but all of us can’t be Chicken Nugget the non-binary butterfly. Which is our loss really.
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This is the single most accurate thing I’ve ever laid my eyes upon.
It’s the complete results of the Fansplaining Fic Preferences Survey! What were the tropes people loved? The ones they hated? The ones everyone was like ¯_(ツ)_/¯ about? GO FIND OUT NOW!
This is much more detailed than the title suggests and it’s pretty fascinating. Who knew the eighth most popular AU type is “non-coffeeshop retail & service industry”?
Reblog if you’re part of the ‘I read a lot of fan fiction and now I have a bizarrely accurate judgement of how long it takes me to read a particular number of words’ squad
People: This book is 500 pages long.
Me: I have no idea what that means. What’s the wordcount?
So I won several different FTH auctions, and now there are a number of beautifully talented writers, from many different fandoms, who have agreed to write fic in protest of the evil that Trump and his cronies want to bring to the world.
I’ve been thinking of this in my own head as Resistance Fic. Tonight it occurred to me that this could be an actual Thing.
How about it? Every time you post a story in support of freedom, of peace, of diversity, of kindness… Every time you put something out there that would piss off a white supremacist, that would horrify a Nazi… Every time you write something in support of people who might be afraid right now…
How about tagging it with “Resistance Fic?”
Fiction is a powerful thing. It teaches us lessons, open up new horizons, gives us strength when we’re scared or sad. Lets us know we’re not alone.
hey guys if you’re a hockey fan that’s a girl who knows nothing about hockey you’re still valid and don’t need to change yourself even if middle aged white men on twitter hate you for it. Nothing wrong with how you decide to be a fan and you don’t have to fight any stereotype. as long as you’re not hurting anybody you’re valid. all you need to be a hockey fan is being one. the rest is just opinion.
This goes for being a fan of ANYTHING. There is no one ‘right’ way to be a hockey fan or a TV show fan or a comedy fan or a Beyonce fan or a comics fan or a knitting fan. As long as you’re having fun and not hurting anyone, you can choose how to be a fan. And fuck anyone who says otherwise (haters gonna hate).
No matter what show you’re watching
No matter what fandom you’re in
No matter what characters you ship
No matter who your OTP is
No matter what fanfics you do/read
Let’s just all get along and enjoy the shows
Cause they’re all awesome!!