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i think that people should start using “in poor taste” as a descriptor again given it is often the most applicable and clearest phrase when discoursing about media and analysis; sometimes a piece of art isn’t actually THE most problematic thing of all time is is. just in poor taste (not JUST in poor taste as a reductive take on potential harm but/and as in regardless of intent the impact is this was an offensive or stupid take/choice)
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does anyone else feel like most of the fandom community cares way more about what’s cannon than they need to?? I feel like that’s a really easy way to get yourself disappointed, yk? like isn’t the point of fandom to focus more on the characters instead of the cannon plot? why does wether it’s cannon or not always need to be brought up?
Like especially if you ship primarily queer ships, at a certain point, (no shade but esp if it’s anime) aren’t you kinda setting yourself up for failure? I’m not saying queer ships don’t deserve to be represented but, like, why does what’s cannon matter so much to you??
#that's why my research thesis talks about goncharov and how there's a fan created canon and a queer fanon for a nonexistent movie#because the heart of the fandom is the communal joy of fan activities
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is this what she meant
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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?
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I'm dying.
Nonnie, seriously?
No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.
Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.
A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.
Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.
Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/
For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.
Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)
Here's the name discussion
Here's the poll that came out of it
But also notice how many people voted: 562.
That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.
Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.
Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.
You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.
The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.
#thanks to ao3 i could write my thesis#but fr i have gone through all this and i just wish i could have attended conventions even in those days it was mostly usa centric right?#ugh i have read so many fandom fics where characters are fic authors meeting at convention au#fandom culture
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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????
IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN
IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"
AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS
LIKE READ THIS SHIT
WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE
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You! American fan of foreign or otherwise un-American media! Are you aware of the nuances and cultural differences that are portrayed in that media and have an understanding that you as an outsider looking in should be careful with the lenses you analyze that media in because you have a different perspective that is not catered to?
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"you need to let it go" that would be really cool, unfortunately I'll take it with me to the grave
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remember in fleabag when claire and fleabag were sitting at the cemetery and claire said "I can't wait to be old" like i don't know why but that line fundamentally changed my brain chemistry. she said it so tiredly but at the same time how fucking revolutionary is it to see someone on television express anything other than distaste for getting older, especially a woman? claire is my fucking favorite
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I am so proud to say that my college is so LGBT friendly, that in a survey Res Life put out they forgot to include straight people.
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Tumblr Tuesday: Women Loving Women in Art
It's Lesbian Visibility Week, an excellent time to be celebrating women who love women. Give it up for the sapphics, their muses, and the gorgeous art that honors them.
@greenfinchg:
@ripleylarue:
@femmegrey:
@mimimar:
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@yinza:
@emiuli:
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@circusbutch:
@jaxalope:
@drizzledrawings:
@suwisuwii:
@gibbarts:
@bearybutch:
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wait do those tin can phones really work?? I thought this was all a myth.
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damn they had chasers in ancient rome
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