But the funny thing about that is we (as readers/viewers) sometimes miss out on information that might have been interesting. The author didn’t think it was, but fans? Most fans will soak up content like a sponge (see: LotR extended editions, cutscenes, etc). And so we’re likely to ask ridiculous questions like “What is laundry day like at Avengers Tower?” - not because it’s important to the narrative, but because we’re curious. Not to mention: every narrator is an unreliable narrator. Especially the ones who seem the most straightforward. Which means there are a wealth of stories not being told hiding right behind the story that is. Which, I think, gives an inkling of the primary difference between original fic and fanfic: original fic is declarative, saying “here is the story, these are the important events and characters and aspects of the world,” while fanfic is exploratory (even when it’s got a cracking good plot). Fanfic exists in the interstices, in the ellipses and the enjambment. Fanfiction exists in the moment before the wave function collapses.

Fandom as Inhabitation of Negative Space* (via lycanthropique)

What do you mean this isn’t what happened??

rewatching Inuyasha lately, love these two so much :3c 

The head writer and a director of Avatar: The Last Airbender are making a new Netflix Original animated series

Aaron Ehasz, the head writer of ATLA, has started a new production company called Wonderstorm that is producing a new, original animated series for Netflix in conjunction with a AAA video game in the same universe, unrelated to the Avatar universe.

He is being joined by Giancarlo Volpe (Twitter, Tumblr), one of ATLA’s main directors who has also worked on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, and Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

At the moment, Wonderstorm looks like a team of ten, among them: it was co-founded with Justin Richmond (an Uncharted director) and Justin Santistevan from Riot Games, where Ehasz worked from 2012-2015 as a creative director for League of Legends (and Volpe worked as a director for animated content). Aaron Ehasz has also been a writer on Futurama.

This résumé of worldbuilding-heavy TV series and video games looks like it’s the crux of what Wonderstorm’s goals are all about: creating a new fictional world (or worlds?) with deep and broad lore and building a franchise from that across different forms of media, integrated with one another more than you might typically see. Currently it sounds like they’re working on one main original scifi or fantasy universe, with a video game and Netflix Original animated series on the way, and it sounds like from the ground-up they’re focusing on having the show and game coexist meaningfully. Pretty cool!

They’re aiming for a late 2018 release.

Sources: Polygon, VentureBeat

SO I FIND OUT MY FRIENDS AND I ARE ON OUR LOCAL NEWS WEBSITE

We were asked all these questions about how long the costumes took us, how we did it, etc. 

I paused the video right when we were asked how much money we spent on our cosplays and

does that give you your answer

😍 KAWAII 😍

[deep inhale] Boi.

I’ve finally finished it! This thing took me a lot…. ( I’m a learning how to use a Wacom )

‘Escaping the party’ - my fond memories of summertime balcony parties in the city <3 Originally a companion piece for a fic, but morphed into something more of a standalone. (part 9 in the paris series)

stay cool ✌️

BEST way to start an anime:

15 minutes of Bechdel-test passing girl conversation wITHOUT huge boobs or invisible skirts

and the male protag emerges BUCK ASS NAKED

Boku no Hero Academia - Episode 37

Which OC would wake up naked at 3AM handcuffed to the dumpster behind Denny’s

Brief summary of CCS, TRC and xxxHolic

*main character becomes a villain* oh my GOD… oh MY GOd do that again