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emma wolfe '24 (it is not actually common for people to include their real names on tumblr, but i figured it was necessary for grading purposes) she/her
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The Life of Griffith 743
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Exactly 20 years ago (give or take a few days) like most French schoolchildren I was given a piggy bank to collect yellow coins (small change). It was a charity campaign called Opération Pièces Jaunes, to help hospitalised children, but my classmates & I were quite indifferent to the charity aspect because all we cared about was the fact that our teacher started giving us a candle in the shape of President Jacques Chirac every time we returned our little box filled with coins.
We were completely enraptured by those candles and the way the president’s face would start melting hideously if we let them burn long enough. Without any kind of deliberation among ourselves we turned it into a class-wide contest—it was obvious to everyone that the point of the Yellow Coins charity campaign was to win many little Chiracs and melt them to make the face of our president as freakishly deformed as possible. We exchanged them for pogs and marbles. We had recently learnt about the Plague in history class, with great relish, hence one lucky girl who managed to obtain a particularly monstrous half-melted face with a big wax bubble reminiscent of a bubo sold it way above the going rate, for 12 galaxy marbles—a fortune. (I was among the losers of this auction, and commented in my diary, with deep regret, “It’s just what it would look like if the President had the bubonic plague!”) Every day after school we went round town begging passersby for coins with something akin to mania in order to get more Chiracs to burn into ever ghastlier shapes. An old lady we ambushed in front of the church praised us warmly for our charitable spirit.
Eventually our teacher ran out of candles and this odd chapter of my childhood ended as abruptly as it had started. Our class was congratulated in front of the whole school for being by far the most ardently devoted to the cause (we got ~15kg of coins.) I wonder if the principal asked our teacher what her secret was to make us collect a truly astonishing amount of coins compared to the other classes, and how he reacted when she replied that she motivated us with busts of the President. One teacher gave a Carambar for a full box of coins, another believed that helping sick children should be incentive enough, but our teacher, an expert in child psychology, was alone in her conviction that the best way to go about this was to hand out human wax effigies for her students to burn.
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it might have taken 12.5 hours, but i made it alllll the way up the northeast regional already this year!
Let us all have hope this year that you might get to ride on at least one train this year
#amtrak#i was getting delirious by the end but that was Not The Fault of Amtrak#and far more to do with my lack of sustaining snacks
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A comprehensive summary of the chaos that was the Netflix Cup:
- as the drivers/golfers walk onto the course a woman and a man are apprehended (by one of the hosts(?)) as they are waving posters and screaming something. lando was unbothered by this.
- everyone was introduced except alex for some reason
- the “speed” hole
- mark wahlberg is there. his daughter is interviewed and she reveals her favorite driver is lando. lando is once again unbothered by this.
- lando picking up his ball and being disqualified from the hole
- the golfers BOOKING IT and the hosts having shocked reactions to this feat (“who says golfers aren’t athletic!”)
- justin thomas to carlos “what did [host] say?” carlos “he said i’m pretty”
- random cuts to prerecorded nonsense
- the sphere being referred to solely as the egg
- the hosts making fun of the golfers and the golfers making fun back (very interesting i would not expect this level of sass from golf)
- pierre reveals he is a passenger princess “I don’t actually drive on the roads. i don’t like it.”
- shots of lando and carlos playing but pierre and alex are hot-mic’ed ???
- asmr whispering from one of the hosts telling zak brown she has to pee
- no one can hear each other
- zak brown can’t figure out his mic and it’s making so much noise you can’t hear anything else
- “mr. maximus homa this is joel damon, can you hear me?” “unfortunately, i can yes, joel.”
- max homa making fun of joel damon for a solid minute and then saying about alex “yo my partner is dialed, that’s the money” unhinged behavior
- host (same bodyguard from before - burt kreischer(?)) cannot express how excited he is to have steve aoki ask for his #
- not one host can pronounce sainz correctly
- “that’s sniffing my ball speed there” “ok joel”
- marshawn lynch “these golfers boutta get they happy gilmore on”
- squid game CHALLENGE HOLE(???) burt kreischer “are they gonna kill me or break out into dance? who knows but they are creepy as shit”
- burt yet again “i will piss myself on live television for $4.56 million. i’ve done it for less”
- the mystical steve aoki has appeared
- the (infamous) Albon Tumble™
- pierre aiming directly into the crowd and alex and max applauding him (kudos to finau for reassuring pierre afterwards that everyone is fine)
- a conversation: “smooth operator, is that your nickname?” “yes that’s what they call me” “how’d that happen?” “i sang it once after a race”
- marshawn lynch “i met the squid game people. you got triangle face, square cuz and circle head”
- alex announcing that the squid game doll looks like Lily. alex i will hunt you down (endearing)
- patrick mahomes phoned in to tell pierre the exact amount of coors lights’ he must drink to play golf effectively (i am not kidding)
- joel objectifying tony finau by commenting (in detail) about his arms and hands (i know what you are joel)
- “a sexy street circuit here in vegas” ma’am it looks like a pig what are you talking about
- carlos and justin won. burt wants to party like it’s new year’s eve. i would pay to see this
and thus wraps the (somewhat) comprehensive review ! maybe next year netflix will make it less of a shit show but honestly, iconic.
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“average Starfleet officer steals the Enterprise 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average officer steals 0 starships per year. Science Officer Spock, who steals the Enterprise whenever a friend is in danger, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
#star trek#strange new worlds#star trek: strange new worlds#spock#star trek: snw#s02e01: the broken circle#and also whatever episode of tos it was when he ran off to help pike#and there were probably other episodes too that i'm forgetting
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Me realizing I only ever look for fanon content for gay ships: Oh no, am I subconsciously fetishizing gay men?? But I really like that lesbian couple and I also like het ships, then why do I go out of my way to find fanfics and stuff just for a gay ship?
Me, after going through ao3 trying to find good content for a specific het ship that ended up not being canon: Oh, it never was about fetishizing gay men, it was about being unsatisfied by canon. It just so happens that gay ships end up being queerbaiting for the audience more often than not
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Every time a show or franchise queerbaits us, we should do an extra push of the nastiest, smuttiest, best written fanfic on here and Twitter. Get it trending.
Much better than conciliatory words.
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♦ It’s good to write fiction and make art about queer characters.
♦ It’s good to write romantic fiction and make romantic art about queer characters.
♦ It’s good to write sexual fiction and make sexual art about queer characters.
♦ Even if you aren’t out.
♦ Even if no one knows you’re queer.
♦ Even if you aren’t queer.
♦ Nobody needs to know your sexuality before you are allowed to write or create art.
♦ Trying to control who gets to write or enjoy queer art and fiction segregates queer art and fiction.
♦ Trying to control who gets to write or enjoy queer art and fiction stigmatizes queer art and fiction.
♦ Trying to control who gets to write or enjoy queer art and fiction forces people to out themselves.
♦ Trying to control who gets to write or enjoy queer fiction makes queer creators unsafe.
♦ Anybody can create queer art and fiction.
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I’ve been thinking about why, of all the great queer shows and movies I’ve watched this year, it’s Our Flag Means Death that has me by the throat.
And I think it’s because yes, it’s queer and it’s a romance and it’s a comedy. But it also is pinging at something very deep that I imprinted on as a teenager.
I came up in fandom in the 00s watching … genre bro stuff. I don’t know how else to describe it: immersive fantasy worlds where almost everyone was male. That was just what was on TV and in the movies then, good luck to you if you thought women were interesting! Stuff like Lord of the Rings, Supernatural, Ocean’s 11, Stargate Atlantis, and a little later, like Sherlock, on and on.
And like, this stuff was gay. It was so gay! We knew it, and being in fandom we said it and wrote it and felt it. And all of those shows and movies said: nope. You’re wrong. You read that wrong. These men are friends. They’re not in LOVE. Love is something different! It’s when you see a woman from very far away and then you marry her in the next scene. That’s love. What’s going on here between these two men who know every last little thing about each other, who are there for each other, who pay such careful attention to each other, is merely platonic friendship.
And it made you feel so stupid, to be told that again and again. It made you think how you felt, with that friend of yours, or your co-worker, or … whoever, must just be friendship. Except it really didn’t feel that way. So who was wrong? It must be you.
And even though now I’m old, and I’ve seen queer experiences on so many shows and in so many movies, nothing has quite fixed that basic feeling of wrongness. It’s like I spent years in love with something that would never love me back.
Until Our Flag Means Death. Our Flag Means Death is a big, immersive, fantasy world, filled with (mostly!) men, and it’s just like … yes. Yes, all of these men are in love. They are all fucking. Yup, you’re reading that correctly. You’re absolutely right. Those longing glances? Knowing how many sugars someone takes in their tea? Inventing reasons to spend time together? Switching clothes? Having elaborate in jokes? Those are all what love is. It’s just like breathing, after all.
And if that’s true, then we were right all along. About all of it, all of those shows and movies, all of those people. If that’s true, then we weren’t imagining impossible things, about the lives of those characters or about the lives we were living. We didn’t make a mistake at all.
Our Flag Means Death names so many different types of queer love, and lets us see them all on screen in such a calm and beautiful and fun way. It’s just so healing, and it feels as though it’s healed something in me that was quietly broken as a teenager.
I was right all along.
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The way popular media went from “here’s two male characters who have an incredible amount of chemistry and fans ship them but it’s not canon and one or both of them are with women” to “here’s two male characters who have an incredible amount of chemistry and fans ship them and it’s canon but only in the way that one of them has an unrequited love for the other and either pines miserably forever or dies.” Progress right?
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One of my favourite things is fanfiction written out of spite. Like the source material is terrible but the characters and basic premise have a lot of promise. And so when you point it out someone says “Well I’d like to see you try to write something better” and the fanfic writer fires back with a fic that infinitely improves on the original source material.
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i just saw the tag “canon complicit” instead of “canon compliant” and im laughing its like “canon is a criminal act that i unfortunately support with this fic”
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My goals with this blog (Read this first!)
Some of this I included in my official portfolio, but I wanted to make a real post explaining some things about why I decided to include a sideblog with the syllabus portion of my final portfolio.
Why did you want to collect tumblr posts?
One of the goals of my syllabus is to highlight the queer community nature of online fandom and fan fiction. While the professionally-created literature is important, especially for articulating the theoretical aspects of queer community in online spaces and fan spaces, there is quite a lot of existing commentary created by queer fans, about queer fanworks, and I thought it would be helpful when cultivating a syllabus to include those writings as well as the formal ones
Why is this a sideblog instead of screenshots/links/etc?
There were two primary reasons that I made a full blog, instead of collecting the posts some other way.
First, because part of the community aspects of an online forum like tumblr is that you can like and share posts, so you can also click through to see what other people have said about the post, and also to see what the original poster has said in other cases. (To do this: click on the "notes" link at the bottom of each post to see what other users have said about the post, either in 'comments' where their comments are only visible to those who also click the notes link, or in 'reblogs' where they repost the post to their own blog. I have curated these posts using reblogs myself, it is considered the polite way to share conversations on tumblr. To see what else any particular author has written, click on the username at the top of each post-- not queerpopculture23s, that's my username, but the other one.) By making this blog, I'm also contributing to the community to some extent, rather than just reporting on it using a separate medium.
Second, tumblr is a vastly imperfect website at times, and it is often difficult to get a fixed link of a specific post from its original poster, so I felt that creating a blog would actually be the most reliable way to give credit to the original poster, especially since most tumblr users are completely anonymous from their real-life identities, meaning traditional citations are often inadequate.
What are the common themes/ideas you seek to present here?
Well, a little bit of it is up to the reader, since the whole idea of a syllabus is to collect readings for further discussion. But I particularly wanted to highlight a few things:
queer community-- conversations speak about etiquette when interacting with fanworks, specifically prioritizing inclusion and reciprocity, rather than money or fame. additionally, some posts include instances of creators interacting with each other, furthering the sense of community.
creating space-- a lot of fanworks seek to create 'what they wish to see' in mainstream media, specifically with regards to queer themes. There is a lot of agency in this process--fans can isolate what kinds of relationships they want to explore, what kinds of plots, etc. and build their own community through interacting with these works (that were not originally meant for such intensive queer expression).
disrupting intention--this is similar to creating space, but it's useful to note how disruptive this process is, in that creating queer works from existing (usually not queer) source materials is extremely disruptive to the existing system. Authorship is essentially taken away from the original authors, and original intent is only considered when it fits the needs of the community.
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(OP please don't mind this addition, i'm turning this blog in to my professor and need to explain goncharov)
Some important context on this: Goncharov is an entirely fictional movie "directed" by Martin Scorsese created on Tumblr because someone found a nock-off pair of sneakers inexplicably with the logo to a completely nonexistent movie.
the post went viral on tumblr, and quickly spawned a variety of fan-based content creations (such as fanfiction, analysis of scenes, soundtracks, and isolating favorite quotes) as if it was a real-life movie, with everyone essentially pretending that the movie really existed.
the reason why I am including this in my collection of posts is twofold: one, it shows the fan-based creative power of internet culture in general, that over 500 fanfictions were written about a movie that fully does not exist, and also that a massive percentage of those fanfictions depicted queer relationships (even though the fake movie was not in fact canonically queer! the queer community invented fake queer subtext for them to analyze and write about. because of course they did and i love it for them)
Have you noticed how much Goncharov fic is femslash? it's a lot. the whole phenomenon is wonderful, but this is probably the most fascinating thing about it (to me, at least)
I have noticed, and it is fascinating! To update some of my Goncharov stats from 3 days ago, now that the AO3 fandom presence has grown from 40 to over 500 fanworks (!!!):
With those smaller numbers a few days ago, I was really just goofing around (you can't conclude much about which ships are "winning" with only 40 fanworks, but I wanted to contribute some fun graphs to the Goncharov phenomenon anyway). Now that there are so many works, femslash is clearly leading the fic world, even though a lot of the meta and articles I see people sharing primarily mention the Andrey/Goncharov homoeroticism.
This is really interesting, and I wonder what all is driving it. Do the actors who play Andrey & Goncharov not speak as much to slash fans as the actors who play Katya & Sofia? is it the particular scenes that the women characters are in that speak to the fans the most? Was there some particularly inspirational early F/F fic or fanart that spurred more? Are "imaginary canons" (such a goofy genre name!) more likely to generate more femslash than other canons? And/or are there other reasons? Would love to hear theories.
#OP if you have a problem with me doing this please let me know!#part of the reason that i'm making a full sideblog is so that all of the different blogs i want to put together can get full credit#and you can click through to see where the posts came from
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I got curious, so I did a bit of “research”
The most popular fic in English is an NSFW (incredibly raunchy, wow) Guardians of the Galaxy fic with 128.179 kudos.
In Mandarin, it is a mature RPF fic of the actors from The Untamed that resulted in AO3 being blocked in Mainland China. It currently has 26.916 kudos
For Spanish, the prize goes to an explicit omegaverse & mpreg The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System fic with 3.245 kudos
Indonesian gives us a BTS college AU with 1.569 kudos and French stays on the bandom vibes by giving us an explicit One Direction dystopian story. But the band rpf award goes to Filipino, with their first page (sorted by kudos) being all Kpop (ENHYPEN, EXO & SEVENTEEN) and no-fandom.
(For those curious, Korean has a low amount of Kpop rpf on their first page. I assume they publish it somewhere else)
Egyptian Hieroglyphics (which, yes, is an option on AO3) gives us a beautiful song translation with an impressive 495 kudos. I really recommend everyone check it out; it is incredible. Welsh (160) and Old English (222) also had their most popular work have an English translation. Latin (124), on the other hand, is just fully in Latin. There are a few translations, but they are provided by other people and not the original author.
Greek has a lot of Greek political RPF. Like, a lot.
I was incredibly surprised by the fact that you can write fanfiction in Quebecois sign language. I was not surprised at all by the fact that Sindarin was an option.
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A few of the languages had their most popular stories not be in that language and just be a case of mislabelling (or, in some cases, people using less-used languages on AO3 as dumping grounds for tests or personal notes.) Also, there were a couple of languages with no stories at all.
If you have been thinking about writing fic in a language other than English, take this as a call for action. There are a lot of people out there reading in all sorts of languages. Even in languages with only a couple kudos, those are a couple of people who are incredibly happy to find a story of a media they love in a language they love too.
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Can’t wait for your 2023 fandom stats
You’re soooooooo cool I’m seriously getting into statistics rn
So many kisses to you <3
Aww, thank you! 😊😊😊 I'm looking forward to seeing what's in the 2023 stats, too! I'm trying to finish up my current analysis on F/F vs. M/M first, but I plan to get to it sometime in January.
I love your enthusiasm SO MUCH and am excited (and blushing!) over having encouraged you to learn stats. <3 May I recommend -- especially if you find stats dry or unhelpful -- that you also consider classes or books about data science?
TBH I found my stats classes deathly boring; they were pretty abstract and never dealt with any interesting or big data sets. (And they never dealt with the kinds of real decision making that goes into gathering, cleaning up, analyzing, or visualizing data.) Data science wasn't really a thing yet when I was in school, but in the end I learned most of my useful stats by working in a psychology research lab and learning how to analyze some messy -- but interesting! -- psychology data. I drew on that experience to start doing the stuff I do in fandom, while also teaching myself some more data scraping and visualization skills. (I also learned from doing a whole bunch of presentations for non-academic audiences at my job that it helps to try to keep graphs and charts as simple as possible, and to state the main takeaway in a big font. :) But I'm not actually sure what classes teach that kind of thing.)
The great @cfiesler has a lab that does awesome fandom studies and may have more advice on how to learn relevant skills for analyzing and sharing fandom data. And a bunch of my other followers also work with fandom data and may have advice -- please feel free to chime in, all!!
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I don’t think fanfic writers understand what impact they have on people and even fandoms as a whole. When I read a fanfic, I don’t forget about it- it’s always something I turn in my head over and over thinking about it constantly. They change the way I think of characters and also my view of how one would act. I literally fall asleep thinking of these pieces. I’m so blessed to be able to interact with such talented people that obviously have such pure hard work and dedication for things like fandom works. This is a love letter to all those writers at there that I have interacted with, and maybe even not. I love you guys more then you know.
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PSA: PLEASE COMMENT ON COMPLETED FICS.
If you filter (as I often do) your fics by "complete works only" because you want to read something from start to finish, PLEASE COMMENT ON THAT FIC. Even if it's just at the end, or if it's every chapter as you go, I can tell you the author will love it.
THE AUTHOR WILL LOVE IT.
I occasionally get comments on my old fics and it absolutely makes my day that people are still reading them/enjoying them.
Even if a fic was completed like 5-10 years ago, please comment, its such a small thing, takes like 30 seconds, and it will make the creator smile.
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