restlessfrenzy
restless frenzy
she/her 30s \\\ longtime lurker of many fandoms \\\ mostly here to reblog awesome fanart
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they’re judging you
(and they find you lacking)
twitter - bsky
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-So....you're not like us?
-Nyeah, no, we look similar, but we are angels. Er, my colleague is. I'm a demon.
-What's the difference?
-Hah, good question. I guess you could say I had to leave our Eden, in a sense.
-...and he didn't go with you?
-He...that's...It's not like with you and Adam. Uh, sorry for getting you kicked out, by the way. I didn't know She'd be so tetchy about the apple.
-Don't be, it was getting kinda boring in there.
-...knew I liked you for a reason.
i'm a crowley&eve friendship truther, and a big proponent of nanny! crowley to cain and abel (later events ....notwithstanding)
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“May thy knife chip and shatter.”
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Gallifrey
A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on march 1st! 😊
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I can’t do this without you, Elijah.
#the originals#klaus mikaelson#elijah mikaelson#honestly the most interesting part of the show#this family is a mess
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A brief history of fandom, for those on here who somehow think tumblr invented fandom:
1960s: with the advent of Star Trek, fandom moves into the public sphere for the first time with a television in almost every home, creating a large group of people all excited about one thing. Beforehand, fans mostly had relationships with the author, not with each other. Obviously there were groups and conventions prior to Star Trek, but many pop culture scholars agree that Star Trek was the beginning of an independent, interactive, saturated fandom culture centered on one show, and set many precedents for how many modern fandoms act.
This means in the coming years: conventions, mailing groups (both public and private), fan magazines, and fanfiction presses.
Yeah this pretty much remains the deal until the internet gets put into every home in the 90s.
EXAMPLES OF BIG FUCKING DEAL FANDOMS, 90s EDITION: X-Files, Xena, Star Trek, Star Wars, ASoIaF, The West Wing, Buffy
So with the internet, this really cool thing happened: Geocities. And then Yahoo groups. Early fanfiction archives. Back in the day, fandoms had to create their own private spaces. This made fandoms on the internet smaller and less accessible than fanzine operated ones. However, since fans on the internet didn’t have to pass through an editorial board to publish their fic, it was the beginning of the democratization of fandom.
USENET. Which will probably be confusing to anyone who wasn’t actually on Usenet during it’s height, but feel free to Google.
In 1998, fanfiction.net was launched to compete with the hundreds of independent, fandom-oriented fanfiction archives. More democratization, although fanfiction was marketed on how many reviews one had. You had to, like today, “break into the market.“
In 1999, Livejournal was launched. Fans created communities and their own private journals which was like woah, we have our own places to store our own fic? And can cross-post them places? However, with Livejournal came a new incarnation of the internet-based BNF: big name fan. Since communities had moderators and posts could be friend or community locked, people could easily gain social capital.
See also: Cassie Claire and misscribe.
On the other hand, authors like George RR Martin get Livejournals.
Around this time was also the rise of forums. Again, moderators had a lot of power, as did certain users who would rise to the position of moderator. People rapidly gained and lost power, causing quick turnover in these parts of fandom.
In 2002, due to legal concerns, fanfiction.net bans NC-17 fanfiction.
Adultfanfiction.net is created to fill the void. For years, 13 year olds would pretend to be 18 to enter. Including myself.
In 2005, fanfiction.net, again due to legal concerns, bans "choose your own adventure” and songfics.
In 2007, Archive of Our Own is launched to further democratize fandom in response to fanfiction.net’s and LJ’s new stringent rules, offering writers a cleaner format, kudos, hit counters, and bookmarks. However, many older fandoms have not made the move.
In 2007, tumblr is launched. It would take until 2010 for it to reach saturation on the internet, meaning that most fandoms which lived and died pre-2010 exist(ed) on Geocities, Yahoo Groups, independent archives, ff.net, etc.
In 2009, Geocities is taken offline. Thousands mourn because they never backed up really old fic that they liked.
In 2012, most major broadcasting companies have caught on to the fact that tumblr has democratized fandom to a degree of anarchy and mob mentality, and utilize it, since tumblr is unmoderated.
And that’s what you missed on FANDOM BEFORE TUMBLR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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Time has not erased from me the memory that I have of my little brother. He was so full of love. All he ever wanted was to be loved in return.
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you’re free now
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family ✨🫶🤏🦶🍊🍻💛🧡
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Pretty as hell
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Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.
It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be.
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performance reliability dropping
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