My brain has been a disaster since I saw Desolation of Smaug and started playing Skyrim in earnest. A terrible white Euro fantasy disaster.

I have a lot of Tolkienfic-related hangups. Like, my middle/high school years are super formative in that the opinions I formed haven't changed all that much. Okay, I'm warming up to shipping in the ( Read more... )

STID reaction post, featuring many variations on Benedickie Cumberslummin's name and a chain of reblogs about mocking his name and racism because heaven forbid a nonwhite person take potshots at the whitewashed casting choices this movie made.

Admiral Marcus did not exist in a fucking void.

So many questions about how these fuckers wrote Jim Kirk ( Read more... )

CAN WE JUST

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS

LOOK


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Let's talk about writer's block and my slow crawling escape from artist's block. Let's talk about my brain's inability to hold a fandomish thought for longer than five seconds. Let's talk about how relaxed and stress-free and dull my head's been since I dropped out of active fandom ( Read more... )

I told insta-coffee to go fuck itself and bought a bucket of whole beans to grind into powder and brew delicious cups of caffeine ( Read more... )

Journals. I has them.

Deleting a bunch of Avengers fic off of AO3 in a couple hours.

Fandom, I like you. I like you a lot. You're my gateway drug and my anti-drug. You told me that I wasn't alone, that there are others out there like me. You gave me impetus to write and draw with reason and feeling. I have met a lot of great people over the years and I continue to meet great people thanks to you. You gave me a crash course in ( Read more... )

So.

I am never allowed back on TV Tropes again I fucking swear. Had a not-so-mild breakdown/freakout on their Star Trek (2009) page over things ranging from Christopher Pike calling Starfleet "a humanitarian and peacekeeping armada" to Leonard Nimoy being moved to tears over Karl Urban's portrayal of Leonard McCoy ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to one day type up RL shit but then I never do because I don't want it polluting one of my safer spaces. Except that RL pollutes my safer spaces anyway so why bother trying anythingI'm feeling pretty angry right now. I'll probably regret what I type in the morning but right now? I'm not seeing a way out of this life and I don't think ( Read more... )

One.

I really need to stop mixing up Sam Flynn and Stiles Stilinski. My brain can't handle the disorienting confusion.

Two.

Took me long enough to experience the wrong side of privilege and be aware of it the entire time.

That whole chitchat with the racist fuck happened in a public space where everyone in that particular network circle could ( Read more... )