I'm not a fan of victim-blaming. CALL ME CRAZY! I don't know exactly what happened, but when people complain they were made to feel uncomfortable my general rule of thumb is to believe them. Apparently thenyxie disagrees with this approach ( Read more... )

HEY INTERNET CHAPS. Let's talk about fannish behaviour we displayed and/or fandom kinks and tropes we enjoyed before we got into fandom. Because I think it is a potentially very interesting subject. Someone should research fandom predisposition ( Read more... )

I don't get people who don't get RPS AU.

THAT IS MY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. People who don't like it, whatever, that's simple YMMV fic preferences; but if you don't understand it - or worse, use those dreaded words 'why don't you just write an original fic' - I JUST DON'T GET IT ( Read more... )

Achievement of the day: got paid a tenner for doing literally nothing. Fuck yeah ( Read more... )

So today my ten-year-old cousin asked me what a hooker is ( Read more... )

Sigh, fandom. Sigh. I went to bed really pissed off at the internet and fandom (all fandom, not just SPN) for breeding so much hate - and the illusion that it is totally acceptable and normal to have that level of hate, be it for a fangirl or celebrity or anyone who didn’t deliberately run over your dog. (And even then, wouldn’t you be more ( Read more... )

GUYS I drooled the fuck out of myself last night. AND I AM NOT ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT. I woke up after an awesome dream about zombies and there was crusty drool on my face. I lol'd. (Clearly I had been so excited about the zombie dream I was going :O in my sleep ( Read more... )

We watched a clip from Mel Gibson's Hamlet in my lecture today and I was seriously shipping him and his mum AND THEN THEY ACTUALLY KISSED and the whole class went 'ewww' but I was kinda disappointed that the kiss had been so vanilla.

OH FANDOM, WHAT HAST THOU WROUGHT?

The theme for today's music pimp is FUCKING ADORABLE.

The Very Most - Cemetery Gates
Oh no! Oh my! - Walk in the Park
Blow - Parentheses

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Aw man, scans_daily. :( THAT REALLY SUCKS. I mean, okay, I'm not into comics, but I reckon I probably will be one day and when that day comes I thought s_d would be there for me. Eurgh, piracy laws, you are so dated. ( ( Read more... )

This book is so cool! The research was gathered in the late 80s/early 90s, and it was published in '92, so- obviously- it's pre-internet. Fandom was extremely different back then, but also EXTREMELY THE SAME.

e.g. 1986 Blake’s 7 wank report:

“When he obscured the line between performer and audience, [Paul] Darrow (Blake 7 actor) unwittingly added ( Read more... )