I love fandom. I love it in the general sense, the basic idea of people with a common interest coming together in the spirit of community and creativity. I've been in many fandoms over the past 10+ years, and I've seen a lot. I've seen talent and joy, love and support. I've also seen drama and wank and hatefulness. It's always going to be a ( Read more... )

There's a post here about the top ten celebrities written into fanfiction. Clearly, whoever was doing this research does not actually know shit about fandom ( Read more... )

Big-time SPN fandom racefail happening, and it is some bad shit. I mean, I'm not the most racially sensitive person out there (having lived in a veritable sea of whiteness my whole life), but this absolutely repulses me.

Some of the worst bits have been compiled here. I definitely recommend this post and its comments. Pretty much a primer of ( Read more... )

I am SO AMUSED that this exists! turtlecest - a highly active TMNT comm with LOTS of adult fic. They were showing the new movie on Cartoon Network today and we were watching it, and I remembered how ridiculously slashy it is. So I bet Matt that I could find fic for it. I was right!

So there's some serious drama going on in SPN fandom right now, big enough that I feel like pretty much everyone knows about it at this point ( Read more... )

What with Lady Godga and RDJesus, I think it's high time internet fandom became classified as an official religion, don't you? I know I do my share of worshiping!

Also, I think it says something about my brain that "worshiping" looks like it's spelled wrong to me because I'm so much more used to the word "shipping"!

Hello, new friends! This is all your fault, you know, spamming my flist with memes of interest!

( Down, down, down the rabbit hole... )

I find it amusing how different the attitudes toward certain things are in different fandoms ( Read more... )

I am a fangirl (and person, but we're not talking real life in this post) who is, for the most part, resistant to change ( Read more... )

( In which I talk about kink a bit, in a non-graphic way )