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some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

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you know once you make a supplementary OC for your main OC's backstory you're doomed

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cosy vibes

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give him to meee uuungghhhn

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nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

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Vlastomil in "the strawberry dress" but every strawberry on a dress has a worm in it.

What the hell is the strawberry dress

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Does this fanfiction make sense? Hold water? Not an ounce! Does that mean I’m going to stop writing it? Not an ounce! I’m a moron with a keyboard and half an idea and that’s your problem now. God couldn’t stop me and neither could my dad, and now I’m on your screen with another thousand words of whatever the fuck this is. Bon appetite bitch!

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Julian warm up

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Are you a Sherlockian/Holmesian? Do you have some spare change floating around, or perhaps the time to share a little information?

Well, do I have a project for YOU!

An organization very dear to my heart-- Baker Street West (www.bakerstreetwest.com) has an AMAZING opportunity to net a $10K donation... but only if we can raise the funds to match. In one month. May 1st-31st of 2025.

A little backstory--

In 2023, after nearly 10 years in the same location, Baker Street West, a Victorian homage to Sherlock Holmes nestled in the heart of Gold Country in California, was forced to deconstruct, pack EVERYTHING from Mrs. Hudson's fine china to Holmes' Persian slipper full of tobacco and move to a new location.

Fast forward to 2025!

That new location... needs a little help before it can be BSW's new home. The roof leaks. We need an elevator (amongst other things) in order to be ADA compliant (it's a historical building, so this gets very complex and very costly FAST), never mind the rest of our wish-list for theatre lighting and seating and all of the other things needed to make a venue a VENUE.

We are making progress-- our new, dedicated theatre space (in an old courtroom) has a STAGE and I can attest that it is a beautiful stage. Mrs. Hudson's best china is unpacked and gleaming, but there is so SO much more that needs to be done and this potential funding is something we simply cannot afford to let slip away.

I understand that the world is a mess right now, but this place has been a home away from home, a bastion of kind and sensible thought, a haven from so much ugliness. Before having to move, one really did feel as though they were stepping into somewhere where it was always 1895, and we are working so very hard to bring that feeling back into a place where everyone can be welcomed.

So... visit https://bakerstreetwest.com and click that beautiful "Donate" button, or at least pass this missive along so that others might have a chance to contribute.

Photo tax-- me posing in front of the 'pub' at Baker Street West's former digs.

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I have a type and I'm not afraid to show it but they're ruining my life

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Hi, I’m Mel Stanfill. I am a scholar at the University of Central Florida whose research focuses on fan studies, and I want to understand the opinions of media fans about the use of generative AI tools (like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and others), both in general and as part of the creation of works like fan fiction and fan art in particular.

If you would like to share your thoughts, please take this online survey that will take approximately 15-20 minutes and tell me what you think:

Please also reblog to help me get more responses!

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all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb

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No thoughts just Asra

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one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

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Possessive

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is there anything better as a writer than an AO3 message that someone went through all your fics in a fandom? “[person] left kudos on [story1]. [person] left kudos on [story2]. [person] left kudos on [story3].” GLORIOUS. like you actually read words I wrote and thought “hmm, yes good, I will continue” and then did so. magical. i saw some Youths out there afraid this is “stalking” but as an Old let me tell you au contraire, it is a rare sweet nectar that warms our ancient dead hearts 💖

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getting back into the arcana. you know when you get into a completely dead fandom and are just starved of content? studying bird julian. he's fun