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I’ve dipped in and out of fandom since I was 12 years old and discovered Usenet. While I’ve made friends and had awesome fannish conversations over the years, I’ve never been a prolific creator of fan works. About a dozen fics, a few art projects, and a handful of podfics.

The podfics were created during a difficult time in my life and I’ve lost all the originals. When jinjurly went down, my podfics were lost.

Last night I stumbled across the recovery efforts for the archive. My work was restored. People out there downloaded my work and then CARED enough to be part of the effort to get it back online.

I don’t know what to say other than that this has really touched me in a way I never thought I would experience with fanworks. God I love fandom. I love people who love fandom. I love realizing that I’m part of something, even if I feel like my contributions were so small and made no impact.

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I enjoy the Two Cakes Philosophy and I believe it deserves its place enshrined in fandom culture.

Forgive me for the extended metaphor but I also want to simultaneously celebrate what I’m calling Bakery Display Case Philosophy. You know when you walk into a bakery and the display case is full of beautiful treats? And there’s a variety of different colors, textures, and flavors to discover? And that’s so deeply exciting?

You might say to yourself, “No one is going to want to read this pairing. No one is going to want to want a character study of that character. No one wants genfic in this fandom, only shipfic.”

And you might use that to discourage yourself from writing a certain fic.

Fandoms, like bakeries, need cakes and cookies and éclairs and cream puffs and shortbread and brownies and pies and tarts and petit fours and turnovers and cinnamon rolls and madeleines and meringues—and so many other things—to survive.

Write your dark chocolate pistachio croissant fic. Your fandom needs it actually.

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this is killing me. get cherried idiot

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Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

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WANGXIAN + PASH! magazine, january edition (2025) 💛💛

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Baby fox steals fish from fisherman (🔊)

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Source

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Xiao Zhan Studio Weibo update | 09-14-2024

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This starry boy is Remington✨💙

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How i see Wei wuxian leading the band of disciples through out the book:

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“I don’t know how to reconcile that my favorite piece of media was made by someone awful.” Because they’re a shitty person who made something good. It’s not that rare of a phenomenon. Shitty people make good things everyday. A piece of art being made by a terrible person does not make its effect null and void and making good art does not redeem a terrible person. People who are irredeemably nasty can say something true and honest on occasion. To reevaluate a work after finding out more about the artist’s horrendous biases and actions and still find things that are honest and true even when consuming it through a critical lens, that is a beautiful thing. If the artist’s actions and words completely destroy it for you and distort the meaning you once found, it’s okay to feel a sense of mourning and loss at that.

This is not to say that you should continue to lavish social and financial capital on the artist because you enjoy their art but to say that enjoying art made by horrible people does not mean you are in some way unclean.

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my dad just exploded into laughter out of nowhere and told me ‘imagine the lion king but with sea lions’ he has been chuckling about it for 5 straight minutes now

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SOMEONE will advocate for you