#I call on the fandom for help please

[doting-dov3]

I’ve never noticed before, but in the movie Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone once Harry’s made it through to where the Mirror of Erised and Professor Quirrell reside, you really see Tom Riddle in the way the Professor speaks.

I think it’s most prominent in some of his facial expressions and the almost cocky way he talks. The parallel of him claiming that no one would ‘suspect poor, stuttering Professor Quirrell’ and the horcrux of Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets whole speech around Ginny seems very similar to me.

I’m not sure if anything similar is detailed in the books as I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet, but I would say it seems like Professor Quirrell is talking through the mind of Tom/Voldemort over the mind of himself.

Of course, it’s still plausible that Quirrell was just as confident and trusting in their (namely Voldemort’s) plan as Voldemort was himself.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a lore around it in itself and if there is would anyone like to share it with me?

[jayltime]

I’ve had this idea for a while…

So there’s this song called ‘Cast the Bronze’ by Raynes, and the second I heard it, my immediate reaction was “oh. Oh this is SO Jason Todd”.

And I stand by that.

I mean, just take a listen:

Come ON. These lyrics???

So I don't feed you my heart well enough

But I don't need any part of your love

Go tell someone what you wish I would've done

Make me bleed if you need to confirm that it's something I can do

And I'll paint it red

If you're still unsure, let me lie for a day

Before they formally announce me dead

When I'm gone, cast the bronze for the bust of my head

To be displayed in the library

Engrave that I gave my consent

To be anything that anyone prefer I be

And like. I would 100% write a songfic based on it, but Jason-centric stuff isn’t really my area, and I just KNOW that Tim-centric angst would slip in somehow if I write it… Especially because I can already see how some of the lines would relate to an “Alternate Universe - Jason Todd’s Attack on Titan Tower” fic…

I guess, my question to you all is: do I write the fic and risk Tim angst creeping in, or do I simply let this idea float into the ether and hope that a more practiced Jason-centric author picks it up and likes it enough to run with it?

What do I dooooooo????

Also, if any editors/artists/animators are listening: an edit/animatic of Jason to this song would be so UNBELIEVABLY heart-wrenching… I’ll write you a fic of your choosing if you can make that idea into a reality. Please. I beg.

[secretly-historic]

IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE ARE SAPPHIC AND WERE PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY THE CW’S THE 100 SEASON 3 IN 2016 PLEASE READ

i know i have very few followers so i am tagging this to hell amd back and it would mean the world to me if people could spread this!!

did you get into this random sci fi show as an impressionable sapphic or then-sapphic-identifying teen? did you find your fandom community online in places like tumblr? were you a Way Too Online Clexa shipper? do you have vivid memory of one fateful night in March of 2016 where your little baby heart was sent to the moon and then stomped on within an entire fifteen minute window? did you then turn on your phone to watch an entire community imploding in real time?

i am a current history grad student in Washington, DC, and i recently was notified of an interdisciplinary panel opportunity in which i’d be able to turn one of my quasi-intellectual passions into something Big and Academic and possibly Influential To The Field. the theme of the conference is change; how our historical subjects understood it, dealt with it, lived through it, etc. or, it can be anything that might have some big observation to how we deal with change ourselves as academics

my proposal is still in the baby stages, but i want to use this particular moment in pop culture in two ways: first, obviously, is as a case study of a really revolutionary moment in queer representation. we had a sci fi show with, after a few season one growing pains, really complex and kind of amazing female character writing and an element of queerness that defied tropes by being strangely post-structuralist, only for that to come crashing down in one horrid writing decision. the overnight turn in the fan-creator relationship was something so severe and shocking to me, even at 14.

second, if we wanna get all discipline-jargony about it, studying it from a historical angle at some kind (yes i know it was only nine years ago bear with me here) could lead to some really important things about how we do social history in a digital age. i find that most “digital history” conversation tends to be about digitizing sources for access or distribution, but we are very much at a point where our sources are being /created/ in digital and online spaces, and there’s simply not the same level of comfort or readily available knowledge of how to navigate through an internet-created archive.

if you read this far, thank you. at this point, i’m simply trying to find people who experienced this moment firsthand like i did. i’m still trying to develop specific sets of questions to survey, possibly to workshop some research methodology with an “oral” historical source base. if you are interested in being somehow part of this source base, please reach out to me ASAP! i cannot promise that anything substantial will come out of it within the next few weeks (a girl has to get through my own finals and my students’ finals first), but it’ll at least give me a list of people to reach out to when the time comes<3

if you read to the end, thank you. here’s a cat pic as a reward. his name is winston

[fan-a-tink]

Hello Merlin fandom, I’m in need of some advice :) I’m trying to assemble the bbc merlin books and have exhausted the usual channels (eBay, abeBooks, amazon, fb groups, charity shops). Does anyone have any tips for where else to look? I’m based in the UK and I’m keeping an eye out on all the charity shops near me but have only managed to get four books so far… any help would be greatly appreciated ✨

[danibee33]

pov: simon riley x reader

[tullecake]

HI HELLO just so you know if you ever end up making an au or a crossover for Zack&Ray and Shadow&Maria you have at least one person interested in that!!!!!

wayyy ahead of you >:D

[finding-proship-fans]

dandy's world maybe?

📣📣📣

[fitfdnp]

OK this is like quite literally my least favourite thing I’m ever going to post on the internet but I am nawt okay and I could really really use some help!

My name is Jasmine, I’m 25 years old, and I’ve lost almost all of my mobility due to chronic sciatic pain from a herniated disc.

I am now bed bound and have ran out of treatment options besides surgery, and am on a waitlist that will be taking upwards of a year. My whole life has been ruined and I am honestly just desperate at this point for any relief, any help. I want my life back, I want to walk again. I don’t want this to be how I exist. Private surgery is much faster but comes at a HUGE cost that I cannot afford. Hence, I have taken to begging on the internet :/

Any shares are really really really appreciated and thank you for taking the time to read <3

[edge-oftheworld]

I don’t really talk about it much on here because I’m extremely lucky to be able to understand exactly what’s going on in my body, but it’s scary to live for years as someone who Gets Things Done in a way your peers don’t really understand, be putting effort into so many things you care about, and then suddenly lose the ability to do not only that but also basic tasks overnight after a deadline, and bit by bit after many. it’s scary getting really irritable sometimes to the point of violence, just when you were meant to be celebrating the rewards from your hard work, the only impact of the work you did that you can see is that you overdrafted your ability to do anything. including have a basic conversation without getting grumpy or crying. and your body is going to make you pay it back with interest, you already know that, but you don’t know how to start filling yourself back up. you’ve only ever enjoyed being on the grind, hard at work on exciting things.

I don’t know how many of you have been through the kind of burnout that’s years of needing 12hrs of sleep a night but with terrible insomnia, waking up to what feels like a hangover for weeks on end with little relief then rinse and repeat without having a single drink, feeling too sick to eat and needing to exercise to emotionally regulate but being unable to, anxiety that doesn’t come from worry but you’ll pick that up too at some point, dissociating every time you try to do mentally taxing tasks that you’re PAID for so it takes an hour of grounding yourself just to get five minutes worth of productive concentration, falling asleep the minute you feel a little safe by being in the presence of loved ones. but I suspect I’m not the only one.

I’ve had songs for the energetic and angsty times leading up to this. for the exasperated times and the brain fog and the times where all my limited energy is tied up in feeling things. that I need to, need to acknowledge, but it’s overwhelming and I live in a haze for weeks as a result of. songs telling of the kind of youth I wish I had, even when I was sold something else. songs for the months spent as a teenager trying to be there for my friends, worrying for them, distracting me from worrying for myself, trying to cling on to positivity and hope amongst it when I had to choose to make a discipline of always seeing that. I’ve had songs for healing and when healing is harder than expected and songs that have the right level of musical complexity to capture the layers of everything that’s happening in my head, making it sound good, telling me it’s gonna be okay.

I don’t know how I could ever say thank you for this. but I do know that I see parts of myself in the people behind these songs, of course I do, and I worry for them as a result and ache for them because it’s hard enough to feel this way when no one knows me or feels the need to control me or mould me into what they think I should be. I’d do anything to keep them all healthy and happy and all of their loved ones too and I don’t think it’s strange as a fan to take that seriously. I hope we can understand the need to treat them gently, and to while not questioning their privacy and the fact that they’re never going to tell us everything they go through, listen to our intuition when we catch something we relate to and treat what they’ve shared with us or hinted at with the dignity we would if someone we love told us something vulnerable. be kind in our expectations and be intentional in the fan culture we create because it does make its way back to them.

and the same goes with all of you. we’re bonding over the same things. I know a lot of this fandom is in the stage where interpersonal relationships are hard. we don’t mean to be grumpy of frustrated but we are. and I’m sending love to all of you. we can get through this together. it’s what they’ve always longed for isn’t it?

[beautifulboysbeingbusy]

I need the power of the 19 days fandom!!

For two weeks now I’ve been searching for a 19 days fanfic I’ve read once but can’t find anymore. In short Tianshan are boyfriends for a short time. HT is kinda impatient to get more physical with his hubby but Mo does not show a particular interest to take what they have any further yet. So HT has the brilliant idea to sneakily alter Momo’s devices in a way to show him more gay physical stuff in ads ect.

Anyone know this one??!? Please help!!!🙏

[the-whispers-of-death]

Little Update

I know I haven't posted much 141 content in a while, but I'm working on a first part of Vigilante!Reader x Simon "Ghost" Riley, trust. It's been slowly building in my drafts for like a week, but I'm trying to finish it. And if all goes well, I'll also get started on the second part too.

A sneak peek of what's to come, though I suppose this isn't much of a sneak peak. Yeah, I started in on August 11th, RIP to it not being finished yet.

Also, I want to announce that I'm eager to get more asks for the 141 boys, but I don't want anything sexual as of right now. I have nsfw asks that I just can't get into the mood to write. But I do want to get back to writing for the boys again, fluff or angst, your choice.

[zhurnalproliv]

I have a terrible hyperfix on Old scars, from mimumik

CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND CONTENT ON THEM, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I'M GOING TO DISINTEGRATE INTO ATOMS IF I DON'T FIND CONTENT ON THIS COMIC!!!!

AAAAAAAAH

[hamsamwich23]

Folly: Every time you speak in this pitiful elevator there is a horrendous sound that follows ..

MJ/Judgment: [METAL PIPE SOUND EFFECTS] Whatever could you mean? :]

Folly: Oh my god

[junewongapologia]

I know it's been lost in the many, many annoying years of ST writers deciding Vulcans are bad and contemptible for having what amounts to just really visible cultural differences from humanity, but I really like how... Culturally Vulcan Spock is.

His colleagues have like a fixation on his mother's heritage but... he grew up culturally Vulcan on Vulcan and his human mother all but states in Babel that she's basically assimilated into Vulcan culture because she agrees with its ethos. In all of TOS Spock considers himself Vulcan.

He's... very well adjusted and settled in so he is, he's a guy who sacked off the VSA to join a pseudo-military against the wishes of his pacifist dad and on the ship he plays Vulcan musical instruments with his human colleagues, and keeps a room full of Vulcan cultural artefacts that presumably remind him from home. (I get that this is half-retconned in the movies - most explicitly in ST V 🙄 - and also pretty inconsistently written in TOS but it's still there!)

Idk it's kind of sad to me that the Vulcans are literally the innovators of IDIC and they've been flanderized into these isolationist bigots because the stoicism/pacifist vibes can be kind of confused and off-putting to people.

Like. List of Vulcans we actually meet in TOS:

Spock

Spock's dad, ambassador to Earth, married to a human in some weird 60s sitcom couple dynamic, in-text reason he is estranged from his half human son is literally stated outright as being because he thinks Starfleet is too militaristic and he's a pacifist - like most Vulcans.

T'Pring - Spock's fiancée/wife, breaks up with him because it seems like too much of a hassle to be married to a celebrity, never seems to have any issue with his parentage, clearly thinks he's Vulcan since she divorces him via Vulcan ritual (logical, fight to the death) and not Human ritual (illogical, loopholes/contacting your local divorce lawyer)

Stonn - has two lines, neither of them are about Spock.

T'Pau - kind of maybe says something bigoted ("they say thy Vulcan blood is thin"), but then pulls strings to get the Enterprise off the hook for disobeying orders at the end of the episode, presumably as a favour to Spock, who she knows is going through a rough time, or out of respect for Not-Really-Dead Jim.

Surak - from a war torn civilisation five hundred years ago, still less bigoted towards other species than McCoy lmao

I might be so wrong about this but idk I just like Spock's room full of unabashed Vulcan shit, and I think ST has ignored and wasted opportunities for interesting stories bc they're kind of obsessed with deconstruction of everything about TOS/the ST universe to the detriment of anything else including the actual original ethos of Starfleet.

[journal-three]

guys I find the helluva timeline very hard to figure out. how long has I.M.P existed?

[helenpace]

The horror of accidentally getting myself into Breaking Bad fandom (I absolutely randomly felt in love with Better Call Saul show after few edits and… well… I try to calm myself down saying that I’ll just watch this but I know eventually I’ll switch to original show too at least to understand what tf is happening) is not knowing if fandom is alive. I remember this show being like, ancient, so I mentally prepare myself to watch over 10 yo pictures and cry in the corner