#sometimes this fandom is good

[carry-on-my-wayward-gays]

I still think it's hilarious that no one ever has looked at Scott and Joey - both gay men who have been friends for years - and decided to ship them. It's so easy but everyone has seen them and went "ah yes two good friends :) shipping these two would be fucking horrendous so let's not do that :))" and I'm so grateful for that.

[marisatomay]

People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

[lgbtlunaverse]

One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.

[videogamelover99]

Alex Hirsch going "I'd be interested in exploring Bill confronting all of his lies" during the Seattle book signing and him going "This is my child. Please be kind to him. He doesn't deserve it though." during the San Diego book signing...

It makes me incredibly happy that he's just as obsessed with this problem triangle as we are.

[snowflake-sage]

Hello

Hands

That’s all

[faragonart]

Happy Birthday to the leap year boy~

[assiraphales]

spirk winning against gomens is very “who are you??” “I’m the owner of this house” bc no matter how u feel about it, the pairing is a literal cornerstone in fandom history to the point that its constantly referenced in media. you KNOW them

[andrewknightley]

some people would say "this work of fiction just has the guys better written than the women" and will cite something like this as the example

[cairoscene]

Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz

feels fandom relevant.

[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]

[mizaruwu]

"hey! give it back"

"I don't think you should keep using this"

[aether-weather]

pequeña criatura...

[originalaccountname]

I don't expect the results to be particularly telling, it's more likely to be an even split, but to scratch the itch of knowing:

When enjoying a story and the characters are shown to be very close, but you do not see them as romantic, do you tend to interpret it as a sibling bond instead? Do you think of them as sibling-like instead of calling them friends?

Whether they have a notable age difference or not, whether other people ship those characters or not, how do YOU choose to interpret it?

Think of whatever examples you want, and try to see if it's a pattern for you to interpret close platonic relationships as siblinghood in the absence of shipping intent. If it helps, compare your habits to what you see the rest of your fandom(s) do. For science.

[crushedsweets]

Liujack for my friends

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

I’m beginning to think I should start keeping a list of the fandoms I accidentally stumbled into at some point before binging fics for a month straight and having it take over the ao3 reading portion of my life. Like yes, the last 27 pages of my ao3 history ARE of this fandom I knew nothing about a month ago, as a matter of fact.

[hinamie]

doodles

[angelgendered]

You know, I rly fuckin love how the gomens fandom draws our favourite angel and demon. Yall make their faces the same whether they're fem, masc or in between. No matter what bits or parts they have. Even ineffable wives art is so recognisably THEM. And as someone upon whom aging is coming up on, seeing folk drawing their wrinkles and rolls and stretch marks and folds of skin and so on makes my heart sing cos aging is so attractive especially as you yourself get older. I hope young people take that kn board life doesn't end at 39, it begins, no matter what the adverts and influences tell you.

I hope we get a lil peek of David's salt n pepper hair through crowleys red next season. I hope aziraphale gets to smile lots so crowley can kiss his crows feet. I hope the fandom continues to draw and write them authentically to their TV show appearances. I hope David and Michael are bolstered irl by the way we look at their aging and adore everything about it.