OC/canon and selfships are good y’all are just scared of having fun
“But it’s cringe” ok what if it is? What’re you gonna do about it? Call the cops? Are you some kind of cringe police? Huh? Suck my nuts. I have 30 bfs and gfs and I’m having fun while you sit in your sad little clown corner getting second-hand embarrassment from looking at people having a blast. Make a self-insert oc and maybe you’ll feel better
Making characters swear in fanfiction is such an interesting phenomenon when the ratings for the source material prevent any swearing from happening in canon. Like you’ve probably got a decent overall sense of the characters’ general speech patterns from how they canonically talk, but you still have to judge for yourself whether they’d swear and how often and what specific words they’d use. I can’t quite articulate why that’s interesting but it is.
after the pandemic is over the phrase “unprecedented times” is gonna activate something in me like a secret agent. I’ll bring out the hand disinfectant. it’s like pavlov dogs or whatever
Every time I see a post on this website talking about how old people aren’t welcome on tumblr or whatever the fuck, I think of @spockslash and get sad
It occurs to me that people outside of the trek fandom don’t know who dee was so let me elaborate:
In 2018-ish, the trek fandom found a new blogger posting- @spockslash, aka Dee, an OG Trekkie from the sixties who read fanfic in Dan made zines and remembered watching the trek movies in theaters. She was kind to absolutely everyone, adopting anyone who asked, answering all our questions and leaving the sweetest comments on our fanworks. She was a wealth of knowledge, and for a few blessed months she would tell us everything about what fandom was like in the old days, about the way Kirk and Spock was treated before the invention of fandom spaces and the internet. Go look at her blog, the @ is right up there, it’s a wonderful resource.
Dee unfortunately passed not too long after making her blog, and her grandchildren took over the blog, vowing to leave it up as long as tumblr allowed and donating her classic zines and other fandom materials to the k/s archive and Star Trek wikis. My understanding is that the plan was not necessarily to do this, but they were so blown away by the fandom’s outpouring of love for their grandmother that they felt they had to.
Young fans- respect your elders, acknowledge them, treat them like family, and in return I promise you will gain a source of wisdom snd kindness.
Fandom elders- I love you all, and Dee would’ve too.
And to dee’s grandchildren, should they ever stumble across this post; I still miss her posts, even though I’m barely in the fandom anymore. That’s the impact older fans can have on us.
ggaaaaahhhhhh fanfiction is literally just another artistic medium through which a story can be told like literally any other medium!!! it has its own strengths and its own weaknesses but people ascribing so much meaning to it like its uniquely going to save literature or destroy it are being so weird!!! it’s not doing great harm OR solving great evils its just A Way You Can Tell A Story that’s IT
