Shoutout to Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, and Neil Gaiman for just popping up on my dash and even in my notes every so often with THE most delightful takes and facts about fandom and fandom history. I’ll be reading a response to a fandom post like “go off fandom veteran!” and then I do a doubletake and it’s a beloved sci-fi/fantasy author just delightedly engaging in fandom with us.
Aww, thanks very much! 😊 (Sorry for the delayed response… I’ve been under the weather for the last week or so [details…] and haven’t always been seeing / responding to things in a timely manner.)
…All of us, no matter what our career histories are like, have times when we wonder kind of hopelessly whether we’re just talking into an uncaring void. It’s nice to be reminded, at least sometimes, that that’s not so. (And this is one of the places where the reminders come in unusually genuine and generous forms. So thanks for that, all.) 🙂
…And also, don’t miss this basic truth: all of us come from fandom (if different segments of it). All of us like having come from that place, and we all cherish the many friendships we’ve made there and the fun we’ve had. It’s part of us. None of us are in a rush to ditch the unique pleasures of engaging with fandom/other fans. Even Neil, who is way more madly pressed and busy than either Peter or me, has said explicitly that Tumblr is a place where he likes being when he has time. So don’t imagine that we’d have it otherwise. Y’all are our tribe. ❤️
Wish doctors would just tell me to go to the fucking seaside what the fuck is an anxiety disorder that’s not real you know what’s real? Ocean. Cliffs. Rocks and seashells. That’s real.
Yeah Iām calling bullshit on that one, from experience the average domestic water heater only takes between an hour and a half to 3 hours at the absolute worst, what the hell are these plumbers doing for the other 4-5 hours?
Some people on this website learnt the word “trope” and let it settle comfortably into the vocabulary space that should have been occupied by the word “cliché”.
“Trope” is a neutral word. If a particular trope is overused ad nauseam, it becomes a cliché. Saying you hate tropes does not make any sense.
“I hate recurring themes and motifs”
Well, good luck finding fictional content you can safely consume
