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I’m more active on twitter, I’m getting started at mastodon and countersocial, or find me on discord for some reason as nannyfeline#9770.
IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E
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ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june
get spooky
how does this appear every june
I feel very specifically targeted by this
ALT(23.11.22 c. Joe Sargent)
the images that made me the feral trash you see dot jaypeg
captain’s gunna say something pretty cool rn, everybodey listenn
but, like, he has a point
ALTEpisode 185: RPF Revisited
In Episode 185, “RPF Revisited,” Elizabeth and Flourish use a trio of listener letters to return to the perennially thorny topic of real person fiction. How does RPF fit into the broader fandom space in 2022? What does “canon” even mean when it comes to real people? How do fans reconcile with troubling new information about celebrities they’ve written and read about? And is RPF source material the same as fictional source material, or are there fundamental differences between the two?
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ELM: [laughs] But I was thinking, I’m not like, super in celebrity fandom, but there are some actors that you know I love, and if I witnessed one of them being rude in an interview?
FK: Yeah.
ELM: I’d feel bad. And I never feel that way when I’m reading or writing fanfiction about, you know, about…
I’ve recently gotten into Hockey RPF, so I have thoughts.
I have no illusions that the people I read about (or listen to someone read about, I’ve been on a big podfic kick lately) act at all like their RPF personas. It’s “real person fiction,” not “real person facts.” This breaks down in a few ways, some of which I think follows from a lot of the anti behavior and purity culture that’s been on the rise over the last year in (my corners of) fandom.
I told transmasc!Castiel I was taking this pic for Tumblr lol
I love observing twitter fandom from the outside because things will seem peaceful for a few days then there will be a slew of tweets like "👏 writing 👏 fic 👏 about 👏 9/11 👏 is 👏 problematic 👏" and having to reverse engineer what happened.
Seiji “acts of service” Katayama
This is an edit. AN EDIT. I drew Nick over Jesse. This is clearly Johanna the Mad’s art. Not mine.
My brain was so sad looking at the original panel so I swapped out the half-bros and kept sweet happy Seiji with his little tum.
Just because your life hasn’t gone in the direction you expected doesn’t mean the destination won’t be worthwhile
it’s your best life if it’s the life that you’re living right now
