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"I'm sorry, Tally Craven." "That's the first time you said my name."

#talder #tally craven #sarah alder #there is no straight explanation

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Volume 9 Bees

#bumbleby

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Holy shit I didn’t expect my first post to get any attention. The fuck do I even post for y’all? Korrasami? If so, take this for now

edit: I was told this is official art from the comics, I love them sm

edit #2: here’s the artist! @kohquette I appreciate the replies for helping me out <33

#korrasami #pretty

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#ashley williams

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@peggynet | PEGGY CARTER APPRECIATION WEEK 24’ day 6: tropes - captain carter earth 838 tropes

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Another repost of this cute bees I comm3d from @frishbi

#bumbleby #cute

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Portrait 18/30 - Ashley Williams (Mass Effect)

#ashley williams

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Fanfolks today need to remember how important The Premise was.

Y'all have heard of The Premise, right?

See, historically there have always been people who saw an extra layer of gayness on certain pairs of fictional people (you just thought of several), and people Back Then even wrote their own fanfic (or as they were called at the time, "pastiches"), but the first widespread queer fanwork to really define the fanfiction genre was KIRK AND SPOCK. Kirk/Spock. K/S. The very first slashfics.

Why this work was vastly, overwhelmingly written by straight women is a discussion for another time, but it was, so that's the main perspective I'm gonna consider here.

How do you - a statistically middle-class, 30+, stay-at-home wife and mother - how do you write slashfic ao3-style in the 1960's before the internet?

Carefully.

Through letters with friends, phone calls, pen pals, and sometimes - sometimes - clandestine meetings of small groups. Whole novels were written communally, round-robin style, by sending typed or handwritten additions chapter by chapter to each other. These were all underground, some deep underground; even the early Trekkie fanzines of the time wouldn't touch them.

And keep in mind, few of these stories were explicitly even sexual! But they were all about a very, very close relationship between two men. In the 1960's.

Guess how cool everyone else was about this.

Actually, for their part, Gene Rodenberry and the other writers were fine with it, saying that they had deliberately written the characters to be two halves of a whole, and if you wanna read it that way, yeah sure, go right ahead. Shatner and Nimoy took it all in good humor, and seemingly still do, each guy basically gesturing to the other and chuckling "I mean, who wouldn't?"

(CORRECTION: At least, they did until Nimoy passed away in 2015. Thanks @richie-is-rich!)

But elsewhere there was vicious backlash against The Premise, and not just within the fandom. This was still at a time in the US and UK when various "sodomy" and "decency" laws made no distinction between homosexual sex acts and just, like, directly lighting another man's cigarette with your cigarette in public. (That, sadly, is not a fucking joke.)

It was probably the closest some suburban cishet women came to understanding the pain of being in the closet. They had to protect this secret from their friends and family at all cost. There were cases of divorces where women lost custody of their children because their writing had come to light.

Can you imagine having such a burning desire to write for your OTP that you were willing to lose everything over it? Even if you were never caught, you still had to be willing to wait weeks, months, to receive a letter in the mail that you had to carefully intercept, read in secret, and then add your own chapter t, also in secret, and then send off, perhaps never to be seen again.

These people were goddamn heroes, and they laid the foundation for the world we live in today. A world where we can read, write, comment on, or share - in a matter of seconds! - literature about two background characters from two different franchises enjoying a really specific kink involving vacuums or something. And that's objectively amazing.

Raise a toast to our fanfiction elders, who simped in the darkness so we could simp in the light of day.

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TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow

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Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean - Every Single 'Okey-Dokey!' Fallout (2024)

#is she a lesbian lumberjack

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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year 3 of asking camilla hect to be my valentine (gym edition)

#camilla hect

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if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#there is this weird thing where in some ways the US is fictional #It's like narnia or exandria or the star wars universe #It's a fictional setting for movies and shows and fandom #all things in fantasy reside there #similar to the real world but not quite #those traffic lights look funny #and why do all your bathrooms have huge gaps in the doors #so when you think of fic it ends up being set in this magical au #except it's actually real #And it's a mindfuck when you go there and realise it's not just a movie set

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#ashley williams

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Willow 1.07 “The Shattered Sea”

#ngl #I low-key ship them