How dare this fandom not have a fanfiction written about this very specific and complex idea that only I have thought of and never asked anyone to write about.
Homestuck: Like oompa-loompas leaping out of the woodwork at the drop of secret words or phrases. Generally Amiable to nonHomestucks, but often vicious with each other, so the trick is the same as when visiting the lands of the fairfolk: Never Actually Consume The Wares Offered.
Star Trek: By Osmosis, I know three (3) Star Trek Memes, but only know how to spell 2 of them (Tarmac Angel Lard Et Tokugawa?). Massive, old and rife with hidden politics and some very exotic deviances. Not Unlike my expiriences with the Catholic Church.
Transformers: Star Wars’ dumpsterfire of canon issues looks like a smoldering wastepaper basket compared to the chernobyl-like meltdown of Transformers Canon. Fandom is somehow extraordinalrity polite, well organized and pleasant. Like they’re having High Tea with the Fine China and Cucumber Sandwiches whils illuminated by the burning of Rome.
Steven Universe: The Show is like a coming-of-age tale set in the thunderdome, but the fandom is Thunderdome set in a McDonald’s Playplace.
Supernatural: *Viva Lad Vida faintly plays on the sad winds that echo through the ruined throne room, but the cockroaches picking at the moldering buffet seem to be having a great time*
Discworld: Listen. Listen I wholly admit to worshipping at the Altar of Sir Terry, but after a while, comparing things to discworld starts to feel like the dreaded art “compliment” of “It looks just like Disney!”. Let people have thier own creations.
Warhammer 40K: For people working with the Grimmest and Darkest of AUs, everyone here is spectacularly jolly and irreverent, at least until you bring up the price of miniatures.
Dr. Who: It comes and goes with wildly different actions and discourse every time, like the haploid and diploid generations of plants.
Star Wars: Is omitted from this list because I’m deep enough in the fandom that I’ve been through all five stages of grief and seven more stages of emotions that do not have names in the tongues of men, and have achived the nirvana of “The Fandom is those 12 people in your chat group”
Star Wars’ dumpsterfire of canon issues looks like a smoldering wastepaper basket compared to the chernobyl-like meltdown of Transformers Canon.
As a Transformers fan, I love you.
Also as a Transformers fan, this brought me joy.
And as someone experiencing the Steven Universe fandom through the lens of my significant other and looking on in utter horror, yep. very yep.
Pls someone tell me how Dragon Age fandom looks from the outside.
Dragon Age: Absolutely everyone is furious with an egg. Even the people that want to fuck the egg. There’s also a BSDM Minotaur and Oscar Wilde with a tan and some guy with a bloodsmear on his face that he’s either studiously applied every morning for like a decade or he never washes his face both options sound equally plausible. There’s some kind of issue with videogame developers trying to discuss social justice issues and completely fucking it up and y’all keep acting like that’s an unexpected outcome. Perhaps the Egg is the writing team’s self-Insert OC?
Also there’s dwarf with excellent man-clevage and for some reason you can’t romance him despite being apparently the best character in the entire series.
Now, this makes me curious about the outside perspective of The Elder Scrolls and Warcraft fandoms.
The Elder Scrolls: How does a game series with lore like “If you get up high enough on certain mountains you can still see the smoldering remains of where an asteroid almost hit, was stopped by a god, had a city built into it, the god died, and then the asteroid hit full-force becuase he’d only delayed it’s impact” and “Someone once stole the moon” LOOK SO FUCKING BORING HAS BETH ESDA NEVER SEEN A FULL-SATURATION COLOR BEFORE?? Visual monotony aside, I can see how you end up playing this obsessively for weeks and end up speaking the dragon-exploding language, even if sometimes the game has a meltdown and elephants fall out of the sky.
Actually I’m not even sure that’s a glitch that just sounds like practical world-building at this rate.
World Of Warcraft: it’s like the exact opposite of Elder scrolls- the games look baller as fuck and like a fun fanstasy adventure where you can live out your neon-colored pseudo-furry dreams and then the gameplay is a more time consuming version of an Introduction to Microeconomics class. Really if you’re any kind of good at WoW you should be able to use it for college credit. Every WoW fan i’ve ever met has been kind enough to stop explaining it to me once my eyesstarted to glaze over and if you draw their OCs they pay extrememly well.
Requested from the comments:
JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure:
JJBA uses every color that Elder Scrolls didn’t. Everyone looks and moves like Buster Keaton on amphetamines and steroids. Nobody knows what’s going on, least of all the people actually in the show. It’s very pretty and possibly gay and rock and roll references abound so you don’t really need context. The cosplay community is fucking killing it. It looks like something I really, really want to get into but the dog dies in the first ep and honestly that threw me.
Naruto: Naruto people don’t like the series- they like the unexplored potential of the characters and setting and thematic elements and virtually every narrative structure kishimoto could have used but didn’t. It hasn’t expirienced “death of the author” so much as “cataclysmic extinction of the author”, in which the fans sift for bits of passable canon like paleontologists looking for bone fragments. The reconstructions have little to no basis in canon but are gorgeous.
Marvel: Like Transformers, The ships are made up and the canon doesn’t matter. Fandom overall is much gentler and cozier than the source material, which isn’t unusual but marvel takes it to a spectacular degree. Coffee shop AUs, Stark Tower Sleepover Parties, and “everyone has a loving family, one way or another” abounds. Everyone wants to take the muscley, tortured heroes (and villians) of the franchise and put them in fleece footie Pajamas.
…90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the time they’re gonna take the knife canon shoved in that character’s back, coat it in acid, make it long enough to kill thier BBF too and TWIST. Marvel fandom does hurt/comfort like a shot of hydrochloric acid followed by seventeen gallons of hot chocolate with sprinkes and marshmallows and candycanes and unicorns.
2018 was the year of disaster super heroes being loved by their exes’ new husbands/boyfriends.
Jim went from being antagonistic (but not a bad guy) in Ant-Man to loving the ever loving shit out of Scott in Ant-Man and The Wasp. His favorite thing seems to be putting his big arms around both Scott and Maggie like a protective shield.
Dan never showed a speck of jealousy towards Eddie in Venom and wanted to help him even when Anne still wasn’t quite onboard with the idea. They ended up deleting the scene, but originally Dan helped Eddie out of the infamous lobster tank and carried him baby-style out of the restaurant while Eddie clung to him like a sad koala. You can still find photos of it.
I like this trend of supportive new husbands/boyfriends. Not only does it help you understand why the women chose them as the new men in their lives, it’s also really nice to see the guys being caring and loving towards each other in a way that’s different to the “bros in arms” we usually get from superhero movies.
I’m pissed with everyone saying haikyuu was a dead fandom for the past two years. So much content was created and movies were out and people were still loving the show. Ntm the people who read the still-coming-out manga. (This “fandom was dead” attitude is to an extent insulting to Furudate and their team who work hard to keep the manga going as well) If you think the fandom was dead it’s because you jumped ship as soon as the 3rd season stopped airing and didn’t bother to check to tags on any site. Saying the fandom was dead is such an insult to everyone who’s been in or joined the fandom, esp creators, in the past two years.
I would like to adopt another parrot someday, but I think it would be very strange to adopt something older than you. Parrots can live to be 60+, so I could someday be the guardian of an animal who lived a few decades before I was even born and that’s just weird.
I don’t think I have the authority. By default, that bird should be my guardian.
I am totally down for my next rescue to be older than me cuz frankly I need the life advice
My friend works at a pet store and while they don’t sell parrots, they do board and occasionally take in rescues and adopt them out. Well one of the birds they were boarding for a month was a 60+ year old scarlet macaw who knew one phrase besides occasionally coughing like an old man. She would say it on cue whenever a customer approached her and an employee told them how old she was. She would stop what she was doing, lean in close, her eyes pinning wildly, in a raspy whisper she would utter, “I was there when it happened.”
Also, let’s consider that this costume on Batman isn’t even particularly sexualized or out of ordinary for the DC universe standards once we put it next to Robin’s infamous pantless look.
I was a professional juggler for like five years and all of my friends politely pretend it never happened.
Sometimes I will be holding three or more similarly sized objects and they will all shoot me the kind of warning glances typically reserved for cats who are about to swipe a fresh and crispy fish stick from a small child’s hand.
I gaze wistfully at a basket of apples and they all think, “Don’t you FUCKING dare,” so hard that I take psychic damage.
