now rise up, lady, or we drown

i-sail-many-ships:

[Aggressively ships The Doctor and River without hating any other ships] 

sarking:

silverqueen:

ajroach42 a réagi à votre billet : I just want a friend who watches all the same…

Isn’t that tumblr in a nutshell?

IDK, Tumblr can be great if you’re in a currently popular fandom or if your friends on your dash are really into the same fandom you’re into, but it’s kind of impersonal if you’re into a fandom that nobody on your dash is into. People will go into the tags and reblog things to express their feels, but they don’t really talk or respond to each other through the tags so much. Like I post a ton about Nashville but I don’t really talk to other Nashville fans. The tag is mostly just everybody posting individual feels on the latest episode and people go down the tag and read everybody else’s feels and go “yes good,” but nobody really discusses things.

/ grumble, moan, I miss LJ comment threads, etc.

yes good

More seriously, though, this is how Tumblr is for me, too. It feels more like posting on AO3 than on LJ. You know: make a thing, post it, get kudos/likes/reblogs,* repeat. Which is fine! I mean, I love kudos. I love knowing someone enjoyed, or at least didn’t hate, the thing I shared.

Except it’s not enough. I don’t just want to share things and like things other people have shared — I want to have conversations. Why did you like this? What about the canon made you make this, made you think? Did you get X from this scene, or was it just me?

It’s definitely a little bit my fault, too, of course, since I still post most of my OH GOD I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS EPISODE/SCENE/CHARACTER and YOU GUYS I HAVE THIS HORRIBLE/GREAT FIC IDEA posts on Dreamwidth/LJ. But I mostly do that because it does sometimes lead to conversation there, even when no one shares my fandom, which really hasn’t been the case here. 

* I’m lumping reblogs in with kudos and likes because, in small fandom existence, that’s how they tend to be: almost exclusively simple reposts with no added information or attempt at conversation, so it’s really just another form of “hey I liked this.” It’s nice to hear, but there’s no connection with another person there.

I was never even that good at reading and commenting on other people’s LJs, but there were comms where people were always discussing stuff. That made a big difference, for me. I’m not the type to go to people’s personal blogs and be like “hey sup let’s discuss our thoughts,” so I’ve really only ever participated in fandom through spaces that were open to anybody and meant for that specific purpose, i.e. comms and forums.

On Tumblr you have to make that personal overture to have a discussion, and then you have to decide whether it’s even worth following this person if you don’t have anything in common besides Fandom X. It’s weird; Tumblr is all one big, interconnected community, and yet most of the interaction on Tumblr is one-on-one. It’s hard to carve out communal spaces for fandoms.

And then you have the focus on image edits over meta and fic, and fic getting lost in people’s individual archives rather than accumulated in one place, etc.

eytancragg:

cassetting:

john green is a genius because he creates books

within books

and then he quotes those books

in his books

so i gotta say a thing about sci-fi and fantasy literature here.

i’m not denying that john green writes excellent books. i own three copies of the fault in our stars, and paper towns was a wonderful read. so i’m saying this as a fan of mr. green’s books.

fantasy and sci-fi authors often incorporate hundreds of fictional documents into their work.

tolkien, robert jordan, frank herbert, douglas adams: all of these authors invented far more than one book to quote in their sagas. much of that material will never be published, but its existence is vital to the quality of their respective canons.

hell, i’m doing it myself.

so how about a round of applause for all the writing-within-writing in so-called “genre” literature.

Margaret Atwood wrote a book that was half novel and half novel-within-the-novel and made both parts come together in the end to reveal the full story.

The folks at Bethesda Softworks have written HUNDREDS of actual books and put them in their games just to make the game world feel more real. THEY WROTE A FREAKING ROMANCE NOVEL AND PUT IT IN THE GAME SO IF YOU WANNA TAKE A BREAK FROM SLAYING DRAGONS AND CURL UP WITH A ROMANCE NOVEL YOU CAN.

whitetearsprincess:

THIS LITTLE GIRL

THIS LITTLE GIRL MADE HER FIRST MOVIE

AND SHE GOT NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR

SHE CAME WITH HER LITTLE PUPPYDOG PURSE

AND WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A FUN NIGHT

EVEN IF SHE DIDNT WIN

BUT INSTEAD

SHE GETS SOME WHITE MAN TAKING AWAY HER AUTONOMY, HER SENSE OF SELF, TREATING HER AS A JOKE, AS A SEXUAL OBJECY

AT

NINE

I… really doubt she thought much about it?

I mean I could be wrong but

it makes me uncomfortable to see all these people (mostly white people, as a matter of fact) white-knighting this girl and telling her that her sense of self has been taken away. That’s gross.

Girls get to decide how they feel about things without Tumblr’s input y’all.

(via grief-bacon)

faineemae:

sycophancy:

Okay folks, let’s talk about Taylor Swift for a minute.

Taylor Swift sells records and built her image on being a poor, virginal girl who is victimized by mean, mean men. She writes songs about her “relationships” (we’ll move on to why that’s in quotation marks in just a short bit), that ESSENTIALLY consist of bashing guys she’s dated for wronging her. Because she’s innocent. And does nothing wrong.

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Uh… wow, I had no idea about all that Harry Styles stuff. I’m a bit skeptical about “empirical evidence” that “proves” that two bandmates are in a secret gay relationship, though.

Also, I will say that John Mayer seems like a douchebag in general and I don’t for one second believe that he was blameless in that relationship. Nineteen is still really young. I don’t care how ~tortured he was feeling at the time; as an adult, he had a responsibility to make sure the terms of the relationship were crystal clear. And as I recall, he said some pretty nasty things about her too, which the OP elected not to quote.

I mean, OP’s points about Taylor’s treatment of her exes are totally valid. Except, for me, those points are tainted by OP’s apparent disgruntled 1D slashdom. I dunno anything about 1D, but I know how communities that closely follow celebrities’ lives can come up with these hypotheses, and start gathering evidence, and end up making pretty much anything look completely, undeniably true. (Go ask the folks at Saula Heaven about their latest theories as to why Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul are still concealing their secret marriage.)

Plus, you really can’t say “It has to be true because people on the internet said it was, and if it wasn’t they’d be sued for libel!” That’s really not how libel works.

So… I’m inclined to take everything OP says with a grain of salt because of aaaaall that mess. It’s possible to criticize TSwift’s shitty attitude without resorting to that nonsense.

(Anyway, if Harry/Taylor was a fake relationship to gain publicity/make Harry look straight… then who’s to say Taylor’s little Grammy shoutout wasn’t also a manufactured publicity thing? Wouldn’t Harry’s management want everybody to think he keeps blowing up her phone with love messages? I mean how is that bullying???)

(via lorimckennas)