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LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand
I don't wanna see another story abt a teenage boy coming out to his parents and closed mouth kissing his boyfriend at prom where's my spy thriller action heist movie w a cast made entirely of dykes and femme gay men you know what I'm fucking talkinf about. I'm tired of The Queer Struggle I struggle every stupid day I know what that's all about and honestly none of the coming out stories are cathartic or whatever to me. I don't care. I wanna see a nonbinary person fight a dragon
What was the first property/media you read fanfiction online for? 🌈
Sometimes I forget young people exist. I’m seeing people saying that their first fic was for FNaF or Good Omens or even MLP and I’m like “Haha wow that’s all pretty new, you must have been on the internet for a while before encountering fanfiction!”
And then the “oh no” hits.
So I have a follow-up question: What’s the first website you read fanfiction on? Mine was Quizilla, which doesn’t even exist any more!
Lord of the Rings fanfiction on fanfiction.net
I think it was Star Wars, though it might have been Fushigi Yuugi, and both of these reading experiences took place on various little archive sites/webrings, because this was back in like 2001 or 2002 and fanfiction.net hadn’t yet become the central hub that it would be a few years down the line. I did know about Quizilla, as the queen of personality quiz sites (Uquiz will never have what she had fite me irl), but it never occurred to me to look for fic there, although I did spend many an hour of allotted internet time at the library finding out what element my wings belonged to, or which anime character I should marry
P sure it was either hockey rpf or Gundam wing on yahoo email groups.
HP fic on fanfiction.net, immediately followed by Gundam Wing via the 1x2ml yahoo group
My brother, reading out loud: Ianthe Tridentasaurus
Me: Yeah that’s her name you’re right
Alana bloom v Wendy Carr is really interesting as a watcher of the jdcu. despite filing the exact same role and being the same character prima facie, they are complete foils. Alana is what one might call spunky. she cares deeply about her coworkers and her patients. her character is in proximal conversation with the y2k rom com's best friend archetype. Wendy, on the other hand, is a frigid perpetrator of wlw mlm hostility. there has never been a person on earth she has liked enough to spend more than five minutes in a room with much less her coworkers. she is so profoundly bored by the thought of having patients that she exclusively teaches and reserches. if their positions were reversed I think that
1. Alana bloom would be a total buzzkill. she would say she was there for someone and genuinely mean it without getting distracted by a hot bartender. she would give everyone stern talking tos about being nice to each other.
2. if Wendy Carr was in Alana bloom's position, she would simply make will graham cry. a benefit of this is that it would be really funny
TV show: This is a TV show called Shits&Farts. It is about shits, & farts. The main characters are two men named Shit, & Fart. They tell shit & fart jokes to each other for the whole twenty-minute runtime.
at least one person you follow on tumblr, instantly: omfg im WITHERING from last nights ep….. the dynamic between shit & fart is so fucking tense and erotic……im still fucking sobbing i hate my sweet babies….. why do they treat each other like this im fucking BATHING IN ACID….. its so good…….. im EMBALMING MYSELF and then DESECRATING MY OWN CORPSE…..
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So, sifting through The Books again for deep lore meant I, of course, got sidetracked so I want to mention something. I've heard some people (citations are for losers) warn others that HtN isn't as funny as GtN. I suppose I concede, but I also just lost my shit reading the passage about John trying to explain how the River works to the baby Lyctors. With Mercy growing more and more irritated at the fact that John JUST WONT USE A RIVER METAPHOR ITS RIGHT THERE as it gets more obtuse until he's talking about Cassiopeia's explanation ("Oh, no, the lava," said Mercy) and the unkillable man-eating magma fish. I know it's a long and important exposition sequence, but it's also fucking hilarious how it builds up.
And also one scene that only hit me a few pages after I read it was the part where Cytherea is chasing Harrow. She runs to her room, slams the door, puts up all the fancy blood wards, then props up a chair under the door handle for good measure.
Then Cyth completely ignores the wards and is thwarted by the chair jamming the handle. Seriously, such a tense scene and you're like, phew! Then, wait a fucking minute... No. This is rediculous. And it is. It's so silly, a word I would hesitate to describe most of the book and yet here we are.
Also Harrow’s banter with Ortus. Especially at the beginning:
“Lady, it is only to honour my father that I call myself a cavalier,” said Ortus. “It is for my mother’s pride and my House’s scarcity that I call myself a cavalier. I have none of a cavalier’s virtues.”
“I am not sure how many times I must relay to you how truly I am aware of that,” said Harrowhark, picking a tiny fragment of jet thread from her fingernail. “Given that it has constituted one hundred percent of our exchanges over the years, I can only assume you are coming to some new point, and begin to feel excitement.”
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