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smol cat learning about the cyber machines. EN & DE. they, it / per, es, ersie, xier. @maunzikation @maunzikation
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I did not know that GRUB themes were a thing until five minutes ago o.O But really, I could have guessed.
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Looking for more women and people of color who stream games on Twitch or youtube.
Von 1 Presslufthammer aufgeweckt werden, Liebe ._.
the blood apocalypse
(yes I know that it is easy enough to stop periods, but consider this, I do not like doctors and I'm bad at taking care of myself so, not an option)
(i super fucking hate myself for being this way. most of my problems are really easy to solve, but i don't even try.)
the blood apocalypse
ignoring pms pain (yes i get most of the pain _before_ actual apocalypse time) in hopes of being able to make menstruation not happen if i ignore it hard enough
i just caught myself doing that and i'm kind of disappointed that it doesn't work.
food
Da steht jemand im Hof und bestellt Sushi per Telefon
Es ist so seltsam und ich crave jetzt außerdem Avocadomaki.
My day:
– being tired
–being tired and sad
–being tired and unfocused
– getting excited over fandom stuff
– getting excited over NBGQ survey results
– being tired and overwhelmed
exciting life :D
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@tomstearns@octodon.social possibly! but better keep it vague so we do not provoke a major vegetable fight :O
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Why would you put peppers in a frozen vegetable mix, I'm feeling very attacked right now 🙀
@cassolotl@cybre.space /o\ congrats on finishing though!! *reads happily*
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I love #fanfic as an outlet for critiquing toxic narratives in mass media and creating alternatives.
I am here for the queering of the canon and for Captain Uhura. I love that there are fics that are just twenty pages of characters hashing out their poly relationship boundaries in a healthy way!
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And of course, a hell of a lot of #fanfic authors are young women. Yaoi is full of them, of course. But not just there, it's a thing across the board. Young and idealistic and brimming with creativity. It's a wonderful thing.
So what if there are comma splices and bad tenses and continuity errors? For fanfic, that stuff's trivial, pay it no mind.
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With that in mind, #fanfic authors don't need to be technically proficient to be "good", because we're defining "good" by a different metric: the ability to communicate that love from writer to reader.
The great majority of fanfic is first drafts, and that's wonderful. They're not crafted and molded, they're raw thoughts straight out of the writer's head, flawed and honest as hell. And endlessly charming because of it.
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#fanfic isn't about that. It's about love. Specifically, love for the source material and a desire to spend just that little bit more time with those characters and that setting. That desire motivates the writer and reader far more than a clever turn of a phrase, even though that may be present.
Fanfic writers tend to be amateurs, just trying their hardest to share that love with others, and that's an admirable thing.
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Here's wot I think re #fanfic :
Most fanfic is pretty bad, and that's what makes it great. Which sounds counterintuitive, but bear with me.
Fanfic isn't like original fiction. The goal is different, and so are both the creator and reader. They're in it for different things.
Original fiction is largely about telling a good story and telling it well. There's craft involved, and both the writer and reader are involved in that process.
And # fanfic and # fanfiction are not as empty as I'd have expected by far.
So… there is definitely _some_ amount of fan ~content~ and ~discussion~ here. Hm. *still very interested in all of this*
Well, # stevenuniverse is rather well populated on mastodon.social (hah hashtags in federation still feel weird, but also fun because you can discover new treasures everywhere)
And # overwatch, ah, I always forget about the games.
Hm, I'm thinking. While Mastodon feels *close* to a fandom-ish space, being very furry-friendly and geeky and all, I haven't seen a lot of non-furry-specific fandom content/discussion/youknow.
Are there any actively-ish used tags for specific fandoms? Are there exclusively fan-ish accounts? I know of the Star Trek themed tenforward.social, are there other instances like that? Anything else?
And… it's probably different if you understand Japanese, with pawoo being a pixiv thing, right?
@cassolotl@cybre.space oh no, shame on excel! >:o
smol cat learning about the cyber machines. EN & DE. they, it / per, es, ersie, xier. @maunzikation @maunzikation
Joined Apr 2017
