“Oh, I know it will be great and I just can’t wait, to see the person you are together! ♪”
Happy Pearlmethursday, everyone! Especially gemslashstashcache!! ♡
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fingalsanteater asked: Hello. I probably followed you for DS9 stuff BUT NOW I SEE YOU ARE WATCHING BABYLON 5 and I'm so excited. It's one of my favorite shows. I watched it last year for the first time and it kind of ate my soul for about eight months. I see you really like Londo? He's my fave character and just.. *hugs* cos you're gonna need them. :D I love reading people's reactions to the show, so keep on live blogging. You can talk to me about the show anytime, if you want.
paso-liati answered:
Hello! I REALLY love B5. And Londo, well I think ladyyatexel ‘s fan art had put me in a good mood about him and ultimately it was what convinced me to watch the show. Then by the third episode, the way he was with Adira… I mean as a romantic hero he’s pretty perfect.
I’m pretty sure I’m in for a world of pain vis a vis Londo. I’m only through episode 12, but I’m going to play clairvoyant here and try to predict his arc while hoping I’m wrong. I think Londo is a very important Centauri. He looks and acts like a courtier. He reminds me of Valmont from Les Liaisons Dangereuses in his jaded ennui, even if he does as yet lack Valmont’s casual cruelty. Yes I think he will be presented with some choices. Terrible choices. I don’t yet know what he fights for, but I think he will get it, and in an incredibly pyrrhic victory. It will taste like ashes in his mouth for the rest of his days. He will make those terrible choices and I think they will cost him his soul. What worries me the very real possibility that Vir is the walking, talking personification of Londo’s soul. As much as I love Londo, I don’t want sweet, kind, innocent Vir who is also pretty perfect in his own way to be the victim of Londo’s folly.
Oddly enough, I don’t think G’Kar will kill him even though they keep bringing up Londo’s ‘True Dream.’ All they do is fight and threaten to murder one other, but I still get the sense they kind of actually like each other too. Besides, if G’Kar wants revenge in the end, and I’m at all right in my predictions, he would be best served by leaving Londo to rot in whatever undoubtedly opulent cesspit he’s dug for himself.
I think I got my one almost happy ending in Garak. He survived the war, became a better, less cruel person, and returned to Cardassia to rebuild what was left of his home. Since then, I’ve never gone into another show actually expecting a fave to bring me anything but pain. Not that I cry any less over their inevitable fall from grace…..
:D
Some of me is like ‘Oh, sweetie, let me hug you,’ about this post, but most of me is delighted that my aggressiblogging and excessive fanart had its intended effect~~ I love that my work can send other people down the same roads I love, that’s delightful~~ <3
Good luck, friend~! My life was totally ruined by Londo Mollari to the point that my performance at work suffered for two weeks, so you are in for A Thing.
Are you tired of greasy pots and pans? Stubborn kitchen stains? Messy sponges and sprays? Me too. I wish the sun would devour the earth.
— vladchoc (@vladchoc)January 17, 2013
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Kathy:
*coughing like it's bubonic*
Michelle:
good lord, Kathy, do you need mouth to mouth? I'll find an offender to help you.
Kathy:
*wheezing* Fuck no, just let me die.
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Well, here is a good portion of the crap that’s been building up in the margins of my sketchbook and on random paper at work and wherever else. It’s not all of it, because some of it is especially ugly, incomprehensible, or both. Granted these are all doodles, so none of them are high art or anything, but those were particularly bad. SO THESE ONES AREN’T, IS THE IMPLICATION. Take that as you will.
A weird bunch of circumstances means I don’t have time to talk about these today as much as I wanted to, but I’m gonna try to go through them, because I just want to enjoy something today without hospital visits and my tumblr theme going nuclear.
SO HERE WE GO. Image captions, but also me being wordy as fuck, yay.
Every single one of these sketches needs to be a comic or a fic. As gorgeous as the ending we got was, a big slice of me was hoping londo and gkar would brotp centauri prime back into shape on thier own
Haha, my issues with the term brotp itself and my definite shipping of these two by this point in the story aside (though I see the line with them as massively blurry): Yesssss. I wanted them to be working together aggressively, obnoxiously, flawlessly, forever. I want to put the dancing shenanigans in the same comic universe as the fruit hat. I’d love to do more comics of these losers having misadventures on Centauri Prime with their give and take-y outfits and tag team sass, in addition to all the just general ART.
Anyway, I posted all these to judge some level of interest in the content by other people, so I’m glad you groove to this as well!
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“Large fandoms—things like Doctor Who, or Supernatural, or Star Trek, or any superhero comic—tend to have unique and separate sides to them: curative and transformative.
Curative fandom is all about knowledge. It’s about making sure that everything is lined up and in order, knowing how it works, and finding out which one is the best. What is the Doctor Who canon? Who is the best Doctor? How do Weeping Angels work? Etc etc. Curative fandom is p. much the norm on reddit, especially r/gallifrey.
Transformative fandom is about change. Let’s write fic! Let’s make art! Let’s make a fan vid! Let’s cosplay! Let’s somehow change the text. Why is Three easier to ship, while Seven is more difficult? What would happen if ______? Transformative fandom is more or less the norm on tumblr. (And livejournal, and dreamwidth, and fanfiction websites, and…)
Here’s the big thing: there’s a gender split. Find a random male fan, and they’ll probably be in curative fandom. Pick a random transformative fandom-er, and they’ll probably be female. Note that this is phrased in a very particular way—obviously there’s guys who cosplay and write fic, obviously there’s women who don’t. But men tend to be in the curative fandom, while transformative fandom is predominately women—and/or queer people, POC, etc. Why? Because the majority of professionally-made media is catered towards a straight white male demographic, leaving little room for ‘outsiders.’ Outsiders who, if they want to see themselves in media, have to attack it and change it—hence slash fic, hence long essays claiming that Hermione Granger is black, hence canons about trans characters or genderqueer characters.
And then curative/male fandom tends to view most things that transformative/female fandom does with disdain. Why? Because, in their eyes, it devalues canon. Who cares about knowing about Tony Stark’s lovers if somebody’s gonna write a fic where Toni Stark is flying about? Their power is lessened. Scream of the Shalka is unambiguously not canon—but it doesn’t have to be in order for me to read and enjoy a 30k fic where the robotic Master was secretly in the TARDIS during Nine and Ten’s time and they shagged behind the scenes. Canon? No, but who gives a shit?
Also, as transformative fandom tends to be an outsider looking in, they’re much more likely to analyze the work from a queer/PoC/neurodivergent/gender perspective. If I come to /r/gallifrey and start to talk about how ‘In the Forest of the Night’ had a questionable portrayal of mental health/autism, I get blank stare. If I go on tumblr, I get a conversation. This is also where the ‘overreacting, shrieking SJW’ trope plays in, either because of a redditor’s misunderstanding of terms and therefore assuming that a mild critique is a scathing one, or because the tumblr user in question is young/inexperienced and jumping the gun.
So, there you have it: /r/gallifrey’s bashing of tumblr is part of a larger split in how men and women tend to enjoy fandom, and a lashing against how fanfiction/related things addresses fandom because it’s not the right “kind” of fandom. And also because tumblr is popular with teenage girls, and there’s nothing reddit loves more than shitting on whatever teenage girls like.
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Large fandoms—things like Doctor Who, or Supernatural, or Star Trek, or any superhero comic—tend to have unique and separate sides to them: curative and transformative.
Curative fandom is all about knowledge. It’s about making sure that everything is lined up and in order, knowing how it works, and finding out which one is the best. What is the Doctor Who canon? Who is the best Doctor? How do Weeping Angels work? Etc etc. Curative fandom is p. much the norm on reddit, especially r/gallifrey.
Transformative fandom is about change. Let’s write fic! Let’s make art! Let’s make a fan vid! Let’s cosplay! Let’s somehow change the text. Why is Three easier to ship, while Seven is more difficult? What would happen if ______? Transformative fandom is more or less the norm on tumblr. (And livejournal, and dreamwidth, and fanfiction websites, and…)
Here’s the big thing: there’s a gender split. Find a random male fan, and they’ll probably be in curative fandom. Pick a random transformative fandom-er, and they’ll probably be female. Note that this is phrased in a very particular way—obviously there’s guys who cosplay and write fic, obviously there’s women who don’t. But men tend to be in the curative fandom, while transformative fandom is predominately women—and/or queer people, POC, etc. Why? Because the majority of professionally-made media is catered towards a straight white male demographic, leaving little room for ‘outsiders.’ Outsiders who, if they want to see themselves in media, have to attack it and change it—hence slash fic, hence long essays claiming that Hermione Granger is black, hence canons about trans characters or genderqueer characters.
And then curative/male fandom tends to view most things that transformative/female fandom does with disdain. Why? Because, in their eyes, it devalues canon. Who cares about knowing about Tony Stark’s lovers if somebody’s gonna write a fic where Toni Stark is flying about? Their power is lessened. Scream of the Shalka is unambiguously not canon—but it doesn’t have to be in order for me to read and enjoy a 30k fic where the robotic Master was secretly in the TARDIS during Nine and Ten’s time and they shagged behind the scenes. Canon? No, but who gives a shit?
Also, as transformative fandom tends to be an outsider looking in, they’re much more likely to analyze the work from a queer/PoC/neurodivergent/gender perspective. If I come to /r/gallifrey and start to talk about how ‘In the Forest of the Night’ had a questionable portrayal of mental health/autism, I get blank stare. If I go on tumblr, I get a conversation. This is also where the ‘overreacting, shrieking SJW’ trope plays in, either because of a redditor’s misunderstanding of terms and therefore assuming that a mild critique is a scathing one, or because the tumblr user in question is young/inexperienced and jumping the gun.
So, there you have it: /r/gallifrey’s bashing of tumblr is part of a larger split in how men and women tend to enjoy fandom, and a lashing against how fanfiction/related things addresses fandom because it’s not the right “kind” of fandom. And also because tumblr is popular with teenage girls, and there’s nothing reddit loves more than shitting on whatever teenage girls like.
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reddit user lordbyonic on the difference between reddit and tumblr fandom
but it also explains WHY fanfic (and the population of people who read it) is largely written by women
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this is funny
like really, really funny
You sly bugger. That took me a while.
I have googled my life away. I have read bible verses. I have studied the ohilosophical meaning behind the numbers. I have become a modern Gallup trying to ask people to help me figure this out. What the FUCK does it mean.
Reblog when you get it…
OHMYGOD
ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
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