you, brilliant, rested, loving, angelic: here is my 32k meta on how klance is, in fact, canon king, with clips from the show embedded directly into your brain as well as links to jeremy shada’s entire collection of slowburn klance fics
me, dumb, gay, broke, no ass: i think klance will happen because i like it
“Stop reading fanfic, you’re [any age over 25]!”
Uh. No. Just stop right there.
The adults over 25 built the fandom into which you wandered, once upon a time, enchanted by a story, blinking at the glare of possibilities beyond it.
One day you too may be 25—or 33, or 45, or 56, or 74—and realise you still want to be here.
One day you’ll get the first teenager yelling at you to stop doing fandom and leave it to the children.
If you can’t picture this, just give it a few years. Life may take you out of fandom or it may not, but the fact is, there’s no upper age limit.
You will pick up a job, a partner, a car loan. You’ll have children. You’ll take pets. You’ll lose that job, break up with that partner, go back to school, fall in love with someone new. Build a house. Break a leg. Bury someone you love. Life will happen.
But the things and stories you used to love will still be there. They’ll take on new forms. Trends and tropes and controversies will come and go.
On a purely personal observation—what else is this post?—fandom has been one of the constants in my life. I’ve drifted away and come back again, but the singular feeling of sharing a thing you love with other people has never gone away entirely. It’s a weird, messy, fractious entity, fandom is, but it’s always been a society that transcends generations.
You come into fandom thinking you and your peers invented it.
No, it’s always been here, and it will remain after you. In some form, held up by the people who came before and will come after you. That deserves a little respect.
(Now go read some Ursula K. Le Guin. She’s good for the soul, and better for perspective.)
If not for the founders and participants in fandom who were 25+ at the time I wandered in and started writing as a teenager in the ’90s, I wouldn’t have known how to do fandom, period. It would never have occurred to me to tell them to leave, and it would never have occurred to me that, now, in my mid-30s, there would be fans younger than I am who’d believe I should leave.
Communities can’t survive without institutional memory, and where do you think that comes from? The idea of believing that fans older than I am, i.e. 35+, should leave fandom, is horrifying to me. They made my participation here possible, and I owe it to them to pay the knowledge forward.
Young fans, one day you will be the keepers of that memory. Don’t slight the people who kept it alive so that it was here for you to discover.
Fandom isn’t Children of the Motherfucking Corn. Stop being horrible to fans who are older than you.
HE WHO WALKS BEHIND THE TAGS
keith, storming into shiro’s room: i can’t deal with this. lance isn’t the person i thought he was. i need a break from our relationship
shiro, alarmed: whoa, buddy, what’s wrong? what happened?
keith: lance just said a hot dog is a sandwich. i don’t need that kind of bullshit in my life
lance, barging in after keith: you know i’m right!! it’s two pieces of bread with something in between it!!
keith: it’s not a fucking sandwich-
shiro, shoving both of them out of his room, still bickering: damn how do you lock these fucking doors-
Me, trying to find ways to connect my favorite song’s lyrics to whatever characters I’m currently obsessed with:
The only rival to romance I need in my life
Au where Amy goes off to help save Sonic from Eggman, ends up battling Rouge along the way and teaming up with Shadow.
42,000 matches .
when it all turned black with only a little fire on the side it looked like a hole burning into reality
“Why are you hungry didnt you JUST eat?”
Avengers, but Steve is trying to get everyone to eat healthier
Guess who was one of the most requested for my witches AU.
I am working on a few outfits for her but hope you will like it ;)
Jasper is simply BEAUTIFUL here. 😍
ruinedchildhood
