Man, people are just calling the MILDEST ass shit "harassment" and "canceling" aren't they?

if you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. Time stretched onward; I breathed. I breathed. I breathed.

Genuinely always shocks me the things people will say to defend a fictional person. Rape apologia, some racists are good actually, it’s important to forgive genocide, maybe this fascist regime was right tho…just absolutely evil nonsense.

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

John Boyega James Bond would be good. (Oscar Isaac can be Moneypenny.)

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you?

The fact that, at its peak, the worst dogpiling from fandom for critical analysis of racism/sexism/etc in both fanspace and in media is on Black critics and not on people like me is TELLING. I say the same stuff, I'm often in similar fanspaces. But I'm white, so.

This PHM bodyswap fic is pretty brilliant (mind the tags, etc): archiveofourown.org/works/827285...

Sometimes seeing the governing Code underlying fandom behavior just drives me batshit.

The @foldablehuman.bsky.social video on why he was invited to Beast Studios is an entire journey - so good, highly recommend. youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4?...

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

"There are currently only three fanfics on the Archive of Our Own written in Swahili." In our latest, @soila.bsky.social writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fic, including the perspectives of fellow fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi. Read or listen to an audio version:

I really like Frieren so far, but the racial essentialism of demons being innately and incontrovertibly evil/malicious and thus okay to slaughter indiscriminately makes me wonder if an AoT-style shoe is going to drop at some point down the line.

That famous dead male writer will never read your tender essay about his suicide and fraught relationship with his sister, but lots of us will certainly notice that you didn’t think it was worth even *mentioning* the allegations he was abusive to multiple still living women.

it makes more sense if you understand that the mods here see "collective, decentralized criticism" (ironically) as "dogpiling," but a single high-profile bad faith actor intentionally inciting mass harassment by siccing their 100k followers on individual <1k follower trans women as "free speech"

I will not judge someone for writing a story about fucking Mothman. I will heavily judge someone for using AI to write a story about fucking Mothman.

Good reminder

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Every time I see a trailer for Backrooms, I just want it to be about House of Leaves as told by Johnny Truant's increasingly unhinged vlog intercut with clips of The Navidson Record.

Today I made a gravitational lensing joke and had that moment where I realized that it was Too Niche (even for my fairly nerdy - albeit of a different flavor) - friend). Ope.

Are any of y'all (moots) going to WorldCon this year?

I want everyone to get the chance to watch PHM in theaters bc it's VERY pretty and worth seeing on a big screen. I also want it to come to streaming asap so that my wife can't keep track of how many times I want to watch it RIGHT AWAY.

Applying to a far more reasonable apartment in the same complex (it's smaller and is about what I pay now), the big issue is,,, affording the act of moving (supplies, movers, cleaners) and that pesky security deposit if I get in here or the other place 🫠 I will probably need... Help 😔

Willing to put money on the hypothesis that the popularity of [alien/human ship] and the [human] aroace headcanon in [fandom] is that the only other male character that [human] spends a significant amount of (very entertaining!) screentime with is Black.

the idea that feminism is more than just "women can be vote now" was and still is a real system shock for people first encountering it. but critique of our shared cultural narratives and tropes is a load-bearing pillar of cultural change, and that includes critiquing stuff you like

even to this day i still encounter people every day who are unable to internalize the simple, straightforward message that "it is possible and even necessary to simultaneously enjoy something while also being critical of its more pernicious or problematic aspects."

I love how "slippery slope" has changed from a well-known LOGICAL FALLACY to some kind of foundational retort for a lot of arguments online. A thought-terminating cliche that you can't disprove bc it rests on wild assumptions that Terrible Consequences are inextricably linked to [milder stance].

not to call anyone out but every "fan studies' "scholarly" journal i've ever encountered has had shockingly low scholarly standards and has published outright rants by randos with zero scholarly background that cite transphobic pseudoacademics to call their online haters cults

mods on this site discovering in real time every day why private accounts are important, but still too full of themselves to realize the mistake of insisting on everything being public

always interesting and revealing how the prevailing ethic across the genAI/LLM hype machine is aggressively anti-consent. not just disregarding consent, not just not caring, but actively, consciously ANTI-consent.

Are any of y'all (moots) going to WorldCon this year?

My PHM aroace Omegaverse fic is my #2 most bookmarked fic of all time. People are calling it "sweet," "cute," "heartfelt," "uncomfortable," "stressful," and "loving." This fic is just one month old and it has dildo jokes. What is my life.

I want to tell you a story about Sherlock fandom. Don't run away, it's actually relevant.

Every day I see complaints about what's frame as a unique crime of "The Pitt fandom" that's been widely documented as a dynamic/behavior across all sorts of audiences, communities, platforms, etc for *years*. Did these people somehow miss all of that? Or is the problem that it's around The Pitt.

is anybody seeing use of AI voice generation for podfic? obviously it would be contested if it happened given overall fandom feelings about AI, but is anybody doing it?

AI is making everything stupider and slower and I hate it.

top 15 shows, gut instincts Battlestar Galactica Person of Interest Leverage Black Sails Babylon 5 The Good Place Dr Who Midnight Mass Veronica Mars (OG series only) Lost in Space (reboot) Killjoys Deadloch Riot Women (? ongoing) Andor Galavant

LRT: the dangers of nostalgia are applicable to fanspaces, too: I'd have AO3 money if I had a nickel for every time I came across some post mourning the lack of "niceness" in fanspace in These Modern Days, or--

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Introducing my friend to Black Sails and

lol this is the whole thing, this is why they like it and fall for it

Love the point about how inconsistent TV was about responding to 9/11 and its aftermath. I think Person of Interest also handled it well, and comparing The XFiles to Fringe is... VERY illuminating on that front.

It’s been a major frustration that Battlestar Galactica hasn’t been on a major streamer, but it’s BACK! BSG hit Paramount+ & Pluto TV today, praise the lords of Kobol! Why you should watch (or rewatch) & PLUS !! a lil excerpt from my upcoming book on Battlestar: www.moryan.com/praise-the-l...

Idk why but "space aroace Ryland Grace" makes me feel so much better about being an asexual who's also a space nerd. Yeah, yeah, the "space ace" jokes have been round for a while but now I'm VIBING with them lol

I have been reading every PHM fic I can get my grubby little AO3 account on and the xenokinksters are having a BLAST, bless.

If you project your queer &/or disabled headcanons on [direct quote] "everyone except [the Black character]" and you're called on it, do not then double down and be like "oh I wasn't singling him out, I also didn't think much about [Asian dude] either!"

Watched PHM in theaters for the second time. Theater was mostly full, even so long after the release, on a Wednesday night. Man, this thing has LEGS!

"There's been a crossover ship making waves... Since [Film A] is big and active, and [Video Game/Film B] was relatively small/chill before that afaict, the Sudden Influx of invasive [star of Film A] fanart has devastated the local ecosystem of [Fandom B]'s tags and AO3 search results."