lin·gua·phile

liraelgoldhand:

dollsome-does-tumblr:

1) huddling for warmth
2) pretending to be married
3) amnesia
4) forced to share a bed
5) truth or dare
6) period piece AU
7) accidental-baby-acquisition
8) apocalypse fic
9) telepathy
10) high school / college AU
11) handcuffed together
12) snowed in
13) fantasy/fairytale AU
14) celebratory kiss
15) kissing to save the day
16) drunken shenanigans 
17) marriage of convenience
18) dancing
19) dream sequence
20) running away together

Yes please give me a distraction! I know I have been mostly absent from Tumblr for a while and specifically from fandom stuff but this is a thing I want to change!

[fandoms page] [ask box]

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kissmeagainarthas:

dduane:

verifascinating:

raktajino-hot:

Link to quote source (x)

“Slash is what happens when you take away the glass.”

One of the better explanations I’ve seen recently.  :)

All the feels.

Well damn. Today is apparently just Henry Jenkins Appreciation Day on Tumblr and I am TOTALLY OKAY WITH THAT.

(via dduane)

Henry Jenkins, in Textual Poachers: Media Fans and Participatory Culture (via jaimelannister)

Everything is reparative reading and some things hurt but they’re gonna be okay because we’re gonna (re)make them okay.

(Also I really hope that that’s an accurate subtitle of my dissertation, or at least my second book.)

(Source: quotatiousquotations, via oliviacirce)

http://hesychasm.livejournal.com/187818.html (via dazebras)

(Source: gointorosedale, via rustingroses)

My advisor, who does not actually know I am a fan or that I just wrote a paper for another course partially about fanfiction.

elviella replied to your post: I am acafangasming over here

Hahahah I love how clearly fandom has ALWAYS been a thing. Sorry, super serious researchers, but people have always been and will always be super into fiction. (Homer fandom! Shakespeare fandom!)

YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES. 

Sometimes I think I would like to compose a letter to the academic community at large. It goes a little like this.

Dear Academic Community,

I am writing to inform you that many people are interested in books. They are interested in books of all sorts (novels, plays, volumes of poetry, songbooks, miscellenae, treatises, encyclopedias; books that are happy and books that are sad; books that are short and books that are long; works of realism and works of fantasy, works of dialogic debate and works of salacious gossip; books written in languages they will never learn to read, but will keep reading anyway) by all sorts of people (men, women, and children; people who are gay, straight, or otherwise in love with other people — or not; people who died thousands of years ago and people who were born in the very same year as the reader; people of as many different beliefs, or non-beliefs, or disbeliefs, as there are people

Furthermore — and I realize this may come as a shock, but I have it on good empirical evidence (and on affective evidence as well) that it is the truth — people like books without the assistance of the academic community. They do not need academics to tell them how and why to like books, or which books are worthy of their liking and which are not. In fact, many people who like books find the academy to be a place that restricts their liking, rather than fostering it, precisely because of this strange academic desire to restrict the ways in which books can be appropriately enjoyed and the books that it is appropriate to enjoy in he first place.

I realize this proposition is slightly more radical, but hear me out: I would like to posit that the liking of books done outside the academy is no less valid as a human endeavor than the liking of books done inside the academy. This would, for example, mean that one need not possess a PhD in order to appreciate books “appropriately.” The idea of “appropriate” appreciation is, I would argue, itself an invention of the academy which has reduced rather than increased the likelihood of people reading and liking books — “appropriate” or otherwise.

Taking these facts into account, I believe that the academic community is no longer effectively serving the interests of people who like books and should really try and get its shit together.

Sincerely,

[redacted]

(Also somehow I wrote this like a week ago but saved it as a draft rather than just posting it? *sigh* Granted, in the meantime I was pretty busy writing the paper on 18th-c fanfic, so, relevant excuse is relevant.)

evil-sherlock-holmes:

myqueenmycroft:

movingmrniels:

bendydicks:

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of fandoms.

canon if from conan

AWWWWW YISSSSSSSSSSS

Damn right! I find this hilarious, because I hear the word “canon” tossed around in non-fannish circles on a daily basis (it can also refer to the rough grouping of texts that is most popularly studied and/or taught by literary academics, ex. the “canon” of the eighteenth-century English novel includes such “canonical” authors as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, etc.), and every time, I wonder if these erudite academics who for the most part wouldn’t admit to being fannish if they were, and probably wouldn’t be, realize that the term they use to describe the holy scripture of their particular career started out as a term for separating pro fiction from fan fiction.

(via lost-in-a-good-book)

because I am writing a paper (for GRADUATE SCHOOL) about Denis Diderot’s Eloge de Richardson, in which he basically fangirls all over Samuel Richardson’s works

and in the English translation that I read for class, Diderot talks about a friend who is “one of the most tender-hearted men I know, and one of the keenest devotees of Richardson: very nearly as keen as me”

but the word that gets translated as “devotee” in English is “fanatique” in French!

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FANDOM IS A THING, GUYS!

(Also, I am pretty sure that at some point this summer I will write my first ever RPF because “participants in the eighteenth century Clarissa fandom” is very rapidly becoming one of MY fandoms.)

Descriptive tags for my ships are definitely a thing that is happening. I HAVE SUCCUMBED. For future reference:

Nita/Kit → OTP: partners

Tom/Carl → OTP: wizard husbands

Dairine/Roshaun → OTP: just good friends

Deryn/Alek → OTP: in love with your ship

Elizabeth/Darcy → OTP: fine eyes

We now return you to your regularly scheduled fan musings.

fangirlingforeverz:

invaderk:

bookofstars:

roxanneritchi:

m-azing | girlfrombasingse:

We all knew that’s what they were thinking.

“…Korra…………”

“…GOD I LOVE SPORTS……………”

“I can’t stop thinking about her…”

“I CAN’T WAIT TO PUNCH SOME MORE GUYS IN THE HEAD WITH WATER FISTS…”

#guys what if korra x mako is hilarious #WHAT IF IT IS HILARIOUS #i love hilarious things#hilarious things are my favorite things of all #what a great ending #mako all OH NO I SUDDENLY HAVE CAUGHT AN EMOTION #korra all I LOVE PUNCHING THINGS! I CAN’T WAIT TO PUNCH MORE STUFF!!! #good #good people #good story #good work

#If you thought when I compared Mako to Mr. Darcy I meant dark and brooding and OMG RIVALS TO LOVERS #You thought wrong #I meant doofy dudes and hilarity and excellent ladies

This is the Makorra that I ship. This is it.

Amen to all of this! At some point I will write up a long rant about the problem with modern readers of Austen going on about the male leads when THESE ARE NOVELS ABOUT WOMEN AND FEMALE EXPERIENCE, and in light of this I want to emphasize that Mako’s characterization at present is NOT why I would, eventually, at some future point, like to see romantic interaction between Mako and Korra. Or at least not directly.

To bring back the Pride and Prejudice comparison: Elizabeth spends the first half of the novel not knowing, not caring, that Darcy thinks anything of her. She goes around being her badass self, trekking miles in the mud to visit her sister, engaging in witty wordplay, occasionally not being as discerning as she ought to be (ex. trusting Wickham’s side of the story), but ultimately fiercely loyal to people and to principles that, I think we can all agree, matter.

Now, Darcy’s observation of all of this changes him — but not because that is Elizabeth’s intention. She is just there, being herself FOR herself (and for those she cares about). When Darcy first admits his feelings for her she’s totally baffled and DOES NOT RECIPROCATE THEM: her refusal is not just a pose, and I don’t believe that Austen means her readers to think that Elizabeth’s refusal is wrong. Highly unconventional, yes, but Austen’s novelistic practice is all about revaluing conventional expectations, and it’s clear that she believes in mutual respect as a foundation of any worthy relationship (see for comparison the failed marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, which gets hashed out within the novel’s first chapter, before Elizabeth is even physically present in the story!). And Austen does not blame Elizabeth for not having that respect for Darcy. Not in the least.

So, circling back around to Korra and Mako, when I say that I would like to see a romantic narrative play out between them, and that I view it through the lens of Pride and Prejudice, what I really mean to say is that I want this to take the necessary time for both parties to come to terms with what they may or may not feel, and I want Korra to be in love with fighting and to have no real thought for Mako at all except that he’s ridiculous and his scarf is a silly affectation only really useful for disguising oneself from the Equalists (because obviously it looks better on her than on him), and I want it to be a LONG LONG TIME before anything else occurs. Because at the end of the day I go back to Pride and Prejudice as a touchstone because of ELIZABETH, the force of her individuality and the realness of her mistakes and her attempts to remedy them, the power of her personality with all its faults and contradictions. Not because of Darcy. And no matter what happens with Mako, my primary interest here is and will always be with what is best or most interesting for KORRA’S narrative.

Finally, to adapt something I’ve said before about Dairine/Roshaun: 

To say “I ship X/Y” often leads to the problematic assumption that the shipper in question wants this ship to be canon NOW, in utter disregard of proper character and conflict development arcs, etc.; rest assured, that is not a valid assumption to make of my intentions when I say “I ship Korra/Mako.”

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