Headcanon: I can muster a cogent argument for why it would make more sense or make for a better story if this were the case
Heartcanon: I don’t have a particular rationale for why this ought to be the case, I just like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the warm fuzzies
Gutcanon: it’s not that I actively want this to be the case – it just unaccountably feels like it should be
Junkcanon: I like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the other kind of warm fuzzies
Spleencanon: I insist that this is the case specifically to spite the author, because, like, fuck you, sir or madam
– Inferno and Paradise Lost are Bible fanfiction
– anything written by Rick Riordan is technically world mythology fan fiction
– West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet fanfiction
– Pretty much all of Shakespeare’s plots are borrowed
– Laurence Block admits to getting heavily influenced by the media he consumes
– The Iliad is RPF
If you’re going to exclude fanfic because it isn’t original, that’s …a lot of stuff to be excluding, is what I’m saying.
I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.
Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?
When men decided they liked them.
this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces – early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions – but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek
I propose we call this “mentrification”
YES
It’s 2058 and men are scoffing at a fake pumpkin slice latte fan because she was unable to recite for them the precise proportion of the different ingredients in the spice mix
I’m SOMEONE’S TUMBLR CRUSH??????? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Thank you so much dear! Have I mentioned before how fantastic I think magneto81 is? She’s the bomb and every time she graces my dash I feel happy. Seriously!
Now it’s my turn to share some other fabulous people that I follow in addition to my friend Maggie. Some RP with me, some I admire from afar (but not in a stalkerish way), some I talk to often, and some are just plain cool.
I’m sure I forgot people… I love lots of folks. Plus there are many more that I’ve just started interacting with that will most likely make the next list I share! So there ya go. Fangirl appreciation. So go follow some of these folks! And it’s your turn to name your crushes!
i’m so honored to be a tumblr crush omg!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!
I haven’t done this sooner mostly because I’m probably just gonna be echoing all the people who’ve already tagged me, but omgggg like over a handful of you guys have tagged me now and you’ve made me feel so welcome and loved I can’t believe you all thought of me 😭
Once upon a time I worked in this little burger/coffee/ice cream shop and a lady came in one winter and asked if we had a caramel apple drink and we were like ‘well we have cider’ and she was like ‘no I don’t remember what it’s called but this place made a drink that was chai tea, apple cider, and caramel’ and Breezy offered to try and make something for her but she changed her mind and left so Breezy and I were like ‘alright let’s try this’ because we had chai tea, instant cider mix, a shit ton of caramel, instant hot water from the espresso and too much free time.
And let me tell you it was delightful. It tastes like watching the leaves changing color and dancing in the wind. It tastes like picking out pumpkins and gourds and fresh apples at the farm up north. It tastes like witches and freedom.
I make it every year now and this year I walked in the house on the morning of October first with all the ingredients and shouted ‘FALL DRINK’ and my roommates were like ‘????’ so I made them Fall Drink and now every time they get home from work they’re like ‘Fall Drink pls?????’
Anyway I remember literally nothing else about that woman but I’m very grateful to her.
for anyone wondering about proportions/etc here’s op’s answer from the repiles:
The Starbucks version in this is an “apple chia with carmel drizzle (whip cream optional)” if anyone is interested
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