tumblr is an amazing thing
It really is if you think about it. Last night we saved a life, we saved a girl from suicide, we raised enough money for mydarlinglittlesammy to have her surgery, and now people are rallying for Amy. Fandom can be amazing. And it’s not just the Supernatural fandom, last night it was Harry Potter.
You people have restored my faith in humanity.
alixjay:
quinnisgay:
Titanic needs a fandom. I bet that would be the *perfect* fandom. The writers can’t fuck up canon because it’s only one movie. The AU fanfic would be brilliant. I’m sure people could find homoerotic subtext somewhere in there between Jack and Tommy and Fabrizio. You could crackship Rose and Jack with other people on the ship like that woman who locks eyes with Rose right before she dies. Ugh. Crackship otp feels. Everyone in that fandom would be happy (or sad but in an awesomely angsty way).
I think I’m the only one I know that actually really liked that movie and has watched it more than once on purpose.
not the only one! me too!
this is amazing.
I was just reading through donateforsashi and Sashi’s blog and I can’t really believe all that we’ve achieved through that. I’ve never been a part of a fandom like that (I know it wasn’t only SPN fandom but still).
and I need to stop crying because it’s only making my head hurt worse.
oh my god
I come back from seeing my fibro doctor in Pittsburgh to see that we have raised 27k for Sashi. oh my god. In basically 48 hours!
See the power of fandom?
*happy cry*
In case you don’t already know, Sashi has a very bad case of endometriosis and has a lot of tumors and needs an expensive operation to save her life. If you could donate that would be great. Even good thoughts help. Look at that blog or my previous entries for more info.
because FAMILY DON’T END WITH BLOOD.
fandom doing good: tumblr
fuckyeahfandomfox:
Say what you will about tumblr or fandom - about the petty fights we get involved in, the wank posts, the things we roll our eyes at and the debates that turn nasty - but I don’t think you can deny that fandoms on tumblr have some serious power when it comes to mobilizing. If you’ve read previous Fandoms Doing Good, then you know a single fandom has the ability to unite itself and come together for something amazing.
But many fandoms can also come together for something great too.
I apologize for this hurried and perhaps incoherent post - I’m writing it quickly before I turn back to my work - but some of you may have recently seen the post looking for donations for Sashi, who suffers from a serious health condition but does not have the funds to pay for the surgery. Take a look at the donation tumblr that’s been set up, and read some of the asks. People from all sorts of fandoms all over tumblr have come together to help. Doesn’t matter what you love, but all that passion brought together can save a life.
Sure, we all squabble about how our fandom is the best (or how it’s the worst when the shit hits the fan), we fight in ship wars and post walls of text debating if that three secoond glance reall constitutes true love, but fandomers (is that a word? I don’t care) do more than all that.
Be proud to love a fandom on tumblr because we’re all a part of something pretty great. At the end of the day we’re all brought together by the love of something we find great (and I find that pretty darn great).
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Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.
Fandom is people you don’t tell your mother you’re meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.
Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.
Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky’s law and Godwin’s law and Murphy’s law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you’ve ever had them.
Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn’t care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.
Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.
Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.
Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.
Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.
Fandom is where you found yourself.
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you know what, this is what being a fan is all about.
I read an article a couple years ago that said we were lucky to be able to be involved in Harry Potter fandom as it was coming out, similar to LOTR fans writing ‘Frodo lives’ on subway walls after the 3rd book was released.
We are here, now, and even though the books have all been released, we can still get excited for the movie, see our favorite parts, cry, laugh, speculate over bits in the trailer, rather than simply pulling the film out and watching it. There’s something to be said for the months before it is released.
It still doesn’t feel ‘over’ for me, and I don’t think it will until I’m holding the second part of DH on DVD in my hands.
But we still have Wizarding World, which is a plus.
