I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones
Trekkster Gods
No internet
fledgeling fandom
women run everything
seriously where the fuck did we go wrong
fandom wouldn’t exist as we know it without these women
conventions, badges, quite a lot of taboo but also lots of fun
closely-knit communities
mostly discussions in magazines
hogging the phone so you can chat with your friends
(while trying to pretend the rest of your family doesn’t exist)
basement meetings
fanart what??
Dawn of Networking
tin-bucket sites and forums
the badly assembled DIY IKEA kits of the internet
these were strange places
i’m too young to know firsthand but I’ve heard the stories
they were like,, inhabited by eldrich beings
who would sell souls in exchange for fanfics
early RPs
nobody was quite sure what they were doing
but!! You could connect with more fans quickly!!!
made obsessing less lonely
yay
“I was there Gandalf”
Live Journal
small internet communities
the name “Ann Rice” strikes fear into your heart
also hatred, lots of hatred
adding every warning and rating under the sun, hiding behind NSFW filters even if it isn’t necessary, praying you don’t get reported or deleted
you get reported
your friends get reported
nobody is safe
fuck.
Citrus Cheesecake
DeviantArt and ff.net
bright shiny eyes
children everywhere
“more of a lime than a lemon >//< but also kind of just a lemon with fluff?”
where did all the adults go? Where were they hiding??
pls don’t flame
A/N *dances away from your flames because idgaf*
omggg such a nosebleed!!!! XD lol
characters and authors having conversations in the author’s notes
Archive of Our Saviours
ooo we found the adults
mass migration by younger fans to Tumblr, Ao3 etc
looking at fandom’s earlier stages like “I have no memory of this place”
ratings that had nothing to do with fruit
(thank gods)
fandom grows up
we are all grateful
we have proper websites to call home
wanderers can finally settle down
many fans are Tired
We’re here again, Gandalf
your elbows are explicit
cats are explicit
there are legends of a paradise of pillows
but none of us wants to leave hell
blue blue blue
a well-respected petblr is flagged as explicit
will we be here in January?
who will survive?
those with sense watch the chaos from Ao3, sipping mocktails
reminder that most states haven’t even voted yet and u need 1991 delegates to officially win the primaries. as of right now biden is at 401 and bernie is at 325 so can yall PLEASE knock it off w the defeatist posts acting like bidens already won??? this is how u get people not bothering to vote when their states primaries are happening. we won’t know until literally JUNE who won. the last states voting are voting on JUNE SECOND. we’re nowhere near knowing who’s going to be the democrat candidate so don’t just hand it to biden, damn
I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this donut. And what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A donut hole in a donut’s hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see the donut hole has a hole in its center. It is not a donut hole, but a smaller donut with its own hole and our donut is not whole at all! KNIVESOUT(2019)dir.RianJohnson
