“Historically, whenever women [especially young women] are interested in a form of media, we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college. Beatlemania is the province of ‘the dull, the idle, the failures,’ until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves. Women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is a radical act for a woman to love something unashamedly. And transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it reverses that ‘lady thing to respectable thing’ process. It takes a piece of media that may not have been designed for women and makes it for women.”
— Constance Grady, Why we’re terrified of fanfiction (via fluffycakesistainted)
c, Daniel Gerhartz
Whimsy gothic bedroom dream
saw a post about redemption arcs and i realized that a lot of our discussions would be improved if we discussed villains for what they are (pieces of a narrative whole) instead of what they definitely are not (real people on trial)
Details: Seascape, Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1890
There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.
Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned
XD
The Yesung’s awkward time XD
#tfw he literally turns you on 😏
— you might make me a better man. — and you might make me a monster.
LOKI SERIES Episode 1
From Italy. I love: Gothic. Darkwave. Visual Kei. JRock. JPop. KPop. Japan. Korea. Manga. Anime. JDrama. KDrama. TDrama. Ireland. Celtic Metal. New age. Books. Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Battlestar Galactica. Fringe. Supernatural. Black Sails. Peaky Blinders. Penny Dreadful and more. YA and fantasy novels. Visual Kei & JRock: ONE OK ROCK ♥. Malice Mizer. Moi dix Mois. MUCC.
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