“I came for the family dynamics in the show, I stayed for the family dynamics in the fandom TBH”
@thethistlegirl and I were just talking about the MacGyver fandom, and I had to share this little bit of our conversation. (@thethistlegirl , I hope you don’t mind my quoting you :p)
Shout out to every corner of this little but lovely fandom:
Y'all are all so wonderful 💗
It is so rare and so wonderful to find a show, not to mention a fandom, that attracts and keeps the interest of such different perspectives on the characters - hardcore MacDalton shippers, fans who enjoy exploring a brotherly or father/son dynamic between Mac and Jack, Murdoc lovers, et al - but doesn’t explode in shipwars or character hate or shaming or anything childish and melodramatic and unpleasant like that.
I feel just as much among friends reading the amazing gen fics by @thehemingwaygoldfish , @bands-space-and-monsters-oh-my and @thethistlegirl and @tomminowrites as reading the amazing MacDalton fics and thoughts of @telltaleclerk and @becauseimawinchester and @wild-chaser and @cherikfan . Then there’s the super nice readers and the art… (@sky-larking , @freighttraininmybrain , @thisgameissonintendo , @bxmyaxsthxtic…)
Don’t mind me :p Just over here emoting. Some fandoms are damned hard, and it is such a pleasure being in this one!
Haha
Caitlin: *hugs Harry from behind*
Harry: uh…hi?
Caitlin: Mine.
I hear my mom shrieking downstairs, shouting up to me about “THE CATS! THE CATS!”
I run downstairs, thinking someone has died or something and see THIS:
I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO PUNCH SOMETHING TO GET OVER THE ADORABLENESS
Friends: It’s 3am what the fuck are you doing up.
Me: FaNFIc tImE
YAAASSS!!!! Sometimes it starts as just staring…. but then you get the creeps who will follow you. Be aware of your surroundings and if you see something happening/happen, don’t be afraid to “get in the line of sight” or saying something!
I need this!!🤤
i wish you would write a fic where jack and mac go on a cruise together and shenanigans ensue
If I wrote this… this is what I would write:
The Phoenix Foundation agrees to help another agency out by sending in some agents undercover onto a cruise ship. Jack’s like, ooh, yeah, first mission back… until Desi unthinkingly jokes about how she and Mac hooked up the last time they used their covers as a couple. Things get awkward because: 1) there’s been this unspoken but heavy *something* between Mac and Jack ever since Jack got back, he’s started to let himself get excited about it, and now he thinks he maybe he’s just been imagining it; 2) Desi had thought that Mac had told Jack about the hot mess that had been their ill-fated hook-up and is PISSED at herself for potentially messing up Mac pursuing Jack the way she’s been encouraging him to; 3) for this reason, Desi has vowed to pursue Jack FOR Mac and get them together, and Mac is sure that this is A Very Bad Idea. (Desi is many wonderful things, but a likely matchmaker isn’t one of them.)
Meanwhile, Mac is more determined than ever to tell Jack how he really feels. But the agency they’re helping? Is Sarah’s agency. She and Jack will be posing as a couple at the same time as Mac and Desi. And Sarah and her husband have recently separated… So that’s not a nerve-wracking turn of events for Mac. At all.
Cue a variety of awkward interactions, misunderstandings, compromising positions, and probably some outsider POVs of people trying to figure out who among the four of them is cheating with who.