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Things said before the ‘’incident’’

ohh-my-tongue-is-a-weapon:

Gryffindor : It’s gonna be legendary, bro, check this ou-

Slytherin : and then he told me I couldn’t. HE told ME I could not . think again my good bitch

Ravenclaw : no , no wait, …I wanna see what happens.

Hufflepuff: ...now that’s just rude. you cant just call someone that. I have no choice now. what? no no dont you worry about it. I’ll go talk to them whatever else happens is up to them. drink your cocoa I’ll be right back

threelisabeth:

a friend of mine told me about her friend i think from high school who was gay but not out, and he pretended for a while to have a girlfriend named Amanda who he would go see a lot, and they’d be all, come hang out with us and he’d be like sorry I’ve got a date with Amanda, and they were like when are we gonna meet this Amanda??? anyway he kept this up for like a year until he finally came out; and when his friends were like, “wait, what about Amanda?” he said, “IT’S A MAN, DUH.” 

i have literally never admired anyone’s commitment to a joke more

nonasuch:

taraljc:

notavodkashot:

dominawritesthings:

wait-whereami:

thebuttkingpost:

Greek mythology: aren’t the god great they only sexually harassed my wife and turned one of my children into a stag beetle this week

Norse mythology: dînghïr œne nüt got his name when he killed a lizard the size of every mountain in the world without Odin’s permission so Odin thought it would be funny to punish him by making him fart so hard one of his nuts flew off

Chinese mythology: This guy just shot down 9 of the 10 suns scorching the planet but he’s mean now so his wife and her rabbit overdosed on immortality pills and floated into the moon so he won’t be a tyrant forever and we made cake in her honor

Yoruba mythology: a project team of gods was sent to earth on THE most massive project ever and the men decided to exclude the lone woman on the team because har har girls suck, and she responded by taking ALL OF THE WATER ON EARTH and watched the men take L’s until the team lead made them take her back

This same goddess is the one a group of male human villagers had to appeal to when the women of their village got so pissed off at their fuckery, they literally left and set up shop somewhere else and had zero plans of coming back

Aztec mythology: Tezcatlipoca is at it again. Which Tezcatlipoca? Does it even matter at this point? Also, Quetzalcoatl had a bright idea again. It ended up in disaster. Again.

irish mythology: local queen kicks husband out of bed for trying to prove he brought more to the marriage. this results in supremely vicious and bloody war over a cow that ravaged Ulster and Connacht. 

the talmud: these rabbis are basically LotR wizards as scripted by Mel Brooks. one time Rabbi Eliezer got so mad about an argument over how to make an over kosher that he destroyed 1/3 of the world’s crops. it would have been all of them but when they sent someone to tell him he was excommunicated for the oven fight he broke the news gently. also he tried to murder Rabbi Hillel with a tidal wave but Hillel rebuked the wave so that was done.

olderthannetfic:

cathexys:

olderthannetfic:

queerfandommiscellany:

I’m not exactly new to fandom.

But I’m not an ancient either. A lot of fandom debates, I’ve noticed, are made a lot more complete and a lot less polarized with the addition of actual context–but from what I’ve seen, unless we’ve lived through said context, most of us just don’t know it exists. For example, I came into fandom shortly after LJ stopped being a big hub, so I never knew about the strikethroughs and boldthroughs until very, very recently. Knowing about them paints things like ao3 in a whole new light. History is important.

First of all, I’ve done some searching in the hopes of finding a relatively centralized thing with an overview of general fandom history. The closest I could find was a couple fanlore pages on the history of specific fandoms. If somebody *does* have a centralized something, that would be wonderful and it would also be super cool if it could be copied somewhere visible for newer fans, in the interest of spreading our history and culture. I would be happy to help edit it if you want?

If not, I would be glad to help compile something, but again: I don’t have the full story.

If anybody would be willing to help me with this project, whether by talking about the old days or pointing me to existing resources, or volunteering to help write stuff up, please, *please* message me

I understand that research like this can be a lot of work, but your contribution doesn’t have to be much. I can find literally nothing, for the most part, beyond the basic Sherlock, Star Trek, and Tolkien founders of fandom story, and certainly nothing about modern fandom as a whole. Even a brief sentence telling me what events specifically to google would help.

History is important.

I want to learn about our history, and I want to enable other people to do so too.

And because that was fucktastically long, I saved the Fanlore suggestions for this post:

If you want to document K/S–>AO3, there’s kind of a Canon of what that history looks like. It has been codified by academics and OTW, among others. Henry Jenkins et al. would be the place to look for that, and the same things are well documented on Fanlore.

This history comes up often on Tumblr because it’s the way people refute antis’ claims about what we should change on AO3. It’s my fandom history (well, aside from all my time in anime fandom). It’s a fandom history. It’s not the whole of fandom history, however.

If you want to do all of fandom history ever, you need a format like a wiki.

If you want to look at major historical trajectories that get left out of the K/S–>AO3, I would look at anime first of all. Second, I would look at fandoms that had very little m/m and big m/f or f/f juggernaut pairings. (The history of gen fic and the history of slash fic are closely entwined because both tend to be from mainstream media with lots of men bonding.) Third, I would look at what was going on on FFN after the LJ crowd jumped ship, what was going on on Quizilla, what is currently going on on Wattpad, etc.

I’d suggest Francesca Coppa’s “A Brief History of Fandom” (2006), which I can view in its entirety on Googlebooks (https://books.google.com/books?id=UgZsi_DOKoQC). If you can’t see it, send me an ask and I’m happy to send the PDF. It tells *a* history and it ends in the middle of LJ, but it’s brief and concise and mirrors (and has helped generate) much of the academics/OTW version of our history.

She also offers a great background to the creation of the OTW/AO3 in her “An Archive of Our Own! Fanfiction Writers Unite” (2013). I can’t get it upon Googlebooks (https://books.google.com/books?id=GBwVAgAAQBAJ), but again, happy to send the PDF if anyone wants it.

Seconded!