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hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...
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You're a child. An infant. Your mocking is thus infantile. He's not my boyfriend. This man is more to me than you can dream. He's the moon when I'm lost in darkness and warmth when I shiver in cold. And his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia. His heart overflows with a kindness of which this world is not worth of. I love this man beyond measure and reason. He's not my boyfriend. He's all and he's more.
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Ludwik Stasiak - Dandelions (ca. 1900)
I JUST LOVE COSTUMING DETAILS LIKE HOW ALICENT HAD THE STONE IN THE NECKLACE RESET TO AN EMERALD AS SHE GETS OLDER, THAT SHE CONTINUES TO WEAR IT AS AN ADULT, THE ONLY PIECE THAT COMES WITH HER AS SHE TRANSITIONS.
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Our hearts were never one. I see that now. Rather, I have been a piece that you moved about the board. If that is true, then I made you Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Would you have desired it otherwise? How could I know? I wanted whatever you impressed upon me to want.
Alicent Hightower in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON - Season 1
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the fact that none of the night at the museum movies were rated over 50% by critics is a reminder that some ppl don’t know how to have fun. the first two movies were flawless. a night watch guard has to babysit museum displays that come to life, complete w old school villains and endless historical crossovers? incredible concept, incredible execution
not to mention those little gay bitches !!!
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TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour - Melbourne, AUS - February 18th, 2024. Photographed by samuelmeade on Instagram.
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TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour - Melbourne, AUS - February 18th, 2024. Photographed by samuelmeade on Instagram.
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COME BACK BE HERE x DAYLIGHT The Eras Tour — Melbourne, Australia (Night 3) | February 18, 2024
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Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.
In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it
- Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and
- Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)
That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.
Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)
Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)
If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:
This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)
It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:
Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked. The 2009 auction raised $80,000. The 2010 auction raised $140,000. The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)
A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.
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I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.
Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,
That's nothing. Check THIS shit out
WHAT THE HELL
George Washington Hitler and his son Dr. Gay Hitler,
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No one will ever love me like you again
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“Oh Rascal Children of Gaza,” by Palestinian poet, Khaled Juma, 2014
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Greek Gods series by RuiRiel
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Evelyn and Rick being ✨GOALS✨ since '99