I weirdly love that there are crotchety fandom elders around who say shit like “in my day, (insert fandom term) meant this specifically, but now you kids just use it to mean any old thing.”
It seriously gives fandom such a sense of heritage and family, like yes grandma, tell me more about how you had to write fic uphill both ways in the snow when you were my age.
I’m approaching crotchety old grandma.
No but this is me.
DRABBLES ARE EXACTLY 100 WORDS NO MORE NO LESS AND DON’T FUCKING TRY TO TELL ME OTHERWISE.
This is me also. A crackship is NOT the same as a rarepair and the two terms canNOT be used interchangeably.
YOU CAN ONLY HAVE ONE OTP.
It’s literally right there in the name. It is your ONE true pairing.
I get around this one by have one OTP for each fandom. It’s my OTP for that fandom.
I am a crotchety old fandom grandmother and I approve this message
the drabble thing irks me SO MUCH it makes me feel like an old lady yelling at kids on her lawn
I’m so old I remember Yahoo’s predecessor, Onelist
I’m so fucking old I think the internet is new! I remember being in fandom 20 years before the internet was invented! You teenagers and your interwebs…
Look, I’m ancient. I started fandom. It’s not Spirk, it’s K/S. KAY FUCKING SLASH ESS! The slash is what gives SLASH FANDOM its name! It’s what we’re named for you dumb fucks.
I’m so old I can call anyone under the age of 40 a dumb fuck. Because you are. You know nothing of the history of fandom and what we did for you.
I made fandom! I published the fanzines, I ran the cons, I wrote the fics.
I got hit with the lawsuits by production houses who were horrified we were writing fanfiction – never mind the slash! I remember the lawsuits against Star Wars fanfiction, Blakes 7 fanfiction, and the quickly aborted lawsuits against UFO fanzines. I remember when we couldn’t say our names in public because we could be fired for writing slash – we could be banned from using the post office for posting slash zines – we could be driven out of our homes and towns for putting that filth out there.
I ran the first emailing lists, long before one list or yahoo groups or egroups came along, back when we had to Telnet in via old Uni servers because no one had computers at home. I created some of the very first slash websites (even though websites didn’t come along until after fandom had been around 40 fucking years). (Actually, a friend of mine wrote the VERY FIRST slash website ever, and she’s OLDER THAN ME!)
I made the arts and I wrote the filks. I had the discussions and the flames and the wank and it’s been written a hundred times and talked to death.
I’m so old I’m still disgusted by RPF!
All you young dumb fucks that are so surprised that people older than the age of 15 are in fandom can just kiss my fat old arse and be grateful.
I made fandom.
You’re welcome.
Get off my lawn, get in your house, and write some damned filth. You young whippersnappers.
The one line in this that surprised/amused me was the bit about rpf. I’d forgotten that! I don’t remember if I was ever weirded out by it but if I was I def got over it >.>
Also tbh the old words annoyed me more than the new ones. “Filk” and “fen”, wtf were those all about??? Urgh.
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