transformativeworks:

substantialdistractions:

johanirae:

leaper182:

sweaterkittensahoy:

lil-miss-choc:

pilgrimkitty:

notalwaysweak:

carapace-cowl:

jujubiest:

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.

WE HAD TO HANDCODE OUR PORN KIDS. NONE OF THIS FANCY INSTANT LAYOUT SHIT. WE HAD TO HANDCODE THE WEBSITES TO HOUSE OUR PORN.

Now, run down to the corner store and get granny a candy bar. Here’s enough money to get something for yourself, and you will keep the change and put it in your piggybank.

If you were underage and you wanted to get on the smut mailing list, you had to lie about your age, and act more mature than the actual legal adults on the mailing list.

You kids with your creator acceptance and Canon ships. Back in my day we had to put a thousand word disclaimer about how the characters were not mine and we HAD TO LIKE IT! Now go make me a cup of tea my bones are acting up again

We didn’t have your fancy YouTubes to hold all our videos. We married two VCRs (that’s Video Cassette Recorder, chirren. Google it) together and prayed generation degredation didn’t kill the quality, and we appreciated it! 

You want videos on the Internets, you say? Well, we paid one nice lady to host a site where we could all download .mov files, but none of them were very long, because our DIAL UP MODEMS couldn’t handle the bandwidth, and we didn’t want to wait days at a time to download 20GB.

Granny’s GERD is flaring. Go get me a peppermint.

Not even crotchety fandom elders agree on things, though. As a veteran of The X-Files fandom, I initially thought of drabbles as being 155 words.