“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.”
—Snowden: U.S. gov’t destroyed my chance for fair trial (via wilwheaton)
June 2013
46 posts
“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.”
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Lev Grossman (via theadventuresofcargline)
This is very true - I’ve seen innumerable fanfics of people saying, “I could do this better than they did.”
And quite frequently, they do.
(via lil-miss-choc)
Fanfiction is 60% fun, 30% porn and 120,000,000% fixing canon because canon is WRONG and needs to go sit in the corner and think about what it’s done.
(via sorcerous-kitty)
Natasha VC: A perfect paragraph →
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“When I was five, I had an experience that marked me for life. Pathé News sent a photographer from New York to Savannah to take a picture of a chicken of mine. This chicken, a buff Cochin Bantam, had the distinction of being able to walk either forward or backward. Her fame has spread through the…
OK OLIVER TRASK: I still can't wrap my head around the fanatic devotion to TEEN WOLF. →
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I remember coming around to the show last season, but for the life of me I can’t remember why.
It’s like someone made an unfunny and irrelevant BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and instead of having one Xander Harris, the show is full of Xander Harrises and they all have muscles and go around shirtless….
“It’s like someone made an unfunny and irrelevant BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and instead of having one Xander Harris, the show is full of Xander Harrises and they all have muscles and go around shirtless. DOES THAT SOUND GOOD TO YOU?!?!”
yes, kind of!
Actually this totally happened, and having more than one Xander around didn’t go great!
but their shirts are on! and ugly!
OK OLIVER TRASK: I still can't wrap my head around the fanatic devotion to TEEN WOLF. →
okolivertrask.tumblr.com
I remember coming around to the show last season, but for the life of me I can’t remember why.
It’s like someone made an unfunny and irrelevant BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and instead of having one Xander Harris, the show is full of Xander Harrises and they all have muscles and go around shirtless….
“It’s like someone made an unfunny and irrelevant BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and instead of having one Xander Harris, the show is full of Xander Harrises and they all have muscles and go around shirtless. DOES THAT SOUND GOOD TO YOU?!?!”
yes, kind of!
When people quote The Perks of Being A Wallflower, why do they quote things like “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite,” or “We accept the love we think we deserve,” when there are gems like this.
