Like I learned 99% of what I knew about it being okay to be queer from reading gltq fiction/fics. OMG yes me too. Participating in fandom is like Women's Studies 101, there should be credit. Cultural appropriation, gender multiplicities, etc. And I learn more because I'm invested in a different way!
Ahaha, I totally feel you on stories vs. meta. I write fics 'cos I'm too lazy to write meta.
the stories that didn't get told--the ones that are about us The similarity of these two phrases :(((
wading through all the stuff in a bigger fandom is just...hard. Yaaaa. I used to mine the shit out of Narnia fandom for Peter/Susan fics and be like, "OH WELL I guess it's adequately unterrible for me to bookmark." But with Merlin fandom, I'm taking a much more haphazard approach.
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Like I learned 99% of what I knew about it being okay to be queer from reading gltq fiction/fics.
OMG yes me too. Participating in fandom is like Women's Studies 101, there should be credit. Cultural appropriation, gender multiplicities, etc. And I learn more because I'm invested in a different way!
Ahaha, I totally feel you on stories vs. meta. I write fics 'cos I'm too lazy to write meta.
the stories that didn't get told--the ones that are about us
The similarity of these two phrases :(((
wading through all the stuff in a bigger fandom is just...hard.
Yaaaa. I used to mine the shit out of Narnia fandom for Peter/Susan fics and be like, "OH WELL I guess it's adequately unterrible for me to bookmark." But with Merlin fandom, I'm taking a much more haphazard approach.