acadia, she/her, queer. Hiiiiiii :D currently hyperfixating on granada Sherlock Holmes (yes from the 80s, shhhh) and vienna blood, but also into star trek, one direction, good omens, lgbtq+ and social justice issues, plus a bunch of other random stuff/fandoms 🤷🏼♀️
And people really do try to interact with fandom like consumers! They want « content ». They act like they can get a refund on reading a fic they don’t like. They add fanfics to goddamned goodreads without a second thought without realizing that’s as ridiculous as adding your friend’s dining room as a restaurant on yelp just so you can post a review about it
‘Fandom’ is a contraction of 'fanatic’ and 'kingdom’.
Fanatic, from Latin fanaticus “mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god.”
Fandom is literally the place people go to be enthusiastically crazy about their blorbos! There are no normal people here!
#just opening livejournal would have killed you instantly
Treating fandom like retail never does good things.
Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again
BORN WITH TEETH dir. Daniel Evans (London Wyndham’s Theatre — 13 August to 1 November 2025) ››› Ncuti Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe ››› Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare
People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”