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animentality

#[proudly] i suck at BOTH of those things!#a great and terrible queue

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toointofiction

god's strongest soldier

#watcher tv: mystery files #a great and terrible queue

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thomascromwelll

Wolf Hall + Costumes Jane Seymour (1/4) — Costumes by Joanna Eatwell

#wolf hall: the mirror and the light #a great and terrible queue

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kitnjon

(In/sp)

#jonsa #a great and terrible queue

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faircastle

A Taste of Solitude (S02E01) A Question of Crimson (S03E02) The Shadow in the Night (S03E06)

inspired by this post by @amemoryofwot

#the wheel of time #a great and terrible queue

Reblogged riahchan

# Dear Diary, life still sucks. The wall still sucks. Feeling dejected. Tried to kill a guy today. It didn’t work so I cried myself to sleep in my room. Later I found a zombie in the Commander’s room. Apparently that arm I found last week was his. I guess he wanted it back. Also, burned my hand today so now it’s hard to write this in my diary or even write my poems. And my latest poem, titled “A Bastard’s Sorrow”, was even going really well but now I doubt I can finish it after writing this.

#forever #jon snow #a great and terrible queue

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ghostmartyr

It’s come to my attention that some people are traversing the interwebs of fandom without ever hearing of the Ms. Scribe Story or the Cassandra Claire Debacle.

At surface level, this is concerning because they are awesome stories, and everyone’s life is made a little better when they find an awesome story.

On more serious levels, fandom is a wacky place, full of people doing wacky, occasionally damaging things to each other. Some of that has evolved, but some of it is the same as it ever was. History rocks because you can learn from the mistakes of others, and maybe hurt people a little less in the future. Fandom being a giant, convoluted web of passion, some history that could use sharing goes missed.

The two stories linked are from early 2000s Harry Potter fandom. The Ms. Scribe Story is a tale of one person’s aggressive use of sockpuppets to work their way up fandom hierarchy. The Cassandra Claire Debacle is about how the top name in that fandom hierarchy is a plagiarist.

They’re prime examples of fandom being fandom in intensely negative ways. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a brand of fandom toxicity that isn’t on display in some way within these write-ups, and while that is admittedly sort of depressing, having things to point at that make you stop and think, “Wait, I’ve seen this before, this is not a thing I want to be part of,” can keep you out of some of the deeper fandom pitfalls.

They are also deeply fascinating reads. If you haven’t explored them before, or only know the summary versions, give them a shot.

#the msscribe story in particular is riveting #you have to read it #incidentally this is why i always tell gen z not to let millennials gaslight them into believing things used to be better in fandom #it absolutely wasn't lmao #fandom history #a great and terrible queue