Fandom Old. Get off my lawn, you Tumblr brats

My first fandom experience was with Star Trek Enterprise: a show I got into in part because every other premiere that season was pushed back because of 9/11 and mostly for the crush on the nerdy guy in school.

For the sake of brevity I won't wax nostaligic about how it was my gateway into fanfic, the friends I've made or how i ended up giving the rest of Trek that my aunt foist upon me after school a fair shake because of it.I will say that the show was not without it's flaws but still it had a dedicated, if wanky and ship-frenzied fanbase that enjoyed it for what it was. Borg episodes, Freudian slips, decon chamber and all.

And then the finale happened. Oh, boy.

It was, to be short, a clusterfuck. Theres a link to read up on that, but I'll cut to what irked most fans: Trip Tucker's stupid, needless death for manufactured angst. He was the fan favorite by a long shot, had finally gotten with his own alien girlfriend in the previous episode after an entire season of will they/won't they after they'd done the do the season before. It was so out of character with his jumpiness and all for some speech the captain needed to make. Like I said, this is the clif notes version (and Zarabitha will be by to confirm all of this is truth).

To say it was poor received is to call a cat 5 hurricane a light sprinkle. Fans who'd only ever watched this version of Trek felt betrayed...like their viewership didn't matter to two producers living out their glory days from The Next Generation, whose characters were the actual star of this episode. And this was after we'd seen Trip dig himself out of his anger after his sister died, watched him suffer as his love interest entered a marriage obligation, and then lose their cloned baby.

Trip wasn't even my fave, but even I was pissed with his fans. Most refused to ever invest in another Trek series again, but there were a number who only like he was dead to get their own ship, to my embarrassment. For YEARS, both sides of the ship war accused the other of trolling or whining until us original run rans eventually fucked off to other fandoms.

So that is one helluva achievement to get both sides of an equally ship passionate fanbase--one of which has been notorious throughout an entire blogging platform for inappropriate behavior and trolling the other rival ship--to say "What kind of shit is this?!" in a decision that will leave VLD as the HIMYM of modern children's TV.
( But hey, the ending got antis and Sheith fans to unite against staff! Its a Chrismas miracle! *facepalm* ))

I CAN HAZ GLITTER TEXT AGAIN ON POST

IM LIKE

IM LOVING IT

(The creator is here  and there are plenty to choose from!)

ETA: huh, can't get it to not display the Strikethrough, so here's the journal directly: https://blindingsparkle.livejournal.com

*looks around* Hey, this place seems pretty nice. I wonder why we didn't move here before 😆

So, I'm here....sorta. I'll be splitting fandom time between here and Pillowfort and I'll see where the chips lie

So for my muturals that made the jump here before it was cool: what's new in Bleach fandom? 

Its more fun now that I get the format. I was hunting up memes from that new YuGiOh movie and got sucked in....the phone app blows, but eh, I can use the browser.

Also, why was I not onboard USS Prideship before now? Like, i legit missed all the subtext a decade ago regatding Kaiba and Yami but mostly Kaiba because everything in DSOD was like Hachi Komatsu from NANA-level of admiration and Beyonce's baby announcement level extra but OMG i loved it.

Anyone else on there?

...which is originally what I was gonna post before finding out about Wada.

Anyway, the whygodwhy.org site it became after House of Badfic (the first post official GAFF board after the original shut down) went to piss is gone. Not that anyone bothered snarking fanfic anymore and even the news section dried up ages ago, but I guess it's an idea that is past its prime. There's not much that shocks many people in fan fiction anymore, and honestly? While there's more bad fan fiction out there, there's also a whole lot more good shit, too. AO3 seems to enjoy a higher quality than most places, and at the very minimum I haven't come across shipper related character bashing in any of the fics I've read there.

No point in lamenting the past....just be glad you were there to enjoy it.

Yanked from another contest I was once a part of, and will be run at senkaimon  as soon as I get enough sign-ups:

(Fake Cut to T3h Rulez)

(...and the sign-ups)

Good luck, and hope you join!

How do I use it?

No,I don't plan to leave LJ completely, but given that announcement that is all but bribing members to return (apparently, a lot of people got fucked over and left three years ago, but I don't know all the details), I would like another fandom-friendly place where I can post somewhere other than the FB page with my real name on it.

So far, it seems one can only post to their own account, and not to communities. God, this must be what my parents feel like every time they use a computer or buy a new cell phone. :(

ETA: I hope nenya85 sees this, as she's one of the few remaining folks on my feed that still posts here to use tumblr

Well, I guess I'm back in fandom again. Hooray!

Title: Holy Matrimony
Rating:PG-13
Pairing: IchiRuki, italics/me
Genre: Crack, like whoa.
Summary: Ichigo and Rukia's wedding, where their friends make sure it'll happen....ish.

Cross-posted to a whole shit ton of places, for what that's worth these days. Meant to upload it here on Saturday, but things got busy at work.

Disclaimer: Bleach is not mine.
( “Oi!” Rukia snaps as she holds her head (Although that might be from the wearing the ridiculously oversized hibiscus flower headdress she's wearing to match her dress). “I really don’t need all of you protecting my honor. And certainly not with swords!” )

Posted at FF.net and AO3

How have I NOT joined this place sooner?

FF.net's been my mainstay for posting fanfic since sophomore year of high school (!), but archiveofourown.org actually allows people to download stories to their phones and stuff. The layout is awesome sauce, allowing for multiple tags, multiple charcater/pairing options. You can even save a draft of a story withotu posting for up to 30 days--which is great, since I had one to post on Valentine's day and will be on duty and away from my house, so I can hit the "submit" button from a computer on the ship.

And also, I can frigging download those wonderful but long stories that I'll not want to sit up on a computer to read, such as The Roots of Heaven and that Winter War AU that's been the only fic still updated on kurosaki_clinic these days.

I assume most of you may have accounts over there, but if not, I can't recommend it enough, and will be more than happy to send invites!