Here’s the thing about using fiction as an outlet to feel emotions: the emotions are real. Crying watching tv or reading a book is just as valid as crying yourself to sleep. And it’s true that you should confront your own issues every once in a while and make sure you can identify how you feel about certain situations you’re in, but it’s not as if your brain isn’t subconsciously doing just that when you’re watching an emotional movie. Some part of you identifies with some aspect of that form of media, and you cry because you feel it, too. It’s not just that character’s feeling - it’s yours.
I’m actually going to bed now. I like how I’ve inadvertently provoked a small discussion about the validity of emotional provocation in media versus that in the real world. If I get any more messages about this, I’ll try to answer them tomorrow. Good night!
SUBTEXT
EXACTLYTHE PROBLEMS WITH FANFICTION
all my fandoms have something in common and that something is
- gay
‘THE TALES OF A FANGIRL’
(to the tune of ‘Colours of the Wind’ from Pocahontas)
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You think I’m a fangirling savage
I “obsess over too much”
Well, I guess you can think so.
But what you cannot see,
Is that there just seems to be
Such underlying subtext you don’t know
You don’t know
—
You think you know whatever thing you’re watching
You think you know the things in books you read
But I know every ship and every hint now
All the heated, subtle, sly and sexual needs.
—
You watch and read but to you, truly sadly,
The ships are all as canon as they go,
But if you walk the footsteps of a fangirl
You’ll understand that nothing’s ever hetero.
—
Have you ever seen the eye sex between Dean and Cas
Or the way that Arthur looks at his “best friend”
Can you hear the subtext like it has been scripted
But the writers lie and say it’s all pretend?
But the writers lie and say it’s in our heads….
—
Come here and watch this scene with John and Sherlock
How do you not see that he wants him so?
The Master and the Doctor bum each other
Is that not clear to you? How can you say “no”?
—
The fandoms I belong to are my family
The actors (who don’t know it) are my friends
The characters all connect to each other
In some homosexual loop that never ends
—
How headcanon will my ships go?
Honestly I will never know
And though we’ll never hear the end of “my ship’s best”
It matters not what ship we ship, you see
—
No one can ever deny Destiel or Merthur
Or Johnlock or the Master and Ten
—
Now you say I must be wrong
But others agree with my song
As we ship
All of the homo
Till the end
- Mother: Hi, Harry. Do you invite your friends over?
- Son: Yes mom, those are Peeta, Blaine, Percy, Katniss, Sherlock and Thedoctor.
Dashboard Tumblr-fessional - SaintDorianGray (Katy Perry Firework Parody)
based on this post, opener by barackfuckingobama
also known as “How many fandoms can SDG cram into one fucking song?”Also, the harmonies suck butt.Edit: Uploaded one without harmonies. Got sick of hearing myself suckass at the one thing I love doing.Do you ever feel like a Sherlock fan
Crying on a Roof wanting to eat some Jam?
Do you ever feel like a Whovian?
Watching Rory die time and time againDo you ever feel the Supernatural
You smell the sulfur, so you get the motherfucking salt?
Did you know that there’s a place for you?
There’s others just like you.You gotta enter your password and username.
Then scroll and see the Tumblr memes‘Cause baby I’m a fandom girl
The coolest kind in all the world
I’ll turn your heteroh-oh-oh
into homosexual-al-al
Baby, I’m a fandom girl
I’ll show you how I see the world
I’ll turn your platoni-i-ic
Into begging for some di-i-ickHere’s proof that Dean and Cas are just as canon as
Arthur and Merlin, the warlock and his prat
You see the parallels between Destiel
And Shwatsonlock the time that Sherlock fellI’ll beg you to ignore all of the shipping wars
If you like Ten/Master or if Amy Pond is a whore
But the Avengers, never pretend there’s
nothing between Steve and TonyPre-Chorus/Chorus
Fuck you, I
won a BAFTA twi-i-ice
If two characters fi-i-ight
It means they’re fucking at ni-i-ight‘Cause baby I’m fandom’s bitch
I won’t apologize for this
I’ll turn your heteroh-oh-oh
into homosexual-al-al
It seems these characters are sluts
But I love Tumblr too much
I’ll turn your platoni-i-ic
Into begging for some di-i-ick
Also, the fandom who did unprecedented amounts of crack-cocaine during the time spent waiting.
“DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE BANDOMS . THE ONLY LETTERS THEY WRITE ARE TO THEIR BANDS SAYING, ‘WHY DON’T YOU PLAY A SHOW IN MY PRISON?!’”All was well.: IMAGINE WHAT PRISONS WOULD BE LIKE IF WE ALL GOT ARRESTED FOR PIRACY
- INSTEAD OF GANGS- THERE WOULD BE FANDOMS
“UGH, THERE’S ANOTHER FIGHT BETWEEN THE HARRY POTTER FANDOM AND TWILIGHT FANDOM IN THE YARD.”
“OH MY GOSH THE DOCTOR WHO FANS ARE TRYING TO CONVERT THE OTHER FANDOMS AGAIN SHIT WE NEED TO STOP THEM BEFORE ONE OF THEM GETS SONICED”
“THE SUPERNATURAL FANS KEEP STEALING SALT FROM THE CAFETERIA, DAMNIT, ALL THE FOOD IS BLAND”
“THE SHERLOCK FANDOM HAVE STOLEN ALL THE BLANKETS AND THEY’RE UPSTAIRS ON THE ROOF ROCKING BACK AND FORTH CLUTCHING JAM. AGAIN”
“CAN SOMEONE TELL THE MERLIN FANDOM THAT ‘YOU’RE THE VOICE’ IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE SONG FOR 3AM”
“THE GLEE FANDOM’S PERFORMING AN IMPROMPTU KILL-RYAN-MURPHY-WAR CHANT IN THE CAFETERIA AGAIN” “AGAIN!?” “ON THE TABLES.”
“THE PRISION BREAK FANDOM IS TRIYING YET ANOTHER WAY TO BREAK OUT”
“THE TRUE BLOOD FANDOM SIMPLY REFUSES TO GO OUT DURING THE DAY”
“THERE WAS A STORM AND THE MISFITS FANS WENT WILD AGAIN”
“THE SHERLOCK FANS KEEP JUMPING OFF THE ROOF”
“The Starkids keep performing unauthorized experiments with Red Vines.”
THE DARREN CRISS FANS KEEP JUMPING ON THE FURNITURE MAKE IT STOP
Here are some post-its my friend and I are about to unleash onto the school. Each has a Sherlockian phrase on it, with #believeinsherlock on the bottom.
- Supernatural Fandom: Hey there! Welcome to the fandom!
- Doctor Who Fandom: Hey there! Welcome to the fandom!
- Every Other Fandom: Hey there! Welcome to the fandom!
- Sherlock Fandom: -gross sobbing and incoherent sounds-
