Supernatural fandom: So yeah, we got a five minute promo, several interviews, couple of deleted scenes and a title card. No biggie.
Doctor Who fandom: Poster! Poster! Poster! Fiftieth! Poster! Anniversary!
Supernatural: Hey, anything from Sherlock lately?
Sherlock: *snaps* We’re currently going through the fifty second promo to find out exactly where John was eating when Sherlock entered the room and who did Sherlock’s hair. Quiet.
Doctor Who: Sorry, man. Hope you get series three soon.
Supernatural: Hey, what’s that sound?
*room starts to rumble*
Doctor Who: Is that…
Supernatural: No. It’s…it’s not possible.
Sherlock: *looks up* Wait, you don’t think…?
Harry Potter fandom: *breaks through ground brandishing wands* ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!!!
I challenge the Supernatural fandom to find a gif that accurately represents the Sherlock fandom.
Now it would be great that the Sherlock fandom showed us the true identity of the Supernatural fandom via a gif.
this is beautiful
i feel we really understand eachother
So awesome roommate and I went out to take some pictures of the sunset. Which meant going into the country a bit. In the dark.
Her:“so we watch Supernatural and Torchwood and Doctor Who and we still go out to the woods at night.”
Me: “It’s okay we know how to make a devils trap.”
can we call unpopular/unknown ships submarines
spread this like a virus that you can’t stop in anyway at all
My harkstiel and lokane friends will approve
Has anyone else noticed how much our fanfic terms sound like drugs?
Let’s see here, we got slash, crack, lemon, lime, PWP, fluff, angst, AU. Seriously, it’s like some sort of shady fanfic underground.
Hitting up the alleyways trading doujin in paperbags.
theres slash being traded for crack and au downtown but you didnt hear it from me
so basically we’re all pirates who do drugs
The idea of fan cultures, or “fandoms,” cultivating fan fiction writers began at the earliest in the 1920s with societies dedicated to Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes, but took off in the late 1960s with the advent of Star Trek fanzines. The negative stereotype of fans today is that of obsessed geeks, like Trekkies, who love nothing more than to watch the same installments over and over… However, this represents a core misunderstanding of what it is to be a fan: that is, to have the “ability to transform personal reaction into social interaction, spectatorial culture into participatory culture… not by being a regular viewer of a particular program but by translating that viewing into some kind of cultural activity.” Henry Jenkins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and expert on fan culture, likens fan fiction to the story of The Velveteen Rabbit: that the investment in something is what gives it a meaning rather than any intrinsic merits or economic value. For fans who invest in a television show, book, or movie, that investment sparks production, and reading or viewing sparks writing, until the two are inseparable. They are not watching the same thing over and over, but rather are creating something new instead.
Casey Fiesler, Everything I Need To Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content, p173 (via fanhackers)
If I may put in my two cents? I’m probably a bit older then the average tumblr user, being 34. I was a teenager in the 90s, before the internet was a big thing. I was also a humongous Star Trek geek…and virtually alone in my love of the show among my peers.
I found a collection of ‘the best of trek’ (one of the old fanzines) at my local used bookstore (which I still have by the way), and this was the first time, aside from official novels, that I realized that *I* could contribute something to a fandom, even if it was just for myself.
So I wrote a bit of fanfiction and I realized it was okay to really love a show and characters. Now that I’m older I may have moved on to other fandoms, and I’m so very very grateful to tumblr and the communities and friends that I’ve found.
the “ability to transform personal reaction into social interaction, spectatorial culture into participatory culture… not by being a regular viewer of a particular program but by translating that viewing into some kind of cultural activity.”
This. This is what I love about being a fan, about tumblr, about all of you who create things and read and enjoy the things I create.
the fandoms of tumblr | be brave
There’s a range of things to pull from this: be brave in the face of death, be brave for other people, be brave enough to go for someone you love, be brave enough to sacrifice yourself, be brave after loss, be brave in the face of your enemies, be brave in social situations, be brave of your abilities. Just be brave.
[Edited by me and my sister. We put as many fandoms in as we could manage.]
okay no but what made me start crying
was that it basically sounded like all of those characters and people were saying
we’ve been through it
we’ve been brave
but what we really want now
is to see YOU be brave
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Potterheads wake up from their nap in front of their common room’s fireplace with a half finished potions essay in front of them.Whovians are woken up jolted from the captains seat while the TARDIS spins out of control and the Doctor flipping over the TARDIS controls.
Supernatural fans wake up on Bobby’s couch. Dean, Sam and Bobby just got news about a hunt and are about to call Cas for assistance.
Fringe fans wake up to tell Walter, Olivia and Peter about their experiences in the alternate reality.
Hangover fans wake up to find themselves in a completely fucked up situation in a trashed hotel room.
Gleeks wake up to find themselves sleeping in spanish class while Mr Shue drones on in spanish.
Torchwood fans wake up in the hub because of the loud make out session that Jack is having with Ianto in his office.
True Blood fans wake up buried underground, thirsting for blood.
Percy Jackson fans wake up to a new day of Demigod activities at Camp Half Blood.
The Hunger Games fans wake up… in the Hunger Games. The gamekeepers decided to fuck with them.
Pretty Little Liars fans wake up to the sound of a text message from A.
Gossip Girl fans wake up to Chuck, Dan and Nate in their bed. Oh yeaaaaaa.
Aiden Grimshaw fans wake up to being presidents of the Awesome People Party~
lord of the rings fans wake up in the shire on bilbo’s birthday and steal gandalf’s fireworks with merry and pippin.
trekkies wake up aboard the enterprise, preparing for alpha shift, tugging their respective tunics over their heads.
the legend of zelda fans wake up in hyrule, taking a break from their quest to sleep beneath a tree with epona.
psych fans wake up in the psych headquarters, wondering where their pineapple went.
the pacific fans wake up on peleliu. they’re surely fucked now.
buffy the vampire slayer fans wake up in the magic box before a hunt with buffy.
bioshock fans wake up in rapture, lying next to a splicer with a big daddy approaching.
Inception fans oh wait
X-Men fans wake up and realize they’re five minutes late to Professor X’s lecture on genetics.
Sherlock fans wake up on the couch at 221B Baker Street to Sherlock saying “obviously” and John cooking breakfast.
Starkid fans wake up on a distant planet surrounded by bugs… grody. Or maybe they wake up in Joey Richter’s bed.
it’s not like anyone would complainPortal fans wake up in the Enrichment Centre to Wheatley telling them they might have a minor case of eh… serious brain damage.
Avatar: TLA fans wake up to the yells of the Gaang, saying they have to get up and hop on Appa since those dangerous ladies are chasing them again.
Fullmetal Alchemist fans wake up… because someone said ‘short’ in Edward Elric’s presence. And fuck, sleeping is kinda hard with a shrimp of an alchemist yelling “WHO DID YOU CALL A PIPSQUEAK SO SMALL YOU WOULDN’T SEE HIM WITH A MICROSCOPE?!”
Sanctuary Fans wake up to an abnormal loose in the Sanctaury and Helen Magnus handing you a stun gun.
Stargate Fans wake up to the sound of an unscheduled off world activation and Teal’c handing you a zat.
Once Upon a Time Fans wake up with a vague sense of confusion, but then happiness builds up in their hearts as they look down at themselves and see they are a storybook character and the Curse has been broken at last.
Pirates of the Caribbean Fans wake up marooned on a desert island, head banging from the after effects of rum and too much sun, next to a highly annoyed Captain Jack Sparrow, watching the Black Pearl sail away under Barbossa’s command again.
Avengers fans wake up to another day fighting crime and protecting the city with the avengers.
Criminal Minds fans wake up in Quantico to Hotch telling them ‘Wheels up in 30. Briefing on the jet.’
Literally the Best thing ever!
^^ reblogging for the inception one
Welcome to Night Vale fans well… just another day in Night Vale
WHAT IF WE’RE A FAN OF MORE THAN ONE
YOU MAKE US CHOOSE?!?!
youtube fans wake up in front of their macbooks with an unedited video in front of them
I’m a fan of like half of these. AHHHH!!!