Відео

So, I recently started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I can't even begin to describe the out of body experience that was recognizing one of the lines she copy pasted to these fics.

Honestly I would love to see you do fanfiction readings/commentaries, especially coming from your more kind and empathetic viewpoint. Unlike others who might go “eww this fanfic is gay/girly”, I can see you having very nuanced and interesting commentary about self discovery present in a lot of amateur fanfiction (especially fanfics made by teens when they’re coming to terms with queerness/neurodivergence/identity). I certainly remember making cringy art when I was realizing things about my neurodivergence/sexuality, and I think “bad” art can do very good things for a creator. I think viewing problematic elements through these lens can also be very interesting - I remember writing not-like-the-other-girls stuff when I was younger, and reflecting back on it it was a (problematic) way for me to grapple with feeling like my identity did not fit society’s expectations. So it felt easier to belittle the other women in society than to accept myself alongside other women. Anyways love the video (and I hope my essay of a comment boosts you in the algorithm haha)!

Rewatching this is making me realise that Cassandra Clare really is the James Somerton of fanfiction.

Have you ever watched the movie? ua-cam.com/video/4DFCH6r3gew/v-deo.html

The descent into hell line is in The Mortal Instruments too lmao

The kidnapping of Maggie Evans reminds me of the Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggars film from 1965, The Collector.

idk why my last comment didn't get through but: Hey, ex averno fan here too, there was this initiative with them encouraging us to go out and put posters and paint rocks in obvious places that would say averno, come home 27th august and things like that (Averno Street Team), I remember I did a shell and left it at the beach. Everything is very blurry and incredibly difficult to remember, but for what's worth, hi, I'm one of the very mentally ill people that got fooled into believing averno really existed for a while; so Morgan, succeeded even if only for a small window of time. After reading some comments I remembered that I used to read the dream channel constantly, posted once about a dream I had with a "future partner" (coincidentally my current partner looks similar to what I remember that "future partner" to be) and souchii in it. After a while I remember seeing a few pings and a lot of messages, but that's it, it's nothing special with how I was obsessing over it and rewatching videos. The Averno Street Team used to have an official account ran by fans, I was a mod? in it at a point I think, very short lived tho as they changed the password and a new team was rolled in. After watching the video: I remember Kennedy and Echo, they were very active on the server and loved by all, when the ARG started it just... it created chaos, the venting channel was deleted after a while if I remember correctly, it was just a mess on top of another mess. People weren't allowed to talk about their actual mental struggles even thought they marketed themselves as if they could, anything "too weird" (dissociation being a big one as you mentioned) would get you a warning or banned. It felt like going to a psych office and them telling you they only know how to treat anxiety and depression (not to minimize those), just very hypocritical and created a huge sense of unease, people would mini mod at times and tell eachother off, I think that was cut short very soon but I remember it happening. The Averno official account used to follow my art account too and, from what I was made to understand (I could have been lied to I want to be perfectly clear there), I was being considered as a potential future official artist after some fanart I posted, it was very vague but that's what I understood. Now I want to make clear: I never went through what the document declared, but knowing I was so close of being part of it (not the inner circle who got the worst, but the general official team), is terrifying.

Well told

While a lot of it went over to Dreamwidth most SF fans I knew went to Facebook some time in the mid-2000s [edit: more like late 2000s / early 2010s]. After all FB works in similar ways to LJ - the ability to post long or short texts in your own space but also communities which could be public or private. That it's a completely different beast is maybe more down to the people who used it (LJ being heavily fandom and FB used by, well, everyone). I'm wondering what is next, tbh.