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elfmaiddryope:

squirrelwrangler:

elfmaiddryope:

@squirrelwrangler I feeeeel you about the debate undercurrent. I see tooooons of engagement on my dash! I don’t interact with all (or even most) of it, but it’s there so….idk, I’ve never really cared for that whole overarching “we’re a community because we all love this book” thing? I DO like finding people who enjoy the same books as me! But I have a hard time if we don’t like them for the same reasons. I think…I like people who enjoy the same THEMES and approach their fandoms in the same way I do more, even if we don’t have a lot of fandom overlap, if that makes sense? My BFF can’t care less about Tolkien or Sailor Moon; he’s into X-Men and Star Trek. But we approach fandom the same way and we like the same themes, so we’re compatible! And it’s why I like reading your DC posts even though I know literally nothing about DC comics, because I feel like our approaches and interests overlap even if the fandoms themselves don’t. 

Yes! The wider fandom can be good for memes and jokes and fan art, but I don’t want to interact with a community at whole, just find those likeminded fans. And that it’s what themes and character types that are most important 🙂 it makes it so I can follow mutuals’ fandoms and their meta and such of which I have little or no knowledge, but because the foundation of the enjoyment comes from a similar place. Or find weird theme sharing (Suicide Squad and Naruto)

The DC and DCEU is so funny to me, because yeah, almost all my followers are Tolkien/Silm and yet many can enjoy the dc stuff. And I think there is a serious correlation in underlying themes and tastes but I can’t put my finger on all of them. (Definitely more than MCU) and the fuzziness and openness of canon is a weirdly comforting similiarity.

Haha but hearing about mutual’s fandoms is fun c:

Also I legit just pinpointed why the current debate is getting under my skin. The focus on fanfic as the primary form of engagement is what bothers me the most I think. I don’t read fic because it’s in my fandom; I read it if it looks like it will hit my narrow interests within the fandom. Is that improperly engaging?! It’s such a strange focus to me, to narrow fandom down to fanfic.

Ah yes – I think there is a meta component to the interaction complaint, but yeah – there are fandoms (and sub fandoms) where I don’t want to read fic but meta, or fanart. Some where I just want a fan to agree it’s awesome and that’s it. And Silm I write but don’t read fic, and the fandom focus even ten years ago wasn’t what I cared about.

elfmaiddryope:

@squirrelwrangler I feeeeel you about the debate undercurrent. I see tooooons of engagement on my dash! I don’t interact with all (or even most) of it, but it’s there so….idk, I’ve never really cared for that whole overarching “we’re a community because we all love this book” thing? I DO like finding people who enjoy the same books as me! But I have a hard time if we don’t like them for the same reasons. I think…I like people who enjoy the same THEMES and approach their fandoms in the same way I do more, even if we don’t have a lot of fandom overlap, if that makes sense? My BFF can’t care less about Tolkien or Sailor Moon; he’s into X-Men and Star Trek. But we approach fandom the same way and we like the same themes, so we’re compatible! And it’s why I like reading your DC posts even though I know literally nothing about DC comics, because I feel like our approaches and interests overlap even if the fandoms themselves don’t. 

Yes! The wider fandom can be good for memes and jokes and fan art, but I don’t want to interact with a community at whole, just find those likeminded fans. And that it’s what themes and character types that are most important 🙂 it makes it so I can follow mutuals’ fandoms and their meta and such of which I have little or no knowledge, but because the foundation of the enjoyment comes from a similar place. Or find weird theme sharing (Suicide Squad and Naruto)

The DC and DCEU is so funny to me, because yeah, almost all my followers are Tolkien/Silm and yet many can enjoy the dc stuff. And I think there is a serious correlation in underlying themes and tastes but I can’t put my finger on all of them. (Definitely more than MCU) and the fuzziness and openness of canon is a weirdly comforting similiarity.

sirperson56:

squirrelwrangler:

So yeah, I’m enjoying Gotham City Garage, probably way more than I should. My burning question is where is Lois Lane. Also that I freely admit at least a tiny portion of my enjoyment comes from having an AU/Elseworlds where Jason Todd exists as a character for several pages – and has not died. Ridiculous how rare that is.

I’m glad Jason was in it, Steph and Cass better appear in it

Bombshells finally introduced Cass in a cameo just a few chapters ago (and finally got around to having Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark as major characters in a story where WW is a main lead). Now I don’t have high hopes for Steph and Cass (though damn if I don’t dream of it, considering how high they rank on personal Batfam favs, especially in comparison to Babs). However, unlike some other DC characters, i think they could be easily worked into GCG. Batman needs a new bat-enforcer antagonist now that Babs has joined Natasha Irons’ side, and an ‘evil’ brainwashed terminator Black Bat hunting down our ladies would fit the aesthetic of diesel/cyber ladies fighting each other, especially if they play up the visible stitching and tattered bandages black leather of Cass’s look for a full Mad Max. And the opportunity to reinterpret “Spoiler” as a reference to car racing; it’s staring us in the face.

If nothing else, I hope fan-artists make a nice AU design or two.

That none of the non-rogue* bat-ladies are in Batman Ninja, however? Boo. booo.

octaviangrey:

squirrelwrangler:

lordnelson100:

squirrelwrangler:

There’s snow across the border in Tamaulipas. 

Yeah, New England, come fetch your weather. It got lost.

New England, here in Massachusetts we’re gonna get 6 six inches over tomorrow (Sat Dec 9): so our Winter is present and accounted for!

Anybody lose some snow? Maine? Newfoundland?

Where is Tamaulipas (looks at map). Geez, sorry, that’s fucked up! Is is snowing in ALL REALITIES?

I have some spare snow shovels you can borrow; only 3250 miles to come! Drive carefully, it’s winter 🙂 

I used to live in Newport, RI and Annapolis, MD and had cousins we’d visit for Christmas who lived in Oxbridge, MA (military brat, if you were wondering about the moves). So yeah, unlike my youngest sibling, I was used to snow growing up. And my parents were one of the only houses that had a snow shovel back 13 years ago when we got snow in South Texas for the first time in over a hundred years (and my dad relished shoveling that half-inch of snow off the driveway) But down here, yeah this is actual subtropics. Unless they are snowbirds down from Canada or moved in from somewhere else like my family, no one has seen snow before in their life. 

Yeah, Tamaulipas is the Mexican state directly across from where I live – it’s actually a shorter distance to the border than it is to Houston. And going strictly by latitude, where I live is basically the same, perhaps a little further south, as Orlando, Florida. In fact, it has snowed in Orlando more times than it has where I live.

My banana tree has snow on it.

I find this actually quite fascinating. I live in Australia. This concept of “snow” you talk about, it’s very perculiar. And that it can fall in the subtropics….. is also quite strange.

I think you’d be okay- snow is I think one of those strange inflictions that only happen to Kiwis

lordnelson100 replied to your photo:
There’s snow across the border in Tamaulipas.  …

Oh no! Someone SAVE THE BANANNAS. Maybe little yellow sweaters! (Newport & Annapolis, sounds like the Navy! My unc did 20 as a CPO)

YEP! Both parents (and various uncles, grandfathers, a great-grandfather or two). If you know all the stateside Naval Aviation bases, then my childhood history is easy to track

Technically the banana tree is on the property on the other side of the fence, but it leans over. No bananas right now, and I harvested the limes off the potted Mexican lime tree last month. Not to so we don’t get out-of-season fruit during normal winters with balmy 70-80 degree weather…

lordnelson100:

squirrelwrangler:

There’s snow across the border in Tamaulipas. 

Yeah, New England, come fetch your weather. It got lost.

New England, here in Massachusetts we’re gonna get 6 six inches over tomorrow (Sat Dec 9): so our Winter is present and accounted for!

Anybody lose some snow? Maine? Newfoundland?

Where is Tamaulipas (looks at map). Geez, sorry, that’s fucked up! Is is snowing in ALL REALITIES?

I have some spare snow shovels you can borrow; only 3250 miles to come! Drive carefully, it’s winter 🙂 

I used to live in Newport, RI and Annapolis, MD and had cousins we’d visit for Christmas who lived in Oxbridge, MA (military brat, if you were wondering about the moves). So yeah, unlike my youngest sibling, I was used to snow growing up. And my parents were one of the only houses that had a snow shovel back 13 years ago when we got snow in South Texas for the first time in over a hundred years (and my dad relished shoveling that half-inch of snow off the driveway) But down here, yeah this is actual subtropics. Unless they are snowbirds down from Canada or moved in from somewhere else like my family, no one has seen snow before in their life. 

Yeah, Tamaulipas is the Mexican state directly across from where I live – it’s actually a shorter distance to the border than it is to Houston. And going strictly by latitude, where I live is basically the same, perhaps a little further south, as Orlando, Florida. In fact, it has snowed in Orlando more times than it has where I live.

My banana tree has snow on it.

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the book in colored gel pens… heget…. u the best…

When the first thing I did was draw each rider and their brightly colored matching pegasus that had a color scheme with least two or three complementary colors? Because it was like I was designing this for a kids’ merchandise cartoon I swear that was the aesthetic (the squad leader was the older woman in mostly hot pink and coral orange, the rest of the squad was blue, purples, greens, yellows – the secretly evil twin sister was yellow-green with gray and red accents – her chapter was in red) Look it’s been almost twenty years and I lost those pages and the typed copy (though I think somewhere in the bottom of a chest is the saved drawing). But I had a large set of colored markers and an equally large collection of gel pens in middle school, and damn if I wasn’t going to use them.