My name is Ally. Lexie. Alex. Whatever.
I'm a 28 year old Canadian. I studied English lit. I'm a shameless wino. I love to travel. I aspire to live on a yacht. Yes, my URL is about Tycho Brahe's drunk moose.
‘the dress. you’ll have to put on another one before meeting the children’ ‘when we enter the abbey our worldly clothes are given to the poor’ ‘what about this one?’ ‘the poor didn’t want this one’
all seven children bursting into tears at dinner while Maria sips her tea
‘God bless whats his name’ (ten minutes later) ‘KURT! that’s the one I left out! God bless Kurt.’
maria passive aggressively praying about Liesl as she climbs through the window
tbh Captain Von Trapp dragging everyone around him at every possible moment like
‘you flatter me captain’ ‘oh I’m sorry, I meant to accuse you’ *AIR HORN SOUNDS*
‘I’m not finished yet!’ ‘OH YES YOU ARE, CAPTAIN.’ … ‘FRAULEIN’
liesl rolling her eyes at kurt during the blueberry/strawberry scene
honestly the love story I didn’t quite get as a kid but I’m SHOOK
when the baroness is trying to get the captain back on track but he just interrupts her and is like ‘there’s no use’
BUT WHEN THE BARONESS SAYS ‘well, she’ll never be a nun’ the look of SHOCK on his face like it honestly never occurred to him that Maria was in love with him too
so of course hes like ‘I must find her and kiss her immediately’
Von Trapp ripping the nazi flag in half like YES BINCH
THE MOST UNDERRATED SCENE THOUGH IS AFTER THE NAZIS RUN TO THEIR CARS TO CHASE THE VON TRAPPS AND THE SCENE SWITCHES TO THE TWO NUNS
‘reverend mother, I have sinned’ ‘I too, reverend mother’ *they both hold up coils from the nazi’s cars*
I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.
Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?
When men decided they liked them.
this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek
I propose we call this “mentrification”
YES
MENTRIFICATION that’s genius
by the way every single man i’ve ever explained this to is completely boggled to hear about it. they genuinely don’t fucking know. they’re always like ‘okay name a field this happened in’ and you’re like ‘beer. writing novels. gynecology. computers.’ and they’re completely fucking distraught. men didn’t invent beer???? men didn’t invent everything?
Okay, I KNOW this isn’t the point, but this bothers me: the Archive began on November 15th, 2009. Avatar hit theaters on December 18th, 2009. And while fandoms of all kinds were THRILLED about Ao3, it wasn’t widely being used as a platform a scant month later. Fandom wasn’t yet using Ao3 how we do now. For the most part, folks were still posting on fanfiction.net or on livejournal. I checked ff.net and there are more than 1.3 thousand fanfics posted there. God only knows how many livejournal communities existed, how many private archives popped up, because it’s been nearly a decade and that’s an internet lifetime. Google found a LOT of fanfics in a lot of different places.
I don’t know why I’m this angry about a post that isn’t about a fandom I’m even in, but come ON. I ran the only English-speaking fan group about Shirow Masamune’s “Appleseed” and I don’t think we had more than a hundred fics in total, but that franchise has manga, an OVA, several CGI movies, and a 13-episode anime. There’s another fandom that I’m in where I wrote the first fic, which generated the fandom’s tag on Ao3. The second fanfic ever was just posted a few days ago, two years after I wrote the first one. So going by this metric, my fanfic was worth the entire cost of the books, cartoon, and comics. Now it’s worth half.
Just… why are we judging anything by how many fanfics people write and subsequently publish in a very specific way? People STILL post stuff on ff.net and not on Ao3, or on another website, or maybe they don’t publish it at all, only sharing it with friends.
If this is a criticism of the movie, it’s a really, really shitty metric for it.
