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inqorporeal: catchymemes: In the 80s and 90s, there was a massive child abduction scare. Parents were encouraged to keep a more personal eye on their kids, when before it had been considered fine to let them roam and play unsupervised;[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tumblr_mzfhirlHfl1rr4t2yo1 emptyheadgamer: Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.
scrawnym4: 123guestbook is shutting down soon can we commemorate all that its done for niche neocities websites and what have you Another end of an old era. I remember when guestbooks were the primary way to communicate with and leave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just think there needs to be less (read: none) attacking people over headcanons, theories, ideas and interpertations in general. Sadly, this is not a new thing. Ship wars and headcanon wars have been going on in fandom forever– I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-bar-sinister: there’s definitely a lot of social shame surrounding the idea of wanting to be the dominant/aggressive/pursuing partner in a relationship. It is not what our culture romanticizes, and in fact, it hypes it up as something scary, and potentially[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
angelinthefire: spookinwithhoechlin: fanfiction.net before they removed the NC-17 stories going to fanfiction.net at all going to adultfanfiction.net in the fallout of the great “purge” figuring out that ain’t nobody actually monitoring NC-17 stories there anyway so just rate it “M”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
emeraldspiral: I feel like newer fans can’t really appreciate what it was like to be introduced to IZ in 2001 and be a ZADR shipper in that early 2000s cultural climate. Openly hating gays was SOOOOO much more normalized than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fuck, I am twice the age I was when I started that fic, what the hell, why is time real XD
I miss when tvtropes was 1/3 kink content.
killrockstar: you don’t drink coffee. you don’t smoke cigarettes. what do you people do. name one smiths song
messrsage: you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
targaryenvampireslayer: I realise that ageism in fandom is, in the grand scheme of things, the least concerning thing about the fandom experience but I need to say this: all you baby adults on here need to calm down and let[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
swiftpolls: without looking it up do you know where the term “stan” originated? yes no and if you’re comfortable put in the tags how old you are
j-ellyfish: You had me at ’YAOI (BOYXBOY) DON’T LIKE DON’T READ’.
embervoices: safe-marshmallows: irevian: throwbackblr: the wii is considered a retro console now. THE WII IS CONSIDERED A WHAT. *looks at the WiiU, the Wii, the PS2…* *the GC… the N64…* *… The Atari 2600* Welp! I guess I wasn’t exactly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I keep seeing that post about how modern developers making difficult and obtuse retro games without tutorials are “forgetting that video games used to come with manuals.” Ya’ll. Yes. Video games used to come with manuals. And our parents and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fanby-fckry: themythicalcodfish: sonneillonv: scrungass: Y E A H Man, lemme tell you, this transition was a TRIP to watch in realtime. I would like to go back to glomping please Take me back to the ‘07 city Where the fanfolk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
2009-2021: our fandom/fanfiction hiatus years… 23 to 34. So much changed in that time.
When I was a kid I didn’t understand my dad’s 20 old band t-shirts. But here I sit in an Invader Zim shirt I bought in 2004.
pisshandkerchief: there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look
2004 era gaia online yaoi roleplay OC called father Ketamine, on account of being a priest who sells ketamine.
gaywebcorenostalgia: found (1998)
the-apocryphal-one: janekfan: raimagnolia: frostyemma: domicileensnared: jetru: saltwaffle: full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009 remember when writers had to be all like:“omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dark Kingdom Renegades by Mark Latus (1996)– Sailor Moon fanfiction The Slayers Trilogy (Reflect, Chaos, Rebirth) by Stefan “Twoflower” Gagne (1998) Both of these fics were extremely influential to us when we first read them in the early 2000s. What[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
banished-away: bhootpret: The generation gap between me and ppl of my own age
patchoulism: my-never-ending-nightmare:
Seeing all the people tag/reblog our post with some variant of “I’m too anxious to leave comments” is very validating about our thesis for why people have stopped interacting with fandom. I think this comment sums it up nicely. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Depends on what you mean by “ship”. First characters we thought were a romantic couple? Tigger and Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh. First characters we looked for romantic fanart of online? Sailor Moon and Tuxedeo Mask First characters we read[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People used to comment on web comics. People used to comment on fanfiction. People used to comment on fanart. People used to comment on OCs. I hate “content” culture. I hate “consuming content” and scrolling immediately to the next thing.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The real tragedy of modern fandom is that sometime between 2002 and the present day, people stopped reading and enjoying oc x canon fics. Sometime in the past 20 years readers became convinced that fanfic with an oc main character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c8h7n3o2: “Does anybody know what this is?” *smug* BEHOLD! HE’S FOUND AN ANCIENT ARTIFACT AND IS ABOUT TO GIVE YOU 21 MINUTES OF TRIVIA ON IT
queer-adhd: queer-adhd: Omg Matt deleted his whiny post about how if Tumblr sucks this bad to be on as a user then he might just stop bothering to fund it lol This one 🙂 thanks to @carhammerexplosionmatt for the saved[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lesbianralzarek: “life doesnt get better, you just get stronger” does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: prismatic-bell: moddeydhoo: prismatic-bell: olderthannetfic: – Laugh in their faces when they try shit. Bullies like smelling blood in the water. They don’t like being told they’re stupid children whose opinions don’t count, whether that’s by you actually saying that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bob-time: madame-helen: There’s a reason Bilbo’s journey started when he was 50
atomictiki: jerkfacepink: THANK YOU BING IMAGE SEARCH. Thought I lost this! 8D I made this in 1996. To make it back then was a million times harder than it would have been today: screen capped each frame in the loop[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“How long have you been posting fanfiction, biohazards? Btw how long have you been writing whump?” oh… a while…. 😅
crabs-and-bongos: gingeremo:
sweaterkittensahoy: drogonea: missalyssaread: sweaterkittensahoy: So, this week I ordered a new couch pillow because I had a husband pillow full of shredded memory foam, and the thing needs to be opened and shifted around about once a week with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dadvans: petition we need to bring back anon kink memes in a big way. no one is horny enough anymore. the other night i found a fic on an old kink meme from 2009 that was so well-written and also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh 2002-era songfics with lyrics interspersed between paragraphs, my deceased beloved.
chickensarentcheap: the-apocryphal-one: janekfan: raimagnolia: frostyemma: domicileensnared: jetru: saltwaffle: full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009 remember when writers had to be all like:“omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rainbowgazes-archive: love ppl online being like “ur literally 30” like do u think thats not gonna happen to you??
Forever changed by the paralyzing realization that when we finally destroy the nemesis we built our life around defeating, we also destroy an unimaginably large part of ourselves. Unfortunately, this revelation came while reading unfinished Invader Zim episode summaries when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
robinade: Tumblr point of entry TikTok sightseer Twitter migrator Reddit migrator Pinterest lurker DeviantArt escapee Instagram migrator Livejournal migrator I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago… (joined Tumblr pre 2010) RIP Google+ Other See Results
beesmygod: beesmygod: i feel like there was a time where people would get mad at people saying “i dont usually like ___ but this is great!” like it was some big insult. to me that always seemed like a deliberately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fatefulfindings: fatefulfindings: clumsyoctopus: you get an invite to a gay wedding you open the card “WARNING: SHONEN-AI, YAOI, BOYXBOY, THAT MEANS BOY KISSES!!! LIME/LEMON LATER. DON’T LIKE DON’T ATTEND, RSVP PLZ” File this under posts from 2012 that deal immense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
octopuscato: nederys: kmclaude: tenaflyviper: Who said it: A tumblr “anti-shipper”, or a conservative, Republican, Christian extremist? “By writing fanfiction and drawing fan art of ____, you are condoning it in society.” “You are actively condoning ____. If you encourage[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
titimylove: bookish-bimbo: who tf remembers when smut was lemons girl i remember when smut was a gd fruit salad!! i also remember “don’t like; don’t read” and “flames keep me warm at night”
love the vibe of edgy, raw, dirty pre-2013 slash smut fanfic hanging onto all the aesthetics of 90s-2010s action cool guy bastard swag and complete lack of regard for toxicity.
pansyfemme: this may be a weird opinion to have but i think there needs to be more physical pornography in the modern day. but like. niche stuff too. you should be able to buy tboy furry porn mags at your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
elodieunderglass: yokowan: despazito: Telling young zoomers to “just switch to linux” is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you’re throwing them to the wolves i taught programming to middle school kids[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hellmasterphibrizo: timaeustumbls: astoriachef: Zero points, bay-beeee. My prize is one shit knee lol same… and I still do some of those things. zero here too.
naryrising: Pros of being a Fandom Old: – never have to worry about my mom finding out about my porn fic – have seen it all before and give few if any fucks Cons of being a Fandom Old: –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ratheralark: a fandom old’s guide to how livejournal fandom worked (in super basic terms) so people are talking about dreamwidth as a tumblr alternative, and the idea of a return to livejournal-style fandom is sort of exciting to old people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bakanokiwami: TOP 10 BOOKS ON FANFICTION.NET BASED ON NUMBER OF FANFICTION (1999-2022) To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Books Section on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
transbaphomet: omg, this is the first time i’ve heard older furries refering to themselves as “gray muzzles” 🥺 that’s so cute!! Having been adjacent to the therian community for a long time, I’ve been hearing ‘gray muzzle’ for just as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rosemirmir: The most painful part about buying doujins from 10+ years ago is that the links to the artist’s websites you find at the end are long since dead
I miss the web when it was small, and strange, and full of small, strange people.
✨ You belong in fandom no matter how old you are. ✨ You belong in fandom no matter what you do or don’t ship. ✨ You belong in fandom no matter what characters you like or don’t like. Don’t let[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-bar-sinister: It is not any other fan’s job to appreciate a character that you like and find compelling and interesting. Sometimes a canon fails to make a character compelling and interesting for the majority of a fandom of that work.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
grade a ship game Ooooh, Clarice and Hannibal? A+ without question! It’s SUCH a good villainous seduction ship! It’s got vibes for days. It’s even canon! I feel like every modern villainous seduction ship owes clannibal a great debt– I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
😅 What’s a story or scene you’ve created that you’re a smidge embarrassed exists? There’s an X-Men: Evolution fanfic we wrote in 2002 when we were 15. we’re actually really proud of the fic, and it’s our first ever completed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
😅 What’s a story or scene you’ve created that you’re a smidge embarrassed exists? There’s an X-Men: Evolution fanfic we wrote in 2002 when we were 15. we’re actually really proud of the fic, and it’s our first ever completed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mistergandalf: Do you remember webrings? REMEMBER them? I was a MODERATOR/had my OWN SITE in one oh yeah baby those were the days I know about them but I wasn’t really a part of that scene I feel like I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mistergandalf: Do you remember webrings? REMEMBER them? I was a MODERATOR/had my OWN SITE in one oh yeah baby those were the days I know about them but I wasn’t really a part of that scene I feel like I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why would I be embarrassed for having interests I enjoy? My guess is that you’re really, really young. And that maybe you don’t actually have solid relationships with adults who have lives outside of parenting or work. But I hope[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
neil-gaiman: dduane: atlinmerrick: twistedchickness: twopoppies: Why would I be embarrassed for having interests I enjoy? My guess is that you’re really, really young. And that maybe you don’t actually have solid relationships with adults who have lives outside of parenting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hereticheathcliff: Just heard someone say “30 years ago, in 1993,” and stopped what I was doing. I froze. What do you mean 1993 was 30 years ago. That’s illegal darkheart-despairs
plague-of-insomnia: nebulaad: this is stupid but I genuinely worry that kids ARE being priced out of video games like. totk is heavily sanitized to maintain a particular rating that often works against itself but like, I struggle to imagine the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
frankensaint: Just heard someone say “30 years ago, in 1993,” and stopped what I was doing. I froze. What do you mean 1993 was 30 years ago. That’s illegal
plague-of-insomnia: nebulaad: this is stupid but I genuinely worry that kids ARE being priced out of video games like. totk is heavily sanitized to maintain a particular rating that often works against itself but like, I struggle to imagine the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
corpsemo: wish the web was still as trashy as during the angelfire.com and myspace era darkheart-despairs
corpsemo: wish the web was still as trashy as during the angelfire.com and myspace era
the-apocryphal-one: janekfan: raimagnolia: frostyemma: domicileensnared: jetru: saltwaffle: full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009 remember when writers had to be all like:“omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-apocryphal-one: janekfan: raimagnolia: frostyemma: domicileensnared: jetru: saltwaffle: full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009 remember when writers had to be all like:“omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
greenteaandtattoos: shatterpath: sazandorable: mathiasandthefinntrolls: Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
greenteaandtattoos: shatterpath: sazandorable: mathiasandthefinntrolls: Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fanlore-wiki: [ID: An image of red flames over calm blue water. Imposed over the image are the words “The Life and Death of Fandom Platforms”, with “Fandom Platforms” in a color that resembles fire. /End ID] Well, history certainly repeats[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
marzipanandminutiae: thediktatortot: Fandom is so different now and it’s becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves. I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately. Ya’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fanlore-wiki: Meta Monday: The Life and Death of Fandom Platforms [ID: An image of red flames over calm blue water. Imposed over the image are the words “The Life and Death of Fandom Platforms”, with “Fandom Platforms” in a color[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
marzipanandminutiae: thediktatortot: Fandom is so different now and it’s becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves. I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately. Ya’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I (👑🍸) mean this with all the love in my heart but it feels like some of you have forgotten that you can lie to people on the internet. It is acceptable to lie to people on the internet. if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah I bet it was a huge culture shock! It’s so interesting to see the things that people miss learning about! context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Yeah, modern web users don’t understand SEO, tagging, metadata, etc. It’s sad and frustrating and causes nothing but problems :c Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I definitely understand that feeling, anon :c Comments are much more personal. Even if it’s just “I liked it.” context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
anon, we used to get a LOT of comments on our fics! Here’s some examples! 221 reviews on our big longfic. 25 reviews on the first whump oneshot we ever posted. 250 reviews on another longfic another 25 reviews on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Absolutely great observation unfortunately, anon. 😔 context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx