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thatneedslubeRest assured, Fangasmic fans, that someone here at FG has been working hard on making an epic post about how amazing the new BBC series Sherlock is. That's not what this post is about, though. No, while she's been slaving away over a hot laptop the rest of us have been obsessively watching, reading, and scanning the internet for new Sherlock fannish contributions and loving every second of it.
Sorry, maybe every other second of it, because there's a fair amount of WTFery in any given fandom, and while Sherlock is young it's certainly not immune.
( Shut up, you know you love this kind of shadenfreude. )
There you go, fandom. Terrible things for your Wednesday night / Thursday morning. I'm sure you really love me right now.
ETA 1: Two seconds after I made this post someone else posted fic about Lestrade in an abusive gay relationship and Sherlock and John save him by making their thing a threesome with him. Thanks, Sherlock kink meme.
ETA 2: WHY. These are Benedict's actual shoes that he actually owns. They are so sparkly even Zachary Quinto might worry about wearing them. Meanwhile here, wearing offscreen chucks or something similar he looks not only human, but attractive and not crazy. Just sayin'.
Sorry, maybe every other second of it, because there's a fair amount of WTFery in any given fandom, and while Sherlock is young it's certainly not immune.
( Shut up, you know you love this kind of shadenfreude. )
There you go, fandom. Terrible things for your Wednesday night / Thursday morning. I'm sure you really love me right now.
ETA 1: Two seconds after I made this post someone else posted fic about Lestrade in an abusive gay relationship and Sherlock and John save him by making their thing a threesome with him. Thanks, Sherlock kink meme.
ETA 2: WHY. These are Benedict's actual shoes that he actually owns. They are so sparkly even Zachary Quinto might worry about wearing them. Meanwhile here, wearing offscreen chucks or something similar he looks not only human, but attractive and not crazy. Just sayin'.
thatneedslubeI don't mean this world. Obviously we are super awesome in every way and people should be totally jealous of how sweet it is over here. But in fandom world? The world where we stick our characters and then beat them repeatedly? Man, that place sucks.
( Proof positive: )
Keepin' it real, guys. There should be a support group for this action.
( Proof positive: )
Keepin' it real, guys. There should be a support group for this action.
thatneedslubeLadies, you know I love delicious bookmarks. Every time I dig through it I get my heart broken and laugh until I cry because it really is epic pain. You know what I mean. At first, it's all good. You're scrolling through your network and there's some good stuff tagged there.
But the next thing you know it's 3am on a Tuesday and you're staring, determined, at an actual subscription feed for something terrible like slave!Jensen or kitten!Merlin.
( DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER )
The first step is admitting you have a problem. The second step is going back for more because every time delicious punches me in the face I suddenly crave something even worse. "Oooh, maybe there will be something good for Generation Kill today!"
Probably not. But he only does it because he loves me.
But the next thing you know it's 3am on a Tuesday and you're staring, determined, at an actual subscription feed for something terrible like slave!Jensen or kitten!Merlin.
( DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER )
The first step is admitting you have a problem. The second step is going back for more because every time delicious punches me in the face I suddenly crave something even worse. "Oooh, maybe there will be something good for Generation Kill today!"
Probably not. But he only does it because he loves me.
stopitsomemorestopitsomemore: God, Smallville is turning 10
innocent bystander: wow, that's still on?!
stopitsomemore: I KNOW. it just got renewed for a 10th season
innocent bystander: really?! WHY?!
stopitsomemore: I DON'T KNOW
I wasn't always this bitter about Smallville, in fact, most fans I know weren't always this bitter about Smallville, but somewhere in the last decade -- think about that, gentle readers, that the original, brilliant, fantastically funny and sharp-witted Cupid staring Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall was given 15 episodes (one unaired) and Smallville has been on for a decade -- the series went from an earnest re-imagining of the origin myth of Superman to Seriously, What The Ever Loving Fuck Is Happening? Who Are All These Dudes? Did This Show Seriously Just Bust Out Some AquaMan On My Face? I Feel Like I Am Going Blind.
I grew up watching Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and the Superman: The Animated Series, and I checked out the one battered copy of The Death and Life of Superman from our local library enough that I think the woman at the desk decided when I was like, nine, that I was going to die a virgin. As such, I went into Smallville fully prepared to like Clark Kent better, especially since they'd hired a hunky dreamboat to play him. Let's all look at Tom Welling:
Basically, all he had to do was be moderately smart, halfway funny, and to show the beginnings of his greatness and I would have bought that like old people and Jewish charities into Bernie Madoff. (Too soon?) Instead, we got this action:
To be fair, I'm pretty sure this was a terrible day for everybody, Tom Welling included.
Anyway, despite the agonizingly primary-color palette and the dubious script and the eventual shitshow the series spiraled into, Smallville gave us Michael Rosenbaum, who redefined the way we view Lex Luthor, broke women's gay, give voice to our carnal desire to blow fucktonnes of money, and make an entire universe of chicks go,"Wait, I sort of want to watch Lex nail Clark. Is that wrong? I think it might be wro -- oh, look at his hips." It also gave us the Glorious Bastard of John Glover as Lionel Luthor, Annette O'Toole as Ma Kent, and became a popular hangout for a lot of glorious young twinks and queens like for example Michael Shanks and Jensen Ackles and motherfucking Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman -- why was Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman on this fucking show?
And in honor of those things -- we at Fanspastic HQ will be rewatching the first season. May God have mercy on our souls.
innocent bystander: wow, that's still on?!
stopitsomemore: I KNOW. it just got renewed for a 10th season
innocent bystander: really?! WHY?!
stopitsomemore: I DON'T KNOW
I wasn't always this bitter about Smallville, in fact, most fans I know weren't always this bitter about Smallville, but somewhere in the last decade -- think about that, gentle readers, that the original, brilliant, fantastically funny and sharp-witted Cupid staring Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall was given 15 episodes (one unaired) and Smallville has been on for a decade -- the series went from an earnest re-imagining of the origin myth of Superman to Seriously, What The Ever Loving Fuck Is Happening? Who Are All These Dudes? Did This Show Seriously Just Bust Out Some AquaMan On My Face? I Feel Like I Am Going Blind.
I grew up watching Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and the Superman: The Animated Series, and I checked out the one battered copy of The Death and Life of Superman from our local library enough that I think the woman at the desk decided when I was like, nine, that I was going to die a virgin. As such, I went into Smallville fully prepared to like Clark Kent better, especially since they'd hired a hunky dreamboat to play him. Let's all look at Tom Welling:
Basically, all he had to do was be moderately smart, halfway funny, and to show the beginnings of his greatness and I would have bought that like old people and Jewish charities into Bernie Madoff. (Too soon?) Instead, we got this action:
To be fair, I'm pretty sure this was a terrible day for everybody, Tom Welling included.
Anyway, despite the agonizingly primary-color palette and the dubious script and the eventual shitshow the series spiraled into, Smallville gave us Michael Rosenbaum, who redefined the way we view Lex Luthor, broke women's gay, give voice to our carnal desire to blow fucktonnes of money, and make an entire universe of chicks go,"Wait, I sort of want to watch Lex nail Clark. Is that wrong? I think it might be wro -- oh, look at his hips." It also gave us the Glorious Bastard of John Glover as Lionel Luthor, Annette O'Toole as Ma Kent, and became a popular hangout for a lot of glorious young twinks and queens like for example Michael Shanks and Jensen Ackles and motherfucking Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman -- why was Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman on this fucking show?
And in honor of those things -- we at Fanspastic HQ will be rewatching the first season. May God have mercy on our souls.