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THE STAGES OF FANDOM
Stage 1 - Discovery: You've finally found other people who like the same thing as you do. It's fucking great. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Stage 2 - Involvement: You read up about theories and headcanons. Join the community. Start getting excited about new episodes because OH MY GOD NEW THEORIES AND GIFS.
Stage 3 - Obsession: You ship things like burning. Fanfic has replaced actual books. You know every actors' name, date of birth and marital status. You follow all the actors' twitter accounts. You have seen every episode several times. You stay up until ungodly hours to watch new episodes. You spend days downloading HD Logoless Screencaps. This is the best stage ever because everything is RAINBOWS and BEAUTIFUL.
Stage 4 - Realisation: There are some people in the fandom who are idiots. They are horrible about your ship. They talk shit about your favourite characters. People write hate and start arguments. This ruins the new episodes for you and you can't enjoy it anymore. The new episodes aren't as entertaining as they used to be. You're realising that the show is going to the shitter. People accuse you of not being a 'true fan' and the fandom is divided.
Stage 5 - Acceptance: You find a nice, quiet corner of the fandom to retire to. Sure, you keep up to date with the latest episodes on occasion. You still reblog gifs and screencaps, but you prefer the 'golden seasons' when you enjoyed the show and the fandom. You slowly start to migrate to other shows, but your first fandom still holds a special place in your fangirl/boy heart.
America’s Game of Thrones
The Long Winter is fast approaching, but I have no grain for my cellars! THANKS, LORD OBAMA.
This is a thing of beauty.
Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower, both strange and familiar.
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| — | Cornelia Funke (via dandelionflight) |
an open letter to richard madden:
I RESPECT YOUR CHOICES AS AN ACTOR, BRO, BUT I AM GOING TO NEED YOU TO STOP APPROACHING EVERY SCENE AS IF ROBB WANTS TO FUCK EVERYONE HE IS LOOKING AT OR SPEAKING TO OR TOUCHING. I NEED YOU TO DO THIS BECAUSE OF REASONS. I LEGIT THOUGHT YOU WERE ABOUT TO FUCK LIKE FOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND A WOLF IN THIS EPISODE AND ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WAS YOUR MOM, SO.
SO, YEAH.
OK GOOD TALK.
