Oh child. If you only knew. I know people who are 30+, 40+, 50+ and even 60+. Yes, young one. Not only are people your mother’s age on Tumblr, but people your GRANDMOTHER’S age are on tumblr.
And we like porn.
As your grandmother, I can say that is true.
awww, precious, precious children thinking fandom is something you grow out of if you finish school and get a job and get married and have kids or join a floating carnival of happy consensual anal fisters.
Precious children
you never grow out of it.
Who’s 30+ on Tumblr? The fans that created the first fanzines, the first BBS’, the first MLs. The fans who made LJ the fandom monolith. The fans who were responsible for making ff.net shit its pants so badly over content that it kneejerk banned all adult rated fics, the fans that created A03, the ones who made kink memes a thing, the fans who created all the fandom terms and tropes you like to use.
We’re still here, and we’re just as rabid as we ever were.
I know I run a book blog so maybe this isn’t the right platform for this, but girls: Please look out for other girls. Tonight I was stuck at a bus stop in Shoreditch circa 2 AM and saw another young woman getting harassed by a drunk, aggressive dude, and at first I thought, “She’s got it under control.” But then he started touching her and I went “No, that’s definitely not right.” So I barged over and shoved him out of the way and said, “Beth?? Oh my God, how are you, I haven’t seen you since grade school!” And this girl I’d never seen before in my life threw her arms around my neck and whispered, “You are an angel, thank God.” We talked for fifteen minutes, the creep lost interest, I watched her get on the bus and I will sleep so much better knowing she got home in one piece. If you see something weird happening, intervene. The worst that can happen is embarrassment, and I think that’s worth the risk when you consider the alternative.
(about the dancers in the opening ceremony) ‘Oh, nice new trainers!’
(about the Netherlands) ‘Apparently he has put 1000 euros on himself to win. I hope he doesn’t need the money for tattoo removal because he’s lost it’
(again about Netherlands) ‘Does anyone find these guitarists marginally creepy?’
(about Italy pulling a vegetable out of nowhere) ‘I don’t know. I just don’t know’
(about Israel) ‘It comes with a giant hoop. Sometimes it lights up, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s temperamental like that.’
(about Israel) ‘Well that was tense. All those fireworks and all that hairspray. Never a good idea.’
(about Bulgaria’s outfit) ‘Maybe Bulgaria has poor street lighting. She has invested in some neon knee pads, which are useful for… gardening at night. I don’t know what she gets up to’
(about Germany) ‘There isn’t a single thing about this woman that doesn’t annoy me’
(about Poland) ‘Enjoy that smile.It’ll be the last one you see off him’
(about Australia being in eurovision) ‘One of the best things about Eurovision is that it defies logic. Let’s not try to explain it’
(about Cyprus) ‘From one of the best songs in the competition to… Cyprus. The band is called Minus One… Should probably call it Minus Five, it would be better.’
(about Cyprus) ‘The band are performing in cages. Not sure who is being protected; them or the audience.’
(about Lithuania) ‘Whatever happens, he’s got some new sneakers out of the competition’
(about Croatia) ‘I feel like the backing singers are in some sort of witness protection program’
(about Malta) ‘Not sure if that was the father that was lurking’
