The Way I Kinda Like Pulaski More Than Crusher

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

My loving husband just pitched a DS9 fic at me and said these actual words "and there's only one bucket"

who up quarking they bar

From Stardust to Stardust

Smilodon

Was thinking of that Homotherium latidens cub they found recently...;-;

Prints:

sometimes u need a best friend to vent to

*makes a summoning circle to make Garashir canon*

People are always like "why do they let Data play poker with them, his brain is a computer, he has an unfair advantage," and the answer is simply because it's for fun!! He's their friend! Like can you imagine if they told Data he can't play, he'd be like "I understand, that's a logical decision, and as an android I am unable to feel left out," but then any time the poker game came up he'd be looking at Riker across the bridge like

i joined the ds9/garashir fandom mainly because the show and the ship live up to the hype, but also because I knew a 30 year old fandom wasn't going to burn itself out any time soon. i knew i could trust a community this established to hold steady, to keep finding new results tumbling these guys around in our brains ad infinitum.

brother i did not come here expecting new content.

no part of me was prepared for today's events.

i am dizzy.

Dax, he’s gonna need a stronger raktajino