insightful, recommendable essay:

"Everyone Hates Fangirls (Until They’re Right)
Slash fics, girl yearning, fangirl expertise, and all that we call culturally frivolous until it prints $125 million."
by Rachel Issan Lowenstein

About the immense but often overlooked or ridiculed impact of mainly girls-and- women-driven fan culture, fanfics, MM Romance and what this also means for the popular bookish trends today.

https://girlstudies.substack.com/p/everyone-hates-fangirls-until-theyre

#fandom #fanfiction #slashfic #bookish #heatedrivalry

THIS

is AMAZING

A 1941 essay by Rex Stout argues that Dr. Watson is in fact the wife of Sherlock Holmes, and - because 1941 - actually a woman:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LA2tY5YPxc

as someone else said in comments, 2014 Tumblr would've been _all over_ this guy's essay, _oh my gods_

#SherlockHolmes #slashfic #au #holmes #watson #DrWatson #crackfic #GenderSwap #GenderSwapAU #ButSerious

I mean, obviously I don't think we should have a slash fic type relationship, ha ha!

...unless...

What's a comic book slash pairing ya' don't see much, but ya'd like ta' see?

(Art sampled from "Green Lantern: Mosaic" Vol. 1 #6 by Gerard Jones, Trevor Scott, Chris Wozniak, Romeo Tanghal, Gary Yap, Steve Mattsson, Albert DeGuzman, Kevin Dooley, and Eddie Berganza. Edits: Altered and Additional Dialogue and Bubbles, Visual Enhancement.)

#comics #fanfic #slashfic #90scomics

is anyone writing Vance/Walz #slashfic ?

ok ok just asking
#uspol #uspolitics

Waiting for Crowdstrike/Azure #porn

Note: this post is #SFW

#slashfic #badideas #ormaybenot

nicola snuggled against howard's chest, pressing close to inhale his scent. "i've never felt this way before. how did you do those... things... to me?"

hpl laughed and stroked the serbian's tousled, sweaty hair, "you don't write stories like mine without picking up a trick or three, my boy."

meanwhile, under the bed, a three lobed burning eye shone against the bed skirt accompanied by a dark chuckle and a whiff of a summer marsh.

#tesla #lovecraft #cthulhu #slashfic

"Behold, a manhood." #Diogenes gestured down towards himself, and lo, his penis was erect and exposed, for the dog never wore clothing.

"Oh Diogenes," #Plato moaned, his own robes dropping, "Give me what #Socrates never did... Take me like a younger greek male!"

And then they fucked.

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#microfiction excerpt from a hypothetical, yet very possible, ancient #greek #philosopher #gay #slashfic.