#GIVE THEM A SPINOFF

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Who Do You Ship? What Tumblr Tells Us About Fan Culture

Fan communities have long been invested in romance between characters in books and TV shows. Now, content creators have begun to respond to fans’ input.

the NEW YORK TIMES wrote about shipping in the year of our Lord 2k17

Haha yup. True for almost everything pre-3 years ago.

Ever accidentally throw something away and then later realize you actually needed it? Haha i did this with my life

OMFG, ROFL! I’m dying. I’m dead.

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

So satisfying and yet so incredibly infuriating.

He tells her

Comment on fanfics

A few days back on AO3 I found an unfinished, two chapter spideypool fanfic that was cute and had lots of potential and was also last updated two years ago. Two whole years! And it had only three comments, all of which on chapter one, none on chapter two. I enjoyed the fanfic, despite it being far, FAR from being finished and the chance of it ever updating again anytime soon was just about zero. So you know what I did?

I wrote a damn comment. On chapter two.

And I made sure that fucker was long and had a small theory of where I think the author would take the fanfic in the future. I let the person behind the fic know that I friggin LOVED the two chapters I got to read! That I would LOVE to see more! That I’d jump out of my skin in happiness and virtually hug them half to death if I saw that they updated it.

Let me remind you this fic wasn’t updated in two YEARS! I was the first to comment on it in a year. And the first to comment on chapter two! And you know what happened today?

I got a reply.

From the author of the fanfic. And the author said how I gave them life for a project they had loved (still did) and that they were now working on a third chapter. After two YEARS of not updating. Of not writing. And it makes me so friggin happy seeing what I did. What I caused.

With a single. Damn. Comment.

All that it took for me was to think a bit about what I wanted to tell the author and the comment it. All it took was one comment. And suddenly this person was inspired to continue a fanfic they had abandoned for TWO YEARS!!

I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t be more proud.

Comment on people’s fanfics. No matter how few chapters there are. No matter how many years have passed since their last update. Comment. You like a fanfic? Comment on it. It’s that easy.

Omg this is everything right now.

So fucking cute

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“A lot of this year is going to focus on Kara and Lena’s friendship and how it is changing. They find themselves in a new partnership position that neither of them were really expecting – which both causes problems and allows them to become closer.”

(‘Supergirl’ Boss on Season 3: Kara ‘Has Never Been More Powerful’)

It’s often been remarked that Spider-Man’s schtick wouldn’t work nearly so well if he didn’t live in a town with so many tall buildings, but consider: how well would Batman’s “I am the night” routine work if he was operating out of a normal city where people actually live, rather than a perpetually twilit urban hellscape that looks like the Art Deco movement had a one-night stand with Soviet Brutalism in a wrought-iron-and-gargoyle factory?

We live in a country where untrained civilians are supposed to remain calm with a gun in their face, while trained officers are allowed to panic, and react on impulse.