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between me, the sand, and the sea

@daylightsimon / daylightsimon.tumblr.com

sea | young royals and six other fandoms you didn't sign up for | sleep-deprived chaos | bisexual, genderfluid, and vaguely aspec | they/he/she

Being in a long-term fandom really makes me wish we had like, Fandom Supreme Courts, just so that every time the same stupid discourse rears its ugly head for the umpteenth time in ten years, we can just be like, “Actually this argument was settled in the 2006 Fandom Supreme Court ruling in the case of AngelPotter vs. Xx_goth1c-r0se_xX, so everbody can shut up about it now.” Imagine the wank reduction.

I think the key to celebrities who survive Tumblr is that they understand we’re not here to follow them, they’re here to hang out with us. 

We’re here building a fort out of scraps of stuff we found in a dumpster and if Ryan Reynolds would like to sit down in the mud and contribute, he is welcome to. But the fort comes first. Neil Gaiman found an old couch cushion. Wil Wheaton has a cool rock. Sometimes Taylor Swift shows up to say how nice the fort looks. That’s the way of things. 

wille and simon were neighbors and best friends growing up... simon and sara had a tree house in their back yard that wille would hide away in when things got to be much...they'd kissed each other there, once, when wille wanted to know what it felt like to kiss someone... they drift apart a bit when they go to university in different cities, but then they're back over a holiday break and wille finds out that linda's planning to have the tree house taken down... he texts simon and they meet there and catch up and laugh and draw closer and night falls and they're still talking and wille sighs and whispers "i don't wanna go" and simon can't keep from glancing at wille's lips and he breathes "so don't" and they're making out, pushing shirts off, tugging at belt loops....

SOMEONE PLEASEEEE

Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

The problem is not the goodness or badness of the character, the problem is the extreme disconnect between telling (by the narrative, not other characters) and showing