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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 7h

Then that conflict-adverse kid grew up to become me, a gremlin who chooses violence every single day of their life, and honestly, love that for myself.

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 7h

The only stuff I struggled with was stuff I also struggle with now, i.e. volume control and executive function.

My room was always untidy, but so was the rest of the house, because everyone else living there ALSO had shitty executive function.

Neurodivergence: it runs in the family!

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 7h

"Should adults curse in front of children?"

Yeah, why not? Surely we just need to tell the kid it's inappropriate to curse and that will be enough to keep them from doing it too, right? You know, as it was for me?

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like a lot of my opinions on childrearing are influenced by how well-behaved a child I was, on account of being an anxiety ball terrified of getting in trouble.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Happy coming out day. I’m a genderqueer biromantic asexual. Most often this is someone’s punchline or ignored entirely, because people assume I am a woman married to a man.

There’s a lot wrong with that assumption and the effects!

But the worst is usually the way people react to the asexuality.

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 8h

Al principio me ha sorprendido que Irlanda no esté en la lista de la media, tienen mucho lavadero de dinero allí. Pero claro, luego he caído: eso no es ni siquiera "ricos viviendo", son directamente empresas.

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Penncat @pennicat.bsky.social · 14h

This.

And let’s face it, there’s so much fan fiction based on the Bible if we call everything that is based on someone else’s work “fan fiction”. But yes, you look back to the original in some of these things and it is like, “whoa, he really did write an au here”.

Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 20h

Well, here's the thing. The idea that the author owns the story is relatively modern (and arguably a product of modern capitalism).

The Ancient Greek and Romans wrote stories, plays, and poems based on the Iliad. The Divine Comedy included characters from stories written by other authors. 🧵

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks to you for reading! I went a bit overboard hahaha

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 14h

So the unrealished potential of "Damn, Roy and Riza are so devoted to each other, I want to see that!" (or whatever is your fav ship. Mine was Roy and Havoc :p) drove people to write about romance.

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 14h

Okay, but flippancy aside, from what I remember reading FMA about 20 years ago, the manga has well-developed characters who have a lot of chemistry with each other, but we rarely see people act on that romantic tension. Which makes sense, the focus is on the action-driven plot + politicals.

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 14h

It sure does!

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 14h

Hence, the second theory: that people write about what the story lacks.

Which, according to my experience with that fandom back around 2005, was incest.

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 17h

Uff, don't get me started. The number of people who think Death of the Author means "Hatsune Miku wrote this!"

Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 18h

Well, yeah, but that understanding gap has also been used to inspire others to be better.

People will interpret a text according to their own agenda, and some people's agenda is "genocide"

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Undi @idnu.bsky.social · 19h

Me acabo de acordar de nuevo de cuando el australiano me preguntó cuándo era nuestro Día de la Independencia. Lo miré muy seria y le dije: «There's no Spanish Independence Day. We were an empire. Other countries celebrate they got independence from us.»

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 18h

Recordatorio anual de que:

- Colón fue repudiado por sus contemporaneos
- El "mestizaje" blanqueaba la violación de las nativas
- Las universidades buscaban el genocidio cultural
- Millones de indígenas murieron por la esclavitud, la guerra, y las hambrunas forzadas

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 18h

Todos en pie para escuchar el himno nacional:

Samantha Hudson y Papa Topo - Por España

YouTube video by Samantha Hudson

www.youtube.com

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

So yeah, you're definitely onto something here!

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

The second is that people write fic about what is lacking in the source material.

There was a great post that put it like this:

knifeinafistfight:

it’s wild to me how there is literally ZERO correlation between what a piece of media is like and what its fanworks are like. 2014 captain america fans were out there writing poetry and full-on academic papers inside of their fics. sonic the hedgehog and my little pony fandoms are both famous for drawing fetishes you’ve never even heard of. les miserables fans spent most of their energy on college aus. there is literally no consistency or observable pattern and it’s incredible

astrailhads:

#my theory is that fanworks reflect what people found missing in the canon#so like. sonic and mlp. obviously#les miz want les amis to be happy and alive and goofing around#and uh. mcu fans want the mcu to be well-written (via dicaeopolis)

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

The first is that fandoms that attract the most fanfiction are those with a lot of unrealised potential.

That's why there are tons of Supernatural or Harry Potter fics, but shows like Chernobyl or Fleabag that do live to their full potential have almost no fic, despite their popularity

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

It's funny you'd mention this because there are a couple of theories floating around fandom that touch on that!

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

Ultimately, that's fanfiction: making that explicit.

Exploring the space between what the author meant, what they accidentally said, and the version of the story that makes most sense to us.

And sometimes that means characters doing each other in the butt. It's rad! /end🧵

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

Who among us hasn't taught themselves a whole other language in order to get off?

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minimaliste13 @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · 19h

This being a thread on the perks of reading various languages, autism, Barthes, three layers of conceptual intention in texts, Harry Potter and porn.

Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be talking about Harry Potter in 2025, but I just remembered a story I hadn't thought about in years.

Now, before I begin, English is not my native language. However, I've been speaking it fluently since roughly 6 months after I hit puberty for one reason and one reason only:

Porn. 🧵

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 19h

A continuation of this thread where I explain what I meant better:

Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 20h

Well, here's the thing. The idea that the author owns the story is relatively modern (and arguably a product of modern capitalism).

The Ancient Greek and Romans wrote stories, plays, and poems based on the Iliad. The Divine Comedy included characters from stories written by other authors. 🧵

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