transformativeworks:

officialprydonchapter:

littlebluewraith:

wintersoldierfell:

the deeper i get into fandom the weirder it is to me that Whedon-style nerdboys ever managed to convince people that the True Fans™ are the people who memorize shit and lord their knowledge over other people. like ok you know the exact dimensions of Batman’s cave penny. sure. but did you survive the HP ship wars? do you know how to customize your Ao3 search to filter out all the creepy and/or poorly tagged shit in the massive fandoms? have you ever gotten in a fight over SuperWhoLock? would you last more than ten seconds on _coal or FFA? have you felt the burning pain in your fingers as you scramble to bang out just a hundred more words before the exchange deadline comes down? can you do research to make your in-universe artifacts accurate? can you vid? can you edit .gifs? can you sew costumes and do makeup? like yeah ok you love Jace Beleren enough to know his backstory and all his stats but i’m sorry did you personally stitch what looks like over two hundred eyelets onto your stockings so you could cosplay Liliana Vess? fake geek girls my ass. get back to me when you can do something with the worlds you love other than memorize them.  

get back to me when you can do something with the worlds you love other than memorize them.

#no disrespect to the geek girls who also memorize shit#i personally have an embarrassing store of ASoIaF lore up in here#but if you use memorizing things#as a means of gatekeeping#especially if you are a fake geek boy#attempting to keep women out#i’m gonna laugh you off the internet

I felt like OP’s tags had to be included here, because it’s not memorizing lore that makes someone’s involvement in fandom bad, it’s specifically using it to gatekeep others’ fandom experiences.

There’s no wrong way to be a fan! Which means it’s not cool to tell people they’re not being a fan the right way.