getting older as a kid is like yippee!! wahoo yay!! but then immediately as u enter ur early twenties ur like whoa lol hold on wait wait hold upa minute stop
I mean probably a lot of them do!!! I simply do Not want to know about their accounts and I don’t want them to know about mine either snsnsnsmmsma
my english teacher and i regularly discuss SPN and Harry Potter fanfic. she jokes about it in class and sometimes complains that the school firewall blocks fic sites. she has an account out there and i’m only reassured that my account does have my actual name on it but there is every possibility that she has in fact read one of my shitty fics
I don’t know how to tell you that many of the people who joined AO3 when it started up 13 years ago were, at that time, already grown-ass adults. If someone was 35 when they started their account 13 years ago, they’re now 48. They could easily have kids in their teens or twenties. (I do, for instance. I had a toddler when I joined AO3 in 2009, and now I have a kid almost finishing high school, and am still on AO3.) And 35 is a relatively middle-of-the-road age - some people starting their accounts were definitely older. People don’t stop having interests just because they’re not teenagers anymore, and adults don’t have to move out of spaces they helped to build.
Seriously. Lots of the early crowd are well into their 50s or beyond.
I’m a 44 year old woman who’s had an ao3 account since 2012
My fifteen year old has had one since last year. I know his user name but I’ve never read any of his fics. He doesn’t know I know. I like to give him that little bit of privacy.
I really really hope he doesn’t know my user name. And if he does I hope he’s leaving mom’s fic alone 😳
the “tumblr community invents a whole mafia movie apparently directed by martin scorsese with an official soundtrack, movie posters, screen caps, and all enough to make one question if that movie really did exist at all like a mandela effect” was not part of my 2022 bingo card
are y’all fucking serious right now?? a trailer AND fanfics?? forum threads and meta analysis?? and wtf is up with ebay like WHAT are you selling my dude?? the idea? the joke??
It’s performance art. We are proving that we can, in fact, change the world.
Goncharov Lore Thus Far, based on the top tumblr post results
Main cast are Goncharov himself, his wife Katya (née Michailov), and Andrey
One side character is named Mario Ambrosini. He is described as a “sad boi” and is involved in gambling.
Set in Naples and involving a drug ring/mafia. The plot seems to involve Russian organized crime attempting to get a foothold in Italy.
There is a Boat Scene. Katya survives via resourcefulness.
Andrey and Goncharov have a substantial amount of homoeroticism. Andrey also has an internet in Katya. This forms a true love triangle.
At some point, Katya threatens to shoot Goncharov. This is framed as a Girlboss Moment.
There is also a Beer Bottle Scene.
Katya fakes her death.
heavy clock symbolism. A pivotal scene occurs at a clock tower, there is a grandfather clock in the background of some sets, etc
A supporting female character named Sofia makes an appearance, wearing a cocktail dress. Katya protects her at some point. They’re both in the Boat Scene. At one point they buy fruit together in a marketplace. This is lesbian shipping fuel.
The villain, likely Mario, has a sidekick named Icepick Joe. Joe commits a final act of heroism before being left for dead— after being killed by an Icepick. Perhaps he turned against Mario and was killed in retaliation?
Goncharov, played by DeNiro, has a very distinctive manner of walking.
Katya’s brother, Valery, makes an appearance.
from posts I’ve witnessed (only mentioning things I’ve seen >5 blogs post about)
- there is an Anchovies scene, and fish symbolism also plays a heavy role. at some point Katya is seen near a fish bowl full of goldfish, and this is important to the Boat Scene as well.
- Goncharov and Andrey have homoerotic tension, and this is used to further statements about the cycle of repression and violence
The story involves Goncharov losing himself in a downward spiral. It is a tragedy of unbecoming.
There’s a Bridge Scene. This is the one with the clocktower chiming in the background.
There’s a scene involving a tank of anchovies.
Icepick Joe has a traumatic backstory
Katya betrays Goncharov AND Sofia. She’s well-intentioned, but it all comes crashing down, ending in her losing them both— losing Sofia emotionally and inadvertently causing Goncharov’s death
There’s a shootout in Pompeii in which Mario destroys historically significant architecture. This is representative of the destructive nature of nationalism.
