Halfway in shadow, halfway in light...

Halfway in shadow, halfway in light... Because my fandom cup overfloweth...

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Customer: “Hello, do you have any of the new Twilight books?”

Me: “Yes, they’re over here.”

(I lead her to where they would be, but we appear to be sold out. This is strange as all copies were put up this morning.)

Me: “That’s strange. We seem to be out of stock. Can I interest you in anything else?”

Customer: “Ugh, fine. What about this one?”

(They point towards ‘Harry Potter’.)

Me: “Oh, that’s a great book! It’s about a boy who becomes a wizard and-”

Customer: “Are there any werewolves?”

Me: “I think so. I haven’t read them in a while.”

(The customer grabs the entire series of ‘Harry Potter’ and leaves. As I’m about to return to my workstation, two teens run up to me, high-five each other, and tell me they hid all 70 copies of ‘Twilight’ in the ceiling when no one was looking. Although impressed, I have to report them to my manager. After doing so, my manager gives them each a $10 gift card.)

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Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » The Twilight Of Our Literacy, Part 3

Spring 2011 fanfiction recommendations from Moscow_Watcher

Moscow_Watcher’s list of Spring 2011 Fanfic recs (mostly Spuffy). I’m gonna be catching up for awhile.

(Labyrinth Tasty by ~BetterthanBunnies)

(Labyrinth Tasty by ~BetterthanBunnies)

(Source: fav.me)

I Am More Catholic than the Pope: a defense of fanfiction.

But in addition to that, I think there’s something truly remarkable about what it  represents as a genre:  people who love art coming together—spontaneously joining together—to form a community to extend art outward into their lives.  And, moreover, it’s communities made up largely of women coming together to celebrate the place that art and creation has in their lives. Women. Women who felt marginalized by the media they loved.  Ignored by the books, movies, and TV shows.  Women who—even while they connected to the media, found value and meaning in it—felt betrayed and abandoned by it. 

And so they reclaimed it.  Shaped it into something for themselves and for others like them.

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