The Growth of a Fandom

[kenezbian]

A couple weeks ago, I was working on catching up on CLDK and started feeling a little burned out, so I went to Tumblr to check the RoosterTeeth tag. The tag is mostly posts about the latest Red vs Blue or whatever videos have come out during the week, but occassionally there's fanart or even a little fic here or there. It's fairly quiet and I think

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[zsomeone]

Real people shipping isn't new at all, there's even a bunch or real people role play in some fandoms. I've been playing around in the Supernatural one a bit since I've been watching them, man those people are nuts. They're trying to prove the actors are all really gay for each other even though they're all married with kids.

But then, I've never understood hardcore shippers who honestly believe thier pairing is real and spend all their time trying to prove it to everyone. We have a few of those in the Dethklok fandom, whatever. Yeah I do slash, but I'm just playing.

Hell, I'm writen heavily implied Brendon/Tommy before. No shame.

[kenezbian]

I can't really peg why I like slash, I just do. There's just something appealing about two good-lookin' dudes fooling around. I'm assuming this must be the feeling guys get watching two girls fool around.

I prefer fic over art/porn though - porn guys aren't my type and (as I've stated before) I love reading words. I should've gotten a BA in English. LOL

Side note: Gavin once said in a podcast that two girls kissing must feel like this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m59uyuN8p71rrjlwro1_1280.jpg I LOL'ed.

[zsomeone]

I agree with both your points.

Kittens, huh? Sure that's sexy.

[kenezbian]

Skip to about 87 minutes to hear the entire conversation: http://roosterteeth.com/podcast/episode.php?id=169 Fucking hilarious.

[kenezbian]

You mean you want a link to my tumblr? Sure! I'm at kenezbian.tumblr.com for regular stuff and kenezbian02.tumblr.com for the rooster teeth ship stuff.