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Dec 4, 2018

I love meeting older people in fandom.

  • juskla

    i’m talking 30+, 40+ y’all are awesome! so many of you have been through so many fandoms. like, when i meet older voltron fans, it’s like WOW! you were around and watching the first time voltron aired! that’s so cool! so many of them are such talented writers who know the importance of Ao3 having been through livejournal and ff.net and all that stuff from before i was a part of fandom. some even from the days when zines were made by hand! like, wow! yet, so many of them are apprehensive to tell me their age at first due to judgment, but it’s like, no! you are so welcome here! you literally are part of why we have what we have today. lets talk! bestow your fandom wisdom unto me! let’s talk about favorite characters and all our ships! so what if you’re older than me? we’re all fans!

    i don’t understand ageism in fandom at all, they’re just people.. who have been doing this longer than you. and that’s awesome. like meeting people who grew up stanning star wars when it was first released? that is so freaking cool! veteran nerds. they are the folk who laid out what fandom has become today, and they belong in fandom spaces so hard. so remember to respect your fandom elders.

    dear older fandom nerds: you rock!

    • #all the good fics come from people over 30 amen
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    1. emayas-born-to-troll-history said: *song parodies (tumblr acts stupid on Kindle’s browser)
    2. emayas-born-to-troll-history said: but there really is so much in HH that would fly over kids’ heads but ‘oldies’ like me would get, like the sog parodies, especially for older songs, like the Charles Dickens/Morrissey parody and Dick Turpin as Adam Ant!
    3. emayas-born-to-troll-history said: I’m 42 and only ‘just’ discovered the Six Idiots and their work (Horrible Histories, Ghosts, etc) last year, even though I’m the age of the parents of the ones who watched HH as kids!
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    6. lemonlovemeanslove said: Some of me favorite people in fandome are 30+ like they are so nice and they know so much. The constant ageism directed towards them is so annoying but also makes no sense? Like girl are you planning on giving up all your interests once u hit 26? Why is the age where your “allowed” to like something so young?
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      As one of those now 40+ something “fandom olds”, thank you!I remember when I was a “fandom young”, back in the mid-late...
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      I’m only in my early 30s but I still needed to hear this, that’s so sweet!
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      You are so sweet to say all this! The old crotchety ass in me says damn right it’s cause of us. But the sweet mom in me...
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