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someone asked me what fifty shades of grey was the other day and I was stumped as to what answer I could give that definitely wouldn’t prompt further questions.

discreet footnote links appear for “BDSM”, “Twilight”, “fanfiction”,

“What’s 50 Shades of Grey?”

“Oh dear, that’s a very complicated question. Let me start at the beginning: in the 1820s, Joseph Smith started a new religion called Mormonism, which grew rapidly before…”

Unrelated to this movement, in 1897 the Irish author Bram Stoker published a book called Dracula; although this was not the first work in the vampire fiction genre, it established much of the framework of how future works would be viewed, even when they deliberately avoid some of the tropes.

Donatien Alphonse François was born in 1740, but the world remembers him as Marquis de Sade, who gave his name to

Published in 1597, Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is one of the most famous examples in a tradition of stories about young, forbidden love

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) and the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Broader conceptions reach north into Southeast Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California, and east to the Continental Divide to include Western Montana and parts of Wyoming. Narrower conceptions may be limited to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region’s history, culture, geography, society, and other factors.


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#Fifty Shades of Grey #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what

natalunasans:

3rddoctor:

Classic Who + Fifty Shades of Grey

At first I thought these were from bad smutfic.
I wasn’t *wrong* …


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#Doctor Who #Fifty Shades of Grey #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I knew what it was when I saw the first one #’inner goddess’ gives it away

manjolras:

f-rea-k:

manjolras:

“i was in the sherlock fandom once” is the new embarrassing twilight phase

DON’T YOU DARE COMPARE SHERLOCK TO TWILIGHT

apologies to all twilight fans

Having recently read the post highlighted in yellow on this page*, this actually sounds about right. They’re both situations where the canon is pretty mediocre, but its existence is still worthwhile because it’s inspired other people to write stuff that’s actually good. (And also Fifty Shades, but that’s not my point here.)

Mind you, it sounds less right when you consider the OP said specifically being in the Sherlock fandom. The fandom’s pretty good, in my experience (though I do seem to have a knack for avoiding the bad parts of fandoms). It’s just the canon that’s bad.

*Sorry, person who linked to this on their Tumblr a few days ago. I’d link you if I could remember who you were.


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#Sherlock #Twilight #fandom #’Invisible Bonds’ and ‘Not Yet Dead’ got me through the Stomach Bug from Hell #I pretty much only ever see the crappy parts of fandoms second-hand through the complaining of people in the good parts #and I wonder how come they know when shit is going down and I don’t #but I suppose I’m probably better off

pervocracy:

Look at Fifty Shades Of Grey’s knot.

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Now look at my knot.

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Now back at FSoG.  Now back at me.

This is the knot your knot could look like if you bothered to ask actual BDSM players, or hell, even their YouTube channels, before making a movie supposedly about BDSM.  I’m not a rope top and I did that one-handed.

I’m on a horse.

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The thing where they justify abuse by saying “it’s BDSM, of course it’s sick and wrong” is still a bigger problem though.


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#Fifty Shades of Grey #Old Spice Guy #the reactions to the new Fifty Shades trailer on my dash have been swinging between #’lol what crap’ #and #’oh god this shit has actually become popular what does that say about us’ #’it says that we as a society are awful people and we are continuing to perpetuate and reinforce our awfulness’ #sometimes in the same post #at least we have Old Spice Guy jokes to help us cover up the pain of our own terribleness

realbookofmorgan:

i can and will judge anyone who pays to see 50 shades of grey and is excited about it 

Why? People got excited over Sharknado too. Bad movies can be fun.

As for people who are excited in a non-trainwreck-y way, I get the impression that most of them are people who never learned to access some of the more X-rated wonders of the Internet, either because they didn’t have a chance to get their how-do-computer phase over with while they were still in diapers, or because they lived and continue to live in subcultures where porn was prohibitively socially unacceptable, or both. (And really, if getting caught with porn (even by my friends) would make me a pariah, I probably wouldn’t take the risk either. Especially if I believed them when they said it was immoral, and I would have little reason not to.) They have consequently been porn-starved their entire lives, and are clinging in desperation to anything they can get. Such people may deserve our pity, and our aid if we can find ways of giving it to them, but not our mockery.


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#Fifty Shades of Grey #pervocracy makes some good points about this

This came into work today. I shortlisted it and displayed it on my cafe counter.

The back said something like “He is into BDSM. (Batman, Dragons, Star Wars, and Magic the Gathering).”

The first paragraph starts like this:

“I growl with frustration at my reflection in the mirror. My hair is fifty shades of messed up. Why is it so kinky and out of control? I need to stop sleeping with it wet. As I brush my long brown hair, the girl in the mirror brown eyes too big for her, stares back at me. Wait… my eyes are blue! It dawns on me that I haven’t been looking in the mirror—I’ve been staring at a poster of Kirsten Stewart for the past five minutes. My own hair is fine.”


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#Fifty Shades of Grey #joke