Even though Cas wasn’t quite God yet when he had Balthazar unsink and then resink the Titanic……stilll……
Dad: I would have said something "Why are you crying? You knew Leonardo Dicaprio was going to die. Were you expecting a different ending? The alternate ending where the Titanic doesn't sink?"
Mom: it doesn't sink because it's in 3d and they actually see the iceberg
Dad: and they all get to New York and everybody is happy and history is changed.
Mom: and the stock market doesn't collapse
Dad: and the holocaust doesn't happen and neither does world war two.
Mom: and JFK doesn't die and Marilyn Monroe wasn't crazy.
Dad: and the Vietnam war doesn't happen
Mom: neither does September 11th
Dad: so you see, it it wasn't for that damn iceberg we'd all be a lot better off. Titanic fucked a lot of shit up.
Michael Bay’s TITANIC. With contributions by George Lucas and JJ Abrams. But mostly Michael Bay.
Organized fandom is, perhaps and foremost, an institution of theory and criticism, a semistructured space where competing interpretations and evaluations of common texts are proposed, debated, and negotiated and where readers speculate about the nature of the mass media and their own relationship to it… Within the realm of popular culture, fans are the true experts; they constitute a competing educational elite, albeit one without official recognition or social power.
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Henry Jenkins, 1992, Textual Poachers, p.86 (via fanthropologist)
#Most accurate definition of fandom as a construct I have ever seen #I approve