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Emmy let you finish the relationship: R.I.P.Tayto June-Sept 2016

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KimmySchmidtsSmile · 18/07/2016 16:59

Thread four!
don't forget Beliebers: Less hate, more love
We, in the MN sleb twaddle squad don't need to be told to play nice HaloFlowersWineCakeStar

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APlaceOnTheCouch · 11/08/2016 10:30

Hmm. I'm tempted to join Instagram. It seems more wholesome than Tumblr Grin

TheLegendOfBeans · 11/08/2016 10:35

make sure you're not searchable by email address or mobile and definitely don't link your FB unless your RL friends are also fully paid up tumblr maniacs who think it's perfectly reasonable to tweet MrC from the Shamen

ship, thank you for the funniest post I've seen in here in forever. I've had a horrific week and this has made me proper LOL for the first time in ages xxx

SlowJinn · 11/08/2016 11:15

I love the fact that us grown women are having to hide our TayTo fever from real life friends like it's something to be embarrassed about Grin If people judged me on my twitter account, they would surmise I am about 15 with one functioning brain cell and an overwhelming love for all things trivial and nonsensical. Actually apart from the being 15 bit, that's a pretty accurate description of me

raisedbyguineapigs · 11/08/2016 11:43

I do kind of judge a friend of mine who openly discusses her vampire porn fanfic obsession, so maybe thats why I'm embarrassed about my sleb addiction😁. One thing I would like to add about Instagram is that just as you are anonymous, so are they. So you can end up arguing with a 15 year old girl on the comments section about her rudeness and end up feeling like her mother of course I never did this Blush

Donatellalymanmoss · 11/08/2016 11:54

They might use Instagram because of the filters it has which can make not so good photos look a bit better.

its basically just a load of photo streams in some ways it's nicer than Facebook because you don't have loads of adverts and pages you like stuff come up. I mainly just use it for celebrities and the odd person friend.

SlowJinn · 11/08/2016 12:55

vampire porn fanfic

Well, I've learned something new today, I never knew there was such a thing Grin

I don't get the point of fanfic in general, it seems odd that people write reams and reams of stuff about real life people - why not write real stories about fictional people? Then again, I am old. And 50 Shades of Grey started out as fanfic, and the author must have made a good few quid.

I wonder if there's fanfic about Tayto? Oh, of course there is!

archiveofourown.org/tags/Tom%20HiddlestonsTaylor%20Swift/works

raisedbyguineapigs · 11/08/2016 13:01

I find it very weird too. If I was famous and I came across some of the stuff I've read, Id feel very odd!! Same as the whole shipping thing. It's like they are projecting a fantasy on to real people, not characters. Some dont seem to be able to tell the difference!

SlowJinn · 11/08/2016 13:11

The Larry shippers are definitely projecting a fantasy, and don't seem to be able to tell the difference. It doesn't matter to them that for every 'proof' there's a thousand things to show it isn't happening. It's like reading the ramblings of someone who is mentally unwell, ploughing through some of the Tumblr Larry stuff - quite scary and a bit sad.
The Twihards are equally worrying, although their numbers have depleted since Kirsten ruined it all by coming out Grin

They seem to disregard the fact that their idols are real people, not characters in a soap opera.

Cockblocktopus · 11/08/2016 13:23

I love Instagram. I like seeing pics of what my mates are up to without the Which Disney Princess Are You bs that fills my fb feed

and it seems to mostly be used by women my mother's age

APlaceOnTheCouch · 11/08/2016 13:28

Which Disney Princess Are you? Grin DS spent an hour one day doing all the random Harry Potter quizzes ie which house would you be in? which character are you? which character would be your best friend? I couldn't decide if I was a lax parent or a genius (because it had quite a lot of reading and kept him quiet!)

Cockblocktopus · 11/08/2016 13:32

No, no, genius parent.

Donatellalymanmoss · 11/08/2016 13:53

Do some of you not know which Harry Potter house you're in?

I occasionally stumble across some fanfic on tumblr though I try not to read it because it's just weird. There are definitely a few people on there who can't seem to seperate reality from what the celebrity couple fabrics they've read.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 11/08/2016 14:02

I am a Gryffindor

SlowJinn · 11/08/2016 14:13

celebrity couple fabrics

Best autocorrect ever. I would like a Tayto duvet cover and a Larry throw please. And a couple of Twihard cushions and maybe an Ant and Dec draught excluder.

Donatellalymanmoss · 11/08/2016 15:37

I'm also a gryffindor, also because of the hermione hair

Maybe I could start a range of celebrity couple fabrics for my post PhD life.

FrayedHem · 11/08/2016 17:41

The quizzes put me in Slytherin but don't worry I am far too lazy and incompetent to do any actual harm. I will just sit in the corner drinking butterbeer muttering parseltongue insults at the successful wizards.

When I looked at Tim's insta he was following TayTay but now not. I wonder if Lulu was behind that and got it wrong Shock. Or maybe TayTay has gone all demanding and said no Emmy, no follow?

raisedbyguineapigs · 11/08/2016 18:11

Hmm! They is strange! He must know his every TayTo newd is being scrutinised. Especially with Robert Downey Jr ripping the piss out of him again!

SlowJinn · 11/08/2016 21:57

Interesting and funny article here that mentions fanfic and how weird it is.

popbitch.com/home/2016/08/11/the-perils-of-celebrity-murder-fiction/

Whentheshipgoesdown · 11/08/2016 22:25

Oh beans i hope we can conjure up some more TayTimming to distract you from your crappy week xxx

I have to confess that not only do I love the sleb twitterspats I love the tinhatting and the who follows who and the whose necklace is that. I especially love the MN larry shippers (my god not the twitter or tumblr ones) despite having given 1d approximately no thought ever, apart from the time I thought it would be an epic idea to charge 2 of my kids' MP3 players at my desk at work, then forgot and fucked off to a meeting. Turns out when they were fully charged both separately started playing 'Kiss You' at full volume, to my entirely bemused colleagues, none of whom could work out what was making the noise.

KimmySchmidtsSmile · 11/08/2016 22:32

ship What do you tweet to Mr C from the Shamen?! Grin

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Whentheshipgoesdown · 11/08/2016 22:44

But i do think there is something fundamentally different between people who write fanfic about characters - so Sherlock and Watson, or Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, which I almost sort of get - and the Robstens and Larries, who treat real people as if they are characters, which I honestly don't. And much as I think that RPatz and KStew and Larry Stylinson were an integral part of the marketing of Twilight and 1D respectively, I don't think it's right to make up stuff and publish it on tumblr or otherwise when it is actually real people behind it.

Much as I am curious, slow , for all those reasons and more I don't think I can face your AO3 link!

Whentheshipgoesdown · 11/08/2016 22:45

kim i would, for example, tweet MrC to tell them there's a guy in the place got a bittersweet face and he goes by the name of Ebenezer Goode.

KimmySchmidtsSmile · 11/08/2016 22:52

And does Mr C respond naughty, naughty, very naughty hahaha

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Whentheshipgoesdown · 11/08/2016 22:58

Has anyone got any veras?

raisedbyguineapigs · 11/08/2016 23:37

ship I agree re: the real people fanfic. I follow some Downton/Game of Thrones and Doctor Who actors on Instagram and sometimes fan pages link to their fanfiction. As the Brit acting community seems to consist of about 12 actors who are all shagging each other, the fandoms collide quite a bit. So the fanfiction projects good/bad behaviour on real people and even more weirdly, they involve their real family in horrible death scenes or drama which I find a bit distasteful.

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