Marvel could continue Stan Lee cameos by inserting photos of him at random places and scenes in every future Marvel film and create a “Finding Stan” cameo that will continue his tradition.
Man losing stuff when you have ADHD is the worst. Stuff just like… vanishes. People will ask: when did you last have it? Well I don’t know dude. I just know it exists and I don’t know where it is currently doing that.
Ugh, yes. And one of the most frustrating things in the world is someone saying, “I think you had it last.” I KNOW I HAD IT LAST, THAT’S THE PROBLEM, NEVER LET ME HAVE IT LAST, IT WILL SLIP INTO AN ALTERNATE DIMENSION AND ONLY REAPPEAR ON ALTERNATE LEAP YEARS AND I’M VERY SORRY ABOUT THAT.
Make them sit in their rooms in silent and do their homework alone
Side with the teacher and not get your child’s side of the story
Tell them that their grades are the most important thing they should worry about
INSTEAD:
Ask if they’re having trouble with other students or teachers
Sit down with them and help them with what they don’t understand
Speak calmly instead of yelling
Don’t invade their privacy by looking through their devices
Don’t take away their hobbies as punishment
Never make them feel unsafe or unable to trust you
This has been a message from a struggling high school junior that wishes their own parents actually did this stuff.
Bonus: Don’t look through their freaking backpacks. Chances are they know damn well they have loads of unfinished papers and the stress of knowing is so overwhelming they don’t even wanna look at it.
Also: Investigate their learning environment.
Also: Your child’s mental health is more important than their grades or attendance
What’s fun is when your grades are not great and your teachers are supporting you while your parents treat you like a criminal for daring to fail math (despite having, ya know, a documented learning disability)
War between the Brotherhood and Minutemen is honestly inevitable even with an alliance between them, but you know what, it would be the American Revolution all over again and the events surrounding it would be 100% identical. The Brotherhood lost to the Institute and can’t come back to the Capital Wasteland with nothing. They want the Commonwealth and believe they have to save the people from themselves. Maxson’s humiliated their boogeyman was beat by farm boys and the Minutemen is catching up to them and fast.
The Brotherhood linger after their failed war and impose ‘taxes’ (forcing settlers to give up their crops), in order to pursue a campaign in “cleansing” the Commonwealth, which leads to settlers getting pissed because, obviously, they don’t owe these assholes anything.
More “taxes” in order to keep this campaign going leads to Commonwealth getting angrier and angrier. Common consensus at this point, they don’t want war, they just want to the Brotherhood to get the fuck out.
What is this similar to? Quartering Act of 1795. This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed.
The Minutemen try to negotiate with them to back down but that doesn’t really go anywhere. Piper, Good Neighbor, and the Railroad begin to spread anti-Brotherhood propaganda.
Boston Massacre 2289: A squadron of Brotherhood soldiers on patrol are surrounded by angry settlers who throw ice, rocks, and beat them with whatever they can find on them. One initiate mistakes a rock for a grenade and fires onto the crowd, causing the other soldiers to fire as well, believing it was ordered by their captain. When the dust settles, 15 settlers are dead. An image similar to the one below is spread by Good Neighbor, the Railroad, and Piper. There is outrage across the Commonwealth.
Tea Act 2.0: Maxson attempts to give the Brotherhood a monopoly on arms trade to stop the Minutemen from catching up, which does not end well and leads to…
Boston Tea Party Electric Boogaloo: The Railroad, folks from Good Neighbor, a few from Diamond City, and a group of Minutemen dump Brotherhood supplies into the Boston Harbor. Hancock is the main organizer of the event.
Intolerable Acts 2289: Maxson attempts to cut off the inner Boston area, specifically Diamond City and Good Neighbor (Railroad included) from Minutemen trading routes as punishment until the debts could be paid. Some in Diamond City hope to pay off the Brotherhood and blame the rebels, while in Good Neighbor, all hell breaks loose.
Piper and Deacon’s Midnight Ride: Growing uncomfortable with the amount of technology and guns the Minutemen acquired after the defeat of the Institute and fearing war, Maxson orders that the Brotherhood go to Sanctuary and confiscate it. Noticing the Brotherhood’s activity shifting and getting a suspicious inside source (Haylen) Deacon and Piper head out nights before to warn Sanctuary. The guns and technology are transferred to another settlement.
Shot Heard Round the East Coast: Marching up to Sanctuary, the Brotherhood are surprised with an ambush at Lexington and Concord. The first shot in the The Second War for American Independence and the Second Siege of Boston begins.
Battle of Bunker Hill: The Brotherhood, hoping to eliminate the Railroad, take Bunker Hill. The Railroad and Minutemen try to hold on but are overwhelmed, however, they are able to kill a significant amount of Brotherhood soldiers.
The First Commonwealth Council: The General of the Minutemen decides to meet with several representatives from across the Commonwealth to discuss what to do: Hancock, Fahrenheit, and Dr. Amari from Good Neighbor, Desdemona and Deacon from the Railroad, Piper Wright, Nick Valentine, the Bobrov brothers, and Arturo Rodriguez from Diamond City, Wiseman from the Slog, Preston, Danse, and Ronnie Shaw, etc.
Hancock, Desdemona, Ronnie, Fahrenheit, and Deacon push for war, but the council comes to a consensus to try negotiation one last time. Address grievances and hope that Maxson addresses it and leaves. Danse still believes Maxson can be reasoned with as he spared his life earlier.
Maxson doesn’t.
The Second Commonwealth Council: The different factions come together to unite under the Minutemen and form a military that can take on the Brotherhood. While the General remains in charge of the military, with Preston as their right hand man, they agree to model this new American experiment a democratic republic. The Commonwealth is truly born. Their Declaration of Nationhood is written by Piper, Preston, and Hancock.
Appealing to outside forces: In a losing war, the Minutemen gain the attention of the legendary Courier Six, Lone Wanderer, and their allies, including Dr. Madison Li, who have been at odds with the Brotherhood for some time. They agree on an alliance and recognize the Commonwealth. Their involvement turns the tide of the war drastically.
Reconstruction of Liberty Prime: Knowing that the tide has turned, the Brotherhood works on rebuilding Liberty Prime to stop the Minutemen once and for all. Leaked out by Haylen, who is ready to defect to the Minutemen, the leaders debate what the best course of action is. If Liberty Prime is built, the war is over, even with the support of the Lone Wanderer and Courier. The Prydwen must be destroyed, even Danse agrees it is the best course of action, though it pains him. It really is honestly, though, the last thing they all wanted, but Maxson brought it to that point.
Destruction of the Prydwen: The Minutemen mark an artillery bombardment on the Prydwen in the early hours of the morning. However, not without sneaking out the squires with the help of Haylen and other Brotherhood defectors, who promptly take them and hunker down in Sanctuary Hills. It is assumed that Maxson is killed.
World Turned Upside Down: After a week of fighting, a young knight stands on the rubble of the Prydwen and waves a white flag. The remaining Brotherhood are either escorted out single file back to the Capital Wasteland, completely defeated with the loss of the last Maxson or stay behind as Minutemen. Now, comes the hard part: making a nation.
ADDITION: Sole Survivor and Crew > > > > > > Founding Fathers not only on the sheer factor of them not being racist slave owning assholes but also being like “we could do this but better actually” and in three hundred years kids in the Commonwealth are going to be into, like, a musical about Preston and that’s gonna be so much better than Hamilton.
You hear all these “you’re not a real fan unless” and it lists a hundred things, but I met a dude today who saw my Deadpool pin and asked what my favorite story arc was, and I explained that while I loved Deadpool, I was new to Marvel (I only really got into it a year and a half ago) and hadn’t been able to find a lot of the comics. Instead of making a face or a derogatory comment, he just offered to send me all the stuff he had. That is a true fan.
I told the guy at the comic shop when I went in for Black Widow that I’d seen a few Harley Quinn panels on Tumblr and thought it looked badass but didn’t know where to start because my entire involvement in DC fandom was watching the Batman cartoon as a kid. This guy sitting at one of the tables playing Yu-Gi-Oh, wearing a comic shirt and carrying a definitely-hardcore-fan amount of swag, spins around and goes “dude! You’ve never read DC? Check out the back issues wall. They’ve got all kinds of Harley Quinn.” He then proceeded to explain how “New 52″ was a spinoff, and had some split opinions in the fandom, but either continuity is good as long as you pick one and stay with it so you don’t get mixed on what’s going on.
True fans love to see other people loving the stuff they love.
See how easy it is to be “that cool person who helped me get into X” instead of “that asshole who made me feel bad for not knowing everything about X”?
IT’S NOT EVEN DIFFICULT TO NOT BE A SHITLORD. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. And you never had one.
Like… Seriously, gatekeeping fandoms only harms the fandom. A series with only 5 hard-core fans is doomed to cancellation. A fandom with 100,000 fans ranging from ‘I just like seeing the ___’ to ‘I KNOW EVERYTHING’ will last for years, decades even. (Centuries, for some. Look at Shakespeare.) The fandom with 100,000 fans is more likely to receive spin offs, sequels, prequels, etc. The fandom will have more fanart, fanfics, and conversations to be had. The fandom with the more fans will get more conventions. If anything, encourage fans to join, in fact non-fans with the fandom virus by piquing their interest. Never shame someone for buying/wearing/appreciating merchandise. Never shame someone for showing an interest in a series.
Exactly! The only way a fandom can survive, and the only way it can have more content to enjoy (official or not) is by having the most people possible in it – and the only way to have that is to accept a wide range of kinds of fans, casual and fanatic alike! There’s a lot of great notes on this post, but they’re all focusing on being nice to newbies (which is great, please do!) but we really need to talk about gatekeeping towards existing fans who aren’t “the right kind”.
People who know damn well who Wolverine is, but only from the movies and aren’t interested in the comics. People who adore new Doctor Who, but never bothered to catch episodes of the classic Doctors. People who do a killer Legolas cosplay, but are bored by Tolkien’s actual prose. People who are into a specific part of the media but not all of it? Or people who have never written fanfic, cosplayed, attended a convention, or been part of the online community? Yeah, be cool to them too. Not everything is for everyone and that’s okay! Have fun talking about the things you do have in common. If you don’t have anything, oh well move on.
If someone likes a thing – they’re just as valid a fan as you. Full stop. Kill the idea of fannish qualifiers. There’s no such thing as an ‘imaginary’ fan.
A Glitch Named Anti 