hello, i’m penny-anna, welcome to my blog!

white british | she/her | cis lesbian

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FAQ:

Where can I find your fanfiction?

I’m kathkin on ao3!

Why don’t you want your content screencapped and reposted on other sites?

i’m not wholly averse to my stuff ending up on platforms like Pinterest or Reddit (tho I don’t love it) but once tumblr posts have been capped and reposted it seems to be almost inevitable that they will end up on Facebook meme pages.

I use Facebook to keep in contact with persons I would strongly prefer not to know my tumblr and I worry about reposts leading to someone connecting the two accounts. it makes me uncomfortable! please don’t do it.

Can I write a fic based on one of your posts?

Probably! Please send me a message first to discuss it - the answer is basically never no, but some of my textposts are story ideas I intend to expand on further and if it’s one of those we would need to have a conversation about it.

If you do write something based on one of my posts please link back to it in your author’s notes & drop me a line so I can read it.

Please don’t use dialogue directly lifted from one of my posts in a fic without express permission.

Can I translate/podfic/etc. one of your fics?

I’m always fine with this so long as you credit! I would prefer you send me a quick message first to give me a heads up.

Where is the rest of *insert fanfiction snippet here*?

Either on my ao3 (linked above) or it’s still being written. I don’t post my WIPs until they’re done and edited but I get impatient and like to share highlights while I’m writing.

Do you have any fic recs?

I have a tag for them over here, however, feel free to ask for more as I inhale new fics all the time. :3

just tinkering some more w my fanfic stats spreadsheet & been hit by the unavoidable realisation that the rate at which i'm producing fanfiction is actually accelerating

like yeah i wrote half a million words of Merlin fanfiction but i was also in the fandom for i think like a full 5 years so that’s only about 100k a year. whereas I’ve written over 200k for BTTF since. uh. last December.

just tinkering some more w my fanfic stats spreadsheet & been hit by the unavoidable realisation that the rate at which i’m producing fanfiction is actually accelerating

UPDATE: I found what i gather is the official Spider-Punk playlist and it has the sex pistols on it

i love when people who i fit the dni for follow me. little buddy what did i say that was so compelling. am i allowed to talk to you?

'well a lot of movies today are basically just commercials' yeah & it's bad? Why are u just ok with that.

Reminds me of when people would be like 'oh everyone is always dunking on Twilight but not the Transformers movies’ good point!! let’s all dunk more on the Transformers movies.

‘well a lot of movies today are basically just commercials’ yeah & it’s bad? Why are u just ok with that.

McFly July Day 1: Mountain Dew Hat Man

... In 1985A

Marty: This has to be a nightmare!

Anti-Dew Hat Man: The only NIGHTMARE is all the Mountain Dew POLLUTING the store shelves!

enchanted

tip jar

The 2023 Barbie film is a commercial. I’m sure it will be fun, funny, delightful, and engaging. I will watch it, and I’ll probably even dress up to go to the theater. Barbie is also a film made by Mattel using their intellectual property to promote their brand. Not only is there no large public criticism of this reality, there seems to be no spoken awareness of it at all. I’m sure most people know that Barbie is a brand, and most people are smart enough to know this and enjoy the film without immediately driving to Target to buy a new Barbie doll. After all, advertising is everywhere, and in our media landscape of dubiously disclosed User Generated Content and advertorials, at least Barbie is transparently related to its creator. But to passively accept this reality is to celebrate not women or icons or auteurs, but corporations and the idea of advertising itself. Public discourse around Barbie does not re-contextualize the toy or the brand, but in fact serves the actual, higher purpose of Barbie™: to teach us to love branding, marketing, and being consumers.

[...] The casting of Gerwig’s Barbie film shows that anyone can be a Barbie regardless of size, race, age, sexuality. Barbie is framed as universal, as accessible; after all, a Barbie doll is an inexpensive purchase and Barbiehood is a mindset. Gerwig’s Barbie is a film for adults, not children (as evidenced by its PG-13 rating, Kubrick references, and soundtrack), and yet it manages to achieve the same goals as its source material: developing brand loyalty to Barbie™ and reinforcing consumerism-as-identity as a modern and necessarily empowering phenomenon. Take, for example, “Barbiecore,” an 80s-inspired trend whose aesthetic includes not only hot pink but the idea of shopping itself. This is not Marx’s theory on spending money for enjoyment, nor can it even be critically described as commodity fetishism, because the objects themselves bear less semiotic value compared to the act of consumption and the identity of “consumer.”

[...] Part of the brilliance of the Barbie brand is its emphasis on having fun; critiquing Barbie’s feminism is seen as a dated, 90s position and the critic as deserving of a dated, 90s epithet: feminist killjoy. It’s just a movie! It’s just a toy! Life is so exhausting, can’t we just have fun? I’ve written extensively about how “feeling good” is not an apolitical experience and how the most mundane pop culture deserves the most scrutiny, so I won’t reiterate it here. But it is genuinely concerning to see not only the celebration of objects and consumer goods, but the friendly embrace of corporations themselves and the concept of intellectual property, marketing, and advertising. Are we so culturally starved that insurance commercials are the things that satiate our artistic needs?

— Charlie Squire, “Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic.” evil female (Substack), 2023.

fdgjkhfgjkfh looking at some of the follower counts people are citing on that last post as ‘too many’ to vet everyone is making me feel a lot better about barely looking at my follower list