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HELP!!! I i am logged into tumblr but am unable to update my email address to a more current/active one AND I CANT REMEMBER MY FRIGGIN PASSWORD. dors anyone in the @staff @support general tumblr community have anything that can help me?????

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HELP!!! I i am logged into tumblr but am unable to update my email address to a more current/active one AND I CANT REMEMBER MY FRIGGIN PASSWORD. dors anyone in the @staff @support general tumblr community have anything that can help me?????

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HELP!!! I i am logged into tumblr but am unable to update my email address to a more current/active one AND I CANT REMEMBER MY FRIGGIN PASSWORD. dors anyone in the @staff @support general tumblr community have anything that can help me?????

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HELP!!! I i am logged into tumblr but am unable to update my email address to a more current/active one AND I CANT REMEMBER MY FRIGGIN PASSWORD. dors anyone in the @staff @support general tumblr community have anything that can help me?????

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i was thinking this morning about how i categorize fanfic authors that i enjoy like AKC breeds and decided to share my rubric with you:

the specialist: this author has a favorite kink or trope and has written 80% of the content in that tag. you know exactly what you’re getting. they have A Brand™️. no matter what other traits they display, dedicated rare pair authors belong here.

the chocolate box: essentially the exact opposite. this author will try anything once. they have 80+ works in the fandom with no discernible pattern. the shortest one is 268 words and the longest is well over 100k. this breed of author may or may not be related to:

the renaissance fan: they’ve written three things in your fandom: your favorite fic, your notp, and a bizarre crossover with a show you’ve never heard of. you hit “expand fandoms list” on their author page and have to scroll down twice to reach the bottom. whenever you curse the fact that you can’t legally commission fic writers, this is the author you’re thinking about.

the horn dog: they’re here for one thing and one thing only. if someone’s dick is not in another character’s mouth within 500 words, they apologize for it in the author’s notes. they have one (1) g-rated fic.

the rookie: this writer is usually young, new to fandom, or just got a beta-reader for the first time. their fics are a little all over the place, quality-wise, but you’re excited whenever their name pops up because their unique voice gets stronger every time. you feel a personal investment in their development, like you’re an old man reading the local high school sports page and saying “this kid’s the one to watch.”

the live streamer: the most prolific author in the fandom. their works are all over the front page when you sort by kudos. you have no idea how they generate this much work, and have seriously wondered if they have access to an extra-dimensional time portal. their stories are usually un-beta’d and the characterization varies wildly, but their best works are inspired and you’ve read them 30 times.

the cryptid: this one comes out of nowhere every two years, drops the best fanfic you’ve ever read, and disappears. fifteen months after you left a three paragraph comment about how they changed your life, you get a message in your inbox that just says “thanks.”

the novelist: we talk about “filing off the serial numbers” when someone reworks their most popular story to pitch it as an original novel; this author somehow does the reverse. their fics are excellent, usually long-reaching multi-chapter AUs that have almost nothing to do with the on-screen characters except their names. i’d like to extend my personal thanks to this breed of author because it’s the closest i get to reading an actual book.

the reunion tour: this author wrote some of the most popular works in the fandom, but either moved on to k-pop or burned out when canon took a turn for the worse. they put out one new thing a year, often an old draft that’s been haunting them from under the floorboards. their last six author’s notes all say they never thought they’d write this pairing again and “this will probably be the last time.”

who did i miss?

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12 frames of animation I made using knitting! I spent a long time on this and I’m so pleased with the results, really looking forward to trying more ‘yarnimation’ in the future. Process video out now too! 🐑

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He’s right and he should say it.

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tv writers: make it darker

literally everyone: don’t

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i want a childhood crush to enemies to fake friends to real friends to friends with benefits to actual relationship tbh

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I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.

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Sometimes I'm jealous of people who know prolific fanfiction authors/artists IRL, but then I realize that I too may know some of these people but don't realize it because I'm too embarrassed to bring up the topic of fandom in conversation to anyone who isn't also hiding behind an avatar that is not their real face and a username that is not their real name.

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I still have pneumonia, fuck it, entertain me.

So … Bucky was a three-time YMCA welterweight boxing champion by the time Pearl Harbor happened in December of 1941.

At the time, under the regulations of the New York State Athletic Commission, welterweight was a weight class of 147 to >160 pounds. Pictures of 24-26 year old ish (which would be pre-war Bucky) Sebastian Stan provided. For Science, of course …

That’s a 6′ welterweight.

War-time Bucky? Was not a welterweight.

That … that is not a 6′ welterweight. Even accounting for the padding in the uniforms. Meaning that the Army packed at least 10 pounds of muscle onto pre-serum war-time Bucky. When you’re as lean as this motherfucker is, that is not an accomplishment the US Army would have been able to do lightly.

Post-war, post-serum Bucky?

The Winter Soldier is not hitting the gym. The serum seems to have added at least 20 pounds to Bucky’s pre-war muscle mass.

That is a 6′, 200 pound get out the way, okay. So between pre-WW2 Brooklyn and Bucharest, the serum put at least 40 pounds of solid muscle and probably thicker, heavier bones onto his frame. Not to mention the metal …

I accidentally erased the original timeline post I made. I’m thinking of doing it all over again, in small posts like this, in a contained Tumblr of its own, so I can keep adding info and updating each bit when I come across things. Yes? No? Imma do it……

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tik tok is having a bone stealing witch scandal. i repeat. tik tok is having a bone stealing witch scandal. but this time a man is collecting human spines

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