#like that’s awesome.

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

that was a lie my parents won’t ruin THIS episode by coming home. unfortunately i will probably watch a third episode

#well. ruin is a strong word. i just don’t like how they don’t perceive stuff i like #ignore the second don’t #i’m the baby of the family so everything i like is automatically juvenile and it doesn’t help that i like a lot of things that are juvenile #but like no one in this house can conceptualize ‘family’ media. like if there’s no curse words or sex it’s just For Kids #like get serious y’all just watched harry potter with my sister and no one has ever acted like she’s childish for liking that shit #like i KNOW it’s just because of misogyny 85% of the time because especially in the fantasy genre girl’s stories are seen as more childish #simply due to being about and being written for girls. where boys stories get to be gender neutral because they’re the default #and then because i’m me and 80% of everything i enjoy is about women. the other 20% doesn’t make enough of an impression to not be lumped in #so even though THIS show isn’t about women it’s still something I’M watching and it’s fantasy and it doesn’t have curse words or sex so by #default it’s girly and childish. and that sucks already but sucks even worse because now my family is gonna go about their lives thinking #that bbc merlin is girl stuff. and therefore even remotely feminist. which makes me want to kill myself because i’ve never heard something #less true in my life. like YES i am the annoying girly feminist girl’s girl of this family YES i watch bbc merlin NO that show is not that!! #anyway. that’s annoying. i love how it’s only not stupid to like something in the fantasy genre when it’s harry potter or game of thrones. #like that’s awesome. #we should all kill ourselves. but before that we should publicly execute jk rowling and george rr martin #like i firmly believe jkr should be killed but not for the terf stuff just because she made up the most annoying franchise ever. #beth.txt

[casgirl]

people cosplaying on public transit are the backbone of our society and i am SO serious. there is no greater omen of good fortune than seeing hatsune miku on the bus.

#seeing people in cosplay on the subway: they look like theyre having so much fun! that's so awesome :) i wonder if theres a con happening? #me in cosplay trying to get to the con: i am so embarassed of myself that if one person even speaks a word to me i will explode

[blazeball]

i just rediscovered the pelican spider. give me 1-2 business days to stop laughing at how they're shaped and ill be normal again

#i have a skewed perspective on what makes a creature weird looking on account of being a bug fan #but this thing is so funny to look at its just so ridiculous #and it lives its whole life like this. that's awesome #quincy.txt #inverts

[macbethz]

i want what david cronenberg has

#i love that hes always like my life is awesome i just like making my organ movies #warlock wartalks #cronenberg

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

#unforth rambles #this wasn't really prompted by anything #I'm just sick and tired and distractable #or i should say it wasn't prompted by anything recent or that happened now #like no one has disrespected me #but as i hit the point that it's regularly taking me an hour plus every single day to queue things for the danmei art blogs #i just think of all the times people go WAIT YOU RUN ALL OF THOSE??? BY YOURSELF??? #like i just don't think a lot of people realize how much work it is to really do background fandom labor long term #and i appreciate places like rec blogs and networks and events and just everyone #y'all are awesome #thank you so much

[dufrau]

COMMENT ON OLD FICS, I BEG YOU!

I swear to god after like a week people will still be reading but nobody leaves comments anymore and I just want to make it absolutely clear that I would be excited and elated to get a comment on these fics one hundred years after I post them.

A FIC IS NEVER TOO OLD TO LEAVE A NICE COMMENT ON. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

#ironically as i was writing this i got a comment email for a month old fic lol #i love you person who just left me a comment! #ao3 #if youre ever like 'would it be weird for me to leave a comment on this years old fic?" #i promise you the answer is no #it would be awesome of you

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

i love the…. almost horror aspects of this album. all the references to ghosts and death…. and sonically, the unexpected shrieking in WAOLOM and the banging and screaming during “old habits die screaming” and even the way the tension subtly builds across the sixteen tracks and by the end you’re so stressed and shaken it’s like! losing your sense of self and feeling like you’ve become a monster is horror. and i’m sooooo glad she leaned into it

#the first time i listened to the album i was so SPOOKED by the end. and it was AWESOME #the first five songs i was like okay word heartbreak album! and then WAOLOM came on and i was like HOLY SHIT?????? #and everything got INSANE from tbere #and just kept building and building!!!!!!!! #literally just like a horror movie. it was fucking fantastic #ttpd #random thoughts with grace

[pillsopa]

new goth girlfreak just dropped !

#hey if you got the reference you are very cool and awesome #(uzumaki reference for anyone curious) #lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #the creature #my art #edit: didn’t realize till now but the heart wreath looks like the sacred heart so. giving myself points for that

[platyroonism]

ra ta tooey

#kris #frisk #chara #papyrus #flowey #undertale #TOO MANY TAGS AAARHGHGHGH #in my perfect world flowey and papyrus are best friends and do studpid shit like that. #it's like the jake-body in adventure time #except flowey fucks with papyrus by stealing his hands or something. #kris can't catch a break. #frisk and chara are just frekaing chilling :) #yay!! yippee!!! they are freinds. #oh oh oh but back to flowey and papyrus #papyrus lets flowey sit on his shoulders for easier and more convenient travel #i feel like this is practice for flowey for when alphys build him an awesome robot body #(another one of the things that happen in my perfect world) #flowey and alphys geek over cool anime robot features #ANYWAYS. hope you are having a great day! thanks for likeing my stuff! #plart

[fallowfrog]

laios looks like the yellow m&m

#dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laios dunmeshi #laios dungeon meshi #dunmeshi fanart #dungeon meshi fanart #delicious in dungeon fanart #it's awesome how jermacoded laios is. like he would be a total jermamite if jerma existed in dunmeshi #actually jerma does exist in dunmeshi and his name is laios touden

[theinquisitxor]

Researcher and doctorate @NoraEpstein on Twitter just posted a video of the new tattoo she got commemorating her PhD.

And… she footnoted the artwork, with a literal footnote 😂 I love this so much

#medieval #medievalist of tumblr #history #art history #tattoos #historians of tumblr #check out her Twitter she seems like an awesome lady #plus she has her MLIS #bonus points there

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[raycatzdraws]

Wolfie and Four friendship appreciation doodles! They're shared secrets besties! I hope Four's distrust of the shadow crystal doesn't drive anything between them. Wild found his way into this compilation with a force. It seems I can't draw Wolfie and not include him too!

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu four #lu twilight #lu wolfie #lu wild #lu legend #lu hyrule #fairy hyrule #I drew most of these on my weekends at camp #hence the swearing probably lol can't swear in front of the campers #man I did not leave that mountain for the whole summer and I wouldn't have it any other way #I was there 6+ weeks straight #some of the other counselors who also stayed and I would occasionally make the hour drive into town #a bunch of us went to see the Barbie movie together and like 2/3 through the film the fire alarm went off and we were evacuated ajhsgfsdf #we all held hands to not be separated in case there was an actual emergency and some guy was like 'look at the preschoolers' #AND AAAAA I won't be separated from my counselor buddies!!!! RAAAHH this is what we would have gotten the kids to do #so I guess we're just too good at our jobs lol #that one LU post with the lads lined up with their bows? It's AWESOME #but I taught a bunch of kids archery this summer and none of the lads have the right posture lol #I'm walking up and down that line readjusting all of them ahsgdsdf #Imagine Wars going to Wind though like 'remember to pull back to your smile! :D ' #and Wind just deadeye staring him down like you serious rn? #caught and removed a scorpion from the lake cabin biffy this summer - that was very exciting #calmed the campers down and put them to bed and then rolled up my sleeves and asked the program staff who was staying with us #for emotional support #her only experience with scorpions was from animal crossing so she was like 'get ready to run' and I'm- I think we'll be okay #anyways it's her perched on one of the toilets with a spray bottle of bleach and me with an empty tupperware from dinner #I caught it under the tupperware but IT MOVED THE TUPPERWARE #we drowned it in bleach and it like finally died but it took a while and then we flung it into the woods BYE BUGGY

[troutpaws]

fishtober day 02:

redtail catfish (phractocephalus hemioliopterus)

#inktober #fishtober #freshwater fish #redtail catfish #nature art #queer #trans #digital art #my art #I <3 CATFISH!!!!! #eveyrone give it uo for redtail catfish!!!! #& shout otu! to a couple people that wanted me to draw one of these guy. you like awesome fish

[knifearo]

you can literally just be aromantic. it’s free and nobody’s stopping you :)

#PSA!!!!!!! #this is a ‘being aromantic is so awesome and you can do it whenever’ post #like. i love being aromantic and i get to do it all the time. #but also if you’re questioning whether you’re aro. you can just be aromantic. it’s free and nobody is stopping you :) #questioning aspecs come be aromantic with me i’m kissing you tenderly on the forehead #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #aro positivity #aspec #chitchat #(<— thinking ab a talking tag. need one of those) #talking

[milexa2000]

Me waiting for more Mike Schmidt fanfics to come like:

#five nights at freddy's #mike schmidt #mike schmidt x reader #fnaf #fnaf x reader #fnaf movie #five nights at Freddy’s movie #fnaf x you #mike schmidt x you #i am not okay #mike is so fine like- #the fnaf is so awesome