Something a Little Fantastic

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

thy mother

Art thou for fucking real

the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

love the phrase "but I digress." yes I temporarily got lost in the moors I wander in my mind but don't worry I'm self-aware about it

Hazy nostalgic flashback montage but instead of a dead wife it’s a defunct kebab shop

I know this is about missing places. And I do, I miss the restaurants my mother used to cook at. She was a chef. I don't miss any particular recipes per-say, but I miss cooking with her, and I miss being able to call her to ask how to cook. I wish every cook and chef had a cookbook that they could publish for free at the local library when their restaurant closed down, or they moved on to the next job. Someone would sit down and help them write it so the average person could read well enough to at least get close. Because so much knowledge for the working chef is "remove when done" or "add enough" due to the knowledge being stored in their bones.

Does anybody know how to fix it

Yeah sure Tumblr is a hellsite but I know someone who wrote a fanfic in the 1990s that someone else didn’t like, so when she was selling printed copies of the zine with the story in it out of her hotel room at a convention, this other woman STOOD IN FRONT OF HER DOOR TO REFUSE PEOPLE ACCESS. Because the story featured a ship she disliked. And I feel like somehow, 10,000 Tumblrs still can’t compare to that level of Extra.

Your periodic reminder that the technology and the scale of distribution changes, the basic impulse to fandom wank does not