The Collector

(Read Part 1 here!)

I’m having too much fun drawing this lol

…Pike usually has Spock for the science stuff, okay?

are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that's an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?

okay, then bring it up to a librarian

seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we'll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say "hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?" most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there's an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen

Source is Instagram user thatmodernlife. Per Reddit, this post was deleted quickly, and was captioned:

normalize fans being reminded that boundaries between fandom and creators exist for a reason.

normalize fans recognizing their own creative potential without seeking canon validation

normalize the idea that fandom is a hobby, not an identity to threaten and fight and harass people over

normalize a healthy understanding of the boundaries between fiction and reality

But I'm scrolling on TikTok and this white creator made a video saying that Tom Holland and Zendaya are in a lavender marriage, and that it's obvious that Tom Holland is a bottom and Zendaya tops him with a strap.

And all this stuff about Tom being feminine and Zendaya being masculine, and like...

This is literally what fandoms do every time to interracial pairings with fictional characters made manifest in real life. And even worse, because it's with a heterosexual presenting REAL married couple.

Actual goddess Zendaya Coleman Holland is suddenly "masculine" because y'all woobify every white man y'all like into these little princesses and any Black person they're around is this dominant masculine who tops them lmaoooooo