Crows in paradise

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

@cynaram

“Ah, a heritage crop.”

The shipping forecast.

The Fandom Almanac

“I think I’m going to sow some rarepairs this season. Don’t know what the market for ‘em will be, but I can eat ‘em if nobody else wants to.”

it's genuinely bullshit that you should be required to own a mobile phone for participation in literally any aspect of life

I got a kind of love that makes me very very angry. I have a love that has settled from my tip to my toes, filling me up with joy and purpose. It gives me clarity. It gives me community. It gives me a sense of devotion to others that drives my soul like an engine. This love makes me whole and happy and content. And because it makes me whole and happy and content, when something picks on my love it makes me very very angry. A single thing that threatens the love I know, fills me with an anger so dense and so vicious, I feel it overtake my body like a fever. Like mud in my stomach and electricity in my veins, it takes that engine, that love so dutifully made, and puts it in overdrive. Sometimes there's something I can do with this righteous loving anger, usually there is not. And so it churns my stomach and grinds my gears. It is such an angry, vicious feeling to love what you love.

I used to get really bad nose bleeds but sometimes could feel when they were starting. One day in middle school this guy in geography class wouldn’t shut the fuck up about that conspiracy theory that Delaware doesn’t exist, so when I felt one coming on I loudly interrupted the rant our teacher was inexplicably allowing to derail the class by saying “if you don’t stop I’m gonna have an aneurism!” The guy of course just kept going so a second later a small torrent of blood gushed out of my head and, being a dramatic bitch, I collapsed face down onto my desk into a nice little puddle of blood. Anyway apparently outside of intense Roman Senate-esque debates, these stunts apparently induce panic attacks in educators and end up with you getting lectured about how traumatizing it is for your classmates when you “fake your death for dramatic effect”

I believe this falls into the "I don't think people should be punished for objectively funny crimes" category.

Seeing as we're on the cusp of an age of de-facto online tracking and censorship, now might be a good time to get into the habit of downloading the stuff you like and saving it somewhere you can find it without an internet connection. Whether that's youtube videos, porn, or fanfiction. I don't want to be alarmist, and like, you don't have to go full archival. The internet isn't going to be deleted tomorrow. But if there's one thing we should learn from all of these content takedowns, it's that the nature of digital platforms can be fickle. Don't take access for granted.

tumblr is the funniest social media site to go viral on

on tiktok people will quit their jobs after going viral once but on here not only can any post get 50k notes, but if it does theres nothing you can do with it. theres no monetization or any transferable skills at all. you just made a funny post and people liked it and thats the start and end of your career

you could say "i left the stove on" with no context and it might break containment on here and people start tagging it with ships and kins and theres no way to delete it forever unless staff gets involved. your mistake will never go away but your claim to fame will instantly

its like yes im the pineapple werewolf guy but no one outside of here and like 5 posts on reddit will ever know what that sentence means. i could jump on tiktok and no one would know me. no one on youtube or facebook. this is my little corner of the internet and i will die here before i give up that title and when i do know i lost nothing in the process

my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone

Please give me feedback! :)

its been just over a year since i posted this and i still encounter people saying things like "i asked chatgpt and..." or "i made this with chatgpt and...". and these arent like teenagers or students they're adult professionals using this shit for their job. i dont know how people live like this

#it is easy to say this now but it was also incredibly easy to say this at the start and at every point along the way ( @qqueenofhades)

Two gifs of Malcolm X speaking, with yellow subtitles against a black background. The subtitles say: “I don’t believe in any kind of non-violence. I believe in the right to be non-violent with people who are non-violent. But when you’re dealing with an enemy who doesn’t know what non-violence is, as far as I’m concerned, you’re wasting your time.

“In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.“ - Stokely Carmichael 

I find it interesting that the mouth salivates both when we’re hungry and when we’re nauseous. It doesn’t matter if stuff is coming in or out, our throat is like okay boys time to lube up the tunnel

Babe could you have phrased this in literally any other way