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Updating a classic:Â âlinguists with questionsâ as the goose in Untitled Goose Game (from Emily Gasser Zucker on twitter)

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Look i dont wanna sound like a Fandom Mom or whatever but what do you think women over 25 or so are supposed to do? Do u really think theyre supposed to drop all their interests and just talk about taxes and marriage or whatever? It seems like 25+ year old fanboys do not receive this kind of âooh cringeâ reaction either. There are guys in their 40s with comic book collections and shit and people might think theyre a nerd at worst, not a freak who shouldnt be trusted
Thank you. Because, hereâs the thing, I literally tried that. And this sounds really dramatic but it kind of ruined my life for a long time.
Once I got out of grad-school and started working, at exactly age 25, I figured it was time to get serious because I was âtoo old for this stuffâ and frankly I was afraid of being judged.Â
I sold all my comics, I stopped reading fanfiction, I stopped playing video games. All of it. Itâs not that I never, ever watched anything âgeekyâ or spent a weekend binge-reading a kink-meme, but when I did, it was rare and Iâd feel guilty about it like it was time wasted. Iâd keep it all to myself, you know? And without any kind of inspiration, I eventually stopped drawing. After all, I didnât need it for my âserious job,â so why bother? Unfortunately, my former skill is so atrophied now itâs nearly lost, but worse than that, itâs stressful now instead of the thing I loved to do for most of my life.
What was I doing instead? Well, Iâd work my miserable, toxic job, come home and worry about how far behind everyone else I was, and how weird I was compared to all my colleagues. Iâd go out with people and do the things they liked doing, but I only pretended to. But Iâm not great at that and pretending to be someone else ate me alive. Unsurprisingly, by 31, my anxiety and depression was not in a great place, and I fuckinâ snapped. Not just because of this stuff, of course, but it honestly contributed. I quit my job and left town.
Suddenly I was completely alone, no job, no friends, and no reason to pretend to be someone else. So, I started doing all the things Iâd given up. I read all the fanfiction I wanted, I bought a Playstation and an SNES and played them for hours. I bought back every comic book I loved, watched every Marvel movie I missed, and caught up on my favorite characters. I started traveling around just going to cons for the first time (NYCC, GeekGirlCon, DragonCon, etc). In fact, at @geekgirlcon and DragonCon especially, I saw groups of women who were 60+, just fucking enjoying things, and it made me feel so much better about my future. Iâm not even joking, I literally cry every time I think about it, because I never realized how scared I was about aging in a world that thinks Iâm already a decade too old for the things I love. Suddenly, that wasnât so scary.Â
And then I just stopped pretending that I wasnât into this stuff. I mean all of it, even the stuff no one understand, even the stuff people openly make fun of, even smutty fanfiction.Â
And look, Iâm not saying this cured my depression, or that everything is perfect. For one, I picked a city thatâs awful for geeks and Iâm trying to figure out where to move and how. For another, I lost six years of making like-minded friends, and itâs hard to find them now because weâre all so worried about being judged and online â the space that was always a refuge for me as a loner weirdo growing up â is now apparently a Children of the Corn. But Iâm happier here, actually fucking liking things, than being the unobjectionable robot woman Iâm apparently supposed to be.Â
I donât expect anyone to actually be interested in this, or have gotten this far, but because Iâm having feelings about turning 36 on Monday, I just want to tell anyone who is about to turn 25 that you should just tell people to go fuck themselves. Itâs your life. Youâre going to offend people no matter what you do, at least choose the direction that makes you happiest, because those people certainly arenât going to pay for your fucking therapist bills, are they? đŚ
This is gonna sound weird to you guys, but when I first started writing fanfic and sending stories to fanzines to be published back in 1991, in my first fandom all of the fans and writers and editors and readers I met were shocked that I was 17 because they were all in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. I was the outlier. I was an aberration.
Wanna know when young people started discovering fandom en masse? In the mid 1990s, when AOL got their internet gateway.
All the folks who ran fannish mailing lists and conventions and published âzines and posted fanfic online were over 18, because email and IRC and Usenet and FTP sites and listservs were primarily used by adults because they were almost exclusively college students, government employees, and academics. And the users of gated communities like BBS, GEnie, Compuserv, and AOL all skewed older. Only Prodigy was actually aimed at kids, because prior to the mid-to-late 1990s, children werenât getting online until they went to university.
And what kids found was the fandom that adults had built online, after being a part of it offline for decades.
Even when FFN was launched, the people who initially posted there were the same people who had been posting fanfic to the internet for a decade: THE GROWN-UPS.
So the idea that weâre meant to put away childish things is hilarious, cos for most of our lives, fandom was not a part of our childhoods. It was a part of our everyday adult lives.
Look, anyone who tells me I should drop fandom because Iâm over 25 is going to get laughed out of the room, because you know what age I was when I first discovered organised fandom existed?Â
I was 26.
I started writing fanfic (or at least, I started writing stories that I labelled as fanfic, rather than just âstoriesâ) at about age 30. Iâm in my late forties now, and I have no interest in dropping fandom. I especially have no interest in dropping fandom because some brat who wasnât even born when I started putting my fanfic online wants to try and sell me their internalised misogyny.
I was twenty-three when I found fandom; in all the important ways, it decided the course of my life. Â
I didnât even know I liked tech; for my first fic, I needed a webpage, it was ugly, so I opened it to look at the code, saw my first html, and fell in love. Now Iâm an analyst who tests programs for statewide and even national use.
I didnât know I liked people; I thought something was wrong with me, that I seemed to always say the wrong thing, that I seemed to think wrong. Instead, it just turns out how I think is just fine; there are so many people like me and I still meet them to this day. Â
I didnât know I could make and maintain friendships, short or long term; as it turns out, not a huge problem. Â I make and maintain friendships of almost two decades and still made new friends as of this year.
When my son came out to me as gay, I was ready for the question he wouldnât ask that I had to answer right then; I love you. Of course itâs okay. And why the fuck are you awake and messaging me at three in the goddamn morning? YOU HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW. Without all the friends who told me what they needed that day for themselves, Iâm not sure I would have known that was something he needed to hear. Without my friends, I wouldnât have known to even expectâmuch less how to answerâa thousand questions (at least) he had, and where to have him look for more.
(Also didnât hurt fandom was the one place I could be sure was all the happy ending gay love stories any gay child would need to read and knew exactly where to send him. Fuck knows the pro version still isnât exactly thick on the ground though itâs getting better.)
When I first started, I was mentored by an older woman in her forties-fifties, and on her webpage she had a log of all this shit sheâd done just in the last year; traveled to hang out with fan friends, all the fic she wrote that year, all these people she met, this wonderful life. She posted to all these sites, and she posted to mailing lists her opinion and argued without fear or self-consciousness.
All I could think is I want to be her.
At twenty-three, I couldnât imagine it would be possible for me. Iâm forty three, and as it turns out, I underestimated myself; itâs even better. Â
Something you activist kiddies should keep in mind with all the âlol a thirty-year-old in fandom doesnât she have dishes to doâ nonsense is that itâs not only generally misogynist (not sure why you struggle with that one, itâs 101-level, but okay), but it is specifically designed to thwart womenâs power by separating you from potential networks.
You think men just somehow magically get powerful as they pass into adulthood? No. They are mentored by, they get given chances to move up from, they learn from older men in their social networks, including in predominantly male âfannishâ space. Power, knowledge, opportunities move through those networksâand donât kid yourself, they are primarily masculine networks. By narrowing your networks to women within one or two years of your age, the âlol thirty-year-oldsâ rhetoric cuts you off from resources you might use to get stronger. Thatâs a feature, not a bug.
Just the other day, I was in a room full of older fans that included a Nebula-winning author, an agent for a (different) Hugo-winning author, two tenured professors in radically different fields, and a member of the Foreign Service.  Youâll make your own friends in fandom (I did; one of my closest is 15 years older than me, and, my, did I learn from her), but these are the kind of resources available to you there. Misogyny wants you to despise and avoid older women because it wants you weak. Is this really something you want to play along with?
#reblogging for @harriet-spyâs excellent commentary#its NOT AN ACCIDENT#that we disown our mothers and foremothers#itâs how they keep us weak#its how they destroy our networks#fandom is the best old girls network in the world
And, by the way, thinking that a woman over 30 is âtoo oldâ to have fun is a misogynistic notion in itself. Our culture already fetishizes female youth to the extreme and does a very good job to convince us that our life is basically over by the time we are 29, why would you want to contribuite to that? It isnât just that youâre never too old for fandom, itâs that most of the time all these âold womenâ arenât old at all.
I am here for the old girlsâ network
The old girlsâ network saved Star Trek.
The old girlsâ network started the first media conventions.
The old girlsâ network redefined fanfiction to be stories about characters (as opposed to stories about fans themselves, which was what Fan Fiction was prior to Devra Langsam and Spockanalia.)
The old girlsâ network was fandom before FANDOM was a word.
Iâm 31, and Iâm too powerful for any of these kids to stop.
Y'all these are like 15-17 year olds ur dunking on u realize that right? For one, if a literal child is uncomfortable with a 31 year old in their space that is 100% valid. And for another, they ARE kids. They donât have this life experience you have. They WILL learn. But you canât expect them to not know everything that you know now at 31. They will learn when they get to where you are, but they are just kids.
You are the adult. Act like one. Educate, donât be an asshole to literal kids.
Thatâs the thing, though.
This isnât their space. This is our space. WE BUILT IT. A lot of young 15 and 17 year olds like to come into our space that we built for our own selves, and then said âHey we donât like you here.â IN OUR HOUSE.
See, if I post smut, Iâm posting it for me and other adults. If a kid wanders in, when I have clearly marked it as for adults, thatâs on them for not heeding content warnings.
âEducate themâ okay, hereâs a thread discussing the history of fandom as a space created predominantly by and for women over twenty five. Very educational thread, this.
I would very much like butchlesbianbabe to take five minutes to stop and consider what thoughts were in their mind when they typed the words âin their space.â
What space? Whose space?
Broadcast platforms arenât private spaces, even if they feel like them. If a literal 31 year old walks into their house and sits in their living room, thatâs being in their space. If a literal 31 year old writes a tumblr post that ends up on their dash/feed/browsed tags, that is not their space, and if something in the post makes them uncomfortable, theyâre free to block the user/post/exit the tag/keep scrolling until itâs gone.
I still think that the worst thing social media (and web 2.0 in general) did to fandom was this conflation of public and private spaces, which result in people simultaneously thinking that public spaces are their private boudoirs to shit in and also that other peopleâs private lives are their playgrounds to run amock in.
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1. your suffering canât end until you stop identifying with it. if your sense of self is tied up in your suffering, anyone or anything that attempts to separate you from it will become the enemy because, whether consciously or subconsciously, you will on some level believe they are trying to take away a part of who you are.
2. read the above again.
people w adhd are just The funniest people alive i love us
the H in ADHD stands for Hilarious

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there was a moustache on the floor at the movie theater todayâŚ
Cinderella âŚ
this comment has utterly undone me
itâs like a time capsule from hellÂ
the things brother lan xichen has to put up with :,^)

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My friend was messing with Never Gonna Give You Up on her record player and she sped it up. It beCAME A FREAKING MAGICAL GIRL THEME.
Reminds me of a late 80s or early 90s anime ending theme.
I see yâall just discovered nightcore
The thing about Those White People Baby Names is the way they so poetically express the tension between individuality and rigid conformity. These parents all want to name their child something unique, because they value the concept of uniqueness, yet simultaneously they abhor it in practice⌠ergo, 30 different spelling variations on the most normative possible names. This homogeneity-masquerading-as-diversity is inseparable from capitalist consumer culture and in fact is directly analogous to the experience of walking into a grocery store and being asked to âchooseâ between 50 varieties of toothpaste with the same exact ingredients, 12 brands of laundry detergent, etc.
The plot thickens.
A series of events:
1. I put in an Annual Leave request form almost 3 weeks ago and my boss has not approved it yet
2. I went into my office today and replaced every single writing utensil with crayons in preparation for April Fools Day on Monday
3. Whilst searching for pens to remove, I found my unsigned Annual Leave form in my bossâs drawer
4. I placed my unsigned Annual Leave form in a photo frame and put in on his desk
5. The frame I used was from a photo of his kids that I deemed less important than my Leave form
6. My boss sometimes goes into the office on Saturdays to work
7.
[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading âif you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police stateâ]

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I saw this super cute photo on good omens tag with crowley and aziraphale .. I donât remember whoâs exacly, sorry.. and I hope they donât mind if I took reference of it owoâ
How a âmishmash of all animation stylesâ came together for a quirky opening
Making sure people have seen this lovely interview with Peter Anderson about how they made the title creditsâŚ