Confessions of a Former Mary Sue Writer

Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?

You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.

Counteroffer: Big dramatic cloak to protect your identity that you drop on the floor before every fight

#there are two wolves inside you #one is edna mode #the other is megamind  (@remnantofahero) 

I can’t believe the compromise is Obi-Wan Kenobi

Okay, but I love that Gandalf is just dropping his cloak to reveal another, slightly smaller cloak underneath it.

World Heritage Post

this right here is why ‘queer’ is an identity, not a slur

QUEER IS AN IDENTITY, NOT A SLUR

Put the Q back in LGBTQ+

it’s not pride month but i will reblog the SHIT out of this any time. queer pride babeyyyyy

we’re here, we’re queer, and too confused to pick one of those other labels so you better fucking get used to us because we’re not gonna get less messy, bitches.

i was gonna say “wow, they’re really pushing the came back wrong trope because buffy keeps repeating the exact phrase” until i googled and realise the phrase “came back wrong” literally originates from buffy. this show is like the modern shakespeare

did you know you can re-read fics? did you know that if you wait long enough and have a bad memory and/or have read so many other fics since then that they all blur together you can then experience the fic almost as if it's the first time all over again??? DID YOU KNOW

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

I’m gonna scream is2g

I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.

These are both excellent stories, and I also heartily recommend her story "Better Living through Algorithms."

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

it's funny looking back at this post specifically because shortly after i first posted it, it got reposted to reddit and most of the responses were "this is a rosy view of the past internet at best, things aren't that bad now" which, if you really think the current internet has produced safer conditions for children and minorities, i beg heavily to fucking differ. but then it got reposted to that same reddit a few months ago and the response was universally in agreement. i think it's been that fast of a noticeable decline. just interesting to note.