Somewhere, over the rainbow

it is pride month marius

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

I struggle to make fandom friends on Tumblr, and sometimes I worry that it is because people in their 20s think they can't be friends with someone in their 40s. That I'm uncool, weird, cringe, intimidating, or just too different from them.

But things don't change as much with age as most think. Older people still are silly, awkward, overwhelmed, enthusiastic, confused, playful, irresponsible, obsessive, dumb, cool, horny, and all these other things young people think we stop feeling or being as we get older. We're just humans. I am really great friends with someone on here more than 20 years younger than me because we have so much in common! You can't tell that we're different ages when we chat.

And also—you can be friends with people who you do NOT have much in common with! Because fundamentally, you always have humanity in common.

Years ago, there was this lady in my community who was maybe 30 years older than me and who I knew was far more conservative than me. I dismissed her as someone I didn't want to spend any time with because she was obviously too different than me. But, I was forced to spend some time with her (long story), and guess what? I became really good friends with her! Because I found out I was wrong about all those things that made her different than me? NO! I was right about that—she was just as annoyingly conservative as I had suspected. BUT that wasn't the whole of her person. She was so much richer than that. There were lots of things I didn't know about her. A few of those things were commonalities, but overall, we still didn't have much in common—but that didn't matter. We could still be kind to each other, help each other, respect each other, even enjoy each other's company if we stuck to topics where we didn't clash too badly. I feel really bad for judging her, and I'm so glad I gave her a chance.

the gentleman vampire's evening routine

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another year of #Barricade Week! We’re excited to announce our official prompts for 2026!

Check out our Ao3 Collection here!

Feel free to join in however you're able-- creating fanworks or sharing/ commenting on other people's work are both equally important!

You can also repost old art/fanfic that you have previously shared, especially art/fanfic people might have missed the first time around! And while we've been talking a lot about art and fanfic, ALL fanworks are fair game for this event-- song playlists, literary analysis, video essays, high-effort shitposts, Tiktoks, cosplay, etc!

Follow the prompts if you need ideas, or do whatever you want! Make as many or as few pieces as you would like! For each day, the prompt is to do something relevant to what happens on that day--and (optionally) follow the bonus prompts related to important symbols from that chapter.

June 4th:

"The Day Before the Barricades" (Eponine defends Marius)

Prompts: "Tomorrow is the judgment day" Families

June 5th:

"The Barricades Rise"

Prompts: "To days gone by" First blood

June 6th:

"The Barricades Fall"

Prompts: "Tomb flooded with the dawn" Execution

June 7th:

“The Aftermath” (the rescue of Marius/death of Javert)

like, imagine being the director who made that doc. you got hired by the league to make a piece about the hollander-rozanov rivalry and maybe it's not your preferred subject matter but a job is a job and the guys were really nice about being interviewed and you think you did a good job in the end of telling the story well