Gentle beasts for life

Hi. I'm a 25 year old pro-shipper. My pronouns are she/her.

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[jkl-fff]

Trans people just existing is no more sexual than when cis people just exist.

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ Begin ID: The Trans Pride flag with black text overtop that reads "I Am Not "Sensitive Content"" / End ID ]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)

Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

[awkwardinnocent]

personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

^^^^what they said. I'm surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google's flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your

2026 UPDATE:

just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it's easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!

[girlballs]

god it would be awesome if the human brain could just ignore an upsetting thing instead of constantly wandering back to it for no fucking reason

[ministarfruit]

You're soo right, Thranduil's robe DOES look like a blanket!!! A very beautiful shiny blanket!! If he wants to shut the Bowman up about it, he should just open his arms and pull him in and wrap the gorgeous blankie around them both 😁

omg I did it and bard's like a teddy bear HAHAHA. well. he's stuck there now

[a-sad-writer]

It's my phone background now

[ministarfruit]

You're soo right, Thranduil's robe DOES look like a blanket!!! A very beautiful shiny blanket!! If he wants to shut the Bowman up about it, he should just open his arms and pull him in and wrap the gorgeous blankie around them both 😁

omg I did it and bard's like a teddy bear HAHAHA. well. he's stuck there now

[write-on-world]

[hobbits-for-all-deactivated2015]

When I’m reading and people try to talk to me i just

[supernalchiku]

When people try to talk to me

[moved-to-mrpond]

people

[captain-snark]

Elves

[lacnunga]

[katherinearandez]

Well that escalated quickly.

[kikakat17]

IT”S BACK!

[meangirlnurse]

i'm trying to save money but oh my god. jesus christ

[hallwords-deactivated20250118]

to you, it’s a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it’s a fire line that’ll haunt them for the next 17 years.

you don’t know how impactful your writing is because it’s been in your brain for far too long now. you’ve stared at it for hours and repeated “this sucks” over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.

but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone’s gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go “jesus fucking christ” and put the book down to have an existential crisis.

[rowancampbell-author]

I needed to read this. Thank you.

[fairyinthetrees]

going with the flow in a face down in a river kinda way

[write-on-world]

[big-blog-of-cheese-day]

[ccorinthian]

Sometimes you gotta get down to brass tacks

[pastelchaos12]

This is true, how dare you be right though.

[a-sad-writer]

I know hugging Luke Evans would probably not solve all my problems but I would like to test it. For science.

[bottomthorin1-deactivated201508]

IF U GAVE THORIN OAKENSHIELD A KITTEN HE WOULD LOOK SO CONFUSED BUT HE’D HOLD IT SO GENTLY AND PET ITS HEAD WITH ONE FINGER AND EVENTUALLY SMILE AND SUFFER FROM HIS CHEST SWELLING UP WHENEVER THE SAID KITTEN MEOWED 

[hattedhedgehog]

He would probably give it a fierce war-like name in Khuzdul (earning a disapproving look from Bilbo), and growl at any ‘unworthy’ person trying to cuddle it.

[lavenderbagginshield]

NEW POST-BOTFA FIX-IT IDEA!!!

[mo0nbugs]

When they're rebuilding Dale I just know that they're decorating it with like a million carved illustrations of Bard killing Smaug

And Bard hhhhhhaaaaates it

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[theseventhcrow55]

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours