umm...

[heymacy]

HEATED RIVALRY SEASON ONE + hall of fame text posts

[thahalfrican]

Congrats if you survived this year because what the fuck was that

[bobdylanyaoi]

2025 stats:

0 dubai chocolate ingested

0 labubus bought

0 episodes of stranger things watched

[hillerska-official]

Very hard to scroll tumblr on the bus in the current fandom climate (the hockey players are sucking each others dicks every other post)

[ztremx]

[bogleech]

Just learned about the chinese fad of "rat jerky dolls" or "rat friends" and if you didn't already see viral posts about these you arent at all prepared for what a "rat jerky doll" actually is

[joesecondoinkpigonson]

like i like them but why are they called that

[bogleech]

made sense to me immediately, its just about their quality and vibe

[thetalee]

“Check out these blogs” and one of them is “beemovieerotica”

I-

No. No, I don’t think I will, thanks.

[beemovieerotica]

[wayslidecool]

the grinch is fucked up right. he was created specifically as a critique of the commercialization of christmas, but now all his edge has been sanded off. now he's a generic mascot for "hates christmas," which is great to have because the commercialization of christmas has become so overbearing that that's a demographic you can market to! and now he's just part of the Christmas Fold. he's santa's edgier joker counterpart. he has become the very thing he sought to destroy. back in november i checked out a customer with a $1100 order and most of it was grinch merchandise

[shorthistorian]

[asneakyfox]

djenks maintains near-perfect message discipline for nearly two years before just saying "canceled for being gay." that's fine! this is fine!! i am going to chew glass

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I'm not on blue sky can I see the screenshot or get the interview link

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ya

[molly-ren]

hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx <3

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

[molly-ren]

woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

[stevita]

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

[molly-ren]

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

[michaelblume]

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

[hosekisama]

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

[nentuaby]

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

[raincityruckus]

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

[sassafrassarah]

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

[taraljc]

I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.

[another-normal-anomaly]

reblogging for today’s lucky 10,000!

[divorce-enjoyer]

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

[divorce-enjoyer]

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

[decompositie]

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[highimpactemotions]

As will I.

[too-many-hyperfixations]

2 NOTES?

[creatures-in-posts]

This post is an accursed creature

[hellyeahrihannafenty]

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

[lakesbian]

DNI lists on this website are fucking insane

[lakesbian]

can we explain to early-twenties autistic lgbt people that they . cant be saying these things. you cant be calling people 'degens' in your dni you cant do that. you cant do that man. can we do a history lesson. you cant do that

[lakesbian]

YOU CANT DO THAT MAN

[lakesbian]

"in defense of using the term degen, it's generally applied to pedophiles" - conservative man who might actually shoot a trans woman if he saw one within 50 meters of his child, and also LGBT tumblr users who do not know things they should know

[dreadedloreenkid]

"Degeneracy" is a fascist concept. There is no defending that word, just stop using it

[nothorses]

to be extra clear. the reason it is fascist is because it implies a) an ideal past that society has fallen from, and b) people who are responsible for society's fall from that ideal past.

a "degenerate" is someone who caused/causes society to fall from that ideal past.

even applying the term "degenerate" to people who have actually sexually abused children, specifically, is still implying that there was once a world in which CSA did not exist, which society must return to, and which Certain Types Of People have caused society to stray from in the first place.

these problems are systemic. that's like the whole idea behind all progressive and leftist ideology. come on.

[basalamander-corner]

Stop using Nazi rhetoric in regards to fandom discourse. It just makes you sound... like a Nazi.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Israel allowed to participate in Eurovision 2026 event | CNN

Israel will be allowed to compete in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the fun-filled pop music spectacle that draws millions of viewers

Spain and the Netherlands pull out of 2026 Eurovision as Israel’s participation roils the contest

GENEVA (AP) — Spain and the Netherlands say they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest as Israel’s participation roils the

Ireland to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel participation

Irish broadcaster RTÉ will not participate in or broadcast Eurovision Song Contest 2026 after EBU confirmed that Israel will be allowed to p

Slovenia withdraws from Eurovision 2026 over Israel participation

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO confirms it will not participate in Eurovision 2026, following the decision to allow Israel to compete. RTVSLO

4 Dec 25

[depsidase]

[drugsforaddicts]

I'm losing my fucking mind over this