older something fannish person

[snail-mail-33]

how to write fanfiction in 8 easy steps

Step 1: think of excellent fanfic idea

Step 2: scour the internet (ao3) for a fic that features said idea

Step 3: cry when you fail to find it 😢

Step 4: give up

Step 5: the brain worm persists

Step 6: jot down further expansions of said idea in notes app/tumblr drafts to attempt to appease the worm

Step 7: make tumblr post of idea in final hopes that someone more capable will write your dream fanfic

Step 8: give in and open the google doc

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[bonobochick]

14 Love Letters, a Hallmark Channel film. 💌 👩🏽‍❤️‍👨🏻 💖

One of the stronger Hallmark films and the leads have fantastic chemistry.

[agenderjane]

i don't watch Hallmark movies. I am now!

[hollanoveau]

okay wait hang on we make all these posts about The Vampire Marleau and yes they’re my favorite but has anyone actually like. looked into his actor. bc i did. his name is Franco Lo Presti and he really does just look Like That. like i clocked him as hot as fuck my very first watch but goddamn they did not do him justice that is #mymarleau and i can 100% see him playing an ancient hockey playing vampire fr like LOOK AT HIM

IS ANYONE LISTENING TO ME!!!!!!!!!

[agenderjane]

I get those vampire AUs now.

[morethansalad]

Tofu Steaks with Apricot Cucumber Mint Compote (Vegan)

[greenjudy]

weird cultural shift detected

Fam, be careful with your time online. I highly recommend sinking some time and energy into offline pursuits.

Try: knitting or crochet; gentle movement, stretching, walking if you can; playing a musical instrument, whether it's piano or penny whistle; and especially reading.

I do not mean performative BookTok reading that we do for likes because our neurotransmitters have been nerfed by modern life.

I mean actual reading that we do for ourselves alone.

If reading is hard, if attention or energy or memory are operating at a deficit, I get it. Nevertheless, please try. If you notice you're skipping across big chunks of text like a river stone, if you can't finish a paragraph, slow down, pronounce the words out loud. Stop sometimes and ask yourself what you just read. Explain the story or article or poem to your blorbo or your cat or a stuffed animal.

If your head feels scrambled up, no judgment. We may have incredibly intractable neurochemical reasons that this is hard. Just tell the blorbo, "That's hilarious, I don't remember any of what I just read. Let's read it again, together."

(Please don't ask A.I. to do this for you. Please. It's your right to read and think about it your own way. A.I. doesn't actually understand anything. Please don't assume it will guide you safely through this next weird phase of our human culture.)

If reading longform, offline, makes you feel bored or anxious, be gentle and patient with yourself. Start with stories you remember well, reliable sources of well-being. But please know you will need to put some backbone into it in the long run.

I think we are going to need to rebuild our ability to think, to process experience. This will be an unsupported activity. In fact, most of the really powerful cultural forces are making it very hard for us to notice, feel, perceive, or think clearly.

Not sure what, but something's happened quite recently that is making this situation much worse, some kind of tipping point.

Please read something every day.

Your friend, greenjudy

[agenderjane]

read diana wynne Jones

[brightestofblues]

And they'll never land at all!

About a year ago @elodieunderglass wrote a series of posts about an extinct type of horse, the Irish Hobelar. She ended it with a comic, and beautiful words: he threw his heart over and she follows it still; and they’ll never land!

It made me think about the kinds of stories we tell, and why, and what the best, most heart-wrenching ones have in common. All of them mean something. The journeys those characters take, that we take with them, they all meant something — it’s why we tell these stories again and again, even if they’re sad. We’re all reaching out to tell each other that everything we do matters, even if the ending is sad or tragic or you never finished what you set out to do — it all matters. 

So I told this story again. And I linked it to stories I love, stories it reminded me of, quotes I’ve heard that have stuck with me and made me look at life differently. Because it’s not the ending. It’s how they got there. It’s what we’ll remember. And this story deserves remembering. Your stories deserve remembering. I hope we all keep writing them.

Credits, links, and the full image without text below.

The original post references this discussion on medieval cavalry and this series of posts about the origins of Hobelar. Quotes unattributed below are from these posts.

“This was always going to happen. She’s been dead since the beginning.” from the Orestia, by Aeschylus

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.” from War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

“This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” and "a strange thing about stories..." are from the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matthew Stover

On the Siege of Calais is on the Internet Archive

“The Hobelar is something of a sideshow…” is from the essay Re-thinking the Origins of the ‘Irish’ Hobelar by Robert Jones

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

“People really be like ‘that’s not realistic’ as if the entire universe isn’t a living miracle beyond human comprehension” by Twitter user omgsidewalks

"We only look sad because you can't imagine a stillness that's not" and "you are here on this earth forever. Nobody seems to tell you this." are from the book Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer

"What about the rest of us? What about the nobodies..." is from Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

"all the war did was identify the spear that would not break" is from Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

"Get in loser we're living past the end of our myth" by tumblr user aridante All handwritten text (in the paper cutouts) was written by me, and all art was hand-drawn in Procreate. You can find the full art (without text) here!

[docmelking]

SUPRIYA GANESH discussing the books and movies that shaped their gender and sexuality (x).

[samirasystole]

Growing up in India, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel disconnected from my body.

A piece by Supriya Ganesh on being Indian in the entertainment industry, how that affects their gender identity, sexuality, and femininity.

These are just outtakes of a very important piece. I urge you to read the whole thing.

Here is the link for the original, here is a non paywalled version

[agenderjane]

as a queer south asian who also uses she/they/them, this is great representation.

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

BRAZILIAN CHEESE BREAD (PAO DE QUEIJO) RECIPE

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[aireina]

this is why referring to USA as simply “America” is incorrect. America this America that. girl which America

[zegalba]

Rene Burri: Ice Blocks (1978) Location: Argentina, Lago Viedma

[global-musings]

A woman harvests vanda orchids from Hilo nursery fields in Hawaii, March 1975.

Photographer: Robert Madden 

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[thosetiktoks]

Credit: perfectopat2

[eunnieboo]

pink in the night

[melynnwaters]

babe are you alright? you just reblogged eunnieboo’s pink in the night comic again

[centers-for-disease-control]

Hey, y’all are going to be hearing a lot of scary information about Hantavirus due to the situation with the cruise ship with infected passengers. Here are couple facts that may help you know more about the situation.

First, what is a Hantavirus?

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that is spread by rodents that cause severe respiratory disease or kidney disease. They can spread to people through urine, saliva, or droppings from an infected rat. Spread from person to person is not super common and usually involves prolonged close contact.

What is the situation?

A cruise ship left the port in Ushuaia, Argentina on April 1, 2026. The vessel carried a total of 147 individuals, including 88 passengers and 59 crew members. On April 6, a passenger reported fever, headache, and mild diarrhea. By April 11, the passenger developed severe respiratory problems and died the same day on board. On April 24, the body was transported to Saint Helena (a British overseas territory).

On April 24, another passenger, who was in close contact with the first case, went ashore at Saint Helena on with gastrointestinal symptoms. She subsequently deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 25. This passenger later died upon arrival at the emergency department on April 26. On May 4, the case was subsequently confirmed by PCR with hantavirus infection.

Another passenger presented to the ship's doctor on 24 April 2026 with febrile illness, shortness of breath and signs of pneumonia. On 26 April, their condition worsened. He was medically evacuated from Ascension to South Africa on 27 April, where they are currently hospitalised in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Laboratory testing on an extensive respiratory pathogen panel was negative; however, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing confirmed hantavirus infection on 2 May 2026.

So far there have been three deaths and seven cases (two confirmed, five suspected) have been reported.

Is this going to be the next pandemic?

Most likely, no. Even with this specific variant spreading from person to person, this disease is not well suited to cause a pandemic level outbreak due to the low level of transmission. This is a terrible outbreak, and people in affected areas should listen to their local health authorities for specific instructions to stay safe, but there is a very low chance of this going global.

If you have any specific questions, I will try to answer new asks in my inbox regarding the situation but please check with WHO for more information.