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I love when I come back to tumblr after a long break and I see my mutuals reblogging old shit from 2012, simply because it's GOOD and hoping newbies to the Fandom find them and realize how amazing my mutuals are!

#classics #anm

beyondthefold

CHRIS EVANS as COLE TURNER Ghosted (2023) | dir. Dexter Fletcher

#chris evans #ghosted #just found in my drafts #anm

Ten People You Want to Get to Know Better (Tag Game)

Tagged by the lovely @izhunny I was just reading your answers for fun, so imagine my surprise when I saw I was tagged!

I've decided my mood needs lifting, and realized the best way to do that is checking tumblr once a day, so after a long break, I'm back. It was really sweet @izhunny noticed that!

Last song: Baby, Now That I Found You by Ella Bright (Off Campus). I don't even know if I was actually listening to it, or if I'm hearing it in my head because it's played on repeat for days now

Currently watching: “The Last Ship” on Netflix. (2014) Watch a show about a pandemic! It'll be sci-fi! Mom and I used to watch it together, but I never finished the series. I've been very nostalgic this summer and landed on that. Speaking of nostalgic, Hubs and I are watching “Perfect Strangers” on Tubi every night. (1986) It's held up pretty well and the silly comedy has us rolling with laughter. They really don't make TV like that anymore.

Current obsession: learning how to sew a zipper AND trying to avoid catching feelings for anyone in the Off Campus cast. I do not have time for that! And I can predict I'm about to become reacquainted with my pre-teen Pompeii obsession as soon as I watch Professor Tom's new show

Currently reading: Physical Book: the Comeback by Lily Chu, audiobook (in the car only): The Redo by Max Monroe, e-book (only while walking the treadmill): My Not So Perfect Summer by Phoebe MacLeod

Currently working on: Writing? Haven't written in AGES, but 5000+ words poured out of me in the last two weeks from a premise built on real life events we've dealt with recently- what if a vacation-home rental owner accidentally gets stranded with her handsome, mysterious guest during a weather related event? No, they aren't snowed in. And I can't decide if he's an actor or sports figure hiding from the real world.

Sewing- I AM going to figure out how to sew a zipper this summer if it kills me. Making zipper pouches and chapstick holders for some family going on a Disney trip this fall. I'm also going to figure out how to do gathers. I have this idea to use some of my school t-shirts and turn them into a patchwork dress.

Personal- gathering info to make an informed decision about retirement

Last Google search query: is the bonnet style on the new Little House series historically accurate?

No Pressure Tagging: @maeve-curry-writes @captainjimothycarter @nuggsmum @fassyanon @lady-meatball @before-we-get-started @astheskycries

If you're reading this consider yourself tagged and play along.

#get to know me #tag game #play along #anm

captainjimothycarter

Yall have no idea how giddy the photos are making me

captainjimothycarter

Kicking my feet and giggling at the fact were getting steggy

#same #steggy #doomsday #sdcc 2026 #anm

tarafbtegel

kingloptr

tryin to stare down his shirt through the screen like

damageditem

best gif use ever :)

#tom hiddleston #anm

thena0315

Avengers Doomsday Cast at SDCC 2026

source

#avengers #avengers doomsday #sdcc 2026 #anm

kirbily

Gif sets are SO important to me. Yes, please take this scene and break it up into 4 or 6 three second loops that I can study over and over to appreciate the small details of it

haywrites

EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THE AGENT CARTER TV SHOW. YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH PEGGY CARTER

#peggy carter #appreciation #marvel women #anm

ladaleda

acting-and-drums

#the thing that i really liked about all their interactions #is that it paints a picture of the things we never saw in the movie #she spent a lot of time with these guys #the way she spoke to steve wasn’t actually just the way she was with steve #this is who she is #and you think she’s just being a jerk to krzeminski when she asks about his girlfriend #but that’s just peggy being peggy #and THAT is the actual reason i’m losing my flipping mind with love for her #because you don’t often see fictional women who are generally a bit sassy and a bit of a shit stirrer #but it makes perfect sense that THIS is the woman who runs the most powerful and covert branch of the US government #tv: a three dimensional human being (who looks great with a gun and a pencil skirt)

#peggy carter #appreciation #marvel women #anm

my-ny

GIVE ME CHRIS AND HAYLEY ON THE PRESS TOUR GIVE ME CHRIS AND HAYLEY HOT ONES CHRIS AND HAYLEY THIRST TWEETS CHRIS AND HAYLEY PUPPY INTERVIEWS AND ETC AND ETC

#this #steggy #Chris and Haley #sdcc 2026 #anm

ckerouac

Today in ‘everyone on LinkedIn is insane’ may I present… reading a book is a class flex.

I hope everyone knows that when I suggest a book I enjoyed, I’m absolutely trying to flex my ‘fun isn’t hard when you have a library card’ middle class dilettante lifestyle.

dajo42

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

computationalcalculator

my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament

idontgettechnology

I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn't notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.

However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."

I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."

And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."

And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.

So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.

libraryogre

At a certain point, the appropriate response to "What were you doing at the devil's sacrament" becomes "stealing shoelaces from the president."

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you were stealing shoelaces from the President

mothnem

Well what ELSE were we supposed to do at the devil's sacrament????

#tumblr things #call and response #anm

hiddlestonspot

Tom Hiddleston for Disney+ and National Geographic’s Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston

#professor tom #tom hiddleston #pompeii #anm

hiddlestonspot

Pine and Roxy walk along the beach — The Night Manager Season 2 (2026)

#tom hiddleston #tnm2 #anm

hiddlestonspot

Jennifer Lopez and Tom Hiddleston at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on July 12, 2026

#tom hiddleston #jlo #wimbledon 2026 #anm

badwolfkaily

This.

strongwomenunited

I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.

beatrice-otter

I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.

I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.

Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.

When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.

mylordshesacactus

More to the point--and no, I will never stop harping on this, because we have GOT to stop leaving our strongest points in the drawer--it doesn't matter if you heard of this convention before joining AO3 or not, because it's in AO3's tagging FAQ.

[id: the "How do I tag a romantic or platonic relationship?" section of the tagging FAQ here.]

"But Jo," you may argue, because you're wrong. "There's no way to find that without digging through site FAQ menus, and that's really inaccessible!"

sure

except

that when you go to post a new fic, and you go to put in those relationship tags, you see this

[id: the Relationships field]

and that tooltip, the one THERE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE FIELD WORKS, links to the Relationships segment of the tag FAQ, which explicitly lays this shit out.

I don't care if you don't know fandom history. I don't care if you've never heard a goddamn word about the spirk shippers. I don't care if you've never been exposed to fandom culture in your life. It is, frankly, not fair to expect those things of everyone.

What is entirely fair to expect is that you will READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED NEXT TO THE FUCKING BOX, actually. Forget fandom conventions. It genuinely doesn't matter whether you agree with or respect fandom conventions. This is a site policy. This is explicitly how tagging on AO3, specifically, works.