Back Beat Rhythm

I'm the fake geek girl they warned you about.

[secondbeatsongs]

in case it's not clear to everyone, OPs can't even see tags unless they're on a post reblogged directly from them, even if nobody's added comments in the reblogs chain.

a post can have 500 reblogs, half of them with tags, but unless every single post is being shared directly from the original, the OP is probably going to think that nobody's saying anything

get ready for tumblr to feel like a ghost town, even when it's not

[m-l-rio]

The good plot twists aren't the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they're the ones that make all the other little things that didn't quite add up before suddenly click

[silvercyclops]

It’s wraith squadrons big 25th birthday today everyone say happy birthday to the greatest Star Wars story ever told

[magnetarbeam]

HAPPY 28TH BIRTHDAY WRAITH SQUADRON

[h0e-zi3r]

i don’t trust ai because arthur weasley told me to never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain

[wuntrum]

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

[ngoziu]

in defense of fanfiction

Someone asked me today about fanfiction vs. literature, and fanworks and quality, and I didn't realize I had an entire 30-minute talk prepared on the topic. (I'm going to talk about fanfiction here, but I'm using fanfic and fanworks interchangeably.)

We get defensive of fanfiction because people outside of fandom use the term "fanfiction" with condescension. Patriarchal institutions view and irrelevant metrics deem fanfic as "less than" because it does not align with standards for what a piece of writing "should be." Coincidentally, the people who make and consume fanfic or other forms of transformative fanworks are often women or queer or marginalized. The defense might feel necessary in the face of whom fanfiction is ultimately for.

To be honest with you, along those institutional standards, most fanfiction is not good. And also along those standards, some fanfiction is extraordinary. But I really don't care about any of that, because that is not what fanfiction is for.

Fanfiction is for the writer and for the people who want to engage with a fandom after they consume a piece of media. It does not need to be commentary, a response, a movement. Like a diary entry, transformative fanworks are individually indulgent, and like a lovingly cooked meal, can also be communal, shared. They can be "poorly" written and also moving, dumb and insanely empowering, confusing and satisfactory, juvenile and self-revelatory for the author and the reader.

Writing and reading fanfiction is such an intimate and personal act, that I find it ludicrous? Irrelevant? Pointless—to debate whether or not fanfiction should be "good." Huh????

Engage with these arguments if you want, but fandom exists in a completely different environment—an unacademic one—a rare non-monetary one—so the metrics for value are completely different. And if you stuff fanworks into containers of capitalistic consumption, you're gonna be very frustrated. "But was that journal entry good?" "But was that meal among friends good?" "Was that time we spent in the idea that I shared good?"

[shatterpath]

Exactly! Fanworks are a CELEBRATION. That's the point.

[rainydayscore]

I think the historical treatment of left handed people is objectively the funniest form of bigotry mankind has ever displayed

[be-a-dandelion]

Bitches will create a binary and use it to oppress the other side for ANYTHING

[tpwrtrmnky]

The etymology of the word “sinister” having Latin roots that just mean “on the left” is easily up there with the origin of “bad”

[codebreakerblue]

Correct

[valtsv]

you ever see shit that makes you think “i know i’m very online but i’m not online enough for this one”

[guildenstern]

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

[saintandstorms]

[steampunk483]

come read the star wars x-wing books we have:

wedge antilles

his brother-in-law, the notorious imperial fighter ace

the ex-cop jedi

his beloved wife, the smuggler

her father, the notorious smuggler and nemesis of the ex-cop jedi's ex-jedi cop dad

very feral twi'leks (they deserve to have fun)

palpatine's girlfriend (not an exaggeration)

her private super star destroyer with a fake quarry (she uses it for psychological torture)

an imperial bioweapon designed to hit the new republic with a) a health crisis, b) an economic crisis, c) a drug war, d) a civil war, and e) a race war (again, not an exaggeration)

space alabama (with recreational dogfighting (the kind with spaceships, not actual dogs, in case you were worried))

a wolf guy

lots of general unhingedness

[marmota-b]

Come join the X-Wing side, we also have:

the former Imperial child star turned New Republic pilot and Intelligence operative who uses his acting chops to fool Imperials

someone who's basically just Force-sensitive enough for it to be a bother

a walking horse with split personalities

New Republic pilots masquerading as pirates

a whole bunch of pilots in sore need of therapy (they kind of therapise themselves)

prank wars and assorted shenanigans

a whole fake Millenium Falcon

Wedge Antilles trying not to become a general

double(?) agents questioning their loyalties

Ewok pilot shenanigans (Yub, yub, Commander)

[thetorturedlover]

Anakin Solo

[aseaofquotes]

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

does anyone know if you can get in trouble for feeling weird

[pixel3r]

Depends. Are you catholic?

[fashionablyuninvitedx]

sorry for being weird and evasive. i was raised to believe that having wants and needs was a moral failing

[quasi-normalcy]

Everyone needs to understand that the capitalist class would rather kill all life on Earth, including, ultimately themselves, then give up their money or their power. This isn’t a hypothetical thing, by the way; the oil companies have already made that choice.

[thesituation]

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

[moniquill]

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

[vergess]

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

[commodorecliche]

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Luke Skywalker: Jag, you'll be working with Jaina and Zekk. Zekk: Alright! My fantasy threesome! Jaina Solo: Jagged Fel: Zekk: ...of people on a team.