just a trifling little man

Höttr | 20 | they/he

[tashaneva]

someone i loved once gave me a box full of darkness

[star-felled]

quite literally the only day you can rb this the last one was 2005

[fatehbaz]

low opacity elrond

[zaynfag]

i hope your ship goes canon is basic. i hope your fifteen year long rpf conspiracy goes canon in a forty five minute video where they make fun of you the entire time is scary. it happened to me

[bonepile-shieldwall]

just cut my mother out of my life shaking but feeling so good 🤪

[mintedwitcher]

fandom spaces were better when the media creators didn't know we existed and we didn't want them to find out.

[mintedwitcher]

this got way more attention than I expected, and I'm seeing a lot of confusion and dissent in the notes so let me clarify:

this isn't about creators just knowing about fandom in the abstract. this is about creators being deeply involved with their own fandoms. as in, writers of TV shows trawling fansites and using fan theories to formulate plots for their show, or changing plots because fans have pieced together the foreshadowing correctly and predicted the endings. as in, authors engaging in fan forums and discords and discourse on their own works. as in, celebrities reaching out to individual fans to announce that they've been made aware of the fan's work.

this is also about fans inviting those creators deeper into fandom spaces, or pushing fandom spaces at creators, without shame or dignity, all for a few seconds of fame and recognition. all for validation.

when I say "they didn't know we existed" I mean they weren't in it with us. there was a distinct barrier, a separation between the fans and the creators. before journalists and talk show hosts started throwing fanart and fic in actors' faces and demanding reactions. before buzzfeed and its intolerable theft of fan work. before fans were almost expected to have their work found and critiqued by the very people the work was made about.

there has always been a level of communication between fans and creators, and for the most part, that's fine. but when it gets to the point where fans are constantly, relentlessly, pushing fandom content at creators in the hopes that it'll get them noticed, or that it'll sway the creators to their line of thinking, or that it'll mean something, and when creators think themselves entitled to our spaces, or use our work for cheap laughs, or rewrite their own work purely to mock us for getting an ending right, it gets to be too much.

we need that barrier back in place.

I still, to this day, don't tell people that I write fanfic. I don't tell people that I'm in fandom spaces. I don't talk about fandoms outside of fandom spaces at all. a little shame is good for the blood.

so yes. fandom spaces were better when the media creators didn't know we existed and we didn't want them to find out.

[mintedwitcher]

Reblog this version actually

[apollos-boyfriend]

just overheard my dad on the phone going “yeah, i’d be more than happy to buy her daughter off of you, how much would you be willing to trade her for?” and got Very Worried for a second before remembering that he manages dairy farms for a living. surely there’s gotta be a better way to word that man

[apollos-boyfriend]

[tashaneva]

someone i loved once gave me a box full of darkness

[tashaneva]

someone i loved once gave me a box full of darkness

[hjartasalt]

Iceland is fucking bizarre my name change made the news

[hjartasalt]

Like just @ me at this point I'm literally the only person in iceland (and very possibly the world) who has the first name Lauf

(Article title reads "Lauf and Birningur in group of new names in the name register")

[hjartasalt]

No one lives here so now two of our biggest news outlets are vagueing about me lmao

[hjartasalt]

Hmm you're right. Correction: two of our biggest media outlets are talking about me specifically because they are obsessed with me

[hjartasalt]

This morning I showed up to work and my boss was like "congratulations :))" and I was kinda confused so asked her on what and she said "your name, I heard about it on the radio"

So far I have counted two online articles and apparently the radio is also talking about my name change so I'll keep you guys updated when I'm on national tv or something

[cipheramnesia]

With a little legwork we can make more people on Tumblr see this than the entire population of Iceland.

[tashaneva]

someone i loved once gave me a box full of darkness

[ofishal-fish-posts]

reblog to turn prev into a fish

[important-animal-images]

[ilajue]

call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste

[ilajue]

if youre in the united states and would like to learn new and terrible things about where you live, you can visit the EPA's Environmental Justice Screening map and put in your location or zipcode

click on superfund proximity to see how close you are to a superfund site (location contaminated with hazardous material)

heres Niagra Falls NY! google love canal!

its a good tool to see what environmental factors could be harming your health that you may not know about. this is not limited to toxic waste so look around at it

my favorite is looking at roads. there are some interesting correlations. Here is a map of Buffalo NY with traffic proximity

here it is again but with where people are getting asthma :P

crazy

heres where the people of color live in Buffalo btw

in case you where wondering what the explanatory factor here is, its the 6-lane expressway that they ran through a residential community in the 50s. a redlined neighborhood btw. the road used to be beautiful parkway. thank you Urban Renewal, thank you Robert Moses, and thank you Kensington Expressway

ok heres the link again because now you really want to go look at it lol

[ilajue]

anyways yeah um environmental health issues are super insidious and not talked about enough. i know thinks seem daunting and scary when we talk about environmental problems, things like climate change are huge and all-encompassing. The way you can make the most impact, real tangible impact is by learning about things local to you!!!!

learn about them, talk to other people about them, organize or find a way to get involved with orgs that already exist. grassroots activism is infinitely more effective than they want you to know and its your responsibility to yourself and your neighbors to try to make things better good luck I love you all

[dungeonmalcontent]

One day I showed up to D&D and one of the guys in our group, before we could even start playing, was like "guys, look at this thing I found." And pulled up either this exact map or a very similar one that cross checks environmental hazards from industrial facilities with average income (more detailed than by zip code, it was pretty cool). And we use a big TV embedded in the game table for maps and stuff, which he pulled this up on, so we spent like half an hour looking at where we all lived and going "oh. Shit." And then we sat there a bit kind of ambling through some cool down small talk.

And like, the thing that kind of made it real for everyone was the context of it being on the screen we use to look at world maps for a fantasy game. It was very surreal for some of the guys at the table, the more conservative ones in particular, like they could see the map and it was showing them the forces of Mordor marching to their doorstep. And for a short time they understood that there are actually vast and evil forces in this world that they could defeat with a weapon, they were just large corporations commiting environmental crimes with very well protected CEOs and fantastic lawyers.

[ilajue]

check out your location while you can!!! Part of Trumps immediate changrs includes getting rid of public information sources like this one. I don't know if they will keep this website up for much longer so go on and download any reports or pollution information you might want

[ilajue]

so as of today, February 5th 2025 this website is down. This is coinciding with mass censorship of other government agencies online from the Trump administration. Those who were able to download their data before the removal, keep it and learn it and share it with your peers. Those who did not get the chance, know that there are other avenues and follow them. Information is power and they are trying to take it away from you. Do not let them.

here are some other mapping resources from the notes. this is not everything, but it is a start.

Check the quality of your tap water here:https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

Check your climate vulnerability here: https://climatevulnerabilityindex.org/

explore historical redlining maps here: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining

this is just the wikipedia page of current superfund sites, take a look and see where your state has hazardous waste sites.

look into the history of your area and TALK ABOUT IT. be annoying and loud about it. don't stop learning and don't stop talking.

[ilajue]

update! here is a clone of the website, thank you @boots-fastened-slip-fashion for linking this in the replies I'm putting it here so it can be accessed along with the other sites :)

[ilajue]

hey! if you're in the notes worrying about how the website is down, you should be rbing this version, which has a replica of the site and a bunch of other resources!!!

[bonepile-shieldwall]

This is a great resource to have, even if you think there is no possibility you could be living near toxic waste! Currently one of my middle school friends is going through a battle with our county about the lack of information they have regarding an abandoned Brine Processing Plant that teenagers (admittedly, tresspassing) hung out at that was found to have radiation remaining on site with no public markings.

The government, at least my local ones, don't want to share information regarding endangerment of health, and we need to keep raising these concerns and pushing for communication from our government! If there is an area of concern keep pushing your officials, attend council meetings, any public or private events you can get into to communicate- don't let your health be ignored by those elected to represent us.

[willgrahamscock]

once we stopped using the words lemon and lime to indicate how sexually explicit a fanwork is, that’s when we as a society started to collapse

[stimman3000]

we’re really at that point in the year where no one cares about anything huh

[krishnadewme]

[lionkins]

[wallpatterns-deactivated2019120]

My psych professor mentioned swaddling in lecture so I emailed him a picture of me being swaddled in my dorm room and asked if I could get extra credit because it was really hot in there and I got really sweaty and he was like “fabulous, sure”

[willisahappygrahamcracker]

[mountainashfae]

I’m going to miss the Honors Advisor from my university.

[wrathofthestag]

[snazzybees]

This is definitely my favorite email i’ve recieved from a professor, with the subject line “back at it”.

[k3nnjamin]

wish my profs were this silly, but getting these canvas notifs/emails at 9 AM make them 10x funnier

[bonepile-shieldwall]

fond memories of convincing my Norwegian teacher to hold class in a local café monthly, since our class size was so small <3

[bonepile-shieldwall]

genuinely crashing out. burned myself at work (1st degree, one minor 2nd degree area) partially on my wrist as well, went home e hours after it happened. im gonna be around heat lamps and be required to lift tings tomorrow, and when i asked two separate people, one being GM, if they could please find another opener, they gave me a notoriously late person to help at 5. i start at 4. nothing is going to be open on time! i can't work fast right now!