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Lace!

bigandlong

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

jae-felidae

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

hermesmuse

Op can may we inquire about the website list

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

wingedtyger

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

beggars-opera

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

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For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.

Historical fabrics for re-enactors

justgarb

Tiedtohistory.com has sheer voile linen

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Period Fabric has a variety of wools, but switch to the full website if you’re on mobile

scaredykyleisgonnagosoon

So I was taught a lesson in how to get rid of a migraine in 30 seconds and omfg listen my migraines don’t go away ever but I was shown what part of my body to touch and like???????????????

It’s witchcraft????????? Like I would be burned at the stake if I lived in ye olde days knowing that information?????

What the fuck??????

countrygirlil2015

Spill it! Lol….Hooooowwwww?? Had migraines since age 9….😓😓😓

scaredykyleisgonnagosoon

Its called the T4 push, but I literally can’t find the info online????? I guess I’m not searching good enough? These medical fuckers are holdin out on us lol.

It’s best to have someone do this for you while you stand up and relax your muscles as best you can, but if you’re alone, a tennis ball and a flat surface will probably work. Alternatively you can lie on the edge of a bed at the pressure point. (But no really do try to find someone to do it for you)

Find the area in your spine between either the first, second, third, or fourth vertebrae. It should be sore and uncomfortable to press down on, so look for the one that’s most painful, and press down with as much pressure as you can on that area for 30 seconds.

Realize that 80% of your pain has magically disappeared and keep the info secret if you live in a small puritan town, lest you be tried for witchcraft.

If you don’t have to worry about being burned or hanged, then share the info with your migraine suffering friends.

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As someone who wrote a 10k word paper on pressure points for a high belt ranking test in her martial arts class, I can tell you that you just found a pressure point used in acupressure and acupuncture to relieve pain, particularly that in the head. :)

arirashkae

Hand to god we discovered this by accident when my husband was rubbing my neck and I nearly collapsed it felt so good

blame-my-muses

This post was sent by literal angels??? I’ve had a persistent low-level headache for nearly 24hrs and now it’s gone??? In 30 seconds? What gods did you sacrifice to for this information!?!?

As a medical massage therapist, I thought I would give my two cents.

This is good for tension migranes and normal migraines, but actually pretty useless for sinus migraines. It’ll help for a hot second, but quickly come back. (These are usually the migraines behind your eyes, in your ears, and behind your forehead. Sometimes it can feel like jaw pain or TMJ) for sinus migraines, behind the ear in a divot. Press down firmly and pull towards your collarbone. That’ll drain your sinuses. Also, pressing around the eye socket on the cheekbones help. There is also a little triangle up away from the eye in the eyebrow bone. Press and hold pretty hard and that’ll relieve that behind the forehead pain. Also, ear pulling is great to help move sinuses around.

Don’t forget the temples too! Press firmly and hold. Open and close your jaw while holding your temples. It’ll feel weird, but it’ll help with jaw pain. It’ll work a similar way if you hold the jaw joint under your cheekbone.

And never underestimate the power of a foot massage!! Give minutes can be all the difference!! Our feet are our base. If they hurt even a little, somewhere else in your body will hurt. Treat your feet and sinuses kindly!

thenudewitchofthenorth

As a lifelong sufferer from frequent migraines I will reblog this everytime I see it, for myself and my fellow sufferers!!

coolgirl

(Bruce Wayne voice) I’m Bruce Wayne, from Gotham City, I’m participating in Nailed It! because for years I’ve tried to learn how to bake to impress my father [cuts to old pic of baby Bruce trying to whisk in a bowl, wearing a crooked chef hat, Alfred trying to help him with a really loving look on his face], and- (someone in the background yells LIAR!!) (Bruce covers his face, the background music stops) fine I lost a bet to one of my kids and they thought it would be hilarious for me to participate because I’m terrible in the kitchen [cuts to picture of grown Bruce with a pan on fire, looking absolutely frantic, sad trombone sound] [the people behind the camera laugh]

coolgirl

First challenge is recreating justice league cake pops, the camera zooms into Bruce who has the biggest forced smile ever on his face as he holds a cute green lantern pop.

Bruce: nailed it!

Nicole: (cackling as the camera zooms into the ugliest cake pop her eyes have ever laid on) WHAT IS THAT!

Bruce, as the camera pans into the details of the mess of a pop: personally I think it’s an accurate depiction of green lantern

coolgirl

The cake challenge is making a giant cake with ALL the known batvigilantes in Gotham.

As bruce whisks in a bowl midway the process, if you edit the clip to make it loud enough you could hear him muttering under his breath why the fuck did I adopt so many kids

Nicole: and I genuinely don’t know what mr wayne is doing over there (cackle) (camera cuts to Bruce frantically counting the figures before adding them to the final cake as he knows if he forgets any of them they would never let him live it down)

Nicole: oh I love the purple you chose for spoiler’s Cape! / Bruce: it’s actually eggplant but thank you nic!

Jacques: as….. lo…vely as this cake looks.. I can’t help but notice.. you forgot to add batman to it

Bruce: (huge bleep)

brawltogethernow

Bruce: [makes a paper towel cowl and puts it over his face] Bruce: [stands behind his cake and sort of looms there] Bruce, as foppishly as possible: I’ll be being Batman. [doing the growly voice really badly] I’m Batman. Voices behind the camera: [all laugh]

Paper Towel Batman goes viral in gif form.

(Also Bruce, cutting out Nightwing’s emblem in fondant: I want the vigilantes of Gotham to know that I am making these in a manner designed to be efficient, and not in order of how much I love them. Host: That’s…nice?)

elf-kid2

#DCU#camera guy 1: how does he know what every suit design looks like? i haven’t seen him pull one reference. camera guy 2: [shrugs]

He would never live this down.

Me: *in the local comic book shop staring at Star Wars comics in distaste while I wait for someone to finish in front of me*

Dudebro, sidling up to me: Oh, do you like Star Wars? *smirking* I bet you don’t even know who all the Jedi are. I can help get you into it, if you want—

Me: I don’t like Star Wars I just like Princess Leia.

Dudebro: ........What?

Me: I don’t like Han Solo. I don’t like Luke. I don’t like Darth Vader. I don’t like the new trilogy and I didn’t actually enjoy watching any of the old ones unless it was a scene with Princess Leia, who was taking exactly zero bullshit. I’m not the nerd girlfriend you’re looking for I’m looking for Spider-Man Noir.

Not pictured in this post: The dudebro called me a bitch and a fake nerd and looked like he was going to blow up when I said he was bad at negging and fake nerds aren’t a thing.

Also not pictured: Me telling the shop owner that dudebro wasn’t staying six feet away from me and the shop owner telling him to move back or get the fuck out.

Also not pictured in this post: The customers in front of me offering to walk me to my car because I was scared dudebro was out in the parking lot waiting for me and me taking them up on it because the dudebro was way bigger than me and I made him angry.

#CCP #Storytime #referee #real life tbh #the audacity of these men #you are not better or smarter #me

THIS is why I have a Concealed Carry Permit!

Storytime for whoever happens to see this. I was a referee when I was younger and fitter. This included the sport from all levels of itty bitty 5 yo to semipro. High school games were the worst. Some schools had police to take us to our cars after. Sometimes we carpooled from somewhere else to the field. Sometimes we tried to park next to each other. But usually my little Honda parked in a high school parking lot surrounded but parents, friends, and supporters of the teams.

Usually this was fine. After the game we left quickly and nobody bothered us. Usually.

One game I was the lead ref. We had a nasty parent who was harassing me. More importantly he was harassing a young ref. The poor kid was very new, inexperienced, and did not know how to handle it. That's ok, this was a match for freshmen and below. He didn't have to handle it, since that was my job as lead ref. I told a coach that the game would not continue with a certain parent in the stands. So the AH got kicked out of the game.

Game continues, one team wins or it was I tie. I honestly don't remember. This was not an important game. Not for ranking, not for rivalry, nothing. But guess who was waiting for me outside the gate?

YOU GUESSED IT! AH parent. I had "ruined the game" and "discriminated against his son" and "shouldn't be reffing a men's sport". He followed me towards my car. Yelling at me and threatening me. I called the cops. Harrasing a ref after a game is a crime. He didn't leave me alone. I went back to the gate where there were more people, still with the cops on the phone. Eventually, I and the other refs were walked to our cars and the parent was banned.

I applied for my CCP the next day. I have been shooting rifle since I was small, but had never been interested in handguns. While I was waiting for my CCP to be approved, I want home to my Army retiree father and he taught me how to shoot handguns and gave me my first personal pistol.

That scenario happened to me more than once. After the first time, I always told the cops on the phone quite loudly that if I was followed all the way back to my car, they would need an ambulance for my attacker. They always left after hearing that.

I was lucky. Not everyone is. I don't know whether I would have shot them or not. But I wanted to have the option to defend myself.

Have a good day and stay safe, all.

iam93percentstardust

so i want to talk for a minute about why it’s so important that you reblog fics on tumblr (yes, i know there’s a problem with art too but this is specifically about fics today)

first of all, let me kick this off by saying, if you’re reading this, this is for you specifically. yes, you with less than a hundred followers, you with less than ten followers, you with zero followers. there seems to be this misconception that it doesn’t matter if you don’t reblog something because no one will see it and i’m telling you right here, right now, that you’re wrong. it definitely 100% matters and i’m going to tell you why

last month, i reached a follower milestone and was very excited - for about a day and a half and then my excitement plummeted because what i realized was that i had just hit this milestone and yet the number of notes on my fics had never been lower. at first i was baffled. how could i have more followers than ever but be getting less notes than i used to? at the time, i was posting one to two ficlets every day so i thought maybe the quality was decreasing because of how much i was putting out and i just hadn’t noticed so i decided to take a break from posting ficlets and focused on my longer works and the events i was participating in

i went back to posting today after asking for prompts from followers yesterday and go figure, the number of notes is still lower than it was compared to posts from the beginning of the year, even factoring in the time that’s passed since then. so then i thought to check the notes themselves and what i ended up finding was that while the number of likes hadn’t changed, the reblogs had (interestingly, this drop in notes coincided with a post making the rounds telling writers to be happy with the silent readers who leave neither likes nor reblogs on works but that’s a story for another post)

this is when i went to a couple friends to complain that i didn’t know what i was doing wrong and made an off-hand comment about wondering if people were seeing all these posts begging for people to reblog and just not thinking it applied to them, which is when may - thank you, may - told me that yeah, that’s exactly what a lot of blogs think so let me tell you why it does actually matter that you reblog, even if you don’t think it does

firstly, as it relates just to the author, when you reblog, you’re telling the author that not only did you like their story, but you want to share it with everyone else too. i don’t know an author out there who doesn’t go through the reblogs and read the tags and i can pretty much guarantee that we all get that warm, fuzzy feeling when someone leaves a particularly nice tag

there are two common arguments that i hear for this point: what if i like something cringey and why does it matter if i reblog something when i don’t have any followers to share it with?

as for the first argument, no media is unproblematic and no media is something that everyone will consider non-cringey. there’s always going to be someone out there who thinks your chosen fandom is cringey and it’s best to realize that now and get over it. you can’t please everyone. besides, it’s your blog. why wouldn’t you want to post things you like on your blog?

as for the second argument, if it’s not enough for you that even just the act of wanting to share fics means something to the authors, then let me bring you to my second point: fandom is built on active, not passive, participation

we’ve all heard stories about the star trek fans who actively passed paper copies of fic around to share it with people. fandom was built on sharing those fics. friendships were built on sharing those fics. and if those fans had taken the fics they wrote and hidden them away, shared them with only a couple friends and told them not to distribute their works, modern fandom as it is today wouldn’t exist. we’d still be hiding our fics, hoping that we don’t get the all-terrifying dmca notice

along the same lines, tumblr is built on active participation. every couple of months, it seems like tumblr comes out with a new way to make it harder for content creators to share their stuff: the 2018 nsfk ban, shadow-banning, problems with the read more, and recently not being able to put links in your work if you want it to show up in the tags. all of this means that it’s up to us to keep fandom on tumblr going because tumblr isn’t going to do it for us

tumblr’s algorithm, unlike just about every other social media site, is designed around reblogs. this, in many ways, makes sense. tumblr is a blogging platform so of course its algorithm is designed around what gets shared. this means that posts that show up in the tags are the ones that get reblogged. the posts that show up in the On Your Dashboard, What You Missed, and Recommended features are all the ones that get reblogged. the posts that show up on the login screen, for those of you who regularly see it, are the ones that get, you guessed it, reblogged

so what that means is that, even though you might have only a couple or even no followers, your reblog counts toward that algorithm and that post gets bumped a little bit higher in the tag

which is why it’s such a big problem when people stop reblogging. i can’t tell you how many times i’ve seen a tag saying something along the lines of “wow this is so good, why doesn’t it have more notes?” well, typically it’s because anywhere between 2/3 and ¾ of the notes on that post are likes, which means that tumblr’s algorithm counted my fic as worthless and didn’t bother promoting it

which leaves me where i currently am: reblogging my own ficlets over and over in the hopes that someone will like it enough to reblog it, tagging it with something as pleading as “if you like please consider reblogging” because if i use anything stronger, i get a whole bunch of people telling me that i can’t tell people what to post

no, you’re right, i can’t tell you what to post. the most i can do is beg and explain yet again why every reblog counts

#reblog for someone else to see #hopefully with more folowers than me #hey that rhymes

fast-and-fit-sam

Hey runners (and walkers)! Thought this might be helpful :)

motivationforfitness

Shoelace Voodoo

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The heel slipping one is awesome if you have to wear orthotics because it stops them from slipping round inside your shoe

thededfa

Oh! I’ll have to try this

feanor-the-dragon

oh my god. oh, oh my god. the wide forefoot one… oh my god bless you you beautiful hero

If you are still doing the au ask, maybe a concubine au?

Where’s that one post where the king’s concubines are basically his entire council ruling the country

Steve and Bucky are injured in battle--Bucky loses an arm, and Steve’s lung function has suffered. They can no longer fight, and Howard is disgusted that two of his best soldiers were bested, so in the most assholish move possible, he gives them to Tony as his concubines. “Gross gross gross gross gross!” Tony wails when he finds them in his room, dressed in wispy lace and little else. “Wow!” Steve and Bucky exclaim, offended. Tony gives them a thunderous look that cows them immediately. “I’m sorry, was I supposed to be happy that I now apparently have sex slaves because my dad thinks you’re not people anymore just because you were ambushed and injured?!” “Uh,” Steve and Bucky say, and then they try to apologize, but Tony is already storming out of his room, because he’s so hurt and angry and he has the propensity to cry when he’s angry.

Howard dies and Tony becomes king and he hates every minute of it. It figures that Howard would give him one final “fuck you” by leaving Tony a country at war. He’s coronated and everyone is hopeful for his reign and so he smiles and gladhands like his mother taught him to--and then when he gets back to his room, he screams and cries in rage. “Holy shit,” Bucky says, and Tony yelps and falls over, because he hadn’t realized they were there. “What the fuck are you two doing here?!” he hisses, scrubbing at his cheeks even though he knows the damage is done. “We were told we should come up. Something about ‘kingly virility’ and ‘working off stress,’” Steve replies, pouring on the sarcasm heavily. “Well I don’t want to fuck you so you can fuck off back to wherever concubines live,” Tony snaps. “Doll, lie down and let Stevie give you a back rub,” Bucky sighs, rolling his eyes. “You look like you’re made out of a brick wall. If you go to sleep like this, you’ll be stiff.” Tony glares at them, sniffing, then says, “I’m lying down because I want to, not because you told me to,” and they roll their eyes fondly as Tony does just as he said. “Ooh,” he mewls, whimpering, at the first firm press from Steve’s hands. “That hurts!” “Your highness, please don’t be offended, but this is the most fucked-up back I’ve ever seen,” Steve says. “It’s gonna hurt.” “Stop!” Tony mewls. “Steve stop it hurts, it hurts-!” “It’ll hurt more tomorrow if I don’t do this,” Steve says, actually feeling pretty apologetic. Bucky flops down beside him. “I’ve got an idea,” he tells Tony. “But you have to promise not to be mad first.” Tony frowns at him. “No.” “Well I’m a liar and I’m gonna tell you the idea anyway,” Bucky declares. “I think that you should let us give you a deep tissue massage. With our dicks.” Tony glares at him, aghast, too appalled to speak. “That way you’ll be all fucked-out and relaxed and Steve can rub your back properly,” Bucky continues, ignoring his offense. “Come on, sweetheart, even I can see your back is fucked up, and I haven’t even touched it.” “Well,” Tony snaps, and then sags with a whimper because oh God he really is tense. “Fine, but I’m not going to enjoy it,” he says mulishly. They don’t get around to rubbing his back until he actually passes out after his third orgasm, but perhaps it’s for the best, because, “Oh my God his back is really so fucked up I don’t know how he even managed to lie down.”

“Hello, I’m your new concubine,” Clint says, holding his hand out to shake. Tony stares at him, offended. “What?” “I mean, my old captain thought I’d turned and was selling information to the enemy, so the options were beheading or sexual slavery. So here I am!” “Leave immediately,” Tony says, and sighs in frustration when Clint cheerfully ignores him to walk into his bedroom. “Clint! Hey!” Steve says happily. “They make you a concubine too?” Clint walks over to hug him. “Yeah, it’s real fashionable I guess!” “I’m not letting him fuck me,” Tony says, crossing his arms and glaring at him. “I only let you two do it because you rub my back.” “I’ll rub your feet,” Clint offers helpfully. Tony, as it turns out, is a sucker for foot rubs, and also apparently for the trick Clint learned when he was seducing information out of the enemy’s prostitutes. “Man, where have you been,” Bucky complains. “Steve and I had to take turns to get him that relaxed and you got him to come so hard his eyes crossed after one time!” “It would be foolish to reveal my tricks,” Clint says as Steve climbs on top of Tony to rub his back while he’s passed out.

Natasha just appears one night. “I’m almost entirely certain you were working for the enemy and are the cause of my father’s assassination,” Tony says, and then, “I didn’t consent to this and I would very much like you to get off of me.” “Understandable, but I’m very disappointed because I’ve heard great things about your dick,” she says and climbs off of him. As it turns out, Natasha had been a double agent and was the reason for many decisive wins on their side, but she’d been so deep under cover that no one trusted her anymore, and like Clint, it was the decision of death or sexual slavery. “I’m abolishing sexual slavery and we’re having real, actual trials for people that are assumed to have done a crime and what the fuck are you doing,” Tony says as Natasha climbs back on top of him. Natasha smirks and raises an eyebrow at him. “That’s really sexy of you, deciding to make sure there’s actual justice in your country instead of happily crushing people beneath your boot.” “I’m having a lot of mixed feelings about this but the biggest and strangest feeling is fear,” Tony admits. “I cause a lot of fear boners,” Natasha says, as simple as breathing, and leans down to press a kiss to his slack mouth. She leans back when he doesn’t respond and snorts when he just gapes up at her. “To be clear, I’m gonna ride your brains out now. If you say it’s okay,” she adds

With the abolishment of sexual slavery, it means that Tony can no longer have concubines. “I’m not leaving,” Bucky declares. “I like your bed and you let me eat the plums out of your fruit salad. Also I like the way you look when we get you all fucked-out.” “I’m staying too,” Steve says. “I like being the one in charge of rubbing your back, and carrying you to bed when you’re trying to work late. And Bucky’s right--you look great when you’re satisfied.” “I love that you call him ‘satisfied,’” Clint tells Steve happily. “It sounds so sweet and cute!” Steve frowns. “What’s the problem with that?” “There is nothing sweet or cute about Tony after we’re finished with him,” Natasha says, amused. “He’s just sticky.” “I’ll have you know that you don’t get to decide whether or not you’re concubines,” Tony insists. “Sexual slavery is abolished. There are no concubines anymore.” They all pause to consider this. Finally, Clint decides, “So we’ll be your lovers instead.” “What,” Tony says. “I like the idea of that,” Natasha agrees. “I’ll even take one for the team and marry him so he can have legitimate heirs.” “What,” Tony says again. “Great! With all of us working together, we can keep Tony permanently ‘satisfied,’” Bucky adds, using finger quotes as he smirks at Steve. “What,” Tony says for a third time, but they continue to ignore him as they plan out their lives, even about inviting a couple other fellow soldiers up because they have very good ideas about how the country should be run. Tony says that’s only allowed if they can get Bruce to live in the royal quarters as well because he’s pretty sure his ass will never recover if they don’t. Somehow, they manage it. “You can’t fuck me you’ll tear me in half,” Tony sputters when Thor shows up. “That’s mean, Tony, Thor’s always been a very gentle lover,” Steve scolds. “I thought you’d be taller,” Thor says. “Oh, I see, they brought you up to keep me humble,” Tony says, and punches Thor directly in the nose. “Well now you know that that’s never happening!” “Tony!” Clint scolds. “This isn’t the turn off you probably meant it to be,” Thor tells Tony, amused, and Tony yelps as Thor picks him up and puts him on the bed. Natasha pets his hair gently. “Don’t worry, Tony, we’ll take care of you.” “Well,” Tony says mulishly. “You always have.” Thor pauses. “...Usually people aren’t this angry when I’m about to fuck them.” “This is normal,” Steve tells him hastily. “He pouts because he doesn’t like it when other people are right.” “Ah, I know someone exactly like that,” Thor says. “Are you gonna fuck me or what,” Tony snaps. Thor smiles at him. “You are just adorable, aren’t you?” “You’re not allowed to fuck me anymore,” Tony tells him, and then squeals when Thor folds him in half.

Basically, Tony was the concubine the whole time, he just didn’t know it.

unpretty

i was thinking about amazonian telepathy and i don’t think i can use this anywhere so

There were responsible ways to deal with being bored during League debriefs. Rather than do any of them, Diana adjusted her legs so that her knee touched Batman’s. A ragged tear in his suit meant that it was skin-to-skin contact.

She reached out tentatively.

Black Canary’s hair looks cute today, she ventured, an idle thought to share. She was careful not to go searching for any answers he did not give. She expected him to say nothing, and break contact.

Doesn’t matter, came his answer, so terse a dismissal it almost startled her. He didn’t move his leg. It seemed unlike him, but this form of communication did tend to be more honest.

How unfortunate, to imagine this was what he thought of their occasional conversations.

I’m sure she put a lot of work into it, Diana tried again. The bright blonde locks had been curled into ringlets before being drawn up into a ponytail.

Not for me.

She frowned. That doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate it.

Don’t need to.

You’re being awfully rude.

It’s fine.

If I’d gone through such trouble, I’d want you to notice.

Not for me.

It will be, Diana decided. I’ll do my hair just like that, to spite you, and it will be the cutest.

Batman said nothing. Then he leaned back just a little, only enough to see where their knees touched. He glanced at Diana, then away. Was that you? he asked finally.

Of course, she said.

How long have we been having a conversation? he asked.

Since I pointed out the cuteness of Black Canary’s coiffure? she said. Batman did not respond. What did you think was happening?

Intrusive thoughts.

She tried to look at his face sidelong, though she didn’t know why. Looking at him directly would make it no easier to decipher his minimal expressions. Do your intrusive thoughts often sound like me making observations about other women?

Sometimes.

Can you two keep it down? asked J'onn. Some of us are trying to pay attention.

No you’re not, Diana accused. You just heard gossip and wanted in.

We’re not gossiping, Batman said. Don’t make me break truce.

I had also noticed Black Canary’s hair, J'onn said, ignoring Batman.

Isn’t it cute? Diana asked.

Batman sighed.

Do you think I could pull it off? J'onn asked.

Batman had a sudden coughing fit.

acepalindrome

Someday I really want someone to make a series about a team of magical girls, expect they’re all adults now and thought their days of saving the world with the power of friendship and glitter was behind them. But now some new evil has emerged, and they’re all suddenly finding their powers coming back after being dormant for years, and after a couple days of desperately hoping a new team of fifteen year olds would appear to take care of this, they eventually realize that it’s all up to them.

So that means digging through old boxes of keepsakes to figure out where they stuck their Rainbow Twinkle Wand after they finished saving the world the first time around, and hoping the outfit still fits (it’s a magical transformation, so yes, it adapts to their adult bodies and fits perfectly, even though it’s a lot more frills and sparkles than they’ve worn in a very long time.) Also gotta get used to yelling their attack names, because the magic doesn’t work otherwise. One lady shouts ‘Strawberry Lipbalm Ray!’ and blasts a monster into oblivion, and then stares off into the middle distance because she’s 30 years old and has a mortgage.

scarlct-vvitch

i honestly dont get why people stopped reblogging things they like on here bc like what are you afraid of??? people thinking youre cringey?? guess what bitch! youre on tumblr! it’s all cringey! reblog everything you like and do it shamelessly no one fuckin cares

lesbianpraetor

people stopped reblogging things because it is a lot easier to like things than to reblog them on mobile, and that’s what the majority of people use. It’s a design flaw not the users fault

tekehu-archive

idk if most people are aware of this, but if you hold the reblog button down you can literally just swipe to the icon of the blog you want it to reblog to. it‘s quick and easy

lady-divine-writes

I just reblogged this for a second timr. Wrote this note, too. On mobile. Took seconds. No biggie.

concerningwolves

I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones

concerningwolves

Trekkster Gods

No internet

fledgeling fandom

women run everything

seriously where the fuck did we go wrong

fandom wouldn’t exist as we know it without these women

conventions, badges, quite a lot of taboo but also lots of fun

closely-knit communities

mostly discussions in magazines

hogging the phone so you can chat with your friends

(while trying to pretend the rest of your family doesn’t exist)

basement meetings

fanart what??

Dawn of Networking

tin-bucket sites and forums

the badly assembled DIY IKEA kits of the internet

these were strange places

i’m too young to know firsthand but I’ve heard the stories

they were like,, inhabited by eldrich beings

who would sell souls in exchange for fanfics

early RPs

nobody was quite sure what they were doing

but!! You could connect with more fans quickly!!!

made obsessing less lonely

yay

“I was there Gandalf”

Live Journal

small internet communities

the name “Ann Rice” strikes fear into your heart

also hatred, lots of hatred

adding every warning and rating under the sun, hiding behind NSFW filters even if it isn’t necessary, praying you don’t get reported or deleted

you get reported

your friends get reported

nobody is safe

fuck.

Citrus Cheesecake

DeviantArt and ff.net

bright shiny eyes

children everywhere

“more of a lime than a lemon >//< but also kind of just a lemon with fluff?”

where did all the adults go? Where were they hiding??

pls don’t flame

A/N *dances away from your flames because idgaf*

omggg such a nosebleed!!!! XD lol

characters and authors having conversations in the author’s notes

Archive of Our Saviours

ooo we found the adults

mass migration by younger fans to Tumblr, Ao3 etc

looking at fandom’s earlier stages like “I have no memory of this place”

ratings that had nothing to do with fruit

(thank gods)

fandom grows up

we are all grateful

we have proper websites to call home

wanderers can finally settle down

many fans are Tired

We’re here again, Gandalf

your elbows are explicit

cats are explicit

there are legends of a paradise of pillows

but none of us wants to leave hell

blue blue blue

a well-respected petblr is flagged as explicit

will we be here in January?

who will survive?

those with sense watch the chaos from Ao3, sipping mocktails

but we’re not really scared

nothing can kill fandom

not even god.

vaspider

Tag your era. :P

I started out at the very tail end of "I was there Gandalf" and really hit my stride as a readers in Citrus Cheesecake. And oh God was it cheesy. I currently watch from AO3 sipping ginger beer.

kumabearsweetheart-deactivated2

I just jerked out of my midday dissociation and realized that seed bombing a golf course with mint would be the ultimate crime.

Oh my god this is so evil.

I love it.

terulakimban

Not mint. Native wildflowers. Because sure mint’s hard to kill and never completely goes away. But mint can also be kept low to the ground, and if you turn the sprinklers off and returf, you can keep it in check. Flowers, though? With quick growth, and fast seeding? Plants that have bred themselves for millennia for exactly that soil and the natural local water conditions? Do it in small sections, and start near water features. By the time anyone realizes that they’re the “wrong” plants, they’ll have already flowered and gone to seed, and once that happens, they are there forever. Source: mom may have used native wildflowers as spite plants before for a particularly obnoxious and lawn-proud neighbor who also lived downwind. Hypothetically, if she did this, she was also 1) a tenant and 2) not a fan of either the landlord or the local HOA.

It’d be a shame if somebody linked to how to make wildflower seedbombs. It’s simple enough but some folks might not know how but might really, really want to because they’d want to do something they absolutely shouldn’t and so helping them with multiple links would be really bad, right? I am not suggesting you do anything. I’m not thinking of golf courses near me.

meatthroat

im flower bombing all golf courses this summer in the name of decolonization

shrewreadings

I wouldn’t DREAM of doing this to the entitled POS assholes who PARK ON THE SIDEWALK, and think ‘no street parking 9-5′ can’t POSSIBLY mean THEM, don’t you know they’re CLUB MEMBERS?!?!

Reblogging to find later

DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.

Me: WHAT.

blimpyou

Sometimes I smash or pass the whole book

What the fuck guys

ultimatefangirl-exe

I like to smash or pass monsters in DnD and Pathfinder books.

theneverlandpiratewitch

BugBears are legit.

can we not

crankywitchgaia

@celestial-guardian-ragnarok @chika-ann

Smash or pass

chika-ann

Heh… that depends… what’s on the list

dogs

there are dogs on that list

you wanna fuck a dog

wait

this is tumblr

don’t answer that

sciencegenius

dogs? pass.

Liches tho……. ;)))

definitelybeholderrpgideas

That’s actually not a terrible entry to thirst after. I mean, you could technically count it as necrophilia, but its consensual necrophilia, so you do you.

What the fuck

definitelybeholderrpgideas

Of all the reblogs and additions to this post, this is the one you’re shocked by?

Consensual necrophilia is not a phrase I thought I’d hear. Then again this is tumblr, so maybe that’s on me

noblevagrant65

Hot take: the term consensual necrophilia also applies to vampires, since they’re undead creatures. Wanna fuck Strahd? You’re in the same boat with the lich fuckers.

However, what I think the real treasure we’re all sleeping on is liches….in love. Just immortal wizard gals being pals.

I am absolutely here for the immortal undead lesbians

tigressflower007

IS IT STILL NECROPHILIA IF YOU’RE DEAD TOO??

I don’t think so?

vriska-coded

Ok next topic is a dragon and a human beastiality for the dragon?

both are sentient, so its just interspecies sex.

novas-grimoire

…I am now reminded of that argument I got into about whether or not a half-dragon would have a cloaca.

pwbi

This post is an entire dungeon of bad decisions at this point

choryllis

I think you mean legendary decisions

Legendary for being bad

This is not what i expected when i started this blog

To be fair, i wasnt expecting a whole lot when i started this blog in 2014

But it definitely didnt include 10k notes of thirsty monsterfuckers

the-cephalon-weave

11 approaching 12 thousand

Fuck you’re right

scamgar

ok but can we just talk about abberations cuz like they’re intelligent and adults but their minds are inscrutable to humans. so like does that mean you can consent to sex with them? cuz you’re on wayyyy different levels of intelligence? but also they’re an adult with the capacity to give and understand consent? but could a normal sentient’s mind comprehend consenting to sex with them? help me out here i’m confused.

If both parties are sentient, its just interspecies sex, stop trying to overcomplicate things. Just because one species is better at calculus does not complicate the less intelligent species’ capacity for consent.

scamgar

true but in most fiction an abberation’s mind functions in a completely different way from a non-abberation. essentially what i meant to point out was the potential issue of blue and orange morality

Are you seriously trying to start a philosophical debate on this post?

Like, I admire the chutzpah, dude, but it doesn’t matter if one species has a totally alien concept of everything. If both parties know what they want, communicate what they want, and agree with each other on it, its fully informed consent on each side and therefore just regular interspecies sex. Sentience is sentience, even if the way it manifests is wildly different.

scamgar

honestly? i was drunk out of my mind both times i saw this post. also you make a very good point and are correct that flavors of sentience aside, as long as both parties are sentient and consent it’s fine. i apologize for drunk me’s ramblings.

… you get philosophically argumentative when you’re drunk? Thats a mood, my friend

curriedsugar

what even is this post

spaceunicornslover

Not sure. I lost it somewhere and I’m not sure where. Did it change from one subject to another or is it just me not understanding?

averycuteknight

D&D logic & arguments

this post is a disaster and a tragedy and the essence of both D&D and Tumblr, what do y’all want from me

gojirahkiin

I’m reblogging this legendary post not because I have something to contribute (if it can be said on this subject, it already has been), but because I want to be part of its vast and enduring legacy.

Is this post my claim to fame

Is this my internet legacy

Is there a return policy

Can you return internet fame

callmeriser

No your fame is now eternal and I shall repost this every year.

Well shit

Reposting so I can find this later

bekkathyst

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