Poisonous Venous Mushroom

Chaotic mess who writes fan fiction in their spare time

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[mikatoonist]

one of my favourite aussie animals; the bin chicken!

… also known as the australian white ibis 👏

love these guys 💖

[cheaphalloweencostume]

Why are you defending embarrassing behavior? Cringe culture isn’t perfect, but it’s why we don’t have to put up with SuperWhoLocks anymore. There’s way less annoying people because shaming helps people give up bad/cringy behaviors.

i would absolutely rather be mildly annoyed by happy people enjoying stuff im not into than miserable people who feel embarrassed about everything they do. ill take a million superwholock kids any day over 1 weirdo adult who enjoys making people feel bad

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

“Shaming helps people give up bad/cringy behavior.”

Bad to you. Cringy to you. Who gets to decide what is bad? Who gets to decide what is cringy? There is no universal cringe sign that some just ignore for funzies. It starts out as, “well, I’m only being mean because it’s cringy.” Maybe throw in a, “if they weren’t so weird I wouldn’t say such things.” But it all comes back to one thing—

“I don’t like it, so therefore no one can.”

Cringe they may be, but at least they aren’t a fucking asshole like anon

[strayklds]

# character growth requested by @hyunpic (video cr.)

[adurot]

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

[adurot]

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

[adurot]

But wait, there’s more!

[thevagabondbard]

MORE PHOTS IN MUH REBLOG

Psst. Don't tell the jolkein rolkein rolkein estate, but this is amazing. DO consider buying a print from the extraordinary artist responsible:

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/leiaham/

Original Twitter thread with the artist's thoughts and commentary:

[thevagabondbard]

[timeofdeathnote]

there’s avatar and then there’s the blue people movie

[savagegood]

men’s sports have nothing on women’s sports

and this particular guy... cry harder (imagine if women's sports had the funding, visibility and accessibility men's sports are gifted):

also, noteworthy addition from @stuckinnet

[tiktoksgay]

[fablepaint]

more of this please

[bonyassfish]

I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it

[bonyassfish]

To everyone saying that “uh actually it’s cause drag kings aren’t as visually interesting”

Kreme Inakuchi

Wang Newton

Murray Hill

Hugo Grrl

Lotus Boy

Landon Cider

Manny Dingo

[dunmertitty]

“what if people transition and then regret it?” ok. let’s do that with everything. no more straight marriages until the heterosexual divorce rate is below the detransition rates

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

every artist who has ever attempted to satirize masculinity i am so sorry

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you could name a movie Portrait of a delusional abuser ruining his own life in pursuit of a fictional standard of manhood and 89% of its fanbase would still be like "Fuck yeah man it was so cool when Shit Cumdick gave that badass speech about how pushing everyone away and never letting yourself feel emotions is actually a good idea for your life. fuckin dope flick"

[olderthannetfic]

Please, please report people who put their ko-fi or Patreon on their AO3 without mercy. Just click the link at the bottom of the page that says Policy Questions and Abuse Reports and say the user is engaging in monetisation. Say where you saw their ko-fi link or mention (author’s note, whatever) and copy the info on their user profile, too, in order to make it easier for the volunteers.

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REPORT THEM ALL

[olderthannetfic]

If you're concerned, there's nothing punitive about this, it's just enforcement of the TOS they agreed to when they signed up. And there's no real risk of the fic being removed, either. AO3 will contact the author and nicely ask them to remove the link, and that's it.

Yeah, that too.

Literally the only downside is making too much work for the Abuse team. (Cry me a river, guys. In my day, we had like 2 active people, and even at the much smaller size, that was a problem.)

If you want, you can let authors know it’s not allowed and then report their asses if they’re rude about it. Or you can just report them in the first place.

But this bullshit should be stamped out.

[dfnkt]

Wait can someone explain what I'm missing here because it sounds like a bunch of whiny babies being upset that people are monetizing their own work. I get its a site policy but 1. Why are you being a cop you losers and 2. Who cares? Why is it a rule?

If I'm missing something here I'm genuinely curious. Who is it hurting to drop a ko-fi on your page? Or do y'all just love being cops?

[olderthannetfic]

I did not donate seven years of free labor to build AO3 so that some other dipshit could monetize my work.

And yes, it is monetizing AO3 itself because the whole reason people want to put kofi links there is that it’s easy to find fics on AO3. AO3 also lacks constant competition from other ads.

AO3 is as awesome as it is because we built it to not be monetized.

People who don’t get that are shitting on the people who made and still make AO3 possible with their work and their donations.

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Go post your kofi links on a corporate site like tumblr/twitter/etc., not one built by your fellow fans. Disobeying the AO3 rules is just rude.

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Look, when you do whatever on a big social media site, you're fucking with corporate overlords.

When you're doing stupid shit on AO3, you're coming to a dinner party I planned and hosted and then pissing into the flower arrangement in the middle of the table.

The only whiny babies here are the ones demanding other fans provide them with a storefront for free.

[lierdumoa]

You don't sell your vegetables at a charitable food bank. You rent a booth at the farmer's market. You don't set up your book kiosk in the lobby of a public library. You go to a flea market, or somewhere else that allows you to set up a book kiosk. AO3 is fandom's food bank. It is fandom's public library. It is not your storefront. If you want to sell your work, don't do it on a nonprofit website volunteers built for the *explicit* purpose of creating an anti-capitalist fandom oasis.

[finnglas]

There’s also the VERY REAL problem that the main defense of transformative work -- aka fanfiction -- to keep us from getting our asses sued into the stratosphere by Disney, Marvel, etc. is that we don’t profit from it. If you are writing someone else’s IP for money without their permission, they CAN sue you, and if it’s somebody as big as Fox, Disney, etc., they WILL sue you. The main way I can tell fandom has done a good job of making safe spaces for ourselves is that these young’uns coming up don’t remember getting Cease & Desist letters from very scary lawyers.

So that’s why you report people putting kofi links on AO3 - because by doing so, they’re painting a giant fucking target on fandom’s back.

[britcision]

Okay but I’m having fucking thoughts about how people are saying the last bit is the only important bit because seriously?

Could that be more fucking selfish?

Does something have to negatively affect you specifically before it’s important?

Why the hell isn’t “treat your fellow broke ass fans with respect and decency” important? Why isn’t “I asked you not to” a good reason?

No, I get why we don’t lead with “it is illegal and we could lose the whole archive” anymore

There’s 90 000 posts explaining that very simple fact, a google will get you there, someone will explain it later, but frankly they should not fucking have to

Treat people the way you would like to be treated

When you agree not to do something, do not do it

The thing being whined about is that AO3 IS NOT MAKING MONEY OFF US. They are not a mass corporate entity like Walmart who pays their employees so little half of them are on food stamps

People trying to use activism and social justice language to make it okay to be shitty to a volunteer run project that abjectly refuses to be involved in capitalism is disingenuous at best

You are the one bringing money into the space and commercializing a public hang out

You are the one walking into our community center and insisting on doing one of very few things we have been asked not to do

Your shitty behaviour does not have to lead to the cops being called before you are asked to fucking leave or stop

AO3 is not your house. They have made a very simple request, for an extremely important reason: no commercializing the space, because we do not want to be sued into oblivion

And the fact that people think only the consequences are important, and not the basic fucking manners of “do not do the thing you explicitly agreed not to do”? Is why so many people are shitty online

Because the idea of not doing something just because a fellow human asked you nicely not to isn’t “important”

Because being respectful to your fellow broke ass fans isn’t “important”

Because if you can use an excuse that makes it sound like AO3 is a corporation or government agency (calling the fucking cops? Seriously? We are preventing the Actual Literal Legal Cops from being called) you can do whatever selfish crap you want

Words fucking mean things and if you cannot tell the difference between a volunteer run organization of your peers and a faceless corporation, you have bigger problems than not being able to put a link on a fic

Shit this isn’t even a “choose kindness” thing, the bar is actually lower than hell and people will still limbo under “respect the space you are in”

This is why people leave their fucking trash all over public parks

Cuz if there isn’t a severe personal consequence, why bother? It’s not like having a nice, trash free park is a huge benefit to the entire community

(There is a severe personal consequence if I goddamn catch you because I will make you fucking eat it)

If your response to “don’t be shitty” is “why not”, I do not want to hang out with you

I do not want you in my community

And frankly, nor should anyone else

[olderthannetfic]

Thank you.

And yes, this is why I’m blocking every moron who reblogs this acting like the first bit didn’t matter. If you’re standing up and saying “I am a worthless community member”, then no, I don’t want you in my community.

[testosteronetwunk]

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

I’m listening

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[monkeychewtoy]

Instagram and TikTok have successfully created the Torment Nexus from Jim Carrey's iconic work, "Don't put people in the Torment Nexus"

[aqueerpolysocialist]

@lesbian-sister absolutely not! The premise is not a secret to the viewer. You know from the very beginning what's going on.

I'd also add that this post is absolutely spot on. I actually first saw this film in a Religious Studies class as a teenager (so this was probably circa 2010, I don't remember exactly when) and the idea of social media didn't even occur to any of us. It was still all about the nature of truth and perception and the ethics of doing this sort of social experiment.

It's kind of a slow burn horror in some ways just seeing the way his life has unfolded with these hollow relationships and the ways he has been conditioned.

Damn I should rewatch The Truman Show.

[espanolbot2]

Regular James Bond - comes with a whole lot of baggage due it being a really long running franchise with accumulating a combination of pop culture expectation, changing social attitudes, and the …toxic opinions of the franchise’s original creator.

But, consider, the all female Japanese musical version of Casino Royale from the Takarazuka Revue…

No idea what the music is actually like, just delighted this exists.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Please tell me there’s a way to watch this online because I wanna watch dapper lesbian Japanese musical James Bond <3_<3

[espanolbot2]

Not that I could find, sadly, but their official youtube account as a promotional video for their Sherlock Holmes show for a bit ago. :)

Also a version of that Anastasia musical from way back when, the Christopher Lloyd Rasputin one,

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

G A S P

AMAZING :D

[raggedy-spaceman]

The Sandman: Kirby Howell-Baptiste & Mason Alexander Park

This entire cast is perfect

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I love the sheer joy they take in this nerd rage

“Feed me your tears, whiny racist fanboy morons”

[between-stars-and-waves]

If she can ruin their childhoods from the present, it’s only a matter of time before she can prevent their very births! Tremble in fear, asshats!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I SUPPORT HER IN THIS GOAL