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THIS IS HUGE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ME

#it will be so good to see him play again #isco

this was very cute

#I know it’s not really the point here BUT #seeing a Finnish football player celebrate with Messi is actually everything 🥺

nmsxi

Bonus

#the au writes itself #leo messi

thesoldiersminute

Cillian Murphy Behind The Scenes/Gag Reel of EDGE OF LOVE (2008)

#how have I not seen this movie??

spandexinspace

I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

#that’s so cool!!!

slaygentford

I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!

holdmybvbeer

Wimbledon final 2023

julianalvarez9

angel boy

#him smile #paulo dybala

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by Holly Warburton

#i love love love everything about these!!!

darkwood-sleddog

Because @staff is too cowardly…

What type of dashboard experience do you prefer?

An algorithm based feed where I get “the best of tumblr”.

Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow.

This doesn’t affect me personally.

Voting ended onJul 11, 2023

#whyyyy would anyone want anything other than a chronological feed???

shaftking

Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

joshus-lobster

Guerrilla warfare on a library is whats currently happening

o-kurwa

orangepanic

Go read an old fic.

There’s such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what’s new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It’s just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.

Read an old fic.

luulapants

I’d argue there’s a bias against like… middle-aged fics in particular. A lot of people sort by kudos or bookmarks, but that’s going to be strongly biased toward older fics, which have had more time to accumulate them. Then there’s people that sort by date and read the newest. But there’s so much good material in that middle area.

A friend taught me her trick for smaller fandoms, which is to sort by kudos and use the published date filters to go through the fandom in 6-month increments. Within a 6-month time span, you’re not really going to get the kudos-over-time bias. Basically, you end up reading the best fics of each 6-month period until you start hitting fics below your quality threshold, wherever that is. You’ll find so much good material that way that would never have crossed your line of sight otherwise.