Terrible, Beautiful Sparks in Space

Talk shit get bit. ey/em they/them Ao3 link

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[eroscestlavie]

We rly need to bring back the term “acquaintance” like into regular and frequent use. So many high drama community squabbles and feelings of betrayal could be avoided if people just admitted there’s a step between “stranger” and a full on friend whose friendship you have a commitment to continuing and fostering. Like sometimes you’re just aquatinted with someone and you might decide you don’t like them after getting to know them a bit better…that’s very normal

[bevsi]

something I’ve noticed in fandoms lately is a lack of… object permanence? perspective? Just reacting to each episode/chapter of something as if it’s final & whatever plot line they dislike is the status quo forever? like…… have a tiny bit of patience

I kinda understand because a lot of franchises lately have ended in shoddy and poorly thought out ways, but tbh either have some faith in your fav show or just write fanfic

[bevsi]

this combined with people reading a boatload of fanfic between seasons then coming back to the show & getting upset that their headcanons aren’t canon… disappointment is a normal feeling but I also feel like people put themselves through unnecessary stress watching shows they clearly do not like

[snickerpuffs]

call me ʔ the way i make her glottal stop. this is nothing. this post is fucking nothing.

[sliversoakley4]

[jami-c]

has entered the vault thank you

[wikicamp2]

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[phantomrose96]

After 13 years of this, it's still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.

[loki-zen]

this is the correct way around and every other social media site is wrong

[ashmindpalace]

average first sentence of a math wikipedia page:

A snorkle basis is a particular sort of set that has some properties and is generally "nice" (in a rigorous sense) and can do many things and is very practical.

[caracalliope]

love this post. also a big fan of some midtext sentences where this kind of thing is going on:

[noelledeltarune]

i hope i am not just an online presence to you all but also someone who has a really bad headache

[screenshotsofdespair]

[crippled-peeper]

“You think every citizen should have access to free and accessible healthcare?”

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

I love immigration

[crippled-peeper]

This one made the fascists and the racists really really mad. I get hate mail daily for this post

Imagine getting mad because someone else’s child’s chemotherapy doesn’t cost them 100,000$ .

[insomniac-arrest]

the heavy machinery when I'm on pain meds and not supposed to be operating them

[brosif40]

[etirabys]

As a kid I was confused by how much precious stuff went into ancient graves (gold, furs), but I guess it's often easier as a community to pitch it all into a kurgan than to argue about who gets what

"throwing gold into a pit and hauling a big rock over it is a social technology"

[etirabys]

"this guy was buried with more gold than all the other people from the same millennium combined! maybe he was a great guy."

camera pans to a dipshit who refused to declare a successor lying on a bier, as his six dipshit sons who are about to destroy their tiny civilization if they don't get The Headdress glare at each other above his corpse, village elders whispering urgently in the background

[eyelessfog]

a character who truly, legitimately goes “but why does that matter?” about their feelings when someone who cares about them asks. and the sudden falling of everyone around them’s faces as they realize that this person doesn’t recognize themself as someone who needs or should be taken care of. i want Everyone to hurt. surprise at the idea, worry for them, horror at not having noticed. do you see this person who doesn’t think of themselves as a person?

[sing-you-fools]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[lauramkaye]

if George Wickham lived today he would use his career as an influencer to peddle some kind of scammy MLM scheme and end up going to prison for wire fraud, having a Netflix documentary made about him, and a bunch of people would propose to him via letter in jail