All That Fandom Stuff

I just want to live in fairyland, is that so much to ask? 

[lostinhistory]

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

[rubysapphrald]

sharing a wikipedia page is romantic

[rubysapphrald]

my favorites

[visenyaism]

i do in hindsight really love the concept of complaining about adaptational changes in a 3000 year old oral tradition of which there isn’t really a definitive version so much as a surviving one that is also the most adapted story of all time. my chud forebears in Roman Britain throwing rocks at a bard going nah nah nah the last one said some different other shit at that part you gotta do it again is a comforting image to me

[visenyaism]

Almost one thousand years ago a woman with my exact face and probably better bangs in rural Morgannwyg was defending to the whole village the latest iteration of the marchog gwyrdd where Gwalchmei ap Gwyar is called Gawain and gets a little gay with it even though it’s different than the tale we have earlier heard from a previous bard so that I can fight the same battle on letterboxd today. God bless complaining the worlds oldest activity

[notbecauseofvictories]

[grimalditeuthis]

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

[dykecadence]

whoever was in charge of cinematography for the hadestown proshot needs 500 awards immediately

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

[dragongirl-casca]

[thoughtsdenubolous]

Thanks for being nice to me I’ll remember you forever

[namedvesta]

The Bird of A Thousand Voices, installation by Boris Acket at the Vilnius Light Festival in the St. Catherine Church, 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟨

[fairycosmos]

sources are saying ohhhhhhhhh brother

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[lizlemondyke]

as it gets warmer let's all remember the two most beautiful accessories a girl can have this summer are hairy legs and a bunch of bruises from bangin around

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari, 2025)

[emilyofmindelan]

went to see blue heron in theaters.

tried so aggressively not to sob through the last 10 minutes (lowkey failed but i'm fairly sure I didn't make much noise) that i gave myself a raging headache.

took an advil, took my time wandering home, This Is Fine TM.

pulled up a Q&A with the director

immediately learned that the maps in the film were actually drawn by her brother

Try Not To Cry challenge activated again, failed again, headache is still threatening

almost tearing up just writing this man fuck my baka life

THE MAPS. the maps. thinking about the maps kills me

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

the power of a bowl of rice mixed with some fucking bullshit cannot be overstated

[thememedaddy]

[18minutemajor]

my parents r visiting friends in boston and ended up at a red sox game im so proud we’re now a true american sports family 🥲

[18minutemajor]

nvm they’ve fallen into an alternate dimension it seems

[18minutemajor]

meanwhile, in Other Boston