so i won't manifest that

siobhan, uk. different username, still here.

[yourimaginaryfriend-deactivated]

people don't talk enough about the trauma callouts can cause and the fact people can and will use them maliciously to destroy the social life and often livelihood of people they just don't like (often out of bigotry too!) since that would require applying critical thinking to what you read and understanding that you can't just go "oh shit this person is being called out they must be Bad"

[yourimaginaryfriend-deactivated]

if you've been maliciously called out i love you. if you have trauma from being called out i love you

[yourimaginaryfriend-deactivated]

wanted these tags on my blog

[esefjex]

as somebody who's been through it in my IRL life, it feels like a little island in the storm whenever i see other people talking about it.

[catchymemes]

[invertprivileges]

[oneheadtoanother]

[yourfavoritescienceofficer]

I love the Star Trek fandom bc the fanfic can literally gaslight you into thinking things are canon. Like I’ve never experienced that with any other fandom.

[spocksgotemotions]

I think it’s because there are Several different canons (and if we’re taking books into consideration then some of those canons were written by fans). And this fandom is like… so old. There is fanon that is literally almost three times as old as I am

[esefjex]

This is a fandom I need to get into. I love star trek and I love fandoms populated by people my age or older.

[dayzeart]

Light streams through the abstract stained glass windows of the Ethical Society in St. Louis, Missouri, which was masterfully designed by modernist architect Harris Armstrong in 1964

via: https://bit.ly/3cvRBjP

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[skulandcrossbones]

What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

[ripkarl]

things i want to see in season 2:

whatever the fuck they want to show me

[ofmd-alsaurus]

I absolutely adore what David Jenkins says about fanfiction in this interview:

he’s really just like… “fanfiction? you mean making the characters do things? that’s what I do too!” 😭

[esefjex]

I briefly dipped my toe back into fandom this week after watching the pirate show and fucking hell those spaces are not for me any more

I hate to be all “kids these days” but kids these days don’t... talk to each other?? they just proofread each other to death?? argue about the way somebody said something rather than what they said or the sentiment they expressed. somebody told me that my reference to “female-gaze-heavy media influences” triggered a “fight-or-flight/ick response” in them. Where the fuck are you supposed to go from there???

[esefjex]

The ofmd fandom is nice enough but I feel so old, I miss the fandoms of yore when everyone was only allowed online for one hour a night

[everyatombelongingtome]

Time for some OFMD Fic Recs

I have so much admiration for anyone who has the patience, talent and follow-through to write anything at all, and to then share it with the rest of us just makes you an absolute hero - thank you for the free serotonin!! ♥

🏴‍☠️ Best of Post S1 / Long Reads

These are mostly WIPs but so worth it. I’m obsessively checking my emails for updates. If you haven’t read these, I promise you won’t be disappointed, these authors are making magic while I’m struggling to put one rambling sentence together, I can’t even put into words how beautifully written these fics are. 

Hell or High Water by Mottlemoth (E, 102k+) How Edward Got His Groove Back by MadHatter13 (M, 41k+) The Knife and The Throat by darcylindbergh (E, 26k+) We Were Warnings by mia_ugly (E, 13k) Aftercare by perkynurples (E, 100k+) Your Name Like A Boat by mia_ugly & soft_october (E, 20k+)

🏴‍☠️ Smutty Smut & Fluffy Heart-Eyes

All complete, all E or M, top shelf - if you like to read smut for the fluff, you won’t be disappointed.

Rough Winds Do Shake by HeckinaHandbasket Bit of a Clothes Horse by Fyre with art by Aivelin He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by AuntieClimactic Built For Luxury by emmett Close Quarters by FortinbrasFTW We Came Untarnished by propinquitous Hands On by Fyre What Happens In The Auxiliary Wardrobe, Stays In The Auxiliary Wardrobe by Luddleston Aftercare by Fyre (sequel to Hands On) Damn The Dark by Serendipity_Stupidity Ties That Bind by Fyre Separating Salt From Water by morian Beyond Vanity by reserve Good Game by captainbonny Starcharts by triedunture Buttercup by mia_ugly

[greencanaries]

Ed ‘Blackbeard’ Teach + Leather

Costume Designer: Christine Wada

[ok-dxh-knockmeout]

hands photoshoot by ashley osborn

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[psychosomaticdeicide]

There’s like. A ton of personifications. Including but not limited to the above:

Quarantine Man

The Taiwan CDC with a Disinfectant Gun

Hepatitis but a Boy Band

Syphilis with Gender (女) and other Bio Information

Varicella (chicken pox) and Herpes Zoster (shingles) as Children

The Plague, but Hot Lady (also with bio information)

Fuckboy Influenza

Measles, but Hot Guy

Lyme Disease with a Mech????

And, of course, COVID-19 in all their gender neutral glory.

There’s more but I hit the image limit. I’ve got a couple articles about them, too:

Taiwan CDC's personified disease illustrations go viral in US | Taiwan News | 2020-10-24 09:10:00

Taiwan CDC's personified disease illustrations go viral in US | 2020-10-24 09:10:00

Taiwan's CDC illustrates Covid-19 and other diseases as gorgeous anime characters

Please don't try to roll for them in gacha. Or get them in anyway.

[psychosomaticdeicide]

Let’s make this post even longer because I have even more images saved. Next up, we got:

Tsutsumagushi Disease

Chikungunya Fever!

MERS

Pertussis (whooping cough) with a horrifying (almost body horror) headpiece and flute

Dengue Fever, the image of which literally made me stop breathing for a moment when I first saw it

Japanese Encephalitis (as... idols, maybe?)

And Zika Virus (so pretty! and for what???)

And some higher res images of the ones from the video (Legionnaires’ Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Rubella). Unfortunately, I could not fit Rabies because of the image limit.

[that-gay-ass-frog]

I loose a little bit more sanity with everyone of these i see

[himboatheart]

This is like that post with humansonas of corporations

[esefjex]

hi!

I haven’t been here for a while. I just logged in and realised that my account has been sending private messages containing links to a google form. That wasn’t me (which I hope is obvious); please don’t click that link. 

hope you’re all safe and well x