fandom thoughts

just generally nerdy fun! all about the general fandom scene and life as a ginger nerd.

[sickboywolfgang]

[fandom1iving]

Haven't even seen episode 8 and I agree with this

[pixel-sylveon]

hey american followers

canadians reblogged fcc & net neutrality stuff for you so you had access to information - can you lend a hand and help us now?

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Context (please share this post!):

Bell, Cineplex, Rogers and Shaw are trying to censor the internet and force the end of net neutrality in Canada.

[corey-and-the-slipboys]

what the hell..

[pixel-sylveon]

hey american followers

canadians reblogged fcc & net neutrality stuff for you so you had access to information - can you lend a hand and help us now?

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Context (please share this post!):

Bell, Cineplex, Rogers and Shaw are trying to censor the internet and force the end of net neutrality in Canada.

[corey-and-the-slipboys]

what the hell..

[angelfrommontgomery]

Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them

[beepbeepboopbeepboopbeepbeepbee]

the tags on this are so funny because they range from “my neighbor went to school with tom cruise” to “my dad is best friends with macklemore”

[fandom1iving]

My nana has a cottage in the town in Canada where All Capone's hide out was. One of her friends had a little girl the same age as his daughter and they would have play dates frequently. To this day she says her house was super fun, cause there were a bunch of hidden passages to run through, but had a lot of guns.

My great, great grandfather played the flute in Buffalo Bill's wild west show. Meaning he would have known Annie Oakly. He also met Queen Victoria.

[out-ofwonderland]

[b9d3h3je2-deactivated20180827]

#clint how are u supporting all these children

[mistuhsunny]

My favorite part of this post is how archery is like this dominant genetic trait. 

[fandom1iving]

So I'm watching Daredevil with my mom, and I was trying to explain it to her. She is getting really hung up on his name, thinking it was creepy/not a good super hero name. And then he's running across roof tops a doing back flips and she is like "isn't he blind???"

So I'm trying to explain his super powers and she just goes "oh, like a bat?"

And I'm like "yes!" She understands 🙌🙌🙌

Then my dear mother makes a freaking joke and destroys me. "Then why isn't he called... Batman...."

[never-ever-ever-growing-up]

So, this was happening a few days ago on Twitter and now I feel like my life is complete

[beautifulwhensarcastic]

@thesokovianaccords !!!

[fandom1iving]

Reasons they are my favorite

[sapfira23]

[vaniiroxx-blog]

#i feel so bad when any guy or girl tries to date his daughter #because you show up at their door and her dad is fuckin’ Thor

Look how badass he is while holding that baby

 #I can imagine him using his Thor voice on her #like when she’s crying in the middle of the night #WHAT IS WRONG DAUGHTER OF MINE#DO YOU REQUIRE NOURISHMENT#WHY DOTH YOU TORMENT ME SO PRECIOUS ONE 

But what if he used it on the guy who came to the door for his daughter?

TELL ME, MIDGARDIAN. WHAT ARE YOUR INTENTIONS TOWARDS MY DAUGHTER?

I AM OBLIGED TO INFORM YOU NOW THAT ANY DISRESPECT TOWARDS HER SHALL SURELY END POORLY FOR YOU.

WHOSOEVER DATETH MY DAUGHTER

IF HE BE WORTHY

SHALL POSSESS

THE BLESSING OF THOR

and watch when the time comes, he’ll just be like “Hey, mate, treat her good okay? Bring her back before eleven please. Drive safely.”

I THINK WE HAVE TO WORRY MORE ABOUT HER GODFATHER, TOM LOKI HIDDLESTON TBH.

#ohohohohohohohrhioehehehheheh i followed you in my car to make sure you paid for her dinner hehehehehehehehe #i’ll literally come into your house and kill you if you break her heart #hehehehehehee

What the hell. This is the greatest post in the universe.

jesus christ it’s updated

Rebloggin for the comments.

JFC Tumblr, I can’t take you anywhere.

I love you

ALL of you

this shit just keeps getting better!!!

Dear lord this girl is going to have the hardest time getting a boyfriend. The poor thing is going to come home, stomp up to her room, try to slam the door, but it’ll be impossible because Chris Hemsworth will effortlessly stop the door with his huge Norse God arm.

And she’ll be like “DAD! YOU SCARED HIM AWAY!”

“I DID NO SUCH THING, MY DEAREST DAUGHTER. I ONLY SPOKE TO HIM THE TRUEST TRUTH OF THE NINE REALMS.”

“Oh my god, dad…”

“HE HAD AN ILL LOOK ABOUT HIM, I LIKED IT NOT. YOU ARE DESERVING OF THE HIGHEST OF QUALITY IN MEN, NOT THE LIKES OF HIM. YOU HAVE A DUTY AS PRINCESS OF ASGARD TO MARRY WELL AND SERVE THE KINGDOM, AND I ALSO WISH THAT YOU MAY HAVE A HUSBAND WHO WILL TREAT YOU AS THE QUEEN YOU ARE.”

“Dad… I’m not a queen! Stop it!”

And then Tom Loki Hiddleston, her godfather, walks in and she’s like: “And YOU! YOU SCARED HIM, TOO!”

“Oh, I did? My mistake. I overestimated the bravery of the young man, I fear.”

“WELL DONE, BROTHER.”

“Dad! Uncle Tom! SHUT UP! YOU’RE NOT EVEN REAL BROTHERS!”

“I fear your daughter is saying hurtful things in her anger, she means them not, I think. Worry not, Thor, I had trouble with my children more than once…”

“UNCLE TOM YOU DON’T HAVE ANY KIDS!”

“BROTHER PERHAPS WE SHOULD LEAVE HER TO HER ANGER.”

“No, wait! You guys have to stop doing this, I’m never going to get a boyfriend if you keep doing this!”

“Oh, alright. We shall never again berate or intimidate the young men whom you present to us. I promise.”

“UNCLE TOM STOP TALKING LIKE THAT.”

“Darling girl, my name is Loki, God of Mischief, Silvertongue, Lord of Lies. I know not of this Tom you speak of.”

“YES, MY DEAR. YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL BE SAFE FROM ANY SO-CALLED WRONGDOING OF OURS.”

“Dad…”

“WHAT IS IT, DAUGHTER?”

“Never mind. Thanks, good night.”

#And then the next day Tom and Chris are in full costume#helmets and all#with their scepters and their capes#And she brings in this young guy#and they open the door#And there’s her father and her godfather#Tom smiling his ovary-bursting smile#you know the evil one that’s also strangely sexy#And Chris has his hammer at the ready#and they greet him#calling him a suitor for the hand of the princess of Asgard#talking about how he’ll need to complete nine Trials to prove himself worthy to have her as his queen

#he never calls her back

I’m sorry

but this just keeps getting better and better

EACH TIME I SEE THIS THERE ARE MORE WONDERFUL COMMENTS

[pondermoofin]

OMFG DIS POST. DEM COMMENTS /dying

It gets better every fucking time!

[theghostparty]

I am CRYING oh my god

[hannawolfcross-deactivated20200]

[[And there will be that one guy.

He won’t run or never call again.

He’ll sit there and play along.

“I, (insert name), swear on my very life that thine daughter, thine princess of Asgard shall return safely to you. My very life be forfeit at your hands if it be otherwise.”

It’ll be RDJ’s kid. His dad will have warned him about this long beforehand and quizzed him on it.]]

[akittensblog-deactivated2021071]

I didn’t even think it was possible for this post to get any better. Thanks for proving me wrong. 

[poohbear6301]

*oh I can’t breathe*

[fishyandclintbarton]

ITS BACK!!!

[fishyandclintbarton]

A blessed post.

[fandom1iving]

This is why I am still on this freaking site. Cause every 18 months I find a post I've already read, and read it again cause I'm bored, and y'all make my day.

I hate you

[fandom1iving]

Foster Care, a child's perspective

I was introduced to the cruel realities of the foster care system at the tender age of nine. It's something no child should have to understand. I remember it being explained to me in terms like "sometimes our mommies and daddies can't take care of us very well, and we have to go somewhere else, love with someone else, while they learn how to be good moms and dads." I can remember repeating those words calmly to my friends, like they were normal things for a nine year old to say.

The difference between my story, and the stories of the millions of children in our country in the foster system, is that when my mom explained foster care to me, I couldn't fathom how someone wouldn't know how to be a good parent.

Because, you see, I grew up in a home with two loving parents who never made me feel unsafe. At nine years old my mother was explaining foster care to me, because our family was opening our home to one of these many children who needed a place to stay while their parents learned to care for them.

And so I saw foster care through the lens of a child, not one who was scared and in a new home, living with strangers, but as an older sister to a temporary sibling. As a little girl who could see that my new brother's mom was different from my parents, but couldn't understand why.

I remember watching as my parents struggled to care for the frightened, sick, and lonely boy that shared our home. Watched as eyebrows rose at the supermarket, when people saw my mom walk in with five kids, one of whom was a different color.

I listened as my parents talked about my brother, and his parents, and what they had done wrong.

I watched as the fought for him, to give him the best life that they could.

I watched as the fought for his mom, doing everything they could to give her the skills to be reunited with her son.

And I cried the night we found out that he was leaving us. Knowing even at ten years old, that he would not remember the family he had lived with when he was a baby. And trusting my mom when she explained that this was for the best. That he wouldn't remember not being able to live with his family, and that we would remember for him.

And I do remember, everyday I live my life striving for the selflessness that my parents showed each day they cared for a son who they knew they would not be able to keep.

So when you tell me you would foster, but you worry about your own kids, I want to say that you are right to worry.

Worry that they will grow up taking what they have for granted.

Worry that they grow up learning only to give when it will be recognized, and rewarded, and remembered.

Worry that they will wake up one day, after they are grown and set in their ways, and realize the horrors of this world, and that they will be too shocked to do something about it.

Sincerely, the child of a foster family.

[sirmorgan]

[sherlock-seattle]

This is one of the best moments of acting in Sherlock, but it’s missing the final, and crucial part of the scene. This:

Without using any words at all, Sherlock’s clearly communicates a shift from disappointment and irritation to shock, then comprehension, and finally apology and regret. 

Amazing.

[purplebuddhaproject]

https://www.instagram.com/purple_buddha_project/

[fandom1iving]

Or because networks want to make money and writers are cruel.

[fandom1iving]

Sometimes I wonder why I waste my time...

[reverseharem-deactivated2020021]

is it time for frank cho and milo manara to die or what

[kiefbowl]

That’s basically a naked woman I’m YELLING

[houroftheantichristwolf]

What a pervert. What the FUCK does he not know how clothes work? What the hypothetical fuck is she wearing then if we can see all that?

[auntiewanda]

It’s like how bath towels in comics miraculously wrap completely around breasts. Or how even when injured and dead on the ground women in comics have to be twisted into “sexy” poses. Or how women in comics walk like they’re in high heels even barefoot. 

It’s the only way men know how to draw women, because to them female characters are only there to be sexy. They only think of “women” as exploitative costumes and camera angles, high heels and titillation. Sex objects to ogle, plot objects to further male heroes’ narratives and drama, not heroes to cheer for. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

I’m sorry, I was labouring under the impression that this was the crowd that thought women should wear what they want..?

[auntiewanda]

And that applies to fictional women who are depicted by men how? You can’t apply agency in the plot to something metatextual when it comes to fictional characters. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

Come on, let’s not pretend this is a male exclusive thing.

[auntiewanda]

We’re going to have this argument are we? Not to mention you’re deviating from the original point that attributing agency to fictional characters’ clothing is asinine. 

What you have here are images of power, and do you really believe these characters are designed with titillating heterosexual women and bisexual and homosexual men in mind? Because I don’t think you do.

This is why the Hawkeye Initiative exists. Take common female poses in comics, put a man in the role, and see how “empowering” and “strong” it actually looks: 

Also: 

[feminism-is-radical-deactivated]

He got the painting for fighting against ‘censorship.’ Note that they handed him a gross design of a female being objectified, because at the end of the day, that is all they really want, to be allowed to objectify women. They don’t care about censorship in general it is about their ability to sexualise and degrade women without consequence.

[dyketales-deactivated20180601]

You can see her butthole for chrissakes

[pmastamonkmonk]

I think the best imagery I’ve seen to explain the difference between what men think male objectification is vs what women actually want to see is the Hugh Jackman magazine covers.

Hugh Jackman on a men’s magazine. He’s shirtless and buff and angry. He’s imposing and aggressive. This is a male power fantasy, it’s what men want to be and aspire to - intense masculinity.

Hugh Jackman on a women’s magazine.  He looks like a dad. He looks like he’s going to bake me a quiche and sit and watch Game of Thrones with me. He looks like he gives really good hugs.

Men think women want big hulking naked men in loin cloths which is why they always quote He-Man as male objectification - without realizing that He Man is naked and buff in a loin cloth because MEN WANT HIM TO BE. More women would be happy to see him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock.

Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE.

[aglassroseneverfades]

This is the first time I have EVER seen this false equivalence articulated so well. Thank you.

[asagi-s-garden]

Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE. 

Best thing I’ve ever read

[rainbowsociety-deactivated20190]

65 Questions You Aren't Used To

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?

2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?

3. The person you would never want to meet?

4. What is your favorite word?

5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?

7. What shirt are you wearing?

8. What do you label yourself as?

9. Bright room or dark room?

10. What were you doing at midnight last night?

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?

12. Who told you they loved you last?

13. Your worst enemy?

14. What is your current desktop picture?

15. Do you like someone?

16. The last song you listened to?

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?

19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?

20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?

23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.

25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?

26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?

27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?

28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place? 

29. What is your favorite expletive?

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?

34. What was your last dream about?

35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]?

36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?

37. Have you ever built a snowman?

38. What is the color of your socks?

39. What type of music do you like?

40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?

42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)

43. Do you have any scars?

44. What do you want to be when you graduate?

45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

46. Are you reliable?

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?

48. Do you hold grudges?

49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?

51. Are you a good liar?

52. How long could you go without talking?

53. What has been you worst haircut/style?

54. Have you ever baked your own cake?

55. Can you do any accents other than your own?

56. What do you like on your toast?

57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?

58. What would be you dream car?

59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.

60. Do you believe in aliens?

61. Do you often read your horoscope?

62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?

64. What do you think about babies?

65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of.

[mrhinactive]

OI YEAH ASK ME SHIT

[fandom1iving]

Don't normally do this kind of thing because I have about twelve followers, and I never post. But why not:-)

[fandom1iving]

Ikea upcycle complete! I don't have a great picture of the before, but I'm really happy with how it came out. #diy #upcycle #ikeahack #adventuresinJessicaland

[fandom1iving]

Sometimes you have to bribe yourself with cereal with chocolate in it. Special K is good for you right? #futureRN #homestretch #letspasstheNCLEX

[fandom1iving]

Three more days!!!! #graduationhereicome #classof2017 #futureRN #Anneofgreengables