fangirl trash

currently obsessed with: Star Wars, Hannibal, The Old Guard, IWTV on AMC

[starlightervarda]

The Old Guard/MENA Masterlist

All my posts & responses about TOG/Joe

Wedding Rings

Joe’s Name Meaning and How it Works (including ‘Al-Tayyib’)

How to Pronounce Joe’s Name

Nicknames

Joe’s Family in Modern AUs

What Language Nicky & Joe First Used

Common Usage of Religious Phrases and Joe Using Other Phrases

Poetry Translation

The Phrase ‘Ya’bournee’

Holidays

Religious Facts & Terminology

Arabic Familial Terms & Honorifics

Arabic Terms of Endearment

Arabic Dialects

Nicky Symbolized by the Moon

Fun Facts For Nicky/Joe

Gay Rights in Muslim-Majority Countries

Art

Half-Decent Summary of Islamic Sects

META:

Hobbies

Languages

Nicky & Arabic

MENA Song Recs

The Word ‘Jinn’

Terms ‘Ramadan Mubarak/Karim’

The Guard & Maths

Family Faceclaims

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

[brainrotdotorg]

i really do think we should substitute gacha games instead for like. the random wikipedia article button. gives you the same "yay i got something new and exciting!" feeling without spending any money and you get to learn something new on wikipedia. the problem is that its missing a cute little storage menu where you can see all the links to different articles youve "collected"

[brainrotdotorg]

so many people could be weaned off of gambling if we just gamified that website a *little* bit

[brainrotdotorg]

okay so ummmmm. its real

[sexhaver]

i think about this a lot

[silvrhxnd]

clark wip as I attempt to relearn how to use color when painting digitally

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

aftercare for posting on ao3

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

your fic was good you did grammar good you’re the kind of freak people like everything’s cool dude :^)

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[littlebeesart]

Is this allowed here? It's soft, we like soft here 🥺💛

[lexkent]

lex luthor + his death wish (part 2)

[todaysbird]

that’s a whole man.

[starsinfight]

you can't leave off the photo the sawmill worker took of the kiwi

[notlayingroses]

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!

[technofinch]

I often complain about my life but one thing I am grateful for is that I've almost never been shot at with a cannon. That happened all the time in the old days and it seems like it sucked a lot

[dearqueerdeers]

[beardedmrbean]

I love the midwest so much

[cannibalcaprine]

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

[tgirl-subway-the-dark-ages]

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

[cue-jay]

[flamingbluepanda]

Being aware that I am in the midst of a depressive episode is really just like. Im poking my brain with a stick. I know it won't produce seretonin and i'd like to know why. Unironically while making this post i realized I havent taken my antidepressants today. I am saying what the fuck how are you still functioning you useless muscle to the lump of grey matter in my head

[flamingbluepanda]

Oh also everyone whos reading this tak4 your meds if you havent and drink some water and unclench your jaw

[fuinixe]

*nodding* take your meds and drink water and unclench ur jaw

[cloudabserk]

just read an old obscure korean twitter thread about ryan gosling and that european director he kept kissing and wow. wow. i really didn’t know it was like that. listening and learning

[cloudabserk]

happy for them.

[creekfiend]

I got an acupressure mat at my PT's suggestion and I laid it on the floor in preparation to use it and Every Dog immediately went over and walked across it AS I DESPERATELY TRIED AND TO DISSAUDE THEM and then went YELP YELP YELP and then KEPT TRYING TO WALK ON IT AGAIN

just as I shooed Glimmer away Ella stomped over and then screamed. and tried to keep stomping and I had to lift her off

GODDAMNIT TREE TRUNKS

[creekfiend]

Ship finally shut them out of the room and now they're scratching at the door like "let us back in we want to step on the Bad Mat"

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I feel so bad it’s so sad but I can’t stop laughing because it’s Exactly like watching NPCs in a video game walk into lava

[creekfiend]

LET US IN. WE WANT TO STEP ON THE 10,000 PRECISION SPIKES

[creekfiend]

it was like all of them just kept taking turns doing CONCEPTUALIZATION (EASY): FAILURE rolls over and over. it was so over the top farcical. we’d shoo one dog off the mat and comfort her and then when we turned around there’d be another dog standing on the mat whimpering