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[gonk2020]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

i wrote a thing. got Gundam, got Mass Effect and it's got Transformers. should be fun if you like those things.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[immortalbeingz]

[fatfemmefreaquency]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so the synopsis of The Ring is: you will die 7 days after watching this videotape. my question is does that apply to rewatching the tape. let's say I watch the tape, wait 6 days, and watch it again. does the timer reset to 7 days? can I do this indefinitely? can I become functionally immortal by watching the evil videotape on a weekly basis?

[shy-magpie]

I require the film where someone decides this means they are functionally immortal for 6 days after watching the tape so seeks it out before going on a series of utterly batshit suicide missions. The tape keeps trying to do creepy crap around them and they're just like "I have 3 days 12 hours left to do this prison break so you're not even on my top 10 concerns, either distract this guard for me or go do something about that hair while you're waiting"

The ghost is so baffled and has no idea how to explain that's not how any of this works that it does save them a couple times while trying to get this across, thus convincing them the theory has been validated

[amorphousturtle]

It is very important to me that someone else (less confident in the theory) also watches the tape for the "immortality" and then immediately dies. I'm talking turns off the tv, stands up, slips on something, hits their head, and dies on impact. The degree of Final Destination vs Slapstick Comedy presentation is negotiable, but it's important that the death be otherwise completely mundane.

The Lead regards this information as hearsay and alarmist conspiracy thinking. The fact that they are in fact Survives Georg Adn Should Not Be Counted must be glaringly obvious to everyone but them.

[monsterblogging]

The way Potterheads keep repeating "but what about death of the author???" almost feels malicious at this point. You should damn well know that having Good Intentions In Your Heart does nothing to stop the material impact of your actions (like keeping the IP relevant, creating avenues for people who weren't fans before to come into the fandom, etc).

Death of the Author is not a reason to keep participating in this fandom. It's just a shitty excuse.

[jammatown919]

Death of the author is for when the author is, y’know, dead. And no longer capable of profiting off your engagement. Death of the author fundamentally cannot apply to a living author who will use every cent you give her to make the world a worse place.

[wickeddisney55]

What death of the author/artist actually means=you get to interpret the work however the fuck you want regardless of the creator's intent.

What death of the author/artist does NOT mean=giving attention to a work that you know the creator will use to cause harm to real people.

Could I have worded that better? Probably but that's the gist in case anyone was still confused on what Death of the author/artist means.

[jammatown919]

Good addition. A lot of people use death of the author as “support a work without supporting the author” which, yeah, is not what it means, but when treating it in that context also just straight up doesn’t work when the author is alive and profiting.

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[gonk2020]

new chapter of the Sojourn/Project Hail Mary crossover I've been doing. in which our two halves of the crossover almost smash into each other at superluminal speeds, the crew of the Guinevere mess up by offering Rocky a meal and we get to see what's going on with some other Eridians and other aliens.

the mediocre meme i made for this one was actually the first i made. when i was just tossing around ideas in the Sojourn discord. took a while to get to this bit but I'm pretty happy with it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87267366/chapters/235840751

[amazoogle]

the enemy drank water today. did you?

[theycallmebrick]

*tsk* Gotta hate it when you chip a nail.

[windyvalleyzone]

Yall are cowards for deleting this caption.

[dorothygale]

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[oneheadtoanother]

[memewhore]

[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[minakittengaming]

This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.

[zillyblog]

Hospitals like to hide these policies under a lot of successive links in obscure places, so if you don't see anything right away, keep looking! Get friends to help! Make it a scavenger hunt. A game where you're assassins sent to slit capitalism's throat

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[mousidy]

so can I just say there's a reason I wasn't going on and on for paragraphs underneath transfem voices project submissions about how "monstrous" and "demonic" submitters' abusers were, or how their experiences were "horror movie material"

first of all, TVP was not about centering my feelings about transfems' abusers or what they went through. going on about how disgusted and enraged I felt underneath submissions would have actively detracted from the voices I was trying to center. TVP was not about my voice

second, abusers are not a subhuman class of people. they are often very ordinary people that exist in our lives. even my worst abuser did not abuse me because he was a subhuman monster or a demon. he abused me because he had systemic power over me, and that power went unchecked by any of the people or systems that could have protected me. he was thoroughly, mundanely human

the world is full of TME people who abuse transfems in ways that range from minor to major. I do not believe this means the world is full of subhuman monsters and demons. I believe that it means there are systems and norms that facilitate and enable this abuse. this isn't "rot," it's systems working as designed

[mousidy]

[weepylucifer]

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO