Just Your Average Fanby

batshampoo and conditioner gordon in one

[one-time-i-dreamt]

9 year anniversary of Ragnar discovering snow

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Cryptid owner cryptid dog

[frownyalfred]

you're withholding giving kudos on a fic until it's fully completed because you're terrified it might update and include something "problematic" that your "friends" will find using a kudos tracker. I'm withholding kudos on a fic because I thought I gave it already 13 chapters ago. we are not the same.

[frownyalfred]

I know I’m just an old man yelling at clouds and I’m always complaining about the ao3 subreddit, but for the last two weeks or so, r/ao3 has become inundated with “which fic was the worst read for you? explain below” and “what popular fic did you just not like and why” posts, and as a result, folks are in the comments literally linking to ao3 fics and authors they hate and writing paragraphs about why they hated their fic.

Fandom is not banding together publicly to talk about what we hate (other than canon) and it’s definitely not tagging the fic/author so other people can read the “dogshit” (real quote btw) and hate on it too.

If you’re a new fan, that’s not normal. It’s not normal at all.

[strwrs]

pls… i beg of you… reblog creations… or else there won’t be any more creations

[strwrs]

it makes me so sad to see so many creators talking in the tags about how they’re not creating as much because less and less people are interacting. this is proof that interaction is vital. this is proof that a lack of interaction leads to discouraged creators and leads to less creations. liking—and only liking—does not encourage creators.

and that’s because (1) the purpose of this website is to share things that bring us joy and (2) likes don’t share things or ensure something is seen by more people, not like they do on other sites. so, when so many people decide to only like a post and not share it (i.e. not reblog it), that tells the creator that those people didn’t think their hard work was worth sharing with others. that’s discouraging. 

and the creator isn’t the only one that gets something out of that. you get something, too. you get the joy of sharing something you like; that’s a meaningful experience for both you and for the creator. and that experience—that interaction—encourages the creator to create more, and so there’s more joy to be had for both you and the creator.

long story short, interaction (i.e., reblogging, which is interaction in its simplest form on this site) brings joy. it’s literally all about the joy, people. the joy in discovering and sharing and appreciating and marveling at creations. so please reblog—for everyone’s sake, including your own. 

[lightasthesun]

REBLOG!! Support content creators!

[shadowhunterandwizard]

Y’all I’m screaming

[hillerska-official]

Very hard to scroll tumblr on the bus in the current fandom climate (the hockey players are sucking each others dicks every other post)

[rasplejax]

[trailertrashgrog]

the aramán mcdonalds hates to see them coming

[nariarts]

I've never been more devastated that I'm going to miss an event in my life. What a fucking icon.

Via bsky

[nariarts]

never mind, I can make it!!

[nariarts]

Update;

She expected maybe 5-10 people to show up. There were about 100.

I gave out scotch eggs to commemorate the occasion.

She gave a beautiful speech, was blindfolded, then kicked REAL good. Crumpled. Gave us a thumbs up.

Applause. Then the flute. Then a moment's silence.

Absolutely beautiful. I fucking love trans people and Glasgow and trans Glaswegians.

[elodieunderglass]

Ok thank GOD there’s an update.

[inwardhardar]

[slayediest]

[hitboxesonstockimages]

Allow me to give you a gift this holiday season. If you’re like, under 30, next time you hear Charlie Brown come up in conversation around someone 40 or older, pipe up and say with a totally straight face, “Who’s Charlie Brown?” Then watch your older coworker or whoever get yugioh mind crushed before your very eyes instantly. Happy Holidays.

[dapperprincess]

whats yugioh?

[hitboxesonstockimages]

Listen, you

[venom-princess-deactivated20250]

[uvb76fan]

This is literally how you actually improve ADHD symptoms btw

[rorbison]

Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

[rorbison]

A lot of you are playing into a lot more reactionary of hands than I think you would like when you act like tits are more shocking than gun violence.

[rorbison]

We need to call people posers again. We gotta. We just gotta. No you aren't a countercultural weirdo because you made a battle jacket, you get tangibly viscerally uncomfortable if someone is breast feeding in public and that is incredibly square of you.

[nonbeans]

Back in our day we didn't have Essek backstory, we just accepted that he was OUR war criminal.

[grigsby]

Nothing says trust the process like no Yasha and it's episode five

[elizonite]

Trent Ikithon is a Bad Researcher

No no, I think I am going to talk about it because it pisses me off personally

I’m a research technician and let me tell you the whole “research” scene in tm9a killed me. (Not because I think it was bad writing or done poorly. I think it absolutely served the narrative purpose of characterizing Trent, Essek, Astrid, and Eadwulf as well as giving us more plot information about the Beacon)

But like…Essek was right. You just killed a guy for nothing!! You’re not taking any notes! You have two perfectly capable research assistants right there and no one is writing anything down! Instead, they’re just clean up crew and subject transport. There are no qualitative notes being taken and no quantitative data being measured either! Do you have any demographic information for your subject? Would the relationship between a subject and a divine source influence the outcome of the experiment? Are you controlling for the way that you kill them? Does killing them with a magical weapon vs a non-magical weapon have an effect? Are you taking into account exhaustion from the researcher opening the beacon? Are you just trying to replicate the first experiment or are you going to change something to actually experiment instead of doing the DEFINITION OF INSANITY?! Are you even making sure that any of this is replicable? Where are your control trials? Or are you comparing what’s happening here to previous consecuted deaths? (Which I doubt there’s any actual research on)

“I am going to create an experiment that is so unethical” Yeah, to do so, you would have had to CREATE AN EXPERIMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

Anyways, the funniest interpretation of this scene is that Essek was only horrified by Trent’s lack of well structured research protocols.