Investing in Gray Hairs

Fandom old; she/her; demisexual. Fandom philosophy: "No coded messages. Just embrace The Stupid." Shipping my ships and following my whimsy wherever it takes me. Lover of BAMFs and monsters. Mature content occasionally known to appear. NOTE TO NEW PEOPLE: I BEG you to make an icon/put stuff on your blog. You look like a bot if you don't, and will be blocked. (Credit to @lookhereiam for the icon and @brilcrist for the header.) @investinggrayhairs on bluesky

[investingingrayhairs]

When fandom wank goes into overdrive, and The Discourse invades your space, recall Mystery Science Theater 3000's words of wisdom:

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.

[thesplendidsnout]

From the Nib, by Mattie Lubchansky

[zeroartsblog]

All I do is think about Otasune

[xenasandan]

My bookmarks merch for zine Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 are finally done! Took me forever, but I finally finished drawing all these lovely ladies :) Which one’s your favorite?

[villiedoom]

Stylized and surreal illustrations for my fantasy world.

[fozmeadows]

this is stunning!

[opheliathegrey]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

[quorpiest]

no mi circo no mis feratus

[skinks]

I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal

[suonko]

by Aliriza CAKIR

[fairygoulish]

My favorite sex position is any of them. I’m just glad to be involved

[jewishpangolin]

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[sufficientlylargen]

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Me giving my parents my report card in second grade

[mlembug]

[fat-fuck-hairy-belly]

Who's up phicign theit sion?

[phicign-theit-sion]

Me

[grakkie]

Beau the woman that you are

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[lunehowls]

flirting competition

[abigailspinach]