Thesis Crying & beyond

A hub for fannish resources and articulations, as well as adjacent pop culture and social activities. (Also memes.) Doubles as a place where I cross-posted NaNoWriMo 2018 fic onto Tumblr during my undergrad thesis. Enjoy your stay (✿ ◕‿◕) Disclaimer | Fic tag | Avatar by Mookie

[gnatsanidiot]

opening up tumblr and seeing supernatural trending is like looking out a window and seeing a cloud of smoke rising out of a major city

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[omgcheckplease]

cr: evolverozanov

Backstage before the hockey romance panel at BookCon 2026, and Rachel tells me she loves Check, Please! and is Kickstarter backer.

HUH????

[omgcheckplease]

You can now watch the entirety of the hilarious and insightful Hockey Romance Panel over on YouTube:

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[demilypyro]

draw that woman with tummy hair it's good for you

[apolladay]

Ao3 commenters: Do you read other people's comments before leaving your own.

Yes - this affects what I comment

Yes - it has no/little effect on what i comment

No - prefer not to know what other people have said before commenting

No - other reason

Don't comment/results

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

[apolladay]

Ao3 Commenters: do you check if the author regularly replies to comments before commenting? and if so, does this affect whether you comment?

Yes - More likely to comment if author replies

Yes - less likely to comment if author replies

No - just comment

Don't comment/results

Remaining time: 3 days 17 hours

while the author not replying wont stop me from commenting, I am more likely to just leave a simple comment rather than going into all my thoughts on the fic. if they are a responder, i tend to talk about more specific things that I liked, rather than just saying that i loved the fic as a whole.

[apolladay]

Have you ever looked back at the first installment of a series and just wondered how the fuck it got to how it did now

ye

no

Have you ever looked back at the first installment of a series and just wondered how the fuck it got to how it did now?

yes

no

results

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[apolladay]

If a fanfic author asks a specific question of their readers that will change or affect something about the fic in future updates, are you likely to answer?

Yes

No

Depends on the change being asked about

If a fanfic author asks a specific question of their readers that will change or affect something about the fic in future updates, are you likely to answer?

Yes

No

Depends on the change being asked about

Results

Remaining time: 4 days 10 hours

[apolladay]

If a fanfic author replies to a comment you've made, does that make you more or less likely to comment again, or to reply to their comment? Please explain what you do or don't like about author replies.

More likely to reply/comment again

Less likely to reply/comment again

Nuance

No effect on likelihood of commenting

If a fanfic author replies to a comment you've made, does that make you more or less likely to comment again, or to reply to their comment? Please explain what you do or don't like about author replies.

More likely to reply/comment again

Less likely to reply/comment again

Nuance

No effect on likelihood of commenting

Results

Remaining time: 4 days 11 hours

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[the-turts]

There was a whole ass Star Wars movie that premiered last Friday and it got overtaken by a million dollar horror film on the following Wednesday, nature is healing.

[hecateisalesbian]

happy pride everybody

[tothechaos]

aw what the hell change my leitmotif to a minor key im not driving

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

HBO Harry Potter is going to set records on an astronomical level, and I imagine more than half the people reblogging you are performative cowards and will watch it anyway directly on HBO. (I say that as anti HP and JKR). Pretending like it’s not going to be the most successful show in HBO’s history is insane and really underestimating it. Boycotts are not going to work because it is a tiny blip of people willing to do so. What do we when it is mega popular and people continue to love and enjoy her work?

So I wouldn't even answer this ask EXCEPT it's a fantastic example of someone who hates you and wants you to undermine your cause pretending to be on your side, so let's go through the points.

1.) Makes the assertion that you've already failed eight months in advance. Wants you to give up and give in because you think the cause is already lost.

2.) Implies that everyone else is secretly gonna do it, so you may as well too. Wants to chip away at your resolve.

3.) Claims to be on your side and therefore a trustworthy source.

4.) "Boycotts don't work." Demonstrably they do, as long as people are organized and persistent. Look at how Target and Starbucks are sweating and begging people to come back. Boycotts work.

If someone comes to you doing this shit, they are not your ally, they're trying to mess with you. They want you to fail. On the bright side, they're also often an indicator that your cause has gotten big enough that they're worried enough to go about it all underhandedly, so yay?

[queeranarchism]

Good explanation.

However, running into the opposite direction and embracing blind optimism would be a mistake. With 7 months left to prepare, it is worth noting that Harry Potter related boycotts have not been very successful so far. The most recent big campaign to boycott Hogwarts Legacy certainly did not achieve its goals.

It's important to look at what people can do to make this time different. We shouldn't do the same thing and expect different results. That shouldn't demotivate people, it should make people creative.

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[brokestudiesnrefs]

in a broader scope, along with family vloggers, what's also dystopian is that a lot of people (myself included) are impressed when ads are smoothly integrated into content. i'm not talking about undisclosed ads—i'm referring to when creators segue into a section that doesn't break the immersion of the skit/essay/vlog/etc until they explicitly disclose that it's an ad

and we congratulate them for such a smooth transition or how well it was integrated into the content

for an ad

we are praising them for how well they tricked us into watching an advertisement