A Bad Dream

[crashtocult]

saw this on Pinterest and i was like yeah i see no difference! 🥺

[imfiercenfeelingmighty]

We’re so married.

[katevsm]

Remember when they were so goofily cutesy that they almost decided to raise a child together and then playfully planned each other's funerals?

[brittanacedes]

brittana + hugs

[katevsm]

Santana’s head always ends up on Brittany’s right shoulder except for the post-Landslide hug, the one before Santana has admitted that she wanted to be with Britt, the one where she feels the most vulnerable, scared and defensive, threatened by the world outside of their own bubble. It’s a completely useless piece of observation, and NO I did NOT tear up ughh

[amazonworrier]

I am to this day wondering how santana was voted the best shoulder to cry on...

You're so right, anon. I mean, this bitch?

It's not like she ever went out of her way for anyone...

Or showed even the slightest capacity to care...

Or put other people's feelings before her own...

God, she'd be terrible at anticipating people's needs..

Or empathising with them...

Withholding judgement...

She's such a stone-cold bitch.

Who would want to cry on HER shoulder?

[iwatchforher]

Requested by @m00ndanse

Criminalists are methodical people. They have to be. Their work is always being torn apart by defense attorneys in court. They often keep their conclusions broad. Blunt Object. Which can cause tension with cops who accuse them of being too self-defensively cautious. Cops and criminalists need each other but are temperamentally very different. Cops thrive on the action. They are knee jigglers with paper-strewn desks they avoid. They want to be out there. Bad guy behavior they know as muscle memory. They slog through chaos inured to bullshit and squalor. The job inflicts lacerations. In turn, the cop becomes lacerating. Criminalists orbit the chaos from latex-sheathed remove. The crime lab is arid and rigorously mantained. Cops wrestle up close with life’s messiness. Crimalists quantify it. - Michelle McNamara - I’ll Be Gone In The Dark

[hawt-me33]

Coming into a fandom late

[baxterdamus-deactivated20130513]

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

[valorious]

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

[leatherpatches-deactivated20150]

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

[fauxmoux]

Accuracy at its best

[street-of-mercy]

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

[my-reylo]

all of this shit…lol

[nerdsagainstfandomracism]

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

[not-so-secret-nerd]

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

[jupiter235]

This gets better every time I see it. 

[sageblackrose95]

@fuboos-mess

[inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac]

Being in a dead fandom…

[illogicalarchive]

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

[erilias]

The accuracy hurts.

[fanfic-yes-please]

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

[it-is-bugs]

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

[sweetferalbaby]

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

[teaganvamp]

This just gets better..

[hamboj2]

@mi-kleos

[thatcrazysonicchick]

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

[knightofbloodcancer]

Fandom hell in general

[morathavictoria]

Yes.

[marvelanimelover]

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

[stop-talking-babe-deactivated20]

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

[raise-cain-archived]

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

[crochanblackbeak]

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

[kateriverameliawolfe]

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

[ishipwhatiship247]

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

[ravenhilarious]

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

[swanqueen-author]

Being in a fandom that actually works together

[commanderunhingedmongoose]

Why is this so true? All of it.

[pillowprincesslexa]

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

[hangingfire]

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

[priory-of-stars]

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

[marianagmt]

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

[batbyte-alghul]

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

[tirnel-sutcliff-spears]

I love this. and it’s gotten better

[cartoonjessie]

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

[brit-is-bookish]

All of these are me. Lol

[thehikingastronomer]

Being in a fandom on Tumblr

[julietsemophase]

And it reached its epic conclusion

[thespikeybluelacky]

@thenormalone1892

[coffeeloveandsmiles-blog]

reblog if your mom is beautiful and the strongest woman you know.

[katevsm]

I know this is Baby Bates whom the nanny is holding because I fell in love with his sweet face 0.0000056 seconds after seeing it, pretty much the same as with his parents.

[mwagneto]

Y'all: ugh I wish fandom content creators would post more 😩😩😩😩😩😩

Also y'all when someone posts fanart/fanfic/edits/etc:

[hpnextgenastrology-deactivated2]

look im not popular in any way when it comes to my content creating and i absolutely understand that more attention makes you feel good about the content you’re putting out but I think that one, depending on other people for your own drive to create content isn’t really okay. also there’s always going to be more likes then reblogs like I don’t know, I don’t think this is something worth complaining about.

[kyojuuros]

The main issue here is that it didn’t used to be this way. At all. And I’m certain a lot of the people who are making a huge issue out of the like to reblog ratio are people who are been here for a while (like myself) and remember the days when reblogs dominated the hell out of likes. 

Up until around 2016 or so, the like to reblog ratio was the total opposite of how it is now. And it applied on posts with fewer notes and posts with a large amount of notes:

You get my point. But over the last few years it has flipped completely:

And, of course, see OP’s screenshot.

It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the posts with more reblogs have an astoundingly higher amount of notes because of increased exposure. Reblogging allows more people to see the content, that’s more people to either continue reblogging or at least give a like. For artists in particular who would benefit from the exposure in terms of commissions and patreon and all of that, this is a huge deal. It can make all the difference. 

Tumblr as a blogging platform was created with the intent to post and share content. It’s not meant to be a consume-only form of social media like Instagram. For fandom blogs in particular, it always boggles me that people don’t share content that they like. Tumblr was appealing for fandom in the first place because of the ability to plaster your blog with amazing things that other people made - this used to be unheard of. For me, it’s like saving something precious so you can always come back to it again. It’s giving the people who follow me something awesome to look at too. Creating and sharing content is the heart of fandom.

People rely primarily on their dash for content. Most people avoid going into tags/searches because of wanky fandom drama. So reblogs are crucial for exposure! Likes are a nice gesture, but they do nothing to help share and promote content. That’s why content creators are frustrated or moving to other platforms, or why they stop making content altogether. Tumblr has its issues, but it’s still one of the best places for exposure due to its reblog function and overall post formatting. It’s discouraging seeing content creators on Tumblr as a concept die off. This site is nothing without them.

We can enjoy making things as much as possible but when we share it and no one cares enough to show it to others, it does make us wonder why we bothered in the first place. And this isn’t a new complaint from content creators. But it has worsened over time as the likes started dominating the reblogs. 

It’s not that we don’t appreciate likes at all, notes are notes. But reblogs equal more notes, which equals more exposure, which equals happy content creators, which equals more content for fandom to consume. It’s a wholly positive chain of events that circles back around. Your reblog could be a deciding factor on whether that content creator chooses to keep contributing or to give up entirely.

Reblogs mean the world to us. They can really brighten our day a whole lot.

[deepspacepirate]

yeah, it’s absolutely a result of cringe culture. the whole atmosphere on tumblr has changed radically. with cancel culture, the constant policing of fandom content, calling everything ‘problematic’, harassing creators for doing literally anything, and unmitigated sense of entitlement to other people’s work, it’s literally impossible to like anything without someone crawling up your ass about it. creators are afraid to create, and consumers are afraid to share.

[kimwexler]

With this ring I plight thee my troth,                       as a symbol of all we have promised                                                         and all that we share.

[katevsm]

Why ship it?

So I'm re-watching Downton Abbey with my mum, and for some time now I've been certain that she had actually grasped the concept of shipping. But then...

Me: Omg, Anna and Bates are so sweet, I cannot with them

Mum: wait, do you ship it?

Me: yeah!

Mum: but why? You already know they're married!

Me:

[miss-ute]

**BANNA**

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[moonsheen]

I was a security guard at a major art museum

Over the course of my time there: -A woman came in with a skirt made of neckties. Just. Neckties, all strung together to make a skirt. She had leggings on underneath, thank god. -Been asked for the Mona Lisa -Been asked for the Sistine Chapel -Been asked where the dinosaurs are -Been asked where the animals are -Been asked for “The Bitch With The Pitcher” (Vermeer’s “Woman with a Water Pitcher,” by the way)

-Been asked for “The Girl With The Pearl Earring”

-Been asked for the Mona Lisa

-Got bored and learned the name of every single one of the Buddhas

-Got bored and learned the name of five Chinese dynasties (long day in Asian Art)

-Chilled in the Buddha room

-Watched someone escorted out for trying to take a nude photo in the Arms and Armor section

-Been asked for the Michelangelo’s, then the Raphael’s, then the Leonardo’s, then the Donatello’s (they were naming ninja turtles) -Heard curator in Musical Instrument section play Night On Bald Mountain on giant historical pipe organ while laughing maniacally.

-Fielded a day when a filthy counterfit version of the museum program was disseminated among visitors, guiding them to the filthiest art in the museum – such as the painting of Cupid peeing on Venus

-guarded Cupid peeing on Venus

-Been asked for the Mona Lisa

-Been asked if I had seen the First Lady of Mexico (she had gone missing)

-Been asked for that one sculpture of Kronos that is featured in Percy Jackson WHICH DOESN’T EXIST GUYS (directed children to sculptures of Poseidon with trident instead, children were very happy)

-Witnessed two Secret Service Agents get into a swordfight with pieces of packing material.

-been asked by a very polite Fransiscan monk in full brown robes if he had found ‘One of us. He has gone missing.” -Found missing monk and returned him to the herd

-Coworker was asked for the Ark of the Convenant

-Same coworker was asked for the Baseball Hall of Fame

-stopped about 15,000 people from poking that one lion statue in the nuts -saw a woman in a banana suit with banana shoes take a picture in front of an Egyptian temple

-Been asked for the Mona Lisas (plural) 

I’ve got more but this is what I remember for now.

[moirandvirtue]

virtuemoir families celebrating after pyeongchang gold.

[katevsm]

I’m… just… ok Tessa

[katevsm]

here is the thing...

I just saw a tv program about those Japanese Love Hotels (with BDSM rooms, equipment, etc.) and just imagine if our SOI dream team unknowingly settled in such hotel before their show in Osaka... Patrick discovers it and is horrified, Javi tries to chain himself to one of the stands (Eric has to unchain him afterwards), Kaitlyn panics and posts 96445124846165 insta stories while Andrew is dying of laughter in the background, and don't even get me started on Tessa and Scott.

[katevsm]

Ok, so I was just going through some posts Tessa liked on Twitter and found THIS… “Do they bang?” I mean…has she even noticed this??? Or is she trolling again??? /if she didn’t notice that’d be hella awkward tbh but it’s tHE QUEEN OF SLYTHERIN WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE HELLOOOO/

upd: oh yeah she noticed, there's the hashtag in the tweet