trapper keeper

she/her | old | kinda all over the place | fandomish and not

[weepingwidar]

Kosuke Ajiro (Japanese, 1980) - The Edge of the World (2026)

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1860-70s, [hand tinted ambrotype  portrait of a women with her nine-string bango]

via Yale University’s Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection

[twixnmix]

Eurythmics photographed by Fryderyk Gabowicz, 1983.

[deathstars]

HELLO ! have you thought about Van Gogh’s First Steps today ?

[deathstars]

Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you

[the-big-mood]

Hey, did you know archive.org has a bunch of free 90s shows you can stream?

The problem is finding them, since no one's organized them all in one place with covers and episode info. I'm trying to fix that with my new website.

It's in BETA right now, and all the content was just added today, so I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.

Submit shows and request here

Watch party with synchronized video and chatrooms

[maureen2musings]

@tamaratoader

[dailycatsblog]

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[thegikitiki]

A Window Into Time Itself, 1956

[captainchilly]

"Got to know who the real monsters are in this world, kid." ↳ 9.02 - DEVIL MAY CARE

[duel-of-the-dolls]

Calico Critters Combat: Town Furniture & Accessories (Round 1)

Which set is the best?

Dashing Dalmatian Fashion Playset

Flower Gifts Set

Remaining time: 3 days 6 hours

[victusinveritas]

[isbergillustration]

Prideful Awooing

[yoursirdoctor-deactivated202512]

"I want old fandom culture back, but proshippers are disgusting, don't bring them into this" a real life TikTok post that I saw btw.

YOU CANNOT HAVE OLD FANDOM CULTURE BACK WITHOUT PROSHIPPING.

[madlori]

what the fuck do people think "proshipping" means anyway

I keep seeing it referenced as some kind of badge of dishonor

it means

"in favor of shipping and the freedom to ship whatever"

that's it

no, it does not stand for "problematic shipping" which is a real thing I saw someone try to claim

it came about as a response to ANTI-shipping

as in people being weird and toxic about other people's ships

like, stop that

that's what it means

[harmless-variety-of-garden-snake]

Bringing in what I said in the group chat: they wouldn't survive in the LiveJournal communities that raised me.

If you wanted a place for just your ship, you made your own fanfiction archive for it and you maintained and moderated it yourself. And most of these only existed because it made it easier to find fics for your OTP, not because the sight of other ships disgusted you.

Have an issue with something you see on a kink meme? Don't read through the comments on the kink meme or wait until the Delicious board is up and filter just the tags you want.

If someone brought up fic or shipping to an actor, a containment breach klaxon would go off and everyone would talk shit in the private LJ and Dreamwidth communities. You did not make ship wars the problem of the actors, show runners, directors, or writers. That was internet bullshit that stayed on the internet. If someone became aware of it on their own, fine, but that was exceedingly rare. You definitely didn't ask shipping questions to the actors if you were a "journalist."

You shipped what you shipped, you were into what you were into, you left people alone, and you did not wave any of it in the face of the actors.

So yeah, bring back the old fandom culture. Please. Let shippers and the actors have some goddamn peace.

[goodsirs]

Here, hold your organizer

Widow's Bay 1.05 "What to Expect on Your Trip"

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.