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Semifinals: Kim Dokja x Yoo Joonghyuk (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) vs Sam x Frodo (The Lord of the Rings)

Kim Dokja x Yoo Joonghyuk

Sam x Frodo

Voting ended onJan 11, 2025

gummybearattacktheworldofdespair

hawkin-byrd

what is this from

graceofgosh

the titanic

truder

I FUCKING FORGOT I QUEUED THIS

For all who celebrate man’s hubris!

#titanic

stephen9260

see you in the Senate guys

#ides of march #julius caesar

smolfoxbab

can’t believe this iconic moment hasnt shown up on my dash yet in light of today

et tu

#ides of march #julius caesar

rayfishandchips

Tim's wing cape appreciation post, one of the best-looking robin equipment items in my humble opinion.

It doesn't always look good when stationary, but when it fly it is so alive with motion. Beautiful.

(from the comic robin war)

Hi! I’m going to preface this by saying that you can 100% just delete this ask and not even answer - I am just shooting my shot here. Anyways, I was trawling zine tags and I say your post from this past november. It mentions that you have multiple copies of the radiance hannibal zine (if i read it correctly). I’ve been hunting for a copy for over a year since I wasn’t in the fandom when it was produced. Is there any way you may be interested in selling a copy? Once again, totally understand if not, I’m very attached to my own fanzine collection so i get not wanting to part with anything. Thank you!

Omg I’m so sorry, I just saw this! Had a lot of family stuff going on 😭 and didn’t have time for tumblr

Yes I will sell you a copy!

I honestly can’t even remember what I paid for them (or why I bought so many haha).

I think I was worried about something happening to one, but I think I bought like 4 in the end which was honestly just overkill 😂. I also got the necklace, which I still have as of six months ago. Darn my hoarding heart!

I know with all the add-ons I spent over $500, but I think it was at least $50 each for just the zines. Just tell me what you’re willing to pay 😅

I haven’t shipped anything like this before so I’ll have to figure that out, but it shouldn’t take much.

I’ve bought a lot of zines before and since then, and the Radiance one is still the nicest quality I’ve ever seen in any fandom. I miss those times.

#hannigram #ask reply

odonata523

Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn’t she a great character?

Everyone: No, she’s one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero’s ego

Male scifi and fantasy writers: You’re never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it’s much harder for us to write women because we are men!

Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*

Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*

Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*

Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VEIW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*

odonata523

Excellent note by @spiderleggedhorse

dduane

Terry’s writer superpower was always Thinking Things Through. All the way through.

liandrin

Seriously. I started listening to the Discworld audiobooks with the Crime Watch series on the way to work two months ago and I haven’t regretted it.

As much as I want to smack the main characters sometimes, I also greatly respect them.

Even the ones I hated at the beginning books, I have actually come to like. Terry’s writing is just that good.

I’m an older millennial who grew up with the good beginnings of the Anita Blake series, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, always rented out Madeleine L'Engle and Ursula LeGuin’s stuff, etc.

I remember getting in trouble because I spilled some Sunkist on a checked out copy of Diane Duane’s paperback “So You Want To Be A Wizard”, and my conservative Christian mom getting mad at me reading the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman because she thought it was written by the devil.

(Also @dduane I was amazed to discover how active you were on tumblr. You greatly shaped my childhood as a budding feminist and queer woman and I’m so grateful for you).

I did book reports on Robin McKinley’s “Hero and the Crown” and “The Blue Sword” in middle school.

I actually painted a full poster of Aerin from “Hero and the Crown” for my book report. Considering I eventually became a fine arts major in college, I think I put a lot of effort into it.

My mom still has it in the attic.

I also witnessed the downfall of some of them *cough* *Anita Blake series* *cough*

It’s so lovely to be able to still encounter good fantasy/sci-fi authors I somehow missed while growing up :)

lessimitationmorereality

It’s wild, when you remind people Anita Blake had what, 6 or so books? before it turned into porn. and even after it introduced sex, it was fine for a few books! but then it became chapter after chapter of extended sex scenes… ugh. When she started the Meredith Gentry series, where at least the sex was well and truly integrated into the concept, I’d hoped Anita might even back out, but nope.

liandrin

You’re so right! I literally discovered the series in my (high school wtf???) library when she was on book 3.

I was gifted a Siamese cat soon after that I named Jean-Claude.

Sadly, he died at 7 in a freak accident, but holy shit at least I never ever had to answer questions about why I named him after the porno vampire lmao

I think I gave up the ghost when “Micah” came out, I actually got paper clips and separated the sex scenes in that book from the plot and it was like 70% gratuitous sex scenes ugh I logicked myself into giving up on an author haha

Also I lost interest when she kept adding new dudes to the “triumvirates” 🙄 instead of developing existing partners, so you never get invested in any guy she’s sleeping with.

Also she kept adding weirdly young, “feminine and long haired and submissive” men and it got to the point where I was convinced the author was actually a closeted boomer writing out her lesbian dominatrix dreams to make herself happy instead of a fantasy author.

And the “men” kept getting younger or more childlike than Anita and I was just 🤮

Like, hell woman, I’m not straight myself but you clearly have some issues you need to work through instead of writing about it.

Most of us write anonymous smut fanfic instead of whatever the fuck THIS is.

Don’t get me wrong, I love smut fanfic but those are one-shots. Any series in fanfic rated explicit I’ve ever read and enjoyed was at least 80% plot.

Also I lost interest in the author with her stupid nazi stance on fanfic during the 90s/early 2000s.

She’d literally go after anyone who dared to write anything about her characters, and ff.net even had a warning about her for authors so they’d know what they were risking.

Even at 13 I knew that was fucked up and bigoted.

gaphic

‘Why is trending so weird’ because of tag spam. Because people (and bots) are tagging like it’s Instagram.

This is spam. It’s against TOS and it throws trending completely out of whack, along with being wildly annoying.

Please, please, PLEASE report posts like this as spam, because otherwise it’s just gonna get fucking worse

gaphic

‘Cottagecore’ is trending right now and the tag is literally 80% spam from real humans who don’t fucking know how tumblr tags work

dogroseberry

I'm glad more people are addressing this because it is a serious issue, arguably as bad as the bot epidemic.

But here it is in the Terms of Service. It's been there long before this shit started happening.

Intentionally tagging incorrect tags is abusing the tag system and therefore against the TOS. The posts that tag shit like images of cigarettes as celebrity names.

That's what the TOS is trying to avoid. Within good reason. OP is right; the longer this is condoned, the more people will join in, the more prevalent this gets, and the less relevant tags will become. Tags will be as relevant here as they are on Instagram or TikTok and shit.

That and it's just fucking annoying and disrespectful to other people's time, all for the sake of scrambling for popularity online whatsoever, let alone Tumblr out of all sites.

So to anyone still bitching on how this "unfair" because you want an excuse to abuse the algorithm to get likes on your dusty ass selfie, please fuck off back to one of those platforms instead.

mossmuddy-deactivated20230511

Oh crap I didn’t know about this lemme go through my posts o-o

siren-the-gryphon

Just to add to this. Having tags, even a lot of them, is ok, as long as they're relevant. Posting art of several characters and tagging them with the fandom and each character or something is ok. Tagging your selfie as every generic/popular tag you can think of is not.

depsidase

somecunttookmyurl

#false! it also speaks for american millionaires

bigfatbreak

hi there

i just read literally everything under the feralnette AU tag

never have i ever wanted anything to be canon more than this

i had a random idea that marinette starts responding responding to lila’s lies by just completely agreeing with them and then making the story seem preposterous?? and like lila is like “wow marinette is really getting into a lot of fights” and marinette responds with like “yeah i fistfought hawkmoth yesterday over a parking spot” and it just drives lila up the wall

anyways your feralnette au is the only thing that matters anymore thank you so much

thank u and yeah. yeah. this is canon now , i dont make the rules,

also i like to think now that marinette absolutely doesn’t wanna work with gabriel “i abuse my son for his own good’ agreste, him and felix just. DUNK on his style

liandrin

My dad looked like a Tom Selleck imitator…he also grew up in California and went to Pepperdine for university….

When people would mistakenly call him Tom while growing up he’d grin a bit lmao

When the California shorts became “gay shorts” to guys on the internet he was so miffed about it.

Once upon a time those shorts were the uniform of a man who was slaying pussy!

incorrectbatfam

Bruce is a cat owner with his kids. He'll hold one up and go, with happy tears in his eyes, "I found this one in a dumpster with rabies, hissing at me and trying to claw my eyes out."

Bruce, picking up Dick: I adopted this one from the circus.

Bruce, picking up Jason: I found this one scratching my car.

Bruce, picking up Tim: This one showed up on my doorstep with those big eyes.

Bruce, picking up Damian: Talia re-homed this one to me.

Bruce, picking up Cass: I found this poor thing wandering around in the cold.

Bruce, picking up Duke: This one's my newest foster.

Bruce, picking up Steph: And this one's a dog but I love her nonetheless.

Alfred: How are you holding them all at once?

Bruce: Don't talk to me or my fur babies ever again.

kannoponta

spockzilla

#jason respects one (1) person in this bitch of a family and it’s alfred#jason todd#alfred pennyworth#‘alfred you’re the only motherfucker in this city who can handle me’#‘thank you master jason’

nube-1-deactivated20210117

northofcorpis

That fuckin smile at the end

bettsplendens

To the worried person in the comments:

No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink, which is a Pokemon that supposedly powers its heart by bouncing, and as such can’t stop moving. Hummingbirds don’t sit often because they’re busy looking for food, but they can and do sit. The females sit on eggs in nests, after all, and they do have to sleep.

sindri42

Fun fact: the leg muscles of a hummingbird are so stripped down to save on weight that they cannot walk. They can step sideways along a branch or other perch, but they cannot go forward without taking flight.

However they absolutely do stop moving. In fact, hummingbirds hibernate! Overnight. Instead of sleeping. Because if they tried to sleep like a normal animal their hyperactive metabolism would mean that they starve to death before breakfast.

Unrelated fun fact: the primary Aztec god of war would take on the form of a hummingbird, and the souls of the bravest warriors were said to turn into hummingbirds in order to join him after death, presumably because every hummingbird is approximately four grams of pure concentrated asskicking which fears no man nor beast and will gladly throw down with somebody seventeen thousand times their size if offended.

ubercharge

this is a really cool post and i love seeing such a small bird but reading “No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink” killed me

xx-slug-xx

Ao3 authors, please learn to not insult people and be “morally superior” in the tags

Instead of tagging “noncon is gross” or “not noncon because that’s problematic”, for example, just put “enthusiastic consent” or “consensual sex” in the tags. It makes things a whole lot easier for people to filter and know what’s going on.

I really don’t care that you think noncon fics are bad or whatever, I (and many others) will be more likely to read your fic about two boys who are deeply in love if you aren’t an ass about your morals in fiction :/