THE MAY GLEN

WHERETO I POST THINGS THAT ARE BADASS

[maeglinthebold]

My AO3 Wrapped!

As always, my word count stats are artificially inflated from adding to ongoing fics and also co-writing a lot of stuff.

I wrote in the following fandoms this year: Our Flag Means Death, Roswell New Mexico, Silver Under Nightfall, Sinners, Stargate Atlantis, Tolkien, Wednesday, and What We Do In the Shadows.

I loved writing with @haloud (Dangerous, an otherwise abandoned WIP) and @lizzy-leo (My pretty wax doll--also featuring art by @fidisart, In a Rose Tattoo, and I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue) this year!

I completed my Birthday Gift Ficlets by the end of the year, though I'm still working on the February Ficlet Challenge: an OFMD/20k Leagues Under the Sea fusion which I should have made into a single story but instead made into a series so it's hard for folks to follow...anyway I'm finding it compelling.

I received gift fics With Distinction from @tasyfa and Quantum Entanglement from @ajna-eye-cogitations ❤

My favorite tag I used this year was "does it pass the bechdel test if they are planning a man's murder?"

My Tumblr Wrapped and Reading Wrapped are here.

[cryptotheism]

If staff reformed the ban system to stop banning trans women and used the resulting good will to re-introduce pornography, this site would become a juggernaut. It would swallow Twitter whole.

[glazeliights]

[thorsbaratitty-blog]

“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” - Eartha Kitt

[polarity-disturbed]

Have you ever tried to explain to someone not on tumblr the tumblr tagging ecosystem? You sound bonkers. They look at you like you explaining a 5 lane highway designed by frogs to optimize lily pad travel.

[polarity-disturbed]

like you’ll be like okay so the tags are kind of for your own blog sorting, right, like #myposts or #reblogs so you or someone else can find them later, hopefully, or people can just wander into a tag for a show or character and see a bunch of posts about that

but also sometimes the tags are just… commentary, like a little side whisper you attach to the post that only lives in your corner of the swamp unless someone else decides to pick it up and carry it with them like a note in a bottle that has somehow developed opinions

and there are actual comments, which follow the post, but tags don’t, so tags are like speaking into a parallel dimension where only people who specifically go looking for it will hear you, and also the original poster, sometimes

so you can react to something without technically adding to the post in a way that propagates, unless someone sees your tags and goes “no actually this deserves to be part of the text” and manually copies them onto the post like a form of peer review, tags so good they achieved publication

and then it can also function as a PS on your own post, like an afterthought that didn’t quite fit into the main body but you still needed to say it, so you just tuck it into the tags like “also btw [unhinged addendum]” and send it drifting downstream

and at this point the person you’re explaining this to is just staring at you while the frogs continue building their infrastructure in the background and you’re like no I promise it makes sense once you live here long enough

[kebabcito]

anakin niño latinoamericano

[queerazonbooks]

Today we remember the 49 lives lost and countless others forever changed on June 12, 2016, at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. What was meant to be a night of joy, music, and pride became one of unimaginable tragedy.

We honor the memory of those we lost—most of them young, queer, and Latinx—and we stand with the survivors, the families, and the community still healing.

Let this day be a reminder: queer joy is powerful, queer spaces are sacred, and love must always outshine hate.

[gnusnoteunuchs]

it's weird how whenever a neighbor's smoke alarm goes off it's because they're a talentless hack who can't cook, but when mine goes off it's because my culinary craft is being hamstrung by a draconian smoke detector that is far too sensitive for its own good

[haunted-phantom-student]

Ilya your dacryphilia is showing

[palaceoftheprophets]

I can finally post my art for the Sinners Zine! I wanted to show the bond between Smoke and Stack in a quieter moment.

So happy for Michael B. Jordan and the Sinners crew at the Oscars yesterday. (Ryan Coogler, we’re gonna get you that directing Oscar, my guy.)

There’s so much more amazing art and writing in the Sinners Zine, and proceeds will be donated to charity, please check it out!

[goslinggf]

Tell me, Maximus, tell me. What world will you build? When you lead, tell me, what will you do when your people are starving? I don't want that. Then, what is your great plan?

Fallout (2024—) 2.04 "The Demon in the Snow"

[quasi-normalcy]

“Thinking about the maneuvers performed by self-defined“literary” novelists to preserve their purity from genre pollution, I realized that I am in the unusual position of being able to perform the same poses and contortions, only backwards. How am I to protect my unspotted name as a science fiction writer from the scorn of those who might think I have been shamelessly performing acts of realism in public? Thus: How dare you call me a realist? My book “Searoad” has nothing to do with the commercial realism found in all the chain bookstores. I call the book “Social Reality Enhancement.” Realistic novels are for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and conventional subject-matter. Realistic fiction, or re-fi as its fans call it, is an outworn genre, written by unimaginative hacks who rely on mere mimesis. If they had any self-respect they’d be writing memoir, but they’re too lazy to fact-check. Of course I never read re-fi, but my children keep bringing home these garish realistic novels and talking about them, so I know that it’s an incredibly narrow genre, completely centered on one species, incredibly culture-bound, full of wornout clichés and predictable situations: the quest for the father, mother-bashing, obsessive lust, suburban guilt, and so forth. All it’s good for is being made into mass-market movies. Given its old-fashioned means and limited subject-matter, realism is quite incapable of describing the com-plexity of contemporary experience. Now, would you believe that tripe? There’s some truth in it. But it’s tripe. All judgment of literature by genre is tripe. All judgment of a category of literature as inherently superior or inferior is tripe.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word only a Frenchman Could Love

[toasthaste]

there is only one white boy in the movie project hail mary. 90 seconds into trawling the tag on here i learn that the fandom's solution to the terrible problem of not having two white boys to ship together is to ship him with the markiplier character from the iron lung movie. markiplier. they're shipping him with markiplier. with markiplier. markiplier. markiplier. they're shipping him with markiplier.

[toasthaste]

I need to be clear. this isn't one or two posts that I'm cherry picking. I did my due diligence. I checked. it is a very visible significant portion of the project hail mary tag. I have seen substantially more of it in the tag than I have seen Anything in there depicting either of the other human characters (white woman, black man) in project hail mary, in any capacity. im going to do a harm to someone.

[toasthaste]

it is upwards of 50% of the tag I think. I am thinking about the many justifications so often made for why fandom tends to focus so hard on characters of a certain demographic at the expense of characters from any other demographic. I am thinking about that very much. and I am biting.

[themoonandmyman]

Ilya at therapy being like ‘you were supposed to fix me so I can be good enough for Shane!’ Baby. Sweet boy. That sentence is literally why you’re here

[mjulmjul]

pride boat🌈

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

[afurioushawk]

Euros over here for the World Cup discovering we were right about this

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”