This is My Design

Blog theme is currently under construction. My name is Mem and I'm pharmacist. I like photography, music, and science. Currently trying to figure out this weird thing called "Adulting." Note: I am 27; if I follow you and you are uncomfortable, please tell me and I will stop. <3 This is my fandom blog. My personal blog is thereisquiet.tumblr.com Please consult your physician if you have health/medication problems. Any comment from this blog is not a substitute for consulting your local healthcare provider.

[saltrat88]

[gray-firearms-deactivated201905]

I am fucking dying

[jumpingjacktrash]

i’ve never heard such a good attenborough impression i’m rolling

[catchymemes]

Curious Zelda

https://twitter.com/curiouszelda

https://www.instagram.com/curiouszelda/

[bogleech]

My Mediocre Pop Culture Predictions for the coming years:

McDonald’s will experiment with selling “all ages toys” like exclusive Funko pops directly off their menu, at least one of which will be Rick Sanchez.

A politician will actually gain more traction in their career by repeatedly making references to Harry Potter or some other large fandom.

Video game companies will realize how many people watch a longplay instead of actually playing a game and begin making their own licensed, monetized versions you can watch on netflix.

An anime or manga about a coronavirus gijinka will go controversially mainstream.

Marvel or DC will push a new superhero whose powers come from video games and whose secret identity is a youtube star.

A twitter devoted to a niche fetish will be connected to someone so high profile that mainstream news will have to explain vore or inflation to the entire world.

[zooophagous]

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

[anxietylord]

Imagine living in the 18th c when a wig was more expensive than a fucking cannon

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated201]

someone who understands how to budget please help my crew is dying

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

spend less on wigs

[rook-the-catechumen]

No

[mydesignispeople]

snape: miss granger, that potion looks exactly as it should do, ten points from gryffindor for cheating

snape: mister longbottom, i see your cauldron has caught fire somehow, you have detention tonight

snape: mister malfoy, you only burned your eyebrows off this time, twenty points to slytherin

snape: mister potter...what is that in your cauldron?

harry: barbecue sauce

snape: why?

harry: you're gonna yell at me no matter what i do, so might as well have chicken nuggets

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.

Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.

[adiwriting]

Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.

Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.

Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.

[ohbeckoh]

how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.

[emma-regina4ever]

What happened with her lawyers.

[racethewind10]

History became legend. Legend became myth….  And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.

[demonicae]

One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)

I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)

The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.

But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.

The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)

And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)

Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…

Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.

[pagerunner-j]

all of this

[fanfichasruinedmylife-deactivat]

Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers. 

[hils79]

Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.

I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.

I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!

Fandom history is important.

[cracktheglasses]

Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories! 

[griesly]

Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse - dared to write about their characters. Even people who weren’t creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.

It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in people’s faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasn’t cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here. 

[oyveyzqueer]

“if you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentz”

[tbqtalks]

Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.

I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Rice’s lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.

I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)

But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anne’s lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasn’t exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?

On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anne’s camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasn’t an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.

Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they could’ve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasn’t just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.

(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many years….)

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.

My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you weren’t allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to “preserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to have”.

Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.

(It’s one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a delicious ‘f*** you’.)

Later on, they were apparently persuaded to ‘allow’ fans to write slash, provided in ‘remained within the nebulous bounds of good taste’.

(On a related note, if I wasn’t quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it to ‘Nebulous Bounds’, because that’s just downright catchy)

[thepioden]

Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which was ‘no porn’ and another was basically ‘it can’t be gay’ (and for a while ‘no fanfiction posted online’? which??? anyway.)

She relaxed a little as time went on, but still. 

[mikkeneko]

Let’s not forget: the reason AO3 is called ‘Archive of our own’  is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.

That wasn’t even all that long ago…

[bebopsisyphus]

fandom history class

[snowglory]

Interesting! wow

[i-own-loki]

I remember back in the days having to put a disclaimer on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of my Twilight fanfic chapters. That’s what everyone did. Even though sometimes it was simply a: I don’t own these characters. I play with them.

It was so strange not doing it on AO3 at the beginning.

[snowballschanceinahandcart]

I still disclaim. Fandom may be more mainstream, but you never know who might get lawyer happy. You can bet I’ll cover my arse best I can at all times.

[bluehooloovo]

Oh man, Pern fandom. I was originally in Pern fandom in the early 00s, when the Rules were still going strong. When I left the fandom and came back and found that there were FORUM CLUBS?! With the posts just where ANYONE COULD READ THEM?! AND NEW DRAGON COLORS?!?! Holy shit, mind blown.

And I remember the list on ff.net of authors whose work you weren’t allowed to fic, including Anne Rice. And literally everyone putting some kind of disclaimer on their fic. It was just how fandom operated.

[pocketseizure]

This isn’t even ancient history. Back in 2010, there was an extremely nasty incident in which Diana Gabaldon (the author of a number of formally published Doctor Who self-insert fics the Outlander series) put up a blog post that began like this…

OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear. I think it’s immoral, I _know_ it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.

As if this weren’t already a strong statement coming from a woman who seems to be oddly invested in writing sexy assault scenes (not that there’s anything wrong with subversive female fantasies, but I’M JUST SAYING), Gabaldon continued in the same vein, comparing fanfic to home invasion and adultery (as well as other bizarre and unsavory things in her responses to the comments on the now-deleted post). When “fandom” rose from the depths of Livejournal to challenge her, she became even more offensive and belligerent, and other popular writers (such as George RR Martin, who was ironcially part of the Livejournal fandom culture himself) came to her defense. This “debate” led to a number of think pieces in mainstream media about how entitled and ungrateful fans were destroying traditional publishing, not to mention high-profile male creators publicly complaining about cosplay, teenage girls attending comic conventions, and other visible manifestations of fandom.

What has changed since then is that the young people (primarily women) whose work was nurtured in fandom communities have become professionals, and they’re transforming the entertainment industry from the inside. Fanfic writers are now publishing original novels and editing their own literary magazines for genre fiction. Fan artists are now working for Marvel and DC and putting out original graphic novels with major presses. Video game fans work as programmers and localizers, and cosplay enthusiasts have become character and set designers.

This cultural shift is not just a white thing and not just a straight thing and not just an American thing. Representation in fiction and art - traditionally published or otherwise - is hugely empowering, as is being part of a supportive community. I don’t mean to suggest that fandom is changing the world… but it kind of is.

[roachpatrol]

one thing i particularly love is how shows have characters that write fanfiction because shows have writers that wrote fanfiction. current fan culture hasn’t been this way for very long, but it’s been this way for long enough, and now it’s in children’s cartoons like adventure time that if you like a book or a show, you might write your own adventures for it and read it to your friends, no big deal. i don’t remember seeing any girl in any show writing fanfiction where that wasn’t the punchline, that she was a sad freak…you still see that joke sometimes, but increasingly there’s also support and approval for the collaborative, imaginative storytelling fans do for fun, and that’s really cool.  

[subtlefire]

Oh man. I remember my first fan war, part of which was “any gayness is automatically rated R/18+ and thus not acceptable on this forum THINK OF THE CHILDREN.” Good times.

[sursumursa-deactivated20180131]

THE NORTH REMEMBERS. Fanfic, and why I’ll never read an Anne Rice book: https://youtu.be/bHVCQuJvAB4

[logicheartsoul]

There is a reason livejournal took off so well and became the home of fandom for almost 15 years. It was easy to use. You could filter your posts by friend locking it or allowing certain individuals to see it, so you can interact with real life and online friends. LJ cuts made it easy to post long fic (you see it today in the “keep reading” thing on tumblr) and it was easy to join communities. Communities had similar properties to individual LJs. You could also filter your friends list so it was easy to catch up on stuff. The tagging system actually functioned well! The expression of things through icons! Comment threads were wonderful. You could actually organize and talk about stuff without it being all over the place!

I miss LJ ok?

[fishey-me]

On that note, I remember when it was common practice to bump the rating of a fic up if it contained slash. At all. Two dudes holding hands? PG. Two girls kissing? PG-13. There were so many het fics that were complete smut (which we called lemons) that were rated R, but the same smut for gay characters was NC-17. And that was before ff.net changed its rating system.

[faedreamer-deactivated20180128]

and don’t even get me started on the backdoor hidden speakeasies where RPF was forced to hide. these days 1D fic gets pulled to publish by mainstream publishers, but once upon a time not so long ago to write anything about real people was so taboo you risked losing friendships and being kicked out of forums and mailing lists and shunned to hell and back.

whispered passwords to locked forums passed through private messages, praying the person you were inviting wasn’t just looking to out you and get you kicked from the main fandom areas.

it was a whole different world not even ten years ago kids. be grateful for what you have and never forget the burning times.

[spiletta42]

Remember back in the old days when we used PG-13 and R to rate fic, before the Motion Picture Association of America attacked with claims of copyright infringement, forcing ffnet and others to switch to “Teen” and “Mature” because the MPAA “owned” the letter R?  And for weeks, there were fics everywhere written without the letter R at all? 

Remember when literary agents would message fanfic writers and tell them they would NEVER represent anyone who had ever in their entire lives written even a single fanfic, and that the only shot anyone had at ever being published was to delete their fanfic and never write any again?  And then if you dared talk about this, you’d be told a confusing jumble of “that’s absolutely true, nobody wants to represent someone who doesn’t follow the rules” and “you’ll never be published anyway, why give up your hobby for an impossible pipedream?”

Remember when all fanfiction was considered plagiarism in academic circles and students could face disciplinary actions for writing it even though it had nothing whatsoever to do with their classes?

Remember that scare when fanfiction was on the verge of being declared criminal in the US, as part of some draconian anti-net-neutrality legislation (there have now been so many I’ve forgotten which one), and everyone was frantically backing up their favorites lest sites go dark?

Never take fanfiction for granted.  Never take AO3 for granted.  Never take the fact that Stephanie Meyer declined to sue EL James for granted.  (I’m no Twilight fan and I loathe 50 Shades but in truth that could have been a disastrous test case, so God bless Meyer for her decision.)

[bookish-but-corruptible-deactiv]

Yes!! I was there!!

[samallcapswilson]

I could always tell when some BNF (y'all remember that term) was trying to go pro because suddenly ALL their fanfiction would disappear and only be illicitly passed along in zip drives of enterprising fans who saw it coming.

I’m still sad that DW didn’t take over for LJ fandom space. It was a much better system than tumblr tbh.

Ah, memories.

Also everytime I see gifs for Shadowhunters and think about the fact that there are fans who don’t know about the Cassandra Clare fanlore, I giggle.

[saunteringvaguelydownwards]

JFC, the Cassandra Claire wank is why I’ll never watch Shadowhunters, I don’t care how gayly the ladies look at each other.

[bundibird]

Man, coming to AO3 and not having to put disclaimers on every single fic and/or chapter I uploaded was bizarre. Gave me mental hives. I felt like I was looking over my shoulder, waiting for someone with a lawsuit to pounce. On ff.n, if you forgot to put in a disclaimer, almost every single review you’d get until you fixed it would be “you’ve forgotten the disclaimer – you’ll want to fix that asap!!” Everyone was THAT hypervigilant.

And as far as i know, there’s STILL a list of authors listed on ff.n whose stories yooure not allowed to write about. At one stage, agreeing to the terms and conditions on that site included ticking a box swearing that you weren’t writing in any of those authors fandoms.

Anyway reminder to everyone to be eternally grateful to the AO3 team for creating a space where everyone can create without fear of reprisal, thanks in very large part to the team of lawyers standing between us and authors who would sue us for playing in their sandpits.

[olderthannetfic]

This is your annual reminder that a big part of why we don’t use disclaimers now is not that we’re totally safe: it’s that disclaimers put us in danger.

OTW/AO3 asserts that non-commercial fanworks of the type that end up on AO3 are inherently fair use in the United States.

All that “It’s not mine! Don’t sue!” stuff is literally stating that you think you’re doing something wrong, but you’re small fry, so you hope they don’t come after you for it. That’s the opposite of what AO3 is saying. It also has zero actual legal standing to protect you in any way. It never did. That was a myth.

And yes, many disclaimers were merely humorous performance or were things like “This is RPF, so you know it’s fake and not similar to their real lives, right?”, but the overall practice is still tied to communities that see fic as an inherent right of fans vs. a thing we get away with on the sufferance of TPTB.

[orteil42]

that period in the mid-20th century where the middle class suddenly had access to unprecedented food variety but no idea what to do with it and ended up inventing hundreds of doomed dishes like lime cheese jello salad or ham and banana hollandaise is thematically akin to the cambrian explosion

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The end of this post punched me in the face but you’re not wrong

[hasufin]

But that’s not really what happened!

Yes, there was sudden, unprecedented access to foodstuffs previously unavailable to all but the richest people. In fact it was a five-fold thing:

1) People had more disposable income than they’d had before. They could afford expensive food.

2) Refrigeration meant that people could keep foods longer - it was no longer “Oh, i will buy a chicken and I must cook it tonight” but rather “I will roast the chicken on Saturday, and that will also be good for dinner on Sunday, and chicken salad sandwiches on Monday and Tuesday.”

3) New kitchen appliances and conveniences meant more elaborate recipes were practical - thirty minutes of whisking by hand became five minutes with a hand mixer.

4) Refrigerated shipping made it practical to ship fruits and meats from farther away - this also marked a divorce from seasonal foods, as it became possible to ship fresh fruits and vegetables from warmer climates.

5) New processing techniques made certain foods cheaper. We tend to mostly think of this in terms of convenience foods: flash-frozen vegetables, mixes, and eventually the “TV dinner”, but gelatin is a pretty big deal. Gelatin used to be made by rendering keratin from animal sources, and making it clear and high quality was a very intensive process only available to the upper class - but it was one of the only ways to preserve certain foods before refrigeration - making many of these meat jelly foods the province of the well-to-do.

And that is what informed the middle class at this time. They weren’t just doing random food pairings. What they were doing was imitating upper-class foods of the prior decades. They were trying to pair meats and fruits, putting them in clear gelatin, and creating the kind of sauces which had previously been too labor-intensive to serve in the average household.

It took people a while to settle down and learn the unique characteristics of the newly available foodways, and create cuisine which was complementary to that, rather than aping foods which existed within different limitations. But it wasn’t random at all.

[cumaeansibyl]

I think we’re underestimating the effect of food advertising of the period – manufacturers were coming out with all these new canned/frozen products, and because they knew a lot of people didn’t have context for these things, they put out a ton of recipe-based advertising

Now I don’t know what exactly happened in their test kitchens to produce some of the abominations I’ve seen, but undoubtedly food brands invented some of the nastiest examples of mid-century American “cuisine” in order to promote their products

[canisvertigus]

did somebody say goblin sandwiches

[saint-batrick]

this made me feel actual violence.

[whenflowersfade]

@copperbadge weird recipe ahoy

[copperbadge]

I’ve seen that one before but I draw a hard line at deviled ham, man. 

I will say that @hasufin absolutely has the right of it, but also that if I were going to add anything it would be what @cumaeansibyl already did – some of the recipes you see, even in communal recipe books (like the “Ladies’ Council of the Episcopalian Whatnot Fundraising Recipe Book”) are often the result of a CEO kicking back in his chair and saying “do something that will sell more canned deviled ham” to a marketing executive. 

The marketing executive talks to the test kitchen, the test kitchen weeps into their saucepans but comes up with something, anything, and the recipe goes out. A magazine reader sees the recipe, it comes with a coupon so she (generally she) clips and tries it, and to her shock she and her family like it! She adapts it to her family’s tastes, strips out the marketing aspect, and two years down the line her friend on the Ladies’ Committee asks her to submit her famous Goblin Sandwich recipe. 

 And if you think this behavior is the province of the 1950s exclusively, let me tell you, the popularity of Food TV and FoodTube means this still happens all the time. I can’t link you guys to the essay because HuffPo took it down and I can’t find it on archive.org, but the infamous Sandra Lee Kwanzaa Cake is the result of a desperate recipe writer trying to sell a Kwanzaa recipe to a woman whose sole purpose in life is to make barely adequate food in order to sell ad space on her cooking show. A YouTube video of a horrifying recipe that goes viral? That sells beaucoup ad space for the creator. 

Honestly, a person could make a couple dollars inventing fake terrible 1950s recipes and test-kitchening them on youtube.

Uh.

If you do that guys cut me in, I’ll help you write the recipes. 

Also I’ve had the ham and banana hollandaise and it’s not bad. I’d put it on the menu at a hipster brunch cafe. 

[tzikeh]

Honestly, a person could make a couple dollars inventing fake terrible 1950s recipes and test-kitchening them on youtube.

Sam, are you suggesting… that we could make more money with a flop than a hit?

[copperbadge]

*dramatic, visionary gesture at an unseen imaginary audience* 

The Content Producers, coming to Broadway late 2021.  

(Featuring the hits “Along Came GoFundMe” and “Springtime for Bezos”) 

[english-history-trip]

Tragically, Yorkshire Museum's Curator Battles have come to an end. Here are some highlights from the grand finale subject of Best Object.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[aliciavikander]

THE WITCHER (2019– ) I SHREK (2001)

[teaboot]

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

[teaboot]

Again: But you aren’t the *real* you when you’re on your pills

Me: I’m the alive version of me

[teaboot]

An actual doctor, once: “Relying On A Chemical Crutch For A Hormonal Imbalance Denies The Fortitude Of The Human Soul”

Me: Cool so like I’m agnostic

[inner-muse]

They: “But you might be on pills the rest of your life!”

Me: “So?”

[illnessisnteasy]

Good! That means that I have a “rest of” my life to continue living!

Thanks to the pills.

[erinptah-admin]

Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”

[teaboot]

Oh no, they do that too.

[living-deciduously]

I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to. 

[teaboot]

Sounds like a great set-up for a murder

[teaboot]

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

furthermore, neurotypical/healthy people are literally 100% dependent on the same chemicals and hormones as those of us on medication, it’s just that their own bodies are capable of supplying them without aid. if a neurotypical suddenly lost all their serotonin, they would ALSO be severely depressed. 

needing medication to find the equilibrium that healthy/NT people can supply themselves with doesn’t make you weak or a failure. honestly, let’s just be grateful that such medication exists rather than shaming ourselves for needing it.

[wordsmith-storyweaver]

[inquisitorshepardofhyrule]

Sadly no screenshot of it, but this guy here? He put it the best imo. The show, for those who don’t know it, is called “One Day At A Time”. The woman in the gif is former Army(Field Nurse, I think?), and she is on medication for ptsd. One episode follows her struggling with the idea of being on meds for the rest of her life despite feeling so paranoid that she keeps a gun under her pillow. During a private talk with the man in the gif, a friend named Schneider, he compares her meds to his glasses. She of course says it’s not the same, so Schneider replies “Ok. *removes glasses* Wanna go for a drive?”

I’m not doing the scene justice so I HIGHLY recommend either watching the show(Though it’s political messages can be a bit off-putting at times) or looking up this particular scene.

Take your meds lovelies. It really is no different than a pair of glasses.

[maple-cloak]

“Ok *removes glasses* wanna go for a drive” is such a powerful sentence and such a good example for the importance of medication

[insomniac-arrest]

finding out that almost all other animals don’t have periods like we do and instead simply reabsorb the egg back into their uterine lining to reuse the nutrients is like finding out the rest of the class has been taking WILDLY easier tests than you for the whole semester

like, hey, cat why don’t you have to use your Cat Dollars to invest in tampons? And cat is just like: fuck that noise, my body is OPTIMAL for not being made of inconvenient nonsense, sucks to be you

wack.

[insomniac-arrest]

humans: hey, bleeding every month is actually really cumbersome and I lose both valuable nutrients AND fluids I need for survival? What the fuck is up?

evolution: yes, alright, but have you considered this about it? *cartoon blow horn noise* 

[what-even-is-thiss]

Human bodies suck for many reasons including but not limited to:

Periods

Bad backs

Permanent breasts that do not leave once baby is weaned

Dangerously large, unprotected, and non retractable male reproductive systems

Huge brain takes up way too much energy gotta eat more sleep less

Baby brain bigger than hips guess birth is life threatening now

Takes like 25 years for big brain to even finish maturing

[durzio]

•Teeth are critical to living, yet not designed to last more than a few years without constant intervention and upkeep, and don’t grow back if this is not accomplished. Also, losing your teeth means the bones in your ear will shift, and your hearing will worsen.

•Breathing, eating, communication all from the same pathway, major choking hazard. Give me a dolphin style breathing tube.

•Most pleasurable nerve endings on the body locating on the filthiest parts of you, guarenteed spread of bacteria.

•knees and shoulders have almost zero capability to heal correctly, once they break, they’re basically broken forever without massive outside influence.

[larariumluparum]

truer words

[a1-b2c3-deactivated20230114]

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

[wearethesparkk]

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

[memcjo]

Earth is effing amazing!

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[bunjywunjy]

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

[babyanimalgifs]

[ororomunroedontpullout]

I love seeing videos of pandas being manhandled

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

he loves you give him a hug you monster

[6clawdy6]

Oh this lil sucker knows he’s getting in the way, this is panda playtime

[freak-priest]

baby pandas are little agents of chaos, basically

[kaijuno]

Palpatine looks like an evil Colin Mochrie

[ferventvervet]

but why would you hide this in the tags though

[saltrat88]

[tomroughneck]

Meanwhile in Russia

[inzertbreaks]

annyi.

[marcommarco]

gente decisa

[captain-price-official]

The bigger vehicle has right of way.

[enrique262]

Russians cannot into chill.

[ravldazle]

This is what I call a satisfying video

[knighterrante]

@rokirovka blease tell me what these poor benighted motherfuckers are saying

[kittoforos]

@theminism tbf speakers 1 and 2 seem like pretty reasonable people… i can’t really translate much of what the benighted motherfuckers involved are saying since they’re farther away (and swearing is hard to translate) but here goes nothing lmao just for you

speaker 1: What, they can’t drive out of each other’s way?

speaker 2: It looks like they can’t drive out of each other’s way. There’s not enough space. And they’re fighting.

speaker 1: They should have just pulled off and let the excavator go first.

speaker 2 [interrupting]: Of course.

speaker 1: What the heck are they doing over there

speaker 2: What the heck

speaker 1: Woah woah what the heck okay wow

speaker 2: What the hell [gets out of car] Hey, hey guys! What the f[this is where the beep comes in] are you doing!

speaker 3: Don’t take pictures!

speaker 2: I’m filming!

speakers 3 and 4: [inaudible] Don’t take pictures! Put the phone away!

speaker 2: Guys, calm down!

[the reckoning arrives]

speakers 3 and 4: [general yelling] No no no! f[beep]! Wow! Wow! [yelling continues inaudibly]

speaker 2: Wow guys! [laughs] Fuck, dudes! Wow you messed up! [laughs] now that, man, is a fuck up! Motherf[beep]! Get ‘em!

[hroethvitnir]

Oh man, thank you so much for the translation.

[wordsnstuff]

Resources For Writing Period Pieces: 1900-1939

– The format of this piece in my Resources For Writing Period Pieces series is different due to it covering only a portion of a century, which has much more documentation and recorded historical details. I’ve done this in a way that covered each decade almost separately, but put all four under the umbrella of “early 20th century”. I hope this is helpful to all of you historical fiction writers out there. The other two articles covering this century will be formatted the same way. Happy researching!

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