It's pronounced "Brahhhn"

—BRAN MYDWYNTER— Writer. Art-er. Professional dilettante. I wear a deerstalker now. Deerstalkers are cool. I'm just this guy, you know? You can find my fic at AO3. I'm a graphic designer at Mydwynter Studios. On occasion this is an NSFW—though well-tagged—blog. And I talk about the craft of writing. …A lot.

[granadabrettishholmes]

The Six Napoleons - Sneeky Lestrade

Gifset Wish by redsirion

[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[mysteryteacup]

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

[invinciblerodent]

[invinciblerodent]

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

This meme ages like a fine wine every year that passes.

[equalistmako]

every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt

[damianmcgintleman]

he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!

[equalistmako]

you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce i’d probably be bitter enough to steal christmas too 

[prokopetz]

Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft - an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.

My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is the resulting breakup song.

[snickerslizard]

Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?

[prokopetz]

Yes.

[iguanamouth]

[star-spangled-jackass]

oh god theres art

[tediousfeline]

@altadude you know what must be done.

[altadude-deactivated20190418]

[lesbopsappho]

ive been avoiding reblogging this honestly but just. What the fuck. What the fuck tumblr

[magickspills]

I apologize to all my followers for this

[watfordwallflower]

if i had to read this you do too

[quinintheclouds]

I have a hate-hate relationship with this

[theepitomeofamess]

………

[anony-phangirl]

Good grief… I’m sorry, but I can’t not reblog this…

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Tis the season bitches

[theresneverenoughfandoms]

DAMN IT WHY WOULD YOU BRING THIS BACK YOU HEATHEN

[logan-exe]

Why is this on my dash?

[princeanxious]

…..I’m.. Bothered? by the fact that I’m not bothered by this.

[randomslasher]

You’re not bothered?? I’m not only not bothered, I’m freaking invested. I’m having actual empathetic sadness for The Grinch. I want them to go into couple’s counseling. I want the “ten years later” when Tony visits Whoville on business and meets the reformed Grinch whose heart has grown 3 times its usual size. I want them to reminisce over a shared dinner of roast beast and wine, then spend a drunken night together, then realize that maybe things are different and people really do change. I want a 3-act story where there’s a long dark night of soul searching and the realization that maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance. 

[chooseyourmusehasmoved]

“maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance” is an incredibly profound quote and I did NOT expect to get it from a Grinch x Tony the Tiger post

[none-of-your-biscuits]

every fucking year i have to see this on my dash please just let me fucking r e s t

[prokopetz]

It’s that time again.

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

“maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance”

Still my favorite quote from this hellsite

[ruffboi-mags]

Nearly 10 years of this.

[ruffboi-mags]

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to Tony the Tiger and the Grinch’s divorce?

[dduane]

In the "Casual Passing Thought" dep't

Every single character that ever was, no matter how well known worldwide they may be now, was an OC once.

Stop acting like your OCs are nothing much.

And all the rest of you: Support OCs.

They're what's next.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

one of the deans in beijing dance academy rehearses with students

[mondengel2]

#he's so good damn#obvs he doesn't have the same athleticism as the students#but he's so much more in control of his body#he moves much more self assuredly#and doesn't exaggerate the way the more inexperienced ones do#he knows exactly what to do and how to do it naturally#wow

[crazy-pages]

Oh so that's what books mean when they talk about seeing a swordperson or a martial artist move and immediately knowing you're fucked. If I saw someone handle a weapon or switch martial art stances that smoothly and with that economy of motion, I would immediately know I was going to die.

[ruffboi-mags]

And in his DRESS SHOES.

[glassesmcfancyhair]

One of my favorite things in the whole world will always be watching someone do something they’re an expert in.

[1976desire]

joan baez for rolling stone, 2025. photos by ulysses ortega

[scurator]

oh by the way, rb-ing this again to say please read the article -- Joan has always been and remains to this day such an absolute ledge.

some highlights:

(on A Complete Unknown:)

[dduane]

After 529 days alone in the Australian bush, Valerie the mini dachshund is home

Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her owners back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until local

[dduane]

Ravens in sync. (via @NatureIsAmazing at the Former Bird Place)

[dduane]

“In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to—” No. It sounds like I’m bragging. And should it have that quite that many commas? …Linethrough, linethrough, linethrough. “…It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of ’97 that I was awakened by—” No no, never start with the weather, no one cares about the bloody weather—! …Linethrough, linethrough, linethrough, damn it all. “We were fairly accustomed to receiving weird telegrams at Baker Street, but—” Wait. I could swear I’ve used that. When did I use that? This is terrible, I can’t even remember when I— “I believe you called it ‘The Missing Three-Quarter,’” said a deep soft voice right behind his right ear. In his desk chair John Watson jerked bolt upright in shock. The pen flew out of his hand, bouncing with a splatter of ink on the crossthrough-covered sheet of foolscap before him, and skittering halfway across the desk and nearly off the blotter. He heaved out a breath of resignation and tipped his head back to look up into the dark eyes that gazed down at his paperwork and were now glinting with amusement. “Thank you for illustrating why I can get nothing done today,” Watson said, “when you creep about here and there quiet as a cat on a damn silk rug, and will not stay by your blasted fire and let the mustard plaster do its work! What is it this time?” “I’ve finished the toddy, and the Proceedings of the British Journal of Medicine, and all the morning papers,” said the world’s first and only consulting detective in the tone of a ten-year-old being stretched to breaking point on the rack of ennui. “And there’ll be nothing else to do all day at this rate until you get this infernal thing off me so that I can go about my business in some normal kind of way.” Watson twisted enough around the normal way to glance at the belt of Holmes’s dressing-gown, which bulged quite abnormally. “You’ve done half that work yourself already, I can see. My dear Holmes, what possible good will it do you down there! It’s not your gut that needs attention, it’s your chest. And it was you going about your business in your normal way that put you in need of that in the first place! As you know very well.” Holmes glanced down at the bulge, then up again, and smiled far more demurely than was warranted.

Aaaaaand they're poking at each other just like a couple of old married guys, and we're off. :)

Now drafting on Murder Most Fluffy, a (relatively) cozy Sherlock Holmes novel. Warning: contains copycat crime, fat cats, cat burglary, cat and mouse games, catnapping, and, well, cats.

Don't even ask about completion dates. We'll let that cat out of the bag later in the year. :)

[mostlyvalid]

A proposal

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)

[dduane]

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

This is a long uncomfortable read, but the most complete analysis of the abhorrent shit-take on a quality vital for human life that I’ve seen so far.

Grit your teeth, if necessary, but read it if you can. Understanding—as a foundation for future action—counts for more than comfort, sometimes.

[upennmanuscripts]

Palimpsest Discovered in Recently Acquired Roll

Roll before and after multispectral imaging. The poem is visible under the stain in the middle of the photo.

Exciting new discoveries are always possible in the world of manuscript studies, but even we were unprepared for what emerged from Penn’s latest acquisition. Recently, the Library purchased a fragment of a Genealogy of Christ roll—an important addition to our collection. “But upon close examination,” explains SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities Dot Porter, “it became clear that the parchment had been reused; an earlier text was erased, and new text was written over. It’s a palimpsest.”

Enter Multispectral Imaging, conducted by Dr. Helen Davies, assistant professor of the digital humanities in the English department and co-director of the Center for the Digital Humanities at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.

Helen Davies imaging the roll

Dr. Davies described the process: “I imaged the roll using multispectral imaging, and as the data was processed, words began to emerge.” 

And not just any words. 

Amey Hutchens, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Manuscripts Cataloger, has confirmed that the undertext is an entirely unknown poem, strikingly similar in style and theme to the works of the enigmatic classical lyricist Ricardus Astleaus.

“Could this be a lost work of the poet himself?” Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nicholas Herman voices the question we’re all asking. “The implications are staggering.”

We welcome input from the scholarly community, who can read a transcription of the poem “Tete Numquam Relinquam” here.

[missvoltairine-blog]

it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet 

[ratburglars]

tbh i still start sentences with “hokay, so” at least 3 times a day 

[judgebunnie]

same, aggressively so. I also still use “wtf, mate.”

[knottahooker]

#i have no idea what this is referring to#but i’m relieved to know i’m not the only one out there randomly quoting old internet videos#some shit is always hilarious to me (x)

OH MAN

LET ME LEARN YOU A THING

[sadcypress]

who doesn’t think this is STILL AS HILARIOUS as it was when we all watched it over and over and over again 15 years ago?

[fozmeadows]

I’ve reblogged this before and will doubtless reblog this again because MY ENTIRE GROUP OF FRIENDS WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO IN 2002/2003 THAT WE COLLECTIVELY BANNED ANY MENTION OF IT EVER AGAIN 

AND YET

WE ARE NOW GROWN-ASS ADULTS IN OUR THIRTIES

AND IT STILL GETS QUOTED FROM TIME TO TIME

I HAVE THE WHOLE THING MEMORISED

TO THIS DAY, MY MOTHER REGULARLY SAYS “BUT I AM LE TIRED” BECAUSE OF A VIDEO I SHOWED HER IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL

THIS IS AN ICONIC PIECE OF INTERNET HISTORY AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERS

[gingersnapwolves]

my wife and I still regularly say “hokay so”, “but I am le tired” and “and some big meteor’s like ‘well fuck that’.” Fucking iconic.

[cobrilee]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE AND I’M SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS POST BECAUSE I’VE SEEN IT NOW AND I CAN’T STOP FUCKING LAUGHING

[ruffboi-mags]

God how has it been that long

[izhunny]

Happy Anniversary to this twenty year old flash epic!

[justalurkr]

AND IT IS UNFORTUNATELY SOMEWHAT EVERGREEN 2025

[brucesterling]

[shimmervee]

be sure to leave out milk and cookies for brutus tonight

[statelywingmanor]

You can leave as many cookies as you want but he’ll only et two

[shimmervee]

this remains the funniest addition anyone’s made to one of my posts

[achesspiece]

the world is a mess but at least we still have cunnilingus and spicy curry

[achesspiece]

um. you probably should not mix these activities

[achesspiece]

[dduane]

cc: @petermorwood :)