talk me down @natdeviantrat - Tumblr Blog

its always the tiny gay cowboy and his tiny gay roman boyfriend, never the bi cowboy and his bi cowboy/martial artist boyfriend. owen wilson didn’t play a fruity western boy TWICE to be disrespected like that

assiraphales

no bc I’m being serious! we’ve been way too quiet about them for way too long!!!!!!

assiraphales

pls watch these (shanghai noon and shanghai knights) and give these romantic besties ur love! it’s literally a western romcom

assiraphales

valid valid valid valid

#to watch

neocatharsis

260604 NCTsmtown Twitter Update

#taeyong

iwannarunawayandbeapirate

got curious because idk how well-known this is internationally so:

Are you familiar with twist bread/Stockbrot?

Yes; I'm German

No; I'm German

Yes; I'm not German

No; I'm not German

Nuance button

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

#intrigued bc i am not german and had no idea this was german however #we used to make these pretty often specifically with pillsbury biscuit dough #yunno the cans that pop open #mebbe i'll ask mom where she got the idea #can't remember what we called them #from eastern US

distinguishedenthusiastcatt

In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

was asked about my familiarity with AI in a work meeting today... in a "can you help us compete with the people who are using it" way. which, obviously not, i've touched generative AI as little as possible, but it's both fascinating and terrifying to see the way my middle aged colleagues are viewing it

i guess i'm lucky in that the other four people on this meeting were all generally negative towards it too, but still they have this perspective about its inevitability and capability that i haven't fallen into yet. like a lot of the conversation was basically we have been writing grants the hard way, have the skills built up, spend weeks going over it, but now people can come up with at least a convincing version in ten minutes - and quite possibly be competitive enough to get funded. it doesn't help that the grant reviewal process rn is a black box and could v well be an AI reviewing the AI-generated proposals. so no one's going to stop and go 'wait these numbers don't actually seem feasible' etc

and other examples too, of how people they know who aren't great writers or communicators have been using it with convincing results. i dunno i guess i'm just so pessimistic about the whole thing, i want to automatically dismiss its usefulness (not all AI, but the kind we're talking about here) but it's harder when someone you know to be smart and capable is describing their (less competent) family and colleagues accomplishing things they know they wouldn't be able to before. and to see them so scared about both their careers and any potential non-trade careers for their college-aged children being eradicated. makes it seem much more real

one of them said 'i guess i sound like AI' because she tested a paragraph of old writing when her son was having trouble getting past an AI detector. and i want to be like no those things are bullshit and AI sounds like you!! because you're a skilled professional who's been writing for decades. and no, we shouldn't even consider trying it ourselves to even the playing field. but i don't feel like i have the arguments to back that up and it's not really my place

i never thought it would come about in this role for someone to be asking me to 'play around with' using generative AI. and it still might not - they're considerate people and i think it was fairly obvious i have no interest in it. if not i can make that even clearer. plus, if i had to guess, they'll end up just writing the proposal the way they always have and hoping for the best. but i don't know

#it's a crazy feeling being so tech-forward most of my life and now almost the opposite #but i do want cool tech!! just not this #also i have to admit the way they've talked about writing grants has always been a bit confusing to me #like can it be /that hard/ that you need take weeks to write one paragraph when you essentially have the rubric before you #but apparently so. ig i'll find out unlessss the rfa is never released and i am thus unemployed as of the fall #also a fun prospect #nattering #anti ai

sillystigmata

The twirl is lethal.

#iwtv

does anyone else encounter the new versions of canonized ao3 tags/filters and get jumpscared with, i dunno, the inevitability of change

#orgasm delay/denial used to be a staple and now it's seperated into like four different tags (delay denial control edging)#which i understand but also find more cumbersome #also now four official versions of the 'bitching' tag #Omegaverse Alpha Bitching | Alpha Turning Into an Omega #like wow how fancy how clear and also what a mouthful #to be clear this isn't a complaint #it just catches me off guard sometimes

thisautistic

Pride Month Tag Game 🌈🏳️‍🌈

ooff okay tagged by @negrowhat and @romanceismycallingcard (also @abstractelysium hi thanks!)

Pick something, whether it's the main colour of a scene or an item in a shot from a ql show or movie that you think of, which corresponds to a colour of the rainbow flag: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.

Red - Ve

Orange - g

Yellow - a

Green - s

Blue - Pe

Violet - te

VegasPete Pride Flag

(imma do another one don't worry)

lemme taaag @baseballmomlesbiandad @oishitea @benkaben @lilithfatale @talistheintrovert

#vegaspete

baijingting

DUANG WITH YOU ด้วงกับเธอ (2026)

#theyyyyy #duang with you

calisverse

Revenged Love ( 逆爱) , 2025, China Season One, Episode Eight

Tian Xu Ning as Chi Cheng

#revenged love

juat saw a porteeteepor edit to strawberries and cigarettes. have you.. have you listened to the song?

#sometimes people confuse me #even if it weren't a sort of melancholy unrequited thing #(i always took it as an older man taking advantage but who knows)#regardless neither of them strike me as the 'light my cigarette' kind. it's laughable

orchisailsa

Has it really been a year since this fever dream? Happy anniversary to these two perfect beautiful idiot twinks. I love them and their awful dry erase board of terrible ideas more than I can say. Never forget #RevengedLoveSummer2025

#revenged love

ao3commentoftheday

I'm loving the discussions about the role and purpose of fandom, as well and what activities are needed to keep fandoms alive and flourishing!

However... as a fandom creator (writer and artist), I sometimes feel like too much pressure is concentrated on creators. I don't know if this is a frustration others share? Not only should we keep making things, but somehow we also end up becoming these central fandom figures who can feel pressured into responding to comments (or else we're called arrogant or ungrateful), making friends (or else we're rude for ignoring well-meaning people who reach out), and being the drivers and pillars of that community (running events, responding to memes, etc. – and everything falls silent if we stop). It's a lot of work!! I don't always have the time and energy to make things for fun and then also engage in all the ways people might sometimes feel entitled to because they enjoy my works.

I really wish that more "non-creating" fans in the community would discover their fandom power!! and not just rely on the visible "producing" creators to be the only people worth engaging with. It takes nothing more than passion to write a meta-post about a character or a plot point, or to create an ask game, or to DM someone else who you see posting funny tags – not just the creator! Maybe your followers have other tips for evening out the balance a little more?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, anon. This is an observation I've seen in many parts of life, not just fandom.

A lot of people feel as though they need permission or an invitation of some sort in order to contribute. That's why I always end my answers by asking people to share their thoughts. I want to make it explicitly clear that I want people to add things into the reblogs (which I can then share out for more people to see) and the replies (which people can at least read even if I can't reblog).

I have heard fans who are readers but don't write fic say that they think they can't get an AO3 account unless they plan to post something. This is incorrect, of course, but a lot of people make that assumption.

I think at least some people (I don't know what kind of percentage) assume that someone who is writing fic or posting art or making podfics and video edits etc. has some sort of expertise that "allows" them to post.

People with less confidence or with less practice etc. sometimes need an extra nudge before they realize that they're welcome to contribute too. If that's the case for you, please allow me to say:

You are welcome to post in your fandom, even if no one invites you to. Even if you think you're not good enough. Even if your idea isn't "popular."

Start a conversation. Share a thought. Talk to folks who reblog cool shit. Be a folk who reblogs cool shit. You don't have to do everything in order to do something.

As mentioned above, please do share your thoughts in the reblogs and replies to keep the conversation going.

leomonae

Other things people can do:

make a rec list

make a "here's all the fics I've found in this fandom with this one trope/general vibe/very particular setup I just think is Neat" list

make a "welcome to the fandom, here's the fics that people will just assume you've read/know about to get you started" list

make a "if you liked [popular fic A] you might enjoy [less well known fics B through N]" list

iguanodonwildman

More things you can do!

Create whumps lists

Create lists of shippy moments

Make screenshot collections

Record and post clips of your show to get more people into your fandom

Make incorrect quote memes

Make silly little TikTok-style edits of your favs

Make character playlists

Figure out the layout of buildings/cities

Recreate those building in the Sims or with an online floor planner or even just draw it out because holy hell writers will be so thankful for that

Make your blorbo in various video game character creations

Build a pokemon team for your blorbo

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

Create outfits based on your blorbo’s design or outfits they would wear

There are so many ways you can engage with fandom that aren’t making fanart or writing fanfics. Fandom is community - Please don’t be afraid to join in!

pancake-surprise

(I've been on tumblr for 15 years, far longer than I was ever on twitter, but I've never engaged much beyond reblogging so please pardon how many times I reference fandom activities I witnessed on twitter)

Collect interviews with the author, producer, director, mangaka etc

Similarly, translate interviews

I remember someone in the haikyuu!! fandom kept a twt thread of every time two characters were in the same panel. Not sure what the tumblr equivalent would be. I guess just a regular old post with lots of additions? (Send help; i'm not sure why my brain is struggling so badly to translate twitter threads to tumblr posts)

Run a quote bot account: I'm not sure of the status of quote bots in a post twitter era, but those were quite fun. Again an example from the hq!! fandom, there was the hq!! bastille bot which would spit out a bastille lyric + a ship. The siken bot would spit out a line of poetry + a ship name. On tumblr maybe the equivalent would be a gimmick blog?

Run a ship/character week. I think these are probably the easiest kind of fandom event to run. it doesn't take more than one person, a blog, and rudimentary graphics skills.

Are socmed AUs still a thing?

Make gifs

Try to figure out the layers to a character's outfit and share your studies with the world. (I'm looking directly at you, Hoyoverse and all you're what-even-is-that how-do-they-even-put-that-on character design. beautiful, but confusing)

Update fandom wikis

Log fandom history on fanlore.org (another project run by the Organization for Transformative Works, aka the parent of ao3)

Volunteer for the Organization for Transformative Works/ao3

marypsue

Fandom wikis!! One thousand blessings upon everyone who maintains fandom wikis, oh my god.

Some suggestions:

Transcribe episodes for film/audio canons

Podfic! We can always use more podfic, and most people's phones have a voice recorder.

Create bingo sheets (e.g. make a fanwork with five or more of these tropes for a bingo; read/reblog fanworks in five or more of these categories for a bingo)

Be a Your Blorbo expert consultant! If I'm writing about a character I don't have strong feelings about, but I know one of my friends is constantly reblogging and posting about them, even if it's all silly memes and "character <3"-type posting, I'll sometimes reach out to them for advice on if I'm getting Their Blorbo right. It's absolutely invaluable and I appreciate these people so much.

We are all just enthusiastic nerds on the internet. You have as much right to share your enthusiasm as anyone. One of the things I love about tumblr as a platform is that you can just start saying whatever about something you like, and you will find other people who like it too.

pyresrpgear

I just want to emphasize these 2 ideas from above.

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

These 2 can be so helpful for creators too.

I have ended up writing at least a few fics inspired by posts like these. And, at least I do this, when an author finishes the fic odds are they will link back to the original post that inspired it, and/or gift the fic to you on ao3 if they know your handle. I did one like this and it ended up sitting on my computer finished for quite awhile until I saw people posting happy birthday wishes to the person who made the original post. So I dusted off the fic and gifted it to her as an impromptu birthday present.

One thing I would recommend if you’re going to post fic outlines or ideas, let people know in the post if they are free to play with it. I know some people (especially those with anxiety) may be hesitant to take an idea and run with it from a post like that without explicit permission.

And this all comes with the double added bonus of both more stuff (fic, art, gifsets, etc) in your fandom, but also it gives you a great excuse to interact with someone you might not have otherwise.

#fandom

itsanidiom

Double Helix is a masterclass in how to come out and kill your homophobic parents.

#double helix

echoes-of-a-memory

I could really do with some good toxic GL in my life. Please recommend me if there's any.

Also I'm searching for this Thai GL about a girl who finds out that the rich girl who's been taking care of her who she thought was like a sister to her had actually been harboring obsessive romantic feelings for her this whole time. In the first episode she tries to escape to another city but the men who work for the rich girl intercept the bus she's on and she's caught and brought back.

I remember watching a few episodes of it but somehow I lost it and I can't remember the name at all. I've searched for it all over the internet but I can't find it.

Please help a girl out.

#i've heard good things about clairebell tho haven't seen it myself #no idea about the one you're looking for but signal boosting

bluesandfilms

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Marahuyo Project (2024)

Monster (2023)

Not Me (2021)

See Your Love (2024)

The New Employee (2022)

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)

The Warp Effect (2022)

Like in the Movies (2020)

Plus & Minus (2022)

Gameboys: The Movie (2021)

The Eighth Sense (2023)

Girl Rules (2026)

Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island (2025)

Khemjira (2025)

Light on Me (2021)

Therapy Game (2025)

Kill to Love (2025)

Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

Kieta Hatsukoi (2021)

Ball Boy Tactics (2025)

Fragrance of the First Flower (2021)

Wandee Goodday (2024)

Cutie Pie (2022)

Happy PRIDE to all my dearest LGBTQIA+ friends. Wishing a joyful Pride Month to everyone, whether you identify somewhere on the sexuality spectrum or prefer not to define your sexuality or gender identity. Happiest Pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and you are seen. I hope this month will only be filled with joy, happiness, love and celebration. Not just this month but every day to come. I hope we can all wake up to a brighter, more open minded, compassionate and safe future. Happy Pride Month. Love without limits.

These were just some of my memorable moments in queer media 🌈