Be merciless in the name of plot

Writer, crafter, continuous and chaotic fandom-hopper; pronouns are whatever I feel like on the day; lazy about tagging; ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/NyeLung

[itsme-imtherealone]

Go my comic

[recurring-polynya]

me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.

[woman-becomer]

thank you so much adblockers. thank you. I love you. thank you so much

[itstimetodrew]

Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

[lesbianswift]

FOOD DISCOURSE: reblog with ur opinions on guacamole, olives, mango, hummus, tomatoes, and cannolis

[pastelsugar6w6]

Would you sacrifice your younger sibling to marry a sexy king of goblins? (Asking for a friend)

yes

no

Press a button

Remaining time: 1 day 22 hours

*you marry the gobling king. Sibling becomes a slug or whatever

[viralfrog]

[sodamnbored]

I know Tumblr is full of posts about the virtues of commenting on AO3 fics and such. But like. It works.

I just knocked out 8.5k words in one single day for a chapter update because of one reader leaving one of the most absurdly endearing comments I’ve ever gotten. That is unheard of levels of productivity for me.

The power of the fandom. The power of the comment.

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[joyandotherstories]

Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world

[chesue00]

More Ada and Ashley ❤️🧡

Photo reference by @Alceleiter on X

[quilting-is-my-new-hobby]

Quick poll for my current scrap quilt—

For the outer sections that are currently red, do I…

Leave as is, looks good

Rip and replace with blue

Rip and replace with another color from quilt top (tag/comment)

Voting ended onJul 13

(Sections that are currently tan will be filled in with blue or teal as labeled)

[quilting-is-my-new-hobby]

The “leave it”s prevail. With everything else happening in the design, I think agree that it balances/fades out. This was a fun use of scraps - it will get its own post once I get it sandwiched and quilted.

[t4timekeeper]

yeah i just love it when a character is in an escapable torment nexus for a huge portion of their life and it defines every aspect of their existence forever. also whats cptsd

[shamebats]

"Claudia Goldin said what needed to be said. Except it's not just a hot take it's backed by data. Her new research: educated women aren't opting out of motherhood because they don't want kids. They're doing the math on whether their partner will actually show up for the workload. If men can't be counted on to split the load at home, having a kid stops making sense financially, professionally, or personally. Women have been saying this in a hundred different ways for years. But sometimes when the math ain't mathing, you need a Nobel Loreate economist to break it down. The fix isn't nostalgia for the 1950s. It's dads who actually do the work. (But fwiw, universal free childcare wouldn't hurt.)"

From a TT post by @ reshmasaujani.

The Bloomberg article from the post is paywalled so here's one that isn't:

Need to boost population? Encourage dads to step up at home. — Harvard Gazette

New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles

[bookshelfdreams]

That adorable scene in Frankenstein when Anna-Maria is reading a book aloud to the Creature (albeit unknowing)?

Well. It's almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it (and the actress is not actually reciting from the book, it's a different poem that I'm not familiar with)

but

It's hard to make out, but this is what she's reading:

A german children's book that was first published in the 1840s and has been an unbroken success ever since. It features cute little stories told in rhyme with accompanying adorable illustrations, each about a different child Just Like You!

Every child does something naughty and is then punished. Like the kid who doesn't want to eat his soup and starves to death. Or the kid who plays with a lighter and sets herself on fire. Or the kid who sucks his thumb, and then the tailor comes and cuts his thumbs off with giant scissors. Or the kids who make fun of a Black dude and get dunked in an inkpot by Santa (admittedly, kind of based for the 1840s).

Did I mention that the illustrations are cute, colourful, and extremely graphic?

(example)

The author wrote this as a christmas gift for his 3y/o.

Everyone knows this book, no one likes it, and yet, it is inflicted on every german child at some point in our lives. Which may explain why we are Like That.

And it's one of the first stories the poor Creature ever gets to experience. Our baby just can't catch a break.

[teal-deer]

fun fact: my partner's mom named her kids after the kids in this book. Which is truly an inexplicable thing to do. (My partner's name is Philipp. I forget what his brother's name is, or how the character in the book died.)

[australet789]

See No Evil

Speak No Evil

Happy Anniversary to Infinite Darkness!

[penstab]

i have a horrible misogynist rooster who only likes blonde hens so i always have to make sure i have 2-3 yellow hens around so he doesn't run anyone ragged. i didn't know this was a problem someone could have but i've had macklemore for eight slutty, slutty years and he's been overly obsessed with the blondness level of his lady friends for the entire time with no sign of slowing down so, like. props to him for sticking to his guns.

SIR, PLEASE,

[penstab]

YOU CANT JUST CASUALLY LEAVE THIS IN THE REPLIES AS IF THIS ISNT A CRUCIAL ELEMENT OF THIS HARROWING STORY

SIR!!!!!!

[papayagas]

mostly she regards him with a certain genteel confusion- no matter how many grand overtures he makes, juno’s never really figured out that he’s not just a really weird plant? since the birds mostly stay in my garden wrecking all my vegetables. 

[brodudepants]

God even the tags are gold

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[vexheart]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.