Behold my odd mash-up of fandoms

My new best buds! Smile for the camera, darlings! East Coast USA

[queenoliviaiii]

book cover illustration: Tristan Elwell

[pwhl-mybeloved]

The Women’s Pro Baseball League Is Here — And It’s Even Gayer Than the WNBA

​The WPBL shared the names and jerseys of its first four teams in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas 50×50 cm + 50×50 cm

“Dance of the Swallows”

Swallows are remarkable birds. We see them almost every day, which is probably why we often stop noticing them. They live close to people, building their nests under the roofs of houses, barns, schools, and kindergartens, as if trusting us with what matters most—their young.

This diptych was inspired by the swallows that have lived for years near my children’s kindergarten. They built their nests right on the children’s veranda, so close that the kids could watch tiny heads appear from the nests and little beaks open wide while waiting for their parents to bring food.

For the teachers, it was not always easy. They had to look after not only the children but also the swallow families. Young children do not always understand that baby birds should not be touched, taken from the nest, or disturbed. Sometimes the best way to help nature is simply to leave it alone.

What always amazed me was the courage of these birds. Despite the noise, movement, and dozens of children playing around them, they kept returning to their nests again and again.

In these paintings, I placed them among the branches of weeping willows. In the region where I grew up, willow trees were everywhere. They grow quickly, create beautiful shade in summer, and become especially magical when the wind moves through their long green branches. And when swallows weave through those branches, an ordinary summer day becomes something unforgettable.

Perhaps the most precious memories are made of moments just like these.

[crap-userrname16]

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Haven’t had a chance to watch the tutorial yet, but I’m seriously considering making this for my gf’s niece

[fuckdumblr]

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[okimafan]

So are we, like, back to "AI makes you stupid?"

[mlleclaudine]

Charley Harper - Cozy Chipmunk (1975)

[kafkasapartment]

Utah transportation: “ Good news we could all use: the Parley's Wildlife Overpass is working.”

Thanks Blake Ledbetter (@blakethy) and @usuaggielife for leading the study.

[dduane]

Fabulous editor, favorite houseguest: see you later, old friend. 😢

[okimafan]

Yes, RIP. Wonderful editor, sorry I never got to meet her.

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 Iron workers balanced on a crane hundreds of feet in the air with no harness or support. The good old days! From Old London Photos, FB.

[okimafan]

Young ironworkers be crazy. I know one who made it past the crazy stage and into middle age. I can attest.

[kateschechterxthorwasmyfirstotp]

In honor of the busybody who saw me engaging in one of my hobbies today and commented that I was not very good at it and why would I do it myself when AI could do it so much better, does anyone else have hobbies at which they are objectively not talented but they do them anyway because they enjoy them? It seems in this push to commodify free time and monetize hobbies we have really started focusing on end results - if you are not producing a quality end project instantly, it is deemed a waste of time. But much of the benefits of hobbies are from engaging in the process, regardless of outcome.

So going forward - at least for leisure activities and hobbies - I would like to banish the saying “anything worth doing is worth doing well” and replace it with “any hobby I would like to do is worth doing myself.” I am celebrating my suckage and doing it anyway. Do it poorly and have fun!

[okimafan]

As soon as you try to make money from a hobby, it is no longer a hobby, it becomes a job. It becomes work. The whole point of a hobby is to do something you enjoy, and fuck all about the results.

Do it however, and have fun!

[lovely-v]

Every episode of orphan black is like. Sarah discovers a horrifying truth about her existence. Cosima has lesbian sex. Alison slips further into suburban psychosis. Helena kills a man.

[strohller27]

@okimafan

[okimafan]

They forgot to add 'and Rachel is a bitch.'

[mlleclaudine]

Charley Harper - Wood Duck (Best Dressed) 1973

[spockslash]

An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl

* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired * and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season * and wrote fanfic way back in the day * and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake

All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.

Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.

The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”

That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.

The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.

You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.

Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)

[spockslash]

@spockslash​ will not be taken down until / unless tumblr takes it down.

Love from “Fandom Grandma” Dee’s children

[spockslash]

Star Trek grandma

[ceruleanteacup]

Betcha Grandma was writing original k/s slashfic decades before you kiddies were born.

[spockslash]

Yes @ceruleanteacup , Grandma was

[space-feminist]

i hope everyone knows that OP wasn’t just saying this generally - she quite literally was the star trek grandma. she passed in 2018, rip to an icon

[okimafan]

Never underestimate a 77 year old grandma who was a Trek fan from when it originally aired. I am approaching 73, and though I'm not a grandma, I started watching in 1966 (What Are Little Girls Made Of? was my first) and have never quit.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[okimafan]

Go, Festus MO!

[blondebrainpowered]

Katharine Hepburn reads Barbara Walters on Interviews of a Lifetime, 1981

[queer-boo-radley]

[okimafan]

Ah, Kate....