Hi there...

I'm Elan. 32. Gryffindor. Dog-mom. Cis. She/they. Lesbian. Great Lake State. Currently obsessed with: Heated Rivalry, Red, White and Royal Blue, Good Omens, Marvel, Star Trek, Teen Wolf, Harry Potter and probably others I’m forgetting. I’m also a filthy multi-shipper lol so you’ve been warned. Sometimes I write things: paxere on Ao3. Welcome. :)

[foxes-in-love]

[forgetful-nerd]

Spelling mistakes? I guarantee neither of us saw those at 3:00 AM Monday Morning.

[albamelody]

i recently saw a tiktok where a woman asked "girlies: what are some things you do to be more whimsical? I love knowing cute little habbits"

and i've never loved a comment section more. some of my faves:

(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

[dovewithscales]

I talk to basically everything as if it's a person. I greet passing crows as my "cousins." I respond conversationally to my cats. I yell "same to you!" when inanimate objects make loud noises. I say good morning to plants. I thank my phone when an alarm goes off. When objects don't act the way I want them to I explain what I need them to do, or tell them they're being rude. I tell my car when we're stopping for gas.

[naamahdarling]

I reassure credit card readers who are struggling that I know they are doing their best. Bless you, you funky lil machine, I'm sorry my dad is part of the reason people hate you. :(

[worldbuilding-tomfoolery]

I'll be stealing that one and that one and that one, thank you very much!

[the-haiku-bot]

I’ll be stealing that

one and that one and that one,

thank you very much!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[paxere]

(I have the OG post about whimsicalness actively open on my phone lost amongst my sea of tabs rn and seeing it across my dash because of the haiku bot is too funny to not repost lol)

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

Why haven't we opened the dialogue about childhood frenemies hollanov?? We're constantly bickering. You're always at my house. I hate my childhood nickname. You're the only one who still uses it. You stole my first girlfriend. We kissed in my bedroom once, just to practice. You took me to my first real party. You drove me home when I got drunk. Okay fine we kissed more than once. I hate you. You give me butterflies. You're always touching me ugh god stop touching me you're so annoying. Touch me again. You make fun of my clothes and my posters and my bedsheets. You took my virginity. I don't even like you, really. Unless you say it first.

[swarnpert]

i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

[swarnpert]

ok because apparently i'm wrong about this, reblog with where you live and whether you got to eat lunch outside during school or not

[paxere]

Grew up in SoCal….. literally never ate lunch indoors my entire education (other than the 1 day in 2nd grade we had a lockdown rippp).

I now live in Michigan and my best friend’s daughter’s entirely indoor school (no bungalows?? Whatttt??? lol) boggle my mind every time we go for an event lol.

[eugeniedanglars]

it’s wild to me how there is literally ZERO correlation between what a piece of media is like and what its fanworks are like. 2014 captain america fans were out there writing poetry and full-on academic papers inside of their fics. sonic the hedgehog and my little pony fandoms are both famous for drawing fetishes you’ve never even heard of. les miserables fans spent most of their energy on college aus. there is literally no consistency or observable pattern and it’s incredible

[eldriitchmurmurs]

#my theory is that fanworks reflect what people found missing in the canon#so like. sonic and mlp. obviously#les miz want les amis to be happy and alive and goofing around#and uh. mcu fans want the mcu to be well-written (via dicaeopolis)

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[lysimachias]

❌ Is this ship well supported by canon

❌ Does this ship make any sense whatsoever by any reasonable metric

✅ Does the thought of these characters standing next to each other make you want to chew concrete and then break apart a nearby automobile with your bare hands

[morguesupplier]

[busty-shackleford]

choose abortion

Life kills!

[tlirsgender]

There's always something so painful about watching a pretty good actor fighting for their life to give a decent performance of an absolutely dogshit script. Putting their whole heart soul and pussy into delivering the stupidest lines you've heard in your life. My god. We have to get them out of there

[tlirsgender]

Examples off the top of my head:

David Tennant in good omens season 2 (season 2 specifically. Neilman particles. Palpable lack of pterry's influence)

Willem Dafoe in antichrist

Timothee Chalamet in wonka

This has happened to Ken Jeong like several times. I know he's good at doing comedy can somebody please give him jokes

Similarly, Matt Berry after what we do in the shadows started going downhill

And I'm sure there have been many more cases

[tlirsgender]

The spiritual cousin to this phenomenon is Oscar Isaac saying "somehow, palpatine returned" like you can tell he's sick of this shit too and that was the best take they got/nobody else cared either

[mal-studyblr]

hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

[konoko]

[scary-ivy]

[cheddar-baby]

No. 14 (White and Greens on Blue), Mark Rothko, 1998, Oil on Canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm

[goblinparty]

Last night I was talking to my boyfriend, and I couldn’t think of the word ‘library’, so I said ‘book ranch’. He thought it was hilarious and started making up alternative names for ‘librarian’.

“Cowbook! Like cowboy! No…Readcher? Like Rancher? No, fuck this is hard…”

and just now I heard him yell “BOOKAROO” from the other end of the apartment in the most triumphant tone of voice i’ve ever heard

[sasquapossum]

“Howdy, pardner. Name’s Tex. Biblio Tex.”

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[pangur-and-grim]

the club moss I got for my terrarium is dying, despite being lovingly packed into organic soil with oven-fried leaf litter and bioactive springtails and isopods, and meanwhile in my fridge my fuck ass onions are sending out bright green shoots as happy as could be in their cold dark box of fucking nothing

[pangur-and-grim]

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[kholdseid]

[sighinastorm]

As dandelions to sidewalks, so onions to refrigerators.

[the-haiku-bot]

As dandelions

to sidewalks, so onions to

refrigerators.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[bluestjayy]

Year of the OTP Challenge

This is inspired by the official @yearoftheotpevent blog, and is in no way an official event or challenge, just something fun I put together ahead of 2026 with my own spin and style on the spirit of the original.

The Premise: for each month of 2026 you can select one of your OTPs (or just pick one for the whole year for an extra challenge) and there will be 5 potential prompts per month for you to play with: An AU Setting, A Common Trope, A Line of Dialogue, A Smut/Kink Prompt, and finally, a Song from my personal writing playslist.

It is entirely up to you which prompt you use each month. If only one speaks to you, or you'd like to mix and match, or if you're interested in really challenging yourself, try incorporating all five.

That being said, this is not an official challenge or event, so there are really no rules; just go nuts and see what happens!

[shamebats]

Dr. Alan Hart helped pioneer the use of chest X-rays to diagnose tuberculosis. Hart was married to a woman and practicing medicine in San Francisco in 1918 when he was outed as a trans man by a former colleague. Dr. Hart was chased out of town on the back of headlines like “Girl Poses as Male Doctor in Hospital" (he was not posing, of course) and spent much of his life moving from town to town to escape various forms of transphobia. Hart was also a novelist, and wrote of one of his characters, "When it came to outrunning gossip he found he couldn't do it," which was Hart's experience as well—he moved seven times in nine years all around the U.S. in search of safety, but it always proved fleeting. He did manage to get a graduate degree in radiology, though, and helped show how chest X-rays could show very early signs of tuberculosis, thus allowing patients the opportunity to rest and get adequate nutrition sooner, which contributed to better outcomes. Chest X-rays continue to be an essential diagnostic tool; mobile chest X-ray machines that can be carried via backpack now serve rural communities, so Hart's popularization of this diagnostic method continues to save lives.

From Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green.

[astriiformes]

While this is an excellent description of Dr. Hart's important contributions to medicine, and I certainly don't want to minimize the difficulties he faced as a trans man practicing medicine (the story about his being outed and forced to lease his hospital position as a result in 1918 is, of course, entirely true), I do want to jump in and say that his safety did not necessarily "always" prove fleeting!

While it's true that Hart was publicly outed once and moved all over the country for a while, by the time he died, he had served as the director of hospitalization and rehabilitation for the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission for over a decade. Nor was he exclusively hounded or excluded from society at home in Oregon, either -- there are regular mentions of him (under his chosen, male name, or occasionally simply as an "Albany man") and his second wife in his hometown newspaper, The Albany Democrat, throughout the 20s and 30s, reporting when they were in town for social visits, promoting his novels, and even reporting on his graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with his graduate degree. Nor does it seem most people saw him as a woman pretending to be a man for most of his life, despite the press his 1918 outing received -- a reviewer of one of his novels even once remarked that Dr. Hart, while a good writer, didn't seem to know much about women! (Having read a bit of Hart's fiction, I don't think this is true, but to each their own, I suppose)

I mention this because I think it's important to emphasize that trans people -- even trans people who have experienced dramatic setbacks in their lives, like Dr. Hart's 1918 outing -- have not only always existed, but always persisted through trouble and often managed to live very fulfilling lives that were not exclusively marred by transphobia. Nor did everyone around them feel that they were simply "posing" as their gender. Even in 1918, people in Hart's hometown expressed disgust at the way the press way treating the story, and the local newspaper did an exceptionally sympathetic interview with him that allowed him to express his own feelings on the situation and affirm that transitioning was the best choice he could have made! In fact, he was very clear he was not ashamed of his choices, saying:

In a time where transphobia is painfully on the rise, and a lot of trans people are fearing for their safety and livelihoods, it feels worth emphasizing that there has never been a time in history where we were exclusively hounded, or hated, and that bouncing back from traumas like forced outings was and is still possible. Dr. Alan Hart dedicated his first novel to his mother, who spoke out in his defense after he was outed. His second wife established a medical research fund in his honor after he died. Despite setbacks, he was ultimately successful in his field, and clearly very loved. And that's important.