The Internet Comes Full Circle

The Daidalic hall (TikTok) has fallen and I return to my origins.

[nondelphic]

writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.

[dheiress]

“I learned that he had never married. I thought that odd though I guessed why it was and the reason that I guessed was not that most of the Hobbits gave me - that he had early been left very well off and his own master. No, I guessed that he wanted to remain ‘unattached’ for some reason deep down which he did not understand himself - or would not acknowledge, for it alarmed him.”

— Gandalf talking to Pippin about Bilbo, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth

[dheiress]

Almost ten years later after making this post, i love how everyone is still tagging basically the same thing. I really Love Tumblr’s hivemind

[itsmeglycine-deactivated2025100]

the obligatory telephone pinup

[thoughtcascades]

The worst part about being mentally exhausted is that no one can see it. Like, bro, I’m out here fighting for my life in my head.

[remake-me-marie]

You can all expect to see me (formerly operation-bagginshield) on here a lot more.

Why?

Because fuck Mark Zuckerberg, that’s why.

And while we’re at it, fuck Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and the politicians they bought.

You want the old Marie back? You want Marisa? The one who screamed in fury at injustice and walked away from everything in the name of deeply held morals and beliefs? The one who wanted to set your shit on fire?

Cause I’ve had that bitch on speed dial this entire time. She’s been sitting in her box, foaming at the mouth, waiting on the patience and therapy to buckle under the weight of late stage capitalism.

So ok. Let’s do it. Let’s open the box.

Roll for initiative, fuckers.

[corvoidea]

Fuck Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. They can both burn in eternal Hell.

The fact that multiple women told Palmer the horrific things Gaiman had done to them and she was still bringing other women around him, introducing them to him, etc.

Sickening. That Vulture article is one of the worst things I've ever read. My god.

[remake-me-marie]

@chucksauce

In a weird, perverse way I’m glad you’re not here to see this.

I’m glad your heart won’t be broken; that I won’t see the hurt and disappointment and abject betrayal in your eyes.

Let the memory of you and all you loved remain untarnished.

[remake-me-marie]

@chucksauce

I miss you today. It’s deep and hard and sorrowful and this is the only place I can still send you the weird, stupid shit we loved and all the weird, stupid shit I’ve seen since you went to the Undying Lands that I just know you would love.

To whit: Andrew Scott is now doing erotic audio and I know you would just die all over again to hear it.

Maybe you can, wherever you are. I don’t know.

Anyways. I’m sad tonight. Let’s have dinner. ❤️

[brethilach-deactivated20241220]

I just know he's got some nasty hooch in there. he's drinking middle earth moonshine. 150 proof backwater whiskey he bought from a Bree-hobbit in an alleyway

[amazoogle]

[remake-me-marie]

Wut

[mcgregor]

EWAN McGREGOR The Impossible screening - AFI Festival, 2012

[remake-me-marie]

I would sop this man up with a biscuit.

[impishtubist]

Does anyone else randomly think about that Luke Skywalker/Poe Dameron fic that broke the entire fandom back in 2016 or is that just me

[remake-me-marie]

I’m intrigued. I’ve never heard of this. Then again, despite having seen the source material, I’m not exactly in the fandom.

Someone tell me more. I enjoy suffering.

[irrationalplanets]

I have not seen enough people talking about how the 20th anniversary of Fellowship of the Ring is in like a month

[irrationalplanets]

[strangestquiet]

[fledglingdoodles]

momento mori 3: top of the mornin’ to ya

[fledglingdoodles]

A very happy October to you all!

[inkskinned]

i can't believe i have to fucking say it because i'm an educator so like how is it possible nobody else has said this.

unless a person is actively making materials/etc for children, they do not need to worry about your kid.

your child gets respect as a human. that's it. nobody's private life/artistic endeavors/unrelated interests must be controlled for the sake of your kid.

educators and athletes and artists do not have to live in chastity because your kid might see us on our days off. we do not owe it to your kid to only write poems about bunnies and only sing songs about tying your shoes. i do not care how much a person has given to children, if they are acting as an adult in adult spheres, they are allowed to. they are adults. it is your job as a caregiver to raise your kid and keep them out of adult spheres, not our job to keep ourselves out of those spheres just in case.

guess what! adult role models are going to bars and hooking up and dancing and being adults! this is so they have the mental energy to do all the child-centric things.

"it makes me feel weird to picture them like that!" i don't know how to tell you this but actors aren't actually their roles. the customer-service personality your waitress has is probably not her actual personality. the way teachers interact with students is not the way that they interact with their private lives, and it shouldn't be.

"this tells kids this kind of behavior is okay!" actually it's showing kids a normal and natural progression of a person's life, boundaries, and bodily autonomy. it's showing kids that adults are dynamic human beings. kids already know this. they know there's places they're not allowed and things they don't understand yet. it's just that you have icky feelings because you were raised in a society with black-and-white morality.

celebrities don't owe your children perfection, modesty, sobriety. and you know something? it's way healthier when they don't. "this is a person, who gets up every morning and does their job - but also has adult interests, which you'll learn about later" is way healthier as a role model than "you should be perfect like the curated image of this person and if you're not perfect you should be deeply ashamed."

anyway. idk why "think of the children!!!!" is making a comeback as a popular stance. but to be clear? it's a way of saying "this makes me feel uncomfortable, but i don't know why, and i don't feel like untangling it, so i'll blame you for it and hope you feel guilty about my children."

[inkskinned]

hi, op here. do not make this about "fandom drama." don't do it.

it is about the policing of black bodies, of minority communities, of queer expression, and of women in the workforce.

it is about real people in the real world. the notes are full of people who express the same thing: teachers who cannot buy wine with their dinner, social workers who have to cover up perfectly appropriate tattoos, queer folk who worry about bringing up their partner in the workplace. there are real-life, horrific, and ongoing consequences for this. real people get fired because they were in a picture holding a single beer, or they were seen wearing a too-saucy costume at halloween, or they kissed their partner in public on their day off. women have been fired for being the victim of revenge porn; their illegally distributed image instead just being seen as evidence against their character. there are queer artists that are actively being silenced because of this rhetoric. trans people fear using the fucking bathroom because of this rhetoric.

this is about the return of white nationalist slogans to a public stage. this is about how we are even seriously debating the phrase "think of the children". the children are not thought of during discussions of climate change, gun control, educational spending, free health care, student debt, access to childcare, access to food, or just getting the fucking vaccine and wearing a mask.

they do not care about the children. they want to protect their own bigotry by manipulating your empathy towards kids. that's what this post is about.

please acknowledge the systemic, ongoing process of erasing identity and freedom. it is not just some "internet discussion". it is a legitimate, scary, and powerful force that is hugely detrimental to the lives of those around you.

[cristalplanetheart]

[bogleech]

I love contemplating how actually scary this is. Nothing in horror movies affects me anymore but I get the most wonderful chills from the idea of these beautiful, haunting, mindless things just hovering in this murky water like a minefield for anyone foolish enough to go swimming or unlucky enough to fall in. How it’s still not as bad as being a fish small enough for them to paralyze and consume. How they regularly paralyze and consume fish but evolved before anything like a fish ever existed. A fish is such a complex creature that can see and think and navigate and be afraid but sometimes it touches these brainless, boneless, ghostly things that were just already there, millions of years sooner, and it dies and it never understands why that is. The thing that killed it and ate it doesn’t know either, it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t have enough of a brain to even realize it has killed and eaten something. Some of its cells simply fired little harpoons into the cells of the other thing, and squirted deadly chemicals into them, and hauled up the paralyzed body to digest it. It’s a spider’s web without a spider but it still fills things with venom and eats them. :)

[a-book-of-creatures]

The best jellyfish are those that seem to trail off into forever. Like Chrysaora achlyos my beloved…

Images like that haunted me as a kid

[nonbinarypastels]

no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you don’t like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?

“but a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty content” - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesn’t mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that they’re the ones infringing on your safe space either

ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but children’s stories. you can “see it” like that as much as you want but there’s a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.