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mothric

no sideblogs, we chaotically cram our personal posts, aesthetic posts, and 800 hyperfixations into one blog like men

anjio00

Why stop at minecraft to find him

theseus-fell-from-a-high-place

A Compilation.

sunflowershine03

I’m not in the fandom but I want to be in it what is happening

doneanddusty-deactivated2026052

“[average fandom thing] is why everyone hates the ＿＿ fandom!! why can’t you freaks just be normal instead of giving us a bad name!!”

i really hate to break this to you, but no matter how palatable you try and make a fandom, ‘normal’ people will still think it’s weird. there is basically nothing you can do to make a fandom be perceived as ‘normal’ by people who are not in fandoms, especially if the fandom you’re trying to sanitise is an anime fandom.

fandom is not meant to be perceived as ‘normal’. fandom was built for the freaks, by the freaks /affectionate , and the only reason that people care about being perceived as ‘normal’ now is because of the influx of people entering fandom spaces during lockdown and shaming others for ‘weird’ content that’s been around since the dawn of fandoms.

if anyone tries to blame you/the content you make for how a fandom is viewed, they’re just a fandom cop trying to shame you into catering to them. do not listen to them.

i’m being so serious when i say this — the ‘weird’, or ‘problematic’, or ‘freaky’ content that you make is not harming your fandom in any way. in fact, it’s improving your fandom and playing a part in keeping your fandom alive, whilst also slowly-but-surely fighting back against the rising tide of puritans trying to destroy fandom culture. do not listen to anything a fandom cop has to say, it’s all purely self-serving virtue-signalling designed to shame others.

be weirder. write that ‘problematic’ fanfiction. make that freaky fanart. do whatever you want, forever.

writingdose

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

whether or not a piece of writing is monetized has nothing to do with its quality.

thegrayelephent

Me when I write for 30 minutes: 1k words

Me when I write for 2 hours: 500 words

Me when I write for 4 hours: -300 words

mirkwoodest

Obsessed with the fact that this really happened😳

wan-shailu

When I was a student at Oxford, both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were lecturing there, Lewis magnificently and Tolkien badly and inaudibly, and the climate of opinion was such that people explained Lewis’s children’s books by saying ‘It’s his Christianity, you know,’ as if the books were the symptom of some disease, while of Tolkien they said he was wasting his time on hobbits when he should have been writing learned articles…

I imagine I caused Tolkien much grief by turning up to hear him lecture week after week, while he was trying to wrap his lectures up after a fortnight and get on with The Lord of the Rings (you could do that in those days, if you lacked an audience, and still get paid). I sat there obdurately despite all his mumbling and talking with his face pressed up to the blackboard, forcing him to go on expounding every week how you could start with a simple quest-narrative and, by gradually twitching elements as it went along, arrive at the complex and entirely different story of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale – a story that still contains the excitement of the quest-narrative that seeded it. What little I heard of all this was wholly fascinating.

– Diana Wynne Jones

elodieunderglass

I think about this a lot, often in the context of "the remarkable amount of resources that Tolkien was able to funnel into LotR" but often because I just really like Diana Wynne Jones

must-be-mr-boggins

Been suffering through my Prozac prescription, whole time I just needed to go on a quest.

sycamorality

oh no i will lose my !

jadedresearcher

ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

partycoffin

When you’re trying to get into the meat of your Canned Cinnamon Rolls, how do you open it

Whack it hard on the counter until it opens

Politely press down like the Packaging says too!

Huh??

Remaining time: 9 hours 38 minutes

starsandsupernovae

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need better friends

starsandsupernovae

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need to be better friends

sunderwight

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

adizzyninja

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

julianova44

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

nat-20s

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

nat-20s

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)