Random thoughts

my life is now slightly less of a mess

[otomiya-tickles]

"This world is ever-changing. I have grown accustomed to parting and despair. I have lost touch with time. I struggle in the samsara only in the hope of achieving... my mission."

Spotify Discover Weekly whirled this song at my head without mercy and it brought me to this video :'( idk anything about this but it was touching so I'm sharing T-T

Note: the singer is Zhou Shen, a male with an extraordinary voice ❤️

Full animated short:

[sentient--trashcan]

I saw this on my recommended, have no idea what it is but

You can't tell me I'm wrong

[paperseverywhere]

[lemonmaster666-deactivated20191]

I’m actually crying

[timaeustestified18]

the feels are here

[sentient--trashcan]

Ppl on tumblr be like

😩 I'm supposed to be ✍️writing my history🌍😒 essay but I accidentally👉👈 sent the entire script📃 of Shrek Forever After🤢 to my teacher ugh🙄 I'm so clumsy🤷

[bantamazadeh]

[flowerprincephil-deactivated201]

I DIDNT KNOW WHAT THIS WOULD BE SO I CLICKED PLAY AND MY MOM IS RIGHT NEXT TO ME AND MY COMPUTER IS ON FULL VOLUME I HATE EVERYONE

[darknessinmystars]

for whenever I fuck up

[bongism]

i… fucking… love…. wamen

[bongism]

i love how i just made this post in a fleeting moment of lesbianism and all the wlws started reblogging it. THATS gay culture baby

[bongism]

me: love wamen

every wlw on this website:

oh FUCK

[coolxatu]

fuck myer briggs fuck astrology

if you ask someone who their top 3 favorite homestuck characters were you literally know everything about them

[coolxatu]

if they dont know what homestuck is then you know theyre a normal human being

[hipstercanada]

everyone put ur top 3 homestuck characters in the tags

[sentient--trashcan]

Strilondes for the win

[tmgpodcast]

the DELIVERY

[staticandlove]

Shakespeare would write this

[i-wanna-be-cute]

[adhdcoolatta]

THAT’S THE BITCH FROM THE TAKING OUT THE TRASH VIDEO

[theangelwithashotgun8]

That Thor voice fuckin’ one-shotted me

[wordswithkittywitch]

Jared, 19, is the king’s half brother?!

[too-cool-for-facebook]

Except Shatner would find out and demand a bigger statue of himself

[questbedhead]

Some of my favourite Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 1 quotes

[valentinedagger]

[id: a series of homestuck dialogue screenshots

“ROXY: ABRACA HAPPEN!

DAVE: id throw it in the lava but that would be a waste of melting

JOHN: rose, these are some really piss poor heart felt messages.

ROSE: I think I’ve spent too much time around Dave. ROSE: I’ve also probably spent too much time sharing his genes.

DIRK: I hate everything you have to say about all topics.

ARQUIUSPRITE: [arrow] If you can ever manage to get over yourself, I would highly recommend being me

DAVE: john no stop turning into wind you fickle idiot

JAKE: But i dont WANNA be a man and i dont WANNA punch her in the face!

ROSE: I foresaw that they would, magically, not unlike a majestic wizardress.”

and one narration screenshot:

“You come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly.

And you can’t take it anymore.”

end id]

[hawt-me33]

Coming into a fandom late

[baxterdamus-deactivated20130513]

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

[valorious]

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

[leatherpatches-deactivated20150]

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

[fauxmoux]

Accuracy at its best

[street-of-mercy]

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

[my-reylo]

all of this shit…lol

[nerdsagainstfandomracism]

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

[not-so-secret-nerd]

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

[jupiter235]

This gets better every time I see it. 

[sageblackrose95]

@fuboos-mess

[inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac]

Being in a dead fandom…

[illogicalarchive]

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

[erilias]

The accuracy hurts.

[fanfic-yes-please]

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

[it-is-bugs]

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

[sweetferalbaby]

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

[teaganvamp]

This just gets better..

[hamboj2]

@mi-kleos

[thatcrazysonicchick]

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

[knightofbloodcancer]

Fandom hell in general

[morathavictoria]

Yes.

[marvelanimelover]

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

[stop-talking-babe-deactivated20]

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

[raise-cain-archived]

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

[crochanblackbeak]

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

[kateriverameliawolfe]

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

[ishipwhatiship247]

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

[ravenhilarious]

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

[swanqueen-author]

Being in a fandom that actually works together

[commanderunhingedmongoose]

Why is this so true? All of it.

[pillowprincesslexa]

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

[hangingfire]

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

[priory-of-stars]

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

[marianagmt]

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

[batbyte-alghul]

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

[tirnel-sutcliff-spears]

I love this. and it’s gotten better

[cartoonjessie]

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

[brit-is-bookish]

All of these are me. Lol

[thehikingastronomer]

Being in a fandom on Tumblr

[julietsemophase]

And it reached its epic conclusion

[lucien-the-leaf]

Cannot resist this at this point

[softqueerbuckley]

ALWAYS REBLOG

[rosewhipped22]

I always appreciate that ‘supernatural has gif for everything’ is part of this post and most people probably don’t even realize it

[one-time-i-dreamt]

VOTE!!!! DON’T LET TRUMP AND PENCE GET AWAY WITH THIS!!! EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!!

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

What religion says it’s okay to let people die if you don’t agree with the way they live their lives?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

What religion says it’s okay to let people die if you don’t agree with who they are? What they were born as? Things they cannot change about themselves? Why are you even in the medical field if you’d rather let someone die than to treat them?

[missing-texture]

Robert Eads was a transgender man who transitioned later in life and as such it was deemed inadvisable for him to seek sex reassignment surgery. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1996 but was refused treatment by more than a dozen doctors, some for personal reasons and others on the grounds that taking him on as a patient might harm their practice. When he finally found a doctor to treat him in 1997, the cancer had already metastasized to other parts of his body, rendering any further treatments futile. He passed away in 1999. His life and death was the subject of the award-winning documentary Southern Comfort (2001).

As i’m sure many of you have heard, the Trump administration just passed a ruling that would remove LGBT+ anti-discrimination protections in health care and health insurance. I immediately thought of this man’s story when I heard about the ruling. Stories like this are the reason why those protections are necessary.

It’s easy to feel hopeless with all the bad news our community has been bombarded with recently. But we have to keep fighting, and one way we can fight is through legal means.

Here are some organizations who have announced plans to take action in court. If you can donate to any of them, please do!

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Lambda Legal

We make the case for equality in the nation s courts and in the court of public opinion. The work we do has impact on the way all of us li

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Donate - Transgender Law Center

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Give today to protect trans rights

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Donate to the ACLU

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[gideonthe9]

the gays getting ready to spam dreamworks after noelle said that she wants to do a she-ra movie and that it is a possibility if we keep asking for it

[aspenonthecoast]

Just so we’re all clear on where I stand: Black lives matter, trans women are women, trans men are men, nonbinary people are beautiful, asexual/aromantic folks have a place in the LGBTQ community, Queer is not a dirty word, and being “anti fascist” is a moral position, not a political one.

[systlin]

purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten. 

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it. 

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered. 

[systlin]

Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.

[persephonebooklover]

Back up ao3 was created by fans?

[systlin]

It’s…right on the main page. 

[fanfictionanthology]

I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.

[naryrising]

But we’re not even… selling anything…  *quiet sobs*

[wrangletangle]

No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.

We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”

[elfwreck]

Is there any way to spread this info? 

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW. 

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags. 

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.) 

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.” 

[tygermama]

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.”

THIS IS WHY YOU CAN’T PUT LINKS TO YOUR KO-FE OR PATREON OR ADVERTISE FOR COMMISSIONS ON AO3

All of this hard work is dependent on them maintaining non-profit status

[lagonegirl]

Solomon’s Shield is the name of the app

OMG Download this!!!! Stop Police Brutality!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 Boosting this as a useful tool for people in protecting themselves here <3

[rouge-fox-expanded]

signal boost!!