*rises from slumber to ask a critical question*
Would Maomao lick poison off Jinshi's frog?
yes, absolutely
mneme, no
SHE WOULD SUCK NOT LICK 😤
Team absolutely

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Not today Justin

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@shortforemily
*rises from slumber to ask a critical question*
Would Maomao lick poison off Jinshi's frog?
yes, absolutely
mneme, no
SHE WOULD SUCK NOT LICK 😤
Team absolutely
I just deactivated my Twitter account, but I wanted to address false claims that I am "racist against Thea Guanzon (who I know primarily as diasterisms on AO3) for being Southeast Asian (SEA) / BIPOC / POC" in this tweet below, among other ones.
This is going to be a very long post, but one that I feel is necessary. I strongly advise you to please read the entire post through to the end before retweeting or commenting.
Jesus fucking Christ on a cracker why is this mess of a post in the hurricane wars tag???
First of all, you must have forgotten what you actually did on Twitter in regards to Landscape, because unless an author asks for concrit, it is considered incredibly rude to get on your public twitter account and start giving it out unprompted. Unfortunately for you, that's not even what you did. Shall I jog your memory? You started accusing Thea of plagiarizing her whole fanfic from the Legends EU, which is hilariously incorrect, and then engaged in concern trolling about her being SUED BY DISNEY for writing a separate original novel that has nothing to do with LWABOC apart from the barest bones of the fic: there's a war, two enemies on either side who have powers get married.
This, combined with your other tweets about how it wasn't that impressive that Thea was published in a canonical Star Wars anthology, constant kvetching about how your ex left you for an Asian woman, how Asian women are "more desirable" than white women complete with graphs to "prove it", and how upset you got on Twitter when it was announced that Star Wars Celebration 2025 would be held in Tokyo complete with "But Asians only make up 10% of the fandom" while actively ignoring that George Lucas borrowed heavily from Japanese and East Asian influences when he created Star Wars and that it's a wildly popular franchise in Japan ALL DEFINITELY MAKES IT LOOK LIKE YOU ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN RACISM AGAINST ASIAN PEOPLE, OBVERSA.
I don't even know where to begin with the rest of this nonsensical post. Claiming "no actually you mean ASIANS calling out MY constant microaggressions against Asians and YOU telling me I'M WRONG for constantly going after Thea means YOU are the REAL racists" Christ Jesus alive. Nobody said that you couldn't review books written by authors of color, just that it's wildly inappropriate to harass authors! WHICH YOU ACTUALLY DID, YET AGAIN by making THIS POST because you TAGGED THE WOMAN AND THE NAME OF HER BOOK IN THIS POST. It does not matter that you did not know that Thea was Filipina when you initially criticized her fanfic on twitter in public: you CONTINUED TO CRITICIZE HER for YEARS, singling her out and downplaying her literary achievements, including the fact that she was published in a Star Wars official anthology. If you actually cared about her wellbeing "my actions were done out of concern for Thea Guanzon's safety and well-being, as well as to allow her to continue to promote The Hurricane Wars on Twitter and other social media platforms without any perceived negative criticism, critique, or interference by me," then it's very simple to achieve that: it's called SHUTTING THE FUCK UP.
"Both [Landscapes and Hurricane Wars] stand on their own value and worth as high-quality works, completely regardless of Thea Guanzon's race and ethnicity. (LWABOC especially, since that heavily borrowed from Star Wars Legends EU lore that was created by white authors, before being changed to SEA folklore in The Hurricane Wars.)"
Are you fucking serious? You can't even stop with the microaggressions in your giant post about how you are totally not racist towards Asians! "Landscapes is especially good because it was built on material from white people!" My jaw is on the FLOOR.
You are not being harassed by an evil toxic Reylo fandom, either. You are being rightfully viewed with everything spanning bewilderment to outright derision for making the latest of your many, many shitty takes. This was a twenty something long tweet thread, authored by yourself, about how fanfiction authors who choose to step up to seek out being traditionally published are somehow "putting information behind a paywall", "monetizing hobbies" (somehow a bad thing) with the vague implication that BIPOC authors shouldn't even attempt to publish traditionally and should just self-publish... and YET AGAIN bringing up Thea, Hurricane Wars, and this time Ali Hazelwood, implying that Ali's books are subpar in content because her mean publisher is forcing her to churn out novellas. You also claimed a number of outrageous and easily disproven lies concerning the industry, like "publishers will force authors to delete their AO3 accounts" in an attempt to warn prospective fanfic authors from going professional.
When people stated that libraries exist to remove the paywall from published books, and also that writers should be paid for their works, you immediately blocked anyone who disagreed with you, even mildly, and then you turned around immediately to Reddit, posting in some Reylo subreddit looking for someone to agree with you there on the matter of traditional publishing and fanfiction.
Also, this is all happening two weeks before Thea's book releases in the USA. You are, it seems, wholly incapable of keeping Thea Guanzon's name out of your mouth.
I struggle to grasp what you even think your place is in the Reylo fandom apart from being known as "that person who harangued Reylos who were survivors of sexual assault about not liking or wanting to watch an Adam Driver movie where he plays a r*pist" because you have never written a single fanfic, you have never contributed to the fandom in any meaningful way, you have never promoted fanfic you liked or commissioned artists (I guess that's the sin of monetizing hobbies) and you have never (to my knowledge) even left nice comments on the AO3 accounts of authors you DO like. In my opinion I don't even think you like the pairing-- I think you simply are a fan of Adam Driver to an extent that borders between "slightly worrying" and "restraining order time".
Every time someone corrects you, criticizes you, or disagrees with you, you immediately act as if they had pointed a gun to your head, especially if they are BIPOC, using your neurodivergency and gender identity as a shield, so maybe you'll listen to my white neurodivergent genderfluid ass when I tell you that YOU NEED TO STOP. Incredibly ironic that you are accusing someone who genuinely did not know that you went by your reddit handle now, and who apologized and is referring to you in the rest of the thread that you conveniently left out of this post with your chosen name and pronouns, of purposely misgendering you and how that's at odds with them being anti-TERF when YOU YOURSELF claim Death of the Author to excuse why you still enjoy Harry Potter when JKR is a full raging TERF and the books are stacked full of gender essentialism. PLEASE.
The only toxic person here is you (and whoever was allegedly sending you death threats, although you have claimed this before and never presented any, and implying that Alice in the screenshot above personally sent you death threats is a hefty accusation. "going out of their way, as the account in the screenshot did, to purposefully harass and @ me, despite me privating my Twitter account, to tell me things like "you're a racist cunt" and "kys".)
I think you need to get off all your social media and think for a good long time about yourself. Do some serious introspection and personal growth. Work through whatever the hell is wrong with you. You have already hamstrung yourself and burned bridges with Lucasfilm due to your behavior, and you are leaving a digital footprint that will haunt you for the rest of your life.
GET THEM NEON
While the giant bill was fake, it represented a very real accomplishment. The group raised more than $17,000, which purchased more than $1.6 million in medical debt owed by Philadelphians, according to their nonprofit partner RIP Medical Debt.
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This is a great way to undermine the system that we are trapped in
The fact that this can be done at all shows how utterly bullshit the entire system is. There was literally no reason for that medical debt to exist in the first place.
Let's say you owe a private hospital ten thousand dollars, but you have very few assets, so they're pretty sure they're never getting any of that back. There's ninety nine other people who also each owe the hospital ten thousand dollars. (It doesn't have to be a hospital; any debt can be sold this way.) The hospital has shit to do and the low chances of you paying them mean it's an unnecessary drain on their time and resources to hound you all for it. But they can get *some* money, by selling your debt to a third party.
Let's say the sell each ten thousand dollar debt for ten dollars (I'm making all these numbers up for simplicity). So a third party gives the hospital one thousand dollars, and now all hundred of you owe that third party ten thousand instead! You're in the clear with the hospital, you owe it to these guys now! And their job is to hound and harrass you for the money you owe. If one of you pays up more than a thousand dollars, you've covered their initial investment. These guys are gambling on the likelihood that enough of you can pay your debts that you make it worth the time they spend tracking you and harrassing you.
Or, instead of trying to get the money out of you, they can just... decide you don't owe them. Why not? They own the debt. They can fork out a thousand bucks, buy a million in debt, and forgive it. That's what these guys did. (This is also a favourite move of John Oliver; if you ever see headlines about John Oliver forgiving debt, this is what he's doing). A small payment can take a massive weight off the shoulders of a lot of struggling people.
Again, I made up the numbers to simplify the math. But this is how the process works.
There was a challenge going around on Music Twitter a couple days ago that asked folks to come up with a list of 20 songs that you really love — but no repeating artists/performers. Because of who I am as a person, I put my list in alphabetical order and made a playlist, so: here it is.
Dear tumblrverse: if I am going to haunt these halls again I need the Youths to stop clogging the “young wizards” tag with fanfic about That TERF’s characters and return it to its rightful owners (neurodivergent adults who have cried over a spaceship at least once)
I am so glad I’m not alone in this feeling and uh also I’m not very active here but HI! I’m very into BTS these days! But YW is still my first love and no, I have not and will never stop drawing/painting Wellakhit Queen Dairine!
Dear tumblrverse: if I am going to haunt these halls again I need the Youths to stop clogging the “young wizards” tag with fanfic about That TERF’s characters and return it to its rightful owners (neurodivergent adults who have cried over a spaceship at least once)
Oh yeah, I made a thing! Please enjoy the mashup that no one asked for but my brain demanded: The Loveliest Time x FACE
how does tumblr even work do you just like talk to yourself until people are like "i like this one"
this is actually exactly how it works
loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done
Ask not for whom the gurdy hurds. It hurds for thee.
oh shit its five in the morning but i couldn't not do this one
Michelle Rodriguez growing out her armpit hair for three months for Holga means everything to me thanks for asking
THIS. I was unnaturally thrilled every time I saw her pits in that movie. Admittedly, I am the Armpit Connoisseur (IYKYK) but STILL
My favorite part of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is that if you don't play DnD, it's a solid fantasy movie, but if you DO play DnD, you can feel in your soul the table talk that's almost certainly happening over the events of the movie. Like...
"Are you guys sure you don't want to take a perception check?"
"I said we jump out the window."
or
"And he turns and walks directly northwards away from you guys."
"The map shows a rock-"
"HE WALKS OVER THE ROCK."
or
"Fuck it, I throw a potato."
"Okay... roll for potato, I guess."
"That was a 20."
or
"I know we won, but I have bonus actions and I'm going to use them, damn it."
Three butch friends of mine finishing the basement of my first house around 1996. They worked for beer, and not even anything fancy.
Breakfast with an old friend. AKA the hammer wielding butch on the left of the “Three butches”photo. It had been over 10 years since we’d seen each other. Too long my friend.
Homicide rateby US State and Canadian Province, 2020
by u/BLAZENIOSZ
Further proving that Maine is part of Canada
Snippet from my garbage bag test, also currently known as the mer-leech!
Longer, more detailed video is on my Patreon!
not gonna lie, if I saw this in the pool I would scream at a frequency high enough to smash glass
this is my whole entire aesthetic
there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’l kill you in real life, kevin”
I heard a story once about two microbiologists at a conference who took it out into the parking lot to have a literal fistfight over taxonomy.
have i told this story yet? idk but it’s good. The Orangutan Story:
my american lit professor went to this poe conference. like to be clear this is a man who has a doctorate in being a book nerd. he reads moby dick to his four-year-old son. and poe is one of the cornerstones of american literature, right, so this should be right up his alley?
wrong. apparently poe scholars are like, advanced. there is a branch of edgar allen poe scholarship that specifically looks for coded messages based on the number of words per line and letters per word poe uses. my professor, who has a phd in american literature, realizes he is totally out of his depth. but he already committed his day to this so he thinks fuck it! and goes to a panel on racism in poe’s works, because that’s relevant to his interests.
background info: edgar allen poe was a broke white alcoholic from virginia who wrote horror in the first half of the 19th century. rule 1 of Horror Academia is that horror reflects the cultural anxieties of its time (see: my other professor’s sermon abt how zombie stories are popular when people are scared of immigrants, or that purge movie that was literally abt the election). since poe’s shit is a product of 1800s white southern culture, you can safely assume it’s at least a little about race. but the racial subtext is very open to interpretation, and scholars believe all kinds of different things about what poe says about race (if he says anything), and the poe stans get extremely tense about it.
so my professor sits down to watch this panel and within like five minutes a bunch of crusty academics get super heated about poe’s theoretical racism. because it’s academia, though, this is limited to poorly concealed passive aggression and forceful tones of inside voice. one professor is like “this isn’t even about race!” and another professor is like “this proves he’s a racist!” people are interrupting each other. tensions are rising. a panelist starts saying that poe is like writing a critique of how racist society was, and the racist stuff is there to prove that racism is stupid, and that on a metaphorical level the racist philosophy always loses—
then my professor, perhaps in a bid to prove that he too is a smart literature person, loudly calls: “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ORANGUTAN?”
some more background: in poe’s well-known short story “the murder in the rue morgue,” two single ladies—a lovely old woman and her lovely daughter who takes care of her, aka super vulnerable and respectable people—are violently killed. the murderer turns out to be not a person, but an orangutan brought back by a sailor who went to like burma or something. and it’s pretty goddamn racially coded, like they reeeeally focus on all this stuff about coarse hairs and big hands and superhuman strength and chattering that sounds like people talking but isn’t actually. if that’s intentional, then he’s literally written an analogy about how black people are a threat to vulnerable white women, which is classic white supremacist shit. BUT if he really only meant for it to be an orangutan, then it’s a whole other metaphor about how colonialism pillages other countries and brings their wealth back to europe and that’s REALLY gonna bite them in the ass one day. klansman or komrade? it all hangs on this.
much later, when my professor told this story to a poe nerd friend, the guy said the orangutan thing was a one of the biggest landmines in their field. he said it was a reliable discussion ruiner that had started so many shouting matches that some conferences had an actual ban on bringing it up.
so the place goes dead fucking silent as every giant ass poe stan in the room is immediately thrust into a series of war flashbacks: the orangutan argument, violently carried out over seminar tables, in literary journals, at graduate student house parties, the spittle flying, the wine and coffee spilled, the friendships torn—the red faces and bulging veins—curses thrown and teaching posts abandoned—panels just like this one fallen into chaos—distant sirens, skies falling, the dog-eared norton critical editions slicing through the air like sabres—the textual support! o, the quotes! they gaze at this madman in numb disbelief, but he could not have known. nay, he was a literary theorist, a 17th-century man, only a visitor to their haunted land. he had never heard the whistle of the mortars overhead. he had never felt the cold earth under his cheek as he prayed for god’s deliverance. and yet he would have broken their fragile peace and brought them all back into the trenches.
my professor sits there for a second, still totally clueless. the panel moderator suddenly stands up in his tweed jacket and yells, with the raw panic of a once-broken man:
WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE ORANGUTAN!