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[scramratz]

Sleep well Marjane Satrapi. You were a huge influence on me and my work in a way that cannot be understated. You will be missed but your work will carry on for generations to come

[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[quezify]

just saw this post on my dash recently and thought of you: https://www.tumblr.com/in-the-eye-of-whimsy/815789040079110144/the-art-of-kathleen-ryan

yesss kathleen ryan's moldy fruit so iconic to meeee

was crazy stoked when someone in my ceramics course said my work reminded them of hers. in my dreams!!

[mahawavy]

[afemalesebastian]

"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[lostsometime]

ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artists’ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. It’s SO COOL, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at. https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic

Check him out he’s so cool

[babyanimalgifs]

Little fish eats his foods 

(Source)

[bunigojade]

[aflo]

this is so sad he doesn’t even know there’s a double barreled shotgun pointed at him

[identifying-fish-in-posts]

Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)

[duke-of-fire]

[splickedylit]

His Foods :) 👍

[marisatomay]

Happy Pride

[alphacrone]

pulling yourself up by your strap-on or whatever they say

[abandonedniche]

oh so some people can just listen to a song and understand the lyrics

[abandonedniche]

what if you’re all lying

[abandonedniche]

not even an exaggeration

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

Visit Original Link

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[bramblebeau]

arise queers

[theowlburrow]

Video games 🎮

[blumineck]

Archery x flower arranging

This was actually really fun!

Anyway, don’t forget I’m still raising money to test a bunch of things in a suit of armour:

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[j-tee]

[ngoziu]

in defense of fanfiction

Someone asked me today about fanfiction vs. literature, and fanworks and quality, and I didn't realize I had an entire 30-minute talk prepared on the topic. (I'm going to talk about fanfiction here, but I'm using fanfic and fanworks interchangeably.)

We get defensive of fanfiction because people outside of fandom use the term "fanfiction" with condescension. Patriarchal institutions view and irrelevant metrics deem fanfic as "less than" because it does not align with standards for what a piece of writing "should be." Coincidentally, the people who make and consume fanfic or other forms of transformative fanworks are often women or queer or marginalized. The defense might feel necessary in the face of whom fanfiction is ultimately for.

To be honest with you, along those institutional standards, most fanfiction is not good. And also along those standards, some fanfiction is extraordinary. But I really don't care about any of that, because that is not what fanfiction is for.

Fanfiction is for the writer and for the people who want to engage with a fandom after they consume a piece of media. It does not need to be commentary, a response, a movement. Like a diary entry, transformative fanworks are individually indulgent, and like a lovingly cooked meal, can also be communal, shared. They can be "poorly" written and also moving, dumb and insanely empowering, confusing and satisfactory, juvenile and self-revelatory for the author and the reader.

Writing and reading fanfiction is such an intimate and personal act, that I find it ludicrous? Irrelevant? Pointless—to debate whether or not fanfiction should be "good." Huh????

Engage with these arguments if you want, but fandom exists in a completely different environment—an unacademic one—a rare non-monetary one—so the metrics for value are completely different. And if you stuff fanworks into containers of capitalistic consumption, you're gonna be very frustrated. "But was that journal entry good?" "But was that meal among friends good?" "Was that time we spent in the idea that I shared good?"