Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.

Age: Restaurants still had smoking sections when I was a kid

[445ties]

wow these two are such good FRIENDS

[sandersstudies]

Found my husband’s baby book. OBSESSED with an image of him, newborn baby, on what looks like a large white comforter, alone, with the caption New Guy In Town. Obsessed I tell you.

[sandersstudies]

[sandersstudies]

The true 90s baby aesthetic as computers in the home were normalized

[babybelminis]

why is it giving this

[saturnmortis]

[kuropin]

Human fuunybunny hell ye hell ye

[mortalityplays]

there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.

and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[pomgore]

i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow

[pomgore]

goat dog

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of tiredness

[fandom101]

Intro post

Welcome to Fandom 101, a blog of fandom advice and resources for people who are new to online fandom!

To newbies: if you have any good-faith questions about fandom culture, etiquette, history, jargon, inside jokes, etc. the inbox is always open! I will do my best to answer, and when I can't, I am hopeful that other thoughtful people will chime in.

To fandom old-hands: I really want this to be a collaborative place, not just a place that reflects my (@queenofattolia) thoughts on fandom. So if you have advice/fandom history/insights/meta you want to share, please please please submit a post here or message me with a link to the post on your own blog so I can reblog it.

I have written a little bit more about why I started this blog and about my understanding of what fandom can be here.

Resources (under construction):

Archive of Our Own FAQs

Fanlore wiki

Tags (under construction):

Age discourse (*sigh*)

AO3 (Archive of Our Own)

Asked and answered

Beta reading

Collaboration

Commenting

Continuity

Fandom culture

Fandom etiquette

Fandom ethics

Fandom history

Good vibes

Meta

Resources (browser extensions, etc.)

RPF

Tagging standards

Your heritage

[zimowahistoria-kuro]

they share half a braincell

[demilypyro]

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW

[cielphantomhive-d]

I'm just a little needy sl*t

Cr: kitune__24 on X

[auramgold]

a lot of people assume psychosis hallucinations are super intense all-consuming horror movie shit like the memes about the hat man or always horrible debilitating things that make you dangerous to be around

but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood

i *have* gotten the "bugs crawling all over me" hallucination once or twice though and yeah that one is exactly as terrible horrible as it sounds AUGH

[auramgold]

(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)

media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something

when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.

no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.

and this, indeed, is why solidarity with the insane is so important: you, yes you too, are just one bad day from joining us, and no perceptions of being a "temporarily embarrassed sane person" will save you from the oppression of the psychiatric institution.

[iloveyoudie]

ty ian mckellen

[todayintokyo]

Hokkaido in summer by yuya

[montereybayaquarium]

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[pedes1ayer]

Thank you very much @satsuha!

[mammalianmammals]

A Cougar (Puma concolor), family Felidae, swims through the surf at Cannon Beach, OR, USA

AKA Puma, Mountain Lion, and Catamount

photograph by Andy Woo