smashleycrazy

sugar & spice & salty af | 30s | she/her

[gallusrostromegalus]

Unironically love logging onto Tumblr dot com to see a beloved mutual has discovered a new batch of sad old men to sink their teeth into and shake vigorously like a dog that caught a squirrel and following the dash backwards to the post that made them pick up the scent. Truly unparalleled social media experience.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Sometimes you will also get very lucky and one of your Beloved Mutuals will discover a Violently Insane woman and start howling and drooling and chewing their limbs off like dogs begging for this woman to kill and/or impregnate them and that's beautiful.

[cpericardium]

where me and the mutuals work

[buggachat]

"did you know this media that brings you joy has actually been deemed Objectively Bad and Cringe by the Twitter-and-Amateur-Youtube-Critic Council?" yeah i did i just simply don't let other people's opinions dictate my own. it's one of your mother's favorite things about me

[louisegluckpdf]

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

[ashlidear]

Lololololol I typed out a big sad/anxious post about my friends and it disappeared???? 🙃

[ashlidear]

5 years later and I’m still moping over people who don’t care as much about me as I do about them

[ashlidear]

S, J, 🍆

[ashlidear]

Still true. Seeing E post pics of their trip with S&J cut me.

[ashlidear]

STILL STILL TRUE. Mom said S and her mom recently came to the store and S didn’t ask about me. I haven’t talked to or texted her in at least 2 years and it still all hurts my fucking feelings

[smashleycrazy]

Guess I’m doomed to always make friends with people who don’t appreciate me and drop me like a sack of rotten potatoes

[stuckinapril]

very fucked up how being on your phone for hours on end actually makes you feel like shit. I deserve to endlessly consume media to my heart’s content

[neil-gaiman]

Neil Gaiman. I request that you read a piece of work my friend made. It's called Shock Value and you can find it on Ao3.

Use this link if you don't wanna search for it;

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52654369/chapters/133187092

Please don't send me links to fan fiction. People in the notes will explain why.

[hummingbee-lievable]

*Sigh.* We need a copy/paste list at this point.

The strange thing is: this fic appears to be related to the 'Saw' franchise? Which- unless I'm very out of the loop- Mr. Gaiman has nothing to do with. Very strange for such a link to be shared.

Regardless, here, have a bullet point list:

♤ Legal reasons:

If he looks at/reads any headcanons or fanfics, or even fan theories, he could be accused of taking the ideas and using them for himself. This could result in him being sued for taking the ideas. Avoiding fan works as a whole is the only safe way to circumvent this.

♡ Personal reasons:

Look. It's simple. Our minds are wild. They can go anywhere, anyplace, anytime. Now, while he has been fully supportive of the creative process that the worlds he's created have inspired, he does not want to know. Believe me. He doesn't. Do you really want to imagine your favourite character that you've created, or one that embodies some secret part of you, in any other way but the way you've imagined them? I would equate it to watching a movie rendition of a book you've really loved. Sometimes it's a beautiful interpretation, sometimes it's so horrifyingly unlike what you imagined that the character is ruined for you forever. Either way, not everyone wants to see that, preferring to leave it to the power of imagination (insert Gene Wilder reference here).

☆ He's asked us not to. Simple as that.

I'm probably missing something, but I hope I covered the basics.

I will say that I come across posts daily that threaten the readers, i.e. 'If you share this can theory/fic, etc. with Neil Gaiman you may wake to find your toes removed' or other equally creative forms of jovial (but serious) threats. It's nice to see the fandoms doing their part, where they can.

Lastly, the amount of kindness and acceptance we get from Mr. Gaiman about the ways we interpret his world is so abundant that I should hope we can take to heart that he is fully accepting of what is talked about and created; as long as he doesn't know about it. It's a simple boundary to impose and the least we can do is respect it.

O.P., I hope this is clear. You may not have known, so I just wanted to explain it. I don't want you to feel attacked by this, so I'm hoping it comes across as mattter-of-factly as possible. We don't need to be hurt any more than our mistakes already hurt us.

Thank you for listening.

P.S. Final note: including this link where he talks about the insanity of the legal world regarding this:

Why I won't read your (or anybody's) fan fiction. Because there are people out there who will decide that I stole their ideas, and who will,

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

This. It may not be common knowledge, but it has been mentioned several times. Also, while we're all here, maybe some reminders for people who are new:

1. As this whole post demonstrated, don't send Neil fanfiction or your theories. He supports fan created content, but legally cannot and also does not wish to interact with it.

(And now unrelated to the post):

2. Don't ask Neil questions about the third season plot Good Omens or its ending. It's a pointless endeavour that clogs up his askbox. Wait and see.

3. Don't send the same ask repeatedly. Again, it clogs up his inbox, which is already overflowing. He answers questions when he can and as much as he can, and there are a lot of questions which will go unanswered. Don't make his job harder.

4. Before you ask questions about Good Omens that are not covered by point 1 and 2, go and read @orpiknight's FAQs that are pinned at the top of his blog. Vel has does an amazing job of gathered asks that Neil has already answered, and it is neatly structured and extremely easy to read through and also search for specific things. Check if your question has already been answered there, not only will it help Neil's inbox, but you'll also have a faster and guaranteed way of getting the answer you need :)

5. Be respectful like you should to anyone on the internet, Neil is a human being and not a machine spitting out content for us to consume.

(Also while we're here, Neil wasn't the one making plot decisions on the Dead Boy Detectives show, he is not the showrunner, so if your ask relates to the nitty-gritties of that you may wanna try other sources)

None of this is meant to attack anyone, just a few refreshers for all of us, and info for people who are new here :")

[dduane]

Just a reminder.

[senatortedcruz]

I am a beautiful woman and I deserve to eat two enormous pastries before 9 am

[smashleycrazy]

having the kind of depressive episode where you sleep most of the day and when you wake up you’re just counting the hours until it’s socially acceptable to go to sleep again but you’re not gonna sleep you’re gonna lay there on your phone until your eyelids disintegrate

[laughs-and-rain]

Good Luck, Babe!

part 1 of filling my sketchbook with drawings inspired by my star trek playlist

@frogayyyy here u go

[ryan-sometimes]

Who were the lesbian blood sisters?

“Suddenly, the hospitals were full of lesbians who were volunteering. Volunteering to go into those rooms and help my friends who were dying. I remember being so moved by them because gay men hadn’t been too kind to lesbians. We’d call them ‘fish’ and make fun of the butch dykes in the bars – and yet, there they were.”

In the 80s, the AIDS crisis was devastating the world of GLBT people - as the acronym read at the time. Gay men were banned from donating blood, which was desperately needed by patients dying from AIDS. The fear around HIV was so great that doctors and nurses refused to even enter the rooms of AIDS patients. These patients were often abandoned by their families in their dying days. There was a crisis was in the GLBT community, and so lesbians stepped in.

Lesbians organized blood drives in order to give blood to AIDS patients who desperately needed it. These blood drives attracted dozens, if not hundreds of lesbians at a time who all donated their blood. They called themselves the Blood Sisters, and they organized regular blood drives for at least 4 years. HIV patients needed frequent blood transfusions due to anemia induced from the virus, and so lesbians provided this blood.

In addition to blood drives, lesbians also took place as physical caretakers for gay men with AIDS, who were often abandoned by their families and even nursing staff who refused to go into their rooms. Lesbians held hands, fed, and took care of them.

In order to honor the efforts of lesbians during the AIDS crisis, the GLBT acronym was changed to LGBT, with lesbians deliberately at the front. Lesbians were a crucial part of the fight against AIDS, and this change would immortalize it in our community.

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[tibby]

people love to complain about sex scenes in tv shows and violence in movies when the real danger is scenes that make you feel second hand embarrassment.

[kineticpenguin]

[oleathe]

Acab because the people that made this meme thinks the cops should just kill someone like this

[cornpopwasframed]

Cops having a chuckle because they’re too cowardly to take a beating in order to save a life. All cops are cowards.

[qsycomplainsalot]

I can’t stress this enough, the people agreeing with this meme think having a psychotic break should carry a death sentence.

[headspace-hotel]

So cops wanna be able to kill people but don’t want to risk their life to help people?

[bogleech]

The only people who want to be cops to begin with are mostly people who are chronically terrified of everyone else and can’t even take a punch. They know being a cop is actually the single safest job that gives you authority and a gun, so little spineless pissbabies flock to it.

[ratfink0521]

The real heroes are the social workers. I cannot imagine the patience and bravery required to do their job.

[eldin-tower]

no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

[silly-ehggy]

is 60°F warm or cool

warm

cool

Voting ended onMay 3, 2024

No in between. Reblog if you vote pleas

[silly-ehggy]

Again, please reblog if you vote. At least like, man

[baddywronglegs]

For everyone not from the US this is 15.5°

[gallusrostromegalus]

60°F is warm in spring and cool in fall.

[fandomsarefriends-notfood]

It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip