Hi! I'm El/Ellen, I've been on tumblr for what feels like forever.
directory:
@sunnysideupcats: you are here! this is my main blog that I post whatever I want to. it's messy, multifandom, and intermittent. this is where I like and follow from
@giant--squids: hockey and baseball sideblog (really the only sideblog i'm actively using anymore so just listing this one)
I used to use twitter but don’t anymore. on discord - feel free to ask for my user there if we’ve interacted before
about me:
updated aug 25 - i got wordy so throwing under a cut
30, west coast, lover of reading, distance running, art history, cats, tea, pumpkins, and sunflowers
currently very into: spn, mcr, art, physical media, shitposts, spreading helpful info (check out my reference tag, I started using it ages ago so there’s a ton of random shit in there)
I watch and follow hockey and baseball—check out that blog for more info on teams, etc
I've gone through so many fandoms that I can't even count. some that hit the hardest were/are: superwholock (yeah yeah i know), mcu, haikyuu, the x-files, the locked tomb, and yuri on ice, egl fashion
some miscellaneous faves:
books: the starless sea, wayfarers, locked tomb, sacrilege, you made a fool of death with your beauty
comics: monstress, paper girls
music: porter robinson, above & beyond, mcr, paramore, green day, coldplay (yes genuinely), purity ring, cults, crystal castles, my
color: yellow
early days youtube video: badger badger badger
fine artists: rené magritte, sari shryack, mary cassatt, wayne thiebaud, hieronymous bosch
[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]
The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".
In this case, thankfully, the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.
I’m not sure if this will be helpful to anyone, but you literally do not have to be a good writer to write and post fan fiction. Yes you will naturally get better at writing and finding your voice the more you do it but you do not have to be or become a professional level writer to enjoy writing and sharing fics. It’s common to hear people praise fic writers by saying their work is better than published books, and while I think this comes from a good place, that’s not the norm or expectation. There is also a sentiment that fic writing is “good practice” for becoming a better writer or doing something else later, but if fic is the only creative writing you ever do that is literally okay. Your technical skill does not mean you cannot have fun and build community with your writing, or that other people cannot love and find meaning in your work.
It had never occurred to me that bus upholstery fabric is something that an ordinary person can just buy, but I was watching a video that included a trip to a huge fabric store and they just had a whole section of it??!
Including the exact same one my city buses have!!
The fabric store in the video isn't even in the same country as me, but I sat on that very same pattern on the way to work yesterday!
I love discovering really specific commercial textiles are also available for domestic use. Very jarring to discover, for example, that bowling alley carpet is something anybody can just buy.
Nothing beats the experience of seeing some true tumblr discourse float by and reading like two paragraphs into a post and suddenly realizing “oh wait. I don’t care” and scrolling right past
