FanBoyBlogs

This is my personal blog, and it's gonna be random: fandom stuff and possibly depressing. Basically, it's my blog and I just reblog things I like or things that I connect with. So far, I've been following back everyone who follows me.

[grunklebongrip]

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

[marveling-cg]

[zero1infinity]

[tsukiyamas]

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

[diggly]

no one tell him

[rhube]

This is it, lads. The post that started us on this path 9 years ago.

I sure hope no one told him.

[catchymemes]

[morepopcornplease]

i would die for grinch.

[mayasaura]

I'm doing my part!!

[mayasaura]

I feel like it really adds something to know that this coffee shop was right next to the state capitol building. There is a non-zero chance one of these lattes ended up in the senate chamber.

[mayasaura]

Congratulations, you've unlocked the secret nerd bonus! I actually ended up texting a friend who specializes in the early Roman empire for advice on designing this special.

Honey and almond are pretty self-explanatory, as honey and nuts both figured heavily in Roman desserts. Cinnamon, meanwhile, means dead rich guy. It was insanely expensive to obtain, and the wealthiest of Romans used it to scent funeral pyres, so that the smell of burning cinnamon would cover the scent of cremation.

[suchbeloved]

okay here’s a new and improved updated version where i don’t forget tumblr’s favorite holiday

[wolves-willow]

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

[jaesrri]

[zipstick]

[nick-nonya]

[brucebocchi]

[chirasul]

go is a doply complex strategic gwame, famously far more complicated than chess, with [the hypnosis activates], [for the next 30 seconds i believe i am a honeybee navigating a field of flowers]

[street-of-mercy]

[dduane]

S O O N

[oldtvandcomics]

I love how this post illustrates so well the way the meme has been simplified multiple times in a way that it's still perfectly legible IF you know the original and the other simplified version. For everyone else, it's a fucking hieroglyph.

Like, I feel like I'm witnessing the same process as the A evolving from a bull's head into the A we know today.

[kisskiss-where-is-season-two]

My ides tiramisu, if you even care

[redstonedust]

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

[ordinarytalk]

I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.

In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They're the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.

I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.

And it kills me that so many people don't know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.

Over the past decade, there's been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There's this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.

Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.

Don't fear age. Don't put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

anything that brings out your childlike wonder is worth giving your attention to

[shinugodda]

wild zero 1999

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

Spoilers, but the context is so good!

This scene is a Japanese man hallucinating a rockstar to keep him going thru a zombie apocalypse - while the man is currently fighting with the surprise that the Thai woman he's been hanging around with after rescuing from zombies is trans. His crisis is thankfully brief as hell, and he jumps right back to "well I love her no matter what!" For 1999, it's fantastic, honestly.

[rederiswrites]

Turns out the horsemen of the Apocalypse now prefer to go by Shareholder Profit, Private Equity, Corporate Personhood, and Workforce Optimization.

[jottingprosaist]

Shareholder Profit: War (the casus belli for attacks on workers' rights)

Private Equity: Pestilence (they are parasites that voraciously strip the value out of a healthy business until it withers and dies)

Workforce Optimization: Famine (cutting hours and employees until the business is starved of staff, barely functioning)

Corporate Personhood: Death (a hollow, shambling mockery of a human with rights and needs)

[rederiswrites]

Yeah I can work with that.

[liberalsarecool]

The 'all lives matter' MAGA pro-lifers are a Christofascist eugenics movement.

[angstbotfic]

it is true that these are eugenicist moves. it is NOT true that they have actually done all of these things. some of them they've only advocated so far:

done: normalizing epidemic disease, removing resources from tracking disease, firing healthcare professionals, cutting funding to clinical trials

proposed/advocated: removing drugs from market, disabled people can get healthy through hard labor, health camps, cutting SNAP, targeting disabled students in education, eradicating autism

why do i make this distinction? because it's much easier to resist the things they haven't done yet than wait until they do them, and treating all of the things as done deals can cause people to despair unnecessarily.

[wetheurban]

Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it end. Let it change. Let it hurt. Let it heal.

[omgthatdress]

I am still absolutely obsessed with the slur song. Some poor HR manager in Aotearoa has no idea they inadvertently created the gay pride banger of the century. It's everything "Born This Way" was trying to be.

[batshit-auspol]

Of all the enemies to lovers arcs, Australia and New Zealand joining forces to create one of the biggest club hits of the year out of a workplace training module about slurs was certainly not on our 2025 bingo card

[vancouvery]

This is made with love, please listen if you don’t believe me. It sounds nuts that an employee training module would be so incredibly hilarious, but here we are. Here’s a link to it in YouTube. All proceeds go to LGBTQ+ charities.

[ladyterabithea]