[sunderwight]

Fandom terms have to sound silly, like blorbo or squick, because fandom needs humbling. Not a lot. But just every so often you need a good grounding reminder that all of this is literally made up nonsense for fun.

If you take a fictional thing so seriously that silly words genuinely annoy you, you've gone too far and you need to dial it back.

[jane-shepard]

shepard during the leviathan dlc: [climbs into a questionable mech] [solos an underwater mission to meet an ageless being] [returns completely disoriented] [passes out mid-battle] 

garrus, dragging her to cover: YOU! STRESS! ME! OUT! SO FUCKING BAD!!!!!!

[what-even-is-thiss]

I remember during puberty talk in 6th grade they handed out permission slips for parents to sign if they didn’t want their kids getting sex ed and like five students ended up having to wait in the library while the rest of us learned about puberty and health stuff.

Afterwards during lunch recess almost everyone in class spent our time telling those five kids what we learned and showing them our handouts.

[thunderxthighs]

I was the only one in my class who's parents didn't sign the waiver

I remember they told me I could either sit in the hall or go to lunch early and I chose the latter, I don't think anyone told me afterwards what they taught in the class. The entirety of my sex education before highschool (when I gained access to the internet unsupervised occasionally) came from my older sister's friend, who thought it was funny how little I knew, and from "borrowing" said older sister's romance novels from the secret stash she had under her bed.

[theperksofbeinganonlychild-deac]

Door at Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.

[liberalsarecool]

We are coming. Fascists beware.

Join the correct side of history.

Chicago:

[liberalsarecool]

Boston

New Orleans

[rederiswrites]

From A Mighty Girl on Facebook

[diamondcitydarlin]

diving back into msscribe lore made me remember this; imo one of the funniest things about the My Immortal fanfic is the context to which it was born in the HP fandom at the time. In the early 2000's, HP fandom was a veritable arms race of who could write 'the best' most 'sophisticated' HP fanfic and the BNFs (Cassandra Clare, for example) were elevated to their pedestals because they were seen as the most talented fic writers. There were pissing contests, passive-aggressive comments about so-and-so being 'a mediocre fic writer' just shared between supposed 'friends', like one's popularity currency absolutely depended on whether or not the fandom deemed one's writing 'good enough'. Everyone was trying to be the goddamn idk Jane Austen of HP fandom pretty much. Even by 2006 (and msscribe's fall from grace, if you even care lol) this was still more or less the case- so the fact that this absolute unrepentantly bad HP fanfic came out during that time, the fact that Tara just kept posting chapters and doubling-down on people's criticisms and abject horror, the fact that this fanfic gave NO FUCKS about spelling, grammar, keeping characters intact, or even the original context of HP at all makes My Immortal's existence so much funnier than it already is on its lonesome. My Immortal was a slap in the fucking face to the entire established system and it reveled in being so.

Tellingly, I think, most people online today aren't going to know those 'popular', supremely 'well-written' fics off the top of their head, but even some IRL people I've talked with know and love My Immortal. Hell, Tom Felton has read it for his IG! Amy Lee either read or reacted to it a few of years back! It has it's own wikipedia, countless illustrations, works inspired by it and a cult following even today! I can't say the same for any of those fanfics that came before!

Whether My Immortal was a skilled troll or an unapologetic teenage girl that was going to write whatever the hell she wanted to, goddamn it, doesn't really matter because the effect was the same. Maybe remember that the next time you're agonizing over whether or not your writing is 'good enough'. Sometimes, it doesn't even need to be.

[valtsv]

in fucking Tears thinking about how disgusting a baby griffin would look

[valtsv]

behold. my ugly son.

[felix-the-creature]

Species accurate version

[grubbzygo0p]

wretched little creature

[televisionenjoyer]

"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.

[cuteautumn]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[vxpo]

Tomorrow is March 28th

[yeahishipitbitch]

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[coelii]

I’d just like to point out the growth in this post has mostly coincided with elon’s public spiral downward and I’d like to think we’re all a small part of that

[coelii]

bro can’t think because he’s just got a rager of a migraine 24/7

[fiannaai]

yes I would like to give elon musk my menstrual pain. I think he deserves it

[jupiter235]

Reblog to also give Elon Musk your menstrual pain.

[nutsacktorturer]

[dcasom]

some fishe studies pt 1 orbicular batfish juvenile || rainbowfish

[st-just]

[joshuaballsett]

[babbhad]

[cipheramnesia]

[marseny]

[bagofbonesmp3]

I’m a teacher assistant for spanish grammar and the professor was explaining epícenos (single gendered words that encompass masculine and feminine beings) and he was using iguana as an example and he said: “there is only one gender… iguana” and i had to mute my microphone

[geekysteven]

“there is only one gender… iguana”

Attached image is a cartoon iguana surfing with a speech bubble

[depsidase]