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#PERFECT #also correct thank you #one of my favourite parts of this is that rose wasn't even the sexpot #television miami in the 80s had multiple fifty-something women who were in *very* hot demand and i think that's beautiful

thundergrace

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

#god i can't believe i'm going to have to watch another fucking television show #but i fear that i'm going to have to watch this #it's too targeted to do otherwise #tho i *did* briefly think that they were going to be a lesbian couple who were married for fifteen years before the assassin thing came out #but this is good too because it means they can have messy 'we didn't die!' sex and then get together #i have a rich inner life #ride or die

heyhoneyfox

"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.

#this is always so juicy to me #plausible deniability?#an inconvenient moral code?#a truth serum?#other?#always fun!

veliseraptor

The great critic Barbara McClay has written about the "politics creep" in every corner of human life, though really of bourgeois Anglophone human life, where every act from reading a novel to lighting a scented candle can be justified - and in fact, self-consciously needs to be justified in advance - as a bold act of resistance. Pretending that self-care is a brave political act detracts from actual political acts, and it sucks the life out of life itself: turning every moment into a performance for an audience, for an imagined crowd of other people on social media. This is other people not as fellow complicated human beings, but as fearful object, whose inner lives are imaginable only insofar as they might be watching and comparing and judging us for whether we've done enough, whether we're wasting our time. And books and movies and TV shows and every other form of fiction will always be, to some extent, a waste of time, as having friends will be a waste of time, as being in love is a waste of time, as every possible action or thought you may have could be considered a waste of time if every second of your life has to prove its value, and has to get a job.

from Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality by Lyta Gold

welcometothejianghu

Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

welcometothejianghu

Since some people have asked: There's now a Small Fandom Summer 2026 AO3 Collection! You can post your stuff right here! It's completely open and unmoderated, so if you think something goes there, well, go on and add it! Hopefully by the end of the summer, we'll have a nice little collection of stuff there.

And since some other people have asked: There's no start date for this, nor is this an end date. "Summer" in this context is an extremely arbitrary unit of measurement. I'm starting now because my personal summer runs from about mid-May to mid-August. Yours may vary.

I'm thrilled so many people have seemed excited about this! I hope it inspires the creation of a whole bunch of good stuff!

#it's winter here but this is lovely #(yes i know i can do it anyhow)#these criteria describe... the vast majority of what i'm into anyhow lol

kushblazer666

yourfriendfrogs

#the one person who survives the slasher film #but also if my hands were still good enough to do chainmail i would try this #i bet it's fucking incredible

mihai-florescu

Sometimes a fanon interpretation shared by so many people will gaslight you into thinking YOU're not smart enough to understand it when, in reality, no, the collective of a fandom can indeed just be misinterpreting a character beyond parody. It's not you, it's them

ds-90210

Miles: I swear on my life Jadzia. Jadzia: I’ve seen your life Miles. Swear on something else.

#lmao god i love her #star trek #ds9 #jadzia dax #miles o'brien

my-life-is-a-sidequest

Linux will just work and it will work and it will work and it will work for weeks sometimes months without doing anything more than a pacman -Suy and you will have a good time and it'll be great and then you will run into a problem that nobody online has had since 2013 and then you will spend 3 hours trubbel shooting and then you will do the sketchiest most jank solution to fix it and then it'll just continue to work

#i will admit that sometimes the solution i decide upon is to simply reinstall the operating system and start over #god bless but i do not have time for all that shit

dwarvishring

ian mckellen directed these movies actually

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Ian McKellen was not going to stand idly by and allow these movies to be heterosexual <3

#every time i remember this i want to cry a little #lord of the rings #lotr

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

#literally torrents are how i watch almost everything #including things that i have legal paid or free access to #i'll leave things playing (legally) in the browser of my computer and then go watch the torrent on the television #where there's no shitty ui and no injected ads and i can automatically skip the two-minute-long intro #and also the media will never spontaneously disappear due to rights issues or anything else #TORRENTS MY BELOVEDS

largishcat

okay now that we’ve a had couple lesbian blockbusters and milfs are having a romance moment, we need to bring back the manic pixie dream girl. she was never fuckin suited to fixing all the problems of some boring twenty year old everyman, but you know who could actually benefit from a quirky free-spirited blue haired girl with pronouns (she/they)? a newly divorced forty-something mom who’s trying to learn how to be herself for the first time in her life

#god. PLEASE.#maybe the forty-something gets upt be more of a person #AND the manic pixie realises that she can dial it back and do things other than be twee and whimsical?#please im begging

hard--byte

the hottest thing a guy can be is barely conscious on the floor while someone lifts his head up by the hair so that you can see his glazed out eyes and the blood running down his face

#jiao liqiao ghostwrote this post #and she's not wrong!

exlibra

ok final garak wardrobe post but please note that his jacket is fastened with velcro. ”oh hello doctor, let me just slip into something a bit more comfortable…. SCCHHRRRHHHRCHHHHHRRR”

skrankku

I feel so vindicated

#somehow the fact that he's a tailor makes this much funnier to me #star trek #ds9 #garak

tinasnowz

MEGAN THEE STALLION as Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

#oh my god #insert not to be a lesbian but actually yes fully to be a lesbian holy shit #megan thee stallion

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

#i have spent most of my life in aldi-having areas #and i'm abruptly a little sad about it #i want a cowboy! or to see how it gets regionalised elsewhere #good reminder i need to go to aldi this week tho

need-him-pregnant-poll

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 4 POLL 26

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Yue Qingyuan/Yue Qi (The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System)

Maes Hughes (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Voting ended onJun 4

PROPAGANDA:

[Yue Qingyuan]

"The Sect Leader should get pregnant because the Sect Leader should be the picture of fertility and virility both, boost the usage of male child-bearing pills, and because the whole Sect would go crazy trying to find out who's the baby daddy. I think Yue Qingyuan could benefit from having to raise a child of his own instead of managing disciples, because Yue Qingyuan no longer has a family of his own and deserves one, and this way, perhaps he'd be forced to care about another person again. His strong and qi-rich body would also have an easy pregnancy and have a strong and happy child."

[Maes]

"The ultimate family man, the #1 wifeguy, wouldn't it be a joy for him to take some of the burden off his wife when the time comes to grow his family? (And shhh, everything is fine! Canon won't happen if we close our eyes and write fix-it fic instead)."