The Very Spirit of Vexation

Vex ‧ late 30's ‧ 🌈 lesbian ‧ she/her Fangirl since '99 w/too many ships. AO3 ‧ Dreamwidth ‧ Fandom vCard

[vex-verlain]

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^•ﻌ•^ฅ♡ Please feel free to spam me with boops at any time! 🐾

🌈 Hey there, I'm Vex. White, cisgendered lesbian in her late thirties. Intersectional feminist, fangirl, gamer, and highly sensitive introvert. Partnered to a wonderful woman (Rebel) for over a decade.

I've been part of online fandom since 1999 and frequently find myself nostalgic for the days of Web 1.0. I have a lot of ships. Most of them are m/m. You can find my fic on AO3 under VexVerlain.

YKINMKATO, ship and let ship, but also, racism in fandom is a thing. No, I don't have the answers. But fandom has saved my life more than once, and it enrages me that others have been harmed in the places I was helped.

FYI: I am not always a ray of sunshine. I have intimate knowledge (through my own lived experience and/or that of my loved ones) of complex trauma, invisible illness, chronic pain, serious traumatic brain injury, and a plethora of other distressing things. I also have a lot of thoughts re: what we owe to each other as human beings, which informs my politics. For the most part, when I'm on Tumblr, I'm here for the fangirling—but reality can creep in, so please consider this your warning.

I don't do DNI lists. People with beliefs that devastate me are welcome to follow, but may be blocked if their direct interactions with me are uncivil. We are all curators of our own online experience.

🛑 JULY 2025 STATUS: Unwell and unamused.

Ever since I was a child, I have had an extremely low tolerance for incompetence and absurdity in real life. Which is unfortunate, because anyone even slightly acquainted with real life knows that those two things are abundant at the best of times. As these are decidedly not the best of times, in an historical sense, you can imagine I am not coping well. (Add to that this tragic peripety: I am no longer competent in all the ways that were so defining to my sense of self.)

Other places to find me:

vex_verlain @ Dreamwidth (my journal)

vex-verlain @ Fandom vCard (my relevant links)

Projects on hold indefinitely:

vex_codes (Dreamwidth)

vex_writes (Dreamwidth)

Holiday Cheer annual card exchange (Tumblr)

MDZS Fans Against Hate follow-up auction (Tumblr)

Projects closed:

The Multi-Fandom Postcard Exchange (Tumblr)

If you feel so inclined, I have a Ko-Fi.

Post last updated July 1, 2025.

[lestatdelioncuort]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Live at the Beacon Theater (x)

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[shnehollander]

TOOTHLESS How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

[amerlcanapparel-deactivated2020]

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

[straighthater]

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

[timelordpillbug]

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

[hikingnerd]

When Russia sends you nudes

[dr-thackery]

[dismantlerepaired]

[ilovepretzelrods]

[thegingerbalrog]

[onwardwall]

[miss-jaxon-flaxon-waxon]

#what the fuck happened here

[her-eyes-dared-me-with-danger]

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

[kyloschuyler]

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

reblog it, because Russia can´t

[maradaisykat]

Thanks Obama 

[my-sisters-eyeball]

Wtf

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

When Russia makes this post illegal

[earthnicity]

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

[dovahdez]

I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

[a-wondering-thought-deactivated]

I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: atgctactttaatcaaaaattcaTattattatttgaagtcaacatTaaataattgaATCTgtgattaaacttg

Closest match: Bombyx mori BmN4 cell DNA, chromosome 24, sequence Common name: Domestic Silk Moth

(image source)

[willifolts]

When the domestic silk moth sends you nudes

[scp-threats-is-back]

Domestic silk moth is just being friendly

[yoink-a-doink]

Now the moth is banned in Russia

[fantasylover4538]

…well what the fuck is this

[kingofkaumidy2]

Art.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[sodom-hussein]

Old iconic tumblr posts gather gimmick blog comments the way DNA mutations accumulate over time

[quasi-normalcy]

[world-heritage-posts]

what if people made human versions of iconic tumblr posts and shipped them

no. no no no

[practicalsolutions]

Someone please draw the color of the sky as a very tall twink.

[practicalsolutions]

Oh shit, I'm an artist. Hold up.

Personally, I like his shoe laces. I bet you'd never guess where he got them.

[raspbrrytea]

Dunno if anyone’s done this yet but…

[mrdyketator]

i love how this is so uniquely Tumblr™ that no one from any other website would get this.

[tassjis]

Im... Im not sorry

[tassjis]

I decided to make it worse 

[tassjis]

Sexy Leg Einstein Post

Gradient Zone Post

and MishaPocolypse join the group

[anon-fire-rat-supporter]

color theory hospital post

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I want you all to know that I despise every single one of you.

[sepdet]

Can I interest you in some fine copper ingots

[kindlingnorah]

[flamingfoxninja]

He has survived Plinko Hell and back with a vengeance

[ianquish-deactivated20250806]

where is spiders georg guys

[thepoolisdead]

Dw I gotchu

[morthilswrites]

cop: can you describe the woman who stabbed you

male author: lithe, spirited, outgoing, and not afraid to speak her mind. she was a raw sexual force and she knew it. she was dandelion fluff on a summer day, gone in an instant, leaving you with nothing but the memory of her touch and the faint taste of strawberries on your lips

[lillivati]

cop: great we have a motive, but we still need a description

[thebelchers]

Bob’s Burgers, Easy Com-mercial, Easy Go-mercial (S04E11)

[pheenixwrites-deactivated202206]

Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow at him. He was standing right in front of him, closer than he’d ever been. He could see the different shades of blue in Obi-Wan’s eyes. Anakin felt frozen, not understanding what was happening. His face was burning.

“You’ve been driving me insane,” Obi-Wan said emphatically. Anakin’s eyes flicked between Obi-Wan’s, trying to read his expression. Obi-Wan shook his head slightly and exhaled hard. He grabbed Anakin by the nape of the neck and pulled him close. Anakin made a surprised noise deep in his throat when Obi-Wan touched him, and felt his eyebrows rise.

Obi-Wan’s lips suddenly pressed gently against his, and Anakin’s eyes opened widely and then slid closed. He felt like gravity flipped directions, he couldn’t think clearly—his brain felt disconnected. He dropped his bag and let Obi-Wan walk him backwards against the bookshelf with a loud thump. - Prompted, Chapter 4: My Ananke, by intermundia on ao3 (intermundia on tumblr)

Have I ever mentioned that one of my favorite obikin au’s is professor Obi-Wan and student Anakin? Because it is. @intermundia’s prompted is a series of tumblr prompts and their most recent chapter is an instant fav of mine (they’re all great go read them). You can read prompted on ao3!

[dsudis]

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

[relevant-catnik]

Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[ruusverd]

Actual answer: the sheep know the dogs are not sheep, and they also know the dog is protecting them and take their cues from the dog about whether they need to run for the barn or can just ignore anything scary that approaches.

However, a friend once had an extremely premature orphan lamb born in December who had to live in the house for a couple of months with leg braces and all that, who due to spending her lambhood with dogs instead of sheep came out of the whole experience convinced she was a livestock guardian dog! She would patrol the perimeter of the fields every evening with the actual dog, stand watch in the barn door at night like the dog, and was more than willing to throw down if she saw something scary coming towards the flock the way the guard dog did. Tragically orphaned lamb did a convincing job at being a guard dog without actually having any of the biological advantages a dog has over a sheep.

Which I suppose made her Sheep Batman.

[thememedaddy]

[jackabbot]

SMALLVILLE 2.15 • Prodigal

[vex-verlain]

I just... Why? The jpg was saved as a new file TODAY (May 20, 2026). Why is it dated November 9, 2023?

[ariaste]

PLEASE explain the Latin fuck words. for science

Okay so. The Romans think that sex doesn't count as real sex unless Someone Is Getting Penetrated By A Dick Or Dick-Adjacent Object. Very sort of dick-centric system.

So Latin has six words for "to fuck", divided into three pairs: one pair for each of the possible Holes (ass, mouth, pussy). In each pair there is a word for topping and a word for bottoming.

Most people who know a little about Latin fuck verbs know 'pedicare' and 'irrumare' from the first line of Catullus 16 (Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō), which is a poem about saying "absolutely shut the fuck up and piss all the way off" to fandom antis and purity police who are making repulsive accusations about you personally, based on things they're reading into your work from a bad-faith perspective. Catullus was so real for that and it's incredibly endearing to me that he was dealing with the same thing we are still dealing with. I got a hater in my askbox doing this about The Wisdom of Emperors just the other day, but I took the high road and, unlike Catullus, did not tell them "I will assfuck you and I will facefuck you" So here sort of a chart about the verbs: Topping | Bottoming Mouth: irrumare | fellare Ass: pedicare | cevere Cunt: futuere | crisare

Another fun fact related to the fuck verbs was that the Romans didn't think about sexual orientation in terms of who you're attracted to, they thought about it in terms of "which is your favorite hole and what do you like to do with it." So you'll get graffiti (ancient roman subtweeting) about things like "Marcus is a fututor [cunt-fucker] and a pedico [ass-fucker] but omg girlies I also heard he's a fellator [cock-sucker] 👀👀👀👀" In the modern day we'd just call him bisexual, but in Ancient Rome it is not enough to know if someone is bisexual (they think it's kind of perverted if a man only fucks women, like do you have some kind of freaky pussy fetish???? you've never once even fucked a twink??? dat's gay, bro. gay to not be bi), you also have to know if he's being bisexual in a respectable sort of way

You will notice that pussy-eating is not on this list, because those words do not mean "to fuck", they translate more directly to just "pussy-licking" (cunnilingus), and because the Romans are sexist as all hell and think that's gross and filthy anyway. This is not ONLY because of pussy terror, it's also that the mouth is the most sacred part of the body -- so eating pussy or sucking a dick is actually considered slightly more "shameful" than getting fucked in the ass. (Please note as well that the fuck verbs are gender neutral -- if you're a roman man and your girlfriend owns a strap-on, she can [pedicare] you. but be careful because your sworn enemy in the forum will have a fucking FIELD DAY if he hears about that and will write a Mean Poem about you or subtweet you on a public wall)

The moral of this story is that the Ancient Romans were absolutely *GAGGING* for social media (see Martial's Epigrams, aka My Best Tweets), and the second moral of this story is that if this was a fun post for you, you should look at my kickstarter for alllllll of this kind of nonsense in the form of A Fantasy Novel That's Pretending To Be An Academic Paper With A Fake Bibliography And Foonotes aka The Wisdom of Emperors. And please signal boost this so everyone can know about Latin Fuck Verbs and Roman Subtweeting, we've really learned so much here together

[lettuce-tv]

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

[storybookprincess]

so today a group of 8-9 year old kiddos approaches my desk and goes “hey. we want to go to the downstairs part of the library.”

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

truly wish i could render this little scene artistically for you all it was a delight