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elegantmess-southernbelle

BOOSTING!

#whee!

roachpatrol

to uk peeps

so you guys are facing down yet another global warming summer and as an american i feel entitled to barge over and give you a lot of advice about how to live your life. also i’m used to surviving 90-110 degree summers (32—43 celsius) with no ac. so here we go.

you need to drink a lot of water. on average you should be drinking about two liters. on hot days, double that.

fill plastic water bottles halfway up and stick them in your freezer. take them out once they’ve frozen and fill the rest up with water, drink the water, fill it up again, and carry it around with you until it’s time to get the next ice bottle. also you can put the icy end against your throat or over your chest for maximum refreshment.

consider making a lot of sun tea. get big glass jars or a pitcher. put a bunch of your preferred teabags in it with some sugar. if you want to be an american southerner, your tea should be green or black and your sugar amount should be enough to kill a child. if you want to be sane, put in as little sugar as you can get away with so it’s not dehydrating, and stick with herbal teas because the last thing you want during the heat of the day is a caffeine boost. leave your tea on a windowsill. after a few hours it’s steeped and you can put it in the fridge. tadaaa.

fruit juice, soda pop, beer, and a lot of sports drinks like gatorade all dehydrate you, and in really hot weather they’re dangerous because people will drink them instead of water. drink an equal amount of water as anything with sugar. see prior point about sun tea.

when you sweat you lose salt. so don’t feel bad about eating some junk food.

freeze grapes. eat the grapes. repeat.

get a hat with a brim. baseball caps are ok but wide brimmed hats are better because they shadow the back of your neck and that’s one less thing to have to worry about.

don’t wear knit caps. just… no.

you don’t get more sunburned because it’s hot, you get more sunburned because when it’s hot you wear less clothes. so don’t freak out.

if you don’t have AC you can put a bowl of ice behind a fan. this creates a swamp cooler, by pulling the air over the ice. also, put on a wet t-shirt and sit in front of it, and you’ll cool further by evaporation.

speaking of evaporation, watch out if it’s humid. you don’t cool down from sweating as much when the air’s already saturated. drink more water, have more salt, and change your shirt a lot.

heatstroke is serious shit, and kids and the elderly are prone to it. but whatever your age, if you feel nauseous, headachy, or short of breath, the heat’s getting to you. pour your water bottle over your head and go sit in the shade. keep an eye on friends and family as well.

if someone stops sweating when they’re still out in the heat, that’s serious business and get them medical treatment as soon as possible. it’s a case of dehydration and/or heatstroke.

windcalling

Other things that freeze really well, a short list:

Orange juice! Other fruit juices too, but I tend to have best results with oj or cider. Pour some into an empty ice-cube tray, let them freeze, and the result is slightly-flaky frozen goodness. This is also an easy way to make homemade popsicles–put a sheet of aluminum foil over top of the tray and stick toothpick/popsicle sticks in so the juice freezes around them.

Grapes were mentioned. Grapes are TRUE.

NOT SODAS. Do not freeze sodas! They explode.

Strawberries! These can be hard to find cheap, especially outside of strawberry season, and I don’t know about their availability outside of my part of the US, but if you can get them they’re great frozen in your water. Freeze-dry strawberries by laying them out on a tray or sth in the freezer, and then when they’re frozen just put them in a bag to conserve space.

Other general tips:

Fruit in water is amazing when you’re someone like me who doesn’t like water’s lack of taste. Strawberries and mint leaves are fairly traditional, but basically anything you like will work. there are lots of combos online.

If you have a blender or a food processor, smoothies are a good way to eat something when you’re too hot to function. Fruit+ice+milk+yogurt is pretty traditional.

Have sunscreen. Make sure you don’t have any skin reactions to the sunscreen. If your sunscreen has fragrance, make sure you can deal with the fragrance when it’s constantly on your face in heat.

Speaking off: sunscreen is not just for arms/shoulders. Put sunscreen on your face, especially nose/cheekbones/forehead. Put sunscreen on the tops of your ears! If your hair has a tight part, try to put sunscreen there if you don’t wear a hat (scalp burns are PAINFUL). Put sunscreen on your legs, especially the backs of your calves. Put sunscreen on any visible parts of your feet.

Wear loose clothing if you can, especially if you’re wearing long sleeves. Any constrictions on your breathing feel much worse in the heat.

sootonthecarpet

If you need to cool down quick, run cold water over your wrists (or put ice cubes on them maybe?). This is a trick they taught us in gymnastics class but it works just as well on hot days.

When you start getting that feeling like you’ve adapted to the heat, like it’s not bad, like you could just stay where you are for hours and hours, even get a blanket, and maybe you feel like you’re zoning out a little, it’s time to reconsider, move around, have something cool to drink.

And it can be hard to remember to eat when it’s so hot, for some reason. Cold food in small portions is generally easiest to manage. But remember to eat food with a lot of salt, a lot of potassium, a lot of vitamins. I can’t believe bananas aren’t on this post. My god, get your potassium, you’ll feel SO much better. If you’re eating something salty and it tastes unusually, amazingly good, it’s because you’re running low on salt, so keep eating it.

and seriously yeah keep an eye on people like kids and the elderly and anyone who’s under your care. ask them how they’re feeling if they’re able to tell you, and if not, try to see if they’re looking unusually unfocused, breathing too hard, haven’t had anything to drink in a while, etc.

If you bind, be even more careful about how long you bind and pay even more attention to your binder’s effects on your body.

sometimes there’s nothing else for it but to just fill a bathtub with cool water and get in. Seriously, it can be so helpful. Also, showers. Showers are good.

also take care of your dogs I don’t know anything about dogs but be careful for them! maybe look up some tips.

terrasigillata

also could anyone who even thinks about reblogging this from me to make fun of brits, pls stop?? when it gets hot here it’s kind of awful bc A/C is rare and they’re really not used to this kind of heat. if you add any sort of teasing if u reblog this for me i will find u and push you

gingerautie

Seriously, air conditioning is basically not a think here. And most of our houses are designed to trap heat. Our old people’s homes are not air conditioned. Our hospitals are not air conditioned. When we have unusual heat waves people die.

thesneakyfox

If you find yourself shaking, feeling dizzy, or feeling cold in the middle of a heat wave, sit yourself down in the shade and sip water (don’t chug, you’ll make yourself throw up) until you feel normal again. These are some of the first warning signs of heat exhaustion and ignoring them is dumb. If you’re at a sports practice or being otherwise active in the heat and you recognize these or other symptoms of heat exhaustion/heat stroke, don’t let yourself be pressured into playing through it. Listen to your body and take care of it.

writerpyre

I have so many British buddies, you guys, pay serious attention to the tips up above. For those who don’t know, I live in Australia, one of the driest and hottest places on earth, and we get those same temperatures that the first poster quoted, hotter in the centre of Australia. I didn’t know half of those tips, and I’ll likely utilise them next summer myself.

Please, take care in the heat, I’ll make sure to reblog this later on when it gets closer to you guys’ summer, but please, take this seriously. Even with us being used to the heat the way we are, we still have fatalities because people do not properly look after themselves.

akiyty

also, since everyone always forgets – if you’re wearing sandals or flipflops, PUT SUNSCREEN ON YOUR TOES. Those little piggies are not used to being grilled, and sunburnt feet isn’t fun. Actually, suncreen everywhere (nape of neck, all over your ears, right down to your figures. Put your sunscreen on before getting dressed, and let it soak in, so you don’t get burn lines along the hems, and re-apply FREQUENTLY. In fact, if you don’t regularly use sunscreen, read this helpful FAQ As someone with skin cancer, let me tell you, DON’T LET YOURSELF GET BURNED! /psa

infjconfessions

another point to cool off is behind the ears, press an ice cube there when your head feels hot

lie down on the floor to refresh, if your house is all wooden floors and carpets, the floors won’t be fresh but where there are tiles (like the bathroom) would work

wisekrakens-blog

Speaking as someone who’s previously had heat exhaustion (at a swim meet, no less): you may be so confused that you’re not quite sure what’s happening and you wander off. (I did.) This can be incredibly dangerous. If you’re going to be active in the heat, using the buddy system is not a bad idea.

Seriously, if you’re going to be out in the sun, put sunscreen on your feet and wear a hat with a big brim all the way around. Areas with a lot of concrete and/or water like to do this fun thing where they reflect the sun back up at you at an angle you’re not prepared for, so also consider sunglasses and sunscreen underneath your hat. Your face will thank you.

The hottest part of the day is from three to four o’clock in the afternoon. It should cool off by around seven/eight, depending on what the airflow is like in your area. It’s totally cool to avoid doing things in the mid-late afternoon, because it’s fuckin’ hot and everyone knows it. If you drive, invest in a windshield sun shade for your car, and try to touch the seat buckles as little as possible.

Accept that you’re going to be sweating when you wake up. It’s fine; so is everyone else.

Handheld fans (with misters, maybe!), wet washcloths, SHADE, and little backyard wader pools are your friend. Just, you know, be careful of water left standing for too long, because all kinds of nasty stuff will grow in it, given half a chance.

#hot advice #geddit

glumshoe

Why do they even put sex scenes in movies anymore? Like, does anyone feel anything but vaguely uncomfortable watching them? They’re not explicit enough to titillate most people in the age of instantly-available internet pornography, and just serve to make awkward silences when trying to watch movies with friends and family. It’s seldom that plot-relevant things occur or are said during them - why not just cut to black? Why do we have to suffer through several minutes of awkward moaning and close-ups of naked shoulders and necks?

busybodytentacles

THIS

#they make even less sense as an ace person #seriously why #ace tag

lokefanart

I was asked if I watched cap 3 and I did. It was fine, but being a non-US citizen, I feel like Steve’s reasonings were weird, and that they should have kept it US-only issue without involving the UN.

Because in what wild dreams does Steve think that we, as in the rest of the world, would have ANY trust in a team of American superpowered dudes lead by a guy wrapped up in American flag?! In superhuman people that constantly breach international borders without anyone’s consent on their untraceable private vehicles, and kill people/destroy property? What is he going to do, beat us so we agree with his agenda, maybe send a few drones?

Now imagine if it were Captain Russia thawed from the Soviet Union era, wearing a tricolor flag costume, leading a team that have the power to wipe out half of the goddamn planet. Why would people from other countries be concerned if said captain refused to obey the law, pissed on the mandates of the United Nations and fell off the grid to save his Soviet war buddy that happens to be a goddamn assassin?!

And then people who try to make themselves accountable for their actions in front of the world are the villains?

wisekrakens-blog

The movie was really fuckin’ weird about that, and it’s doing Steve’s character a disservice. (Then again, I’m used to thoughtful, empathetic fanon Steve, so...)

The Civil War storyline originally involved the Superhero Registration Act, which was US-specific and involved forced unmasking of superheroes. So, like, in the comics? I agree with Steve. But in the movie, I’m on Tony’s side.

#and I refuse to believe that the avengers don't have a literal army of PR people #captain america: civil war

pragnificent

Like you look at histories of heteronormative violence against women often it’s entirely impossible to differentiate who would belong to any given identity group today.

You have situations where women were placed in institutions for “frigidity” and otherwise refusing/being unable to conform to these ideas of wifely duties, were subjected to medicalized torture, corrective rape, often had their entire lives stolen from them.

Some of these women were lesibans and some of them were ace/aro, or at least would probably think about themselves that way if they lived today. Some were CSA/rape survivors with trauma, and some were simply women who had been forced to marry a man who they didn’t want to have sex with. More often than not these categories overlapped.

There is no way to be sure how any one of these women would have identified. Their thoughts and feelings are lost in the past, forgotten, viewed as no value. Even if we could speak to them today the labels that we use today to understand ourselves might not make a lot of sense to them.

We can’t differentiate between these individuals without engaging in ahistorical reification. You can’t lump everyone together and say “this is lesbian history and it is a history of violence” without violently erasing those women who were not lesbians, or even for that matter those cafab people caught up in this net who, if given the opportunity, would not have identified as women.

The one thing that’s clear is that there is an obvious shared history here between lesbians and ace/aros, and that is a history of trauma, violence and corrective rape. Anyone who attempts to claim otherwise is being dishonest.

#ace tag #ace history #queer history

haleanne

books i read in 2016:

fangirl, by rainbow rowell (+ review)

“seriously. look at you. you’ve got your shit together, you’re not scared of anything. i’m scared of everything. and i’m crazy. like maybe you think i’m a little crazy, but i only ever let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, i’m a complete disaster ”

#I should reread this #fangirl

mostlysignssomeportents

Weird porn author who was dragged into Hugo Awards mess pulls off epic troll

For the second year in a row, a bunch of disgruntled “conservative” sf readers and writers are attempting to destroy science fiction’s Hugo Awards by nominating slates of works that are, variously: rabid racist tracts; works by their ideological opponents; tepid military sf; works by bystanders; and weird porn by Chuck Tingle, a master of the form, who has nothing to do with any of this.

Until now. When Tingle – who publishes “bizarre niche erotica” in great volume – discovered that his book Space Raptor Butt Invasion had been promoted to the Hugo ballot by spoilers hoping to discredit the award, he sprang into action. He created a new title, especially aimed at the “Puppies” (the two groups who want to kill the Hugos call themselves “Rabid Puppies” and “Sad Puppies” for fantastically tedious reasons you can look up for yourself if you care to): “Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination.”

Then Tingle took to Twitter, writing an amazing series of GIF-illustrated tweets, mocking Vox Day, avowed white supremacist and leader of the “Rabid Puppies.”

The crowning glory of Tingle’s campaign, though, was hisannouncement that his Hugo Award, should he win it, would be accepted by Zoe Quinn, the reigning bogeywoman of the Gamergate/neoreactionary right. In other words: every time a “Puppy” casts a vote for Tingle’s work, they cast a vote for giving Zoe Quinn a podium from which to address the entire World Science Fiction Convention about the importance of diversity and representation in fiction.

It is truly glorious.

https://boingboing.net/2016/05/06/weird-porn-author-who-was-drag.html

alexheberling

Chuck Tingle is the hero we deserve.

#I love everything about this #Chuck Tingle is chaotic good #Chuck Tingle is doing the Lord's work

beauafrique

I remember being teased relentlessly throughout my childhood and my teenage life where people would say that because of my skin I’ll never be beautiful enough, they would even recommend skin bleaching products. So as a child I quickly realised that as a dark skinned girl I was not considered beautiful enough… At that time I didn’t know that it was the negativity from the people around me that was causing me to hate my skin and myself for that matter. I remember a time during school photos where a girl shouted “she’s too dark! You won’t see anything on her ID but her teeth!”, of course everyone laughed it out… And so did I…. Because I didn’t want to make it seem like I was offended… Their feelings felt more important than mine… After all growing up I was always reminded of how unlikely I was of ever being beautiful or finding someone that found my darkness beautiful….. As a 19 year old today I sit here and say “I never gave in to skin bleaching”, “I was constantly reminded of how ugly I was but that only made me love myself even more….. I began considering myself as someone different, someone beautiful and out of the ordinary.” Your skin no matter how dark it is that when you smile you can only see the glow of your teeth is worthy of love, your skin is that of a goddess and you should never feel anything about your skin but self love. I write this to all of the people that have gone through similar and worse, you don’t need to learn to Love your skin, the love is already there… You just gotta unleash it.

I would like to hear some stories of yours if you’ve ever gone through the same thing…. Message me on Instagram. IG: YoungNubiie

oneoakdutch

sooo gorgeous omg! and such a cute bathing suit!!

xxblueberriesxx

😻😻 my gosh. I wish I was your tone! So beautiful !

itslejonbrames

She walks in beauty like the night

#you are just wow #I'd like to base my princess off of you if I could #writing shenanigans

Does anyone have links to/can otherwise easily access past metas of mine? I knew I should’ve tagged my shit better.

For science?

#this does not follow

peashooter85

Lady blacksmith, late 19th century.

#yes good

megturnies

(x)

#game grumps #role models

it’s not just a fandom thing, it’s the ‘opposites attract’ kinda thing, i.e. Spock/Kirk, Newton/Hermann, Sherlock/John etc

Since I don’t read tfa fic can you tell me more about this fanon character? I’m wondering if I’ve seen him in other fandoms; it would be interesting to track to the source.

wildehack

so, here’s a three-am thought. I think that (one of) the reasons I don’t love kylux as a ship (despite, obviously, weeping real tears over Children Wake Up every Thursday night), is because hux is a character created almost entirely out of wholecloth by fanon. He is remarkably consistent from fic-to-fic, but the thing you recognize him as is that-hux-from-that-other-fic, not hux-in-canon, because literally all Hux in canon does is look mad + offer terse pieces of exposition + fire the weapon that one time. and the thing is? fanon hux was familiar the very first time I saw him, even before having other fic to compare him to.

because fanon hux? is fanon arthur from inception.

another character created almost entirely from fandom wholecloth, since his actual part in the movie was like five minutes long. like. they’re SO MUCH the same? with the combination kinky/prudishness (prudish til you get him in bed, whereupon he is The Most Kinky), the charmingly repressed rage, the Love of Research and Order, the way lust/interest/affection is coded into irritation at The Neat and Tidy World being All Roughed Up by the hot mess of the other half of the ship? I would bet actual money that you could C&P “hux” for “arthur” in a baker’s dozen of inception AUs and the character is like…pretty much the same? and, well. I’m pretty sure that arthur isn’t the first time I met this guy, this crowdsourced tight-lipped furious perfectionist with his neat clothes and his scowling defensiveness and his biting sarcasm and his embarrassed desire to have a dude who is both sweaty and emotional take him apart. I know I’ve seen him before, in lots of different places, wearing lots of different hats, most often slipping into characters that barely take up space in the canon at all, or revising canon characters years in the future, etc. (Draco, in all those fics where he grew up into someone eerily like Hux and Arthur and Erestor and Carlos in all those fics written before Dylan Marron was cast. For one.) and without shitting on kylux OR arthur/eames at all–because I’ve read and enjoyed both of them, and also the heart wants what the heart wants, and I get that–I think it’s maybe worth. I don’t know. considering why it is that we gravitate towards This One Crowdsourced Dude. The familiar fanon ghost who leaves one shell behind and drifts into another, like a poltergeist. Or, like, a copy of a copy of a copy, dragged from harddrive to harddrive. a familiar ghost we drag around to install in fresh new bodies. I think it’s especially worth considering why we’ve collectively/subconsciously resurrected this dude in a fandom mostly lacking in white guy/white guy ships. because he wasn’t THERE. I just rewatched TFA yesterday, and I can confirm: fanon hux is not in the building. a lot of loving effort went into imbuing canon hux with fanon hux. thinking about why we a) established that effort, and b) why we gravitate back to him, Our Fanon Guy, when there are other objectively more developed and interesting canon characters to fall in love with?

novacorps

wildehack:

Sure! He’s usually something like this: -very tidy/a neat freak -pays a great deal of attention to his personal presentation (ie: is his uniform wrinkled? Is his hair mussed? Is he blushing? Has he lost his hat, or his leather gloves, has he got blood on his coat? Are his cufflinks okay? Is his suit endangered? All of these things would make him unhappy and definitely happen to him as a direct result of making out with his troublingly messy love interest) -just wants the galaxy/con/workplace to be Well-Ordered -is super competent/a genius/good at his job -very loyal to one or two friends, who are probably also his colleagues, because work is all he truly cares about -definitely a perfectionist -is often hilariously bitchy, and definitely big with the sarcasm -often described as cool/cold/chilly (actually maybe he’s the fandom cousin of the Frigid Workaholic Romcom Heroine who desperately needs a dude to mess up her life and teach her to relax?) -burns with fury at seeing people be inefficient and/or unprofessional -speaks in a slightly elevated register that has room for cursing but never for phrases like kid or buddy or cute boyfriend -emotionally repressed; expresses feelings through workplace shouting and biting comments and maybe whiskey but that is all -probably hiding childhood trauma -is very prim about sex until he is having it, at which point he is revealed to be The Kinkiest -”hates” his love interest, who is sweaty and bloody and emotional and is gonna Mess Up his overly clean life -but obviously only in a Doth Benedick Loathe Beatrice So Entirely kind of way -tight-lipped with rage -embarrassed by how much he is into Inappropriately Messy Guy/embarrassed BY Inappropriately Messy Guy -scowls defensively -the idea of control is a big part of his sex life–either exerting or relinquishing it

wildehack:

While yes–opposites attracting is a common trope, and Spock and Sherlock definitely bear a familial resemblance, what I’m interested in is actually the more specific thing of fandom picking up a very minor character and filling him up with ALL of these traits. It’s not the character himself–the character qua the character can be and has been written really wonderfully–it’s the fact that we resurrect him in the shells of minor characters at all. Hux–a very minor character who barely appears in the movie Arthur–a MUCH smaller character than fandom would suggest Erestor–literally had like two lines Draco–was canonically a child, but all the fic was about him as an adult, some ten to fifteen years in the future, when he grew up into This Very Particular Character. This isn’t fandom picking up on opposites attracting within the canon. This is fandom CREATING a specific character to be opposite someone else.

wildehack

#this is good things to think about#but i am personally offended that you would compare spock to hux#he isn’t quick to anger he is very patient#he has a dry sense of humor but it isn’t biting or sarcastic#he doesn’t strive for order he strives for logic (and there is a difference)#he isn’t prim or otherwise about sex he literally has sex every seven years biologically have you SEEN amok time#he isn’t embarassed by loving kirk is embarassed by his emotions and ‘not being vulcan enough’#like spock is SO DIFFERENT from this stereotype honestly did you just think ‘emotionless and detached = neat freak sour character’#cuz that is such a disservice#anyway this analysis of hux is v fascinating and resonates a little bit bc i’ve seen loki take on this sort of personality in some fics

Firstly, I cannot argue with your Spock analysis! (Also, I adore Spock! I have a Spock tattoo! I promise that I love him truly.) Now that I have said this piece, I’m gonna go on a long clarifying tangent, because it is a running theme in the tags on the post/the asks I’ve been getting. But know that the tangent is not directed at you, defender of Spock! I’m just reblogging this version because it collected the fragmented pieces of the discussion into one post, for context’s sake. :) ANYWAY. The point I want to get to is that character archetypes totally exist, and that is not a) a problem, or b) what I am talking about. Spock and Sherlock and Jeeves all more or less share a type, which is just a thing that happens when people tell stories, both consciously and subconsciously. That doesn’t mean the characters are identical or interchangeable, but you can see how they bear a kind of family resemblance to each other. For example– “it would have cost me my soul” and “it was worth a wound" and “there is a tie that binds” are rhyming moments of Great Import to all three characters, although they refer to moments that are specific to their canons. The characters ARE different, but when you put them together in a iineup, it’s easier to see how they’re similar. That resemblance, imo, is neutral. What interests me about the fandom ghost isn’t that he is an archetype, or that many characters are very similar to each other. What interests me is that this is a character type that fandom periodically yanks out of the drawer and dresses up in the clothes of a minor character. That’s a very specific thing to do. It’s not something we are inheriting from any canon. It’s something we are doing, collectively, as the great migratory fandom thing we are. We (collective fandom we) have imbued minor characters with these traits so often that I can trace it as a type the same way that I can trace Sherlock Holmes as a type. That is a) VERY interesting to me, from a nerdy Henry Jenkins-style crowdsourced-story “the people talk back to the culture” way, and b) EVEN MORE INTERESTING GIVEN THAT THIS GUY IS HERE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY TO GIVE US A WHITE GUY SHIP WHEN THE CANON DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH WHITE GUY SHIPS READY MADE FOR US. When we talk back to the culture, sometimes we speak bullshit. Again, I don’t think any individual person is Wrong or Bad for liking or writing the ghost (I have liked the ghost! he can be very likeable!) but I think the fact that we keep resurrecting him and resurrecting him and resurrecting him IN FANDOMS THAT DO NOT HAVE HIM AS A PRE-EXISTING CHARACTER tells us something about what we as Fandom want. It’s a symptom that tells us something about the state of Fandom, the way a bechdel test fail does not tell us whether a movie is good or even feminist, but DOES tell us something about the state of hollywood. TFA isn’t an incredibly diverse movie, but unless you pump up the empty balloon of Hux’s character with the ghost the only other white guys to pair Kylo Ren with are his blood relatives and Supreme Commander Gollum. This is in a movie where he and Poe snark at each other with Poe on his knees; where he ties Poe up to a table and digs into Poe’s brain, where he looks at Finn from across a crowded massacre and Feels A Literal Magical Tug, where he and Rey basically mindfuck each other for agonizingly long minutes. There are Other Opportunities here, is what I’m saying. Kylux is the most popular pairing in TFA fandom. Expanding Hux’s character is a choice that fandom made. Kylux is a choice that fandom made. The fact that Fanon Hux came canned and prepackaged for us–our ready made mayo sandwich–is SOMETHING TO PAY ATTENTION TO. It’s not the character of the ghost, or his origins, or the canon characters that bear a family resemblance to him that really matter, imo. It’s the fact that WE, FANDOM, keep resurrecting him when we aren’t seeing a familiar enough white guy ship in the canon cast. That’s a canary collapsing in a mine, is what I’m saying.

roachpatrol

i love this meta, it’s like finding words to something i’ve been groping to articulate for years. remember clint/coulson before Agents of Shield got made and kind of like, confirmed most of the fanon? coulson was absolutely that ghost— and of course, neither he nor clint (nor natasha) could be paired up with nick fury.

trashprincipality

@wisekrakens my dude this seems up your alley

wisekrakens-blog

Thank you, friend. :)

You know what I’m seeing through my queer-colored glasses? Feminine wish-fulfillment.

Not self-insert -- it serves its purpose but god, it gets a bad rep in 99% of the fandom that isn’t “I found this literally two weeks ago,” and the Fanon Ghost plays a central role in countless fandom classics. I’m talking straight-up James-Bond-level wish fulfillment.

#fandom #... I wonder if The Mary Sue would be interested in a meta writer #this is way more fun than essays I used to write for school

acitymadeofsong

Only mid-2000s internet fandom participants will remember this:

“smexy”

eye-of-orion

What the fuck did this even mean for real tho

a-girl-named-stu

It was the opposite of fugly

#oh god have I been in fandom for ten years #the line's a little fuzzy because I started in youtube bandom #HAS IT BEEN TEN YEARS

orzesc

cannon-fannon

THIS SPEAKS TO ME ON A MOLECULAR LEVEL RIGHT NOW.

tjspider

You are witnessing a broken human being

swearysunflower

The voice crack is killing me

#oh friend I feel your pain #adulthood

duoachievement-deactivated20220

Ryan was such a fucking weeb in college he drew Ranma ½ and Naruto fanart

#rtah #oh my god Ryan #Kakashi was a good choice though ngl #Kakashi is always a good choice

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Writing Problems

*types a word and then sees that it has the notorious red squiggly line* you wanna fight Google Docs I know I spelled that shit right"

*types a word and it turns out it is not an actual word* WELL THAT SHOULD BE A WORD"

“I wrote the word ‘said’ in my work 124 times FUCK”

*makes inhumane screeching noise when someone interrupts my typing midsentence*

The blinking cursor of a blank word document

*spills beverage on notes*

*cat sits on laptop*

‘I’m in the middle of writing a good chapter and my laptop is about to die and the charger is on the other side of the room, why is my suffering so real’

*stares off into space for upwards of five minutes*

‘Am I characterizing a character so well because I know the character or am I writing them as I would write myself’

A WILD WRITER’S BLOCK APPEARED

“lol who needs sustenance when I’m IN THE Z O N E

Feeling like you will never be able to write well again

Feeling relief when you get inspired and write like crazy

That feeling of inspiration that makes you shiver and makes your nerves buzz

oneshot? more like ‘oh-shit-this-morphed-into-a-thirty-chapter-novel'shot

*more staring into space*

lol what’s dialogue

having to pee but can’t because I’m IN THE Z O N E

being IN THE Z O N E

Being OUT OF THE Z O N E and crying about it

comparing myself to other writers (never do OK)

switching POV accidentally

BLANK WORD DOCUMENT

Tenses

*stares more intensely into space*

*computer starts whirring like crazy* babe I know this writing’s fire but you need to calm down

*looks into empty beverage mug* why

*sees a cliché* *cringes*

will the reader understand what I’m saying here lol I hope so

sleep? what’s that lol

*thinks about writing while at social events*

*gets inspired to write at the most inconvenient of times, such as at the dentist’s or in the shower*

*gets zero inspiration when actually has time to write*

WRITER’S BLOCK

B L A N K W O R D D O C U M E N T

*stares into space forevermore*

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IT’S “A WHILE” IN THIS INSTANCE FIGHT ME GOOGLE DOCS

#spell and grammar check are useless to me #writing shenanigans

Man, anxiety disorders are A+. I mean, they’re just great, I have no idea what my life would be like without them.

On an unrelated note, my editing skills and dubious sense of humor are now for hire. For the low, low price of a USD cent per word, you can get a talented English major-level analysis of your narrative as well as your commas shoved back to the hell from whence they came!

Villain-mocking complimentary.

#this does not follow

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