You may be looking for my side blog, @thegentlesurvive , which is the bouba to this blog’s kiki (not that different, except there’s a lot more swiftie shit, non-fandom art, and the mediocre jokes are in cursive).
What I post: • text posts to the void • the occasional edit, gif, or gifset (usually x-men related) • comic reread & series rewatch liveblogs • lukewarm fandom takes
What I reblog: • x-men (especially new mutants) • anything that makes me laugh • miscellaneous marvel, star wars, other media interests • posts pertaining to chronic illness (including mental illness), disability, neurodivergence, and disability rights • posts about queer art, history, and culture • the odd bit of history and trivia • lukewarm fandom takes
What I don’t post or reblog: • humorless rage-bait • despair-inducing posts • unironic “REBLOG THIS OR ELSE” “DON’T SCROLL OR YOU’RE A HEARTLESS MONSTER” type posts
What I tag: • flashing or strobing gifs or videos (i.e., anything that seems likely to be problematic for people with photosensitivities) • any common triggers I can think of in the format “[trigger] cw” (you’re welcome to let me know if I’ve missed one) including phobias and forms of discrimination, bigotry, and targeted violence • fandom content & liveblogs, so I can find posts later and you can blacklist stuff you’re not interested in seeing • U.S. politics & elections • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 related posts • medical stuff & chronic illness related posts
I tag politics/current events, elections, covid-related posts, civil rights issues, and chronic illness related posts not for people who want to stick their heads in the sand for as long as they can convince themselves it doesn’t affect them, but because those who are affected and allies deserve to have a little bit of their day not be dominated by it. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and if you need to rest, I want you to be able to do that on your tumblr dash.
Sometimes I also tag “image id needed” on reblogs of screenshots of text that don’t have alt text or an image id. It’s just a note to self to help me find it again when I have the time/energy to add an image id, because I think it’s a good post! Please don’t take it as any kind of judgment.
there’s very few things that drive me up the wall in fandom as much as this weird new assumption that fandom is primarily a space for younger people that older folks are only accepted into in a trial basis if they promise to centralize and accommodate younger fans, and further, anything else is creepy and predatory. IT’S OKAY FOR ADULTS TO PRODUCE CONTENT FOR OTHER ADULTS.
if I have to read “women in their 30s” used as an insult one more time I swear I’ll - step away from that user and just hang out with the other grownups who consistently create good content because I’m also an adult and too busy comparing car insurance to fight with teenagers on the internet, but goddAMMIT I’ll be annoyed
shoutout to everyone in small fandoms who takes a character with one minute of screentime and decides to build an entire universe around them. to the oc creators, the rarepair shippers, the canon-divergence enthusiasts and the people who can’t stop asking “but what if?” and then proceed to spend 50k words answering their own question.
i genuinely think your joy is contagious. fandoms grow because people see someone having fun and think, “wait, i want to play too.” <3
Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.
#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit#but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz
boy i sure do love a character who is playing a Character. a character who you have to basically forcefully cut open to get a glimpse of who they actually are. bonus points if they themselves have no fucking clue because theyve been pretending for so long theyve forgotten who they are when theyre not
idk how people who don’t read comics do it . i’ve read almost 500 cass comics and i still don’t think i could ever be adequate enough to make a meta post about her in fear i’ll miss something from buttpoop goes to space issue 93 where she actually says something that goes against everything else she’s said and done and i’ll get publically shamed for it
man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great