look i will 100% dunk on shitty romance or YA but i will not dunk on them for being into dangerous men or power imbalances or even having a rape fetish. that is the tool of the enemy, we do not use it. we make fun of them for being bad writers and having a range of influences a millimeter wide

I think I’ve said it before but i maintain that one of my favourite things about TROP Sauron is that he so obviously has people he *wants* to have around him (in whatever romantic or platonic way you wish to imagine) but he’s just SO goddam BAD at it

Twenty whole minutes after posting this fic:

Just in case you heard some rumors: I assure you, I only ship legal things! . . . Never shipped any weapons, living animals, prohibited drugs ect. Only legal things!

Mary Pickford and ZaSu Pitts feeling the pinch in THE LITTLE PRINCESS

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

vital new fandom strats: - find the worst take or three, block everyone involved - locate & befriend the freaks

We have hit the time of year when the giant male house spiders come out in the evening to roam around looking for the ladies, and this massive one just climbed up a wall behind one of our bookcases and then *fell off*. mortifying for him.

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

fyi if TROP actually does announce Celeborn I am granting myself a week to be absolutely insufferable about it. You can (and probably should) mute me if you like but oh my God I have been through SUCH fandom nonsense over that elf, I am owed a week.

mom can you come pick me up there's a complicated fandom discussion happening where 3/4 of the people are just slightly wrong enough to be infuriating

Reading this at the moment and it’s so fascinating I’m going to make a thread for collecting up all the bits I want to save 💡📚

This is so beautifully framed: Mon Mothma approached by her blackmailer friend at the apex of a triangle between Davo Sculdun on the right and Luthen talking to Erskin on the left, all at the traditional child marriage of her daughter, overlooked by the Let's Bring Back Our History! statue.

well look at ME in bed by 11pm on a work night with a book to read one (1) chapter of before sleeping. victory! (surely?)

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

“The line from the Xena opening credits, ‘A land in turmoil cried out for a hero,’ sounds almost uncannily timely. As the show’s creator Rob Tapert put it in a promo shortly before its premiere, ‘Xena is the hero that we hope is within all of us.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/xena-warri...

Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹

Season 3 please be kinder to this precious boy. He just wants to live in a forest with his Entwives.

all your friends still on Twitter:

Owain in this role is criminally underrated pass it on

the greatest threat to a free society is not, with a handful of exceptions, the people you find the most annoying on the internet

- Rings of Power should do a Doriath prologue for S3 - and it should be narrated by Charles Edwards - playing Curufin rather than Celebrimbor.

Someone did a Tumblr "info for writers!" post about how to write a specific thing they know about from their IRL job, except said thing is also something I know about from my IRL job where it works differently to America. Sitting on my hands to resist the "wellACTually..." reblog.

If by debate you mean *statement about basic human rights* countered by *call to genocide with a wojak attached posted by PutinLover88* then that’s truly a loss

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

sprawl

Fandom never had it so good as when we were on LiveJournal.

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

you can spin literally any sexual image as noncon or dubcon if someone dislikes you enough and wants your account banned. that will only be used as another tool ppl can use for harassment, not keeping blsky a sexually safe space

i miss forums

The problem with the whole "we were never meant to work 9 to 5 we're programmed to hunt and gather berries" thing is that I don't really fancy doing that either

We are having 'how not to lose your mind to work-related doomscrolling' discussions at work again, and tbh my entire approach is: a) mute words without mercy on social media b) channel all angst into fanfic c) walk home the long way because sometimes then you will see a duck and this is good.

If you have never explored the cinematic world of Rosalind Russell, I’m not sure her four Oscar nominations are accurately representative of her skills, screen persona, or best-known works.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Happy Friday here’s some plants. These are all sedums that are cold-hardy (allegedly?) so they live outside.

the history will continue until morale improves

Less than 24 hours between posting this and being exposed to “ewwww can you BELIEVE that some people ship THIS?” discourse for one of my rarepairs.

must not fall asleep on the train. must not fall asleep on the train. must not…

Beautiful fanbinding of my Haladriel fic Shadow-Bride 🥰 www.tumblr.com/superficialo...

Why is Outlook SO consistently awful for accessibility? “The best way to make this legible is to adjust monitor scaling. Still can’t read the menus? Use Magnifier for those. Now your text is all blurry? Well that’s because you’ve adjusted the monitor scaling, you fool.”

i also tell myself that even if it's art that isnt ever really made public, the making of it is worth it in itself

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

“I do character artwork and could easily imagine yours” Annie, it’s Star Wars.

best thing i heard all week: friend who lives in the chicagoland western suburbs informed me that a woman from her (lib) church who has 8 kids chased some ICE agents with her giant homeschooling mom van.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

only having a bsky and tumblr is such a specific brand of exhausted millennial

saw a post i liked on tumblr today.....didnt see that they'd posted it on their account here but i wish they would its a sentiment that resonated w me more than making "good" art it's just important to make art....thanks man