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Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

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me, seeing someone left me a comment: screaming, running around the room in circles, kicking my feet up in the air, jumping up and down, giggling to myself, squealing, wiggling, dancing around...

me, replying to someone's comment: Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

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hypnotized guillermo in 6x03: I've always fantasized about being one. A vampire, that is. When I was little, I begged my mom for a cape. She didn't have the money for it, but somehow, she found a way of making one. And I put that cape on, and I just fantasized about what it would be like to fly all over the world, no one picking on you, live forever … I was a pretty shy kid, so I didn't have a lot of friends. But I'm sure you can understand that? nandor: Not really. I was rich and a jock … but I can imagine. Must have been very, um … hard.

nandor in 6x10: [proposes an unbreakable alliance of hunting bullies together and says that's the reason they were brought together, not vampirism]

nandor at the end of 6x10 inviting guillermo back into the house: first on the agenda, let's talk capes.

nandor in 6x11: *buys guillermo a cape*

or: it was in this most recent rewatch of 6x03 that i realized that nandor's superhero proposal, while very random on the surface, is actually about him trying to give guillermo his lifelong dream of what it would feel like to be a vampire, since actually being a vampire didn't fulfill it.

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the omniblade is the sexiest sci fi weapon. fuck you. im punching you with my apple wristwatch. which has a knife in it. eat shit.

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I left tumblr for like 7 years now sometimes posts are underwater now

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I just thought you should know that today, Jan 21st, the day after Trump's 2nd Inauguration, Turner Classic Movies did a whole 12-hour daytime bloc on anti-Nazi/anti-fascist films.

The Black Legion (1937)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

The Mortal Storm (1939)

The Great Dictator (1941)

The Seventh Cross (1944)

The Edge of Darkness (1943)

Background to Danger (1943)

And I'd just like someone else to notice because I think these little acts of demonstrating memory and value are important. TCM didn't choose wars films in which Americans are heroically fighting and winning; they chose films ABOUT fascism & autocracy--its destructiveness, its immorality, its stupidity & conformity--and the difficulty and danger individuals face when trying to resist or confront it.

I noticed TCM was posting The Great Dictator clips on their instagram, but didn't realize their whole schedule was like this. Good on them. It's brave to call a spade a spade when the spade is absolutely desperate to be labeled a sword.

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019-2024) SEASON 6, EPISODE 10: THE PROMOTION

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pentiment + act i

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hmmm. ok poll time just because i'm always curious what people's relationships to this topic are:

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Me. Don't ask me which ones. All of them.

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just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before

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I am sure this has been done somewhere before but I drew it just in case

Bonus: Rook immediately before ripping up all the couch cushions in a panic

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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dead man walking

[ -> prints 💙 ]

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have you ever read rpf (real person fanfiction)?

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Marvelbros will try and trash filmbros by making up hypothetical films that sound fucking amazing, they'll be like "would you rather watch escapist superheroes or a 3 hour Yugoslavian film from 1971 about the friendship between a homeless man and his dog over the course of the dog's life" and I'll be like obviously it's the latter????

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One of my favorite stories from the making of the first Godzilla movie.