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“Where to watch Ethel and Ernest”

BBC iPlayer was the answer! 😂

Thanks for tagging me @jennyfair7

Tagging: @ofbeautsandbeasts @obesessedwbeautiesandbeasts @julieczyras @epwhales

last google search, go

um. Tag four people.

what do they make sewer tunnels out of

@ncc1701ohno @affixjoy @the-magpieprince @twinkboimler

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I've been drawing Erik in a ceaseless fugue state for 20 years now and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Dir. George Lucas

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Just a couple of weeks ago, I was commissioned by my lovely darling @the_mighty_miles to draw @danielhowell and @amazingphil as Aziraphale and Crowley, AND THEN THEY DRESSED AS A+C FOR HALLOWEEN?!?! I'M LOSING MY MIND!!! 💖😇😈💖 THE ART HAS COME TO LIFE!!! (I never imagined Dan would go full red hair!! 🤣❤️)

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Oh it was excellent! Mini burgers, mini hot dogs, brownie, apple cobbler. An amazing experience!

Happy bday @heather-destler!!! 🥳🎂🎈🎉 Hope it's amazing and your wishes come true!! 🎊🍰🎁 May your next revolution around the sun be memorable and fun! 🌞✨

Thank you so much!! I’m off for a back to the future the musical afternoon tea!

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Happy Birthday! 🎈🎉🎂🎁

Thank you!!!

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Happy bday @heather-destler!!! 🥳🎂🎈🎉 Hope it's amazing and your wishes come true!! 🎊🍰🎁 May your next revolution around the sun be memorable and fun! 🌞✨

Thank you so much!! I’m off for a back to the future the musical afternoon tea!

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**For the people asking my friend bought the frog teapot HERE

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🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

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This is one of the stories from our new book "Once Upon a Workday". It's available wherever books are sold but you can also get a signed copy from our online shop!

With this book, we have fulfilled a dream of our own, to publish a book that is written entirely in rhyme and deals with one of the most important topics in our society:  The relationship between work and leisure. But it also deals with topics such as creative burnout and insecurities about one’s own abilities.

We had a lot of fun writing and drawing this book and are delighted that so many of you enjoyed reading it and writing us letters with your experiences.

It makes an excellent gift for yourself, but also for a friend who is going through a difficult phase. Thank you for reading.

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THEYRE LIKE A FAMILY OF DINOSaurs

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I adore this so much!!!

They're selling Zombie Tree Peekers at Joann's and I thought this creepy dude had a striking resemblance to Erik, so I bought one! I touched up his eyes, teeth, and hand, and now Undead Erik can terrorize the neighborhood 😆

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On being an older fangirl

I was probably 10 years old when I first conceived of what was, looking back, fanfiction. Me and my best friend would lie in bed together on sleepovers and I'd make up stories about what happened after the end of our favorite book, "The Westing Game." She'd ask me for more stories, and I'd tell her more, inventing them as I went along. "Then what?" she'd say.

I was 14 when I went to my first convention. I had discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was 1987, and my youth pastor was a huge Trekkie. He took me to a one-day crappy Creation con, but it was amazing to me. I met Nichelle Nichols. My dad showed me the Trek movies. He and I watched TNG together.

When I went to college in 1991, my dad used to videotape TNG episodes onto VHS tapes and mail them to me, so I could keep watching (I didn't have TV in my dorm room).

By the time I was a senior, we had Trek watching parties in the dorm lounge, where the TV had cable. Star Trek: Voyager had started up, and I wrote a column about it for the college newspaper. I joined a mailing list about it, with people in it that I still know today.

I got my first computer that could go online in 1995. I was on newsgroups. I discovered Doctor Who. I went to Trek conventions where we still passed around fanzines containing fic and art and smutty K/S fan creations.

Then it was Harry Potter. Then there were websites. Then there was Geocities, where we could all make our own little spots. We organized them into webrings. We talked on newsgroups and mailing lists. There were fanfic archives. Then there was fanfiction.net.

Then...there was LiveJournal. And we could interact in entirely new ways. We could form communities, and debate things, and fight over canon, and get into ship wars. On LiveJournal, I met my best friend of 22 years. I was in her wedding. She's my sister of the heart (which is what she calls me).

Then there was Tumblr. And Twitter. And now there's Discord. But it's all the same.

I am the same.

I am still that little girl who made up fanfiction in her head to entertain her best friend. I am still the one who was amazed to find communities on the internet - which was so new, so raw, so uncommodified - where others like me could meet. I found there people to meet in real life.

I am still that twentysomething going to her first major convention, being told that someone loved my fic, being asked about my writing process.

I am still that thirtysomething watching something I wrote blow up. Seeing friends from other fandoms find me in new ones, finding them there, too. Forgetting which fandom I know someone from, because I've known them for twenty years.

I still know some of the people who created those early websites, those mailing lists, those archives. I still meet people in new fandoms who say "Oh, I read your fic in [fandom] fifteen years ago!" There's no feeling quite like having someone remember something you wrote for that long. Or meeting someone whose fic meant a lot to YOU, or who you talked with on rec.arts.drwho.creative in 1997.

Aging in fandom is a gift. Being middle-aged in fandom is a joy. Having people who still read what I write and ask "Then what?" is a blessing.

It breaks my heart that so many people see it as something to be ashamed of, when it is one of my life's greatest gifts.

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Sorry for double posting but APPARENTLY those commission scammers have showed up on Tumblr at least for the first time for me.

For those who don’t know what I am talking about, there were/are commission scams going on in Instagram and even places like Artstation where people would pretend to be interested in your work and try to commission a pet or portrait for the sake of trying to get your bank details. Here’s how to (somewhat) sniff them out:

1- They don’t seem to be an average customer/ person that would be involved in your fandom, or has a blank template for an account or don’t even follow you.

2- They ask you to draw a portrait or a pet picture either for themselves or their children/family.

3- They promise to overpay you (in the hundreds) and do not listen to you even if you firmly state the price is cheaper.

4- They are constantly asking for your email name, or private details regarding things like banking details or passwords or other private information others should not know.

5- They try and over reassure you they mean no harm, try to guilt you into giving them the info, or become aggressive over you not giving them what they want.

What should you do if you come across one of these guys? My best advice is to block and report. Sadly these people jump account to account so there isn’t really much to do other than spread this info to prevent artists from being scammed.

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Where does Eric get his furniture and clothes from? He's such a giant man I can't imagine he could find them in stores.

Ah, yes…TC/Erik has become an accomplished DIY-er out of necessity. Most of his furniture is salvaged and then reinforced to accommodate his size. Mostly a couple chairs and a small couch—he never bothered to make a bed frame and keeps his mattress on the floor.

As far as clothes go, he makes a lot of the basics himself (undergarments, shirts, etc). If/when he has any extra money he will commission someone to make things for him (mostly boots/shoes) and will explain away the large size by saying it’s for "advertising/display purposes". He has some things left over from his time in Persia (where he was often gifted things in his size).

I’ll put some of my little sketches of his room below (idk why I hoard this stuff). He has a portion of that space devoted to sewing/mending.