#I also hate it here

[stagefoureddiediaz]

This episode is messed up man!! I love it!!!

[v01dbug-s1nr0se]

sometimes i forget we got tumblr and then we come back and suddenly our dash is filled with wttt texitties, writing prompts, fandom art, random ass meme posts

[skyguyed]

star wars is just running on queerbaiting and cameos at this point

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

eh fuck it, you all should 100% come to Australia and see all our cool shit.

like yeah it’s hot as shit in January and the fires, and also the floods. Man the floods.

but it’s genuinely a beautiful place, also SCENIC WORLD EXISTS AND IT IS THE FUCKING COOLEST PLACE I’VE BEEN

Fuck yeah coal mining place turned theme park turned nature reserve!!!!

it’s literally a temperate rainforest RIGHT THERE IN THE FUCKING CRACKS OF THE MOUNTAINS it’s so fucking cool man.

I have desperately wanted to nerd out about all the cool ass places here in Australia for like 15 years I have never mentioned how fucking big a nerd I am.

I SAW A FREAKING NOBEL PRIZE IT WAS SO FUCKING COOL

I just want to gush and gush and gush and gush forever.

I love it here, genuinely.

I just know I can’t afford a home lol, the median price of a house is 1 million dollars guys!

I still love it to fuck here

DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE A FREAKING SEAHORSE AQUARIUM DEICATED TO JUST SEAHORSES???

did you know we have giant worms????

we also have super cool caves with glowworms aswell!

there’s also so many art and history museums oh my fucking god we have so many and they are all good.

I love our parks and nature reserves and animals and birds!

have you ever picked up a skink with your bare hands??? I love those little guys

we have tartatuals and stick insects and so many turtles

longer head and snake head turtles my beloved

have you ever seen carnaby’s black cockatoos in real life? They are fucking beautiful creatures

the geo science center in the ACT literally has a piece of the fucking moon

and all sorts of cool shit

I can’t even begin to list literally everything there’s so many wonderful places

tassie is so beautiful man, if you have ever been there you know what I mean.

god I literally can’t describe how excited and GIDDY it makes me being able to just..

talk, I love it here. I hate a lot, but. I love it so much.

I wish more people knew how cool it is here

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[starcrossed-sky]

#Hey remember when Markiplier did that thing that was just 'What if we made a series and then immediately deleted it when we were done' #and everyone went nuts for it #and now that is happening to every IP ever? #fucking sucks yo#the monetization of FOMO has gotten SO fucking bad lately #and the more they do this the more they profit from it and THATS A BAD THING! #THIS FUCKING SUCKS!

peer review from @public-trans-it

I actually like that all media is now created to be thoughtlessly consumed within a single alloted month before it's destroyed by business guys whose stated favourite book is a dingy unread copy of The Art of War they left on their bedside to "reference". it's cool that everything is just one middling budget twelve episode season and half of it is dropped all at once directly onto streaming services so you have to sit down for six miserable hours to watch it in the most antisocial way possible. this is probably how art was meant to be consumed. this is how humans best process things, like death.

[wanologic]

and they were roommates

[syn4k]

[ionomycin]

inhale, hold

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

you really need to raise your standards for what's considered "a phrase" because if it only makes sense in the specific context of the post it was originally found in and it isn't repeatable in other situations, that's not a phrase that has entered the lexicon, that's just something someone said one time.

i started this thing last week i need all the posts i can handle

What doesn't alter your vocabulary may alter, or may have already altered, someone else's. This is not about adding to The General Lexicon - I have an entire tag for things that change this site as a whole, which has a higher bar; this is largely about novelty and humor. This is us curb-stomping whatever the fuck we want into the right form for our needs, whatever those needs may be, including altering aspects of the phrase to fit the necessary format or context. It's a linguistic shotgun.

its my fuckin blog bitch ill shit where i want

[lotus-pear]

till's straight asf i would've made out with ivan first

[frownyalfred]

I'm seeing a lot of "ugh, so we can't even criticize fic authors anymore?" posts popping up on here and the ao3 subreddit and I just want to say, for the record: No one's saying you can't criticize (fanfic) authors publicly. They're saying it's rude and antithetical to positive fandom experience. And, yes there's a difference.

If this website was a conference and I had just spent a whole afternoon listening to a presentation on [unpopular fic trope] and after that was done, I got up on stage and very publicly told the audience that [unpopular fic trope] was illogical and anyone who writes it is woefully misinformed and should be banned from writing [relevant character], that would in fact be a dick move.

"But the canon character would never--" it doesn't matter. You're shouting down the hall at the person who just happily did a whole seminar on their OOC version of that character. "But I don't like that the author chose to make them--" good, you're well-acquainted with your likes and dislikes, time to find another fic.

We all run into fics and interpretations we don't like. But there's a huge difference between loudly talking about it on Tumblr where the author can see it, and just venting in a private discord or other group. Also, gentle reminder that this is a hobby for most writers and something they do purely because they enjoy it. Stop being massive dicks just because you feel entitled to a certain flavor of fanfiction you will probably be chasing until the Reformation of Krypton.

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF puppet and Michael Afton got beef,,

[zondearts]

I wanted to draw her with some birds ok?

[inklore]

no offense but angst leading to smut will always top everything else. argue with the wall because i ain’t hearing it ok, the yearning? the heartache that leads to hurried kisses or passionate slow ones? the face grab? the holding them as close as they can during? shut up!