#LOTS of ramblings

[serenpedac]

Get to Know the Blogger

The wonderful @serial-chillr tagged me for this and @cleverblackcat tagged me for a very similar thing some time ago (so I’m tagging you here, Cat, I hope that’s okay ^^). Thank you both!

Share your wallpaper: Going with my lockscreen wallpaper for this. Have a beautiful open star cluster located in NGC 3603 (HST image, credits NASA)

Last song you listened to: Don’t Pray For Me by Within Temptation. I like the handful of songs from this EP more than pretty much anything from their previous two albums, so I have high hopes for their new album! Especially this song hit hard the first time I heard it.

Currently reading: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap. I also have The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue lying around, because Bunny recommended it, but until I finish The Priory, I am only looking at that one

Last movie: Oh! I actually have an answer for this: Everything Everywhere All At Once. Went to the cinema for the first time in years and I enjoyed it a lot.

Last show: The BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials. Despite knowing how it would end, I ended up sobbing just as much as when I first read the books as a 14 year old.

Craving:  Writing inspiration and motivation

What are you wearing right now: Sweatpants and a loose blouse with a paisley pattern. Look, I got groceries and did the laundry, the rest of the day is for relaxing, haha

How tall are you: 1.76 m

Piercings: Just one in each earlobe, does that count?

Tattoos: None :’(

Glasses? Contacts? Neither

Last drink: Chai latte :3

Last thing you ate: Some cherry tomatoes

Favorite color: Blue and intense shades of red

Current obsession: No surprise here, it’s TWC, mainly Yael and Nate. His Dark Materials is also very much on my mind again.

Any pets: No, but one day, we’ll get a cat

Favorite fictional character: Hmm, N Sewell from TWC is the first who comes to mind. Honourable mention to Dragon Age’s Isabela, though. (I promise I do read books, but being in a fandom and thinking/reading/writing about characters for an extended period makes me appreciate them more, I guess?)

The last place you traveled: Munich, so not that far, still in Germany. Not for vacation, but I did visit a very nice exhibition on Gustav Klimt.

Tagging with no pressure at all to do this: @ejunkiet, @evilbunnyking, @grapecaseschoices, @griffin-wood, @plasticdodecagon​

If anyone else feels like doing this, consider yourself tagged as well ^^ I always like to get to know people, but find it hard to predict who might be interested in doing these things

[this-is-a-username124]

New hc: Franziska is scared of bugs. Absolutely terrified. Especially butterflies. Why?? Because I'M scared of bugs, and one of my friends is especially scared of butterflies. Also it's funny I think

Franziska acting like her usual self until she sees a big ass dragonfly go near her and she's suddenly whipping everything within her general vicinity

[rovermcfly]

proud to say that I have never once in my life figured out the whodunit in any crime story I've read or watched. I just let the facts and clues wash over me, absorbing absolutely none of it. I am the audience they think of when they throw in red herrings, in case you've ever wondered "who would fall for this obvious false lead". it's me. I am the idiot viewer/reader. not once has an obviously framed clue revealed anything to me. my head is completely empty when I consume these stories.

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[littlefankingdom]

Dick who climbed on anything as a child. Even in public, especially in public. The moment Bruce looks away, he is climbing something to get as high as possible. The first times, it gave Bruce an heart attack. Now, it's just a headache.

People pass by and ask if they should call the firefighters, and Bruce tiredly tell them "He is fine, he can get down on his own.", like people with cats.

Imagine, you're walking out of some building, only to see a 10 years old standing on top of a lamppost, having a discussion with his dad guardian at the bottom.

"Dick, get down."

"Make me."

"Get down or you're grounded."

[exoflash]

a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Suddenly, bell bottoms aren't so bad

Bonus sketch, because I had to vv

"Stop checking out my assistant, Stanley."

[humming-fly]

Every now and then I'm reminded Real People with Actual Jobs use tumblr and I've always been legitimately curious what all you weird adults are up to when you're not on this site and with tumblr's New Poll Feature I can finally get an answer! (or the closest approximation of an answer possible with only 10 available options h a)

[bloggingboutburgers]

Quick reminder since apparently it bears reminding in both directions: if bigoted people, closed-minded people overall, or your own internalized insecurities misinterpret a queer person’s message in a way that hurts/endangers you, yeah, it sucks, but it’s not the fault of the queer person in question, nor should it be a reason for them to silence themselves. They’re probably as hurt/pissed as you are that someone misinterpreted and misused their message to do harm.

Of course sadly there’ll still be queer people that actually DO mean harm and dismissal to other queer people – I ain’t speaking for those and it’s not the best way to ensure their and others’ wellbeing imo. I’m just saying – not all people will be like that. That’s what I want to believe. So hopefully let’s not put everyone in the same bag, keep supporting each other, WHILE allowing each other to advocate for our own visibility, without having to self-erase or self-censor to accomodate to what haters might say.

It’ll be tougher this way, maybe, because humans seem to like to draw extreme conclusions very quick, but I don’t believe there’s any better way for us all to be alright and stay alright on the long run.

[this-is-a-username124]

I love Franziska so much but I'm not really a character analysis person?? If a character similar to me then it's obviously easier but like. Even when I find a character extremely interesting, I just kinda go read long ass posts about them and go "YEAH. I agree with this" lmao

[etirabys]

> MtG opponent swings with all 5 of their creatures while we're both low on life

> "block with all of yours," husband says

> I trust him & assign blockers to kill most of the attackers

> watch with dread, certain they have one of those cards that +2/+1s every creature

> they don't. I wipe their board and win the next turn

> "they were bluffing," says my husband, "which I figured because I looked at their open mana, and there's no spell with (a subset of) that mana profile that can have pump up every creature"

> speechless with lust

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[tariah23]

[halemerry]

Hey everyone what's your favorite mug look like?

[oobbbear]

Please understand that when I say I grab you, I don’t mean grabbing your face or arm thats rude and creepy please don’t do that to anyone

When I say I grab you I’m saying it like I’m grabbing you like a potato. It’s my way of saying hey I appreciate and respect you let’s be friends

[fox-guardian]

I've seen a few "Tim and Alice would be besties" posts and I love it so much cuz like. Tim's sense of humor canonically is mostly pop culture references to movies and stuff, there's no real indication that he's particularly online. Meanwhile Alice speaks like she's been Very active on tumblr for longer than she's been at OIAR CONSTANTLY, she just says the strangest shit all the time. So I just keep imagining a conversation between Tim and Alice constantly having to stop because Tim keeps cracking up unable to breathe over the Shit Alice Keeps Saying and he's never heard any of that kind of shit before, especially not with such a casual, nonchalant delivery. And Alice is laughing because its hilarious how offline Tim is. Hearing the phrase "none pizza with left beef" would incapacitate him.