#a SHOUT OUT to

[emilnikos]

love it when my friends say "you would do numbers on Tumblr" buddy I am on Tumblr. and the number is 3

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

[cyber-corp]

Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.

You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.

[julnites]

Red riding hood comic collab with the wonderful @yeehawpim (go check out their blog for loads of great comics!) 🌷 See the layouts he did here!

[spitblaze]

I don't see people gas up gnc and butch transfems nearly enough, can we get a fuckin round of applause for gnc and butch transfems

[garudabluffs]

K-Pop Has Figured Out a Solution to the Worst Thing About Concerts

Concertgoers’ scream-singing has gotten out of control. There’s another way. Aug 31, 2024

"Fans of Korean entertainment seem largely unfazed by the masses’ yearslong lack of socialization, partially because they already have a tried-and-true solution to this problem: fanchants. A fanchant is a planned vocal routine of chants for the audience to perform to accompany an artist’s popular songs. The chants are usually coordinated to accentuate specific moments of the instrumental, repeat key words in the lyrics, or even sync up with a particular moment in the choreography, and the routine is typically the full length of the song. You can think of it almost like audience vocal choreography or backup singing for the artist onstage. Many fanchants are made by the label and traditionally distributed via text guides. Here’s a comment on a K-pop subreddit explaining how the fanchant is distributed among fans when a song is first performed, generally at a televised music show in front of a studio audience of a couple hundred. Though nowadays most chants are made by the stars themselves and taught via video performance. This carries even more gravitas for the fan base, as most doting fans wouldn’t dream of going against their favorite singer’s wishes. For example, here’s the K-pop girl group NewJeans teaching the fanchant for their hit song “Super Shy.” And here, in a video recorded from an audience member at a live concert, you can hear the audience participating during the designated parts of the song."

READ MORE https://slate.com/culture/2024/08/concerts-eras-tour-taylor-swift-billie-eilish-olivia-rodrigo-etiquette-screaming-k-pop-fan-chant.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

122 COMMENTS "

My favorite bands have always encouraged maximum fan participation. This includes singing whenever and at obvious parts, forming circle pits, and even stage runs/diving.

This may be why I call them "shows" and not "concerts". If I'm going to see a band, nothing beats hundreds or thousands of people jumping around/singing together in a shared experience. The band feeds the crowd and the crowd feeds back. If I want to hear perfect takes with nothing else going on I'll just listen to the album.

Pop music and a lot of rock really should be more "shows" than "concerts" because they are less about maximum musicianship and more about fun."

+ "Fanchants achieve two purposes: First, they give fans a role to play, bringing them into the performance. Second, they require attention, memorization, and practice, so fans not only feel involved but are kept busy and focused, often mitigating the issue of constant screaming throughout the show. In nearly every recording of a K-pop performance, whether during broadcast Korean television shows reminiscent of the live performances on TRL—here’s NewJeans performing “Super Shy” on KBS’s Music Bank, for example—or in videos taken from the stands at concerts, you can tell that fans abide by the rules of the chant. While in that crowd of people, you can actually hear the artists onstage and simultaneously express your gratitude for being able to share space with them.

Stars work hard to put on a good show and be heard; in return, we pay bucketloads of money to hear them. This is a perfect solution that honors both the artists’ work and effort as well as our time and money, and that creates a real give-and-take between audience and performer that makes live shows so special. Let’s all take a page from the book of K-pop stans, rally our troops, and get to work: Stop screeching, and start preaching the benefits of the fanchant."

[winterfoxo]

Something I touched up from a whiiiile ago in celebration of pride this year lmao

I also took this as an opportunity to add the grey in her hair this time around because I forgot to add it when i first shared this AAAAH

[nonbinoclard]

[Smile widely and give him a thumbs up.]

original image inspo! and thumbnails for my bad memory hehe

[caleohateclub]

"When's your tramp of a mother gonna choose a new husband?"

[havi-fart]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH YAAYYYY

to fight my artblock i decided to redraw some gerard p donelan comics as ds9. but once i started i could not stop....

so heres all deep space 9 of them. lol. again the poses and captions are lifted straight from his comics all i did was put space guys on there! please enjoy

(id in alt text btw!)

[causalityparadoxes]

He's a bounty hunter. He's into DnD. He somehow doesn't know about cosplay or how to improv despite this. He CAN dance. He fell for the Doctor so hard the only coherent thought in his head under stress was proposing to them. Within the hour he'd kissed them, sacrificed himself, and said "find me" after making them catch a goddamn marriage bouquet. He's a nerd. He's socially awkward. He listens to Kylie Minogue. He's a sweetheart. He's a Killer. He's engaged to the Doctor. He is the moment. He is the Rogue.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[autumnillustration]

"Perhaps a lesser-known gift of Kenobi's was his ability to listen."

(AU where post-banishment Ahsoka gets zapped back to TPM, strapped with a fundamental distrust of the Jedi, an apocalyptic vision of the future, and a mandate to help Anakin Skywalker. So, in all this, it's nice to have a confidant.)

edit: link to the fic

[chloesimaginationthings]

Scott Cawthon’s version of FNAF security breach..

[frejs-froggy-artblog]

I get to draw Sidon and Link again in the year of our lord 2023

[elexuscal]

squinting at the 'fix it fic' tag on any given story on Ao3, trying to discern if it's intended in the sense of:

I genuinely think the story had bad writing and I am taking my toolbox and improving it [and i the reader agree]

I genuinely think the story had bad writing and I am taking my toolbox and improving it [and i the reader disagree]

The story's ending was Tragic and I Respect that but also i just want to read about my faves having some kind of joy and fulfilment okay?

The story's ending was Tragic and I do Not Respect That please God Damnit Let Them Be Happy

We Are Literally Fixing The Canon With The Application of Time Travel or Reality Warping or some other Wild Plot Device

I am going to fix one obscure detail or plot element that 95% of the fandom has never thought about in their life

(because these are all extremely different vibes)