#and wherever you are

[jessicas-pi]

awful feeling to suddenly realize that someone you used to see a lot of on tumblr and AO3 has been quiet for a while and like. look at their page and none of their fics have been updated in 8 months and they haven't posted on Tumblr since June like. friend. friend? are you?? ok?? friend?? friend are you alive

[fandomsarefamily1966]

All right. Here we go. What can I even say?

I guess I'll start by telling the truth: unlike all the friends I've managed to make here in this fandom, I haven't really been here that long. Maybe a year? I've always liked Rush, because my parents and brother did, but they were more in the background until recently, as I ended up falling down the rabbit hole because of PINBALL of all things. Thus, I don't feel like I have the right to miss and mourn Neil as my friends do, because I wasn't here when it mattered. Then again, one of the most common symptoms of grief is wishing you had done more with them, appreciated them while you still had them, and I am no different in this regard. Why didn't I fully get into Rush sooner? If I had, maybe I could have bonded with my parents and brother over them. Maybe I could have gone to see them in concert. Maybe I could have loved and appreciated Neil while he was alive and not now that he's dead.

But I can't do any of that now. All I can do is carry Neil within me, love and appreciate Geddy and Alex while they're still here, and be thankful for all the friends I've made here, and that will have to be enough. As the saying goes: "My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger."

[marzipanandminutiae]

what's with the weird glorification of smoking that's come back lately

like

I've seen so many posts that paint opposing smoking as some impossibly Loser-ish or puritanical stance and I really don't get it

it makes you, your house, and your clothing stink, destroys your teeth, and gives you lung cancer. opposing it is. Correct. obviously addiction is very complicated and quitting can be hard, but just saying "smoking is gross and harmful as a practice (including vaping)" is True and Right actually

some of you have never grown up hearing about how some beloved family member died a slow, agonized, wasting death of smoking-induced cancer, or watching it firsthand for yourself, and it shows

[draconym]

Years ago my friends and I went to see Rocky Horror Picture Show at a community theater out in the middle of nowhere. After the show we stopped at an empty little diner to get pancakes, still dressed up in our shitty hot topic fishnets and thigh high plastic boots. Toward the end of the night, just before she gave us the check, our elderly waitress touched me on the shoulder and said "the cook back there thinks you're the most beautiful girl he's ever seen" and I looked over toward the kitchen door to see a terrified young man duck down from where he was peeking out of the round window. Not a day goes by that I don't think of that interaction.

[kingofdoma]

best description of morgan spurlock's legacy ever

[lichenaday]

some tiny little guys have established themselves on my car mirrors- first noticed them as little specks this summer, they’re getting to be a respectable size

I love that some lichens are like, highly sensitive habitat specialists that only survive in idyllic, pristine conditions, and other lichens are just like, fuck it. Car mirror.

[aldecaver]

[totallypumpkin]

pspspsps come collect ur bot slayer badge

[curiousaur]

they simply must stop making ally and brennan learn new names that sound like intrepid hero characters

[neil-gaiman]

People were asking me what counts to help get Season 3 made. And the answer is, 1) people watching S2 and watching it to the end, 2) people who haven't watched Good Omens before watching Good Omens, which very much includes Season 1.

So if you know people who haven't seen Season 1, get them to watch it. And if you are at the homes of people with Prime Video who have never seen Good Omens, this is your chance to introduce them to the world of Good Omens while helping make a statistic that the algorithm people are following.

[ninamodaffari]

So happy to finally show off my final piece for the Tome of Pacts zine I feature in.

This is Hagne, the Herald of Rot, and faithful servant to her Patron, Cicardia. Her look was inspired by several things -- death masks, pomegranates, worn bronze, flies and centipedes. The butterflies she carries feed on death and decay. Hagne herself felt the cold embrace of the grave, but was blessed to find herself given another chance. She will not fail.

I am so honored to have been a part of this project, and this is one of my favorite pieces to date. I hope you guys enjoy it as well. :)

[kinnsporsche]

THE OLD GUARD (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood

[hinamie]

can't believe im saying this but long time no megumi

[papanowo]

what

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[teethlordd]

There are worms in my head