#but THAT IS NOT THE POINT HERE

[katebeckets]

OH MY GOD. If you don’t like something or don’t find it romantic or don’t agree, just don’t reblog it! Don’t add it to the tags of someone else’s post! Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but honestly, if you’re adding it to someone else’s work, then your opinion is wrong. GIFSETS AND OTHER FAN WORKS ARE NOT FAIR GAME FOR DISCOURSE! MAKE YOUR OWN POST!

[badassindistress]

Saw a post of someone dressing up their husband in a Bridgerton waistcoat and now I dearly need a pleasant young man to dress up in gold brocade

[kiwiplaetzchen]

Happy Valentine’s Day!! 🥰

Still a work in progress but I finally have an app that works on my phone! Now to figure out how to use it lol so a little valentines Nosy for you! 🥰

Evaaaaa!! 🥹💚💕

Happy Valentines Day right back at you!! 💕💚 Thank you so much for sharing this!!! 💚🫂

[suuho]

Wait...what is Gikwang's infamous broadcast incident and where do I find it?

it is the bad girl inkigayo performance from october 25th 2009, and don't look no further, here is the only hd video of it that i could find. this incident infamously led to the one nipple rule implemented on music shows, led cube entertainment staff to tell gikwang to please just stop stripping on broadcast all the time, and garnered him the nickname fisherman gikwang. lmao.

[catnerdenby]

Reading this makes me incredibly sad, since as a child I used her books as escapism. But now to see the author of those books I loved use her success to harm people, I just kinda want to shove all the merch, books, movies, etc. up her ass.

And to those who say, but second hand books and read them, what about the one who buys a second hand book, reads it, thinks wow how awesome is this i need to find more and starts supporting JK not knowing what an terf asshole she is.

You are still perpetuating the fandom.

It does make me wonder if she was a homophobe, racist, facist etc whether her ‘fans’ would still be like - but you can support the art but not the artist’ ( EDITED to be clearer. If she was as OUTWARDLY public about her racism, homophobia, anti Semitism etc) She isnt like Lovecraft who everyone knows he was a racist bigot. He is dead, his work is known for it’s time but it’s not affecting current policy, like JK Rowlings work IS.

The UK anti trans bills that came in were also a direct result of HER LOBBYING PARLIMENT.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[lonelyroommp3]

yesterday my flatmate asked what my "olympics schedule" was in terms of what i was planning to watch and when and i was like i can't explain to you how much of a foreign concept that is to me. you don't have an "olympics schedule" in my household you watch whatever happens to be on tv whenever you have a minute of free time and get insanely invested in whatever sport you end up watching. maybe down the line you get so caught up in an event that you start going "i'm sorry i need to have the tv at 8:45pm next tuesday because i need to see the men's sport climbing finals or i'll kill myself" but it's something that has to happen organically you know. that's half the fun

[queenoftheimps]

Daniel Molloy has never been more relatable than when he visibly has the slow-sinking realization "Oh no, this man is about to forgive his boyfriend for all of it"

[gloriouslyscentedwizard]

Thought some bug nerds might appreciate this:

Aren't they beautiful? Is this not one of the prettiest cicadas you've ever seen. Specifically it is a swamp cicada (Neotibicen tibicen).

The blue-ish teal green is just absolutely enchanting. And lookit how cute those beady little eyes are💕✨

[neurovarious]

[puragranada]

Louis and Claudia, dancing in the sunlight

[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.

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[nataliescatorccio]

CHAPPELL ROAN performing in Glasgow (x) The Midwest Princess Tour, September 15th 2024

[frownyalfred]

Bruce Wayne is so much stronger than me, because if I was him I would walk straight up to Lex Luthor at a fundraiser, lean down, and whisper you want to fuck Superman so bad it makes you look stupid in his ear before flitting away with zero context.