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Things Percy Jackson remembers in Son of Neptune:

Annabeth exists

I met Annabeth at a camp

Annabeth and I kiss sometimes

Fuck Ares

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This looks like something the recently-turned zombie artists and fashion designers from Boyfriend Of The Dead would do🤓 what a gorgeous concept!

body horror meets fashion (dresses made by me)

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Zendaya wearing ALEXANDER MCQUEEN – The Jennifer Hudson Show (2024)

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Good night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

HAMLET (2009) dir. Gregory Doran

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As for “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” Swift revealed that she wrote the tune “alone, sitting at the piano in one of those moments when I felt bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture.” “There’s a lot about this particular concept on ‘The Tortured Poets Department,'” she added. “What do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes as a society we provoke that pain and we just watch what happens.”

Taylor on “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me” and TTPD (Variety)

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to anyone who still isn’t on board with percy jackson as marine veterinarian, i ask you to consider something

percy wearing scrubs

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The Doctor. Doctor. Fun.

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if han solo was one of those greasy sci fi butches working with all that heavy machinery (spaceship) , sweating through her tank top.. i think that would’ve fixed the star war

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anthony literally bouncing on his feet while kate insults him: i do not like this woman btw

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Martin casually matching his socks with wardrobe/tie/pocket square color will always be the cutest thing ever ❤️

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Okay guys I think something happened with Folklore and Midnights while Taylor was performing the Eras Tour because they have a child and her name is The Tortured Poets Department

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JONATHAN BAILEY attends the Alexandre Mattiussi Menswear Spring Summer show (June 23, 2022)

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K I S S O G R A P H Y : ↳ Tom Cruise

LOSIN' IT (1983) / Shelley Long RISKY BUSINESS (1983) / Rebecca De Mornay ALL THE RIGHT MOVES (1983) / Lea Thompson LEGEND (1984) / Mia Sara TOP GUN (1986) / Kelly McGillis COCKTAIL (1988) / Elizabeth Shue DAYS OF THUNDER (1990) / Nicole Kidman FAR AND AWAY (1992) / Nicole Kidman THE FIRM (1993) / Jeanne Tripplehorn JERRY MAGUIRE (1994) / Renée Kathleen Zellweger EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) / Nicole Kidman MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (2000) / Thandiwe Newton VANILLA SKY (2001) / Penélope Cruz AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER (2002) / Gwyneth Paltrow THE LAST SAMURAI (2003) / Koyuki MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (2006) / Michelle Monaghan VALKYRIE (2008) / Carice van Houten KNIGHT AND DAY (2010) / Cameron Diaz MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — GHOST PROTOCOL (2011) / Paula Patton ROCK OF AGES (2012) / Malin Akerman OBLIVION (2013) / Olga Kurylenko EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014) / Emily Blunt AMERICAN MADE (2017) / Sarah Wright Olsen TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) / Jennifer Connelly

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I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.