#9 years

[pippindot]

DIPPER IS 9!!!!!!

[thecryptidart1st]

Five Nights At Freddy's :

Cursing At Animatronics, Directly Into Their Faces Since 2014

(Also Happy Birthday to everyone's lovable garbage cretin, Michael Afton)

[pi-slices]

Nine Years, Every Day! - 230405

[retrokid616]

wow orym just speedran his way to that how do you wanna do this!

[bandizoi]

Happy 9th birthday, Bandit!

[steorransaluki]

felt Quite Bad today, but managed to take the beasties on a lil walk in the back and it did make me feel a lot better--being in the woods really clears your head. they had so many good sniffs (there were a TON of deer tracks)

[roughsketchlings]

🎉🎈🎊🎈🎉 ✨9 YEARS!✨ 🎉🎈🎊🎈🎉

Man, I still remember when the very first anniversary happened, time goes by so fast! Gonna take the chance to share this Springtrap drawing I finished around when the movie trailer came out! Tried drawing him from memory, with some mistakes here and there of course 😅 but I still really like this one, so enjoy!

[castleficpromoter]

Today is the 9 year anniversary of CastleFicPromoter!

[ims0vain]

Ah yes, 9 whole years on this hell site and loving every bit of it. 💕

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

I never really know quite what to say on this day; I normally just end up repeating myself. I've written fanfic for a lot of Rik Mayall's bastards, and I help run the Rik and Ade Fest, and I was editor of Scumbag Monthly for a long time - but all of these things come with a level of detachment from the man himself. Even the Rik zines we made especially for 9th June were like that.

I'd spend so long in the run up making the zines - and chasing after people to make sure they'd actually submit the pieces they'd said they would - that, when publication day came, the main things that stood out to me about those zines were what was missing and which of the pages I'd made looked a bit naff versus which ones were acceptable. I think - I hope - those zines had an impact on other people, that they made people emotional, but for me releasing them was more akin to ticking a box. It's not that I wasn't proud of them, but I'd been working on them for months in advance. I knew them inside out. It's not that I didn't mean the words I wrote, but I'd read and reread them so many times by 9th June - as well as the words everyone else had written. I wasn't going to get the emotional hit because I was the one doling that out to everyone else. Does that make sense?

For a significant portion of time, Rik Mayall took up a significant portion of my brain matter. It made sense: this was the first fandom I'd ever been properly active in, I'd made friends here, I'd started writing again, and then we were thrown into an international pandemic where there wasn't much else to do but go insane, one way or another. I've said before how I'll always be grateful to Rik for re-sparking my creativity. There's a domino effect that started with me first watching Bottom, which eventually led to me switching my entire uni direction around to pursue creative writing.

For the last year or so, things have been different. We're all multifaceted people, each with a wealth of contradictory and complimentary interests. There are other people and other interests that vye for the top spot in my brain these days.

That said, and the entire point of this bit of waffling being: I still love Rik Mayall. And I say that knowing how superficial it sounds, and I say it without worrying whether I still will in another 5 years - because I know I will. He was marvellous, and hilarious, and sexy. He made it feel okay to be a bit weird, okay to be a bit mad; he made you want a spot on whatever wave of excitement he was riding, like the world really was just waiting for you to live in it. He was human, and he was flawed, and he was bloody stupid sometimes, but that didn't stop him from leading a comedy revolution and making the world that bit brighter.

Rik should have had longer on the earth. The fact he's gone - and for 9 years now - will always be incredibly unfair to him and his loved ones. The rest of us are just blessed that, to paraphrase a certain spotty prick, we still have his poems. So long as he keeps us laughing, Rik will still be here in some way.

So, once again, here's to our eternal Lord of Misrule: Rik Mayall! ❤️

[pippindot]

He got treats and a heart shaped scrambled egg 💗

[lilbitcheness]

It's been 9 years since I've been on tumblr. So much has changed. Hoping to find my people on here. #supernaturalpeeps

[smol-weird-friend]

So I’ve had a deer-like OC since sophomore year. I’ve done 3 different drawings of her. Each one is about 3 years apart (2016, 2019, 2021).

[helpmeholdontoyoux]

9 years ago today (7/24/14), @taylorswift left this comment on one of my Instagram posts. ❤️ I really wonder if she remembers me or this comment at all. 9 years later and I’m still nowhere closer to meeting her (and likely never will)… 💔

[myrlin]

hey <3 im gonna play some ff14 for now and perhaps write later. if not, later in the week. the usual! i hope ur all well & drinking plenty <3

[krizste]