#Seriously check this out

[timberlakefan96]

Something I love about Tumblr that you don’t really get on Reddit, is the brief flashes of fandoms I’m entirely unfamiliar with, like some large beast in the undergrowth.

Right now, it’s The Locked Tomb. Never even HEARD of it before coming here, but I see impressions of it everywhere. It’s like, teenagers wearing skeletons? Or something?

Do I dare seek it out? Will it wear MY skeleton?

[rocketbirdie]

hitboxes

[chiscribbs]

Disaster Twins Karaoke Battle (alt title: Getting Hyped for the Next Lair Games)

These sketches are old, but I couldn't let National TMNT Day pass without showing my appreciation in some way. I drew these some months ago, while listening to the song Stalemate from the Death Note musical yes, that's a thing, go check it out on loop, and forgot to post them. The song is a bop and I could so easily see the twins loving it, and loving to perform it even more. Massive theatre nerds, the both of them, no one can convince me otherwise.

(In my mind, Leo is singing Jeremy's part and Donnie is singing Jarrod's, but it's interchangeable.)

[ex-jock-enthusiast]

Apologies for the long absence, but I return with a gift: the fabulous ranafitness! Not to dampen a revolutionary cause, but I dare say Marie Antoinette had the right idea - let them eat cake! And it looks like his jealous gym buddies had the same idea 👀

[bastart13]

Heyy so I'm a little obsessed with @bevsi's obsessive lesbians so if you haven't yet, check out Heartstrings.

tl;dr: pop star Isi secretly used to be part of Ro's punk band and despite the time and distance, they're both still yearning

[saffitaffi]

Me when I start an animation project with little to no experience animating or storyboarding

[radioforums]

[aimasup]

i'm back

[kyotosummer]

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fanart! Based on and heavily inspired by @somerandomdudelmao ‘s Apocalyptic Series! That comic has been an absolute treat to read!

Now that I have completed my annual art project, I shall slunk back to my silent chambers.

[spaceinvadeeer]

incorrect quote generator strikes back

[kosalus]

got to work with the wonderful writer @empressofedge and the amazing artist @ceosato for my first bumbleby big bang! go read Mixed Melodies here and check out the art here! make sure you give those two lots of love!!

[livwritesstuff]

hazel sees this tiktok trend and has to try it with her dads:

Hazel: Pop! Name any man.

Steve, without looking up from his 2nd gen iPad: Your dad.

Robbie, in the background: Very good, Pop.

*video cuts to second clip, taken a few hours later*

Hazel: Dad, name a man.

Eddie: What?

Hazel: Name any man.

Eddie: Uhh…

Hazel: Don’t think. Just name a boy.

Eddie: Alan Turing.

Hazel:

Robbie:

Steve:

Hazel: What?

Eddie: I dunno! He was a codebreaker and helped win World War II and shit like that.

Hazel, perplexed: Okay?

Steve: Fine with me. I figured he’d say Ozzy Osborne.

[end-otw-racism]

On needing a comprehensive harassment policy

We've been getting some confusion about the part of our demands that talks about OTW needing to consider "off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users" - which is fair, because I realize that could sound like "OTW needs to monitor/regulate what happens on other platforms" - but that's NOT what we meant by it.

What we meant is: if AO3 users are getting harassed on AO3, and they provide proof in their abuse claim of off-site harassment, that off-site harassment should also be considered as context for making a decision in the abuse claim.

An example of this - which we have permission to share - is what happened to an abuse claim filed by Dr. Rukmini Pande. We won't be linking directly to what happened because we are not trying to target individual users here, but all of what happened is still in public record.

Dr. Pande, a scholar of fan studies who wrote the seminal text on race and fandom, talked on her twitter account a few years ago about a Nazi fic on AO3 that was not only incredibly harmful, offensive, and antisemitic, but where the author had been sending their friends to harass people who criticized the fic. The author proceeded to add a tag to the fic that said "Rukmini Pande Lied About This Fic".

Because Dr. Pande tweeted her criticism from the account with her full name, people said this wasn't doxxing - which is true. But the author of the fic also was tweeting publicly to entertain the idea of reporting Dr. Pande to her employer, and they were also once again sending friends to harass her on Twitter.

When AO3 considered this abuse claim, Dr. Pande provided proof of what was happening on Twitter to show that the author of the fic added the tag of her full name with the intention of inciting harassment to her. But the AO3 Abuse team said that this did not constitute harassment under their TOS.

Cases like that are what we mean by OTW considering "off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users". Obviously OTW cannot control what is happening on Twitter, or Tumblr, or any other platform. But their Abuse team should be able to consider off-site harassment, when they are given proof of it, in determining whether a case on AO3 is harassment or not.

(Also if you aren't familiar with Dr. Pande's work, her book Squee From The Margins: Fandom and Race is not only fantastic but was the first to comprehensively look at fandom racism, and she also edited a great anthology of articles on race and fandom called Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices. If you can't afford to buy them, you can request that your local library stock them!)

[ex-jock-enthusiast]

OK i usually try not to do this coz this is predominantly a transformations blog, but I couldn't help myself - a collection of this thicc king at full size from the last few months! Not a buttoned shirt or pair of pants in sight!

Edit: oops this post got more traction than the old one, its in the tags but just making clear, his name is romanthewizard on insta :D

[macaro-mochi]

Shoutout to Ryoko Kui for creating a top-tier ensemble cast of absolute weirdos. Not a single one of those characters is even remotely close to normal and I love them all

[midwest-of-weird]

resurrecting this old blog to be a catch-all weirdness photography blog—been wandering around the midwest (among other places) and have lots to show.

Billy Bob's Wonderland has been notorious in the past for having animatronics in real awful state, but they've been recently fixed-up to incredible condition. some pictures!