#feeling like an outlier?

[ukulelekatie]

Reblog for larger sample size

[zxal]

3 extra people in your head = 4x the hairstyle opportunities

[caffstrink]

Cain and abel sealed the fate of all siblings in history

[kaibascorpse]

honestly i get so frustrated sometimes with the emphasis placed on ‘passing’ in conversations abt trans issues. like, i am nonbinary. it is literally impossible for me to pass around most strangers, because most strangers don’t even have a concept of gender that includes my particular identity and expression. even people who are ‘accepting’ of nonbinary identities are still more often than not going to make assumptions about what’s in my pants, and use that to label me as ‘girl nonbinary’ or ‘boy nonbinary,’ even if they never say it out loud. there is no way for me to exist as myself in a way that doesn’t visibly identify me as having a queer gender. i couldn’t be ‘stealth’ even if i wanted to because society has no framework for accepting people like me without forcing me into some kind of binary.

i have absolutely nothing against trans people who pass/are stealth or who want to be some day - all i’m saying is that we need to do better by nonbinary and gnc folks when we discuss these things. we need to acknowledge the ways in which we are so often left out of conversations and frameworks entirely, or only included as an afterthought (and again, still often expected to ‘sort’ ourselves into binary categories.) we deserve better than that.

[swordsmans]

prompted by a baffling conversation with one of my friends + overall trends with events like big bangs. apparently i am deeply underestimating the amount of, like, actual consumption crossover between fanartists and fanwriters. i've been operating under the assumption that the majority of fanartists don't read fanfic and that fanfic is a relatively niche thing mostly shared between fanwriters with a few outlier exceptions. like, that the "communities" or w/e are relatively separate??

this is possibly because i've been out of "fandom" for a few years (or bc im not on twitter/insta where the artists hang out), but i feel like most of my friends are other fanwriters and most of the people who actively engage with fanfic on tumblr/ao3 are also fanwriters (and vice-versa with fanartists gravitating to each other). however. my friend disagrees? neither of us are actually artists tho so i'm putting the question out to the crowd. (more thoughts) ->

side note: i didn't include an option for being BOTH a fanartist/fanwriter because 1) you're like rare and exotic birds to me 2) i'm trying to figure out who falls into which category based on what community you "identify" with the most. if you write the occasional fanfic but you mostly think about/create fanart, you're a fanartist; if you mostly write fanfic but every now and then will think about/make some art, you're a fanwriter. the group you're more likely to engage with. that kinda thing.

side note 2: you will see i have included an option for fanwriters who don't/rarely read fanfic. i know you exist because that is my category. i read fanfic but do so rarely these days. i'm selective because i dont have a lot of time on my hands. this is possibly another reason why i feel like engagement between fanwriters is so high, because if i'm going to engage with a fanfic i'm gonna put my whole ass into it since that's the kind of engagement that makes me happiest from a writer's perspective.

for reference, when i say "engagement" i'm talking about leaving kudos, comments on ao3, asks/comments on tumblr, tags on reblogs... that kinda thing.

with all of this in mind, this could literally just be because fanfic writers are more willing to engage with other writers bc of their own shared hobby and/or because fanfic writers know what kind of engagement theyd prefer on their own fics and act accordingly--and non-writer/artists are just more willing to engage in general because that's the primary way you participate in fan communities. on the flip side, fanartists might just straight up be a really quiet bunch... possibly because your thing (affectionate) is "visual" more than "verbal" (if that makes sense).

basically... this is exactly what i'd like to know LOL.

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

I DON'T have a favorite ship dynamic I DON-

...fuck-

[bi4bihankking]

No second options no mixtures you must choose

[brunosaderogatory]

Luca Time Period hints, from earliest to latest:

After 1952: Un Baccio a Mezzanotte (Quartetto Cetra) plays on Tomasso’s gramophone.

After 1953: Posters of Roman Holiday and La Strada are displayed in the background.

After 1954: A poster of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is displayed in the background.

(Iffy) After 1957: A poster of the fictional movie Attack of the Sea Monster could be a play on the real movie Attack of the Crab Monsters.

After 1958: Big Deal on Madonna Street plays on a television.

After 1960: Tintarella di Luna (Mina Mazzini) plays on Giulia’s radio.

During/After 1962: Andare al Centro Ora (Gianni Morandi) plays on Ercole’s radio.

(Iffy) During/After 1962: Ercole’s Vespa bears most resemblance to the GS 160, which began production in 1962.

(Iffy) During/Before 1964: The GS 160 stopped production in 1964.

Before 1969: Luca and Giulia watch the moon landing in the end credits.

[mcybree]

i need to start hating other characters besides just scott apparently. does anyone have suggestions

[operationslipperypuppet]

Big Bev is the only dragon from the Living Wood who doesn’t have a King/Queen/Prince(ss) honorific and it’s absolutely because he’s from the Crick and they’d never have that type of structure there

[gretahayes]

someone should have given roy lonnie i feel like that could only have gone well

[twinkalicious]

no cause the fact that richter thought alucard was a myth is absolutely killing me. he grew up hearing stories of his ancestors' heroism, but for some reason a central figure of those stories was merely a legend to him, an immortal fantasy creature who he never got to meet. honestly i'm willing to bet his own mother and grandfather and any other belmonts before them didn't either. they only told the stories of defeating dracula as their parents did before them, thinking them dramatized and never literal. it became a game of telephone, with each person doubting the existence of a friendly dhampir ally more and more because alucard wasn't there to corroborate it. alucard separated himself from the belmonts at some point. he wasn't there to see trevor and sypha's lineage despite the fact that they merged their houses and literally founded a city together. speculating the when and why is going to drive me absolutely insane, you don't understand.

[omppupiiras]

I was kinda bored so I made a little playlist of some songs that I consider to be essential finnish music, so if anyone here's interested, click here

fair warning it's probably not to anyone's taste but my own 💀

also I'd be super interested if other finns here made some playlists!! I'm curious of what music finns here think of when they think of finnish music (specifically in finnish)