#social media? not for conversations!

[darthvaporwave]

old man yells at cloud but i do actually hate texting as a means of connecting to people because it’s not good for long involved conversations; the whole setup is just for bytes of information you’re both just half paying attention to

[cultoftheswag]

Fandom hierarchies are so fucking stupid. Can't believe whole ass adults are trying to measure dicks with each other over getting autistic with media in ways that under no circumstance would you ever feel comfortable sharing with irl people. Getting competitive over who has the best fluff furry ship or trying to establish yourself in a cliche as if it's highschool hoping you make it in the table with the "popular" kids , when every single one of us here most likely got bullied in school .

Anyway, other people aren't better than you nor are you better than them for having more followers/more interactions. The moment we kill the subconscious expectation of a certain fic or certain art being the holy grail of fan creation , the better it is for everyone.

[kevinsdsy]

bonus (another account): HOW DO NEW ACCOUNTS KEEP APPEARING I KEEP THINKING I HAVE EVERYONE INCLUDED THAT’S MENTIONED AT LEAST ONCE AND HERE U GO THERE’S ANOTHER ONE LIKE 😭😭😭 and shane is mentioned quite a lot too especially during the game against the foxes so idek how i missed that

trojans social media au (pt. 26): i’ve written a few headcanons based on the socmed au and i will do a few parts bc i have too many 😭 i asked y’all what out of pocket things jeremy could say to get stuck in media training and y’all really wanted him to say cunt LMAOO so here u go (the three tweets are specifically inspired by @captain-danwilds so thank you hehe) also the jeremy x neil tweet is fully inspired by @iiowaw so thank you so so much!!

[alwaysbewoke]

[caduceus-tealeaf]

They noted this on her chart: 8:38 A.M. After which, according to their records, Annie lapsed back into her impenetrable isolation and did not utter another word. The doctor on call noted this on her chart:

“May have been responding to auditory hallucination.”

[harrywavycurly]

How would we text Harry when he talks about us in an interview? 👀🩷

Hiii babes!! So I didn’t do this as a text I did it as a phone conversation instead, I hope that’s okay? Also the thing he brings up about you is extremely random but it’s just what came to my mind so I hope you like it lovey!!💖

-find all things Boyfriend Harry Styles here✨

A/N: Harry drops the “girlfriend” word in an interview as well as a certain collection you have and to his surprise you don’t mind✨

“Hello my darling…so…did you listen?” “Hi my little superstar…of course I did..you want to know what my favorite part of the interview was?” “Hmm let me think…was it when I talked about my writing process?” “Oh yes you know I love how excited you get talking about your little-” “I don’t like when you say the word little when you’re talking about me love…hurts my feelings a bit.” “Forgive me…you know how much I love when you go on your giant ramblings about your processes….is that better?” “Much…so you’re not upset or anything?” “Upset? Harry you talked about my funny hat collection…why would I ever be upset about that? It’s not like you don’t steal half of them from me anyway.” “We just haven’t talked about how…to talk about our relationship in the press before so wasn’t sure if you’d be a little peeved at me about dropping the girlfriend title and then bringing up your outlandish hat collection.” “I actually liked hearing you say the words my girlfriend…it was nice.” “Really?” “Yes…I enjoyed the way you said oh my girlfriend actually has an amazing collection of these…like…hats that say the oddest of things on them and she loves them and I’ve been borrowing a few as of late…” “baby you know I love you…but I do not sound anything like that.” “Yes Harry…you do…but truly I don’t mind you brought me up I was just shocked at the timing of it that’s all.” “Oh you wanted me to bring you up when he asked who the album was about hmmm? Is that it? Not when he asked where I get my style influences from?” “No I was actually thinking you could’ve mentioned me when he asked where you got your shirt from…considering I know what you wore to this interview.” “That…yeah I could’ve done that….but it’s true you do influence the way I dress…so it wasn’t like I lied.” “I influence the way you dress because you steal my hats and my shirts Harry…like tell me…lover of mine what’s in that tote bag of yours right now? Hmm?” “What was that? Sorry sweetheart we are going through a tunnel…can’t….hear…you.” “And you call yourself an actor? That was horrible…would you like to try again or just tell me which hat you stole of mine for the airport?” “You wound me…but it’s the..let me see one moment love…ah okay it..says I just work here…classic you saying actually I think I also have the bucket hat you left in here from the beach that says-” “put it on my boyfriend’s tab? Thank god I thought I lost it.” “Not lost…it’s with me.” “How does it feel to now have the world know you’re officially my boyfriend?” “Feels great…could scream it from the rooftops if I’m being honest.” “You’re such a sap.” “But?” “But I love you.” “I love you too.”

[todaysanother]

when you follow someone who's in the same fandoms as you, and you like them as person, but they don't follow you back

[robertdowneyjjr]

a soulmates au where your words only show up after you’ve met your soulmate. sort of like an insurance policy, you know, so you’re not left wondering whether every other person you meet is the one if your words are too generic.

in this universe, captain america has been recovered and active for several years now. he runs missions and saves the world with his ragtag team of superheroes formed by SHIELD. steve's become a celebrity, which he doesn't love, but it's something he learns to live with because that's life for public figures in the 21st century.

tony never became iron man because he walked away from his father's legacy the second he turned 18. he and howard are still working on their relationship, but maria couldn't be prouder and tells tony so everyday. he built his own company from the ground up and it's thriving under his leadership. he's only marginally famous these days and he tries his best to stay out of the limelight, guarding his private life as much as possible. that's how it's been for twenty years and he's happy.

they meet on a day when steve is tired, irritable and angry. he's just returned from a mission where two of his teammates were injured because of the faulty information they received. he goes out on a walk to let off some steam and he's just slipping his phone back into his pocket after rejecting fury's fifth call for a debrief when he slams right into tony.

tony was having a good day. he'd just sent out a new set of designs and decided to reward himself for it. he goes and gets himself a fresh, delicious, life-affirming cup of coffee and is just stepping out of the cafe with aforementioned cup when a walking brick wall comes out of nowhere.

good news is, tony had ordered a cold brew. once every few weeks that's just what he's in the mood for and it had been one of those days. bad news is, instead of drinking it he is now wearing it.

sticky and cold and more than a little shocked, tony barely has time to recover and figure out what happened when steve starts tearing into him.

“god damn it, watch where the fuck you’re going! that could have spilled all over me! idiot!” steve yells at tony. and on a normal day, he’d be apologetic and he’d never curse like this at a stranger. but he really didn’t need yet another thing to go wrong today and he’s on a short fuse.

maybe later, when he’s calmed down, he’ll think back on the cute man with the giant brown eyes staring at him in disbelief and start beating himself up over how he behaved.

at the moment, all tony can do is look at steve’s pristine white t-shirt that somehow has not a single drop of coffee on it, then look back down at his own chest. he has no words except, “wow. you’re a fucking asshole.” and he just turns around and walks away.

tony gets home and strips off for a rinse before he gets ready for his flight to london for a week of meetings. all the while he can’t help but think that angry blond man looked vaguely familiar and he can’t place where he knows him from. he doesn’t notice the new string of words tattooed down the side of his thigh until he’s in his hotel room half a day later.

meanwhile, steve gets home after his walk, after he’s checked on his teammates, after sitting with fury for three long hours to debrief, and finally washes the day off of him. before he gets into the shower, he notices something different about his reflection.

along his left bicep are the words, wow. you’re a fucking asshole.

he thinks back on the cute man with the big brown eyes and a chest full of coffee and wonders how in the hell he can fix this mess.

[fayrobertsuk]

Okay listen, because nothing was ever going to prepare me for this, but when I first came out*, I had no idea what a profound effect that was going to have on other people.

I thought I was braced for the bad stuff, how some people’s fear about what your simple existence means can dampen, darken, and corrode your joy, your sense of safety. I wasn’t prepared for the scale of that, but that’s not what this post is about.

I had no fucking clue that my existence as a queer person taking up space could mean so much joy and relief for others. And I was utterly unprepared for how that has only increased as I’ve aged, and as the world has become more connected. Eventually, a young trans man explained it to me, saying that seeing me just... living, 30 years older than him, brought him hope, a model for the future, that there was a future, for the first time. Several others chimed in to say the same and I felt airless for a dizzying second. I hadn’t been able to really understand, until that point, why various younger queer folk would thank me on Twitter, call me and others like me icons. We’d shrug: We’re just... being, we’d say. Exactly, they’d reply.

I thought that things were easier for young, queer folk now. That they have more access to information and vocabulary and acceptance than we did, growing up. Hell, I might never have worked out my gender stuff if younger folk weren’t out there being loud about their pronouns, breaking down microlabels, and sharing their feelings about their existence.

And that’s also true, but being visibly queer, and over 30, and it not being a tragedy? That gives people enormous hope. That’s a landmark to reach, a future to picture yourself in. My life is nowhere near perfect, but it exists.

And heavens, it’s good to know that these proliferating silver hairs and wrinkles are beautiful signs for those who long for the decades’ stretch between now and then.

_____

(*still not quite realising that it’s something you do again and again, and sometimes additionally, if - like me - you find yourself going “oh, and this thing too”)

[wickjump]

i need all chatfic authors to know that i love and respect you and your fics are always an entertaining read but all suspension of disbelief is out the window the moment dust sans adds '/lh' at the end of a sentence thank you

[valewritessss]

I’m gonna be honest I don’t know what’s going on 90% of the time

[themirokai]

You know, the longer I live, the more clearly I see that half the trouble in this bally world is caused by the lighthearted and thoughtless way in which chappies dash off letters of introduction and hand them to other chappies to deliver to chappies of the third part. It’s one of those things that make you wish you were living in the Stone Age.

- Bertie Wooster, demonstrating that the speed of modern communication has always been too fast, no matter its form.

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

there's so many del conversations i really fucking love and wanted to put my own spin on before we get an officially cast delirium, so starting off with this fun one from kindly ones!

(i have also started a del themed tiktok bc i have a lot more audio/video stuff in the works, so if you're interested you can find this video cross-posted here)

[daveyfvckingjacobs]

*stumbles back to this app blinking like I’ve been hibernating for months and have forgotten what the outside looks like* sup

[macdenlover]

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[mxbitters]

parents are funny the way they want you to be open and honest with them, supposedly, but when you are, it leads to some fucking confrontation that didn’t need to happen, and when that happens, it leads to something you weren’t ready to say coming out, then being coaxed out into a still very much controlled held-back version of describing your lifelong experience feeling shame for existing the way you do and not being “easy” or as good as like, your little sister, academically, or as capable of masking as anyone else, and THAT carefully worded recall of just the natural fucking feelings of growing up in a frankly abusive household, resulting in.. oh, sorry, YOUR FATHER crying as if he wasnt just trying to gaslight you into thinking he didnt tell you the other day to Improve Yourself As A Person (right before the conversation about his mother entering hospice so now guess who can’t fucking mourn without associating it with that!) and that he instead was saying Improve Your Situation

and then he like catches you like visibly dissociating, comments, you try and put it in very simple words what just happened (in the same manner you have pointed out every other little thing he does to invalidate your feelings, or as he’d put it, “your feelings” yes using air quotes) and he suddenly is a fucking Psychology Scholar And Didn’t Need You To Explain What The Defense Mechanism Even Was and oh then also admitting to doing harm in the past, saying he had apologized (wonder why i dont remember), your mother(actual psychology minor) getting all “i’m sorry you feel that way” and also after a long ass tangent about there being a difference between “shamed” and “ashamed” as if you didn’t mean the word you say, a thing you did make very clear, ONCE AGAIN FUCKING CRYING ABOUT YOU BEING OPEN AND HONEST FOR ONCE AND TELLING THEM THEY HURT YOU