#they invented fonding

[jaywriteshome]

The way louis goes from 😒 to ☺️

[aeide-thea]

the thing is, it's always valid to discuss issues within a subculture! but it's also good to be clear, both in your own mind and in your discussion, that you are discussing a subculture, and to be clear on how said subculture's treatment of an issue fits into the larger culture's position on it—

specifically i'm thinking here of (1) discussions of transphobia, and how a lot of tumblr analysis tends to position terfism as the main face of antitrans bigotry because it's the flavor that seems to most readily infect leftist spaces, and like, within said leftist spaces that's often a reasonable line of discussion, but… we do all remember that actually transphobia is a much bigger umbrella than just a subset of a nominally leftist movement/social group, right? right??

and also i'm thinking of (2) discussions of so-called media consumption and the way people on here will often critique transformative fandom for failing to be sufficiently radical in how it engages with stories, and like, to be clear, i think a great deal of that criticism has been well-founded and well-deserved! but at the same time it's like—we are all clear that 'wanting to be spoonfed cozy unchallenging stories' is (a) not actually necessarily Inherently Problematic, right? like, certainly escapism can constitute a sidling-away from having to confront uncomfortable realities, in a sort of omelasian way it's fair to take issue with; it can also be desperately necessary nourishment for a soul in soul-killing conditions, and which of the two it constitutes for any given person is not necessarily within your power to fully accurately know and judge.

but also, to circle back to my original point here—we are all clear that plenty of normies who don't even know what fanfic is (yes, people like that do in fact exist!) are out there engaging in unexaminedly escapist media consumption of their own, right? like, that's not in fact a flavor of self-indulgence that belongs uniquely or even primarily to the AO3-adjacent, and if you're talking about it as though it is, you may want to consider how narrowly your own lens is focused…

[thisiseditsandstuff]

the retcons to kaz as a character are so funny especially looking at how fond snavid is of him like dave if you knew even ONE more thing about him you'd dig him up just to kill him again.

[angelmotifs]

the fucking chokehold andy mientus and michael arden have over me... outsold every other broadway power couple

[creatediana]

"Motley Me" - a poem written 8/16/2023

[crossbackpoke-check]

56 and any Yamo pairing! 🫶

i just wheezed so hard when i saw what the song was i almost snorted coffee out of my nose i am so sorry for this one

#56 - kyoto phoebe bridgers + yamo

the story of how this song ended up on my wrapped is too long so it’s going in the tags but. let me set the scene for you.

2026 NHL GLOBAL SERIES™️ JAPAN - Presented by YPPI

November 13 & 14, 2026: Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Seattle Kraken, Vancouver Canucks

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan

It’s a pitiful excuse of a consolation prize for not being able to go to the Olympics, but Kailer’s not going to look a vacation horse in the mouth. The arena’s cool. It’s huge. The people are cool. There’s so many more of them than he thought there’d be with jerseys that have his name on the back, and a lot more that have the familiar orange and blue. He takes a picture of the fifth Oilers Yamamoto jersey he signs—this one’s the good Reverse Retro—and texts it to Connor, says,

no one here has even heard of mcjesus

and gets a moon face emoji in response. Leon’s influence. Kailer’s still never really deciphered what that one means, and he doesn’t think Connor knows either.

They don’t have a lot of time off between games, but Kailer’s trying to be a good tourist. His dad had been so happy when Kailer had told him about the series that Kailer’d had to stop him from trying to book a flight a year in advance, and his mom’s been just as bad, sending him every article she sees about Best New Spot in Tokyo! Cool Restaurant! Have You Seen This Japanese Cat Café? that she scrolls across on Facebook since June. Suzy’s in the same boat, so they’ve been crossing off their compiled travel-guide list together, looping in as many guys as they can. Everyone’s been pretty game. All the teams are crammed into close quarters at the same hotel, which means everyone wants to spend as much time as possible outside of it, and it helps that Kailer’s gotten pretty close with all the other guys that the NHL picked up as Global Series figureheads. Robo’s memes? Absolutely fire. The groupchat loves them.

For every item he crosses off the list, Kailer takes a picture and keeps it tucked in his phone notes. It’s like speed-running a scavenger hunt—they’re only here for four days—but he’s doing a pretty good job. His favorite so far has been all the gardens. They’re stunning, trees shining bright red and yellow, and every vendor has been selling maple candies, maple cakes, and even fried maple, though the official maple festival doesn’t start until next week. The second garden he visits, he does it on his own after practice, buying two cakes from a cart near the gate and walking until he loses the bustle outside. It’s easy to get lost in the winding pathways, heading deeper into the quiet, and there’s dozens of benches underneath the burnished leaves where young couples are tucked away on dates, or old friends are laughing and catching up. In some of the little clearings, there’s small shrines where people leave offerings, a prayer for good luck or good fortune.

Kailer stops at one without any people and sets the second maple cake on top of it, then sits and scrolls through all the texts that he’s missed. His mom gets replied to with a picture of him outside the garden gate, grinning and surrounded by other travelers. He sends his brother a picture of a trashy graphic I Love Japan t-shirt with the threat that he’ll buy one for him, and Kailer’s dad gets a picture of the meticulously arranged and cut bonsai that are across from the bench where he’s sitting. The Seattle groupchat gets a recycled meme from Robo, and he gets two thumbs up and an “LMAO” before he can even exit the thread. Finally, Kailer takes a picture of the half-eaten maple cake in his hand, holding it next to a fallen maple leaf on the bench, and gets halfway through typing another message before he thinks better of it.

(On the plane over, Drieds was reading them a story about how when they first introduced the high-speed railway, people were afraid to use it because they thought it would be too fast for their souls to keep up.

“Bro, if that were true, you just left your soul in the middle of the Pacific,” Ebs had laughed. “Planes are faster than trains.”

“Are they?” Matty asked. “Isn’t the train in Japan the fastest in the world?”

Drieds couldn’t make it through the rest of the story over the sound of everyone ripping Matty to shreds, so Kailer didn’t get to ask whether or not they found out anything about planes. Kailer’s not worried about his soul, but the logic makes a strange kind of sense; after all, he traveled 429 miles in five and a half hours once, and that was a little too fast for his heart to keep up.)

Fuck it. Kailer’s been trying to write a response for the past ten days, and he’s sick of swiping in and out of the message, staring at the keyboard so long he starts to see swirls in his vision.

Kailer drafts the text again and sends it, no context, no caption. A text travels faster than a high-speed train or a jet. Maybe it’ll pick his heart back up on the way.

[arsonist-chicken]

Do you ever like.. get a sudden surge of love and admiration and just general happiness because of a friend, so much so that it's almost overwhelming, and you are just so, so glad you met them and hope you'll never have to let them go and get to keep them in your life forever? Yeah ❤️💖🐗🧚‍♂️🦄

[fragmentedblade]

Not to be a jingfu on main, but it's so cute that Jing Yuan thought of Fu Xuan with those jelly beans

[476b]

writing a cover letter for a position im under-qualified for but i want really bad and im seriously at my limit!!!! i hate corpo speak!!! what the fuck am i supposed to put in this thing!!! i hate cover letter! i hate cover letters! i hate cover letters!

[le-velo-pour-dru]

Actually iDKHOW is the most important thing ever 🫶 Hope this helps

[radioactivepeasant]

Faulty Info au gives me an excuse to mangle Avatar screenshots again so I can draw some of my Spargan ocs as middle schoolers lol

From right to left: Jak (13.5), Merit (15), Raza (Too Sneaky, also 11), and Flick (14)

They look like they either just watched a Leaper chase down a kangarat on their way home from the market. Or possibly they got challenged by some older kids trying to goad them into ditching their chores and racing. Either way, Leaper mayhem ensues.

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The original I started with:

[transgenderfivepebbles]

i think it's really funny that i stopped identifying as ace because technically i did "find my type" it's just that the type in question notably does not include humans

[taurusii]

Young Viktor and his older colleagues, posing with cargo of a ship they’ll be protecting 

[codewitch]

Thank you tumblr sexyman poll for resurfacing all those 10 year old repressed memories of sexyman Cecil Palmer three eyed bleach blond hair in a vest with tentacle tattoos fanart. That man truly was a tumblr sexyman before we even had the name for tumblr sexymen. Christ.

[carewyncromwell]

[Golden Age of Piracy] Chief Obliviator Captain Morgan Blay Moodboard

“Rip it off -- show the symbol on your chest -- Say, ‘come on,’ and show the world who you really are! It's not enough to be better than the rest... Gotta take it to the top and make yourself a superstar!

You don't need them to believe in you -- Get your mission on lock and see it through... You've got all the power you need in you -- Power you need in you -- power you need in you!”

~“Superhero” by Simon Curtis

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fancasting Ioan Gruffudd as Morgan // tagging @thatravenpuffwitch​ @cursebreakerfarrier​ @kathrynalicemc​ because pirates!! 🏴‍☠️

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In the late 17th and early 18th century, pirates ruled the seven seas. Muggle pirates had plenty of enemies, but pirates who came from the Wizarding World had even more. They not only had to contend with the likes of magical creatures like sea serpents and ancient Dark curses beyond imagination, but they also had to deal with the British Ministry of Magic’s Chief Obliviator, Morgan Blay, who was determined to hunt down and transport all of them back to Europe to face the Wizengamot for violating the International Statute of Secrecy.

However much of a stickler for law and order Blay is and no matter how easy it is to make fun of his fastidious, rigid nature, however, he’s no idle threat to piracy. At just 26 years of age, Blay is an expert at both non-verbal and wandless magic, and his Charms and Transfiguration are so advanced that he has been able to create perfect illusions around his own wand and other such magical things so that to Muggle eyes, they resemble perfectly normal things like swords (for wands) or seals (for mermaids). He even invented a spell of his own -- Repello Muggletum -- which wards Muggles off from magic-heavy areas and deters them from investigating further. (His alma mater, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has gotten very good use out of this particular spell.) His dueling skill is only slightly sharper than his talent with a Muggle pistol and cutlass, which in turn is just as sharp as his wit -- many an opponent of Blay’s has gotten a good verbal lashing alongside a physical one. This isn’t even touching on his encyclopedic knowledge of sailing, astronomy, navigation, and Muggle technology of the era like pistols, cannons, and telescopes. All of these talents serve him well as he works undercover as part of the British Muggle Navy, secretly capturing magical pirates alongside non-magical ones while captaining an entire crew of Muggle sailors, who idolize and respect their leader for his courage, intelligence, dedication, and moral fiber. It’s a fact that makes Blay all the more protective of his men and of Muggles in general, considering the deception he’s had to deal in, just interacting with them.

Truly, if any magic users on the high seas in the Golden Age of Piracy wish to retain their freedom, they will want to stay one step ahead of the likes of Captain Morgan Blay.

[theoldandnewfirm]

Dumb headcanon: One of Strickler's favorite movies is To Sir, With Love, but it's too on the nose so he'll never admit it.