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Check ouyt me and my brothers dance!

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i've been rewatching ed edd n eddy and its got me thinking about what their unseen parents are like

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why does my caladium act like she is starving for light. hang on

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Technically true.

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Which path should he choose?

The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?

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british towns will be called Fuckmouth or whatever and people will just go with it

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16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere

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short mario has really been weird ever since these games went HD man

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NATIONAL COWBOY DAY AND OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY!!!!!! 2 IN 1 BABYYYYYY!!!!!!

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No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!

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what’s your favorite part about being a tumblr user?

Informing the world that you use Tumblr. It’s my best “putting your money where your mouth is” joke.

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Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.