A Potato With A Razor Blade In It

Um the yuri justice or whatever…

shout out to my folks with insomnia & depression & delayed sleep phase disorder & sleep apnea & disabilities & other sleep disorders diagnosed, undiagnosed, and just my plain old night owls & night shift workers!! we r so fucking cool & exist every day in a society not made for us at all. and NONE of us are lazy bums or bad people for staying up late & sleeping in till noon or two or whatever whenever you get up!! no matter what anyone says!! you’re incredible and i love you!!!

due to woke the hanged man tarot card is being replaced by the hung woman

Im curious.

"Sea Dragon" by Georges Fouquet. Brooch and head ornament, gold, enamel and aquamarine, circa 1900.

Image description: photo of a piece of jewelery in shape of a snake like creature, with 3 pair of fins at the side of its body, it is holding a proportional large aquamarine in its open mouth. end Image description

uh, so my name is ofelia. i just got back from my mom's after being released from the hospital. if you could me out me so i can recover in peace and make my life a little bit easier i'm currently 200 dollars over drawn right now would really like some help.

pp / vn / ca

Thanks to my friend @eviltothecore13 for sending me this...

Vincent Price on filming "The Ten Commandments"...

"There was a scene where I had to whip John Derek to death,” laughed Vincent. “Well, he deserved to die; Anybody that pretty should be whipped. I took lessons on how to use the whip for about two months. I really had a man who came everyday and I took on the whip to the point I could do anything with it. Like whipping a cigarette out of people’s mouths.”

😳 🥵

Ohhhhhh my godddddd Vincent Price knew how to use a single-tail.

Brb SWOONING.

Resharing because....well....because... 😳

He was VERY pretty.

*deals you 3d6 psychic damage*

In case this "helps".

any knight born after 1200 can’t achieve the holy grail, all they know is feasting, charge their horse, kill, have affair, go mad in the forest & cry

the mean lesbian stereotype is so frustrating bc so many of us literally get called that for standing up for ourselves or simply being uninterested in men. anyway I think we should be more evil.

i made this post 3 years ago and ever since then none of you have done anything but prove the fact that we should be more transgender and more evil.

if you are another form of lgbt+ and want to make a comment on this post know that evil henchperson for us is a very valid and viable role to take. support us in our rights and our wrongs

thank u i think evil bisexual henchperson is in fact the role i was born for

i just realized cissie’s new design has a scar where she was shot during her introduction to YJ ‘98!

the polyamory couldn't save them in the end. but it matters that it was there

spare fucking time

Bruce: You got into Harvard Law?

Barbara: What, like it’s hard?

just a small collection of my favorite tags on this post so far

cherrystainedknuckles

I guess the only problem with being asked to take a “marie kondo approach” is that in order to find any fanfic that appears to be based in actual canon timeline and plot points and characterization (which does exist, and I’m not sure why fanon fans seem insistent that it doesn’t), I literally have to search for hours. I’m not joking, I consistently make fic rec lists, and I have to search for hours and hours for actual canonical basis. same thing with character tags on tumblr.

I’m not saying fanon fans have to stop enjoying fanon or making up their own content. I’m just saying that when the tags used for both fanon tim drake and canon tim drake are the same tag it just becomes incredibly annoying sometimes, and I understand why people who like to engage with canon (me, often) become frustrated

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I have definitely had periods where I got incredibly frustrated with fanon! Around 2019, I was wondering if I needed to leave the Batfandom, because it had been so long since I read a new fic where the characters felt 'right'.

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But, if you're willing to, I'd like you to consider what you mean when you divide 'fanon' from 'canon'. Because I struggle to find a hard line between the two, for several reasons:

1. Fandom is transformative. Every fanfic is going to have some interpretation of the source material. The line between what is too much interpretation and what is acceptable is different for every person. For me, I find it can even vary based on writing style or other odd things - lighthearted fic can have more noncanonical stuff in it than heavier fic, and still seem true to canon.

2. 'Canon' is subjective. I do not consider the movies or video games to be 'canon', and it annoys me when things from those creep into the fic I'm reading. (I'm okay with SOME Battinson.) Some aspects of the cartoons are okay. I consider precrisis Jason Todd to be an alternate reality version, but Donna's precrisis origins are more canonical than the dumb retcons. Wayne Family Adventures isn't my main version of the characters, but I'm not bothered if some elements show up in my stories. I'm ignoring most of the nu52, but I like Duke and I'm still watching this new Lian to see what happens. I doubt your divisions are identical to mine.

(Also, some things that I think of as 'fanon' have shown up in nu52 canon! I do not accept them as any more canon because of this.)

3. Most 'fanon' is based on canon. Canon Tim has weird sleep habits. 90s Dick is really lighthearted and joking around some characters in ways similar to fanon. Dick can canonically not be trusted to take care of himself if his mental health gets low enough. Jason likes classical literature. Etc.

These are exaggerated and/or twisted in a lot of fic, but where is the line where they stop being canon? I wouldn't bat an eye at a lot of this stuff, if it didn't show up SO OFTEN.

4. Most 'fanon fans' do know some canon. What line are you going to set where it will be 'enough'. And are they allowed to mention parts of the canon they haven't read yet? Is anyone allowed to talk about Dick's early Robin days, or only the tiny amount of people who have read the golden age stuff? A lot of the 'mistakes' I see are obviously made by people who have read ABOUT canon, but don't know quite how it fits together.

5. 'Canon' is FULL of contradictions. Yes, there are canon events. Yes, there is characterization that is consistent across 3/4s of comics. But. I'm still working on my sidekick timeline. I've devoted days to figuring out ages and passage of time. I've spent over a decade trying to figure out Jason Todd's motivations, and why Tim treats him the way he does. I've read all the 90s and early 2000s CANONICAL character assassination of Jason.

I spent years thinking that Donna's death was almost as foundational as Jason's, only to later discover that I had just happened to read the specific comics that focused on the fallout, and she only stayed dead for a short time. That happens to fans ALL THE TIME! We read a character summarizing an event we haven't directly read, and just accept it as what happened. But characters have biases, and not all writers care about accuracy.

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I've read some Tim Drakes that I consider to be almost entirely 'fanon'. And quite a few that were so scarily 'canon' that I got chills. (Not all of which were similar to each other.) But the vast, vast majority have fallen somewhere in the middle.

I definitely do not want the responsibility of deciding which ones count as 'canon'! And I think I would strongly dislike anyone who tried to decide for me.

Being frustrated is logical, and I empathize. But the original post was about the impossible expectations some fans feel. The expectation to read thousands of comics, synthesize all the contradictions, and come to conclusions that match the 'true fans'. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to be complaining about.

If that's what some fans are experiencing, of course they're not going to want to engage with canon! There's no way for them to succeed, so why should they even try?

When you join THAT conversation to discuss your frustration about fanon, it strengthens that perception. When you call them 'fanon fans' it emphasizes their belief that you don't think they belong. And rather than trying to change, it's more likely that they'll double down. Canon is full of gatekeepers, so they'll avoid it.

Here's the thing: Unless your name is Bill Finger we're ALL fans playing in the sandbox. Some of them happen to get paid to do it. Doesn't inherently make them better than the rest of us.

ttrpg is bad actually because it makes you do things like ‘make fanmixes for a character literally five people have heard of' 

ok can i just say i looked through the tags and i’m fucking furious rn. How the fuck did i get “role playing game” and not “table-top.” Goodbye everybody, it’s been a good run, but i’m afraid i have to leave the internet now and start a new life for myself as a sheep farmer in northern Sweden

thank you for the first addition to this post that has made me laugh out loud

As for me, I interpreted “ttrpg” as Teen Titans RPG, sooo yeah 💀

OP here and i have in fact run a teen titans tabletop game