So I'm not really here, but I also kind of want to clean up my tumblr as a backup fannish space, so I'm going to unfollow a bunch of accounts that appear to be inactive, maybe haven't posted in a year or more. I'm also going to unfollow some accounts that aren't fandom-related or seem like we're not in the same kind of fannish place at this point. Feel free to reach out if you think I made bad choices! Maybe you haven't posted to tumblr in 4 years, but you're juuuuust about to start being active here again. Let me know!

I'm also unfollowing some accounts that have usernames I don't currently recognize, but I know this may include people I've known in fandom over the years under different names, so feel free to let me know if we're buddies and I just forgot!

Arden Cho photographed by Raul Romo (2017)

Lan Zhan playing the zither for Wei Ying

Anyway, when I was but a wee sprout of a chaotic neutral chaos being, my mom told me that it is our duty as a society to read banned books, and she was fucking well correct about that.

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, ed. Barry Keith Grant

Russia Censors LGBT Online Groups: Court Warps Child Rights Arguments to Defend ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law, by Kyle Knight (Human Rights Watch).

Top 10 Challenged Books 2017- Field Report (USA),  ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom

Woman Receives 10-Year Prison Sentence in China for Writing BL Novels, by Kim Morrissy (Anime News Network)

Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray published, Alison Flood (The Guardian)

The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship and the Production Code, Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons

Missouri could jail librarians for lending ‘age-inappropriate’ books, by Alison Flood (The Guardian, literally today, 17/1/20) 

A brief and thoroughly incomplete guide to the place that censorship holds in queer history, up to and including the (literal) present day.

The Untamed [behind the scene] | Can’t stop laughing

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1x05 // 3x12

Ryan Bergara and his nipple kink during Watcher Weekly #002

the untamed boys

not at how song ji yang and zheng fan xing have the same energy and suck at basketball HAHA

zfx falling over while trying to catch a ball

zfx not knowing where to throw the ball

sjy literally turning to the referee to ask what he should do with the ball 

sjy and zfx the entire game 

but it’s also cute how their bros are trying their best to help and encourage them 

li ji asking zfx for a high five with their bear paws 

when zfx blocked one (1) ball and fell over after and his teammates were like yes!!!!! look at you go!!!!!

ji li and yu chen teaching zfx how to aim and throw 

sjy finally having an opportunity to score and absolutely no one tries to block him + bo wen being a supportive dad and protecting him

bonus:

bo wen dying because zfx ran while holding the ball

zfx and sjy being giggly babies while cleaning the floor during half time 

WeTV special edition – one of the reasons the second half of this clip got taken out of the original aired version and replaced by a wide-angled view of the room from afar is probably not a mystery to people who can write in Chinese.

Wang Yibo is writing the characters “Xiao Zhan” and his strokes are very obvious. Someone’s screenshot from a BTS clip also showed that he wrote “Xiao Zhan” several times (circled in blue) and even “Xiao Zhan a darn good-looking guy” (circled in red).

if you feel like this is encroaching on BJYX territory: it is what it is.

jzx & wwx being sick of each others shit

Can you imagine how fucking wild ladies must have gone for the rejection in pride and prejudice right after it was first published. This guy’s making ten thousand a year and her family is expecting her to find accommodation for herself sooner rather than later and STILL Lizzie is like “no. No. True love only. And also while I’ve got you here please accept my invitation to fuck off.” I would’ve lost my damn gourd, I would’ve gone bonkers. And group chats didn’t exist so you’d just have to hope your friends were as far into the book as you so you could meet at the village green to throw a fucking riot

I’d write my friends an urgent communique as soon as I’d finished the Collins proposal scene too like “My dearest Anne, you simply won’t BELIEVE the developments of this chapter. Read urgently and respond post fucking haste!!” And seal it with a wax stamp and shit.

Am I too late for Symbrock?