Shout-out to my hockey mutuals who will post a picture of the most fuck-ugly man you've ever seen in your life with the caption "babygirl".

i've decided to just start identifying as eccentric

you don't have to diagnose me with anything in particular. it's just kind of abnormal up there ty

i don’t want to be a hater but some of you guys are really boring with your ships. ‘oh i can’t ship that it’s too unhealthy’ skill issue

Sexy Bono audio moments

Not ranked and certainly not exhaustive. Reblog to add yours.

Okay, this one tugged at the ol' heartstrings, because twenty years ago I had a dedicated website for archiving U2 audio clips -- some of which I'd found here and there, but most of which I'd clipped myself. This included a special section just for Bono's Suggestive Noises. (There were a hundred or so clips in this section.)

The site is gone, I'm sad to say, though you can still see its ghost on the Wayback Machine.

But I still have all the audio clips. Some of them are in formats that no one has used lately (to put it gently), but having seen the above post, I've been inspired to zip them into an unsorted jumble of 800 files that everyone is welcome to download and rummage through here.

enjoy <3

I’m here to repost forever

as someone who was deeply involved with PLEBA in 2001-2002, can I just say how delighted I am to find that absolutely nothing has changed about this fandom

deleted scene of toranaga and yabu in ep3 of shogun (2024)

what's fun about newton and hermann is that they're both extremely cheesy but in totally different ways so they're still never in sync like newton would tell everyone he and hermann are going to save humanity with the power of love and hermann would blush and scoff and roll his eyes but then late at night he'd whisper things like i ache for you dr geiszler and newton would be like ahhhaha what. oh my god. awesome

Genuine question: where did the perception that fandom is for young people come from? When I first got into fandom it was mostly middle aged ladies. Fandom as we think of it today was invented by middle aged ladies; AO3 was invented by people who certainly weren't kids or teens.

Like I get there is both sexism and ageism involved--adult women aren't supposed to have hobbies etc etc, but presumably in, say, knitting fandom, the sexist and ageist comments aren't, "knitting is for young people and you're creepy to want to discuss knitting online." Presumably the vitriol is about wasting time or something, because as we all know the stereotype about knitting is that it's for little old ladies.

My question is how (and when) did the stereotype about fandom become that fandom is for young people?

My sense of it is that it came along with the weakening of fannish community ties--when you have to know people to participate in fandom (to borrow zines and tapes, to find their individual websites and niche archives, to have someone vouch for you so you can join a closed LJ community or secret chat, when you're going to conventions and meeting face to face) then you're aware of the range of ages and people, and it's not at all surprising.

But now fanfic is readily findable at Ao3, fannish community is a tag on tumblr or twitter, and you don't have to know anyone--so often you don't know anyone, especially in you first months or years of coming into fandom.

I think that young people coming into fandom in these conditions often just blithely assume that everyone they interact with, and everyone producing the content they enjoy, is approximately a peer, and then it comes as a rather rude awakening to find that what they thought was a virtual roomful of fellow teens or fellow young adults includes people old enough to be their parents--and my guess is that that's where a lot of the hostility comes from, too.

someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

At this point I might personally pay people to *just share some words with me* on a fic. I mean I won't, but boy…reading 20,000 words for a very specific thing you love and not even contemplating sharing a thank you in the form of those actual words in a comment?

WHY?

What if my main form of commenting is to just "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Or various other sorts of screaming (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) or (*incoherent screaming*) and the like?

I love that I can jerk off about guys now. That's just so neat!

Could you not before?

No, I was straight my whole life, I actually tried "bihacking" myself as a teen but while I succeeded in dispelling any aversion to m/m sexuality I ultimately had to accept I was just not into it. But in 2020 I caught Covid before vaccines existed, it spread to my brain and caused enough damage there that my existing personality was no longer viable, and after a period of depersonalization I generated a new one that is different in some major respects, including being bisexual.

rip kontextmaschine, you were a real one (and by "real one" I mean "a wackadoodle in portland who refused to go to the doctor to treat the illness that eventually killed you because you believed that they're all quacks, not because you couldn't afford health care")