Someone posted this on twitter

@dellessanna @yamiquietshadowflo

I realized today that it has been over a decade since we met. Thank you for being my friend even though it took like 5 years for any of us to meet in person.

<3

RUSSIA WITH GENO

Wait. That’s real? I’m having gullibility inception right now. 🤨

Doesn’t get old. 

She looks like a gender-bent Draco Malfoy. I can’t unsee it. 

Snowing at sea

@kitkattarina ❤️😂

These plants are photosynthesising underwater and producing an excess of oxygen through their leaves in the form of small bubbles which is called pearling. (Source)

WOAH WTF THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

THIS IS WHERE MERMAIDS LIVE

2018 Auction Amnesty!

We auctioned off nearly 400 fanworks in 2018, and have seen some incredible results in the AO3 collection and our tag here (well, back when posts with links were still showing up in the tags)! But we also haven’t heard back about a lot of auctions.

Over the next few days, we’ll be emailing 2018 bidders to check in and find out the status of their fanwork. If you get this email, please take a moment to reply!

If you offered a fanwork for auction in 2018 but haven’t posted it yet:

So please, if you’re worried that posting a late fanwork won’t count, have no fear! You have nearly three more weeks to get it up without being banned.

(Note: If you are still working on a fanwork for either the 2017 or 2018 auction, we recommend that you do not participate this year, even if you are not in danger of being banned. Please prioritize fulfilling your current obligations before committing to more!)

FTH is now on Dreamwidth!

Our Dreamwidth site is up and running! We can’t link you to it, of course, but we are using this same name over on Dreamwidth Dot Org. All posts are public, which means you don’t have to join the community (or even have a DW account of your own) to access the posts.

We have also posted our supported nonprofits for 2019 and nonprofit support policy, both here and on dreamwidth. Visit us there, or come to our tumblr home page and find it in the masthead. Watch both of these spaces for more information about each of the nonprofits we’re supporting this year.

We will continue to post announcements here – like the rest of you, we’re still figuring out how much everyone is still using tumblr, and we don’t want to miss the people who are still hanging out here. But we hope you’ll look for us on other platforms as well: you can find us at fandomtrumpshate on dreamwidth, and we are FansTrumpHate on twitter.

Doing this again this year. =D

The American artist Mike Stilkey was summoned by a bookstore in Seoul to design large-scale mosaics created with books.

@go-west-allen @sweet-child-of-the-paradise-city

I just like the use of the word “summoned”. Like dude wasn’t just hired, nah, they had to perform a whole ritual to get him there to do art.

Kevin from the marketing division got sacrificed.

Which looking at that artwork, worth it tbh.

if you do NOTHING else today, please please read the greatest piece of investigative reporting of our time

In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

Because the very first things anyone reading a legit fairy tale will realize right away is A) there are Rules and B) ignore them at your peril

…okay, now I just want to see baby Aurora being told by Maleficent that she will be a conqueror and a ruler without peer, the master of all Europe, to whom kings and emperors bow and scrape.

ahhhhhh i need

Sleeping Beauty AU with warrior queen Aurora leading her armies across the country to glory and victory

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

@providentially-demonic

“Not only will you be a powerful ruler,” the next fairy after Maleficent steps up, “You will be just, honorable, and skilled, respected by friend and foe alike. What you take you will keep, and you will be remembered kindly by history.”

“Furthermore,” the second fairy steps up, “Any land you rule will prosper. Under your hand the people will thrive, the crops will flourish, and the stock be in good health. There will be wealth enough for all, with enough left for generosity.”

With this, all eyes turned to the third fairy, wondering what gift she would offer, what favour could be grand enough to follow these wonderous blessings of power, strength, and prosperity. Slowly, the third fairy approached the bassinet, standing before it a moment in contemplation, before finally speaking.

“All dogs with be your friends. Even the wild ones. Wolves too. If it’s a canine, it’s your friend now, yet they will never jump on you, make you smell weird, or get you all covered in fur.”

“Show off,” muttered Maleficent under her breath.