I think one of the greatest joys of fandom is being able to look back on a certain media or a ship or a trope or event or something of that nature, and being able to remember like "oh yeah! that was how I became friends with [x]!" "that was when that friend and I watched that show and stayed up until 2 am to do it!" and when those friendships bleed back over to real life too, like "oh I tried that food bc x says they like it!" and "that's x's favorite animal!" and all these sorts of things that happened because we happened to meet just like, in the great vastness of 1) human existence and 2) the ephemerality of fandom existence.

The way that certain things become suffused with that friendship and the like joy that really is. What an uncommon occurrence. What a lovely thing it is. What an honor. What a privilege.

I met my best friend of 21 years (and counting) because some Little Shit insulted me over the contents of some fanart I did (Little Shit was all "he's mine" over a fictional character she didn't create just because SHE wanted to be the only one allowed to imagine she was dating him when the fanart wasn't even shippy. It was more along the lines of two friends annoying each other). When I clapped back and read her for filth while insulting her Self-Insert Mary Sue fanfic with her Wildly OOC take on the guy she was trying to claim was hers (I was very "eye for an eye" back then and I forced myself to read it just to insult it/her) and her traced "fanart" she went crying to the chick who would become my bestie. Literally.

Bestie DMed me to tell me I made Little Shit cry and that I was her new favorite person (she hated Little Shit, too, and Little Shit didn't get the memo). Then we proceeded to nerd about the fandom and never stopped talking.

Friends for 21 years. Living together for 10. This bitch is my ride-or-die just because some Little Shit got her panties in a twist over the protagonist of an obscure anime movie/series of novels potentially loving anyone who wasn't her/her Mary Sue.

Fandom is weird, man.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

When Russia sends you nudes

#what the fuck happened here

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

reblog it, because Russia can´t

Thanks Obama 

Wtf

When Russia makes this post illegal

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now

What the-

I haven’t seen this in about 4 years. I’m glad it’s back.

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

“Fyp” we don’t do that here. I mean, Tumblr the app and website tries, but we don't do that here.

“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.

“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.

“But—” Listen, you’re not doing solo stand up anymore. This is a group improv class being held in a SAW dungeon. Good luck.

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

slapping this badge on my blog

These are fucking amazing

The figure swinging the earth –  The Force Of Nature by Lorenzo Quinn

The guy being dragged by a bird – part of an installation titled Hacienda Paradise – Utopia Experiment by Fredrik Raddum.

The balancing elephant – Balancing Elephant by Daniel Firman.

The tea splashes kissing – Kiss of Eternity by Johnson Tsang.

The figure emerging from the wall – Break Through From Your Mold by Zenos Frudakis

The meditating figure splitting apart – Expansion by Paige Bradley.

The horses running through water – Mustangs at Las Colinas by Robert Glen.

The giant peeking from under the lawn – Popped Up by Ervin Loránth Hervé

The man under the raining umbrella –  L’uomo della Pioggia (The Rain Man) by Jean-Michel Folon.

The huge bearded guy – The Appennnine Colossus by Giambologna.

The impossibly balanced stones on a beach – Untitled by Adrian Gray

The dragons with an egg – The Dragons in Love or The Varna Dragons by  Darin Lazarov.

The stairway to nowhere –  Diminish And Ascend by David McCracken

The underwater circle – Vicissitudes by Jason deCaires Taylor.

The epic warrior guy – General Guan Yu by Han Meilin

The sinking library –  Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia.  I couldn’t find an artist’s name.

The giant hand holding a tree – The Caring Hand by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber

THANK YOU FOR SOURCES

Always a reblog

I love all of these, but I'm always tickled when I see the Mustangs in posts like this because my Uncle use to work at La Cima, a restaurant in Williams Square where they're located, and so I saw them pretty often. I have several pictures I've taken of them/with them over the years in boxes of photos, on CDs, somewhere in old folders transferred over and over from old computers predating the cloud (because I'm old).

I've always loved them.

just had class 2 with the bad creative writing teacher. she asked "can anyone tell me what personification is?" and I was like OOH, ME, ME! and explained it so eagerly, and then she said "okay, now how do we feel about personification?" and I said "WE LOVE IT 😊😊😊" and she said "......no. I don't love it. it is, as the kids say, cringe."

anyway the personification of the a sun is big element in the book I'm writing, because whenever the character admires someone (even if it's a nasty, jealous sort of admiration), their view of the person warps until it seems like nature itself is favouring them

I once had an art teacher tell my class that comic books, anime, and cartoons aren't art. The class? Drawing. A DRAWING class... like... lady...

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

Him face

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)

Reblog him face for good luck in 2022

Reblog him face for good luck in 2023

Reblog him face for good luck in 2024

Reblog him face for good luck in 2025

Me and my good friend Dracula are forming an electronic duo we're calling Țepeș Mode

Loving the different vibes entering these major battles