Sat down with the vague intention of making a spy-themed Joe/Nicky blend, woke up from a fugue state with this fully formed in front of me. Read it’s such an almighty sound by @raedear! I hope “it clearly hijacked my brain” is an effective rec
He's so Tumblrina
Good evening all: I miss The Old Guard. I miss the team, and the meta, and the art, and the fic, and the time Gina decided on Hogmanay to blow all our minds so now I'm asking: what is your favourite bit of TOG fan content? Art, fic, meta, GIFs, what the fuck ever type, I don't care, so long as you love it. Please tell me so I can show everyone else. The more little and obscure and beloved the better. Please, tell me.
Have you read If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning and @takiki16? It's probably my favourite tog fic; I'm having a reread atm and it's so damn good 😭❤️
I have indeed. I read it as it was being posted and spent every Thursday wailing into the void because of the stress @gallifreyburning and @takiki16 inflicted on us. A true and proper classic.
You know what. Fuck you.
*unhallows your ween*
Joe
Duel!
i might be doing really terrible on the emotional regulation front but in my defense ive had a gaping hole in my chest since i was 12
My grandfather and my godfather (a beloved neighbor and dear family friend) had a long standing bet- for one dollar- about who would die first. Both of them being slightly pessimistic (in the funny way), they both insisted that they themselves would be the first to die. Any time my grandfather had a health scare, he’d gleefully call up my godfather to boast that he’d be passing “any day now” and he was sure to win the bet. It was a big family joke and they were always amiably sparring and comparing notes about who was in worse shape, medically speaking.
When my grandfather was in hospice care dying of liver cancer, my godfather was quite ill also. It took him great effort to make the journey to see his dying friend. As he came into the room, supported by a family member, he shuffled to my grandpa’s bedside and silently handed him a dollar bill. He was ceding his loss of the bet, as they both knew who was going first. My grandpa had been in quite bad shape for a while and was no longer able to speak but let me tell you he snatched that dollar with unexpected strength and literally laughed aloud. He knew exactly what the gesture meant and he couldn’t help but find the humor within the grief. It was the last time any of us heard my grandpa laugh, as he passed shortly after.
When I talk about my appreciation for “dark humor” I’m not so much thinking about edgy jokes, but rather the human instinct to somehow, impossibly, both find and appreciate the absurdity that is so often folded into the profound grief of life and death. When I tell this story I think it kind of perturbs people sometimes, but it’s honestly one of my favorite memories about two men I really deeply admired. I could never hope for anything more than for my loved ones to remember me laughing until the very end, and taking joy in a little joke as one of my final acts.
Men invented dueling so they could shoot hot loads into eachother
Please Lord not this post
the cool thing about emails is that if you don't look at them they can't hurt you. if you just don't open your email, the people trying to harm you with the emails can't get you. as long as you don't look, there's no emails.
My genius remains unrealised
Every so often this gets another wave of notes, and I will mention “Ah, my snost is getting snotes.”
figured out why there's been an uptick in me getting blocked by seemingly cool people recently. apparently my description looks like this on ios:
it's supposed to say "transmisogyny not welcome". tumblr fucking "coolsville sucks"ed me. i'm literally a trans woman.
i need to get laid. laid to rest
The Battle of the five Armies countdown - day 21 of 30
Bonus:
This thing from 2014 is my legacy. It’s got an insane number of notes and it still gets reblogs and likes everyday. I see people tagging it as #aclassic and I’ve met people in real life showing it to me not knowing I did it.
I was looking at it and realised that today, after 10 years I’d have done it the other way round.
I haven’t been in the Tolkien fandom for literally all of these 10 years so I don’t know if it’s been done already but here’s my updated version.
It’s…much funnier to me now lmao
