When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

Milly holding the punisher! Inspired off that one clip from the 98 anime.

(If you see six fingers, no you don’t. I didn’t realize until after I was done but I’m too lazy to fix it..)

You again?

I laughed and laughed. @olderthannetfic's answer is perfect. Yes I answer comments and yes I love the interaction and yes I learn from the comments just the way I do in my professional (academic) life and I find it hilarious that someone thinks you just publish stuff and move on and never think about who's reading it and how it landed and how you could make the next one better

I reply to my fan mail.

I reply slowly, because most of my typing time is taken up by work, but if you don't mind waiting two years for a "thank you," I am there.

Being “too cool” to build a community and engage is always the funniest thing to me cuz honey, if you really don’t need validation why are you chasing down strangers in the street to rant about how much you don’t need validation

How else am I supposed to receive the most accurate of fic memes if I don't reward the people who engage? 🤨 Is it chasing validation, or is it, like, chasing basic conversation?

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Sulemio is currently ahead by 14,000 votes

The poll has truly breached containment

Godspeed.

They are so ♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🌹🌹

A friend sent this to me. I'm fucking dying!!!! 😂💀🤣💀

The municipality of Ottawa has barricaded itself in ahead of the flag-raising ceremony celebrating the Nakba, the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of 90% of the population of Palestine from its homeland on this day 76 years ago.

The flag raising ceremony will be happening in 2 hours.

also nobody asked and im sure its been articulated better by people much smarter than me, but this whole thing reminds me of that post thats going around thats like "u people are using twink to derogatorily call people faggots without calling them faggots"

like, not only do people not know the difference between topping/bottoming and domming/subbing, BUT u all still equate bottoming/subbing with weakness and femininity in a Bad Way, as if its some kind of negative mark against a person or a character. like its an Insult to assert someone could not only bottom/sub but Want To. not just men but women too, like a woman (fictional or otherwise) is Wrong to not want to subvert that expectation to achieve some kind of completely arbitrary and fictional progressive appeal. and frankly not only is that absurd, its fucking stupid and not as progressive as people would like to think. in fact its quite the opposite, assigning someone value based on whether or not they fit into ur mold of what makes someone a progressive, transgressive, subversive, Whatever ideal of what role they occupy in a relationship—being so attached to rigid roles like that is about as normative and limiting and Not Subversive as it gets

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

People: "Trans people have trouble finding and keeping gainful employment because of the various intersections of hate they face in day-to-day life."

People when a trans woman is e-begging to make ends meet as a stop-gap solution to several big problems: "Why don't you just go get a job you lazy, stupid, ugly, greedy piece of shit? It's not that hard."

Like... was anyone who was still watching it not hatewatching by the end??

Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - FINALS

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

I've seen a lot of takes talk about the history of Destiel, and express shock at the anime girls they don't know about. Many people have already covered why they love Sulemio, but I want to point out I don't think Sulemio winning is all that surprising. But people are surprised because they've been limited to tumblr.

First, people arguing that Destiel raised this website are right. But that's not how people vote. People are voting for the ship they love, history or otherwise. At the end of the day it is a fan poll. Have fun. Second, is that the poll has long escaped tumblr containment. I only heard about this poll cause someone linked it on discord and twitter. Again, don't think that's wrong. Internet is an ecosystem. People are free to do as they please. Whether that's a fan heavily stanning for her followers (like a certain demon girl) on tumblr, or sharing the poll elsewhere it's fine. And while Destiel may long reign way on tumblr, Sulemio and G-witch have extensive pull on other sites. Namely twitter, where the G-witch tag was the 3rd trending keyword in japan. Not just anime or tv/media, 3rd trending over all.

Sulemio was also the most popular ship on pixiv of 2023 and 9th most popular yuri ship over all (all from one user so results may vary). They topped 3rd at the last two comikets for shipping (which if you know the history of comiket recently, is basically first).

So they are popular in japan and on other websites, so what? Well that kind of leads to the corollary of the "Destial is king" is just limited to tumblr--it's also limited to just basically American media and what's popular in America. Not only has this poll breached tumblr, it has managed to break American fandom, and notably language barriers. How much? I don't know, but I have seen nonenglish speakers in retweets on sulemio fans posting about this. And more than just "Sulemio is really popular", Sulemio is really popular because *Gundam itself is nightmarishly popular in some countries*. Japan itself used to have a full mechanized Gundam display that got taken down this past spring. They still have another life sized Gundam Statue, and Hong Kong has their own. Gundam is almost single handily responsible for modern otaku culture in japan. A BL ship from the original anime existed before BL shipping was a thing in japan.

The original set of Gundam media, made 1979-1989, is one of those anime that once you seen it you see the references everywhere. Pokemon? That's got Gundam references. Evangelion, Utena? Those pull from Gundam. Kirby? Meta-knight is a whole ass Gundam reference, hell his game in Super Star is a Gundam reference in of itself to Char's Counter Attack. Once you know Gundam, you'll never see a Blonde Haired Red anime rivals again. All you'll see is that fucking bastard man. If you consider yourself an anime fan, I genuinely recommend at least familiarizing yourself with First Gundam for the sake of contextualizing nearly every anime you've seen.

And G-Witch sits in the legacy of Gundam. It probably won't have the same cultural legacy, but G-witch did make Gundam popular again in japan (for better or for worse), to the point one of the songs of the show got sang as part of a talent/parody program. What is this to say? Gundam is basically Star Wars levels for pop culture impact in certain countries. Last summer, G-Witch trended with nearly a million tweets for it's finale, the day twitter fucking broke. Then Bandai Namco tried to water down Sulemio saying "their marriage was open to interpretation". What happened was the international g-witch fandom gave a verbal beat down to Bandai Namco. And they arguably won. So I don't think its that surprising a very recent, and very popular, ship is winning. So many Sulemios are calling, beyond the tumblr.

employers are not your friends. or your family. you can be civil and they can buy you pizza once a year and crack jokes with you but at the end of the day they do not see you as a person beyond the services you’re providing them. and you can be replaced in like five seconds. you won’t even be an afterthought to them. Know this.

so like. take the time off. don’t offer yourself beyond what you establish as a boundary. check out mentally. Who give a shit

I'm so proud of how Sulemio fans have come togther to support these girls, but also defend them from the flood of misinformation and bullshit. We're pouring post after post of love explaining who they are, why they're important and why we love them.

I'm familiar with Destiel because of the memes and it being one of the most infamous cases of Queerbait/Bury Your Gays around, but never interacted with the fandom (why would I?). And man like... the arrogance? They're so dismissive of Sulemio as "generic anime girls I've never heard of" and act like we should vote for them and hand them the win on a silver platter because of something like tumblr history or a the number of A03 fics. Those "generic anime girls" you've never heard from are currently kicking your ass, and it just show how much you underestimate the competition. Competition that beat Hannigram, Avatrice, Bubbline and Ineffable Husbands. The way they're so dismissive of anime and don't even know what Mobile Suit Gundam is is very telling that they look down on any form of media outside a very western/live-action sphere.

The majority of them can't give a reason why you should vote for Destiel beyond Tumblr History, like any of us should give a damn about that? I care about media with queer couples being important FROM THE START, and getting happy endings married to each other. Destiel's history has nothing to do with my fandom experience, especially as a sapphic women who loves yuri.

i know a ton of you are jessie fans (why else would you be following me she's all i draw). jessie's voice actress from OS, Rachael Lillis, is currently battling cancer and could use some help 💗 such a talented human being and voice for many iconic characters! im so inspired by her (clearly) and glad i had the privilege of meeting her this year