It's 2024. I have been participating in fandom for 40 years. This is a ramble commemorating some history I've experienced along the way.

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Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

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Not talking about obvious plagiarism here - genuinely just about fan art or fic or stuff inspired by things you made

I haven’t stopped laughing at this

hmmm… there’s probably an INFINITELY more humane way to do this…

i get that they’re not killing them and they end up fine, but imagine the trauma of you, a mammal, going through a long ass tube, not knowing what’s going to happen to you, and you can’t breathe. 🤷‍♀️

They get misted with water throughout the thing, and it results in fewer injuries than the ‘ladder’ method. Also, it’s a fish. It never knows what’s going to happen to it at any point in time throughout its life.

Also, I, a mammal, have paid 80 bucks to get into a water park to get the opportunity to feel like that fish, and that motherfucker gets in for free every day is fish day at the fish waterpark

well the MOST humane thing would be to not build dams blocking salmon migration routes, nor create a society where there are only resources allocated to solving the problem at all because blocking the salmon endangers the profits of a segment of the food industry. 

Buuuut since we’re past that already, here are a couple of additional thoughts:

1 this IS the more humane alternative, which was invented to lower injury and death rates associated with previous techniques. When a better alternative is revealed it will probably replace this one. But this one is a pretty huge improvement over the other methods, one of which killed off something like 80% of the fish involved. A study of the above fish tube was conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in 2017 on the Columbia River and showed a much higher success rate. In that study, only one fish died (“due to a human error during the system setup”) and only 3 percent had signs of injury. So. The next best improvement might have to be “remove dam”

2 they are on their way to die. That is where we are helping them get to. That’s the end goal of the salmon’s migration. They on their way to mutate, start rotting alive, have an orgy, and die. That’s where the tube is taking them.

So like, it’s not going to be the weirdest thing they experience this month, is what i’m saying. 

thank you for that, @hug-your-face

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

hey guys do you want to circulate the heirloom dancing spiderman again i feel like we could stand to do that

I ship this ship because:

Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng: Yanli you are the most beautiful and perfect bride imaginable. The stars in the heavens are straight up trash compared to your radiance. Gods weep before you and avert their eyes because they can’t handle how nice your hair looks like that.

Yanli: You two are very cute but clearly biased; also, the person I most want to find me beautiful on my wedding day is my future husband.

Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng:

It is possible that we don’t give Zixuan enough credit for his willingness to put up with this shit.

#Yanli’s continued willingness to look at the yiling patriarch and sandu sengshou #and just be like #babies #MY babies #my darling little angels who are out there being very good boys #their combined body count is hitting the quadruple digits and she’s just like #they’re so industrious #a-xian drew me a picture of their most recent battle and i put it on the fridge #he’s so talented he can pursue art AND necromancy #look in the picture you can see how a-cheng #has learned to #coordinate zidian and sandu so that he can simultaneously neutralize multiple enemy combatants with synchronized #choking and stabbing #so gifted and hard working #i hope they’re remembering to hydrate (presenting to you pure comedy gold by @winepresswrath)

Jin Zixun was the bravevest man in that stry. He KNEW what he was getting himself into and still did it. For love. What a man.

nice argument... unfortunately

wreck of a man, 2024, oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm

I’m scared

i call this one “nobody likes you when youre 23”

uploaded this at 1 am thinking ‘oh no one is going to see this, whatever :)’ but reading your thoughts, your heartbreak and ultimately your hope made me feel like the world is one yknow what? We got this

Excerpting my favorite bit

Congratulations to Marcille DungeonMeshi for achieving Pathetic Little Man status on tumblr, a hard glass ceiling for many female characters to break. I look forward to calling you my sopping wet beast and poor little meow meow for fandom days to come. Keep trucking babygirl, you'll bag Falin one day

kofi

staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn't really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)

me:

Reading the manhua and frankly it just occured to me how insane Lan Wangji sounds from an outside perspective. Like ah yes, the second jade of Gusu Lan, Mr. Unapproachable and Frosty, The Hanguang-jun etc etc, heard a lunatic homosexual confess to him and then went "mark your words. I shall be taking him home" and then just. Ran off with him.

No wonder every single cultivator had this reaction:

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okay but it's the fact that CQL is in large part about what you would sacrifice for the people you love, and in almost every other instance in the show, that sacrifice is portrayed as, if not necessarily the Right decision, at the very least evidence of fundamental goodness. the Yunmeng trio, Wen Qing for her brother and Nie Mingjue for his (Fatal Journey counts 100%), Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen, they make difficult choices for love and that makes them Good even if it doesn't make them happy.

and then there's Jin Guangyao and Nie Huaisang. whose identities are so fundamentally wrapped up in being His Mother's Son and The Little Brother, respectively, and they are so singularly devoted to the legacy of their relative that they will continue to fight for it long after death. they will sacrifice others in a heartbeat. they will lie, they will scheme, they will cause others pain. they will endure humiliation after humiliation. they will put on a persona that makes their true selves unrecognizable even to the people who know them best. ultimately they will sacrifice their own morality, their own goodness, in a way that would probably horrify the people in whose names they make this sacrifice.

I am falling asleep and these are random disjointed thoughts but other things that drive me feral about them is:

in conclusion: I love them, your honor.