World Behind My Wall

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

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Absolutely amazing how AO3 is a part of the internet that doesn't sneak in any ads and doesn't have an algorithm and doesn't watch you or record how much time you spend looking at each fic or whatever. It's just right there to use for free. Legend

[ID: a simple digital drawing of a smiling person on a white background surrounded by the text: “I am going to take up space today, and that's good. I am going to exist. I am going to exist so much. And that's really all that is required of me.“ /end ID]

[ID: a faux advertisement with cut strips of paper at the bottom, the type you might find stuck to bulletin boards and streetlight posts. A push pin is at the top, under which "You're Invited" is written in large wiggly blue font. The rest of the text is in all caps in a simple serif font, and reads:

"March XV

Text Brutus to RSVP

(VIII VII VII) VII VIII II - II VI VI IX

Take One"

Underneath "take one" the little strips of paper for the reader to tear off, which usually have contact info, have instead a bunch of little drawings of daggers on them. End ID.]

The number is 877-782-2669 or 877-Stab Now!

tiktokers who say classic lit is bad because its not relatable 1. thats not the fucking point 2. you've clearly never read twelfth night as a trans bisexual

you've clearly never read Frankenstein as a student

If you're fucked up enough a lot of classic lit suddenly becomes uncomfortably relatable tbh.

This is 100% true, but also: literature is a great way to engage with people you don't actually relate to, and practice feeling empathy for them anyway. I have never been in a battle, but I have cried over the Iliad multiple times because I was suddenly made very aware that every single war has people like Hector in it, who leave their families one day and just never come home to them. Please keep looking for things you find relatable in unexpected places - but not everything has to be relatable for it to be worthwhile.

Not everything has to be about you to be worth reading

it. it ends in 50 years…..horse is fucking eternal

Let’s keep the post circulating for 50 years it’ll be great when we’re all in the old folks home

It's possible I'll have to leave this post in my will to my children.

“Temporary stitches” all stitches are temporary if you have a pair of scissors and aren’t a coward

Every time

“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

An actual World Heritage Post

how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it

one week until ten years of Spiders Georg

WHERES THAT POST FUCK YOU PEOPLE WHO DONT CELEBRATE FICTION CHARACTERS BIRTHDAY

HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY SPIDERS GEORG!!!!

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

Occasionally someone will bring a new post into the ecosystem, and those days are VERY exciting. ENRICHMENT!

Fallout boy dropping a second single the DAY after panic “disbanded” is a divine act of comedy

Heartbreak really does feel so good

every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one

while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!

other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:

there’s plenty more in there too :)

Started thinking about collecting together a set of introductory meta on "how to read comic books", which is mostly just, "sometimes people (including DC themselves) will try to tell you this is one coherent story, DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM" because I really do think you'll survive a lot longer in comics if you look at each author's run as its own unique interrogation of the characters and themes. Sometimes those runs will reference others' and be a spiritual continuation of them! Sometimes one author's run will will be diametrically opposed and completely unable to marry together to another author's! There can be core elements that should always be present, but ultimately comics are a medium where everyone is taking extremely malleable characters and playing dolls with them in their own way, and I think that actually is often really cool, because you have so many different ideas and executions to work with then!

So much this.

And if you've ever tried to sit down and form a timeline, say... for a fanfic. You'll go mad because sometimes a character is fighting a villain in space one day and having a weeks long crisis back on earth at the same time in a different comic run.

And don't think you can go by publish/release dates either, because it'll be snowing for the May issue, Spring in the next month's issue, and then Halloween. AND they still haven't caught the villain they just learned about. Not to mention, no one ages... until they do.

So yeah, read comics and have fun.

(via Ellen Kushner on The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter)