miss-alice-evelynn:

“Everyone asks who’s the imposter, never how’s the imposter”

I’m someone.

gffa:

Star Wars: Lightsabers - A Guide To Weapons of The Force by Pablo Hidalgo
LIGHTSABERS OF INTEREST + NOTES: 
(Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn, Yoda, Darth Maul, Mace Windu, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Count Dooku, Luminara Unduli, Aayla Secura, Saesee Tiin, Adi Gallia, Agen Kolar, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s second lightsaber design, Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, Kylo Ren)

mlmsamwilson:

tag yourself as the clients i’ve talked to while working as a telemarketer

• the guy who told me ‘i can’t talk right now i’m at the stables and i’m being attacked by a horse’ and promptly hang up
• the guy who, after being asked if he had the time to listen to my offer, replied with ‘i’m at a funeral right now. but i mean… yeah fine lets do it’
• the lady who told me she couldn’t talk because she’d just cooked an egg and she wanted to eat it while it was still warm
• the dude who was like ‘god i have so much money i dont know what to do with them’
• the poor secretary who told me i couldn’t speak to the doctor i was trying to reach because he’d been fired 13 years ago
• the man who literally gave me a 12 minute monologue on why capitalism is fucked up 
• the woman who finished the call with me, a random bank consultant, with ‘okay bye i love you’
• the guy who kept replying in russian to everything i said
• the guy whose email address was spyagent@sth.com
• the customer whom i accidentally called mr sausage
• the guy whose outgoing voicemail was ‘mmmmmm this yoghurt be YUMMY’
• the client who replied to my offer of increasing his credit card limit with ‘no, i’m too stupid for that’

lordhellebore:

ximeria:

grifalinas:

1ady1azaru5:

grifalinas:

“We as a fandom have to talk about-” No. No we don’t. You can talk about it if you want to. That’s fine, if that’s how you fandom then go for it. I hope it works out for you because I want you to enjoy your fandom experience. But if I’m in fandom for reasons that’s counter to, then I have no obligation to talk about it. I don’t have to talk about anything except what I want to.

“Okay but you have to talk about your fave’s flaws-” No! No I don’t! I have to be able to acknowledge those flaws when they come up. I have to be able to admit that my character has flaws, and accept when others talk about those flaws. But I don’t have to talk about them if I don’t want to. If I want to only focus on the better aspects of my fave, even if that means just shallowly talking about how hot they are, I can. That’s my choice, that’s how I’ve decided to enjoy them.

Fandom is meant to be fun. Fandom is meant to be a hobby. I don’t have to talk about any aspect of my favorite story or ship or character or writer or anything if I don’t want to. You know what’s not fun? Having to talk about the ways my favorite thing is bad every time I want to talk about it. Having to point out my favorite thing’s flaws instead of the things that makes me enjoy it. Having to disclaim before I get to sing something’s praises because “yeah I know it’s shit BUT”. No. I can know something is bad without needing to talk about it.

Idk dude this sounds like a really great rationalization for wanting to ignore the parts of something that are problematic and not wanting to have to unpack that

Listen. If the way you fandom is to spend all of your time on critical analysis and unpack everything that makes the thing you like problematic, if that’s what you’re about, then go for it. I mean it. If that’s how you get on, then you do you, and I stand by what I said above, I hope it works out for you. I want everyone to be able to enjoy their fandom experience, even if I can’t wrap my head around why the way they fandom is enjoyable.

But I don’t owe anyone anything. If I don’t want to have a big public discussion about how problematic my favorite thing is, then I don’t have to. That’s my choice. I don’t have to perform a requisite level of discourse to be able to enjoy something; I can just enjoy it, and no one else gets a say in that.

It’s not a rationalization, it’s reality. I can fandom sans discourse if that’s the way I choose to fandom. End of sentence.

Yes, thank you - this very much. I have old fandom friends (we’re talking 10+ years and in some cases 20) that I still have to remind that certain fandoms, I don’t care about meta and I will not spend 4+ hours talking meta if I can spend those 4+ hours enjoying fic and writing - and while I don’t mind meta in my reading, it’s barely on the fringes of why I enjoy most fandoms. Meta interests me to a certain point, but 20+ fandom years has definitely taught me to avoid the things that will sour a fandom experience for me. If that means not talking flaws, then you (from here on used as in general, not OP) have to accept that. Just as I accept that you can’t enjoy something without taking it to pieces. Fandom has room for the both of us. Fandom NEEDS the both of us. But it also needs us to coexist.

Trust me when I say I know my favs have flaws - if they didn’t, I would consider them far too boring and flat to pay them any interest and thus… they would not be my favs.

God yes, this. I’ve been in fandom 16 years now, and I figured out that meta, for the most part, sucks any enjoyment out of it for me. I do like discussing my favourite aspects of a story or character sometimes, or their flaws, but overall, meta makes me feel terribly frustrated, and if I had to interact with it regularly, I suppose I’d just leave fandom and find another hobby.

Part of it certainly is that my actual job is literature, I’m getting my PhD in literature, and I’ve been studying/working in literature for exactly the same time as I’ve spent in fandom. If I want to analyse and discuss, I turn to my day job and my PhD thesis. When I’ve spent the day researching and teaching a class about anti-semitism in historical theatre, I don’t want to do the same at home in the evening.

Fandom, to me, means reading and writing nice stories without analysing the hell out of them. Give a woman a break.

Everyone should be able to use fandom in ways that make sense for them and are enjoyable for them. If that means writing 10k words about problematic aspects of a book or a show or a fanon portrayal, go for it. I’m glad you like to do that. But leave me to my fic and my gif posting.

You need to understand that fandom fulfils different functions for different people, and that ‘different’ doesn’t mean ‘ignorant’, ‘lazy’, or ‘morally lacking’.

grimeclown:

autisticexpression:

The problem with generic white boy praise music is it’s not a genuine expression of culture or even of faith. It’s soulless pandering that is designed to be as generic and broadly appealing as possible to make christianity seem cool to the youth. But it doesn’t fucking work because it’s so boring and substanceless that it means absolutely nothing to anyone who doesn’t already believe in the message. I went to a Christian school and I know. There was always at least four atheist or atheist adjecant kids sitting in the back of chapel looking absolutely miserable. It just fails on every level and shouldn’t exist. It’s basically the same level of mindless disingenuous crap as post-911 country music.

wild-desert-highway:

grimeclown:

Okay listening exclusively to gospel is insane but i want to be exceedingly clear. Im talking about white church music. Im talking “your pastor has a ‘very special guest’ whos a pretty blond boy with long hair that wears a denim jacket and unfortunately someone is handing him a guitar” kinda music. The kind of music those white soccer moms stand up and close their eyes and sway to with rapturous enjoyment. Im talking about the bands that play for congregations that look like this.

grimeclown:

grimeclown:

Yall ever heard white church music? Christian rock is one of the most gratingly generic and repetitive genres of music out there by a mile. It sucks so fucking bad. I am talking about this now because someone is sitting in front of the hospital and blaring “how great? Is our god?” As loud as the speakers in his truck can handle

I dont. Want recommendations. I cannot stress how much i do not care about what “good” christian rock is. I am not looking for a more palatable form of white people singing about the christian faith. I have not and will not ever listen to Skillet.

and then they play the same five songs that all sound the same but are annoying in different ways for a year straight but make them all twelve minutes each when they’re only supposed to be four minutes and they’re also sung out of everyone’s range

On the other hand, gospel music, traditional hymns and carols? That shit slaps! You can enjoy it even if you aren’t religious because it’s just objectively good music that wasn’t manufactured to pander to as broad a demographic as possible.

Oh wow somebody actually left a good response on this post

soup-mood:

champagnemoon:

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about

xenofemme:

i would like young wlw to know that femme and butch exist in different contexts. there is a lesbian context. there is a wlw context. there is the wider queer context. you can be femme or butch in just one context, or many. but when you see someone say “femme is a lesbian gender identity,” another say “i’m a bi butch,” and another say “my dad is a gay man who identifies as butch,” they are all right. they are all what they say they are. learn the terms’ histories in all contexts, not just one.