A note on pro/anti-shipping, curating your space, and harassment

Hi folks!

There’s been a lot of new people joining the fandom over the last couple of months, which is great. It might not be obvious to them, however, that there’s been a bit of Fandom Drama over the past year and a half, of the kind which can suddenly flare up again in ways that make no sense if you don’t know the history behind them.

I’m not going to get into the personal side of it here, but this is just a gentle reminder:

Arguments on the internet have a way of becoming disproportionately extreme and violent.

If you have strong feelings one way or the other about pro vs anti shipping, please make the effort to curate your own online space, for your own comfort and safety and that of others.

That means checking people’s blog headers / carrds / DNIs / abouts and minimising your interaction with them if appropriate. I also suggest putting something like ‘pro-shipper’ or ‘anti’ in your own blog header.

Whatever your feelings, remember too to be wary of ‘call-out posts’ couched in exaggerated emotive language. This is true even if they come from / have been reblogged by somebody you trust. Outrage is addictive, and very few people stop to fact-check a post that confirms their own biases.

Remember too that harassment, anon hate, and threats/‘kill yourself’ jokes are never okay.

My blog header links to my main, where I have a page explaining my stance on the matter. But in brief, here’s my position.

That said: This blog is meant to be a resource for all of the fandom, relatively impersonal. I don’t mind antis reblogging or using what I’ve collected here, but I will not directly respond or interact.

Reminder that @junkyard-gifs is me. As I say, I have no problem with that blog being used as a resource by people who dislike or disagree with me. That's what it's there for: to be a centre of information and conversation for anybody who’s interested.

But on my main, I do go to considerable effort to avoid interacting with people who aren't comfortable with the 'pro-ship' label, and I'd appreciate the same courtesy in return. I will do my best to make everybody comfortable, but I can't be the only one putting in that effort: you are ultimately responsible for your own boundaries online.

rb to give the person u rb'd this from transgender swag

"they already have it" ok?? give them some more..

This bootleg is great in general but oh my god these babies

Cornelius Hackl + fidgeting  (Michael Crawford; Hello, Dolly! (1969)

HOW ARE THESE PLAYED BY THE SAME MAN

Like

HOW??

This is why I love acting, because someone can play different characters that are polar opposites from each other, and it can still work!

women… . ..

Көчле Кешеләр | Strong People;

Kharis Yakupov, 1964.

I absolutely love learning about all the ways dogs have become uniquely adapted to humans over time. We’ve been living together for around 30,000-40,000 years, so we’ve had to made changes on both species’ ends to become as in-tune as we are now.

One example is eye contact. While eye contact is very important to sociality and bonding in humans, in many other animal species it’s a sign of challenge and often leads to aggression. For example, zoos that house chimpanzees either have to have tinted windows or warn visitors to not make eye contact with the chimps because it will make them uncomfortable and angry. 

In wolves, staring is considered threatening and rude. Dogs retain some of that, so it’s not a good idea to stare down an unfamiliar dog. However, dogs really love staring at their owners, especially into their eyes, to express affection. Mutual staring between dogs and their owners releases oxytocin, the hormone responsible for love and bonding, in both dogs and humans. This proves that humans and dogs bond through eye contact much the same way humans do, showing how dogs have become adapted to the way humans bond.

So the next time your dog stares at you and you look back at them, just know that you’re creating a positive feedback loop! They love you so much!

although mostly he's saying 'if i breathe really heavily while staring at you will you FINALLY get out of bed and DO WALK??' especially if it's 5:30 am.

going to set up a Shakespeare themed bakery stall at the farmer’s market just so that I can sell jam-filled pastries called Claudio’s Heart

*must be eaten upon the spot

now quickly. landback

let your hopes for a better future be with the palawa, koori, murri, yolŋu, aṉangu, first south australians, nyoongah, torres strait, murray and mer island peoples, and all other first peoples of australia and oceania who might be one step closer to sovereignty of their own land with the passing of one more false sovereign 🖤💛❤

Can you imagine Thorin and Co.™ showing up in Rivendell with Bonafide Gondolin blade Orcrist, and Glorfindel being like “ThAt sWOrD iS mInE!!!”

                                                                                                                              #elrond giving him Laser Eyes behind thorin’s back #‘sorry did i just hear smth vaguely adjacent to a property dispute in my vicinity’                                                                                               These tags are wonderful.

i dont even have words

I am tired of the overwhelming and pervasive cynicism masquerading as ‘realism’. Time to be hopeful again.

make the real you want to see in the world

We’re goners. Those of you who can swim would be wise to do it now.

australians and kiwis vs the rest of you lot

"wow you blocked me just cuz i disagreed with you???"

yes. yes, exactly. this is a social media site. i come here to look at pictures of birds and shitpost with my friends. this is not a town hall meeting; i am not your elected official. i do not owe you my energy, my space, or my time. you and i are strangers that use the same website. i can block you for literally any reason and that's okay. take a deep breath. block me too. you'll feel better.

Also wanna add: despite what discourse bloggers claim, blocking them is NOT you admitting that they're actually right; it's you getting rid of someone who's being at best annoying and at worst actually harassing you. Never have any guilt about blocking anyone who makes you feel worse every time you interact with them.

Someone who annoys you, someone who's harassing you, OR just someone you don't find particularly interesting. All of these are okay.

#I think, Guillermo should hunt him for sport 

I only learned recently that people from Not America don’t specify hard cider and instead it’s just cider.

I know this is a small difference but it is surprisingly one I do sometimes have to lie down on the floor about.

I don’t like apple juice but I do like cider and every time I’ve said that around a person from English speaking Not America there’s a chance they might’ve thought I was talking about an alcoholic beverage but I was not.

The tiny tiny things that lead to tiny tiny false assumptions. They are everywhere. I can’t escape them. I need to lie down.

Basically unfiltered and very cloudy apple juice. Can be served hot or cold. When Americans talk about alcoholic apple beverage we say Hard Cider because to us cider is a sweet unfiltered fall beverage fun for the whole family.

@bitchboy-bozo

Our international reputation must be even worse than I thought if people have just assumed that we’re giving children alcohol

ID: The first image is a post reply from queerasaurus-rexx: wait… what do americans think cider is? The second image is a screenshot of tags that read: #OH- #I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE JUST GIVING YOUR KIDS ALCOHOL #I mean to be fair it’s not that strange of an assumption- (End ID)

I mean, European children do very much drink hard cider. But more importantly, you can’t actually buy soft cider-equivalent beverages in the UK or in the European countries I’m most familiar with.

The comments imply that “cloudy apple juice” is the equivalent, but this is not cider. In the notes people are posting comparison pictures where both drinks look like this and the only difference is the presence or absence of bubbles. It’s literally just pictures of cloudy apple juice! Cloudy apple juice is abundant and not cider.

The cider I miss is dark brown and syrupy. It leaves sediment at the bottom of the jug. It doesn’t need to be mulled because it already tastes mulled. It isn’t juice and lots of kids don’t even like it because it’s a little strange. Sometimes it’s served hot with caramel and a cinnamon stick. And I can’t have any, because it isn’t fuckign cloudy apple juice, so, you know, thanks for that.

This is apple cider to a New Englander. It's hard to describe the taste of you haven't had it, but it's not just "unfiltered apple juice". Someone in the comments mentioned sparkling cider, and although they're right about it being a celebratory drink (my family gives it to kids in wine glasses at holiday meals so they don't feel left out of the fancy glass party) it is not the same thing as this.

This is the kind that you heat up and put mulling spices in, if you are so inclined.

Exactly, it’s oxidised (brown, like apple flesh turns when you expose it to air.) it’s slightly fermented-ish (the wild yeasts on the apple’s skin weren’t INSTANTLY MURDERED, so there’s almost a spicy/vinegar/prickly tang.) it contains sediment, like mother-of-apple-cider-vinegar, and is thick and syrupy. It isn’t cloudy so much as opaque.

Saying to the world that cider is “just cloudy apple juice” is like if I told Americans, “oh yeah, British people like brown sauce, but it’s really just Worcestershire sauce. Isn’t it cute and stupid and remedial of them to call it ‘brown’ sauce because it’s brown?” And the 10k notes are people going “lmao British people, can’t cook and all their names are baby talk” with a few lone Brits crying out that ACTUALLY THAT ISNT TRUE AT ALL, THEYRE VERY DIFFERENT, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE IS A SALTY THIN FLAVORING FOR COTTAGE PIE AND BROWN SAUCE IS A THICK VINEGAR KETCHUP FOR FRY-UPS!!! STOP SAYING THIS, IT ISNT TRUE -

Anyway that would just be mildly annoying EXCEPT that I have had a moment of precognition in which some kindly friend, thinking they are bringing me a great gift and a treasured favor, will now visit me in the UK having brought (and ferried at great expense) a bottle of fucking apple juice I regularly buy at Tesco, pictured above, with the delighted expectation of me welcoming the treat of real American cider. I can picture it and it’s breaking my heart.

Australian who lived in Canada for a few years, here to help!

Okay, first of all, it's not America we're talking about but North America. So, Canada too.

Secondly, not 'cloudy apple juice' but literally 'pressed/crushed apples'. Barely filtered if at all. You can literally go to farms in season and get massive vats of their apples which have just been. crushed. and, as @elodieunderglass says, not sterilised in any way, SO.

Thirdly: I made cider out of the cider. A friend and I got a bunch of fermentation equipment and did several experiments with farm-cider, cloudy apple juice from a shop, and filtered apple juice, with five different types of wine or cider yeast.

The absolutely best results (in terms of flavour AND alcohol content) were. The farm cider with no extra yeast, just the natural yeasts present on the apple skin. In the other brews made from the same crushed apples, the wild yeast won out in the end over the commercial yeast, but because they had that fight to win they didn't have so much time to develop and ferment, so the flavour wasn't so developed as in the [hard] cider with no commercial yeast.

Make of that what you will.

do u ppl say ‘etic’ or ‘eee tee sea’ when u read this?-> etc.

what the hell. what’s goign on. are you all pranking me

... et cetera. obviously??

Neil Gaiman ( @neil-gaiman ) in Neil Gaiman Answers Mythology Questions on Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED video

[ Image description: a series of screens from a video of Neil Gaiman sitting and answering the question with subtitles. He says “‘Could I ride Minotaur like a horse?’ No, obviously, you could not. You could ride a Minotaur like a man (…) Unless you could find a Minotaur into sort of pony stuff or you probably have to find a furry minotaur, like, not a furry Minotaur, a Minotaur who was actually a furry, would get into a horse costume and get down and you could ride that one.’ End of image description. ]

Staff, delete his tumblr. Famous authors shouldn't be allowed to know these words

Source: https://youtu.be/o-jUQhCeazQ

oops, he's been on tumblr too long, he knows the knowings.