Hey guys, 

I may have been a little too mad yesterday and I wanted to apologize for that. 

So I decided to delete that one and make a new one better expressing myself. 

This. 

This exact line is what makes me so mad at this show. 

I don’t mind it’s existence. It’s the way they see themselves as the best thing ever and how everything else is garbage. 

Now really ALL classic shows are better than them and deserve to be on a lot more than them. 

That’s like Pickle and Peanut saying that Gravity Falls can’t compete with them and doesn’t deserved to be aired, when really Gravity Falls and a lot other Disney cartoons did so much better. 

Like the PPG did better

Dexter did better

Even those obscure ones like Time Squad 

And Sheep in the Big City 

They and a lot of them did so much better and had actual effort put into them and are so much better than TTG and saying that they don’t deserve to be aired it’s just so cruel and really disrespectful coming from them. 

Not to mention the fact that current shows don’t get aired as much cause TTG still hogs up a lot of the schedule. 

It’s not a competition like they say. They just aren’t given a chance. 

And what makes this worse is the fact that this line was said by the same people who gave us the voices of the OG Teen Titans. 

It’s upsetting to hear them say that cause they know what the good, strong show is since they gave the voices themselves. 

Yeah I think I talked better this time. 

But yeah, it’s really rude and disrespectful as to how TTG is talking badly about classic/good shows when really they are the low quality show. 

Again I really don’t mind TTG’s existence. If they want to do their own thing, that’s fine. It’s how it’s getting things it doesn’t deserve and how they are disrespecting other things that really makes it upsetting. 

Reblog if you are insecure about anything below:

-weight

-appearance

-intelligence (or lack of) 

-skills (or lack of) 

-weird hobbies

-friends (or lack of) 

-body

-personality

-family

Who ever reblogs this will get a message in their inbox.

Literally all of it

All of them.

How many times will I reblog it????

All of them and more

Reblogging for the 12894283656th time

Every single one of them

same

each and everyone, and gender can go on the list too

Legit all of them. Add gender and sexuality too.

…

When you put on these T-shirts, girls will treat you like this.

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You know that post about how your bones are always wet, and that post about how you shake because your skeleton is ready to hatch??

Combine them to create the ultimate turn of phrase and start describing things as “as moist as an unhatched skeleton”.

That’s explains a lot of things

Listen, I know I have no room to complain about people saying ominous bullshit, but what could this possibly explain.

this pussy as moist as an unhatched skeleton

So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.

Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.

Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.

Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.

Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.

how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.

What happened with her lawyers.

History became legend. Legend became myth….  And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.

I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.

One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)

I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)

The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.

But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.

The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)

And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)

Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…

Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.

all of this

Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers. 

Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.

I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.

I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!

Fandom history is important.

Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories! 

Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse - dared to write about their characters. Even people who weren’t creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.

It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in people’s faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasn’t cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here. 

“if you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentz”

Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.

I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Rice’s lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.

I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)

But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anne’s lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasn’t exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?

On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anne’s camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasn’t an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.

Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they could’ve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasn’t just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.

(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many years….)

Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.

My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you weren’t allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to “preserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to have”.

Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.

(It’s one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a delicious ‘f*** you’.)

Later on, they were apparently persuaded to ‘allow’ fans to write slash, provided in ‘remained within the nebulous bounds of good taste’.

(On a related note, if I wasn’t quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it to ‘Nebulous Bounds’, because that’s just downright catchy)

Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which was ‘no porn’ and another was basically ‘it can’t be gay’ (and for a while ‘no fanfiction posted online’? which??? anyway.)

She relaxed a little as time went on, but still. 

Let’s not forget: the reason AO3 is called ‘Archive of our own’  is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.

That wasn’t even all that long ago…

fandom history class

To this day, *talking* about writing or reading fanfiction - just acknowledging that it exists - to anyone other than people I know are in fandom as well, feels like a dangerous act. The strict separation I maintained between my real life identity, my online identity, and my fandom identity (yes, they were separate, because some of the most vicious and mocking people were fellow nerds) has broken down a bit these days, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to integrate them as freely as some younger fans do.

Everybody should know that AO3 is just one project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Their mission is much broader than just hosting a (very good) fanfic site. They do all kinds of fandom history archiving and publish an academic journal, but most importantly, they perform legal advocacy to protect the fair use rights of people who make fanfic or fanart.

The OTW Legal Committee’s mission includes education, assistance, and advocacy.

I haven’t been involved in fandom stuff all that long, but I find this stuff so fascinating!

whew, i feel old, but that’s mostly bc i was on forums way way waaaaay too young. but this? yes. all the way. people had password protected forums on the weirdest, most unconventional websites. before you could even be approved by the mods they would search your blog, your other accounts, question you, everything, all because we were broke teens and preteens trying to do something for fun and if someone got in who could doxx you or send your work over to a lawyer? that was it, you were OVER. that’s also part of where fandom wars and the defense of fandom came from: quote unquote “enemy” fandoms would infiltrate just to hurt you. @theglintoftherail makes a very good point: ao3 is a goddamn haven. and they’re a great team of lawyers and people dedicated to protecting fanworks! part of the reason it’s so great is because they know there’s no one like them out there. they also go to the ends of the damned earth to protect you and to be inclusive, which is why there’s shit like tentacle porn and underage and dubcon. because they’re dedicated to protecting readers and creators to the death. they don’t advocate for it and they have the extensive rating and tagging system because of that (legit the best tagging system i’ve ever seen) but they don’t know if you’re dealing with trauma or if you need to get something out. do not forget your fandom, kids. jesus

Who else knew nothing about this? A show of hands

I’m just the right age to remember the disclaimers and to have HEARD about the Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey, and X-Files fiascos, but I was never in any of those fandoms and I was more or less on the tail end of that. I can’t imagine having to be scared to tell people I write fanfic. So glad we’ve come so far.

Every time I start reading fanfics, I thank all of you people whose neverending resilience and the drive to be creative made it possible for me to consume content freely and without worry 🖤

I had no clue about any of the because I just started reading FanFiction like 4 years ago but I’m so glad that everyone was able to prevail and I’m able to access all of the wonderful fics that I can for free and enjoy without that worry

The dangers and troubles of being a panda zookeeper.

LET! THEM! IN! THE! BASKET!!!!!

This poor woman is just trying to clean the leaves. #allpandas.

if you’re having a rough night, watch this. trust me.

IM DEAD MY FRIEND IS USING THAT FILTER CONSTANTLY

A HUGE BOOTLEG MASTERPOST! (~420 videos!)

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PART 2/4: [H-N] 

H*milton (07/16/15 Preview)

Hair p1 p2 p3 p4 / full

Hair (2001 Encores!)

Hairspray a1 a2 (Touring Cast, AT)

Hallelujah (Broadway)

Heathers a1 a2 / full / mirror / mirror

Heathers !a1 only: p1 p2

Heathers (1988 Movie)

Heathers (Reading, Jeremy Jordan, Annaleigh Ashford)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Anthony Rapp)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch / mirror (DC)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (DC2)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (NPH)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (MCH)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (JCM)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (JCM2)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Andrew Rannells)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Michael Cerveris)

Hello, Dolly! / mirror (1977 Melbourne)

High Fidelity (12/16/06)

Holy Musical B@man!

Holler if you Hear me (06/06/04)

Honeymoon in Vegas a1 a2

How to Succeed in Business (1995 Broadway Revival)

If/Then (Pre-Broadway, Washington D.C)

If/Then here / mirror / mirror (Broadway preview performance)

If/Then (5/25/14)

If/Then (08/30/14  Jackie Burns

In the Heights p1 p2 p3 p4

In the Heights (JM)  – w/o pl

In thе Hеights (2014 Irvington Townhall Theatre)

Into The Woods OBC a1, a2, a3 / full (1987)

Into The Woods p1, p2, p3, p4 / full (2012 Public Theatre Central Park)

Into The Woods !the sound drops (2002)

It Shoulda Been You / mirror’

It Shoulda Been You

Jane Eyre

Jekyll & Hyde p1 p2 (Rob Evan)

Jekyll & Hyde OBC (1997)

Jekyll & Hyde a1 a2 (Constantine Maroulis)

Jekyll & Hyde (David Hasslehoff )

Jerry Springer: The Opera (2005 BBC2)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2012 Revival)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2005 Amstetten, Austria)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Josh Groban Ustream concert (2011)

Kinky Boots a1 a2 a3 OBC

Kinky Boots / mirror OBC (Pre-Broadway)

Kismet (1955)

Kiss Me, Kate (1953)

Kiss me, Kate  (Revival London)

Kiss me, Kate (BBC Proms)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (OLC)

La Cage Aux Folles (2010 Revival) a1 a2 a3 a4

Legally Blonde Sing-a-long 

Les Miiserables (10th Anniversary)

Les Miserables (09/19/13 London)

Les Miserables (Hollywood Bowl)

Les Misérables (25th Anniversary US Tour, Chicago)

Les Miserables a1 a2 (25th Anniversary)

Les Miserables  (1999 London, JOJ)

Les Miserables (2003 Andrew Varela, Terrence Mann)

Les Miserables / p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 (2014 Brodway Revival Previews)

Les Miserables a1 a2 (2014 Dallas Theater Center) 

Lеs Misеrablеs (2011 West End NL, KD, SB)

Lestat (Broadway Opening Night)

Little Shop of Horrors / mirror (06/05/03 Pre-Broadway Florida)

Little Shop of Horrors (09/23/03 OB Preview) 

Little Shop of Horrors A1: p1 p2; A2 (1987Japanese Touring Production)

Little Shop of Horrors (2009 UK Tour)

Little Women OBC

Little Women (HS)

Love Never Dies p1 p2 / full w/subs / mirror

Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1971 Broadway)

Mack and Mabel (1974 Broadway)

Mamma Mia! (2001 Pre-Broadway Tour)

Mamma Mia! (11/14/02 London)

Marie Christine OBC (11/99 Preview)

Marilyn An American Fable

Mary Poppins, OLC: act 1 act 2

Master Class p1 p2 p3 (a bway play, Tyne Daly, Alexandra Silber, Sierra Boggess)

Matilda / mirror / mirror (23/08/2014 Ripley Sobo)

Matilda / mirror (03/06/13 Oona Laurence) highlights

Matilda Broadway p1 p2 (03/09/14 Oona Laurence)

Matilda (Eliza Holland Madore)

Matilda (Sophia Gennusa)

Matilda (Mimi Ryder)

Merrily We Roll Along

Miss Saigon (01/2001 Broadway)

Miss Saigon (1995 National Tour)

Miss Saigon  a1 a2 (Will Chase and Lea Salonga)

Moby Dick a1 a2 (07/01/92 WE)

Monty Python’s Spamalot (2005 Broadway)

Much Ado About Nothing Act 1 Act 2 (West End David Tennant, Catherine Tate)

Murder Ballad p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

NERO Public Workshop

Never Forget

Nеwsies (1992 movie)

Nеwsies / mirror / mirror (password: nederlander) OBC (Jeremy Jordan)

Nеwsies / p1 p2 p3 p4 (02/10/13 Corey Cott)

Next to Normal (03/18/10)

Next to Normal (08/18/10)

Next to Normal (04/04/09 Broadway Preview)

Next to Normal (03/28/09 the 2nd Broadway Preview)

Next to Normal (07/19/10 Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Meghann Fahy)

Next to Normal (12/04/10 Los Angeles, original tour cast)

Next to Normal (03/03/08 OOBC)

Next to Normal Off-Broadway 12 parts / full

Nice Work If you Can Get it OBC

Nine (2003 Broadway Revival)

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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood | Dir. Quentin Tarantino  (2019)

A visual representation of what it felt like to watch this movie.

The whole time I was watching this movie I was super confused and when I got out the first thing I google was “does Quentin Tarantino have a foot fetish” lol so I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed

people who sleep with one pillow make me sick

people who sleep with more than one pillow are shown to be more lonely and depressed

reblog and put in the tags how many pillows you sleep with

This is so wholesome

Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip

I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children. 

CAT DAD IS BACK

aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;

HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!

This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen. 

update:

I love that he kept …. All of them.

I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.

This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.

You’re welcome.

I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ❤

This is the most pure Twitter thread in existence <3

what do you call someone who smokes two marijuanas

double jointed

what do you call someone who smokes three marijuanas

dead

drugs kill, kids

You can’t OD on marijuana

That's valid

“Rigel watched the four adults whose unconditional love she didn’t deserve move towards the gates and took a moment to compose herself. There, in the center of an empty stadium, surrounded by the physical remnants of her own magic’s destructive capabilities, she’d never felt so alone.” The Futile facade, chapter 9

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!

IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

now we enter the testing phase

yup. looks good.

Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

*roar sound effect*

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

There’s more!

I love.

I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!

(just fine)

Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures

OP and Wexter can break all my toes and I would still send a thank you card

Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)

Necro Maria, a breathtaking, exquisite marble sculpture representing a classy decadent macabre reinterpretation of Our Lady of Sorrows, a collaboration between 3D illustrator & art director Billelis & Sick Mick (@sick666mick). Via The Ethereal & the Uncanny

Holy shit my aesthetic

When you’re an archaeologist with a set schedule, sometimes people really get to understand who you are

When I dug in France I always got a croissant at 0520 from the same exact place in Échemines. A week in, they had one lying on the counter for me by the time I walked in. By the second week I got the exact amount I’d pay in hand when I walked in, because they’d reliably have it ready. I made sure to tell the owners that I wasn’t returning on my last day of the dig.

I may mention that every time I ordered in French. On my last day the owners gave me hugs and kindly told me to never speak in French again

They had your order ready so they wouldn’t have to hear you speak French 🤣

OH, MOTHERFUCKER