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WhimsicalWitch

@whimsicalwitchm

INFP. Australian and proud. Aquarius, hopeless romantic with ASD. Crazy cat lady and beginner witch. Almost 30 😩
Loves Owl House, Buffy, Marvel, The Hobbit/LOTR and many, many other fandoms. Also sparkly things. Trying to write a novel. I DO NOT support JKR and her transphobia.
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Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

The spiritual successor to Miette

Might I also add

May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit

Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children

I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.

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My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok

My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang

Can haz snackytreat

There is a phenomenon happening on Tumblr right now which may be a product of the Twitter exodus or maybe its just modern fandom mentality vehemently rejecting the old, but you guys have GOT to stop being so damn MEAN about fandom.

There are posts circulating on Tumblr right now hating on so many aspects of fandom. Yeah we all know the incorrect quotes format can be cringe and most of the time its the same quotes used for every fandom ever reducing the characters to stereotypes. Yes we know most fandoms scramble to ship the two basic white guys over all the other characters. Yes we know your blorbo probably Does Not Fucking Say That. Yes we know A/B/O is weird AF (especially now its breached containment and found its way into mainstream hetero erotica). Yes we know SuperWhoLock was ridiculous and attempts to make modern shows into a new SuperWhoLock have got old fast.

But do you have to constantly drag these things all the time? Why is it suddenly cool and popular to ridicule and criticise and hate on peoples fun?

Let people be cringe

Let people play in the fandom sandbox

Let people have their fun

Not everything has to be an intellectual critique and it doesn't make you a better person to constantly shit on fandom ON THE FANDOM WEBSITE

Fandoms can be problematic, toxic, and infuriating at times. But all the negativity isn't making things better. Yeah okay some aspects of fandom can be annoying, but must we have so many call out posts go viral on here specifically for hating on parts of fandom culture? Yet people wonder why fandom creators are quitting and there isnt as much art and interaction on here as there used to be.

If you see another negative post shitting on aspects of fandom cross your dash, maybe think before you reblog it. Maybe ask yourself if that post may be hurtful to a mutual? Perhaps youve got a mutual who writers A/B/O or CharacterxReader fanfiction who doesnt wanna see your reblog of the callout post stating reader×character fanfic is gross, or perhaps your mutual creates fun text posts applying quotes to their fave characters and youve just reblogged a 90k+ note post calling them cringy and overdone.

Just THINK please. Its not necessary. We've got to be KINDER to each other. Please don't let this place become like Twitter. Twitter was a toxic cesspool where no one had anything worthwhile to add to the discussion, no one created, everyone was just screaming angry rants into the void. Dont let tumblr become like that, because it will be the death of this place. And where will you go to find fanart and gifsets of your blorbos then?

Oof thank you. I happened into one of those (the one about incorrect quotes and "he would not say that") and I felt the same. When writers and creators of source materials themselves say that they don't mind, we listen. When Neil Gaiman thanked the Tumblr fandom and all the Dreamling shippers for talking about the Sandman so much that pushed for the show to be renewed, people should have listened.

When Mark Hamill was asked if Luke Skywalker is gay and he said "of course he is! If you think he's gay, then he is", people should have listened. Whether it's fiction or fanfiction, it's still fiction: it doesn't fucking matter because it's not real. "He would not say that" yeah ok and an AU is the epitome of "he would not be that". We can't be reducing everything to bare bones.

And most importantly, these things are inconsequential. If I write an AU where two characters go to fucking space and fuck each other nasty style while orbiting Jupiter, it doesn't fucking matter. If you don't like how people play with a ship then block that tag. If you don't like a fandom block their tags.

Finally, do you know what happens when people engage in a fandom? They develop skills. Drawing, writing, socialising, editing.

Everything is fanfiction of something. Do what makes you happy and accept damnation.

Awesome additions and im sending you a big hug for ever feeling down after seeing a shitty post. The culture of shitting on peoples fun has got to stop. If you spend your time focusing on what you love rather than what you hate you'll soon discover how beneficial that change of mindset can be.

THIS!!! If you don’t like it, just don’t interact. There’s enough hate in the world. We need less, not more.

SURVEY QUESTION: what is your personal favorite cold sandwich to make at home. alternatively, what is the fanciest sandwich you make

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on the topic of sandwiches i like a lot of things but i think if you want sandwich info you can't get better than sandwichtribunal.com. a theoretically infinite list of exant sandwiches and detailed descriptions and explorations and new research of their history, development, preperation method, and flavor. really delightful passion project by mostly one guy who just really, really likes sandwiches, with a couple of guest pieces by fellow sandwich enthusiasts

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a great place to start is this article on the history of the club sandwich, an article that took the author months of independent research through tons of old cookbooks and magazines and newspapers. he ends up making basically every example he can find, moving through time on a sandwich train. it's a really fun read!!!!

tumblr user grubloved i respect you so much

i put the sandwiches in the notes in a spreadsheet. it is here

For cold sandwich my favourite is either tomato and cheese on a crusty white roll or Vegemite and cheese on sliced white bread.

Fanciest sandwich I’ve ever made has to be a French toast grilled cheese (sliced white bread as well).

YES the type of bread is important.

Also it’s not cold or fancy but white bread with butter and hot chips is perfection.

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One thing about me is I would always prefer the found family be unhealthily codependent little freaks than “grow up” and become people that only see each other or talk on special occasions. I want them ENMESHED in each other’s lives PERMANENTLY.