#and fifty fifty!!

[sollucets]

musical tag! rules 🎶 :: when you get this, list 5 songs you’ve been listening to & tag people

as tagged by @mantrisanu (hi sam & thank you for tagging me ✨🫰) i just put my ‘on repeat’ on shuffle & poked it a few times. also i’m terminally incapable of shutting up

1.

this is the first song on my months early only friends playlist that i put on repeat to write wiwm/bnotao. i love five seconds flat & i am literally sitting on this song to edit when the series comes out & if i’m wrong i’ll cry

2.

its So Good. this is a faiza @/asianmade recommendation, i hadnt really listened to woodz before that & i Loooove him

3.

this is a nostalgia pick, i think it’s been on my wrapped multiple years. its also on the o.f playlist. i’m not usually an album person but i do listen to this one straight through

4.

again from the o.f. playlist. this is such an earworm be prepared (perfect criiiiiiiiime)

5.

as usual if im not spending half my life listening to skz b-sides something is wrong and you should check in on me. i love gone days

i think i’d like to bother @khaotunq & @akkpipitphattana & @chinzhilla (no pressure 💜🩵)

#rowan lore #rowan chatter #im also listening to a stupid amount of crane wives right now so im surprised it didnt pick any of that #hollow moon especially. #and fifty fifty!! #and shinees new song #ateez’ new album Would be there but i own the cd so thats how im mostly listening instead of on spotify

[heritageposts]

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

#free palestine #israel #gaza #this is under ch 10 'The Memoricide of the Nakba' - > 'Virtual Colonialism and the JNF' #''olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.''

[zenwhoberi]

had the wildest interaction today some random woman called me a slag and my dog a fucking faggot because I was using a pink lead/harness and he’s a boy like what the fuck lmfaoo

#she said he’s going to get sexually confused I said he’s literally a dog I don’t think he’s got anything to be confused about #dkdjdkfkfkf #if I stop posting it’s cause I got jumped by a chain smoking fifty year old woman who has nothing better to do than call random dogs faggots

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"descended into madness" um actually i climbed here? yeah it was a pretty steep journey. yeah the air's pretty thin up here. i think im getting altitude sickness. pretty dizzy actually

#yeah the madness is kicking in but im pretty sure the dizziness is at least partly the altitude #call it fifty fifty #yeah no my heart is racing and my lungs are burning but again. hard to know the difference

[laz-laz-ace-pilot]

After watching the Barbie trailer, my parents are arguing over whether, as a previous diplomat, Barbie should have diplomatic immunity in a foreign country (her home country being Barbieland) and thus whether her arrest by LAPD is unlawful.

Neither of my parents are lawyers or have studied international relations, they just got excited by the trailer

#barbie #one thing we have established is that barbie is a threat to capitalism #she has the experience of fifty lifetimes. has lived in a utopia outside of capitalism. and could quickly gather followers #if mattel dont take her out the fbi/ cia will

[stjohnstarling]

Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.

In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it

Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and

Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)

That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.

Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)

Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)

If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:

This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)

It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:

Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked. The 2009 auction raised $80,000. The 2010 auction raised $140,000. The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)

A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.

#original post #fifty shades liveblog #Working on the rest of this #Part one of not sure how many

[firstfullmoon]

Hanif Abdurraqib, in “Why this poet sees grief as its own kind of spiritual practice”

#um. okay okay #w #interview #hanif abdurraqib #if you will grant me one vivid morning I can chain it to me for fifty years

[goldenachilles]

They should've knelt, they should've knelt man. It's such an important moment in the books, it shows how different the Big Three kids are from the rest, shows that they are not only to be respected, but feared. It shows that they are dangerous.

But even more than that, all around me, campers started kneeling, even the Ares cabin, though they didn't look happy about it (tlt, p. 126) it shows that Percy is and continues to be other, even in a place where he should fit in.

#don't even get me started on the lack of hellhound too #but idk I really wanted to see this moment and it felt a bit...lacking? #disney+ give us fifty minutes long episodes challenge #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #the lightning thief #pjo tv show #pjo tv spoilers #.txtpost

[existencebringsonlypain]

realizing it may not have been entirely clear, underage means 12 or under since you're not meant to join tumblr until you're 13.

Didn't think "prev" needed an explanation, but two people have asked, so. Prev means the person you're seeing/reblogging this post from, hence, prev (previous). If the person who reblogged this on your dash is named @/abcdefg, that's prev. if you reblog the post, you become prev for the next person who follows you and sees it. etc, etc. prev is the last person in the chain, whom you see it from.

#i wouldnt have gone that high but my mom is fifty something and she's on here religiously so #existenceunrelateds #poll #polls #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #reblog game #tumblr culture #poll game #tumblr #reblog this

[blackjackkent]

More explorations through the parsed dialogue files. The nymph in Sharess's Caress (the one whose Fist client turns into a mind flayer) offers you a "moment of ecstasy" in return for saving her life - and apparently there are some character-specific dialog options for all of the origin characters (minus Lae'zel and plus Minsc) regarding their deepest desires. And I'm kinda having a lot of feelings about it.

Naoise Nallinto: The all-being. Here, there is no suffering. Here, you want for nothing. Here, you are anything. You have one word. Tell me: what will you be?

DARK_URGE: Sane. Naoise Nallinto: You are sane. Time dances on in sequence, the winding path of time evens, and becomes straight. With a quiet head, you can once again hear the song of the birds and the wind in the grass. You pluck a flower, and it does not bleed.

SHADOWHEART: Whole. Naoise Nallinto: You are whole. Within and without, free from expectation and the crushing burden of solitude.You are the entirety of you. Every path outward leads to adventures yet unknown. Every path inward leads to dreams eternally fulfilled.

ASTARION: Safe. Naoise Nallinto: You are safe. The winds of fate blow you to the warmest of hearths in the most cordial of inns. Your seething passions lead only to pleasure. The touch of the sun comforts your flesh, but never burns it.

KARLACH: Alive. Naoise Nallinto: You are alive. Your senses vibrate with sensation - smell, taste, touch, sound, sight. All alert to the beauty of now. The sound of your heart - your heart - beats a steady rhythm: Hello, hello, hello.

GALE: Wise. Naoise Nallinto: You are wise. The erudition of the ages flows through you and from you, illuminating the scholars who seek your counsel. You know yourself, for such is the beginning of all wisdom. When souls would drink the waters of learning, you are their font.

WYLL: Free. Naoise Nallinto: Then be free. You are an eagle, the most divine of messengers, soaring above the peak of Mount Sundabar. No man or woman, no devil or demon, no goddess or god dares confine you within one border or one creed.

MINSC: Minsc. Naoise Nallinto: Er - you are Minsc. You are the most Minsc. Wherever you go, there is only Minsc. Every step, every breath, every thought shall be - the Minsc-est. (DEVNOTE: Confused but making it work.)

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #karlach #shadowheart #gale #wyll #minsc #bg3 dialogue #naoise nallinto #sharess's caress #good old minsc lol #but ugh the other ones [sob] #even the durge one #everyone here needs about fifty hugs

[vulcansalute]

Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades Freed (2018) dir. James Foley

#jamie dornan #jdornangif #jdornanedit #fifty shades freed #dilfsource #flawlessgentlemen #dailymen #dailymengifs #mancandykings #usermichi #uservuxoa #🥚🥚 #* #how long until a puritan flags this!

[kitsunetsuki]

Bettie Page

#bettie page #photography #vintage photography #vintage #retro #aesthetic #beauty #cheesecake #fifties #50s #50s model #1950s #pin up #pinup #pinup model #vintage fashion #burlesque

[critterbitter]

The kids go fishing! (The local pokemon are very helpful if bribed with the right combination of berries.)

Masterpost for more shenanigans!

#i like to think the modern pokemon world is at its core kind #humans help pokemon and pokemon help humans #coevolution! #anyways here’s more ingo as the impulse control (he’s not very good at his job being impulse control) #the kiddos catch like fifty stunfisk and two tympole #pokemon #art #sketchbook #myart #submas #fanart #pokemon ingo #pokemon emmet #pokemon elesa #sketches #artists of instagram #seismitoad #palpitoad #stunfisk #blitzle #litwick #tynamo #emmet #ingo #elesa #nimbasa trio #pokemon illustration #illustration #frog #frogs

[thetolkiengeek]

me: I wonder if The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition, dir. Peter Jackson (2001 - 2003) will fix me

The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition, dir. Peter Jackson (2001 - 2003): *instills me with a sense of hope and resilience in the face of utter darkness and despair*

#lotr #thetolkiengeek speaks #don’t mind me #just doing my fifty bajillionth rewatch

[seheartz]

winding down by the swamp

#they're chilling #my art #inspired by a ss of the swamp from lok! this took about two fifty-minute video essays #i find environments rlly hard usually so i used this as a way to practice ^^ #atla #katara #zuko #atla fanart #zutara #(if u want it to be. i dont rlly mind! it can be platonic too) #katara fanart #zuko fanart #rkgk #avatar: the last airbender #netflix avatar #zutara fanart #avatar art #digital art #illustration #avatar the last airbender fanart #avatar fanart #avatar the last airbender #gaang #gaang fanart #environmental art #landscape art #landscape #artists on tumblr

[brella-boi]

Someone said bugs with eyelashes is a weird choice

So I drew mors bugs with eyelashes

#because its Cool and genderless to me #bugs with stylystic lashes look fifty times cooler to me #its me being indulgent #i love me some cunty lashes #myart #insects #bugart #oberon #atlas