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Don’t Add Fanfiction To Your Goodreads Shelf

Hi folks, I know some of you like to use Goodreads to track all your reading and don’t want to distinguish between books and fanfiction.

I am, however, begging you not to do this. It is extremely jarring and disconcerting to be a fic author and find your works somewhere in the wild where you did not personally put them. Fics are not books, are not published in the same way as books, and exist in a precarious legal space.

Please don’t attempt to elide the separation that exists between fandom and the world of official publishing.

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“Vampire help hotline, what can I do for you?” “I just… I miss garlic bread…”

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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more people should be ungodly obsessed with john mitchell from being human. he's a beautiful emo irish vampire with the worst fashion sense in the world. he's killed so many people but he feels so so so bad about it. he is so absolutely cringefail he gets roasted by children on the street and actually gets annoyed. he fought in WWI. he was in casablanca but you can't see him because he doesn't show up on film. he is in recovery for addiction (blood) and keeps relapsing (murder). he loves the real hustle and he's LITERALLY doing the washing up.

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Reblog with your score

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Tumblr added a bunch of tracking shit to share urls, so now ill teach you how to get rid of them

if you copy a url by sharing on the website, the link will look like this

getting rid of tracking in these is easy, just delete everything after the question mark and you are golden

in the case for the app, its slightly more complicated

first you have to delete at. that appears before tumblr(.)com the other tracking shit on this one has a lot more info, so please, clean app urls. after the first set of numbers, there's a / you have to delete everything after it

a clean Tumblr url should look like this

blog safely

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This is how a womb looks when a pregnant woman laughs

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a collection of things that bring joy

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Imagine The Fellowship all sitting around the campfire halfway up Caradhras retelling the events of the Hobbit to Boromir and Aragorn Rashomon-style with Gimli going "my dad tells it this way" and Legolas going "well, my dad tells it this way" and the Hobbits all going "but Bilbo tells it this way!" and, even though Gandalf was fucking there for half of it, he refuses to weigh in on anything because watching them argue is more fun and also he doesn't remember because it was over 75 years ago.

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i was surprised at how much nope 2022 resonated with my experiences working for a national park, in particular dealing with a certain subset of guests who approach nature as a sanitized commodity which they can consume. the scene at the commercial shoot where oj’s trying to tell everyone how to act safely around lucky and they ignore him, causing lucky to freak out. the tmz man on the motorcycle desperate to get a picture of jean jacket despite oj telling him again and again to run away. jupe’s belief that he understands and can control jean jacket while ultimately reducing it to another part of his spectacle. it all feels very familiar to the experience of telling off a group of tourists trying to take a selfie with a bear or feed the elk.

it’s like, our society is so divorced from nature that the only way a lot of people experience it is through this diluted lens of spectacle which ultimately warps it into something palatable for the viewer. which then, of course, convinces people that nature really is like that and exists solely for our entertainment. they can’t fathom that the elk or alien or whatever poses a threat to them because they’re the viewer, they’re above that. so when they encounter those things in the real world they’re unable to treat them with the respect they deserve, reduce them to spectacle, and end up getting eaten alive

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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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Rings Of Power (Halbrand aka Sexy Sauron)

fanart by: Milaeryn

Go to pinterest and search for Halbrand - sexy sauron - haladriel

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Shubham Saraf for The Rake (ph: Kim Lang)

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours [originally published 1905]