thatseymourbirkhoff
Alex. 30s. Prev @theseymourbirkhoff. Multifandom.
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stop normalizing ai use in fandom 👎
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
I'm not ready to face it Don't go saying goodbye There's a beauty in changes And I wanna try
my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."
assuming that people like you and want to spend time with you is crucial to making friends. unfortunately this is the hardest thing to do in the world
BEN BARNES as THE DARKLING Shadow & Bone • 2021
absolutely criminal how falling into bad habits is the easiest thing in the world while developing positive habits feels like fighting a literal war
for the love of god please listen to old users when we say this site works differently. that you can’t just sit around with a blank blog. make posts or reblog, but do something at least. this site works because we don’t have an unavoidable garbage algorithm forcefeeding us posts based on our likes. we do not need another fucking twitter, tiktok or instagram.
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
Friendly reminder to all who consume fan made media: if you reblog gifs, gif makers will keep making them. If you reblog fanart, artists will keep drawing. If you leave comments on fanfics, writers will keep writing. As many have pointed out, we’re not Instagram and likes mean nothing :)
I can’t actually verbalise just how SHITTED I am that the entire internet is being sanitised just so I can be absolutely ACCOSTED with ads for products that I don’t want
AND they’re making it the rules that you can’t opt out of ads unless you pay? Like literally everywhere?
a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale
You know, there are times when I think you don't know me at all, and others where I think you know me better than anyone.
ANASTASIA (1997) dir. Don Bluth & Gary Goldman
If we live through this, remind me to thank you.
Remember how LiveJournal let you have several icons (or avatars or "pfps" as you might call them now)? And you'd carefully choose an icon to fit the subject matter, your tone, and the blog on which you were commenting or posting?
And it could make your argument look that much snarkier if you used a rude one? Or you could use it to add a multiplier to a joke?
And icons, alongside banners and wallpapers, were a whole genre of fanwork with its own design language, conventions, and norms, including carefully crediting people for them?
That was neat.
i think actually the key to successfully doing tumblr (and especially doing fandom on tumblr) is realising that your blog is your little house and you can post about whatever you like there. once you realise you are just living in and decorating your very own silly little online house you start focusing on what makes you happy rather than constantly performing for & compromising your tastes for & placing all your self worth on little scraps of clout, and you will be a lot happier for it
