real people being partially closeted or ambiguous about their own sexuality while making Gay Art is not queerbaiting

Real people figuring out they’re queer through the process of making gay art is not queerbaiting either

#real people not telling you everything about themselves is allowed

feeling things deeply for tzp with glasses

LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand

I don't wanna see another story abt a teenage boy coming out to his parents and closed mouth kissing his boyfriend at prom where's my spy thriller action heist movie w a cast made entirely of dykes and femme gay men you know what I'm fucking talkinf about. I'm tired of The Queer Struggle I struggle every stupid day I know what that's all about and honestly none of the coming out stories are cathartic or whatever to me. I don't care. I wanna see a nonbinary person fight a dragon

beastie boys music is funny as hell one of them will say a line and then the other two will say a completely unrelated line

"met with a girl and she sucked my COCK. sedimentary is a type of ROCK"

You can skip to the next post instnatly with the J key

... this was supposed to be a helpful tip on another post, now it looks like I'm being really aggressive about a random post about the beastie boys

Tumblr conversations are funny as hell one of them will say a line and then the other two will say a completely unrelated line

remember that time john is literally reading the holy bible like “i gotta see jesus about these thoughts i’m having about sherlock on this christmas eve having ditched my girlfriend to ensure the continued health and happiness of the man i secretly love take me to church amen”

J.C. Leyendecker is a never-ending source of inspiration when it comes to drawing pretty, sharp-dressed men...

It's always a tough choice whether to draw my beloved hair or make the clothing more historically accurate by adding hats........

Fandom is so different now and it’s becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves.

I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately.

Ya’ll eat up fandoms, leave artists and writers bone dry and then move on so fucking quickly then fucking wonder where all the Good Fandom Stuff is.

Idk Maybe cherish some things for longer. Reblog stuff. Interact with people. Comment and share.

Fandom is Capitalism now and I’m not being nuanced.

people also seem obsessed with only Doing Fandom about currently active works?

“oh, I’m so sad that show ended! I really miss the fandom!” who said you have to leave, coward

Fun fact: You are part of keeping a fandom alive. Every interaction, every person in a fandom has their own part to play. If that’s reblogging art, fanfics or making cursed edits, that’s good enough.

Fandom is for community, not consumption.

Fandom is for community, not consumption.

Fandom is for community, not consumption.

i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

This takes a lot of courage in a lot of important ways good job OP

i always mean it when i say i love you btw

‘but thats a stranger you dont know’ and i love them. i love that they exist and i love that they passed through my life. and i love u too btw

reblog to tell your mutuals you love them for existing

Please don’t pirate books at least while the author is alive. I’ll make an exception for actual billionaires and wildly expensive textbooks you cannot afford yet need to complete your studies. I can’t make an exception for assholes, because we’re all considered assholes by someone.  I don’t know how many people realise how many writers who created successful, beloved stories and characters still die poor while other people get rich off the same work. I don’t think people realise that in the UK the current average yearly earnings for an author has nosedived over the last fifteen years to £10,500. That obviously is forcing people to quit writing. It increasingly means writing is a job for people who’ve inherited money or have wealthy spouses who can support them. I don’t know if people realise that in general, writers are poor and getting poorer. I’m sorry, but if you think widespread sense of entitlement to free books has nothing to do with that … you’re just wrong. 

I say I don’t think people realise - the truth is I hope they don’t, because the alternative is that they don’t care. That’s certainly the impression I’ve got from Twitter, where a truly horrifying number of people are arguing that copyright on  all books should expire after thirty years, and you should be able to acquire books for  free after that. This … would not just mean that everyone gets free books. It would mean if you write a book at 30, not only do you lose any royalties from it at 60, but Disney can take it, make a franchise out of it, Scrooge McDuck it up in a pool of money while you starve because writers don’t get workplace pensions.

Some threads on the unintended (?) consequences of this. I can’t go over it all again. John Brownlow NK Jemisin Michael Marshall Smith Me Marina Lostetter Kari Dru and others William Gibson and others

There are plenty of others. It’s not that this actual idea will actually happen, but I do think it reinforces the idea that it’s not only okay, but sometimes actually virtuous to search for ways to enjoy writers’ work without paying for it. Like it’s somehow a step towards a better world. Not just at the reader end, to be fair, at the employer end too. And I do see a lot of people here too who are all about supporting workers unless the workers are writers in which case fuck’em. 

Like. If you want to radically change society in such a way that mass-media conglomerates don’t exist and so can’t exploit us and we’re supported to make art in some other way than fine. But can you start the revolution with actual rich people please, not ask us to live right now, in the society we’ve got, without the money we need to survive it. Finally, a plea: I really, really, do not want to debate this. This whole thing genuinely makes me feel tense and shaky and sick. If you’ve got to disagree - unfollow me, block me, vagueblog somewhere I can’t see it. The Twitter version of this already has me feeling like I’ve been kicked in the gut. I didn’t want to write this post. I just felt I wasn’t going to have any peace until I did.

If you don’t want to buy a book outright, please consider getting it from your local public library (or your school library if you’re a student). If the library does not have the book you want, you can usually make a purchase suggestion and the collections staff will consider if it’s possible to procure the item based on availability and budget, or you can just do an interlibrary loan request and the library will try to get a copy on loan for you from another library system. In some libraries I’ve worked for, the ILL staff will actually look at the cost of the item, and if it’s under a certain amount, they’ll automatically just buy it instead of requesting it, because it’s cheaper and involves less work.

Libraries are a great middle ground if you can’t afford to pay for a book but don’t want to pirate the material, and a lot of libraries use apps like Libby/Overdrive and Borrow Box so that there are also materials online.

Publishing companies will use book piracy (ie lack of sale numbers) to excuse paying us even less, so it’s not just our published books we lose money on, it’s our future advances. To put an extremely blunt end on it: the books I wrote on a 6 figure advance (the money was spread out over three years, so it was still >$80K/year) are much better than the books I write at $40K (not just because I have to cram to get that split over 2 years instead of 3, and since $20K/year isn’t enough, I have to get another contract).

The corporations don’t care if you pirate books. It actually *helps* them. But it sure screws writers over.

we should start giving testosterone to ants

uncles

tumblr is the root of half the internets trends and memes

the curse of being on this website is knowing that shit like cottagecore and dark academia and the obsession with mushrooms and whatnot started on this godforsaken platform and not tiktok

the mushroom thing started with a fucking shitpost where it ends with "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" "im not fucking scared of you!"

"op what does this mean" "decay is an extant form of life"

I KID YOU NOT

#Please little bird

Now more than ever, little bird

#mood

I remember october like it was yesterday