people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

I never knew I could relate so much to a character until they dropped "Asexual sidekick with thick eyebrows that wants to murder the protagonist for being not only blind but STUPID™"

BAD BUDDY | 1.08

you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing

grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

bad buddy textposts pt. 3 but it's mostly just pran. becuase he's my specialest little man

I've seen a lot of posts lately about people unhappy with various shows, but all I can think of is how when I first started BL a few years ago, I was starting to run out of things to watch. And now I can't even keep up, and I'm getting so many different types of shows, from the serious to the light, from angst-filled to the fluffy, from those that make me think to those that I can just enjoy for the vibes. We're getting more genre diversity including action and fantasy, a wide range of heat levels, the GLs are starting to pick up steam, and representation is slowly but surely improving for so many groups.

I am grateful.

learning lately that a lot of confidence is about owning up. like "yeah i'm a little addicted to my phone right now" or "yeah i'm not really over this person yet" or "yeah i still get pretty anxious in crowds" just saying anything at all but then following it up w "but i'm trying to get better" and being super nonchalant and unaffected. so powerful. you would literally be undefeatable in the face of even the most judgmental person. no one can judge you for things you already know about yourself and are trying to improve on. the trick is to know yourself from the inside out, to hold yourself accountable, and to actively improve every day. like that is literally the secret to never feeling like you're at the mercy of somebody else's judgment

one whole year with pat + pran <3

to commemorate the same, here take a few devastating bad buddy rooftop textposts i made long back cos im insane.

still at the rooftop, will probably forever be at the rooftop🥹

I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

#🖤🩶🤍💜 

WANDEE GOODDAY | EP1

I feel like the show wants me to think Aylin was in the wrong for smashing that food into Ton’s face but I do not agree. If you get all up in the face of someone who’s clearly uncomfortable you will get what you deserve. A life lesson for Ton!

Boys Be Brave! Episode 3