Yeah, fuck no.

Oh no, hopefully it’s just a small issue.

cute pickle socks

cute tomato socks

attention knitters!

through Feb 1st, 100% of pattern sales go to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (www.ilcm.org/donate/)
she's covering transaction fees and her donations will be matched!

her two patterns are here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/sou...

I will, if I can remember how to fandom.

My last cross stitch project was decades ago, but I just bought a Stardew Valley cross stitch pattern. Which, uh, means new materials.

I guess now I’m not only a yarn and fabric hoarder, I’ll have to add floss as well.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Excellent! I’ve been there, nothing worse than heating problems in winter.

I will always remember GYZYM fondly!

name: ohfreckle, sanami276 (if you remember this, you’re ancient)

major fandoms: HP, bandom/FOB, Inception, Thorki, Shadowhunters, Star Trek, Hannibal, James Bond

stuff i do: i write. not so much in recent years bc of rl, but heated rivalry might change that.

HELLO FANDOM PALS 👋 i'm DYLAN but you may also know me as (regrettably) GYZYM. i've lost track of TOO MANY PEOPLE in the chaos of these last few years of Being Online. if you have too, would you share this & reply with your fandom info? let's try to find each other and some joy here in hell!

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

I need to charge it first, but I think it‘s a Kindle 10, about 5 years old. 4 GB of storage, I think.

Let me know if you can‘t find one on Craigslist!

I mostly wanted to get away from Amazon and their bullshit, but I‘ve grown to love my Kobo, especially the physical buttons. Way faster and more comfortable page turning this way.

Oh no! If you need a replacement, I have another Kindle I could send to you. I switched to Kobo, so it‘s sitting around unused.

The cover of my zine 'Iconic' about LiveJournal icons, a bunch of colorful 100x100 pixel images all set out in a grid "A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s"

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours!

Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

BRRRRRRRRMMM

I can‘t believe it‘s been 15 years. Still the fandom of my heart!

Tumblr post by user formlessvoidbeast on April 3, 2024: newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

I think about this Tumblr post a lot. Everyone who posts their writing should try channeling the energy of King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain

They work too well for me. I get push notifications all the time, even though I never turned them on. Weird.

Blind Guardian is the band of my heart 🩷

In a city where being a hero is a full-time job and your power comes from your fans, would you deny your feelings for fame? 💫💘

Starbright Agency is an upcoming queer-friendly romantic visual novel inspired by 90's magical girl anime, city pop, and idol culture✨🏙️

Do I even want to know?

I hope you can get some rest and peace ♥️♥️♥️

That's actually not how it is.

One month ago, CDU/CSU was expected to get more than 30% of votes; AfD went from 10% in the last election to now 20%. It's devastating that they got this many votes.

Good thing is that our democracy is (hopefully) strong enough not to form a coalition with nazis.

Absolutely

I didn't vote for Merz, but I agree with him on this. After all the bullshit Vance talked at the MSC, it's clear that this US administration, at best, doesn't see the EU as a partner, possibly even as an enemy.

It looks really cute on you 💚

I ignore the app for mine and it works just as well without.

please my ancient fandom hag soul is black and withered folks didn't code their own mulder/krychek geocities pages in the dark ages of the 90s to be disrespected this way

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? The money lenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can."

Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.