You've got to think about all the things you like and decide whether they're worth sticking around for.
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{aimmyarrowshigh}
V. 36. Lesbian/Queer. Jewish. She/Her/Hers. Editor.
You like spaghetti, George? I like spaghetti. I like board games. I like grabbing a trifecta with that long shot on top... that ozone smell you get from air purifiers... and I like knowing the space between my ears is immeasurable... Mahler's first, Bernstein conducting. You've got to think about all the things you like and decide whether they're worth sticking around for. And if they are, you'll find a way to do this. And what if I don't? Then you go away, and you don't get to like anything anymore.
100 TUMBLR DRABBLE CHALLENGE: DRA666LES → 10/100100 Drabbles from this prompt list.100 Star Wars Women Drabbles → 93/100100 drabbles about Star Wars women.lent from tomorrow (today was too small for us) → 50,000/~90,000Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes shrinkyclinks WWII A/B/Oin screaming color → 79,238/~120,000Poe Dameron/Rey (Star Wars) get a lot of therapy and fall in love.Wish You Were Here → 42,195/100,000Nile/Booker (The Old Guard) slow burn...
testimonials
[V. Arrow] has clearly established herself as both a titan of fan academia and as an honest, passionate, and dedicated... authority and aficionado."
-- Fanboy Comics (Fanbase Press)
[V. Arrow] takes ... theoretical exploration to the heights of pop-culture academia."
-- Booklist
An essay by scholar V. Arrow... continues, there's no reason why RPF has to be looked down upon: after all, Julius Caesar was based on a similar idea." -- Time Magazine
I've perused a lot of the maps out there... and this one, created by Livejournalers aimmyarrowshigh and badguys is perhaps the best one I've seen. It's both creative and meticulously justified based on Collins' text." -- Entertainment Weekly
V has to be right; the boy band butt psychic said it." -- pinkalldaypinkallnight
Overall, I want to get on aimmyarrowshigh's level of 'idgaf about what old white cis men have to say about pop/teen culture.'" -- persimmonlions
I’m V aimmyarrowshigh, she/her/hers, 36. The fandoms I currently post the most about are the MCU (especially Captain America and Wanda) and Star Wars, but I post extremely varied content – I do tag everything, so your blacklist should work with the basic name(s) of whatever you don’t want to see. You’re probably here for…
If you’re not here for drabbles, you may be looking for my graphics tag, my askbox, or my fanfiction tag. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, send me an ask and I’ll point you at the thing if I can. :)
WOMAN. HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU'RE POSTING LENT FROM TOMORROW AND I'M JUST GIDDILY SHRIEKING MY FUCKING LUNGS OUT AND I GET TO BOOKMARK IT AND SEE EVERYBODY ELSE GET TO ENJOY IT AND COMMENT ON IT ANDAIlGUARhfOIHliHUHUlAFUK!!! *dissolves into a very proud and delighted puddle of foam* I'm so proud of yoooooou, and I'm super fucking jazzed about it and I hope you're so proud and happy with it too. (And I also really like the date you chose to start posting it ❤❤❤❤😘🥳)
Thank you so much! I’m so excited to post it and I hope that it meets your expectations!
Lent From Tomorrow (today was too small for us) by aimmyarrowshigh
archiveofourown.org/works/48337372
1942. The war in Europe drags on. Genius omega Steve Rogers despairs ever being able to help the Allies - until a British beta offers him a unique opportunity: break codes, and stop the Nazis in their tracks. Recruited from his humdrum solitary life in Brooklyn, Steve finds himself embroiled in the secret world of Washington intelligence. As he pours through code, unearthing valuable intel that saves thousands of Allied soldiers’ lives, Steve makes a remarkable, horrifying discovery: a hidden code specific to something called The Asset.
Wherever the Asset is mentioned, casualties follow. In an effort to stop the carnage, Allied commandos track down the Asset and bring it to DC… where Steve discovers it isn’t an it at all, but a damaged, distressed, and destructive Alpha who smells like everything Steve’s ever wanted and can never have.
Frustrated by the Asset’s inability to communicate, Steve launches himself into cracking the code of what makes this Alpha tick, and what he discovers will change the world.
This is the best thing I’ve ever written, and I’ve been working on it for two years this week. Happy birthday in T-minus 90 minutes, Steve. I really hope that you all enjoy it and love small smart Steve as much as I do!
Happy 10th year of me doing this dorky comic! Hope people don’t mind the fact that I haven’t really dabbled in Cap stuff for a few years, except for my weird yearly July 4th ritual. On AO3 here, and tumblr tag here. (2022 was about Dobbs, 2020 was about seeing the stars, 2019 was about building new systems, 2018 was about voting, 2017 was about immigration.)
Lots of posts out there on the 2023 Minnesota legislative session, but here’s the OG tumblr roundup post.
California is trying to divest its two largest pension funds from fossil fuels, but apparently today they decided to table it until next year. :/ I guess more meetings are needed! (productive ones, not ones that could have been an email.)
Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.
You ever have that one ship, that one ship that makes you complete shipper trash. That one ship that you basically, eat, breathe, and sleep that ship. It’s the ship that’s on your mind when you wake up, and it’s the last thing on your mind before you go to bed. That one ship that just makes you curl up into a ball when your thinking about happy, fluffy, sad, angsty headcanons. It’s the ship that you love anything in the whole world and that you’d do anything to protect your precious baby.
As @staff further refine the polls while they’re rolling them out (still haven’t gotten mine sadly), here’s a suggestion of mine: Polls with a ten year time limit.
As of right now, it’s impossible for polls to turn into long-running legendary posts. You can try, sure (see the bug race), but it’s a week and then it’s locked, fixed, done, and all that’s left is for people to reminisce about that time there was a poll.
On the other hand, if a ten year poll gets popular, it can become part of Tumblr lore while still being updated. People can write passionate appeals for their vote and fight in the notes. Others can make graphs to show how the poll’s majorities shift with each different US president or Taylor Swift album. People can make memes about “remember 2025, when option 3 was in the lead? That was a crazy time”.
Why ten years, though, instead of a hundred or just no time limit? Because that way, the end becomes an event. People who voted in the poll when it was just a few hours old can watch the final countdown together, and there’s a new point in Tumblr history: That day when we finally all agreed on the best option, and presumably also some important political stuff happened.
Now, granted, most ten year polls would never reach this level of notoriety. But it only takes a few polls like this to be worthwhile. Maybe this shouldn’t be an option for users to select, but something the Tumblr website grants/pushes on you at random?
So, yeah. Ten year polls. They should be a thing.
Can you imagine the chaos of a 10 year poll with the options
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Lock
Can you imagine
the chaos of a 10 year
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Lent From Tomorrow (today was too small for us) by aimmyarrowshigh
archiveofourown.org/works/48337372
1942. The war in Europe drags on. Genius omega Steve Rogers despairs ever being able to help the Allies - until a British beta offers him a unique opportunity: break codes, and stop the Nazis in their tracks. Recruited from his humdrum solitary life in Brooklyn, Steve finds himself embroiled in the secret world of Washington intelligence. As he pours through code, unearthing valuable intel that saves thousands of Allied soldiers’ lives, Steve makes a remarkable, horrifying discovery: a hidden code specific to something called The Asset.
Wherever the Asset is mentioned, casualties follow. In an effort to stop the carnage, Allied commandos track down the Asset and bring it to DC… where Steve discovers it isn’t an it at all, but a damaged, distressed, and destructive Alpha who smells like everything Steve’s ever wanted and can never have.
Frustrated by the Asset’s inability to communicate, Steve launches himself into cracking the code of what makes this Alpha tick, and what he discovers will change the world.
This is the best thing I’ve ever written, and I’ve been working on it for two years this week. Happy birthday in T-minus 90 minutes, Steve. I really hope that you all enjoy it and love small smart Steve as much as I do!
Troubled kids, unite! This week, V and Emily – well, okay, this week, V basically recaps the Percy Jackson series for Emily, because eighteen years ago this week, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was released and fandom got a new fave (good riddance to a certain magical wizarding school). However, V and Emily do have some words for Rick about his complete inability to understand children’s ages when creating, say, love triangles, or cool guys. Are you in the PJO fandom? Which Greek god is your parent?
This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!
This episode is sort of like my old “let me tell you about a fandom I don’t know” meme, except it’s a fandom I DO know VERY well, and it’s out loud.
