I'm not ready to face it Don't go saying goodbye There's a beauty in changes And I wanna try
Fandom was literally created for freaks by freaks. If you can't handle freaks in the freak hobby, then get out.
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.
MANDY MOORE and SHANE WEST as JAMIE SULLIVAN and LANDON CARTER A Walk To Remember (2002) dir. Adam Shankman
the philosophers of our time are on tumblr dot com
what terminally online looks like will depend on your primary platform. twitter brain worms look very different from tiktok brain worms and tumblr brain worms are a whole other species
trying to find more songs for the playlist like a hunter and gatherer