#its a rare and beautiful and grotesque thing

re: “oh no the pirate show watchers are making it Weird”– i think feeling like the one moderately-well-adjusted fan trapped in an outrageously embarrassing fandom is a tumblr rite of passage. if you haven’t wrung your hands and bitten your nails in agony watching freaks cosplay your blorbos and do absolutely horrendous things in broad daylight, then you haven’t yet felt the full spectrum of human emotion. there’s no pain quite like it. many moons ago, as a high school freshman who was trying to be normal about homestuck, i had the displeasure of seeing the sharpie bath fiasco first make its rounds on this site’s once pristine and untrodden fandom fields, and so help me god all of you shall suffer in kind someday