deniselavestal-deactivated20231: You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love
Archive for November, 2023
✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ They don’t have to be good words. ✏️ They don’t have to be many words. ✏️ They don’t have to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
shrimpmandan: Legit I think the reason why so many indie fandoms end up so fucking rancid so quickly is because you people are TERRIFIED of consuming anything on your own terms. In trying your hardest to “respect creator boundaries” you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cemeterything: cemeterything: i’ve got ghosts in my blood their names are turning into my father and turning into my mother and i do substances about it
telomeke: ceevee5: [ID text– An image textpost on Twitter by Tom @thomasduke98, posted 5:41PM UTC 6 November 2023. The image consists of a comment left on Tom’s Instagram by “silkstonevogue21” in response to a post about the movie “Call Me By Your Name”:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
brightlotusmoon: cryptotheism: gunsandfireandshit: sexhaver: how fucking funny would it be if the new tumblr monetization strategy of “employ the bare minimum amount of staff to keep the lights on and never update anything” actually ends up being the secret sauce[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sadly not. The web–hah– or more accurately social media is in a state of limbo right now between generations. The old field is rotting, but the new pasture has not yet been dug. My best recommendation is to sign up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thetoxiczombie: This panic happens like every few months.
waluigis-biggest-fan: blackheartbiohazards: So I guess the tumblr party is over 🤷 where IS everyone planning to go? What happened? Why is it over!?! I just got here! i’ve reblogged a couple posts about it since this one, if you wanna[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kuvirametalbender: songofyourself: sothisisablog: okay but please read the letter the founder has left on omegle.com, it is symptomatic of the larger internet breaking down “The battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on. Virtually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
photomatt: I think one fair criticism of our 600+ person-years of effort we’ve put in since the acquisition of Tumblr was that we were spread too thin. We spent a lot of time and effort on things that weren’t well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
photomatt: We have a contractual obligation to try to make Live as successful as possible through the end of the year, and we’ll do our best there. By January, aligned with the new more focused approached of Tumblr teams, we’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: *cackling* Yeah, honestly, based on the LJ example and others before, the only way tumblr fandom will disappear overnight is if the whole site goes down entirely and permanently… …which I don’t anticipate at this point based on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh… (some?) images on Pillowfort seem to be broken…. that’s not a good sign. Does pillowfort only host images for a certain amount of time?
jv: khaleesi: re: tumblr hello! I work in tech and here are some important things to know about “tumblr is going into maintenance mode.” please note I do not work at tumblr, I’ve just worked at tumblr-adjacent sort of companies[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
anneapocalypse: The thing about tumblr’s death knells is… it’s news, but it’s also not. We’ve been watching company after company try to make tumblr profitable and fail for like a decade now. We’ve had sign after sign that this site[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thebejeweledwatercat: blackheartbiohazards: thebejeweledwatercat: blackheartbiohazards: So I guess the tumblr party is over 🤷 where IS everyone planning to go? Though I haven’t been using it much, I’m still on aethy and discord. And looking into cohost. Cohost… that’s one I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
problem-shipper-backup: blackheartbiohazards: So I guess the tumblr party is over 🤷 where IS everyone planning to go? I’ll probably move to aethy full time when tumblr goes down, & probably join a sfw instance also Not a bad idea….
thebejeweledwatercat: blackheartbiohazards: So I guess the tumblr party is over 🤷 where IS everyone planning to go? Though I haven’t been using it much, I’m still on aethy and discord. And looking into cohost. Cohost… that’s one I haven’t checked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where to find us: aethy: blackheartbiohazards pillowfort: vriska dreamwidth: overlord_mordax bluesky: overlordmordax cohost: blackheart deviantart: doctorcorby ao3: Overlord_Mordax or thesavagesabretooth Please note: we are not currently very active on any of these sites, but we will end up becoming active[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I guess the tumblr party is over 🤷 where IS everyone planning to go?
Woof, yeah I just heard about this. It sucks, but we’re not that surprised… as for where to find us, honestly, we’ll just migrate where everybody else ends up going. We still have aethy, though we don’t use it much.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hi friends, we’re taking a mostly-break from tumblr while we work on our NaNoWriMo novel, so please don’t worry anything has happened to us! <3
withswords: cloudstation: That post that’s like “stop writing characters who talk like they’re trying to get a good grade in therapy” really blew the door wide open for me about how common it’s become for a character’s emotional intelligence to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dduane: Actually, I don’t think anyone’s ever asked me about this. 🙂 So no sweat. Briefly: I think you’re wise in not attempting wordcounting in this phase of dealing with an MS—or trying to push yourself into a structure so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thestuffedalligator: Mister Alfredo Linguini. A man who has found himself in a world of elegance and class he has never had the opportunity nor the ambition to pursue. The meteoric rise of this star in the culinary world has given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
girlytips: Everytime you feel too old to wear frilly styles, remember there is Candy Milky who runs the Candy Candy museum in Tokyo and still slays wearing lolita and girly fashion with age 71 (at the time of this post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gay-jewish-bucky: i miss “filler” episodes i miss when television seasons were longer i miss seeing character development that made their arcs make sense i miss shows flowing at a natural pace instead of constantly being bombarded with high stakes conflicts[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thedupshadove: thedupshadove: what-even-is-thiss: what-even-is-thiss: what-even-is-thiss: what-even-is-thiss: You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old. Like imagine you find a 7 year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
yaoist: if i never have to hear about how sexual assault is a “real world problem” and violence, torture, and murder are “fantasy problems” ever again it will still be too many. your experiences are not universal and are in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
watermelonwalks: blackheartbiohazards: last line tag I don’t normally do these, but I was unexpectedly tagged by @juliannepepper and figured I might as well! The last line that they posted (link) definitely made me curious about the story. here’s mine, from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cryptidize: Fuck It, Internet Guide Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you’d like an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
brightlotusmoon: brightlotusmoon: brightlotusmoon: pretentioussongtitle: boatsaplenty: ardwynna: codenamecesare: I saw some #discourse go by about how adults shouldn’t be in fandom writing about younger characters because it’s uncomfortable and gross to younger people to have adults ‘thinking about them’ in romantic/sexual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
transformativeworks: AO3 Celebrates 12 Million Posted Fanworks The Archive of Our Own has reached the milestone of 12 million published fanworks! Read more about how the archive works (and doesn’t) when it comes to algorithms, tags and bookmarks! https://otw.news/02c68e
3liza: powerburial: i love how theres no rules for pronouncing words in English, you literally just have to learn and hear someone say every single word if anyone is wondering why this is, it’s because they stopped teaching American children[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
basklin: I call Shuckles “Darling Noodle Rocks” nowadays.
clockadile: stele3: orlissa: fiora-miriel: hinochi-darenimo: takashi0: yourstrullyme: “binge-worthy show” man fuck that i want my shows one episode followed by a whole ass week of going a little insane over it with the people on my phone, writing fics theorizing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catmask: catmask: in the wintertime you can remove the FRZN status effect by drinking some warm tea… but WATCH OUT! you may be inflicted with SLEEP status effect instead
crownofstardustandbone: prismatic-bell: luesmainblog: versayse: chamomilewrites: blackheartbiohazards: “I like to write about it in fiction” does not mean “I desire it to happen in real life”, and never has. What you want to write about doesn’t necessarily mean anything about you,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
last line tag I don’t normally do these, but I was unexpectedly tagged by @juliannepepper and figured I might as well! The last line that they posted (link) definitely made me curious about the story. here’s mine, from my NaNo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
writing-prompt-s: The hero’s identity was accidentally revealed, but it turns out they are moderately poor, have no friends or family, and their civilian life is frankly…sad.
NaNo progress: 3,480 words today, done in 5 group sprints of 15 minutes each, between 9am and 10:45 excerpt: He stood, and his slender form suddenly loomed over me. He waved a gracious hand again. “It was ruined before you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
runawaymarbles: It was kind of a joke between me and a friend (“you wouldn’t judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people”) but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
t0bysrants: “why is your memory so bad?” “"Why are you always so out of it” “your like a completely different person!” See I have an explanation for this but I don’t think your gonna like the explanation
doctorcorby: I’m gonna get myself in fighting trimScope out every angle of unfair advantageI’m gonna bribe the officials, I’m gonna kill all the judgesIt’s gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage Our mother has been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
havingrevelations: oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fkasocks: Incredible things are happening in the master collection mod nexus
mrsmothmom: pajamasecrets: Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. OH MY GOD???
sygol: sygol: STOP APOLOGIZING FOR BEING WEIRD CONFORMITY IS NOT A VIRTUE, LOVE IS STOP SAYING YOU ARE “SO NORMAL” THE WORLD NEEDS YOU TO BE WEIRD ABOUT IT
3,100 words between 9am and 11:20am today for NaNo! excerpt: “Sir, pardon the intrusion– are you injured?” “And what business of it is yours if I am?” he growled with stern suspicion. A cloaked man hidden in an alleyway after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: bugbastard: prokopetz: Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God. Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
toonimal: You people keep making posts about being pro-kink and pro-weird nasty gay sex but then moments later you’re shaming fellow queers for ageplay or cnc or incest shipping and i’m sorry but it doesn’t fucking work like that. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cemeterything: after we have sex i’m lying in your arms when i’m like “hey can i tell you something?” and you’re like “sure” and you figure it’s going to be a love confession or something like that, but then i[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
telltaletypist: telltaletypist: it’s wild that virtually all modern digital infrastructure is built to constantly spy on us and harvast our data for advertising yet online advertsing is still basically worthless and nobody seems to actually be benefitting from all this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mackerelbones: this feeling…
lemon-wedges: No halloween art because their new outfits have been haunting me😭😭😭
nano day 1: 2,800 words. Wrote from 9am-Noon. Not a bad start to the project! The opening is definitely weak and will either need to be heavily re-written or preceded by a more punchy prologue. But that’s a draft 2[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Your first draft is like the “alpha” version of a video game. ⭐ It doesn’t have to be perfect– it doesn’t have to be good. ⭐ It’s not a finished product– no one is going to be judging your finished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lights are off kiddos, I’m headed to bed! 🎃🎃🎃 You may take one from the candy bowl 😉
Oooh! Always a pleasure to .eet the devil ;l happy Halloween 🎃♥️🎃 You get: the 1977 Halloween themed follow up to How the Grinch Stole Christmas– Halloween is Grinch Night.
thebaconsandwichofregret: 0v9: Btw that rule about not trusting how you feel after 4pm in the winter or 9pm in the summer (really we should just say after the sun goes down but whatever) is only about negative feelings. if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fair-itself: adobe-outdesign: I realize it’s just because they’re trying to introduce the audience to the concept of Pokemon and everything but nothing will ever be funnier to me than prof oak being like “these are creatures called Pokemon, they live in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
aye-write: It’s that time of year again!
Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 we spent the day with our partner too! You get: 1969 Rankin Bass special “Mad Monster Party!”