#just like physical letters!

[ponpox]

The ask feature on Tumblr is so funny to me truly the way of experiencing writing letters digitally. If you reply privately, just like a physical letter you have no way of knowing if the person ever received it or if they will ever reply. You don't have a proper message history beyond the latest message, everything beyond that is gone. Remarkable. Actual digital pen pals

#emailing doesnt hit the same with their Sent tab and Message History #every messaging app shows you if messages are sent and often also if the receiver has seen it #but not private reply on tumblr asks #I kinda love it #even though it's so outdated and unreliable #it's romantic and nostalgic #just like physical letters! #pontalks #tumblr

[fauvester]

welcoming cardassia’s newest alien doctor at the docking port!

au where they kept in contact via subspace letters and struck up an epistolary long distance relationship until julian took a position on cardassia prime to be with his bf..

#dee s 9 #garashir #theyve never even held HANDS we are at JANE AUSTEN LEVELS OF PHYSICAL REPRESSION #it’s all been This Is How You Win The Time War ass love letters and grainy space zoom calls #garak going in for a smile and a firm handshake. bashir like haha its spidermonkey time baby. thats love #this just in Castellan elect seen snogging IN PUBLIC with a ALIEN. with TONGUE #anyways I promise I can draw then in other views than Profile. but this has truly been How the cookie crumbles this month #and I do love their silhouettes… oof #i synthesize one meal on this ship and if you dont like it there's always gragh

[tsuchinokoroyale]

It’s so good to see you.

Lies of P (2023)

#I finished lying and penising for the last time… #I got the game for my PS5 after 100%ing it on game pass bc I was so impressed and obsessed I needed to get a physical copy #so I obviously had to 100% it again and I hilariously forgot to read a letter to unlock an achievement #so I had to play the game a FOURTH TIME since you only get the letter at the end and restarting the game wipes all letters from your bag #but that let me do something I LOVE doing with these shorter games #which is putting the effort to give these characters the best endings their quests allow #so I can leave the characters in the world with as much peace as I can #I also did this in majora’s mask with my final run of the game being about doing every single side quest I could and beating ever boss #so that termina would be as peaceful as it would be once the mask was destroyed and skull kid freed #that being said wearing the alidoro mask led to an unintentionally hilarious semi final cutscene #a tear is supposed to roll down your face at one point but instead it was just a completely still super close shot of the dog mask #and I burst out laughing like nooooooo #luckily I’ve scene the ending like 3 times already but can you imagine if that was the only time I’d seen it 😂 #I one rounded nameless puppet this time I truly felt like a god I’m so grateful for neowiz for making this game its been so fun #even after beating it like 7 times I know I’ll be playing it again one day and I’m gonna be a preorder ho for the Lies of series #the DLC and sequel can’t come soon I’m so in love with this game I need to eat it #Lies of P #video games #lies of p sophia #lies of p carlo

[designsdefiance]

day 21: lost

it's bad enough being in a new world totally alien to her. to not recognise her sister? agonising. unbearable.

#ffxiv #miqomarch #seeker of the sun #gpose #miqo'te #shadowbringers spoilers #oc: m'seyli #oc: m'kipfhi #i've been thinking a loooot about the two of them in the first it causes me physical pain #bc kipfhi went shortly after/around the same time as thancred #and she was like. 12/13ish #teenagers change a LOT in 5 years! #to have this initial moment of. someone is calling your name (and dropping the tribal letter! which she doesn't let a lot of people do!) an #running towards you at mach speed and clearly knows who you are and you have this brief moment #of 'who the hell is this person' before it dawns on you that it's /your sister/ who you have never been apart from for more than a few week #at most since she was born #and like it's not just that she's grown up physically. she's an entirely different person to the girl she was like. a month ago to you. #bc again!!! teenagers change a lot!!!! and she's grown up in the fuckin apocalypse #and like kipfhi too. she's been DESPERATE for seyli to get here and has been standing there just like. vibrating in excitement over finally #getting to see her again. and seyli's not very good at hiding when she's feeling off about something and everything is /so/ off. #their bond is strong enough that they can get through it but it's rough for a hot second. #anyway im very normal about shadowbringers

[radioactive-earthshine]

😑 none of the digital copies of Impulse I can find or own have the letters at the end.

#not feeling like grabbing my physical copies to read #they are heavy in a box #just to look at the letters to see if there is anything interesting

[wright-phoenix]

last belated tag game, i promise

tagged by @dilfbuck and @opaleyedprince and @strixhaven! thank you!!

URL Song Game:

W — World So Cold - Fire From The Gods [YT, flash warning] R — Rule #13 Waterfall - Fish in a Birdcage [YT] I — iGhost - MNQN [YT] G — Grapes - James Marriott [YT] H — Hexie Mountains - Orville Peck [YT] T — The Tower - Drama Moth [YT] P — Please, Just Breathe - Written by Wolves [YT, flash warning] H — His Hands - Blegh [YT] O — OUROBOROS - Former Vandal [YT] E — Everglow - Starset [YT] N — Not Yet / Love Run (Reprise) - The Amazing Devil [YT] I — I Want to Live - Borislav Slavov [YT] X — XO - EDEN [YT]

6 Songs on Repeat:

Masterpiece Theatre III - Marianas Trench [YT] So Much (For) Stardust - Fall Out Boy [YT] Cold Reactor - Everything Everything [YT] Long Time Friends - The Living Tombstone [YT] 成歩堂龍一 ～異議あり！ 2001 - Masakazu Sugimori [YT] 逆転裁判3 〜スペシャルブレンドミックス - Capcom Sound Team [YT]

tagging: @woohooincoffin @spiderslyre @notmeowse @thesem @vanoefucks

(sorry if i tagged anyone who already did it, also feel free to ignore or only do one of these!)

#P ? #PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT #(Rock Is.) #physically holding myself back to put a starset song everywhere. btw mnqn is starset's singer's side project #do you know how hard it is to choose One Song Per Letter when you're as allergic to making decisions as i am #there are so many songs.... #technically masterpiece theatre 1 through 3 are on my rotation and like 5 different ace attorney soundtracks #first and foremost the whole piano album #but i thought i'd give other current rotations a chance on that list #tag games #i usually put youtube links bc i assume everyone has access to youtube but not everyone uses spotify #but i saw everyone else uses spotify links so.....i also did #but just in case....youtube links too IDK #whoever even clicks thru these i dont know if anyone does but JUST IN CASE #fish in a birdcage's drunk on pride/calmity/man-o-war are also bangers #and more but these r amongst my favs

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Sometimes I see sexuality or gender headcanons about characters and im just like dude im pretty sure they don't know what half those words mean

#random thoughts #'robbie valentino is panromantic demisexual' he looks like a self-described emo kid who would call me slurs in high school #yeah sure MAYBE he's those things but does he have the words for them? absolutely fucking not are you kidding me #and even if he did he would NOT use them. he's like those cishhet girls who make out with other cishet girls when they're drunk #he'd have like one homoerotic penpal througout high school and they're sending each other letters like it's the fucking victorian age #practicing calligraphy and shit (it's just cursive but even more completely illegible) #robbie DOES give off demisexual energy though. he'd just call it having taste #and he would bully people in his school who call themselves that #not like physically but emotionally. mean girl energy. #honestly the gravity falls teen friend group gives off that super emotionally abusive energy #like they talk shit about other people in their school and think they're above everyone else #except thompson he just gets like really quiet and awkward #let's be real robbie had an antagonistic relationship with a fucking twelve year old he's not thinking about gender or sexuality #he'll think about it for like five seconds before going 'that was weird let's go make flamethrowers out of old hairspray cans' #he would make fun of gender non-conforming students to distract people from the fact he's wearing eyeliner #he puts on eyeliner for the first time like 'huh. time to push this to the back of my brain for the next five years' #also robbie dyes his hair. that's canon. unrelated but i think it's funny #gravity falls #his middle name is fucking stacey???

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

she is THE time machine <3

#i was looking for what time machine is in french and when i put machine temporelle into google dutch wikipedia came up #which is funny bc this page doesnt even exist in french? #but theres also some physics article from 2017 that uses machine temporelle so im gonna assume it's a real word #and use it #bc im not using 'machine à voyager dans le temps' im sorry #it's good for my word count maybe but can you imagine if they had to say all that every time? #i like french a lot but i dont like how many words it uses to say anything #french is like why use 1 word when 4 will do #just make up some words im begging you all this circumlocution is making me nuts #it doesnt gel with my writing style At All #missy voice: im cutting to the chase babey im streamlining im saving us a c t u a l minutes #missy when she needs to say 'machine à voyager dans le temps' every time: okay so we're not doing that #ursula voice: im a very busy lady and i havent got all day #missy writing a letter to the academie français: im a TIME LADY. do you udnerstand #do you understand how using a minimum of 6 SIX words every time i refer to my vehicle is funnily enough a waste of my time? #im sure we can do something about this #and if not im sure your successor can <3

[nitw]

why do you gotta tell me the same thing THRICE if it's still not out for delivery!!

#leo.txt #it's EXACTLY 15 kilometers away from my home by car! i checked!!!!!! you are so unserious i swear to god #fedex denmark do you not deliver on thursdays or fridays??? hm???? im pretty sure you do?????????????? #like come on im this close to just walking out to your storage facility and pick it up by myself! and i'm a lazy asshole with adhd!!!! #denmark is so teeny tiny you could just like THROW THE THING and ill catch it with my mouth like a dog with a frisbee ITS NOT THAT HARD #this package is essential to my life! not really! but you ARE actively killing and murdering me and kicking me in the nuts by withholding i #and yknow what????? you guys don't even deliver it to my house half the time anyway!!! you just get confused because theres 2 doors #and youre like 'lol whatever not my problem' and send it to the kiosk instead! #BUT you never even send it to the NEAREST KIOSK THAT'S LIKE 2 SECONDS AWAY #you ALWAYS send it to the one that's WAYYYYY FURTHER AWAY FOR SOME REASON #what did the other poor storeowner do to you??? why do you hate and mistreat both of us so? isn't life hard enough as it is? #we literally PRINTED OUT A SIGN and TAPED IT TO THE GLASS OF /BOTH FRONT DOORS/ #with INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAILMEN #telling you that if the package is too big to fit in the mailbox to the rightmost entrance #then just CALL THE DOORPHONE and you'll immediately be let inside #so you can leave it in the entrance!!!! #WE MADE YOU A SIGN! IT'S FOR YOU!!!! THAT WAS SO NICE OF US #and yet you still just leave us in the dust (THE DUST???) (the DUST.......) #and whenever one of my packages gets sent to the kiosk anyway IT OFTEN TAKES SEVERAL DAYS FOR MY LETTER OF NOTICE TO ARRIVE #/AS A PHYSICAL PAPER LETTER. IN THE MAIL. BY YOU/ #LITERALLY 1984 #SEND POST

[dreadfutures]

I say this as someone with mental disabilities, sometimes you just gotta take the L and do it. Maybe it'll cost you and send you into negative spoons but sometimes you gotta. We have a human debt we owe to one another and we have to fight for each other.

Disabilities make things hard to do safely, without pain, etc. Where you can, seek accomodations, ask for help, live your life, and do good in the world in the ways you can.

What we can't do with our disabilities? We can't sit here and wallow and use them as a shield.

#this is a separate issue from activism fatigue #this is a separate issue from curating your fandom experience #this is specifically about using anxiety depression social awkwardness whatever disability as a reason to never do anything #if you cant call then email #if you cant write the email use the gd scripts and buttons people have made for this very purpose #at some point you just need to admit you dont want to help and dont view it as important enough #and in that case? take the moral L and just be quiet instead of bemoaning how your disability means you can't do anything #honestly it's insulting to disabled activists physical or otherwise who find ways to help make our movements run #to be deleted #like full disclosure ive chickened out of going to protests! #i try to find other ways to support things #if i cant or decide not to do something #or i ask for help #idk man #sometimes walking in person to deliver a negotiation letter to your Boss is as scary as jumping in front of a bullet #i know!!!! #but it's gotta happen!!! and if you're not with us who is???? and if you're not with us who will be there with you???

[adhd-languages]

Any time someone tells me their name I reply with the most unhinged nonsense.

Yesterday I met someone named John and I replied, “Oh, like the Baptist?”

#who does that #this is not the worst I’ve done #<Thomas> the tank engine? #<Charlotte but you can call me Char> like charmander!:) #<Finn> the human (I can’t seem to stop saying this. I’ve met so many Finns) #<Katrina> hah you’re like four letters away from being a cat girl #(at least I’d known her for a bit and didn’t say that one immediately upon meeting her. I thought it though) #off theme sorry but I just needed to turn my physic damage from saying <Oh like the Baptist> because what the hell #Quinn posts

[romaritimeharbor]

inauzma has to be one of my least favorite nations and it honestly might be because of how flashy it can get,, and I usually love thunder but that plus a couple of the enemies like the dogs have to be the bane of my existence </3 which nation would you consider to be your favorite, though?

yeah, i totally can understand that!! inazuma is just very sensory UNfriendly. on top of that, i'm pretty sure i have a migraine disorder (either that OR my frequent headaches are a symptom of my Mysterious Condition that is not diagnosed yet...... which is very possible!). i cannot enter any of the stormy islands in inazuma without wanting to pull my hair out, it genuinely makes my head hurt so bad. and the fact that you can't turn the flashing off is crazy? like??? who designed that nation bc i would like to have a little "chat" with them 😇🫶

but my favorite nation? mondstadt always and forever <3 mond is very gentle on the eyes and sensory friendly for me. i love mondstadt so much. it may also be that i've always felt very connected to the wind since i was a small child so mondstadt is a very special nation to me hehe. just. a very special and silly nation. always have a place for mond in my heart. 🙏🙏

#✧— aphe's letters from vel. #i LOVEEEEEEE thunderstorms in every game except genshin #i love thunderstorms irl actually. #but for some reason all of the ones in genshin (including non-inazuma thunderstorms albeit to a lesser degree) make me physically ill #also inazuma enemies <<<< #they are the worst actually. i agree #inazuma is so pretty but it's like. so uncomfortable and literally PAINFUL for me to explore #sigh. accessibility. or the lack thereof. #just let me turn off the flashing pleaseeee

[pochapal]

so kanon also saw it, you say. huh. isn't that interesting.

#umineko liveblog #ep1 reread #so both shannon and kanon state that they have witnessed evidence of the golden witch. hmmmmmmmmm #or wait. technically shannon hasn't seen the butterflies and wisps at this stage but kanon has going by her behavior in 1-9 #so kanon sees the physical evidence and shannon turns that into metaphysical evidence #could it be that beatrice is a shadow play put on by these two for their own specific aims? #like. it's driving me insane how in the preamble to the first domino falling shannon and kanon are like. equally being suspicious #it feels like right now either one would be equally likely to instigate #like. before the events of 1-7 and beyond make it clear that kanon is the logical culprit behind the letter/umbrella event #and we're presented to a side of shannon that removes her from the witch narrative by a few degrees #once the ball starts rolling things change but before that happens we're in this position instead #it's just really Weird how suspect shannon is in these earlier scenes and how that stops the minute 'beatrice''s scheme starts

[bucketofchum]

Im still a big romantic but definitely less romantic than I used to be

#LMAO the chatting today got me thinking about crazy ass shit i did #so full disclosure #i had no romantic attraction to these girls #but like #I'd just rizz em up so fucking good #because it made me happy to make them happy #and it just made me feel good to make them feel good #I'd write like #actual letters #like imagine receiving an actual physical letter from some random boy online who has been nothing but respectful to you #i had no interest in like ulterior motives sexy shit - i just wanted to make them happy lmao #i was truly a chaotic romantic force in the world #someone lock up this tiny romantic boy for sweet talking internet girls 5-10 years older

[whysopasta]

So House of Leaves Appendix II-E is a collection of letters sent to one of the protagonists (Johnny Truant) by his institutionalized mother over the course of his adolescence and teenage years. I have so many thoughts about this part of the book but they're hard for me to articulate right now. It made me feel love and grief and loss and it made me sob with my head in my hands. Goodnight Pelafina, you're free now.

#whysopasta textpost #house of leaves #hol is full of these stories within stories but pelafina's stands apart #but nonetheless still intertwined with the rest of the story through her impact on Johnny #footnotes like oh yeah go check out appendix ii d and e for some background on johnny #and im like okay :) not realizing im about to read the most impactful part of the book yet #the way you have to read that one. that one in particular that's nonsense but you have to take the first letter of each word #how that part is so drawn out bc of the way you have to read it #how the book forces you into johnnys shoes by making you write out the true (and horribly sad) coded message #physically getting the reader involved #and the action of having to write it out yourself both extends it and emphasizes it #the book makes it impossible to just skim through quickly. you have to sit in it. #and how the letter reads like nonsense but in decoding it those words stand out and are given meaning by the true message #and how sometimes the the first letter of a word you're writing is the same as the word it's found in and how that makes those words stand u #out* #man. man

[emmaspolaroid]

I will probably keep rearranging/adding to this shelf until I die idk

#acquired another bookcase for the den so TPN finally has this shelf back to itself again as god intended #light novels English release WHEN … cowards #they know I would be too powerful if I had a physical copy of A Letter From Norman #my bf got me that owl lol when he gave it to me he just presented it to me and said ‘like Athena right!’