#via text

[drinkthebones]

Meanwhile...

Follow up to Consequences? To my actions?: what Mina’s busy with while Lucy’s panicking. Featuring Mina and Jonathon sweet talking: Die (affectionate). Get wrecked (affectionate).

Plus a happy ending for the quad (quouple?)

A win for polyamory  •  How dare  •  Character Portrait Sheet

#mina harker #jonathan harker #lucy westenra #via text #dracula #dracula daily #drac u law #my art #fanart #dracula fanart #dracula daily art #comic #fan comic #video games #i feel like they're playing overcooked #did you know you can shove your teammates off the edges? #the first panel is infinitely funnier if they're playing a cooperative game #jonathan Harker's socks are novelty rugrats socks

[chickwiththepurpleguitar]

okayyy sickfic adjacent prompts pt 1: carrie + asleep on the couch?

Here you go, my love, enjoy!

This takes place in my standing on the edge series, but can totally be read as a standalone post-canon.

Send me prompts (I only need like 6 more for the month!)

Carrie’s just gotten back from her morning run— hair in a bouncy high ponytail, a healthy sheen of sweat covering her exposed skin, MARINA still playing at a safe but heart-pumping volume through her airpods— when her dad corners her in the front hallway.

It’s clearly too early for him to be awake and coherent— he’s still in his luxury silk pajamas, his hair hanging limply around his face as a black sleep mask sits on his forehead. He’s got a jumbo mug of coffee in his hand, and he takes a sip, staring Carrie down, and says around the rim, “You have a visitor on the couch.”

Carrie takes her headphones out. “A visitor? It’s six o’clock in the morning.”

Her dad just sweeps an arm toward the den, and with a roll of her eyes, Carrie leads the way.

“Oh my god,” she says a minute later.

She really shouldn’t be surprised. Her 6am visitor is Nick, and not only is he on her couch, but he’s asleep on it, drowning in clothes too big for him, which means they’re Willie’s, and clutching a decorative throw pillow like it’s a teddy bear.

“He showed up about ten minutes after you left,” her dad reports from over her left shoulder, slurping his coffee annoyingly in her ear. “Didn’t feel like talking, but then again, neither did I cause it was four fucking thirty.”

Carrie rolls her eyes. He makes a big deal out of this stuff like it dragged him out of bed, when more likely, he hadn’t actually fallen asleep yet. “Well, thanks for letting him in,” she says, because she says things like that now. “You can go back to sleep, I’ve got him.”

Trevor grunts. “Greta’s in at seven, make sure you both eat something.” And then he heads for the stairs, throwing back the rest of his coffee in one gulp.

Once he’s gone, Carrie lets out a long sigh and looks her visitor over. There could be any number of reasons why Nick’s here so early, but the most obvious of them is that he just couldn’t sleep, so she’d hate to wake him.

Instead, she tucks a blanket over him and goes to shower, re-emerges an hour plus later in clean sweats and freshly blow-dried hair curled over one shoulder. She doesn’t bother with makeup or cute clothes, not when she doesn’t have plans to leave the house today, not when it’s just her dad and their private chef and Nick here to see her.

He’s still asleep when she comes back into the den, and she can hear Greta setting up her supplies in the kitchen, so Carrie goes to greet her— Greta’s a cheek-kisser, the only reason Carrie can stand it is cause her food is delicious— and orders two strawberry protein smoothies and a vegan omelet for Nick. 

“I make you one, too,” Greta insists in accented English, already taking out two blocks of tofu, and Carrie doesn’t have the energy to argue.

She returns to the den and finally sits down, tucked into the corner so that Nick’s socked feet just touch her thigh. She runs a hand over his ankle, trying to give him some comfort even in his sleep, and then pulls out her phone.

It’s too early to text Nick’s dads (adults always have their ringers on at night, though, so really they deserve what’s coming to them), and Willie, like an idiot, still won’t let any of his lifer friends buy him a cell phone, so she texts Alex: Nick’s at my place, not sure who knows.

Thanks, he texts back. I’ll tell Willie if he comes looking for him.

She sends him a heart emoji and then a middle finger emoji, just to keep things interesting, and then puts her phone away.

She looks at Nick. His mouth is hanging open, a tiny sliver of drool dribbling onto the blanket, and his cheeks are a little flushed from the imprint of the couch. She knows she’s gonna have to wake him up soon, to get some food in him and see if he’s ready and able to talk about what sent him over here at the ass crack of dawn.

But for now, he looks peaceful, and she knows he hasn’t been getting nearly enough sleep since he got unpossessed.

She won’t disturb him yet. At least he’s safe here with her. At least he felt comfortable asking to nap on her couch when he needed it.

“Love you, babe,” she says to his sleeping form, and at least she can say that now and really mean it.

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#jatp #julie and the phantoms #jatp fanfiction #fanfiction #nick danforth-evans #kinda #he's there he's just asleep the whole time #carrie wilson #trevor wilson #alex mercer #via text

[greywalkerpi]

just found out today that I'm not going to have a job by the end of the year

#personal #via text #work is closing for business and we're all out of a job #cool

[joy-drops]

#i was gonna make this a text post but thought #why would i do that when i can make it easily consumable via meme #tbh love this format its so easy and hits the spot #My Wish Is to Fall in Love Until You Die #Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai #my memes #my bs

[bizarrelittlemew]

Stede facing the crew after finding out about their (attempted) murder of Ed

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 2x3 #stede bonnet #izzy hands #rhys how fucking dare you this devastated me #experiencing shrimp emotions about this #it's like he can see how they felt they had no other choice #but he has nothing to say to them #just that fucking look containing a mix of emotions i can't convey via text

[jeansyvesmoreau]

man people from this country are so fucking cool

#ace week #asexual #aroace tag* #alt text via transscriptual #1k* #2k*

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[copepods]

maybe the real ultrakill is the ultra we killed along the way

#from what i gather the rainworld/ultrakill fandom venn diagram is a circle #so i keep seeing ultrakill posts but idk anything about it #which i kind of like. trying to find out the plot of something via art and memes is fun #text #ultrakill

[third-person-omniscient-drama]

People: Oh girl! You are positively glowing! What’s your beauty secret?

Me: My ex-boyfriend’s regret.

#i’ve really lost my way without you #he says #via text #a year and a half after he says he wanted to be alone #that text is an affirmation #for the person I used to be #for the person who had to fight very very hard to be whole again #I was temporarily defeated #but I was never lost #breakups #exboyfriend

[pansylair]

☀️ pterosaur chatter ☀️

cone 5.5 ceramic stoneware, underglaze, glaze, and also made with love 💛

#ceramics #sculpture #handbuilding #pterosaurs #paleoart #available via my gallery i mentioned earlier ^^ #id in alt text

[whumpacabra]

Writing Accessibility PSA

Please avoid using long strings of characters as line breaks in your writing - these are not screen reader/TTS friendly!

Every ‘°’ will be read as ‘degree’ - can you imagine how long it takes to read out a string of 25? Let alone more complicated combinations of characters (eg. imagine listening to TTS read out ~*~ |°| ~*~ multiple times per line break)?

A good rule of thumb is to stick with short, 2-3 character line breaks (eg. I don’t find — or *** too egregious to listen to). Your readers can tell there’s been a scene change whether you use two or twenty em-dashes, but if you use twenty, some of us might have to listen for 30 seconds to read the next scene. If you’re more concerned about aesthetics, you can insert an image of your aesthetically pleasing line break with alt text simply reading ‘line break’ for accessibility.

Don’t feel bad if this is something you’ve never thought about before - now you know better and can make your writing more accessible moving forward!

I would like to invite any other screenreader users to add their own thoughts or preferences to this post. We’re not a monolith and there’s a variety to how different softwares interact with repeating character strings and images with alt text, so there’s bound to be some conflicting opinions on what I’ve suggested above. Let’s try to make the stories we share accessible for everyone :]

#writing #accessibility #line breaks #linebreaks #screen readers #tts #text to speech #whump community #<- applicable to any digital writing but tagging for my own reference. as this is my whump blog. #maybe I’m old but back in my day there was a little kerfuffle about how many people kept using complicated character string linebreaks #on ao3 which has a native line break you can insert via html #I don’t know if you can still do that on tumblr desktop with all the changes recently so I’ve been sticking to my trusty — #this is all in good faith no harm no foul and I’m not a cop so do what you want with your linebreaks. #I’m just putting this out there because it wasn’t something I really thought about before using a screenreader myself

[gerardwayoftheday]

Today is Saturday, January 6th, 2024. Have a refreshing weekend and enjoy your Gerard Way of the day.

#gerard way of the day #id in alt text #buona befana to those who celebrate #l’epifania tutte le feste porta via #my italian is horrible was that okay #LOL

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

#they have this convosation atleast once a week #some couples go on dates #they go into denial #<3 #also the idea of them texting eachother is so unreasonably funny to me #like if i saw a roadman start sending letters via pigeon?? #I think hannibal would see emails as stooping #texts? #only beacause Will started texting him when he gave him his number and ifc he couldnt just NOT text back #oh god i know this man knows nothing about texting culture #and i KNOW he signs each one off with his full name like Holt from b99 #anywayyssss #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #netflix #hannibal netflix #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #renew hannibal #revive hannibal #hannibal crack #hannibal incorrect quotes

[librarycards]

PSA for all who hate censorship and live in Florida!

Banned Books USA is offering a free (only pay for shipping) commonly-banned/challenged books in FL. These range from kids to adults, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. They'll keep sending them as long as they can afford it, so please donate if you have the means, and share with those who could benefit from it, especially educators and those who care for kids.

Here are just a few from the list that I recommend:

Toni Morrison, Beloved and The Bluest Eye

Marcus Ewert, 10,000 Dresses

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Junji Ito, The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Mariko & Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

Tillie Walden, Spinning

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

#mine #book rec #found this via electric lit's newsletter(which i also recommend) and wanted to share! #described #id in alt text

[teddys-draft]

#love #desiblr #couple #desi tumblr #cnc k!nk #desi #text post #teddytells #txt #desi academia #my txt #txt post #via twitter #love quote #love letters #love langauges

[4ln-stay8]

I NEED SOMEONE TO MAKE A FAKE TEXT REACTION TO BF LEE KNOW FOR GUCCI!!!! PLS I BEG YOU 😭😭

#via talks #skz texts #skz fake texts #stray kids texts #stray kids fake texts #lee know texts