#I cannot believe I have been running this blog for 10 years

[bladerunnerfanatic]

Here's to 10 more years!!! (Unless Tumblr gets shut down in the intervening years. Or I decided to quit.)

#I cannot believe I have been running this blog for 10 years #blade runner fanatic #blade runner #harrison ford #ridley scott #fireworks #anniversary #happy 10th anniversary #science fiction #sci fi

[broodingheroine]

tmagp 10 thoughts

oooo what happened on saturday night

oh are we going right in??

talk show?????

BONZO! (I know nothing abt the arg but this and the institute list)

"nigels SOS" is..... interesting.

he was...... imprisoned in the basement by the "imaginary" head of channel 6. do I even need to explain my thoughts on that one.

"you've got buried!" what the fuck. (in hindsight this might be berried not buried but I'll check the transcript later)

you can't remember who came up with the name mr bonzo. deeply unsettling.

the laugh track in this is weird. like it's not in the right places.

it glitched when he said there was a lot of bonzos over the years. unless I'm insane.

not bonzo being a hazing ritual lmao

this is lowkey giving wiggly from black friday

ELEVEN BODIES?

oh my god.......... bonzo butcher..........

oh more murders. in the bonzo costume.

US?????

COLIN!!!!! MY BOY!!!!!!!

oh god. it sounds like he's been reprogrammed or smth.

oh colin you are so jonathon sims coded

OH THEYVE GONE TO A PLACE. THEY SURE HAVE GONE TO A PLACE.

"a wet hole. and not the good kind either." ALIIIIICE SHUT UPPPPP

carved floor. interesting.

a key..... didn't the redcanary statement say there were no doors? might be misremembering

it's not for you??? who the fuck is it for nigel

OH GOD. OH MY GOD.

OH MY GOD GWEN RUN WHAT THE FUCK.

MR BONZO IS A HITMAN???????

did they get easier to hear when the door opened??

ARCHI...... LIKE ARCHIVIST........... FUCK MEEEEEE

wood worm. fuck you tma references.

SIGILS OF ANCIENT OTHERWORLDLY POWER

OH FUCK

tunnels....?

weird stuff with no context????

WHY THEY DIDNT CHOOSE YOU. BABE YOU DONT WANT TO HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.

the only one left? what do you mean. what do you MEAN. did kids die in the fire?

okay they're getting farther away from whatever's recording. don't like that.

WHAT. WHAT WAS THAT. LOUD NOISE DO NOT LIKE.

ew whispers ew ew ew

WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKK

okay so they definitely accidentally freed jonahs corpse or smth right

I can't believe we're getting an actual monster already in episode TEN too. bonzo is horrifying. it's time for me to actually watch the arg summary video.

gwen is going to be a nervous wreck after this and everyone's going to be soooo confused.

are we thinking the bonzo thing was the suit itself being cursed or was it just this Thing that made itself? much to think about

so much happened in this episode I don't even know where to start to be honest

I love that alice and sam were presumably using work hours to go trespassing. very timothy stoker coded of them.

I wanna know what the fuck was in the archives. I'm assuming it's jonahs corpse? but could also be redcanary.

god I cannot collect my thoughts. yk what no actual analysis today yall are just getting my live blog.

so long farewell auf wiedersehn goodnight

#tmagp #tmagp 9 #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol spoilers #going absolutely fucking insane

[utilitycaster]

(Long ask warning)

Hello! I'm jumping on the appreciation train to say thank you so much for all of your meta and analysis! I just found your blog today, and you've already given me so much clarity and context for things I've been noticing in the CR fandom lately.

I quite literally spent my summer living under a rock (in the woods leading spelunking for scouts!) and so was completely out of the loop from early June through September. And while I am not yet caught up (I'm about to start ep. 65), I have been going through the tags and ao3, because I primarily engage with fandom through fic and I don't care about spoilers. And I can't help but notice that everything being written for c3 lately is just... monochromatic. The Hells have such interesting characters and premises. One would think they're ripe for creative and interesting fic. And yet even what little gen fic that I have seen since returning to civilization has largely been boiled down to reiterative mush with vaguely shippy overtones. I can totally see this being indicative of the cresting and waning of the Imodna and Callowmore shipping you've been discussing.

I've gotta ask though, is it really just shipping that is causing this problem? Or is there something else in the source material that you think could be affecting fic in particular?

This is the first time I've been in a fandom with ongoing source material in over a decade. I'm used to watching people beat dead horses in their own little corner, safe in the knowledge that I can block them and it isn't going to affect my experience in the slightest. I guess I'm just having a hard time believing/remembering that shipping can be this incidious.

So a couple of things: first, I was not heavily involved in fandom until Critical Role; I have a decent amount of background knowledge from being on Tumblr and because I do tend to look into/research this kind of thing because it's very interesting to me, but you will probably have better snapshot of what fandom looked like 10 years ago than I do. Second, fanfic has always been a tiny aspect of what I've engaged with and I do find the bulk of it to be dull and samey (which is why it is a tiny aspect), so again, you probably are a better judge of the quality of fanfic elsewhere.

With that said, as part of a much larger discussion of which I only have as mentioned pieces of the puzzle, I do think there's been a shift over the past decade or so of like...people expecting the source material to reflect fanfic-y desires, and resenting it when it does not; people not seeing the point in enjoying non-canon ships; and a broader theme of self-infantilization. This has to a small extent spilled over into published fiction, though thankfully there's plenty that isn't that. It's not just shipping (though that absolutely can be insidious to the point that people have been harassed and doxxed over it); I think it's a general taste for pablum that has been growing within fandom spaces.

I'll link a few posts I've made and a source that, while I cannot vouch for it per se I did read and found enlightening at the end but I think a really indicative example as of late was the fandom response to the show Good Omens (spoilers for Good Omens S2 in the next link if you are by any chance avoiding those). Obviously do not do anything obnoxious to the person who wrote this question, but there are a worrying number of people in fandom spaces who believe this unironically and uncritically: fiction exists to "save us from hurtful reality." And I do understand that the tumultuous politics and world events of the past decade are probably a factor; but I mean, have you looked at literature from the first half of the 20th century (or like. the second half, for that matter)? It is, in my opinion, only going to help put our modern world and issues in better context and honestly make you feel better in the long run if you read, say, The Great Gatsby or The Things They Carried instead of burying your head in lower case song lyrics ... (hurt/comfort, fix-it, happy ending, 6k) and like, to be clear, I have written a small portion of lower case song lyric-titled fics myself but most of them aren't terribly happy, and even so, god I'd be horrified if that was all people were reading.

We've seen it across fandom at large with the polls; I have not watched season 2 of Our Flag Means Death in part because I've realized with horror that this mentality has swept, plague-like, through that fandom; people are acting like having a canon queer ship on a small premium cable show in 2022 is world-changing and unprecedented while also kind of ignoring everything that isn't the central ship (including valid criticisms of how this takes a real-world plantation owner and turns him into a goofy fop, how there's precious few female characters and none in the main cast, and how the actually far more groundbreaking nb character is pushed aside in favor of the core M/M ship). Spoilers for Good Omens again (sorry in advance, Good Omens 2 was a realization point for me how deeply and widely this rot has set in in some places and I have a bunch of sources of people being like "guys stories require conflict and tension to be good" in response to the overwrought moaning that the story wasn't unambiguously happy) but this is another author responding to the "the desired endpoint of all fiction is obviously to have your ship living in a small house together in bliss and anything else is torment" mentality.

In addition to shipping another factor is, I think, people overidentifying with characters and as such being reluctant to actually put them through any sort of hardship, however minor. I recently reblogged a post about the origin of the concept "Mary Sue" and it led me to read a bit about its history, because it was in fact created by women. It was a woman in the Star Trek fandom who was sick of spending money to buy fanzines (pre-common home internet, let alone pre-Ao3) only to find the vast majority of the stories to be this "here is my self-insert who is perfect and beautiful and pure and every other character thinks she is the greatest even if that's entire OOC". It was a frustration with the abandonment of the characterizations in the original work. And that's true today - I have read a popular Imogen and Laudna fluff fic to see what the deal was and it stripped out so much of their premises and characterizations it was unrecognizeable as them but for the hair colors and occasional cringeworthy attempts to replicate Southern US dialect - but what was notable is that those people were at least being honest and writing OCs (though to be fair a lot of them were also young white teen girls and the only woman in TOS was black and that was probably also a factor). Now, you get people who cannot tolerate any analysis of characters that is less than flattering because instead of having an OC, they are identifying so strongly with, for example, Imogen or Ashton, that they cannot separate out the real character or understand this is not an attack on them (or, to be blunt, as someone who sees some of my own worse traits in both those characters, a necessary critique). It's not shipping, but it is that same "fiction should only ever be a soft blanket or a flattering mirror, never a dark mirror and certainly never a door" mentality.

I do place a little blame on fanfiction itself; I think having something that is roughly made to order and tells you exactly what it is up front means people start to think that is the only way, and that's why we have people claiming Chipotle is the height of cuisine while making gagging noises at the authentic Mexican restaurant except for fiction. I think fanfiction can be great; it's fun to write and I have read some great pieces. But a lot of it is mush and formulaic and as that Mary Sue history points out, always has been.

So anyway, to Bells Hells: I think past campaigns also had a lot of dull fanfiction; I think the Nein lent themselves more to poorly written angst than poorly written fluff but yeah a lot of that was really samey and bland in its own way. Fanfiction has always been formulaic to a degree but I think we're starting to see the generation of people who really have read more of that than like, books, and sure there are shitty books, but man there's a LOT of shitty fanfiction, and increasingly, I find that shitty published books are bad because they're too much like fanfiction. [If I get the chance today I have a post I want to write about the ignorance of fantasy tropes in the current fandom which I think is also driving some of this and which I alluded to in my post about shipping; like, I feel the almost automatic but oddly thought-free resistance to gods and fate and the 'right' way to respond to a tragic backstory comes from this ignorance; this also is a case in the D20 fandom when they've dipped into sci fi.] Shipping definitely is a factor, and I think again C3 has an influx of fans primarily here to ship in that "my ship must become canon and must 'win' for some arbitrary definition thereof" which is probably why so much of the fanfic sucks, but again, this is a larger self-infantilizing and entitled mentality that goes beyond mere ships.

Further reading (mostly my own posts but not exclusively)

The fandom echo chamber (also Good Omens spoilers in a broad sense), not by me

Some discussion on queerphobia being inserted only as a tool to assist with specific shipping narratives (I think this ties in again to like. people need obstacles to justify why the characters aren't already in their cottage by the sea but once the characters are together they discard these obstacles even if they are systemic and would still exist, which makes for really bad fanfic bc it's clearly poorly plotted and thought out)

Me on why this campaign isn't good for shipping but a lot of the fandom showed up primarily to ship (might be the post that prompted this ask tbf)

Fandom monocropping (not my post)

My treatise on Imogen and Laudna specifically which honestly, even now that they are canon, still largely holds up re: the fandom and a related one about similarly fluff-centric Change is Evil and the highest order of fiction is Two Blorbos In A House With Zero Problems mentality (not by me but I've been part of that discussion)

#answered #Anonymous #long post

[lemonarcade]

to everyone:

we did it! we made it to the end of 2023 :) thank you for being part of this roller coaster of a year that went by faster than my brain could comprehend, whether you’ve known me for quite a while, or we’ve just started getting to know each other.

our world has changed and is still changing very much, and i wish only the best for every single one of you that sees this. please stay safe, take care, and here’s to 2024!

some personal messages under the cut!

💌: @by-moonflower

dearest kesya,

writing letters long asks back and forth has become one of my favourite pastimes.

i send you strength and resilience, hope and light. may you find the peace and comfort you deserve.

thank you for always indulging me in my ramblings; sharing our agony over inarizaki’s aggravating middle blocker, mr no.10 sunarin.

your works will forever hold a special place in my heart (i go back to them from time to time) and one day i might frame your beautiful prose and your use of language.

you’ve seen me through my many many reinventions of the (online) self, and each time you welcome me with open arms and a warm loaf of earl grey bread (don’t mind me, i’m just fondly thinking of the wonderful ask you once sent me). this humble one simply cannot express through words just how much this friendship means to me, but i hope that we can continue to watch each other grow and live through life, just as we do now.

sending my warmest wishes for your 2023 to end well, and for 2024 to welcome you just like i was.

tearfully,

caz

💌: @bflfism

yun!! the beefleaf mutual™ that wrote an amazing lqq fic that i was so intrigued by, despite not knowing much more about tgcf outside of the first season of the anime (i don’t think i’ve ever said this to you, so imagine me running to drop a comment as soon as i’ve posted this) i can’t believe i was lucky enough to have found you and stuck with you through your blog changes (as you did with me). what would life be like if i never met you- nevermind! i don’t want to even consider the possibility 😤

even if you don’t frequent tumblr as much anymore, i still enjoy the connection with have through the dash and asks! and :D i would like to say that you have my utmost support in your cosplaying journey ~ (please see my likes are like little thumbs up and encouraging smiles hehe)

💌: @minkibug

minki my beloved tuxedo cat mutual 😼 your silliness never fails to make me smile as i scroll through dash. you 🫵 will be the best dentist. i also wish that you’ll have an unlimited supply of matcha forever (only the best for my fellow matcha lover). it’s such a joy to see you on dash, whether that be study struggles (relatable) or new kpop fixation (good on you) or random tidbits, know that i look at your posts fondly.

💌: @harubirus

hihi fae! i hope you don’t mind the tag, but i wanted to use this opportunity to show my admiration and appreciation for you. your poetic and artistic reblogs never fail to open my eyes to the ways creativity can be expressed, and even more so from your own creations! although we haven’t truly interacted much, your presence on my dash is one i treasure and hope to continue seeing as the new year rolls by. wishing you all the best with life and hope it is treating you well 🧡

💌: @thelargefrye

🍟 my fry queen! i’m very happy we’ve managed to get to this point and remain mutuals (let’s not look at my multiple deletion and creation of blogs…)

smalls, i will always be a loyal fry of yours; even if our fandoms may have drifted apart, seeing your reblogs and posts on the dash reminds me of how i look up to you. your passion and support for ateez is still going strong to this day, and i really admire it as a fellow atiny.

may you enjoy the rest of 2023 and a good 2024 await you!

💌: @secnghwa

viviii it has been way too long since we’ve had a proper chat! whenever we do have a small one, i never seem to be able to ask how you’ve been doing, so here’s me hoping that 2023 has been good to you. ateez’s comeback brought us back together briefly and it was awesome :D the seongjoong unit song was FIRE 🔥 and your bias slayed every. single. rap. verse.

thank you for being part of my 2023 and i hope 2024 will kick off nicely for you!

💌: @barsformars

rinnie i was ecstatic to see your return! hope this year has been good for you, or else 2023 and i will need to have a talk *cracks knuckles*

i missed you a lot, and admittedly did go through your blog on more than one occasion… it was so delightful seeing you back on the dash :D i never did ask, but how did you find ateez’s comeback? they really outdid themselves in many ways, and this album showed quite a lot of the growth that they’ve done since their last full album.

you’ve always been and will always be a good friend of mine that i will think of, and i cherish the times in the past that we shared 🧡 do let me know if i can keep in touch on another platform!

2024 better watch it and be nice to rin 👊

💌: @yinyinggie

you are genuinely a fairy in disguise. let me squish your cheekies okay (please)

combining compliments from teyval and the christmas tree, i am here to present my end of year words of gratitude to the lovely fae.

yinggie, the moments i spend talking to you are never wasted, and most of the time i tuck some of the words into a pocket in my heart. you are like spring flowers blooming in the company of light breeze, and it would be my honour to be able to capture the essence of the gentleness you exude.

my liege, it is MY pleasure to know you and i hope to get to know you even better with this coming year, and perhaps many more to come (i reiterate my wish to someday meet in person)

i feel like you have inspired and helped me to work on myself in quite a few ways, whether it be directly or indirectly, so please have this token of gratitude 🌷

my parting words to you would be that my belief in you stands strong and you can do anything you put your mind to (taking wise words from someone i know)

hope you have a grand closing to end the year :D

💌: @dumbificat

dumbs! (please let me know if i can call you that) my dear darling, you are so so sweet and lovely, and i’m so glad i’ve gotten to know you this year. your willingness to help others and to put yourself out there deserves all the pats on the back and thumbs up (. you’re such a wonderful meowtual and i would definitely love to know you more in this upcoming year. thank you for being a constant witness to my valorant fails and wins. please do take care of yourself and i only wish the best for you 🧡 cheers to the new year!

💌: teyval

to my fellow server members, thank you for making this last half of 2023 such a blast! it's been amazing chatting with everyone and meeting so many lovely people in the span of these past few months, and i wouldn't have it any other way 🧡

to my jijis, your warm welcomes to us newbie mods really made my day. it's been incredible to work together to improve on teyval as a safe and positive space to everyone else, and the endearing ideas you guys have come up with to bring joy to the members is so heartwarming.

special mentions to mhie, zee, snob, ven, yukari, rosey, bell, nervo, meisha, star, henry, alu, cixi, mr cosmic (and ely) for being gold star souls that are part of the reason i continue to go on teyval regularly.

💌: @hereisleo

if leo ever sees this -> i got a kodak film camera!! i've brought it along with me on some trips and special occasions, and from the developed film it's quite clear i've got a lot to work on hehe

hope you've been healthy and well, and continue to be so as we step into a new year 🧡

#thank you 2023

[thgfanfictionlibrary]

Active Authors Masterlist

***Active (on this blog) is defined as a blog/writer who has updated within the past year. Inactive (on this blog) is defined as a blog/writer that has not been updated at all in the past year+. On THG Writing Hiatus (on this blog) is a blog/writer who has updated within the past year but has not posted a fanfic in the fandom in the past year BUT they may return to writing in the future. Lists will be updated as needed based on activity. ***

Created: November 13th, 2023

Last Checked:----

Abagail_Snow :: ao3, ffnet, tumblr

Popular Fic: All The World's a Stage: They'll never live down the stunt with the berries. They should probably just accept that. Peeta is rescued from the arena along with Katniss (post-Catching Fire/Mockingjay divergence) (@absnow)

aimmyarrowshigh :: ao3, ff.net, tumblr

Popular Fic: How Rue Became the Mockingjay: Katniss Everdeen and the girl from Eleven are ruining their best-laid plans – the Capitol’s and the Rebels’. So Caesar, they say. Announce the change. --- An alternate chronology for The Hunger Games (@aimmyarrowshigh)

AlwaysMyPearl :: tumblr

Popular Fic: Come get your man, nothing’s wrong, he just misses you.: Post-mockingjay, canon compliant. Katniss POV. A phone call that occurs with Johanna, Annie, Peeta, and Katniss when Peeta goes to visit Annie, Finn, and Jo with Katniss staying behind in Twelve. Fluff. (@alwaysmypearl)

amelia_day :: ao3, tumblr

Popular Fic: The Bet: When a sorority bet gets out of hand and becomes a campus wide sensation, Katniss and Peeta are both forced to deal with the aftermath. (@awhiskeyriver)

Autumnanox :: ao3

Popular Fic: Time Running Out for the Truth: What if Katniss had realized before their second time in the Arena the depth of her feelings for Peeta? And what if she had found the words to express them? How would they have spent what they believed to be their last nights alone together? This story takes place on the day they make their private presentations to the Gamemakers, after they've returned to the district 12 suite and they are each awarded a score of 12 for their rebellious antics. This story, unlike the books, is told from Peeta's perspective.

Broken_everlark :: ao3

Popular Fic: Capative to the Darkness: Peeta tries to keep his dark passenger a secret but how long can it stay hidden when he works as a detective for the police department and he's head over heels in love with his partner Katniss Everdeen.

Brown_Eyed_Devil :: ao3

Popular Fic: Stop the Clocks: A Modern AU with heaps of jealousy and angst, hints of fluff and good stuff in between, and a potential dash of smut for later on. (Rating and tags will evolve as the story progresses, so keep an eye out for that). Katniss Everdeen sees her ex-boyfriend on the arm of another woman a year after their breakup. She shouldn’t care, because she broke up with him, even so... she still finds herself drawn to him in that impossible way. She knows she's not allowed to think of him as hers anymore, she really thought she should be over this by now (over him really), and yet against her better judgement, she allows him to take her number... Shenanigans ensue...

bellablue27 :: ao3

Popular Fic: Tomorrow Will Be Kinder: A canon-compliant, post-Mockingjay growing together fic from Peeta's POV

bbyannabeth :: tumblr

Popular Fic: Oh, I Love You: The moment when Peeta realizes, clear-headed and all, maybe as Katniss sleeps beside him or traipses in from the woods …“oh. I love you.” (@bbyannabeth)

CassandraO :: ao3

Popular Fic: Arranged: Facing the death of her mother, 14-year old Katniss Everdeen and her 10-year old sister Prim move in with their widowed maternal grandmother, the apothecary's wife. In a world in which unmarried women cannot own property, Katniss' grandmother arranges with the town baker to marry off her eldest granddaughter at sixteen to protect her in case she dies before the girl is ready to marry. Luckily for all, Katniss gets to marry the youngest son, her close friend Peeta. Now, married young, the summer is coming, and with it, the 74th Annual Hunger Games.

#authors #active authors masterlist #active authors #everlark fanfiction #thg fanfiction #everlark #masterlist #thg

[gothhabiba]

I used to think you were a good writer when I was a teenager but now I just visit your blog to laugh at how much your thought and values have stagnated and disintegrated. Cannot believe someone with so much potential fell hook line and sinker for the steaming pile of shit that is modern transgender activism

the funny thing about this ask is that my blog has been explicitly pro-trans-liberation for the ~10 years I’ve run it, since I started it in my teens. so there’s been no change on that front. which means what really happened is that you found out that I wasn’t anti-trans and that changed how you felt about my writing—but you interpreted it as a change in my writing itself. because your mind is just a circle of tiny mirrors facing each other. fascinating

#Anonymous

[echoweaver]

New Year's Resolutions 2024

Thanks to @nocturnalazure for tagging me!

Also, anyone else I might've missed. 😢 I don't know if there's a way to distinguish being tagged on a post vs on a comment in tumblr, but it would be helpful when I know I was tagged a bit ago, but I don't remember by whom.

What's your resolution for your simblr?

OK, I guess I have some categories of goals.

Modding resolution: Release the Warriorcats Mod.

This mod is really close to done, but I'm in animation muck. I both hate seeing animations look bad AND I'm not an animator. For training interactions, I need multi-sim animations where one sim observes while the other acts, and when I tried to do this, I realized that I have a lot to learn before I can make this do what I want. I need one more good run in a geeky minset, and this thing will be read to at least release as beta.

This thing is bottlenecking other smaller mod ideas. I'm proud of it, and I want to finish it. But the turn of the year has been really bad for high-effort hobby energy.

For those who have sent me asks about this mod, I am going to say something that you should absolutely not apply any other modder, including me, for anything else. Bugging me about this (in a nice way!) is probably the best way to get it finished. Hearing from folks who use my pets mods makes my heart sing. Knowing that someone cares is the best source of positive energy I have.

It's a new year, and some very high-stress stuff in my personal life has improved. I know can do this in 2024.

In my points of low mood, I have wondered if there's even any point to finishing something this high-effort for a game this old. But, like Minecraft, TS3 never seems to die. 2022-3 was actually a modding renaissance. I have built some interest in TS4 at the end of this year, but it hasn't made me even a little bit interested in abandoning TS3. So I'm going to do my best to set that demotivating nonsense aside.

Gaming resolution: Finish the Samples.

I can't believe I actually wrote that, but it could happen in 2024. Generation 8 is starting in gameplay, and in a 10-generation legacy, this is the last "complete" generation.

I will never do another 10-generation anything. There are two many different and interesting

Blogging resolution: Catch the Wonderlands up to the present.

I stopped playing halfway through Gen 3. I originally started posting this challenge on tumblr during Gen 2 when I created this simblr some horrifying number of years ago. Gen 1 was all on Wordpress and is new to the simblr. I've been reluctant to play forward on the challenge until I can bring the simblr with it.

2. What do you want from the sims franchise?

Haha. That's a complicated question. I think I may always be a TS3 player at my core. I send retroactive apologies to every TS2 players I looked askance at ten+ years ago. With that in mind, I can't reasonably expect much of anything from EA on my core hobby.

My pie-in-the-sky dream would be a 64-bit update for TS3 on Windows. That's not completely impossible, but it doesn't look likely to happen.

I'm keeping an eye on Project Rene. EA has given a good sense that they learned from the player response to TS3 & 4, and 5 could be a good synthesis. OTOH, the PRIMARY ask I have from them is 100% offline play, and I don't have a lot of hope. Though EA made the commitment to offline play for TS4, they've been clawing it back by inches over the years, and they even quietly made it impossible to install fresly-downloaded TS3 store content on 1.67. I'm fighting hard to keep my TS3 game at 1.67 because I want to be able to play on airplanes and in places I simply cannot log in. I don't give a !@#$ whether EA can validate my license. They're making enough money. They can stuff it in their butts. So, with that said, I am just assuming that TS3 1.67 is going to be the core of my fandom for the forseeable future, but my mind isn't closed. If TS5 is otherwise awesome, I can branch out.

My biggest hope for the franchise is from the fandom -- that the TS3 modding renaissance will continue. We keep renewing this old game, and as it continues to be renewed, there continue to be amazing fun new ways to play it. Thank you folks so much.

3. Any other new year's resolution?

Getting my Hobbit fanedit accepted by the Fanedit Academy at fanedit.org.

Heh. So, I have a very long drama story about my fanediting hobby. I flamed off the fanedit.org community when I attempted to submit my first edit years ago (The Hobbit, which should surprise exactly nobody who has looked at fanedits). I was floored when, in 2023, I was contacted by the head of that site to apologize for that situation and ask me to resubmit. It appears that my treatment by the reviewers prompted him to clean house and build a more welcoming community. Wow.

So, now my very first edit is under review by the "Faneditors Academy," which is the primary way to reach new viewers and gain feedback in this hobby. The site leader is involved in my review, but one of the reviewers is one of guys who treated me badly the first time, and he's complex to work with -- there's an undercurrent of him trying to justify rejecting me without a review the first time. I am determined to see this review through to the end. I am very proud of this edit. Also, the feedback is definitely leading me to take it the next level.

But I'll be honest -- working through the criticism and revisions is one reason I haven't touched the Warriorcats mod in months. I need to clear my mind and my plate to really focus on addressing feedback, and the criticism level makes that draining.

[Sharing from personal life -- another reason my modding dropped off is that this winter my trans wife came out to my socially conservative parents. We are not disowned, but it's been complicated and emotionally draining. Lighthearted play with stream-of-consciousness commentary is about as deep as I've been able to go for months.]

#echoweaver #memes #new year's resolutions #meta-sims

[coochiequeens]

I feel sad for the model but is anyone really surprised that an organization in a city that is synonymous with sexually exploiting women saw nothing wrong with a woman with self-harm scars in the first place?

A digital poster created by Pride Amsterdam is sparking backlash for featuring a trans-identified female model with a significant amount of of self-mutilation scars on her arms. 

Photos of the advertisement began circulating on social media last week, showing a digital information stand in the iconic libertine city displaying the poster, which was part of the “My Gender, My Pride” campaign. 

The campaign was launched as part of the wider Pride parade celebrations held annually from July 30 to August 7, which often take on a different theme every year.

Jason Bhugwandass, the subject of the digital poster, is one of 10 Ambassadors selected by Pride Amsterdam to represent the theme of the campaign. In the photo, Bhugwandass appears topless, displaying ‘gender affirming’ mastectomy scars and a stuffed dog perched on her shoulder. 

But it was the trail of jagged self-harm marks from wrist-to-shoulder that sparked the most concern.

The digital poster invites passersby to scan a QR code and watch a video created by Pride Amsterdam featuring an interview with Bhugwandass. In the video, Bhugwandass explains she takes a stuffed dog with her everywhere she goes in order to self-soothe. 

Bhugwandass, 23, had been featured in a documentary released at the Netherlands International Documentary Film Festival in 2021. The hour-long film, titled ‘Jason,’ revealed Bhugwandass had been the victim of extreme domestic violence as a child. A profile on Bhugwandass published in RTL Niews in January adds that Bhugwandass was also abused by “multiple neighbors” throughout her youth.

At age 16, Bhugwandass was diagnosed with PTSD and housed in five locked youth treatment facilities over the course of one year due to repeated suicide attempts and depression. While in the facilities, Bhugwandass was often placed in solitary confinement, and experienced additional emotional trauma. 

While the image of the billboard was circulated by many accounts, it wracked up mass attention after popular British feminist influencer Aja posted it to her Twitter on July 28.

“A woman who clearly spent years engaging in self-harm on her arms is now being celebrated because she has moved her self harming on to her chest,” Aja wrote, “This [message] is extremely dangerous.. its Pro-Ana the 2022 version.”

Pro-Ana, a shortened version of “pro-anorexia,” is a reference to an online subculture popularized by Tumblr which glorified eating disorders and self-harm. The subculture gained notoriety in the mid-2000s, where young girls flocked to post and circulate “thinspiration” on their blogs in an attempt to encourage each other to take on fad-diets and shed as much weight as possible. 

Aja’s tweet wracked up almost 5,000 ‘likes’ as of this article’s writing, and over 450 primarily furious replies to the post were logged from feminists and those who have survived self-harm.

“I honestly cannot believe this exists,” user @stemfemm wrote in response to Aja, “The self-inflicted scars and the top surgery scars are one in the same. Self hatred and self loathing, now used to market trendy plastic surgeries to help you run further from yourself.”

This is not the firm time a trans-identified female has been used to advertise the benefits of ‘gender affirming’ surgeries while also appearing to have engaged in significant amount of self-harm prior to the procedure. 

In December of 2021, an image from infamous gender surgeon Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher began to circulate on social media, showing an image of one of her clients she had posted to Facebook.

The female who had been given a double-mastectomy was similarly sporting a disturbing number of self-harm scars on her stomach and arms.

The outrage regarding the Pride Amsterdam billboard came just one day after England’s National Health Service announced that the country’s only pediatric gender identity clinic would be closing its doors. The news followed a damning investigation into the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) that was released in March of this year.

The review was the result of multiple whistleblowers coming forward with concerns about the clinic and its minor patients. Some said they felt Tavistock was engaging in gay conversion therapy for pursuing heavy-handed gender-based solutions, as well as often ignoring co-morbidities in young patients — such as autism or mental health concerns.

Of note, the review’s interim report pointed to a 2011 study which found that up to 10% of young people being referred for gender identity services in the Netherlands were on the autism spectrum.

By Janet Douglas Janet Douglas is a social media commentator for Reduxx. Janet is an American scientist who feels passionately about corporate transhumanism and how it contributes to the global erasure of the sex-based rights of women and girls.

#trans surgery #and self harm

[a-very-tired-raven]

Aw dammit, you guys are makin me wanna post this now(10:05) instead of 11:00, but im strong lmao (WARNING, long post ahead)

Anyways, i wanted to start this post off, by giving a thanks to all the truly wonderful people ive met on this platform from this year, last year, when i first joined, and the years to come. Youve all made my experience here wonderful, and to be honest youve made me feel so very very welcomed, and especially loved.

I came to this (wonderful)hellsite during a really lonely time in my life. A few years ago, around the later days of june, 2019, looking for more undertale content. What i didn't expect to find at all, were all the wonderful people im so so so very glad to now call my friends.

All of you, and i mean all, of you invited and welcomed me into your blogs with open arms, kindness, and silly jokes. Even going to the lengths introducing me to your other friends and making me apart of your friend groups. And...i genuinely cannot express how thankful i am for that.

Im so serious, i feel so loved and cared for every single day now, i always have someone to vent or talk with, someone to joke and ramble with, so many people that ive intertwined into this little online family of mine.

Weve all been through..a lot these past three years. What, with covid, loss, hate, and so much more. What im grateful for, is that i havent lost any of you, which not only am i suprised about, but also so grateful. You guys make me feel like the best verison of myself, and make me feel..well..me. we've all stuck together and looked out for each other, helped each other out with our problems, and shared art and stories.

Ive had the pleasure of meeting some very fine, brilliant, and respectable people thus far, and have had the honor of talking with some astonishing young friends. Ive even had the pleasure of gaining followers, and have received fanart of my own characters!! Which, i would have never guess would have happened. Ever. And yet it did, and that means so much to me.

So i suppose what im trying to do, or well..say here, is that all of you have turned my life for the better, and id like to thank you for that.

Thank you, @let-love-run-red @ratsoh-writes @und3rwat3r-a5tr0naut @vrnicky @a-gods-somewhat-mortal-form @icelingbolt @shimmer-lamp and @glaucus22 for being my very first friends in here, for welcoming me so warmly, and sharing your art and introducing me to so many cool people. I wouldn't have had as good as an experienced as ive had with you to have shown me kindness in the way the way you did

Thank you @glitchysquidd for giving me the honor of seeing your artwork, and goofing off with me from time to time.

Thank you @mochamashi @kuvvydraws and @underfell-crystal for being so nice to me, and taking time out of your days to chat and listen to my stupid little jokes

Thank you @luminawithherdaemonlinh @wisteria-and-crocuses and again @mochamashi for all the fanart youve sent me iver the months, and all the kind and craziness youve shown me. Thanks for going on crazy little rants with me wisteria, and a big thank to you lumnia for supporting me and my art for so long

Thank you @shimmer-lamp for being there with me since day one, for letting me vent and trusting me enough to confide in me at times.

Thank you @rainbowut @the1920sisntaphasemom and @scienceisfood for giving me so many ideas and laughter, i really do appreciate you guys and i feel as if i dont say it enough. You guys so are hilarious- seriously, i appreciate it

Thank you so so much @hearty-dose-of-ranch @kioko-noodles @fruitsnackart @skele-fucker @sendryl and @und3rwat3r-a5tr0naut taking me in your friendgroup so fast, and so warmly. Before you guys took me in, all of you inspired me and my art so much...i could hardly believe i was actually talking to you guys and was considered a friend??! My hands were shakey, my breath was wobbly, and yet you guys never thought twice about including me. You all have been there for me since ive met you, you all have (patiently)listened to my stuttering and ramblings without a second thought, youve all introduced me to so many cool things and have made me feel so so loved..i cant possibly thank you enough. Youve done so much for me

Thank you @ratsoh-writes for enduring my chaos and bad jokes. Youve made my dumbass feel incredibly welcomed, not to mention being such a big fuckin inspiration??? Youre one of the reasons i started to get confident in my art man. Ive used your art as references so much- and youve been such a good friend to me as well?? Be angry about me gettin muchy all you want, i love you ya stinky sewer varmit.

Thank you @springbon-t-art for showing me kindess even more since i joined the hellscape that is tumblr. Youve showed me nothing less then gentle smiles and kind words, and i thank you for that. Your art has inspired me for years, and most likely years to come from now. So thank you for inspiring me enough to pick up a pencil and start scribbling down on the floorboards

And a big big thank you to @let-love-run-red love...i dont even know where to begin. You've helped me through so much, you've inspired and taught me so much fuckin stuff...you've been one of the best damn friends i could ever have. You've supported me and my cringe drawings since the day i entered your inbox as that shy little anon on that late August day.

Hell, you're the damn reason i started writing. I still remember the tips you given me, all the advice and confidence. And i sincerely thank you for that. You have shown me nothing other then kindness and hardcore support. And i cannot express how much that means to me

And theres so many more people i have yet to thank but unfortunately cannot due to tag limits and my memory. Id have to make another post and make sure i havent forgotten anyone lmao, but thank you all!! To my close moots and followers, to the big inspirations ive yet to summon up the courage to talk to

I seriously, would have not made it this far without you dorks, and i sincerely, and genuinely, hope ive made an impact at least a fragment of the size you guys have made on me. Thank you all for giving me a place to call home on this little site.

Right now the time is 10:41 as i wrap this up, so im gonna go ahead and post this(probably willl be 11 or 12 by the time you twerps get to this point lmao)

So HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

And happy many years to come!!! I cant wait to see what this years brings us, what bonds strengthen and friends we'll meet. Thank you for the wild ride and for all the adventures to come!!

#jeep.jeep #yearly call out post(affectionate)

[sidewayspeace444]

Can’t believe a source so close to Chris would say “I feel like contacting this fan site about him. Let me tell them a huge secret”

Someone would actually run to TMZ and sell it. Let’s be real. If the evidence is so *chefs kiss* they would hit up aa real news outlet.

///

THANK YOU!!! 💯💯💯

Exactly what I’ve been thinking & saying nonstop!

This whole thing makes ABSOLUTELY ZERO SENSE! Who TF goes to a freaking Tumblr blog OF ALL PLACES to give a tip-off about a celeb??? Seriously, can someone tell me?!

THE place that everybody goes to when they have something to spill are the gossip sites and outlets - like TMZ, NY POST, Daily Mail, National Enquirer! Hell, even Deuxmoi (although her credibility is highly debatable). Not Tumblr!! Of all places?!

Unless it’s one of the kids or teens in Chris’s family (including Miss Fish herself) who’s the “source,” I truly cannot wrap my head around the possibility of a freaking vendor, a professional, or one of Chris’s grown ass friends discovering TLQ’s blog & deciding “Oh, THIS is where I’m going to share this info!” ALSO, what would said “source” even be getting out of all of this by coming on Tumblr? Why would they do that? UNLESS AGAIN, it’s freaking Alba herself.

And btw, there have been rumors going back to last year that she scrolls around and is quite familiar with Tumblr - so if it would be anyone, it would be her or one of her anti-Semitic friends.

I wouldn’t put it past one of the lonely, desperate housewives, though, either. They have the spare time, so…

TLQ keeps saying that there’s “absolutely no way” they can share the info they got without “compromising” their source’s identity.

Hmmmm…..

So, not even if they blacked things out? This must be a big major “source” then, if it’s not a vendor.

Something is definitely sus. I don’t buy any of the excuses that they and their whole group of followers have been using. I don’t care for their “track record,” either.

I stand by that person who sent them that long ask questioning everything - because they’ve raised a hell of a lot of good points. And that blog’s response didn’t cut it, either. They knew what they were doing. They didn’t care about anyone’s mental health or feelings - they quite literally made things worse.

Call us crazy, call us unhinged, truly don’t care. We’re all literally being driven to this point because people won’t stop with all the mind fuckery that’s been going on.

(I’m sorry mod, I didn’t mean for this to be so long and, well, heated. It’s all just been far too much. It’s so tiring. Thank you for giving me the space to get this all out. So glad to have you back. Xo)

They have made things worse. If they know certain people get anxiety about situations then why are you making it worse for them? I don’t care about it but I do care about peoples mental health. There’s thousands of people who have looked up to Chris Evans for 10+ years, and do they really want to push the narrative that he’s racist too? You are who your friends are.

I have people in my asks standing up for them and you know what? I don’t care to entertain them. The source was more than likely the pottery lady. I’m sorry but a friend of theirs isn’t going to say “A pottery video is coming out” no they’re going to confirm other details that are far more important like Mother Mary, NYC/Bermuda trip. Hell, even Hawaii and Canada.

[patriarchymyaaa]

from 15 years to less than 15 days,

the Batch of 2024

It feels just like yesterday that I wrote about how my seniors were graduating. Now, in less than 10 days it feels surreal that I am going to graduate too, as a part of the Shishukunj, Batch of 2024. I have been trying for a few days to conjure up words that perfectly reflect what I have been overwhelmingly feeling but how am I supposed to combine my entire school life, all 15 years into a single blog?

School had become a way of life, a routine I was accustomed to; it was the 5th alarm reminding me to get up or I would have to run till the very last stop to catch my bus, it was me laying my uniform the night before perfectly on the bed, it was me hurriedly packing my bag, and then forgetting to keep that one book we had to bring to class that day, it was my school ID card with the most obscene picture always being the top priority for turnout or it was “welcome to being a defaulter”, it was the teacher at entrance making sure my nails were just a little over being non-existent, it was the mandatory song singing of “Namasteeeeeeeeee Maaaa’aaaam” whether it be class 4th or 12th, it was the continuous taunts of teachers telling us how they had never seen students so indisciplined, and it was finally the moments where the complete class would laugh endlessly because of that one student who cracked the most hilarious joke which made even the teacher smile.

From colour dresses and chocolates on birthdays to traditionals on Republic Day, from participating in the house, & school events to completing the practical & project files like our lives depended on them, from running in ghoda badam chayi to running from our responsibilities, from being sad about losing 2 marks to passing by 2, from going on school trips to finally going away to college, from "we couldn't wait to grow up" to "can we please go back to the start?", we all grew up.

I am in this perplexing haze of how those 6 years turned into 6 days. I cannot believe the future we thought would never come has finally arrived. I remember wanting school to end so badly so I could live carefreely, who would have expected the school to be the last place I would get the utmost care and concern from my dearest teachers, didis and bhaiyas.

Ohhhh, I realize what made school my solace; it was all the friendships and the people I met who I treasure more than life itself, the memories I made that I will recall till my last breath as I'll gladly reminisce about the good old days, a time when life was actually simple. It has been all those little moments in between - picnics in the bus, loitering in the homeroom, grinning in the short break, trying to bunk classes in the washroom, trips to the recovery room because ajwain = solution to every problem, and sneakily trying to eat in the buffet when we were in 8th.

These walls of the school are the same walls that saw me grow. They saw me grow from the girl who couldn't wait to go back home from a new, strange place to the girl who doesn't want to go back home because she finally found a new home with new people in a new place.

The problem is I won't be able to let go of a place that has given me so much to remember. How am I expected to stop doing a routine that I have religiously followed for the past 15 years that too within mere days?

I hope a day comes when I will be able to talk about my past school days without this profound ache in the middle of my chest which constantly tells me that, Arisha, it is all happening too soon.

~ Arisha

#graduating #life #school #12th class #2024 #nostalgic #emotional #feelings #thoughts

[wonderloste]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER.

tagged by: @londonfallen arguably who knows me the most. sus.

tagging: just steal it i have no idea who hasn't done this.

Name: unicorn. my real name is a secret unlockable that people who learn my tragic backstory get to know. uwu

Pronouns: she/her or they/them. idc.

Preference of communication: through tags. :') which is on me, i am... so so so very bad at keeping up with msgs. it's not that i actively intend to ignore people, but my god i just. don't reply to them ever, a lot of the time kjmnerhkjnm. that being said, i do reply to questions and plotting asks and stuff like that. ims or discord.

Name of muse(s): too many ! darcy, aleister, amadeu, valentin, apostol, and valtr/alice are my "main routes" and thus my main muses, all others are technically secondary. but i don't really run on a primary/secondary/tertiary system, just. whoever you want to rp with, you can request them.

Experience/how long (months/years?): 19 years. :') i started roleplaying when i was. very. very. VERY young. and unsupervised. probably not great for my mental health or safety! but like! it is what it is kjenrhmknjn.

Platforms you’ve used: i started on myspace. moved to anirp/myrp which was..... eugh. had some brief rps back in the days of AIM with someone. eventually made my way to tumblr, at long last.

Pet peeves / dealbreakers: proshippers, homophobes, people who don't respect my boundaries. i HAVE had people be blatantly homophobic to me in my dms and pikachu face at me when i cut them off u wouldn't believe. on a less obvious note, people who lack patience / aren't empathetic to the fact my activity is hit or miss. i am helping my fiance with so much medical stuff rn and constantly driving to hospitals and like kernmhkjnm bro it's just a lot, i'm NOT ignoring people, i'm just. so very very exhausted. :')

Fluff, angst, or smut: i write all three. mostly i keep smut to inbox stuff, but i AM capable of doing threads if i've been writing with someone long enough / have a very established ship. i PREFER fluff / romance though, and no one should ever feel awkward just straight up asking me if i want to ship, even platonically. i live for it. i like cannot stress enough how much i live for that kind of shit, I MADE AN OTOME BASED BLOG FOR GOODNESS SAKE EKJRNHM. but also angst 10000/10 give me those tears.

Plots or memes: both are fine, memes are easier. i do a mix usually. plot a basic dynamic for our muses and then use interactions to flesh out the details. i don't like plotting EVERY detail.

long or short replies: mid? i don't really like super short threads and my replies don't really stay short. that said, long threads take longer for me to reply to. so somewhere in the middle.

Best time to write: 8am or 3am there is no in between like give me a BREAK. either way there are so many fckn typos PLEASE.

Are you like your muse(s): yeah honestly probably lol darcy specifically. i'm a pretty mean and deadpanned person altho u may not guess that from how i portray myself on here. me n my family have a very i will play the llama song at your funeral as i lower you into ur grave so i can let u down one last time sense of humor.

#ʚ o. out of character ɞ ⁄ otome games are my thirteenth reason.

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

I've currently (according to LibreOffice) written a little over 400,000 words of content for this blog, not counting the unprompted minific/imagine/reminder thingies

and I'm fully expecting to hit another 100k by the time I finish this current batch (or come very close to it), considering I've got over 250 requests at the moment

some of them are audio and art requests (love to see it!!!) but the majority are writing

that's really mindblowing to me, it is SO crazy to think I might hit a milestone of having written HALF A MILLION WORDS for this blog in the next year or so

fucking wild, I cannot believe it

to go from when I started this blog, I was only writing 100 words per request, and only in the format of those little drabbles... to removing that limit and fucking THRIVING on longer fics, reactions, headcanons, and different types of content

and there was a time when I didn't think I would ever come back here, a time when I didn't even think I'd be able to stay in the fandom at all.

to go from only writing content in 100-word chunks to seeing the possibility of having written 500k words for this blog...

none of my other blogs come close to that. I know I've been running this one for, what, 10-11 years now? but I've been running other blogs for 3-5 years and I don't think any of my others have hit 200k, most of them not even 100k

it's nuts and it is a testament to how much I love this series and these characters, and how safe and comfortable I feel here.

my life would be a lot different if I wasn't running this blog. even tho I'm never consistent in my activity, this place is one of my biggest sources of happiness. even when I leave, I ALWAYS come back, because I love being here. I love writing these characters.

I genuinely wouldn't still be in this fandom, experiencing all the joy I get from writing it, if I hadn't been welcomed back so warmly during a time where I was very unsure about staying.

this is something I gush about a lot, but like. seriously.

every time you guys thank me for what I do, give yourself a little pat on the back too.

if it weren't for all the feedback I get, all the requests I receive, and all the people here who are so kind to me, I probably wouldn't be here still, doing what I do.

thank you all for reigniting my passion and not letting my love for this series die like I thought it was going to.

I can't tell you how much this blog means to me, but hopefully my word vomit here gets the point across!

🖤🖤🖤

#mod post #FUCKIN BRING IT IN GUYS I ALWAYS GET EMOTIONAL WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS STUFF #I 1000000% would not still be here without your love and support #I love and appreciate you all so much and I can't say it enough

[osc-confessions]

i ship lairy more than any other hfjone ship, but i feel like i can't be open about it because of the notion that it's proship. i'm NOT a proshipper. to me, proship is all the reprehensible types of ship, the illegal kinds, not just... an unhealthy dynamic between two unrelated consenting adults.

exploring unhealthy relationship dynamics is fascinating. i'm not promoting them by any means, but i find them interesting. it's more fun to think about how they'd play out over a well-adjusted couple.

airy isn't violent, he's not evil, he's just a guy who's been alone for 10 years with nothing to do but run one. i don't think he's even fully aware of the harm he's causing. he even takes care of liam while he's there, like he's a guest.

i think it would be interesting to see liam eventually convince him that what he's been doing is wrong. i want him to be guilty. i want him to atone for what he's done.

and then i want him to heal and develop an attachment to the only other person he's seen in 10 years. even unrequited works for me. i just think that scenario is infinitely more interesting than any other ship in the series.

(pls tag as "tw lairy" for the comfort of others) -🥀

Hi, um... This ask was made before I (Fractal) took over as a mod, and imposed some new guidelines, so my response here will be explaining why I won't accept asks like this in the future.

I understand what you're saying about how "proship" as a term is pretty vague, and how it might mean different things to different people. I think that's part of reason the term gained popularity in the first place - people wanted a term to describe horrible things such as rape, pedophilia, or incest, in a way that didn't sound as bad. And "pro" "ship" is broad enough that it covers not only those sorts of things, but also any sort of ship, technically speaking.

Liam x Airy is something that I do consider a proship. Their unhealthy dynamic is a direct result of how Airy kidnapped Liam and severely traumatized him, to the point where his quest to stop Airy from doing the same thing to others drove the plot of the second season. While this is interesting from a writing perspective, genuinely exploring a romantic relationship between the two sickens me for this reason. Even if you don't believe Airy was abusive, he was definitely neglectful, and Liam was traumatized by his actions nonetheless.

(Unfortunately I cannot find the original post above, but I did have this image saved of it.)

Airy can and should atone for his actions, but the notion of a relationship between the two isn't something I'd ever want to put Liam through. It being "infinitely more interesting than any other ship in the series" doesn't exactly hold as an argument either when you consider most other hfjone ships are also unhealthy. Liam x Bryce is a good example, though I won't get into that on this post.

So yeah... tldr, this will hopefully be the last Liam x Airy related post on the blog! Anyone who submits this in the future will either be ignored, or responded to similarly. Thank you for your time.

#osc confession #anonymous #hfjone #hfjone liam #hfjone airy #hfjone liam x airy #tw hfjone liam x airy #lairy #tw lairy #tw proship #tw abuse #mod fractal

[shipsgaysfordays]

I posted 4,312 times in 2022

That's 4,217 more posts than 2021! (I may or may not have become obsessed with a few fandoms within this year)

353 posts created (8%)

3,959 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@moonlarking

@siriusbaby

@tfischaitea

@girlboss-nahi-girlbas

@venn364

I tagged 690 of my posts in 2022

(heck yeah 690)

#marauders - 61 posts

#wolfstar - 59 posts

#marauders era - 55 posts

#the marauders era - 46 posts

#remus lupin - 44 posts

#sirius black - 43 posts

#the marauders - 41 posts

#incorrect marauders - 30 posts

#marauders incorrect quotes - 19 posts

#wolfstar fic - 17 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#i personally think they’re friends to lovers to enemies to complicated feelings because they love each other but they both want this job

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I’ve been getting my mom into Watcher content recently, and we’ve been watching puppet history for a bit (I’ve already seen all the episodes and know the lore) and my mom keeps saying things like, “When’s Ryan going to win,” “He’s gotta win this episode,” and I’m just nodding and smiling.

123 notes - Posted January 27, 2022

#4

sirius: we should get a magical portrait made of the two of us sometime *talking about him and remus*

remus: …i’m not sure about that i mean wouldn’t it feel strange to look at yourself and talk to yourself

james: padfoot already does that in the mirror everyday

*sirius hits james*

james: to prepare flirts for you

*sirius tackles james*

peter *to remus* : yeah…i don’t think you guys should get a portrait made, it would just be you two making out all the time

sirius *shouting while still play fighting with james* : WE’RE DOING IT

142 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

#3

Sirius: You know we’re all getting taller

James: I’m glad to hear you still believe that, have hope for yourself

*Sirius rolls their eyes almost entirely out of their head*

Sirius: No, but seriously we’re getting older and we only have 1 invisibility cloak, we need to figure out a way to work around being caught without the cloak

Peter: Especially with Moony growing so monstrously tall, we need a way soon

Remus: Well you brought the idea up Padfoot, do you have some ideas?

Sirius: It’s Halloween soon, and I’ve heard that a very popular muggle costume is to be a sheet ghost.

Remus: They could easily take the sheets off of our heads if we’re trying to run away, that’s stupid

James: Not if we use a sticking spell

Remus: Sometimes I forget that you guys are idiots, why do I forget that

Sirius: Oh come on Moony, you know you love us, we should at least try it out to see

Later on

Peter: I can’t get the sheet off guys

James: I can’t either…how strong was that sticking spell Padfoot?

Sirius: Oh BOLLOCKS, FUCK

Remus: Did you use THE WRONG SPELL

Sirius:…maybe

The marauders stay in sheet ghost form for a few days, they never try this again, here are some photos taken by Mary, Marlene, Lily, etc.

See the full post

187 notes - Posted October 12, 2022

#2

i am in shock I AM IN SHOCK

a marauders edit, set during christmas, using the so this is christmas sound that is [SPOILERS] not the most depressing sad thing i’ve ever seen!😲

216 notes - Posted November 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

i think so much so often about how much i want a team red movie with bi spiderman played by andrew garfield, i want it so much

just like, just, please IMAGINE THE CHEMISTRY 

he was roommates with charlie cox, he’s already kissed ryan renolds before, PLEASE JUST LET IT HAPPEN

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The Top 3

Top Three Study Places

DJ Fleming 

10/8/22

Hello there again to all you well-focused, studious, and stressed-out College students out there! I hope everyone is getting their work done and studying hard, but also remember to take it easy and relax from time to time. I know I can sometimes overindulge when it comes to relaxing and putting off work, so be careful of that aswell. Anyway as excited as I am to be writing to you all I am also just as sad. Yes, this is a sad post because it is my last blog post (currently crying while typing). Indeed I have enjoyed sharing all my tips and thoughts about studying on the hill, but alas all great things, like this blog page :) must come to an end. Since it is in fact the last blog I wanted to hit you all up with my all-time top three places to get the work done when you just don’t feel like it. It is in my professional opinion, which I must remind you all, I am in no way a professional by any means but, I do believe that these top places will induce work and motivate you—bringing out the fire in your eyes and releasing the inner homework tiger thats ready to pounce and tear through all the work that brings you down.   

Now in order to properly slay at homework and enjoy it in any kind of way I believe that you must take advantage of all the great spaces that Mcdaniel has to offer and leave your dorm room behind if it is causing stress and feelings of entrapment. In the short semester and a half, I had on campus my freshman year I was able to discover the best places and now I want to just recap and give my top three pics. 

Starting up to bat is the infamous, the classic unbeatable, highly neglected but always respected ….. HARVEEEEEYYY STOOOOONNE!! 

This is a true oasis when it comes to getting lost in your work, I really cannot begin to tell you the countless times I have been unable to work because I would run into people and distract myself on campus. When it seemed that there was no escape from all the distractions on campus I would always find hope in this dead, forgotten, magical, and enchanting place to get work done. This ancient safe space is located just beyond the soccer and baseball fields right tucked up against the golf course, nestled in a swarm of magnificent trees creating an almost cavelike feel. Harvey Stone separates itself from campus and the business and worries creating a paradise for relaxation, reflection, and yes getting that shit done! Being surrounded by nature and feeling “off the grid” is a great way to take advantage of this area and center yourself while you burn through all the work. For me, the majesty of this place comes from the rustic feel and the feeling of absolute separation. All you can hear is the rustling of trees, birds flying and screeching, and the wild squirrels running ceaselessly chasing each other. All while you’re trying away, reading, and ever so often looking up at the clouds and the trees, and take time to relax while you work. Not to mention, along with doing homework by yourself it is a great place to have a little homework party with some friends if you prefer to do work together.  Harvey Stone is a comforting and cozy spot to set up shop to dump the backpack and cross things off your to-do list. I would say the things to watch out for are decaying wood and giant spiders. Again the place is not in its prime and far from its heyday but these small things aside I promise if you go you will fall in love and feel at ease. Resulting in the work getting done faster and easier by zoning in. I also should add that is a bit of a walk so I highly advise you to bring snacks and water and anything else to make you feel more comfortable. I tend to bring my hammock if I go there and need to do some readings. I can swing and read at Harvey which is the only way it seems I really can do homework some days. 

Next up to bat is a real heavy hitter,  winner-winner chicken dinner that I think is also taken for granted and slept on by students. This is a shame because it offers probably the best view on campus if not in the entirety of Westminster.  Right on the tippy top of the hill is the newly renovated and highly underrated outer back deck of the ROJ Student Center which is the second study spot I want to share. This is lorbbly exactly the opposite of the first share except for the fact that you are also outside. This is a modern, newly renovated area with surprisingly comfortable chairs equipped with outlets in them and desk table tops. So the atmosphere here is less of a rustic one and more of a rooftop lounge or apartment building. Just a rooftop loung that is filled with people on their computers or nose-diving into books instead of pouring drinks, dancing,  and taking shots. I highly recommend anyone to visit this location if they want to get the outdoor feeling but also be connected with campus and not go too far to feel comfortable and relaxed to do their work. I like to think this study location is for a nice early morning fresh start homework sesh. With the brisk air and sun shining on your face while you start the daily grind that we all dread. This place makes you dread it all the more. Plus after killing it with the work and feeling fulfilled you can conveniently walk right below the deck and get a  snack from The Pub. That’s another reason this place is so great. It is also important to note it can be a great place to just belt out a happy or angry scream from all the stress that might be inside. It’s important to get it out and what better place to scream out than on the place that looks like an actual cliff? 

The absolute best part of this study spot is is the wonderful view from atop McDaniel’s campus where you can see a great view of the hills that tower over Westminster and where the sun goes down at night. Creating a beautiful sunset which is like what else can you ask for in a view when you cramming for midterms. At least you can look up every once in a while and see such beauty.  Also from my perception, this place is still slightly undiscovered by many students so if you want to take advantage of the space and spread out and not be too distracted from others. 

Okay okay, this is the last one I want to share. Last but definitely not least when it comes to finding a place to study. This one is more of a simpler spot but I think that is in the beauty of it. The last go-to spot for me when I need a spot to do work that’s just for me is in the kitchen of my apartment in North Village. You read that right the kitchen.  Now I know that this may not apply to everyone who reads this because not everyone who reads this may not live in North Village or even have a kitchen on campus. Also, this is not a subliminal message inviting people to study in my kitchen on campus lol. But just to share that some really easy and ordinary places can be a great study spot for some. I like to take all my stuff outside my room to the kitchen, preferably while someone else is cleaning or cooking in there and I put on my headphones, spread all my stuff on the table, and open the blinds to let all the light in a get to working.  I shared this because I employ everyone to find their special simple spots where they can just easily power through work in a more casual but effective way. It helps sometimes to not be 100% in just to keep a level head and not fall into the pit of a serious homework grind. There is definitely a time and place for that. But it is nice to have a more relaxed study spot for the easy breezy work that can sometimes be enjoyable. The kitchen is just the perfect amount of chaos and calmness where I feel included in what’s going on around me but im also being productive and I like to think we all need that. Hence Starbucks and other cafes where people are doing work together. It is to feel connected but still get work done.  

After reading about my top three places and when you are done crying with sadness over my last blog entry  I really hope you can use these locations for studying and if not you can find your own study spots. Or create your dream work location with an atmosphere that reflects who you are. Remember studying and doing work is not the most fun thing to do in the world but a great location definitely helps. I’m happy to have shared my thoughts and tips with you all and I want to add it is probably a great idea to invest in a hammock if you want to maximize the McDaniel Colleg campus.

Till the next time, happy studying. 

P.S. Be sure to reward all your hard work with a trip to Plum Crazy Diner.  One of my favorite breakfast-for-dinner locations in Westminster. Which is less than 5 min from campus. It’s a diner that’s all I can say, so not amazing food but amazing because its a diner. It definitely puts a smile on my face. Also not the worst place to do work if you’re hungry and want cheap breakest food and alot of background noise. Especially if you have great company too. 

Anyway happy studying again!! :)

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