#I'm doing it!

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

do you think famous people use gifs of themselves in text conversations

because i would, 100%, constantly

#it would honestly just make me respect them more #dollsome's deep thoughts #like -- if i can easily locate a relevant moving image of ME to communicate?? #i'm doing it!

[kdramaxoxo]

Heyy I'm just curious, what all have you been currently watching??

Hi Anon!

My list is a little slim rn but starting this week it'll get kinda overwhelming lol!

Current K-Drama Watchlist:

Crash Course in Romance

The Interest of Love

Mr. Queen

I plan to start this week:

Our Blooming Youth (I don't trust my abilities to watch a serious saeguk but park hyung sik!!!)

Love To Hate You

Kokdu: Season of Diety

The Heavenly Idol

Also I started a GL last moth called: Anonymous High School Girl but I'm only on episide 3 and it's almost like watching nothing at all but I try to support all the gls.

okay so listen. I know this gif doesn’t make sense for this ask BUT. I was searching for Our Blooming Youth gifs and this punched me in the heart so...

#ask #lovely anon #currently watching #watchlist #the interest of love is something i'm real grumpy about #but #crash course in romance is so cute #and look at me watching Mr. Queen! #i'm doing it!

[incalculablepower]

for Something So Tender (I can't explain) - 3 & 15 For Sore Subject: 6,10 & 11 eat the ice cream and buy the flowers: 1 & 2

[3] What's your favorite line of narration?

 She watches his retreating back and her stomach swoops with the sureness of a kiss that never comes.

The tenses in this fic are all over the place (on purpose!) and I really like how they work here. This fic is accidentally a 5+1 and each individual scene before the big kiss has to end in disappointment, and it's tough to do that without it becoming receptive. So I like the building anticipation in this line that turns in the middle to be like "lol PSYCH!" It's a very fanfictiony line as well too, because the emotional hit of it depends on knowledge of canon.

[15] What did you learn from writing this fic?

That I extremely struggle with writing PURE fluff.

[6] What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

The pairings!! I've never written f/f before, never written rarepairs before.

[10] Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

I knew I wanted some kind of ghost of Parvati/Lavender. It was inspired by this phenomenon I think a lot of women my age have gone through in their teens/20s, where you're so deeply closeted that you completely misinterpret a romantic or sexually charged connection with your best friend as... regular BFF vibes! gal pals! So Parvati is clearly in love with her while also sort of holding these new realizations about herself close to her chest and hiding it from Lavender. For that potential exploration I wanted a "safe" kind of pairing and ended up choosing Demelza. Around the same age, same house, a blank slate character I can kind of mold to whatever I want. I have such a soft spot for Quidditch lesbians!

[11] What do you like best about this fic?

If my goal in writing fic is to leverage canon to "write around" the point I'm trying to get at and let the subtext fill it in, I think I've done it best with this one. I'm really really proud of it.

[1] What inspired you to write the fic this way?

Sometimes when I use prompts for a story things gel together in my mind in a way I... do not fully understand lol. I know from early on I had this visual of a triptych with a larger middle panel and "wings" on either side. So there is this regular kind of story about a normal person doing normal mid-30s, directionless sort of things in the middle of a war that is suppressing it even more. Then you're bookended by the two most important figures in that war and their relationship with her family business.

[2] What scene did you first put down?

The first scene with bb Tom came out really easily. I realized the beginning of his second year at Hogwarts coincided exactly with the mass evacuation of children from London for fear of air raids in WWII, most of that came out in an evening!

fic asks

#ask games #i said i would answer all my asks! #i'm doing it!

[theroyalbunny]

I promise myself that I'm going to draw at least one double life drawing once a week and I'm follow through until it end

#royal speak #i'm doing it! #you can't stop me #double life smp

[monsoon-of-art]

#I'm serious stop doing it #theyre scraping fanfics and other authors writing #'oh but i wanna rp with my favs' then learn to write #studios wanna use ai to put writers AND artists out of business stop feeding the fucking machine!!!!

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back. #he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them. #and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him. #your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back. #i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

[eastgaysian]

#ordinary photo of yeti #they made astarion in a lab for me to be obsessed with. #like hottest man in game for me is halsin truthfully. astarion is my shitty little white dog with separation anxiety who bites people. #very different things. if i say i'm doing a playthrough as astarion that's when you put me down #main factor motivating me not to is i need to hear neil newbon's voice acting at least once a minute or i die. #i've got a dark urge concept rattling around the brain but i should maybe self-impose a gaming break and take care of. responsibilities 😐

[doyouknowthisdragartist]

"what's the appeal of drag kings" because women are my favorite guy next question

#do you know this drag artist #drag #drag king #obligatory disclaimer that not all drag kings are women etc etc etc I'm just so happy to have read the tags about #how I'm not the only one who thinks jo calderone is hot

[shesnake]

full offence but I do NOT watch movies so I can "turn my brain off" I take this shit so seriously

#and I simply do not believe the majority of this industry and its criticism should cater to the kind of people who do!!!! #d #cin #okay this post has been misinterpreted by tumblr nerds in a way that is mostly harmless but still annoying I'm just gonna mute notifications

[koddlet]

personal rules for winter ❄

#this was fun bc i didn't intend for it to be kind of cryptic #i just wanted to make some reminders for myself about winter cuz i never learn #especially the back cover which i guess isn't really a rule but still stands. i'm in a rural place so when it gets dark it's Dark #and its hard to want to do anything #zine #mini zine #illustration #nonfandom #analogue art

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped' #I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

[elizabro]

aaron bushnell knew exactly what he was doing. he states his intentions with total lucidity and sense of purpose. he knows what he's about to do is extreme--he says so. he speaks calmly, but he's clearly terrified. he takes a deep breath after pouring the accelerant over himself. he has to psyche himself up to light the flame. he struggles with the lighter. he says "free palestine" normally once before he starts to scream it. even through his agony he manages to say it one last time before he stops being able to speak at all. this is a man with total conviction. he wanted to help people, in any way possible. this action was a moral one, and any news outlet painting this as simply a mental health issue is a disservice to his memory. he knew what he was doing when he burned himself in uniform. he knew that there was a chance that sacrificing his own life could go on to save many others. this was the ultimate act of selflessness, and it should be treated as such. may he rest in peace.

#death tw #aaron bushnell #I know I'm not adding anything to the conversation. but I watched the uncensored version of the footage and it won't ever leave my mind. #I do caution anyone who decides to watch the video blurred or not. his screams are not something easily forgotten #free palestine

[smash-chu]

make a cohost account, make a blue skies account, make a pillow fort account, make a artfol account, share your discord, make a back-up account, make another account, make another account, make another account-

#shitpost #pot dog #pot dot #doodles #sites just remain normal challenge impossible #i can barely manage having a tumblr and a twitter account to both post to #the prospect of making more accounts more places just because shit may go down in flames or threaten to do so is exhausting #i will remain here until the ship is at the very bottom of the ocean cause i'm so tired of extending myself for social media efficiency

[phantomrose96]

I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.

#the person who's re-emailed me asking for help with something: yes I should get back to you. yes I will get back to you #but in the meantime I will look at the email like 'I am busy right now! I have deadlines! do not bother me about this unrelated thing!' #and like in 15 minutes when I'm ready to be an adult again I'll get back to them