#i can't use Tumblr haha

[lunarharp]

qifrey's birthday and silly stuff

#witch hat tag #orufrey #excerpt is from my 30k failing eye fic (link in pinned) which has a birthday scene. i revisited and edited it again and it is now 30k :) #kerplunk thing is because of a mysterious game that shirahama has drawn orufrey playing before and to me it looks like Kerplunk. #a kids' game from this 'Real World' which we live in. card game is Cheat from neopets. but it's a real game. i want to play it for real.... #you lie and cheat in it..hence the name..and 'branston the eyrie you are a bold one' classic neopets tumblr post...no....ok then..... #'hey qif i know we're obsessed with witches' kerplunk but we used to play cheat all the time what happened to that??' #'oh. i just..don't like lying to you. i don't like how it feels.' 'oh haha i guess that's a good thing. ok let's play kerplunk instead ^_^' #'mm. *dying inside crying in the rain in my soul*' #i dislike trying to illustrate my writing. i resent myself for having described oru's captivating mysterious smile so perfectly #i can't draw that. i know what it looks like perfectly in my mind and i am right there on that roof but i can't draw it satisfyingly enough #writing comes from a different part of my brain. there's different things in there. i'm glad i wrote out some of what i can't draw. #then there are things that i don't write or draw but which are still a crucial ongoing facet of my orufrey mindscape. #the Written orufrey the Drawn orufrey and the Unspoken orufrey... three faces of a beautiful irreplaceable jewel in my heart... #could a depressed person do THAT.

[muffinlance]

Fellow Prisoner Li, Part 6: Bloodbender (Positive)

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“When the moon rises,” Hama spoke softly, as they guarded the door of the inn. 

Katara eyed the sky above the trees. Evening was coming, but the sun would still be up when Tui fully rose. But it wasn’t night that gave them power: it was the moon. The moon, which wasn’t quite full anymore. 

“You’re stronger than I ever was,” her waterbending master said, squeezing her wrist. “And we have to try.”

Fire Nation imprisonment was what they were bound for, if they didn’t try now. Katara had already stared into that fate, and broken its last survivors free.

She stretched out her fingers, slowly. Watched the Fire Nation princess, impatiently pacing across the clearing.

She’d do more than try.

* * *

“A spirit,” the princess repeated, pinching the bridge of her nose. “That kidnaps people. Every full moon.”

“Yes, princess,” one of the guards said. They’d just come from the town.

“Then find me his bones, if you must, but find him,” the princess snapped. She had no patience for this.

Katara would have as much patience as she needed. Just like Hama, in that prison.

Just like the moon, as it sang to her blood. Soon.

* * *

Soon.

* * *

“Princess, we found—”

“There was a cave, we’ve got more people seeing to the rest—”

“Bring him here,” the princess said, belying her own demand by stalking closer to the soldier who was carrying a limp form. Azula’s back was to the inn. The attention of the other soldiers was on the newcomers, and what they carried. 

Now. 

Azula stopped mid-stride. Jerked, like someone had pulled her strings taut. It took a moment for the soldiers to notice that something was wrong. Took them longer, to identify the source.

Katara didn’t need to stand to do this. She sat on the steps of the inn, and crooked her fingers, and made the princess spin towards her in a pirouette human muscles were not made for.

“Good,” Hama whispered, into her ear. 

“You’re going to order them to let us go,” Katara said. “Or this will be the last thing you feel.”

It… looked horrible. Worse than when Hama had her practice, during the full moon, on the chicken-pig that was to be their dinner. They’d butchered it afterwards, and the master had shown her the way the blood vessels had burst and muscles torn where the soft flesh had twisted too hard against bone. Slow movements, Hama had said. Smooth. Like hanging a rag to drip, not like wringing it out. 

Unless you want them down, she’d added, and turned her knife away from anatomy and towards making them a stew. Then as fast as you can. 

The princess jerked in her hold, as much as she was able. Her torso was free, the soft organs and lungs and heart left alone. Her head, as well. Katara held her by arms and legs, as she’d been taught.

Don’t try for the head unless you want them dead. The brain has a lot of water. 

“You dare,” the princess spat.

Katara looked at her. For the first time, she was not at all afraid of the Fire Nation. 

“Order them,” she repeated.

“Princess—” said a solider. One of many who were uneasily shifting into stances ready for attack. 

“Stand down,” the princess barked. “Let them leave. Kill them if they kill me.”

Katara stayed sitting on the steps, her fingers cramping, meeting the princess’ gaze with her own as Sokka worked to free Appa from the net. As Hama helped the elders into the saddle, one by one. As Sokka politely—Excuse me, I’ll just be taking that, thanks for the find—reclaimed Li.

She couldn’t see their firebender breathing, from here. But she could feel the blood in his veins. She could feel it all around, in every enemy and every friend, pounding against her head. Her fingers twitched involuntarily. The princess grit her teeth against a gasp. 

“I’ll just be taking this, too,” Sokka said, scooping the princess up in the same bridal carry he’d just used for Li. “You can tell your Fire Lord to expect our ransom letter.”

“Sokka,” Katara said, between teeth clenched with strain. She couldn’t tell him I can’t do this much longer, because she didn’t know what would happen if the soldiers or princess heard. But she couldn’t, it was… it was too much, and everywhere, and she wasn’t sure for how much longer it would just be the princess. 

Pulling water from plants had been easier. She hadn’t cared which ones had wilted. 

“Katara,” Sokka said. “It’s free royal hostage.”

The princess went in the saddle. Hama helped Katara up, too. And then they were in the air, and—and she could let go. Relax. Let the only pulse she felt be her own.

She’d done it. 

She was crying, and Hama was hugging her, and another elder on her other side was too, and the moon was high above them white and brilliant and she’d done it.

“You’re so strong,” Hama said, holding her tight. “Such a master you’ll make. You’ll never have anything to fear, my child. It’s the world that will fear you. Our beautiful, brave southern bloodbender.”

The princess sat in the back of the cramped saddle, rubbing slowly at her arms. She was watching Katara. Katara couldn’t read her expression, through the tears. And to be honest? She didn’t really care.

She’d done it, she’d done it, and she could have done so much worse. 

If the princess didn’t recognize mercy when she saw it, it was only because she was still alive to disagree.

#Katara: this new skill is terrifying (positive) #Hama: if you’re the monster your enemies warn their children about then you’re doing it right (affirmative) #Meanwhile Aang sitting up on Appa’s head: I guess that was technically non-violent and I sure do support non-violence (edge-of-breakdown) #can't wait to learn that haha (breakdown intensifies) #One hundred years late #Aang regrets not paying more attention in Bending Ethics 101 #Fellow Prisoner Li #Avatar The Last Airbender #atla #Katara #Hama #bloodbending #is extremely useful #it's not its fault it's the powersaw of bending #respect your tools #(and clean the blood splatter off them when you're done) #chapter links will henceforth be to the AO3 posting because those are so much simpler than Tumblr ones

[dopaminestarvedsim]

so does the tumblr app just suck or?

#is it just me? #i literally can't search without the app crashing #i pretty much only use tumblr on my pc anyway but damn i would like to be able to use the app on the toilet like a civilized adult haha #tf #dopaminestarvedrambles

[front-facing-pokemon]

Now i know this blog is obviously for.. well. Front facing pokemon, but your tags are always super interesting. I think your opinions on pokemon are pretty neat

i've gotten a few asks like this so far, and it's always nice to see that folks aren't annoyed about how much i talk in the tags. i have lots of opinions on lots of things! and i like to talk a lot. the reason i started talking more in the tags is actually because of asks like this—folks saying they liked seeing what i had to say on particular pokémon has encouraged me to actually talk about my thoughts more (although if you regularly read my tags, i tend to get off-topic pretty quickly. i queue these up very early in the morning, as soon as i get up, and i'm usually a little delirious), especially compared to my first early posts on this blog which didn't even have any tags at all, beyond the names of the pokémon. you're one of the like 4 ffp-mod likers how's it feel

#not pkmn #ffp-mod? i dunno if i like how that sounds. i'm just like out here. i'm just like. a bitch. just like. a fucker that exists in the world #a pokémon just like the rest of you! right? #this also gives me an opportunity to say holy shit the blog hit 1000 followers? which is like nothing in the grand scheme of tumblr #when my man rodney realpokemon is out here with like 20k but that's a lot for *me*. that's way more folks than i'm used to #it's a good thing i'm not actually Making any content for this blog so i don't have to be worried about the output. it's just pokémon innit #if a pokémon looks bad it's nintendo's fault. not mine #anyway. thanks for sticking around‚ i s'pose—though it's not necessarily benefitting me very much‚ unless i turn on that “tips” button #but doesn't that just look so self-absorbed? haha yeah. my posts are good enough to deserve my followers giving me free money #some folks who are genuinely making content on here it's like. fine. but for me? someone who just posts pokémon staring at the screen? #i can't imagine anyone really seeing it as worth it to pay me for that #also holy shit i'm doing it again. the thing where i talk in the tags and make them a mile long. i'm cutting myself off here this is the en #clearly folks sending in asks is just my opportunity to continue talking more because i definitely always take the opportunity #to continue talking. and not stop talking. here i go again

[infectiouspiss]

.

#very disorganised in here ok #it shouldn't be this fucking hard #like YOU fucked up YOU did this YOU fucking deal with it #don't make excuses just because you can't make words work good EVERY TIME YOURE IN THE WRONG #every time i just break down i hate it #im not paying attention and that's on ME #this isn't funny haha endless content scrolling like tiktok was #this isn't haha poke the terfs on twitter #both of those were BAD FOR YOU #DO NOT LET TUMBLR BECOME THE SAME #fucking. use brain. think. ignore internet for a day. go outside #you know you don't do well like this don't let it get bad #last time it got this bad i ended up in a very bad place #and lost friends because of my own inability to shut up and think for a second #trying to get cohesive thoughts out of my brain sucks #slow down. think. #just slow down and think

[teefsintheweb]

TW: unhealthy coping mechanism

/j

#joke haha #or...is it? #like how can I go on with my day to dY #ay knowing I could be doing something anything #I'm just trying to educate myself on these issues and spread that knowledge #but how can I live and enjoy things when everytime I just learn more horrific news #i can't enjoy doing my silly art and indulge in comfort knowing that children are being mascred #i used to struggle with guilt due to PTSD and now it just gets worse #i need to do something #artists on tumblr #my art #digital art #art #artwork #digital illustration #i feel selfish for feeling helpless and hopeless

[chasmbreach]

i'm fucking insane i'm finally fuckinf back oh my FUCKING god being devoid of tumblr my sanity was fuxking dying by the day

oh tumblr my beloved i missed you

so much

#deepest dark #yeah so i was in china haha that place hates literally every single website #this blog got terminated TWICE. even though i was using a vpn and so i was just. #i guess i can't fucking use tumblr! #bro i've been devoid of it since. uh. may something. may 29 maybe. and i'm finally back in amurica #gods #fuckin hell #ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[c6jpg]

[ayato v raiden shogun -1 hp]

so this is not the usual build i have for ayato, but for the purposes of this challenge i gave him mistsplitter and then needed to shuffle around artifacts to compensate from the crit rate drop from losing black sword

pls give me jade cutter for this man pls god pls i'm begging

#m:video #flashing tw #m:builds #v raiden #i actually succeeded doing this twice but the first time it was -2 hp since i had to go through phase 2 twice....... #and i was like i can't do this to my man so i did it again but i was so scared the same thing would happen at the end there HAHA #he really needs to fucking crit to not go through phase 2 twice but my crit rate on him is just not good ajdfkljs #or like maybe if i used echos/glad instead of hod. but i'm not farming a whole fucking set for him just for this #also TIL you can actually upload up to 500mb of video. but i'm probably gonna keep compressing to 100mb bc i don't trust tumblr

[cluescorner]

Me, looking Dottore: So you’re the bitch Creep-P wrote Novocaine about 

#genshin impact #haha OP listens to vocaloid haha cringe /j #even if I am cringe I have long since stopped caring on this blog #real life is for maintaining my reputation #this is tumblr dot com baby #il dottore #anyways #fuck him #dottore #I did the escape the hospital quest and wow #that shit was actually really cool #the knowledge that you're taking the same path as one of Dottore's experiments and watching his mental state deteriorate more and more #Abbas was having an unfun time RIP to a legend #like damn Dottore is one fucked asshole and it's what makes him interesting #I don't think he's gonna be playable after this tbh he's done too much fucked shit and also KNOWS TOO MUCH TO HAVE THAT INFO GIVEN TO US #can't wait to kick his ass tho #and I'm gonna do it with Collei on my team even tho she's probably gonna substitute as a worse Dendro Traveler #but it'll be more fulfilling that way

[mumble-ssketches]

Hi

#yeah... mmy phone died and I've been kinda busy so I haven't logged on this account in a while #(also by died I mean it wouldn't turn on again -_- using an older phone that can't download tumblr) #either way I'll be posting more sketches and such llater so just a warning and a little hello #Bay #dragon #oc #original character #own character #btw gonna post after work tonight probably #also might start posting to my main account too Xp #I'm behind in a lot of random tthings like this #i have like 60 tthings on my list to colour haha #whellp at least most are just random doodles #got 1 and a half raffle prizes coloured yesterday but I had to go out to try on bridesmmaid dresses so I still need to finish off first #places prize -w- soon #hopefully tomorrow

[donuts4evry1]

donut this is extremely funny but oh my god i haven't been this confused since i learned grapes can raise your t level lmao

Hmmm you must still be confused I am most certainly tumblr user tomnookishot and not donuts4evry1

But thank you for confusing me I had no idea about the grapes and I will never look at them the same way again

#Ok in all reality tho #The hatoful birdfriends tumblr friends are swapping profile pictures for today and I happen to be switched with tumblr user tomnookishot #This is still donut haha #On another note I hate grapes it's a whole thing with me (I think it's a texture thing?) #for a while they used to be the only fruit I could eat but eventually I just stopped and I can't come back #One time my mom told me she'd pay me 5$ per grape and I still wouldn't do it. I still probably wouldn't do it to this day lol grapes are :( #That's really funny thoaahahdjdjdj... Boy #ask #mun rambles

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Toxic monogamy my beloathed

#I'm using a haha funny tumblr term #but i can and will go on a rant about how ridiculous the whole 'the one' myth is #like it's so perpetuated and it drives me insane!! #not only is that unhealthy for your partner #like even if you are monogamous your partner shouldn't be your sole source of support and intimacy and all that #but it is!! so infuriating!! to have to unwire from my brain!! #i just want a polycule and yet my brain is sometimes like 'but you won't be loved enough' or 'you can't love enough' #and it's Shit and Stupid and Entirely Society's Fault #polyamory #polyam #polycule #finn's flailings

[feroluce]

Prologue: Pokemon Center Lobby

#submas #Emmet #Ingo #pokemas #All aboard the victory train! #I went through last night and screenshotted their entire event #So I thought I'd make some tumblr posts for them! #These are largely for my own reference/organization but everyone else is welcome to them too of course! #I thought it'd be handy for people who can't/don't play #There are also videos on YouTube if you want to see the blorbos in motion with sound but I've only seen extremely low quality ones #So. Image threads instead haha #I even went to the effort of editing to keep in the emotion indicators ♡ #I'll add links to each part as I go for easy access #Also I'm happy I was able to catch Elesa in the lobby with them #Nimbasa trio cute ♡ #(just note that I'm. Not used to image heavy posts. Bear with me here ok skxjskjd)

[shinkei-shinto]

vent tags below I do not suggest that you read them

#shin talks #shin vents #i woke up. early. always early on my day off #i slept in exactly one time this year so far #and i get . on tumblr. on twitter. to wake up. on my day off #i only give myself one day off a week it's not particularly good for me #and i figure . i will wake up with some fun posts and some stupid stuff and some cats and some laughs #and i. cant. i cant do it! #I can't do this thing where I wander into these spaces that are supposed to be curated to be fun - #and i do A LOT OF EFFORT A FUCKING LOT OF EFFORT OKAY to make that happen - #I have OVER FIVE HUNDRED WORDS blocked on twitter so don't you fucking tell me that this is my fault a'ight #and now. im sitting here. because I can't read anymore tumblr! #because every fucking other post I see is c*nt this c*nt that #and guess what?? guess wHAT??? #of the THREE acceptable words for ''vagina'' #THAT was the one I USED TO USE in kink spaces!! haha!!! funny!!! #funny internet joke!!! ruining that fucking word for a MEME #a partner at some point is going to try to use that word on me in a scene and it is going to INSTANTLY knock me out of the scene entirely #and I'm going to go flat and unemotional and not be able to participate in scene and it's going to RUIN SEX for me for WEEKS #all because the internet thinks that it's hee hee haa haa funny #to take one of the THREE FUCKING WORDS that don't sound like fucking ''meat thermometer'' #and RUIN it. just fucking. #and WORSE?! WORSE??? #now one of my partners is EXPLICITLY and EXCLUSIVELY suddenly using words and descriptions of sex acts #that they ONLY EVEN KNOW ABOUT BECAUSE OF MY BODY #to ''hee hee haa haa oh no im in trouble in a video game'' #just fucking SCREAMING about my fucking genitals #about specific sex acts that have been performed by them on me #as if that's a fucking funny as if that should EVER be said in this manner for this situation #and now I can't even scroll on the websites where I have spent literal years

[mythicalcoolkid]

Just wanted to say I've read through a lot of your posts, and you are amazingly well-spoken and thoughtful, particularly in regards to LGBTQ issues in society. I am a follower and a fan. You rock!🏳️‍🌈❤️

Thank you so much, this made my day. I pride myself on being nuanced and thorough but sometimes on the Worst Faith Approach website it's easy for me to feel like I explain myself poorly. It means a lot to hear that other people understand what I mean and that I actually do explain myself well - some people just love getting angry and that's not my problem

#m/cc #seriously though #this ask is going to brighten my mind for a while #I'm glad the purposeful worst faith approaches are very much in the minority but when a post blows up... #love that my posts resonate with people and get wide reach #but they're not lying when they say being Tumblr famous just gets you death threats /lighthearted /half-joking #'wOw privileged OP has a gender clinic within 50 miles try 100' #okay I looked it up my closest is 124. am I a real oppressed trans now? are my issues relevant now that they're worse than yours? #do you want me to kowtow at your feet because the random number I pulled in a two minute post wasn't as oppressed as you? #I swear that's the only post I've made where the responses have made my blood boil like that #being told for baseless reasons that I can't possibly have any knowledge about my own community that I am TELLING YOU about #sorry me and my gang of oppressed folks disagree with what you think we look like. I'll hand over representative status to you #tell me what we Actually think please and keep telling me how I have no idea what I'm talking about (on a post about my experiences) #I'M the one oppressing my group. obviously. that's how it works #I did Not mean to get this long in the tags but if you follow me you'd better get used to that haha #for real though this means a lot. thank you #asks

[vampacidic]

what are your thoughts on suou tsukasa. i think she is very egglike and also chubby

uu i've acfually never really dug into tsukasa lore LMAO she's just not a character my brain attached to.. i feel like i'd be obsessed with her if i dug into her maybe 2 years agai bc her struggle with expectations reeeeally would've reflected my own at the time but i never did.. i think she's cute. a bit of a try hard but in the cutest way possible. for some reason i have all of her gacha five stars on both music and basic.... i'm squeezing her like this

#ask #len 🐻 #i tend to avoid characters/stories that deal heavily with weight gain/loss and eating problems regardless of what the message is bc of #my own mental health... regardless of whether the message reflects my own beliefs or not i just kinda. Cant deal with that stuff #which is why i tend to avoid knights stories... i think they have fun dynamics and i read fics (sometimes) but canon will just throw #out dieting culture/eating disorder stuff and i Physically can't deal with it lol... #i don't have an ED diagnosed but i recognize a lot of those purging/reward system behaviors in myself and i have found out the best way to #deal with them in my case is to jsut. ignore eating concepts as a whole #i work out i take care of myself i eat my veggies and that's about it and if i think too much the behavior comes back #so like. this is a long and personal tangent to say 'i haven't read any tsukasa stories because i'm afraid ED concepts will show up' #coughs. izumi #regardless i kinda watch her from a distance and go yeah.. that's the tsukasa #this is like how when tumblr had the like. 'posts based on what you like :)' feature that would just show up on mobile dash #i kept getting ED concepts and i was like haha! i physically can't do that! so i blocked so many ED blogs #actually when i still used twitter i had an old mutual deactivate #years later they came back to me via dms and were like 'hey it's X if you wanna be mutuals again?' #(cw for mentions of ED culture) #and they were an ED account lol. all rts of thinspo/calorie counting/etc #and i never responded bc i physically couldn't do it. lol. it was wild #anywya. sage lore of the day