#if anyone still remembers this blog LOL

[addictedkinn]

its been a while since ive revisited this blog and holy crap why is it so bright

#my eyes hurt #im doing great btw in case anyone reads this #if anyone still remembers this blog LOL

[holocene-sims]

next // previous

may 11, 2013 3:00 a.m. grant's old apartment

please, i know you're in there people are asking where you've been they say "have courage", and i'm trying to i'm right out here for you just let me in we only have each other it's just you and me what are we gonna do? 🎵

#tw suicide #tw suicide mention #tw child loss #tw death mention #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 story #sims 4 storytelling #simblr #hlcn: everything the stars promised #interpretive bc i did not want to show it on tumblr #one because i don't want to accidentally trigger anyone in case tw tags aren't enough and two because i don't want my blog marked mature #but don't worry obviously the tw tags are still here!!! i would never delete those #also yeah i did use the song from frozen #listen i know it's an odd and cringe choice but also the lyrics??? they fit perfectly in the story here lol #also 2x - in some ways this scene doesn't get a satisfying ending like why tf is his apartment empty #and why did henry never get an invite to this particular living situation? #for the most part the unsatisfying nature of it is the point but also it's just extreme evidence of how little grant meant to live #ALSOOOO i omitted it from the dialogue because it wasn't useful but if you remember from the last post henry did pick the lock to get in #i promise i didn't just retcon that information in favor of a key i just didn't depict him not finding the key #holocene.docx #holocene.png #hlcn: grant #hlcn: henry #hlcn: aoife #hlcn: joseph

[driftingballoons]

remembering one time in high school where this girl was telling everyone what they “looked” like. One girl got dubbed a plum, another christened as a coconut, and I?

this abomination

#fucking devastating #bullying me! #Like why the fuck would you say this to someone alskajdjaldkakdj #It was all in good humor but it still deals psychic damage occasionally #Anyway anyone remember Sunny patch friends or whatever it was called? #Some early 2000s cgi horror #But that’s what this loathsome creature is from #Other things/people I apparently look like include: #a vampire (specifically one from twilight) #Anne frank #Gardevoir (as told by a friend) #shellder (as told by a BEST friend) #Also in my personal opinion a blogger I used to follow here #She posted a selfie once and I nearly got whiplash bc I though it was ME #But the blog is gone now so I can’t double check lol

[mbat]

tell me why i dreamt that there was such thing as an extremely rare monster high doll that had some sort of filigree-like pattern on their face and i wanted it so bad but it was rare because literally no one ever wanted it before me. weird

#i could swear it was howleen or some sortve younger sister figure but she had bob-like hair?? and she was from g1 but #but she was still being sold in stores? for like 800 dollars? #doesnt make any sense. went kinda hard though #i imagine not even customizers wouldve been too happy with her face as the filigree was sculpted on. not printed #my post #monster high #<- for my blog idrc if anyone sees this lol #it doesnt even make sense either. for several reasons #if no one wanted it there would be an abundance of it. also kids are not as picky as adults ajfjahf #i mean she looked cool anyway imo #it was on her forehead and cheeks and probably other places but i only remember the face

[woahjo]

I’m drunk me thinks

#WEEEE it’s been months since I’ve been drunk #lol does anyone remember when I had my friends answer questions on my blog that one time #that was fun #any #tw.alcohol #drunk but still remembered to tag.. let’s go 💪🏼

[eleanorfenyxwrites]

WIP Wednesday

So okay I don't know if this is like...a cool thing to do or not, but there's a fic I claimed from the 2022 kink meme list (I couldn't resist, in large part because Tales From Jianghu Shopping Center was listed by the prompter as one of their inspirations for the prompt) that I'm not sure when I'll actually finish writing but I have started it and I'd like to at least acknowledge that I'm doing it even if the prompter won't see this. But the prompt is something along the lines of anything highly specific and niche (like my strip mall AU lol), and I actually happen to have a growing little stockpile of very very niche knowledge about my chosen professional field, which is ceramics! I specialize in wheel-throwing (though I'm also a...passable hand at plaster mold-making/slip casting and handbuilding, I just don't enjoy them nearly as much) so I've started a little something from Lan Wangji's point of view that's a love letter to throwing ♥

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As is tradition, Lan Wangji works in porcelain.

The Lan family have been respected masters of porcelain for centuries, generations stretching back, back, back nearly to the beginning of the imperial kiln production in Jingdezhen. They once produced the enormous pots that adorned emperors’ palaces – there are (very distant) cousins of his in Jingdezhen who still do so for wealthy patrons.

It’s easy to forget such a background when he enters his personal studio on the other side of the world and flicks on the lights to begin the day’s routines. It’s precisely what he wants – a quiet life like this, simple and unassuming, is much more suited to his desire than the weight of tradition that could otherwise press him and his work down into something he would never want to be.

Not that he deviates very far from tradition anyway, but it’s the principle of the thing. Lan Wangji takes quiet pleasure in simplicity, in function that is beautiful in its hard-won mastery. There are very few non-traditional ways to accomplish this that he’s interested in, but he likes having the option should he want to take it. 

Lan Wangji had learned to throw at his uncle’s knee as soon as it was possible to do so. He has continued to do so since childhood with a single-mindedness that once surprised even his uncle. All he’d ever wanted to do was to sit at the wheel for hours and hours on end, only pausing to warm the water in his bowl with a fresh influx from the kettle and to transfer full wareboards (once he was strong enough) to the drying racks in the corner of his uncle’s studio.

Lan Wangji has always struggled to find the words to convey how integral the motion of the wheel and the smooth slip of clay through his finger and against his palms is to feeling like he fits into his skin properly, but his family seems to understand just the same.

Yesterday, as the sun was westering, Lan Wangji had weighed up a few bags of fresh porcelain. The lumps are waiting for him now, tumbled together under their protective sheets of plastic, ready to be molded and shaped by hands and hypnotic motion. There’s enough of a chill in the studio this time of year that there isn’t any condensation on the plastic when he lifts it, so he folds it away neatly and settles into the easy rhythm of wedging his clay to prepare it for the wheel.

There is, in the middle of the studio, a sturdy butcher’s block workbench. He built it himself right there in the studio, the first piece of furniture that had filled the space even before he’d purchased his Shimpo wheel. It’s very likely too heavy to lift – it’s certainly too big to ever get through the door – but he has no intention of ever leaving this studio to begin another, so it suits his purposes just fine.

Wedging the clay on this sturdy, hip-height table is nearly as meditative a process as all the rest of it. A bit more of a workout than sitting at the wheel, but it’s a good way to warm up in the morning, his muscles well accustomed to the push-turn-push-turn-push-turn of spiral wedging that it’s gone beyond second nature, it simply is. His mind wanders pleasantly as he watches the misshapen lumps of pure porcelain become smooth and rounded beneath his palms. Perhaps he’ll spend the day on bowls. They’re quick and simple, suited to his mood today, and he’ll have plenty of them done by lunch when he already knows his typical solitary routine will be interrupted (and can therefore plan for it so far in advance). 

The sun is up properly by the time Lan Wangji finishes his wedging, and once he’s transferred the first batch of prepared clay to the wheel he pauses to stand in the open doorway and look out over the garden that sits between his studio and his home. The grass and the flowers are glittering fresh and dewy in the sunlight as he rolls his shoulders, stretches out his back in preparation to be seated for long hours.

When he returns, the wheel welcomes him, familiar and comforting. He fills an old bird seed bucket with warm water from the tap and arranges the small mirror at the back of the wheel’s tray to the perfect angle to watch his own hands before he settles in and takes a deep breath, sleeves rolled up and apron cinched comfortably tight around his waist as an unnecessary reminder to keep his back as straight as he can while he works.

The first ball of porcelain hits the perfect bullseye of the wheelhead and Lan Wangji leans in to begin centering, the porcelain buttery soft where it runs under his hands. Porcelain, he knows, is notorious for being difficult to work with, particularly for beginners. This far into his career, it’s simply polite and responsive to each confident press of his palms. He cones it first, hands curled around it to coax it in and up; presses it down again with the flat of his hand, every movement focused on the centerpoint of the wheel gliding silently through magnet-powered rotations. 

Up. 

Down again. 

Up.

Down.

Push.

Press.

Lan Wangji loves every part of the throwing process for what it is, but if he were to have to choose only one, this would be his favorite: the moment he can feel the clay running smoothly, perfectly centered the whole way through and ready to become whatever he will tell it to be, the possibilities – for this moment – endless.

#the untamed fanfic #WIP Wednesday #Lan Wangji #If I'm not mistaken the name of the prompt in the list is 'Bring Your Yiling Laozu To Work Day' or something to that effect #and I do plan on WWX showing up later in a way that's inspired by some of my friends in the studio #who work MUCH more chaotically than I do #(ie one of them currently goes mudlarking and digging for wild clay then brings it all in to chuck it in the kiln just to see what happens) #the other one can't remember anything that they do because they take no notes and treat highly precise chemical processes like they're #still a chef adding a dash of this and a dash of that to whatever's in their mixing bowl #and then there's me with my extensive notes and thoroughly researched glazes and all being like #'.....sometimes I don't mind if my glaze ingredients are a gram or two off' #anyway for anyone who didn't know I'm a ceramicist and it's one of my special interests lol #my profile picture and header images across both my blogs are photos of my current work #oh and the Shimpo wheel?????? IT'S A FUCKIN DREAM #the museum I sometimes teach workshops at borrowed one from a different college than mine in town and it was just #so fuckin NICE. It's DEAD SILENT and smooth as silk #and the pedal stays where you put it so if you're doing something large scale you can stand up to get your arm down in it #without having to balance on one foot or sacrifice speed or anything #it was like heaven #it's also like 4k to buy new so LOL NOPE

[lesbiancarat]

okay i also found some old diary entries on my computer and 18 year old melia was so real for this dkgjh

EDIT: THE DIARY ENTRY FOR LITERALLY THE DAY AFTER THIS I MENTIONED CREATING THIS SIDEBLOG LMAO

#does anyone still follow me that remembers when i was originally seungkwan biased lol #back when this blog was bootiful-seungkwan #anyway #melia.txt

[peapod20001]

Ok so obviously over the entirety of my time on tumblr, I have grown as an artist. You could most likely be able to differentiate between 2018 pea art and 2023 pea art-

And then I remember like. One specific drawing of old Eliana design and I think to myself “literally nothing has changed here skill wise”

#random post #I’ll have to find it to share #cus like. the shading is really fucking good? #and the body is good? and the face? #and the pose is more or less smth is still doo too?? like?? wtf was I on?? #and I think I might’ve drawn it after one of those end of year tests???? lol I can’t fully remember that bit but why?? was it so good?? #and also don’t tell anyone but I drew fanart for blogs I followed LMAO #and I was able to replicate their styles???? it was very weird how I was immensely skilled for a bit #before receding into drawing the same things over and over TSSTDUC #I think it might’ve just been the sketchbook itself. like the paper was different. maybe I just didn’t ?? idk honestly #I’ll just have to share the art tomorrow so y’all can be confused with me lol

[euphor1a]

Honestly, I shouldn’t have slept on revamping bewitched so much. I know I hate the way I wrote it and have to cringe at every word while editing and reworking on it but the characters were well-built despite my writing skills and the plot was pretty good 😔? I don’t think a ton of the readers who were hype about the series are around and it’s pretty hard to build a brand new audience.

#🌺; aleyna rambles #i procrastinate a lot when it comes to bewitched bc god i hate revamping because i genuinely cannot stand the way i wrote back then #😭 #some people from way back in the day are still around which is actually miraculous to me and i appreciate them from the bottom of my heart #but i feel like i wasted bewitched’s potential in a way... like damn it deserves better 😬 #i don’t know if anyone remembers but bewitched’s last update was THEE cliff-hanger™. like the next chapter was about to reveal the plot lol #back in my old blog. then i moved and decided to revamp it #i was ashamed of the way i used to write so i kinda hurriedly decided to revamp everything before reposting #not just bewitched all of my reposts are heavily re-edited🧍🏽‍♀️ #but damn i feel so bad about bewitched specifically. it could’ve spread its wings and taken off but since i’m such a damsel in distress #it has to suffer with me. which is unfair #hush barely has any plot so i know new or old; readers will tune in. like it’s just p*rn and two hot guys 😭😭 #but bewitched... my child i’m so sorry i failed you 😔

[technicangels]

i decided this blog needed a fresh start and with all social media being shit i still want a place to post my art <3

anyways uhh little art dump with stuff i’ve done this past year

Revna (red hair) and Wyatt (purple hair) belong to me, pink tiefling belongs to tempestkeyleth, blue tiefling belongs to somersets_hat

#anyways this blog was whoreromancer if anyone still remembers me <3 #im still not gonna post IFs or anything like that anymore lol #unless it's friend art im reblogging. but not like the focus of the blog yk #it's gonna be just my ocs and original content from now on! #myart #dnd #d&d #tieflings #fantasy #idk how to tag shit anymore it's been so long #digital art #artists on tumblr #Dungeons and Dragons #dungeons & dragons

[tomsmusictaste]

Reflecting

#music musings #tomsmusictalks #meme #shitpost #lyric edits #I remember going back & forth on whether I wanted that HM edit in bold or normal #and I must’ve just missed it #can’t unsee it now lol #and I deleted the file too so I can’t go in and do a sneaky edit like I did with the typo in the other one #it’s just stuck like that forever #yeah if anyone thought that was a deliberate stylistic choice - nah. that was just me not paying attention #but tbh even with the non-matching text it still looks better than that old NFG one 😂 #pop punk #lyrics #pop punk lyrics #new found glory #hot milk #music blog #pop-punk blog

[atsu-i]

Hello, I just saw the anon ask talking about you not being on tumblr that much anymore and we don't really talk to eachother (I think we only ever exchanged messages once), but I wanted to say, while I can, that I have wonderful memories of this website and a lot of them include seeing the mangacaps that you reblog or reading your tags, including all of the occasional venting and even some of the adorable auntie stories.

If you allow me to ramble a little bit, I want to talk about the blog that you called "shitty" and how I think it is actually really cool.

You might not think that you do much because you mostly just reblog stuff, but I feel like all the mangacaps that you reblog are more meaningful than most people think. I think that they are an act of self-expression and throughout the years I've felt like those kinds of posts express a desire that people have to be more honest with their feelings and put them out into the world. I've felt like the mangacaps, combined with all of your text posts, probably do accomplish some of this.

I am not going to say that your blog changed how I view life or anything like that, but I can say that your blog, along with many other similar ones, have seriously been a part of my journey of better understanding myself.

For example, today I liked a post that had a guy feeding a cat in it. And I didn't like the post because the art was amazing. I liked it because I thought that the guy is gentle and that aspect of gentleness resonated with me personally. And obviously, there are times where I might like a post just because I think that the art looks cool, but I think that a lot of times when I'm browsing through tumblr I'm just learning more about myself through the things that I like.

Maybe the whole thing isn't supposed to be that deep, but sometimes (not always) for me it is. I think that this whole thing feels unreal for you because you don't put a lot of effort but I think that it is pretty cool that a bunch of people like the blog despite that.

As always, have a nice day and drink some water.

;-;

#wasnt expecting a reply to that anon reply but tysm for....somehow telling me how you felt about this blog #and somehow me? #also just like the anon...i wanna say ty for appreciating this blog of mine #like seriously I just reblog stuff that resonates with me #and sometimes I just rant and share stuff I wanna share and yeah sometimes I just reblog coz I find it pretty #also the manga's i read shows i watched and will watch...its all here lol and it's...how should I put it #it's just me and somehow it doesnt feel 'real' that anyone will give attention to it? am putting myself out here and not expecting anything #but somehow...some of you notice and am like why lol coz you know my content.....it's very depressing most of the time tbh #anyways haha i still remember you btw haha we talked I think twice? waayy before and am glad I did #thanks for rambling to me...it's always welcome btw #I like reading what you guys think and feel #and somehow I always receive kindness which I think I still dont deserve but you still give it anyway #all I could do is say ty ;-; #like this blog really is my escape tbh....and some of you appreciating it makes me sad and glad at the same time? ;-; #really tysm #and yes am rambling too in my response haha i hope it doesnt bother you reading all this nonsense lol #again ty idk how many times i should say it but yeah #this means a lot...you and everyone else who appreciates me being here #and with that....I would like to say have a nice day/night dear! #I always stay hydrated lol but yeah i hope you do too ^^ stay safe yeah? #oh also! thanks for thinking the blog is cool ;-; you are nice for thinking it that way ;-; #lastly ty for still following me and remembering stuff I shared on here even the personal stuff #again tysm ;-;

[acircusfullofdemons]

rip 2 my irl friends who gotta deal with me infodumping to them abt my paracosms now lol

#maladaptive daydreaming #luka.txt #i told them abt storybook city (namely liw bc that has the most development) and they really like it #i started telling them a little bit about mad as a crow today and they were very nice listening to what my unhinged ocs like to do #i feel bad tho bc im always like context. context for this Thing within the context. its a very big web of context lol #but one of them said she liked how intricate my worldbuilding was so. thats nice <3 #id do that shit on here but the madd community has kinda vanished / is dead #not tryna diss anyone we all got our own lives n shit I know/respect that. it just sucks sometimes yknow :/ #also fandom scares me so im not nor will i ever fandom tag my posts here or on my fandom blog #if i ever talk abt my fictparas on there lmao #thats why i made blogs for them. partly. #lord help my friends if i ever tell them abt Phantasmagoria #technically i already have but its been a while so. itd be a VERY lengthy reintroduction lol #they do still know/remember it as the vr universe/story so. thats good at least!

[maddy-ferguson]

i feel like my life started that day we found you in the woods ruined many people's careers

#i remember watching the monologue for the first time and i was like well this sucks. i'm sad. and mad. but i guess this show isn't as deep #as i thought it was after all and then he said and i was like WHOA? #i mean it's at the beginning of the monologue that he says it but he says i love you first. i think. that's when i thought the not that #deep thing #and yeah many people since it was by far the most talked about sentence by bylers and by the ga alike and like ykw i get why they hate mike #i'm sorry but it's an awful thing to say i'd hate mike or the writers too if i wasn't particularly interested in mike's arc and character #like i became invested in it before volume 2 so i didn't hate him hate him i mostly hated the duffers for doing this to me lol and i just #didn't understand #maybe mike wouldn't be an awful person if he was straight because YEAH he didn't kill anyone or anything he's not homophobic or whatever #but he'd be a bad character because nothing about the way he's written would make sense #tome #i'd still like him idk i wouldn't hate him but it's just not as interesting and not as good #mostly i just would lose interest i think i would be too bitter to actively come blog about byler #and like i say: brf slt

[peachy-mfbb]

lol may or may not low key be getting back into mfbb idc its summer I'm bored af I'm nostalgic it's been years but it's so funny how my taste in characters has completely shifted and now I stan tetsuya instead of tsubasa who was my fav for years

#i liek the silly funny fail guy type now #thats what happens if you watch a bunch of AS shows i guess #is anyone still following this blog lol??? #i do like that i see lots of people agree tsubasa = alt / goth as someone who got into the scene years later lol #might make music HCs idk #maybe fanart? idk but tetsuya is such funny drawabke character #yu also #mfbb #tetsuya watarigani #metal fight beyblade #i forgot what tags this fandom has #im ao tired thi i barely make art lately yay art block lets see if i remember lol

[flowers-n-flight-risks]

i dont think im really a therian but i do think im a dog. but not in a therian way more like a transspecies way? but i guess i could still be considered a therian cause id still be a dog in a human shaped body

#ive had this realization before but its hard with sys stuff too like i knew someone identified as a dog but couldnt remember who #or couldnt tell who was fronting mainly at the time we were drawing ourself as a dog #still cant tell if im the dog or someone else is here and they’re the dog #anyway i dont remember if anyone actually follows this blog lol hi if so