#needs editing

[nissaviolet]

And then and then and then

Children tell there stories repeating the phrase and then to captivate their audience, most of the time this does nothing as their parents busily try to bustle them out the door to school or tuck them in for the night.

But I listen to the childrens stories. Curled up under a bed or in a closet. Hiding in the dark shadows I listen.

I do not mean to scare them I only wish to be like them once more. Where the world is their own little pocket and it is bright and full of colours and stories go on forever.

I don’t remember being a child only that the world was bigger and I smaller and my parents did not listen to my stories however many and thens I put they left me all alone.

Though maybe I never had them to begin with. I am not a being of flesh and blood, so maybe I was never born I simply wasnt and and then was.

I stand in the shadow the one cast by the scarfs and coats handing of the door. The night light glowing softly purple only deepens the shadows in the room. It’s easier to hid in a room with a night light. Dark rooms spread me too thin and I cannot listen to the stories or watch in on the dreams.

I am not malicious and I am not scary those traits belong to the others.

I simply observe.

Unseen.

And.

Alone.

Not even the others can sense me with their teeth and tongues and tentacles.

There are no others in this room only me and the small girl telling her mother goodnight as her father softly smiles from the door.

My shadow shifts as the door is closed I prepare to find a new room.

But stop

Hello says the small girl I’m Ellie.

I observe her unsure who she is addressing.

I can see you by the door I remember you from last time, I was afraid then I’m not anymore.

Would you like to hear a story.

I nod I did not know I could nod.

Ellie tells me about her first day at school her new friends who have pets and siblings and her self proclaimed best friend who has 3 dadas and a mum.

Ellie smiles sleepily and says come back tomorrow and I’ll tell another.

And so I do.

#nissaviolet #my art #writing #story #shadow #dark aesthetic #dark poetry #fantasy #mystery #books #stories #first draft #draft #needs editing

[twopoppies]

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#anon about *that* fic #It’s fine. It’s whatever #I enjoyed it well enough when it was being posted as a WIP #but ultimately it’s so self indulgent #has zero tension #needs editing #and the ending is a phoned in let down #it just aggravates me that people fawn over it #and act as though it’s the best thing ever written #whatever… Everyone is allowed their own opinions #but having to suffer through a celebration of it #every year is too much #I really should set an alarm in my phone so remind me #Because every year I’m blindsided by irritation

[chasing-posts]

Woot! Just wrote a Tugoffelees fic start to finish. It's just a first draft but the fact I finished writing it after not writing for so long feels good!

#rum tum tugger #Mistoffelees #tugoffelees #first draft #needs editing #I finished something

[cozystars]

!!! BUILT LIKE BILBO BAGGINS !!!

#cosmo creates #edits #dungeon meshi #this one is a personal favorite rn! I’m proud of how it came out :) #also if you can’t read the song credits it’s keep up by karma carr #so good but the full song is like. 2 minutes. I need more than that #anyways. chucklefuck. yesh #volume warning #as well as fast visuals! should’ve noted that earlier #flashing #jic #omg I misread the lyrics. OH WELL

[nmzuka]

whatever I'll post my addendum to it anyway

#monsters #monsters getting to stay monsters but be loved and accepted #my beloved trope <3 #sorry to edit your meme op #but I needed it to reflect my true feelings on the troup

[cosmicrhetoric]

ok i finally get why everyone fucking loves law it's cause every time the straw hats do literally anything they cut back to him making this EXACT face

#im going to throw up laughing its so funny i need to find a screenshot. EDIT SCREENSHOT NOW IN NOTES LOL #like obvs i knew he's a fan fave but this is actually extremely funny. guy who is the barometer of normal behavior compared to everyone els #but who is also fucked up and skewed in his own way #trafalgar law #one piece

[platyroonism]

aren't you tired of being nice? don't you just wanna go apeshit?

#flowey #papyrus #undertale #i just had an idea HFDLHKALHFJKDAL #EDIT: TO BE CLEAR i think papyrus and flowey are besties but flowey tantrums like a baby and needs his shit rocked sometimes #hiii i didn't think so many people would rb this and now it's top post in papyrus' tag (sob) #sorry to the papyrus and flowey friendship truthers i'm one of u........ i promise... #plart

[cassandragemini]

Aimee, from Leonard Nimoy’s 2010 photography series Secret Selves

Aimee — tattoo and body piercing

I like being a girl…no one knows I am a woman, let alone a lesbian. My beard is natural, there is no imbalance.

#crow.txt #photography #lesbian #butch #idk what else to tag this with but i need everybody to see it Now #edit: yes its That leonard nimoy. you should also check out his series the full body project which centers fat burlesque performers

[girlfictions]

something i’ve been thinking about lately is like. growing up muslim right after 9/11 is something i’d never really reflected on much because it was all i’d ever known — at 5, my friend’s mum didn’t let her invite me to her birthday party because i was the only brown girl in our class, at 12, my classmates would joke about my family being part of isis, at 16, my dad was interrogated by american airport security for hours — and it always stung and it always hurt but it was just the way things were because the western world hated muslims. but i don’t think i’ve ever fully comprehended the extent to which we were hated until now.

palestine is being turned into a mass graveyard. every single day there are new photos of the atrocities being carried out against them and videos of them pleading for help and still those who can actually intervene turn a blind eye. israel is claiming to only be targeting hamas “terrorists” while bombing a refugee camp. israeli police raided and assaulted a non-zionist jewish neighbourhood. israeli soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing captured palestinians. this is not a complicated issue and it never has been. ethnic cleansing is being committed right in front of us. and yet the western world leaders refuse to call for a ceasefire.

and while zionist organisations accuse pro-palestine demonstrations of anti-semitism, while zionist celebrities insist that they’re afraid to leave their mansions in los angeles, a six year old muslim boy was stabbed to death and his mother wounded in the same attack in chicago. a muslim doctor was murdered while sitting outside her apartment complex in texas. hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested (many of whom have been jewish). despite what zionists want you to believe, this is not a jewish/muslim conflict. i have so much love and gratitude to my brave jewish brothers and sisters all over the world who are condemning israel for their actions.

ultimately, israel have been granted impunity by the west. they have slaughtered thousands upon thousands of innocent palestinians. they have bombed hospitals and schools indiscriminately. they have used white phosphorus, violating the geneva convention. they have completely eradicated nearly 900 bloodlines. how many more need to be wiped out? how many more children need to be buried underneath the rubble? how many more doctors need to be confronted with the bodies of their own family members? how many more journalists need to detail the horrific acts of violence they are witnessing? what more can be done to the palestinian people that has not been done already?

i truly believe that palestine will be free one day. i believe the palestinian people will receive the justice they finally deserve. but what breaks my heart is how much they have suffered and will continue to suffer before they are deemed worthy of help. and it would be to all of our detriment if we ignored how much of a factor palestine being a predominantly muslim state has played into the way the world has reacted to their genocide.

#edit: this is completely okay (and encouraged frankly) to reblog <3 #i just needed to get this off my chest because i don’t know how much more i can take #palestine #free palestine

[greyias]

Oh look, it seems everyone has been opted into the unfortunate "experiment" now. For everyone who has been blissfully using the old UI up until now, welcome to hell :)

Do you not like hell? Do you want to leave and crawl back up into the sunlight of the old UI? Well, have I got a link for you! A beautiful tumblr user (who is not me) has gone and fixed things beautifully for you already: https://github.com/enchanted-sword/dashboard-unfucker

You will need to have Tampermonkey installed on your browser of choice, and once that's done, just go to the github link above, and peruse the readme to install. And voila! You have your old dash back!

The authors of XKit Rewritten said during the experiments that at the time, since this was an "experiment" they weren't going to implement anything to revert to the old UI (although who knows if they'll do it now). And the dashboard unfucker has worked beautifully enough for me to where I genuinely couldn't tell if they had ended the experiment or not.

#EDIT: pinning this for a few days so muts can find it if needed #EDIT: but also because i'm muting notifications because my phone is now dying #i foresee me possibly having to mute the notifications on this post #but whatever #(update: my prediction came true faster than i anticipated before i could even fix link mistakes or typos 🤷‍♀️ SORRY) #(when posts you make for your muts get a little further out than expected) #psa for anyone who the new ui winds up bothering #here's a way to basically revert to ye olden times

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY. #you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love. #If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes. #If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content? #And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like. #However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value. #tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

[bioshzrd]

this random ass guy who’s entire bit is that he can move like this is the only good wesker fan ever

#talking #edit: i changed the caption you guys are so annoying lmfao #i didn’t mean anything by it at all if you think i’m equating being old with bad that’s entirely a you problem.. someone easily 20+ years #older than me is in fact an old ass guy to me sorry i didn’t realize the uses tumblr at age 30-40 community was gonna stroll up on my post #you guys are so sensitive my god #i call one of my closest friends and family members who are all 10-20 years older than me old all the time you guys need to learn not to #take shit so seriously and also don’t lecture me on my joke post

[nutsack90]

goddamnb!!

chill out man!!!

#zuko #zuko atla #atla #avatar the last airbender #the blue spirit #i cant tell if i loved or hated the process of this drawing #pike art #also i loveddd all the blue spirit stuff literally so awsome #need to draw blue spirit stuff more often #edited because i realized it was slightly off center and that made me so upset to look at

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

#tiktoks #videos #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #horses #user: that.blue.roan #she/her pronouns #described #i think horse girls and horse non-girls need this #its me im horse girls #i did edit the description

[little-eye-guy]

"this is too raw of a line to come from—" shut up. beauty and meaning is everywhere

#eye guy speaks #i need that phrase to be removed from everyone's vocabulary Please #why are you so convinced that such things cannot be discovered by or found in the mundane #1/1/23 edit: hope you all have enjoyed yourselves bc im ready for some peace and quiet *turns off reblogs* #1/4/23 edit: please don't comment about wanting to reblog. the experience itself may be fleeting but you will have your memory of it #(aka i turned them off for my health and you will be ok. it's just a post)

[elizabethalexis]

I don’t remember how old

I was when I learned for the first time

there is no going backwards in this life

I only remember blades

of emerald grass between my stubby fingers

the song of hidden frogs and invisible chorus

light flickering on the wind

the sky staining ever darker blue

I remember my white hair

cut boyishly, I remember thinking even then

bleached by the sun I reigned beneath

the scattered constellations on my arms

before I learned the truth

what irreparable damage looks like

the nonempty quietude of my little fiefdom

the endless expanse of the empty neighborhood fields stretching away

beyond the white fence

there was so little sound then

you could hear the earth growing old

you could hear the clematis bloom

and the tomatoes turn crimson

if you listened long enough

maybe I knew even then

how inextricably caught I was in the current

how steps taken in reverse are not the same as going backwards

how fast that moment would slip between my hands

like blades of grass falling

like summer’s freckles fading at close of fall

#personal #writing #needs editing