#received a tumblr message

[antivanelf]

I think the only solution to your post re: accents is to watch more POC led Actual Plays, like Desi Quest for example. Featuring many CR and D20 cast members (including Anjali), it's beautifully diverse, has tons of South Asian accents and it's really a celebration of Desi culture.

I was thinking of looking into those actually! ive had a backlog of content to catch up with but I wanna go get into more diverse actual plays to see more of the breadth that the medium can have, i'll def make sure to check out desi quest!! I just looked up the cast and saw a lot of familiar faces I really enjoyed seeing in other things so I'm excited :)

#im answering this so late whoops im v sorry about that #i saw i got an anon and meant to answer immediately but then completely forgot because it's been a few years since I have actually #received a tumblr message #i have very poor object permeance i forget things exist the second im not looking directly at them

[ponpox]

The ask feature on Tumblr is so funny to me truly the way of experiencing writing letters digitally. If you reply privately, just like a physical letter you have no way of knowing if the person ever received it or if they will ever reply. You don't have a proper message history beyond the latest message, everything beyond that is gone. Remarkable. Actual digital pen pals

#emailing doesnt hit the same with their Sent tab and Message History #every messaging app shows you if messages are sent and often also if the receiver has seen it #but not private reply on tumblr asks #I kinda love it #even though it's so outdated and unreliable #it's romantic and nostalgic #just like physical letters! #pontalks #tumblr

[corrodedcoughin]

okay so your trans art binge-reblog spree yesterday kinda synced up with me having Intense Gender Feels so please allow me the liberty of gently knocking at your inbox again bc I feel a mighty need to unleash some trans!Eddie headcanons on you >.>

imagine the sheer emancipation of Eddie growing out his hair again after he had cut it short when first moving in with Wayne but this time long hair feels different and so, so much freeing bc it's no longer a stupid social expectation rooted in sth that isn't even true about him but instead a personal choice, one deeply connected with the music that comforts and inspires him like nothing else

imagine the freedom of him first realizing he's trans and how things — maybe not all things but at least some of them — suddenly fell into place from just knowing who he is, even if back then he had no opportunity and no safe place to as much as think about trying to socially transition. just feeling like his authentic self for once, without the weight of others' preconceptions about all the arbitrary ways he's supposed to be. he might've been unable to tell anyone at that time but simply having that knowledge to himself was liberating from the years of having felt like there's sth wrong with him. liberating bc now he knew for a fact that there wasn't. how can this be wrong if it made him feel like himself for the first time maybe ever?

imagine him hesitantly knocking on his uncle's door in the middle of the night when he had no choice but to run away from home. imagine the surprise on Wayne's face and all the unyielding unquestioning trust and comfort he's got for him, so thorough and genuine that it only takes him a few days to come out despite the fear. and then Wayne's silence breaks into a question of what name his nephew would like to called then. the words startling soon-to-be-Eddie into a impulsive hug, which is returned with utmost care and with quiet thinking-out-loud rambling of whether Wayne's got any clothes that would fit his nephew and that he would feel comfortable in

imagine the joy when Eddie gets a fake ID from Reefer Rick one day

imagine him making friends with the rest of Corroded Coffin guys and, when he gathers the courage and trust to come out, being met with support, ranging from confusion and a promise to eventually get how any of it works and to respect Eddie's pronouns etc, to deep understanding that hardly needs words bc you know you're being seen for who you actually are

imagine Eddie working on his voice and ending up achieving some success partly thanks to singing along to his favorite songs and trying to learn harsh metal vocals and at first scaring everyone around by going over the top with them until he figures out ways to train his voice to be more masculine sounding without resorting to that kind of harshness (and developing multiple fun vocal stims on the way)

imagine Eddie getting together with Steve and as a bonus gaining the perfect person to get advice from when it comes to figuring out a workout routine for his purposes

imagine the relief of knowing there are multiple people who you can be your authentic self with and who love you for this and would never change a single thing about what makes you yourself

oof well, I kinda carried away "a bit" (meanwhile the Feels have only intensified further whoops) and these are in no particular order but I really hope you'll like this humble offering. have a restful fulfilling weekend💜

LIAM!!!! LIAM!!!!! I am always ready for transing the narrative (been in some gender struggles too so let’s be in this together 🤝) I’m going to be running commentary replying so if it’s incoherent or accidentally cover something said later I’m sorry!!

- the hair!! YES!!! I feel like he had long hair before and felt pushed into have short hair in order to be taken seriously in his identity but what he always really wanted to be was ‘just a boy with long hair’ and the more it grows the happier he gets becuase THIS!! THIS!!! Is who he feels like he should have always been!!! This feel RIGHT! When it gets past the length of being ‘acceptable’ for a boy and starts brushing his shoulders he hasn’t never felt more strongly that he is Right. That this is Who He Is, this is Eddie Munson and Eddie Munson is a societal expectation-dodging BOY

- THE ACCEPTANCE AND REALISATION!!! What if he was going around as a child saying kid stuff like ‘when will I grow a beard?’ And being hushed by his elders (before Wayne). Going along with what was given to him, be it toys or clothes because his family didn’t have a lot so he’s not going to ask for more but knowing that they didn’t feel right. That he was performing a character for these people and hoping it would be enough for them, for himself. It’s not, something still feels wrong and he can’t figure out. But then, then he gets the keys to the kingdom, he moves in with Wayne and Wayne gives him some money and sets him loose in the thrift shop. At the start he sifts through the girl’s rails but all of the sizes are wrong for him. So wayne just suggests the boys racks because hey it’s just T-shirts and we need to get you stuff that fits. He guides eddie to the plain T-shirts, not thinking much of it. Not thinking it’ll be a Realisation in the young mind of his nephew. Eddie goes home with 2 boys T-shirts that day and from then on gravitates to exclusively wearing them. Next thrift shop visit eddie makes a beeline to the boys section and doesn’t look back.

- AHHH WAYNE AND COMING OUT I LOVE YOUR VERSION!!! What about Wayne passing a couple of shirts on to Eddie? A hat too? And a belt because god knows Eddie’s buying the jeans that hide his hips and needs something to hold them up. Wayne starts calling eddie ‘son’ and ‘boy’. Every time it’s like Christmas lights have been turned on behind his eyes. He feels dizzy with it, can’t contain himself, has to clench his fists to stop himself from shaking becuase this? This feels right. It fees Correct and knowing Wayne is here with him is the ballast he needs to secure himself on this unpredictable ride.

-CORRODED COFFIN SAYING ITS SO METAL OF HIM. (I personally also hc Gareth as trans so I like to think that Jeff and Freak are always ready to be Boys and show them Boy Stuff. Like alongside band practice they had Boy Practice at the start and now they can burp the alphabet in harmony and can armpit fart guitar solos and play fight and are just GOOFY)

- eddie going to a gig or band practice and then the next morning waking up with a slightly wrecked voice that he /loves/. He surreptitiously tries to maintain it, shouting lyrics in his room and just screaming sometimes but it starts to get painful and he accepts he has to find a different way. He listens to the radio with Wayne, asks to go with him when Wayne’s work friends plan a couple of drinks in one of their yards. Eddie gets to go to a couple, gets to listen to Wayne’s country and rock radio stations. Gets to hear these men talking and tries out phrases he hears when he’s on his own, records them on a tape deck he found in the thrift by luck one day. Records and re-records until he gets it right. Until he can prank call principle Higgins and get shouted at down the phone ‘I’ll find out who your father is boy! He’ll have your hide!’ The peak is when he goes into scoops and gets everything he wanted ‘hey man, how’s it going?’ From the offensively cute sailor with the big hands and strawberry sweet smile

- WORKOUT SUPPORT STEVE. YES. YES ABSOLUTELY!!! Steve showing him that he can’t just hit upper body every day, that he has to get everywhere. That he needs to make his core thicker if he wants that boy look. That working on his quads and calves will help, he promises it won’t leave him a big butt and tiny waist. (Not unless he wants Steve’s routine, that boy is going to work on his ass-ets okay?) eddie doing his first full push up with Proper Form and feeling the muscles in his back move and thinks yes. This is Good. God knows he’s not great at sticking to it but when it serves a purpose and it means he gets to ogle his boyfriend? Kind of a win win

- TBE LAST POINT!!! Yes!!! Eddie living in subconscious fear for so long that he pushes the very notion of being a Boy down. so far Down and Away that he won’t ever let it see the light of day. Or so he thinks. He tells himself that he is fine, that this is fine. But it isn’t and he doesn’t know what feels wrong. Until it slowly starts to change at a glacial speed. He tries different things. Starting only in his room, makes jokes that he thinks he can get away with in front of Wayne. Pushes it further, does more Boy things with corroded coffin. Sees that it’s okay? They are okay with it? With how he is? Sees that Wayne just nods at him and doesn’t make a fuss? That Wayne’s friends don’t bay an eye somehow? (Sure some guys at work do, but Wayne makes sure they know where their opinions aren’t wanted. That Wayne and his group aren’t to be taken lightly on the topic of Wayne’s nephew)

Eddie experiencing so much acceptance and love and there being so venom in it. No ‘waiting’ for it all to pass and Eddie to go back to ‘normal’. Eddies never been normal and that’s a badge he starts to wear with pride. With defiance. Knowing that he has everyone he could ever need how could be not?

#LIAM !!!! if you got carried away then you swept me up with you #I LCOE THIS SO KUCH I LOVE IT!! #I love everything you said YHE FAKE ID!!! I JUST!!! #hed try so many things and practice and go over movements and voices that it starts to FLOW #and eventually he doesn’t what he sounded like before how he moved before #HE!!! DESERVES THR WORLD!!!!! #LIAM!!!! #thank you!!! thank you SO SO MCUB for sending this!!! #I am SO LUCKY to have received it!! #im so sorry my reply is messy you just got me so excited #oh wow I love him #I have been having increasing gender thoughts about multiple things and doubts and blehh but this is soothing me!!! #ALSO!! I got your other ask but ummm I want to keep that in my ask box so that it can’t possibly be misplaced #im so doubtful #of tumblrs tag system and I’m not being funny I’d genuinly would hate to lose that message #I’ve been having a Time with work and friends and life (just like Everyone else) and you just made me feel #like somebody cared or at least Noticed Me so yeah I’m sorry I’m #keeping it and saving it for the really and days becuase rsd and doubt and everything else is awful but you #said somethings that I cannot coherently express my gratitude for #becuase I am #bad with words 🫲🤡🫱 #but all this to say thank you and you are just wonderful and incredible and thank you for sending me this and I’m #so in love with it #you are a kind and smart and interesting and funny and please don’t ever doubt that #okay oky sorry I am mushy with trans posts and Sunday scaries I’ll #just go to the boring tags now #eddie munson #trans eddie munson #transmasc eddie munson #ask

[amaraudermind]

I just know Duke loves celebrating the Ides of March

#the void screams #ides of march #duke thomas #i think he should send bruce ominous messages leading up to the day #nothing happens but bruce is looking over his shoulder for a prank the entire day #and SOMEONE left foam knives around in every single office in gotham but know one knows who. #the real scary one was the steak knife lex luthor found sitting innocently on his desk when he got to lexcorp that morning #none of the actual details get out but lex does spin the story to the press as 'receiving violent death threats' #tim is offended that he wasn't in on the celebrations of the ides of march. 'it's not my fault you didn't know we were celebrating' #'WHO'S WE' 'us.' 'AUGH' #(us is duke referring to tumblr as a whole but also to steph) #i maintain my headcanon that duke and steph are the only bats with tumblr #dick doesn't like social media but he has a facebook because a job had a work group once #jason uses instagram to take aesthetic pictures of his knives and give them captions from classic literature. usually with ominous vibes. #tim has twitter and reddit and loves egging on batman conspiracies. #cass doesn't use social media but she has a tumblr because steph has a tumblr. #damian has a tiktok that he uses just to look at videos of cats. #this is off topic but i digress #duke celebrating ides of march. you agree.

[evergardenwall]

tumblr on desktop is down for me (both on firefox and microsoft edge), but i can use the app on my phone...anyone experiencing this as well??

#more precisely ​i receive an error 406 message whenever i try opening tumblr on desktop :/ #hellsite #tumblr #tumblr down #entries

[staycalmandhugaclone]

Correction

It has been brought to my attention that I was incorrect in a statement I made yesterday, and the offended party has requested I amend that statement. The individual did, in fact, interact with 1 chapter (Touch Starved Ch 3 with Wrecker) by reblogging it on Feb 27, including a gif and short comment.

The fact that my friend was horrendously bullied without any cause from this individual is still, as I told them to begin with, the reason I am uncomfortable writing for them. Interacting with my work is not a prerequisite for submitting an ask, it's just a kind and considerate thing to do. Being a decent person is a prerequisite, and continuing to try to argue your case and defend yourself really isn't helping matters, nor is attempting to bully me through other people in retaliation.

I'm over 30. I have a mortgage, a wonderful husband, my first baby on the way, and a whole slew of family matters going all kinds of crazy from my parents recently divorcing to my adoptive sister's aunt dying suddenly from a heart attack last night. You getting your feelings hurt because your actions hurt people I care about, and then lashing out about it is honestly just petty at this point and not something I'm going to continue wasting time or thought toward.

The answer is no: I'm not writing for you. No, I'm not giving names because you've already scarred my friend so badly they nearly left Tumblr entirely and I won't be granting you the chance to hurt them further, and another of my friends was insulted by you just as badly, though they don't take things as personally, but that illustrates that this is clearly a trend. Finally: No, I'm not going to apologize to you for speaking plainly.

If you're so adamant that my view of you is false, prove me wrong by being better.

#staycalm talks #to my wonderful readers: I'm sorry if you've been at all dragged into this #I received their message requesting the “correction” earlier this morning #So here we are: public admission for all to see #I am done with this. #not sure if I'm going to obsess over the clone side of Tumblr as a distraction and absolutely blow up my blog now #or if I'm just going to pop off to deal with my own shit for a while #The good new is that I made some delicious coffee cake earlier #of course

[northern-passage]

one last post about this, since i’m receiving multiple Essays on why people hate Merry so so much:

i’m not trying to say that you have to like every single female character. that’s silly. particularly with Merry, i am Aware of her personality, i know she is abrasive and your first interaction with her is her picking a fight with Lea - i wrote her that way, i know.

what i’m trying to say is whether you dislike Merry or not, there’s still nothing she’s done to deserve active hate and violent misogynistic messages in my inbox - hate she gets only because she’s a woman. now if Merry was a man, would her actions make you this angry, or is it just because she was mean to your male fave? is it just because she’s “competition” for Lea? if it was possible to have an m/m poly with Lea, would you like the dynamic between them more rather than how it is now, with a mean, evil woman?

it’s really okay if you don’t Love Merry. i’m not asking you to, and i’m not calling you a misogynist if you don’t like her (which seems to be what a lot of you think). it’s fine!! i wrote her to be a bit of an antagonistic character, and i’m glad that she seems to be polarizing. the point of what i was trying to say is that Merry in particular gets a huge amount of hate, despite not really... doing anything. the hunter can be just as mean (if not even meaner) to Lea in the game, and i don’t think there’s anything Merry has done that warrants the kind of backlash she has received. she gets the same level of hate as Duncan, though i’ve received more violent messages about her than about the literal villain of the game.

#i think it's telling that the immediate response was for multiple people to write me like pages long messages #detailing all the things they hate about her. lol #would you feel compelled to do that about anyone else? #i'm ending this discussion here because it's just going to go in circles because it's tumblr #and everyone is just going to misinterpret everything i say as always. this is why it's pointless to have these discussions #no one actually cares and everyone will just twist your words until they're right and you're wrong #and ofc everyone else gets to be anonymous except for me #but since im Still receiving messages about it. this is the last thing i'll say #also another note. if ur someone that dislikes merry but has never sent these kinds of messages. then i think it’s fair to say #im not talking about you. everyone is allowed to dislike characters #but maybe dont send violent fantasies abt killing them to people lol

[parkerlyn]

Is Oisen your self-insert?

Yes.

#-logs into tumblr- #-receives this message- #-logs back off tumblr never to return- #what...what vibes do I give off??? #aksksjskaka #in case it needs saying #I am very much joking #hopefully it’s obvious that they are not aksjdjs

[squisheebugdoodles]

technology is trying to gaslight me tonight i swear to fuck

#first patreon had this weird glitch that's still happening #where a post i made wouldn't show up on my page but it showed up for others and also everywhere EXCEPT my main page #it was in the drafts and the manage recent posts section and the collections but NOT the main home page *for m e* #and me alone it seemed #tried to fix it and only made things Worse somehow #then. my pc decided to set the clock back by three hours? at seemingly random??? #tumblr isn't letting me like posts and any messages sent or received on here disappear or don't show up at all on my end #while typing this up it wouldn't autosave and then it wouldn't post #and at least for tumblr it usually only does that when i've been force logged out without it actually kicking me off until i refresh #so i refreshed the page to see if it would force me to log in again #but??? i was still logged in so i was like okay i'll just log out and log in again maybe that'll help #nope!! still acting funky!! #third time typing this post up bc of it!!

[babygirlmickey]

one for the touch

rating: E

summary:

“What, you want to come like this?” He pulls Mickey down harder against his thigh, rutting against him through two layers of denim, and Mickey’s fingers dig into his triceps painfully as he whines, high and breathless, head falling back against the wall. “You want to come on my thigh?”

#please clap #gallavich #shameless #my fics #🪐 #prompt fills #this will be replacing my pinned post for a while but don’t worry! I am still shadowbanned and cannot receive messages :) #tumblr is steadfastly ignoring my pleas for help on that front

[thedeals]

“gold star” lesbians when they realize the trophy they’re waiting for is never coming and no one gives a fuck: 😱🤯🤯

#ooh good job you’re so smart and special and different for knowing you were gay since gestation in the womb #<- no one #wait does anyone remember that copy pasta anon message about gold stars that every lesbian on tumblr would receive? man that was years ago

[if-mirrormine]

Ok so I totally get it if it is presumptuous of me to ask, but could you add the 'sanity meter' thing back? I get it if it's too much work or you think it takes away from the story, though.

But anyways i read the latest chapter, and I think it's pretty good, and I like this alex fellow already! Although for some reason it's so funny to me that the cat's name is also the poly ship name 😄

i actually didn't realise i took away the mental stat with the others until now lol so yeah i can add it back.

#you can blame gralex on the good people of tumblr #well not all of them #but the majority did vote for that to be her name #and tbh its grown on me a lot #i dont even think of them (her name and the poly ship) as the same thing any more #🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ #anyway thanks for reading bestie #ily mwah #mirror mine #message received☎️ #anonymous

[vaxxy-the-raven]

the queer machina post did not want to appear in tags just now and i was about to start tearing my hair out

i thought maybe tumblr was soft censorsing the term queer or something but it wasn't that, so I also checked my blacklist and it wasn't any of my blacklisted terms or #s causing me problems

apparently, it was me joking about being horny for Vax down in the tag section that stopped the post from showing up in tag pages 😭

sorry tumblr, but does it help at all that I'm very sexually repulsed & was joking? 🤣🤣

in any case, crisis over

now I can laugh about it

#would be me wouldn't it #lmao even tumblr has had enough of my shit #message received tumblr #I'll stop thirsting over vax so much i promise #(im lying) #the legend of vox machina #critical role #tlovm #cr #vax'ildan #lynias shut up challenge

[justgleekout]

You are just a shit

If this is supposed to be funny, anon, it’s really not.

#why do people feel the need to make others feel bad #don’t do this anon. #its not a good look and you can really hurt people. #tumblr is a safe space for so many people #don’t invade it #try putting your energy is positive things #turning anon off for a bit... #but to all the actual lovely people on this site please don’t be shy <33 I love receiving messages

[whenifeellikeitpossums]

#possum #opossum #I’ve got a really spotty connection where I am so I might miss or be late the next couple days #sorry folks #also I’ve been meaning to clear out my ask box so I’ll try and get on that soon #(and tumblr won’t let me send of receive dms for some reason so if you’ve been messaging me sorry for not responding) #LOOK at this lil gentleman

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

when will our DMs come back from the war (Tumblr randomly deciding we need to "verify" the exact same email address we've been using since we signed up for this godforsaken webbed site in 2012, without actually sending us a verification email.)

#saltposting #if you can no longer send us direct messages: this is why and I am very sorry. #we also cannot access our conversation history anymore. #mutuals: you may send in an ask to exchange Discords -- still willing to receive and send Tumblr posts #even if we have to go off-platform for this to happen. #tumblr is a fully functioning website that has no technical issues whatsoever. (/lies.) #we have emailed support about this for the record. it has been a mere two days. (perhaps three? what is a passage of time.)