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purplecrkl Ā· 4 months ago
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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind
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purplecrkl Ā· 5 months ago
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reblog if youā€™ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. Iā€™m trying to see something
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purplecrkl Ā· 5 months ago
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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you canā€™t find any post on your own blog, itā€™s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if youā€™re on desktop/browser and you know what youā€™re doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissantsĀ or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, itā€™s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest firstĀ 
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isnā€™t as perfect at finding everything, but itā€™s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned itĀ ā€œlook at my croissantā€) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it wonā€™t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find itā€™s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case youā€™re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memesĀ 
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if youā€™re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if youā€™re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quicklyĀ 
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I donā€™t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)Ā 
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!Ā 
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (orĀ ā€œcustom themeā€) enabled. aĀ ā€œcustom themeā€ is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. Iā€™ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.Ā 
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if the person doesnā€™t have aĀ ā€œcustom themeā€ enabled, youā€™re beholden to the search bar. still, Iā€™ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if youā€™re on mobile, Iā€™m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if youā€™re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, youā€™ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and itā€™ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if thereā€™s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)Ā 
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purplecrkl Ā· 7 months ago
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Being a girl is: wanting to go to bed early but deciding to just get on tumblr/wattpad/Ao3 for a little bit and then end up finding a fic series that you really like and read until well past your usual bedtime then keeping on because itā€™s already past your bedtime. Then being mad when you wake up in the morning because you overslept your timer.
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purplecrkl Ā· 8 months ago
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Why do I have to build the world myself? Why can't it already be there? You're telling me I have to develop it, too? Give it characters? Next you're gonna tell me I need to have a plot. Absurd.
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purplecrkl Ā· 8 months ago
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ā€œhow did you get into writingā€ girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you
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purplecrkl Ā· 9 months ago
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purplecrkl Ā· 9 months ago
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(Wrote this two years ago and never posted it. Now that I have free time, I want to practice writing again!! I have no idea where this was going, but itā€™s my first time writing something, so hopefully it makes some sense šŸ’€)
Also I pictured Daniel as Aaron Taylor Johnson from that one BLACK AND WHITE AD URGH šŸ˜© #freeATJ šŸ˜”āœŠšŸ¼
ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”
(10 years earlier)
ā€œTell me to stay. Tell me, if I choose to walk away, you will never speak to me again. Tell me Iā€™m making the biggest mistake of my life. Tell me-ā€œ
ā€œTell me you know how to start a sentence without using ā€˜tell meā€™, right?ā€
ā€œTell me youā€™re an asshole without *telling* me youā€™re an asshole. Howā€™s that?ā€ I say back. Daniel, unfazed by remark, reaches for a pillow on my bed, hurling it at the side of my head. Carefully dodging the laptop showing the unfinished script of my latest story.
ā€œIā€™m just saying, youā€™re reaching. I mean come on, no one actually says this stuff. Let alone out loud in an airport. Imagine the looks youā€™d get if we held up the line like that at Heathrow. Iā€™d barely have time to spit the second line out before security kicked us out. Not to mention the ā€˜No Fly Listā€™ weā€™d be put on, and rightfully so.ā€
This has been our routine since we met in 8th grade. Now, both in college, Daniel remains the only person I share my stories with. The path to becoming a screenwriter is long and treacherous but Daniel had always been supportive of my dreams. If there was anything I could count on him for, it was his brutal honesty. He would never tell me what I wanted to hear, and was always careful to reel me in whenever I was too harsh on myself.
While I wrote, Daniel would sketch quietly on my bed. He had dreams of becoming an architect and could talk my ear off about the ingenuity of various finite materials, how brutalist architecture is his least favourite style and why heā€™d move to Japan in a heartbeat because timber burnt houses had proven to increase the lifespan of its tenants.
Truthfully I think his desire to create a home that stood the test of time had to do with the fact he hadnā€™t experienced one himself. Mr and Mrs Keating werenā€™t bad people per se, they were just bad parents. Daniel didnā€™t remember much about his childhood. Bringing up the past never bode well for him. A feat Daniel was cruelly reminded of when he was asked to recall his favourite part about his seventh birthday at school the next day.
ā€œMy Lego bikeā€, he said proudly.
ā€œAnd when I saw daddy kissing mummy in the library.ā€
The kids in his class let out a chorus of ā€˜ewsā€™, whilst sneaking glances at who theyā€™d declare their love for in the playground later that day.
Mrs Keating apparently cherished that moment too, going as far as giving it its own highlighted section in the divorce papers she served Mr Keating with the following weekend. A memory she would have no recollection of, if it werenā€™t for Danielā€™s reminder. And after both parties agreed to sell the house, cashing in a hefty cheque large enough to erase 7 years of marriage, Daniel had barely managed to pack his favourite toys before he was waving goodbye to the house he grew up in. To hell with that library, he thought.
Though I didnā€™t know him back then, anyone could have guessed using your child to communicate the failings of the other parent; then shipping him off to boarding school when he refused to choose a side would end in serious emotional unrest in said kid. To this day, Daniel refuses to subject himself to any notion of love in fear of repeating his parents mistakes.
ā€œGod, I cannot wait for the day Daniel Keating confesses his undying love in the middle of an airportā€ I say, while crawling my way into the space beside him. A loud scoff erupts from his chest and itā€™s my favourite sound Iā€™ve heard all day. But then itā€™s silent for a beat too long and Iā€™m afraid Iā€™ve offended him with such a preposterous idea. Daniel, capable of love? Ha.
In a second heā€™s up on his feet, pacing the room with my laptop in hand. He studies my script for a few seconds and it takes all I have to not stare at him too long. But itā€™s Daniel Keating. And in the last six years Iā€™ve known him, Iā€™ve stolen enough glances to confidently recite every part of him in my sleep.
Almost, every part.
A quiet chuckle brings me back and Iā€™m scared heā€™s finally caught me staring this time. He hasnā€™t. And although itā€™s impossible to see anything beyond the dark cesspool of cocoa in his eyes, I still catch that devilish glint when he stalks towards me.
ā€œTell me to stay Lex,ā€ he says.
If his head full of curls werenā€™t brushing against his ears, Iā€™m sure he wouldā€™ve heard my heart stop.
ā€œTell me youā€™ll never speak to me again, if I choose to walk away.ā€
Thatā€™s impossible, I want to say. You could walk away a million times and Iā€™d welcome you back a million and one.
Daniel reaches me on the bed and Iā€™m certain if I donā€™t take a breath in the next second my respiratory system will take ā€˜youā€™ll never speak to me againā€™ quite literally. Does Heaven give out ā€˜do-oversā€™ for misunderstandings like this? Itā€™s not like I meant to stop breathing. Blame the boy currently intertwining my hand with his.
ā€œTell me, Iā€™m making the biggest mistake of my life Lex.ā€
He cups my cheek, and I wonder if heā€™s noticed Iā€™ve come undone in the palm of his hand. I wonder if he knows everything Iā€™ve written up to this point has been about him.
About us.
Iā€™m certain Iā€™ve stopped breathing. But Iā€™m not worried. There are worse ways to go out, than having Daniel Keating here with me, like this. So with my hand in his right, and my heart in his other, I make a vow right then and there. To love him with everything I have.
Daniel.
I will love you when you stay.
I will love you if you choose to walk away.
But most importantly, I will continue to love you even if it turns out to be the biggest mistake of my life.
And it is.
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purplecrkl Ā· 10 months ago
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summary - Getting married was supposed to be the best day of your life, the day you promised to spend forever with the person you loved. Though you knew very little about love, youā€™d always been excited for it, playing dress up with your sisters and dreaming of the day you would know love like the back of your hand. Now you were finally getting married and you knew two things for certain: you knew nothing of love and Bradley Bradshaw did not love you.
warnings - arranged marriage au, heavily inspired by Greta Gerwigā€™s Little Women because that movie has a choke hold on me, angst, gender stereotypes, somewhat toxic family, chapter specific
status - complete!
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en dessous de la lune qui chante
tout prĆØs de la place oĆ¹ tes pieds passent
cachƩs dans les trous de ton divan
et quand tu es seule pendant un instant
embrasse-moi
quand tu voudras
below the singing moon
close to where your feet pass
hidden in the holes of your couch
and when youā€™re alone for a moment
kiss me*
when you want*
i will leave you notes
je te laisserai des mots
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reader analysis | bradley analysis
sincerely and most ardently yours
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but wait, thereā€™s more!
find out what happens to Jake in How Do I Love Thee?
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taglist | asks
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purplecrkl Ā· 10 months ago
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Woah
I tried to write a novel. Not once. Not twice. But about 12 times. Here's how that would play out: 1. I sit down and knock out 10 pages 2. I share it with someone 3. They say "It's goooood" like it's not good 4. I ask for critical feedback 5. They say, "Well....the plot just moves so quickly. So much happens in the first few pages it doesn't feel natural." So I'd write more drafts. I'd try to stretch out the story. I would add dialogue that I tried to make interesting but thought was boring. I would try including environment and character descriptions that felt unnecessary, (why not just let people imagine what they want?) Anyways, I gave up trying to write because in my mind, I wasn't a fiction writer. Maybe I could write a phonebook or something. But then I made a fiction podcast, and I waited for the same feedback about the fast moving plot, but guess what??? Podcasts aren't novels. The thing that made my novels suck became one of the things that made Desert Skies work. I've received some criticism since the show started, but one thing I don't receive regular complaints about is being overly-descriptive or longwinded. In fact, the opposite. It moves fast enough that it keeps peoples attention. I always felt I had a knack for telling stories but spent years beating myself up because I couldn't put those stories into novel form. The problem wasn't me. The problem was the tool I was trying to use. All that to say: If, in your innermost parts you may know that you're a storyteller but you just can't write a book, don't give up right away. You can always do things to get better and there's a lot of good resources. But if you do that for a while and novel writing just isn't your thing, try making a podcast, or creating a comic, or a poem, or a play, or a tv script. You might know you're an artist but suck at painting. Try making a glass mosaic, or miniatures, or try charcoal portraits, or embroider or collage. You might know you're a singer, but opera just isn't working out. Why not yodel? I could keep listing out examples, but the point is this. Trust your intuitions when it comes to your creative abilities, but don't inhibit yourself by becoming dogmatic about which medium you can use to express that creativity. Don't be afraid to try something new. Don't be afraid to make something new. You might just find the art form that fits the gift you knew you always had, and what it is might surprise you
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purplecrkl Ā· 11 months ago
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People who don't hyperfixate will never know the slightly horrible, completely impossible-to-replicate feeling of being so intensely invested in something it possesses you, takes over your waking thoughts and rides some weird line between being excited, anxious, and stressed as hell while still being entirely some other beast.
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purplecrkl Ā· 11 months ago
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cannot emphasize enough how a good piece of media can reset a creative slump. stop putting off consuming that media because you "should be writing instead" and then not write either
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purplecrkl Ā· 1 year ago
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I Swear Somewhere This Works: Chapter One
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summary - Youā€™ve known your entire life that you were meant to be with Bradley Bradshaw. Born with the rare gift of being a ā€œmatchmakerā€, youā€™ve been able to see your soulmate connection since childhood, just like you see the romantic pairings of everyone around you. But while everyone saw that as a gift, you see it as a curse. Because whatā€™s the point of knowing Bradleyā€™s your soulmate if heā€™s never fallen in love with you? Youā€™ve tried, altering time and space with your gift to find the one iteration of your life that you and Bradley are fated to be together. And, in every iteration of your life, you have to watch Bradley fall in love with someone else. But everything changes when one of these iterations puts you right in the trajectory of Jake, a matchmaker whoā€™s determined to convince you that the universe isnā€™t always right.
warnings - soulmate au, my first time writing a love triangle, language, no use of y/n, brief mentions of throwing up, both Bradley and Jake are 6'7" because I said so
word count - 3.7k
i swear somewhere this works masterlist
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purplecrkl Ā· 1 year ago
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"There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything."
~ Luna Adriana
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purplecrkl Ā· 1 year ago
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One New Voicemail
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summary - Jake broke your heart when he left you behind. All that remained of him were the memories of when you were in love ā€” and the phone number he never picks up. Now heā€™s back to claim his title. And you think that thatā€™s all he wants, that heā€™s completely forgotten about everything you were together, until he tries to fight for you too. But, this time, will you finally be worth more to him than the glory?
warnings - DARK THEMES, boxer au, violence, fluff, angst, smut, language, no use of y/n, chapter specific
this series is 18+, minors please do not interact
last update - 03/06/23
under the hard deck universe
under the hard deck: chronological order
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leave a message
the grow apart
the difference a minute can make
leave a mark
what comes first
charlotteā€™s
if the world was ending
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blurbs;
Jake comforts you before a fight
Jake knows how to read you
the future
the orange butterfly
Jake in bed*
you meet Harley for the first time
you overhear Jake calling you clingy
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taglist | asks | playlist
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purplecrkl Ā· 1 year ago
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the bcu are au series that all take place in the same universe
bradley bradshaw;
je te laisserai des mots (little women au)
the trial run (frat boy au)
so seductive (stripper au)
i swear somewhere this works (soulmate au)
all over tabloids (actor au)
under the hard deck (boxer au)
kilometers per hour (formula 1 au)
benevolent king (beauty and the beast au)
bob floyd;
under the hard deck (boxer au)
kilometers per hour (formula 1 au)
jake seresin;
the douche bag jar (new girl au)
caught in a riptide (surfer au)
i swear somewhere this works (soulmate au)
the strikeout (college baseball au)
i only light up when cameras are flashing (rockstar au)
under the hard deck (boxer au)
kilometers per hour (formula 1 au)
welcome to westview (wandavision au)
how do i love thee? (as you like it au)
1986 top gun;
off the ice (college hockey au)
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purplecrkl Ā· 1 year ago
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hi everyone. does anybody else miss something they can never return to. anyone else being swallowed whole by grief. anyone else clinging to love as a life preserver
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