#(then again we rarely post in tags and i think only have... 20-ish followers on that blog? something to that tune?)

[cluster-b-culture-is]

ASPD culture is seeing an antisocial person be 'anti good faith labels' (like bi lesbian and such) and immediately thinking they're a poser. pfft, you think societally created bullshit has strict rules that everyone must follow? lame, I thought ASPD was Disregard The Rules disorder.

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[mehoymalloy]

fanfic writer questions

Thanks for the tag, @foibles-fables!

1- How many works do you have on AO3?

29!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

286,054!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Most frequently, Critical Role, though I still have a few WIPs in Horizon and Stray Gods that I absolutely intend to get back to eventually.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I'm fudging this question a bit, because the lower three are all the same series from back when I first started writing two years ago. Unsurprisingly, Sing for Me (SG, Rated E) and Prometheus Bound (HFW, Rated M) are the heavy hitters, followed by the Tilda POV series with a slightly more modest kudos count. After that comes Through Eyes of Grace (SG, Rated T) and Mutually Assured Destruction (HFW, Rated E).

5. Do you respond to comments?

I do! I think the only fic I didn't respond to most comments was When the Darkness Comes, since it was 30 chapters posted all at once. It somehow felt like skewing the stats (which I realize is silly; I'll likely respond to all comments on any on-going long-fics, after all). But yeah, I like to lavish love and gratitude and enthusiasm onto commenters, since they go out of their way to do the same for my stories~

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Prometheus Bound BY FAR.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably my entry for the Horizon Rare-Pair Round Up event: Radiance.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not to my face or in my fic comments. Or even out in the wild very much, to my knowledge.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yep! Enemies to enemies who FUC- I mean, lovers. A lot of focus on zoomed in physicality details and hard feelings from characters who would rather do anything than acknowledge their feelings (like idk hate fuck it out). I joke but I also have some softer smut for Stray Gods and my Moon Moms AU.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I never have!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Also not that I know of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not yet, but my lovely friend @inomakani and I now have multiple fic ideas/drafts we like to scream at each other about, and we'll write them together as well, one day~

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

Do I even have to say it? I mean, I will happily shout it from the rooftops: IMOGEN/OTOHAN!

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Hmmm... There's an old draft called "Aloy is ticklish" that was a fluffy lil Aloy and the GAIA Gang+Talanah one-shot that I likely won't dust off ever again for no particular reason.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Succinct-ish but evocative setting description, I like to think. Internal feelings, and how they're expressed externally through small details in body language. And Tension, of course.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Dialogue; "would they say that??" is a recurring question for me.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I would do so if needed for characterization purposes!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Horizon! Specifically, Horizon Forbidden West!

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Oh wow that's a hard one... Since I'm in the midst of plotting (and now writing!) its sequel, I'll say Let Me Lay Waste to Thee. It's my first (well, thee first) Imogen/Otohan fic that kicked off my love for this beautifully fucked up ship :3

It's a free for all tag, folks! So feel free to snag and tag me~

[justlightlysedated]

20 Questions

20 questions, writer's edition, I was tagged by @lambourngb 😊❤❤

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

71! 70 for roswell and one for vagrant queen

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

468, 583!!

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

not entirely sure tbh, but let's count now:

timkon, bandom, glee, specifically pukurt, but some other ships too, merlin, doctor who, torchwood, teen wolf, agents of shield, runaways, the old guard, vagrant queen, and obviously, roswell new mexico

i think there might be more, but i don’t remember rn

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the cost of greatness, which i cowrote with marlo

a cure i know that soothes the soul (does so impossibly), the first pwp i wrote for this fandom lol

the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger, which i wrote for marlo

for better or for worse (til death do us part), which i also cowrote with marlo lol

it might be your wound but they’re my sutures, which i also wrote for marlo

so the pattern im sensing here is that my most popular fics were written with/for marlo which sounds about right lol

5. What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

i am not sure tbh, i write some pretty angsty one shots and longer fics, but i TRY to at least give a slightly hopeful ending, tho now that i’m thinking about it, i think the angstiest thing i’ve written was that prompt fill based on the song, for island fires and family, i remember SOBBING the entire time that i wrote it (there is miluca in that one), but ALSO there is the fic i wrote in reaction to the season one finale, which also made me cry, which was called, we both know how this story ends

6. What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

once again i’m not sure, like i said before, i try to give my fics hopeful endings if they’re really angsty, and i love me some hurt/comfort, but i’m not entirely known for writing happy, fluffy fics, tho i do TRY sometimes for certain people

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you've written?

yes!! i do love me some crossovers, and i guess i would have to say the malex, sort of doctor who au, i’m technically still writing for tove

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

yes??? but i’m not sure if i could classify it, like i’ll write pretty much anything within reason and if it doesn’t squick me out

9. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

okay, so like don’t hate me, but no, i rarely, if ever respond to comments, i just don’t know what to say at all, like i’m the type of person that really wants every single message to be unique and special, but there are only so many ways to thank someone for reading your fic, so i just tend to post things and then thank everyone for reading afterwards, if there is someone that shows up often on my notifications, or if someone asks me a specific question pertaining to the story, then i will answer, i also answer back if i wrote the fic for someone and they left a comment, and if i’m sent an ask on here about something that i wrote, but i am simultaneously the world's most shy and confident person ever, when it comes to my writing, so i’m so sorry

this doesnt mean that i dont appreciate every comment that i get because i really do, im just super shy and awkward and i may write good-ish, but i do NOT have the same way with words in person

10. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not really?? if i have i don’t remember it, usually i’m the one who talks the worse about my own writing

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes, the only kurtbastian fic i’ve ever written was translated into russian

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yep!! as y’all probably saw from my top five fics up there somewhere, marlo @bestillmyslashyheart is basically my fic writing soulmate, we just really click when it comes to writing

14. What's your all time favourite ship? to write for?

atm it’s malex, which is more than obvious, BUT before they hijacked my brain and made their home within my neurons, it was skimmons!!! i wrote fic for them for YEARS, even after i stopped watching aos

15. What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, i’m just gonna talk about fics that i’ve posted and haven’t updated and not any of the hundreds of wips that have never seen the light of day, my original witch au tbh, i just, roswell made maria and isobel somehow related, and just made me really uncomfortable with the ship, which is the main reason that i’m not gonna finish the fic if i’m being perfectly honest, there is ALSO that au i had where michael’s daughter from the future comes back to the past and she had been raised by alex, because of reasons that are petty, probably my space opera au as well, and only because i just want to write other things MORE

16. What are your writing strengths?

i think i’m good at describing things, especially kisses, i LOVE writing kisses, it’s one of my favorite things, that and my fight scenes are two of the things i pride myself the most on

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue, sometimes i feel the characters are ridiculously out of character, but then i don’t care because sometimes in canon characters are also ridiculously out of characters, also describing things, because sometimes i just feel like scenes don’t flow right, i am definitely a comma whore, and use dashes and hyphens in places they definitely shouldn’t be used, run-on sentences are my best friends, also english isn't my first language, so, sometimes the way i phrase things just come out wrong

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

tbh completely honest, i follow the nora sakavic method where you just write the dialogue in english like, “hey there love,” they said in perfect french, and i only break this rule if i actually know the language because just translating straight from english always makes things sound stilted and weird

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

dc comics, i wrote several timkon fics which i posted on livejournal

20. What's your favourite fic you've written?

oh, i know that love is all about the wind, how it can hold me up and kill me in the end (still i loved it), no specific reason why, i just love it with my entire heart!!

and that's it!! im not gonna tag anyone cause I saw that most ppl were already tagged, but if you want to do this just say that I tagged you!!

[pxrrished]

Realized I never did this lmao–

Got taggedy tag tagged by @pepcvina so here we go:

Edit: HALF OF MY ANSWERS GOT DELETED I HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN

1. Nicknames– oh boy ok um Julie, Jules, sometimes, on the very rare occasion, Julia, Jujumagoo, Juronamo (new one), Turkey, Roo, Turkey Wurkey, Jukebox, uhhh I think that’s most of them

2. Gender– Female (she/her)

3. Star Sign– Scorpiooooo

4. Height– 5'6" ish

5. Time– currently 2:40 pm

6. Birthday– Oct/31 (Halloween 🎃)

7. Favorite Bands– um Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, The Revivalists, Imagine Dragons, I don’t know many bands–

8. Favorite Solo Artists– dodie, uh Sam Smith, I’m growing to like Sabrina Carpenter again, let me scroll through my Youtube History–

9. Songs stuck in my head– ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ by Sam Smith

10. Last Movie I watched– Star Wars Episode IIII: A New Hope

11. Last Show I Watched– Stranger Things

12. When Did I Create My Blog– somewhere around November 2016, I think

13. What Do I Post– memes, Stranger Things, Spider-man, memes, sometimes Raven Boys (used to post more on that front 😥)

14. The Last Thing I Googled– the acurate name for Star Wars Episode IIII: A New Hope

15. Do You Have Other Blogs– uh yeah @blublirb I never post on it anymore. I originally wanted to use it for writing but now I kinda just keep it to save things I want for later.

16. Do You Get Asks– nope.

17. Why Did You Choose Your URL– I love Adam Parrish and well the username Parrished was taken so I used the next best thing

18. Following– 226 Tumblrs

19. Followers– Tumblr says 25 but it only lists 15, so

(HAVE TO REDO FROM HERE UGH)

20. Favorite color– black

21. Average Hours of Sleep– 4 or 5

22. Lucky Number– I like to think its 13 for irony but I honestly have no clue

23. Instruments– My voice, alto saxophone, piano, acoustic guitar, ukulele

24. What Am I Wearing– a crocodile wtf kind of question is this

25. How Many Blankets I Sleep With– a loose sheet, a fitted sheet (if that counts), a heated blanket, and a Spider-Man throw blanket

26. Dream Job– Actor/Director. I want to be both, but mainly an actor

27. Dream Trip– Europe and then a roadtrip along the East Coast, then to Wizarding World Florida, then to the West Coast to Wizarding World California, then to Taco Bell with my two best friends

28. Nationality– American

29. Favorite Song Now– probably 'Way Too Good At Goodbyes’ by Sam Smith

Tagging my mutuals bc I know no one on this damned site lmao:

@aletheiacosplay // @dontyouladyme // @gravberry

[jakganim]

92 truths

Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag people!

tagged by my smol child @artist-aroha​

if you have a lot of time on your hands, this is the post for you :’)

THE LAST: 1. Drink: hot water 2. Phone call: called my dad to pick me up from a train station lmao 3. Text Message: “home~ good night get home safe!” @ my manager LOL 4. Song you listened to: love don’t hurt (feat. amber) - shannon 5. Time you cried: i cry easily but usually it’s just like me tearing up and shit but i don’t like straight up bawl that often. last time i teared up was literally two hours ago while driving home i was singing this song at the top of my lungs and it reminded me of some sad times LMAO. last time i cRIED like really cried. i can’t remember. but no more than a few months ago.

HAVE YOU: 6. Dated someone twice: sort of? idk if it counts, we were like 14...  7. Kissed someone and regretted it: nah 8. Been cheated on: yeah??? it’s the same guy from when i was 14. it was a weird time ok LOL 9. Lost someone special: yes 10. Been depressed: yes 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: nope

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLOURS:

12-14. pastel yellow (or well just yellow in general), peach, anddddd maybe sky blue?

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. Made new friends: yes :’)) and i love them very much. 16. Fallen out of love: no lmao didn’t exactly fall in love so i meannn 17. Laughed until you cried: heck yeah :’) 18. Found out someone was talking about you: yeah 19. Met someone who changed you: everyone i meet affects me in some way. but it’s rare to find someone who significantly changes me. i’d say i’ve found people who are at that halfway point. they’ve truly made an impact on me. but i do not feel as though i have changed in any huge way. 20. Found out who your friends are: well. i’ve known who my friends are. but sometimes i get to rediscover. so yes. 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: if by fb list you mean like my friend list then yes.

GENERAL: 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: all of them. 23. Do you have any pets: yes a dog and her name is brody and i love her very much 24. Do you want to change your name: my name isn’t legally jordan. so technically yes. but i only go by jordan so would i change my name to something other than jordan? no. 25. What did you do for your last Birthday: i held a semi awkward party at my house bcos my parents were adamant about inviting my cousins and my family friends to the same gathering and they’re two very different groups of people so i find it difficult to cater to them both at once. but it was a good time nevertheless. 26. What time did you wake up: around 9:30 ish. but i slept again and didn’t get out of bed til noon. 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: trying to sleep 28. Name something you can’t wait for: astro’s next comeback. 29. When was the last time you saw your mum: today 30. What is the one thing you wish you could change in your life: i don’t know if there’s anything i’d really want to change. unless that includes just being able to attain the things that i want. 31. What are you listening to right now: the rain 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: lmao yes i have a friend named tom. 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: spanish 1002 34. Most visited Website: idk maybe youtube, maybe tumblr

LOST QUESTIONS. I JUST PUT IN A RANDOM INFO ABOUT ME: 35. Mole/s: nope 36. Mark/s: i have lots of random tiny birthmarks and i also have freckles lol. most noticeable mark is a little one on my upper lip and another lil one on my left thigh. 37. Childhood dream: i wanted to be a singer, a musician, an artist. i wanted to be talented and have what it took to showcase it. it’s not much but, in a way, i’m living that out now in my a cappella group. i may never be a kpop star or whatever, but i still get to perform and that’s enough now i guess. 38. Haircolour: just my natural dark hair. basically black. 39: Long or short hair: short 40. Do you have a crush on someone: i don’t think so lmao 41. What do you like about yourself: my resilience. 42. Piercings: 7 43. Bloodtype: i still don’t know, can you fuckin believe. i need to go get a blood test done just for health purposes like good lord. 44. Nickname: my brother calls me gowanus. it’s complicated LOL 45. Relationship status: single 46. Zodiac: pisces 47. Pronouns: they/them (but i also don’t care if you use he/him or she/her) 48. Favorite TV Show: ok but... the last airbender... LOL ok but if we’re not talking cartoons i’m gonna go with classic friends or how i met your mother 49. Tattoos: 1 50. Right or left hand: Right 51. Surgery: nope 52. Hair dyed in different color: brown, dark red, blue streak. 53. Sport: i was on the swim team once but don’t be mistaken, i was doing it for fun i’m a slow swimmer i never competed at meets i just went to scream my voice away and cheer for my team. but i liked soccer?  56. Pair of trainers: is this a yes or no question?

MORE GENERAL: 57. Eating: nothing rn 58: Drinking: nothing rn 59. I’m about to: go the fuck to sleep 60. Waiting for: this semester to be over already 61. Want: to do what i love for a living 62. Get married: depends 63. Career: if i get what i want i’ll be into event production/concert touring

WHICH IS BETTER: 65. Hugs or kisses: hugs 66. Lips or eyes: eyes 67. Shorter or taller: i don’t really care but i like being the same height or taller than the other person 68. Older or younger: doesn’t matter 69. it’s honestly an incredibly inefficient position imo, would not do 70. Nice arms or nice stomach: idk? i don’t really have a preference 71. Sensitive or loud: both, because i’m both and they gotta be able to keep up. 72. Hook up or relationship: relationship 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: in the middle

HAVE YOU EVER: 74. Kissed a stranger: nope 75. Drank hard liquor: yeah 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: nope 77. Turned someone down: yeah 78. Sex on the first date: nope 79. Broken someone’s heart: yeah 80. Had your heart broken: yeah 81: Been arrested: nope 82: Cried when someone died: yeah 83. Fallen for a friend: yeah

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. Yourself: yeah 85. Miracles: yeah 86. Love at first sight: err no? i believe in attraction at first sight lmao 87. Santa Claus: nope 88. Kiss on the first date: idk, it’s not really my thing but in terms of whether i “believe in” it or not, i literally don’t fucking care LOL 89. Angels: nope

OTHER: 90. Current best friends name: julia 91. Eye color: light brown 92. Favorite movie: idk if i have ONE favorite movie ya know? but i always enjoy watching tangled and how to train your dragon. they make me laugh :’)

tagging: whoever the fuck wants to sit through 92 of these fucking questions i kind of wish i just went to bed but no, so now congrats to my followers for knowing 92 more useless things about me :’)))

[sehunspower]

Get To Know Me Tag

I was tagged by the amazing @achenlove! Thank you 💚💚 rules: answer 30 questions then tag 20 blogs you would like to know better (20??? Psht no) 1.) Nickname: I don't really have one? Myrena doesn't really lead to nicknames hahaha. 2.) Gender: Female 3.) Star Sign: Gemini 4.) Height: 5'8" ish. 5.) Time: 9:36pm 6.) Birthday: May 25th. 7.) Favourite Bands: Kpop - exo, winner, shinee, got7, bts, and bigbang. Non kpop - 5sos, bring me the horizon, and some others. 8.) Favorite Solo Artist: Taemin and Lay. :') Ben Folds. 9.) Song Stuck in My Head: Bang Bang Bang by bigbang and Smile Again by winner. 10.) Last Movie I Watched: Uh. I think Moana when I was on the plane to London last month. 11.) Last Show Watched: Mr. Robot. 12.) When Did I Create My Blog: This one? I'm pretty sure it was the last day of December last year. 13.) What Do I Post: Kpop. Mainly exo. With a sprinkle of shinee and winner and the occasional got7 and bts. And I reblog random things sometimes and Pokémon. 14.) Last Thing I Googled: The soup recipes for Harvest Moon A Tale of Two Towns hahahahhahahaha. 15.) Do You Have Other Blogs: Yup! Two others. My other blog is for 5sos (which I'm rarely on anymore since those idiots aren't doing anything right now) and then I have a sideblog for that blog which me and two of my friends run. 16.) Do You Get Asks: Nope :') 17.) Why Did You Choose your url?: So when I first made this blog I didn't intend for it to only be kpop, so I chose a lyric from my favorite bmth song. Hahaha. I want to change my url but I don't know what to change it to 🙃 18.) Following: 162. 19.) Followers: 26 :') 20.) Favourite Colors: Green and black! 21.) Average Hours of Sleep: Oh boy. It depends. During college it's like 4-6 but when we have off it's like 8. 22.) Lucky Number: I don't really have a lucky number. But I do like 9. 23.) Instruments: I can play piano and flute (and piccolo). 24.) What Am I Wearing: Shorts and a t-shirt. 25.) How Many Blankets I Sleep With: Well it's hot as fuck right now, so I have one on my bed but don't cover with it hahah. 26.) Dream Job: I'd love to animate and work for art for a video game. 27.) Dream Trip: I really want to go to Greece. OR JUST ANYWHERE WITH @mutant-kid!!! I DO NOT CARE WHERE. 28.) Favourite Food: Chicken, eggs, creamed chipped beef (aka sos where I live), etc. 29.) Nationality: American. 30.) Favourite Song Now: Right now? Untitled, 2014 - G Dragon. (I dunno it's really pretty. I love piano so much) I tag (if you want to do it!): @mutant-kid (Tessie I literally keep typing your old url I hate my life), @hydranoel, @winnaeri and @kpopandlock!

[kissedkookie]

@rollinmv kindly tagged me in this thing so here we go

nicknames: aless, ally sometimes, but i barely get called by nicknames

gend: ............. female-ish, but non-binary really (she/her)

star sign: gemini

height: 164 or i think like 5′4?

time rn: 9:18 am

last thing i googled: jeonghan height favorite bands: non kpop ones - the 1975, years&years, yellowcard, fall out boy 

fave soloists: also non kpop - troye sivan, halsey, lorde, taylor swift (yikes), jon bellion, banks, ed sheeran, vance joy, ... the list goes on

song stuck in my head: the graduation song lmao

last movie i watched: i havent watched a movie in weeks, i have no idea

last show i watched: strong woman do bong soon (its so good, everyone watch it!!)

when did you create ur blog: like late 2013? it was a 1D blog then though

what do you post: mostly BTS, sometimes other things/people i like, and way too many shitty textposts 

when did your blog reach its peak?: in like 2014 yikes

do you have other blogs: my personal/aesthetic 

do you get asks regularly: nah i rarely get any, but i love getting them why did you choose your url: i love yoongi, i love jimin, and i love yoonmin

following: 185, but i unfollowed like 300 blogs recently

posts: 42,181 (again, mostly 1D)

hogwarts house: slytherin

pokemon team: blue, but i played it only for a short time

fave colors: anything dark other than dark blue, and all the pastels

avg hours of sleep: 8-9? 

lucky numbers: 13

fave characters: draco malfoy, ari in aaddtsotu, noah in igyts,  what am i wearing now?: big ass tshirt and leggins

how many blankets do u sleep w: 1

dream job: idk something fun that pays hella? dream trip: i just wanna go back to canada and never return

you’re supposed to tag 20 people but i dont think i can do that so i’m just gonna tag some people i see around my dash and in my notes rn

@yoomn @fallglow @bighitgays @jungjeons @bfkook @jimxins @ahjiminie @chaoticklutz 

if you see this and wanna do it you can just say i tagged you as well!

[lily-blue]

Check-in-tag

tagged: by @restlessmaknae and @dat-town, my biggest supporters and joy, thank you ♥ i have a crush on you both just the same if it hadn’t been obvious by the amount of hand holding and hugging and cuddling I attempt to force on you

1. Why did you choose your url?

When I started to use my tumblr blog again after years of hiatus, I wanted to change my url to something that fits my artsy, wanna-be-writer persona? At that time I was crazy over The Raven Cycle series and lily-blue is actually a part of the title of the third book. (It’s also the only book from the series that I own and didn’t only rent from the library.)

2. Any side blogs? If you have them name them and why you have them?

I have two side blogs, but I don’t use either of them anymore. @kulturarcok is a culture blog which we created for a uni project with three other classmates of mine. @drunk-on-korea is a blog for my articles that I wrote when I was still an active honorary reporter under korea.net.

3. How long have you’ve been on tumblr?

I have had this blog since 2013 which means 8 years. But as I said before, I had a long hiatus before I became an active user of tumblr so I would say, since 2018 which means 3 years.

4. Do you have a queue tag?

No. However, for a while now, all of my posts are put in the queue first except for my stories. So 99% of the time I run on queue.

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

8 years ago I signed up because I was bored during my IT class in high school. 3 years ago, however, I started using this blog again because of a halloween collaboration I participated in with my favourite girls.

6. Why did you choose your icon?

Because I’m the one in the picture.

7. Why did you choose your header?

I have two headers actually since I use different designs for the mobile version and the desktop version of the site. My reasons are the same actually. I’m weak for both Choi Beomgyu and Na Jaemin. (At this point I’m weak for so many of them that I could change both of my headers in each month and I wouldn’t have the same person again for years. RIP my sanity.)

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

That one horror-ish story about Namjoon I wrote for the halloween collaboration I mentioned above. I’m not a popular writer so it has around 70-75 notes.

9. How many mutuals do you have?

If I count my besties, it’s two. Most of my dearest mutuals are either not active anymore or we fell out which is only natural.

10. How many followers do you have?

262 💖

11. How many people do you follow?

136

12. Have you ever made a shitpost?

I’m not sure.

13. How often do you use tumblr each day?

I check it a few times, around 3-4 times.

14. Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Who won?

No. I had anonymous asks in which I was called by names, but I usually try to keep my blog drama-free.

15. How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

I don’t believe in them. They are quite annoying actually.

16. Do you like tag games?

When I’m in the mood.

17. Do you like ask games?

I rarely get asks so I don’t do them.

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

I don’t think I have tumblr famous mutuals.

19. Do I have a crush on a mutual?

Am I allowed to have crush on two mutuals at the same time? Because hell, I would go to hell and back for @dat-town​ and @restlessmaknae​ *winkwonk*

20. Tags?

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[starchild--27]

i was tagged by sweet Feli @myeonplane for this sort of check in-tag game ~ thank youu <3

1. why did you choose your url? the initial thought was "when there's the term "moonchild" why shouldn't there be "starchild" as well?" so i just went with that concept xD the 27 is just my favourite number for no real reason other than it's like... re-appearing in my life occasionally.

2. any side blogs? not really a side blog, but i'm an admin at @wolveswithblackpearls and as we quite recently deleted the original blog by accident, we are still trying to collect our followers again so.... self-promo i guess? we do moodboards and we try to post regularly and it's mainly exo as we are reposting our old work but we try to be more multifandom in the future so yeah... pls check us out if you read this and haven't already? anyway, i have another sideblog but nobody shall ever know about it so 🤫

3. how long have you been on tumblr? since 2016-ish ?? so 5 years.

4. do you have a queue tag? no xD i rarely use the queue function with this blog lol. i just save everything in my drafts if "i don't feel like reblogging" (pls don't ask, i can't explain, it's a gut feeling or maybe laziness) and then i just spam post these posts at some point xD

5. why did you start your blog in the first place? one of my favourite youtube creators was quite active here back in 2016 so she brought this social media to my attention and i really fell in love with the way this site functions (or malfunctions xD)

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp? it's an edit of a pic a friend took sort of accidently but it was aesthetic so i made my pfp basically everywhere lol but ngl... with all the new exo pics that came out i really feel the urge to change my theme again xD

7. why did you choose your header? bc it states the truth :c

8. what’s your post with the most notes? umm... I think it was the "no thoughts. only jekyll by exo." post and it is still a mood 😌

9. how many mutuals do you have? i don't even know how to define mutual, really 😅🥲 always insecure about my relationship with people

10. how many followers do you have? 233 (hello y'all I hope your doing fine~)

11. how many people do you follow? 413 but I feel like I only see max 20 on my dash 🙊

12. have you ever made a shitpost? yes i have. multiple xD

13. how often do you use tumblr each day? ... :) a lot.

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? not really a fight, but somebody was pretty rude towards me after i reblogged a moodboard or sth and tumblr deleted the caption. it probably happend a lot before so they were really pissed about that. i didn't intend this to happen though, i didn't even know it was possible, but yeah that person who gave me shit for it wasn't even the original poster?? i apologized anyway, explained that i didn't know and even reblogged it again with the caption (ironically i really liked the caption, so i really didn't want it deleted) and they never said anything to me again so... rude but nothing heartcrushing. i felt bad about it tho

15. how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts? i don't need to do anything thank you :)

16. do you like tag games? alwayyys ^^

17. do you like ask games? they satisfy my oversharing tedencies when they bubble up, so yes, of course :D i also like to read other people's answers <3 getting to know a mutual better is the best thinggg~

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? i have literally no feeling for who's famous and who's not xD i feel like i'm caught in a huge tumblr family here where everyone somehow knows everybody. i'm always like "oH you know each other too???" in my head xD

19. do you have a crush on a mutual? all of them. you are all so lovely and for real, i get so excited when i'm texting with any of you, if we ever met irl i'd probably lose my ability to speak and be very embarrassing xD typical crush behaviour.

20. tags? @byuns-coco @heartcravings @guardians-of-exo @his-mochi-cheeks @xiu-bee @artemiss-moonchild @kkoongiees @saintloey @ouvuo @changshapatrol (only if you want to, of course) and everybody else who's up to this ^-^

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DECAF July 2017 Post Mortem

(Clearing out my draft folder at the end of the year. Posting my July Post Mortem on December 31st!) I’m the event organizer of DECAF, so even though I sold some books at the show, things were so fast paced that I could only really mentally absorb the organizer aspect and I left the particulars of the table in the capable hands of Elida and Debbie. So this post mortem will be more about event organizing than table sales.

This is my 10th post mortem convention write up! You can find the rest on the Events page on my website or the post mortem tag here on my tumblr.

First the numbers! Not itemized though since I love transparency but don't want to force it on anyone else. 

Budget for the event: €550-ish

Venue +VAT

Website

Poster Art

Poster/Postcard Printing

Decorations/Supplies

Patreon, Donations and Exhibitor Incoming: €496

10 Patrons over 2 months - €65

1 kind anonymous donation - €60

33 Exhibitors w/€16 Full Tables & €8 Half Tables - €371

For a total budget shortfall of: €54

After losing money on the last DECAF, one of my goals for the second DECAF was to not lose money! But then I lost money again! 

The shortfall was down to two reasons, both of which were my fault for not anticipating (I’m learning!)

+VAT - WHAT A DOPE, I forgot VAT for the venue cost! So my math calculating the table costs for exhibitors was off from the very start!

Dropouts! - Out of 40 table applications: 7 dropped out. Had they paid I would have broken-even even with my VAT mistake.

I’m still learning about VAT here in Ireland, it’s never really on my mind. But it will be from now on! We had dropouts the first show as well, but since we didn’t have any space for them anyway in the last venue it worked out. This time I set my table prices for 40 exhibitors, so 33 couldn’t cut it. Moving forward I’m going to anticipate a 20% dropout rate.

My total outgoing costs for the convention in order of leaving my house to the start of the show: €10

Fuel driving into Dublin - €10

So busy I forgot to eat lunch! - €0

What I brought with me:

Loads of We Can’t Afford This

My last few copies of Hats that aren’t trapped in storage

Plenty of Odd Reels and Strong

What I sold:

0 Copy of Hats for €7

1 Copies of Strong €5

1 Copies of Odd Reels €3

8 Copies of We Can’t Afford This €4

For a total incoming of: €30-40-ish?

The show was so hectic that I left the Stray Lines tables to Elida and Debbie most of the day and in the end they paid me out but I forgot to get the numbers of what I sold! I really was overwhelmed. But in the end, if you count my sales I only lost about €20 on the show. 

More We Can’t Afford This

The more shows I do, the more I’m getting the message that I should get working on the sequels to We Can’t Afford This. I’ve got two planned from our experiences in the year following We Can’t Afford This. Someone even said they were working on a housing crisis anthology!

Our Table(s) and Us

Stray Lines had two tables at the show! Elida bought one for herself and spread our books across her table as well. I decided to triangulate our tables around the room, with the two Stray Lines tables on opposite sides of the room so we could keep an eye on everything. It probably would have been smarter to put both tables together because we were kind of short on Stray Lines members to watch the tables! It just meant I couldn’t roam around as much as I wanted to, though I did manage to get away enough to take some photos. 

What we brought for the group:

30-ish different books by 6 different artists!

What the group sold:

65 books!

My numbers are such a mess this time! But sales were good! Slight improvement on the sales numbers from the first DECAF.

Dublin Eight Comic Arts Festival

As is probably clear by now, the summer DECAF was three times as big as the spring DECAF. 

The Dublin Food Co-op is such a wonderful venue. People complained about the heat, but it’s hard to fault a rare sunny summer’s day in Ireland. The Thursday Cafe provides a great reason for people to stick around after they’ve walked around the comic hall. One of my big mistakes of the day was not taking five minutes to sit down in the cafe and have lunch. I was running on pure anxiety and adrenaline all day!

The space looked exactly how I wanted a small press show to look, very casual, very informal, and lots of people! 

We were short on chairs at the start of the day but the Co-op team steered me in the direction of their chair storage. It made for a funny morning, moving chairs around instead of introducing myself to exhibitors as they walked in. It means I didn’t really meet some people until the end of the day.

There was also table shuffling to be done, one exhibitor was a no-show due to another event conflict and another exhibitor left partway through the day. I mishandled the no-show exhibitor, I left the table empty until I heard from her which was more than halfway through the day at that point. I should have shuffled someone in within the first hour. As a result I was more on top of things when the other exhibitor left early, I was able to move someone in to fill the space.

Something I did this time that I didn’t do the first time was make a point to stop and say hi to all the exhibitors before the end of the day. I’m terrible with names but hopefully if I can do this at every show I’ll get better at introducing myself to people and not panic-blanking when they say their name back to me. From what I gathered, almost all the exhibitors made back their table costs (a big part of me doing all these post mortems is that I think that’s a part of comic shows that often slips through the cracks). The possible exception is the exhibitor who left early and an artists who’s book wasn’t ready in time for the show so he was without inventory. 

Sophomore Slump

That was the big question hanging over the day. Was the success of the spring DECAF a fluke? Was scaling up x3 a terrible idea? Would we drown in the massive Food Co-op space? 

Really happy and relieved that we scaled up successfully. I don’t imagine we’ll grow larger than the Food Co-op for some time. 

Cloud

Something that hung over the event for me was knowing that our fantastic hosts, the Dublin Food Co-op, won’t survive the planned renovation of Newmarket Square. 

That really sucks, because there are very little venues in Dublin for a show with a budget like ours. I put on this show for between €5-600 because that’s all I’ve got and that’s all I can reasonably ask people to pitch in for! 

While it’s possible DECAF might grow in the future, it has to happen organically. If venues in our price range disappear, DECAF disappears. 

Unfortunately, I’m still learning how things work in Ireland and I missed the official window to lodge my objection to the current Newmarket proposal with the city. 

Highlights

Debbie did a fantastic job with her monster communal comic. I know she has years of experience doing this but I was still surprised that she managed to get total participation without having to be a carnival barker with a megaphone all day long convincing people to join-in.

Karen did the Herculean task of organizing and hosting a panel. The Co-op is a great venue for a lot of things but it’s not a super venue for acoustics. The panel really was just for the 40ish people sitting around the stage and not for the entire exhibition hall. On one side, that’s good, less disruption! But on the other side, I thought the sound would carry far enough that the exhibitors could listen if they wanted. 

The DECAF miracle of the day was that I successfully recorded the panel to share on Patreon! Of all the things on my to-do list, figure out how to be an audio engineer was way down at the bottom. Thankfully the Co-op’s microphone set-up is fool-proof and there was just a simple line-out from their speaker/microphone receiver to my computer and then a simple press-record in Quicktime and wallah! Magic! I remembered the audio for my Patreon but I entirely forgot to distribute blank postcards to my exhibitors and ask them to make a sketch for the €10 postcard-tier of my Patreon. This was supposed to be my chance to stockpile art rewards for Patreon. Next time!

Our swap table was even bigger this time (everything scaled up!) and we raised €76 for the Simon Community. We still need to sort out what to do with the leftover swapsies at the end of the day, both DECAF’s we’ve been left carrying home massive IKEA bags full of comics. None of us really have the storage space for that sort of thing. This time we made an end-of-the-day swaps-over-take-what-you-want announcement and made the table a freebie table and even that didn’t clear it entirely. 

Tara O’Brien did a fantastic poster! There was a brief plan to try to make prints of Tara’s poster to sell but I didn’t have the time to organize it. Ultimately I’d like to start selling prints of all the DECAF posters because they're so so good! Seems a shame to use them for one quarterly event and then discard them!

Conclusion

Get out of the red, dummy! 

That’s really all there is left to do. 

For October I’m raising the table/half table prices from €16/8 to €20/10. That should cover the VAT and the potential 20% drop-out rate. 

I also think I need to increase my publicity budget a little. I burned through the posters and postcards pretty quickly this time and there’s still huge swaths of the city left unplastered. Choosing the Food Co-op as a venue did a lot to bring in a new audience who didn’t even know there was a comic event on, but knew that the Food Co-op always hosts something. I want to keep finding new people outside the Dublin comic scene and expanding our publicity reach would help. 

Epilogue

The fall Decaf will be on a bank holiday, Monday, October 30th, at the Dublin Food Co-op again. Moving to a Monday and a three-day-weekend will bring it’s own challenges but hopefully we can maintain the level of participation we had in July.

Our amazing October poster is by Helene Pertl! Yay!