#--; remember when nightblogging was a thing?

[iamthekarmapolice]

never seen a femcel girlfailure done as well as d’arce from fear and hunger. proved even to a hardened cynic like me that men can write good female characters

[wingedcatgirl]

*meat loaf voice* and i would doot 💀🎺

[llimerrence]

Bernard: Why are we friends? Clarke: Poor decisions on your part.

[sasusakut4tdivorce]

above all, divorce is about wanting sasuke (and everyone really but especially sasuke) to escape the narrative,

[chronically-ghosted]

remember that, uhhhhh, post that announced, i am definitely absolutely without a doubt going to be more of a presence on tumblr??

turns out i'm really bad at announcements.

this year has been one for the books - good and bad. every day i come home switching from work brain to strategic brain and the only time i have to unwind is 20 minutes right before bed where i put a hot pad on my throbbing eyes and lay eagle-spread under the covers.

suffice it to say, there's not really a whole lot of room for creativity left to write the fics i wanna write. and it looks like that might be the case for a while...

so, in the interest of setting expectations (and finally admitting to myself i can't do all the things), i probably won't post any new fics - chapters or oneshots - until next year. This means all of my fics, including Lover, Share Your Road, are on hiatus. but this does not mean i won't finish them ever - i cannot tell you how excited i am to continue LSYR in particular - but i feel like it's only fair to all of you to be honest about a potential release date.

if you wanna unfollow, i totally understand. i will still be reblogging things and signal boosting challenges and sharing the fics i love. there are so many talented people in this fandom and i will do my best to promote them all! my ask box will remain open, so feel free to come yell about me being a lazy lay-about - no hard feelings. i am also more than happy to share my discord with anyone who wants it - again i can't promise i will respond immediately but i will do my very best!

and before anyone asks - this has nothing to do with the recent drama in the fandom. i literally had no idea any of it was going on until this morning when i woke up to so many notifications i thought someone died! nothing more to say on that other than be liberal with your block button, write what you want to write, and surround yourself with people who will protect your peace.

i really, really hate to do this, but i can't keep pretending i can nightblog like i used to. i am very appreciative to be surrounded by lovely people who have made me such a better writer, a better friend, and a better person 🤍 that's all for now, folks!

tagging a few beloveds below:

@perotovar @sp00kymulderr @toomanytookas @futuraa-free @schnarfer @itsokbbygrl @swiftispunk @mothandpidgeon @ramblers-lets-get-ramblin @covetyou @joelsgreenflannel @freelancearsonist @ghotifishreads @maggiemayhemnj @sin-djarin @morallyinept @iamskyereads @survivingandenduring @doscharolastras @smokeinherperfume

[bisexualsoup]

remember when we had to ask people to make asks rebloggable and they would screenshot their post and post that so that we could reblog the ask because we used to not be able to reblog asks so we had to go out of our way to ask the op to do that that’s crazy tumblr is wild also remember how we could literally just completely edit what a post said why the fuck was that ever a thing also remember fanmail???? remember how being online at night was called nightblogging and you could post the most wild shit and your excuse was that you were nightblogging. remember spending all day on tumblr and then going to bed and then waking up the next day and scrolling back to where you left of the night before. remember when the like and reblog buttons were at the top of a post?? i’ve been on this site since 2009

[paulieilluminati]

Remember when nightblogging was a thing? When people would just reblog porn on their main and then just go back to normal like nothing happened?

[kiaxet]

5,7, and 13 for the music ask!!

5. Ramble about a song

OH BOY OH BUDDY OH BOY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME PERMISSION

So. Y'all are familiar with Regina Spektor? Hopefully? Regardless, we're talking about one of her songs: On the Radio.

If you've been on tumblr for more than a decade (oh god where does the time go), then you remember when we didn't call it shitposting; we called it nightblogging, with the idea that these bizarre, absolutely buckwild posts were likely being made around 2 AM local. Sometimes nonsensical, sometimes poetic, and almost always absolutely hilarious, nightblogging posts had an odd flow to them that worked, in a "what dimension are these from" sort of fashion. (The Denny's tumblr at the time was good at them to a frankly terrifying degree; whoever ran that blog was native to the environment and took advantage of it.)

On the Radio is nightblogging in song form, all of it packed in a framework that starts us off, over and over again, with "this is how it works." The first verse flows from one bizarre event to another, always escalating, and while you have no idea what the hell is going on or whether any of it's real, you're still along for the ride. There's a flow, from happenstance to happenstance, and the chorus takes a hard left turn to reference a completely different song and repeat the title for a little while.

The second verse rolls up, once again informs us that this is how it works, drops about half a dozen oddly worded life truths, follows it up with the single best description of love (not romantic, not platonic, but a secret third option just love) that I've ever heard in my life, fucking references November Rain again, and repeats the chorus until fadeout.

I was introduced to this song sixteen years ago, whereupon it upended me completely, and it has stuck with me ever since. "You laugh until you cry/you cry until you laugh/and everyone must breathe/until their dying breath" has lived in my soul for well over a decade and shifted a few things while rattling around in there. Jesus fucking Christ, Regina. Hell of a crash course on how it works.

(Never have I wanted to thank an artist so badly for fucking me up so thoroughly. I still put this song on on the regular, and it still throws me for a loop on the regular. Zero regrets.)

7. A song for which you like a cover more than the original

I have quite a few answers for this - ask me about my love of college a capella groups sometime - but my go-to will always be this one.

13. A playlist name without context

I'll give you three: Warrior, Scholar, and Healer.

(One of them only has one song on it, because some people have to be difficult.)

[hayleykiyopioids]

Y'all remember when Nightblogging was a thing?

[tinyienzo]

nightblogging is the romanticization of shitposting

[aeide-thea]

anyway this morning i’m thinking abt how this space is deeply necessary for me AND also deeply triggering sometimes, lol

[screenviolense]

sleepy.... (falls down an abandoned mineshaft because i was too sleepy)

[cyclist-of-guilt]

I knew this reminded me of something

[msfcatlover]

My demiromantic-yet-romance-addicted ass trying to write actively romantic scenes like Just Yeet me into the Sun, please and thank you.

[hockpock]

If we lived in a dystopian microchipped future where I could psychically search stuff like "what the f*ck is a wellerman" with my brain alexa, I'd never sleep.

But i also wouldn't have to get out the bright blinky light machine to make posts like this one.

[maid-of-timey-wimey]

Infinite pennies can be deposited into a bank account and can be used to buy cocoa puffs. So that’s 2 out of 3 things taken care of.

long furby hear my prayers: deliver me a fat bank account, a short butch gf, and a bowl of cocoa puffs