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What I Wish I Knew Before Coming to Japan! #1

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Interestingly, many locals do wear long sleeves despite the heat, but this can be misleading for visitors. The reasons range from being used to the climate to adhering to work dress codes or protecting their skin from the sun. I even saw a woman on a bike dressed in a long maxi dress, with arm-length gloves, a large sun hat, and sunglasses—she reminded me of Marceline from Adventure Time! But as a visitor, trying to copy what the locals wear isn’t always the best idea. Instead, make sure to check both the temperature and humidity before heading out.

Humidity really amplifies the heat. For instance, if it’s 100°F and the humidity is 55%, it can feel like a scorching 124°F! However, at 70°F with the same humidity, it still feels like 70°F. This means humidity mainly impacts higher temperatures, making the heat index rise significantly.

Luckily, Japan has your back with portable fans sold everywhere. You’ll see people using them on crowded trains, especially when it’s packed and stuffy! So, don’t hesitate to grab one to help cool down.

Bottom line: dress for the humidity, and don’t be fooled by what others are wearing!

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[crimeronan]

i've seen a couple people in the notes of this very good post about fictional polyamory by @thebibliosphere say things along the lines of "oh, i've been doing it wrong :(" or "how do i know if i did this right??" or "i should probably give up and start over, i wrote this badly :(" and. no!!!!

(i AM seeing far MORE people say "oh, this clarified and helped me so much, i think i know how to fix issues i've been having with my own story" which. YES!!!!)

listen. if you're a monogamous person who's writing a polyamorous relationship, and you've been focusing mainly on The Triad and All Three Together All The Time as the endgame, that's literally fine. that's a perfectly acceptable and strong starting point for your plotting, imo. you do not need to give up on a story that you've started like this.

but the things discussed in the post Can and Should improve your execution!

you can keep the same plot beats and overall relationship arc 100%. polyamorous relationships are infinite in their formations, every one is unique. "basically a monogamous romance but with three people" Does exist, as a relationship type. you're not hashtag Misrepresenting (TM) poly people with it

BUT i do think it will help to read up on some poly people talking about how their relationships Differ from monogamous ones.

so i have outlined some basic important concepts about polyamory.

MORE IMPORTANTLY though, i've broken down some questions that you can answer throughout the writing process to strengthen your individual dyad relationships, your individual characterization, & your characters' individual feelings/experiences. this is a writing resource have fun

future kitkat butting in to say i spent over two hours writing this and it definitely needs a readmore. it is also NOT comprehensive. but everything should be pretty simple to follow! feel free to reblog if you find it helpful yourself or just want to reward me for how gotdan long this took KSLDKFJKDL.

i've grabbed quick links for a couple of the important concepts, some have SEO pitches in them but the info largely seems to be good. (if i missed anything Egregiously Gross on these sites i should be able to update the links with better ones later, since they're under the readmore.)

sidenote: this is NOT meant to be overwhelming, despite the length. if you can't read all of this, that's Okay. you do not need to give up on your writing.

here we go:

compersion!

compersion is a BIG thing in a lot of polyamorous relationships. it's joy derived from seeing two (or more) of your partners happy together, or joy derived from seeing your partner happy with someone else.

compersion is really important as a concept because it highlights that every individual relationship within a polycule is different -- and that that's a GOOD thing. it's sort of the inverse of jealousy.

by the "inverse of jealousy," i mean that instead of feeling left out and upset and possessive, you feel happy/joyous/content.

i can use personal experience as an example: it's a Relief for me when my partners receive joy/support/sex/romance/etc that i can't (or prefer not to) give them. and i love seeing my partners make each other laugh and be silly together.

it's 100% okay for a poly triad not to be together 100% of the time, it doesn't mean that the third member is being left out or not treated equally when two people do things alone together.

(i have individual dates with my partners all the time! PLUS larger 3-and-4-person date nights.)

if the third member DOES feel jealous or left out, then the polycule can have a conversation to figure out what needs/wants aren't being met, and solve that. this happens semi-regularly in my polycule, as it will happen in any relationship (including monogamous ones)! it's just part of being an adult, sometimes you have to talk about feelings.

metamours!

a metamour is someone who is dating your partner, but ISN'T dating you. this may not be relevant for people writing closed three-person romantic sexual triads, but it's a super helpful term to know.

the linked article also lists different types of metamour relationships with some fun phrasing i hadn't heard before. the tl;dr is: sometimes you'll be domestic cohabitation friends, sometimes you'll be buddies with your own friendship, sometimes you might not interact much outside of parties, every relationship is different.

there's no one-size-fits-all requirement for metamour relationships. sometimes polyamorous people will end up dating their metamour after a while (has happened to me), sometimes polyamorous people will break up with one partner for normal life reasons, but remain friendly metamours.

the goal of polyamory is NOT for EVERYONE to fall in love. it is 100% okay if this happens in your story, it happens in real life too! but it is also 100% okay for characters to be metamours without ever becoming "more than friends."

(sidenote: try to kill any internalized "more than" that you have when it comes to friendship. friends are just as important and special and vital as partners.)

of course there are a million ways for messiness to occur with metamours within a complex polycule, exactly like with close-knit platonic friend groups. however this post is not about that! there's enough "here's how polyamory can go wrong" stuff out there already, so i'm focusing on the positives here :)

open versus closed polyamorous relationships!

i'm struggling to find an online article that reflects my experience without directly contradicting at least SOME stuff. so i'll give a quick rundown

google has a bunch of conflicting definitions of open relationships and whether open relationships are different from polyamory. the general consensus seems to be that an open relationship prioritizes one partnership (often a marriage), but that each partner can have extraneous flings or long-term commitments (most often sexual in nature).

this is not typically how i use the term wrt polyamory. the poly concept is pretty simple. a closed polyamorous relationship is one with boundaries like a monogamous one. there are multiple partners in the polycule, but they are not interested in having anybody new join said polycule.

an open polyamorous relationship tends to be more flexible -- it just means that IF someone in the polycule develops mutual feelings for a new person, it's fine for them to become part of said polycule if they want to! the relationship/person is open to newcomers.

some groups will need to negotiate this all together, others will just go "haha, you kids have fun." just depends on the individuals!

with open AND closed polyamorous relationships, the most important thing is making sure that there's respectful communication and that everyone is on the same page. but there's no one-size-fits-all way to do that.

i wish i could give you guys a prescriptive "You Must Do It This Way" guide, but that's.... basically the opposite of what polyamory is about, HAHA.

feelings for multiple people!

i was gonna tack this on to the previous section but decided it warranted its own lil bit.

a defining feature (....i'm told?) of monogamous relationships is that a monogamous person only has feelings for One individual at a time. they only want a relationship with one individual at a time. or, if they DO have feelings for multiple people simultaneously, they're still only comfortable dating one person at a time & being exclusive with that one person.

this is perfectly fine!

the poly experience is generally different from this. but once again..... polyamorous people all have different individual perspectives on this.

for me, i have never been able to draw hard boxes around romantic vs sexual vs platonic relationships, & i love many people at once. my personal polycule lacks many strict definitions beyond "these are my chosen people, i want to forge a life with them indefinitely, whatever shape that life takes"

some poly people feel explicit romantic or sexual attraction to multiple people at once, some poly people feel almost no romantic or sexual attraction at all. i'd say that MOST poly people feel different things for different partners, which is not a bad thing!

some poly people are even monogamous-leaning -- they have just chosen one romantic partner who is themselves part of a larger polycule. (so this monogamous-leaning person has at least one metamour!)

or alternatively, they might have one romantic partner AND a qpr, or other ways of defining relationships. (this is a factor in my own polycule!)

i made this its own point because if you're writing a straightforward triad, this is unlikely to come up in the story itself -- but it's worth thinking about how your characters develop/handle feelings outside of their partnerships.

like, is this sort of a soulmateship, 'these are the only ones for me' type deal? in which they won't fall in love with anyone else, and can be fairly certain of that?

that's pretty close to typical monogamous standards but you Can make it work. just be thoughtful with it

alternatively, can you see any of these characters falling in love Again after the happily-ever-after? and how would the triad approach it, if so? what would they all need to talk about beforehand, and what feelings would everybody have about the situation?

it's worth considering these questions even if the hypothetical will never feature in your actual canon, because knowing the answers to these questions will help you understand all of the individuals & their relationship(s) MUCH better.

i've been typing this for nearly two hours and there's a lot more i COULD say because... there's just a lot to say. i'll close out with some quick questions that you can ask yourself when developing the dyad dynamics within your triad

first, take a page and create a separate section for each individual dyad. then answer these questions for every pair:

how does each pair act when alone?

how do they act differently alone compared to when they're with their third partner?

are there any elements of this dyad (romantic, sexual, financial, domestic, etc) that these two people DON'T have with the third partner?

if so, what are they?

are there any boundaries or hard limits within this dyad that aren't shared with the third partner?

if so, what are they?

partner 3 goes out of town alone for a few weeks. what are the remaining two doing in their absence?

(doesn't have to be anything special, it's just to get a sense of how the two interact on a day-by-day basis without the third there)

what is something that each partner in the dyad admires about the other -- that they DON'T necessarily see in the third partner?

what problem do These Two Specifically need to solve in the story before their relationship will work?

how is that problem DIFFERENT from the problems being solved within the other two dyads?

doing this for ALL THREE dyads is VITAL imo. that way, you develop complex and nuanced and different relationships that all have unique dynamics.

those questions should be enough to get you started, i hope

then After you've charted the differences in relationships, you can start to jot down similarities in the overarching triad. what does one person admire in Both of their partners? what are activities that all three like to do together? what are boundaries or discussions that all three share?

but the main goal is to figure out how to Differentiate each relationship!

a polycule is only as strong as the individual relationships within it. if two people are struggling with their own relationship, adding a third person won't fix that.

(UNLESS the third person is the catalyst for those two to, like, Actually Communicate And Work Their Shit Out. i just mean that the old adage of "maybe if we just add a third-" works about as well to fix a miserable non-communicative marriage as, uh, "maybe if we have a baby-")

AND FINALLY.

if you're not sure whether your poly romance reads organically to poly people, you can hire a sensitivity reader with poly experience. if you can't afford that, you can read up on polyamorous resources like a glossary of terms & articles actually written by poly people. (and stories written by poly people!)

you can also just.... ask poly people questions, if they're open to it. i like talking about polyamory and my own relationships so you're welcome to send asks if u want, i just can't guarantee i'll answer bc my energy levels fluctuate a lot and i don't always have time.

polyamorous people are in an uphill battle for positive representation right now & so the LAST thing i want to see is authors giving up on their stories bc they're worried about getting things Wrong. well-meaning and positive stories that treat this kind of love as normal, healthy, & aspirational are So So So Needed. even if you guys end up with some funky-feeling details.

seriously, if you're monogamous then you probably don't have a full idea of Just How Nasty a lot of people can get about polyamory. i wish it DIDN'T mean so much for you guys to want to write nice stories about us, but it does mean a lot. and it means a lot that you want to do it WELL.

in conclusion. this is not a prescriptive guide, it's just a way to raise questions. and also, you all are doing FINE.

[cyberstudious]

✨ 📖 ✏️ studyblr masterpost jam ✏️ 📖 ✨

📌 what is this?

this is a masterpost jam, like a game jam or a hackathon or a writing challenge, but for creating masterposts! the goal is to share knowledge and resources, as well as connect with other cool folks on tumblr! this challenge was born out of the studyblr community, but anyone who loves learning is welcome to participate. each day, share a masterpost following the prompts below and tag your posts with the hashtag #studyblrmasterpostjam so we can all reblog them and share the love <3

🗓️ when is this happening?

the main challenge will run August 12th through August 18th, although you're welcome to participate on your own timeline :)

✨ everyone is encouraged to participate in whatever way is comfortable!

you don't have to be an academic or a professional! tell us about your special interest, a favorite hobby or craft, or something else that you like learning about!

even if you're a beginner, you still have a valuable perspective that's worth sharing (and writing posts for this challenge is a great way to do some research and learn!).

you don't have to do all of the days or share posts on the "right" day! pick and choose your faves if you want, combine things, and take as long as you need to put them together.

you don't have to make super long posts! if you have a single resource or tip to share, please do and we will appreciate it all the same <3

if you don't want to write any posts, you can still participate by reading posts that other people make and reblogging them so we can all learn from each other!

please feel free to interpret the prompts below in your own way and expand upon them! there are so many different topics out there and the questions I've written probably don't make sense for some of them, so take what makes sense and use the rest as inspiration!

✏️ prompts

[monday, august 12th] an intro to your topic or field of study

how would you describe this topic to someone who has never heard of it? what careers are available? what professional organizations/conferences are big? what journals do academics publish in? what are the big questions, goals, or challenges? what are the sub-fields/sub-topics/areas of specialization? what are some resources for learning about the field itself?

2. [tuesday, august 13th] books

textbooks, fiction that relates to the field, inspiring memoirs, biographies, art books, graphic novels, audiobooks… anything that you think is relevant to your topic and helpful!

3. [wednesday, august 14th] free resources

online things! resources that you might be able to get from your library! and and all ways to learn/study/practice that don't require money - feel free to get creative here and come up with some cool ideas beyond just links to websites!

4. [thursday, august 15th] notable figures

who has made important contributions to the field? is there anyone who made big contributions in the past that are now outdated or incorrect? who has done great things but been overlooked because of racism/sexism/ableism/etc.? who is making interesting contributions today? is there anyone in the field that you look up to? this is a great time to do some research if you don't already have some notable figures in mind!

5. [friday, august 16th] study tips

what are your favorite tips and ways to study this topic? are there lots of things you need to memorize or tricky concepts that are hard to understand at first? is there a skill that requires lots of practice? tell us about it and how you approach it!

6. [saturday, august 17th] tools of the trade

do you work with software? lab equipment? art supplies? your favorite pen and notebook? certain analysis frameworks or processes? tell us about them!

7. [sunday, august 18th] beginner's guide

what resources were most helpful when you were a beginner? what are the important concepts/techniques to start with? are there any prerequisite skills? also, include links to your previous masterposts!

remember to tag your posts with #studyblrmasterpostjam! if you want to participate, feel free to reblog this to spread the word. I'll see y'all on August 12th for the first masterpost!

[zepskies]

PSA on Tumblr Tags: Tag Lists & # Tags

Just wanted to spread this news for people who don't know the new Tumblr updates that have to do with tagging on posts, both for user tag lists and for descriptive hashtags to help people find your post. I've had to learn them the hard way. 😅

User Tagging:

This first part is for people who have tag lists. Tumblr has recently changed the rules on tagging other blogs/users on a post.

You can still tag up to 50 blogs per post, but they must be spread out into groups of 5. Otherwise, the blog won't be highlighted/tagged and the person will not be notified.

Example (and more) below the cut: ⤵️

✅ Example:

And this is what it will probably look like if you don't spread them out into groups of 5:

Notice that only the first 5 blogs in each section are actually tagged.

Also something important to note: copy/pasting a tag list alone often isn't enough. After I copy over a tag list from another post, I always have to click on each blog name individually to select the blog and make sure it's tagged properly, so people get notified.

Trust me, I get why some writers have decided to ditch tag lists altogether. They can be tricky. 😂

Hashtags on Posts:

As most of you guys know, hashtags help people find your post. The limit of how many tags you can use has bumped up to 30 tags.

Now, this doesn't mean you have to use all 30 slots. But using the most popular tags will increase the likelihood that people will find your post.

By no means am I an expert on this, but I've been reading a lot of stories that should have SO many more reblogs, comments, etc. If some of them were using a few more key tags, they'd likely be getting much more traffic and notes on them.

Want to find out which hashtags are the most popular, relevant to your post?

Well, you can actually search them in the Your Tags tab, Tags You Follow, and go to Manage:

For Dean Winchester fanfiction, for example, here are the tags I use most often:

Ignore the first and last tags, which are just for me to organize the post for my blog. But I would say the most important tags here are the first few:

[character's full name]

[character's full name] x reader or [character's full name] x oc

fandom name

These three are absolutely key for any romance pairing fanfiction post, in my opinion.

Aside from being the most relevant for a pairing fanfic, these are often the most popular tags overall, as they are the tags with a high follower count. The rest can also be important supplemental hashtags relevant to the post.

You can also just start typing into this bar in your post draft and see what "popular tag" recommendations Tumblr gives you:

And that's it! For anyone who finds this PSA helpful, I salute you! 🫡 And I wish you all luck on future tagging endeavors. 💜

I'm also including some of my fellow writers just in case they have something to add to this — or if they don't know this info, though I'm sure they probably do already:

@luci-in-trenchcoats @dean-winchester-is-a-warrior @rizlowwritessortof @artyandink @waynes-multiverse

@jacklesbrainworms @deanwritings @deanwinchesterswitch @deanbrainrotwritings @waywardxwords

@angelbabyyy99 @jackles010378 @cevansbaby-dove @kaleldobrev @kayleighwinchester

[writingquestionsanswered]

how do you find people to crit. your work?

Finding People to Critique Your Work

If you want to get feedback on your writing, it's super helpful to get involved in some different writing communities:

-- follow other writers on social media and engage with them -- follow writing-related hashtags and engage with relevant posts -- find online writing forums that you can join -- find writing groups on Facebook that you can join -- participate in online or local writing workshops

Sit back and get a feel for the community, then start to engage in conversations. See who you connect with. Sometimes you can find feedback partners that way. You may also see others who are looking for critique partners or a feedback exchange. Or, once you have some followers and people are a bit familiar with you and what you write, you can put out a call for a critique partner or feedback exchange.

It may take a little bit of time, but once you get rooted in some communities, you'll usually find good options for critique/feedback partners. :)

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[fayrobertsuk]

On Online Accessibility

I painstakingly wrote this (or similar) out for a long, slightly ranty thread on BlueSky (which I had to restart several times as the app kept wiping it), so here it is in slightly expanded format with the points in the right order:

The Rant

I am literally BEGGING organisations, ESPECIALLY ones that are apparently supporting disabled people, to stop sending badly formatted, image-only mailouts.

This advice post is brought to you by a recent terrible email to a list of disabled people that was an Inaccessibility 101. (To their credit, they did respond fairly quickly with "Oh no! It was not supposed to do that!" and sent out a plain text one shortly afterwards. They didn't get all of the things below wrong, but this is a general "Here's how you can start to do better" list based on my - and others' - experience, including of personally getting it wrong.)

The List

If you feel that your formatting dream can only be fulfilled by a single large image, at least provide the means to access a plain text version of the relevant information. You've already had to type it, you can just copy-and-paste it elsewhere (alt-text or linked transcript, preferably both).

If you must use coloured text, please check that the contrast between it and the background is sufficient for people to access. You want to be able to ensure that they can read your message. There are plenty of sites that will check your Web Accessibility Standards, including this one, top of the Google search: https://accessibleweb.com/color-contrast-checker/

Unless accessibility standards have changed recently (and I'm happy to learn if they have), please avoid serifed fonts. Plain doesn't have to mean unpretty. Verdana and Tahoma are your friends, for example.

Plain backgrounds. But if you absolutely insist on having your text in front of an image, create a clear barrier between the words and the background (plain, thick outline or a box around the text like old-school subtitles). You want to minimise distractions.

Talking of which: paragraph formatting. Justified paragraphs will create distracting "rivers of white" that will make text processing difficult for e.g. folk with dyslexia or certain flavours of ADHD. Likewise, don't cram your lines too close together and distinguish clearly between paragraphs.

Don't make use of tiny images if people can't click through and see them in more clarity. And please try to describe your images, especially if they have relevant information in them. People who cannot process them will lose out, and you'll lose that connection. There are professionals who will describe for you (I'm one of them), or increasingly sophisticated apps.

Standard text emoji will be read aloud by screenreaders, so you don't need to supply descriptions for them, but do try to avoid long strings of them. Similarly, don't use a string of asterisks to divide sections. Imagine a robot voice saying asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk each time. No. Use a line divider or even just a single *.

Please don't highlight text using underlining (too distracting), especially for text mid-paragraph. Use bold instead. Similarly, use italics sparingly, and certainly not for full paragraphs of text. If you want to highlight using colour, see point 2. above re: checking contrast.

If your hashtags are several strung-together words, make the beginning of each new word a capital letter e.g. #BetterAccessibilityNow to help both the screenreaders and folk who find it difficult to parse text generally distinguish between the words.

Some more thoughts:

"Why should I bother with all this? Surely it's only a handful of people who can't access stuff like this!"

a) Ugh. Bad attitude, friend.

b) But let's talk numbers of people not getting your message. Recent worldwide estimates: 49.1 million blind people. 224.1 million with moderate and 33.6 million people with severe visual impairment. 300 million people with colourblindness. 780 million (10% of the population) people are believed to be dyslexic.

It just makes business sense to not miss out on reaching so many folk. Let alone learning how to exercise empathy and thereby how to communicate with people who literally don't see the world as you do. And I know there's a spoons cost to making stuff more accessible - trust me, I know! But more and more platforms make it incredibly easy to add alt-text to your images, but there are always ways around it if they don't, and practising makes things easier.

And, while we're at it: subtitle your videos and provide transcripts for longer ones. Again: if you've already written a script, what's stopping you pasting it into another place for people to access as a bare minimum? And there are loads of reasonably priced transcription services out there (or do what I do and edit the auto-transcription)!

Anything to add (or correct me on)? Let me know!

[yelow-heart]

Welcome twt immigrants or just newcomers o///

Every week a new wave of twt refugees arrive and so I decided to put together a tumblr 101 to keep ur experience the most stress free and safe as possible

So here it goes:

You can delete comments or plain out disable comments from your posts! So much control.

You can also edit your posts. It even was a meme back on the olden days where a post would go viral and then the op (original poster) would change the post to something silly and the reblogers would look like wierdos or dumdums lol

You can disable your asks or make a rule so people can't ask as anonymous

Report spams!! You can even get rewarded for it. But, even so, report it, they get immediately taken down temporarily

The report system work and the tumblr team is very responsible when investigating an account/post. It's not nuance and easy to make. No one will judge you for it, in fact, it's common culture to do so. It's how we battle pornbots, spams, hate blogs etc.

You have full control of your blog! What people can see, what it can show, block hashtags and the whole shbang.

The algorithm works! Only the things that YOU search for and like will be recommended to you. And if something u no longer has interest in shows up? Just click that u don't want anymore and immediately everything u don't want goes away.

There are many famous blogs that are fun to follow, specifically as newcomer, to really get u on the tumblr experience such as: heritageposts, thebootydiaries, hotboyproblems, showerthoughtsofficial, fartgallery, haikubotofficial and many others. These are just the ones I followed when first arrived back in 2016;

Yes, there are celebrities among us but they're just... here. Vibing, chilling. The most famous ones being Neil Gaiman and Taylor Swift. Here they are just people;

You might have noticed a lot of blogs with blue verification badges. Some with 20 of them. Some are rainbow! That's because Tumblr made a parody of the verification mark from twt and it was fcking hilarius. We loved it so much that it's a thing now. U too can feel very important if u want!

It's worth going the trending tags. Sometimes they are broken, but it's mostly memes or important world news stuff that are actually relevant and helpful. It's safe and you'll have a fun time lurking on other people's fandoms. That's actually how I got into some of my fandoms to begin with;

Crabs.

And there we have it! I might have forgotten something, but I not too worried as I know that people might add it later on. 😉

Welcome welcome!! You'll be safe here. No matter who you are you find a community for you here

It's a hellsite, but it's our hellsite

Remembered something:

It's important to have a profile picture and header image. An reblog a few things before following anyone. Or you will be reported because people will think you're a spam bot kkkkkkkkk so do nurture your blog a little bit before venturing into the unknown.

[sleepymccoy]

Let's make a collaborative spones playlist!

Basic guidelines:

Everyone can add up to two songs each

Songs must be relevant to Spock and McCoy, in either a platonic or romantic sense

Open to tos, aos, tas, anything and everything

I will assume genuine intentions with all songs, but if you add something either insulting or irrelevant I may remove it. If you're concerned about being misunderstood please feel free to talk to me first

Check that your song addition is unique - no repeats of songs please!

Other elements of this

The link to add songs will work for a week I'm told. If you find this after the link has closed feel free to contact me and I'll update it

If you cannot add a song or do not want your Spotify name to appear on this list you are welcome to text me your song choices and I'll add them for you! That's no trouble at all! You can still own them as your additions on tumblr of course

You are encouraged to explain your song choice and how it relates to Spock and McCoy to you. You can do this by reblogging this or making your own post. If you make a post please tag or link me as I'll create a master post of all the song descriptions in order at some point! If you don't want to do this that is fine too, you can just add songs and disappear. Using the hashtag #spones collab playlist

Here is a link to the playlist, you should be able to add songs until the 25th of Jan '24

[bluntlybetter]

My ocs, Asali and Beckett.. twins!!

Trying to post as much as I cann.. hashtag sigma.. ALSO! Taking drawing requests! Rev up those fryers! (Your brains)

OLD PRICING!! NOT 100% RELEVANT!

Also! I’m doing comissions, Pricing still needs to be worked out but I’ve got some old yet relevant pricing here. Will be near this amount..

Most likely will have a better chart tomorrow.

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SPOP Saturday

We were talking in the Flex server about a way to showcase fics we love to get them more attention and came up with a little idea to try for the summer (and then beyond, if there's interest): 

SPOP Saturday

Here's how it works:

Every Saturday, we recommend fanfics using the hashtags #SPOP Saturday and #fic rec as well as any other relevant fandom tags so people can find it. Just post the link to the fanfic, a word or two about why you like it / why people might want to check it out, that's it. (Tagging the fic author is optional but nice to do if you can because everyone likes to see their work being appreciated!)

To give this a little structure, I'll be sharing optional themes for each Saturday for the types of fanfics to recommend. The purpose of this is just to give some variety in what everyone's recommending so it's not just the same few fics over and over again.

While you can just add your fic recs as a reply or reblog my post if you wish, you may get more eyes on you post if you make your own (esp if you're rec-ing non-canon ships as my follower base is mostly canon ship focused).

I specified in most cases no more than three mostly because I don't want this to be a high pressure thing where you try to list every single fav and friends get offended if they don't make the list. Just whatever ones you're most jazzed to mention for this week's prompt off the top of your head!

Time is a construct! Don't stress too much about getting it out on time or if you want to do a previous theme on another week, the point is just to recommend FanWorks and share the love!

Check out the rec-ed fics, leave kudos and comments, keep your fandom writers well fed with positive attention so they keep the good stuff coming! 

(Note: I will build in one week for people to self-promote but the spirit of this event is to show other authors some love, not push your own fics.)