#RIP old blog url

[waywardmillennial]

blog update

url change: slashsleuth -> waywardmillennial

I was debating on whether to come back to tumblr or not then I saw the url that matches my ao3 (and discord) account was available! (I don't think it was when I started this blog) so I'm taking it as a sign it's time to come back. plus I wanted to post some fics this year, so we'll see how that goes. no idea what fandoms I'll be blogging most. probably still some watcher (but maybe a little less on the shyan). I've gotten back into doctor who, which has been fun. maybe there'll be some more marvel (stony and lokius) things. thank you to everyone who left me a kind message while I was gone <3 I wouldn't say I'm feeling 100% better but I want to try to work through my low feelings by creating more things, and I'd like to have a place to share them with you all when I do.

[lasdelaintuicionn]

Love knowing when a mutual is watching a show bc they like your tagged posts. The tumblr tradition of looking up every tv show or movie u enjoy must live on

[zosonils]

the old pinned post is starting to get moldy so! new one!

spore or zoe or any mangling of zosonils you like. she/they but i don't really care, australian, very queer and very autistic. 20 as of this post; minors are welcome to interact as long as you're sensible about talking to adults you don't know on the internet

main blog for reblogging stuff i like and spouting whatever silly shit comes to mind. i also have an artblog, which you should follow, but i reblog most of those posts here anyhow

speaking of that artblog, i take commissions!

i don't engage in discourse, i don't post about real world misery, i kill reblog bait with my bare hands, and unless i know you personally i won't signal boost fundraisers or donation posts. i'm just on this stupid little website to hang out and have fun and to have a nice little internet house with all the things i like in it. if you really desperately need to know my opinion on a serious topic, ask off anon so i can respond privately.

i block empty blogs [as those tend to be bots], nsfw or fetish oriented blogs, discourse, and people who annoy me. if you think i've blocked you erroneously, feel free to shoot me an anon with your url and i'll be happy to unblock you, or at least tell you why if i don't want to

asks and dms are always welcome! there's no guarantee i'll answer because i have very bad executive dysfunction, but i promise i am trying my best. things i am somewhat good at talking about are the various fictional characters and scientific topics i'm into, my ocs, and my pet turtle

my about page has more details, though it's much longer and this post covers the basics fine. liking this post to indicate to me that you've seen it is appreciated but not required. enjoy your stay on my webbed site! :]

[gouinisme]

wait i may be stupid or my computer is fucking up things, but did you change/reset your theme to the Windows 98 one ? I wanted to search a thing on your blog and I remembered a funky 80's horror movie coded theme and it's not there

yeah all my funky horror gifs/music fucking died when discord stopped hosting files so i changed my theme to a more default one while i figure out where to host them

[paigemathews]

@forlorn-kumquat replied to your post “Writing a Phoebe/Coop fic and like. Can I mention...”:

Did she like him, or did she just like what he represented in her life: safety, stability, normalcy? Cause I think Phoebe's time with Cole has her so messed up that she would have latched onto any reasonably normal guy who wasn't trying to kill her and her family

Okay, so the context (and sneak peak, I guess) is Phoebe and Coop are discussing how she wasn't willing to be with Coop until she finds out about the future. Phoebe brings up how everytime she pursued the love she wasn't "suppose to," aka Cole and Miles, it goes poorly and her family is hurt in the crossfire. It's not- Okay, well, it wasn't intended to be a very in-depth thing bc it's just a oneshot that's gotten out of control on me again, but I realized that parallel between Phoebe's relationships with Cole and Miles and am kinda liking the idea of third time the charm-ing it, tbh. (I also bring up Dex, bc like I said! This is getting out of control on me again!)

She doesn't really delve deep into that relationship, so it's kinda your mileage may vary on that but here's the lines about it:

" I thought that it was just because it was Cole. But then I fell for someone I wasn’t supposed to be with, Miles, and I thought that I could change his fate. I thought I was supposed to change his fate, and instead I hurt my family again."

Idk, did that make sense? Any input is greatly appreciated!!

[piplupod]

my one good long-running bit may have to come to an end 😔

[heylinhenchman]

“ I missing having a life. ”

[heartshapedracetrack]

Changed my url because i'm generally in a weird mood today and very indecisive about things that feel right and don't and i wanted something heartshaped

Soooo

dreamingbook-> heartshapedracetrack

[aroaceleovaldez]

the show chb logo was also ripped from fandom, like in the past decade all the official chb shirt had the logo without the circle and then the fandom started doing and the show went for it, sorry your tags reminded me of that

[Link to post/tags in question]

Yeah, I know Delphi Strawberry Service has done more circular-based CHB shirt designs for ages, and I've seen the more circular-based designs floating around for awhile. I think Magicbysab's circular-based CHB shirt designs also predate the show design? Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I understand on a level that if they did base it off fandom designs, particularly if they're basing anything on widespread fanon or fandom-based concepts, it can be difficult to pin down credit or may even seen unnecessary. But if they're going to be doing that I feel like at least they could hire like, a fandom consultant of sorts? Instead of just ripping off from the fandom, hire someone from the community who produces that already so at least there's some recognition and acknowledgement of where it originated.

Heck, in some instances if you ask around in the fandom it's not hard to pinpoint who specifically popularized certain concepts! I could talk for ages about Cherryandsisters being a driving force behind photokinesis!Will, or Saberghatz with plague!Will (tbh between the two they spearheaded a ton of early Will/Solangelo fanon), and I swear Drksanctuary alone is behind like 50% of Alabaster fanon, etc etc etc. People in the fandom know these things! Heck, we know ReadRiordan company knows how to do that kind of thing! They commissioned Viria for the official art, and the UK Riordan newsletter reaches out to fans all the time to feature their work (with credit, they're one of the better ones)! Though in Rick's book tours he did showcase Viria's art (at least with credit) without asking before she got commissioned, and during the Tower of Nero book tours they actually straight up stole a solangelo edit from Pervysloth with completely zero credit (link is to my canon url readriordan parody blog).

I think it doesn't help as well that Rick and his editor allegedly use the fandom wiki in place of a series bible. The PJO wiki is notorious for putting inaccurate information or fanon onto pages at random and having no sources. (What I wouldn't give for the PJO wiki to have frequent book/page sources a la Warrior Cats wiki...) There are what, now almost 18 books in the main series alone? Of an extremely renowned best-selling series that's 20 years old and now being adapted for TV? And they STILL don't have a series bible? That's like, step 1 of writing a series. This kind of reliance of the fandom for resources and concepts definitely isn't new for them.

It just feels so bizarre as to what it says about how the ReadRiordan company views the fandom and the creatives within it. I understand that trying to figure out how to give credit to the concept of "CHB shirt design, but circular!" is difficult, if you even can find out who did that first or popularized it. But if you're going to rip things from fandom, at least find somebody to try and credit? Show that you put in even the tiniest amount of effort? And if you get it wrong and people know, they'll correct you and that's that! But ReadRiordan just keeps trying to actively obscure these kinds of things, even with their own media, not ripped from the fandom, which makes it feel all the worse when it gets pointed out. And a lot of the time the whole reason those concepts get popular is because they're filtered through big names in the fandom! The fandom is a community! We know these people! We can point to them and explain exactly what they popularized! Remember how Velinxi popularized long haired Piper with the heart-shaped flyaways? Goodness only knows how many fandom designs are heavily influenced by Viria and Minuiko and Burdge (and Indigonite and Fuocogo and Ikimaru and Thecottonproject and Joker-ace and Sixofclovers and Vikingmera and Saber and Cherry and and and-). If you are in the community this stuff is easy to find. But Rick and the ReadRiordan company clearly being ~5 years behind with fanon pretty obviously tells me that they're not in the community at all, and aren't bothering trying.

[autumnslance]

Hi again Lyn, hope you're having a good weekend! I saw your reply to another anon about your blog name and its origins and how it's an artifact of when Dark Autumn was your only character, and since I'm also in the process of conjuring up a FFXIV blog name so I don't have to be anonymous anymore (:P), it got me wondering...

If you were to think of a blog name now, now that you have 4 characters and Aeryn's your canon WoL, would it end up being something different? Something like @/aerynsrapier? Or would it still be Dark-related?

Thanks for reading and have a great day! :)

Ooh, good question. The URL would probably not be tied to a specific character at all, actually!

My romantic inspirations/aesthetics blog, for instance, is @farawayreflections based on another FF game's song lyrics. I have @secondspark for general RPG related stuff, and that comes from an old lore tidbit (that I'm not even sure is still canon, I'd have to go digging) from Critical Role. I have @lynmarswarcraft for many of my old WoW alts, but @red-alynore and @vembermarlon still exist for those specific characters; I used to have other blogs for various alts, named for them specifically, but that got tiresome to keep separate blogs for all those OCs, so they were deleted and consolidated, with Alynore and Vember's staying for general aesthetics (paladin/engineer/enchanter/werewolf partner, and druid/witchy/werewolf self).

One thing I decided early for this sideblog was even if I did make alts, they'd all stay on the single blog together, alongside other FF game references. It's worked out much better for me in many ways!

So, likely I'd use a phrase, lyric, title, or a favorite class ability as inspiration for a blog name. There's a few good examples for that last one, like @blackestnight (from Dark Knight) or @foewreckem (old Bard ability Foe's Requiem; RIP, Never Forget). Or, a URL would reference more than one character through certain similarities, like the fact all my girls have canon Aiming jobs cuz phys ranged is my favorite role even if RDM is my favorite job (with BRD and DNC in close competition). An inside joke or pun (foewreckem is also an example of that) would also be real tempting.

My blog's title, and a thread of scenes for Aeryn on Ao3, is currently "Living Memory" based on a Shadowbringers title, but 7.0 has brought us new context for that phrase, and I am debating changing at least the blog title. Maybe Aeryn's story thread too, I dunno. I'm kinda annoyed about it, but want there to be clarity and not certain associations. I have a Discord thread in the FC server called "(Red) Mage's Ballads" so maybe a play on that. Titles are easy to swap around and play with, though.

But the blog URL will stay as it is. Though were I to make a new blog/site for FF specifically (like if Pillowfort ever does sideblogs, and I decide to split out my FF content there), it would likely be more general.

[wtimetravelgentlemen]

🌲About time I make an intro post🦡

|| Kajsa (you can call me by my handle or make up a nickname too) || any prns except he/him. Mostly she/her || 23 ||

time to overshare hehe

The handles I use are weepingtimetravelgentlemen (my old url which I got from tumblrs own old username generator when making my original blog when I was like 14 lol. giving dr who) or wtimetravelgentlemen which is what I use these days! I use the abbreviated wttg in some places, since my handle is a mouthful.

My socials are

Tumblr: @wtimetravelgentlemen

NSFW tumblr: @wtimetravelgentlemen-notsfw

Twitter: Wttg_art

Toyhouse: wtimetravelgentlemen

Deviantart (abandoned after eclipse. rip i loved u): wtimetravelgentlemen

I have other abandoned art accs that I barely posted on as well

I've been drawing since I was 11 or so. These days I post mostly OCs, boyfriend to death fanart, dinos, and other fanart every once in a while

I apologize in advance for unanswered asks. I want to get to it, but I have some difficulties.

Content warning on my art

You could come across gore, monsters, sexual material, implied noncon, kink, abuse, implied cannibalism, violence, blood, knives, scars, swearing, trauma and death in my art, especially on my adult account and toyhouse. Beware :3. Block me or tags if you need, no hard feelings.

Tag navigation guide

#drawing is where you'll find all my art. I have a #sketch and #wip tag for unfinised works too

#personal, like implied, is more personal stuff, thoughts, craft, and sometimes art. Fandom stuff is just tagged as the fandom it belongs to like #btd2, #TXT, #DoL etc. #OC for original characters along with their names

I use Clip Studio Paint for my art these days but used to use Paint tool sai, deviantart muro (rip) and paint.net in the past. The traditional media I do are graphite, charcoal, ink, watercolor, oils, clay, embroidery, I've dabbled in tattooing too.

It's ok to use my art as pfp's, headers and as art references/bases as long as you give credit. Go crazy.

Feel free to draw my OCs as well! What if they hung out with your OCs :D No NSFW of my minor characters tho and Karma and Sinope. They're special to me.

My DMs are open if you wanna discuss ocs, art, fandom or whatever. I only bite a little.

Trivia time!

I have a massive soft spot for browser petsims, visual novels, horse games, OCs and animals. I sew and craft a lot in my free time also

I speak Swedish and English fluently. And understand/ am choppy at german

dividers by x x

[galaxyhux624]

intro post:

hey. you can call me laurie, hux, or reb (or all three, i'm not pressed). i was astralhux from 2011 - 2024 (well, really, the blog url was only astralhux from 2018 on, but you know what i mean). staff decided to term me in march of 2024 bc i like a certain true crime case -- i think we all know which one, bc no other case gets authorities this fucking heated, but just in case you don't, if you go on my ao3 (itallstartedwithdefenestration) you will prob figure it out pretty quick, haha

i didn't want to make a new blog for a long time because of how long i had astralhux and how much shit i had on it -- nearly half my life; the two most impactful romantic/sexual relationships i ever had, all four years of college, the gap year i took before college, every fandom i dipped my toes into, the chronology of my entire obsession with supernatural, a veritable fuckton of short fics i never posted to ao3, the rise and fall of the golden age of kylux (rip), my adventures in learning how to make gifs... just. a lot of me was in that blog. but over the months i realized staff wasn't going to give it back to me, and atp i'm just... tired of missing gifsets and my old friends and the general weird-ass community here which really can't be found anywhere else. so i came back, and i chose 9/18 specifically to do it because it's the anniversary of when i joined ao3. so i find that very apropos

this blog will probably be a bit of a mess for a while as i try to find as many of my old gifsets as i can, as well as any gifsets i can remember that i really loved (thank fuck for my wildly accurate memory of basically anything that was ever on my tumblr, lol). i'm also planning to remake at least some of my old sideblogs, though i'm not sure about that just yet -- but in any case, just bear with me while i try and get this stuff in order

thanks for reading, and i hope i'm back <3

[hils79]

Thanks for tagging me (ages ago I'm sorry I suck) @puppy-phum

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1. why did you choose your url?

I am so boring I almost want to apologise for it. My url is just my nickname and the year I was born (yes, I am old).

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

I don't really use my sideblogs much. I've got one that I haven't used for years that I used to post some of my photography on @hal-photography. I've got one for an old UK convention that folded during the pandemic but that I used to do the marketing for @writerconuk and I've got a whump blog that I use to reblog my favourite whumpy gifs so that they're easy to find. Not sharing that one because I do not wish to be Perceived.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

My original blog was set up in 2010. I had to nuke it after some unpleasantness in the Supernatural fandom (isn't it always SPN) and I've had this current once since 2011 I think

4. do you have a queue tag?

Nah, I don't queue things as a general rule. I do a bunch of reblogging first thing in the morning while I'm scrolling in bed and that's more or less it

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

I was looking for a new home after Livejournal finally properly died and most fandom folk were here at that time

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It's a piece of DMBJ art that my housemate comissioned as a Christmas present a couple of years ago. I love it, and it was made specifically for me, so I made it my header and my icon

7. why did you choose your header?

Same as above

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

This RDJ/Paul Bettany exchange I ripped from Twitter. I have no idea why it ended up with 20k notes

9. how many mutuals do you have?

I honestly have no idea. Lots.

10. how many followers do you have?

Argh now I'm going to have to go and look. 2421. Wow.

11. how many people do you follow?

Wow this thing is really exposing me. 1908. I generally follow back so long as I can see that the person is an active fandom blog where we have at least one fandom in common.

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

I mostly shitpost in the tags

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

Generally for an hour in the morning before I get up and then however long it takes me to liveblog my next drama episode in the evening

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

No, I don't think so. Not that I can remember anyway. I generally try and avoid conflict and if someone is annoying me I just block them and/or vent about it in a safe space with friends I trust.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts

Makes me less inclined to reblog them tbh. Don't tell me what to do in my own house.

16. do you like tag games?

I am so bad at remembering to do them when I get tagged (see above about only really being on tumblr for an hour a day) but I do appreciate it every time someone thinks of me

17. do you like ask games?

Yeah, same as above. I love them but I am crap at remembering to answer the asks. I'm very sorry.

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

I'm not sure I could name anyone who is tumblr famous beyond the actual celebrities who hang out here (like Lynda Carter)

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

I have mutuals I admire and wish I was brave enough to talk to more but I wouldn't really call them crushes. As an aroace I don't really do crushes.

20. tags?

I'm going to tag a few of my newer mutuals so I can get to know them a bit better. Absolutely no pressure though @prolestari @queenbeyondthejudge @fangirl-bookaholic @huzzzah @life-is-all-about-perspective @loving-that-officey-feel @greenyball @hwasfeatherduster

[bestworstcase]

oh the funniest part to me is that it wasn't even on anon. i was reading some of your old posts and you were agreeing with someone about vacuo stuff and i wondered if they had any other rwby takes so i went onto their blog's rwby tag and WHAM! "some fans say TERRIBLE things like [direct paraphrasing of you]".

the second funniest part to me is that a bit further back theyre like "im so mad grr because they have sensible takes except for the salem apologia" and its like, saying that about the salem apologia guy is really funny first of all, but also if they like the rest of your takes that much then what even is the problem. i like your analysis a lot but theres some stuff i disgaree on cos there's bound to be and i just simply don't loudly announce it. like grrr hiss farran is so based and correct except for that thing she said last tuesday, grr this means she's evil. like okay?

snrk. oh that one

(salem hater entering the salem apologia house) by TALOS this cant be happening!

yeah it’s funny. obviously i don’t need or expect everyone to agree with every aspect of my reading of the story—come to that there are no end of arguments i’ve made that i’m dissatisfied with and it isn’t like i haven’t changed my mind about anything or discarded ideas that i felt on reflection weren’t really supported by the text, or flat out had major theories disproven—but the sympathetic reading of salem is the central conceit, here. if i turned out to be incorrect on the matter of salem 1. still wanting freedom, not annihilation, 2. being justified in her rebellion against the brothers, and 3. having…emotional depth at all, i would consider the rest of my analysis to be null and void because it’s all predicated on those presuppositions. you can’t rip out the foundation and expect the house to keep standing!

like jenga

also sidebar i like how your url is just

[emyn-arnens]

20 Questions for Writers

@hobbitwrangler @grey-gazania @runawaymun @echo-bleu tagged me to do this, so I guess I really should do it! I did this one recently on my main for all the fandoms I've written for, so I'll keep this limited to Tolkien fics here.

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 82.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 128,198.

3. What fandoms do you write for? Currently mostly Tolkien, with the occasional dash of Timeless and Narnia.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

As the Hare Flees Before the Wolf (T, Celegorm & Eöl, 1.8k): Curufin is not the only son of Fëanor Eöl meets upon the plains of Himlad. Or, Eöl meets Celegorm while pursuing Aredhel and Maeglin, and things go very badly for him.

Here at Journey's End (G, Frodo & Legolas, 1.6k): They stay for those they love.

West, West Away (G, Sam & Thranduil, 3.6k): Sam meets an unlikely kindred spirit on the journey West.

and I will love with urgency, but not with haste (T, Aegnor/Andreth, 3.1k): A summer evening spent in a glade near the shores of the Aeluin.

with death on his brow like a crown (G, Aegnor & Finrod, ~600 words): Five times Finrod foresees Aegnor’s death, and one time he foresees his own.

5. Do you respond to comments? Yep! It may take a while depending on spoons, but I almost always do. The only exceptions are for comments that make no sense to me or demand me to write more for a pairing.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? There's a lot of contenders for this, but let's go with Like a Wave That Should Engulf the World (G, Faramir/Éowyn, ~700 words), in which Faramir foresees Éowyn's coming death.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? For Charity (Boromir, Faramir, Éomer, Lothíriel, and Éowyn, 2k), for sure. Two thousand words of pure ridiculousness.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not since ye olde days of posting on FFN.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Very rarely and very vanilla, with emotions and metaphor taking precedence over mechanics.

10. Do you write crossovers? Nope. Not much into reading or writing them.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Hope not!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope.

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

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? *looks at header, url, and blog title* I don't think I even need to say.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? For the sake of answering the question, my Glorfinwyn AU, but only because I'm not sure I have the skills to pull it off, and my perfectionism is a raging beast. But I do really want to finish it, even if it's three years from now because I'm the slowest writer I know.

16. What are your writing strengths? Characterization and description/scenery, although I've been struggling with the latter lately. Dialogue has finally been getting easier, though.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Plot, body language, and describing emotions.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I'll sprinkle in some individual words/pet names (all shamelessly ripped from RealElvish.net) here and there that should be guessable from context clues. I don't do full sentences very often both because I feel it isn't necessary most of the time (sorry JRRT), and because I know people don't enjoy having to scroll to the notes for translations. But I will admit to having a weakness for Elves lapsing into their native tongues during uh. heated moments with their partners.

19. First fandom you wrote for? LOTR, years ago. And here I am back again!

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? This is so hard, but Over Seas of Starlight (G, Frodo & Gandalf, 3.6k) is near and dear to my heart. Sailing West, my beloved.

Tagging @sotwk @afaramir @halfelven @curufiin if you haven't done this already!

[passionpeachy]

Did you try to delete the sideblog on desktop? I never had problems doing so on mobile and I'm wondering if there's a connection (rip to your blog <3 old posts should link back to this blog at least? since it has the same url)

Ah, no it was on mobile. Either way, there's nothing we can do about it now so I guess it's time to start rebuilding :') thank you