#don't want to go TOO ham on the off-topic add-ons.

[narrators-journal]

Hmmmmmmmm...How would ya'll feel if I maybe went a bit closer to reality with my dark smut? Not, like, entirely? It'll still be based in fandoms lol, but a bit more of a realistic scenario. Would that be too uncomfortably close to real life?

[aj-lenoire]

welcome, twitter refugees!!

here's a quick and friendly tumblr how-to:

DOs & DON'Ts

DO reblog posts!! regardless of whether or not you add a comment, either in the post itself or in the tags, the OP will get notifications of everyone who likes the post via your reblog and who reblogs it from you! comment as much or as little as you like

DON'T repost things! fanart, fanfiction, etc. this is different from reblogging, a repost is when you copy/save the work to your computer and reupload it in a post of your own, rather than reblogging it

DO follow tags as well as other blogs!! really like one specific character from a tv show? a certain ship? search their name and follow the tag, and you'll see posts that mention or tag them even if you don't directly follow the person who made that post

DON'T rely too much on the search function, it's broken. if you want to search someone's blog for a tag, you're better off going to the URL: tumblr.com/[blogname]/tagged/[tag]

DO tag liberally! you can use the tags to add comments that you don't want to directly add to the post, to make it easier for people to search your blog, or to make it easier for yourself to find things later on

DON'T use tiktok censorship speak when tagging things!! it will make it actively more difficult for people seeking to avoid certain topics. instead of "tw: abu$e" just tag "abuse" and anyone who has blacklisted the tag "abuse" will not see your post.

similarly, DON'T tag things like "epilepsy" - instead, tag "flashing lights" so people can still use the epilepsy tag to discuss epilespy without risking seeing triggering flashing lights

DO use the follow and the block buttons liberally! this site has absolutely no algorithm, so it is entirely up to you to curate your space exactly how you want it!

DON'T send hate to people via the askbox on their blog, either anonymously or not. just block people who annoy you or post horrible things

DO participate in polls! tumblr only got them recently, less than a year ago, and people immediately went ham. vote on stupid things like which bug emoji is superior, which ship is the best, and how much vanilla extract should go in a cake! but remember that you cannot edit the original poll after you post it

DON'T use or endorse "AI" generators like chatgpt! don't reblog AI images and or AI endings to unfinished/abandoned fanfictions

DO cite your sources if you want to educate people on something in a post, we all love to learn, and informative posts on everything from current political events to which geodes could be made into useable dildos, but misinformation is prolific, so make sure anyone reading your information can refer to a real source!

jargon

notes - likes, reblogs (with or without comments or tags) and replies to a post are all agregated to give the number of notes, which is basically the number of times a post has been interacted with

OP - the Original Poster of a post, for example, me, aj-lenoire, with this post. i am op.

hellsite - tumblr itself. this website is insane and unprofitable and broken and we wouldn't have it any other way. hellsite can be either (affectionate) or (derogatory) and often both at once

blorbo - your favourite character, your rotten soldier, your sweet cheese, your good time boyy. post about them frequently and with weird, frenzied gusto

squick - something you personally don't like, such as a ship or a character or a trope, but is not actually bad or harmful - it's just not for you. it squicks you out.

blacklisting means you've blocked a specific tag rather than a blog/person. for example, if you don't want to see anything with spiders, blacklist the tag "spiders" so you don't see any! if someone you follow reblogs a post and tags it with "spiders", or the OP of the post tagged it with "spiders" then your dashboard will hide the post from you and tell you it was tagged with "spiders" and you can choose whether or not to view it

passing peer review means you added commentary to a post in the tags, and someone who reblogged that post from you saw your tags and thought they were funny, so decided to screenshot them and add them as a comment so everyone could see them. congratulations!!

breaking containment is when a post about a niche subject and/or from a blog with not many followers gets super popular because it's funny, and often OP despairs at how their notifications become unusable from the sheer number of notes from this one post

KUNGPOWPENIS - if someone posts something bigoted, tumblr will ban together to reblog, one letter at a time, k-u-n-g-p-o-w-p-e-n-i-s. only do this when the bigot is the OP, because only the original poster will get a flood of single-letter reblog notifications from every single branch of the reblog chain

tips & tricks

pornbots and bots in general are not uncommon here. whenever you get followed by someone, check to make sure they're not a bot by visiting their blog. if they only have a few reblogged posts on random topics, or no posts at all, and their profile picture is a beautiful woman, they're a bot, and you should flag and block them

old posts can and do get reblogged and liked all the time, there's no point at which it becomes cringe to interact with a post. we even have some from 10+ years ago that're considered 'tumblr heritage'

long posts will cross your dash from time to time, the most infamous being colour of the sky. you will see it and it will madden you with how far you have to scroll - inflict your followers with the same frustration by reblogging so they can see it too!! if you're on desktop, pressing j will skip to the next post.

read more allows you to shorten a post with a 'click to read more' link that takes the reader to the root post on your blog. this is especially handy if you're publishing fanfiction or a very long analysis of something.

toggling reblogs lets you choose whether a post is rebloggable or not, for example something personal you may want to delete later, turning off reblogs means there won't be any copies floating around after you delete the root post

follower count is not visible! the only way anyone will know how many followers you have is if you tell them. follow blogs based on whether you like what they post, not by whether they're super popular or not

memes are frequent and long-lasting. tumblr plays with jpegs like dolls and there are some memes that have been here for years. a current favourite is the destiel confession meme which has warped into a shorthand for breaking weird news

important dates

tumblr loves a goofy-ass-holiday!! here are some of the standouts:

ides of march - 15th march, celebrate julius caesar getting his shit rocked

pride month - june, tumblr is generally a very pro-queer space, so expect everything to be decked out in rainbows for the entirety of june and most of the rest of the year, too!!

halloween - the entire month of october and also a week in july, this site loves some spooky scary skeletons

destielputinelection - 5th november, reminisce about the absolute chaos that gripped the internet during the 2020 usa presidential election

blog recs for new users

to each their own, and a main draw of tumblr is that there's something for everyone, down to the very, very niche. so, search for stuff that interests you and follow those blogs! however, here are some blogs that are fun for everyone:

heritageposts - your one-stop blog for all the best, weirdest, oldest tumblr posts will all the drama, expect to see a lot of destiel

staffs-secret-blog - (not actually staff)

one-time-i-dreamt - full of weird and wonderful posts, made all the better by the fact that no one reads usernames here, so inevitably there is panicked confusion over what the fuck is going on

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses - one of tumblr's most ubiquitous shit-posters

aj-lenoire - that's me!

that's pretty much the basics, but most people here are really friendly, so if you're unsure, just ask someone! have fun!!

[gothsung]

Red string of fate |Han Jisung|

Hanxreader Soulmate! AU

"When will I ever find my soulmate" the young girl whined and she twirled the string on her right pinky.

"I don't know... now get out of my room because you are annoying me." The older girl said.

"Well you should be thankful for my presence I have blessed you with!" The younger pouted.

"Alright, whatever just get out." The older said dismissively as her younger sister exited the room. She was currently working on a painting she had been working on for almost 2 days already. This painting was of a guy she had seen in her dreams. She theorizes that this may be her soulmate so she decided to paint him for the heck of it. She had painted him like a portrait, surrounded by nature. Sunflowers were in the corners of the painting and the rest of the background was just a simple landscape. She was almost done finishing off his hair when her phone rang. She sighed, put down her brush and picked up her phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey Y/n. I'm bored and I wanna go shopping... and I kinda don't wanna go alone... because you know. Yeah... Can you please go with me?" Her friend, Hyunjin asked her.

"Well I mean... I guess. I am working on a painting right now so I will go ahead and get ready after I finish. I just need one more thing to add to it so I will be done shortly. I'll text you when i'm ready" Y/n answered.

"Okay. Thank you you are honestly a life saver."

"Alright, welp i guess I'll see you then Hyuhyu"

"Yup, bye y/n/n" they both ended their calls. Y/n picked up her brush and began adding the last touches to her painting. When she finished, she sat up from her seat and went to her closet. She chose to wear a plaided yellow button up shirt that fit her pretty lose, a white shirt underneath, and black skinny jeans and the button up was tucked inside her jeans. She then went on to put on some simple make up and a simple necklace. She went with some simple black combat boots and she was finally ready. She then texted Hyunjin.

(Ignore the top focus on the bottom)

She ran downstairs and waited in the living room for Hyunjjn. "Hey mom, I'm gonna go with Hyunjin to the mall". She said to her mom who was in the kitchen.

"Oh, okay have fun!" Her mom said. The doorbell then rang. Y/n went to the door, knowing it was Hyunjin.

"Sup loser" Hyunjin said to the shorter girl.

"Sup hoe. Now let's go to the mall." Y/n saidn as she exited the house. They both headed to Hyunjin's car that was parked in the drive way. We both entered the car and started heading to the mall. The ride was full of talking about Got7, EXO, and soulmate talk.

"Wait. What if I meet my soulmate at the mall..." Y/n added to the conversation.

"Well I mean it's possible. I mean I met Seungmin at school, which is the least romantic thing possible, so the mall is definitely more romantic than a prison that just forces students to memorize answers from an old text book."

"Oof. You right" they both then just began to talk about random stuff. Hyunjin parked the car when they got to the mall and both headed inside.

"Let's go to Forever 21!" Hyunjin said excitedly as he dragged Y/n to the store.

"SKSKS calm your man tiddies Hyuhyu!" Y/n said as her friend dragged her. Hyunjin looked through all the clothes and found nothing. "These clothes are very shitty." Hyunjin said.

"They are as shitty as your attitude..." Y/n said under her breath.

"Fuck you too bitch" Hyunjin said. They bothe left the store and looked for more stores to shop at. "Come on! This is a great place to take a picture!" Hyunjin said as he dragged his friend to a mural painted wall. He handed her his phone and he posed. They stopped the mini photo shoot and continued walking around the mall. They went to Hot Topic, a Anime store, a K-pop store, chocolate store, some more clothes stores and they went ahead and took some aesthetic pictures.

"Hyuhyu! Let's go to that one music store! I want a new guitar. The one I have is like 10 years old." Y/n said.

"Alright you nerd." He said. They both walked to the music store. Y/n was browsing through the guitars and Hyunjin was on his phone texting Seungmin. Y/n then felt a tug on her right pinky where her string was at.

"Hyuhyu? Is it normal to feel a tug on your string?" Y/n asked her friend.

"I don't know I mean me and Seungmin just bumped into each other on accident and boom! Romance blossomed" Hyunjin said, still on his phone.

"Oh... okay..." Y/n said. She got curious as the tugging continued and she followed her string. The string began growing smaller at every step she took. The next thing she knew she was right beside the guy in her dreams. He looked down on her with a shocked expression.

"Uh... hi. I'm Y/n" Y/n said awkwardly.

"Oh. Umm... I'm Ham, I mean Han. Han Jisung." The boy said nervously. They were both silent for a while, looking at their connected string. "So... um... we soulmates i guess." Jisung said to her.

"Haha... yeah..." Y/n laughed awkwardly. They stood there in silence again. Both teenagers were blushing and a bit awkward with each other.

"So... uh, you wanna go for a coffee sometime??" Jisung asked, breaking the silence.

"Uh, yeah. Oh wait, you need my number right?"

"Yeah I will kind of be needing that" Jisung laughed nervously. They both gave each other their numbers. Hyunjin looked at the two newfound lovers from a distance, snapping pictures and sending them to his boyfriend.

"WOOH! MY BESTIE GONNA BE GETTING THAT D TONIGHT!" Hyunjin screamed in the store, causing people to stare at him. Y/n cringed at his statement. "I'm sorry I don't know him." She said to Jisung.

"It's fine" Jisung laughed. 'Oh no... his laugh is cute' Y/n thought.

"Well... uh... I kinda gotta go look at the guitars so I guess I'll talk to you later?" Y/n said.

"Oh you play the guitar?" Jisung asked. Y/n nodded to his question. "I do too! I could help you look for one. Of you don't mind, of course."

"I don't mind. I needed help with picking the guitar anyways." Both Y/n and Han walked to the guitars. She talked about what guitar she had in mind and Jisung suggested some while gesturing to the guitar he was talking about. Y/n finally chose on a guitar and went ahead a bought it with a case (of course). Hyunjin watched them from a distance, already creating a ship name and fanfiction.

"Well it was really nice meeting you Jisung. Thank you for helping me with my guitar." Y/n said, as she and Hyunjin were about to leave for the day.

"Yeah, no problem. It was really nice meeting you too. Is there any day you are free for the coffee date?" Jisung asked.

"Umm... well tomorrow I am free. Is tomorrow fine?"

"Yup. Tomorrow is perfectly fine. I guess I'll see you then?"

"Mhm! Definitely tomorrow. Well, I gotta go, Hyunjin can be kind of impatient at times. See you!" Y/n said, as she walked away from Jisung with Hyunjin two steps ahead of her.

"Tomorrow?! Jisung asked/screamed as Y/n left. Y/n then turned around and began walking backwards.

"Tomorrow!" She yelled back at him.

"Okay! See you Tomorrow!" Jisung yelled again. She giggled at his previous actions and turned the other way (she was previously walking backwards)

"He's a keeper" Hyunjin said, while he was on his phone.

"I know"

Part 2??