#it's a bit sad

[youchangedmedestiel]

Cas knows all the burdens Dean has to carry on his shoulders during his daily life. He sees that weight getting heavier and heavier and there is nothing he can do about it.

Sure, he tries to help. Sometimes he adds to that weight without wanting to, but he does the best he can to relieve Dean. That's why he accepted Crowley's deal to fight against Raphael. That's why he wanted to stay in Purgatory because he deserved it after he put this heavy weight that was his mistakes on Dean's shoulders. That's why he stole this grace and became an angel again, so that HE could solve the falling angels' issue, not Dean. That's why he tried to find Kelly Kline without Dean. That's why he never told Dean about the deal with the Empty.

That's why he never told Dean he loved him until it was the last option in order to save him from Billie. Because he wouldn't want to add his feelings for him to all the burdens he has to carry all the time on his shoulders.

He never wanted his love to be a weight on Dean.

[squobbl]

i've been messing about a bit with a canon sx40 hs; i thought these were alr :D

[baronessblixen]

wait the Emmys were last night ?? I feel like no one was talking about this I was so surprised lol

They were! I think maybe people are less interested in award shows these days? Or maybe that's just me. There's so much going on in the world and somehow these shows... well.

[blu3-j]

hello! I was just wondering, how do you get the inspiration that you get when writing the stories?

I’ve been mighty fascinated by the story you have done with chapter 1 and 2, I am looking forward in seeing the next chapter. I create some stories in my free time but I am never able to really put it in a story itself, if you know what I mean, I hope that your stories do very well(which they probably will because they are awesome) hope you have a great day!

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!! Thank you thank you thank you so so so much! That means so much more to me than you'll ever know! I'm so glad that you like the story so far!

So, I'm assuming by stories but not full fledged stories, you mean short prompts or stories. As someone that has a full digital document with short story prompts and short stories, I completely relate. I'm not one to write anything longer than a prompt, but I've been wanting to make something longer and more detailed than that for a long while now. I'm not the greatest at it, but it's all part of my learning experience! I do have some advice that could potentially help, but I suggest practicing and having other people you trust to read over it and give constructive critism that you know them telling you wouldn't hurt your feelings. That way, you'll figure out the process that works best for you.

How I personally go about it is I see the story as a simulator. I take the characters I want, get to know them as best as I can (personality, thought patterns, behaviour, etc.), pick out a situation (it can be as simple as just putting them in the same room), have basic milestones you want them to reach, and let them interact in my mind. I try not to tell the story, and rather let the characters do so. It's okay if I intervene a tiny bit by making a small coincident happen to help them reach a milestone in the story, but that's as far as I'm willing to go. And usually, if they're stuck in a situation together where they're forced to be around each other (school, work, being put in a group to save the world, etc.), they usually will have interactions to write about.

If it's just two characters that absolutely refuse to interact at all costs, put another character in there! This could be a new pet, a close friend of one of the characters, or a family member. Even someone like a teacher that could play a bigger role could help immensely to get these two characters interacting. It's also important that they aren't just there to get an interaction going for one time. They could be kind of like a failsafe. I highly suggest keeping them around for future situations just like this or to put more depth into the story.

For example, a teacher of two students notices the tension between the two, and decides to talk directly to one of the students because they care about all of their students, and want to make sure everything's okay. This teacher is very caring, and could almost act like a mentor figure in one or both of their lives. Just have someone point it out and ask "why? Why do you refuse to talk to each other?" This may get the character/s to at least think about each other. This may turn into a bit of a snowball, turning from small interactions like glances and looks, to small talk, to full discussions. It's not just a single interaction you're writing about, or just the characters themselves, it's a full world. So use it to it's full abilities! Think of it like this: they feel emotions and work similarly to us! When someone talks to you about another person you don't really talk to and makes other small comments, it makes you curious, right? What types of comments would get the curiousity flowing for them? A rumor? The other knowing something about the second character the first didn't know? Or maybe just noticing something small the second does that the first didn't notice. Maybe a misunderstanding, like the other noticing the second often looks at the first. Take it from there! Curiosity is what influences a lot of our daily decisions, especially things that could potentially make great changes.

Last thing; when you've run out of ideas, keep that pencil moving! Ideas will come by at some point. Just keep that pencil moving! Go into more depth of a scene, extend it out, write a dull conversation---keep. Writing. You'll get there eventually.

Moving away from the advice a little, I'm going to talk of my personal inspiration of this story, so you can get a better idea of my thought process.

Believe it or not, but nobody likes change in their lives. Even if it's small. In the case of Welcome...Home? it's not a small change at all. When a person goes through a change in their life, they go through the stages of grief. For losing what once was, like a regular routine they had gotten so used to or moving to a different location. This could be minor and barely noticable, or could be much more grand. For the characters of this story, the reader is losing their regular schedule, living with roommates when they haven't lived with anyone in a long time, and their roommates are living puppets. (We'll get back to that later.) For the crew, they're in a completely new world. I have it down that Wally knew about our world, but his knowledge is greatly limited due to only seeing what's on the other side of the screen when an episode is playing and nothing more. But being in that world when he's already so used to living in Home? Even he's going through the stages of grief. All of the puppets are. They have no idea how this world works, most of them don't know what humans are, and they're going to be forced to live in this world until they can go back home.

Going back to reader, they're a person that lives in a world where living puppets don't exist. It literally goes against the logic they've always known. Additionally, the puppets don't really have much of an explanation of how they work, and how they exist in the first place. How are they walking? They don't have muscles, they have a wire or plastic skeleton at most. How are they able to speak? They don't have any voice boxes or vocal chords. How are parts of their body that normally aren't able to move on a puppet---especially the way they were attached to their bodies---move? It shouldn't be possible. None of it is supposed to be possible. So, it kind of breaks the reader's logic. That's huge. No matter what, they'll be constantly trying to figure it out and make it make sense, even if it's just a small thought in the back of their mind. If it doesn't make sense, it creates panic and confusion.

A huge part of keeping this story as it is, is trying to think of how each character cope with stressful situations. Frank would do as much research as he can to keep himself calm (if he can make it make sense, than he can figure out how to fix it), and if he can't then he breaks down, Julie would be doing her best to ignore the bad emotions and try to put her attention on keeping happy and keeping others happy, reader tries to avoid their emotions and situations completely, Wally attempts to keep it hidden and will only allow himself to feel those emotions when he's alone due to being too worried about how his reaction may affect the others (if he isn't calm when he normally is, how can they be calm?), Howdy tries to keep himself so busy he forgets, Poppy either hides, and when she can't, puts all of her attention on the others, Sally expresses her emotions and situation through her plays and acting, Barnaby either shuts down, or to keep himself from doing so, tells jokes and tries to distract himself and make him feel as though the situation isn't as serious as it actually is, and Eddie has a delayed reaction, but shuts down unless he's absolutely needed. Everyone's trying to keep calm, but most of them attempt to avoid their emotions due to how complicated this situation is. It's not as simple as trying to forgive someone for playing a small prank. It's not as simple as a simple miscommunication issue. It's world-breaking. Their emotions are just as big as the situation itself. Right now, that's what this story is all about. As time goes on, it may change and while they may still go through the grieving process, it may not play as huge of a role as it does currently.

Something that I've noticed is a reoccuring theme of a lot of Welcome Home fanfiction right now is the fish out of water trope. A character is put in a world/situation they're not from or used to, and have to figure out how to live with it. I wanted to give it a try myself because I think it's a fun trope to write about. I've also been wanting to attempt to write a story of characters grieving over a long period of time while life continues on without pause for years. I'm finally going through with it, but I'm keeping it a bit more fun and interactive than my last attempt so it doesn't feel as though I used that time to write it for nothing.

Alright! Long answer, I know, and I sincerely apologize if you weren't interested in a super long post talking about this. But here you go, regardless! I hope that clears everything up for you! Thank you so so much for sending this question in, and once again, thank you so so very much for your kind words! They mean so much to me, truly. I also hope you and everyone else reading this have a fantabulous day! You all deserve it! Make the day yours! (Because it is yours!)

[messysketchyobeyme]

So there's no more HDD in the og, huh?

[darcyolsson]

in loving memory of tumblr's april fools' pranks 💐 2014 - 2024

icymi, tumblr used to do an elaborate april fool's prank every year, but this year they suddenly stopped. here's a somewhat detailed recap of everything they did over the decade:

2013 - mishapocalypse (honourable mention): tumblr staff didn’t start doing april fools until 2014, but the mishapocalypse happened on tumblr in 2013 and i feel like this list would be incomplete without it

2014 - tumblrpro: upon opening your dash you were greeted by an “inspirational” video, that ended with the option to get “tumblrpro (for free)”. all it did was put a top hat on your icon.

2015 - tumblr executivesuite/coppy: a copying machine appeared in the corner of your dash. it would offer tips on how to use tumblr, like clippy the paperclip used to do in microsoft word. as the day went on, it slowly broke down and died right in front of your eyes. many people hated him (but not me). you could also make a (small) spreadsheet. @executivesuite2016 is the official blog.

2016 - this is decision/lizard election/tumblrdecides: a parody of the 2016 US elections. there were 4 lizards (well, one of them turned out to be a salamander in a scandal) to vote for. the dash looked different and there was a live news report with election updates, as well as an election blog for each lizard. they all had their own slogans and you would get an "i voted" button after you voted that would get slapped next to your icon. there were built-in functions to make an election poster for your favourite lizard and to create a text post that supported your lizard of choice that autogenerated a statement for all your followers to read. imo tumblr’s april fools peak. @thisisdecision2016-blog is the official blog, @mop-2016-blog @wretchedtooth @timefordeborah-blog were candidates. rick also had a blog (rick-official) but that now seems to have vanished because he ended up dropping out of the election. mop won, if you're curious. by far the most elaborate prank tumblr ever did.

2017 - horse friend: a tamagotchi-inspired game where you had to take care of a little horse in the corner of your screen. it came with a randomly generated name, and you had to feed and clean up after it. if you didnt take good care of it, it died. you could then hatch (yes, hatch) a new one. there was also an option to look at the names of all your dead horses. this is now available to buy in the tumblr shop. @horse-friends is the official blog.

2018 - tumblcoin: a parody of cryptocurrency (this was the year bitcoin took off). you could ‘invest’ in tumblcoin, with which you could in turn buy things with to spice up your dash, including last year’s horse friend, coppy from 2015, and a frame for around your icon. you could share the amount of tumblcoin you owned in an automatically generated gif post which would be tagged #tbc2018 and #tumblcoin. @tumblcoin is the official blog.

2019 - @memories: this blog still functions the way it did on april fools itself! it's like mad libs, where it takes post templates and then adds in tags you use a lot and users you frequently interact with on your main blog. like a personalized shitpost bot.

2020 - group chat prank/@storybot: it was so hard to find info on this because it was contained entirely in the now-defunct group chat function, which no one used. i had to go through the notes of this post for information because no one cared enough to actually write anything explaining it. turns out, you could write a story with your mutuals by adding storybot to your group chat. it also kept working after april fools (well, up until the group chats were deleted) just like memories. many people missed out on it entirely because they did not use the group chat function.

2021 - tumblcryptids: tumblr allowed you to adopt “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. clicking a button that said "Summon thy Tumblrcryptid" would spawn an image of a little blob-shaped creature with a short description, which would always read "Hi! My name is [randomly generated name]. I love [thing most people like]. I hate [thing most people dislike]. Like my parent, I can't get enough of #[tag from your main blog]." you could share them in a post, which would automatically add the tag #NFTumblcryptids to your post. and yes, people on the piss on the poor website freaked out about it because they thought they were real NFTs harming the environment. @tumblcryptidadoptioncenter is the official blog.

2022 - click-a-thon: when you clicked a light switch on your dashboard, a bunch of colourful things showed up, like a sponge you could move around, an "engagament meter", clickable buttons, and a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when you clicked it. you could. the crabs, like horse friend, are still available in the tumblr store as of 2025. here's some screenshots. there were various ways to share your crab activities, which would all get tagged #april fools 2022. the prank was presented as a marketing technique created by Brick Whartley, a fictional businessman character created by tumblr, who (afaik) originated in a post on the official blog of the 2018 april fools prank, albeit originally in a different role. around this time he also started functioning as the mascot for tumblr's shop ( @emporium )

2023 - abstract reactions (emoji reacts): buttons were added to every post that allowed you to add emoji reactions, many of them based on tumblr inside jokes (horse as a reference to horse plinko/horse friend, vanilla for the vanilla extract meme, pikaman, bug for bug race, and brick whartley, who wasn't a meme but staff really wanted him to be). if one specific emoji was used a certain amount of times it would add an effect to the post, eg many cheese emoji reacts would cover the post in cheese. this was also attributed to Brick Whartley ("his" blog @brickwhartley also documented the day)

2024 - boop-o-meter: allowed you to “boop” other users who had opted in to the booping, like facebook’s poke feature back in the day. depending on how long you held the button, you would either boop, super boop, or evil boop. on the dashboard there was a counter for both how many times you had booped others and how many times others had booped you, as well as how many boops were given side-wide. when booping someone, an image of a cat paw appeared. you would get badges (which can still be used) for booping 1, 100 and 1000 times. if you gave/received more than 999 boops, the counter would switch to showing a three-letter word (see this post for specifics). this was brought back for halloween 2024 (as BOOp-o-meter. get it), with a ghost, skeleton and mummy paw. no official blog, but here's an official recap for april first from staff. i believe this was the only april fools prank that was mobile user friendly.

2025 - @fandom is running some polls, i guess

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[simplywrong]

So I made this:

Never Give up...

[neowonderland]

Ohmagahhhhhhh. I just came back from boarding school and you're still alive, gurl. Why am I crying rn? This semester was insane, I might even write a fic about it 😭😭😭

Welcome back! I'm happy that you were able to complete another semester! I hope you're feeling better after coming back and I'd love to see your fic about the semester!

[qiinamii]

new guy in the Express

bonus:

adding more to the whimsy

[barghest-land]

ancient sun cast your light cause there’s no hope in endless winter

Bogolubovia

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby fixing her friends in the FNAF 2 movie,,

[soapbbox]

In regards to the cog-less megs comic: im sure op would be sooo normal and well adjusted if he found out abt that happening/saw him without his cog

I was actually working on another (angst) version of this but you get the funny haha version first :3 Bee and Elita are giving Optimus a 10 minute window before they intervene (they’ve seen OP moping around and are hoping this will help him get some it out of his system. They’ll have to step in at some point or else he probably won’t let go).

Why he’s small here and here

[chell-min]

my hands still remember

[nipuni]

More Alec!

Oh forgot to say there will be a speedpaint video of this on my Patreon next month!

[princehoneytea]

sketchy... havent drawn her in years