#like folks don't need to like my shit but to look at a fandom full of so much fanart and cosplay and fic and commentary posts

[fallloverfic]

I am honestly begging people to just type and/or browse available tags and communities online. I just read someone calling one of the biggest fandoms around "niche" and basically dead and it's literally getting anime and live-action adaptations. Stop expecting your FYP or an algorithm or a small number of folks who might be into other things to show you all of fandom. Every day in fandoms I'm actively writing in, people are like, "sigh, no one writes fanfiction" and it's just... it's tiring. We make the stuff. I reblog, I RT. Y'all don't fucking look.

Just go to the search bar. Type in your fandom/ship/character. See what's there. Or go to a post for the fandom you like and click the tags.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Question 6 anon here, obvs u rlly don't have to but if u wanna argue w/ my comment pls do argue, if I'm full of shit I wanna hear it 👍 This question has been driving me up the wall for years I just want to know why ppl all seem to agree fandom racism is bad and agrees with all the arguments and yet everything's still so racist and would appreciate different perspectives

I just think that the idea you have, that the people who are racist and aren't don't hang in the same circles, is just fundamentally not true.

Like sure, Trumpers might not click on my blog to learn about designing Black characters lol. But a good majority of the antiblackness I've seen on this website has come from people who swear they're liberal or progressive or fight for some cause for something that they deem important... And then just don't apply that grace and logic to Black people. So you'll see people saying intelligent things... and hate negroes 🤣. And then you'll see those people being reblogged en masse by people who agree with their good takes... And maybe don't know about the antiblackness they were just spewing. Not that you can tell who does and doesn't, out of the tens of thousands.

So yes, y'all do hang in the same circles. Yes, the people who need this page very much are also people around you. We have to stop acting like they aren't. I have mutuals who reblog people that I won't follow, simply because I've seen those people keke-ing it up with antiblack, whitewashing bloggers. Even the distant connection there is enough for me to be like "nah, unfortunately I can't kick it with you", even though we're in the same fandoms and such.

Essentially, the call is more often coming from inside the house, and the unwillingness to approach it from within because "oh I'M not racist" is preventing it being answered. Every antiblack sentiment you see in fandom isn't gonna look like an overt slur. It's gonna be in the way people perceive and treat Black characters versus others, in the way they treat Black character design, the way they allow others to slide when they are racist because "their art is cool". That tolerance I've been talking about? That's where you see the line for people, and it's so much closer than folks think.

[teaboot]

Batman? As in extended batman universe, specifically batman, or movies batman? I'm going to die from the hilarity of /accidentally/ following another batman fan. Generally it's on purpose lol

I was actually absorbed into the Fandom by osmosis before I even touched any of the Canon material

Even now I've only seen the Affleck movies and the Battinson one, plus a couple cartoons and like. Four comics out of order

With next to zero evidence tho I have decided that

Dick Grayson has Eldest Daughter syndrome that, speaking as an Eldest Daughter (tm) really should be addressed in the lore somewhere before he goes on a drunken bender, gets a tramp stamp, kills a man, and has a full-on mental breakdown when the Repression Dam breaks

Stephany Brown radiates "angry teen girl needs a hug" energy imo but I feel like she might break my arms? I don't know anything about her except her dad sucks but honestly same boat, would hang

Timothy Drake cannot be the helpless boohoo I see a lot of, but somehow the cool, collected, hypercompentant, übermensch-tweenybopper look is kinda sadder, like seeing a twelve year old buying groceries at the store by themselves. I want to send his ass to normal kid summer camp

I don't know pretty much anything about Duke Thomas except that he's a meta whose parents might be alive but crazy. I can only conclude that he suffers from Black Character White Fandom syndrome. I headcanon that he had an embarrassing weeb phase in middle school because he feels like the kind of kid Who'd have gone through a phase of saying "ohaio" with peace signs as a baby tween. I have no evidence to support this

Cassandra Cain might be my favourite. I think she deserves to go on an angry, irrational rampage or two, as a treat. Aggretsuko vibes that I cannot explain. I bet her favourite colour is purple

Jason Todd is my guilty comfort character and I refuse to believe he kicked the shit out of a fifteen year old while wearing a legless adult onesie. I refuse. Also yeah as a huge angry-kid-book-nerd there is no way that pride and prejudice was his number one fave, my money is on the Percy Jackson series but that could just be me projecting

Damian Wayne is Autistic, personal subscription. Because I am too and I said so. Reminds me of my baby brother, but crankier. Like a tiny old man who doesn't want to be at bingo with the other folks at the senior center.

I feel like Alfred should be allowed to be wrong about something sometimes but I still love him. Give that grandpa a gun

Bruce Wayne strikes me as a man who should have put a lot more thought and study and personal therapy consults into the idea of adopting multiple highly capable highly traumatized children he's never met before before but fuck pobody's nerfect am I right. Bisexual

[herejusttosufferalong]

"No one here is harassing Nic and Luke in the Lukola fandom" Now, that's bullshit. And you know it. Yesterday Lukolas were tagging Nicola at IG with edits of Doug and Jake, Ellie and Jake, calling her his beautiful gf and Nicola his supportive friend. Calling Jake the gay friend who is cheating on her with men or using her, and tagging HER in these posts. She actually untagged or blocked the accounts now. The normals things about her Jake and still there, she didn't delete and untagged, so we need to understand that type of shit is hurtful no matter how we feel about him, to tag her is harassment. Some of us at twitter and at Nicola's comments in IG demanding Nicola to stop being with Jake or 'leave poor Luke alone". That's not jakolas who made these accounts, i know even some of the IG names have tumblrs here, and i took prints, and are Lukolas. I can make a post so you can see and reblog if you have any doubts. It's time for us to take responsibility as a whole and call out this bullshit. Not to mention the growing number of Lukolas spreading that Nicola is pregnant, you know these blogs, like fiamat12, frantastical, biancadoes1 and that is harassment. And you know it. Don't be disingenuous. Then we complain that Nic and Luke vanish from IG grids and don't post much anymore.

Listen, I get it. Not everyone has the ability to read. However what I said is, “No one here…”

I was talking about the blog not a whole ass fandom 🙄 ffs

If you have proof that there are folks on this page doing this shit then by all means, send it to me.

As for the other Tumblr accounts you have issue with, go to their pages and rant.

I agree that those bullshit theories don’t need to be aired out on the Jumbotron.

And fuck no, not every opinion is valid or “has a right to exist.” Some shit don’t need to be shared openly. Full fucking stop ✋🏻

Again though, what they do is none of my concern.

Idgaf what they are posting cuz I ain’t looking at it unless someone sends me their BS and I’m sure the feeling is mutual.

I have always disagreed with folks tagging people in their BS, commenting their insane monologues on their IG/TT posts, or doing TT/IG lives and spouting off the wall shit without the ability to be checked in real time without causing mass confusion.

[quinloki]

Hi Quin <3

I may or may not have gone through your entire catalog haha (^///^) Thank you for feeding us all so well ☆ Such stunning works!!!!! (シ_ _ )シ

I was wondering, I find that I keep on reading the same people a lot. Have you discovered some cool new people to read from recently? any great recs? stuff you keep coming back to?

Anyways, you're awesome!! And I can't wait to read what you come up with next!!!!!

=O Sideblogs and everything?

...

Σ(っ °Д °;)っ

(*/ω＼*)

Goodness. ❤️I'm glad you enjoyed my stuff enough to read all that. I'm a terribly wordy ^^;

Ah! But hmmm... I do tend to read from many of the same folks, especially since I ended up surrounded by impressive writers.

But let's do this:

@swampstew - if you follow me, you know her. I cannot fathom otherwise, and if you don't, start here.

this is @icy-spicy's master list - I'd have that cold shower ready before you start, but there's more than One Piece there.

@mydisenchantedeulogy writes for a lot of fandoms, her words are so good I'm a fan of her stories without even having seen the universes they come from.

@un-shit-yourself is a long time real life friend, and a fantastic writer. Mostly Dragon Age, but the writing pulls you in. We chat, but we don't usually cross post, so you probably don't know about this one even if you do follow me.

@zoros-sheath - if you haven't read Magnets, start there, otherwise go hog wild. I can't imagine you're going to find anything bad.

@standfucker - whew, I look - Zen makes me wonder why I even write because what she writes is just too goddamn hot. Y'all don't need me, you got her. (I say this in jest, I'm going nowhere I promise) White Out and Rotation are two of my favorites, but Stowing Away to Save Yourself is something I specifically requested and gods was I served well.

@writing-yarn-goblin and @lyndsyh24 and @theaceofflamesposts are here, but you're more likely to enjoy the first two on Wattpad and the last on Ao3. Lyn's getting more active here, but her library is full of good stuff - fluffier than my usual work, but just as good imo. Lyn is one of the biggest reasons y'all get to deal with me at all. She was a saint when I stumbled into Wattpad.

I love @heyitsdoe and @/bas-writes stuff - they are both phenomenal writers. Bas has shifted away from OP a little and is more into JJK, but if you're looking for solid fic to read, then you will find tons there and I promise you'll enjoy it =3 Doe is super sweet and her writing is always a full meal, I've commissioned her and it was far and away worth every penny.

Honestly, I'd really recommend checking out my Following page. I leave it public, but everyone on it is either a friend, a writer, an artist, or some combination of all three.

I could go on in this post for like 5,000 more words and not hit everyone who has delighted me. @cyborg-franky @coza-main @lerya-fanfic @leakyweep @leftsidebonfire -- I'm going to hit a damn tag limit again.

@thus-spoke-lo is a little on the darker side, but gods alive I love her work, and I could read it for hours if I had the hours to spare.

@vizkopa writes in a way that helped me loosen up and write more how I wanted to, so thank her for that, and enjoy what she's got - mostly on Wattpad I believe? I know that's where I've read it.

Seriously, just peruse my followers, if you need something new.

But know that like me, they're 18+ and that's a boundary for their comfort as much as anything else. So don't break that.

[drinksglue]

Hey.

So, I'm normally an 18+ interaction only blog, but I am making an exception for this post in particular as it needs to be spread, and because this is to the benefit of younger pro-ship/pro-fic people who are not able to safely use Aethy yet. (Please do not follow my blog if you are under 18! Just read and spread this post.)

As you may or may not be aware, many of us have created accounts on Aethy to get away from Tumblr's increasing amounts of fandom policing and are becoming increasingly active there, as it is a site that allows full creative freedom.

However, it is 18+ only, meaning younger folks cannot escape to it if they end up on Tumblr's radar and start getting banned.

If you are under 18 and pro-ship/pro-fic/comshipper/anti-harassment and want/need somewhere to create a backup account (and also to find a much safer community for yourself than Tumblr), create a Pillowfort account ASAP if you do not already have one.

It does have some small limitations, but none of those are going to matter if you are a minor. This site is pro-fiction and anti-harassment.

It's a little different, but it's somewhat similar to Tumblr.

I have created a group there that you can use to keep in contact with your moots and moot-in-laws if shit ever goes south for you.

This isn't an attempt to fearmonger, but things don't look like they're going to get better here. Even if you continue to use primarily Tumblr, at least have this in your back pocket. It might just save you some trouble down the road.

Even if you are not a minor, feel free to join the group as well. It is strictly SFW (as you can post NSF[T] on your own blog or in another group; this group is to allow the community to keep in contact). That said, if you are over 18, I highly recommend joining Aethy as it has total and full creative freedom with no exceptions, and is where most of us are currently active.

Please spread the word. Fandom is still fandom even if it moves, but don't get split apart from your friends in the process.

[ex0rin]

oh look a distraction from work!

tagged by @jdeanmorgan (thanks! 😘)

10 questions for 10 writers

How many works do you have on AO3?

195, would have been more but i recently orphaned a whole pile of them (sorry if this is the way you're learning of it)

What's your total AO3 word count?

686,289

What fandoms do you write for?

i know i haven't written anything in like two months, but i'm still going to put The Walking Dead since all of my active WIPs are from that one - but like, in general i write whatever i'm into at any given time (prev: The Boys, TFATWS, CA: TWS, Witcher, Watcher Entertainment, general rpf, etc etc)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I SWEAR I TRY i'm just so fucking bad at it, when i'm in an upswing of writing i don't want to stop to reply (which makes me an asshole) and then when i can't get words out i'm just too sad to try and respond to everything... usually once a year (right before @febuwhump i do a full two weeks of JUST responding to as many as i can from the previous year) (so i guess if you haven't heard from me, wait till January 2025 😅)

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i have! multiple times. almost ALL rpf from Buzzfeed Unsolved stuff weirdly enough

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

also yes! i think the only one(s) posted are the ones with @ponderosa121 (Gotham, Constantine) but i've done some Very Good and Very Long RP fics with @sparklingbinjuice that one day i'm going to make into actual fics and post

What's your all-time favourite ship?

why do people keep asking me this 😅 if you asked me RIGHT NOW (which is kind of what's happening) i would say neggie (negan x maggie) but this answer is subject to change at the drop of a hat. a month ago it would have been cegan (negan x carl), seven months ago it would have been butchie (butcher x hughie), and before that it was winterbones (rumlow x bucky) or hell, roosmav (rooster x maverick) and so on and so forth

What are your writing strengths?

smut. descriptive smut.

What are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue. jesuschrist i hate writing dialogue (esp for negan, fuck that guy and his tone and innuendo and run on sentences) (affectionate but still annoyed)

First fandom you wrote for?

first posted on AO3 is for NBC Constantine but that's only from 2015 and i've been writing smut since the late 90s 🙃 reader-insert for Star Wars was probably the first thing i ever wrote (before i even really knew what fanfic was tbh) (luke x me babyyyy) but some of the first stuff i published to an audience back in the yahoo groups days would have been the UK queer as folk or... shit, gundam wing probably?

(also, sidenote but tfw you realize charlie hunnam was in the UK QAF on this day of our lord 2024???) (just need a moment while my childhood watching queer as folk collides with my adulthood adoration for pacific rim crash into each other)

okay, anyway, tagging: @sparklingbinjuice @the-ravening @unlikelymilliner @winterbonesthings @duchessonfire @sequencefairy @crushcandles @grianhole @stunt-lads (my tenth @ is whoever would like to participate! you can say i tagged you)

[unforth]

I started to write this as a reply to @vex-verlain but realized it should be it's own post.

To be clear, this is about @end-otw-racism and why I support this movement (even if I don't agree with all their proposals).

I am profoundly anti-censorship. It has been one of my biggest personal issues my entire adult life. I will absolutely defend the speech rights even of people I think are utterly reprehensible, even the rights of people who want me and my family dead. I think their speech has a right to exist, full stop.

But.

Being anti-censorship in no way means being anti-moderation. I often see people who are pro-ship, anti-anti, or "too old to use a name for telling yall you're clowning" say that AO3 is supposed to be a safe space for WRITERS, not READERS, and that to me is one of the big ways that the current harassment and moderation policies are badly failing writers of color. There's no way to 100% protect all writers, period, on AO3, and to me it seems like a no-brainer that if the goal is "protect all speech, avoid all censorship, minimize harm to real people," the only way to accomplish all those goals it to have a really robust, well-moderated system that prioritizes reducing harassment - ALL harassment - without looking the other way on certain topics just because they're harder and thornier to sort through. A way to section the groups that are oil and water away from each other, through blocking, powerful filters, comment options, etc (some strategies we do have now, btw! They HAVE been adding functionality in this direction, but it's clearly not enough.)

Currently, protecting people who write bigoted shit is causing active harm to fans of color. We see the impacts of this harm constantly; I personally have seen many, many Chinese and Chinese diaspora fans driven out of white danmei fandom circles for all sorts of reasons, and if yall are in fandoms that often have bipoc in them I'm sure you've seen the same (and if you are in a fandom that doesn't have many bipoc it might be wise to take a moment and consider why it doesn't.)

I just really want more people to take a step back and ask themselves why they think an anti-censorship position necessitates an anti-moderation stance, and also why they think being pro-moderation is the same as being pro-censorship.

I defend the rights of bigoted shit to exist.

What I don't defend is the right of the people who create that stuff to weaponize it against vulnerable people.

Regarding AO3, I personally support a solution that involves some way of sectioning off the bigoted shit. I'm not sure exactly how that would work but I think some kind of major archive warning is a solid start. Also maybe a way of flagging authors who are frequent offenders. And to be clear...it's not my job or responsibility to know exactly how to accomplish this. I'm no expert. That's why I'm supporting a movement that explicitly says AO3/OTW SHOULD HIRE AN EXPERT. And I know it would be expensive...and I know many, many of us would donate to a funds drive to raise the money to cover that expense.

I've seen too many friends get profoundly hurt, and I'm so tired of (overwhelmingly white) fandom circles pearl clutching over this not being an issue, that the real problem is that this will lead to censorship of (checks notes) Nazi shit, spitefic, and the other dregs of fanfiction (which, again, has a right to exist! But God why are so many of y'all favoring IT over ALL THE FIC THAT WILL NOW NEVER EXIST BECAUSE BIPOC GET BULLIED OUT OF WRITING IT.)

It's clearly an issue.

And we have to speak up and demand better or it will continue to be an issue.

Please, please listen to the bipoc who've managed to not be driven out of fandom and understand that *things need to change,* which means, for us white folks:

1. A lot of listening to the people who've been harmed

2. Using our voices to amplify theirs

3. Standing up to bigotry we see in our fandom communities

4. Shutting up when they ask us to shut up

5. Checking our own behavior and doing our best not to be part of the problem, and, if and when we go awry, owning it with maturity and apologizing and doing our best to make amends and not repeat our mistakes

...and probably more but those are the first things to come to mind.

Please stop siding with people who've decided they are entitled to spew vile shit, stop prioritizing their writerly protection over the safety of equally valid writers who also deserve protection and are being targeted and hurt. All you do by siding with the assholes is amplify their voices while silencing bipoc and create a space that protects bigots. Is that REALLY the hill you want to fight on?

None of us know it all. We can all learn to do better. I'm personally here to learn, and listen, and improve.

And I'm here to shout from the rooftops that we can be anti-censorship and pro-moderation.

I am, and you should be too.

[gwynrieldreams]

So as someone who has been in fandom spaces for 20+ years… I have started dipping into the ACOTAR fandom within the last few months. I am very confused as to why crackship is being used for gwynriel and I’m ver confused as to why this ship war appears to be so much more… hateful than some I’ve seen? Like I’ve seen some fucked up shit but I don’t think I’ve seen the way that some folks are literally wishing death on others because of a ship? Additionally it’s a tad frustrating that it appears folks don’t know how to tag on tumblr and I need them to learn it’s not like tik tok where you just add any tag whatsoever to give it traction you tag based off what the post is about if a certain ship isn’t even mentioned don’t bother tagging it anti x

I’ll be honest I like almost every character in acotar (except Beron he can fuck off) but I am so sick and tired of Elain and that is quite literally because of the way some folks portray her in their shipping war. I know Sarah has said she will tell Elains story and I believe she mentioned she wanted to tell Azriels story too?? but at this point I’m hoping Elain gets a short story, a novella would be too long, and Azriel gets a blog post. I hope we get a full Mor story and anything but the four that make up this crazy ship war (while establishing who ends up with who on the side cause I still want my own ships to sail but that’s neither here nor there)

Anyways if you’ve read this far thank you 😁 apologies if it doesn’t make sense

Yeah, this shipwar is getting ridiculous. I don't know what people are thinking sending hate and death threats over fictional characters. I don't know why there's so much hate.

The tagging system in tumblr is different from other platforms and older users just have to be a little bit patient and kind to new users. The confusion is understandable. I was using tumblr years ago but then suddenly stopped. I didn't even remember how the tags worked, so I made a a mistake at the beginning. At the end of the day it's just tags, it's not that serious.

SJM has confirmed she will write a book about Elain. Personally, I'm looking forward to it, even though Elain isn't currently my favourite, I believe she has a lot of potential as a character.

SJM has also confirmed she will write two books with dual povs each focusing on a different couple -so the gwynriel/elucien book scenario is very much a possibility- and a novella, which imo will be Mor's backstory and her happy ending with Emerie.

I understand, though, why some people are tired of the shipwar. No matter what ends up being canon, people can and will ship whatever they like and that's ok. I'm just afraid that after we get confirmation, shit will get real bc some part of the fandom will be real angry and will start acting out, taking it out on sjm or other fans.

[fereldanwench]

okay so

i guess i'm doing this

i've avoided talking too publicly about any of this because it's... messy and uncomfortable for me, and probably other people, too. i also don't want to perpetuate drama and i was hoping i could just move on, but i don't think i can without unburdening myself a little here and i need to be witnessed, lmao.

i think this fandom also has a culture of whispering and gossiping in discord servers and dms rather than addressing anything head-on, and breaking that norm is also uncomfortable.

but the thing is, even if no one explicitly shares anything, that energy still obviously influences more public spaces and how we interact with each other. it breeds a lot of paranoia and mistrust, i think, even for people who aren't predisposed to dealing with issues like social anxiety or RSD. but given how many of us do actually deal with those things, it makes it even worse.

(although on the flipside, i think there are also plenty of conflicts that should be resolved privately and sometimes going full salted-earth publicly is also the wrong move, but I DIGRESS)

and look, yes, i am bad in this regard, too. i got sucked into this shit with everyone else, and i fuckin' hate it. i hate how much inconsequential knowledge i have rotting inside my already very overloaded brain about who's besties and who blocked whomst and WHATEVER THE FUCK I DO NOT FUCKING CARE

i didn't get involved in this shit in high school, i certainly don't need to be getting involved in it now

having said all that, here's some internal fandom conflict i've been dealing with on and off since january of this year.

about a week after lizzie's shutdown, i did notice that people i thought i was cool with were seemingly no longer cool with me. it was also happened not too long after i made the how-to fandom guide that i realized missed the mark for some folks, so i was like, well, maybe it was just that.

but to be completely honest, even if it was just that, that still kinda sucked too. although i agreed with the feedback that i should have taken a different approach to some areas in that guide and been more sympathetic to other sensitivities for creators in the fandom, my heart was in the right place. intent doesn't override impact, of course, but intent should still count for something, i think.

and i'm not asking for sympathy, i don't want or need it, but i do just want to share where i was mentally at the time to set the stage for later anxieties: no one likes getting yelled at for doing what they thought was a good thing.

but yanno, also, again to be fully transparent, i did feel like some folks were projecting their insecurities onto some sections and were just taking an uncharitable read on it as a result. i think a handful of people just didn't read it at all and wanted to revel in some righteous indignation, an impulse i unfortunately also understand too well so i can't judge too harshly there. sometimes you just see a phrase that just gets under your skin and nothing else said before or after that matters. i know. I've been there. but it is still kind of unfair to the person on the receiving end.

but i tried to walk away from that situation with humility and understanding and as a lesson to be more thoughtful in the future. i also had enough people say that it was helpful for me to feel like ultimately was a net positive, and i felt like everyone was moving past it.

so a few weeks later, after lizzie's had shut down under INCREDIBLY ABRUPT AND CONFUSING CIRCUMSTANCES TO ME, and i noticed i was being seemingly shunned or even blocked by folks i was like...

are people mad at me again for the how-to-fandom post?

or, because i am publicly friends with some prominent members of lizzies who have been accused of bullying and other bad things, that i am guilty by association?

at the time, i actually considered making some sort of public statement, but i took a step back, and i told myself "no, you're just still dealing with some lingering anxieties about The Fandom Post and you're extra sensitive and inclined to some paranoia right now. you were mostly active in the 3 months in lizzie's before it shut down. you don't have a strong association with the server. that's silly. and making a post like that will probably just make things worse because people will assume a guilty conscience is an admission of wrongdoing in and of itself."

(and i do have a guilty conscience, but i was raised catholic, my natural state is to assume i did something wrong even if i quantifiably didn't, lmao.)

but i would still catch little comments here and there, notice passive-aggressive tags on someone's post, or even just feel a vibe that kept me thinking... maybe i actually am accused of doing something.

so when That Blog started up (and yes i hate myself for being enthralled by it and i just blocked it because i know my curious monkey brain will continue leading me to the dark side if i don't), and i saw that i was explicitly accused of being a part of some inner cabal of 30-year-old women who were bullying everyone in lizzie's, i was like OH okay. so it wasn't paranoia, i was right. being friends with a few people who have been accused of wrongdoing and i guess... winning a photomode contest once was enough for some people to assume that i was one of the big baddies in the server? cool.

but the other big reason i didn't want to say anything publicly at the time was the two incidents that i was aware of did not involve me at all. i literally just did not do anything. and it wasn't my place then nor is it my place now to weigh in on other of those, especially in a public setting. i don't even want to say anything beyond this, really. i wasn't involved in any capacity, and i don't want to be involved. they're just not my conflicts.

and i know some people will take that stance in and of itself as being complicit or whatever, and that's your perogative, but i just don't feel right about inserting myself in a situation that never involved me. and i certainly don't want to drag anyone, friend or otherwise, into anything when they're probably trying to work past it in their own ways, too.

i'm also not even that pressed about people deciding they don't "trust" me or whatever for being friends (or just being friendly with--some of the people I'm accused of conspiring with i don't even know that well) with people they don't like. I'm sometimes wary of people who are friends with people i don't vibe with, too. i get it. so if you want to label me as guilty by association, knock your socks off. but just know that within the context of The Lizzie's Situation, that is the extent of my trangressions.

and outside of The Lizzie's Situation, the only two things i can think of that i did were 1) foot-in-mouth guide as addressed up there, which i really think is more of a miscommunication than an actual Bad Thing and 2) acting like an asshole in another server to someone because i was mad about how they treated my friends, which was still the wrong way to handle those feelings, and I apologized for the best way i can under the circumstances.

i genuinely cannot think of anything else I've done to cause harm to anyone in this fandom. even with people i don't like, i still don't want to hurt them. i just don't want to interact with them. if there is something else i did and you want to talk to me about it, i am open to hearing about that and doing what i can to alleviate that hurt (if it's possible, i know sometimes it's not) and making the effort to not do that again in the future.

i know i can't do anything about people who are already convinced that i am the devil, but i don't think i could really accept that and move on without at least getting my side out there. so if you read this, thank you.

that said, i do think i need to disconnect for a while so if anyone reaches out one way or the other, I'm taking the day off from social media, lol. maybe the weekend, idk, we'll see.

but yeah. that's it. thanks. 💙

[caddy-crystal-queen]

So...looks like I have a new Fandom full of folks that need slapping. Which is a shame because I really like this. Now keep in mind, I don't know all the details about this as I learned about this literally a few hours ago, and I never really interacted with this individual. So forgive me if my knowledge of the situation is skewed or limited.

That being said...

On today's episode of who in what Fandom needs to be slapped, i present to you all the Call of Duty fandom...for literally everything...but most prominently how it treats each other...

My history and feelings with CoD are very...complex to say the least. As a propaganda piece, I absolutely fucking hate it. Yes, the CoD games, all of them, are military propaganda. Whether you believe it or not, this is the truth. However, having seen firsthand what the military does to someone (my father) I have no intention of ever joining the military, much less for fictional dudes.

However I do find the characters intriguing. The last game was a total shitshow though (RIP Soap, you never did get to juju on that beat...). But like with most things on this blog, it's not the thing itself I'm taking issue with.

It's the fans.

Yep. That shouldn't surprise anyone.

You people make this Fandom so God. Damn. Fucking. Unbearable to be in. From fucking up characterizations, to flat out racism in regards to certain characters, and especially what I'm about to bitch about today: and that's how you treat each other. I'm about to go over two situations in which this is very prominent. But before I do

(SLAP! CLEAN...IN THE FACE!) STOP. FUCKING. HARASSING. INNOCENT. PEOPLE! ENOUGH! Be an actual adult and take responsibility for your shit!

So earlier this year, a couple months ago as of writing this, a young man killed himself on tiktok live because of allegations that he was grooming a sixteen year old. He was bullied, harassed, and treated like absolute garbage by you people over shit that turned out to not even fucking be true. But whether or not it was true, poor Inquisitore most likelt knew that his reputation would be forever soured. Pair that with possibly a lot of mental health issues (I didn't know him personally but I'm sure he had problems) and well, I'm sure you all already know what happened. I believe this was back in September, I know it was before Halloween, but yeah we all felt the impact of his death. You did that. Whether you want to believe it or not, you all did that to that poor young man who it turned out didn't do anything to anyone.

Now for the situation I heard about this morning and that's the situation I've heard about in regards to a writer who went by Puff. I'm afraid that history is repeating itself already only this time it's a minor who's being attacked. First of all, I don't know this individual personally, I followed them for their self aware AU and just the general positive vibe they gave out. I never interacted with them though, I did like to see their posts because they seemed like a general decent person. I did not know they were a minor until all this stuff came out. Now apparently they were facing harassment for interacting with MDNI/NSFW stuff. This is a tricky situation in my opinion. I don't control what people write. I don't control what people interact with except for regards to my own content, regardless of whether or not I write smut (I generally don't because I'm on the ace spectrum and I'm bad at it but that's neither here nor there).

However, and it's a big HOWEVER, you have no. No. No. NO right WHATSOEVER to promote the bullying and harassing of an innocent person! It's the same thing that happened to Inquisitore, just the other way around. I get blocking minors, especially if you don't want them interacting or reading your stuff. I'm all for blocking them, or whatever it is you need to do. What I'm NOT for is the blatant bullying and harassing messages being sent to a child to either delete their entire account (which puff did, by the way) or even some saying they should kill themselves. Seriously...what in the hell is wrong with you people? How would you, as a minor child, who wanted to make content for other people, feel if someone sent you or someone you love a message like that? Enough is enough! You are not in fucking high school anymore, this is Tumblr. If you're an asshole, you deserve to get called out for being an asshole!

Call of Duty fandom, all of you, stop telling people to kill themselves. Just ..seriously. it's not cool. It's not funny. It's not edgy or whatever cool fucking term you think it is. In the words of Ghost of all people: "Actions have consequences".

And sometimes that consequence can be someone's life, with their blood on your conscience. Stop. Be better.

[druckkugelschreiber]

If you're accepting prompts, I would like to submit

well, getting there is one thing. getting back's the problem.

For dealer's choice of fandom/ship

Hello yes! Thank you so much for sending this! I am accepting prompts. Tbh I am always accepting prompts.

Here is the link if anyone is curious.

This also has been what feels like ages sitting in my inbox, but looking at the date it wasn't that long. I just had the writing finished for a while and it got wildly out of hands. It's so long. It nearly spiraled into a whole fic all on it's own.

Anyhow, you only get the first part in this post :) Which is 4k words long.

It's OFC x Natasha Romanoff. So MCU but MCU if it had the Fae Folk. Also I expected the prompt to have an entirely different result. When I first saw it, I wanted to write about stealing a dragon egg, but the evening I sat down to write I wanted to write about Nat, so here it is.

Tags: fictional racism

Also I don't think there are any other tags as it's mostly just conversation

Life was always interesting as a half blood. You never knew if half the world wanted to kill you because you were obviously not of their blood or because they needed something from you because you were not of their blood and blessed with the ability to do some weird shit. I was never quite sure what days I liked more to be honest. However, I wanted more days where I just didn’t get bothered by anyone. Considering my phone buzzed wildly in my back pocket, this was not going to be one of those days. 

I pulled out my phone and mentally halted at the name on the screen. I didn’t let it show in my body simply out of practice, though she probably would have noticed anyway if she was watching. 

I cast a glance around the dark street. The street lamps cast more shadows than light and even my sharp eyes had trouble making out the details in the gathering darkness. I couldn’t see anyone. I couldn’t smell any smells that weren’t supposed to be here and I couldn’t hear anything, but she was an expert at being in places she wasn’t supposed to be in. Namely my life. 

I answered the call. “What happened now?”

“Why do you think something happened?” Natasha tried to sound innocent and failed even with her amazing acting skills. 

“You never call because you want to invite me for tea!” I’d instantly sit down to have tea with her though. “You only ever call when you need something.”

“Would you want me to call you for tea?” I could practically hear the frown on her face. 

My house came into view. It was technically too big for a single person living in it, but I had inherited it from my grandma who had way too many children. That I didn’t want to have a single one wasn’t my fault. It was also technically too old fashioned looking for little old me, but I liked it. It had a certain charm. 

“Yes, that would absolutely be a nice change in scenery”, let’s try not to admit my woman sized crush on her. “Also would make you a bit less predictable.”

“Predictability can be a problem”, Natasha admitted. 

I had to smile. Like screw it if she was watching. The spy had a paranoid streak to her. I knew calling her out on her predictability would get a reaction. I walked up to my porch and dug around in my little backpack for my keys. The door opened before I had found them. The inhuman growl slipped over my lips before I could think better of it. 

Natasha smirked that little smirk. Tiny, only on one side and the most infuratingly sexy thing I had seen in a long time. “Good evening, Kas.”

“One day my wards are going to set you on fire”, I stopped rummaging around my bag. 

Her smirk widened a hint and my heart beat faster. “They haven’t yet.”

Yes, because I didn’t want to harm her. Natasha might be able to sense a hint of magic in the air, but she wouldn’t be able to survive a full blown ward. Not that I was very good at setting anything but alerting wards. It would take ages. 

I scowled at her. 

She stepped to the side. “Don’t you want to come in?”

I couldn’t decide if I wanted to kind of strangle her for invading my space constantly and leaving her scent everywhere and driving me insane or if I wanted to kiss her. Not really. I stepped inside my own home and Natasha closed the door behind me. I scanned her. She still wore her boots. “Are we leaving tonight? Should I keep my shoes on?” 

“Depends entirely on the information you’re about to give me.”

Oh great. I kicked off my sneakers, dropped my backpack next to the stairs and walked into the kitchen. 

Natasha followed me on silent feet. She should not be able to be that quiet in combat boots, but I swear she could sneak better than some cat fae.

I got myself a glass of apple juice without offering her any. She had made herself at home here so I would not play hostess. I was griping a lot, but honestly I wanted nothing more than to find Nat here more often. 

I leaned against the kitchen counter and drew in Natasha’s appearance. She wore her shoulder length dark red hair open, inviting me to run my fingers through it. Her clothing was on first glance civilian, but the cargo pants were sturdy and mixed with the combat boots it did make her look like she was prepared for anything. She wore a simple red shirt with a leather jacket on top, which would be good against blade attack and claws alike. “Well?” I prompted her. 

“I need to get into the faery realm.”

Of course she did. Because I was not only her magic booty call but a chauffeur as well. If I hadn’t had my glamour on my cat ears would have pinned sharply against my head. “That’s awfully unspecific”, there were a lot of different realms and all were slightly different to enter. 

Natasha crossed her arms and leaned sideways against the kitchen isle. My eyes did not flicker down to her hips, nope! Nope! I was focused. My mind was a steel trap.

“More specifically we have gotten intel that the Tinkeres have gotten their fingers on some alien materials we really don’t want them to. I’m supposed to get it back and you’re going to get me there.”

“You want me to take you to the Tinkerers?” just to be clear. Before I got more irritated. 

“Yes.”

“Do you know where they are?” 

“Aren’t they sort of the inspiration for the legends of dwarves? I assume somewhere underground?” Nat’s eyes flew over my face, reading every single micro expression. “Why? What’s the problem?”

“Everything is the problem”, I threw one hand in the air. “You’re right, the Tinkerers are the inspiration for the legends about dwarves. They live in what we call the Underworld, which is the most fucking awful place to get to.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s hard and dangerous. It can fuck you up more than the Shadow Realm. The magic there is thick and inflexible like stone”, also I hated the feeling of being underground though the Underworld wasn’t necessarily underground. It was weird, but Fairy Hills were always weird. 

“But you can do it right? Cat Fae can travel anywhere.” 

I made a face. “Well, getting there is one thing. Getting back is the problem.”

“Why?” her moss green gaze was so intense as if she wanted to read the thoughts straight from my brain. 

“Because they don’t care who breaks in, but they want to make sure no one breaks out with their inventions”, which would make it even harder to get her weird alien shit. 

Natasha frowned. “What sort of resistance do we have to expect?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t gone there since I was six years old and got the tour from my dad”, and I did not want to go back any time soon. “I just remember that it felt like passing through quick sand as we travelled back to the Cat Paths.”

“Well, I have all the shield assets at my disposal. Iron Bombs, Smoke grenades, anti magic fields, stingers. Surely between the two of us we can make it work?” was she being optimistic or determined? 

I levelled her with a look. 

“Kas, this isn’t something we can just turn away from. Do you have any idea what could happen if the Tinkerers plug in their magic into an alien power source?”

“No, do you?”

She glared at me. “No, do you want to find out?”

“I don’t care. The Tinkerers don’t leave the underworld.” Tinkerers didn’t get in trouble. 

“They did for this.”

I paused. “What?” 

Nat pushed herself off and walked over to me. Her proximity distracted me more from the topic at hand than it really should. Her scent invaded my nostrils and I had to keep the very cat like urge at bay to rub against her and start to purr. My god, this woman really had me acting like a teenager all the time. She pulled out her phone and showed me a video. 

My focus returned to the video as I saw the figures on the screen break into a shield facility. “That’s halfbloods.”

Nat hummed in agreement. “It’s how they got around the wards we have against full blooded fae. An oversight on our part.” 

“Nothing is completely break in or breakout proof”, my voice was a bit unfocused as I watched the six people work their way to the SHIELD vault, get a purple glowy stone and then back out. “This are exclusively Tinkerer halfbloods”, I looked at Nat. “Do you know how rare that is?” 

“No, why are Tinkerer Half bloods rarer?”

“Well for one Tinkerers don’t leave the Underworld, which means a human found their way there. Secondly, Tinkerers are obsessed with keeping their bloodlines clean of outsider interference because they have such specific skills and high intelligence. Breeding with a human would be to them having Einstein have a kid with someone with like less than half his IQ or something. And thirdly if there is a Tinkerer halfblood, they usually get killed for the second reason. If they don’t get killed, they get treated far worse than other halfbloods if they are acknowledged at all. So five of them? That’s like winning the lottery just a bad lottery for us.”

“The Tinkerers sound like assholes.”

I chuckled mostly against my will. “Only if you’re a Tinkerer halfblood, they don’t care about you as long as you don’t distract them and if you give them complicated stuff to work on they might even be polite”, a thought struck me. “But it makes sense why they evaded your defences so easily.”

“Because they got some of the specific skills?” 

“Yes, I’ve never met a Tinkerer Halfblood, but just based on genetics, they should be very smart and still have a lot of their bloodline skills in them.”

Nat didn’t look happy to hear that. “If we steal the stone back, how do we keep them out then?”

“Depends on their skills I guess and before you ask, no I don’t know what they are, but you could ask the Bright Court.”

“Speaking of assholes”, Nat muttered. 

I chuckled. “Yeah, but they can keep almost everyone out. Or you hide it so they don’t find it.”

“Do you think they sensed it somehow or do we have a mole?” her glare made me think I never wanted to betray her. 

“Depends on the energy signature of the stone.”

“Can you tell once you have it?”

“Sure”, I shrugged. 

Natasha nodded. “We are getting the stone back.”

I sighed. “Can I say no?”

“Only if you want me to do something stupid.”

I eyed her. “You never do stupid things”, otherwise she’d already have fucked me. 

“No, but we do have a travel scroll.”

I sneered. “You, Missy will not use a travel scroll! That’s as likely to turn you into goo as it is to travel you anywhere.”

Natasha’s smirk was back. 

“Don’t smile at me like that”, I snapped. 

Her smirk widened. 

I wanted to kiss her so bad. “So when do you want to do this fucking stupid thing?” 

“As soon as possible, but you can rest the night if you want.”

“Nah, who needs sleep”, something that might be a bitter smile pulled at my lips. “I’m nocturnal anyway.” I pushed myself off the kitchen counter. “So we’re doing this now?”

“Yes.”

“Cool, let’s go and end up in Tinkerer prison.”

Natasha frowned. “What would happen if we end up in Tinkerer prison?”

“Depends on how bad SHIELD wants you back. If they get the government to talk to the Courts, the Tinkerers would probably give you back.”

“What if they don’t want me back?”

I locked eyes with Natasha. “They would find out your true name and make you their slave.”

Natasha’s face froze. “And what about you?”

I shrugged. “Depends on if they want to deal with my father or not. Or if he wants to deal with them. He will be informed. If he does not care for me, I would probably be executed or they’d put me in the mines or something. Maybe pull the magic from my bones, which would also kill me.”

“Capture is not an option”, Natasha’s eyes were still cold. “You will not die and I am no one's slave.”

Huh, it almost sounded like she cared about me. “Well, I need to dig through my toolbox, then we can go”, I left the kitchen to head to my office. 

Natasha followed me. She tried not to be a nosy busybody but she absolutely was. 

I unlocked the office with my handprint. Not technology but magic. 

“You know I’ve never managed to get in here”, Natasha stepped into the room. “Wow.”

The walls were littered with weapons. Swords, bows, axes, but also magic weapons chains, wips, amulets, stones, gloves, tiaras. It was a collection that was the envy of some, but as a Halfblood mercenary you got really interesting payments. 

“Don’t touch anything”, I plucked an amulet of the wall and put it around my neck. It hummed with subtle magic and joined my heartbeat. 

“I’m not stupid.”

That was true. I turned around hands on my hips and considered my options. The amulet was the last way out, but bringing Natasha I needed something for her. I grabbed a little silver tiara from the wall and handed it to her. 

She raised an eyebrow. “Am I supposed to put that on?”

“Yes, it’ll protect you. Trust me.”

She took the tiara and put it on her head with a doubtful expression. 

“And you look cute in it.”

She scowled. 

I grinned and turned back around. A couple of magic daggers. My trusted sword. A bracelet that could do some nasty shit. Some of the crystals. My toolbelt with the herbs mixtures, iron powder and good old salt. I turned around again. Oh and my favourite hair needles! I wound them into my silver blue tabby hair. “I’m done!”

Natasha scanned me from head to toe. “You do look battle ready. More so than ever before”, at least now she sounded slightly concerned. 

“I haven’t even put on my armour yet”, I shooed her out of the room and locked it again, heading into the one opposite that held all the human stuff. Tac gear, pistols, assault rifles, grenades, that sort of stuff. It also locked with a ward. 

I quickly changed into an outfit similar to hers. Cargo pants, combat boots. A sturdy shirt with a armsheaths and some other armour additions. The sword went in a modified backsheath. I briefly scanned myself in the mirror. I did look battle ready. I bared my teeth. The canines were always sharper no matter how much I tried to hide them with glamour and my cat green eyes stood in contrast to my silverblue hair. No earth cat had that coloration. For me it just signalled that I was a royal bastard. 

“Where do you want to do this?” Natasha asked. 

“The basement, as per usual”, it was easier to travel through portals if they were always in the same spot. Funnily enough it also hid them better. “Wait”, I stopped in front of the basement door and turned around to Natasha. “Do you actually know where the stone is? Because traipsing through the Underworld without a plan is actually a suicide mission.”

Nat pressed her lips together. 

“Natasha!”

“Okay, listen, we have this new prototype shielding which should allow technology to work in a magic environment”, Natasha nearly hurried through the words. Nat never hurried through anything. 

“But you’ve never tested it?”

She had the good graces to look slightly ashamed. “We have never tested it inside a fairy hill.”

“And you thought this mission was a good idea?!” I whispered instead of yelled. Anything louder than a whisper and I would have yelled. I didn’t like yelling at people. 

“Well I didn’t think you’d like me to hop by and ask for prototype testing in a random fairy hill. You don’t like it when I call.”

Do not strangle your crush, Kas. Do not. Let’s talk about the more pressing matters at hand. “You think I don’t like it when you call?”

Nat frowned. “You said as much!”

“No, I said I don’t like you only call because you need me! For stupid dangerous magic work”, I motioned around wildly. Was she seriously this dense right now? Did I need to spell it out for her? Take me on a date, Natasha?! Like wave around a sign or something? Maybe I should just ask her. Or she really didn’t like me and that’s why it didn’t occur to her that I wanted to spend time with her. No, wait she didn’t smell like she didn’t like me. This was getting way to stupid. 

Nat’s frown didn’t let up. “So what now?”

Oh great she just ignored what I had said. I stared her down and held back a growl. See, I could smell that she sometimes reacted to my proximity, but maybe it was just a body reaction and her mind didn’t agree to it? Maybe she disliked Halfbloods? “Do you have something against half bloods?”

Her brows nearly touched in utter irritated confusion. “What? No!” 

That was the truth. I could taste it in the air. Which didn’t help me discern if she liked me like I liked her, but we really had more important things to do. Maybe instead of strangling her I should just strangle myself. 

“Kas, we need to focus! Will you still go to the Underworld with me?” 

“Yes, yes, but if your prototype doesn’t work, we’re screwed.”

Nat’s brows furrowed again. Really couldn’t make that woman happy tonight. “And you're willing to risk your life for that? I mean it’s my job but”- 

“Considering you pay me, technically it’s also my job”, I kind of had to point out. Well, not she herself paid me but SHIELD. I was a mercenary after all for everyone who could pay the fees. 

“Yes, but I’m giving you shit intel.”

I put my hands on my hips. “Do you not want me to come? Do you have a better idea?”

“No, I don't want you to come!” 

Ouch. 

Something  must have shown on my face because Nat stepped closer, instantly sending my heart rabbiting. “I don’t want you to come because you’re at much higher risk of dying on this mission than I am. I am a government agent, we both know even high born as you are, your risk as a half blood is much higher.”

Yes, thanks for reminding me, but I couldn’t be cross with her because she didn’t want me to die. She cared! “We don’t really have a choice though”, and if it was between my life and her life, I’d always make sure she got out. “You can’t go down there alone.”

She didn’t look happy at all. “If this mission wasn’t so time sensitive I’d say we go and test the prototype.”

“If it doesn’t work, we’re not any smarter in the first place.” 

She sighed. “Yeah, I suppose.”

I held out my hand. “Give me the prototype.”

She reached into the pocket of her cargo pants and pulled out a tablet. It wasn’t as sleek as most modern devices. It was a lot thicker, with as sturdy frame that had warding runes scratched into it. “Huh”, I examined the piece of technology and magic closer. The magic hovered over it, causing a very light shield but the thick frame kept it from messing with the technology inside. Or so I presumed. It was kind of smart. The big question was just if the shield was strong enough to work against the pure magic of the fairy hills. 

“What?” Nat asked. 

“This is kinda smart.”

She levelled me with a look. “Kinda? You’re calling the smartest minds at SHIELD kinda smart?”

“If it works, I’ll call them brilliant”, I bared my teeth in a fake smile, “but until then, kinda.”

Nat snorted. “Give me that back.”

“Who did the warding?”

“That’s classified.”

“I think I should know considering my life depends on the warding working”, and the runes were exquisite. 

Nat scowled. “That’s not how this works and you wouldn’t know them.”

I held her gaze without moving. 

“Kasriel.”

I didn’t change. 

“Kas, just staring at me won’t change anything.”

I kept staring. 

Nat muttered in angry russian. “It’s a halfblood witch.”

She was working together with another halfblood?! Wait, was I jealous?! Okay, problem for another day. “What’s their name?”

“Why do you want to know?”

“I know a lot of the halfbloods and those runes are exquisite”, also half blood witches were rare. 

Nat considered me, but then sighed. In a battle of wills apparently I won or maybe she really wanted to get this mission done. “Damira Storms.”

I scrunched up my nose. “Didn’t know she worked with SHIELD. She had some very choice words to say to me last time she heard I took your blood money.”

Natasha shrugged. “I think she’s the crazy scientist type who wants to know if it is possible.”

“Yes, if it is possible, she’s going to cause a lot of trouble”, I tilted my head. “Or she’ll be executed for making it possible.”

“See, that’s why I shouldn’t have told you!”

“Do you think I’d rat her out?” I all but snarled.

“Wouldn’t you for the right price?”

An ugly snarl pulled at my lips. “No, I wouldn’t. I would only call for her death if her actions started a new blood war or she directly harmed innocents.”

Natasha opened her mouth, something softer shimmering in her moss green eyes. 

I opened the door to the basement. “Let us go”, I marched down the stairs. 

Natasha sighed behind me. 

I was quietly fuming. If I had dropped my glamour my cat ears would have been pinned and my tail furiously lashing. I was glad I only had to keep my face icy and didn’t worry about my other body parts betraying my emotional state. I always had Nat’s back, I had never betrayed her. Hell, I had gone far beyond what my contracts required for her and she still thought I’d sell her out? Or something she told me in confidence? She thought like that off me? Cool, cool, put everything else so far in perspective. 

I walked into the pitch black basement and turned on the crystals with a wave of my hand. 

Natasha followed quietly and stopped outside the portal circle. She knew how this worked by now and took the candle I gave her without comment. 

I lit all the candles the old fashioned way with a lighter, hers last. I stepped inside the circle and dropped my glamour. I needed the extra energy to open the circle. I let out a long breath and closed my eyes, honing into the magic around me. The fire flickered. I dribbled a bit of water on the bare earth of the basement. The entire room quivered. 

I let my magic slip in the cracks between the worlds. Human, fae and everything else that existed out there. The doors between the worlds opened. Countless possibilities. Realms even I had never visited. I held out my hand for Nat. She took it and stepped into the circle with me. We had done this so often by now the magic didn’t even quiver. She was practically a part of it. 

I pulled us backwards. Magically rather than physically. It felt like I was falling somewhere deep down. Like Gandalf in Moria. Everything turned pitch black.

[shayberri789]

Tumblr Tips

With new users coming and apparently actually following me, I figured I'd may as well make a master post of "Tumblr Tips" and "Tips for new users and returning users" posts I have been reblogging lately.

Edit: make sure to check my original version of this post, apparently the read more option no longer redirects people to the original full post from reblogs, so you won't see the additions. I've linked it in comments

This post was made when Twitter Refugees flooded tumblr, so it's mostly targeted to them. However!! Reddit immigrants will get a lot of use from it too! I'll be adding reddit specific stuff too as I find them. For now, here is the best and clearest "tips for reddit immigrants" post I've found. Welcome to tumblr

Can't believe I need this category; Tumblr Safety Tips:

Don't List Minor Status

Lurk Before You Post - my comment: Learn the site and culture before you post, you're less likely to poke a beehive that way

Listen to this or you will be mocked by locals

Don't give out your real name! + The benefits of primary and secondary blogs

Privacy: make your likes and follows private

A common scam going around - be careful! It'll pray on your kindness in your ask inbox

For Starting Out:

Starting info for Twitter Refugees

A handy guide for starting up - with diagrams!

How Not To Be Blocked By Every Tumblr User

SERIOUSLY. PLEASE GET A PROFILE PICTURE.

Why Locals Block Empty Blogs

Free Profile pictures if you're out of ideas: [x]

Etiquette - or shit that annoys locals to hell and back if you ignore these:

Don't censor shit - it's cringe and annoying and can be harmful

SERIOUSLY DONT CENSOR SHIT

bitesyoubitesyoubitesyou REBLOG SHIT

Abuse the tags but don't clog the tags - unrelated info tags are not cool

Tips to Improve Your Experience:

Terminology (Blorbo, plinko, some classic jokes, etc)

More terminology: Poor little meow meow vs blorbo

Different methods of interaction explained - reblogs, asks, DMs, replies, etc

XKit to improve your experience

Themes! Make your blog look great

Also you can change the site colour palette - I like a soft blue, some like black, some white, but there's more!!

Tumblr Tags: Don't Use Quotations "like this"

Remember; it's your blog

How to post mature (Eg: sexual) content

Folk Stories

Blocking:

Block without hesitation, for any reason

It's integral to curating your online experience

An example of reasons to block someone - yes your reason can be silly. I've blocked people for posting x reader fics, for shipping my notp, because i didn't like their AU. Not because I don't like them, or have anything against them, I just hate x reader fics in general, or didn't want to see my notp, or I just got tired of seeing their posts in a fandom tag. Rather than demanding they change, I changed how my tag looks to me. And that is responsible blocking. I also block racists, terfs, homophobes, etc. I blocked someone who was mean to me in replies. Do whatever to make your online experience good.

Misc:

FOR RETURNING USERS! We have new things!

Added to the above, here are some things people in the notes have added: Comments are a thing, clarification on tag filtering, seriously follow @/staff and @/changes

To concerned twitter artist refugees

Also! You can shorten posts like I have by adding a "read more" option. On website, make a new line and click the squiggly lone button. On mobile, type :readmore: then hit enter! Everything after that will be hidden under a nifty button. I recommend doing it! Especially for writing longer pieces!

How Tumblr Treats Celebrities and Popular blogs (If you're an influencer, prepare for hell. You'll get chased off if you try that here)

Tumblr Holiday - November Fifth Explanation

[jyndor]

“So did cassian find bix before he went on hugging another woman and die? BECAUSE DUDE THAT GIRL TORTURED OUTTA HER MIND (because of u) AND STILL TRUSTS YOU” - a very idiot comment someone made under a post of Jyn and Cassian pictures on Twitter. ISTG some people who joined the fandom after Andor don’t have a single working braincell like wtf dude

lol for as smart a show as andor is, I really wonder about some of its viewers 🤣🤣

first off, again I have to remind folks that rogue one was written first and by different people, so if you have a problem with something that happened in the show because it doesn't necessarily track with the film... just because YOU saw the film for the first time after the show doesn't mean the film is wrong for not having perfect continuity with the show.

we can use our brains and recognize that tony gilroy didn't like idk time travel to make cassian fall in love with the main character of the film instead of, what, apologizing to the character he created years after the film came out. it's one thing to criticize the writers of the show for putting bix through a more graphic trauma than almost any singular character in the show (save for cassian but I mean he's the titular character and we knew he was gonna go through shit) and doing it for the sake of a male character's story arc - a criticism of the writers, an out-of-universe analysis. it's another entirely to make an in-universe criticism of cassian for... well let's go through the chain of events:

cassian listens to his mother when she said to leave her behind because he is wanted for killing the mall cops (they don't know that the empire is looking for him bc he is a link to luthen)

he gets profiled and brutalized by the cops on his little vacation, thrown into a labor camp and is unable to go back for her like he said he would because again, he's in a CONCENTRATION CAMP.

maarva is unknowingly inspired by cassian's team on aldhani which is partly why she doesn't want to leave ferrix (it's her home, I can't fault her for that even though she is Not my fave) and decides to rebel by... idk not taking care of herself (actually some interesting commentary on how activists burn themselves out and don't take care of themselves but that's for another post).

because cassian respects maarva's wishes for him, he is not around to help take care of her - which we know other community members like bix have done before anyway

bix and brasso along with the daughters of ferrix etc are trying to get maarva to take care of herself, but maarva is getting ill because she's older and over-exerting herself for a non-existent rebellion - which hey again cool no problem, she's trying to fight the empire even though everyone else is complacent.

bix sees that maarva really needs help, knows that cassian is gone because in part SHE told him to fuck off, wants help from luthen so she can find cassian and uses the secret comms in the paaks' shop to reach luthen.

the imperials arrest salman, torture him and then arrest bix and torture her. salman is executed.

but this is missing a critical first point: the imperial occupation of ferrix. everything else is a response to the empire and to imperialism. everything: cassian kills the mall cops (tools of the empire) in episode one because they are xenophobic and profile him; they are an immediate threat to his life. that brings mr cereal over, who fucks up the "investigation" that no one wanted so badly it ends in a full blown imperial occupation. but the empire is already present in their use of the corporate mall cops to marginalize working class communities like ferrix.

the first violence is the occupation and the imperial machine (and im not even talking about the republic and the cis's colonialism but we can include them too because its all part of the problem). everything else is a reaction to an oppressor. kassa and the kenari kiddos go after the separatist ship and try to attack the people on board because they are the likely reason for the exploitation of their planet and the probable genocide of their people. cassian kills the cops because they threaten him due to their fragile egos and xenophobia. he has to leave ferrix and his mother because as maarva says, he can't stay and she can't leave (I guess although lol I mean she could). and so on.

actions don't just have consequences. actions have reactions. everything cassian does is a reaction to oppression- he tells jyn as much in rogue one ("everything I did, I did for the rebellion"). and for all of my critiques of the show, andor sticks to its thesis that rebellion can look like many things and that cassian does nothing but resist oppression his whole life.

to blame cassian for the empire torturing bix is such a shockingly bad read of the show because the show's very foundation is that the original act of violence is imperialism and fascism, and its victims are not to blame for their reactions to it, no matter how pragmatic or radical or violent.

cassian didn't get bix tortured. the empire tortured bix because it was trying to play divide and conquer with marginalized people, and it didn't work.

lol now I have to go to work but just a side note: I wouldn't trust anyone who has that kind of take on a fictional show about imperialism and fascism to stand with real world marginalized groups when they fight real world oppression.

[glowingbadger]

Blog Info Speedrun

Requests: CLOSED while I work on the kink prompts (details here) To see what I'm working on, the full list of kink prompt requests I've accepted can be seen here~

Confessions, concepts, generally thirsting: Always OPEN

^ seriously I love blindly thirst-posting, send me that shit

Commissions: CLOSED for now - my life is a bit too chaotic to hold myself to writing deadlines

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Fandoms I write for

^^^ click the link, but here's the short version: Fire Emblem. Genshin Impact, Kingdom Hearts, Yu Yu Hakusho, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Plus others that I'm happy to chat and thirst post about, but may not know well enough or feel confident enough about the material to actually write for.

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Masterlists:

^ if that link doesn't work, here's my masterlists by fandom:

Fire Emblem Three Houses/Hopes: Poly & Multi-character Church, Ashen Wolves, Misc Golden Deer Blue Lions Black Eagles

Fire Emblem (misc)

Genshin Impact

Kingdom Hearts

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Yu Yu Hakusho

Misc / other (thus far, Stardew Valley, Honkai Star Rail, Rune Factory 5, and subject to grow over time)

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Me: just call me Badger if you want

She/her/they/whatever

I am old and write smut, minors DNI you will get blocked

I'm a bit cagey about some personal info on this blog, but when it comes to thirsting, gushing about F/Os, kinks, w/e, send it all my way, we're open about our horny here.

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When requesting (the short list):

No minors (under 18), no lolis, no "totally 100 years old but looks and/or is written like a child" - if canon age is unknown I'll use my best judgement and you'll just have to be okay with that.

Non-con is generally a no, Yandere and Dub-con are a conditional yes (the condition is that I'll decide whether I'm cozy with it or not on a case-by-case basis)

Don't ask for more than 3 characters in one ask- no, the solution to this is NOT to send multiple asks to cover all the characters you want, I'll just start deleting them.

I have no interest whatsoever in writing the 'player insert' characters from games (Lumine/Aether from Genshin, Ares/Alice from RF5, literally all of them from the Fire Emblem series, etc), so I'll likely ignore requests asking for them. I'm more than happy to incorporate aspects of these characters into how I write the 'reader insert' in my fics, but if you're asking for, like, Byleth x Reader or Lumine x Reader, I probably won't bite because player insert characters are boring, fight me about it.

** Please specify if you have a preferred gender/gender identity for the ReaderInsert character- I'll likely default to Fem or AFAB if it's left vague

** Please specify if you want a poly relationship, rather than just thoughts on multiple characters.

-> see more in my full rules list

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If I do not get to your request, here are a few possible reasons:

- Tumblr ate your Ask (it do that sometimes wtf), or you sent it when my requests were CLOSED, so I deleted it

- I have already done something very similar in the past and have nothing new to add to the concept 

- It's a concept that I simply don't have any interesting thoughts on and can't find much to write for it- sorry, I'm human 

- It goes against one or more of my rules (duh) 

- I've received too many asks from you and I'm trying to keep my queue open for new-comers and shy folks. 

- You asked me to write for like a dozen characters in one Ask and like listen dawg, I do this for fun, I don't need to be stressed keeping track of that many people lol 

And finally:

- Idk man I do what I want. It's free smut, get off my back.

As a final note: My schedule is Wack and changes a lot. If I'm slow to update and do requests, you're just gonna have to learn to live with it somehow.

[whysojiminimnida]

Wait, I thought yoonminkook told us in the past that the 3 of them go drinking together, sometimes after concerts, and sometimes with Jin? Am I mistaken? Why is this being treated like a huge deal among shippers?

No idea, anon. Why is this a thing suddenly now, days later? Did ya go back and look at my posts from then or...no? Never read me before? Cool. Okay. Here we go I guess.

To answer:

Maybe because every time the Jeon-Parks breathe in the same area code the Taekookers go so feral they can't see straight, start erasing everything, making up fake stories to cover what happened or come up with whole ass narratives about 2017 or some shit? That's all I got for you. There's a whole fictional trip that never happened if you wanna go see that 21 year old on Twitter who MADE IT UP AND LIED ON GOD ABOUT IT but some folks don't do their homework. I mean, I didn't think it was a big deal when Vhopekook went out on a publicity junket the other night but goddamn you'd have thought Hobi was trying to poison the fake lovers' privet date the way the fandom blew up. I didn't really post on it that much. Ditto the Hobak thing. Didn't happen on my watch, I wasn't there, I got no pics. I heard Yoongi and the JeonParks were there but I posted at the time that if Jikook wanted privacy they'd have ordered room service. Even on White Day when my mans were out with a friend AND I got pics AND it was private? Didn't share the pic, didn't leak the place. Not my business not my problem. Then again, I'm not a shipper. I believe my eyes and brain work and I believe the guys when they speak and listen to what they say. I have no stake in making them look like liars or puppets or toxic assholes or children - they are none of those things.

People that need to make things fit a certain narrative are toxic, unstable, and have no place in my orbit. And it kinda seems like you're hanging around the wrong kind of people, anon, if your ears are all full of stuff even I didn't hear tantrums about.