#lurk lurk lurky lurk

[micerhat]

...but first... time to patrol.

[ofdraiocht]

"I have done nothing productive today."

[charlietheepicwriter7]

“Psst! Old Geezer!”

“The fuck did you just call me–!” Dick Grayson was a lot of things–cop, detective, vigilante, handsome beyond mortal comprehension–but he wasn’t old! Twenty-three was not old! When he got his hands on that brat– “Oh, it’s you. You need to knock it off, kid.”

The kid in question had become something of a legend to the Central Bloodhaven Police Department. Detective O’Mallery had dubbed the kid “Stalky,” but Dick thought Lurky was a more accurate name; the kid lurked outside murder scenes, often showing up before the press… and sometimes, before the cops. Lurky was a short kid, easily half Dick’s height, and pale. He practically glowed, lighting up the alley Dick was guarding. He wore a black overcoat that swamped his tiny body, with the sleeves and hem cut to fit the child’s frame and a stiff gothic collar that reached his ears. Lurky’s black hair and blue eyes uncomfortably reminded Dick of—

“Nah, i don’t think i will,” the kid dismissed, shoving his hands in his pockets. “‘Sides, you can’t do anything to stop me.”

“I can arrest you,” Dick said, completely serious. “You’re interfering with a crime scene, again. I’d be well within my rights to do so.” The kid looked unimpressed. 

“Okay, boomer.”

Dick resisted the urge to murder a child. Barely. 

“Besides,” Lurky continued, “I just wanted to do my civic duty and inform you of the bloody knife three alleys over. Pretty sure it could help solve the crime scene there.” He gestured towards the apartment building behind Dick. “Andrew Grant-Williams, age 36, apartment 214. Right?”

“How the hell did you know that?”

“What, that thing with the knife? I looked for it, obviously.”

“No, about the suspect!” Dick glared at Lurky. “There’s no way you could have pinpointed who in the apartment died; did you steal a police radio!?” If he did, then Dick would actually have to arrest the kid. 

“No, I didn’t steal a police radio. Yet.” Dick tried really hard to ignore that last part. He’d done far worse things as Robin, after all. “His wife told me.”

Andrew Grant’s wife, Patrisa, died four years ago in a mugging gone wrong. Before Dick could question Lurky further, Dick blinked and Lurky vanished just like Batman. 

Even worse? Dick bothered checking the dumpster three alleys over and found, underneath a bag of kitchen scraps, a hunting knife, still bloody. 

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

Informal Semi-Kinda-Sorta-Hiatus

So I'm realizing that I've accidentally let fandom slip into the mental realm of Chore/Work. Which is absolutely no one's fault but my own: my experiences with people in the fandoms I hang out in have been almost entirely lovely, and while I'll pat myself on the back a bit for having such fussy curation, most of it is just people being wonderful. Nobody has made me feel pressured about anything.

And yet I'm noticing that I've started treating myself like a Content Creator™ and a Social Media Manager™. I worry about things. Have I been posting often enough? (No.) Am I balancing original posts with reblogs correctly? (No.) Do I have the right meta-to-shitpost ratio? (No.) Am I active on all the platforms where I have a presence often enough? (No.) Have I replied to all my A03 comments? (I have not. I am so sorry. There are almost 40 sitting there right now oh god.) When am I going to update those WIPs? (Hell if I know.)

This past week I posted a oneshot anonymously (go find it if you wanna lol, I do NOT think it would be hard for my regulars to spot) just because...I didn't want to write the lengthy author's notes I usually do (something which I know I do not have to do, yet I feel beholden to the precedent I've set). I didn't want to analyze it for every possible trigger and warn accordingly (something which I know I do not have to do, yet I feel beholden to the precedent I've set [trigger warnings of course are excellent within reason but I have definitely sometimes overdone it]). I didn't want to acknowledge and justify my ridiculous characterizations (something which I know I do not have to do, yet I feel beholden to the precedent I've set). I didn't want to feel guilty for writing a silly oneshot off the cuff instead of working on my WIPs (something which I know I do not have--- Well. You get the picture. Fic writing and blogging have started to feel like homework or a work assignment instead of the escapist hobby I desperately want them to be.

So what's the solution? Well, the title, really. I'm not leaving, I'm not saying I'm definitely not gonna be doing anything, I'm just...backing off a little bit. Truth is that right now I'm hyperfixated on a video game, but it's not something I have any urge to be fandom-y about (and I'm not naming it cuz I've talked to too many people offline about it who I know are also on tumblr and who I don't want finding this account lmao.) So I'm just gonna go enjoy that, whether it be for a couple of weeks or a couple of months. I'll still be on here probably every day, just more lurky than necessarily active. We're super close now to new Yuumori and I'm hoping that will kickstart that interest again. I really really want to write that omegaverse, and I really like what I have of it so far, but the drive just isn't there right now. And I haven't forgotten about Disrepute or Slow and Steady.

Anyway, hell, for all I know next week I might get struck by a sudden bolt of wild inspiration and bang out 10k words. But I'm gonna stop making myself feel bad for not being in the mood to force it.

You are all absolutely delightful, I appreciate you all so very very much, and I will be lurking in your notes. ❤️

[vibinsane]

gods i would do the trademark thingy for friends but lskdjfklsd our other friends p much said it all for me so i just >.> lurky lurk

[dutyworn]

@sailingtempest said:❓ i just got started, and i don’t know how to approach you 👶 first meetings threads aren’t my forte. (More like I love to discuss it out.) 🙅‍♀️ i’m just lurking tbh + Plus, I love to interact more with you. Just don't want to bombard with stuff.

why aren’t we playing together yet    /    ACCEPTING ↷

You've sent me an IC meme so in my books, we are interacting! :D So no worries. No worries for bombarding me with stuff, either; I don't, almost ever, feel overwhelmed in the RPC, and any time someone sends me stuff is a positive. I'm extraordinarily lurky until New Year, but I also look forward to interacting more! I'm one of those folks who hasn't (yet) played most of Andromeda so I'm technically fumbling in the dark with your muses, but that's never stopped me before, considering I write with muses from fandoms I have not the slightest clue about.

If you want to discuss first meetings out, we can totally do that, that'd probably help set the vibe for our dynamics? But no pressure, I can also wing things. I had basically just planned to default to your trilogy verses and vague things from there :)

[drgrlfriend]

@kangofu-cb I feel like I must have told YOU of all people about Creep, because you are the recipient of all my story ideas, both real and imagined, but this is a story that only lives in my head at present. Basically, Creep is the most recovering-from-programming-lurking-around-the-Tower Bucky song EVER. I mean:

I don't care if it hurts I wanna have control I want a perfect body I want a perfect soul

Does anything sum up clawing-his-own-brain-back-from-Hydra Bucky better? And then there's Clint, another resident of the Tower, golden and handsome and apparently not a care in the world. I mean:

You float like a feather In a beautiful world

Is not exactly how I would describe Clint swan-diving off a crumbling building, but I can see how Bucky would feel that way. So there is Bucky, all greasy and lurky and feeling corrupted by Hydra and he thinks Clint is this golden, untouchable angel, and then ... then he gets to know Actual Disaster!Clint and realizes that this golden, perfect, idolized version of Clint doesn't exist. Real!Clint is broken and tormented by his own demons and creaky in every joint and just ... a million times better. And then they fall in love.

[dvrlng]

Finally made a simblr again! (formally @hu-wa)

Hii! I’m darling and I’m not actually too new here, haha! I had a simblr a few years back when get famous first came out (I think?) and I was one of the first to recolor the gaming chair for that pack in WMS palette. I released it for fun, got overwhelmed, and deleted everything and went back to lurking :’)

Weeeeeell I’m back!

💚I am a 26 year old lady.

💚I plan on posting pictures I take, CAS, niche lookbooks, edits, maaaybe recolors. Reblogging aesthetics (rainbow, pastel rainbow, scenecore) and CC I think would fit me.

💚I’m gonna try to be WCIF friendly now that it’s a little easier to be, but if I don’t remember where something came from, I’m sorry!

💚I’m still very much introverted and lurky, so if you try to talk to me and I take a while I’m just shy and give me a minute, I’ll get back to you^^!

🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈

[joeldidnothingwrong]

You are blessing us with these extra rare Javier Peña scenes—what did we do to deserve it!?!

Thanks for being awesome!!

The close ups have me 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I'm just a lurkie lurk that got pulled back into Tumblr because of one thick dicked peepaw BUT.

You wrote "Lie To Me" ...

... Javi fic, sooooooo I am kicking my feet getting an ask from you.

Took me over an hour to post this reply because I had to go back and reread my favorite chapters.

You are the blessing, babe. 😍

[museachilles88]

[gothiccharmschool]

Today's advice from your Goth Auntie

Unclench your jaw, have a snack, take your meds.

You are a treasure, even if you don't believe it. Don’t argue with me.

The Lurking Horror lost its diary again. I suspect it’s not lost; Lurky just wants more fancy notebooks.

❤️ Auntie Jilli

[korolnichevoya]

ahoo hoo hoo my head hurts like a bitch today. will mostly be lurking (as if i haven't been doing that for last like-- two weeks), but i'll be EXTRA lurky today. love me tho uwu

[captivemuses]

Okay I'll take one draft done over none. If I get one more published before bed then great, if not one is better than nothing. Trying to get caught up on Genshin and Honkai stuff and YT videos so I'm hanging out and doing the lurky lurk. If you wanna chat or plot y'all know where to hit up to find me.

[whispersofdeceit]

Lurky lurk while I scroll through youtube for more muse-specific playlist songs again XD

[just--a-lurker]

Just a lurker, you are the best lurker.

Let no person tell you that you are not the best lurker.

If anyone tries to tell you that you are not the best lurker,

Murder them savagely in cold blood.

Keel lurking, Just a lurker.

May you forever lurk in this sad place,

Bringing with you your lurky joy.

I'm the best lurker to someone omgggg 🥹🥹

I won't kill them but I will 1v1 haters in dead by daylight (ever since cowshed was revamped do people still 1v1 there?)

[biggest-ultra-mags]

*frat boy voice* Anon is for [REDACTED]'s!

... ahem. Won't lie, back in the day when I saw your blue muppet making the rounds I thought 'oh, joy, the magnus has arrived' because I couldn't fathom how people enjoyed playing this serious no-fun-allowed! guy. But your Magnus tiptoed the line between professional and personable, he didn't just slam dunk people in the brig for shenanigans on the dash, you get sympathetic to his plight of anon madness, and that is even BEFORE a thread with you. I did many months of lurky lurks before I could muster up the courage of 'Oi, mate, wanna write?' and not a day goes back I regret that.

I am so glad that you came back because I do reread threads (and make myself sad in the process of nostalgia) and I cannot wait to see what sort of sh*tshow hanging around Seacrest is gonna lead to...

AAAAA WELL I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!

It was so hard in the beginning to plan him out how i wanted him. I wanted him to be stern, but still be personable. He abides by the rules, but still has fun on the side, or is able to meet and become close to others, and i think he's done so, so well with that. He's kind, stern, but that makes him funny, and he does have a soft side to him too, which i love! and i'm so, so glad you reached out to me <3 You and so many of the others i talked to all the time really made the blog so much fun, and it's why i came back, so i could have more fun again with you bc i love you and i love your ocs with my entire heart <3 ))