#some of you

[strangenewwords]

I love tumblr.

I used to think I was crazy for finding Bruce Campbell insanely attractive.

but here.

on tumblr.

any old man is game.

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Renegade 2023 Typeset Exchange: Some Of You by tangerinechar

I signed up again this year to participate in @renegadepublishing's annual typeset exchange. (For those not immersed in the lingo, the typeset is the formatted file that's printed out.) It can be as simple as adding a title page, chapter breaks, and page numbers... or you can get more complicated. And what better than an exchange event to go all out, and commit yourself to a truly ridiculous amount of formatting?

I was happy to typeset this MDZS modern AU for axandri in the exchange! Some Of You by tangerinechar is a Wangxian actor AU where an inadvisable drunk tweet from Lan Wangji sets off a series of events, and is a lot of fun! It also has a ton of social media in it, and I set myself the vaguely ridiculous goal of formatting it all with profile pictures for everyone.

I used a Twitter-blue inspired header and fonts for the title and chapter headings, and was stuck for a bit on what to put in for scene break dividers, and then it hit me... hashtags.

There were Twitter accounts for most of the main cast, and a whole host of recurring OC's, with twenty different profiles total. I spent some time looking for headshots and other pictures of the cast where they still looked like their character (Jiang Cheng's actor is very smiley! That one was the trickiest!), went along with all the other fandom riffs in the names that I could recognize (and got some help with a few), and snuck in pictures of both my cats.

(I thought I was almost done. I really did. And then just a few chapters from the end... there's eight pages of Tumblr posts and another eleven different unique profiles. Once I got over my initial despair... it did let me sneak in my other cat, and some icons a friend drew, as well.

Social media AUs, let me tell you... fun to read, a whole other adventure in typesetting. But I am pretty happy with how it turned out overall!

[ao3screenshotss]

[legallybrunettedotcom]

metropolitan (1990)

[despair-tea]

Girls With Horns

[c0ntr0l-c0re-angel]

also hi if you like rh@ck and claim to understand Rhys you're high-key wrong, but some of you aren't ready for that conversation

[chishiyashoodie]

Nijirō not wanting to be recognised part 1

[hyewka]

2 hyuka asks in a row i fear im gonna luck out soon 😩

[ferngle]

Why has tumblr decided to hide the pfp of peoples reblogs?

Does tumblr not realize that's the only way i know who anyone is?

[fiomeras]

you should have emphathy for the things and people youre writing about and that should probably be without having to say it but some of you.

[sparklywaistcoat]

We will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

-- CS Lewis, The Great Divorce

[allo-frouto]

Favorite ice cream?

Lemon.

[cain-is-confused]

There are days I miss being a gym leader.. Then every so often I'll see a very inexperienced trainer bragging about their poor pokémon and all they're putting it through to chase some glory and suddenly I find myself not missing it anymore...

[fireroll]

I love it when I could just see when some writers write about their favourite writers. Some of them gives all the characters equal amount of screentime in their stories, and all of them breathtaking, but man you could just see their soul get poured into it when they start writing about their favourite character. It’s just entirely different, like they become an awestruck poet of some sort, in love.

[my-balls79]