#the unraveling blog

[renee-writer]

I can still remember the magic of the holidays as a child. I feel it linger even now.

I had parents who, at the time, lived pay check to pay check and worked hard to do just that. We didn’t have a whole lot, but I there was a feeling of gratitude for having the essentials.

Nothing was fancy. There wasn’t an abundance of anything. It was simple.

But I never noticed that as a kid.

Because during the holidays, my imagination would run wild.

I remember the first time we had jello at Thanksgiving and I’m pretty sure I didn’t eat anything else. I remember going to a little store that had a discount section and buying little snowman trinkets to gift family members. I was so excited to wrap them and give it to them. I remember folding up paper and cutting out snow flakes. I remember after a Christmas Eve service my sister and I being SO sure we saw Rudolph’s red blinking nose in the sky (it was an airplane). I could barely sleep that night. I remember our pj’s weren’t fancy Christmas matching sets, but adult sized Walmart shirts (and we loved them!)

And I guess I just want to remind parents, and grandparents, and whoever else that needs to hear it…

It’s okay to make the holidays simple this year. It’s been a hard year on a lot of people.. financially, physically, emotionally, etc.

Even if you haven’t in the past, you are allowed to scale back if you need to.

The holidays bring with them a sense of awe- of God, of beauty, of the atmosphere in general.

Kids, in particular, have a way of remembering very little about how grand something was, but forever treasure in their heart the feeling of wonder that was created.

That’s what I hold with me, even now.

Simple holidays and all.

~Kelli Bachara, The Unraveling Blog

[aphelea]

my personal proposal for the Timeline Problem is that we were all originally right with the early 2010s timeline, however, we incorporate the existence of the anti-hero lyrics by considering that, à la rick riordan, taylor swift may actually be an elf in keeper world. "but that doesn't fix the problem!" you say. no. it turns out that taylor actually has a unique ability: she's a time elf. a telf, if you will. and she accidentally time travelled while writing her hit 2022 album midnights and fell into her 2014 recording sessions for 1989, muttering the lyrics of a song that shouldn't technically exist. thus shake it off gains an extra verse and t-shirts are made for keefe to wear.

this becomes relevant in kotlc because telves actually use the void for time travel and sophie accidentally finds herself stuck with dinosaurs after keefe holds her hand and they have some weird mutual enhancing/healing thing happen. it turns out that the rocks gisela wants are from that asteroid thing. sophie wins. the end

[bookwyrminspiration]

I am once again beseeching everyone to be careful about spoilers!! tag even the faintest spoilers, don’t send asks with spoilers to people who don’t want them, be careful what you say in reblogs and tags because op may not have the book yet.

please be considerate of those still waiting <3

[skepticalcartographer]

Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

~ Juliette Tahereh Mafi

(Unravel me)

[aurenflare]

latin textbook alvar vacker doodles bc as u all know i love him

[faggot-friday]

omg green day #1 artist twins

omg yayyyy i love twinning

[twinsfawn]

𖤐

[uhohbestie]

Will there be a TAMN playlist?

There will, yeah! Once the fic is finished Key and I are going to compile our many (many, many) TAMN-related/inspiration songs and make an "official" playlist! We don't want to spoil anything, though, so we're going to hang on to it until the fic is completely posted! - 🔒

[lucyshypemaster]

hello....is anyone still active here....

[battle-subway-ghost]

{Off screen post}

[Sprite paced around his room before collasping on his bed, head in hands.

Ghost hadn't been responding to his texts. Ghost.

Was his friend (?)

What he saw last night wasn't his friend.

Something was wrong with him. Really wrong.

Something was distorting him- ruining him... Rotting him from the inside out...

He didn't remember pressing call on Paris's number, but heard it ring out three times before his friend answered. ]

"Paris... I don't-You're not... Something's wrong."

{Off-screen post}

[Paris sat up fully on the couch, his head spinning slightly- ugh... He wasn't feeling very well today, not after last night.

He held his forehead with his hand, narrowing his eyes- the lights were hurting his head, and if it weren't for this call, he'd be laying down right now...

It took a moment for Paris to respond, sounding disgruntled yet concerned when he finally did. Thankfully though, he sounded... normal, for lack of better words. Tired, but himself]

"heh- Sprite? What's happening-? You alright??"

[renee-writer]

I’ll never understand how you got through this horrid day.

And I only know a fraction of it.

How did you get yourself to go into the garden where you knew they’d take you? You knew everything that was going to happen and allowed it.

How did you deal with the pain of the whips tearing so deep into your back it got to your muscles? And the crown of thorns that pieced into your head?

How did the sight of pure hatred towards you in the eyes of the humans you created.. how did you still ask the Father to forgive them?

How did you stay quiet when you were getting questioned and accused? How did you remain quiet when the crowd who claimed to know God the most was screaming, “crucify” at you, God incarnate?

How did you carry that cross, like a criminal, to the top of Calvary knowing the worst pain was still ahead?

The pain of separation from the One you’ve always been one with.

I’ll never understand how you got through it.

I can only go back to this one truth: it was love.

Your wild, unfathomable, pure love, that kept you going.

Your love is the greatest gift there is, Jesus.

Ever.

And I only know a fraction of it.

~Kelli Bachara

[desireeyvonnexo]

It’s soo hard to remain genuine when I’m always getting fucked over 🫠

[dicktat]

Just witnessed in real time some lad spam liking a bunch of my post, commented “WHAT” on my NSFW drawing and IMMEDIATELY blocked me

[thesiblingsoftheblackandwhite]

We promise that you didn't do anything wrong

But - but I messed up s’metimes, really bad, and I had to ‘cuz - ‘cuz it was the only thing in the Black & White, so He couldn’t do anything else. He had to, too…

[banksreads]

[mokeonn]

So I heard that Tumblr is slowly being abandoned (they seem to be laying off a majority of their staff and keeping a skeleton crew) and we might be nearing the end of this webbed site. I don't think it's currently worth panicking over, but I'm definitely going to start making that neocities website.

I'll make a post soon about other places where you can find me. Unfortunately, I've spent quite some time these last couple years getting rid of a majority of my social media because most platforms were bad for my mental health. I do not plan on going back to these platforms, so if tumblr goes down, I'm going to be only on non social media.

Maybe if one of the new social medias being created, actually take off (like bluesky or pillowfort or whatever else these days) I might join, but if not I might be entirely on personal websites, patreon (I will start posting regularly like a blog and make more free posts), some old websites I deleted but not because I hated them (such as ko-fi, which I deleted due to inactivity) and possibly furaffinity. I'm still on the fence about furaffinity. I might also finally start using my toyhouse but that is an oc sharing website and not much of an art sharing website.

I really do hope Tumblr doesn't go down, this is my one social media and if it does go down I am going to lose nearly all of my audience. I can make do by creating a personal blog and using whatever I have left in terms of "can post my art there and people can find me", and it won't discourage me from making my personal projects. I can make do, and I will make do, but I don't really want to make do.

Anyways, that's all I have to say right now, I'll make a post later once I set up some alternative sites to find me at, but for now I want to give the heads up that if I'm gone, you're not gonna find me on twitter, Instagram, or whatever third option there is. I'm likely going to just make do, be offline more, and likely just become active on the discord servers I'm on.