#what even are my textposts anymore

[twoa-plus]

i’m like the game theory of media literacy. all of my hot takes are based on a specific interpretation of one sentence and a vision that came to me in a dream at age 7

[combii-art]

hunter!watcher AU thoughts

Long textpost, not sure how this will show up since I haven't made one before. Anyway, some background on why I thought of this in the first place:

When the watcher released, I played it at the same time as two of my friends, one of whom said that they thought it was the hunter killing the watcher's family in the opening scene. Whether or not that is actually the case, it got me thinking about the two of them in the same sphere. Everything that followed was just typical insane person brainrot.

Obviously watcher is not hunter in canon (I used to think it was possible that the prince was NSH, but after learning a little more about outside inspiration and stardust and such I don't believe it's possible anymore) buuuutttttt.... it'd be fun if they were. So how do we explain everything that happens?

The intro cutscene would have hunter killing the watcher's family. When it becomes an echo from reaching the void sea after doing the typical hunter quests, due to rot interference and general "not ready to go" echo-y feelings, it enters a between-world purgatory state. In this purgatory, it takes on the visage of the child it remembers glimpsing out of the corner of its eye as it killed its family in front of it. Hunter just lost its own father in NSH - and now it's watched itself kill another slugcat's parent. I think it would be a little haunted, no?

Prior to meeting Spinning Top, the between-world follows a similar decline to what it witnessed happening to itself as it neared the void sea. Everything, lizards, the walls and floor, sprouting rot. Flies buzzing around everywhere as they did the hunter's own decaying flesh. Trapped in a small area, unable to visit either of the iterators it met for help. No relief from the rot this time.

Spinning Top meets the watcher and maybe sees another like itself. Abandoned (in some ways) by its family and unable to move on. They grant the watcher some control over its echo abilities that it did not have initially (due to aforementioned rot fuckery) and lets it warp into a different between-world. In canon, the watcher's stars appear after the first meeting with Spinning Top. In hunter!watcher they later morph into the "X"s that adorn the rot cysts, so I'm not sure how exactly that would tie in here - like, I can't really imagine, even in AU, as Spinning Top doing anything to further the watcher's rot. Anyone have any ideas?

Anyway, the watcher goes through the typical questline of helping Spinning Top pass on, its echo-y-ness and abilities grow alongside its rot. (I guess this could be used as the explanation to the prior question: due to the nature of its ascension, its rot and status as an echo are just permanently linked, so any gaining of echo abilities follow with growth of rot.)

After doing this, the watcher begins its own quest to return to the source of its attachment and find a way to go through the "white door". It encounters the prince, who calls its scent familiar (jury is still out on the reason for this in canon tbh, like why does bro say that. Maybe watcher/prince were some slug/iterator pair before, just... not hunter and NSH lol) during the several passes before they break out from the cyst. During each pass, the watcher begins to recognize the destroyed facility as the one belonging to NSH, and when it sees the prince, immediately recognizes it as what it's looking for, even if its memories are still clouded.

Something something I'm bad at writing sappy and coherent endings, after spending some time playing with the prince the watcher is able to pass on. I'm still very confused about what all happens with the ending, like... was it intentional? Did the prince want that to happen? Or are the karma flowers the influence of some oppositional force? Either way... we won't know until further updates which will most certainly disconnect with the AU even more than current canon lol.

Of course, the watcher's imagination of what happened to NSH as the rot progressed is only true in this between-world, and the prince only a stand-in built by the watcher's memories. In the "real" world, I think NSH's life went a lot like Pebbles'. Can eventually crashed, decaying back into the world as it freezes over. But of course the watcher is only a slugcat, one trapped in a phasmic world no less, and the difference between their fake NSH and the real one isn't noticeable. All that matters is the self-assurance to let go.

[gerardwayscrustyeyeshadow]

INTRO BLOG !!!!!!!!!!

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DNIS: T.R.A.S.H., waycest shippers, jkr supporters and the like

-I'm non binary! I use they/them and you shall refer to me as such :3 I'm demiaroace, otherwise omni! You don't need to know the deets unless we're in a relationship which is. Probably never happening

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-I am absolutely addicted to music. I mostly listen to emo, scene, hyperpop or punk but I'll vibe to anything! My favorite bands are:

☆MCR

☆Ennaria

○The oozes

☆Doll skin

○Paramore

☆Dazey and the scouts

☆panic! At the disco

○Mommy long legs

☆Destructo disk

○Avril Lavigne

☆fall out boy

○Falling in reverse

☆vocaloid

○orangebandit

☆weezer

○pinkshift

☆escape the fate

○mitski

☆alex g

○HATSUNE MIKU RARRARRARARRAA

☆millionaires

○ occasionally 6arelyhuman and the like

☆uhhhhh did I tell you I like mcr yet :3

○my chemical romance again :3

-i draw things sometimes

My art is tagged as #my art!! :3 on my blog!!!

(Most) textposts are tagged as #ramblez!!

Asks are tagged #askz !!

What??? #monastery ramblez

And I DO NOT have an evil clone named @crustyeyeshadowsgerardway , so STOP ASSUMING before you do your research.

-I'm also in an orchestra! I play the clarinet :D

Fandoms!!

-I'm part of multiple fandoms, but I can't get them all off the top of my head, so here's some of them:

-SONICSONICSONICSONIC

-is mcr a fandom?

-cookie run kingdom!!

-epic the musical!!!!!!!!!!!

- The Stanley parable my beloved

-toon x mobster

-casual vocaloid fan

-is the silmarillion fandom dead yet

I'll try to update them as time goes :/ no promises

Some communities and subcultures I'm part of:

-the alphabet people 😱🤧😫😢😲😟😧😰😨

-therian and quadrobist community!! Im a beginner, but tryna get better at it :3 love it anyways :3 my theriotype is a cross fox!

-part of multiple subcultures, but I'm in the scenemo and punk scene the most rn!! Will also listen to scene/hyperpop/grunge/musicals/or anything if I'm in the mood for it :3 I love blasting my ears off

-My favourite animals are corvids, foxes, and rats!

-My hobbies are drawing, going on multiple hour walks to the forest, finding cool/creepy mushrooms, doing quads, making therian gear at home, collecting feathers and bones. I have. A lot. Of bones. Seriously, multiple bags of bones. My mother is concerned but we don't talk about it <3

-I'm also into witchcraft and the spiritual world! I am trying (emphasis on trying) to put together an altar for some gods but I don't have SPACE on my TABLE ANYMORE (I usually don't talk abt religion tho)

My personality type is INFP-T (mediator) :33

ALSO THIS IS ME

(Srry for bad pics and even worse quality lol) you can also search up my fit checks I can't find them

That's it! This turned out to be really long, so sorry about that lol. Thanks for reading, if you did!

BLINKIEZ >w< !!

(CW: EYE STRAIN!!) (Yes again)

[watchingblsnowandforever]

Hello!!! =D

This follows from Part 1

Warning: long post 😊😅

Oh you're still here 😶

Honestly, I was really liking his character right up till he said this. He was nice, friendly, and yes, a little invasive, but as long as Peem didn't mind, I was okay. But we all know how a love rival saying these words go in BLs, so when he said this, alarms went off in my head. And he continued flirting. Which is not okay. I know Peem doesn't really mind, but still. Kluen, you are a mostly decent human, but please take a rejection as it's supposed to be taken.

Also, when he says he's handsome and rich, and Peem jokes about how much he's willing to "invest", Peem says "Phum is handsome, too." No mention of his money. If Phum heard this, he'd be jumping and squealing, but it also tells us that Peem cares fuck all about how rich Phum is. Which will probably help Phum gain more confidence in this love.

Who the fuck cares. 🙂

Listen, as I said in my previous post, I'd decided to ignore the parents because they didn't deserve any attention, but when he stopped Fang from going after Phum, I was furious. That is nothing compared to what I felt in this scene. You ruined his childhood, gave him trauma that he'll never be able to fully leave behind, gave Fang trauma too, and then you dare to ask him why he doesn't talk to you? You have the audacity to keep pestering him even after he says he has something to do? And now you're ruining his adult life too. With all due respect, which is absolutely none: fuck. off.

@almayver I'm really thinking of writing that fic. 🙂

I love this friend group so much.

The moment Q says Peem is sad they all barge into his house to cheer him up, no hesitation. They don't demand to know the whys and hows (Q does, but he already knows), just settle in comfortable and loudly, and be their chaotic selves. This reminds us that despite all the flirting and cheesy lines and hugging and kissies, friendship will always be a priority for these group of friends.

And let's be honest, Peem expected Aunt Pui, and we all expected Phum. This was a very nice surprise.

All this time, Peem wasn't upset Phum was late. He was worried about Phum.

This was the scene that made me cry. We Are was supposed to be a simple romcom. WHAT IS THIS THEN.

I just- I really have nothing to say here, they said it all.

They both did what they did and are feeling what they are because they're important to each other.

Phum did it because he didn't want to ruin Peem's big day again. And Peem is upset and worried because he thinks he might not be Phum's safe space anymore.

Peem's reaction tells me that maybe he was over the moon last episode when he could provide comfort to Phum. And he's very very glad that at least with him, Phum can be himself. This incident makes him question that, which leads him to questioning their entire relationship. Phum himself said (many times in various ways) that Peem makes him feel good and warm and comfortable, and he's not lonely anymore. But... if Peem isn't that to Phum anymore, then what is he?

This is one of the best love confessions Thai BL has ever given me.

I have nothing else to say. This has already given us all enough emotional damage.

This reminds me of that textpost: "Caught giving a fuck. Embarrassing."

Love that Q has already accepted Phum hehe. You know your man is good when he's bestie-approved.

Love even more how he's giving the cold shoulder to Phum and then defending him to Peem 😭

Well he did, but apparently your ears were "muffled".

Also- love this scene.

HE SAYS IT.

I mean, I get him though, who the hell would be able to say no to Phum's "please? 🥺"

Just putting this here 'cause I happened to pause at the right moment and this scene is beautiful and very pretty. <3

I missed Matt (JJ) and his impeccable sense of humour so bad

Every group is incomplete without a Matt hehe

If I had a rupee for every time a couple kissed at this booth, I'd have two rupees, which is nothing, but it's strange it happened twice.

Another very beautiful scene. <33

He says that as if he isn't squealing and giggling inside. But. FINALLY. OUR PATIENCE HAS BEEN REWARDED, THEY'RE FINALLY DATING!!!!

OOH flower bouquet kiss hehe

Reminds me of QToey tote bag kiss

Next ep:

Portrait drawing?!!

"KHUN FAEN"??

SOFT TANFANG KISS???

HOW DO THEY EXPECT ME TO SURVIVE THIS?!!

*sigh*

Anyways, that's all for this week, see you next ep!

If you got this far, thank you so much for reading! 😊

Here, have some ice cream 🍨

My We Are posts.

[gonetoforks]

My first post on here, hello!! 👋 These drawings are from what I call my ROTTMNT Haunted! au!! Below is a pretty long explanation ⬇️

(Discontinued/on hiatus unfortunately!)

When Casey jr went through the portal, as the lone survivor raised by the Hamato clan, all the spirits from the timeline he knew went with him. After the movie, on the morning of halloween, Michelangelo wakes up to discover the undead spirits of himself and his brothers from the Darkest Timeline in his house. He can talk to them, touch them, but nobody else except Draxum can even see them.

Future Mikey, who has been affectionately dubbed “Uncle Angelo,” has a theory for why they aren’t at rest; Hamato souls have specific slots in the ninpo family line. Since their exact souls already exist in the good timeline, they’re duplicates who don’t have anyplace to go. So he devises a plan; create a mystic spell to add additional slots to the family line to let the Dead Dogs lie.

Casey jr has almost nothing to do all day, so he’s been spiraling lately, not getting sleep and constantly looking for things to do. Every time he finds something enjoyable, he just wishes his family, the family that raised him was there to see it. He always tags along on missions to create and fulfill the slot spell, even if it hurts.

Future Leonardo (“gramps” to Mikey,) tends to fixate on Jr, how/what he’s doing. He’s pleased to see his mental health in a good state, but that’s only because he saw him when other people were around. When the truth about Jr becomes clearer to him, he becomes more.. reluctant about the spell.

However, as time passes, the veil between the spirit world and the mortal plane begins to thicken, and the lines between the present turtles and their future counterparts begin to blur. Mikey starts dreaming about fights he never fought, older than he ever was in kraangified wastelands he’s never seen anything close to. He’ll wake up in a cold sweat, thinking like an old wizard before he remembers he’s 15, he lives in the sewers, and he stopped all that stuff from coming to pass. These nightmares are becoming more vivid. Time is the one luxury they do not have.

Will the spell work?

(Additional context; Donatello can move things with his pointer finger slightly, like that politician character from that Ghost show. Additionally, Leonardo can try to deliver messages to people in their dreams, Mikey has some control over wind, Raph can make things rattle a bit, and April, they don’t know where she went. They know she’s here, where is she?)

These drawings are from months ago, I’m reposting them here because I’ve given up on revealing the lore through comics 😭😭😭 it’s easier for me to write it out. I can’t keep the Thoughts a secret anymore, I have to talk about it aksjakshaj, textposting save me textposting

[r3dblues]

The Rings of Power spoilers I guess??? Not really

I saw an edit earlier (that I didn’t really look at too closely) that was Isildur x Elrond from trop and the intro was two scenes of them kissing some other character edited together, but because I wasn’t paying attention I didn’t see it was edited of two different scenes so then I just closed the app and didn’t even finish watching it. If it was real I wanted to see it for myself… I had previously watched trop s1 and episodes 1-4 of s2 but then stopped because I didn’t want to pay for Prime anymore lol. So then I went and binged the episodes I had left

Before binging thought there were many hours of my day when I couldn’t watch the show, so during that time I was like ”..what on earth is going to happen..? They haven’t even met yet on the show..?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN CANON LOTR YAOI??” Then after a bit I was like yeah it can’t be real there’s no way like I had a moment of clarity where I was like nah it has to be fake but then I somehow convinced myself again that it was canon💀 so yeah then I started watching the last 4 episodes and the more it went on without them meeting I was like ”okay so it WAS fake.. I don’t know why I believed it would happen💀” and alas it was not real.

But during those hours of not knowing I had prepared for the fanart and all that I would look up after watching the series so when it wasn’t canon I was a bit disappointed but also like fair why would they make that happen I was a fool to think that

But yeah then I still wanted to find fanart or tumblr posts about this ship and I was devastated to just find one (very beautiful) artwork on here😭 like not even textposts?!? I’m sure ao3 has something but come on tumblr what is this I even found more edits of them on tiktok how is tiktok ahead of us on this ?!?

Idk maybe I’ll draw them at some point just to make myself happy because now I ship them tbh

Tldr: an edit made me think Elrond x Isildur is canon so I binged trop only to find out I was a fool to think that and now I’m disappointed there is no content of them here on tumblr

[kyouka-supremacy]

Your posting schedule is so interesting! How do you manage to wait months, or even a whole year, before uploading something? I don't mean that in a bad way at all—actually, the opposite! I'm genuinely curious about your process: how you come up with ideas, how you develop them into posts, and just how your brain works in general. <3

First of all– thank you! That's very sweet and kind of you <333

Second of all: I don't do this willingly at all, it's just that I'm a generally anxious person and publishing posts just as I've made them is very anxiety inducing for me pfftt. It's actually not *that* bad anymore, but it definitely was when I started posting on Tumblr, a long time ago, on other blogs from other fandoms, when I was a lot more self-conscious about my English just among other stuff; the habit of postponing posting to double check posts again just stuck.

I also simply really want my blog to be curated. It's my nice place where all the things I want to keep record of are, neatly labelled and organized. That's why I want to be able to check up my posts several times before posting, have time to notice any typo and so on (usually backfires because I get so used to reading a post my eyes will automatically skip over a typo, but eh). And sometimes my brain is just *something something abandonment issues Akutagawa* *compilation of x* *meme y*, stuff that I take note to make but maybe don't have time for at the moment and that keep track of so I don't forget later. Some times analysis look very bad when putting them down for the first time, and I need to polish them up; other times new ideas surge, and I end up doubling the size of a post. It's just a way to curate the posts that “works for me”; except, it does have its downsides, mainly posts getting obsolete if I'm posting them after a year has passed, or even the fact that at times I simply change my mind on some takes. This also helps keep my blog clean from negativity a lot of times, since looking back at rants more often than not I will go - uh. this really doesn't need to be posted -, or unfunny jokes. I think some 20% of the posts I make end up not seeing the light.

Since the queue can only hold up to 1000 posts (and like 60% of that for me is blocked by posts “I'm posting later” that have been there since this blog began. But whatever), All my original posts and reblogs go in the drafts (there's. A lot of stuff in there.) Once in a while I will dig dig dig in the drafts and refill the queue. It takes so long. About that, I just ran out of April 2024 posts

In truth, I just have a lot of neurospicy stuff going on. Like... Remember when I used to organize all my queued reblogs by category, always publishing them in couples of fanarts, textposts, same character, colours, and so on? I did that for more than two years on here. It was a nightmare, it was so pointless and time consuming, and yet it was a fixation so hard to overcome, and I still often get the itch to do that when I set my queue lol. Likewise, I always set my posts to be posted on the nice timestamps (multiple of tens, every half hour, hour quarters and such).

I don't know if that's what you were asking? There's a lot of stuff going on in the space of posts / drafts / queue pfffttt. In regards of how I come up with ideas, it's really hard to answer </3 There's no pattern I can recognize, I just navigate a lot, read a lot, and think a lot about it all. A lot of times inspo comes from fics; they put the characters in scenarios, and even though a lot of times I will perhaps disagree with how the characters will act in those circumstances, it's very thought-provoking, because it challenges me to reflect on how I believe they would actually act, and why is that. If I look back at my posts, a lot were inspired by a word, a sentence, a concept I saw in some other fandom creation. I really believe and uphold fandom being a mutually inspirational space :)

I will eventually run out of things to say tho ahah. If you look back at the dates of my post, The first year, there were days when I made even four posts. Right now, posts from April 2024 are being posted, and it's just one post per day. If we look at 2025, I've only made five posts in May (although, there's two more posts I plan to post soon. I suppose it's all really a lot complicate ahah).

[drakyions]

i really reeeally want to redraw my old comparison chart for the 'different' clouds people see and do it with other characters as well... i love when people give the jenovaboys weird inhuman features it's so fucking cool but my personal headcanon subscription is that they look Too Human sometimes (frighteningly perfect?) and Different to other people due to jenova being a deceiver who hunts with memories. it's so hard to see any of their true selves... even to people who don't know zack or cloud personally, knowing what a SOLDIER looks like makes their eyes glow brighter, they look pristine and untouched, perfect machines serving shin-ra, much more ideal than their actual sickly look. maybe to those who don't care too much for shin-ra they look more uncanny, more dangerous - or maybe to elderly or the more down-to-earth they have little features that remind them of family. it's uncontrollable. they're simply ever-shifting due to jenova never being able to stop being a hunter. and That lives inside them now. tifa who sees cloud with more natural colors, a healthier tone, little skin blemishes or scratches or just anything that makes him seem more human; aerith who sometimes sees cloud with darker blue eyes and longer, darker hair; barret who sees him closer to his actual appearance, sickly and frightening, like an abused fighting dog. sorry to sound utterly Pretentious about some videogame headcanons i've just been Really wanting to draw and write these guys being unintentional freaks so much. maybe also intentionally. who's to say these little hunting tricks aren't helpful on the run, when you need a place to shelter? can you still be yourself when you're apart of something so much bigger that runs through you now, that tweaks your very thinking pattern to the point where it's impossible to know what are your ideas and wants anymore? how many times can you appear as someone's grandchild, someone's lost love, someone's sibling, etc. until you start to forget your own name and face. what makes an identity. is it ethical to make them go through that loss again? do you care? haha anyway silly thoughts im too lazy to draw/write 🤪🤪🤪 i am always on that pointless long textpost shit

[cooperscreosote]

Part 2 of my ace contemplations - Part 1 can be found here - or more like: more whining, haha. Sorry.

First off something more general: I'm happy about the responses I got on the original post, but I think it's a bit sad that there isn't a hashtag or something for people who want and need the support of the aspec community here on Tumblr (without having to join a special forum or sth). Because it seems that while the community is quite active, it's mostly for sharing memes and snappy textposts and stuff, and less about more helpful things and discussions. I'm not saying the memes etc are wrong and shouldn't be a part of it too, but idk, I just wish there would be more of an actual community bond, if that makes sense? To help the people who aren't yet at the stage where they can view their identity as something great, people who are still struggling and are reliant on online communities for that kind of help.

Because for all the talk about the very active Tumblr aspec community...I personally haven't seen and benefitted much of it, apart from the memes etc. And I hope I'm not the only person who don't just want to agree with meme posts and would wish for more. Or am I just unfortunate? Looking in the wrong places? (In short, where are the nice supportive ace people of Tumblr? I'm desperate here...well, kind of.)

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Something related to the books I mentioned in the original post:

these books are all written from such an US-centric, university-educated and creative business viewpoint. And that's just not my world at all, as an mostly unemployed European with crappy education.

Like, one time it was mentioned that aces always look out for each other and how great that is. And yeah, sure. It is. It would be great, but what about the people who aren't part of that lucky network or community? People who possibly haven't met another aspec person in real life? They are missing that kind of support, and maybe it would be the one thing that would make everything easier.

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Another thing: I found the probably supposed to be inspirational stories from other aces in the books rather disheartening. Yeah, fine, so person XY found their perfect partner by luck, despite whatever made them think it would never work out, yadda yadda. Good for them, but that's not gonna happen to me, right? I'm not gonna strike that jackpot and will find someone who accepts me as I am. Maybe I'm just a really, really spiteful person, but stories like that don't inspire me or show me what's possible for me personally in any way.

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Well, yeah, I never encountered that. Like, truly never. That's one thing where I'm very ace: I don't get what's supposed to be sexy about a (mostly) naked body. I understand a appeal of a open top button and bit of chest being visible or something like that (lol that sounded so stupid), but the body being in full view? Nah man, put on your shirt again before you catch a cold, lol. (And it's not just guys actually, but people of all genders, if I'm honest.) I should probably add that I absolutely don't mind seeing anything like that, it just doesn't do anything for me.

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I guess my takeaway from all the reading I did isn't like for other people who don't feel wrong or broken anymore when they find out there are other aces out there. Even after knowing a lot about it I still feel like some crucial part of me is missing, and I could be more than what I am if that were possible. But then again, there isn't really a possibility for change, so I need to do my best to accept this. I just wish I had it easy one single time...why is basically everything about me so hard to accept? lol

Idk, but if I ever manage to convince myself that inevitably dying alone one day (and spending the time until then alone too) is a good thing, then I'm sure I'll be able to do anything. Now I only need to figure out how to convince myself and that's where it gets difficult, lol.

Being both aspec and too dumb/awkward to make friends is such a curse tbh 😓 And I can't even become a crazy cat lady because I'm bad with animals too, ugh...

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In connection with the previous bit, I'm kinda envious of that way of thinking. Would make things much easier, I assume. And it's great if it worked for her, but I on the contrary would find it quite painful if I look back at my in a sense similar life.

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And to counter all the hopelessness a little bit - we're supposed to do that kind of thing, I guess - I tried my best to come up with some positive points, although I take them with a grain of salt myself.

- Well, it does give me an explanation for whatever is going on with me. (Although I only need that explanation for myself, since I seem to give off so much sad loser energy that no one ever bothered to ask me whether I want a boyfriend or kids. They just look at me and think "nah, that's obviously impossible for her". Which is oddly funny yet a little bit hurtful... ^^')

- I'm kind of glad that I never actually have to hug people or cuddle with them since I hate physical contact so much, lol. Doesn't matter if it's platonic or not. Remember when everyone missed being hugged during the pandemic? Couldn't be me :D

- I guess someone who is a rather bad person with way too many negative traits like me shouldn't be on the dating market anyway, so it's a plus that I'm no relationship material. Although that's more of a plus for others, not so much for me, lol. But it is a plus in the sense that everyone I would fall in love with would be unattainable for me anyway, so it's good not to be tempted in the first place.

- Idk, that's about it, I think? Maybe I forgot something, but I believe that's the gist of it. Kind of sad, but I tried, haha.

[stillamassivedeal]

“enjoy your eight minutes...” ♡

ew, why am i on tumblr?

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her full name is regina olivia-rose george

she's 17, her birthday is july 24

she/her

she's a deeply closeted lesbian, absolutely terrified to come out, drowning in internalized homophobia. she's had a crush on janis since they were in middle school, and bullied and outed her because she was insecure and scared of herself. she dates boys to keep up appearances, and forces herself to enjoy it. if you bring it up, she'll shoot it down. she gets very worked up about it, drilling herself into a spiral so much she'll have a panic attack, but never in public, always in the privacy of her own bedroom.

she lives with her mom and twelve-year-old sister kylie. her mom and dad got a divorce when she was 12, and she doesn't see him anymore, she's practically forbidden to talk about him. she's got a pretty rocky relationship with her mother, but a really strong bond with her sister.

she suffers from chronic pain after the bus incident. most days she's fine but some days she physically cannot get out of bed. she refuses to take her medication because it makes her go “crazy” and she doesn't like to feel out of control.

adding onto the last point, crossing roads and driving etc. are really difficult things for her, and she usually needs someone to be there with her, but she'll never ask for it. she sometimes has panic attacks if she's in a car for an extended period of time, so she needs to travel with someone she knows.

since the accident, she also has frequent nightmares. they aren't as common as they used to be, after she got out of the hospital she would wake up screaming, but that rarely happens nowadays. they tend to happen when she's not in her own bed, so if she's on holiday or sleeping over at someone's house. she feels so embarrassed whenever it happens, because she physically cannot stop herself from crying.

she really struggles to regulate her emotions, and her mood swings are intense and frequent. she hates this, again because it makes her feel like she isn't in control of her own body, which has led her to do some things she regrets.

she puts up a front for others because she likes feeling cared about. she thinks that if people see the real her, they won't care. she's built herself up so high that she thinks if anyone sees her even slightly out of line, they'll turn on her. even after half the school saw her get hit by a bus, and her reputation was at an all-time low, she still felt as if she had to be tough to be cared about, which brings me to my next point.......

she's desperately trying to climb her school's social ladder again, and will literally do anything to get to the top, even if it means pushing herself to extremes. yeah she's. she's not a happy girl. ahahaha.

she'll get very jealous over the smallest things.

neurodivergent in some way, but she refuses to even acknowledge it. likely some kind of personality disorder.

she really struggles with body image and eating, more so than ever after the kälteen bar incident, and will avoid as much conversation about her body and food as possible. the pressure to be perfect has been placed on her from a young age, and that definitely plays a part in this. as usual, she will lie if you ask her if she's eaten. she honestly doesn't see it as an issue because she's dealt with it for so long, which kind of makes it an even bigger problem.

she calls her mom ‘mommy’. she doesn't mean to but sometimes it just slips out.

she's secretly a theater kid. she used to be in shows when she was younger, but stopped because whoever heard of a popular girl doing theater? she used to want to be on broadway, but her dad told her to shut up, and that it was a dumb dream, so she dropped the idea pretty quick.

massive ariana grande fan. yes she has seen the wicked movie. yes she liked it. no she will not admit that.

she has interests believe it or not, she just hides them away because she doesn't want to seem “nerdy”. she's got a bunch of stuff in her closet to do with her interests and that's why she doesn't like people going in there.

mega trust issues. who wouldn't after all the stuff that happened to her in junior year? she's afraid that this will stop her from making friends in college.

speaking of college, she's going to new york to study business. does she want to do that? no, but it's all she has the qualifications for. the bus made her miss out on a huge chunk of school and she's struggled to catch up ever since.

updates — 13/06/2025 ♡

since summer vacation started, there have been a few changes since, of course, regina no longer attends north shore.

while she's in new york, she'll be living with her aunt and younger cousin, reuben. she's really going to miss her sister, as she is her main support system back at home, but hopefully they'll be able to see each other every few weeks.

she is a VERY long way away from evanston AND janis, which she's going to struggle with. the two of them have been super close for several months now, if you know what i mean 👀

more soon !!! come back later <3

[auroras-void]

Some advice on how I got myself to enjoy writing:

So I used to hate writing when I was in High School, and I think it's probably mostly because schools just kinda fucking suck at teaching you how to write. Especially if you got ADHD, all the advice you're going to get is very neurotypical minded. Teachers I think, also tailor their lessons to work under the assumption that it's already clicked for you, how exactly you put your thoughts onto the page, because most of them never struggled to find it, and they also just, don't have the time to work individually with students to find out what works for them and their thought process. It feels like they're just trying to build a structure that's rigid enough it supports you to passing the rubric instead of teaching you how to get there yourself.

So I thought I'd share how I got over it, in case it might help someone else (though I'm probably preaching to the choir given that this is the textposts and fanfiction website lmao).

I used to think I hated writing, because I thought I was terible at it for the longest time.

I don't actually hate it though, and I'm also not bad at it (and I'm betting neither do most of the people reading this).

What I really hated was being forced to write like someone else.

I hated the formal prompts, I hated the way I had to bend my thoughts into unnatural shapes. I hated the outlines, the routines. Being forced to ignore my stream of consciousness to fulfill a requirement, I hated color coding my sentences. I'd constantly have writers block, I wrote stuff that felt very stiff and inhuman, and over and over again I'd hate it when I was told "just write something" because I just couldn't. No one was ever checking to see if I actually understood the point of anything I did, just whether I met the rubric.

But then, something just kinda clicked for me.

I can just. Not do it like that. . .

I noticed two things really.

First, was I had discovered video essays, and I was starting to consume a lot of them. The more I read though, the more I realized they sounded nothing like anything I had ever been taught to write, even when speaking in an academic register about the same kinds of subjects I had to write about for school. It seemed like their thought process was just completely different from anything I'd been taught, it felt more, organic, more authentic.

Like, what I noticed more specifically, was that text messages were effortless to me. They're like talking but with words on a screen. They're also infinitely more creative with the ways you can add extra meaning to your words using the vocabulary of the internet. To me it felt distinct from writing everything else, because it was just, conversation.

But then it dawned on me, it's not actually different.

That's just what writing is.

I don't need to be agonizing over perfection, I don't need to treat it like a problem to be solved, or an answer I need to get right. I could just, reuse those pathways I already have for speaking and communicating in other ways, to write anything, and suddenly just, overnight, it made perfect sense to me, I could do it effortlessly.

This is just like, infodumping, but the words get recorded and you can revise them and add citations to it after. Like holy shit, this is actually pretty cool.

I wasn't trying to fill out an outline anymore. I stopped giving a shit about that formal hook -> topic -> transition -> claim -> evidence -> reasoning -> conclusion, and all that bullshit that just makes me freeze in my tracks.

I just learned a lot about my subject, and simply, spoke freely about what I thought, but just, code switching it to be in a more formal register. I wrote as if I was dictating my thoughts. I listened to my gut and what felt right, made sure I covered what I needed to cover, and tightened it up and rearranged it later. It was like I had suddenly learned to harness my endless stream of thoughts into doing something I wanted.

It wasn't as neat as following the lesson plan, I wrote a lot more bullshit that got deleted for the second draft, but it didn't sound like it was written by a STEM major anymore.

Once it clicked too, I realized I could help others who had the same struggle I did by actually just having them literally dictate to me. I would tell them to just, not even try to write anything, just have them speak freely about what they thought about the subject, and I would write it down for them and sometimes make suggestions about how to translate it into something academic. Something about just, saying it out loud to a peer, it forces you into using the pathways you have that are already strong.

Around then is when I got my first ever perfect score on an English paper, and I was so fucking proud of myself for it.

The structures and outlines actually started to make a little more sense too. I could see how they'd be useful in organizing the word vomit on the page, but the secret was I actually needed to get the word vomit there first. So I still mostly disregarded them and did things my own way.

It feels like that's the secret really. Not trying to do it someone else's way, letting myself be weird and ADHD and Autistic.

Now I actually really enjoy writing, I love yapping about things, sharing my ideas. It feels like a very natural medium for my expression. So much so that I had a very similar epiphany by journaling, and I actually kinda stumbled into keeping one by accident.

I go over it in more detail here: https://www.tumblr.com/auroras-void/776055272532852736/journaling-lpt?source=share

Now, the one achilles heel for me and using this technique though. Is what I write now has to be authentic, or I get stuck. I struggle when it comes to writing about stuff I don't care about, or when I have to use a register so formal I can't speak freely, it's really hard for me to bullshit canvas discussions or write emails for example. (Especially if I need to lie about what my thoughts are just to meet the requirements.)

Fiction too. I still haven't figured out how to write fiction. I think part of that is 'tism for me,,, I struggle with authentically writing someone else's perspective, because my instinct is to just to imagine myself and my ideas in their shoes. If I ever tried to write an OC, it'd just inevitably turn into a copy of me.

Hopefully someday that'll click for me too though.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

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[skippyhawk]

yes, I absolutely agree about Tim and Hawk's dynamic being kind of flipped in the 60s (and I think it's part of why it's my favorite episode so far). Even though Tim is in a sense dependent on Hawk because Hawk is giving him a place to hide while being on the run, he's the one who is guarded/with his walls up/pushing Hawk away (with good reason), and even though Hawk still can't verbalize his feelings (I cannot get the look on his face in response to "why do you care? about any of this?" OUT OF MY HEAD), to me he seems more emotionally open about his feelings for Tim in 1968 than we've ever seen him be thus far, and he's the one trying to reach out for Tim (emotionally *and* physically more than once) even if he doesn't know how to fix everything.

I also find Hawk's determination to fix everything for Tim and keep him out of jail to be fascinating given that we and Tim knew him as a fixer in the 1950s (which he acknowledged), and he wants so badly to fix this for Tim, and yet the episode ends with him watching with pain in his eyes as Tim turns himself in (and then, even more interestingly, using Tim's words from seminary to try and fix his relationship with Jackson by creating a moment of connection and comfort).

Thank you for indulging me with these asks, I love hearing your thoughts and if you don't mind my rambling I'll probably send more as we wait for the last 2 eps ahhh

it was definitely one of my favorites as demonstrated by that fever-induced unusually poetic defensive textpost i dropped straight after... i even had a brief discussion about it with some of my irls and my sister lmao

anyways yes, firstly on the dynamic flips. i do think there’s more to come on that. it seems like these shifting roles they seem to take on in each other’s lives (“carer”, savior, etcetc) will be a reoccurring theme post-50s.

secondly, to me a lot of hawk’s actions in the sixth episode seem slightly panicked (understatement of the century) because he’s truly trying to hold on to tim but it’s not working this time, which in turn literally has him agitated; he wants tim to stay. not only because the threat of prison is very real, especially to him and his wellbeing, but because he doesn’t want to let tim go again. despite this he, as per, hides behind his words and simultaneously leaves the most crucial things unsaid. i believe hawk’s a very “show, don’t tell” type of person. except he usually tends to avoid the showing part as well. (lol)

his franctic behavior seemingly begins with worrying about what might happen if tim does get sent to prison but it leaks through very quickly how he’s actually particularly shaken by tim’s resistance. in all honesty i think he’s been so used to having that certain control over him, most likely finding comfort in knowing that if he wants tim to stay, he will. there’s probably some primal freakout happening inside his head there lol. he does also seem visibly worried about how deep into his faith and denying himself tim has sunk again.

thirdly, i think hawk actually seems at his most vulnerable in the ’80s. i think the reality of tim being ill and possibility of him simply not being around anymore truly shook something deep inside him and spurred some kind of overgrown shrouded gears inside his head into action. to me it seems he’s having some pretty fucking heavy realizations but it’s also obvious after decades he’s finally prioritizing this huge part of himself and the truths, good and bad, that come with it. with finally letting himself just be you can tell how he’s immediately opening himself up more to tim too, sharing his thoughts instead of shoving them down, being there when it matters most. a perfect example of this is him walking into tim’s apartment and within minutes practically stating that actually, he’s not afraid of the disease– he’s afraid of losing him.

in my opinion hawk telling tim he’s “not sure of anything anymore” is truly a pivotal moment in his life. there’s a certain sense of beginning there. something has changed everything and nothing will be the same again.

it’s also why despite the bitterness, tragedy and supposed finality of it all ’80s tim and hawk are already so dear to me personally.

obviously i’m still positively petrified just imagining where they might go with the story next but i certainly hope you and obviously anyone else that’s willing will have thoughts to share or discussions to spark as the final episodes roll out...!

[lifeneedsrot]

⚓️listen up buccaneers! This ship has been real mismanaged lately, but I run a tight ship here. Our main account is starshipsys, and this is our VENT and NSFW account. Expect lots of barely censored triggering topics on this account. I’m talking NSFW as in gore, not porn, but there will be horny textposts. That’s not what this account used to be, but it’s what it is now!

Our system used to be split in half, with one half on the other account, and the other half on this account. That’s not how it’s gonna work anymore. We’re ONE crew, and we won’t be having any mutinies here. I will listen to all crewmates but ultimately I’M the guy in charge, got it? This account is for ANYONE in the system to use. It’s where we put the gross stuff that we don’t want to share on our main. If we’re following you, either you post stuff we want to see, or you’re a friend we trust.

We are proship and proendo. I don’t give a shit what you believe in or how your system formed. I don’t give a shit what you’re into because we’re into weird shit as a coping mechanism, and we’re not about that gatekeeping lifestyle. We are willing to befriend ANYONE as long as they’re respectful and don’t cause us harm. I don’t care what you’ve done or believed. I only care who you are now and how you treat me, my system, the people close to me, and the people close to you. Close meaning both in proximity and in intimacy. We don’t bother engaging with obvious bait and arguments that would get nowhere, so don’t bring discourse here.

With all that being said, here’s a list of alters and what to expect, as well as the ideal way of interacting with them. We are not used to the tumblr tagging system, but I’m gonna try and get us to start tagging things as “[insert alter name] starshipsys” to make it possible to filter certain alters out or search for certain alters in particular. Unless otherwise specified, all alters enjoy being talked to about whatever they’re saying.

🧤Agate, they/them. 8. Childhood trauma venting, general fears and anxiety, sadposting. Please talk to them, avoid sexual subjects and violent subjects.

🪩Boppie, they/them. 21. Wanting to do drugs, wanting to go to parties, generally very bad life advice and unhealthy coping mechanisms. They won’t be able to have a very deep conversation with you, but love talking to people.

♠️Cole, he/it. 21. Venting about lost relationships within the system, references to self harm or alters attempting to self harm, weird sexual stuff about being turned on by sharp objects piercing soft flesh. He holds a lot of autistic symptoms, and doesn’t talk much.

🐰Daisy, she/her. 7. Hypersexual syskid, yes they are real, but we’re not comfortable sharing anything she wants to say anyway. You can only talk to her if she talks to you first, and you cannot engage in any of her sexual nature unless you have our simplyplural and a safe alter is fronting alongside her. Trying to sexualize her without explicit permission from a safe alter and HER will result in us never talking to you ever again.

🔭Estella, she/they. 21. Mostly just frustration with classes. Feel free to talk to her.

🐁Fobi, it/she. Nonhuman adolescent. Panic attacks, triggering situations we experience in real life, irrational behavior in an attempt to prevent abuse from happening again (IE disfiguring yourself out of fear that being attractive will result in sexual assault). Please try to talk to it and calm it down, if Fobi is fronting we are probably in an immediate danger.

🦇Grim, it/any. Nonhuman adolescent. Romanticization of abusive behaviors, fawning stress response. It wants to be abused in every way. Try to reassure it that it can be loved without being abused.

🌺Haven, she/he. 21. Mostly just rambles about the people we love, affection towards friends, maybe even soft hornyposting. She likes talking to people, especially if you’re our friend. He might even make a post about you if you talk to him.

✏️Indigo, they/them. 12. Probably vents about not being able to achieve our dreams and life goals we had when younger. Get them talking about a special interest and they’ll adore you. Sex repulsed, don’t bring that up.

🎊Jynx, she/any. Ageless entity. God complex posting, torture threats, and domination fantasies (sexual and nonsexual). She is actually friendly, despite how mean she presents herself as, and desperate for the approval of others.

🍠Kakxyl, he/any. Ageless entity. He is the alter that changes the roles of other alters, and will talk about everything all of the other alters talk about, but from an outside perspective. He won’t engage in conversation if he’s busy.

🫐Lynx, he/any. Ageless entity. Not much, really. Probably won’t post at all. He can barely communicate, and generally him fronting means we’re experiencing a wide variety of emotions, specifically from an emotional attack on either the inside or outside.

⚓️Maverick, they/he. 21. Goals for the future and plans, as well as general venting about daily frustrations. Assume they’re talking to another alter unless they’re talking directly to you.

🍥Nyan, he/she. 6-8. Whatever kids complain about when they don’t have trauma, idk. Please talk to them and try to cheer them up. If you bring up anything traumatic, though, we will be very upset with you. He probably won’t even be allowed on this account anyway.

🚀Oscar, he/him. Nonhuman adult. Vents about how awful all of our relationships and the people we love are. He specifically holds the splitting towards hate symptoms of BPD whereas Haven and Grim hold splitting towards love. Don’t take what he says too seriously, he is intentionally trying to push you away because he is afraid you’ll abuse us. Don’t talk to him unless you’re in a sane enough mental state to deal with him.

🩵Present, she/it. Nonhuman adult. Sad posts about our relationship with an ex, and attempts to comfort other alters. She likes when people talk to her, but can be a bit of a downer.

🥀Quasiren, they/them. 17-19. Venting about relationships in an attempt to build a codependent relationship with someone. They love when people talk to them.

🥩Raptorse, it/its. Nonhuman adult. Vorny (vore+horny) posting, hunger. Doesn’t hold conversations very well unless they involve food.

🎆Starbound, she/any. Ageless entity. Rage posting, threats to hurt herself or others, general aggression. If you weren’t the reason she fronted, feel free to talk to her. If you are the reason she fronted, you should probably wait about thirty minutes to an hour after she starts fronting. You can ask her if you made her front.

🪱Tazelein, he/any. Ageless entity. Torture posting, threats to torture, horny posting, romanticization of literally every bad thing ever. Yes, every bad thing ever. Yes, even that. He doesn’t represent our “true feelings” about anything, he mostly just provides a source to point to for our intrusive thoughts. He will say some fucked up shit to you, but he loves people very much, and hates death.

🕊️Utopia, they/them. Ageless entity. Weird philosophical or religious nonsense. Will probably try to convert you to whatever religion they’re making up right now.

🦠Vitriol, it/its. Nonhuman adult. Hatred for the system, disgust for all alters, will talk about everything we’ve ever done wrong. Wants to push people away to protect them from us. Won’t want to talk to you, most likely, unless you directly triggered its fronting.

🕸️Webber, they/any. Ageless entity. Abandonment issues, trust issues, soft bondage, probably some hornyposting. Will love talking to you, but tends to ramble and send very long messages.

🔥Xray, he/him or xe/xim/xis. Primordial god. Generic and vague complaints about our daily life. Likes to cut to the chase in conversations and be very direct.

🌲Yarrow, they/it or yey/yem/yeir. Primordial god. Long rambles about various alter’s mental states, similar to what Kakxyl may post, but with the purpose of informing outsiders rather than changing the perspectives of alters. Yey want someone to listen to and talk with, but might stop replying spontaneously if yey get particularly invested in documenting something.

🌊Zenith, ze/zer/zers. Primordial god. Positive things, sexual things, and general bragging about our life and our successes. Ze loves people and would love to talk.

As a general rule, only talk to alters that you’re comfortable talking to. No, this is not roleplay. We have disabling DiD, and yes it is diagnosed. If you do something to upset us, we will tell you directly before we publicly vent about it.

[sastielsfandom]

I used to be known for posting about Tom Holland. That's wow. I have no idea what he's up to nowadays, very much out of the fandom now, I don't like keeping up with people, especially celebrities like I used to. Better for my mental health.

But that's just... That used to be my outlet for happiness. When nothing else made me happy, I'd watch a bunch of interviews/promo, and it was the only reason I laughed. Him, Jacob, and Haz made me laugh so much.

It made me so happy to post edits and try my hand at drawing or writing, being interactive with others in the fandom.

Now, I'm happy without relying on anyone. Which I didn't think would ever happen, and I'm glad I can be mostly fond about that time.

It's so silly to think the reason I have a lot of different skills is because of Tom.

Editing, videos and photos, of well, Tom. I had many ideas and despite not knowing what I was doing, it didn't stop me from trial and error. Even if I don't really edit like that anymore, it was mostly used for memes anyway lol.

Drawing, he seemed so fun to draw, so I tried my hand at it. His hair was my enemy for a long time because I sucked at drawing hair. Still not the best but at least I got a system now.

Writing, I had a separate writing account just to post silly, never to be seen again, fanfics. They were absolutely horrendous and poorly written but made with such love. Without those I wouldn't have written for Sastiel. Nor my original works.

I used to ramble about him all the time, it was my escape. It was the first fandom I was in where I talked to other fans and shared things with such excitement. So I hold that time very dearly even if there was a lot of bad with it to.

I probably would have stayed in it longer if the platform wasn't Instagram. The numbers... I'm so glad I don't stress about them anymore. Lot of people didn't interact unless you had a lot, and it was difficult taking necessary breaks knowing when you come back, people were gone. Moved on so quickly.

Now, I disappear and I'm like surely less people will be here. No, as soon as I'm gone, it's like someone sends out an alert to throw a party on my blog. So many people... Like welcome! But where did you come from?

I love it.

Also, this feature: Is the reason I downloaded Tumblr in the first place. I wanted to make textposts with Tom/Marvel and liked the font/look. I was already in a rabbit hole of spn and we all know how much spn is here. Didn't take long for me to make my first spn, aka, Sastiel post. And well, we know what took over my blog lol. Went from tomhollandsfandom to sastielsfandom very quickly.

[gotshadowbanned-feralfungii]

The algorithm isn't the point. Liking textposts and personal posts are all well and good, but Tumblr literally runs on reblogs. If you don't reblog something, you're basically saying "yeah this is fine i guess but not good enough that I want to give it any sort of visibility boost or share it with my followers or help it spread at all."

Artists and writers on Tumblr used to be able to gain huge traction on Tumblr, and now people are either so picky about reblogs, so hesitant about reblogs, or just so stubborn about reblogs, content doesn't spread the way it used to anymore.

People who share their hard work on Tumblr for others to enjoy shouldn't have to shut up and be satisfied with a handful of likes before their hard work fades into obscurity because apparently most people on this site just don't know how to use it properly anymore. It isn’t about any sort of algorithm, it's about the way the site is structured and how content is spread and shared in Tumblr. Reblogs make Tumblr go round. Likes are lovely, but there comes a point as a creator where it starts to feel hollow because, no matter what you intend to communicate through a like, a like without a reblog is a nail in a posts coffin. A like without a reblog tells the creator "I see you, but this isn’t worth putting before anyone else's eyes." A like without a reblog tells the creator "there's no point posting your work on this site anymore, because no one is going to actually going to help it spread. You're better off abandoning this wasteland and finding somewhere people will actually engage with and spread your hard work."

And it's sad because Tumblr used to be one of the best spaces for that. It's always been a hellsite but it used to be a hellsite where creators thrived. Now, it's a hellsite where all but the most popular creators fully expect to go mostly unseen, because that's usually what ends up happening. People will like something you've made and then leave it to die and they'll tell you the whole time that you're selfish and stupid for wanting them to take 0.5 seconds to click a button and actually share the work they supposedly "liked" with others.

I understand why you take issue with it, it must feel like a slap in the face to think you're doing something nice and then to be told it isn't enough. But please understand, it isn't us saying your like has no value to us emotionally. Likes are sweet. They just don't serve any practical purpose. It isn’t likescolding. Like all you want. But it’s creators literally fucking begging people to start also reblogging things again. To engage with content meaningfully again, and warning that if things keep up this way, less and less people are going to bother posting their incredible work on this site, because why would they bother when their work isn't even being seen by the sort of audience other sites will let it be seen by?

I have had it with this likescolding. “Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm so likes don’t actually do anything” motherfucker I am not clicking that heart to give some post better ~algorithmic visibility~ I am clicking that heart to help my internet friend microdose on serotonin as god fucking intended