butterschaos

[xxurlittlepogchampxx]

Holdern Caufield and Shinji Ikari are basically the same guy when you really think about it

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[uglycryinglawyer]

heyyy tumblr,

class of 2024 law student here. no offense but you know things are bad when i take it to tumblr. law school really does something to your psyche and i hate to say it but despite this whole movement on social media to be more transparent, i don't believe anyone will be completely honest about their experience when their words can be traced back to them. being believable as 100% genuine & honest while being anything less than to followers that cling to every syllable of yours does more damage than good imo.

ill start this page with some honesty that i would label as a 6/10 on the "how embarrassed would i be if someone from my post-grad job were to see this" scale i just made up.

my first semester i felt like the smartest version of myself i had ever been because i got 1 online award from a fake company (seriously what business does this "computer-assisted legal education" company have hosting awards for schools around the country & why are they receiving our grades to begin with) for having the highest grade in my class. mind you, this company/award is not at ALL affiliated with my school, its literally made up. but its something that is made PUBLIC (as in if you knew my name you could google me and this stupid award shows up), and so many schools still acknowledge it to, idk, create further divisions between students that i guess the whole system of making everyones grades 100% based on their finals and curved (not in a good way) doesn't do enough for?

now here i am, having finished my 6th semester & walked the commencement stage a few days ago ugly crying over a grade because i might have just lost my honors status. when in actuality .... ~ kim, there are people that are dying ~ why does any of this matter?? this is what 6 semesters of slowly having your confidence in your own intelligence chipped away at does to a person.

its not over yet though - bar prep starts last week :). actually it starts on may 20th officially, but no ones being honest about the fact that they really started studying the day after their finals ended, if not earlier.

so i've decided to document my experience for you all here. with bar prep & my foray into big law (you know this field was meant for babies because that's what we unsarcastically call a career at a top law firm) on the horizon, & 6 semesters of pure chaos behind me, i have a lot to say!

im not sure who this is going to reach because, again no offense tumblr, but i doubt this site has the reach it once did. maybe this will just end up being a time capsule for myself, which i would love. or maybe this will help 1 person cope, which i would love even more.

regardless, if you read this far, thank you & tttys. going to throw some random hashtags in now don't mind me.

[winchester-reload]

Directions: Fill each prompt ON or After each day listed (the 1st-15th of October, then again on the 31st for our bonus day), then post it on your desired social media platform using tag #suptober23. Be sure to include which prompt you're fulfilling in each post. You can write, you can make art. You can do both! You decide. Rules: All posts must be Supernatural-themed. Like, comment, and reblog others' posts. No hate will be tolerated, including actor hate. NO AI. Do not throw a photo in a Photoshop filter and post it as art. Challenge yourself to create. Noncon, incest, and hate will not be reblogged.

To include your work in the Suptober 2023 archive, you must ALSO post it to the collection in Ao3!

In previous years, I've worked diligently to reblog each and every post listed in the tag to include in an archive on tumblr. However, more than a few things have changed in the past six years, including my earlier creeping bedtime. This year, I'd like to move the archive to Ao3 for something more inclusive. That means this year, it's up to you to get your work in there! Authors: be sure to use tags so your stories are searchable! * Artists: mind ao3's rules for images. You may choose to include a clickable link instead of the art itself.

Posting starts October 1st, 2023.

Special thank you to my friends over on Patreon for their help with this year's list! Truly without them, this would not be happening. Consider joining to help support more events like this! For a text copy of the prompts go here! Join the Discord

FAQ's

Why aren't there 31 prompts this year? Because I'm changing it up to something a little less overwhelming for you and me. Fill all the days, and if you're still hungry for more, send me a message and let me know it wasn't enough so I can take that into account for next year!

I posted my work and you haven't reblogged it. What did I do wrong? Probably nothing. I may have just missed it, which will happen. The good news is, it's up to you to include your work in an archive this year, so be sure to do that! Also be sure to tag it correctly using #suptober23, and the day you're fulfilling.

I'm really busy in October, can I post it later? Yes! The collection won't close.

I can't write or draw, is there another way I can participate? Yes, you can support all the creators by liking, commenting, and reblogging their work. It's just as important as the things being posted. Also, I bet you'll soon realize you absolute can make art and write too! There's no skill level required to have fun.

How long do the stories need to be? There's no word length just be sure to make a good effort, and challenge yourself.

Can I include multiple days in one fic? Sure, but don't post early, and be sure to tag for each day both here on tumblr (if you're posting to tumblr) and on Ao3. In the past, people have used each prompt as a new chapter, and that works great for a cohesive project!

Can I repost the prompt list with my posts? Yep. Go ham. Use at will.

More questions for me? Send me an ask!

[friendlybowlofsoup]

Another Update

Hello Friends,

I have a rather long (but optimistic!) update to share with you all today. As many of you are probably tired of reading these kind of posts, I have a TL;DR here, but I did want to share what has been on my mind in that past half-year that I haven't been here.

It has been rough, and busy as always, but I think I'm finally facing myself and my project for the first time in a very long time.

TL;DR (it's actually long, I have a lot to say (*_ _)人)

I soul-searched and decided to stop compromising on my own feelings with regards to this project. I gave in to everything I wanted to do.

Plot changes, which means some character changes, which means some of the demo is outdated.

GotRM will be switching over to Twine.

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OH MAN DID I SUFFER THE LAST FEW MONTHS

After my previous update, I hunkered down and really analyzed how I wanted to proceed with GotRM as a project. Because even prior to that post, I had already been going through long periods of hiatuses (which you are all aware of), and while I didn't lie about school taking up my time, I was also harboring a growing dissatisfaction with my own writing that really killed my progress for a long time.

So after everything had settled, I sat down and forced myself to peel apart my work. I know I said I would answer asks, but I uninstalled all of my social media and put aside this blog to focus. I made a note of all the things I liked and didn't like, and I made a list of things I wanted to change or improve on. The biggest point was that I also looked at my efficiency during actual writing sessions: how much of my time was spent writing vs. fighting with code? How could I change that?

And after a lot of deliberation, I figured there were a few things I had to change from the ground up, summed up in four points:

My working style was super incompatible with grad school. I can't spend 20-30 minutes scrolling up and down CSIDE checking code or looking for narratives while also jumping between chapters to make sure events line up. As this story grows, the more difficult it becomes to keep track of all the branches, so I needed an alternative working method, which I am adhering to now, and it prioritizes efficiency.

I hated the way I was tracking and coding stats in-game. I have griped so much about coding stats, and I have adhered to such a rigid style that I really felt trapped whenever I was confronted with balancing them out. So I'm throwing that to the wind and redoing how I utilize and convey them. Player-side, this decision doesn't change much since I never fully utilized stats in the demo anyway, and the stats page with indicators will still exist, but I'm getting rid of stat bars and how I treat stat checks.

The story I want to write now is different from the one I started out with. I've known for a while that GotRM was becoming far more than the tiny, wishful novella that I wrote as a teenager. I held onto that old story for a long time, but there's just so much I want to change that I realized I'd been clinging to a story I no longer enjoyed writing. So I spent the majority of the last few months rewriting GotRM from scratch. I redid some worldbuilding, I changed a lot of plot points, and I fixed a lot of characters' backstories accordingly. This meant scrapping stuff from even the demo, but that turned out to not be the biggest issue because:

I wanted to branch away from ChoiceScript. Honestly, I never really cared about getting officially published, but the camaraderie in the forums and on Tumblr were why I committed to CS and CoG. However, ultimately, I really want the functionality that other tools can offer GotRM, and so after a long internal debate, I will be switching over to Twine. Fortunately, since I was rewriting everything anyways, this has been relatively painless, and passage mapping has made everything so much neater. I am trying my best to make it up to chapter 2 before I release the new demo, so please look forwards to that!

And so yes, I am still here, chugging along.

I love this game and this story: it's been my creative escape for as long as I could remember, and you can imagine how frustrated I was when I realized I was starting to dread working on it.

I am forever learning more about myself and my writing style, and this is simply more of that journey. Thank you everyone for sticking around, for joining the discord, and for checking up on me--that I have all of you has truly been a dream.

Hopefully more updates to come soon! I understand that there may be questions about these new changes, so please ask away! I will (try) to release some asks that I've been working on in the drafts too, but I will wait until at least tomorrow to release them so that this post doesn't get drowned out immediately.

And as always, with a lot of love,

FriendlyBowlofSoup (Mei)

[onesidedradiostatic]

Personally, I think both Vox and Lucifer are hot as fuck. But as a chronically online iPad baby with a fondness for tv head people, I feel I have an obligation.

Now if we can look in-universe for a second and realize that Alastor is very likely not the ONLY sexy man in Hell, I feel like Vox is likely to have a few admirers he isn’t even aware of due to the difference in status. Or maybe he’s aware they exist but wouldn’t recognize them on the street unless they noticed him first and he Knew what their giggling and squealing and blushing faces meant. Lucifer, on the other hand, has been kind of a shut in due to depression. He has potential but isn’t there on account of sad boi. Meanwhile Vox has probably gone on TV doing some light fan service to boost his ratings. Nothing too far, nothing Val would suggest! But y’know, he did a cruise ship kinda outfit during Stayed Gone, implying there’s oceans in Hell and that implies beaches and it’s not like wearing nothing but a pair of swim trunks and some sandals would be out of place if he decided to do a beach-themed episode of anything…

I actually can't really say if I find either of them hot I'm just more attached to vox that's why I want him to win against lucifer. I have already spoken in favour of him though so I have to double down on defending the tv head thing (and anyways choosing the more normal head sounds boring. y'all are boring. we are on tumblr. sexymen are supposed to be weird and have a questionable aspect to them. I will keep saying it! idc how obsessed with ducks lucifer is he is too normal!!!)

ANYWAYS. vox having like. canon thirsters would not surprise me. he would thrive off having admirers but at the same time he wouldn't care about them because they're nothing special to him. but he thrives off attention so he enjoys it. I feel like he's on social media enough to at least be somewhat aware of it. he'd act smug about it but ultimately gotta be more of a freak to be his type. lucifer... I mean I'm sure there's some out there but most sinners seem to hate hell's royalty LMAO they're like so mean about charlie already. lucifer definitely isn't aware of his own fanbase at ALL he's been completely shut in and disconnected from the sinners. also vox doing fan service for views? I could kinda see that but also, he literally wears clothes under clothes in stayed gone... he may do it for ratings but at the same time I'd also see it as a result of a val-encouraged thing LMAOOO

[lemotmo]

Let's have a good day!

Q. Oh my god it was Ryan's idea! They're liking edits (which Tim has now also mentioned!) They're letting Ryan admit he's behind the mustache. The "insiders" real identity was discovered, as if we didn't all know. This is a good day so far. Thank god because it's way too quiet for a show that premieres in 3 weeks 😳

A. I love that it was Ryan's idea. I love it. He just walked in with it and shot his shot and they told him he could keep it. That's baller. I read that someone guessed that he probably did it to mess with Oliver, if Buddie is in fact a go, because Oliver said last season that when you close your eyes lips are lips. Given the nature of their relationship that's not that hard to believe, and it would be hilarious if that's why he did it. I know Ryan said he was looking like a true firefighter but it looks really gay. He pulls it off incredibly well but I don't think anyone's first thought when they saw it was 'oh my god he looks like such a manly firefighter'. I say that as a fan of the stache, lol. As far as the edits go Oliver and Ryan already admitted that they send things to one another so the both of them being demons is not a surprise. Jennifer reposting it at almost the same time however was a surprise, so I wonder if they were filming together last night or if Oliver or Ryan just sent it in the group chat and they all decided to post it together. Either way it was a nice little surprise. Tim telling people that the 3 of them sent it to him as well was hilarious.

The promo thing is now officially odd. The fact that we don't even have a trailer yet is bizarre. I was talking with a colleague this morning who is also a fan of the show, and we both kind of think something fairly significant must happen in the first 3 episodes and they're just being overly cautious about accidental spoilers. So even if we do get a trailer I wouldn't expect much actual content. They are keeping their cards very close right now. I also don't think the Family Feud episode is going to spoil anything. Although I am still curious to see what charity they're playing for because that could still be interesting. Whatever the reason for the secrecy though they don't seem to be worried about any lack of promos. So they must feel pretty confident that whatever they're hiding won't need a ton of promotion to gain traction. There are very few things I can think of that they wouldn't need to help promote, lol. I guess we shall see.

Lastly absolutely no one should be surprised to find out who their 'insider' really was. We all knew it was nonsense. Tired, boring, completely predictable, and easily disproven nonsense. *Sigh*

Thank you Nonny! Much appreciated.

I agree with this. Ali and I talked a little about this topic earlier and yeah, they are keeping such a close lid on everything that they have to be sitting on something major. And that something major doesn't need any extra promotion, like Ali said.

I'm so curious what they have in store for us. I expect a trailer that will tell us exactly nothing. 😂

As for the moustache? Not going to lie. I hope he keeps it for the entire season. The man looks so good with it.🥸

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[katy-l-wood]

Delete your Threads account. You know what Meta as a company has done, you know the kind of person Mark Zuckerberg is. You've lived through Gamergate, the elections, covid, the fucking lot of it, and yet you're still willingly making an account on Threads. How can you possibly justify that?

Second ask: Scratch that, I hadn't read your most recent posts. Sorry for being so rude.

Third ask: "Still going to keep an eye on it" For what exactly? For it not to be as bad as it is? For it to get even worse before you decide it is wrong? You know who Mark Zuckerberg is. You know what Facebook is. Be up front: you don't actually care or stand for anything, you're only afraid of losing business. Have some dignity.

So you decided to be rude as fuck, "apologize," and then come back and be more rude?

I was incredibly clear in that post of why I am going to keep an eye on Threads, despite the concerns: Twitter was a valuable source of live news, especially during natural disasters, and Threads is the first potentially viable replacement for that. IDK if you actually follow me, but if you do you'll know I do a lot of work around natural disaster communication. Twitter was invaluable as a communication source during natural disasters. Full stop. It is not up for debate. But hey, if you want a source with more authority than a random tumblr blog, here, have a nice shiny research paper:

Mind you, that was written in 2010 and the importance of Twitter as a communications tool during natural disasters has only increased since then. There is no other tool out there, no other website--news or otherwise, that can provide such granular, specific updates when shit hits the fan as Twitter did. The only better, quicker source of information I have found during natural disasters is listening to actual radio chatter from the departments involved in whatever problem, and that can be very tricky to do if you don't know where to look or have the right equipment. There is no other site where I can go specifically follow so many of my local fire departments, my local emergency services, my local National Weather System stations, and get live pushed updates from them every single time they post.

When Twitter DDOSed itself last week and put a limit on the amount of tweets people could view and forced people to be logged in to view anything at all, the effect was immediate and BAD. People suddenly couldn't view things like missing person alerts, or weather alerts. I had people messaging me because they were trying to check the National Weather System autoalerts for their area on Twitter due to being caught in a sudden storm, but they couldn't get on to check.

Love it or hate it, Twitter had an immense amount of value and it got that value--at least in the case of natural disaster communication--because the stubborn ass government decided it was big enough to be trusted with official lines of information. Very, very few other social media sites have ever had that trust from the government. Look at how they banned TikTok on all government devices. But they DO trust Facebook, and Instagram, and Meta. Which means their chances of trusting Threads and migrating over there when Twitter finally takes its last breath are ASTRONOMICALLY higher than expecting them to go anywhere else.

We can debate the privacy and moral issues of the Metaverse and those involved until the cows come home, but it does not change the fact that if my mountain is on fire I'm gonna get information about where that fire is from wherever the fuck I can. I'm not going to wait around for it to maybe show up in a "live" updates news article from CNN from some reporter half a continent away in New York who doesn't know anything about where I live and gets the roads wrong because they just don't know. I'm going to go to the website full of my neighbors and local firefighters and see what's happening right that second.

Do we need to fix the privacy and moral issues? Yes. But we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater either. Not using Threads or any other Meta product isn't the answer here. Using them with extreme caution and only for very specific needs, for the time being, is. Long term, we need to be focusing on privacy based legislation that would finally put these companies in their place. But until then, again, I'm going to keep following my local fire departments wherever they go.

P.S.: If you're going to keep the shitty attitude, fuck right off and unfollow+block. You're not wanted here.

[lover-of-mine]

Hi! So much has happened. Picking through different details to make sure this message is not repetitive because I know you have many many spies by now.

Firstly: the fake article. I cannot find who originally posted it. Only a screenshot from a BT mad about it. But apparently a Buddie made a fake post about a fake article about Lou quitting acting. They are very upset about it. It is ‘harassment’ apparently. People are offended that it cites mental health scare as the reason Lou would allegedly quit acting. As if BTs were not saying that Eddie should kill himself to mirror Ryan’s history of suicidality? Throwing stones from glass houses.

Here is the fake article screenshot. https://x.com/xfirepilot/status/1822790104525500839?s=46&t=i5gFcB_0q-6E5MZXiGtU_w

Secondly: Mark decided to lie about having ‘sources’ saying Lou is back on set this week. If he is not spotted… prepare for a full meltdown. They are CONVINCED this is the week. Especially because of the hangar. The longer they go without a sighting the more they lose it. They keep saying ‘quiet’ in hopes that it will make things happen (ie make Lou show up) which is kind of lame tbh. Taking all the fun out of the q word bit.

Thirdly: Happy birthday Peter! 9-1-1’s Instagram account posted a video of JLH + Oliver + Tracie + Ryan + Aisha + Kenny wishing him a happy birthday. Declan (Denny) also posted a photo of him and Peter. BTs are pretending that this is fine but are secretly losing it. Lou should be on set because of the hangar photo! Why is he not in that video! Why has he not posted about Peter’s birthday! But at the same time they are falling back once again on the ‘Lou is purposefully being hidden’ theory. Which is incompatible with their beliefs they will get a sighting this week.

Fourthly: one of them is saying a promo video will be released this week and promo photos the week after. I was not in the fandom in previous years but afaik this does not line up with past promo timelines? But correct me if I am wrong.

Fifthly: someone created a tumblr account called @killkinard and they are saying it is a death threat against Lou? Not Tommy? Very dramatic.

https://x.com/hofevanbuckley/status/1823057221053251994?s=46&t=i5gFcB_0q-6E5MZXiGtU_w

Sixthly: the subreddit drama… oh the subreddit drama. Okay. So. A BT shipper decided to make a new 9-1-1 subreddit because the main subreddit is way too Buddie focused. Complaining about anything to do with Tommy being downvoted on the main subreddit. So far the new subreddit has 35 members (as opposed to the 34170 members on the main reddit). So far half the posts on the new subreddit are transplanted from the main subreddit or the BT subreddit. Literally cross-posted. Makes sense that they do not like the main subreddit though. There was recently a post saying ‘why does Tommy get so much hate for being a bigot when half the main cast are cheaters’ uhhh because he is RACIST? And SEXIST? Honestly maybe it is a good thing they have that space now. Keep them contained away from the rest of us.

Seventhly and finally: someone said ‘I hope Lou posts a black and white picture Oliver takes of him on set’. They want Oliver and Lou to be Oliver and Ryan so bad oh my god. Not beating the Tommy/Eddie conflation allegations. Really all they ever do is steal from us. They have started calling Buddies ‘BDs’ now like we call them BTs. They are claiming Oliver’s new happy social media presence is a sign that he is filming with Lou. Everything we have or we say gets twisted and made about that man.

Anyways. I think it will be very funny if Lou does not show up this week. Especially because the hangar seems to be related to a Ryan and Kenny scene: https://x.com/buckleysbf/status/1823000264183271494?s=46&t=i5gFcB_0q-6E5MZXiGtU_w

Hi love 🩵

I don't even know what to say. I'm just staring at my phone. They really can't tell actors apart from characters huh? And this is a lot. I did the see part of the fake article drama but didn't fully get it. They definitely just want Tommy to be Eddie. I can't believe they dropped the BoB thing, come on guys, you don't have to copy everything we do. I do expect them to continue to detach themselves from reality more if Lou doesn't show up soon, even with the whole "they're hiding him" fantasy they have going.

[percahliaweek]

FAQ '24

What tag should I use?

#percahliaweek is our designated tag - you can @ us @percahliaweek so we can reblog your contribution on the corresponding day.

Where are the prompts?

Ah, seems this has escaped containment then. You can find them HERE!

Will you be doing anything on Twitter/other social media?

We considered it! However, as other social media sites have proven unreliable (especially lately), we'll be hosting the event only on Tumblr. However, you're welcome to post your work wherever you like! Just understand that without a Tumblr post we can't exactly RB your entry.

Can I do _ for the event?

Yes. Yep. That too. Seriously, so long as it focuses on Perc'ahlia (and is appropriately tagged to avoid spoiling people), you can do it. Cosplay, inspired recipes, beadwork, podfic, go wild! Well, with the caveat that no hateful content will be permitted - don't use a joyous event to rain on someone else's parade or promote hatespeech, alright?

Is NSFW content allowed?

Given the ship in question and just how canonically horny they are for eachother - yes! However, we request that you tag this content as #nsfw and use the appropriate content filter on it. If posting in the Discord server, keep it to the 18+ chat. Be mindful of potential minors in fandom space + people browsing content in public.

I want to participate but haven't watched Campaign 1!

We welcome fans of The Legend of Vox Machina with open arms. As a result, it's requested that campaign fans do their best to avoid spoiling show fans for anything beyond what Season 2 has shown (Umbrasyl's defeat). That means late Campaign 1, the oneshots and any mention of them in other campaigns should be tagged as #cr1 spoilers (using just this tag for simplicity). Show fans, if you want to remain unspoiled, I recommend you block this on Tumblr and mute spoilery channels in the server.

Wait - what might get spoiled for me here?

The #cr1 spoilers tag should broadly cover anything TLOVM hasn't yet, but do note that Percival and Vex'ahlia pop up in Campaign 3 and so some fics might contain mild spoilers for the events of that campaign and the decades between their epilogue and now.

Is there an AO3 collection for the fanfics?

Yes! HERE it is, ready and waiting for your fics! If interested in last year's fics (which definitely deserve some love), you can find them over HERE!

Does my submission have to fit one of the prompts?

That would be ideal, yes! Anything freeform should be posted on Day 5 for Free/Random prompts. But fitting the prompt can be very loose - maybe you just use the word as a motif, or you take it in an entirely unexpected direction. We want to encourage creativity and fun more than anything else.

I don't know what to do for the Free/Random day!

We have a few recommendations (we are unaffiliated with the websites linked): Random page of the Encyclopedia Exandria Random word generator OTP prompt generator AU generator Ghost’s Spell prompts [roll 2d20?] Wild Magic Surge table Life events table If you've made prompt lists and would not mind them being featured here, reach out!

How did you choose the prompts?

Prompts were selected by a combination of admin discussion and voting in our Discord server to try and ensure a good mix of evocative prompts (we see y'all voting disproportionately for the Scars prompt! We see it!).

Where can I find last year's prompts?

You can find the list and links to individual tags HERE. Given last year was our first year, we unfortunately didn't think to tag Day 1 until after the fact (we'll need to go and clean that up).

Why late September?

On September 29th, 2016, the Critical Role episode 'Passed Through Fire' aired, which features an iconic Perc'ahlia moment (no spoilers for show fans!). Following Burr's poll last year on which scene is most iconic for the pairing, we decided to have the week celebrate the anniversary of that episode. And, with TLOVM S3 airing the next week, who knows - we might get the animated version to go with it soon! ;3

Is it okay if I only do one prompt?

This event is intended to be relaxed and fun - one entry, or seven, or fourteen, however many you want! We've tried to announce the event earlier this year, to allow for more time for everyone to work on their entries, so please don't feel pressured to do them all the week of. And if you can't finish on time, there's no pressure: late submissions will still be RB'd and added to the AO3 collection. Mind you, after a month or two we might stop checking the blog and tag regularly, so your best bet is to @ us or post in the Discord server!

A Discord server?

We have set up a little server for this event on Discord, mostly to hang out with other Perc'ahlia fans and motivate eachother to work on our respective projects. The current link is HERE - let us know if it's not working!

Who is hosting this?

At the moment the users running this blog are @burr-ell, @blorbologist, @crithaus, @essayofthoughts and @rightpastnowhere! If you have any questions or concerns (i.e. we didn't see your post and missed RBing it :c) please let us know!

Any more questions? Feel free to send in an ask and we'll do our best to answer in a timely manner!

[thana-topsy]

Ok I gotta come out and say it. I envy you. Like, to a painful extent. The amount of people you get interested in your characters, how you're incredibly skilled in both visual art AND writing, how readers your fics have. I absolutely adore your work, but seeing it fills me with so much envy it's honestly ridiculous.

Did you deal with similar feelings towards other creators when you started writing fic by any chance? If so, how did you deal with those feelings? I feel genuinely stuck feeling worthless about my fics. I'm not as verbose with my language despite over 10 years of writing under my belt and it seems as though my plots don't interest people as much either. So I feel like there's just nothing of worth about any of my work.

I know that this is a lot to dump on you, but I felt like I would burst keeping this all in. Much love to you and I hope you have a wonderful New Year!

Hey there my friend, I've been sitting with this all day trying to decide how I want to answer you. I genuinely appreciate your honesty, because I know this is a familiar feeling for a lot of people, myself included.

I remember when I first rejoined Tumblr in early 2019, desperately trying to find anyone to talk to about TES, I would look at all these blogs gettings asks about their OCs like they were little celebrities and feel envy and longing. Now, when these feelings start to bubble up, I force myself to take a break from sharing my work, be it art or writing, if only to remind myself why I'm creating it and who I'm creating it for: myself. I know it sounds cheesy, and I probably sound like a broken record, but genuinely I just do this because it's bursting out of my skull. But I won't lie and say the engagement and the support doesn't have a big impact on my motivation. I love sharing with people and getting an enthusiastic response.

I think something people might not realize, or maybe they just forget, is that I used to write a lot of smut. Like...a lot of smut. (I still do). Hahaha and it doesn't get a lot of comments or engagement, but it does draw a lot of eyes. Once my smut stories started taking on heavier plotlines, a comment I'd get a lot was "came for the porn, stayed for the plot." And I wasn't writing smut because I thought it would get me an audience, I was just horny LMAO. But it encouraged me to branch out and experiment with the types of stories I was telling.

Anyways, art is another big part of it, yes. But that also didn't get a lot of engagement in the beginning, and my skills were rusty as hell. I was getting maybe 15 notes on here, 30 likes on instagram. But that didn't really matter to me, I was just insane with inspiration. I'd reach out to people and ask to do art trades, got ghosted a lot, made some good friends, (some people who are still my good friends to this day!). But it took a lot of risks, and I made a lot of accidental enemies and learned a lot of hard lessons. But having visuals to go with the stories I'm writing is like advertisement in its own way. I'm just lucky enough to hyperfixate on this shit like it's my lifeblood. I've always obsessively drawn my favorite characters, ever since I was a wee bab. Long before social media was a factor or the words "content creator" even existed.

And I think that's what it all comes back to. Above all else, do what you do with unbridled joy. If someone else finds joy alongside you, all the better! Even if it's just one person. Take risks, make friends, make enemies, draw that blorbo unapologetically and with wild abandon. Love what you create, even when it's bad. Even when it makes you cringe years later, don't delete it. Even when people try to find every reason to hate what you do and who you are. Don't stop.

Every act of creation is bringing something into the world that didn't exist before you made it. And that alone gives it worth.

Happy New Year!

[rose-riot-johnson]

Hi my Tumblr Peeps😃👍I have decided to write another Blue Lock fanfic and the character I plan to write about as the staring character is non other than, Shoei Barou💣⚽😃👍

*Virginity=v-card, up to reader's imagination which Blue Lock character who the reader was dating before the reader decides to see Barou, and this fanfic contains 1 or more long paragraphs 😅

💣⚽You're The Only Person He Has Ever Cared About⚽💣(Shoei Barou x afab (assigned female at birth) reader)

Genres: Smut (Warning +18⚠️: Cheating, Sexual Contact (including, Vaginal Penitration, Oral Sex (Reader giving and receiving)(includes deep throating), boob groping, nipple pulling, nipple sucking, nipples play), nudity, language, virginity (v-card) loss, hair griping, hair pulling, )

After the football match (to some people it's soccer (ball) game) ended, Shoei Barou has been noticing you were having an argument with your boyfriend, (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), who was on the team Barou's team faced. It wasn't just any argument, however the argument you had with (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), was really heated, in a very bad way. Barou feels that there's a part of him that makes him want to check on you out of his concern for you, despite of him never feeling any concern for anyone else before, however he just decided to go to his locker room and try to get your heated argument you were having with your boyfriend off his mind.

While Barou was taking a shower, an argument you had with you boyfriend has completely is no longer on Barou's mind. He thought this was the only thing that was on his mind. He ended up reminiscing things that happened between you and Barou, considering that both you and Barou used to be childhood friends. It's a mystery on what happened with your friendship with him. He tried his best to get you off his mind, as he never cared about anyone. The only thing he only care about being the best at football (soccer (ball) to some people) and scoring at the sport, or he thought he did. He only cared about you and it's more than he thought he did.

After Barou left the locker room, luckily for him, he was able to have his own motel room, so he doesn't have to worry about his teammates getting getting anything dirty or anything that would piss him off or gross him out. Once he got to his motel room he reserved for, he checked his cellphone to check his notifications, which it turned out that you sent him a message through a social media platform that he has an account for. You sent him a message asking, if you could spend the night in the motel room with him, as you need space from your boyfriend (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), which he replied to your message, as he sent his message saying, "I guess, so. If it was anyone else, I wouldn't have told them fuck no. Since, it's you, it's fine. I kinda would have liked you to come to the motel anyways." and he messaged you and address to the motel he's staying at.

Once you met up with him at the motel he was staying at you hugged Barou, tightly. He's not usually a hugger, however you're the only exception pertaining the hugger part, as he lightly hugged you. Both you and Barou went in his room, so the both of you can have a private talk with eachother.

Both you and Barou were having a conversation with eachother about memories of your childhood with him, then he letted you open up to him about what your argument with your boyfriend, (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)) was about and even confessed to Barou that he would make a better boyfriend (and would treat you better) than the boyfriend you have. Barou was shocked to hear you tell him this, as he said, "What makes you think I would be a better boyfriend than him? And why in the hell do you believe I would treat you better than him? As much as I hate to admit, I tend to have a short fuze (temper)... Also I'm not exactly much nicer, if any nicer than he is, if you get my drift... Why would you rather have me than him, (afab Reader Name?!", while giving you a serious and confused look. You replied, "You see Barou... Nice isn't exactly what I'm looking for, like you think... You're not as much of a jerk, as you believe yourself to be... So, unlike (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), I know you will pick up after yourself and you would help me talke care of chores, especially with cleaning stuff that needs to be cleaned, especially with cleaning the living room... Seriously, I know you would help out... I mean it's not a problem for me to clean up, especially after myself and helping out with cleaning, especially when I'm home without him, however if I have to wait on him hand and foot, while always picking up after him, even when he doesn't want to get up after he makes a mess on purpose... Plus, I'm sure you have other good qualities you secretly have without knowing that, I'm sure... And I know you have feelings for me, Barou... I know you also, secretly care about me... You loved me more than he ever could, wheather you want to admit or deny it, I know how you truly feel deep down... And also, if you think I lost my virginity to him, well I have news... I'm glad I didn't even lose my v-card to him the way things have been with my relationship with him... I figured I'd save it.... It's not for him tough".

Barou understood what you meant, surprised that you're still a virgin, and now knows you're trying hide that you're secretly saving your virginity for him. He then decided to take his shirt off and his favorite pair of pants, while only having his boxers on, as you noticed he has had a hard on, not knowing how many minutes or even hours it has been... You couldn't help staring at his bulge that you noticed through his boxers and his whole shirtless upper body, including his bare chest, as he then impatiently asked, "Are you just going to stare at me all day or are you going to strip, too?", as he was walking closer to you before having his hands underneath your shirt to grab the front of your bra. He then growled, "Well if you're not going to strip, I might as well do it for you, (afab reader name)! I don't have all day to wait!", proceeding to rip your bra off you somehow.

The next thing he did was pull your shirt off you. After he pulled your shirt off you, he groped your breasts, pulled on your nipples, then started to suck on your right nipple. While he was pulling on your left nipple and sucking on your right nipple, he would on and off quickly look at the expressions on your face (and the fact you were blushing right away), as you were trying not to groan nor moan. Once he stopped sucking on your right nipple and pulling on your left nipple to play with the same nipple he was sucking on, he stared at your already red blushing face, as he hissed, "I take it you really enjoyed getting your nipples sucked on and played with, (afab reader name)... For your first time, you seemed to hold your voice back well..." before he focused his attention back on your nipples, proceeding to actually pull on your right nipple and sucking on your left nipple.

Minutes later he finished playing with your right nipple and sucking on your left nipple, then pulled your (skirt or pants or shorts) and (the type of underwear of reader's choice) down to your feet, as he was noticing your pussy was soaked before saying, "Looks like your pussy is wet... I'm starting to get hungry anyways...", proceeding to start licking and sucking on your pussy. You were overstimulated before, however you couldn't help that your pussy is getting more overstimulated (than your sore nipples were), as he keeps switching from licking your pussy to sucking on your pussy and vise versa. He finished eating your pussy, as you let out a quiet groan.

"Still trying to hold yourself back?! Don't be so modest about how good my hands and mouth feel on your tits, especially your nipples and don't hide how you feel on what an amazing job I did using my mouth on your pussy!", Barou growled, while using two of his fingers to slightly play with your clit, before he continued, "Why in the hell are you trying not to squirm? If you're going to hide how you're feeling with how great I'm doing with pleasuring you, instead of showing me how you're feeling, I might, as well feed you my cock and see how well it fits your throat!", as he completely takes off his boxers, then gently grips your hair with his left hand and using his right hand on his cock, until his cock is inside of your mouth. He then uses his right hand to grip your hair, so he can makesure you're deep throating his cock. He bullied your whole mouth, including your throat, by using both of his hands to push your head, to give your throat a deep throating sensation and to pull your hair to give your throat a very short break to push your head for your throat to feel his cock again.

Barou then teasingly, taunted you, as he groaned, "I see that your throat is taking my cock well... And just from the sight of your face, it looks like you couldn't hold back, despite of you keeping quiet... Oh that's right, you couldn't say anything, even if you tried, because of the fact that I madesure my cock is inside of your mouth to ensure your throat feels my cock on and off... As much as, I would like to cum inside of your throat, I rather save my cum for that virgin pussy of yours... And I have a feeling I'm going to have more fun with my cock inside of your pussy...", before pulling your hair to get his cock outside of your mouth.

Once Barou's cock is outside of your mouth you smiled at him, showing him that you enjoyed it. As much as he knows he's appreciated, he also remembers full well that he still wants you to be a little louder and for you not to try to stay quiet the whole. As you're on your hands and knees on the floor (considering the floor is completely cleaned), he decided it was finally time to show you that just because he's king, doesn't mean he wants you to quiet down... He actually wants to hear something out of your mouth...

"Are you ready to finally have my cock inside of your pussy, (afab reader name)? You should know that you won't be able to hold back any noise you make, if keeping yourself quiet is all you're trying to do. If preventing yourself from moaning is what you're trying to do, then you should wait until another time, which it could be months from now that you'll be ready for your voice to come out from the pleasure of me fucking you, if you ever do?! What's it going to be? Are you ready to set aside the fear of slipping out any noise from the extra pleasure I'm going to give you or are you going to be a scaredy cat who still wants to keep quiet longer?!", Barou hissed. You then pleaded, "Please Barou! I need you... I need your cock inside of my pussy! I promise to be noisy! It's just I was quiet, because my boyfriend had me shaped up to be silent, because he complained I'm too loud when I talk or that I talk too much! And it's also because tonight was the first time we talked in a long time! I promise I won't hold my voice back!". Barou was shocked about your reason why you held your moans and groans back all this time he was pleasuring you and more shocked about everything you said to him, as he then replied, "Now since I got you to understand where I'm coming from and that I now understand why you were holding your voice back, I can now start getting my cock inside that virgy pussy of yours!".

While you're still on your hands and knees, Barou shoves his cock right inside of your pussy, as you then started to groan. He was grabbing both of your ass cheeks while he was thrusting himself inside of you. You then started loudly moan, "Oh fuck, Barou! I love everything you've been doing with me tonight! Especially, how you're having your cock pound my pussy!", before Barou started to smack your every minute that he continued to thrust, as he started praising you without smiling, as he would groan, "I love it, when you're naughty like that...", then he groan, "I enjoyed the sight and the feel of your whole body... And I even loved your ass...". The longer he continues to thrust inside of you, the harder he rams his cock inside of your pussy, to the point where you end up moaning louder, which your loud moans are music to his ears.

Once Barou empties his cum inside of your pussy, he then decides to have you take a shower with him. After you got done taking a shower with him, you then called (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), to tell him that your relationship with him is over and told him the reasons why you're breaking up with him, which is the stuff you told to Barou, which you mentioned to (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), only the stuff that pertains to him, which you never told him about Barou. After you finished the call to break up with (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), you walked over to the same bed Barou is laying on.

"Not sure, if you over heard me... It's just I just broke up with (Up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)), tough I told him less than I told you.", you explained to Barou about the situation. He replied, "Good... You deserve better than him anyways...". "I think I already have someone better than him, actually...", you replied back.

"Huh? What do you mean, by that?", Barou asked. You then answered, "Wheather you want to believe it or not, I have someone better... And it's you... You made me realize that, earlier...", as you went on the bed to lay on him before he had his left arm around you, as the both of you now see that it's a start of your relationship with him. The both of you then kissed eachother, before you both were falling asleep, while he's still holding you with his left arm.

⚽💣The End💣⚽

I hope you had fun reading this Barou smut fanfic, as much as I had fun writing it, my Tumblr Peeps💣⚽😃👍I really wanted to write a fanfic about Barou for such a while to the point I was originally going to do a head cannon(?) in the same fanfic as a couple other characters from Blue Lock who I still haven't written about yet, however I did canceled out that idea before I actually wrote a Rensuke Kunugami fanfic. So, an idea popped in my head about writing a smut fanfic about Barou and since I've written cheating as 1 of the warnings, I really decided have the reader decide to use some imagination to pick out which Blue Lock character would come to mind when then reader reads "up to reader's imagination pertaining Blue Lock character (name)", which I really feel it would be better for the reader to pick that out, when they read that and it would be more fun to write this particular fanfic out that way. Also I'm becoming aware that there are people aside from myself, who are a fan of fans of Barou, which I figured why not try writing this particular fanfic with Barou, as the staring character😁👍

[lacewise]

The same time the Brits caused the chaos that happened in 1948, the rest of the Middle East saw as an opportunity to expel their Jewish populations to Israel (to oversimplify, think about the reservations in Canada and the US—that’s how they envisioned Israel and how they expelled Jewish people while seizing all their belongings. A huge part of the reason many Middle Eastern countries are mad is Israel thrived anyway.)

Poland got rid of their Jewish population by literally committing the Holocaust

When you say, “Israel shouldn’t exist” or “Jewish people need to go back to Poland” what I hear is “we can have world peace if all Jewish people die” which is straight out of the “Protocols of Elders of Zion” (think “Birth of a Nation”) and “Mein Kampf”—this is also where ideas about Jewish people or a theoretical state of Israel wanting to “take over” the Middle East come from (they don’t, and you guys are ignoring actual Middle Eastern colonial empires engaged in society-wide human trafficking to scapegoat Jewish people. It’s weird, and I’m sure the victims find your callous disregard creepy, because they’ve actively said so—they would not feel safe in a room alone with you. Consider why that is.)

I have no idea if you guys realize you sound exactly like Adolf Hitler (who was inspired by “Protocols of Elders of Zion”) or Donald Trump (who kept “Mein Kampf” on his bedside table for years)

I’m frankly scared to ask

You cannot discuss Nakba without also discussing expulsions of Jewish people from both Europe and the Middle East—it’s disingenuous and I will not only assume you also support the Trail of Tears, I will tell other people you support the Trail of Tears

Think long and hard about if that’s something you want to be associated with, because I promise you, if other people look it up, they will see the similarities—they’re glaring—and they’ll also probably start asking questions like “why are you downplaying the Holocaust? Isn’t that Holocaust denialism?” (The answer is yes, by the way)

Depending on what else you say, I may also assume you support the enslavement of Black people by the tribes

Argue with your mirror, not with me

Regardless of what you know, some of the most prominent voices on antisemitic Tumblr and TikTok have almost certainly read “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and have been promoting hateful and baseless conspiracy theories found there, and either you haven’t noticed or you agree.

One of the main organizers is implicitly pro-other genocides and constantly spreads barely concealed hatred and bad paraphrases of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as threats directed at specific Jewish people and organizations. I have no idea how you all missed that, but I’ve always found people filled with gleeful hatred are easily distracted from both the particulars and the main facts

And you know what they say about Nazis—if one Nazi is welcome to a seat at your table, it’s a table of Nazis

The Nazism is not misguided. The calls for the death of every living Jewish person are not accidental. The flags calling for genocide did not appear out of overzealousness. It’s the point. Nazism, theocracy, fascism, and eugenics do not value mercy, and they will not give any to you, no matter how much you beg them. If you don’t quickly find your way out, you’ll find yourself dragged down, the rest of your actions discarded as tainted, and your names inscribed in the history books next to the rest of them. Decide if you want to be the shame of your families and cultures for decades to come.

May the memories of all those lost be a blessing, and may we find a way to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

—signed a non-Jewish woman who knows how to read. You should really try it sometime.

Find a way to deradicalize yourselves.

P.S. In my offline research, I’ve found that in almost every subject, the popular information going around online is not just misinformed, but counterfactual. Especially on social media, it is the exact opposite of what every respected expert and researcher says. It’s often exact opposite of what primary sources say. If you’re getting a lot of your information from the internet, then the first thing you need to do is find offline sources. I didn’t have the information literacy to recognize how terrible the situation actually is before I started, and chances are, you don’t either. I would also recommend talking to people who spend time offline and getting some hobbies.

[alice-the-demon]

I want to share it here because I'm not seeing anyone talking about this injustice on Tumblr.

Idk what the hell happened between Elon Shit-Musk and the Brazilian government, but prohibiting the civilians in there to access popular social networks and socialise with other people around the world is just so absurdly unfair.

And here you might say "Oh, don't exaggerate so much, they still have Instagram, Tumblr, etc" but that's not the main problem for me. There are people and influencers who made their account there since the day Twitter was created. People who over the years built an audience, whether they did blogs, shared their opinions and masterpieces or just liked to talk and comment under their friends'posts. And I'm certain that a good portion of these people are Brazilian.

I'm not Brazilian myself though, I'm from the pizza-making boot-shaped peninsula also known as Italy, and fortunately the Italian government did not decide to decapitate Twitter here too. Not yet at least. I hope.

So why am I complaining about something that doesn't even involve my people?

Well... I just feel so sorry for the Brazilians. I believe that everyone deserves the freedom of speech, no matter how right or awfully wrong they are. Yes, there are people who can be really annoying or, hell, can have some extremely controversial opinions, but I think that people often forget that the more importance and vocal we become about the person we don't like the more powerful they become.

I know that sometimes being vocal about something wrong can be useful, it can unite people to fight injustices and change things for the better, but at the same time there will be annoying people, like Elon Fuck-Musk, who will use this attention to their advantage and eventually gather people who will be on their side.

So what do you do in this case? You ignore them. You stop giving importance to what that idiot is saying and move on with your life. And when people will realise that this idiot's opinions are not getting traction and attention, they will stop giving importance to it too. And when that idiot will realise that no one is listening to them, maybe they'll realise that what they've been saying is stupid.

Not saying that it'll certainly work with people with bigger followings, there will always be people that are stupid enough to lick Elon or Trump's feet no matter what, but as long you stop giving importance to their followers at least you'll have your mind clearer from negativity.

My point being, I don't think that any governments should ban any social media from their states, it's like prohibiting your child from going to their favourite park just because it has a broken bench. One rotten flower doesn't ruin a whole garden, idk if it makes sense.

Phew... That's pretty much all I had to say about this situation. I got very sad because the Twitter account of my friend @panhbr (a wonderful person and amazing artist btw you should follow him) is about to be obliterated at any moment and I wanted to use this opportunity to talk about the importance of freedom speech. I don't think I'll talk about political stuff again (mostly because I don't know much about politics in general and I don't want to be attacked by people who are "fans" of it) but it is pretty liberatory to vent about stuff like this.

Edit: So uh... Some people from Brazil corrected me and said that it's not a freedom of speech problem, it's just Elon that did a bullshit move as always. Of course. I hate that man so much. But I think that what I said about not giving importance to stupid people is important, so I'm keeping the post up. Thanks to the Brazilian folks who corrected me 👍🏻🇧🇷

[lotusmi]

what happened?

well. I will try to clear everything that happened...

"i am x void"

Starting with the I AM X VOID comment. I was not mad with her about that. Why? Well because it is okay to have different views on topics. She asked "they are not the same?" I said, "they are completely different for me". I was ok with this and everything was right, since we had discussed other topics before and we respected or different points of view, such as "affirm persist". I remember once she asked me if lucid dreaming and astral traveling were the same thing, I explained they are not the same, everything was ok. After replying her reblog, I left to watch a movie and only logged again this morning.

"You unfollowed her"

Why would I? I did not. It could be a tumblr glitch, maybe i forgot to follow the new account, maybe I missclicked the following button. Again, after replyng her reblog, I even found one of the first asks she sent me and I even rebloged it, because everything was okay.

+ this that an anon sent me, it really makes sense:

I forgot to unfollow Glossy, the girl who lied to me. Why would I unfollow a friend?

"You and Roselle said shit about her"

This is a LIE. I never said anything against Unique. I and Rosie almost don't text each other. And if we did, who would share the screenshoot? Also, where is those screenshoots? No one sent me any

There was a person who was posting fake screenshoots about Riri. Everyone here knows how Riri write, everyone knew that it was fake.

+proof of my dms with Rosie

"You talked shit with other bloggers"

she mentioned angel, multiversebaddie, remcycl333, and konniesreality.

Ok. I never dm angel EVER, tho I really love her posts on states

proof (there is not even how to text her since the dms are closed) :

multiversbaddie:

i only texted her once and it was to explain a thing about the void:

also she texted me today and i had no idea what she was talking about:

I even thought it was about Glossy lol. We only texted each other 2 times..

About Rem, I love all her posts. But we never talked ever and I don't even have her dms too.

Konnie:

she texted me twice. When she first texted it was about a personal thing of her, and the second and last, was when they both had a fight or whatever:

I could screenshoot all the times I defended her in my dms or all the hate asks i've been getting today, but I decided not to do it. I already had proved myself here. Also. Fleur, Vesora and Unique are the only bloggers that knows my other social media.

Early in the morning I thought all of this was a misunderstood. But now I see how disrespected I was by being accused of things I did not did by a person i thought was a friend of me.

Unique, how many times I did checked if you were okay? How many times I was there for you? I defended you? I sent you a lot of asks when my anons were sending you hate, asking them to stop it. But you did not posted any of them. I know it was your decision and it is okay. But why post all of this without proof and say this was my fault? i would had sent all of this in your dm but you decided to block me without reason.

[sabakos]

30 year old loser who spends money on special snowflake checkmarks on their tumblr.com account: all these entitled brats wanting to communicate for free online through internet services they pay for on technology they pay for! why wish for a free social media / communication tool like the ones that have existed for decades before greedy, selfish millionaires decided that the commodification of every aspect of life was essential to the greater good when you can just pay money for a borderline unusable website filled with other 30 year old losers desperate for validation

It's interesting to me how all the people who think like this don't ever seem to actually like Tumblr? Yeah, this is a perfect website for me and my loser friends, who are mostly post-rationalist computer programmers or esoteric grad students that share my interests and fall within my age group. Why are you here with us though? Go back to facebook, your grandparents miss you and they have some new and interesting political opinions they'd love to share with you.

The argument that you pay your ISP for internet access and so they should host and create social media websites for you to visit is a new one, though, I like that! They usually do give you an email address. Or maybe that's not what you want, you just think the fact that you pay one entity for one service obligates others to do uncompensated labor for you? Do you understand that you're demanding free labor from other people?

Probably not, you probably don't realize that the only way that that labor was funded before was through the owners of the website you regularly use (but apparently hate?) tricking those "greedy, selfish millionaires" into playing hot potato by investing in an unprofitable business and convincing them they'd be able to sell their stake to someone else before it all fell apart. Sadly, this has mostly stopped working recently, but it's impressive that it ever did. You're understandably upset about that, but probably not as much as if you realized that these capitalist tech libertarians have done more to socialize overall wealth in providing you a service at no cost to you, and they weren't even trying to do that.