powerfulwizard:

aviculture:

“milk is from bre*sts EW” “eggs are basically menstruation” “honey is bee barf yuck!!” do you guys ever stop sounding like 4th graders who think cooties still exist or what

Milk is from breasts yum

animentality:

chilewithcarnage:

poissonavril:

papayajuan2019:

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

vytriesstories:

ettawritesnstudies:

Etta’s Guide to Writeblr (March 2023)

So you fled here from Twitter/TikTok… Where to start?

Welcome to Writeblr! Pull up a chair, open those documents, and pour yourself a cup of your favorite tea, coffee, or cocoa. The first thing you’ll want to do is start following other writers. Check out this post for recommendations! Search through the notes to find hundreds more. Since I made that post, a bunch of people mentioned they’re lurking and still trying to figure out tumblr, so I thought I’d make this post to help people get settled.

How to set up your blog

• Make your blog name something not resembling a pornbot - it can be whatever you want, anything fun goes, just not [name###]. If you include “writer” or “author” somewhere in the url it makes it easier to spot writeblrs at a glance but it’s not a requirement
• Change your profile to something that’s not the default, Make sure you have a blog title, and add a little description in your blog header if you feel like it!
• Make a pinned post introducing yourself (pls don’t use your real name or any IDing information for privacy’s sake, this isn’t facebook), a short summary of your WIPs, and links if you have an author’s website/newsletter/ao3/etc. You can check my pinned post for an example
• Make intro posts for each WIP! You can spruce these up with graphics (canva and unsplash are both great free resources to make edits/moodboards), excerpts, lists of tropes, character intros, etc. Link to the WIP intro in your pinned post so it’s easy to find! You can update these as often as needed
• If you want to make character intros, go wild. If you can’t draw, piccrew is a great option. Just start talking about your WIP!
• Come up with a tagging system to keep your blog organized. I recommend individual wip tags or at least one for your original writing in general so it’s easy to search for your work on your blog
• Keep track of Taglists for your WIPs. Whenever you post a new thing about your story, tag the people who asked to be notified to make sure they see it! Only tag people who ask to join the taglist, but it’s a good way to keep track of interest. It’s normal to have multiple taglists for each story+ one general writing taglist.

How to make writer friends

• Reblog their work and add nice comments, either in the tags, comments, or the reblog itself People notice regulars in their notes and appreciate the attention. I promise it’s not weird to compliment a total stranger
• If that’s too intimidating, community events are your friend!
• Weekly Ask Games: These are weekly events that are loosely themed where writers send each other asks about their WIPs! The most common are Storyteller Saturday (about the writing process), Blorbsday (aka Blorbo Thursday about characters), and Worldbuilding Wednesday (about the setting of your story). If you answer these late, nobody really cares, but it’s a fun way to receive prompts and learn more about other people’s stories.
• Ask Games/Memes: These are posts with lists of questions you can reblog from other people, sometimes themed or listed with emojis. It’s common courtesy to send an ask from the list to the person you reblog it from, then people can send you questions as well, so you can talk about your stories! You can search for dozens of them
• Tag games: There’s a ton of different types of tag games, but basically someone @s you with a challenge/question, you reblog with your answer, and then @ a bunch of other people to continue the chain. Some common ones are Heads Up 7s Up (share the last 7 lines of your WIP), Last Line Tag (share the last line you wrote), and Find the Words (ctrl+f the given words in your doc and share the results, then give new words).
• Formal events: These are community wide participation challenges organized by certain blogs! @writeblrsummerfest is every July?? August? I think? It’s run by @abalonetea a few years strong, and there are daily prompts and ask games! @inklings-challenge is a month-long short story entry for Christian writeblrs. I think there was a valentines event in February. @moon-and-seraph is hosting a pitch week soon! Since these are more organized, it’s very easy to find similar blogs and support!

Misc. Notes on using Tumblr

• Follow the tags #writeblr and #writeblr community to find other writers, as well as other tags that interest you like #fantasy for example
• If you want to bookmark a post to read later, you can like it and/or save it to your drafts
• The queue/schedule function is very useful if you want to space out posts or have a backlog to keep your blog running when you get busy. This is good for the community because it gives older posts a chance to be rediscovered! You can change the posting frequency in the settings.
• REBLOG YOUR OWN STUFF. People aren’t always on at the same times and so it’s the best way to account for people with different schedules and timezones. If you’re worried about being annoying, you can tag those #self reblog or something similar and other people can filter the tag, but otherwise it’s a welcomed and accepted practice.
• If your excerpt is pretty long, put it under a cut. On desktop you can do this by selecting the squiggly button on the far right when you make a new paragraph, on mobile type :readmore: then hit enter.
• It’s polite to add descriptions to images and videos for visually or auditory impaired people. If you don’t know how to write descriptions, here’s a good resource
• In your dashboard settings, it’s best to shut off the options “Best Stuff First” and “Based on your Likes”. These function as the website algorithm and suppresses the blogs you actually follow, which defeats the purpose of the site, letting the dash be in reverse chronological order. Also turn off Tumblr Live because it’s malware as far as anyone’s concerned.
• Curate your experience, block the trolls, and be nice

Again, welcome to the community! I hope you have a ton of fun!

exactly what I needed, thank you

Almost got blocked twice today, I am brand new!

jeaniefranklins:

dayasan:

He would not fucking say that but let’s indulge

#honestly some people really are out there writing characters OOC#but within the story the characterization is consistent and engaging#and you’re like…ah…sometimes a weed is just a plant out of place

wordsmith30:

You know what makes me the most upset about the use of AI in our culture? It’s not just removing artists from art or devaluing human creativity – it’s treating people like they’re disposable.

Oh, you’re not that special. We have computers to do that now. If you died tomorrow, we have your image. We have your voice. We have your biometric data. We can just duplicate you, it’s no problem. Who needs flesh and blood? Who needs agency and free thought? Who needs the human soul? You’re just a tool. And when we’re done with you, we’ll just toss you aside and find someone else.

Creatives, listen to me, and listen to me good: you have a voice and it matters. There is no one in the history of the world who is exactly like you, in this time or this place. There is no one who thinks like you, acts like you, speaks like you, moves like you. There is nobody else built like you. Nobody else with your unique experiences and outlook of the world. You are a product of history, of culture, of art, of love, of pain, of possibility. Don’t let them take that from you.

horrorgay:

it’s recess. you’re a…

dragon 🐉

wizard 🧙

elf 🧝

fairy 🧚

(were)wolf 🐺

mermaid 🧞

vampire 🧛

horse (girl, gn) 🐎

dinosaur 🦕

something else (say in tags)

folkdances:

i really love when people have favourites within their own ocverses you made that guy and then you got obsessed with them

nflstreet:

(Source: twitter.com)

vaspider:

traycakes:

thenightgaunt:

only-tiktoks:

She’s 100% right.

So I work I healthcare. I’m in management. I don’t touch patients. Not qualified for that.

But I help make sure the hospital stays open and the lights stay on.

I’m also massively prounion, and pro-universal healthcare.

So that said, I hope they rip that fucking prick in the recording a new asshole. I hope the feds come after him for that HIPAA violation and they beat him so badly that the other hospital administrators only dare whisper about his fate after a few drinks.

Follow this lady’s advice. And if they are fucking you, get help and get what’s owed. No mercy.

Honestly this should trigger a full outside audit of their billing because the administrator basically admitted they are overcharging patients and is trying to cover it up.

yyyyup

toxicshipsincorporated:

clockworkspider:

clockworkspider:

I mean I think people should curate their own fandom experience and whatnot and it’s perfectly fair to just avoid things one is uncomfortable with…

That being said. From personal experience? Immunizing myself to all my discomforts by browsing through pixiv and kink memes with raised eyebrows while searching for things I am interested in back when tagging was non-existent has really made my fandom experience much more pleasant nowadays.

I have preferences, for sure. But I have no fear. I have no cringe. The filthiest, grossest fanwork holds no powers over me. I am a god.

Like honestly dl;dr and block on sight is respectable and all but I genuinely think everyone could just benefit from purposefully exposing yourself to your nOTP and non-triggering squicks sometimes? (And obviously don’t go bother the creators for it.) If only so that it makes it easier/safer to search for content you like without living in fear of accidentally glimpsing something you hate and having that ruin your day.

Training oneself to be comfortable with mild discomfort is a highly under-rated skill in this day and age

I think its interesting that “desensitized” is a dirty word now. Like…when I did my therapy, being desensitized was the GOAL. It was the fucking dream.

But also, desensitization essentially gives you the agency to say, “okay so that felt bad, now I can either put it away, really explore and understand what that discomfort is trying to tell me, or discard it.” Idk…some of yall are so fucking distressed all the time and you call it “being normal” or “being a decent human being” but…it isn’t normal to be distressed all the time. It isn’t decent to be distressed all the time. And like…I have disords and chemical shit going on in my brain but if you don’t have all that….I think you need to look at your distress and ask why it is actually enduring and who benefits from you being distressed (lessons from a pre-bush era american).

nosockstensai:

afeelgoodblog:

It has been amazing to see how aids has been controlled, definitely a win for humanity

hoopearring:

dont make me tap the sign

syntaxaero:

adventurecomics:

• Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look alike contest to a fucking drag queen.
• Charlie Chaplin once failed to even place at a Charlie Chaplin impersonator contest.
• Hugh Jackman went to comic con as Wolverine, only 2 people noticed him and one told him he was too tall.
• Christopher Reeve use to go to a restaurant in costume when filming Superman. When he went in the Superman costume he was mobbed by people all the time. When he went in the Clark Kent costume no one realized he was Christopher Reeve.
  

Tony Hawk