trust your heart, and trust your story

Sophia head full of words and heart full of stories; I adore the strange, mythic, and fantastic. perpetually in love with wronged and/or misunderstood female characters largely migrated to pillowfort

[afigureofspeech]

moving to pillowfort.io

Hello all! I’ve been trying out Pillowfort the last few days and enjoying it mightily. If you’re there, come find me: afigureofspeech. I’ve also started three communities: fairytales, fantasybooks, and AhsokaTano.

If you’ve never heard of it, Pillowfort is trying to become fandom’s alternative to tumblr. It’s bringing back forum-style comments/discussions and communities a la LJ and increasing user’s control over their content such as the ability to make a post unrebloggable or visible only to mutuals. If you change something on your post, all reblogs automatically change to match, and if you delete it, all reblogs are also deleted. The ToS specifically forbids hatespeech and hategroups, among other toxic behavior, and the staff has purposefully utilized crowdfunding so as to avoid being beholden to shareholders with interests that may directly conflict with the needs of the userbase. There are lots of other features designed specifically in answer to fandom’s complaints about tumblr, with a whole list of features to be added.

If it sounds like I’m majorly plugging this site, I am. I want this to succeed, and I want my friends to join me. I want to blog again, because I can never quite seem to get back into tumblr.

If you missed the Kickstarter, Pillowfort is still accepting PayPal donations for invitation keys. For every $5 you donate you’ll get one invitation key. If you want to check it out first, you can log in on the demo account to poke around and take a look at the site FAQ.

[misskamala]

This corset is really uncomfortable. So can we all wrap this up and go home?

[trainstationgoodbye]

Anne Hathaway in Ocean’s 8 (2018) Dir. Gary Ross

[pillowfort-social]

Less than 12 hours are left for you to pledge to Pillowfort.io’s Kickstarter and get a registration link for the beta! Pillowfort is a new social media site that aims to fix the major shortcomings of today’s major social media platforms, such as a lack of privacy controls and poor communication tools. On Pillowfort you can control exactly how your content is seen and shared, and you can create and join user-run community spaces to make it easier for you to meet people who share your interests and have fun conversations with like-minded people. Check out the Kickstarter page for way more details on the site and what we can offer you!

[absolutelynogravitaswhatsoever]

I said I’d make maybe one post more about this whole Pillowfort thing, so here it is.

They’ve got about 2 days roughly left on their Kickstarter, and although they’ve now made their target the only way you’re going to be getting a registration key (unless gifted one) is by donating $5 dollars to the cause, otherwise you’re waiting until some time mid-next year I believe when it finally comes out of beta.

Why am I going on about this still? Well, because I don’t like the way Tumblr works. I want the ability to lock certain posts to a select audience and keep others public. I want to get to know people in long form without worrying about who the hell’s looking over my digital shoulder. I want it to be easy to post pictures, gif-sets and art, but I also want to be able to journal. I want the format of Tumblr and the features of Livejournal. Pillowfort appears to offer this.

Thing is, the only way places like this get off the ground is if people actually go there and use them. Hence why I’m banging on about it still. I remember the various LJ-exoduses, and I remember the sites like InsaneJournal and Dreamwidth and they were great buuuut we’ll all still sat on Tumblr.

Do I think PF will work? Maybe. Like I said, I’ve seen a few people make the attempt over the years, and some of them have been real good attempts that have still, ultimately, not won the dubious prize of being “fandom’s new home”. I certainly don’t think that’s what PF’s about ultimately, but it would be nice if fandom had somewhere popular that’s bloggish to meet up other than Tumblr.

Of course, if it does get popular only time will tell in terms of seeing if the admins, the coders, and the hardware cope with the stresses. They seem like decent enough folk with an admirable outlook, so I wish them well.

Anyway, that’s it. That’s all I’m saying now until I get my registration code, then I’ll be setting up shop over there. I’d be amazed if it’s popular enough that I immediately leave Tumblr behind, but I’ll certainly be using it for a somewhat different manner of posting.

If you want in, go here. 

If you want to play around with the demo account, go here. 

[jaybird-with-a-hat]

Yes to all of this. pfio has some features that make getting to know people, having conversations, and sharing interests easier and more enjoyable than any other platform I’m on. 

Take this past week for example. I’ve had roughly 2 dozen comments/reblog with comments on tumblr. Meanwhile on pfio…

around 20 people managed to hold cohesive conversations on multiple topics over the course of the day. i learned how many guinea pigs will fit in a 747 using math. i found a bunch of knitters. learned some history. i got to KNOW people. 

i’m not an artist or a writer or someone who came to the platform with any particular skillset or group of friends. i just showed up, took an interest in other people, and started building. 

$5 gets you in the door and pays for site developers

come find me here and say hello

[afigureofspeech]

Hey y'all, I know this is basically all I've been posting lately but I really really want it to work in the long run. I'm super pumped to get my registration keys and I'm looking forward to the chance to start over with a new and improved blogging experience. They're actually pretty close to the first stretch goal which would be awesome! Check it out! :)

[pillowfort-social]

Pillowfort.io’s Kickstarter is over 90% funded!! We’re so close, and we still have 10 days to go! :D

[pillowfort-social]

If you’re looking for a new social media platform to give you better control over your content and more intuitive communication tools to connect with other users, Pillowfort.io may be your new home. Many of our more than 10,000 users have said they hope Pillowfort will replace Tumblr and Twitter as their go-to spot for social media. but we just need a little financial help getting off the ground. We’re currently doing a Kickstarter to give us enough funds to develop the site to the point we can open it to the public, and if you contribute $5 or more you will be able to register an account on the site while it’s still in beta. Check out the Kickstarter page for information about the site, our funding goals, and even check out the site’s live demo!

[pennie-dreadful]

Good god the nested comment threads alone are worth throwing $5 their way, I always feel weird having conversations via reblogs bc past a certain point I imagine my followers are like shUT UP ALREADY. There are people on here who probably have never used Livejournal or Dreamwidth and have no idea what I’m talking about lol but trust me it’s nice.

[lavenderfables]

No one but you could break the spell, little Princess, and I waited and waited at the well for you to help me.

[afigureofspeech]

An ongoing project where I share my favorite Kastle fics as I read them. My original rec post was getting out of hand, so this page makes them much easier to search, sort, and find what you’re looking for.

This is not meant to be a definitive list by any means and I am always open to suggestions. I have tried my best to be thorough when tagging the fics but it’s very likely that I’ve missed some; if you spot something incorrect or absent, just let me know and I will fix it.

In any case, I hope you all enjoy!

[cieled]

ᴍʏ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ɪs ᴢᴜᴋᴏ. sᴏɴ ᴏғ ᴜʀsᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ғɪʀᴇ ʟᴏʀᴅ ᴏᴢᴀɪ. ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀᴇ ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇɪʀ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʜʀᴏɴᴇ.

[celebsofcolor]

Willow Smith for GirlGaze

[velinxi]

She

[thorodinson]

I’m asking for safe passage… through the Anus.

Thor: Ragnarok (2017), dir. Taika Waititi

[stydixa]

The Mummy (1999) Dir. Stephen Sommers

[henryscavills]

“When I die, my money’s not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious.” —Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008)

[patrickjane]

[stormbun]

What is it, to be a hero? Look in the mirror, and you’ll know. Look into your own eyes, and tell me you are not heroic. That you have not endured, or suffered, or lost the things you care about most… and yet, here you are. A survivor of Hell’s Kitchen, the hottest place anyone’s ever known. A place where cowards don’t last long, so… you must be a hero. We all are.

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