A Bookwyrm's Lair

Call me Bookwyrm. My writing lives at bookandyarndragonwrites. at bookandyarndragonwritesdark. Fair warning some NSFW stuff may wind up here, as I am a full grown adult and am allowed to enjoy adult things. icon is from @prideicons

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[inkvoices]

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

[inkvoices]

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

[lightningladybug]

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

[inkvoices]

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

[dannnnnnnnnnnnex]

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

[captainpissofff]

Who ever added those links without asking is doing lord’s work fs.

[captainpissofff]

Reblogging this again cause I never want this post to die

[fokindiabolical]

Making it a tradition to reblog whenever I see it.

[great-tweets]

We just knew.

[awed-frog]

As a reminder, this is what she looks like:

[yougetsomekisses]

[larkiethings]

Also I hope everyone knows that Miette was fostered before she was adopted, and her foster mom loved that little kitten so much and always hoped she’d gone to a good home. this tweet got so popular that she recognized Miette and reached out to her current mom, and was able to share previously unseen baby pictures

[darthmelyanna]

You mean, she saw Miette was kicked like the football and did nothing to help put Mother in jail for a thousand years? I am appalled.

[tigerses]

her!!!

[madeofstarsandfairylights]

Baby Miette!!!

[ottermatopoeia]

Babe wake up new Miette lore just dropped

[devil-with-three-heads]

IT’S MIETTE!!!!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! Miette is joyful and whimsical!

[simply-a-dream]

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

[creative-anchorage]

[suriandtaal]

[herainsorcia]

[lizwuzthere]

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[xalphafox]

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

[headspace-hotel]

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

[by-ilmater]

YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOU CAN CRAFT A COMPLETE SENTENCE! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOU USE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF COMMAS! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOUR PROSE IS GOOD AND RIGHT! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS YOUR VISION!

[hopefully-grimderp]

This is the "You is Smart... You is Kind... You is Important" version for writers and we should all be telling it to every one of the wonderful writers/artists out here on this Hellsite (affectionate)!!

[fishcrow]

You will suffer the curse of caw!

Share if you care to spread the curse even further! 

[twentyplusinterestsinatrenchcoat]

@hopefully-grimderp @mellennia @astartelikeamelody @jackalwolfsoul what a terrible curse indeed :)

[hopefully-grimderp]

UwU…. Just got through half the work week barely making it to Wednesday, y'all!!! This wish came in just at the right time!!!!

[cyrjovie]

Saw a solarpunk creator spreading the news of scientists in China (if I remember correctly) experimenting with making plants bioluminescent to light cities instead of using as much artificial street lighting.

The conclusion was "this must be solarpunk" and I cannot emphasize how incorrect that is.

Whether or not this particular experimentation leads to less harmful man-made lighting, it isn't solarpunk.

Solarpunk is technology and infrastructure engineered to work in harmony with nature and community.

Changing nature to better fit human wants is NOT solarpunk.

[moniquill]

Bullshit.

Changing nature to better fit human wants and needs is fundamentally human.

Every vegetable you've ever eaten is the product of humans changing nature to better fit human wants.

I don't know that bioluminescent plants are a function solution to anything and I'm sure there are a number if very valid reasons that utmost caution should be taken with their potential implementation, but there is nothing 'not in harmony with nature' about messing with plant genetics.

Thank paleoindigeous genetic engineers from mezo/South America for the existence or corn, for example:

Zea Mays is a wholly human invention.

[alpaca-clouds]

This.

I also want to note: I think the research OP is talking about is actually from Europe, because I am aware of both a French and a Swedish research project on this topic. And admittedly, when that Swedish one released (that was in 2018, I think) I was also not fully sold, because it felt fairly gimmicky. But in the test areas where they implemented it a bunch of things happened over the test period. Distress in wild animals went down, air quality got better, and a bunch of other stuff. And now there is a project in France testing something similar since... 2023, I think?

And, yes. The general goal of those projects is basically to say: "Here is a thing where humans are negatively influencing nature. We cannot change that we are in those areas, but we can lessen the negative influence we have. Let's try this way."

Solarpunk is not about like... going back to the neolithic. It is about developing technology in a way that we can better live with nature. And this is doing that.

I do not even get OP's issue here. Like, having poles filled with water and bioluminiscent algae or fungi is not negatively impact the algae, bacteria, or fungi. Because algae, bacteria, and fungi, for the lack of a nervous system, quite literally do not care whether they grew in the ocean or in a bioluminiscent pole. But we know that this light is less disturbing to wild animals. We have shown that. Because light pollution is right now as much of an issue in some areas as other forms of pollution. So finding ways to reduce light pollution is very important.

And it should be noted: this idea about bioluminiscence as a form to light cities has been around in Solarpunk as a genre since 2014 and then of course has been a core idea that went into Lunarpunk. So while I do not know if those scientists were inspired by it or just came to the idea independently, it definitely connects to solarpunk.

[moniquill]

@transmechanicus , your tags:

#this isn't solarpunk this is biopunk this is engaging in genetic and biological engineering as a foundational technology of society#solarpunk is about replacing extractables with renewables and encouraging re-wilding of urban areas#biopunk is 'we are going to use biological systems to replace mechanical functions' a la Leviathan#streetlights replaced by engineered luminescent trees is not something you get in a solarpunk society bc gene work requires plastic#as does virtually all medical and biological work. which is overwhelmingly derived from oil products.#personally i'm very in favor of the glowing trees#same as the engineered algae blocks in eastern europe and south america to scrub air in cities.#i will say genetic engineering of plants is a pain. their genomes are relatively resistant to modification compared to bacteria or animals#there are techniques obviously but their efficiency is much lower and the required technology is more complex#bacteria you can heat shock into absorbing a modifying plasmid. humans you can give a plasmid with assisting transposases.#plants you need the fucking Gene Gun bc their DNA is basically never un-condensed enough to be accessible to modification

Genuinely asking: What definition of 'solarpunk' are you operating from?

Because 'solarpunk is about...encouraging re-wilding of urban areas' and 'solarpunk is when absolutely no plastic ever' are not takes I've heard before.

[prismatic-bell]

While that person is...certainly having an opinion, they did actually bring up an idea where I'm like "this totally wouldn't work, but it would be so cool if it did":

What if the lightpost algae could be crossbred (for lack of a better term) with the air-cleaning algae?

Cities, no matter how solarpunk we are, are always going to have some level of schmutz in the air. People cook with grease, grease aerosolizes, it sticks to dirt. People and animals shed skin and hair cells. Plants shed pollen and even if we get over ourselves and start planting female trees again there's always going to be pollen that doesn't find a flower. Here in Phoenix we get dust storms because we're literally between four mountains and the wind has nowhere to send anything. And all of that is assuming a world where we manage to go fully gasoline-free!

Imagine streetlights powered by cleaning the crap out of the air.

[kosmogrl]

[gay-hrithik-roshan]

[thegreatyin]

"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

[luxthestrange]

Reverse Soft Au-Theme...Red Flags

You were catfished by one of those Aliens for a blind date, so...you decided to scare off your giant, lying lover boy, with your horror film hyperfixation with the movie you KNOW would freak a race so well known for being organic-phobic...Have a little FUN making a space man scare like the earth men

But from his pov, he was having the most WONDERFUL time. You were his dream... visa secure and okay, you might be very pleasing to the eye, even if you're organic. Your cybertronian-like features are uncanny, sure, but hey, you seem like a cute little one who falls for a strong mech like him...

Trailbreaker:

The date started off so well Begin my night not expecting the fright of my life She was perfect from what I could tell How could I not see the danger right in front of me?

Y/n:

My favourite food is fish

Trailbreaker:

Baby, that's my favourite too

Y/n:

I love cartoon dogs

Trailbreaker:

Baby, I love Scooby-Doo

Hey, girl, what's your favourite film? She said,

Y/n:

"The best movie of all, a masterpiece of art called Human Centipede, Human Centipede."

Trailbreaker:

I think that I'm gonna get murdered tonight

Y/n:

Human Centipede, not ironically!She said, "The costume design was a highlight." I like it for the plot

Trailbreaker: Tell me what the plot's about

Y/n: German doctor sews three people's ass to mouth (cool)

Human Centipede Trailbreaker:

Please, God, save me I think that's a red flag. I don't want to get stabbed

Trailbreaker*Looking down at his hybrid teenage sparklings, as he bounces his youngest sparkling on his knee, looks fondly back at that time*And that's how we fell in love...yeah, your human parent sure knew how to scare me, I kinda deserved it...

tagging

@revelboo ...HONESTLY REVEL THERE WILL BE BOTS WHO LIE ON DATING APPS ONLY FOR HUMANS

@witherlove

@aurox031

@transformers-spike

@berracids

@tinyfroglove

@kisa-mosheglot

@random-fandom1984

Cybertronians really... haven't seen at what lenghts we go to ward off men who try to flirt with females who are just enjoying the moment, from straight up barking to squaking to acting crazy...to uno reversing their bad pick up line...I hate to think these cybertronians are seeing horrible podcasts from ALPHA males talking about how to pick up human females...

I WANT TO BE COURTED LIKE A PENGUIN, BRING ME COOL ROCKS OR DO A COOL DANCE!

[luxthestrange]

Reverse Soft! And Potential Pro...

Send your stalker alien new friend trying to court you for that visa...to get rid of that fraggint polititian that frags everything up-

Tagging

@revelboo

@witherlove

@aurox031

@transformers-spike

@random-fandom1984

@harveybwabbit92

@berracids

@tinyfroglove

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[mageofquandrix]

Like they said- get the noise up. The administration has tried lots of ways to ban being transgender, and they've always failed. Make sure to tell community members and ask them to pass the word as well.

Don't let fear or feeling doomed stop you. If you're overwhelmed that's okay, but take a break, take a breath, talk to someone about how you're feeling, and continue.

We've beaten them before and we'll beat them again.

[parabins]

tumblr isn’t considered a social media because everyone on here is just talking to themselves

[parabins]

yeah i agree

[bleu-guacamole]

What does the backend of this website look like that it enabels time travel

[dragonfreckles]

context for anyone who doesn’t have timestamps turned on

[bitchesgetriches]

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Delicious. We love to see it.

[tobaeus]

@ralfmaximus

[ralfmaximus]

Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.

I love stories like this.

[tacofriend]

Get peer reviewed!

[lierdumoa]

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.

[katswenski]

[thebisexualbooknerd]

I’ve seen this a million times and every time I forget what’s coming

[orcnumber1]

@trickyfrancis