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she/her | Christian | writer & reader | obsessing over fandoms is my jam :3

[butterfly-teacup]

Welcome to my blog!

This is my little corner of the internet where I reblog everything to do with my fandoms and obsessively check on my friends and favorite blogs! You can call me Butterfly or Jo, if you'd like.

Some of my favorite media include:

Ninjago, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Trollhunters, Over the Garden Wall, The Amazing Digital Circus, Hadestown, Newsies, EPIC: the Musical, Space Boy, and The Silver Eye

I also love reading books like Tress of the Emerald Sea & The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson, almost anything by Jennifer A. Nielson, The Missing series & the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and the Lunar Chronicles!

And, of course, I can't forget music!! I love jamming out to The Oh Hellos, Mumford & Sons, soundtracks from the aforementioned musicals, and random songs that remind me of my fandoms. Please ask me about my music tastes I would love to yap to you about them!

Finally, I am a writer and aspiring author, and I love writing fanfiction for my fandoms. Check me out on Ao3 at Verbum_artis!

Some of my current original projects include:

More Than Blood (our love will be amaranthine): the one I yap about the most on here. a found family story set in an urban fantasy/dystopian world. This project has a sideblog completely dedicated to it!! @the-mtbolwba-blog

heart of a lindworm: my fantasy retelling of the Norwegian fairytale "Prince Lindworm" featuring a lot of crappy worldbuilding :P

project wind: my school writing project about a girl with wind magic who runs away from an arranged marriage to become an adventurer.

in the cards: my newest project!! about a girl who barely survived the murder of her entire people and created a new life for herself, starting an underground black market of Cards, before being caught by the Queen and kept in the castle for nefarious purposes.

Feel free to ask me about any of my projects, I'd love to tell you more about them! And honestly, please chat with me anytime! I'd love to get to know you.

Have a lovely day! <3

forget-me-not divider from @/thecutestgrotto

Quinan Fan Club box made by me, art and character from @/sunflowerrosy.

liminal spaces banner found from @/meetmeataliminalspace

dsmp boxes from @/w0lfyfl00f

[cbartonscoffee]

lore drop game!

got tagged by @elegantdeerbaran some time ago but i thought i was too basic for it, got tagged again yesterday by @darthdisasterous and now i feel i've got no choice lol

which one explains the most?

left handed

friends often think im neurodivergent

at 12 i hit a moving car when crossing the street and broke both my legs

got cancelled on twitter in 2022

facilitated my own mugging. so awkward about it the guys gave me back my things

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npt @fictionalsimp09 @g1nob1 @can-we-focus @ciri-is-sapphic-72 @obvious-captain-rogers @robbysmotorcycle @theghostofclintbarton @heyfruitcake @icemav86

[artandbeauty71]

thanks for the tag @madamekudo 🤍🤍🤍

Ummm lemme see

which one explains the most abt me?

learned how to read at 3-4

translating random pieces of classic lit in my native language for fun

introverted as hell/socially anxious

biggest fear is strong winds/thunderstorms (but only recently idk why)

physically unable to do ANYTHING except for what i strictly like

dividing my life according to hyperfixation phases

burnt out gifted child who stopped giving af

romanticising/living in the past A LOT

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np tags @bramalamania @leonardbirdstein @pearl-in-vinegar @shakespeare-guy-anon @straywings @iobsesswaytoomuch1 @ghostskin @thecordedbed @pinkofheart @v4mp1rism @goldenportobello @echo-loves-flowerboy @loverpatroclus @hikari-sae-ssg @badgirlphilologist @teaspecifically and everyone else🫶🏻

[bramalamania]

Ok umhhfhbfn (thanks for the tag btw!1!1!)))))))

what explains the most about me🥹

i used to be BIG into mandela catalogue

i wrote a 13 page essay on napoleon once (not long enough imo😣)

used to listen to taylor swift😭😭😭 (FORGIVE ME LORD I WAS YOUNG AND DUMB)

honors student tryhard boy🥹🫵

Catholic.

history nerd since as long as my memory goes back lol

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tgas @straywings @ladyliszt @shedoescalcforfunsies @pearl-in-vinegar @leonardbirdstein @shakespeare-guy-anon @iobsesswaytoomuch1 @mrwagster @png-peter-green @ilovefaintingvictorianmen @sushisushilover @dobadoorknob + open taaggagagdjf

[iobsesswaytoomuch1]

Thank you for the tags @artandbeauty71 and Bram!

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ninja turtles

queer

I never cuss

People tell me I’m mature for my age

art (of all kinds)

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@mintleafkitty72 @i-am-a-living-god @afteas2003 @abstractpenny @daboyau @theartofeverything

[afteas2003]

ty for the tag this is hilarious

my key backstory plot point

AuDHD

read a chapter book a day for years

had cps called for me 4 seperate times

foraged much of my food in the woods for months

red head

still sleep with an ever expanding collection of stuffies

favourite band is Bears in Trees

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@eating-the-sand @dettiqueen @akiastar24 @elronthemage @ohemgeeejay

[elronthemage]

ty for the tag

Choose an option >:]

mutiple nurodivergent allegations

Was reading by 3

Had a obsessed w history era in Middle School

Did not watch SpongeBob growing up

"Gifted Kid" that somehow manages to narrowly miss burnout by a hair every time

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@i-do-anything-but-write

@loftwingofcrimson

@butterfly-teacup

Open tags!

[butterfly-teacup]

honestly the reading by 3 thing makes a lot of sense. you're able to communicate your thoughts fairly well and I enjoy reading your analysis posts a lot!

also thankee for the tag <3

what explains the most?

oldest of five

most likely audhd with a sprinkle of anxiety

was in a gifted and talented program + took ap classes in middle school

read wayyyy above my reading level most of my life

southern. that's it that's the option

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these are so basic but!! here ya go, good luck :D

@thestoryteller-thedreamer @deltenner @salbean-chaos + open tags!

[salbeanocs]

THEY'RE HAVING FUN AND DANCING RRAHHHHHH

they're so found siblings 💔 trinkets literally saves maestro's life ughufhguh they make me sick

[butterfly-teacup]

OHHHHHH LOOK AT EM GOOOOOO!!!!

[scribeherself]

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

[scribeherself]

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

[salbean-chaos]

this is what i mean about my clan of four

[specss-missing-shoe]

when they say "whatthehellisanerster" but my name's Racetrack and I'm stressed so I make everyone tap dance with spoons

[butterfly-teacup]

*insert crystallizedtwilight comic where Race just says "we're gonna tap dance" here*

[the-woirld-is-yer-erster]

so uh I drew racetrack :333 surprise surprise

(From this post: https://www.tumblr.com/the-woirld-is-yer-erster/820165359904620544/who-should-i-draw-next?source=share )

[thelocalwafflehouse]

LET’S FREAKIN GOOOOOOOOOOO🔥🔥

I DID IT I FINISHED THE LINEART THIS HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY WIP PILE FOR SO LONGGG (I’ll add in the flannel pattern on Eurydice’s jacket and Hades’s tattoo in the coloring stage)

[salbean-chaos]

SHE FREAKIN DID IT EVERYONE

🚨🚨🚨

[cordiwinkswinsagain]

annoying younger brother

[barzfrommarz]

best thing about c!wilbur is that you could say he has literally any personality disorder and we’d all be like “yeah”

[sethdoesntspeak]

Smoking ew ew ew

c not cc!!! dni wss/proship

[astriiformes]

Something I have been thinking about lately is. So I like whump. I am one of many people who enjoys reading about bad things happening to my favorite fictional characters, as the long and storied history of fandom will attest. We love it when people get hurt.

But one thing I also love, that I feel like I don't see very often in whump fic, is people writing about the recovery process, the unglamorous, difficult, after-the-fact details of having sustained serious injuries and living to tell the tale. Sometimes there will be a brief scene at the end of the fic where we are assured that, yes, the character made it to the hospital and survived, and is now surrounded by concerned friends-- particularly when the story veers more into hurt/comfort territory--but that's not really what I'm talking about. What I want is stories where the treatment and recovery are front and center, the medical details are realistic and the injuries are treated with the appropriate gravity, where the process is long and hard and has pitfalls and obstacles and above all takes time.

I think a large part of my desire for fics where the recovery is more centered than the actual moment of "hurt" stems from being aromantic and asexual and preferring gen stories, but still craving moments of intimacy in fiction and thus looking for it in less conventional places. Caretaking--or being taken care of--can be great sources of intimacy in stories where sex is off the table, for one reason or another. Needless to say, it's been an obvious lacuna. People do still write it, but not as often as I'd like to see, and that's always struck me as strange.

On the other hand, my wife has never been as into whump as me. She never hated it, but didn't seek it out or write it very often and had to be in the right mood for it (and to some degree still does). But lately she's been getting much more into exploring it in her writing because it offers her an opportunity to write characters experiencing similar things to her as she's dealt with the challenges of becoming disabled and largely housebound and reliant on me for certain caretaking tasks. And as a result we've sort of gravitated towards some similar kinds of stories, where recovery and caretaking are just as if not more important than fucking that character up in the first place.

Anyway. It's lead me to think more actively about that gap I've noticed as a life-long whump reader, where the recovery doesn't really matter and the stories are mostly just about the moment of "hurt" and maybe a dramatic rescue at the end. And I won't pretend it's all ableism, but I really do think that some of the reason fandom is allergic to writing true, messy, real caretaking and recovery is rooted in liking the aesthetics of disability (the angst! the drama!) without really caring much about the reality of it. It's the same reason action heroes get knocked unconscious all the time without concussions, why sci-fi and fantasy prosthetics so often seamlessly replace lost limbs, and why everyone in fiction eventually recovers from injuries and illness (except for when they die). There's no room for the unglamorous in-between, where someone ends up permanently affected by what happened to them and where "hurt" has life-long consequences.

I guess that's all to say--I wish fandom were as enthusiastic about the disability narrative potential in whump. Even in instances where people do make incredible recoveries from horrible injuries (which I've seen firsthand with friends!), a brush with serious injury is at the very least a brush with short-term disability, and more likely than not will have effects for the rest of someone's life. That can be interesting, and even intimate if you want it to be, too.

So yes, please do fuck that character up--it's a cornerstone of fandom for a reason. But consider, maybe, telling the sort of story where what happens afterwards matters, too.

[marypsue]

#as the wife in question: EXTREMELY REAL!!! #there are just so many interesting angles with long-term recovery and disability narratives #the intimacy and the vulnerability #the power dynamics—good or bad #needing to be cared for is hugely vulnerable and many people struggle intensely with that #that's a really rich vein to explore! #there's the question of physical caretaking—how long does the character need to stay in the hospital? do they have the resources for that? #is it even a setting/location that HAS hospitals? #who looks after them once they've been discharged? how does this change their dynamic? do they welcome the help or are they afraid of it? #who supports them financially while they recover? who brings them food? who makes sure their pets get taken care of? #and how do they feel about losing functionality; even if it's temporary but especially if it's permanent? #do they still feel like themselves? do they wonder if surviving was worth it? do they get angry about things they can no longer do? #what does their disability grief look like? what does their loved ones' secondhand disability grief look like? #there is so much you can do with these stories! (via @scribefindegil)

[the-arts-of-chaos]

Prev hi!! Wow I’m not used to people being interested in what I have to say about my au-

The short version is, yes. He would sustain injuries. Heavy ones even. A quick google search will tell you that a fall onto water from a height of just 60 to 100 feet is enough to be deadly if you hit it wrong. There was a 2018 case that I’ll spare the grittier details of but you can look it up yourself where a girl was pushed by her friend and hit water from 60 feet up chest first. The only reason she survived was luck and an off duty emt nurse being at the river that day.

And the height of Tommy’s tower far exceeded this.

A player is on average in game 2 blocks tall, we’ll call the average player 6 feet for continence’s sake. This makes a block 3 feet tall on average. The max build height for Minecraft is Y-319. Assuming the tower is built at Y-0 you then multiple that by 3 to get your approximate height of Tommy’s tower. It would be over 900 feet tall.

This is a bit unrealistic as that’s more than twice the minimum height of a skyscraper, so 900 is excessive. But I think saying Tom’s tower reaches skyscraper levels isn’t too unrealistic, it’s far enough to be shocking but grounded enough to exist in suspension of disbelief at least if you ask me.

So, what happens with water at ~400 feet? It becomes like concrete when you hit it unless you break the surface tension somehow. Water is more solid than air, when you hit it it slows you done, that sudden shock and slow is what does the damage. There are two ways to enter water to minimize this damage.

Either feet first with your toes and legs pointed so you enter like a blade and can then drift back up. Or head first, with your arms stretched out and hands clapped to make a point like a human triangle, best if you aim into a diagonal dive if you don’t want to just plummet into the water straight down, but maybe you would if your goal is simply to not die.

Divers go feet first when being dropped. But I think Tommy would go head first. I think he jumped off the tower still unsure of exactly what he wanted but he wanted the chance to choose when forced. Once you’re falling it’s almost impossible to change your position. So he goes head first, if this is it his neck snaps on impact and it’s over. If he wants to love he’ll put his arms out and dive. He dives.

The cold saltwater is like knives on his wounds. Lucky him his initial position actually slowed his fall slightly, so damage is further reduced, but it’s still there. He hit hard, he was hundreds of feet up after all. The adrenaline and cold shock keeps him from feeling it truly but he has bruised his internal organs. They will heal but never be the same. To make matters worse he then flees exile, still underdressed and in soaking rags, all the way to the arctic. He catches frostbite to be sure, that does its own damage. Nerves are fried by the cold, his fingertips forever numb. His muscles are strained and maybe even ripped by the impact on the water, any hard motion may bring a string that makes him clutch his chest. At least some bones were fractured, maybe just minorly, but he keeps using them as normal and the damage sets uncomfortably within his body. Tommy is never the same fighter, he doesn’t throw punches or kicks the same, he finds a way to fight and live. No other choice really.

If anyone else had been there, a healing potion could have done away with all these negative effects. But by the time he’s at Techno’s the damage is settling in, past the point that magic can fix it.

[marblebagcollective]

waiting 🌌🌙

[artisokka]

ranboo

[niaclo]

Purpled showing up in every ctommy centric fic/au when they have like 3 canon interactions:

[shipperofthenineseas]

3 am dsmp doodles

[theartisticbirds]

Silly goober. So silly. 😛

I need to see more artworks of Revivedbur/cWilbur being silly. Hes literally A dirty crimeboy… cmon guys… 😡😡😡

[xxcolincrucifixxx]

exile draft if anyone gaf