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| dalijah | southern gothic vampire | tvdu |

[wintertimeinjuly]

❄️ Welcome In! ❄️

Winter is coming! This year's Winter Time in July event runs throughout the entire month of July.

Have a question or two? Light a yule log!

❄️ Complete Event Info ❄️ Ao3 Collection ❄️ Squidge Collection ❄️ Follow on Bluesky ❄️

Check out this year's prompts HERE!

[fairytaleweek]

✨ SURPRISE ✨

🔮 Complete Event Info 🔮

🔮 Ao3 Collection: Now Open! 🔮

🔮 Squidge Collection: Now Open! 🔮

🔮 The Prompts via Tumblr 🔮

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🔮 Fanwork Submission Form: Now Open! 🔮

Don't forget to fill out the submission form so promo posts aren't missed and so each participating work can be added to the masterlist.

Please mention this account, @fairytaleweek, in tumblr promo posts and tag them #fairytale week 2026 to be reblogged!

On bluesky, mention fairytaleweek.bsky.social and use the tag #ftw2026 to be reposted!

Happy writing! ✨

[cin-writes]

blood so sweet (like candy cane)

Read: Ao3 🪻 Squidge

Author: Hyacinth

Fandom: The Vampire Diaries

Ship: Elijah Mikaelson/Damon Salvatore

Rated: M

Series: 'cause I dream about you in my sleep, would you ever love someone like me

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergent, Vampire Fiction

Summary:

Damon Salvatore is going through some things. One of them being his growing attraction to a certain original vampire.

Written for small fandom summer 2026 and the following events:

@badthingshappenbingo 🪻 compelling voice

@darkacademiabingo 🪻 a dash of vintage charm

@deadbingoclub 🪻 april 🪻 hiding

@fairytaleweek 🪻 day 2 🪻 beasts and creatures of lore

@fandombingo 🪻 kisses, chaos, & catastrophe 🪻 free space 🪻 the blooming hour 🪻 emotional phantom pain 🪻 winter medley bingo 🪻silent death

@monthlywritingchallenges 🪻 misadventure may 🪻 kiss

@thefairytalebingo 🪻 vampire

@secretcrypticevents 🪻 into the wilds bingo 🪻 vampire

[cin-writes]

If I wanna baby girl-ify Damon, I will

[cin-writes]

Oh to make Damon Elijah's kept boy. It's taking me so long to get there

[facinaoris]

trickster week |

↳ day one: the leshy

the leshy is a male woodland spirit in slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests. he is humanoid in shape, has a manly appearance and, on some accounts, is described as having a wife and children. he is roughly analogous to the woodwose of western europe and the basajaun of the basque country.

[creaturesncryptids]

Leshy

[fairytaleweek]

✨ Of Fairy Rings and Enchanting Lands✨

Step into the circle, let the wisps welcome you home. The People of the Mound are ready to dance! Will you join them?

Happy Fairytale Week! Posting begins today!

🔮 Complete Event Info 🔮

🔮 Ao3 Collection: Now Open! 🔮

🔮 Squidge Collection: Now Open! 🔮

🔮 The Prompts via Tumblr 🔮

🔮 Follow on Bluesky 🔮

🔮 Fanwork Submission Form: Now Open! 🔮

Please mention this account, @fairytaleweek, in tumblr promo posts and tag them #fairytale week 2026 to be reblogged!

On bluesky, mention fairytaleweek.bsky.social and use the tag #ftw2026 to be reposted!

Happy writing! ✨

[cin-writes]

Damon wakes up with a pussy. Poor Elijah, what's an old fashioned man to do with such info? 🤭

[mharti-mcfly]

[cleo4u2]

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

[asparrowsfall]

In art, we can be fucking nuts.

[lithugraph]

Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you

[riricitaa]

The "I accidentally reported your account" scam is back y'all, be careful and don't click on any links!!!

[hothorrorsummer]

🎃 Welcome In! 🎃

Summerween is coming, are you ready?

This year's fest will run from 06.21.26 - 09.21.26!

Complete Event Info | Ao3 Collection | Squidge Collection | Bluesky

Check out this year's prompts HERE!

[tall]

[rachaelthemes]

Ocular — Version 3

Preview // User Guide // More Info & Install

your favorite sidebar theme just got an upgrade, babeyyy

I went to update Ocular to make it NPF post-compliant and then my hand slipped and I redesigned the whole thing lmao. here's a brief update about Ocular 3; if you're looking for a full list of changes between versions 2 and 3, click the "Read More" below)

Ocular comes with the following features:

Colors: easily change the color scheme of your sidebar and posts using any colors you want

Post sizes: 400px, 500px, 540px, 600px, 700px

Sidebar: can be on the left, right, or above the posts. pick from a list of sidebar sizes, header image heights, and avatar shapes

Fonts: 20 different fonts, sizes 13px to 18px

Background: solid, gradient, full-size image or repeating image

Links: choose either regular navigation or drop-down navigation. unlimited custom links (visit the help desk FAQ for a tutorial) and ability to rename home, ask, submit, and archive links

Endless scroll, custom ask box text, Tumblr's full-width controls and search bar, optional header, avatar, and favicon images

if you already have Ocular installed, version 3 should be coming at you as soon as the update passes the theme garden. if you installed this theme with GitHub, you'll have to re-install manually.

now let's get to the fun stuff. what's new in version 3?

wow, do I have some updates for you!

1. goodbye color schemes, hello post background and text colors

you can now directly control the color of the posts rather than relying on color schemes to do it. want your posts to be a very specific shade of navy? all yours, buddy. go wild (make sure it's readable tho)

2. hello, color schemes! wait I thought we got rid of that guy

a lot of the color schemes I made became redundant now that the new post background/text color options exist. if you were married to the old color schemes, all of them can be recreated using those options. so the new color scheme options are as follows:

"My colors" — uses the colors you picked for post background/text

"Light preset" and "dark preset" — sets the posts to white with black text, or off-black with white text

"Translucent" — uses the colors you choose for post background/text, but makes the post backgrounds semi-transparent. there are NINE different translucent color schemes, ranging from 90% (only slightly see-through) to 10% (VERY see through)

3. navigation dropdown option

you can either use the sidebar links like they were before, or you can turn them into a cute little dropdown (helpful if you have lots of links or links with long titles!) you can enable this using the "use dropdown navigation" setting. you can also customize the label for the dropdown using the "dropdown menu label" setting. for instance, the dropdown on my blog currently says "oooh you wanna click me"

4. RIP google fonts I always hated your load times

decided to stop using Google Fonts and instead I'm providing the font files directly in the code. this will help speed up load times drastically when using custom fonts, plus I don't have to use Google. win-win! there's quite a bit of coverage overlap with the old fonts, but some of them that were too similar to each other got the ax. I also added all of the system fonts as options (hit classics like Arial, Georgia, and Comic Sans MS are now available TO YOU!)

5. more layout, sizing, and spacing options

the sidebar used to be either on the center-left, center-right, or above the posts; now it can go in the top-left or top-right! you can now control the border radius on the posts and sidebar. the header height, sidebar width, and post spacing all have additional options.

6. some options have been renamed for additional clarity

"background color 1" -> "background color"

"background color 2" -> "gradient background color"

"background" -> "background style"

"font override" -> "use body font everywhere"

"title" -> "sidebar title"

"description" -> "sidebar description"

"ask box text" -> "custom HTML above ask box"

7. removed some options

you win some, you lose some. I removed the uppercase sidebar links, theme credit, and inline media spacing options, mostly for redundancy reasons or because they produced unclear results.

8. as previously stated, now NPF-compliant

Ocular was ALMOST compliant with Tumblr's new post format, but had a few tweaks that needed to be ironed out. they're now ironed.

9: now user-friendly right out of the box

I updated the default color and content options, so new users installing this theme will have a much easier time using and customizing it immediately. no more ugly ass green background!

10. and finally, new JS

I had to rewrite some of the javascript for this theme, which turned into me rewriting ALL of the javascript. doing so meant that I could eliminate dependencies on third-party JS libraries and run the whole thing on plain JS. that should improve load times!!

bonus: custom CSS can do some nifty stuff now

want to change the size of your avatar? you can do that now! just do this to your Advanced > Add custom CSS section

super helpful if you're using the Avatar shape: Uncropped setting and you need your image to be a specific size (like a pixelated GIF)

for more info, check out the Ocular user guide. thanks for reading my updates!! hope you all have a fantastic start to your 2024 ❤️

[seyche]

theme sixteen: lavender — an attempt at a sidebar grid theme with big posts

previews: static preview, live preview / install: theme garden

features and options:

one or two columns

100px x 100px sidebar image

if you pick the one column option, your post size options are: 400px, 450px, 500px, 540px, 570px. if you pick the two column option, posts will be responsive to your screen size. please do not ask me to change the post sizes on the two column version. 

links dropdown with space for up to six custom links and an unlimited number of Tumblr pages

hide or show captions and tags on index page, optional rounded corners

ten body font options, five title font options, font sizes from 12px to 18px, and all colours customizable.

responsive for both desktop and mobile devices

notes:

Tumblr’s customize page is very buggy and when you first install the theme, you have to toggle the toggle options on and off to get them to work properly.

if you’re a gif/graphics maker and you want your images to show up exactly 540px wide, pick the 570px post size option to account for the post padding.

sidebar link icons are from feather icons. if you want to change them, go to this site, find the name of the new icon you want, and enter it in the requisite text field in the customization panel.

[thychesters]

sometimes love is stored in a kind ao3 comment

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

YOU. WILL. WRITE. oh you want to write so bad. all the motivation is here. the plot is so good. words come to you so naturally. YOU ARE GOING TO WRITE. RIGHT NOW.

[transformativeworks]

AO3 Spam Bot Update

Date Posted: February 8, 2026

A wave of spambot guest comments claiming to be AO3 volunteers has recently been made across the site. They claim that there has been a data breach and that fraudulent password reset emails have been sent out. In addition, the harassment spambots are now accusing users of being sex offenders.

These claims are not true. These comments are not being made by real AO3 volunteers or users, and AO3 has not experienced a data breach.

These comments copy existing AO3 usernames in order to make their accusations seem more legitimate. They may also try to lure people onto other platforms, similar to the art commission scam.

AO3 volunteers will never communicate with you through guest comments on your work. All important communications from AO3 about your account will be sent via email. More general announcements will be posted on our official social media accounts or published as news posts on AO3 or OTW.org.

If you want to make sure you're doing everything possible to protect yourself and your accounts, our Policy & Abuse volunteers published a news post earlier this year with advice about internet safety best practices: Protect Your AO3 Account.

As always, we recommend that you do not click on any suspicious links or give your contact information to scammers. Instead, simply mark the comments as spam or report them so that Policy & Abuse can remove other comments left by these spambots.

If you aren't sure how to mark guest comments as spam, learn how to handle them below the cut!

As these comments have so far all been from guests, our advice is to flag them as spam to better filter them out. To do that, simply follow the instructions below:

If the comment is on your own work:

Go directly to the comment on your work, either by clicking on the link in your email or in your AO3 inbox.

Click on the "Spam" button to mark the guest comment as spam and remove it from your work.

Note: The "Spam" button only appears when viewing a guest comment directly on your work. This is because the AO3 comment inbox is merely a copy of the work's comments – deleting a comment from your AO3 inbox does not delete the comment from the work itself.

If you see comments like these on someone else's work:

Feel free to let the creator know the comment is from a bot, and that they should mark it as spam.

You can also report the comments as botspam via the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form linked at the bottom of every page on AO3.

If you are reporting multiple guest comments, please submit only one report, and include all comment links in your report description. (You can get the direct link to any comment by clicking the "Thread" button on the comment, and then copying the URL of that page.)

If you're not sure if something is a spambot comment, you're welcome to contact Policy & Abuse for assistance. Refer to the original post for more information!