Story Smithery

Kat | Queer | Genderfluid (Previously known as doctorwhooian) Always on the hunt for more stories to add to my collection. (Check out #story to see what’s caught my eye.) Art tag is #dw draws. Art blog is @kat-corner Do not repost my art anywhere or claim it as your own. My icon was drawn by @k9emote and my header image was created by @thegorgonist I tag for my own sorting sanity so I can find things again. Never trust tumblr search. Never trust google search. Leave your own trail of breadcrumbs.

[thegorgonist]

Which book will they pick, and what story will it hold? Prints

[furthestring]

everyone has at least one friend who's jade harley. like, even if you aren't into homestuck if you have online friends at all there's a pretty good chance one of them is jade harley

[fluffyplushiesworld]

Happy Pride Month Tumblr ✨

[girlbr0thers]

Faux leather was the worst thing ever created

[girlbr0thers]

Lets take a material that can last decades with the right treatment and care and fucking replicate it with the most dogshit ugly flimsiest animal extinction microplastics smells bad unsexual rips in four days garbage disgusting saran wrap we can think of. Ostensibly for vegans.

[abimee]

[0v9]

seeing this image in 2026 is like seeing an old friend who I've dearly missed

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[standwithdaanes]

as much as everyone loves "the power of love won't save us, we need the power of incredible violence" i'm sorry to rain on your parade but we've actually tried that about ten million times as a species, and you'll be shocked to hear the power of incredible violence, without the power of love behind it, is just brutality. the power of incredible violence has been ruling (various parts of, and then the entire) world for the past 5,000 years. ours is not that damn special.

like yes use that gun you found but WHY are you using it? on who are you using it? what would make you stop using it? is your goal to live in a world where every problem is solved by violence, or is your goal to do the violence necessary to live in a world where that necessity is unthinkable?

[vanessagillings]

Oh, to be a tiny mermaid to escape the heat

[katetorias]

also a homura doodle. understand her deeply

[problematic-rayndrop]

Happy 55th anniversary to the moon landing!

[cowboy]

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

[woodrider]

ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image

[sergal]

hello this is your google account. did you know that you are trying to log in. to. your google account. would you like five emails about how you logged in to your google account.

[mod2amaryllis]

parts 1-2

[mod2amaryllis]

part 3

and this is the true story of my monday afternoon

[mod2amaryllis]

it frew up :'(

[heart-sprout]

I'd like to thank op because I have been using these as reaction images since I first saw this post in 2022 and I had lost track of their origin but now I am grateful to the universe for the chance to say bless u

[mod2amaryllis]

imagining someone in the world making use of my 4pm on a monday doodles is sick as hell

[blckgirlacid]

I need my weird alone time or I will explode

[muninnhuginn]

this is possibly more of an editing thing than a writing thing but I do like it when you start off with a paragraph or a sentence and you realise you can actually lop off whole bits and pieces of it and still have the intended meaning be carried by implication. that's not to say that being particularly descriptive is bad - if anything, with this approach, it means that adding extra description provides more emphasis due to the contrast of it all. you can use so few words to get your meaning across that when you choose to buckle down and spell it all out, that's because you choose to. that's how I'd like to write like, at least

[apoemaday]

Rain, New Year's Eve

by Maggie Smith

The rain is a broken piano, playing the same note over and over.

My five-year-old said that. Already she knows loving the world

means loving the wobbles you can’t shim, the creaks you can’t

oil silent — the jerry-rigged parts, MacGyvered with twine and chewing gum.

Let me love the cold rain’s plinking. Let me love the world the way I love

my young son, not only when he cups my face in his sticky hands,

but when, roughhousing, he accidentally splits my lip.

Let me love the world like a mother. Let me be tender when it lets me down.

Let me listen to the rain’s one note and hear a beginner’s song.