An explosion happened, I think

I got hooked into fanfiction and now I’m hanging out here all the time. No idea how long that’ll keep. AO3: skinofthesoul

[hexenmond]

some quick bits & bobs

I do tend to ramble. I also take an interesting in a great many things. A very incomplete list would be: languages, websites, poetry, music, arts & crafts, programming, accessibility, free + open source software, webcomics. My go-to smiley is 🙃.

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I am currently looking for a native Finnish speaker to ask some questions about language and culture!

You can always ask me:

for help with HTML/CSS formatting, especially on AO3,

for help with understanding difficult bits of German, especially lyrics or poetry,

about the long form, five part Witch Door fanfiction that I'm writing. I am looking for alpha/beta readers!

Also please absolutely shout at me with your favourite untranslatable bits of lyrics or poetry or idioms or puns or what-have-you in Turkish or Irish!!

Fandom-agnostic beta reading:

I'm on the NeedABeta file as well. I may not always have the time to commit to longer projects, but I actually 🧡love🧡 correcting things and giving detailed feedback on a piece of writing. We will need to agree on my level of nitpicking 😉 but I can do anything from broad strokes discussions of where you want your story to go, to debugging where you're stuck, to looking over the nitty gritty details of tonality, grammar, punctuation, and formatting on AO3. Just ask!

Some possibly interesting tags:

my wip snippets

witch moon ramblings (very mixed bag, anything where I've written more than three sentences)

how to ao3 (some reblogs, some tips & tools I've come up with myself)

how to tumblr (same)

Fandoms I guess:

Dreamling fanfiction (haven’t watched Sandman though, read the comics decades ago),

Dead Boy Detectives,

and of course The Witch Door.

Find me elsewhere: I’m on AO3 and Sharkey (the latter isn’t really working for me though, but I do hang out on the Fediverse). I don’t really use other social media much (not even Pinterest any more really, but that’ll return with a vengeance with some hyperfixation or other probably).

[softest-punk]

The Story Keepers

Do you want:

nb4nb not-quite-star-crossed lovers

mid-future solarpunk setting

frankly the coolest facet of Irish mythology turned into speculative religious practice

short enough to read in one sitting

✨FREE✨

Then The Story Keepers is for you! Read it on my Patreon (for which there is only a free tier and I would love it if you signed up for it. There will be more stories coming. Time travel! Disability and superheroism! Aroace ghost hunters! etc. etc.)

[yourrottingwife]

SIMPLE GUIDE:

Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life. EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc

Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe. EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc

NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person. *AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.

(Modified) from my comment left on this post.

[hybridcalisthenics]

Calisthenics for Beginners (2023)

You can learn almost any exercise by building up with easier variations! Here are some examples.

Note: this is a short version of a 26-minute long video called "Home Workout for Beginners (2023)" on our YouTube channel. If you want more details, please check out that video or the Hybrid Routine page: https://www.hybridcalisthenics.com/routine I tried to fit what I can into a short video.

Also, yes my knees go in a bit more than I'd like during my intro jump when I stand up 😅. The one later is better.

We're going to try to schedule a large backlog of videos to post daily for a while! If anything seems out of order, that might be why. Follow for more - have a wonderful day!

Free Hybrid Calisthenics Fitness App (beta) - based on this video's philosophy

[ferrousferrule]

I recommend this workout to my clients on a pretty regular basis. Hampton is a trainer who ACTUALLY understands what "no really I'm a total beginner" means. 10/10 use myself, send to others, recommend this workout. -your neighborhood medical massage therapist.

[stainedglassboots-blog]

Let’s say you wanted to glue fabric to wood, but what do you use? What about glass to paper? This to That lets you choose two things you want to glue and lists what types of glue is best. (Because people have a need to glue things to other things!)

[dramaticthreads]

This is an incredibly awesome site.  Go check it out!

[aicosu]

Whhhhaaaaaattt!???

[techfails]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS

This is one of the first websites I was told about in props. It also has information about the toxicity, adhere time, price, and other stuff about the glues.

[geekhyena]

Useful for cosplayers and DIY!

[backofthebookshelf]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE WEBSITE

I consider it my duty as a librarian to make sure everyone knows about it.

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[cutecipher]

there's art inside me trying to get out

[frightfullytreeish]

dear everyone on tumblr who needs to host images elsewhere (e.g. to embed on ao3 etc), please give squidge a go!! it's free, it's nonprofit and it's geared towards fandom so nsfw images won't get deleted!! and please stop using imgur if you can because they blocked the uk rather than acquiesce to the fucking internet safety laws, which I can't really hold against em but it does mean all imgur pictures just show up as big purple boxes now

[blogquantumreality]

Squidge! Holy blast from the past, Batman. The last time I remember even looking at that site was... eons ago.

( Oh, what was I reading? The Quartz Key. Yes, it's m/m. )

[beatrice-otter]

Not only is Squidge still around, it's expanded and grown! It is still run by the same guy, though now it's a nonprofit with a board and everything, and while they maintain all the old squidge sites as static archives, they have a new multifandom archive using the AO3 code at squidgeworld.org. They also host podfics and fanart.

For those younguns in the crowd, back in the day erotic fanworks--especially slash--was not welcome very many places. Walter was willing to host it, and has been a haven for NSFW fanworks since 1994. The various archives and so on hosted at squidge.org were never very large, compared to lots of other archives, but they were a necessary part of the fannish ecosystem, and I'm really glad that there is now a structure in place to keep the whole system running beyond just "Walter's a great guy willing to donate lots of time and money." Walter is a great guy! but like. it's good to have other people to help out and keep things going in the long run.

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

[blorbospinninhouseplant]

Ok but How Do I Do That

[kuttithevangu]

Self-regulation for adults: Strategies for getting a handle on emotions and behavior - Harvard Health

Learn strategies for enhancing self-regulation skills, and discover the benefits of mastering this essential life skill to help emotional dy

There are many techniques (also, there are drugs)

[kuttithevangu]

Emotional Regulation: 5 Evidence-Based Regulation Techniques

Emotional regulation is about managing emotions to maintain balance.

A little meatier than the Harvard page but covering the same ground. These pages will give you additional phrases to google for advice

[hexenmond]

part 2 chapter 17: What comes next

Turns out one week off work isn’t actually a lot 😅 oh well, I’m keeping at it! Currently doing a lot of research for the next parts. Here’s the beginning of chapter 17 for you 💜 (short snippet, long chapter!)

Jousia wakes in a cold sweat, hearing his own panting as if it was a stranger’s. It takes him a long while to gather all his senses again, and longer still to remember that he is lying in Jesse’s bed.

Jesse—!

His blood freezes, and he flips over to reach for the body lying next to him without thinking. He grabs Jesse’s shoulder hastily, blindly—

“Jousia?” The sound of Jesse’s sleepy voice, clear enough in the silent night, calms Jousia’s frazzled nerves at once.

The intensity of his own relieved sigh surprises Jousia, and he quickly says, “Sorry, Jesse. I—I didn’t mean to wake you. I was just confused for a moment there.” He can vaguely make out Jesse in the darkness, blinking at him, and lies down again, sinking his head onto the pillow. “Let’s go back to sleep.”

“Mhmm.”

Jousia takes another deep breath, as quietly as possible, and shuts his eyes again even though he doesn’t want to. No point running from nightmares, you know that. They’ll pass. Eventually.

Read the whole chapter on AO3

Read part 2 from the beginning

Read part 1 from the beginning

No idea what this is about? Read my intro post

Start reading The Witch Door, the canon webcomic (ongoing, currently in chapter 16)

Read Afterparty, the author’s side comic that started it all (22 pages)

[pillowfort-social]

Hey everyone! We want to make Pillowfort a non-profit, but we need to bring together a team to make that happen. In order to register as a nonprofit, we will need at least three board members to assume the roles of President and Secretary. We’re also looking for people to join as directors and/or to helm the following responsibilities:

General Operations & Administration

Development

System Administration

App Security

Legal

Finance (Treasurer role)

Content Moderation

Community Management

If you're interested in joining Pillowfort in one of these capacities, please follow this link to read more about our goals & how you can help us!

[lord-pretzel]

We’ve all heard of masculinity in a peacock way, but I’d like to pose a new idea: femininity in an anglerfish way

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[creekfiend]

About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"

This makes people very angry and panicky.

My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.

It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure

[anarchistmemedistro]

[klappersacks]

(via File Photo)

[mudwerks]

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

[pricklylegs-deactivated20250727]

Tasty obelisk fries..

[memewhore]

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

[gingerhaze]

“It’s digestible”

[rhea314]

“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

The more you know! :D

[nianeyna]

I have learned a new thing today.

[soupwife]

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

[nianeyna]

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

[dancinbutterfly]

but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!

Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.

[mr-elementle]

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

[papapastoral]

And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes

[elf7knight]

This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.

It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post

[decadent-trans-girl]

'why is so much politically-focused genre fiction centred on monarchies' many reasons, but one which I think deserves attention: monarchy is an obvious way of tying together the dysfunctions of the domestic to those of the state

[gracewight]

💯💯💯

“Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma decontextualized in people looks like culture.”

—Resmaa Menakem

[luna-azzurra]

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

[sea-salt-gingerbread-house]

@mindscapic-exposure