witch people

they/them or it/its, adult. Icon: truthtotell @ dreamwidth.

[intheseautumnhands]

there’s a kind of calling

Pronouns: they/them, it/its

Names: *throws hands up in defeat* Still working that out for now, any username-derived nicknames are fine. Or random names you want to throw my way. Whatever works.

Content: Random reblogs, lots of fandoms, scattered thoughts, irregular rants and vents, occasional creative output.

Tagging: Lists and links found here. I tag very irregularly and the majority of posts will probably not be tagged.

Too many fandoms to count; I never leave a fandom, just set it aside for a bit. Current focuses: Umbrella Academy, Oxventure, Oxventure in the Dark, random musical theater.

Fic at ifimightchime on AO3.

Sorting Hat Chats talk over @repetitionsings.

If you’re trying to remember following me, you may have gotten here when this blog was dealltheknives, builttobalance, or inthedarkofthestory.

I am occasionally terrible at responses, thanks anxiety, but I like talking to people. Asks are always open, feel free to get in touch.

[maxknightley]

genuinely mystified by the kind of person that would produce this image and not realize "oh, I'm being fucking ridiculous"

[maxknightley]

personally, when I see someone press a heart-shaped button to denote that They Like My Work, the conclusion I draw is that They Like My Work. but perhaps I'm the crazy one, and I should instead be taking it as one step above "shooting me three times in the head."

[maxknightley]

#liking it is a bookmark for them. no one else sees it. it's a nod and acknowledgement my work was seen. clearly not good enough for#them to share. not good enough to bring me more business more clients more customers. how does that like button help the artist#or help the writer? it doesn't. call me cynical if you want but i've been here long enough to know the like button is only a bookmark.

listen. I get it. I am also Out Here, chronically unemployed and trying to make ends meet by monetizing my music. I also get frustrated and demoralized when something I worked hard on fails to gain traction.

that being said:

this attitude can only ever corrode your connection to your own work. "not good enough to bring me more business" - I'm sorry, but strangers on social media do not owe you free marketing. meanwhile, what you call "only a bookmark" signifies that your work appealed to them, even if they didn't reblog it. isn't that the fucking point of doing any of this? to make someone else's day a little richer, or to make them feel seen?

to put it in simpler terms:

if you consider someone liking your work "meaningless," why are you making art in the first place?

[sage-green-kitchen]

What Book Character Did You Want to be in Middle School

Annabeth Chase

Tris Prior

Katniss Everdeen

Winnie Foster

Bella Swan

Clary Fairchild

Other/See Results

Voting ended onApr 25, 2024

[dani-kin]

My good sir I had a mortgage before any of those characters were published 💀

[kittydesade]

I know who exactly three of these people are. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Herald of Valdemar.

[lireavue]

I wanted to be Menolly with her entire Faire of fire lizards.

[beatrice-otter]

I wanted to be a Starfleet officer.

[jackironsides]

I wanted to be Dirk Pitt.

[greaseonmymouth]

i wanted to be indiana jones

[vaspider]

I wanted to be Han Solo.

[bookwyrmbran]

I wanted to be Spock

[just-tea-thanks]

Harriet the Spy

[dsudis]

I wanted to be Harry Crewe

[trekkiepirate]

I wanted to be Mary Lennox

[intheseautumnhands]

I wanted to be Kaeldra from Dragon's Milk

[presentlydean]

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[thefloatingstone]

I actually think about this so much you have no idea.

I mourn every friend that's gone off somewhere

[the-haiku-bot]

I actually

think about this so much you

have no idea.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[intheseautumnhands]

If I had a nickel for every time I got into a piece of media about an extremely small, rural Alaskan town that chooses not to explain how the weird semi-magical things that happen in it work because how the characters use it to deal with their personal stuff is more important, and has notable Tlingit characters, including one whose name is a short form of "Edward"--

well, you know the meme.

anyway who's going to write the Tell Me Why/Northern Exposure crossover so I don't have to.

[intheseautumnhands]

So I’m watching Breaking the Magician’s Code on Netflix.

I watched this in bits and pieces as a kid, and I have this very specific and distinct memory of the Magician unmasking himself while doing one of those “pick a thing, I give you a list of instructions, and I will tell you exactly where you landed” tricks with triangles on the screen. It is the only part of the show I remembered clearly from the first time I watched.

Have watched all four original specials and the end of the series and this scene does not seem to exist.

What the hell, brain.

[siren-canary]

I had this thought too because I do remember that bit too and I had a guess.

Back when it first aired more people had those thick glass/CRT type television. By the time the show came to Netflix (and now in 2024 on REELZ), most people are watching either on a laptop, plasma tv, or other softer monitor. It’s plausible that maybe the segments were cut so that people wouldn’t overenthusiastically poke their monitor/screens so hard they’d damage their own stuff?

Just a guess

[intheseautumnhands]

Oh, that would make sense! I'm just glad someone else remembers it honestly, I had pretty much convinced myself I made that up. xD (I tried googling, but could not figure out a way to do so that got me any results. Though that was a while ago, hmm.)

[futuremoji]

Your fifth most recent emoji is what your soulmate thinks about you

[captainhoyw]

[andhumanslovedstories]

Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on, and I am both bolstered and burdened by your absolute faith in me” vibe, but it’s in circumstances that are like. so low stakes. Manager of a movie theater/the one usher who doesn’t smoke weed at work.

[positivelyqueer]

A friend once told me that when they are struggling with getting laundry done, she pretends it is her sworn duty to smuggle the young prince out of the castle to safety, disguised in a laundry hamper.

Now, when I am struggling with hygiene, I pretend I am part of a village with an annual festival, and I get one day a year to spend luxuriously at a bathhouse in preparation.

What my friend imparted on me was the skill of turning mundane tasks into fantastical adventures to make them more compelling and bearable.

So next time you need to go on a mental health walk, maybe consider doing reconnaissance for a secret underground organisation.

Next time cooking is too much of a chore, consider you ability to turn space station rations into a feast to the delight of your crewmates.

[tricky-pockets]

Sometimes I wonder why normal things that are hard for me are a breeze when I'm camping, and I think this is part of it.

Like, the most luxurious "bath" I've ever had was in the woods with a pot of boiled lake water. So much effort went into that! It was a whole big process! I had to fetch the water up the hill, boil it over the fire, and hang up a bedsheet for a little privacy. Used a mug to transfer water into a pan to cool a little before pouring it over myself while the rest stayed hot in the big pot. But the near-boiling water steaming off my skin into the cooler air felt glorious and the whole process was wildly satisfying. I was a fucking forest nymph.

so now sometimes when the executive dysfunction is getting to me and I don't want to shower, I have to just be a forest nymph for a little while. If it's stupid but it works...

[decompose1]

thinking about aus for ocs is so funny. like i already put this guy in a situation but what if i put them in another totally different one

[animentality]

[queselevaaser]

Guys, it's time to drop Google.

Google isn't the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we're gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can't let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.

A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.

Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.

Supporting independant crawlers is the easiest way to fight the shittyfication of the internet.

Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It's small, and therefore it's usability isn't as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn't censor, it's fairly respectful of people's privacy, and it doesn't drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it's a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write "dig shelter" instead of "dog shelter", that's what it's gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]

Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It's goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can't find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]

Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.

Qwant.com is my go-to here—it has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].

Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn't censor. Personally, I've never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don't know. I just don't like it. Still, I've added it here for completeness' sake.

If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don't have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!

4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn't have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it's the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It's also very privacy conscious, so that's an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]

If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude's personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D

PS: here's to hoping all the links work!

EDIT: eliminated the "read more". Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won't make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you'd rather)

[stuckinapril]

Born to be a girl who’s curious about everything forced to be a girl who’s scared of trying anything new

[stuckinapril]

“why don’t you do it if you like it” because I’m scared “but why don’t you still try it out if you enjoy it” because I’m scared “but what if it gives you joy” I am scared

[twoheadedfawnn]

you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

[choysum]

[sch-uwu-lchen]

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

[howelljenkins]

having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

[howelljenkins]

to love and be loved is to rest

[janjan-the-ninth]

For Boop-Badges Collectors

Rough estimate: It's possible to reach 1000 boops in less than 2 hours (took me 1:30h), if you got some people to spam it to.

If you are a blog where people can spam boop's to, reblog this.

[metfell]

replace one word in your username with boop tell me in the tags what it is