Nothing more dangerous than an untold story...

Hi, I'm Jackie. On this blog you can expect Once Upon a Time, Glee, Broadway musicals, and Tumblr randomness. My Glee fics (mostly Klaine) and my OUaT (Rumbelle) fics are linked in the sidebar.  

[detectiveweaver]

“You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.”

[capaldy]

[airplanned]

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

[athenadark]

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

[themanedwolf]

This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia

[digitaldiscipline]

The number of times I have written amazing things in my dreams, only to recall a line or two upon waking, would leave me in possession of more than two nickels.

[geopsych]

3 months plus to go but you know don’t lose sight of it!

[my-ny]

Rumbelle text posts pt. 24/?

[overthinkingao3]

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

[the-prima-vista]

once upon a time || skin deep

[othellho]

“poets of distant planets” by Ifeanyi Ogbo

[notonlymice]

[x]

[nobeerreviews]

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

-- Ray Bradbury

(Chambéry, France)

[imanwithoutbowie-deactivated202]

Continue✨ Keep going✨

[tartrazeen]

Thank you, lady 🤗

[kukoyi-deactivated20210512]

The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home…

[everybodywantstorueltheworld-de]

Always grateful when this makes the rounds

[mamawolfsmith87]

In case anyone needs this today or ever.

[qillermeme]

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[muffinlance]

If your answer to any of those was "no", I cannot emphasize enough that this isn't just "bummer, guess it's gone forever". You can get that mobility back, it is actually very achievable with the right modifications for your level!

This is the very simple "starting from zero muscles" program I followed, highly recommend it or something similar:

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@hybridcalisthenics

[ekjohnston]

HEY, do you want to see a BOOK COVER?

like, specifically mine. not a random one.

Welcome to the Nexus Hotel, your infinite stop shop for time travellers. Check your bathtubs.

April 6, 2027!

US Preorders Canadian Preorders

[ekjohnston]

OH AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FIRST EDITION HAS FANCY EDGES.

I haven't had fancy edges since like 2014 (I had them for the UK A Thousand Nights before it was cool lol), and I am EXCITED.

[jackabelle73]

Just added to my “Want to Read” list. BTW, the Goodreads app says it’s expected November 30, 2026. I trust the author over them, but they apparently have some outdated info.

[malioli]

The Quiet Voyage Home: Sunset Over the Adriatic

There is a profound, rhythmic peace to the end of a day on Krk Island. As the sun slips below the jagged spine of Mount Učka in the far distance, it paints the sky over Stipanja Bay in deep, liquid shades of amber and rust. In this fleeting window of twilight, a small fishing boat cuts a lonely, familiar path back to the harbor of Šilo. To compress this vast maritime space and capture the delicate silhouette of the vessel, the Canon R7 was equipped with a vintage manual Takumar 200mm f/4 lens. Lenses like this classic Takumar are treasured for their ability to render backgrounds with a soft, cinematic compression, turning the distant mountains into a protective wall of deep blue shadows. It is a visual whisper of a timeless coastal ritual—the sea giving way to the night, and the sailor finally making it home.

[javascript-official]

We need to conquer space travel for the only reason that zero-g would allow for new never before seen pastries, you know how the top of the muffin is the best part? Well that is because it is exposed to air so it changes the chemistry, in normal earth gravity it is impossible to make a muffin that is all top part because it needs to be placed somewhere which would restrict air flow, however in zero g it would be possible to make a bubble out of muffin dough which gets optimal airflow and becomes an all-top part muffin... This is the dream...

[the-bi-bilingual]

@derinthescarletpescatarian