Just a fan girl following the fan art.

Sam. She/Her. Somewhere cold 50% of the year.| Drarry. Sterek. MDZS.

[peachpety]

Laundry Day, by peachpety

April 2020 | T | 2.6k | a drarry-does-laundry getting together ficlet

Harry and Draco have become close friends in the year after the war ends. Harry discovers he enjoys washing clothes the muggle way and when he switches to a new detergent, Draco notices. A simple domestic chore becomes the catalyst the boys need to take their friendship to the next level.

Happy Anniversary, Laundry Day!

My first fanwork recently celebrated a one year anniversary. And I decided to honor this fic of mine that I love dearly, with art from someone who I also love dearly. And who is one of the sweetest individuals I've had the immense pleasure of meeting and befriending in this vast HP fandom.

@onbeinganangel Mari, I can't express how much I absolutely ADORE my hoop! It was a long time coming (shakes fist at the USPS) but finally, I can hold it and luxuriate in the perfect stitches you applied with your own hands! You are wonderful. Thank you, mwah!

LOOK AT IT Y'ALL. It's perfect.

The pops of color, the forest musk(!), the wine glass(!!), Draco's monogram(!!!) on the sheets...no seriously LOOK AT THE MONOGRAM with the wee green snake!

So thrilled to finally be able to share this with y'all!

Enjoy! xoxo peach 🍑

READ MY FIRST DRARRY FIC, Laundry Day

[peachpety]

four year anniversary

first love, forever love

[ao3commentoftheday]

fics that are like 500 to 1200 words or so often have a particular kind of energy to me - like the author sat bolt upright in bed, struck by the most brilliant inspiration of their entire lives, and then typed as fast as their fingers would allow them to in order to capture it all before it left.

oneshots that are just a straight, clear shot from the brain to the page with no real filter in between? that's good stuff right there.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Reblog if you love AO3 and appreciate their volunteers who are working harder than God, fighting battle after battle, making sure the place that is a safe space for every fandom is staying up and running for all of us

[batwynn]

Happy International Ace Day!

[attackfish]

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[magnusbae]

Something I see mentioned often is "I don't have many followers, my reblog won't matter" which is untrue.

First of all, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could go in the long run.

For instance, let's say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!

You see, it does not matter if you don't have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.

As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it'll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don't have many followers and so it doesn't matter if you don't reblog is UNTRUE.

Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it's beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn't know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!

So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you're not 'big' or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!

P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :'D <3

[padmedala]

i’d be really curious to know what percent of queerbaiting is 

a) an intentional marketing scheme to stir interest in the project and attract certain fanbases (lgbtq people and young women) vs. 

b) members of the creative team genuinely wanting to write queer characters but the corporate side of things force them to tone it down but they still leave little hints vs. 

c) they legitimately did not know how gay something would come across

[lafgl]

The answer: A is 100%. Because B and C are not queerbaiting. The literal meaning and definition of it is A.

[counterpunches]

#a) queerbaiting #b) queer coding #c) subtext

[crazyintheeast]

Please tumblr learn the difference and stop shitting on good shows

[jupitermelichios]

Anyone who’s still not clear:

Teen Wolf show-makers asking fans what they wanted, getting the answer ‘canon-queer relationships’ and then just hinting at Stiles being bi and having the characters people ship hang out platonically is queer-baiting

Gravity Falls having the two male police officers hold hands and show genuine affection to one another, but not being allowed to confirm they were married because the studio wanted to sell the show to Russia and China is queer-coding

Arthur Conan Doyle genuinely not understanding why some people would think two men living together, declaring their undying affection for one another, and constantly referring to Holmes as a ‘confirmed bachelor’ was a bit gay is queer-subtext

Clear now?

[faiell]

caught

[leidensygdom]

Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.

Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.

Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?

So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)

Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.

Please do reblog for awareness.

[writing-prompt-s]

A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands.

[dycefic]

Hyrea the Healer was not a difficult goddess to serve.

Which was not to say that service was easy. Service to Hyrea took one into dangerous places, and dangerous work. A dedicate of Hyrea went into war, and plague, and famine. Risked death a thousand ways, over and over again. And yet it wasn’t difficult to serve her, if you were the right kind of person. For a person who looked at the sick or wounded or starving and longed to help, it was the easiest thing in the world.

Hyrea marked her devotees in a way impossible to disguise or to mistake. It was possible to replicate the blue tattoos, to an extent, though the ‘blindfold’ was hard to do, eyelids being difficult. The bands around the wrists were easier. But only Hyrea could make them glow with that faint, spectral light. No-one could look on that light, and not know exactly who they were looking at. There were stories about it – about the six healers who had walked onto a battlefield and stood between the two armies, and stopped the battle cold, for neither side had dared to lift a hand against the healers. About proud gods who drove out the humble Hyrean healers, so that only their own priests could heal, and cities emptied by disease spreading from the poorest quarters, where the proud priests would not go. About the warlord who, having struck his enemy down, saw a Hyrean healer kneel to help the man, and in fury struck the healer down as well – and died the next moment, with a dozen arrows in his back, fired by his own men. About villages struck by plague, who saw the blue lights approaching through mist, and opened their barricaded gates to hope. About terrible battles that lasted from dawn until dusk… and then nights full of pale blue lights, moving among the fallen, and a hundred or two hundred or five hundred men found living on the field the next morning.

Temples of Hyrea rose in odd places. In busy cities, in border towns, in little villages, with no apparent rhyme or reason. Only a certainty, in the part of some priest or priestess, that here there would be need of them. They were good at predicting need.

Keep reading

[appleslightning]

[our-queer-experience]

i’ll die on the hill that says “sapphic love isn’t inherently more wholesome and pure and saying it does will only hurt lesbian and bi women”

[our-queer-experience]

listen. if you go around talking about how much better and moral love between women is because male love is so sexual and bad, you’re not actually doing any good. i know too many lesbians who think they’re predatory just for being sexually attracted to women because #feminism. the idea that love between women is the non-evil sexuality you will only shame wlw for what you claim is evil male sexuality, whether it’s a sex drive or finding women hot or if it’s(god forbit) the masculinity, because these are all traits wlw will have. and you’re not helping.

[masquerading-as-a-genius]

also just btw- this is introductory TERF rhetoric. the idea that men are inherently evil and are always a threat to women simply by virtue of existence, and that women are inherently purer/safer/more wholesome simply by virtue of being women, is the 'radical feminism' part of the acronym. It's gender essentialism, where "goodness" is given to women, and "badness" to men.

[dorywhynot]

I draw too slowly to make new stuff to for the SaveOFMD campaign so here's a fancy Ed from last August because I Miss Her

the petition is over 80k and going strong! 🏴‍☠️

[meemoop]

More Photo Booth shenanigans!

[basil-gawkings]

what if we were both vampire bats and we wanted to deepen our social bond 🥺👉👈

[hamptercatapult]

kirby does this

[gaydumpsterpossum]

Oh! I know this one! If a bat is unsuccessful in feeding multiple nights in a row they will become too weak to succeed. When they return to the nesting colony (nearly all females with their babies) and haven't fed, they go to their "friends" - other bats they have social bonds with - and ask them to share their meal. This gives the bat receiving the blood enough energy to hunt the next day, when hopefully she will be more successful. It is expected that she will return the favour to the bat that helped her or to another in the colony, and bats that don't share their meals with a bat in need are less likely to be helped when they are in need. Its a cool example of social aid in animals (and also calling it french kissing with blood sounds really gay)

[julcheninred]

Draw Drarry Badly Challenge From The Morning After by birdsofshore and @capiturecs, in which Draco, in Harry's short red bathrobe, attempts to use Harry's increasingly exasperated toaster: "There are two slots at the top. Two distinctly bread-shaped slots. Hah. The bread drops in easily, one slice, then another. I smirk to myself and lounge against the counter with my arms folded, anticipating the mouth-watering smell of fresh toast any second now. Piece of piss, this Muggle cooking." This one's a bit of a cheat. This is a Drarry fic but Harry isn't home for this part. When Harry comes home, though, he and Draco bang on the kitchen table, which was a bit much for me to try to illustrate, even badly, so I'll leave that for someone else to attempt. 😂👍

[destroyingangelneveragod]

may you have a very tummy less hurty 2024