probably pretending to write @kestrelofink - Tumblr Blog

And so it begins...

Just hang on tight here while I try and try to remember how to configure a new tumblr for the first time since high school, eh?

And in case you need a reminder: tumblr lives and dies on the mechanic of the reblog. Reblog things, reblog them often, and leave your thoughts and comments in the tags when you reblog them. It is not rude to reblog, in fact it is a great compliment to have your content reblogged.

You get to share my fics with your followers, and I get to see your commentary in the tags. It’s a win-win, so do your fanfic authors/fanartists/etc a favour and don’t be afraid to populate your dashboard with reblogs.

trashdogpenultimate

RULE NO. 1 OF WOUND CARE: ignore itttt :33

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DO NOT

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RULE NO. 2 OF WOUND CARE: go swimming!! in a pond or especially a public pool :)

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WHO TF ARE YOU?!?!?!

#rule 3 - insert objects and perhaps even body parts into sounds frequently and with great enthusiasm

chirpingfromthebox

Thank you, Hilary Knight.

#she's the ONLY reason I'm okay with Canada losing the gold this year #I'm gonna miss her too even if I hate when she scores on us

kabsey

I want to write more in 2026. And there’s only one way I can do it—by writing the most self-indulgent garbage you have ever seen.

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softest-punk

I know I periodically preach the gospel of Scrivener but I do want to say that like, as a professional author who derives 90% of my income from writing novels, it is sincerely the best solution on the market.

This is because it is fundamentally local to your device. Everything is saved on your device. It CAN also be synced to the cloud (only with Dropbox) but a) these are not naked plaintext files, so they cannot be scraped and b) you still have a local copy so if the servers burn down or are shut down or whatever, you will still have a copy.

Its backups and redundancies are so robust that if I ever have a problem with them it is in the direction of having so many backups that it slows down file loading (fixable by manually deleting them).

When you buy it (for a small initial outlay), you own it. This is so unusual in today's software market that I think it bears explaining: you buy a licence to Scrivener once, and it is yours forever. No subscription. It's like buying a real paper notebook.

It's also purpose-built for longform writing and has a load of features of which I probably use 10%. You could use it exactly like a Word or GDoc if you wanted to. Previously the purpose built bit had been the big selling point for me but in today's environment it's being in complete control of my files.

There is no version of a live online document service that will not be subject to AI scraping in the current climate. If you are serious about writing at all, you should be keeping your files local and transferring them, as necessary, in ways that are at least not the equivalent of printing them in the newspaper.

This is inconvenient but you can either have convenience or security. Your writing is your voice, your voice is valuable. It is worth protecting at the cost of a slight change in system, imho. I would not, as a professional, use an online service now.

rooksunday

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

goosetooths

the evidence of small pleasures

bluejay757

nondelphic

i sit down to write and suddenly i am the most distracted human alive. the chair is uncomfortable. my coffee is too hot. my playlist isn't quite the vibe. i need to research what victorian houses smelled like in 1872 for exactly 45 minutes even though my story takes place in space. and yet the moment i'm trying to fall asleep? every single sentence i've ever needed just lines up perfectly in my brain like some kind of creative parade i'll never get back.

teddywesworl

what the whole "please comment on fic you like, it will encourage more writing" vs. "fic writers shouldn't be writing for engagement and validation" debate fails to really grasp, for me, is that comments shouldn't be boiled down to "engagement and validation" in the first place. by which i mean: comments aren't payment for a service, they are communication and connection. they represent the audience reaching back.

i don't write just for myself. are you kidding me? the point of storytelling, to me, is to present certain narrative arguments and produce or encourage an emotional response to them. That communication is essentially useless if there's no endpoint, no listener. To me, there is no point if I'm not communicating with someone. When I write, I am talking to a reader. If you've read anything I've written, then I was talking TO YOU.

you are well within your right to consume fic as ~content~ and withhold your "payment" out of a sense that the writer should be satisfied at having created anything at all in an unresponsive void. but please be aware that it feels really good when you talk back.

manorofshepard

By reading my works you are signing an agreement that if you put my works through AI or repost my works or anything like that, i get to hunt you for sport

arcanegifs

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x01 - “Heavy is the Crown”

#she's SO gorgeous its insane #arcane

viridian-fields

all of caitlyn's scars

right eyebrow

acquired during jinx's bombing attack on progress day

left leg

also a jinx special. a shrapnel wound from the bombing on the bridge. we don't actually see this wound after it's healed but I'm sure it left a mark.

literally every one of her other scars come from her fight with ambessa

right side of abdomen

stabbed by ambessa

underneath right eye

kicked in the face by ambessa

nose and lower lip

backhanded by ambessa

forehead

a gnarly headbutt from ambessa

left eye

ambessa's blade and caitlyn's sacrifice

one scar that I'm not quite sure about...

left cheek near the ear

I think this may be a scar she acquired off screen somewhere in between s1 act 1 and 2? her hair is in the way most of the time so it was hard to catch. as far as I can tell she already has it at the time of the progress day bombing, but doesn't appear to have it in her childhood scenes. if anyone has any insight on it let me know.