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[nirikeehan]

Niri's 2026 Tumblr Game Tag List

I am FINALLY making a tag list for Tumblr writing/art games for 2026! If you are included on this list it's probably because of some combo of the following: a) we're mutuals b) I'm nosy and want to see what you're working on/know more about your OCs c) you've tagged me in similar games in the past.

You can reply to this post to opt in or out of this list at any time! Just let me know in the comments below.

@monocytogenes | @theluckywizard | @woundedsoul12 @melorasmushrooms | @grad-writes | @wolfmoonwildflowers | @lycheecatee | @melisusthewee | @the-bear-and-his-sunbird | @tinybatjoly | @justjasper | @broodsys | @persimminwrites | @jukkaricity | @jenn2d2 | @starrshinegirl | @anora-mac-tired | @hedwigoprah | @aetherflowers | @picayune-artist | @librivore42 | @crabs-with-sticks | @lottiesnotebook | @carnalapples | @ammoniteflesh | @breninarthur | @tevivinter | @rakshadow | @veil-song | @highwayphantoms

[clownfish-casino]

OKAY I'm curious

where do you write your fics

ellipsus

google docs

directly in the AO3 editor

notes app

physical paper

literally wherever I can (sticky notes, your hand, scrap paper, etc)

something else (tell me in tags or comments !!)

not a fic writer but I wanna press a button too !!!

Remaining time: 3 days 46 minutes

would appreciate reblogs for sample size ::]

[nadjasnandor]

the vampires got it right. life is about being bisexual and a little bit pathetic. and going through different levels of depressive episodes

[lakemojave]

You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?

[lakemojave]

You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?

[rottingapotheosis]

[vyvilha]

i think i don't really vibe with most other fans of my favorite male characters is because they usually depict them too much of a man, and i am not interested in men, i am interested in The Character. and i am not saying that they should depict them as women, or nonbinary, or should depict them as feminine, no, not at all. but there's like, you know, you can depict a male character as The Character, and you can depict them as The Man. do you get me? like, i go to the fandom looking for art and fics, and it's just, regardless of his actual characterization, it's all just fantasizing about some kind of an abstract dominant patriarch, wearing my favorite character's face. it may be the most totally-wouldnt-have-normal-relationships (and sometimes even would-literally-abuse-you) kind of guy, and you join a dedicated space for his fans, and all they talk about is how they want to marry and start a tradcore 50s style nuclear family with him. it can be a guy who's arrogance and attempts of domination are explicitly shown to be a facade that hide the fact that he's actually kind of a massive pathetic wet loser, and you go to his fics, and they're all depicting him as a caricaturish daddy dom. at this point it's like, do you even like the character at all, or do you just like The Man, and project this man onto whatever character you find visually attractive? and these people kind of, really really poison actual discussion of the character, who is kind of a fucked up evil person (i only like *those* types, so im talking about them) because they see analysis of the actual character as an attack on their fantasized daddy dom husband, who is actually isn't The Character at all, and is simply a face of the day for The Man

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[byjove]

The funniest part of A New Hope is that Luke Skywalker is a 19 year old who has not locked in yet and plays with toys and sleeps in his childhood bedroom at his aunt and uncle’s house and Leia Organa is a 19 year old with a mission to save the galaxy from fascism. Luke has never left his hometown, Leia just watched her planet be blown up. He’s peeved his uncle is asking him to do his chores, she’s imprisoned for resisting the government. You relate to them both but they’re on complete opposite sides of the 19 year old life stage spectrum.

[slinky-cat]

Also Luke is clearly very lonely after his crush and best friend, Biggs, went away to college

[byjove]

Yes! Some people have misinterpreted this as me insinuating Luke is a wimp but he’s just in a very transitional life phase that is focused on growing and maturing. His friends are growing up and moving on, he’s anxious to join them but isn’t quite ready. He has ambition and goals but he just isn’t in a place where he is able to pursue those goals, he is immature and that isn’t a bad thing. 19 year olds SHOULD be able to ponder their place in the world and which direction they want their life to take. Leia has been in the public eye her entire life, she is a princess, she has been primed for greatness and she has been shouldered with so much responsibility. Luke is just his aunt and uncle’s nephew, they love him and don’t want him to leave, he’s trying to decide what to do.

[byjove]

He’s like a Midwest farm boy who is dreaming of the big city and she is like an old money New England heiress who has been told since birth she will follow her father’s career path into politics and has been sent to the most competitive schools and enrolled in the most rigorous extracurriculars.

[yourlocalquietkid]

Luke is the protagonist at the start of a coming-of-age plotline while Leia is in the 3rd season finale of her failed revolution plan when A New Hope takes place and you can fight me on this.

[byjove]

and Han Solo owes a slug drug money

[most-sane-classicist]

okay had an idea...

Which Generic Homeric Epithet is prev

Shining, Divine, Glorious etc.

Wise

Great-Hearted

Tamer of Horses

White-Armed

Long-Haired, Lovely-Haired

Sweet-Spoken

Bronze-Armoured

Glancing-Eyed

Dreaded

Swift

Sacker of Cities

Voting ended onJul 12

reblog and answer in tags >

[nirikeehan]

Meira and Nic, 🌋 OC in camping or adventuring gear

This took way too long, but this is definitely how I picture an adventuring party going down with these two

[theluckywizard]

Writing is about building a connection between writer and reader. And that's something AI will never be able to do. I recently read one of my earliest fan works that's published. It's indulgent and sweet but clumsy and overwrought. It chases the same romantic high I felt the first time I'd played the game that inspired it. I wrote it for myself, because I'd always written for myself. In twenty years of writing as an adult, I'd never before had a reader. And while it's clear from the writing that I hadn't once considered the reader, people noticed it. Fan fiction had changed something. And so my writing began to grow. I wasn't only writing for myself anymore. I had people who were curious about what I had to say. And what did I have to say anyway? What could I say? How could I connect with the person at the other end of my story intentionally? It completely transformed the way I wrote. For the better. Forever. For those out there trading their own perfectly imperfect human voice for that of a machine, I would encourage you to search for connection through your own words, your own point of view, your own ideas. Find out what you have to say and find a way to say it that tickles you. Let them connect with you, not some corporation's idea of what the median romantasy reader wants. What is fan fiction for if not for reaching through those words right into the heart of another person and giving it a good squeeze? And in return, they'll know the shape of your hand, the feel of it. Write that AU. Write that fix it. Write that rare pair. Write that missing take. Write it badly. Write it excellently. Write it yourself.

Think of the handprints you could leave.

[sisifroggy]

Unhinged Text Post Memes: Cullen Rutherford Edition (Part 6)

More Text Post Memes:

Dragon Age | Cullen

[pelmenga]

I’ve finished the first act of Dragon Age: Inquisition. I want to share screenshots from my playthrough with you! 😊

[valtsv]

[valtsv]

[nirikeehan]

@monocytogenes

[caernua]

Speaking of which, you should ready yourself.

[merrinla]

The only song in the game is sung by Cida Ciconia in the Cobbled Swan, and only if the player saved Minrathous. But according to the script, you could hear Anderfels folk song in Lavendel - Bones Beneath the Creek. In the release version, it only exists in the codex - 3 verses, 1 chorus and Lavendel's version. The one who was supposed to sing in Lavendel was meant to perform all of them. It's unknown whether it was voiced, because nothing remains of this idea except lines of text.

Someone in the village is asking for a song Speaker 1: This place could use a song, couldn't it? Speaker 2: A song, a story—whatever's needed. After that, someone sings Bones Beneath the Creek Verse 1 Paths can lie and shadows hum, who knows which fates are bleak? Would Ella, lost, now soon become more bones beneath the creek? Verse 2 She saw the strange light dancing, she thought she heard it speak: "Come now, Ella, we are prancing... from bones beneath the creek." Verse 3 Is that fresh stew, is that your bride? Is that the home you seek? When Ella left, the spirit cried... for bones lost in the creek. Chorus "When heart beats hard on ribcage wall and you are feeling weak... Follow me and don't recall the bones beneath the creek." Lavendel's version "Who am I?" the echo asked, for I had asked it, too. "You are me," I echoed back, "Or maybe I am you." "Who am I?" the Echo asked, when I said not a word. "Worry not, for I am you," the Echo soon assured. "And I know where the gold was lost, and I know what you carry... And I know where to dig the hole, and what you plan to bury." "Who are you?" I echo back to a voice now far away. And wait to hear an answer from the place where secrets lay.

[probablily]

anyways. my final thoughts on the ai thing is that if you've used ai for fanfic writing, you can just stop. if youre genuinely just someone who's using it as a tool bc youve gotten used to it, its not too late to stop. I guarantee you that your writing will be better and all AI is teaching you is now how to write like AI. u need to learn how to write like u. and if you look, you Can find people in fandom to help you. theres someone who can help you proofread your fic, or tinker with your sentences. someone to help you with code. someone to help u find the answers to all your hockey questions. and itll be more fun this way

[necromancyofslay]

warden sketches in progr- hey who stole his shirt 🤨