2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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technically big bang sign ups will be open for a bit longer, so you can still sign up via the post links, but I'll close the form later today my time (probably in about 4 or 5 hours) to make sure I catch everyone!
Last few hours to sign up for this lovely event! Femslash Big Bang 2026!
Idiot Writer's Guide to Throwing a Punch
Remember It Hurts the Person Throwing It Too Knuckles split. Wrists twist. Pain goes both ways.
Fights Are Messy, Not Cinematic People miss. They slip. They panic. It is not graceful unless they are trained.
Adrenaline Changes Everything Time can feel slower. Sound gets fuzzy. Hands shake after, not always during.
Balance and Position Matter A solid stance makes a difference. Off balance punches are weak and dangerous.
Breathing Gets Ugly Fast Short bursts of air. Gasping between blows. Talking mid fight is harder than movies make it look.
Most Fights End Quickly Real altercations are often seconds long. Exhaustion sets in fast.
Environment Becomes a Weapon Walls, furniture, uneven ground. Fights are shaped by the space around them.
Emotion Fuels the First Hit Rage, fear, desperation. The reason behind the punch matters more than the technique.
Aftermath Leaves Evidence Bruises bloom. Hands swell. Blood stains sleeves. Consequences linger.
The Punch Should Change Something A relationship fractures. A power dynamic shifts. Violence must move the story forward.
This post only applies to untrained fighters. When I was a trained fighter, no, my hands would not hurt after punching, my knuckles would never split, and nothing would ever swell. Why is that? Because my conditioning involved punching literal concrete. That and a lot of repetitions on the bag were the only time my knuckles lost skin. Your wrist should never twist with a correctly thrown punch. I genuinely never injured myself punching anything with a bare hand. Unless it was on purpose to condition my knuckles.
If youāre writing a fight between characters, I think the advice of actual fighters is what you should take. Posts like these tend to give inaccurate adviceā¦Fighters of all disciplines, including and especially street fighters (I was not one, but I have a lot of respect).
The funny thing is though, despite doing all that, in a real fight Iād prefer to use a well-placed palm strike anyway. But the #1 thing to do in a real fight is run away or deescalate if possibleā¦at least where I live, plenty of people carry, so many fights will in reality be impossible to winā¦
Femslash February might be almost over but you don't have to stop the femslash challenge vibes there, in fact please come join us at the Femslash Big Bang and sign up to create some content for your favourite f/f (or f/f/f etc) ships!! āØšŖ»
Monster Hunter Festa '26
Featuring a life-size Nu Udra.
Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. February 22, 2026
Monster Hunter Pokemon inspired logo icons!!! i had so much fun making these
#oh so cuteeeeeeeee #monster Hunter #pokemon #adorable and also very well done
Lions on Valentine's day
sjfhlasjhkf I look away for a few days from the sign up list and damn we have over 200 people sign up to participate this year. hello
anyway. wanna do the funniest thing and make it 300? come sign up for the femslash big bang now - you have until Feb 28 to sign up.
The quailhogs of the wheatworld are fierce pack hunting predators that, despite any hopes and dreams they may have to the contrary, don't get much bigger than a guinea pig.
adorable sandstars --
Iād be really curious to see them interact with one another
Arkveld Plush!
The White Wraith, the Ashen Blade! In all of its glory!
Built with poseable limbs and chains! Many details are hand sewn on. A crazy amount of time went into this plush with so many custom pattern pieces, it's hard to count it all.
Anyways, stay crafty, friends, and Happy Hunting!
So beautiful! Also a nice reminder why I have a few MH monster figures in my roomā¦they are just the coolest looking creatures. I want more š„¹
honestly one of my fav slightly more understated angsty xena/gabrielle scenes outside of the really big ones
[crawling out of my cave] what if......we make a comeback š
and now we're back for year TWO of the revived big bang. thank you all for not making 2025 flop
[Big Bang] Sign Ups Open!
WE'RE HERE it's the most fun time of year when the big bang sign ups
INFO:
Create 10k of writing OR 2 pieces of art OR a hybrid option (5k of writing + 1 piece of art)
Written works must be one fic
Mature content allowed, please tag and warn correctly.
Femslash ships to be the main pairing (others can be included as side/background). i.e. f/f, f/f/f, etc. only.
Any fandom! Original works too! - see FAQ link for guidelines on ships
OCs, RPF + Crossovers all allowed :)
No AI content allowed thanks!
After signing up:
follow our blogĀ for updates
Updates posted in theĀ #ffbb2026Ā tag
Donāt forget to participate in the check-ins - these will be emailed to you / link posted in discord
read this how-to on posting fic for the final challenge
Schedule/Important Dates (full list version):
Sign-ups close on the 28th of February
Final Due Date for the Big Bang Challenge is September 20th, 2026
Posting begins October 3rd 2026, multi-chapter fics posted fully by December 20th in whatever order you wish.
Monthly challenges (separate to the big bang) run from February to November (start on the 1st of the month, and end on the last day of the month).
Rollover challenges also happening intermittently throughout the year.
Other links:
AO3 CollectionĀ (for past and future entries)
FAQ
We have a discord too! Links sent on request (send an ask off anon) or will be sent out after completing the sign up form
[Sign up here now] - closing February 28th 2026
all of you have probably seen this by now but if you're Thinking About It......you should totally do it!!
We've already got over 150 sign ups in the fifteen days sign ups have been open but. I think it would be pretty sick if we got you. yes. you to come sign up too!!!
saw trap guy voice hello tumblr user your challenge is to tag an evil female character.
if you tag a man, a literal child, or a woman who didnt do anything wrong at all but is like kind of rude, ill um. i dunno. ill just fucking kill you idkayyy lol i dunnoooo im shyyy im literally shy
I love magnamalo. The fight, the monster design, all of it. The way the tales of the villagers see evil where there is ecology (shown in the cutscene). And itās fun to run from a purple flamethrower. I was surprised to see that most people dislike or hate it. Rise was my first MH, so perhaps it is jarring to others as a departure from continuity. But as a fresh recruit, Magnamalo was a very cool creature. Khezu, on the other hand, can go extinct :). Volvidon too. Stop. Rolling.
Iām in this photo and I donāt like it šš
Yesā¦this is how I became a fic writer š« . But! I still love FF.net. I really like their app for reading. Yes, the website is ancient, but the app is a lot better.
