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Why I'd Pick Depth Over a Bigger Roster
Some platforms brag about thousands of premade characters. I'd trade all of them for one companion I actually built. SweetDream's depth of creation means the single character I made beats any menu.
Depth is quality you can feel in every chat, because she's truly mine, consistent and personal. If you'd rather have one real connection than endless shallow ones, sweetdream.ai is the right call.
☄️ Welcome, have a seat 🚀
welcome to the blog! It stands for sailing across dimensions and is my fandom; primarily shipping; space. I wanted a space where I could feel comfortable posting lower quality art, edits, and goof off with friends and finally decided to make that space for myself.
Always happy to do ask games, answer head canon questions, be told to draw silly doodles of joy, anything of the sort.
enjoy your time here in this shipper's paradise
If there's anything you want me to tag let me know!
Latest Update: 4 November 2025
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#x post dia — posts made in house #x post art — art, edits, and similar made in house #x rb imagine — reblogged shipping images #x rp dia — general roleplaying tag from ask to posts — #x rp [name] — sub tags for each 'muse' played (will update as they come up) #x [name] dia — live blogging (media) general tag layout #x pal dia — tag for Palworld live blogging and whatever else #x stardew dia — tag for Stardew Valley live blogging #x agame dia — ask game responses #old pins — a record of everything we ever pinned #tag — text
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List of fandoms, ships, fictional others, and anything else important under the drop
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Pin isn’t “done” but it was always meant to be updated as needed so gonna post what I got and just let everyone edit as required. It’s just going to be nice to have things updated
Questions or any noticed errors go ahead and send an ask
also. your f/o being soooo cute and sleepy and tired. maybe you have to carry or drag them to bed. maybe they just crawl into bed with you to cuddle for the night. okays?
I’m spending a little time working on a new pin for the blog and a new avatar. Not probably who was expected to step up, but that post that just happened to have a ship of mine showing up just got me in the mood and really wanting this space.
I still haven’t even figured out a name for myself yet but I’m taking over. Keeping the dividers and url the same just going to be changing the vibes a tad and removing what doesn’t really apply anymore is all.
Really wonder what ship to make the avatar?
and if anyone gets name ideas for a Chinese demon of electricity and magnetism let me know lol
Making Aizen and Madara kiss each other is the only correct way to respond to endless dudebro debates about "who would beat whom".
It’s strange to me that the fujo community failed at this 😞 they should’ve been another Jack x Elsa ship: popular and hella confusing
This is actually one of my ships!!! To be recced this post— tumblr is actually working for once.
I need to make shit for it so bad because it is such a good ship I love them!!!
It really is enrichment to follow someone who has almost entirely different taste to yours cuz they'll be like "ouughhh so hot, so sexy" at something you are unfazed by at best and genuinely disgusted and horrified by at worst
That fic you wrote?
The one about the ship no one else cares about, or the deeply unpopular character, or the extremely unusual AU?
The fic that got no comments or kudos when you posted it?
Months or years from now, that fic might be exactly what someone is looking for in the sea of fics about all the popular characters, ships, and AUs.
Your fic might be the only fic out there that has what someone is looking for. The only fic that scratches the itch that it turns out you and that reader share.
And that's awesome.
I have loads of stories I’ve written that in the beginning have no traction.
But then a year or so later I’ll suddenly get loads of kudos or likes and messages from people about how hard it was to find a pairing or story like this etc.
So even if you think no one will read it, write it anyway. Not only for yourself, but for that one person years down the track who will be grateful you ever wrote it ❤️
Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.
I agree but I want to add this feels like a symptom of the even bigger problem/reason which is Fandom is no longer communal in the way it was before. It used to be a way to connect but now the most common use for it is to feed a fixation. It's solely consumerism. It's why I think you see people hating on beginner artists and being extremely demanding of fanfic writers. They don't see this as a community of people that also love what they love and are showing it in their own way. It's seen as a way to get more of the media you are currently into at a quick rate. Consuming fanfic and fanart with no thoughts that the people making it are doing it for free and purely out of passion
If I’ve learned anything from about 25 years of actively being engaged in fandom, it’s this: fuck everybody else.
Your favorite character ain’t the fandom’s favorite character? Fuck ‘em.
Your ship is the rarepair or the one people think is icky? Fuck ‘em.
You like the tropes and meta and character analysis that make other people roll their eyes? Fuck ‘em.
Engage with fandom in the ways that make you happy and comfortable and fulfilled and fuck everybody else. Like the things you like because you like them, because not everybody else is gonna love them the way you do.
Be cringe and be free, hallowed be thy name, goddamn.
We really want to use this blog more because it had such good vibes, everything is all nice and set up, just we're not sure who wants to main it and how we want to go about it.
It's just odd still using a blog that was ran by someone not around anymore we never wanted to loose.
But this was a fun place and the drafts are so full of his old plans and ideas it just makes more people want to live up to what Bruce did. Both he and Batman were amazing. The edit he did still gets love and random likes and sometimes reblogs which really makes us want to do more. To come back and do that kind of fun but for the next group that wants to hang out and try fandom.
It's just so much to live up to.
I don't want to ruin what he left.
But in honour of them we do plan to try out some of the media he used to love we don't actually know like Slayers and who knows what else.
Expect some updates and new faces. Hopefully we can get this blog running and happy again. Icon will probably change but we'll post about it when it happens. Can't wait to talk and hang out everyone.
I think I'll keep a record of the old pin somewhere for history sake.
If you are talking about something you personally experience(d), like your plurality and your perception of that, you are not lying or spreading misinformation. You are talking about you and what's going on with you.
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I hate this so much.
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No but you're right and you should say it.
that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?
"squick free" someone writes on their wholesome family fic about married characters expecting a baby.
I read it and am extremely squicked.
You do not know what squicks other people. "Squick" is not a category of elements, it is a description of a reaction.
words really feel like they lost all meaning sometimes
But this does feel like the natural conclusion after how many times I read "trigger free"
cultivating literacy in alternate alphabets to write tags for the learned, like how in old biology papers they'd switch to latin to talk about sex
this wasn't even the bug i was trying to hit
(no shade to tumblr devs, most software has astral plane bugs, and for various reasons javascript in particular makes it really easy to write them. unicode is an obscure and complicated piece of technology that most people in the software industry don't think about, and the assumption that "how long is this string?" is a simple and well-specified question is both understandable and false)
this is the bug i was trying to hit
what is this?
this is a series of very common bugs in UTF-16 supplementary character handling
utf what?
UTF-16 (Unicode Transformation Format, 16-Bit) is an encoding of the Unicode character set in which characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane are represented as 16-bit units and characters in the Supplementary Planes are represented as sequences of two 16-bit units ('surrogates') drawn from a reserved space within the Basic Multilingual Plane: a High Surrogate in the range D800–DBFF followed by a Low Surrogate in the range DC00–DFFF. this works because the surrogates are represented as codepoints that are not themselves characters, and because unpaired surrogates are invalid UTF-16
that's a lot of computer words. what's a codepoint? what's a plane?
the purpose of unicode, to simplify greatly, is to map numbers from 0 to 1,114,111 to things like chinese characters, emoji, and the alphabet. this is because computers know what numbers are[1], but don't know what the alphabet is unless you tell them. there are many ways to tell computers what the alphabet is, but if computers that are trying to talk to each other don't have the same idea of what the alphabet is, problems arise. so there's a standard, which is unicode
in unicode jargon, a number from 0 to 1,114,111 is a 'codepoint', which means 'the meaning of a cell in a spreadsheet', which means 'the meaning assigned to a number'. (it's trivial to map between numbers and cells in a spreadsheet: if the spreadsheet has N columns, the numbers 0 to N-1 represent the first row, the numbers N to N*2-1 represent the second row, etc.) numbers are typically written in hexadecimal; if their hexadecimal representation contains fewer than four digits, they're padded with zeroes to four. unicode numbers are typically (not always) prefixed with U+. for example, the letter 'a' is represented in unicode as the codepoint U+0061, which is named (codepoints have names) LATIN SMALL LETTER A, and the shrimp emoji '🦐' is U+1F990 SHRIMP.
the reason we write U+0061 instead of U+61 is that the first plane, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which contains most characters in common use to write most living languages, starts at U+0000 and ends at U+FFFF. 'a', which is U+0061 with four digits, is in the BMP; '🦐', which is U+1F990 with five, is not. if a codepoint has five digits, it's in one of the Supplementary Planes, and is referred to as a 'supplementary character'
[1] in fact, electronic computers were invented in order to handle numerical calculations faster than mechanical calculators were capable of. by 'numerical calculations' i mean things like computing range tables for the united states army and solving aerodynamic modeling equations for the wehrmacht. do not be confused about this: computers are primarily tools of war
okay, but where did the question mark in the box come from?
remember surrogates? reserved noncharacters in the BMP, from U+D800 to U+DFFF? those exist because UTF-16 is a 16-bit encoding - it only uses numbers from 0 to 65,535 - but the biggest number unicode uses is 1,114,111. so you need ways to represent numbers from 65,536 to 1,114,111 using only numbers from 0 to 65,535, and the way UTF-16 does that is with surrogates: numbers that, in a sequence of numbers that is valid according to the rules of UTF-16, will only appear in certain places. if you have a high surrogate that isn't followed by a low surrogate or a low surrogate that isn't preceded by a high surrogate, the thing that you have is called an unpaired surrogate, which is invalid UTF-16. most font rendering systems will represent unpaired surrogates visually with the glyph (font picture) at U+FFFD � REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
the question mark in the box came from tumblr truncating the tag in the middle of a surrogate pair
it's in a supplementary plane?
yes! the character 𐐮 is U+10423 DESERET SMALL LETTER SHORT I, which is represented in UTF-16 as the codepoint sequence U+D801 U+DC2E. D801 is between D800 and DBFF, so it's a high surrogate; DC2E is between DC00 and DFFF, so it's a low surrogate. as long as they aren't separated, this is fine. but if you, say, truncate a tag by cutting off everything after the hundredth 16-bit number, you might cut off a low surrogate and leave a dangling high surrogate behind, which is what happened here
why'd they do that?
it's a very easy mistake to make. in general, people do not think about unicode, and for historical reasons many programming languages use UTF-16 under the hood. somebody probably wrote something like `str.slice(0, 100)`, assumed this was a reasonable thing to write, and didn't realize it could split down the middle of a surrogate pair, in a language that doesn't warn you about things like splitting down the middle of a surrogate pair. the length of a string (sequence of characters in a computer) isn't even a well-defined question
it's not? can't you just count the letters?
no! "letter" isn't even well-defined - sometimes you can represent the exact same letter as either one codepoint or two
a1 is a single character representing an a with an umlaut[1]; a2 is a normal latin letter a followed by a combining umlaut. this is also how zalgo text works.
so what do you mean by 'letter'? what are you counting? the codepoints? the normalized codepoints, where normalization means replacing things like a2 with things like a1 or vice versa? what javascript's `.length` does, and what tumblr most likely does, is count the number of UTF-16 'code units' - that is, the number of numbers between 0 and 65,535. this is usually not what you want: a character in a supplementary plane takes up two 'code units'. so if you're writing a tumblr tag, you can use at most 140 latin letters per tag, but only at most 70 deseret letters. (twitter also has this problem. most applications written in javascript do.) and if tumblr tries to truncate your tag at the hundredth character, well
[1] technically a diaeresis, a separate diacritic which was unified with the umlaut as part of the process of latin unification, analogous to CJK unification but far earlier. the germanic and latin alphabets used to be thought of as two separate writing systems: if you were writing a book in (without loss of generality) english, and you wanted to quote a sentence in (without loss of generality) spanish, you'd stop using the germanic alphabet and start using the latin one. unification basically didn't happen in india, which is why they have so many writing systems that work in almost but not quite the same way and look different; it would be more accurate than not to think of the script situation in europe until recently as analogous to the script situation in india today
is everything in the world this complicated?
yes
The diaeresis-umlaut unification left some odd traces and jagged edges up north, where the Norwegian and Swedish alphabets both have 29 letters - with caveats.
Norwegian ends with ...YZÆØÅ. These are generally recognized as full letters for all the intuitive meanings of "letters". Alphabetical sorting puts "Øl" (ale, beer) at the back of the Norwegian dictionary, after Z.
Swedish ends with ...YZÅÄÖ. These are also full letters in mostly the same way, with Swedish Ö serving the same function as Norwegian Ø, indicating the sound that IPA writes as [ø]. Alphabetical sorting puts "Öl" (ale, beer) at the back of the Swedish dictionary, after Z.
Norwegians and Swedes easily recognize the Ø=Ö match.
But! The German alphabet has 26 letters, same as American or contemporary British. Germans write the glyph Ö, but they treat this as a variant of letter O. Alphabetical sorting puts "Öl" (oil) in the middle of the German dictionary, between N and P.
People not familiar with Swedish are likely to assume that Swedish Ö matches German Ö, not Norwegian Ø.
When all these languages meet each other on the internet in Unicode, you get the problem of inconsistent alphabetization - to know whether Ö should be before or after P, you need to know whether it's a Swedish Ö or German Ö, and that information isn't in the character because the two letters have been merged! From the POV of a Swede, German alphabetization is wrong, and vice versa.
Narrow escape for Ø, which remained distinct.
if you were writing a book in (without loss of generality) english, and you wanted to quote a sentence in (without loss of generality) spanish, you'd stop using the germanic alphabet and start using the latin one
Some German texts of the late 19th-early 20th centuries basically do this, printing all the German text in blackletter script but switching to Latin script for scientific names and quotations from other languages:
(example from the 1914 edition of Brehms Tierleben, a massive and fantastically illustrated zoology encyclopedia of that time)
Oh hey! Tumblr still hasn't fully fixed their unicode slicing bugs.
They used to have this problem in the blog description, which was a fucking nightmare since it used to be all XML.
So what would happen is that the blog description got the UTF-8 sliced off MID CHARACTER. This caused problem parsing it! XML tools really don't like parsing technically invalid XML because the character encoding is all kfuckt.
I even tried applying a pre-pass where I tried to fix up broken encoding, but this failed for a silly reason: the character that's corrupt is the last in the tag, as it's at the end of the description where the slicing corruption happens.
So instead of "blahblah</description>" the corruption would turn it into "blahblah??/description>" and now the XML structure is corrupt too.
Still, it used to be worse: the blog description used to be ARBITRARY BYTES. So you'd have users with a shift-jis description, embedded directly into a UTF-8 XML document. That was NOT easy to parse.
(this is from when I was running an "archive parts of Tumblr/build my own dash" project around 2010. The worst part was hacking around the invalid-DNS bugs that were everywhere back then)
