Guilty as Tried! Her Life for Mine!

Forced the Issue, what a waste of time! \\ Tema , 27 // Professional Fool

[zombluvrrr]

[depsidase]

[bumblebeebats]

so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day

[slowspinningredemption]

i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.

[acakewalkofcrocodiles]

The Hat Man is our greatest export

[padawan-historian]

White supremacy harms all of us (but it hurts our communities differently and that difference matters)

[vanishingmoments]

I've seen hundreds - maybe even thousands - of images over the years. and so i've become somewhat of an expert on the topic

[squeakitties]

[necromosss]

As the person who got their R keyboard broken and the world mocked me for being forced to use the uwu language as replacement

My condolences

[commodore-64]

put that back

[the-davest-of-uncles]

National Lampoon, October 1985

[escuerzoresucitado]

[wokefrogvirus]

let’s have a blast with mama

[oblivioustoast]

photographer credit from the notes!

[augustdementhe]

YAY, CREDIT. Go buy a print from him, if you're so inclined:

SHOP | kunalphotography

[striving-artist]

We need to fricking stop with this CinemaSins TVTropes style crap in fandom. Actually, we need to stop that attitude in all creative fields, but I'm talking about fic right now.

I have seen many posts ragging on over-used phrases in fanfic, and yes, I find 'cerulean orbs' deeply strange, but if I ever said anything hateful on the topic I wish I hadn't.

You know why we say 'smirk' a lot in fic? cause its faster than 'gave a tiny smile to one side with their lips closed, a little cocky and provocative' Smirk is an easy way of saying it. It's the correct word. We say it in fic a lot because people smirk a lot in real life. Go people watch, its all over. Also. Bring me a true synonym for smirk, and I'll use that instead, but these ain't it.

If you have a better way of saying 'took off his shoes without untying them, just levered the heel with the toe of the other' that isn't saying 'he toed off his shoes' I'd love to hear it. Cause that phrase is perfect for it.

'Huffed a laugh'? Yeah, they did. Cause I'm not going to spend extra words describing how they 'exhaled through their nose once, amused, but not enough to fully laugh aloud' Its a specific action. You think people don't do that all day? five bucks says its exactly what you do when you see a meme most of the time. You didn't lol. You huffed a laugh.

The idea that something that's been used before is inherently less valuable is ridiculous. Same with the inverse.

If the phrase you want to use is common or widely used, but is the best way to communicate it? Use it. Don't fall for this trap that is currently consuming hollywood. You don't have to have a clever twist just because 'they survived and were happy' is a trope. You don't have to use some insane alternate phrase just because someone thinks fandom uses 'smirk' too much.

And, as always, if someone gives you hell and you don't want to fight them? let me know, cause I volunteer.

[fellshish]

am i having a brain bleed are people seriously considering NOVEL LENGTH FICS as small one shots now what is happening

[okdeannawrites]

Um. Do people seriously not understand the fanfic lengths that have been around for ages? These have been around since before Tumblr, Dreamwidth, Livejournal, or Ao3 were even an idea let alone tangible things to traverse lol

100 = Drabble

200= Double Drabble

300-1000 ficlet

1001-3000 - One-Shot

3001- 15k - short story

15K-45k - novella

45k-60k short novel

Anything over 60k is novel length.

Anything over 120k is epic length.

[ekjohnston]

I ran a poll about this a while back and:

1. No one agreed on what to call anything, even the drabble

2. Most people* wrote in the 1-5K range

3. Most people** read in the 75K+ range

*who voted

**who commented

[touhouweed]

just saw someone call trans unity an "unobtainable fantasy," getting real sick of the doomerisms yall are hooked on these days

[touhouweed]

What pisses me off the most is that y'all don't keep this doomerism to yourself, it would be one thing if you just wrote this shit in a diary, but y'all are putting that out there trying to scare young trans people into being divided. spreading the idea that trans unity is an "unobtainable fantasy" only serves to make trans people feel even more alone and desperate than before, during a time where being united will give us strength.

Trans people should be encouraged to find safety and community in one another, and not just with trans people that are "like them."

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

What's so unobtainable about it like literally just don't be a jerk to trans people who aren't your gender. It's not hard. I go around not being a jerk to people who are slightly different to me every single day. "Oooh we share so many common struggles and the things that help us help all of us, but I experience some things they don't and they experience some things I don't and therefore we must fight each other to the death and that'll help us somehow" these people need to grow the fuck up and stop believing in cooties.

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[maswartz]

[jonny-r217]

[thebluelittlewitch]

So i lied ig whatever just take the doodles and go

[accessibleaesthetics]

Very Silly Concept: a show called "Accessibility Nightmares" but it's structured exactly like Kitchen Nightmares. An accessibility specialist goes to different establishments and helps them make their businesses more accessible.

The accessibility specialist asks why the door at the top of the small set of stairs has a wheelchair symbol on it. The owner replies that's the accessible bathroom. The camera zooms in on the specialist as they process this information.

A customer with a service dog comes in to a restaurant. The hostess tells them they don't allow dogs. The accessibly specialist looks over at the hostess like

And there are web accessibility episodes too. The accessibility specialist stares at the white text on the light pink background of the home page like

The specialist asks why not a single product picture has alt text, and the business owner says "Well I mean, it's makeup, why would a blind person be shopping for makeup?" The specialist just

The specialist asks the web designer how a screen reader user is supposed to complete the captcha portion of the password reset process when there is no audio alternative. The designer admits they don't know.

[accessibleaesthetics]

#this post has 10k notes to me

When you left this tag three days ago, I thought "that's so sweet, but no. No way this concept is even close to that popular."

[miawasthere]

tumblr angels do not support ICE btw 🩷🪽

[darlingdemonic]

tumblr demons don't support ICE either ✨

[momoka-angelz]

tumblr fallen angels DOES not support ICE too

[cgsdraws]

vampires DO NOT SUPPORT ICE

[th3deadmanwalking]

Vultures DO NOT support ice.

[dinosaur-offical]

Dinosaurs DO NOT support ICE

[wolfdog-offical]

Wolfdogs DO NOT support ICE

[bugthehyena]

Hyenas DO NOT support ICE

[undercover-werewolf-k1d]

Werewolves DON'T support ICE.

[phantomofthemountain]

Tigers DO NOT support ICE

[seafoamwave]

Merfolk DO NOT support ICE

[liminal-therianthropy]

Unicorns DO NOT support ICE

[theemeralddragonking]

Dragons DO NOT support ICE

[awakened-void-deity]

Eldrich deities DO NOT support ICE

[man-offical]

men DO NOT support ICE ok?

[thehumblesmokedetector]

*smoke detectors DO NOT support ICE*

*BEEP BEEP!!*

[boiling-with-rage]

EUCLYDIANS DO NOT SUPPORT ICE !!!!

[defendsbadfictionalpeople]

Caribou do not support ICE!!

[dollybitezz]

Canines of any kind DO NOT support ICE

[purewhimsicality]

magical girls and plurals and jirais and menheras DO NOT support ice.

[rennylareddisonkennedy]

Renny & Reddison do NOT support ice or anything connected to it ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[nothottopic]

Hedgehogs do not support ICE

[ethanwintersiscool]

Ethan Winters does not support ice

[karl-heisenberg-official]

Lord Heisenberg does not support ice

[therealjuliekirn]

Miss Julie Kirn does not support ice.

[aihatohato]

pigeons do not support ice.

[sp01lt-m1lk]

puppyboys do not support ice.

[guest-6-6-6]

[HELLHOUNDS DO NOT SUPPORT I.C.E!]

[kr1s-dr33mur]

* Human cages don't support ICE.

[celinaprm]

objects don't support ICE.

[aquaawesomeflowerhumanknives]

flowers DON'T support ICE.

[tlbodine]

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

[prof-grace-aspen]

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

[earhartsease]

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

[eldritchsandwich]

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

[emeraldspiral]