Dead Men Tell No Tales

Blog is occasionally NSFW (mostly for fic) Starry/33/UK/Ace/Dyspraxic AuDHD/They/Them I write, I've been known to draw and I yell alot about ocs and fictional characters I'm too attached to. . Header art by Occudo

[starrypawz]

Jan 2025:

18+

I write smut

They/Them

Online I go by starrypawz/starry

33, UK, AroAce, , AuDHD and Dyspraxic, Vaguely Pagan

I do my best to tag common triggers and spoilers, if you need something tagging feel free to let me know and I’ll do so within reason.

But do often reblog snakes, frogs, lizards, spiders, insects and human and animal remains

I’ve been on this site for a long time and am very tired and this blog is my personal and no set theme, shitposts and ramblings abound.

Fandoms you will find here but not limited to are Star Wars, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Magnus Archives, Fallen Hero, The Passenger, TESO, Discworld and DnD.

I like animals and nature, tarot cards, skulls, My Little Pony and Plushies, tea, chocolate and Dr Pepper. I’m a goth.

I somehow have a MSc in Conservation Biology. For my thesis project I had to track down slow-worms, I used to volunteer at a zoo and mostly worked with lemurs, I have been bitten by lemurs a few times and been slapped by a gibbon. I’ve given leopards treats and I’ve fallen off a horse.

I’m generally cool with people sending me dms or asks. If you send me an ask or writing prompt I can’t always guarantee how fast I get to it.

I’m not an expert or authority on anything

Other Blogs:

starryinfused is my side blog for largely ‘original’ non fandom art and tabletop gaming stuff although it’s not very active I also have an art instagram under the same name starryinfused

starryandthetarot is my tarot sideblog, also contains paganism and witchcraft themed stuff,

starspiration is a reference/inspo blog that’s not super active

I am on AO3 under starrypawz

Tags

Writing tag starry writes stuff

Smut tag: attempts at smuttery

Art tag starrydraws

Edits starryedits

Sewing/crafting stuff starrystitches

Photography Tag: starry’s photos

OCs

Nemo Ainsley (TMA),

Elio D’Angelo (Stranger Things)

Ronan Brown (Fallen Hero),

Lucas Newman Scout Newman (The Passenger)

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.

Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?

New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways

fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom

covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns

"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators

creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)

rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other

tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site

capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity

rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)

general state of the world / burnout

social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture

"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.

[sprucestairs]

perks of writing:

its fun

i can do literally whatever I want

cons of writing

i just forgot the word "passenger" and had to search for "cargo synonym referring to a person"

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

We need to standardize clothing sizes. This is fucking stupid. Pass a federal law or something. I’m sick of this shit.

[justiceinspandex]

[eldritchbauble]

I don't buy that it is or ever was "trendy" to be trans, but being called a transtrender by transmeds in 2018 is really funny in retrospect because it's like. Hypothesis disproven I'm still trans.

[eldritchbauble]

And if I weren't? Well I'd have gone on an adventure and come out understanding myself better, and they'd still just have been bitter little fucks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[bobdylanyaoi]

what i feel like when i reply to someone’s post

[kidhellion]

i love the references to their sun and moon dynamics

can you guys believe its been 6 days since ive drawn them?? i think thats the longest ive gone in the last 3 years... anyways.. here they are

[kulluto-remade-deactivated20201]

hey do you guys want to see a post that kills you instantly

[kulluto-remade-deactivated20201]

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

listen...we must understand these historical documents in the context of their time

[only-cat-memes]

[thememedaddy]

[crushed-sugar]

Special shoutout to all the queer, intersex, and trans het folks. Sorry for all the “it’s illegal to be straight this month” jokes you’ll have to endure. Y’all are still very much part of the community.

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I wish trans men were treated better

[necropolistheatre]

if there's one thing I've learned from dealing with intermittent harassment online, it's that sometimes, you really do have to just ignore the fuckers. Bullies want your reaction, your emotional investment in them and their treatment of you. At some point you do gotta just find a way to turn a blind eye to the people begging for your attention who just want to hurt you. You can't stop them from doing what they're going to do, but you have a responsibility to yourself to not let the actions of people who hate you control the narrative of your life.

[thememedaddy]

[ckret2]

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

[ckret2]

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

some of you are saying enemies to lovers when you mean rivals to lovers and some of you are saying enemies to lovers when you mean enemies with benefits. but these are all distinct categories