Age: 15/16
Pronouns/Gender: cis, female she/her
Nationality: Dutch-Australian, mate.
Language: English Australian, broken Indonesian, exactly one word in Dutch
Favs:
Colour: Purple - dark sparlky - and green - light mint
Food: Chips. SV chips, thins, deepfried, oven fried, crackers, don't care.
Game (card/board): Dutch blitz
Game (computer): Minecraft
Things I enjoy/blog/whatever/fandom/shit
Books:
Rangers apprentice -> Brotherband
Percy Jackson HoO -> ToA -> MCGA
Fairytales for Wilde Girls
Harry Potter -> especially Maruaders
Countdown to countdown
TV shows:
Carmen Sandiago
Annika
Brokenwood
BLUEY
Hazbin Hotel
Renegade Nell
Youtube stuff:
3rd life/last life/double life/hermitcraft/x life/empires 1+2 - grian, scott, katherine, gem, little bit of pearl
CrazyCae, HollynRagland, Raine Emily
Musicals/music i enjoy:
Alexander Hamilton
The greatest showman
EPIC the musical
SKZ. SKZ ALL THE WAY
something abt long car rides just says: "its okay. no negative thoughts here, just let your imagination go" so i let it fly like a bird outside, sailing on the wind, and then i imagine an actual bird and i watch it soar and i wish i could be that bird and so i open the window and let the wind rush over me and theres music playing somewhere and suddenly it think "this is so picturesque, like a story" and now my imagination turns to the filing cabinet of my stories and i flick through until i find one that a car ride would fit in and i find one i havent thought about in ages and i sit there in the ground and i open it up and read something all so new and oh so nostalgic and it comes upon me what i was stalling on so the bird that is my imagination flies again, past wheatfeilds and towns, revealing paths and ideas i never thought of before, until Im watching a movie of a story that i need to write down but this- sitting here watching is just so much easier, so I file that story closer to ensure I remember it and then I turn and see something I thought Id lost forever, a memory of a movie or a quote and it takes my hand and races me down a rabbithole of forgotten thoughts and dreams until I become so enraptured that my grip looses and it smiles softly and lets go, lets me go forward into the maze until I lose myself in all the things I have never thought about and things I think about so often they are worn smooth and comfortable, and I feel like Alice in a WonderLand she doesnt need to make sense of, and the White rabbit runs by, stressing about something like a forgotten task or an old mistake, so I reach out and catch him, smooth his ears down and whisper all the reassurances I wished for, and I feel a little bit of sadness sweep across the floor, not enough to be upset about, just enough to keep me grounded like an anchor as I contine through the maze- there's no end to this maze, no center, and I do not want there to be, as I wander, and I meet myself there, in fragments and characters and memories, and I wonder how I ever lived without this, this serenity that echoes back to me in the peace that the land outside the window seems to echo back to me until the car stops and I am pulled back into my body in a sudden rush...
so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back
the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing
If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:
1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)
2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats
Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.
Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.
If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.
You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.
Reblog this post :) Especially if you’re on mobile, you’ll lose the post if you click the link without thinking. Take a note from your elders before you
Interesting note: It definitely uses whoever you're following now, not at that date. Even the 2020 one includes a lot of people I was absolutely not following yet in Feb 2020, which is actually kind of cool, I can see what they were reblogging from this fandom before I got into it.
Omg thank you so much for the tag! I didn’t know this platform existed until now it was really fun to make a DUCK
it’s a witch duck >:3
No pressure tags <3
@fierce07 @sprite-and-the-bunnydragons @lunamilliesapphire @bobasbag @readingismyhobby24 @virtualplays (I’m sorry if you’re my moot and I forgot you, I have a lot bc of ELU but I think this is all the ones that I tag most of the time :3)
A QUICK GUIDE TO AO3 CUSTOMIZATION FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT CODING
ft adding pink to everything and my secret to writing long comments
note: I originally posted this to twt but if that place burns in a fiery pit I spent too long on this for it to disappear, so I'm putting it here too :)
so many people know way more about this than I do, but this is a step-by-step walkthrough of the changes *I've* made, and hopefully it works as an introduction people can build from for whatever they'd like to do
There are a lot of images in this post! (click to enlarge)
to start, AO3 skins
site skins change how the AO3 website appears when logged in (even on mobile), mine is pink and blue!
I'll have my skin turned off throughout the post so the guides appear as they will for you
to create, edit, and view skins, go to the "skins" tab from the left-hand menu. you can also view public site skins from there or from the button in the preferences.
public site skins are made by other users. i would really encourage previewing and exploring them to become familiar with the possibilities (maybe you just want to use one of them and now you're done!)
to create your own skin
on the skins page, click "create site skin"
if you don't know CSS (same), use the wizard!
clicking on the "?" will give more information about each option
I only use the colours section
you'll see a link right there for hex codes
I use pink as a header colour and bue for accent but lots of people change the background colour and that looks really cool!
submit
The next step (optional!!!) is to add CSS from a public skin to your own. I use "ByLine" by Branch. this separates the tag categories and adds spacing to make them easier to read.
here is a before and after using the fic "Landslide" by @roosterbruiser as an example
to see the CSS of a skin, click the title
copy all the text below the CSS heading
in the skin creator/editor press the custom CSS option and paste all the text into the CSS box
you can have both wizard and custom CSS settings, in mine you can see the header and accent colours as well as the CSS
level up: USERSCRIPTS
userscripts are small pieces of code that modify a website. for AO3, this may involve adding shortcuts and buttons or even advanced tagging functions (computer people, I'm so sorry if this is wrong, I'm trying). I use Greasy Fork and Tampermonkey.
This is how I write long and formatted comments!
Greasy Fork is an archive of userscripts and Tampermonkey is a browser extension and userscript manager. You don't need to use these two in particular. please use your common sense when downloading anything or adding permissions to your browser.
Greasy Fork guide on installing scripts
Install Tampermonkey on Chrome
there are TONS of user scripts for AO3. This is another good opportunity to explore all the possibilities. there are lots of more complicated options I haven't explored.
scripts for AO3
i use this floaty review box
and this comment formatting
EDIT: if you use chrome you might need to turn on developer mode in your chrome extension manager - you can google "tampermonkey developer mode" and it should explain that :)
to install (once you have Tampermonkey installed):
open the script you want in Greasy Fork and press install
Tampermonkey will open, press install again
clicking the Tampermonkey extension will let you toggle scripts on and off, and opening the dashboard will let you view, edit, and delete scripts
i find i can only have a few turned on at a time before they cancel each other out, but that depends on which ones you're using and someone more savvy might be able to fix that
how to use the floaty review box - write more comments!
there will now be a "floaty review box" button at the top of the work, it will open a floating text box you can move anywhere on the page. highlighting any text and pressing the insert button will paste the text with italics into the box
anything you type in the review box will appear in your comment at the bottom of the page!
if you have also installed the comment formatting script, you'll be able to highlight any text in your comment and use the new buttons above the comment box to format it
thats all ive got! Hopefully this is a good starting point to get familiar with some of the terms and basics for skins and scripts <3
if you want some inspo for how to comment on fics i made a whole fic rec list on twitter based on comments I've left, it's here. i have a masterlist of recs there mostly for darklina/reylo and similar ships.
the tag #reading with ru has cod recs and me talking about books
I think discord should be ao3lblr's (probably adopted) teenage kid, and reddit should be tumblr's weird uncle
Spotify is a close friend of ao3 who used to have either a crush or a casual relationship with pinterest, but ended up marrying shazam (that airbuds app is their child)
hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit
Also y'all this really ties into how impactful comments are and why it's so encouraged to leave comments and leave NICE ones. If I hadn't known this was spam, and if I'd gotten this on my currently-updating fic, it would've crushed me and likely convinced me to never update again. Adversely, even one nice comment from someone is enough to motivate me to write and share more. If you read a fic you liked, tell the author that! If you're reading an unfinished fic, leave a comment to say you're excited for more, or comment throughout chapters even! It really is so easy and quick to do, and it's not only nice but it can also completely alter a writer's motivation and inspiration
Fanfic writers, please be aware that for some reason having bots spam fics with negative comments is a thing now. Not sure what anyone gets out of spreading misery, but just know it's not anything to do with your fic. I got one that was like, "This fic is a delight ... just kidding, it's unfunny and tedious." It was very clearly unrelated to the content of the fic but for someone else it might have been heartbreaking.
what i've heard about this sort of thing is that fics that have been deleted are harder to prove the provenance of, thus making them easier and safer for AI generators to scrape for their data sets
they're trying to encourage you to delete/orphan your fics so you can no longer prove that they're YOURS
Signal boost for all writers in my network. If the comment mentions no specific details about your fic, assume it's a bot post, delete it, and keep writing your great works. Also tell your friends about this and let's keep our space on AO3 as awesome as it is.
Part of me is like “neat. Reblog,” and part of me is like “I understand now why impressionism took off, because there’s a 0% chance the artist wasn’t like ‘fuck this shit’ by the halfway point.”
Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
Okay but…if someone wants to take me on a date to a Barnes and noble and get me dinner and a drink and then let me peruse the stacks like I’m not saying no. A sandwich, a beer, and 2-5 books on various topics I hope I’ll someday read about? Good night.
This is El Ateneo Grand Splendid, an old theatre turned bookstore in Buenos Aires:
The stage itself was turned into a cafe:
You can’t even begin to comprehend the massive amounts of money this place makes, despite the fact that they turned the theatre boxes into reading nooks like this:
I’ve literally spent days holed up in there reading books for free while also consuming massive amounts of coffee and pastries.
sometimes, I fall head over heels in love with a place. El Ateneo Grand Splendid is incredible. I am in love. At the very least, in lust – that could very easily escalate to love. Le sigh.
this is hilarious to me because not only have I been on tumblr long enough to remember the first time El Ateneo Grand Splendid went viral around here, I actually went there last year (while I was passing through Argentina for a weekend) entirely because tumblr told me to
Those balcony box reading nooks would draw me to that bookstore even faster,
because sometimes you just want to sit and read in a spot where your back and sides are protected (good for your introvert side),
but you still have a beautiful view (the rest of the interior),
and you’re not alone (extrovert side), so you can hear and see people around you (we are social creatures, even the introverts, because we are social survival creatures),
but they’re not going to come talk to you specifically (introvert side)
unless they know you…
because you’re in a gorgeous reading spot, a theater balcony box, and it would be rude to barge into someone else’s theater box without a really good reason. (Saying hi is a really good reason, but it should come from someone that is known and fairly confident a “Hi, there!” would be welcome.)
