update 6/10/2026: this blog is effectively dead. i don't think fandoms are good for me and i prefer original writing these days. i've put some of it on substack - dm if you want a link! but most isn't shared
these days, if I followed you, high chance it was for spirituality. my spirituality side blog is @judaslovesjesus
this'll probably mostly be used as an art dump/maybe occasionally random headcanons, but in general tumblr or public social media in general aren't that great for my mental health, so feel free to ask for my discord if you want to talk more!
my interests vary, and i've been in a lot of fandoms over the years. a random list of things you might see here: ffxiv, my little pony, deltarune, star trek, star wars, fallen london
i also have original paracosms, but idk if i'll talk about those much here
more below, including oc tags:
random stuff
I’m autistic and weird and don’t know the social norms of this site. If I made you uncomfortable, I probably didn’t mean to and would really appreciate if you told me what I did so I can make sure I don’t do it again
Jsyk, talking about your ocs or headcanons in my comments is always welcome!
some identities if you wanna know: black, trans, physically disabled, neurodivergent, system
i don't feel like i really need a dni, but if you're a terf, nazi, or anything like that, this probably isn't the place for you lol
ocs
FFXIV
Keiten Yumishi - Raen Au Ra, worshipper of Menphina, pirate, maybe WoL? idk yet
tag: #keiten yumishi
Arrow - Keeper of the Moon miqo'te, runs an Uld'ahn crime ring, basically just pollux in xiv lol
tag: #arrow
Laurel Sellecerre - Duskwright Elezen, Immortal Flames official, obviously an expy of FL laurel lol
tag: #laurel sellecerre
Fallen London
Pollux or the Star - Heart's Desire Time Ending PC (kind of), revolutionary crime lord, also has some weird timeline shit related to seeking
tag: #the star
Laurel Evans or The Unflinching Director - no ambition really, but railway director and mirrorskisser. also kind of a MOTR oc
tag: #unflinching director
Madame Paints - kind of a joke oc. art obsessed curator
tag: #madame paints
I also have a lot of Star Trek ocs but haven't posted about them here much
other tags
WIP because I'm lazy
I'll try to tag anything nsfw with #suggestive
I also try to tag anything seeking (Fallen London) related as #cw:smen
Mulan AU where she does get caught by the other fresh recruits while she's bathing but Mushu helps her spin it like the lake is cursed by an evil lizard demon and will turn men into women if they stay in it for too long.
From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.
Shang is... tentatively glad that the men are bonding and getting along, even if they continue to be deeply weird about it.
Mulan: Uh, what boobs? Huh? Where did these come from?
Mushu: *facepalms and thinks quickly* (speaks from the shadows) I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE! BEWARE MY CURSED WATERS FOR THEY WILL TURN MEN INTO WOMEN!
Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: Oh no! The spirit of the cursed waters!
Shang: ...is this why you've all been insisting we don't camp anywhere that doesn't have a lake.
Shang: and then none of you actually swim in it.
Shang: and you all keep jumping at shadows.
Shang: wait a second Ping did this happen before or after you became insanely good at fighting?
Shang: did you get better at fighting after you became a woman.
Shang: are women better at fighting than us.
Mulan: ....uh. well. maybe? no one's ever tried to find out.
Yao: [thinking very fast] y'know Captain it's just so hard to find recruits these days.
Chien Po: Real shortage of men.
Ling: Lots of women, though.
Mulan: [catching on] Without marriage prospects.
Shang: You're right, men. The spirits must have done this in order to show us that we should be recruiting women as fighters.
Mushu [from the shadows, seeing an opportunity to do the funniest thing]: EXACTLY, LI SHANG. I HAVE TRANSFORMED PING INTO A WOMAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE TOO LONG OVERLOOKED THE TRUE WAY TO WIN THE WAR.
Mulan [seeing an opportunity to get all the stories straight]: O Great Spirit, is it reversible?
Mushu: WHY WOULD YOU WISH TO REJECT MY GIFT? I HAVE SEEN YOUR HEART, CHILD, AND HAVE ALREADY ALTERED THE MEMORIES OF EVERYONE WHO KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU LEFT FOR THE ARMY. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THEIR DAUGHTER.
Li Shang: Welp, the spirits have spoken. Ping - wait is your name still Ping if you're a woman now?
Mulan: Uh. Actually, I was thinking of renaming myself. How do you feel about Mulan?
BONUS:
Mulan [climbing out of the eleventh lake the men have arranged for her to swim in]: Yeah no, it didn't work. Still got boobs. [tries to appear dejected].
Chien Po: If it makes you feel better, they're very nice boobs.
wdym you ppl are getting it minutes after reblogging? That’s impossible, considering the overwhelming number of people, timezones, and social life of OP
tell that to masculine Black men who are always seen as agressive/predatory, who lose their freedom and their lives because white people assume their masculinity equals criminality. Tell that to all the little Black boys who have been "mistaken" for grown men by law enforcement because of their clothing, how they walk, how they talk, their height, their features.
ANY Black woman could tell you about a time when she had masculinity imposed on her as a way to paint her as agressive and invalidate her skills, feelings, thoughts and opinions. Majority of the instances of public bathroom transvestigations that have made it to the news cycle last year involved Black women, and not just any Black women, but studs. Any instance where a Black woman chooses to embrace masculinity is met with pearl clutching white women who are eager to rip them to shreds.
All this goes and more in youre a queer Black person, a trans Black person, a neurodivergent Black person, a disabled Black person, a darker skinned Black person.
i like sailing myths and superstitions because most of them can be boiled down to "if the ocean doesn't like you it will chew you up and spit out your bones. and if it really loves you it will swallow you whole and keep you forever. good luck 👍"
Just to let you all know, because I keep getting what I am gonna go ahead and call scam job alerts from the joke that is LinkedIn these days: @glimmerfics is trying to hire fic writers to write for their AI slop interactive fiction site. They are paying a whopping $25/story so their genAI theft machine can turn it into a game.
Their application is a Google doc which asks for links to your works on AO3. Probably to make it easier to steal your writing and remove the need to pay you at all.
In case you'd like to spread word, and hopefully block them.
I went to a market recently that was absolutely swimming in appropriation of First Nations religious and cultural items.
I'm talkin white people selling rattles and dream catchers, white people banging First Nations style drums, white people teaching talking stick workshops, that kinda shit
So what do you do when you see this crap? How do you show your disapproval in a way that makes them give a shit?
I'll tell you what I do. The point is to show them that appropriating Indigenous cultures will lose them customers.
When I see fakey Native art I say something like "Oh wow, you make dreamcatchers! What nation are you from?" (Use tribe in the states)
I used to ask point blank if they were Native, but I'd nearly always get some Cherokee great grandmother bullshit, or even "I'm not sure, I could have some Native in me!"
Most of the time they don't know what I'm talking about, because they're not Native and don't know that this is a very normal thing to ask when meeting another Native.
When they ask me what I mean I say "I mean your tribe, which First Nation are you from?"
This is the point where they sheepishly mumble that they are not First Nations.
I let my face fall and say something like "Oh. That's disappointing" or "Wow. Unfortunate."
I let it get awkward. And then I leave, shaking my head in disapproval.
You may feel like you need to educate them on cultural appropriation but here's the thing: it's 2025. They know. Brenda the middle class reiki shaman is FULLY aware that her smudge fans are stolen culture. She doesn't care. The only way to make them care is to hit them where it hurts: the wallet.
Make them think that you would have purchased what they are selling if it was AUTHENTIC.
If you wanna go the extra mile send an email to the organizers, in your best white people voice, and tell them that you are disappointed that they are facilitating culture theft.
not to be a snitch, but if this is happening in the US you can also straight up report Brenda for a fine up to $250k under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.
A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.
The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.
The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.
A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.
A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.
Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.
Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.
Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".
Wizard who claims a need for the largest orb possible to construct his Most Potent Magics versus wizard who doesn't know why anyone would ever need to write more than 80 sigils in a row anyway.
A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.
That was on July 7th.
Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.
On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.
There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.
But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.
99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.
None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.
And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.
You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.
for my birthday I’m giving you all a very special gift: a “which Muppet are you?” quiz with 36 possible results! it’s been a while since I had an idea for a uquiz so I was super excited to finish this one. enjoy! tell me which muppet you get!!!
ever wanted to find out which Muppet you are, but didn't want to be limited to the main cast? have I got the quiz for you! i added just abou
