Identity: Bigender girlthing and gender fluid (sticks masc mostly), but also gender in an abstract way like an eldritch horror in a 1920s black-and-white horror movie lurking menacingly out of frame due to budget issues, or an attachment to gender in the way that a cloud is attached to cotton candy or some shit; bi demiaroace ambiamorous
Other: Ferretkin, angelkin, Eridiankin (Project Hail Mary), and fictionkin (Kagamine Len - Vocaloid, Ochako Uraraka - BNHA, Dess Holiday - Deltarune)
(more under the cut)
SIDE BLOGS-
@thatoneweirdocreaturedraws - my art blog! Extremely empty so far sadly
@thatoneweirdocreaturewrites -my writing blog! Most of my writing shit is going to be here, whether it's original works or fanfic
@ask-misplaced-frisk - an ask blog for my UTDR Misplaced AU
@ask-gaz-m - a (very dead) ask blog for Gaz Membrane, because I like IZ but it's not big enough to put in hyperfixations :/
(Gonna make more side blogs I swear, like one for an object show I'm making, one for a Wednesday thing I'm making, one for a long-ass Supernatural fanfic I'm writing, etc etc)
SUCKY SOCIALS -
Same @ on Pinterest
I do have Discord, but I'm not just going to give it out willy-nilly.
TASTELESS TAGS-
(very unreliable, going through and retagging everything as we speak)
hi !! do you have any tips on tumblr? or anything that i should know to make my fics more engaging? thank u !! i also wanna learn how to add the colors on fonts and stuff and the line on the words 🥹🫶 kinda like this
(i just took it from fics i like, credits to the original writer !!) these are like the examples, can you maybe teach me? 🥹✌️ im still a rookie on this app tbh
OH MY GOSH THANK FOR ASKING THIS QUESTION!! I would love to help you out!!
A basic guide to decorating your posts
Welcome! Here I’ll tell you just about everything you need to know for making your tumblr posts pretty. So without further ado, let’s get into it!
Using Tumblr-provided tools
Tumblr has some pretty good, easy to use effects already, which is one of the reasons why I love the UI. For adding basic effects to your text, here’s a breakdown:
Type something out
Select that text
A bar of selections should appear. From these buttons you can: change the formatting, add the strikethrough effect, add bold or italics, make the text small, add a hyperlink, or choose from seven different tumblr colors.
This is pretty standard for posts on tumblr, and it’s a great way to get started. If you want, you can even stick with just simple ways to spice up your fics. (For example, adding emojis to your titles, or using the Lucille font.)
however, if you wanna go the extra mile, you can put in dividers, pictures, song cards, kaomojis, and special colorized text. Which I’ll show you how to do!
Dividers
Dividers are easy. All you have to do is look up #dividers on tumblr and you’ll find lots of beautiful resources made by a lot of amazing people! Most are labeled free to use (f2u), some ask for credit, and others will ask you to use a specific tag. A good rule of thumb is to a) make sure you’re following their guidelines, or b) if they don’t have specific rules, just tag the creator in your fic unless they explicitly say not to. (All my dividers are f2u with no credit needed, but I do appreciate it when people tag me.)
To use the dividers, click on the divider you want to use in order to get the highest quality version. Then, double or left click on the image, then select ‘copy’. Paste the image into your Tumblr post, and you’re good to go!
also, a lot of people who make dividers are also fic writers, like @reginaphalangelobster, who makes both amazing web graphics and fics.
you can make your own dividers as well! I use Canva to make mine, and there are some pretty good tutorials on here about how to do that.
‘Keep reading’
side note, I recommend putting a ‘keep reading’ on your fics so that they don’t take up people’s feeds. You don’t HAVE to do this, but it’s considered a common courtesy (I learned the hard way, lol.) All you have to do is line break (enter) until you see this:
from here you can add a photo, gif, link, audio clip, video, poll, or a ‘keep reading’. Click on that last one!
See? Cool, right? Anyways, let’s move on to:
Picture rolls
you might have seen these before in fics. Two or three pictures of the character or of aesthetic shots. I like using these a lot, especially because they’re another easy way to spruce things up.
I like using Pinterest for this. Basically all you need to do is look for your character or the color you’re going for (I usually base my fic color off of my chosen song card. More on that later). Searches like “[character] aesthetic”, “relationship aesthetic”, or “green aesthetic” will help you out a lot. You only need about three pictures that you like.
from here, you can copy and paste your pictures into Tumblr. (Double or right click on the image, select ‘copy’, then paste or press control + v.) Alternatively, you can also download or save your pictures to your library, and upload them that way. Either works fine.
if you want them to be side by side, simply drag and drop them so that they are all in a horizontal line.
Sometimes Tumblr acts up and they can appear in their biggest versions (not side by side) when you post it or save the draft. I fix this by going into the edit mode again and dragging them so that they’re how I want them to be. Then I’ll take a screenshot of them, crop it to the necessary margins, and put that in instead of the actual pictures.
if you want to add something for the pictures, you can say something like ‘images sourced from Pinterest; credit to the original owners.’ Though it’s not always necessary.
Not happy with the color of the picture but still want to use it? You can use Canva’s photo editor to tweak the colors of your picture how you like it.
Song cards
These are very easy to use. All you have to do for these is to copy the link to your chosen song on Spotify and paste it into Tumblr. It will automatically pop up into a song card with a background color.
This background color is usually taken from somewhere in the album cover, so if you have a song with a blue album cover, the background color will be blue. (You can also double check by looking at the lyrics, if the song has that available. The color for the lyrics page, if it’s working, will be the same as the card.)
if you want to include a specific song but the color wasn’t what you were going for, you can also hyperlink the song over text with the song and artist name. Example: Happy Birthday - Finn Wolfhard (I used a yt short link but you get the idea)
Kaomojis ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
Using kaomojis is also very simple. This seems to be a theme, doesn’t it? Anyway, there are plenty of ways to get your kaomojis. Which are these things, by the way. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
One, you can look up #kaomoji or #kaomojis on tumblr. Lots of awesome resources here!
Two, there are websites for kaomojis and cute combinations that you can copy and paste. (Or even make your own!)
Kaomojis are probably the simplest way to make things pretty. They’re literally copy/paste symbols, and work on most formats.
Colorized text
At last, the moment we’ve been waiting for! This is probably the hardest decoration technique of the ones that I’ve talked about, but don’t let that fool you—all of these are pretty easy!
First, you need a colorizing site. You can just look up ‘colorize text’ and a few will pop up. Along with tutorials! Most tutorials will link resources, including color pickers and the like.
Next, type or paste in the text that you want to colorize in the relevant box.
Pick the colors that you want the text to be.
There are also drop-down menus on some colorizers that give you options for the gradient.
The text should pop up at the bottom as what looks like code. Because that’s what it is! If the site gives you two boxes, one for your forum and the other for your website, choose the website version.
Copy that text, then open a new draft in Tumblr. (Not the post you are intending to use it in. Trust me for a sec!)
In your new draft, click the gear icon.
It will pull up a list of settings. Click on text editor.
From there, click the drop down and select HTML. Exit the settings menu.
Now you can paste your code into the draft!
Once you have your text in, click preview. Your text should be colorized now! From here, feel free to make the text bold, italic, bigger or smaller.
All you have to do now is copy/paste the preview text into your intended post, and you should be good to go!
I hope this helps you out with your fic endeavors, and I’m so excited to see what you do! If you have any problems or questions, please feel free to ask or troubleshoot with me whenever! So much love,
Dean had never been too enthusiastic about his heaven.
He'd never been much of anything since he died, really.
He just sort of... sat there, staring at the ceiling, or at a plant, or at the poor angel that had been sent to check on him.
Dean wasn't much for self-reflection in life. That's one of the things you learn not to do too much as a hunter. (Or with John Winchester as a father.) And he was far from starting to do more of it after he went to Hell---if he spent too long in his head, everything just went back there.
Rinse and repeat with the Mark.
Apparently, dying (for good) was the trigger needed to actually have him think for once. About his life.
But he just couldn't stop thinking about Cas. Sure, they were friends, but... Cas had changed that at the end. Did he have to? Couldn't it have just stayed the same?
Was it Dean's fault he fell in love?
So yeah. Dean did end up replaying every moment with Castiel in it, trying to pinpoint what exactly he could have done differently. To save him. To save both of them.
(Another thing you learned not to do with John Winchester as a father was talk about anything you were feeling that wasn't "normal". Dean had learned that lesson on his first hunt.)
As Dean stared at the ceiling of his cabin, fidgeting with the bean bag one of the angels brought him, he replayed those last moments again, the words cycling in and out of his head.
"I always wondered, ever since I took that burden, that curse, I wondered what it could be? What my true happiness could even look like. I never found an answer because the one thing I want... It's something I know I can't have. But I think I know... I think I know now. Happiness isn't in the having, it's in just being. It's in just saying it.
Why couldn't he have saved him? They could have found another way. Dean could have made another way.
So that's what he did.
Dean broke the cycle, saying something different than what he remembered this time.
"Cas. I know. Don't say anything else. We still have time before the warding breaks. There's something else we can do, we just have to think."
Castiel nodded, his tears still in his eyes. "Yes. I know there is. The Empty can wait. Dean, we'll get out of here this time."
This time
This time
This time
This time
Dean grabbed onto the sleeve of Castiel's trench coat. "But wait. This... This isn't how it happened." He's ruining it. But wasn't it already ruined?
Castiel smiled like he did again, accepting Dean's break from the script he made in his head. "No. No, it's not. We... made our choices." He took Dean's hand in his, tracing circles on his palm. "We could have made better ones, but... I don't have any regrets."
Dean's eyes softened. He can't change it, and for once in all the time he's been in Heaven, that's okay. He can hear the Empty, but he can't see it. He lifted Cas's hand to his lips and kissed it, one last goodbye.
The blackness was curling around him again as the warding finally broke. "You were a wonderful experience, Dean," Cas said, taking his hand back.
"You were... everything," Dean admitted, staring up at the cabin ceiling.
sometimes you do. but not really, you just miss having a person where they used to be. and that's okay. because there are always new and better people, or people already here that don't mind moving over a little.
u know in retrospect my stomach shrimping wasn't even the worst part so far. it was the tube that went to third base with my floppy ass cardia. through my sinuses. just straight up cockwarmed a silly straw all the way thru my esophagus for 2 days
I'm a fool. a fucking fool. an absolute clown. do u know what happened minutes after I posted this.
I found out my body cannot handle opioids.
my muscles lock tf up and deliver the worst pain imaginable in every direction at once. I can't describe it. it's not just pain it's the sensation of every disgusting awful flu ache you've ever experienced in your life condensed into one square inch of your body, all over your body.
do u know what alternatives hospitals have to opioids? HA, HAHAHA
Stomach is back where it should be, I got some guts stapled and skin glued, and recited Dexter's Lab every time the nurses mixed powdered medicine in with my applesauce. I'm bored of drinking ramen and watching Resident Alien reruns so I'm gonna peruse the tags!
I cannot tell you how many times I unironically gazed into the middle distance and thought this
I've learned things can be true and also a shit post at the same time. unfortunately
starting to think maybe I've been saying this too much all my life and karmic justice just backed up in the pipes before exploding. still gonna obliterate those twinks tho. get back here Siffrin I'm not done with you yet
this guy is getting the true moral of this story
I HAVEN'T IN YEARS so either the AO3 curse has a disconcerting half-life, or it extends to discord servers and Google docs. both are horrifying and deserve a federal grant for further investigation
you and me both! isn't nature beautiful
you've made me realize my most recent fic in my gdocs is in fact the darkest thing I've written. so maybe all the ppl in the tags claiming AO3 curse aren't as wrong as I've been thinking they are
god's a bitch and I'm into omegaverse
I feel like I should get a medal for enduring something so fucked up that randos on the internet think I must be lying. yeah bro me too
honestly the worst part about all of this is the fact that I can't watch Murderbot. I want to so bad. but I refuse until I'm feeling halfway alive again
fuck life. I give myself lemons. AO3 on hospital Wi-Fi
you do not. like emphatically, I don't think that's a great idea
I'd say I'm sorry but tbh this seems very on theme for ISAT so
THANK you I need everyone to remember I'm a gamer first, god's favorite crusty sock in the bottom of the drawer second
the ARE a lot of people in the tags calling me Jesus Christ
I'll admit that one's on me. when I started being unable to eat anything, my first thought was not "stomach straight up saying the abdomen's haunted"
I hate that I was actually considering getting white haired anime boy haircut right before all this happened. could you fucking imagine
don't carbon date me like this
Rascal Flatts was right. life is a highway and it's riding me all night long
they snipped and stitched some things, yanked the whole sucker back down UNDER my diaphragm where it belongs, and did this thing called a fundoplication where they wrap and stitch the top of the stomach around the bottom of the esophagus. it’s supposed to help keep that little bastard in its assigned seating
what I had was a called a combination sliding hiatal hernia (stomach wants uppies) and paraesophageal hiatal hernia (stomach wants uppies but through a different hole in the diaphragm bc it’s not like other girls, making it look like it’s trying to phone home), along with combined organoaxial and mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus (stomach flops around like a dead fish and twists itself shut like a bread bag AND goes upside down). the former usually ends up cutting off blood flow and starts necrotizing the stomach (very dangerous), but I was extremely lucky that hadn’t happened yet!
the hernias are uncommon but not terribly rare. the stomach flopping around? that’s rare. the fact that I had both of these at the same time, where they both did ALL AVAILABLE BAD THINGS POSSIBLE?
to put it gently, according to one resident, I had surgeons fighting over me. pictures were taken. I had like six separate groups of medical professionals coming into my room regularly. my surgeon shook my hand like I was a celebrity. it was honest to god hilarious.
all in all, I spent 3 months thinking I was being a huge wimpy diaper baby, only to find out I narrowly evaded death bc my friend Moth told me to go to the ER right away, and it triggered a panic attack big enough to make me do just that. the poor ER doc came in sweating with the initial CT scans like “I’m gonna be real with you I’m not entirely sure I know what I’m looking at but it’s giving INCREDIBLE Emergency Surgery”
I’m upset I don’t get to birth an alien baby, but considering how it was Rapturing into my chest, it probably would have been a chest burster anyway. I want to kiss Miss Xenomorph as much as the next guy but I think I’ll just stick to sending prime numbers out into space until one returns my booty call
EDIT: btw I love the dog jokes lmao I had no idea volvulus was common in dogs! don't worry I'm not a werewolf (unfortunately), I simply have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, which makes all my connective tissue soft and stretchy. So we're waaaay more prone to having organs (and joints) slip n slide around and do things they REALLY aren't supposed to. But I wish I was a werewolf even more now. when will it be my turn
my clowns in hellsite, I have no idea how my house is intact when there are trees uprooted by my mailbox. if I had less staples in me I'd bend over and moon the sky
I'm not gonna keep dragging this post on I swear I'm just still on pain meds (I can handle higher doses of weaker opioids for some reason! yippee!) so I'm gonna look through the tags one more time and address a couple things I've seen often
- no, I wasn't doing anything in particular to fuck up my guts. sometimes our organs just Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 right through the polygons. don't worry about it, it's rare and you get a fun story to tell ur friends
- yes, I was fired because I missed too many days nearly dying and requested more to recover from nearly dying. what can I say I'm a needy unreasonable bitch
- yes it's pretty lame to do this to someone right as they stumble off the operating table and get dumped with expensive medical bills. yes this is legal. yes I'm filing for unemployment. yes I would leave mouse poops in the CEO's coco rice krispies if given the chance. love and peace ✌️
- it's cool my dudes I live in the Midwest, basements are an evolutionary aspect of natural selection here. we've also got Steve Templeton I'm pretty sure he fights the tornadoes off himself
- Murderbot TV series good :)
- don't worry guys I know the original artist for Life is a Highway. Lightning McQueen
- there are a LOT of you offering advice on how to avoid the torment nexus. while having a Siffrin pfp. just an observation
- who the fuck is Job
please laugh. every drop of joy I squeeze from this karmic fart parade is another finger shoved firmly up god's withered asshole
can everyone stop being funnier than me for 2 minutes
I only fucked someone once and it was bc they replied to my reply on their comment to the fic I filled for their kink meme prompt on Livejournal. it was vore. and my name's not Jesus
no I'm going I want to ask Joshua how he got that gay
can y'all stop comparing me to deities I'm already on thin ice here with one or possibly more of them
no this is Patrick
I'm sorry to disappoint but I only have 2 weed smoking girlfriends. if anyone lets me borrow one of theirs tho it would really help the Make A Wish Foundation. I beg them once a week and they keep telling me I'm "not a child" and "already got two wishes fulfilled"
take a ticket and get in line if you're gonna make an attempt on my life, you goddamn heathen
you can't give me this after I was just accused of being Dave Strider
i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .
