X-Phile, CLexhead, Spuffian, and general, all-round geek.

Troubled relationships, twinkie Bois, Ineffable partnerships, love aboard Starships. (they/them/she/her)

[touchstoneaf]

Fanfiction by Touchstoneaf

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[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[touchstoneaf]

THIS IS ***EXACTLY*** IT (I'm the 2nd one)!

I cannot write anything under like 20k words, the idea of anything that's only like 4k sounds like a drabble to me. The amount of discipline and effort it takes... I just don't understand how people can do it... and then I read actual drabbles that are like 500 words that haunt me and destroy my life for years... and I'm utterly flummoxed and insanely envious of this sorcery. How do they do it?!

[touchstoneaf]

Why does Microsoft have to make it like you're trying to get into the goddamn CIA in order to play a fucking game? They have like 14 levels of security for your kid to log into gotdamn Minecraft! It's ridiculous! We're not trying to burn down their files by logging into play a damn game! I hate Microsoft and I wish it would burn down.

[touchstoneaf]

I was going to go to bed... but like, how rude would it be to move!

[python3-official]

New scam alert. Bots are impersonating Tumblr support, claiming you must click a link to complete their new verification. This link appears to lead to Tumblr's website, but has actually been formatted using something like markdown, and leads to a different website, which likely contains malware. I assume the post will be gone soon, but I figured they might try something similar again.

@staff

[falllingthroughspace]

The Doctor + allowing himself to be happy because Rose is back.

[toptony]

You’re stuck with me. Ha!

DOCTOR WHO | World War Three

[feelmyroarrrr]

Link

What a thirst trap!!!

[the-real-seebs]

... gotta say i am genuinely impressed by this man's ability to fold a fitted sheet and have it come out well.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[teaboot]

HELLO?

[starmaker-astral]

I SWEAR TO GOD too many of us haven't watch the end credits yet and think the finale ended right before the credits

I beg you to please watch them. If you are feeling hopeless, sad, depressed after the finale, GO WATCH THE END CREDITS. It healed me a lot and tell us what really happened at the end. We litterally can see multiple universes/globes with alts of Aziracrow and it end with them dining in the Garden Of Eden ??

The end credits are PART of the finale.

[starmaker-astral]

THE CREDITS ARE SPÉCIAL

[killerqueen-82]

Just wish it had been more overt than an Easter egg :/

[strandnreyes]

“I don’t like this song because I can’t relate to it” skill issue. I’m mad at my husband I love my girlfriend I’m a lone cowboy I’m growing old I’m growing up I’m depressed I love my friends I’m perpetually horny I’m drunk at the club I love my husband again

[strandnreyes]

this is exactly what I’m talking about

[pinene]

Why are we forgetting the old texts

[touchstoneaf]

So many of the songs I love are because they fit a character I'm writing about. I have whole multi-page songlists from the point of view of characters... probably as many songs for them as songs that I keep in my head for my own memories! So if it's not about me at all, it might in fact fit one of the 10,000 characters I carry in my head at all times and I will have to check and see which one it fits today! And then some random song from a genre I probably would never have listened to for my own reasons gets stuck in my head for 4 weeks, & people ask, "why are you singing a song about x, you can't possibly relate to that?!" and I'm like, "excuse me, you do not know the multitudes I contain in my head!"

Anyway, I finally did some research to find out how many songs we can actually retain the words to, because I felt like I must be topping out at some point because I've added so many due to characters... and the abstract i read said that it's procedural memory like riding a bicycle that keeps song lyrics, not the type of memory you use for other things... which explains why people with dementia remember so much when you play them a certain song! Which means we have an almost infinite ability to remember lyrics. Which to me means everything, bcuz I want to be that person who's in the old-age home someday rocking out to some random Punk song that I fell in love with because of some character I was writing at the time, even though I can't remember why the hell I love it!

[touchstoneaf]

The cat distribution system thinks I need a fifth cat. We have this black kitty hanging around who's clearly a stray. He's very fluffy and the only white on him his on his toes, which means you think I'd call him Twinkle Toes or something, but I can't do it, he's too unique for that. He wanders around the yard singing at us and asking for food, he's been living in our backyard and hanging out with our cats already for months, so... I started feeding him. I couldn't stand watching the poor thing suffer. Now he'll come in the cat door and meow at me and then sneak back outside again until I dump some food outside for him. Because he wanders around singing all the time, calling in windows and charming ppl, I call him Troubadour. Will try to get pictures soon. So I guess I have acquired a "Not My Cat".

[decemberwinter]

By the way, if you get something like this in your dm or inbox,

IT IS A SCAM

Hundreds, if not thousands, of Tumblr users are getting THIS VERY SAME MESSAGE about someone “accidentally reporting their blogs by mistake” and the message then asks them to contact them on discord.

What’s going to happen is that these scammers will ask you to change your tumblr email to the new one they give you.

The second you do this, your blog is gone.

Once your tumblr is registered under their email, they have full control of your blog, including your password and even possibly your other personal information.

Here’s the site-wide warning tumblr issued very recently

There are still people who fall victims to this, so please reblog this if you can and be careful

[touchstoneaf]

This one got me. Luckily the lovely people at Tumblr support got me back into my account, now trying to warn everybody that I got hacked, please don't fall for this!

[touchstoneaf]

I haven't been on here in days. There's some people I need to interact with about GO3 and how I felt about it... but I'm just not able to process. Well I am processing a bit finally, but *very* slowly. I'll probably post about it in some length here eventually, but I feel like my brain just sort of got stuck in a spot and I don't know how to proceed or which way to go. It was not what I expected and it was certainly provocative and interesting, but my emotions are all over the place. I might have to add another chapter to the story I wrote to help myself survive the Final Fifteen.

[touchstoneaf]

I have the self-discipline not to start watching GO3. I have the self-discipline to go to bed like a grown-up, and then get up and watch it "tomorrow" after I get the kids to school. This is my mantra.

[youryurigoddess]

Literally came back online from a job interview with the Metatron just to see this:

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

From Mickey Ralph, the GO Lead Graphic Designer 🥺❤❤❤

[touchstoneaf]

I don't know if anybody shares this goal, but it would be really cool to listen to Unreal Unearth again without wanting to die. That's one of my hopes for this finale; that I can listen to that album again without crying myself to sleep.