still a slave to these dreams

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[deanskitchen]

tumblr is not instagram. likes on tumblr, while appreciated, are effectively useless in helping a creator reach a wider audience.

when you like something, it goes into your own personal folder. and chances are good that, even if it’s public, no one will see it.

likes do not get shared to the dashboard, where others can actually see and have the opportunity to engage.

liking a creation only really benefits you, and not the creator or the rest of the tumblr community!

likes are great for bookmarking, saving posts with the intent of a later reblog, engaging with certain posts that don’t need to be shared (ie. personal posts), posts that you are not comfortable sharing, and prepping a queue.

REBLOGGING is the best way to support a content creator!

reblogs boost attention and engagement. it actually allows for that content to be shared with others. which, really, is what tumblr is all about!

tldr; reblogs > likes. please don’t take content creators for granted. this site would be nothing without them!

[an-ruraiocht]

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

interesting article about fic-turned-trad-novels (which is, crucially, not anti-fanfic while still being critical of this particular phenomenon)

[violetvapours]

No writer is an island. Storytelling is a communal, not an individual, act. Any author is inspired by countless others, and stands on the shoulders of their own favorites.

- Sarah Jilani

Fanfiction Made Me a Literary Scholar - Electric Literature

Fanfiction assumes what any literary scholarship worth its salt must acknowledge: Narrative is a social act

[emmajanereading]

Absolutely bullshit decision by the Board in cancelling Dr Randa Abel-Fattah from this year's Adelaide Writers Week.

'Dark days': Writers' Week staff reject axing as authors leave in droves - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Writers' Week staff reject the board's decision to axe a prominent Palestinian author, in an email to authors seen exclusively by InDaily.

Apparently they've pulled the participants list off the program website - my guess would be so people can't see who (and how big a chunk of the program) is boycotting and who's still down as attending.

And now the first withdrawal from the wider Adelaide Festival has happened.

Writers’ Week controversy contagion spreads as music program headliner drops out - CityMag | InDaily, Inside South Australia

A major headliner of Adelaide Festival’s music program has withdrawn in the wake of the festival board’s decision to axe a Palestinian autho

The Bondi attack was horrific. The circumstances which fostered it, that allowed such hate to fester, that emboldened those men to murder? Those need to be denounced, addressed, dug out and exposed.

Antisemitism is to be opposed and challenged and rejected.

But anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. Opposing and denouncing Israel for genocidal colonialism is not antisemitism.

Drawing any connection between Dr Abel-Fattah and that attack? Disgusting. Fucking dog whistle. Un-fucking-acceptable.

That the bloke in charge of our state has gone on record that he's okay with the Board's decision? Disappointing, but not surprising. He's a pollie, after all... that he's in the Labor Party is reflective of how far that lot have strayed from their political origins.

UPDATE (2026-01-10): the list of those walking away from Writers Week keeps growing...

Writers' Week under threat of collapse as list of writers leaving nears 100 - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

A multitude of high-profile authors has joined the flood of names demolishing the Writers' Week lineup.

But the Premier is apparently still in favour of the decision to cancel Dr Abel-Fattah. All because she was part of a push to remove a pro-Israel speaker in 2024... cos tit-for-tat rules are in play, I guess.

[farewell-wanderlust7]

Steal an item of clothing from me!!

I love tag games, so I’ve decided to make one lmao. (this is gonna be a hit with a very specific audience, considering my wardrobe consists of an amalgamation of things the Doctor/the Master would wear)

Steal my wardrobe

Studded black leather gloves

Buttoned black leather jacket

Long burgundy scarf

Sage green overcoat with iridescent lining

Silver snake ring

Voting ended onJan 7

Tags: @shalkapilled @seasonsofmedea @suburbanrot @polarity-disturbed @leelarots @harveywallbang3r @surprisinglygoodstaffcanteen @yourlocaltrashrat-23 @gabe-dasha @ghost-bison @ghostonstrings @clowns0cks and any others that wanna join!!

[suburbanrot]

I'll be taking that overcoat thank u 👀

steal my wardrobe

edwardian silk corset cover

thigh high heeled boots

brown leather blazer

80s puff sleeve blouse (with shoulder pads and heart-shaped buttons)

vintage strawberry-patterned babydoll

90s velvet dress that looks grey but shifts to red at the right angle

Voting ended onJan 7

no-pressure tags: @regicidal-defenestration @melscarrotjuice @goldenzingy46 @vanillaurl @doctorhomo @thoscheism and anyone else who wants to!!

[goldenzingy46]

i’ll steal the corset cover thank you :3

steal my wardrobe

fake leather jacket

red fake suede jacket

black 4 inch platforms w spiderwebs

holographic purple 5 inch platforms

white psychedelic mushrooms 7 inch double stack platforms w pink sole

silver naga skull ring (the great frog)

black trench coat

Voting ended onJan 7

not sure who to tag so i’ll do @megamindsupremacy and @the-evil-skull and @planets-collide and open tag :)

[the-evil-skull]

GUY GIVE ME THAT BLACK TRENCH

steal my wardrobe

brown wool dress coat

multicolored flower patterned dress shirt

long black scarf

feathered fedora

authentic Palestinian kuffiyeh

cheap brown waistcoat

huge black leather jacket

preserved glow in the dark cicada necklace

the One Ring of Power

Voting ended onJan 7

@fireworkss-exe @armydreamerr @leelarots @lokiinmediasideblog @kiwimints @shalkapilled

[lokiinmediasideblog]

I think I'm stealing the oversized leather jacket Steal my wardrobe

Olive green trenchcoat/windbreaker

Silver Knife earring

MFA Boston collab shirt from uniqlo with kappa and other yokai

Skinny Puppy hoodie with a logo that looks like Moder from the Ritual but isn't

Metal snake vertebrae choker necklace

Long beaded earrings I bought from Butterflies n' Azee some years ago

Green Beetle encased in resin necklace I've had since 2012

Penguin beanie

Voting ended onJan 11

No pressure tags: @queen-of-meows @eek-a-tron @violetvapours + anyone that wants to join in

[violetvapours]

Knife earring please 🗡️ thank you for thinking of me @lokiinmediasideblog 🥰

Steal my wardrobe

Green velvet jacket

Black suede knee high lace up boots

Pomegranate print linen midi skirt

Silver moon & star earring stack

Purple tortoiseshell glasses

Voting ended onJan 12

@someillplanetreigns @superficialdomina @sheliesshattered @mourningknight hope you're all doing ok 💜

[christmasxmas]

[oldfarmhouse]

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar.

— Margaret Atwood. (via meg's oldfarmhouse)

[pepessilvias-blog]

[feathery-dreamer]

this is like two months late for spooky season but idgaf so here it is

[m-o-p-e]

Panic might be triggered by signals from your bones

New research suggests the fight-or-flight response wouldn't be possible without hormonal cues from your bones.

Until now, Schipani says, she and the rest of the scientific community thought it was adrenaline, a well-known hormone produced by the adrenal glands located above the kidneys, that kickstarted fight-or-flight. But according to this new research in lab mice, an acute stress response is impossible without a hormone called osteocalcin—which, as its name suggests, is made by bones.

Julian Berger, a genetics PhD candidate at Columbia University and the study’s first author, says that when his team inhibited osteocalcin production in mice and then exposed them to a stressor, like the odor of fox urine, they didn’t seem appropriately fazed. “It’s almost like someone is mugging you and you ignore them and take out a Snickers bar,” he says.

[rvllybllply2014]

Love this so much

[robinade]

the practical magic musical looks great

[lord-momonga]

*September 1st on Tumblr*

[lord-momonga]

You can only reblog this once a year

[fear-is-truth]

you’re starring in a movie with the last person saved in your camera roll and the last song you listened to is the title…who/what is it?

thank you so much for the tag @starry-eyed-wild-child @vi0l3tluvsu @strawb3rrystar love y’all !!

no pressure tags: @lisboncy @chaimilkshake @loveofcherry @lostreverb @taintandviolent @gingerteafairy @ticifics @merrydoe @r0rysreid + anyone who wants to join !!

[still-fatemeh]

I'm starring in a movie with the last person saved in my camera roll, and the last song I listened to is the title… Ooooh...

OMG, I lowky love this (ФωФ)

Tags 🏷: @reapkusho . @raskoln1kovsaxe . @thegolden-tigeress . @hannigramislife . @kaiserkisser . @insufferablewhore

[sonics-atelier]

In my jungle era <3

Tags: @space-girl3, @irithiadourden , @olenvasynyt, @outromoonyy, @sunmoonyandstars, @buffy-vanserra, @matrixsss, @suniwrites, @znbluvscis, @zenkindoflove, @100vern, @iamdkayyyyy, @flat-neines, @rosesncarnations, @mintedwitcher + all my moots and anyone who wants to.

[znbluvscis]

(Sorry guys I’m a YouTube music girly)!!

No pressure tags: @prttygirlposts @suniwrites @erenfox

[erenfox]

HOLY SHIT THIS ACTUALLY MAKES SM SENSE I CANT-

tags (no pressure ofc): @oswildin @reashee @youngjusticerulez @drksanctuary + anyone else who's interested lol

[oswildin]

Thank you for the tag @erenfox 💚

Oh, this film would eat. I can see it being WandaVision-esque, with me completely living in a fantasy land lmao—

NPT: @mischiefmaker615 @mylittledelulucorner @violetvapours @tardisesandtitans @thefairyloveschaos @whimsyfaes @not-so-local-lesbian (and anyone else who wants to join!)

[violetvapours]

A mythopoetic tragedy about two doomed gods 🥀

Thank you for thinking of me @oswildin. Open tags!

[natequarter]

tagged by @the-worms-in-your-bones:

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

judge my music taste

oh no! by marina and the diamonds

good old-fashioned lover boy by queen

one by one by enya

andante, andante by abba

the town i loved so well by the dubliners

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

again, tired, tagging the dash

[the-evil-skull]

Hello

judge my music taste

"Hellfire" from the Hunchback of Notre Dame

"Abbey" by mitski

"meet me in the woods" by Lord Huron

"body" by mother mother

"yellow flicker beat" by lorde

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

@fireworkss-exe @werewiire @lokiinmediasideblog @m3ab @fulltime-bigtoe-remover @purrtyhatemachine

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Sup

Judge my music taste

Niwashi King by Susumu Hirasawa

V: The Stand (Man or Machine) by the Protomen

Paragun by Skinny Puppy

Zelos by Mandroid Echostar

Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride from Lilo & Stitch

Voting ended onApr 28, 2025

@violetvapours @tyrannuspitch @eek-a-tron @mynorse-verse + anyone that wants to join

[violetvapours]

judge my music taste

The Weight cover by Jimmy Barnes

Reset Charges by Natalie Holt

KITTY HAWK by Ki:Theory

Citizen by Northlane

Song of the Forlorn Son by Insomnium

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

@superficialdomina @oswildin @acidcasualties @mourningknight

[natequarter]

tagged by @smallerontheoutside: list five things in your room and then people vote on what they'd steal

what would you steal from me, you mean mean people?

key to time dvds

the colour of magic by terry pratchett

terrifying doctor who calendar

bayeux tapestry keyring

tardis phone case

Voting ended onApr 28, 2025

tagging the dash because i'm tired

[the-evil-skull]

Hello

please don't steal anything of mine I live in a suitcase

seven-branched menorah

Hollow Knight pins

The first four Dune novels

cane

every A Series of Unfortunate Events book

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

@corcjell @fireworkss-exe @m3ab @purrtyhatemachine @lokiinmediasideblog

[lokiinmediasideblog]

I dare you to steal from my broke ass...

what would you steal?

The Art of Invader Zim book

My burnt DVD of Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers

SkekSil NECA figurine

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

"I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love" CD

Voting ended onApr 28, 2025

@rikitiki-infinity @violetvapours @eek-a-tron @tyrannuspitch

[violetvapours]

Take your pick sticky fingers!

Kobo ereader

Bose portable speaker

Collection of gourmand perfumes

Glass skull fairylight lamp

Basket of assorted medication

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

If you haven't already done this @superficialdomina @oswildin @sheliesshattered @whimsyfaes

[therealbucky05]

Icon

[filmgifs]

He is the one. The Matrix (1999) dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

[skyepatridge]

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

[cullen-skink]

Paywall Reader | Read without paywalls for free

Bypass paywalls effortlessly with the Paywall Reader, accessing articles and content for free and without restrictions.

[injuries-in-dust]

My ancestors watching me suffer under capitalism the same way they suffered under feudalism: Hast thou tried setting fire to thy noble lord's castle?

[ironicvixen]