Have a quick collection of commonly used tags and useful links because let's face it tumblr is a very functional website and there's no way to find anything otherwise. (Though I don't conistently tag reblogs, sorry not sorry I'm lazy)
Northanger Abbey, exactly what one would expect, posts about my favourite Austen novel (looking for my thoughts on a specific character? I also tag by character name...mostly)
Mansfield Park, the other Austen novel I sometimes post about
More underneath the cut ⬇️
About the Zwerg, which I use for personal stuff
Hugo the potato, if you care about my dog
Ask Games (I enjoy these, doesn't matter if I reblogged it years ago, I DO enjoy these so if something looks interesting go for it)
Answered Asks (I also tag them with the asker's name)
My writing (for pretty much everything I write and some opinions/thoughts on writing)
Inkvent Masterposts:
Northanger Abbey Inkvent 2024
Northanger Abbey Inkvent 2025
Other fic tags:
And now to tags pertaining to my fics, which I only, and exclusively, post on AO3 (and here's what I'd love for you to do if you find them anywhere else):
Lie in Lavender - Northanger Abbey, more or less, but set in the Pushing Daisies Universe
(Also has an episode guide which I try to keep as useful and up to date as possible)
Stronger than we are - My first novel length fic, Northanger Abbey x Tanz der Vampire
Give me Truth - A small fable/fairy tale-esque ficlet for featuring characters from all of the major six Austen novels
Hic Sunt Dracones - Nothing to see here yet but oh I want this to happen
John Thorpe - Okay technically not a fic but I've written two for this muppet, he deserves a mention here :D
[I will add to this post if I come up with more but hey, finally a proper pinned post]
Have fun,
Caranya/wurzelbertzwerg
(who prefers they/them, but she/her is okay too, is very German and old enough to have used floppy disks ;)
Lady with an Ermine (1489-1491) by Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452 – 1519), oil and tempera on walnut panel, 54.8 cm (21.5 in) x 40.3 cm (15.8 in), National Museum in Kraków
Just to be perfectly clear, none of those things is hugely egregious or problematic on its own (the 'LGBT' acronym especially, I've seen a fair amount of 'Q+' people that associate with it just fine and that's understandable), it's just a lot of little things that tend to pile up over time. And yes, most of the time none of them are intentionally pushing us aside – but again, that's 'cus we'd have to exist in people's eyes for that intention to even exist in the first play.
Anyway. I dunno. Feels a bit overly whiny. But it's another one of those things I'd wanted to get out of my system ig.
can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.
I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU
I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭
There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.
Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha
I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:
You know what I fucking eat up every time? The thing where one character is an optimist and the other is a pessimist, and something happens that just, snuffs the hope right out of the optimist, and the pessimist has to desperately try to do what the other has always done for them, cheer them up. I live for that shit omg.
As someone who has been on the Internet longer than many of you have been alive, I cannot emphasise enough what a good idea it is to block fools, bores, and drama-starters ON SIGHT. That means, on the FIRST sight. See the take, do not wait.
You are not a court of law. You are not required to hear them out, argue, nor give them a second chance. Block them. Nothing bad will happen to them without you! It's fine! Goodbye forever! Prevention is better than cure.
Hate when i'm having blorbo thoughts that are making me feel completely rabid but i can't organize them around a plot bunny or anything. Brain can you give me something to go on please I want to make this coherent so I can inflict it on other people
I know I don't have to make it into a fanfiction to talk about it with other people but I knowww I could make it into such a good fanfiction if only I could think of a single thing that happens in it
if yall ever want like serious advice from me about how to solve burnout as a creative it's like...
literally ignore it. stop pushing. go do something else, enjoy your life, fill it with other things, do what brings you joy in the moment if you can.
go to the gym, take a walk to touch grass and look at dogs and smell flowers, cook dinner, watch tv with your friends, talk about your feelings as needed with ppl you trust, take a drive and blast your music, do the chores you need to do, the job hunting slog you need to do, read books that aren't for research, stop cordoning off your brain for The Craft or The Draft or whatever the fuck
forget about the project, stop thinking about it for as long as it takes to be excited again.
stop pushing. stop blaming yourself for not working on creative stuff enough, stop tormenting yourself. remove all pressure and expectation. it'll be done whenever, you'll work on it whenever. who the fuck knows when that is, but it'll happen when it's ready.
stop doing shit that feels bad. do stuff that makes you happy and relaxed.
at a certain level of spoon usage from job, chores, errands, socialization and basic maintenance there will just Not Be Anything Left for your projects for awhile.
you have to let it build back up and then take your time getting back into it organically as it comes.
hope this helps someone else, bc I have learned it the hard-headed stubborn-ass fish-thrashing-in-a-net way and it's been agonizing.
It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.
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