#AND i want to make links or pages or something for a tags directory to find specific things easily!

[leesalchemybook]

going to start putting my old arts into my queue and work my way up to newer ones

[copperbadge]

Time To Build The 2023 Fandom Small Business Shopping Directory!

Every year I put up a poll asking small business owners, artists, and crafters to share what they make and where they sell it, so that our fannish (and fandom-adjacent) community can shop “local” for the holiday season, supporting their fellow creators. 

If you make things to sell or run a small business where people can shop, fill out the form linked above to tell us all about it!

Above and beyond the usual sorts of things you'd give as gifts, feel free to include services you think people would wish to give as gifts (eg tarot readings), and authors should feel free to link to their book sales pages. There are also ways to indicate that you take commissions, so don't let the fact that you are commission-only stop you!

Shoppers who want to see the directory can go here to find out who’s selling what, and where.

Both shoppers and creators, please feel free to reblog this to your readerships or tag folks who might benefit.

Sometimes google polls and sheets can be very special, so if there are any access issues let me know. Also if you filled out the form but something needs correcting, feel free to get in touch via my asks or copperbadge@gmail.com and I can go in and fix it for you. 

I'll be reblogging this a couple of times in the next few weeks so both sellers and shoppers have the best chance of seeing it. The results sheet is stable so you can also bookmark that if you know you want to shop but want to wait and see what people are adding.

Happy selling, happy shopping! 

[oddmerit]

heres a few links from my bookmarks folder full of HTML and CSS resources that i used when first making my neocities website because i want other people to make their own sites as well because its fun :)

how to actually do html and css

web design in 4 minutes - this is the site that really made HTML and CSS click for me, following along as the author describes what’s he’s doing to the webpage and showing how it changes the presentation (you don’t need the book he shills at the end. i did without)

w3schools introduction to html - takes you through the very basics of creating a website, lesson-by-lesson. big goldmine for code to grab and scaffold off of once you have some basic skills

mozilla’s html guide - also a great beginner’s guide by the people who made mozilla, although i didnt use it as much as w3 schools

brackets.io - this is the program i use to write the files i use for my website. lets you do splitscreen to work with two files at once, gives you a breakdown of all the files in your website’s folder, and will let you autofill commonly-used tags and files in the code. supposedly has a live preview function but it doesnt work that well for me when i’m using a second monitor, which i normally do when coding. just save the file and refresh the page instead. 

(side note: i work in a software external to neocities instead of directly in the neocities editor because 1. local files update with a refresh and neocities has to update the cookies AND download all the website info again once you update, and 2. it effectively gives you a mass undo button if you fuck up because you have your files hosted in multiple places (local and online). yes its kinda annoying to have to manually upload all my files especially bc you cant upload whole folders AND you cant move their locations once uploaded but i prefer it to working directly on the site. if you have a neocities pro subscription ($5/month) you can mount your website directly on your machine as opposed to the neocities dashboard, which basically means you dont have to manually upload the code every time you change something -- it’ll update automatically)

codepen - if you prefer something browser-based to work in then try codepen, i used it a little bit at the beginning when trying to troubleshoot some code i didn’t quite understand. you need an account to actually save your work and im not sure if it actually lets you upload folders bc i never signed up lol

premade engines/sites/themes/etc etc

neothemes or eggramen or templaterr - if you wanna get a quick start on a neocities site, you CAN use a theme generator/premade theme. if you go this route i would still heavily recommend trying to learn HTML and CSS, and then go into the guts of your own website to try and pick it apart and change it to your liking

zonelets - a static blogging engine that uses HTML, CSS, and javascript. made for use on neocities but theoretically useable elsewhere. takes about 15 minutes to set up (if you use a default theme, but its pretty customizable if you know what you’re doing) and requires you to 1. write blog posts in html and 2. modify some code in a script file every time you want to upload a post, but it will automatically let you browse posts in order once you get everything uploaded

rarebit - a neocities webcomic template — havent used it yet but looks cool, and seems to operate off of the same principles as zonelets. 

glightbox - this is the lightbox javascript code i use when i want to display a lot of images on one page. i found this code via clicking “inspect element” on a neocities fanpage that the webmaster drew a lot of fanart for. you should click inspect element on neocities pages that you like so you can understand how they do what you like (you can even look at their css by clicking the style.css link you have to include at the top of your page)

plus a couple masterlists/directories:

yesterlinks

sadgrl.online’s webmastery directory

[theneighborhoodwatch]

Hi! Gonna start off and say that I love the work you're doing with the Welcome Home neocities website! It's perfectly stylized for the project/puppet show and I can see the work you're putting into it.

I'd love to learn how to make my own neocities website (for fun? For a personal project??), so I was wondering if you could provide some tips and/or pointers for a first-timer.

Thank you!

HAHA well first of all i'm flattered that someone would think i'm skilled enough to be giving pointers in the first place. i still consider myself a novice when it comes to web design (for example, if you're wondering why every page on welcome to welcome home has its own CSS, it's because CSS is Way harder for me to wrap my head around than HTML) so i can't give any Super advanced tips, but i can at least write about what's helped me so far:

GUIDES. neocities has its own tutorial and list of HTML/CSS resources, but user-made guides are your best friend when it comes to figuring out where to go from there. a.n. lucas and pauli kohberger both have really good guides for beginners, but for the more advanced stuff, i found myself referencing the resources on solaria's webspace and sadgrl.online the most. w3schools is also very helpful when it comes to answering more specific questions like "how do i use two different fonts on the same page?" (and probably more.) if all else fails, then usually just googling "how to (x) in HTML" or "how to (x) in CSS" will yield at least one useful result. for making your website more accessible, there's the accessible net directory and this masterpost by foxpunk on tumblr.

it sounds obvious, but it helps to have a solid idea of what kind of site you want to build before you actually dive in, and then snoop around on neocities to get an idea of how other users approach the same topic. for example, i got the idea to start a welcome home wiki on neocities after being reminded of the 8:11 wiki on the same site, and then i spent a couple days just looking up stuff like "wiki" or "fansite" on neocities and then clicking on any page that caught my attention to study it.

layouts! there's no shame in using a premade one, and you can even learn more about HTML/CSS in real time just by messing around with the base code before implementing any intentional changes. sadgrl.online's layout builder is a VERY popular choice, since you can already do a lot with the basic options it offers and it's easy to further customize once you have it set up on your page; it's what i used to make welcome to welcome home. sadgrl.online's webmaster links also feature a bunch of other options under the "layouts" tag, and if none of those work for you, then you can even find something just by looking up template/templates/layout/layouts/HTML/CSS on neocities itself.

side note: if you're reading this and you want to make a wiki then you can also use this wikitable code. it came out after i had already established the Look of welcome to welcome home, so i probably won't implement it any time soon, but i TOTALLY WOULD HAVE if it was around when i first set the site up.

you can scale images up or down using percentage, with 100% being the image's default size. i don't know how helpful or acceptable that is, but i use it a lot.

don't feel pressured to get everything done at once, even if you expect people to be visiting your site frequently. usually if you just slap on an "under construction" gif or even just write "hey this site is still under construction" then people will understand. i don't think i've ever seen anyone get super huffy about slow updates on neocities, anyway.

EDIT: OH. GRAPHICS. i mention all of these on welcome to welcome home's front page but i Also wanted to note them here: betty's graphics and websets by lynn both have HUGE collections of background tiles and other graphics that work especially well if you're going for that old web charm. i also like to use this mirror of patterncooler for backgrounds bc of the customization options. you can also make your own background tile and then use a seamless tile maker like this if all else fails.

EDIT 2: ALSO. obviously. do not be like me and use discord or any other chat client as a filehost, no matter how promising it looks, because one day you WILL get a very nasty surprise when the request signature on those urls expire and the images are no longer accessible on other sites. there are a myriad of other filehosts out there, but personally i recommend file garden (and also donating to file garden if you can, even if only for a couple months. i know i said that just yesterday, but if it gets more folks to subscribe then i'm gonna keep saying it.)

[smokingtiger]

SMOKINGTIGER DIRECTORY

Hello, I'm smokingtiger, a chronically ill college student in their twenties studying linguistics and the Korean language. I think I'm most well known on this platform as someone who gives their unsolicited opinion on all things bangtan and bangtan ship discourse. I've been a fan of BTS since 2015 so I have seen this fandom in all of its most vibrant moments. I am a major defender against toxic solos because I ride and die for all seven members of BTS, so slander against any of them will not be tolerated!

I don't subscribe to any particular pairing but I am not someone who hates rps! Usually, I just like to give an outsider/neutral point of view on certain pressing questions that this fandom has towards certain events, so that's what I'd considered to be the biggest chunk of this blog.

Feel free to shoot me an ask about any particular pairing/fandom event and I'll try to evaluate it. I'll be your personal ship therapist, so if you just want to wax poetry about why you think something is the way that it is, come and do it in my askbox. I do have a busy schedule so it does take me a bit to get from ask to ask.

All shippers welcome (but at this point, most of the people at my front doorstep are taekookers and jikookers. You guys are like cute little stray cats paying me a visit)

A GENERAL SUMMARY OF MY ASKS

Does Jimin Make Jungkook Uncomfortable? | The JAKSAL, 1108, and Osaka Chronicals | Does BTS "feed" shippers? | Why People Ship Celebrities | The Problem With Declaring "Realness" And My Feelings Toward Shipping in General | How Shippers Become Solos | Despite Everything, Taekook | Fanservice & Camera Cuts | GCF in Tokyo: Points & Counterpoints | How I Feel About Fanfiction

ASK BOX COURTESY

If you want to talk about a topic and you're referencing certain moments/interviews and it's a viable source you can link, I'd appreciate it if that info was also included in the ask. If you can't find it, it's fine, I always do a little digging if I need to. I like to have access to what's being said so I can properly form my thoughts around it.

I typically do not address things/images leaked by sasaengs unless they become incredibly widespread and/or relevant to what I'm talking about. I try my best not to spread things like that and/or promote material posted by stalkers; think of it as outside evidence not properly submitted to a court.

If you leave a heated ask in my inbox and it contains information I have previously addressed, I really won't take your anger seriously; I'm someone who gives little care to outbursts unless there's actual merit to the conversation. I just think that if you take the time out of your day to write something lengthy like that, you can also take the time to check my previous asks or tags using the very useful Tumblr search option on my profile. I think that would be best to clear up any chance of miscommunication, because nine times out of ten, some of my angry anon questions or concerns have already been answered and/or addressed.

Also if you want to ask me something privately, just let me know that you want to start a DM, I have no qualms with that.

And as a final reminder: this page is primarily ship neutral, but if you get confused by the occasional ship post from me, it's usually surrounding aus. I write; it's a hobby of mine that I've been trying to get back into after years of illness plaguing me. I've explained that I don't necessarily think that any ship in BTS is 'real' and that I'm not rooting for any particular pairing -- but I do engage in the creative 'shipping' aspect of the fandom, so expect some fic and au posts. And yes, as a writer, I do favor certain ships (mostly due to the dynamics), but like I said, I'm not cheering for them or praying for the downfall of another. When it comes to legitimate points outside of the creative zone, I treat them all equally. I'm somewhat mentally stable... Just somewhat.

Thanks for stopping by!

[pancakeke]

been thinking about this for a while and the volume of posts I've seen decrying the act of liking art without reblogging it vs the literal 0 (zero) number of posts I've seen explaining how to find art by:

utilizing the individual characteristics of Tumblr's site wide search/tag systems

using tumblr's content filtering system to declutter search/tag results (to hide gifs, manga caps, edits, etc)

listing common shorthand terms used within fandoms for characters/ships/etc that can be used to target specific reaults

disabling endless scrolling and editing search/tag page urls to do deep dives into tags (if this still works? I haven't done it in a while)

using tumblr's tag following system along with the "your tags" tab to keep up with new posts

creating your own quick link reference (using a text editor, spreadsheet, or notepad doc formatted with html and saved as a .html file) to catalog various favorite search/tag pages so you can have them all a click away for regular checking

(above is nice for making favorite artist directories too)

creating an "artist dashboard" via the blog sub tab (follow the artist, enable notifications from them, then go to tumblr settings and disable push notifications. you'll get all the artist's posts in a tab but wont be annoyed by notifs)

looking up title/character names in other languages (using both english alphabet spellings and ones from non-english alphabets)

identifying an artist's unique art tag to see all their art (btw it should also be stressed by tye community that artists should use unique art tags if they're mixed OC/non-OC blogs so people can easily find their original art)

understanding the quirks between searching a term on an artist's blog and clicking a tag on one of their posts (the blog search is fucked and often extremely non-chronological, but if you search something on a blog, get a result that has the term tagged, then click that tag, you'll be directed to a chronological view using the tag)

also honorable mention for artists and not art enthusiasts: encouraging artists to use good tags and understand how tumblr's tag system works (AND THEN KEEP UP TO DATE ON THIS. it has changed so many times...)

makes me feel like this shit is purely registers as a personal numbers game to them. like, no thought is being put into how people operate or how to enable their potential audience. they just want reblog count go up. now.

also for real, helping people with the desire to find art and the initiative to go out of their way to get to your content seems like a better way to get reblogs than trying to shame disinterested people whose only regard for your work was a fleeting moment of attention as they just happened to pass it on their dashboard.

sure there is merit to people sharing a work but it is the most random, non-targeted method of reaching someone. Acting as if it's helpful (or even possible) to force a casual audience to change their desires and behavior is bizarre.

[nolofinweanweek]

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Nolofinwëan week? This is a week-long fandom event celebrating Tolkien’s characters that belong to the House of Fingolfin.

When and where is the event taking place? The event will run from November 6 - 12, 2023 on the Tumblr blog. Works can also be added to the AO3 collection.

Who counts as a Nolofinwëan character? Fingolfin, Anairë and all their descendants through the ages count as Nolfinwean characters. This includes people who have been married into the family, adopted, etc. Here’s the Nolofinwëan family tree as a reference.

Is Gil-galad considered a Nolofinwëan character? For the purposes of this event, Gil-galad, son of Fingon, is considered a Nolofinwëan character. 

For context, Gil-galad’s parentage in the published Silmarillion is assigned to Fingon and an unnamed mother. Christopher Tolkien (JRR Tolkien’s son and The Silmarillion’s editor), later noted that he’d made a mistake, basing this his decision on his father’s notes that pre-dated the decision to make Gil-galad a descendant of Finarfin. Here’s a summary of this debate. This event welcomes any reading and interpretation by the fandom community.

How do I participate? You can participate by creating fanfiction, fanart, headcanons, close readings and musings, edits, gifs, comics, or anything else that inspires you to celebrate these characters.

To have your work shared on the event’s page, please mention the blog @nolofinweanweek in your post and include the hashtags #nolofinweanweek and #nolofinweanweek2023 in the first 10 tags.

How do I make sure you will reblog my work? Please see the answer above. You may also submit a post or DM the event with a link to your post.

Your post should be reblogged within 24 hours. If you see a like on your post from @nolofinweanweek, your post is probably in the queue! If it’s been 24 hours and you don’t see a like and your post hasn’t been reblogged—feel free to message @melestasflight directly. Tumblr’s tagging and @ing mechanisms can be faulty.

Is there an AO3 collection? Yes! The Nolofinwëan Week 2023 collection is here.

Do I have to participate every day? Not at all! Please participate as your time and inspiration allow. The event welcomes short posts, sketches, and drabbles. You can also just enjoy other people’s work and support them by showing your love with a like, a reblog or a comment.

What if I don’t finish my fanwork in time for the event? Feel free to post what you have and tag the event anyway—in-progress works are welcome!

Alternatively, tag the blog whenever you are finished and ready to post it—happy to promote Nolofinwëan content year-round!

Do I have to follow the prompts? Nope! The prompts are just for inspiration. All Nolofinwëan content is welcome, following the prompts or not.

Can I post drafts and work in progress? Yes! You can contribute any kind of fanwork you want, even if it’s not finished. This event is meant to inspire folks to do creative work centered on Nolofinwëan characters, and if that means you continue something you started during the event, that’s great! 

Additionally, if your work is already in-progress and you want to update it or promo it during the week, that is also encouraged.

Can I post nsfw content? Nsfw works are welcome as long as the Tumblr post itself is sfw and the content is appropriately tagged. The easiest way to share would be to post your piece to the AO3 collection and create a sfw promotional post.

I’m new to Tolkien’s work and have little experience with these characters. Where do I find out more? The Silmarillion Writer’s Guild has a fantastic directory of character biographies here. Feel free to browse characters by name and explore these contributions by other fandom members.

Can I use generative AI to make content for this event? Sure, use AI or any other digital tools creatively. However, please tag your content appropriately so folks know how it was generated.

Are there any rules? Please be a respectful and encouraging community member! This means:

Do not repost content by other creators without their explicit permission. Please re-blog instead to support their work.

Respect other people’s headcanons and interpretations, even if you don’t share them.

Content and creators espousing any form of negativity, bigotry, aggression or discrimination against others will not be tolerated.

Disrespecting these rules will lead to being blocked from the event.

I have another question: Share it via an ask, or get in touch with @melestasflight

The event directory is accessible here.

This FAQ has been adapted from Tolkien Gen Week run by @arofili

[modifieduchiha]

Blog Ettiquette

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ッHere is a post about some of the things I get asked frequently and how I want my blog to run, so that everything is clear and easy to find for you all. ☺

♡ My blog contains NFSW content and so I ask that you be 18+ to interact with my blog at all ! I enjoy writing and the tumblr community , so please don't get me shadowbanned or blocked.

★YOU CAN ALWAYS EMAIL ME★

★ ModifiedUchihaFics@gmail.com ★

Writing Prompts

♡ If you want to use my prompts: go ahead! I want you to get inspired and write lots of cool stuff!

♡ You can choose the exact words (as long as it’s not officially published) or just get inspired by it.

♡ You can post it in a new post, you can put it directly under the prompt post or you can publish it on AO3 or similar sites. It’s up to you! Please see "HOW TO CREDIT ME" below

♡ You can always change the gender however you want.

♡ If you want me to read what you write, you can tag me! And you can send it to @modifieduchiha to be reblogged!

✉ Asks (How to ask or request)

♡ Ask through Asks , the chat or the submissions.

♡ Before you send me a request , check the "What characters I will write for?" Post. If you truly can't find it, message me or go ahead and ask.

♡ Try to be precise with your questions, let me know the genre, fandom, characters, writing, the time, etc.

♡ Let me know if you want text prompts, dialogue prompts, ideas, scenarios, etc. so that I know what kind of help you’re looking for.

♡ If you don’t want the answer to be made public, don’t send the ask on anon and just let me know, I will answer privately then.

♡ I will close my inbox when I reach 30 asks, to give myself time to answer. You can check the updated number of asks in my bio. (If it’s lower than 35 and it says closed, it means I’m tackling the asks, till it gets down to at least 10.)

★Submissions★

♡Submissions are always welcome on this blog, but I’m not able to post all of them, especially if I don’t feel like it’s the right time or the format is not fitting in with the other prompts. I also love to reblog YOUR fan fic submissions.

♡Take a look at the different prompts on this blog and how they are formatted, how long they are, etc.

♡You will always be credited underneath with a link to your page. If your name changes, please let me know and I’ll fix it.

♡You can send in text prompts, dialogue prompts , your own fics, and anything else relating to writing help ! Share your knowledge.

★How to credit me★

♡If it’s just for fun and you just put it on Tumblr or AO3, etc. I would like you to credit me. The exact way you credit me is not important to me, but it would be preferable to tag me and/or message me.

-Referring to above , I LOVE to see other things inspired by my own work .

♡If you use my words for commercial use and/or you intend to make money off of it, you have to ask me and definitely credit me. All the original works on this blog belong to me, except the ones that are obvious reblogs from another account .

★Chat★

♡I frequently use the chat ♡If you want to ask me something, that is not directly related to writing and you don’t want it to be published, you can chat with me and tell me.

These are just some things I wanted to clear up and maybe there is more coming, I don’t know yet. But I really hope you all enjoy this blog and so I wanted to make it clearer and easier to use. Have fun everyone! I will likely update this in the future ♡♡♡♡ - Tee

© ModifiedUchiha 2023 ★♡Please don't copy , paste , or plagiarize my works . Feel free to use them for inspiration , but give credit .♡★

[discordhelp]

hello, tags! @discordhelp is back at it again with a long overdue gif pack server template! we apologize for the major delay in getting this out, but we hope this is still relevant and will be useful to the gif makers in our community. this template features a general regulation category, as well as categories based on gif pack size and alphabetized names. further explanation on these and the channels within them can be found under the cut! and of course, you can duplicate, add, and remove categories and channels to fit your server’s needs.

disclaimer: this server is heavily inspired by @bosvcr‘s gif pack directory tutorial, which we highly suggest you check out for a more detailed explanation on how to set one up yourself!

you can access the template here or in the source link, while features & usage suggestions are below the cut! please like or reblog this post if you plan on using the template. our inbox is always open if you have any questions or need help with anything we make.

ROLES: this template comes with two standard roles, admin and member. in order to best utilize the member role, we suggest using a bot that enables reaction roles, such as zira, carl bot, atlas, dyno, etc. all of these are considered moderator bots, allowing you to control your server however much you need to, whether that involves welcoming people into the server with a message that directs guests to your guidelines, setting a notification for whenever someone leaves your server, warning a member if a rule has been broken, banning a member from certain activity with an optional time limit, and so much more. definitely play around with these bots to get a feel for them and see which one you think fits your server best!

SERVER LAYOUT & PERMISSIONS: before continuing onto the actual layout, i wanted to go over the preset permissions i’ve built into the server. you will notice a small lock (🔒) in the righthand corner of most hashtags / channels within each category. these are private channels that can only be seen by admins and members ( apart from admin corner, which can only be seen by admins, and welcome & guidelines, which can be seen by everyone ). if you choose to opt out of using one of the moderator bots listed above, you can easily assign everyone who joins your server the member role once they’ve read and reacted to your server guidelines. of course, this means you have to track each reaction, whereas a bot automatically does that for you, but if you don’t mind that amount of control, then it’s totally doable! having these private channels grants you permission to manage your server more easily, creating a safer space for you content!

now onto the layout —

admin corner: a place for you to test announcement layouts, but also a place you can house tumblr asks with this very useful webhook. this is also somewhere you can send yourself a notification for whenever someone leaves your server.

welcome: a channel where guests arrive in! if you’re using a moderator bot, you can use this channel to send welcome messages and redirect guests to your guidelines.

READ BEFORE CONTINUING

guidelines: here you can post your server rules, which can include how to request / suggest gif packs, how / where to commission ( if this is something you do! ), and other rules that may apply.

announcements: you can use this space for announcement posts, whether you’re informing your members of an upcoming hiatus or letting them know when a new gif pack will be released. use this however you see fit!

commissions: this channel is a place for rules and steps on how to commission upcoming packs! if you already have a commission page on your main blog, you can just copy and paste that info into here.

requests: this can be renamed to suggestions, but i imagine this channel to be utilized by your members, in which they can send suggestions of potential faceclaims to be giffed. you can place a rule stating suggestions are open only when you ask for them or the rule can state that members can suggest a faceclaim once a week — but really, however you feel this channel is best manageable is up to you!

to-do: you can split your to-do list up between commissions and side projects, but ultimately this is just meant for members to peep on what you’re working on / getting ready to work on next!

askbox: this channel is for members who may have questions that might not be already answered in your guidelines or anywhere else in the server. if you think it’s necessary, i suggest you add a bot that enables anonymous messages, such as confessions bot, confessions, or voltaire.

directory: this channel is definitely optional, but if you wanted to be extra organized, this is a space where you can post a server directory! if you’re familiar with discord, you know there’s an option to link back to a specific channel by typing # and the channel name. that is just the first step to creating a potential directory, but however you want to set it up is to your discretion!

BY GIF PACK SIZE: i’m not a gif maker myself, and so i’m not sure if this is even a valuable addition to this server, but i figured it wouldn’t hurt to throw this option in here. under this category, you can link your gif packs by size! whether you want to alphabetize these gif packs / faceclaims within each respective channel is up to you, but i also understand if you want to opt out of this category altogether.

ALPHABETICAL ORDER: now onto what your members will be waiting for! i have split up these categories so that there are three letters each ( i.e. A-C, used for faceclaims starting with A-C ), keeping in mind that categories are only allowed 50 channels before hitting channel limit. so if you’re someone who gifs a lot, i would suggest splitting these categories up by one letter each, just in case you don’t hit that limit. otherwise, the world is your oyster when it comes to organizing and posting your gif packs!

again, feel free to play around with this layout, and pick and choose what works for you and what doesn’t! i hope this is a good starting ground for creators who are looking into using discord as a housing platform, so please let us know if this has been any help to you! and happy content creating!

[talenlee]

A Cursed JPG

A Cursed JPG

I am a millenial of a particular age. One of the habits I have is that I am prone to trying to save things. I used to save IRC logs when I was a kid, and it took me a long time to get around to putting that habit behind me when I realised I was saving redundant logs that other computer programs were saving. Discord is a resource I search regularly, checking back on when I brought up other topics with my friends, that kind of thing.

I am circling around the way this story makes me selfconscious.

This is also why I’m not sharing any visual examples.

Anyway, so I grew up with a habit of saving files. These days I try not to bookmark everything but there was a time when my bookmark folder was immensely overfilled, and then a lot of services I got used to would ask me to add likes or saves or hearts to things so I could find them later, which I did not like. I actually really liked usenet for this reason because you could go to a newsgroup, download a giant pile of posts, and make your responses to them while offline, then upload them all at once. On one level, I was familiar with an internet where every file is eight letters then a dot then three letters.

I like email.

Anyway, uh, yeah, so anyway, watermarks are great! I like when images have watermarks on them so I can find where they came from. That’s great for archiving because then the thing I’m archiving has the source for them when I want to go back and find them anew. And so I save things and they go in my download directory and then I come back and work out where they go and ultimately, I eventually delete them. I mean there’s nothing in that folder that’s too old —

Well, today there’s nothing in the folder that’s old, for reasons we’ll get into.

Anyway, have you ever looked at how instagram looks under the hood? Streaming media really battered this desire to save local copies of things, where a youtube series is largely going to be ephemeral and I can’t play local copies, ever. That makes them a lot more like leaving the radio on while I work than necessarily something I habitually archive. I save links, I make sure I point people to the history I have with it when I find a channel, but I mean, we all bathe in a shower of content that’s basically constantly marinating our brains. Showers? Marinating? Beaugh, you know what I mean.

Point is that instagram is a source of a lot of interesting kinds of things I want to look at. Sometimes it’s maps, sometimes it’s high quality photographs of toys I don’t want to buy, sometimes it’s landscapes, sometimes it’s game asset art, sometimes it’s game layouts, all sorts of stuff. It is also, if you’re not aware, a website where people can post pictures of themselves, and network with people who want to see those pictures of themselves.

If you’ve ever looked at instagram, not the things the site presents, but the structure of the site’s code, you might be surprised how much of instagram is containers to put every other part of instagram in, which is, itself, mostly containers. Like you may look at any given page and go ‘well, there’s a picture here, buttons to go to the next picture here and here, and a comment section here,’ and think that means the site is broadly, three sections and you can bounce between them but no, the site is hundreds of subdivided sections into sections into sections into sections and they’re all being generated by the finest of computer touchers, and they’re not made for humans to look at. They’re made for a computer to look at, and that shows up in the files and variable names.

Did you know that Youtube tries to make sure the codes for any given video doesn’t form a word? Yeah, It’s made up of letters and numbers and they block a bunch of things that could be words. It’s a good practice, I get it, so you don’t get companies rerolling videos trying to make it so they get a really good tag for a thing, instead of just making each instance of a video name completely garbled. The filenames, the signifiers, aren’t used for people to handle. And that means they don’t have to be recognisable. Why should they be?

If you want to save a file off instagram, you open up the dev tools, pop open the div div div div div div tree all the way down to get to the image you’re looking for, pop that open into a new tab, then save that file. They’re usually watermarked so you can find them again, too, so it isn’t something I think about when I save the file. Bring it into the incoming directory, then sort them out later.

And this is how I found my cursed file.

I had an image in my incoming recently, where the file name was over 200 characters long. Do you know what this does to a windows 7 machine? Because somehow, my browser could create this file, somehow my explorer could find this file and open this file, but at that point the ability to interact with the file ends. I can’t edit it. I can’t save over it. I can’t rename it. I can copy the visual information from the image while it’s open and put it into another file, the image is totally standard visual information, but the file itself presented itself as being somehow wrong.

I wound up exploring some really weird avenues to get rid of this file. Delete. Ctrl-delete. Delete in a command prompt. Delete in a powershell. Delete everything in the directory, and see that left alone. Delete it in blocks. Delete it in a group.

Nope.

Nope, this file is wrong.

This file that you somehow made is refusing to be deleted. The eye of the operating system slides off it, when it’s required to interact with it in the wrong ways.

BE NOT AFRAID.

Anyway, what I wound up doing was clearing out the entire directory, making a copy of it, then with nothing in it but this one image, deleting that directory, then re-creating the directory and moving everything back into it, and praying the system didn’t react badly to it. That seems to have gotten rid of it.

This is a nothing story! It’s not remarkable beyond ‘I encountered a weird file,’ and I’m not used to being defied by windows explorer! But the way I wound up telling the story to Fox as I tried to work out what to do all kept circling around the picture and me being awkward and finding tangents.

‘cos the image, if you’re curious, was a picture of a pretty lady’s boobs.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Diary

[leroibobo]

i don't have a consistent schedule and just post whenever i feel like it. this may mean weeks at a time with nothing and then sudden posts. feel free to unfollow if you're not into that.

this page (and this tag, for more recent/urgent things re: palestine) on my main is dedicated to resources for information and action regarding issues i care about. if you like what this blog posts, i implore you to check the page out, as it concerns the very real people from the communities which the things i post come from. it is very much a wip and i intend to add more links pertaining to more causes i care about soon.

dnis are as effective as "are you 18" popups on porn sites - i'm well aware that i can't actually stop anyone from interacting with my posts. still, because of what i do post, i think i should mention that i don't look kindly on z-onists or any other kind of identity supremacist. ("pan-[anything]", white, phonecian, etc). if you want to talk about something i wrote in one of my posts in that regard, i'm up for it as long as you're respectful. if you want to call me names over it, please block me and leave me alone instead. it's not my responsibility to cater my blog to you no matter how wrong you think i am.

that being said, if i do actually get anything factually wrong in any of my posts feel free to correct me. (i tend to mute notifications on posts with lots of notes, so i may not always respond to replies on reblogs, but my ask box is open.) i don't mean to present myself as any sort of expert on anything, and i'm not immune to making mistakes on my posts (though i'll usually correct myself in the replies). i'm just someone who likes to learn.

you can find this blog's tag directory here. icon source here.

[agentplutonium]

✨🌲Intro Post🌲✨

Hello! My name is Pluto (They/Them) and I'm a writer/creator for different fandoms. These fandoms are constantly changing and often there is more than one, but as of right now you’ll see a lot of RP Audio content (Redacted Audio, Castle Audios, NeXus, Noderum Records, as a few examples), Good Omens, and the occasional Supernatural and Percy Jackson universe posts. Right now I’m writing a lot of Redacted Audio fanfics/headcanons/oneshots as well as sharing a bit of original content for the world that i’m currently developing! I’m hoping my fanfics branch out a bit but I make no promises because I’m comfortable writing RA (Milo/Sweetheart fics, specifically) things and once I’m comfortable it can be years before I write another fandom/paring.

General Things(tm) about this blog:

NSFW… ish

Please keep in mind that while I don't post NSFW, I do like suggestive posts sometimes which can cause that sort of thing to pop up on your feed. As a general thing I like claiming my pages as 16+ for that reason. I will also mark any well-known sensitive topics (if I ever post them, which is already unlikely).

Ask Box

My ask box is open! Feel free to ask for opinions, headcanons, or even give me a lil prompt I can write something off of. I love getting any kind of asks about my interests/works! It genuinely does make my day :D I will reserve the right to not respond/delete anything that I don’t want to interact with, but I’m usually pretty chill about things like that and it probably won’t happen.

Tag Directory

Tags I will use are as follows:

#plutonium_qeued are all my queued posts

#plutonium_wips are all my work-in-progress snippets

#plutonium_fanfiction are all my ao3 works

#plutonium_oneshot are all of my silly little ideas that (probably) won’t be turned into full fics, this is actually the reason I downloaded tumblr again

#plutonium_theories is kinda self explanatory, it’s gonna mark any theories I have about my favourite content :D

#plutonium_rambles any and all fandom/character rambles

#plutonium_WIPW will be any WIP Wednesday posts that I happen to do

#Plutonium_Files is any posts regarding any of my original content :D

General fandom tags for reach

sometimes I will also ramble in tags

Where Else to find Pluto

I’m on other socials! Surprising, I know (/j) but those will be linked directly after this.

AO3 | Twitter

That’s all from me! Hope you guys enjoy the (probably unhinged, let’s be honest with ourselves) posts from me! Have a great timezone!

[valensemblestars]

Mobile Directory

This is a mobile version of our Rules, About, and FAQ page. Please read carefully.

ABOUT

What better way to celebrate Valentines’ Day than to celebrate it with your favorite idol boys in love! 

This is an Ensemble Stars themed Valentines’ Day exchange where you can share your appreciation and creativity with fandom friends and receive a special something in return. Only Ensemble Stars characters and OCs are allowed (OCs must include a reference sheet!).

In your application form you will be able to include what type of gift you would like to receive, including with who you would like it with! If you have something specific that you would like to see, please include as many details as possible. (Please be sure to include at least one canon character with your gift details if you are requesting an OC related gift).

Here are the cut off dates for the gift exchange. Please be sure that if anything changes that you send a direct message to us ASAP so that we can accommodate accordingly. 

Sign Up:  January 1st - January 10th 

Assignments will be sent out by January 14th!

Creation Time: January 14th - February 13th 

Posting Period: February 14th - February 21st 

Creation check in will be February 1st!

We will be contacting you directly through email throughout the process, so keep an eye out! 

Once the posting period begins, please use the tag #valensemblestars2024 in the first five tags so we can easily find and reblog all of your beautiful creations!

If you are ready to share your love, fill out the application form here! 

RULES

1. No NSFW. This is an all ages event!

2. This Valentines’ Day exchange event only accepts original fanart or fanfiction. The fanart must be at least finished line art and the fan fiction must be a minimum of 500 words.

3. No pedophilia/incest ships. Graduates x Third years is fine but anything else is not allowed. Platonic/familial relationships between the entire cast is allowed.

4. OC content is allowed HOWEVER at least one wish must include only canon characters for creators who are not comfortable with making OC content.

5. If you are unable to participate at any point before the creation period has begun, please let us know ASAP so that we can accommodate accordingly.

6. If there are any changes to your contact info (email, tumblr url) please contact us so that we can continue communication for a smooth exchange. 

7. You MUST post your gift by the deadline or you will be banned from participating in the future. We want everyone to have a good time and that means making sure you can get your gift posted on time.

If you have any questions, please send a direct message and we will get back to you as soon as we can! 

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FAQ

What is a gift exchange? How does this work? 

A gift exchange is when you agree to make a piece of art (fan art or fanfic in this case) for another person without them knowing who you are, and then receiving a gift back from a secret someone! Once you submit the form to enter the exchange, the mods will assign you a secret valentine that you will create for. At the end of the exchange, you can show off your gift and you will receive a gift in return from someone else. 

How do I join?

Once you have read the rules you can complete the application form and wait for your assigned secret valentine! 

What does it mean to volunteer as a backup?

If you agree to be a backup, it means that you are a literal angel who agrees to create an extra gift in the event that someone drops out of the exchange. 

Why no NSFW?

Because we want everyone to be able to join regardless of age.

Are OCs allowed? 

As long as your OC is Enstars related, absolutely! Please be sure to have at least one canon character in your request as well in the event that your valentine is not comfortable with making OC content. Do not forget to include a detailed OC reference (links to pages or sheets are allowed!)

I’m really not comfortable doing what my valentine wants, what now?

Please make sure to fill out the form as detailed as possible, including the section that goes over what you are not comfortable with receiving/giving! 

Who are the mods in charge of this amazing exciting super cool exchange? 

so glad you asked (: meet shay and kiki

I have another question and it’s not listed on here! 

No worries! You can send over a direct message or contact one of the mods for a faster response 

The application asks for a password? What is it?

Thank you for reading all the way through the rules and FAQ! The password is Happy Valentine's 2025 (or some variation of it, just so we know you read this)

[vortexparadox]

If you've not seen it yet, I've actually changed up the desktop theme on all of my blogs. This is what you can currently expect:

The search bar in the top left corner is fully functional (or as functional as any search on tumblr is, at least), and it also has a quick menu for the most common tags that someone might want or need to look for:

(Please ignore the fact that the pagination is locked into it and so moves when the menu is opened. It was a quick and dirty bit of code wrangling to add the pagination at the top of the page. I'm still trying to figure out where exactly I want the pagination to be, so it may get relocated and/or duplicated before I'm actually happy with it.)

The only difference in navigation between my single muse blogs and my multimuse blogs is whether there are separate links for Muse Dossiers and Verses, or if there is a single link for a Muse Directory - which has links to each individual muse's dossier and verse pages therein. And there are links from the dossiers to the verses and vice versa for each muse on all the blogs (as well as the muse directory for those on the multimuse blogs), so you don't have to keep backtracking to the previous page to navigate to the next page through redundant blog navigation (it's like I was a web developer or something... *snrk* (hint: I was - both as a day job and freelance)).

In the main navigation, you'll also find a link to Request Interactions - this is for a form that gives you options to request that I send you memes, reply to your open starters, and/or write you a starter. This form is available at any time, though the turn around for fulfilling requests may be slow.

Think of it as a "While You Were Away" note, so that I know you want me to check your blog(s) and interact with you as soon as I'm able. With my health in a continuous decline, roleplaying on tumblr is getting increasingly more difficult in terms of keeping up with the dash itself, so this is just one more way I can try to make things more accessible for myself without having to give up on the hobby altogether because of a spoon deficit (essentially, I've been running in the negatives for energy most days for the last several years, so when I have even the tiniest bit of energy now, that is considered a 'good day', when for most people it'd probably still be pretty shite).

[immortaljackal]

If you've not seen it yet, I've actually changed up the desktop theme on all of my blogs. This is what you can currently expect:

The search bar in the top left corner is fully functional (or as functional as any search on tumblr is, at least), and it also has a quick menu for the most common tags that someone might want or need to look for:

(Please ignore the fact that the pagination is locked into it and so moves when the menu is opened. It was a quick and dirty bit of code wrangling to add the pagination at the top of the page. I'm still trying to figure out where exactly I want the pagination to be, so it may get relocated and/or duplicated before I'm actually happy with it.)

The only difference in navigation between my single muse blogs and my multimuse blogs is whether there are separate links for Muse Dossiers and Verses, or if there is a single link for a Muse Directory - which has links to each individual muse's dossier and verse pages therein. And there are links from the dossiers to the verses and vice versa for each muse on all the blogs (as well as the muse directory for those on the multimuse blogs), so you don't have to keep backtracking to the previous page to navigate to the next page through redundant blog navigation (it's like I was a web developer or something... *snrk* (hint: I was - both as a day job and freelance)).

In the main navigation, you'll also find a link to Request Interactions - this is for a form that gives you options to request that I send you memes, reply to your open starters, and/or write you a starter. This form is available at any time, though the turn around for fulfilling requests may be slow.

Think of it as a "While You Were Away" note, so that I know you want me to check your blog(s) and interact with you as soon as I'm able. With my health in a continuous decline, roleplaying on tumblr is getting increasingly more difficult in terms of keeping up with the dash itself, so this is just one more way I can try to make things more accessible for myself without having to give up on the hobby altogether because of a spoon deficit (essentially, I've been running in the negatives for energy most days for the last several years, so when I have even the tiniest bit of energy now, that is considered a 'good day', when for most people it'd probably still be pretty shite).

[staydandy]

I did not expect to reach 100 followers before the end of the year! This community is great! Thanks so much! It's been a blast so far!

So, um.. Hi! I'm StayDandy!

I live in USA .. English is my first and (sadly) only language, but I want to learn Korean (I've gotten to the point of knowing the alphabet, being able to read/sound out words, understand a bit of the sentence structure, and recognize/remember a precious few words).

I started to get into Asian dramas and music early 2021. I've been watching & reading anime & manga/manwha, since college (*cough*, 10 years ago *cough*), but my interest had faded over time. Until last year's nose-dive back into dramas (Prison Playbook cracked the door, and I slammed it open!). I've been obsessed ever since! 😆 The interest in K/J/C-Music is newer; I hadn't really explored it before this past year (unless you count when PSY originally released Gangnam Style lol) .. I still listen to American music, but K/J/C music has taken over my Spotify, it's now the dominant genre (throw in a little Swedish power-metal and that's basically my Library in a nutshell).

I started exploring the whump community on Tumblr this past April - I was honestly amazed there were so many people with this interest, same as me! I started posting in May - I wanted to join in the fun, & contribute my own backlog of lists (I'd been writing them for over a decade after all, might as well put them to good use).

So.. idk if there's any interest.. I thought I'd share a detailed look at my List posts .. some of it is rather self-explanatory, but some of it might not be .. maybe this'll clarify what & why I format them the way I do.

But if you're just looking for a place to start exploring my page, I'd suggest My Directory. It breaks off to everything else. I organize everything manually so it's as accurate as I can make it.

Thanks again for Following along!

Post Breakdown (below the break) :

I'll use this surprisingly popular post as an example (really would not have guessed that Bridal Mask would receive the attention it did).

First, of course, you get the show title (in English & it's original language) .. a picture for the show (I try to use a pic that has the whumpee(s) in it) .. then a quick synopsis of the show. Simple, self-explanatory.

At the end of the synopsis I include a direct link to an official data site for the show (usually it's MyDramaList for Asian shows, and between Wikipedia or InternetMovieDatabase for English shows). • I include the "AKA" because there are quite a few shows that go by multiple names because of different translations/interpretations of the original title, or even official title changes before it aired. I've had the issue before of trying to find a show using (unknowingly) an uncommon translation of the title, which made it difficult to find what I was looking for. So, JIC, I include them here.

If there's multiple whumpee's I will color-code them, which carries throughout the list. • The links on the actor names are searches of my Tumblr. It's an easy way to see if I have any other lists with said actor in it. (I don't include them on English lists because I rarely have multiple lists with the same English actor. In the case that I do, I'll add the link)

The country links back to that country's whump list library.

Next are the notes about the show (any interesting details, what it's adapted from, ect.).. notes about my list.. &/or just my general thoughts on the show.

I use ellipsis ( ... ) for when there's a break between whump scenes. • Every now and then I will include my own thoughts amongst the whump, usually "subscript & in blue" • You can see the color-coding in action (I wish Tumblr had more color options). • When there's multiple whumpees I use a kinda "tag-you're-it" system : -- I mention a Character (A) and their whump until [chronologically in the episodes] something happens to Character (B), any whump following is (B)'s whump.. until (A) is mentioned by name again, then everything after is (A)'s whump ... and so on and so forth.

(Apparently Tumblr only actually uses the first 20 tags on a post, which is incredibly unhelpful. I still try to include all the key-words in my tags, but they're more for my own quick reference when I manually organize my posts.)

Hello again!

Thanks for reading! I've had people tell me I have an "interesting" way of organizing, & I tend to over-think things (you should see the organized chaos that is my bedroom! lol).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer. Or if you just want to chat, I'm cool with that too.

And for those of you who've made it to the end of this post; If you see a show in one of my Libraries that is not marked as a "full whump list" (whether it's been posted already or not), but you're interested in seeing a full list for that show, let me know! I'm already going back and updating some partial lists here and there, but if you ask I'll prioritize your request!

Hope ya'll have a good Holiday season and New Year!