#I just need more time

[kalevalakryze]

heya; bit off more than I can chew with these events and a second job So just a little update; I'm Pausing all my work for whumptober and Sabine week 😔 I've burnt myself out a little too close to the sun y'know I have every hope to return to these fics and I do still have notes for each prompt and each day that I'm excited to work on, I just physically don't think I'll be able to get to them and release on these exact dates for my own mental health; Hopefully I'll have all the fics done soon, but I have 40 fics on the to do list between all of these events right now... Please know that I'm trying So Hard and I'm not giving up on them, It's just going to take me longer than I wanted to get them out

[twilightarcade]

google sheets my greatest enemy

[zeldaelmo]

Wip Wednesday - zelink week

I have plans to do the whole zelink week this year, and with a multi-chapter story nonetheless. It's going to be OoT zelink with a middle-aged Zelda stepping down from the throne on a mission to search for Link who never came back to the castle. (Child timeline, obviously) Tiny snippet only because I just started this week.

One Last Look

"It's about him, right?"

Zelda's breath stuttered and she couldn't bring herself to meet Impa's eyes. She didn't need to, Impa knew anyway. She always did. Even lying to a mirror was more effective and Zelda had enough experience for two lifespans in that.

"I don't," she began, breathing through the inevitable sting of guilt in her chest, "I don't owe Hyrule anything." The next words were quiet. "Not anymore."

Impa's eyes rested heavily on her. Zelda didn't bother to read her gaze. Nothing and nobody would convince her to stray from her goal — she had made the decision to talk to him one more time decades ago. She would not falter.

Not now.

[spookyboywhump]

Current wip titles that I’ve been making progress on all week. So many words and not a single thing is completed but by god have I been trying.

[swagyna]

"it's ok if you were upset, i was harsh"

if you know that, why aren't you also apologizing?

you recognize that your behavior was clearly harmful and that i'm taking space and time from you, and you aren't apologizing.

like. ik i should also respond "yes, you did upset me" but the entire conversation we were having was on the subject of how I'm not being listened to by those who are close to me. and DURING said conversation, you weren't listening to me.

[minisugakoobies]

I haven't read any fics since October and my tbr is overflowing… I'm sorry to everyone who has tagged me in stuff over the last month, but I'm really trying so hard to finish about bunch of WIPs that have deadlines, which means all reading has been shoved aside to make time for writing. (And stuff has gotten really chaotic irl again, which means I have even less time for indulgences like fanfic.)

I know I don' t need to apologize for not reading something as soon as it's published - I would never make demands of my own readers, like expecting them to drop everything when I post something - but I still feel super guilty, like I haven't been supporting my favorite writers. So I just wanted to put this out there - I promise I'll read soon, but I need to focus on my own fics for a while! 💕

[if-music-be-the-food-of-love]

How emotional were you seeing the mural? I would love to see it someday.

Extremely. 😭😭. I actually went twice. It was really crowded the first day (they were getting ready for an event, so there were people and trucks everywhere), so while we were able to get close, I didn’t feel like I could really feel it the way I wanted. So I went back alone the next morning. It was raining, and the park across the water was empty. Maybe this is embarrassing, idk, but I spent like an hour there, leaning against the wall with an umbrella, talking to him and just being stupidly emotional.

Robbe and Sander got me through some really shitty times in my life. I don’t know what I would have done without them. I can’t even imagine, and that’s probably why I can’t let go. And will never fully let go of them.

I’m so grateful I got to see it, and I still can’t believe I did. I live on the other side of the world, so I never thought I’d get there. Never. I hope you get the opportunity some day. It’s still there after 3.5 years, and another graffiti on a neighboring wall has been there longer. There’s hope!! 💖💖💖💖

[whumpshaped]

are you okay ( just know ily )

no

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[jakeperalta]

I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[squirmydonnie]

It's not time yet.

[bluebeesknees]

They’re being obnoxious at work 💙

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.