#I’m so invested in this idea now

[dreagine]

Hi hi to all the sillies of the world!!!!

So, I’ve decided that I’m not gonna use this account anymore, or tumblr in general really. Social media has become overwhelming, and being on so many platforms and having a plethora of different accounts, side accounts has just been a whole lot. It’s been getting me down recently.

So I’ve decided to get rid of this one!!

I won’t be deleting anything on here, all my accounts will still be up, I just won’t be active on them until further notice. Maybe I’ll come back one faithful day or hop on every now and then…but for the most part it’s gonna be radio silence here🫡

That being said!!!!! I will still be active on Instagram under the username ‘Teazzrr’ in case you still want to follow me and see new art(hopefully)!!

But really, thanks for supporting me on here! And thank you if you continue to on Instagram. Some of the reblogs and things written in the tags and my ask box are just the sweetest things I’ve read ever, and they’ve given me a good laugh! I genuinely appreciate all of you, and all the kind words!!!!

All in all, not gone, just won’t be here on tumblr any longer, and this was a really long way of saying that, lolz!! :]

[stuckasmain]

Hand slipped.

Keir wearing a wig in this movie messing with my joke smh. As if you look at his hair when he was younger it was a dirty blond/light brown. Changes on the lighting really.

[longlivetv]

Alright USA friends, a conversation at happy hour has me wondering your thoughts on Girl Scout Cookies and the two different bakeries that make them

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Neverafter so far has been so creative and interesting I love a work of fiction that engages with itself as a work of fiction and all the meta levels therein that’s already so deeply goddamn cool AND THEN to take that and use it to create a cosmic horror angle??? Brilliant. Brennan Lee Mulligan is a genius storyteller.

[toothlespoggers]

So I was feeling kinda depressed since my blog kinda dies when I’m focusing on my health and irl life, and character development, writing and art takes a lot of time to create something impressive and coherent.

so since I need notes for my blog to stay alive while I work on stuff i thought I’d make a cool sans au to show everyone on tumblr so I get thousands of notes and really cool fanart and get featured in tiktoks and stuff with my character.

Since this is all it takes to become famous in the undertale fandom I thought I’d just throw away all the research I’m doing and just go with what works yanno?

😳 maybe I’ll draw horny art of him next, that’ll reel in the notes.

[kookintel]

i don’t mean this in a bad way, i mean this in the nicest way possible, but i can’t stop imagining jungkook being really awkward around babies but in the sweetest way?

like, he gets really panicky if he’s ever handed one because he doesn’t know how to hold babies properly and he’s so afraid he’ll drop it. he just ends up holding the baby up with his hands under its arms gently. he has a shaky smile on face the whole time as the baby coos and babbles at him, chubby hands reaching up to grab his cheeks. every so often he catches your eye and shoots you a panicked expression while you stifle your laughter and give him a thumbs up in encouragement.

oh god and when they cry, jungkook himself would feel like he was about to burst into tears, and his face would say it all. he would be just starting to get used to the baby in his arms when the panic comes washing back over him after the baby lets out a heart wrenching little cry, a few tears rolling down its chubby cheeks. he would try to shush it a few times, rocking it back and forward in his arms (you would have to show him how to hold a baby properly after witnessing just how awkward he was with them) to try and help the baby relax.

he would try to smile to calm the baby down, and the joy in his heart when he finally gets to baby to stop crying and start laughing that cheerful, jolly little laugh babies have. it would feel like a weight lifted off his shoulders when the baby smiles at him, chubby cheeks bunching up so cutely that jungkook would laugh in relief, and smile at you, almost as if he was saying “look! i did it!”

[no1ryomafan]

Let it be known if it was obvious by now getter will always be (the) mecha that lives rent free in my head and be the one I will post about a lot but man big o is rotating inside of my head a lot because I had two random dreams about it- actually more then two maybe 4 but these ones were more recent and one was about me literally writing a fic for it which I have but fuck if that thing is finished 💀 (assignments now needing to be done won’t help the fic grind either)

[arthaven-hina]

It’d be really funny if the person in our party (Hina) with arguably the closest ties to the church was carrying around a fragment of her god

[pebblezone]

Living life yay huzzah yay

[vveissesfleisch]

man I’ll tell you what there’s nothing quite like turning on the idiot box and being greeted by a trailer for a new show billed as an erotic horror comedy starring Christoph fucking Waltz!!!! Say no more babey! Sold!!! Fucking sold!!!

[anonymolly]

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[corellianhounds]

Complaining, writing woes

Working on the next chapter of the Toro story has been consistent, but it still feels like it’s missing something. The chapter I’m working on feels too mechanical, like it’s really missing the heart or the flavor of what I think my writing normally excels at. It’s just not as vibrant or full.

Part of it is that I don’t like some of the dialogue scenes in the middle. There isn’t any narration that isn’t “This person said this. This person did this. This person replied and did this.” if that makes sense. I don’t want the characters emotions or inner thoughts to be spelled out because the dialogue and actions are supposed to SHOW those parts of the story, and the dialogue itself is fine and it’s all necessary, but the scenes as a whole feel weaker. If I feel like it’s boring to write, it will be boring to read

A lot of it feels like the same criticism I have of shows/movies/theater where there aren’t events happening and people speaking and reacting to them in real time, but there are instead a lot of sitting-and-talking, standing-and-talking, or walking-and-talking scenes. I can’t get the characters moving in a way that doesn’t feel like unnecessary busy work. I want for plot points to be happening AS they’re talking, and right now it feels like I have some pretty apparent “sit and talk” conversations. Sure, they inform the audience about the characters, but it still feels like there are better ways to do it. It’s like I’m missing interesting camera work, if that makes sense

Part of the problem is that the story is being written out of order as I piece together what needs to happen in order to set things up for later in the story, but it does mean that it doesn’t feel like it flows together very well. It also feels predictable because I’m staying so close to the original episode, and at that point, what’s the reason for people to read it? They already saw the episode, they know what happens. I feel like me fleshing it out is kind of redundant because the plot is still the same, I’m just adding in a couple of scenes and making the characters more developed.

And to me, if I’m writing a story with a completely new character in the mix, I feel like the world and how things progress should be different

Idk. I’ve been making steady “working” progress on it, in that I’ve been consistently sitting down and writing the scenes in and doing the harder, objective editing work getting it together, but it still feels like you can see the outline I’m writing from instead of being able to open up the page and explore

[fiercynn]

on ao3's current fundraiser

apparently it’s time for ao3’s biannual donation drive, which means it’s time for me to remind you all, that regardless of how much you love ao3, you shouldn’t donate to them because they HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY AND NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

we’ve known for years that ao3 – or, more specifically, the organization for transformative works (@transformativeworks on tumblr), or otw, who runs ao3 and other fandom projects – has a lot of money in their “reserves” that they had no plans for. but in 2023, @manogirl and i did some research on this, and now, after looking at their more recent financial statements, i’ve determined that at the beginning of 2024, they had almost $2.8 MILLION US DOLLARS IN SURPLUS.

our full post last year goes over the principles of how we determined this, even though the numbers are for 2023, but the key points still stand (with the updated numbers):

when we say “surplus”, we are not including money that they estimate they need to spend in 2024 for their regular expenses. just the extra that they have no plan for

yes, nonprofits do need to keep some money in reserves for emergencies; typically, nonprofits registered in the u.s. tend to keep enough to cover between six months and two years of their regular operating expenses (meaning, the rough amount they need each month to keep their services going). $2.8 million USD is enough to keep otw running for almost FIVE YEARS WITHOUT NEW DONATIONS

they always overshoot their fundraisers: as i’m posting this, they’ve already raised $104,751.62 USD from their current donation drive, which is over double what they’ve asked for! on day two of the fundraiser!!

no, we are not trying to claim they are embezzling this money or that it is a scam. we believe they are just super incompetent with their money. case in point: that surplus that they have? only earned them $146 USD in interest in 2022, because only about $10,000 USD of their money invested in an interest-bearing account. that’s the interest they earn off of MILLIONS. at the very least they should be using this extra money to generate new revenue – which would also help with their long-term financial security – but they can’t even do that

no, they do not need this money to use if they are sued. you can read more about this in the full post, but essentially, they get most of their legal services donated, and they have not, themselves, said this money is for that purpose

i'm not going to go through my process for determining the updated 2024 numbers because i want to get this post out quickly, and otw actually had not updated the sources i needed to get these numbers until the last couple days (seriously, i've been checking), but you can easily recreate the process that @manogirl and i outlined last year with these documents:

otw’s 2022 audited financial statement, to determine how much money they had at the end of 2022

otw’s 2024 budget spreadsheet, to determine their net income in 2023 and how much they transferred to and from reserves at the beginning of 2024

otw’s 2022 form 990 (also available on propublica), which is a tax document, and shows how much interest they earned in 2022 (search “interest” and you’ll find it in several places)  

also, otw has not been accountable to answering questions about their surplus. typically, they hold a public meeting with their finance committee every year in september or october so people can ask questions directly to their treasurer and other committee members; as you can imagine, after doing this deep dive last summer, i was looking forward to getting some answers at that meeting!

but they cancelled that meeting in 2023, and instead asked people to write to the finance committee through their contact us form online. fun fact: i wrote a one-line message to the finance committee on may 11, 2023 through that form, when @manogirl and i were doing this research, asking them for clarification on how much they have in their reserves. i have still not received a response.

so yeah. please spend your money on people who actually need it, like on mutual aid requests! anyone who wants to share their mutual aid requests, please do so in the replies and i’ll share them out – i didn’t want to link directly to individual requests without permission in case this leads to anyone getting harassed, but i would love to share your requests. to start with, here's operation olive branch and their ongoing spreadsheet sharing palestinian folks who need money to escape genocide.

oh, and if you want to write to otw and tell them why you are not donating, i'm not sure it’ll get any results, but it can’t hurt lol. here's their contact us form – just don’t expect a response! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[delicatefury]

Look. I have literally no horse in this race when it comes to the WGA/SAG Hollywood strike. I do not watch enough TV or movies to be affected and I’m not a part of the industry. I really haven’t cared.

As a lawyer and orchardist, however, I am now utterly entranced by the fact that some Universal Studios exec thought it was a good idea to cut down city-owned trees in the middle of summer.

There is no way to get around the absolute clusterfuck they have brought down upon themselves.

First, the ownership question. These trees are not owned by Universal. They’re the City of Los Angeles’ trees. That means the responsibility, and the right, to maintain them belongs to the city government. If you want to touch city property like that, you better have their permission. If not, you’re looking at anything from fines, to replacement/maintenance costs, to jail time.

Now, I don’t know LA, and I’m not licensed in California, but a lot of cities also require permits for any massive trimming like that that can affect public property (like the roads and sidewalks).

Second, they have zero excuses that can even remotely minimize the trouble they’re in. Anything that justifies that kind of pruning at this time of year would have likely required the full removal and destruction of the trees.

Because that level of pruning? You don’t do that in summer. You absolutely do not do that in summer unless the trees are dying or infested with something. Why? Because summer is healthy growth time. Summer is when your trees need all the energy they can get so they can grow and strengthen their branches and roots.

It’s also when they’re susceptible to diseases. Various bacteria, fungi, and insects strike during the summer and can cause severe damage. By trimming those trees so severely, not only are there a ton of gapping wounds for diseases to enter the tree, they’re now stressed by trying to replace that lost growth, which makes it even harder for them to survive any further damage.

Basically, Universal Studios might end up accidentally killing the trees. Which will make everything so much worse.

So, yeah. Now I’m invested.

[lexirosewrites]

Wealthy omega Steve going on an arranged date each week to the same restaurant because his parents want him to find a mate.

Alpha Eddie who busks in the parking lot for tips and always offers him a cigarette and a shoulder to cry on after it doesn’t work out.

It takes them a while.

“Another one? That’s the third date this week, pretty boy. You going for a record or something?” Eddie asks, already holding his half-finished cigarette out for Steve to take.

He does. It’s his only reward for doing all of this.

Well, that and Eddie.

Eddie makes this easier.

Steve takes a long draw from it, craving the burn of nicotine more than he cares to admit to himself.

He craves Eddie’s company too, but that’s between him and the cigarette.

“Yeah, my parents are working overtime it seems. They’re bound and determined to have me mated off before spring.”

Steve laughs.

Eddie doesn’t.

“They sound awful.”

They are. Their insistence on old-fashioned values and treating their omega son like a burden to be rid of is proof enough.

“They mean well,” he says. “I think.”

Eddie hums thoughtfully. It’s clear that he disagrees.

Steve passes the cigarette back.

The alpha snubs it out on the sidewalk they’re sitting on instead.

“How long are you gonna keep doing this for?”

“Well, as long as it takes to find someone who’s interested, I guess. There’s not an exact timeline or any—”

Eddie startles Steve when he cuts him off with a growl.

He doesn’t look mad, but his forehead creases, deep frown, and sour scent speaks of irritation.

“Not what I meant.”

Oh.

“I don’t know, Eddie. They’re my parents… and it’s not like I’ve got anyone else knocking down my door.”

Even his dates aren’t interested once they’ve met him in person.

Steve always looks good on paper. He’s attractive and from an upstanding family, a decent investment at first glance.

But then he opens his mouth. That’s where their interest always ends.

Sometime between shaking hands and dessert, their eyes get bored and they start checking their watch more. They don’t bother to hide that they’re running out the clock, eager to be away from Steve.

He thought it would hurt less after a while, but it doesn’t.

“How many times are we gonna do this, Stevie?“

And now even Eddie is bored with him. It makes sense. They’ve been meeting up for months and Steve isn’t worth much for stimulating conversation.

It had to end eventually.

“I’m sorry. I— I didn’t realize I was bothering you. I can leave you to your gigging, man. Let me just—”

Steve reaches for his wallet, pulling out a thick wad of bills to shove in Eddie’s guitar case as an apology for taking up his precious time.

Compensation for the therapy.

“Hey, no— that’s not what I meant, baby. I just— ugh, why is this so hard to say?” Eddie groans, grabbing at his own hair in frustration.

Steve hasn’t the faintest idea what’s ailing Eddie. The guy is normally chill 100% of the time. It’s why Steve goes to him for comfort. He’s hard to shake.

“Sorry?” he tries.

“No, I’m sorry! I just can’t sit here for yet another evening and pretend like there are more fish in the sea for you or whatever,” Eddie explains frantically, his eyes begging Steve to understand.

Ouch. Okay. Point made.

Steve is unlovable, got it.

He stands, brushing off his slacks so his shaking hands aren’t as noticeable.

Keep cool. Breathe.

“Understood. I won’t bother you anymore then. I can park across the street next time too. Good luck with everything, Eddie. I’m sure your band will get signed soon, you’re a talented musician.”

Eddie shoots to his feet, almost tripping over his own lanky limbs in the process.

He grabs the sleeve of Steve’s dress shirt, stopping him from leaving.

“Don’t go on anymore dates.”

Jesus.

“Yeah, I got it the first time, thanks. I’m undesirable. Can you stop repeating it?”

Eddie looks like he’s been slapped, but he doesn’t say anything back. The bluntness must have caught him off guard.

Steve sighs, attempting to pull free from the alpha’s grip.

He almost manages it.

But then Eddie snaps back to reality and his eyes go wide for just a split moment before he kisses Steve right on the lips.

It’s unexpected to say the least.

It’s also probably the best kiss of his entire life. Too bad it’s from someone who just told him to quit dating because nobody will ever want to court him.

They finally break apart and Steve sways.

“Eddie… what in the actual hell are you—?”

“I love you! I love you— I’ve been in love with you for months, but you insist on going on all these dates with alphas who have no taste and they keep breaking your heart and leaving me to pick up the pieces, but I don’t want to keep handing them back. I want to keep you, Steve. I want to be the only alpha you go on dates with.”

Steve stops trying to run away.

Instead, he yanks at the collar of Eddie’s shirt, tugging him into another, longer kiss.

This is love, huh? Makes sense.

His lips are warm and so is his heart. Patched up once more and encased in a body other than his own

No more arranged dates.

“That was a ‘yes,’ in case it didn’t translate.”

Eddie’s face is flushed and his happy smile is infectious.

“I don’t have the kind of money your usual dates have, but I had this really cute guy way overtip me earlier. Can I buy you dinner, pretty boy?”

It’s the first of many.