#New blog post

[ebrubektasoglu]

📍Hagia Sophia of Trabzon

[zombii-hoe]

ʜᴇʟʟᴏ! ᴄᴀʟʟ ᴍᴇ ᴊᴜɴᴇ :3

ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴍʏ ɴꜱꜰᴡ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇꜱ, ᴠɪꜱᴜᴀʟ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴍᴜᴛ

ᴍʏ ꜱꜰᴡ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ ⇾ @zombii-writess

ᴍʏ ᴛɪᴘᴊᴀʀ ⇾ Ko-fi

ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀʟɪꜱᴛ

ʀᴜʟᴇꜱ ← ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴅ

ᴍᴅɴɪ/ᴀɢᴇʟᴇꜱꜱ ʙʟᴏɢꜱ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ

★。＼｜／。★

⚠ ɪ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴄᴏɴᴅᴏɴᴇ ʏᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇ ʙᴇʜᴀᴠɪᴏʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ, ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ɪ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ ɪꜱ ꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴜɴᴄᴏᴍꜰᴏʀᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇꜱ ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ᴍᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ꜱᴇɴᴅ ᴀɴʏ ʜᴀᴛᴇ ᴍᴇꜱꜱᴀɢᴇꜱ, ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ⚠

★。／｜＼。★

ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ✅

ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴꜱ, ꜰʟᴜꜰꜰ, ᴀɴɢꜱᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴍꜰᴏʀᴛ, ꜱᴍᴜᴛ, ꜱꜰᴡ, ɴᴏɴ ʏᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇꜱ, ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ [ꜰᴇᴍᴀʟᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ; ꜱᴏʀʀʏ ᴍᴀʟᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀꜱ, ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ɪ ᴄᴀɴ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴜʏꜱ ᴀᴄᴄᴜʀᴀᴛᴇʟʏ :( ]

ɪ ᴡᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ❌

ɪɴᴄᴇꜱᴛ, ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀꜱᴘᴏʀᴛꜱ/ᴠᴏᴍɪᴛ/ꜱᴄᴀᴛ, ᴠᴏʀᴇ, ᴅᴀᴅᴅʏ/ᴍᴏᴍᴍʏ ᴋɪɴᴋ, ᴜɴᴅᴇʀᴀɢᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ, ᴀɴɢꜱᴛ ɴᴏ ᴄᴏᴍꜰᴏʀᴛ, ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ x ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ (ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ᴏɴʟʏ)

ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀɴʏ Qᴜᴇꜱᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ʀᴇɢᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʀᴇQᴜᴇꜱᴛ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʜᴇꜱɪꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀꜱᴋ!! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

ᴛᴀɢꜱ

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last updated 11.19.24

[morrigans-crows]

Is your space feeling heavy? Stagnant energy can creep in without warning, leaving you feeling drained and distracted. It could be time for a spiritual reset to restore balance and harmony. 🖤

Whether it's your home, office, or sacred space, keeping the energy fresh is essential to maintaining a positive, high-vibe environment. While many turn to sage for cleansing, it's not always the best option. There are a variety of methods you can use to clear negative energy and reset the vibe in your space. Let's break it down:

Sound Cleansing – Bells, chimes, or even clapping your hands can help break up negative energy. The vibration clears out the heaviness, leaving your space feeling lighter. If you're dealing with a lot of tension, a singing bowlcan really get the energy moving.

Moonlight Cleansing – The power of the moon isn't just for rituals. Leave your crystals, jewelry, or even important items under moonlight for a few hours to recharge and cleanse them. It’s especially effective during a full moon.

Smudging with Intention – If you're drawn to the smoke of sage, sweetgrass, or palo santo, use it with clear intention. As the smoke swirls, imagine it carrying away any negative energy and replacing it with positivity. A little ritual goes a long way!

Salt Cleansing – Salt is known for its purifying properties. Scatter a bit around the corners of your space or use salt water to wipe down surfaces. Sea salt is especially potent, absorbing the negativity and leaving behind a calm, serene atmosphere.

Declutter and Cleanse – Physical clutter often holds onto stagnant energy. Taking time to tidy up and refresh your space isn’t just for physical cleanliness, but spiritual wellness, too. A clean space is a clear mind.

Remember, when cleansing your space, you're not just getting rid of stale energy—you're making room for new, positive energy to flow in. Whether you're resetting after a tough day, or just need a fresh vibe, these techniques will leave your space feeling magical and inviting.

Ready to give your space a reset? 🖤 Check out my latest blog for more tips on clearing negative energy and bringing balance back to your home. Want to dive deeper into spiritual cleanses? Shop our 6-Card Mercury Retrograde Tarot Reading for insights on the best time to clear your space, and what energies are lingering.

Sign up for our newsletter at www.morriganscrows.com for more witchy wisdom, and get a 15% off coupon plus a free Beginner Witch’s Guide to Crystals e-book! ✨

[thisisdore]

31/01/25

Today was a little rough. Slept badly again, in a lot of pain as not sleeping means I’m not moving as much as I should, and then I had a few wobbles with my notebook system, and just a breakdown in general. I did however post a new blogpost, and uploaded a January vlog on YouTube. Both are linked in my bio!

[sapphireluna96]

A new blog is up for a special occasion!! It's time to celebrate!!!!

[artern]

a love letter to elements of cadence

dear elements of cadence duology,

you’re the set of two books that rekindles a sense of escapism. with faith and a set of experiences so humbling. you’re the set of two books that choose nature’s balance, and essentially, share that the universe sends us challenges they know we’re strong enough to overcome.

pretty simply, the set of two books that hold my heart.

like a lovely soul once said: from my heart, to each and every one of yours, i humbly bow.

thank you so much for being here :)

[empoweredmysticalharmony]

On the Full Moon in Cancer, with today’s passage from Simple Abundance, plus the Four of Wands, Spirit is offering us a beautiful reminder that gratitude and celebration are just as powerful as release and letting go.

“My heart began to overflow with gratefulness. . . . Each day began to offer me authentic moments of pleasure and contentment. But hadn’t they before? The difference was that I was now noticing and appreciating each day’s gifts. The power of gratefulness caught me by surprise.” -Simple Abundance

“When I surrendered my desire for security and sought serenity instead, I looked at my life with open eyes. I saw that I had much for which to be grateful. I felt humbled by my riches and regretted that I took for granted the abundance that already existed in my life. How could I expect more from the Universe when I didn’t appreciate what I already had?” -Simple Abundance

Four of Wands: “Keywords: Joy, stability, blessings. Meaning: Celebration. This is a time of manifesting happiness and you are on the right path to achieve your goals. This card signifies blessings as your angels are talking to you. . . . You are at peace as your mind, body, and soul are aligned. . . . Star Message: The universe and the angels are blessing you.” -The Moon & Stars Tarot

Remember, celebrating your wins and being present with your joy is just as transformative as letting go of what no longer serves you.

Read full blog post here: https://medium.com/@empoweredmysticalharmony/illuminating-alignment-full-moon-reflections-f16c94649fa1

[goblincow]

:// Welcome to GREEN MILK, the GOBLINCOW newsletter and this very special 8-part series entitled SAVE VS DESPAIR, a holistic retrospective of the cultural object that is Mörk Borg publishing every 4 days over the course of October.

I'll be compiling each entry at the end of the month as Green Milk #008 if you'd prefer to read it all in one go.

A release calendar for the sickos among us (thank you kindly):

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:1 — What is Mörk Borg? (01/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:2 — Interlude I of II — Rules Light, Vibes Heavy (05/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:3 — Cultivating Mörk Borg (09/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:4 — Digging Deep in Graves Left Wanting (13/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:5 — The Vigorous Undeath of Mörk Borg (17/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:6 — Interlude II of II — A Funeral Playlist for the End of the World (21/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:7 — Life Locked and Failing in a Dark Fort (25/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | ?:? — Burn the Book (29/10)

GREEN MILK | #008 | Save vs Despair — Mörk Borg: a Holistic Retrospective (02/11)

[ebrubektasoglu]

☁️🌲💚

[thtsmackedpoet]

2024 has been a creative rollercoaster! 🎨✨ This year, I embraced Artificial Intelligence to help build *Smacked Life Society*, my stoner-friendly clothing brand. From experimenting with MidJourney and ChatGPT to designing unique holiday collections like #Smackedmas, it’s been a journey fueled by cannabis culture and endless creativity. 💚

🔥 Want the full story? The rest of this post can be heard *and* read on my blog, brought to life with the help of Eleven Labs AI. Dive in and explore how AI tools have shaped everything from my designs to my creative process.

🔗 Click the link and let’s vibe: https://piecesofk.blog/2024/12/08/from-ai-to-apparel-the-story-of-smacked-life-society/?amp=1&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2gvb2gGSrnosc2TnlkQUdqz-YxMvq9t0jQuXbPJJ0ofuKxQJICX6_TVik_aem_HVfMtv10shbFO_S5Mdijkg

💨 *PS: Smacked Life Society is live—perfect for stoners who love to stand out.*

[bunnibombz]

Hi everyone! First post on the new blog! I'll be updating my theme and links as I go and I'll be adding my selfship tags and things back! Thank you everyone for moving over with me to the new blog for a fresh start

[brookebellamy]

BookTok Needs to Read the Room

by Brooke Bellamy

As a fanfic community, we don’t leave negative, snotty comments in the same way we don’t criticize our kid’s volunteer soccer coach. Well, I suppose some people do but at least that’s commonly understood to be in poor taste to publicly ridicule someone contributing their time, effort and talents to the community for free.

Full blog below the cut but I'd super duper appreciate it if you consider checking it out for free on medium 🙏

Why We Shouldn’t Hate on Fanfic Writers

Spend no less than five minutes with me and you’ll probably — whether you want to or not — be brought up to speed on the latest fandom drama happening in my discord servers or Twitter groupchats.

I’m a fangirl, it’s exactly what it says on the can. I’m a copywriter by day and by night an avid creator and connoisseur of fanfiction — these days mostly about TOP GUN (yes, that TOP GUN) but it tends to vary on a semi-yearly basis.

I get my kicks in weird ways and yet I’m far from alone in that.

Beyond the movies and the characters, I’m interested in fandom as a whole or as we like to call it fandom meta.

The unspoken rules of this wacky subculture dating back to the 1960s. Watching beloved or controversial fanfics get pulled off the web, reworked and eventually published as independent stories in their own right. The constant push and pull against a mainstream that is becoming increasingly aware of something that used to be a shame-filled, hidden hobby only for the nerdiest of the nerds.

Enter, Stage Right: BookTok

Fanfic going somewhat mainstream is thanks in no small part to TikTok, specifically BookTok — the community that reviews and discusses published romance novels. I’m not really a member of that community but from what I’ve gathered BookTok is mostly made up of millennial women who voraciously consume books of varying degrees of quality and really, really, really care about the sex. Or, to use their own lingo, spice.

Like they’re almost getting a little weird about it, not gonna lie.

To an outsider, though I hardly should be considered one, BookTok seems to be a somewhat spiritual successor to the “Mommy Porn” craze that swept through the country with 50 Shades of Grey — the most famous example of a fanfiction (originally about Twilight) that was repurposed into a full-fledged novel.

But I digress.

I’m a creator on FandomTok which naturally brushes up quite a bit with my cousins over on the published, professional side of the street. It’s a mostly peaceful co-existence, but it is TikTok so it also can be a fucking nightmare.

Case in point: I opened up the app last week and was immediately bombarded by a presumably millennial woman from BookTok ranting about how much she hated a popular Harry Potter fanfiction.

I didn’t read the fic she’s talking about but from what I can gather it takes place after the books conclude and focuses on a tumultuous love affair between Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. That would be Emma Watson and Tom Felton for the non-stans.

Now, I’m no Harry Potter fan. Quite the opposite, actually.

Some of my earliest and most deeply unpleasant childhood memories are that of older cousins chasing me around our grandparents’ house yelling all sorts of spells and Potter-lingo at me. I’m also pretty sure I got locked in a cabinet at one point — but that’s a story for another day.

So it goes without saying: I’m no fan of J.K. Rowling, her work or her vitriolic hate speech against trans people.

However I do live, breathe and love fanfiction and so that means my support has to extend to the Potterheads and their stories as well.

So back to the video, I’ll give you the TLDR:

OP is upset that she’s spent so much time on what she feels to be a very overhyped fanfiction. She doesn’t typically read fic and so she’s confused and angry as to why the writer changed so much of the plot. She thinks it’s an unrealistic story, that its readers have poor taste and she’s mad that the fanfic’s writer killed off Harry.

She also reduces the entire 380,000 word story into being only about sex, despite it being heavily based on the gender-based oppression and violence that takes place in The Handmaid’s Tale.

OP concludes the first of a series of videos on this singular fanfic by proclaiming that a real Harry Potter fan would never tolerate something like this.

I watched just 10 seconds of the video before I had to put my phone down from seeing red.

Eventually, I watched it all the way through, left a couple of angry comments, made a few video responses of my own and eventually blocked her because I can’t stand internet beef with people engaging in an argument in deliberately poor faith.

But I’m still really annoyed about it, if it’s not obvious.

OP’s video has about 30k views at the time of my writing this. That might not seem like too much for an app that regularly sees content explode with 15 million views, so let me reframe it for you:

Imagine you and a friend dined at a massively successful Italian restaurant (I’m talking reservations a month in advance at a minimum). You loved it so much you spent weeks thinking about the pasta and how much you wanted to go back for more. But the restaurant is popular for a reason and so you couldn’t get another reservation. After a while you decided to try your hand at recreating some of the dishes at home. You even opted to have a little fun and throw in your own take on it. You spent a long time researching the ingredients, practicing your technique and ended up with a final dish that you were quite proud of. In fact, you were so proud of and excited by your creation that you invited that same friend over to try it one night. For some inexplicable reason, she was visibly angered at the invite. She told you that you were wasting your time trying to recreate the magic from the restaurant, but she showed up for dinner anyway. Empty handed, of course. Not even a cheap bottle of wine for your trouble. She took the first bite, gagged, announced she hated it and then for some reason decided to power through your entire meal. Literally licked the. plate. clean. She then stood up and left your house without a word of thanks or even a goodbye. And then the next day you got a notification from TikTok that she made ten minutes worth of videos about how shit your cooking is, and her videos reached enough people to fill up Madison Square Garden one and a half times.

And that analogy, though long-winded, still isn’t even perfect. In reality, the fic author didn’t invite OP to read the story; OP found it on her own.

So really it’s like your friend barged into your kitchen, took a bite of your pasta and then put you on blast for having a bland sauce.

Words (And Where We Say Them) Matter

30,000 views certainly isn’t viral, but it’s enough to drastically alter the fanfic writer’s creative experience. It’s enough to ruin the magic for a devoted fan just trying to have fun and write a little story about their favorite characters smooching.

The disgust and anger OP brought to table is shocking and in blatant disregard for the fic writing community’s golden rule:

If you don’t like, don’t read.

There’s a ton of other fandom colloquial terms — don’t yuck my yums is a particular favorite of mine — but they all mean more or less the same thing.

Don’t be a hater. Don’t spoil the fun. Don’t hurt anyone. Don’t be cruel in this space intended for creativity, community and friendship.

BookTok is increasingly diving into the wonderful, wacky world of fanfic and yet many of creators refuse to learn the unique culture and norms that have existed for decades.

For instance, it’s not an uncommon phenomenon for a single nasty comment to stop a fanfic in its tracks. That may sound like a hypersensitive author, but I argue:

Non-consensual criticism has no place in fanfiction.

I say non-consensual because in fandom we do actually have protocols for critiques. A beta read is a common term for a peer review, where the writer actively seeks out feedback from another writer to improve grammar, story structure, etc. However, this is a closed, private exchange between two community members that have established trust and connection — it’s a safe space.

Fanfiction that is deemed harmful or even dangerous is also fair game, though we tend to keep our commentary mostly to things like:

“This story contains sexual violence that was not properly tagged, please update the tags ASAP so not to trigger others”

When we post, of course we know that technically we’re opening ourselves up to the internet. However, I’m not blasting my quirky little Iron Man stories to the front page of Medium. I’m sharing it with a relatively small, somewhat isolated community filled with others who also happen to like quirky little stories about Iron Man.

For instance, it’s very common for fics to conclude with brief send-offs like:

“This was my first time writing from Peeta’s pov, so be nice please 🙏” “I wrote this for my friend’s birthday — I hope her day is as happy as Edward and Bella ended up here!!!” “English isn’t my first language and I’m not from the UK so apologies if any of the stuff about the train station or taxi cab seems a little off!”

In my opinion, this is not hypersensitivity; this is a request — sometimes a plea — to be kind about amateur work and to treat it as such.

We’re Talking Your Mom’s Pickleball League, Not the NFL Here

Fanfiction is not formally published writing, even though it’s “published” on a website like Tumblr or ArchiveOfOurOwn. More times than not, the fic writer is the only person that has eyes on the draft before the story goes live.

It doesn’t receive thorough review from a publisher. It doesn’t go through rounds and rounds of edits and comment periods like a professional writer’s work will.

Fic writers don’t receive any payment, sponsorship or credit for their work. They can’t because the entirety of fanfiction depends on writers cooperating with extremely delicate copyright laws — a fascinating topic I’ll probably elaborate on at some point.

There is literally nothing to be gained by writing and sharing fanfiction beyond the personal satisfaction and pride in contributing to your community’s collective joy.

Old Men Yells At Cloud, Harry Potter Edition

As a fanfic community, we don’t leave negative, snotty comments in the same way we don’t criticize our kid’s volunteer soccer coach.

Well, I suppose some people do but at least that’s commonly understood to be in poor taste to publicly ridicule someone contributing their time, effort and talents to the community for free.

I guess what I’m saying is that BookTok has some catching up to do. Or more aptly, they need to read the fucking room.

Fanfiction is a labor of love — by fans, for fans

If you don’t like a story, just scroll on by. Certainly don’t double down and read 380k of a story you hated in the first three paragraphs.

And if you think it’s so easy to write a “good” story, well then maybe you should give it a try before hating on the writers that are brave enough to share their work with the community.

And so finally, a speed run just a handful of OP and other BookToker’s concerns because if I don’t formally address these points I will lose my goddamn mind:

You guys were okay with the author just blatantly changing things? The mannerisms, the deaths?

Yes, that’s the whole fucking point of a fanfiction. Maverick and Iceman don’t actually kiss in the movies but they sure as hell do when I’m in charge.

What post-apocalyptic world would this ever happen realistically?

Are we really nitpicking the practicality of a post-9/11 wizarding world?

I’m sorry but this story sucked. Here’s a list of my Did-Not-Finish fanfics

Did-Not-Finish (DNF) lists are a popular tool used by BookTokers intended to help their audiences save money and avoid splurging on books they probably won’t jive with.

DNF lists have no place in fanfic because there is no money to save.

If you were a true Harry Potter fan, this would not fly.

No, no. If you were a true fan, you’d embrace your community members and uplift the storytellers that are keeping the magic alive for us all.

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[sapphireluna96]

New blog post! This one I'm super proud of.

[wannabehistorianandauthor]

NEW BLOG POST!!!

Happy 4th yall. Don't forget to vote this November! Our countries future is in our hands, and the biggest threat we actually face is the crushing force and consequences of our own inaction and apathy.

[cheeseandcake-from-ao3]

So I may have made a mistake.