#crabmail

[ruffolive]

Hits you with my awesome green beam. Fullview pls :3 Image id in alt text!!!!

@crabmail

shrimpscampi / @turochamp

Snailmuffin / pikley

meeee

[codaattheend]

[tagged by @vhstapeworm]

("Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.")

IMMORTALIS is a FitMC-centric QSMP pseudo-prequel made in a fugue state over the course of four hours, during which half my time was spent figuring out how to do the title formatting. The corruption inherent in divinity, the sanctity of data, the differences between anarchy servers and narrativised servers manifesting as mind alteration and control. Even if you don't know anything about the fandom, I beseech you to click in just to see the title formatting. Perhaps hover/tap it as well...

Ghost Stories is a Schlackity fic about love irrevocably entwined with envy, trying and failing to move on from something you refuse to let go of, and a bit of cannibalism, both literal and metaphorical. It is one of the few fics I've written where I feel like I've properly captured the distinct emotional flavor I was attempting to convey. Here, it is bitterness, hunger, and longing long since rotting in the ground.

something deep and powerful is a D20: Neverafter gorefic about cannibalism. This is the only fic I've ever written that actively made me feel uncomfortable. I looked up so many concerning anatomy things for this fic. It is also, in its own way, about abusive mothers.

Swan Song is an AEduo Witcher AU fic made as part of a recursive telephone fic challenge (each work inspired by the previous), featuring curses, cycles, death, and the simple agony of loss. I'm decently proud of the tonality I managed to hit, like light through stained glass. I recommend reading the work this is inspired by and the next few works inspired by it, since we all got into a Witcher groove for a bit.

Paradox Cascade and its sequel/part two Killing Time are my first forays into the CYOA genre of fic, narrativisations of In Space With Markiplier parts one and two. These taught me so much about HTML, workskins, links, and more. They are decently ugly, un-innovative, messily made, and I love them. If I were writing them with the knowledge of CSS I have now, I would have done more ambitious things with them, but these taught me everything that I am using now for a new CYOA fic (that should have been finished over a year ago (for a 48-hour flash exchange (sorry Floral))).

(I think all the authors I know on this site have already been tagged, so if you see this and are a fic writer, consider yourself tagged. (Also, feel free to say hi.))

[anchoveee]

ANOTHER BIG YEAR FOR KATAMARI ART put my blood sweat and tears into all of these (especially the mass attack) but im a huge fan of how they turned out none the less

Credits below

Cousin Lee - penticede Stardust - @emmetofthestars / Emmet Bumba - kalenbear Crumb - @jestersunite / jestersunite ------- Sprite - @otosquinklus / manta_seas Pan - Lydbox Deimos & Phobos - @crabmail / crabmail Hiriko - strelitziace Cable - BootlegSeraphim Tech - @oddtheweird / oddtheweird ------- Catrina - Expungled Kerokero & Lani Lee - Yanderedile Babs - AbFaVe2006 Faucet - AlchemicAngel Milkie - @julie-su / KittenScientist Minko - @secret-art-central / Secretivity Riku - catqclysm Burp - @daftpatience / daftpatience Denki - Buckrabbit Misako - @rand0k1tty / rand0k1tty Usagi - @staarr-bee / Darby-starby Huesos - @stalvdritch / Stalvdritch unnamed cousin - @jamverse / Snej Howl - @cel-phone / CallsatMidnight Grandpa - Gachakoi Usachi - @hnngworthy / HnngWorthy Channary - Lilichigo Uno - @soulguibo / soulguibo Puppy - @bnnyx3 / bnnyx3 Mana - Squidy363 Feefih & Don - @flicks-random-stuff / flicktheseal Dizi - @dezilicious / Dezilicious Hachi - @viaspiderz / viaspiderz Ziggy - @skinnypenis3million / rocketdirtball300 Cassie - @linkandorf / linkandorf Fish cake - junebug203 Simon & arcade - meeeee :3

[eteroutsider]

mass attack of bald butch/masc/gnc little guys for @isabelhatherell @desktopmermaid @lone-pylon @foxyfrennetic @iwasarob0t @darby-draws @panstarry @poltergeistsoup @crabmail @ollierachnid @fangtast @fmab @cassandragemini

[reigen131]

character profiles / art by crabmail & grirnoires

[subject94]

Who wants crabs for crab day

Most of my friends aren't on tumblr regularly so I'll need someone else to unleash the horde on. If anyone else isn't sure who to send crabmail to they can also pick someone who reblogs this

[codaattheend]

how are you so poetic???

It's the power of a tongue that tastes the edges of words and cradles them behind sharp teeth. More seriously, it's "stream of consciousness" as influenced by reading every accessible book over a lifetime.

[transmascwoman]

you can call me charles

talk tag | general tag

other socials & things

ko-fi | toyhou.se | bluesky

pinterest

18+ only

@crabmail is my current art and oc blog

mutuals can ask for my ig or discord

if it was unclear i am a lesbian

[clonepa]

Untitled.

Charles Crabmail (b.2000)

Found Image Embed via Group Chat

The dark teal envelops the background of the found image as the bold dark box holds the text "equius -- Reblogged your post -- #lol bye virgin losers". The user of the image uses the image of and screen name of Equius Zahhak, a character from Andrew Hussie's Homestuck (2009). Equius plays the role of the authority and enforcer, whose racist hierarchical view of the in-universe caste system. Homestuck (2009) is a cult online media sensation whose rise is synonymous with a litany of controversial messages. The piece reads through several layers of irony, the first being that the character Equius is known as a chaste and proper character who would have valued virginity. The second comes from the implication that a Homestuck (2009) fan in the year 2023 has ever had sex before. Crabmail’s formal choice to capture this moment and display the image in a group chat alludes to a shared moment that will stay but ultimately be left in the past. A type of Ephermal-permanence that this particular format brings. 

[ruffolive]

Artfight 2023! Post 1/?? I am already having so much fun I love artfight so much. I’m behind by like 3 revenges btw 🥲

@taptrial2 / @clownplushie

@crabmail / @sangrefae

[thepig]

first half of artfight attacks. two weeks left!

(Puppy for @cbennetti) (Samuel for @iuca)

(Pants for tomte) (Pufferfish for @crabmail)

(Atheris for @halodwolf) (Nym for @robinspeckle)

[codaattheend]

My thanks for the tag. I have too many favorite songs, so here are the first five to pop up in my "favorites" playlist on shuffle.

Bang Bang covered by Kaleo

Kitchen Fork by Jacke Conte

Caroline by Emma Lloyd

The Mind Electric covered by Chonny Jash

Shia LeBeouf by Rob Cantor

Anyone who wishes to be tagged may consider yourself tagged.

when you get this ask you have to answer with 5 of ur fav songs and then send this ask to 10 of ur favourite followers :)

Five all time favs are!

1. Digory’s Regret by Sarah Sparks

2. Be Thou My Vision by anyone but especially Aundrey Assad or YoungMin You

3. Wolves of The Revolution by The Arcadian Wild

4. Timeless by Taylor Swift

5. Daylight by David Kushner

Absolutely no pressure:

@stop-ur-losing-me

@emqraldrxses

@seaweedpuff301

@fourwingedsnake

@backgroundagent3

@partlysunny15

@caityrayeraye

@marleighdrinkscoffee

@no-morning-glories

@nobodysdaydreams

[remy]

finfin is real inbyour heart and on the planet teo. come and see him

ok! lets go

[codaattheend]

I love your mind. Particularly on the point about being the first, about the sheer novelty of being alive, about how everything is new and lovely and every obvious trap is completely opaque. The first lie ever told. There is something golden-warm about that. And I love your observations about family. How you can never really save people from mistakes, both yours and theirs. How you try regardless. How love never fixed anything, no matter how soft.

Concerning the point about "feminist" retellings: I don't think it's empowering to women to make everything they do a response to a man or the patriarchy, even if its a revenge fantasy. I don't think it's empowering to women to flatten a woman's experience into a one-note trope. I suppose where I'm going with this is that I don't think most of those retellings deserve the title of "feminist", really.

Almost every adaptation I see nowadays is grown around spite, this core of loathing and derision and contempt. You can't truly capture something unless you are willing to see it for what it is. You can't truly capture something without being willing to love it. Building an enemy in your head and fighting against that is just... uninteresting, most of the time.

In essence, you have lovely thoughts, and I would be happy to talk more about this or any other topic at any time. I want to observe the workings of your brain.

This is an open invitation to "talk about the Bible in a chill way". I'd be fascinated in your chill Bible opinions.

okay this is lowkey such a late answer to this but recent chill bible opinion has some context to it. i'm religious but in like a weird way i don't super want to get into, but basically i read the bible for the story aspects: the morals taught, the themes within, etc etc. i don't really view it as a strict religious instruction handbook, more so as like . stories meant to teach lessons and morals. kinda. its complicated!

erm. im so glad u asked tho

anyway! more importantly, i'm reading the old testament right now, and something that deeply bothers me is that i find the stories in early genesis deeply fascinating, and yet incredibly not dived into at all! and i think that's a shame, because there's so much interest and tragedy in the story of adam and eve, and in cain and abel, together and alongside adam and eve. i just think there could've been so much more done with the first ever family on earth, that is really never dived into popularly or well in adaptations. which is like chill EXCEPT for the fact that i think there's a lot of . persephone and hades tumblr bullshit going on and let me ELABORATE!

eve is a fascinating character to study as the first woman, and there's a lot to be said about eve, which is why a lot of modern looks at her that depict her as a #slay girlboss that ate the apple on purpose or as like . cheating on adam with lucifer . and i also don't fuck with the very long history of her being treated as though she's stupid or wicked or a transgressor. basically, what i'm trying to get at is that eve wasn't stupid for eating the apple, she was lied to, and in her defense, no one had ever lied before. quite literally she was the first to ever be lied to, ever, and she cannot be solely at fault for being tricked. i think it's hard to argue that eve shouldn't have fallen for it, because she was in such an incredibly unique, quite literally never happening before situation. i just think that depictions of her as a scheming seductress will never be as feminist as people think they are, because the core of eve was not someone looking to like . stick it to the man . she was curious, and trusting, and i refuse to blame her for searching for something new, because if god did not want man or woman to long for knowledge, he never should have create sapient beings 🤷

that was a long, kinda rambly way to say that i think genesis, despite being a really interesting book especially pertaining to eve, adam, and the fall, and especially relating to what could be said about abel and cain, and abel, cain, and THEIR PARENTS!!!, fails in a lot of ways as a book. mostly because of the lack of expansion on any of the interesting parts of the early story. i dont gaf abt how adam lived for 930 years. i gaf about adam and the horror of raising children and loving them and that still not being enough to save them from each other or themselves. it must have been horrifying to see your children, both your first children and the first children ever born, suffer and die, one at the hand of another and one at the hand of your own father. like idk eve adam and the horrifying fact that their sin (mistakes) passed along to their child and could've played a role in his own sin (devastating mistakes) and what you do as a parent when you realize that loving someone isn't enough to raise them perfectly and keep them safe.

but yeah sure . adams a weirdo misogynist and eve is a girlboss that cucks him with lucifer and abel and cain don't matter or exist. okay. epic.

and like this isn't to shit on fun or serious retellings based in feminism, bc i #love feminism fr, but i think it tired me out in the same way that (look at me circling back) things like the feminist retellings of hades and persephone did. bc like, it's interesting sometimes, but other times you are IGNORING the reality and interesting parts of the real story in favor for whatever fantasy you've created. hades and persephone is a fascinating story, and demeter and persephone's relationship is a tragic, lovely story that should not be boiled down into omg age gap forbidden romance with EVIL strict mom in the same way that eve and adam shouldnt be simplified to adam is mean to eve and she eats apple as REVENGE >:) . like ok guys lets get creative!

anyway to make a long story short im not an expert on the bible im just a girl raised spiritualist who fucks with books hardcore and wouldve liked to see more interesting shit in the oldest fucking book i own . or whatever .

[codaattheend]

YOU ARE BACK :D

Darling, I never left. (But yes, I saw your more recent web weaves today. They were beautiful, as everything you touch becomes.)