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nicegaai · 2 months

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im attempting my fic reread today. im announcing this bc i will be liveblogging to keep my morale up, NOT THAT anyone cares but i personally need this, like ill only commit to do the thing if theres an imaginary audience holding me accountable. & i like to have fun :3

anyway. captains log, its a beautiful sunny july weekend. i just finished my morning coffee, and, i am dreading this so much. i dont like rereading my own writing but i shall get over it. ok here we go.

Þetta Reddast vagueblogged directors commentary edition

Ch 1:

*opens fic and starts convulsing immediately* god i wish i smoked weed rn. i cannot chill out ever for the life of me

My Mission For Today Is: to remember what plot threads I’ve left hanging so I can resolve this story properly. And also try n remember where the flow is going. I have the end plotted out, I just am a little lost … it’s been a while :-(

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Abrupt beginning!!!! I’m not mad because I have . I HAD. Almost no writing experience when I started this. it isn’t ideal but I refuse to be one of those fanfic writers that starts rewriting early chapters without finishing the last ones. Ive never seen one of those types actually finish a longfic. …I’d already rather yap than actually read LMAO AHH

Oh this is worse than I remember. thats cool that s great ok alright *coughs up blood*

"20 somethings" WOW I really did not know where I was going with this when I started huh

LKJSDLKSJDLGKGDJSLDGJK ??? Who authorized this. Who let me cook. What the hell

I could write this better now. I could edit this into something beautiful. <- devil on my shoulder

FORGOT I WAS MAKING RICE BRB

"generously offered nothing to the exchange." wait STOPPPP. I’m so funny

GRAMMAR ERROR DETECTED why is there two periods. I’ll be coming back to fix that …………………. :-(((

Fuck. This is a lot. Marge Simpson Hiding Her Face dot Png

Oh this is stupid this is gayyy this is fukcinnn . Who fucking did t his. What was wrong with me,. This is so good actually. what was i ONNNN.

Im gonna throw up and I don’t know if thats like/. A complimentary thing or if im just cringing that hard . Im feeling emotions. I love my OTPs..OT3~5? I love them so so much

Ok as much as im like “eww bad writing” this is .. dare I say, rly good in places. Not to suck my own dick but maybe all hope isnt lost and imposter syndrome is an illusion

Grammar mistake #2. Goddddddd. they should ban me from the archive for this

EMILLLLL EMIL EMIL EMIL HIIIIII BABYYYY EMILLL I LOVE UUUU AWWHUUGHH everyone clap for my bewoved baby bruvver right FUCKING now

Urghhh gritting my teeth… Im fully expecting the flow of events to start not making any gd sense. There’s no way this came together the way I hoped in my head and .... For real I was never able to read this all the way thru. this is my first time, lol. and it was all disjointed on the authorial end to say the least. Im scared T-T

Jlxjvklsdkjfsjlkdkjlsjklkljzsdkjlgaskljdgjklasljkgdljkasljkdgjklasjlkdgljkaskljdgjakl??????????

Im not liking the ratio of dialogue to whatever the other stuff is. scene-setting I guess. prose maybe. i could have dragged this out way longer... By which I mean made it a more satisfying read. But WHATEVER !!!!

TIMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIMOOOOOOOOOO NUMERO UNOOOO DO MUNDOOOOOO I really need to utilize him more. As soon as I finish this fic I need to write a Timo POV spinoff where he gets cancelled on furry twitter for proshipping in real life

Hmmmm chapter ending didn’t hit as hard in practice as it did in drafts. Oh well. God damn that was a lot to happen in one chapter LMAOO???

OH SHIT MY RICE IS STILL COOKING ——

#first and foremost tumblr is for diary posting. even on fandom sideblogs. TO ME #p

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pinkprettycure · 1 year

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tbf I feel like your characters do pretty well in polls for a game that isn’t out yet.. maybe I’m reading your posts wrong but I think you genuinely might be too worked up over these tumblr tournaments. I can’t keep track of every poll your characters are in but I hope you know that I love your little guys just the same

im not mad abt the poll results themselfs although this tournament as a whole is frustrating honestly in part because this genre is my special interest and it's annoying to see, from my perspective, it being consistently disrespected. which is why I also said last night in regards to another match I'd prefer if syaoran got thru despite liking tadase more bc I think he would win.

but in this situation the issue is that every time i rb one there is always either someone who feels the need to comment directly to me that they prefer a different character, and if i post to twitter ive had ppl comment on the posts there too and I literally have no idea how I;m supposed to respond to that. Or just straight up people who seemingly have no idea who any of the characters ARE like... at all?

Ive had characters within the exact same polls lose just as badly as another character and never said anything other than standard "lets go we can do this" comments. Val and Clover literally just lost in a poll because i Forgot it was still running on the last day

They lost like 3 times back to back against CCS characters and i didn't say anything about it. Val losing in the adhd poll was giving racism though and i had ppl who knew i was the dev, block dodging and presumably stalking and trying to get my twitter suspended over the glasses one.

like that was the worst of the worst and was genuinely damaging to me mentally, in this situation its the same general complains i normally have + combination of me being bothered by people being wrong about my special interest

#Asks #Anonymous

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thatbitchsimone · 1 year

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https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/thatbitchsimone/726067097564758016

MUAH

Sending you so many kisses and hugs

I want to talk about the bizarre things on the internet

So I only got introduced to media outside of my country in like 2020 cause that’s when I learnt English well enough to understand media from it,

So it’s still so wild to me how people on the internet act especially Americans, and people who aren’t Americans but act like Americans

Like teenagers and middle aged men and women (can be used as metaphor also lol because so much immaturity and bitterness) on tiktok and Twitter and tumblr and Reddit especially

They either worship a celebrity to god status or “cancel” them for things their grandma has done lol and they have themselves done worse

The parasocial relationships with people on the internet

The utter disregard of kindness and just being so mean

And so much more but I have already made this too long

I talk alot and apparently write alot also so sorry lol

Ok bye bye

this is actually so interesting. i fully agree with u and i see it the same way u do even tho ive been around it for a very long time (like ive consumed american/english-speaking media since childhood bc i became fluent in english very early) like it is totally bizarre to me too. maybe its bc ive never been into or part of fandom culture when i was younger and never rly cared much about the artists which music i listened to as people like i just liked the music for the music and whoever the artist was a person or what they did in their personal life never interested me usually. i just liked the work they put out and enjoyed it for what it is or how it impacted me

but its very interesting to hear the thoughts of someone who is just now recently seeing all the online insanity with fresh eyes bc yes it is all very bizarre to me but i am used to it after all and have seen the escalation and shifts and stuff thru the years so like i can only imagine how insane it would all look to me if i were in the same position as u rn lol it must be a wild ride

what country are u from? im lowkey impressed that ur english is already so good after just a few years of learning it well enough to read stuff in english like i would assume it was ur native language just by the way u write to be honest like thats actually very impressive

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s-aint-elmo · 2 years

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hello again! im really glad to hear u wanna check out the stageplays! :D

unfortunately the reason why you could only find subs for #1 and #2 is that EN fan subs have only managed to get to blue glitter atm. thats because the general rule of thumb is to wait for the Bluray Disc copies of the plays to release so that they can translate the """"official version""" (since, ykno, stageplays by nature are never the same as each other) and #3 BD only released july this year while edel delight was literally held (iirc) just this feb 2022 so its gonna take awhile :')

a relatively recent additional side concern reason of waiting for the BD releases is like... plausible deniability of sorts? because revstar only started allowing international streaming with Blue Glitter actually so, originally really, we Do have to wait for the BD to even see what went down in the plays.

now we got international streams so translators can Technically start working on the plays earlier BUT since japan takes its copyright piracy laws really Seriously, posting screenshots of a play that should have only been livestreamed would shout to the company that ppl are pirating the show rather than paying so they might remove the international streaming option again,,, so screenshots from a subbed BD would give the plausible deniability that ppl posting the photos also bought the BD ✌

(this tbh is rly more of a twitter issue bc the staff and actresses are literally on that platform so screaming piracy right in front of where theyre also looking is just a bad idea all around)

ANYWAYS. sorry for the mini history lesson it got long but i wanted to give context as to why there is much content not yet translated and why itll take a while :'D

here's subs to blue glitter though! made by frog, a friend: https:// nyaa. si/ view/ 1545682 (no spaces)

once youve finished blue glitter, there is also actually a fun extra spinoff short story (literally just 6 pages) called Saikai Eyes ~ 74th which is fun backstory of yakumo sensei (the teacher from #2) and souda sensei (stageplay seisho's principal) and how theyre also stuck in the narrative loop of Starlight, and if you also become interested with whats going on with the revstar milfs then i will also gladly deliver translations :D

ahhhh, that makes so much sense! not smth i immediately concluded coming from the western theatre bootlegging sphere, but i can see it. thank you revstar for continuing to train my self-control and sense of delayed gratification ig 😔

i have seen links to read saikai eyes but put it off bc i wasn't too invested in souda and yakumo from the manga alone, but i think i'll give em a shot after i watch the lives. tysm for the blue glitter subs! can't wait to learn more abt the seiran girls, esp since they're not around too much in starira. here's to hoping the rest of the lives' bd's can come thru!

#ask #revue starlight #tysm again!!! im so glad to have somebody give me the sitch on the lives it was def hard coming into the scene wo prior knowledge

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yang4ever · 4 days

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HIIII omg NO dont say sorry!!! lowk writing on tumblr nd getting a much of mentions sounds scary?? and having a blog on here??? u were the first person i sent an ask to and that was soo stressful idk how u write and respond to people omg

okayy

1: i like snacks!! yk like uhh chips cheezits nd stuff like that i think most desserts r js really sweet and leave a gross aftertaste in my mouth... do u like all desserts???

2: omf im so happy that my phone has a headphone jack bc your soo right theres NOWHERE to plug in wired things

3: no omg ever since i started watching reels my brainrot has gotten soo much worse i fear it be worse than those kids

4: help were like rhe opposite omg i got into wayv ans then i heard my first dream song and then i finally listened to 127

5: RIGHT?? like my entire twitter has js been filled of clips from their livestream... the comments are so mean to like??? what are they supposed to do... i really like their music andd them i hope they dont disband

ohh wait i thought i should ask how your day is!! or whenever ur replying to this

anywaysss making ur ask replies aestheric sounds so hard like how do ppl even manage to make their blogs pretty but i lovee ur long reply to me!! its so fun reading thru it!! AND I SHOULD B THE ONE SAYING SORRY BC I ALWAYS TYPE SO MUCH??

- (シ. .)シ

HI UR SO CUTE&NICE IM SO GLAD U STILL WANNA TALK TO ME

no honestly it was literally MY bad like. i sent a buncha people asks/comments saying that i liked their stuff and etc and it got hard to keep track of my notifications omg .. people r just so active on here also we are so matchy matchy bc u are my FIRST anon 🥺🥺💕💞💓💗💖💘💝

1. OK i see what ur saying. hersheys def leaves an icky aftertaste. i like savory too!! i like desserts so much but every time someone asks me "sweet vs savory" i will always say savory. umm i like cheetos and there was this time period where i was obsessed w cheddar + sour cream flavored ruffles

2. WHY DID I FORGET HEADPHONE JACKS EXIST dude my puppy ate my airpod the day u sent this ask. i fear.... i need a headphone jack soon bc of this...

3. lowkey reels is my favorite place LMFAOO it's just full of silly stuff tbh i like it better than tiktok, im never on tiktok anymore

4. wait that's so cool u got into wayv first !?!? i had been listening to nct dream for like a year before i found wayv but i never bothered to like learn the dreamies names or faces or anything.. confession time but i NEVER thought i would become an nctzen like literally i was like haha that fandom is so silly i could never but then i DID wtf LMFAOO

5. omg i know:( !! the hate being directed at them lowk stresses me out bc they must be having a hard enough time already. why cant people just be normal goddamn 😭😭 i was thinking too that if they disband, illit is going to be blamed a lot and have another massive hate train so tbh i feel bad for both groups rn

U R SOOO SWEET. my day was a MESS.

i won freaky bingo (heavy on freaky because the board spaces had insane shit like "el student debt" "la thigh gap" and "el twitter") while i was in the student union and i got to pick a prize. naturally i chose the remote control bumper cars (they are for 6 year olds) and i drove them around campus w friends n friends of friends for like 5 hours instead of doing my homework which is due in like 3 hours 😓😓HOW WAS UR DAY I NEED TO KNOW BAD.

also i put my thinking cap on and i realized that the long replies r necessary to have a good conversation so it is OK that we are both typing a lot and is in fact a good thing actually. like SAME i love ur long replies to me. it feels like i have an international pen pal. or that im the war waiting for mail call LMFAOO

#໒꒰ྀིっ˕ -｡꒱ྀི১ ALINA'S JAM SESH! ✉#(> <) ! -- ✩ jammin w (シ. .)シ anon #btw stop bc anon i bet UR blog is pretty omg #the most kawaii blog on the platform #the most sigma

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furinabakery · 4 months

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Hi! Im from somewhere sa twitter! A lurker to be exact. Ive read some of your works sa ao3 and it makes me so delusional bcs some of it are filo in setting. Im here to share my unsolicited brainrot bcs i saw sa tweets mo na you want to write crack au. Ror

This is mildly inspired form a reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/s/pRpJLoupHf

So what if furina anak sa labas ng isang 1% but she feels like she dont belong there. She knows how the system of elite works, the lifestyle, the chismis, the whos who (sarcastically ofc) but find it all so Boringgggg! I mean, why do i even botherrrrrrrr *insert furina's voice*. Decided to get out of the ultra rich lifestyle after her estranged father's death (who just took her in para masabing "maayos" yung fam nila) to pursue her passion which is film. Pero di nagbabasa ng last will and testament which states taht hindi niya makukuha yung trust fund niya until mag graduate siya ng college kaya naging starving artist "para sa sining" stereotype of a student. Ginusto niya yun kaso yung drastic change ng lifestyle makes her struggle a lottt which includes doing a lot of first times like magcommute, maghanap ng part time, mag process ng sariling govt id, maglinis ng cr etc.

One night, after her shift sa burgeran ni aling nena jk, nagising siya na nakasandal sa shoulders ni neuvi sa jeep na nakapark kasi tapos na yung byahe and neuv is nahihiya na manggising lol. It was awkward at first but nakita niya yung watch ni neuv and by her past extravagant lifestyle knowledge its was a real cosmograph daytona rolex 116509 which she finds cute as the color blue complements him. She deduced that he might be a new money guy(bcs noveu riche types tend to buy that brand) and for him to be wearing that on a jeep means hes a superclueless dumbass that doesnt know how the world works or he doesnt care and is just a walking charity for a magnanakaw (spoiler: both). She was puzzled kasi if ever na hes REALLY like superduper rich in this country she should know him or at least be familiar with but hindi which is very weird. Bumaba na siya ng siya ng jeep at maglakad pauwi kaso sinundan siya ni neuv like a lost which creeps her. Then narinig niya na hiniholdap si neuv sa likod na willingly binigay agad yung watch to furina's horror her body moved at hinabol yung magnanakaw and blurted out if meron mang makikinabang sa relo na yun it should be her and not the magnanakaw bcs she saw it first. Furina throw one of her shoes tapos natamaan sa ulo yung magnanakaw sa ulo na nanging dahilan para mabitawan yung relo papunta sa highway. Furina chases it but neuvi pulled her back before she was abt to be hit by a truck. Furina screamed in disdain when the watch was destroyed. Tapos nagaway sila ni neuv abt how that watch worth is nothing compared to someones life furina retorted not when it was her life etc angst angst until bakit ba sinusundan ni neuv si furina turns out makikihiram siya ng phone kasi his drad battery daw siya and nawala yung luggage niya sa airport like Icocontact lang niya fam niya abroad. In the end sinamahan ni furina si neuv sa money exchanger para magpapalit ng foreign money para may pangkain sila. They ate pares sa sidewalk at 4 am.

WWAHHAHAHAHA turns out neuv has some hotshot new money billionaire parent who got rich thru stockmarkets and is now a silicon valley tycoon na may asawang pinoy , him being their son, they wanted him to get in touch with her roots, and build connection here by studying law and econ etc so when the time comes na mageexpand sila sa ph, neuv will handle it. Hindi naman nagtaka si furina bcs her initial assessment sa kanya is correct lol. Insert neuvifuri mutual semi-codependency adventures abt them surviving and finding a place where they belong in this new living set-up which includes neuvilette a clueless puppy paying her to give him intel abt his classmates (like a background check and chismis) in pursuit of good connections and potential investors for the future, touring him around the metro and exposing him to how this country really works sprinkled with moral dilemma ng pagiging mayaman at mahirap. Until furina's past comes back haunting her lol

Maybe a tired-i-dunno-what-todo-but-i-need-to-survive-college-for-that-trust-fund furina and stoic-but-im-trying-to-understand-things-and-humanity-like-a-fish-out-of-water neuvilette dynamics with hepa lane and national museum dates to making a tierlist kung anong pinakamasarap na sardinas sa market.

Ps. Insert Zhongli as a politician nepobaby hehe wink wink nudgenudge

-r

ANON I LOVE THIS SO MUCH first saw this last week at ilang araw ko na siyang iniisip 😭 as a teleserye enjoyer patok na patok sa 'kin 'to fr 🙏

i can imagine this playing out a la 80s/90s pinoy college flicks (mga Rico Yan films ganun; saka Labs Kita Okey Ka Lang, Moral, etc), complete with the adventures the vibes and the college barkada 😅 considering Furina's personality i can't imagine her not having a lively friend group (tho she keeps her real social status from them)! and once Neuvi is in the picture, i imagine Furina would introduce him sa barkada as her "new friend", then the entire group shares knowing looks :3 but they welcome him to their group and they go to fun college stuff together!

feel ko considering that Neuvi is rich also there's no way he can't sense that Furi is not exactly the "starving artist" person she presents herself to be? like maybe he won't be able to pinpoint kung sino talaga siya ganun but he'd *sense* something "off" in her demeanor, her aura, in the way she's not quite like their other friends... and i think this is where the tension and the connection can come in... yeah they have their friend group but there are things abt each other that only they can understand. and even tho the friend group welcomed Neuvi, for some reason he's not quite at ease with them as he is with Furi, so ayun mas madalas tuloy silang dalawa lang ang magkasama.

'DI KO PA MAISIP HOW EXACTLY FURI'S PAST WILL COME TO THE PICTURE but you really really really got me at the Zhongli bit... LORD... LORD LORD... alam naman natin na ang political dynasties natin dito, ang ancestors ay mga landlords na ilang siglo nang namumuno sa bansa, so of course if Zhongli is a nepo baby politician, he knows who Furi is. i'm also considering what if Furi and Zhongli's families arranged them into marriage etc... sorry hilaw pa talaga ideas ko dito i'm just dumping playing around with concepts

Zhongli in canon is supportive of the idea of humans leading things their own way, so i think he'd be supportive naman of Furi's pursuits? like he won't be an antagonistic type of second-lead who'd be so controlling, who'd discourage her from her adventures. but he'd definitely disapprove of whatever-Nvfr-has-going-on LMAOO feel ko ano, since Neuvi is this clueless person who clings to Furi (in a way), Zhongli would perceive it as smth like, Neuvi-is-an-incompetent-person-who-holds-Furi-back? imagine kasi oh, imbis na Furi is focusing on herself and on doing what she wants, she also has to help Neuvi with stuff ganun. ta's maiisip ni Zhongli, "naku kung ako 'yan 'di kita gaganiyanin" EMZ but like Zhongli would think he can provide Furi stability, complete support, if ever she'd need it. he thinks he can be her rest, kumbaga— and this, he believes, is smth the "clueless incompetent" Neuvi can't give her.

WAIT WHY AM I DETAILING ON ZHONGLI ALL OF A SUDDEN ugh sorry this is rly how i go every time that grandpa is involved 😔 anyway i still imagine this will be Nvfr endgame

I HAVE MORE THOUGHTS ON THIS THAT I JUST CAN'T ARTICULATE YET (medyo nagmamadali rin ako ngayon PLEASE i'm typing this during my commute) PERO AYAN MUNA NGAYON 🙏 thank you so much for sharing this with me, anon ❤ if you have more to say on this pls feel free to drop by in my inbox again!! (or kahit sa DMs ko, since you're from Twt naman, if you're comf with that!!!!)

#qs

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baekhvuns · 2 years

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hey baekss!!

idk if you're willing to post my ask or nah but the atiny community on twitter are damn desperate to find more atinys to participate in mama voting like oh my god please we are freaking tired at this point 😩 so i hope with this, more tumblrtinys are aware about it. it doesn't take a minute more or less to create one or more accs to vote tbh so please :(( we do it for ateez imdhdjddkkdnf im so sad, desperate, struggle and mixed feelings atp 😔

also, i hope you're doing fine everyday! i keep going back rereading all your fics for gods know how many times there were while waiting for your new yuyu ff 😭🤚 and to say it still feels like im reading it for the first time despite already knowing whatever shit going to happen next in the plot hshdjdjdjd bUT YES KHRONOS THE BEST ANGST EVER IT STILL SLAPS ME HARD ON THE FACE AND ASS AND IM ABOUT TO SMACK HWA IN THE HEAD!!!!

and and and i have sooooo many ideas to write but idk how to start it and my lazy ass won't cooperate and my fingers have no energy to write it down but i really want to share my ff with everyone here but 😩 how do you get the motivation to write baeks like do you have imaginary seonghwa beside you to write such powerful and epic stories because i CANT reach your energy in writing it's so freaking dramatic i love it so mucuhchchchcjc

+ i'm yunho's gf (real) 😏

hello!! im so sorry this is late, the notif never showed up in my notifications,,, omg ofc!! i hope those who can vote do vote! it’ll be fun to see their reactions when they win!!!

i aM GOING 📉📈📉📈 everyday dbdbd,, omg thank u so much 😭😭😭🤚🏼I SWEAR I AM WRITING THE YUNHO FIC DONT U WORRY ITS GONNA BE LONG SO I GUESS THATS A PRO !!! JCBWNDDH PLS DO SMACK THAT MF IN THE HEAD but the king hwa 🥰☺️ <33

i felt this on a very deep, spiritual, cosmic level actually, are u me 🤨 i completely understand that! sometimes u get so lazy that writing seems like a chore 😭😭,,, i tend to look over at booktok (mostly ig reels) and my motivation these days stems from them,,, for example i see this reels and my mind goes boom i NEED YUNHO TO DO THIS in the fic,, i quickly go write it + listening to music while writing can increasingly motivate you!! id rec im yours by isabel larosa atm! you’d imagine yourself as a main character and begin writing,, id rec going thru some accs like those! it’ll def boost some motivation in you!!

LMFAOOOO FHWKHDKW I DO HAVE AN IMAGINARY SEONGHWA IN MY MIND THO 😭😭😭 BRNWHDKW THE DRAMATIC ENERGY STEMS FROM BOLLYWOOD AND 90’s — 00’S ROMCOMS <33 esp these two so the dramatic energy stems from here <33

+ i'm yunho's gf (real) 😏

i believe u bc im seonghwa’s wife (real) 😏

#✉️ : ask

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krarka · 3 years

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thinking abt that one post thats floating around about how fandoms are niche bc not everyone in the world reads fanfiction but like. Is that all that fandom is you think. Is it.

#either fandom is simply fans of the thing.#in which case every piece of media ever either has or is created to potentially have a fanbase so that kinda makes it not niche from the #get go #or its defined by the existence and interaction of community surrounding the piece of media right #in which case it can be anything not just. fanfics.#art. discussions abt the media. angry tweets. raising milions of dollars to make an animated show version of your thing #dont think its possible to consider all that and be like'yeah fandom is a niche thing its a tumblr thing that dsnt exist in the public eye'#ESPECIALLY with how many shows are impacted by fandoms thru shipping fanservice changing the plot cause ppl figured it out #the way marvel movies are filmed #evry other day something fandom related is trending on twitter you can tell me majority of ppl dont even know what fandom is or whatev #bc maybe they dont know terminology but theres no way none of them has some interaction with it if they at least like. use the internet #in any capacity #or even are a part of it but dont know/acknowledge it #i guess if u go by tumblr definition youre only in a fandom if u read or write gay fanfic but uh. is it the right definition to use #im at work its not coherent dont reAd this i just had that post on my mind and i think its not a good one #ik it wasnt abt that per se but that point struck me as. not correct

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sipsteainanxiety · 2 years

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this is for all the newbies on tumblr following me who have come here from tiktok or twitter. just some things i learned from being on this hellsite for so long lol

if ur writing something that's more than about 1k words or so please PLEASE for the love of god use the 'keep reading' option. on mobile all u have to do is type :readmore: in a separate line and itll make it. dont trust the expand shit bc im p sure that doesnt work on mobile or on people's blogs.

im sure u heard this a lot from other people but REBLOG SHIT!! DONT JUST LIKE THINGS!! bc it'll circulate posts more and yeah (liking isnt a problem imo but reblogs are just better. nd i dont think spam liking rly does anything ngl)

also the more u interact with someone the more likely they are to interact with u!! the fellas on tumblr are just some Guys lmao. u might make a friend!!

don't have a blank blog. just dont. add a profile picture and decorate it a little pls or u will be thought of as a bot and blocked

the op of a post you rb can see the tags you put on it!! doesnt matter if u rb it from someone else!

DONT CLOG TAGS!! tag ur stuff appropriately (including TWs), i dont wanna see your personal shit in the bnha tag

do NOT embed links in asks. people have been doxxed before. make sure you paste the link in

ik tumblr got rid of the character limit in asks but personally i think splitting up your ask into multiple (if its very very long) makes the post shorter and better to scroll thru. plus the op can ss the multiple asks and put it in their response

if u reblog something and tag it, thats for organization on ur own blog. it wont show up in tags so it wont be spam.

b careful that you're not copying tags the op put on the post that's clearly their own voice/words. idk its just annoying bad vibes LMAO

adding this bc a lot of people have deactivated bc of it but DONT SEND HATE ASKS! i feel like this should be obvious but apparently not. if u dont agree/like someone then just block them, ez. no need to make it a big deal, these are people on here, not robots.

#go to sleep shay it's late o'clock #also b careful w what info u reveal on here etc etc #esp if ur a minor #i think i covered everything but yeh #hopefully this helps someone LMAOOO

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manonblaqkbeak · 3 years

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Dating and Goodreads

Back for Day 8-Blind date (how the hell do u guys come up with good title fics i struggle so bad lol). I wasn’t really going anywhere with this one, but when i read all of the others and saw how fun the fics were, i decided to finish this one.

also for Summertime and Fresh Strawberries, I deliberately left it blank but I can’t hold onto the secret bc two people were curious as to what happened, so i’ll let the rest of you know that aelin and rowan decided to keep summer and be a cute little family, bc im a sucker for happy endings lol (unless its angst, it’s safe to assume that all my rowaelin fics have happy endings bc they’ve all ready been thru so much and even in alt fics i need them to be happy lmao)

anyway, on to the next one. hope you enjoy!

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Aelin was a confident woman, something that she was proud of. But that didn't mean that there weren't times she didn't feel self-conscious or awkward and full of doubt.

Because right now, all those negative feelings were swimming inside of her.

And those feelings were just magnified today, especially since she had gotten fired only a few hours beforehand. It was utterly unexpected, she had never received any prior warnings, and while she was a fighter, Aelin didn't feel like stepping into the ring for this one. Not when her boss was a demon from hell that made life unbearable and she had to physically push herself into entering the work building.

Aelin told herself that it was for the best. She was miserable there and hated working in an office typing up the worlds most boring reports and working in a space that was entirely too drab.

But she wasn't looking forward to job hunting. Aelin was aware that she could ask her friends for favours, but if Aelin did something wrong, she didn't want it reflected back onto whoever helped her.

And she was still a little peeved over the damned argument she had online again with that haughty prick on Goodreads. Aelin wasn't sure why those arguments kept going, but each time she would post a review, White Tailed Hawk would respond, telling her that she read the book wrong and this and that and blah blah blah.

Aelin repaid the favour each time, telling him how he was wrong and he had no reading comprehension skills. And on and on it went until Aelin or whoever the fuck that guy was went back to their own lives.

Depressingly, it was the most fun she had some days.

Shaking her head, Aelin forced herself to think of the now and not of her shitty day. Still she sighed, not quite believing that she had agreed to this blind date. Couldn't believe that she had let Aedion convince her it was a good idea.

Aelin had said no at first, after Aedion had voiced his offer, and her cousin left it at that. But days went past, and he would bring up the topic of Rowan, about the things he had said that day, how his dry sense of humour took some time to get used to but once you figured it out, he was actually pretty funny, how he had finished a project perfectly and this and that.

But it got to her, annoyingly. So the other day when he was helping her out with some housework that was a two person job, Aelin told him to set up this date. Aedion cheered as if it was the best thing he had ever heard, telling her how she and Rowan were the perfect match for each other.

Aelin rolled her eyes, but didn't say anything of the assessment.

She had only agreed because it was getting frustrating being asked at every family event if she was dating someone, when she was going to give her parents grandchildren (that question pissed her off the most, as if Aelin was nothing but a birthing machine and that was all Aelin could contribute to society), and who was going to look after her when she was old if she didn't have children (because apparently carers didn't exist).

Aelin was also lonely—she could entertain herself just fine, but she did like the idea of coming home and talking to someone that could respond. She loved Fleetfoot and her enthusiasm when Aelin came home, but human companionship would be nice.

But Aelin didn't have high-hopes for this date because the universe liked to kick Aelin's ass from time to time, she suspected that they were going to hate each other.

Taking a deep breath, Aelin got out of her car, smoothed down her romper and went inside the restaurant, head held high.

X X X X X X

Rowan couldn't believe that he was about to go on a blind date. That Aedion had convinced him to go out with his younger cousin. He hadn't dated anyone since Lyria and he knew that his dating skills were going to be rusty as hell. He had been with Lyria since they were nineteen, married at 23 and divorced at 31; he had been single for the last two years.

It had been...fine, a little strange, after being with someone for so long to find himself a bachelor. Rowan never thought that he would apart from Lyria, but their relationship had just faded. Long before the divorce, it had been more like a housemate relationship than a marriage. He wasn't surprised when his ex-wife had come home after work with divorce papers. He had only stared at the paperwork for an hour before he signed the forms. Truthfully, Rowan was just glad that he was still on good terms with Lyria, that they could still talk to one another from time to time.

Rowan had almost called her earlier today, to ask how the hell dates went, but felt that it would have been crossing some invisible line, so he didn't call and instead had Googled the questions instead.

They didn't really help.

Rowan drummed his fingers against the steering wheel, telling himself that if things went wrong, then it wasn't the end of the world. That if he had to be a bachelor for the rest of his life, then that was fine. He had plenty of ways of keeping himself busy—he had a good career, a nice house, plenty of books to read and to argue online about them with.

He had one earlier today, actually, with Queen of Wildfire about a new release that Rowan had eagerly read within days of its release. And once again, he ended up with an argument with the woman about the messages and themes within the book.

It was stupid, he knew, to be at his age and to be fighting online with a stranger, but something about this woman just had his fingers flying over the keyboard.

Some days he looked forward to it, as embarrassing as that was to admit. He didn't really want to look into himself to figure out what it all meant.

Eyes drifting to the dashboard, Rowan realised that his date was about to start. Popping a mint into his mouth and smoothing out his clothes, Rowan took a deep breath and left the car and went to his first date in twelve years.

Hopefully, it wouldn't be too bad.

X X X X X X

The date had started out a little awkward, but that wasn't a surprise to Aelin, because what blind date started smoothly?

It picked up after Rowan admitted that he was divorced and that he had no idea what the hell he was supposed to do. Aelin appreciated that stark honesty and admitted that she too had no idea what to do.

Since then, the conversation went well, the food was good and Aelin had even swiped a few bites of his dinner because it just looked so much better than hers. Rowan had playfully grumbled underneath his breath, but smiled as he said it.

It was going really well. Maybe the universe had decided to give her a break for the rest of this evening. There was a part of her that maybe wondered if they would have sex, because the man did look fucking fantastic, but at the same time, she didn't want to rush anything in case this actually turned into something more.

“What's the dumbest thing that you've done recently or in the past?” Aelin asked. There was no such thing as small talk between them—Aelin had all ready asked if he believed in aliens and was glad when he said yes, because “it's ridiculous to think that we're alone in this wide universe of ours. It makes sense that there'd be other lifeforms out there.” Which was pretty damned close to Aelin's reasoning as well, so asking him about stupid moments felt like nothing in comparison.

Rowan smirked at the question and took a moment to think before answering. “I engage in online arguments.”

“Really? About what, exactly?”

“It's stupid. But my all my arguments occur on Goodreads of all places. Not Facebook, or YouTube, or Twitter, but Goodreads. It's never anything insulting but just arguments about how wrong some people's in depth reviews are.”

“Fair enough,” Aelin said, “I've been known to do the same thing as you. There's this one user on there, White Tailed Hawk—a stupid name if you ask me—and he just never...” Aelin stopped when she noticed that he stopped eating and was just looking at her weirdly. “Rowan? Are you okay?”

“Do you, by any chance, go under the name of Queen of Wildfire?”

Aelin blinked, and then blinked again, and once the pieces fell into place, she knew right then and there that the universe really hated her. She let out a harsh laugh, the sound echoing throughout the space. Aelin wasn't really sure what to say, because it was true what he said; it had never been insulting, but ending up on a date with the man she had regularly arguments with was just...she had no words, other then, “It really is a stupid name.” She took a sip of her wine, needing to do something other than wanting to bang her head against the table.

“I couldn't think of anything else to write.” And it wasn't also his favourite animal, he had told her that earlier.

They lapsed back into the awkward silence of earlier, both picking at their food.

But Aelin didn't want this night to go to waste. “It'd be stupid to let something as small as this get in the way of whatever this could be,” Aelin said, deciding to be blunt.

Rowan nodded. “It would be. Although I have to be honest, you really have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Call of the Wild Winds.”

Aelin just about stormed off when she noticed his playful smile, his eyes sparkling bright. Laughing, Aelin threw a bread-roll at his handsome face, and once he caught it and split it in half for them to share, they went back to their earlier conversation.

And when Rowan walked her to her apartment door and kissed her on the cheek goodnight with a promise to text her later, Aelin couldn't help herself by telling him that all his opinions sucked and that he had no idea what he was talking about—all with a big smile on her face as Rowan sputtered as she closed the door on his face.

They spent the rest of the night texting, and all of Aelin's earlier woes faded away. And she looked forward to tomorrow, despite the horror of job hunting. Maybe the universe will finally let things turn around for the better for her.

Aelin went to sleep with a smile on her face, all because of White Tailed Hawk.

And on the other side of the city, Rowan also fell asleep with a smile on his face.

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