#it's been... so long

[eggdesign]

Accessible theme revamp

preview + install

The original theme garden theme is several years old and was in need of a refresh. While the design is very similar, there are several changes to the theme options. I didn't want anyone to lose their settings, so this is a completely new version and not an update to the original.

This is much simpler to customize overall, so let me know if I should add some more of the older features into this one!

What's new to this version:

Day/night mode

Better NPF post support

Keyboard navigation between posts

[daybr43ks-lam8]

IT'S TIME TO HUNT, SUNMOORE.

.. , .

[crabussy]

need everyone to know that the artist who created this iconic artwork:

is STILL creating wolf art TO THIS DAY. TEN YEARS LATER. proof that the world is beautiful. her username is wolfroad! you can find her art right here, and here are a few of her more recent pieces that I absolutely adore:

[opt1gan]

Two movies I like

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[michameinmicha]

Stumbled upon this random ship (in a fandom im not active in myself) that has like 150 works on ao3 which are all from just two people gifting each other fics about this pairing back and forth and theyve been doing it for 3 years... i think thats true love probably

[hansoeii]

hannigram

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[demaparbat-hp]

Arsonist's Lullaby

[sweetbouquetartisane]

Good Will Hunting (1997) Dir. by Gus Van Sant

[bumbleboa]

oh what a joy it is to get to grow old

[danidoodels]

trying to get used to drawing this goober again

[acochleola]

a man watched over by an angel

[jomo-is-here]

how long you think it'd been since he'd last seen his reflection?

[lazylittledragon]

got shadowlach on the brain again

[canisalbus]

✦ Sanctuary ✦