#its very odd

[freebooter4ever]

its been a shit week let me have this

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

So yesterday I gave my brother my Bluetooth speaker since I don't use it much.

Today, he called me - from a different room in the same house - to ask how to use it and the conversation went as follows:

My brother: Right, how do I use this speaker then?

Me: Okay, have you turned it on?

My brother: No.

Me: ...press the power button. You need to hold it down for a few seconds.

Speaker: Power on.

I truly would love to be a fly on the wall of his brain sometimes. What on earth is going on up there?

[yooniesim]

How many asks do you usually get here? Bc I have allowed anon asks on my blog recently and I got like 3 bots sending me weird spam (tumbrl please fix urself) and 2 asks form anons talking about something my blog isn’t even related to 😅 Not to mention some time ago I even got a crypo ask???

nonny, it's literally been so weird... I keep getting a bunch of asks in bursts which makes me think tumblr is hoarding them or something... bc there's no chance like 12 people were in my inbox at the same exact time lol. Anons always ask unrelated stuff tho so those are probably real, but the bots are sometimes rampant... tumblr in general is broken 😂

[longdeadking]

anyone else experiencing a bug where their dash is stuck in a timeloop

[to-nae-giri]

Trying an Emma rewrite with Class 78th as the characters and ending up with Togiri; Touko & Celeste; Makoto & Chihiro; and Mondo & Leon as the analogs to the married couples in the book.

[evienyx]

I kinda forgot how you came up with fractures, i know for a fact that you said it started as an au of another fic but I want to know it's origins

I mean, I started writing Fractures back in summer of 2019 (which is insane, let me say), when I was 14.

It is now 2023, I have just turned 18, I've gone through an entire pandemic and started college, and have written over 270,000 more words for this story.

It's kinda hard to remember where it initially came from, and the best thing I have to really go off of is the author's note on Chapter 1 and notes that I wrote for myself when I first started this story.

So, from what I can gather from those and what little I remember:

Most of the idea for Fractures came from the idea I had about what ATLA would be like if Zuko hadn't been there in the first place, but had been off doing something else. The first big problem that came up for me was the fact that Aang would still need a firebending teacher, and if Zuko wasn't there, Iroh was likely off with him, and therefore not available.

So, I started trying to figure out what I could do to separate Zuko from Iroh for pretty much the entire length of the show without making it too weird. From there, I realized the easiest thing would be if Zuko had never been sent to capture Aang in the first place. I decided that the easiest thing would be to simply throw Zuko into prison since the Agni Kai, make sure that Iroh hadn't been there at the Agni Kai, and go from there.

At that point, my interest had shifted from how the Gaang's adventures changed to instead being solely Zuko-focused. I wrote and published a one-shot of the start of the AU I'd made, but I kinda left it at that. There were people who commented wanting more, but I didn't really believe in my abilities to actually write a story of a larger scale. I also didn't know if there was any interest left in ATLA in the middle of 2019. The idea of writing it interested me, but if I was going to do that, I was going to go all in on it, and I didn't know how I felt about that.

The thing that really tipped it for me, if I'm being honest, was reading Towards the Sun by @muffinlance. Seeing an ATLA author succeeding and holding an audience, specifically in the times before the ATLA Renaissance because of Netflix, inspired me a shocking amount. It was the kinda thought of "well, if Muffin can do it, then so can I!" Which, to be fair, totally ignored the fact that she was a fully grown adult at the time, while I, 3.5 years later, have just now reached 'adult' status.

Still, it was enough for me, and so I wrote the next chapter in one night, published it, and we were off.

[fallenrain40]

im a coyote that tries their best to convince you im actually a wolf

[merrysithmas]

sooooo is bo katan getting a spin off or something?

[theprofessor07]

Anyone else have Tumblr bots following you

[dcxdpdabbles]

Jason: I need a look-alike. Just someone who can pretend to be me as Red Hood so I can go to class as Peter. Someone who can handle a fight. Someone who is okay with being shot at. But who?

Dan miles away, looking up from his cereal: I feel destiny calling.

Danny a tired college kid: What?

Dan racing to the window and overlooking Gotham: Someone in this city has just started the plot of my new novel.

Danny: Look Dan, ussually I would be down to help you through whatever shenanigan goes through your mind but I have a group project due that's forty percent of my grade and Peter won't answer his cell.

Dan: That's your fault for going to college.

Danny: Education is important

Dan: Education is important. College is a scam that the rich gatekeep. There is a difference. But I don't need you. I'll find my destiny on my own.

Danny: Alright, have fun, and please don't shoot anyone this time. Hiding Joker's body was hard enough, I don't want to do anything like that again.

Dan: If he wanted to live, he shouldn't have attempted chemical warfare. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[everyone-has-their-story]

The biggest mystery of OBX is why tf Ward is always whispering

[rosemoonweaver]

As someone who never uses dndbeyond I'd like to have a word with whoever decided to just open up Curse of Strahd and use *alll* the character art for free random character pics.

[mipexch]

v1 misses you! keep your blood safe for them!

[r0semultiverse]

Hey um I'm concerned...

"Is this true, fellow Petrikov?"

Something something about the cycle repeating. 👀

[cozylittleartblog]

had a(nother) nightmare

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)