Hello everyone =) Any fandomy news? Any fandomy plan? Let’s hear about it!
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I am apparently cycling between “too dead to function, much less write more than a few sentences” → “writing a fill for a prompt in one sitting in a feverish daze” → “struggling to typocheck and post because too tired” and back to the start. That’s… not ideal.
The good news is that despite this I’m still going strong with the daily microfics, and I’m still writing daily even if some days it’s just literally one sentence. Any word is better than none after all.
The complex news is that there is new content for the currently-releasing game in my fandom and I’m too tired to play it. I feel very much like a frustrated mess x’)
Also this is the last week before the event “Finish What You Started” that focuses on finishing fan projects we started before the first day of the event. It runs from March 1st to April 30th and I’ll be participating to hopefully tackle some older WIPs from fandoms I lowkey fell out of. The Fall edition of last year helped me finish… three fics and one crochet pattern, so I’m hoping I can do nice things this time too!
(If posting the link to the event is not allowed I can edit, just tell me!)
On the bright side, this magazine has enough activity that just making a new thread doesn’t jump it to the front on hot/top. On the other, need to remember to click on new to make sure I don’t miss Roundups!
On a more “capitalists ruin more things” tumblr is going to join the other big name sites and sell their user’s art and images to their choice of AI. Technically not officially announced and it’s rumours. But given Tumblr’s record of horrible choices I would not be surprised. Further reminder for me to start fixing up my Pillowfort and such lol aaaaa
I’m 3 pages away from finishing my latest comic oneshot. I’m who knows how far away from finishing any pure-text oneshot.
I’m still emotionally shot. Anxiety is amped and it doesn’t take much for me to panic. But hey, I’m existing.
Congrats on those microfics! And thank you for sharing the event. That’s a nice one to vibe with~ (helped you finish 3 fics and a pattern? Insane!)
Congrats on existing! That’s already plenty badass in the current chaos. Sending strength both for your creative projects and for your Pillowfort fixing. It’s really a shame that tumblr can’t stay out of the “let’s break everything” party.
And no problem for sharing the event, it helped me so now I want it to also help others =)
Noooo! Tumblr! Not you too!
Anxiety is brutal when amped and it can take a long while to recover from being emotionally maxed out on top of things. That is genuinely okay, just in case it helps to hear it. (I have to remind myself often enough.)
Very late but wanted to say thank you, it does help!
Not late at all! I hope things are improving.
And I hope Tumblr has not yet given into the darkness…
It’s improved in the sense that I have found new stim toys to abuse! So hurray for distractions I guess??
Tumblr has. There is now a setting (that they did not announce) to turn on/off your blogs to be used for AI data. Yes, its separate for each blog you might have. Yes, its location is different depending on if you mobile or pc.
A good distraction can be priceless. There are some great stim toys on craft sites. People make them as jewelry, gadgets, what have you. :)