no matter how cool we try to act every single one of us has had a moment where some blog we looked up to followed us back and we felt for a second like we truly made it
So! I have a few little things to be celebrating, especially with this blog, and I wanted to share them around!
First of all, thank you so much to those who follow me as i just hit 460 followers! That’s an insane number, and I appreciate all of you! Especially those who leave neato notes in the tags of my work or
But there’s a few other things I want to celebrate too. My birthday is just around the corner this coming monday on star wars day XD and I started this blog just after my last birthday!! So we have the 1yr anniversary of my blog too!! ALSO I am almost at 1000 posts on this blog, most of which is other people’s amazing stories, tropes and prompts!
I wanted to do something special, and since I don’t know what kind of things people would want to see since I have a bunch of stuff that I am behind on, and I’m not confident enough in my art skills to make a celebration out of it, I have decided to hold a little giveaway!
I want to make this very special, and the giveaway prizes will be an art commission by the amazing @albino-whumpee!!! There will be 2 prizes from this givaway:
One person shall recieve a flat colour half-body of 1 character of their choice.
And one other person shall recieve a half body black and white sketch of 1 character of their choice.
I shall be honest and say that I have never done something like this before, but here is how you enter the giveaway!
First, you must be following me.
Second, you must reblog this post. If your main account is different from your whump/writing account, please write in the tags what your main account is. Likes won’t count, I’m afraid.
As an optional extra, if you write whump and have it posted, feel free to reblog with a link to your favourite piece of work that you’ve written and I’ll read it and reblog it! I have a lot to owe to the whump community and after my semi-hiatus, I admit that I have fallen behind and I would like to read some whump that I might have missed!
The closing date for this giveaway is 9pm GMTonSunday May 3rd 2020.
I shall then randomly select 2 names from the entrants and make a post informing the winners of their prizes, and then@albino-whumpee shall be in touch with the winners!
Thank you so much to everyone, and good luck! I’ll try and make the winner announcement post my 1000th post on this blog, but either way thank you all again!
I am procrastinating very hardcore atm so I thought a good use of my time was to create a comic sans powerpoint based on Michal’s Story since I did one already on my other blog for the main story that this is based on!
I am currently doing one for the whumper gathering series as well, and thought it would be fun to make a meme out of this in the whump community as well, if people are interested? Make a comic sans powerpoint about their stories (any! go wild!) in a fun way! XD whether it’s fluff, angst, pure torture or the sweet caretaking afterwards.
I think it’s a fun way to get into other people’s stories in a simple, light hearted and jovial manner! I’d love to see what other people come up with!
Anyone is free to do this if they wish, but I’ll tag a few people because I’m curious to see how their story is depicted in this format! Please don’t feel pressured though, there’s no obligation to do it!
Tumblr is so funny, cause every once in a while, someone will roll up, reblog your entire blog, and then disappear back into the void they came from without so much as a follow
Just a heads up that I have some pretty major stuff going on in my life right now, so I may not be posting prompts consistently for the next few weeks. (Nothing bad, just moving hundreds of miles away from home to go to college, so I’ll be pretty busy traveling and settling in.) I’ll try to post when I have the time and energy, but probably not every day. Regular posts should resume once I’ve adjusted to college life.
I’m starting to get settled in, so I’ll hopefully get back to posting regularly soon. Classes start in a few days, and I don’t think I’ll be consistent for another week or two, but I should start posting occasionally in the next couple days.
Just a heads up that I have some pretty major stuff going on in my life right now, so I may not be posting prompts consistently for the next few weeks. (Nothing bad, just moving hundreds of miles away from home to go to college, so I’ll be pretty busy traveling and settling in.) I’ll try to post when I have the time and energy, but probably not every day. Regular posts should resume once I’ve adjusted to college life.
Just a heads up that I have some pretty major stuff going on in my life right now, so I may not be posting prompts consistently for the next few weeks. (Nothing bad, just moving hundreds of miles away from home to go to college, so I’ll be pretty busy traveling and settling in.) I’ll try to post when I have the time and energy, but probably not every day. Regular posts should resume once I’ve adjusted to college life.
I’m starting to get settled in, so I’ll hopefully get back to posting regularly soon. Classes start in a few days, and I don’t think I’ll be consistent for another week or two, but I should start posting occasionally in the next couple days.
Ok, well, I don’t know when regular posting will resume. I still care a lot about this blog, but I have a really busy college schedule, and I haven’t had the energy left to write prompts after all my homework. I’ll post as much as I can, but I unfortunately don’t know when daily posts will resume. (I do plan to resume daily posting! I just have a lot going on right now, and I’m still struggling to establish good routines. Once I have a better handle on balancing all my classes, I should hopefully be back to regular posts.)
When your friend calls you asexual over text message but you never told her that your asexual so you can’t tell if she’s being serious and actually figured it out or if she’s joking…
Today is the beginning of Nano! So here’s some highlights of comments I left on the side of last years project as I couldn’t go back and edit things we’ll see what this year brings. And to everyone who is doing it good luck! To everyone who is not. Enjoy your November!
I wish that ao3 had an option to filter warnings (and tbh certain authors) out like I will never ever want to read it and just seeing it puts me off so much that often I end up closing my browser because that content upsets me so much lmao
There is a way to do this but I can’t recall how to do it. it’s something you type into the box for “other filters” or something, I don’t remember. who knows??
It’s not a great option, and I don’t know if you can sort out authors that way, but it’s better than nothing if someone can reblog this with how to do it!
Alrighty friends! It takes some specificity, but you can do this. Let me show you how!
So I started with going to the Sherlock (TV) section of Ao3. On the right we find this lovely section! ((I know I’m going over things you already probably know, but I figure this post may go to new Ao3 users, so bear with me.))
Underneath this, I chose sort by Kudos, because that’s a quick way to find most popular fics, for the sake of this demonstration.
With those filters on, we end up with this being our first two results:
As you can see, we have Nature and Nurture by earlgreytea68, and The Internet Is Not Just For Porn by cyerus. So what if I am utterly sick of seeing earlgreytea68 on my list? Let’s pretend I’ve read all their fics, or that I just don’t like her, or whatever. I want this author out. I go to this section on the right:
In “Search within results” I type earlgreytea68 into the bar, with a minus sign in front. This gives me the following page, upon hitting the sort and filter button:
There goes earlgreytea68! But now I’ve decided that Crack is just not my thing, I’m sick of that, too, for heaven’s sake, I want something reasonable in my gay slash fanfiction about detectives that solve crimes about glowing dogs and irish megalomaniacs. Heaven forbid this get ridiculous.
Well, then I add this to my search:
Which gets rid of everything with that tag. My results are now:
Performance in a Leading Role is now my first result!
You can do this as many times as you want; the biggest problem I have is trying to filter out multi-worded tags. For example, “Secret Relationship” is hard to filter. Better to go with authors you dislike or with words like “DubCon”.
I hope this helps! Also remember that googling site:archiveofourown.org and then adding search terms will mean google searches Ao3 for you, and sometimes that works far better.
Good luck!
An excellent in-depth guide! Thank you!!
omg changed my whole ao3 rarepair game
An excellent guide to filtering on AO3!
You can filter out phrases by enclosing them in quotes. For example, if ABO and Hydra Trash Party are not your things, try:
-“alpha/beta/omega dynamics” -”hydra trash party”
I have more advice!
Say, you’re in your random fandom- I went with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, since I’ve been reading Iron Man stuff recently. Tony Stark is awesome.
But anyway, you’re on the page, and you see that there are 174,774 works! That is way too many for a casual afternoon’s browsing.
And you see that the first one is Peter Parker/Tony Stark and that is not your jam. It doesn’t work for you, or it squicks you, whatever. Wouldn’t life be easier if you could browse without seeing that pairing (or whatever pairing you don’t like)? You can!
First, click on that pairing tag(You may want to open this in another tab, actually.):
and it’ll take you to the page for that pairing tag. Click this button:
and then look at the address bar! The actual page is unimportant. Copy the numbers located here:
and go back to the original search page! Down on the side, in the same place you can get rid of other tags, type -relationship_ids:”the number you just copied”
Then hit ‘sort and filter’ annnd… magic!
The fics with that pairing are gone! You can also do multiple pairings, get rid of any tags you don’t like, and sort it by date or length or kudos, or whatever.
Enjoy.
I’d just like to add that these sorts of search modifiers ALSO WORK IN GOOGLE AND MOST RESEARCH DATABASES.
The more you know.
Just a quick reminder that AO3 uses Luceneas a search and index engine.
That means you can pretty much use all the Lucene Query Syntax in the “Seach within result” field.
I don’t think AO3 indexes the whole fic for searching but definitely it’s meta data. Combined with Lucenes awesome query syntax you can do pretty much every search you heart desires.
Addtional Lucene Query Syntax that has not been mentioned yet and you might find useful:
Wildcard Searches
You can use wildcard searches within single terms. For a single character wildcard search use the “?” symbol. For a multiple character wildcard search use the “*” symbol.
AND/OR
Lucene allows you to combin terms through logic operators. You’re looking for fics that are either “reunion” or“enemies to lovers”?
Just put in >“reunion” OR “enemies to lovers”< into the field
and you end up with all the stories that are either or but not both.
But wait, now you’re looking for fics that are both “reunion” and“enemies to lovers” at the same time? Now worries Lucene got you covered.
Just change it into >“"reunion” AND “enemies to lovers”“<
and you’ll get all the fics that mention both “reunion” and “enemies to lovers” somewhere in their meta data (note: it’s not just tags. It’s also title, summary …)
Boosting
You can also boost specific terms when doing a multi term search.
You can use the “^” Operator followed by a number to boost a specific term.
Say you’re interested in fics that are either “first kiss” or “bed sharing” but you’re much more interested in “bed sharing” fics and feel they are more relevant.
You can use the search >“first kiss” “bed sharing”^5<
to manipulate the order of your results in a matter that the score of every fic that contains beg sharing is multiplied by 5. Therefore all fics containing that term are given priority and shown at the top of the list.
You can also combine all of the above, target specifc fields (that’s what you did with the “relationsship_id:xxx”) and many more things.
^ sharing this because we all love fanfics and @itsmajel is a freaking nerd
Some of these searches can also be achieved via the “exclude” function in the search bar - this offers you for each section (ratings, category, relationships, tags, etc.) the most commonly used metadata for these fics, to check or uncheck (and thus exclude or not) as you please!
I will also note that if you’re like me and you start looking for fics using this page:
rather than starting at browsing everything in a fandom, unlike some AO3 guides, you are not SOL.
Based on some quick testing, anything you would use in the “search within” function described above will work in the “Any field” section. But “-” to exclude does not work in individual sections like author, pairing, etc.
still absolutely quaking from when one of my classmates revealed yesterday that he’d read over my shoulder when I was working on a whump fic on my google doc in class
So I don’t do this a lot but would you guys be interested in drabbles involving some of my characters? I have two or three caretaker/Whumpee/whumper trios I’ve got in mind. Just wondering, be safe!
what levels of fatigue are considered “normal”?? I slept for 12 hours last night and i was STILL knocked enough that I wound up dozing off and taking an 2 hour nap this evening while I was supposed to be working on time-sensitive stuff. like . .. this can’t be healthy right?
Ahhhhhsgagkagshags I’m creating my own patterns for these Pokémon plushies, and I’m so proud of the progress. The Squirtle was the first one I did, and now I’m working on a Pikachu. I think they’re pretty cute
Yo crafty whump community, this is a weird ask, but is anyone into doll modding? I may have acquired a Ken doll that looks a bit like Edward Teach from Our Flag Means Death, and I may have some silly aspirations - but I don’t know where to start! If anyone has any good doll modifying resources (prefer text to video but youtube recs are also fine), I would love to hear them.
You’re in luck, my main doll is literally a doll blog.
It’s easier to know where to start if you know what you want to do. You can repaint the face, you can keep the factory pain but add some paint details… Make a wig, make a beard, etc… What needs to be changed to make him look like you want to?
Also, you can just make a post in some of the doll tags and more experienced people can help you, if you don’t mind going outside of the whump community.
Eee@imsorryithurts you’re my hero! What are the best tags to check in? He’s going to need a beard and I might try to make some alterations to his wig (it’s the right color/length, but it’s straight and I’d like it curly). I’ll want to draw on some tattoos, and I’m 50/50 on whether I want to attempt a whole face repaint. I’m in such a basicbasicbasic place that I don’t even know the terms for what I’m trying to do or what materials to use. (Can you just Sharpie tattoos on a doll? What kind of paint do you use on their faces? Do you have to set/finish it somehow? So many questions. :p) Also, I’m happy to look into this myself - I just don’t know exactly what to search for/which tags will have helpful people in them.
Yo crafty whump community, this is a weird ask, but is anyone into doll modding? I may have acquired a Ken doll that looks a bit like Edward Teach from Our Flag Means Death, and I may have some silly aspirations - but I don’t know where to start! If anyone has any good doll modifying resources (prefer text to video but youtube recs are also fine), I would love to hear them.
Hello friends please please please feel completely free to ignore this especially if youre not a position to help.
I’ve busted my phone today the wind blew my purse away and my phone fell exactly right and the LCD got really damaged
I don’t have much money right now because I’ve been out of work since I hurt myself back in January so $140 to fix my screen isn’t easy to come by right now. I’m sure I’ll figure it out but if you want to help my cash app is
$EliseOziel
Don’t stress if you can’t, and thank you all for being there for me for the last few years
I’mnot freaking out so please I don’t need any one else to tell me not to freak out or to give me the statistics (trust me I’ve looked them up already) but I am gonna say that the coronavirus has me low-key spooked (emphasis on low). It’s just hitting kind of close to home (literally). The first case in the U.S. was in the same county as me and he went to the hospital I was born in for treatment. The senior center where at least 6 people have died because of the virus so far? My grandma used to be there. The high school I would have gone to (if I hadn’t been homeschooled) got shut down because a student had it. The convention I’m going to next week is offering refunds and vendors and artists are pulling out to avoid coming to the area. All the U.S. deaths have been within an hour of my house. Is the mortality of COVID-19 relatively low? Yes. The number of people in my state infected is less than 100 but it’s still just very uncomfortable. I work in a grocery store and people are freaking out and buying all the water/toilet paper/hand sanitizer and even though I’m not freaking out it just feels low-key apocalyptic around here. Like the mood is off. Seattle is failing the vibe check. And I feel like I can’t talk about it because everyone is making fun of all the people who are scared or just keep repeating the same facts about how the flu kills more people but am I not allowed to be on edge? The flu is the devil I know. Coronavirus? I don’t know her. She’s crashing my party and making me feel unsafe. I think that’s valid.
In conclusion: wash ya hands!! stay safe!! to my other Washington state homies, good luck! stay healthy!
Hey remember last March when I wasn’t freaked out? That was a lie. It’s been 12 months and this post didn’t age well.
would like to announce that i found a self care app called Finch where you hatch a lil baby bird and do self care things to earn him energy to send him on adventures and buy him lil clothes and help his personality grow !! i’m already obsessed i named mine Chester he’s extroverted and curious
I downloaded the app because of your suggestion and I like it so far, I named mine Blorbo
