And I am back with a new chapter of CI bk 1! In this chapter, tensions are rising and the herd gets caught in the thick of it. Diego and Peaches’ uncle/niece relationship is expanded upon more (so fluffy!), whilst, after the events of Tiger’s Heart, Manny finds Diego in more danger than before… what will he do about it? Read the chapter to see! Reviews/comments appreciated. :)

Relevant links:

FFN AO3

moodboards-ts:

“passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long”

seven - taylor swift // “friendship,” “along the way,” and “fireflies” - daniel gerhartz

beansterpie:

somethingusefulfromflorida:

lunar-wandering:

fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the “potential bots” many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!

OK, SO!

Just to confirm for myself that this was true, I went and made a new account and took some screenshots.

After the usual inputting of email, username and birthday (which, I don’t remember if tumblr used to require you to enter your birthday? I feel like it didn’t??) it takes you to this page:

it requires you to follow five tags from a selection of categories (I didn’t count the exact number of categories, but there’s a lot. The right section of the screen scrolls down). I followed some very neutral tags:

The “Next” button doesn’t become click-able until you pick all five.

After that, it took me to this page:

it suggests 10 different users for each tag that you selected in the previous page (the right side of the page scrolls down to all five tags). As far as I could tell, there wasn’t a way to ask for more users in each tag.

Again, the “Next” button doesn’t become clickable until you follow three people.

And finally after that it took me to the dashboard:

There wasn’t any way to change my icon before this point. So long story short, seems like the og post is true y'all :/

That being said, this only applies to blogs that still have the standard tumblr-generated icons, which is pretty easy to distinguish from the pretty-lady-icon porn bots 🤷🏻

fairycosmos:

god i love coming home and being at home and sitting inside my home and staying home

elodieunderglass:

So a real thing with the dissolution of social networks is the loss of small connections. Funny takes and long threads can be archived, but how do you preserve your bond with a mutual? How do you find each other again? With every platform move we lose small connections with people we appreciated. That’s a sad, involuntary little break-up. Sorry to all the little ghosts I’ve lost over the years. Sorry to all the new ones coming.

bobemajses:

Jewish necklace and head ornament from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, late 19th - early 20th century

catchymemes:

bumblewyn:

heywriters:

darkleweather:

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

I couldn’t remember the word “doorknob” ten minutes ago.

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

your-garden-variety-fangirl:

I could have just stayed right here.