YOU GUYS NEARLY 11,000 OF YOU PUT UP WITH ME ON A DAILY BASIS. You guys listen to more of my crap than my own boyfriend generally does. That deserves rewarding. So this is an extra SPECIAL tea give away, and there will be THREE winners. Oh my god. Want a chance to become one of those lucky three people? Read on and follow directions.
THE PRIZES:
- First Place Prize: A set of all seven Sherlock Shipper tea blends [Sherlock/Moriarty, Sherlock/Irene, Moriarty/Moran, Mycroft/Lestrade, Lestrade/John, Lestrade/Molly, Molly/Moriarty]
- Second Place Prize: A set of all four* Avengers Teas [Thor, Loki, Steve Rogers, and Coulson *and possibly also Tony Stark if I make a tea for him soon]
- Third Place Prize: A set of all three Doctor Who Teas [The TARDIS, Amy Pond, and Rory]
- IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE PRIZE PACKS: Each winner will get ONE blend specially created for them. It can be a character or ship or show or book or whatever that I haven’t done that they’d like me to do. It can even be a blend made based on THEM. Whatever the winners would like. They each get to request one, and they will receive it with their other teas.
I MIGHT ADD TO THESE PRIZES. If this gets reblogged like, a lot, or something, I might lose my head and also send the winners mugs to go with their tea. Or a book. WE’LL SEE.
THE RULES:
- Anyone ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD can enter EXCEPT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND!! I am SUPER sorry for my followers down under because not only do you have to put up with terrifying wild life, you can’t even allow tea to be imported to help comfort you. Sorry, there’s like, crazy laws and stuff.
- You do not have to be following me to win, but it might be helpful to keep track of updates or changes (if any). Plus I plan to make some blends for other fandoms in the future, so if tea is your thing, it might not be a bad idea?
- Only two reblogs a day allowed.I did not realize how often people would reblog my last big give away soooo I’m going to enforce this LOL. You can reblog on as many days as you’d like, but yeah, only 2 reblogs a day please. I’ll be checking.
- LIKES DON’T COUNT. Sorry! You have to reblog!
- The give away will end and I will choose the winners on FRIDAY JUNE 1ST. I’ll probably do the drawing late at night on that day, so I’m going to say I’ll stop counting reblogs at 10 p.m. EST. Winners may not be announced until the next day or so, just to be aware!
- Here’s how the winners will be selected: Just like all of my other give aways, I’ll compile a spreadsheet or numbered list of all of the reblogs, and I’ll use the number generator on random.org to chose a number and find the corresponding username on the list. The first number I draw will win the first place prize (or, if they are more into Avengers or Doctor Who, they may chose one of the other prizes). Second number I draw will win the second place prize (or a choice between whatever two packs remain), and the third number drawn will receive the last prize!
shit I’m sick of seeing in reblogs on fanart
“omg I hate this pairing but what cute art”
“This character is [pejorative] but I like the artist”
I guess I don’t really understand the problem here? Personally, there are a lot of pairings I don’t like, but I still find art and fanfiction of them that I think are high-quality. I will squee like a lunatic over a pairing that I like whether it’s well-done or not, but if it’s a pairing I dislike, it has to be exceptionally well-done for me to want to reblog it or even comment.
When I receive comments like that for my fic, it makes me happy. To me, it means that I produced something they enjoyed because of its sheer quality, and it had nothing to do with their feels about the pairing. It means that my work was able to overcome their dislike of the pairing. Some of the best compliments I’ve received were from people who didn’t like the pairing or character in question at all.
One can certainly be rude about it, but I don’t think it has to be an awful thing to say.
Dear Self,
Look, I know you ship Shikamaru/Ino. That’s fine. That doesn’t mean you have to shriek at your computer about WHY IS THIS A PAIRING every time you see Shikamaru being shipped with someone who isn’t Ino. You have seen 52 episodes. You don’t know anything about most of the characters or what they are to each other. Maybe Shikamaru/Neji makes sense, and you just don’t know it yet.
Stop shrieking and do your homework.
~Nana
Naruto fandom…
I know that Shikamaru calls things “troublesome” all the time in canon. But for real, guys, there are other words to describe his irritation with things. There’s no need to have him use the word “troublesome” twice a sentence. You could use “annoying” or “irritating” or “pisses me off” or “pain in the ass” or something. Using the same word over and over is boring as hell. And…he could have other attributes? He does, in canon. For real. There’s more to him than being annoyed at everything. And even if there weren’t, the purpose of fanfiction is to flesh out characters, not replicate their two-dimensional traits. This is especially true if Shikamaru is the main character. An interesting main character has thoughts other than “X is so troublesome!”
Seriously, guys. Be more creative. Your lack of originality is troublesome.
Fandom: Homestuck
“‘Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,’ Bro whispered EROTICALLY against the young boy’s ear. His body was hot, and sexual, and his cock was surley large and throbbing, ACHING for the underage child in his grasp. ‘Only gay incest now.’”
I just thought you should know.
Hey guys! Sorry its been so inactive around here. I’m slowly but surely getting finished with my finals.
Anyway, I found this and thought I had to share. The way body language can tell how a person is really feeling is something that I consider very interesting. I think it would be a great way to show, in a subtle way, how a character is really feeing.
Hope its useful! And good luck with finals! Hopefully, this place will be a bit more active once summer kicks in.
Saving for my reference, and for any of my followers who write.
The last gif is your new signature dance. The last gif with words is what you’ll name it.
Last:
Last with words:
Zaphod’s Yup dance. I can see that.
Submitted by: ask-eradicon-steve
Dance:
Name:
uhh…
Appropriate
This speaks wonders about me as a person
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…anyone else want to add to this?
As much as I love the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise and the simple-yet-complicated story lines
and as much as I am totes in the business of headcanoning and fan theorizery
sometimes it kind of bothers me that I should have to do so much mental gymnastics just to force the plot to make any sense whatsoever
Yeah…this is part of what’s so appealing to me about Naruto right now. I’m sure that with the hundreds of episodes coming there will be a lot of nonsensical batshittery, but so far it’s very, very simple, and I don’t have to stare at the screen going “what the hell even just happened, that isn’t possible in the world that they set up or in any other world either, let me make some shit up to try to make it make sense in my brain.”
I love Yu-Gi-Oh. I do. But sometimes it hurts my brain.
