#blog features

We are closing the ask box for 2 weeks.

From Friday 24th May to Monday 10th June.

Reblogs and daily fic posts will continue but the ask box will be closed.

There will be no dramione news posts either.

We will return as normal on Monday 10th June, and I will answer the asks currently in the inbox before we close.

Have a good break, and I will see you soon!! :D

Hey everyone! While tournaments will probably stay the main feature of this blog, I've queued up something new - every Friday, there will be a set of fanart reblogged! I've already got a queue built for this, to post between approximately 4PM and 9PM Eastern US time every Friday; with artists in the queue getting one picture posted per Friday (unless I messed up - sometimes you might see two of your pieces reblogged on one Friday!) the queue's already running into June!

Now, pieces with fan characters are featured in the current queue, though each piece also has at least one canon character present. But... there are a lot of great RW/YST fan characters on this site! So, I'm thinking of doing a second non-poll feature: Fan Character Of The Month.

The way this will work is, I'd like for people to submit their characters to me. Then, on the first of every month, one character will be randomly selected to be Featured. Throughout the month, followers would be encouraged to submit fan art of the Featured Fan Character, to be reblogged here. (You'd be permitted to submit as many as you like - but you would not be able to have a character featured two months in a row.) The Feature would be selected by random.org, and a directory of featured fan characters would be linked on the blog as well.

Welcome to our first official prep edition of Zen Hour on Tumblr! I’ve been doing this on Instagram for the last year or so and I’d like to expand upon it a little more here on Tumblr. I invite you all to join me for future Zen Hours.

For the most part, Zen Hour takes place on Sunday and Monday nights after 10pm EST. These are my nights off, but we may have an extra Zen Hour for nights I’m off for PTO when I use it or holidays if they work out in my favor and I don’t work that night.

The point of Zen Hour is really to provide a cozy/zen space for my followers to retreat to a couple times a week. I’ll open up my inbox for questions that need advice, messages of good intention, inspiring quotes and pictures, music and book recs or just to say hello. Anything goes really as long as it’s within the realm of being helpful and healing in some way.

I’ll have a list of songs that were either sent to me or that I’m enjoying. How many depends on who sends in a song. There’s no criteria for songs. It just has to be something you’re enjoying.

I’m also going to pull 3 tarot cards each day. You’re welcome to pick a card. You can either keep your choice to yourself or let me know your choice, it’s up to you. Then, at night during Zen Hour, I’ll post the meaning behind all 3 cards.

Here are today’s cards....

Take a look at the cards and pick one. They’ll be revealed tonight. Again you’re welcome to share your choice, but it’s not necessary!

See you all later for Zen Hour! Remember to send in song and book recs for the main post I’m writing up for tonight.

Good morning friends and readers!

I have a quick question for all of you regarding my policy when it comes to replying to my posts and the same in kind. 

If I decided to relax my current blanket ban on replies to my posts, and allow replies to my posts so long as you don’t mind me replying to you in kind via quoting your replies and adding my own in either a reblog of the original post being replied to or in a new post altogether, when Tumblr decides to get weird with me about how many times I can reblog the same dmaned post? 

Would that be a good enough compromise? 

The replying feature here on Tumblr is still one of the top five aspects of Tumblr that is completely and absolutely broken from an accessibility perspective, and that hasn’t changed one bit, and I will still more likely than not respond to other people’s posts through the reblog function on this website like I have been doing up until now. 

But the reason why I’m asking this question and am thinking about making a slight change to this aspect of my blog policy, is because I had a conversation with someone through instant messages yesterday where they asked me to allow replys on my posts again, and that the reason why they don’t interact with any of my posts at all despite actually desiring to do so, is because they only interact with posts through replies and I currently don’t allow on my blog currently.

You may answer this my inquiry about a possible change of my policy in tthrough replies, so that I can see if anyone reading this blog would like for me to make the slight change, as well as to see first hand if I can figure out a method by which to track replies as I receive them, so I can reply in kind through either a reblogged post or a new post altogether. 

Thank you! 

Honestly, we're not big fans of responding to things like this because the blog is about fanfic, right? Not controversy. (See @dramionediscussion to share your hot takes!)

But I wanted to take this opportunity to really shout out Lisa, who has been manning this ship by her lonesome for literal years. I've been dipping in an out since 2015-ish, and we've had admins come and go here and there. But she sticks with it. She's dedicated to making sure your (collective, not singular) asks get answered every week, or at least get posted for other people to answer. She looks up the fests. She reposts the new works.

So considering that, I think she's actually pretty cheerful and patient with everyone. 'Cause no one said she had to be nice while doing this thing for free.

-Shirlyn

(GIF below is a snapshot of me every time I come use this blog myself and see that she's still doing amazing work)

The "Fests" page at the top of our blog is not working at the moment. For whatever reason, Tumblr decided to remove all 150+ hyperlinks!!

It will take me a while to find all those posts and re-link them.

Thanks for understanding.