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do not let it wake

@redmoonrises / redmoonrises.tumblr.com

the red end stirs in it's slumber / formerly @god-of-identity / read my pinned post for info pls!! pfp drawn by me, header from google images / "this is your home, and here you can be safe as you putrify, body and soul"

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Ayup! Welcome to my blog! As you may have guessed, this is my pinned post of random information including names I go by, tags I use frequently, and more. Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your stay, and maybe drop an ask to help satiate my unending boredom!

Current Preferred Names: Iden, Paxel, Essek, Mollymauk, Percival/Percy, Letters, Tally, Hyphae, Abyss, Hecate, Rhys, Sunrise, Mixtape/MT/Mixi, Ozzy/Ozymandias, Kit, Micah/Mikey

Current Preferred Pronouns:  he/him, it/its, tea/teas, rot/rots, cat/cats, moth/moths, star/stars, end/ender, tri/trix, heart/hearts, fae/faer, tech/techs, di/dice/dices, they/them

[Over 18 / AroAce / Nonbinary Transmasc]

#green tea (old tag #gen rambles) is just me talking or shitposting. #gen writes is my original writing tag. #gen sketches for original art/sketches. #gen rants for, well, rants.

#creaturae is my tag for anything relating to my massive pet project/hyperfixation by the same name. usually paired with my writing or drawing tag but not always

#crossover is a tag i use anytime i’m doing creaturae x (insert thing i’m interested in here) content. currently it’s the magnus archives

@god-reblogs-mcyt-fanart is, predictably, my sideblog for reblogging mcyt fanart

FULL NAME HOARD UNDER THE CUT

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autism is living by vampire rules. light sensitivity. eating the wrong food makes you want to die. need to be explicitly invited places. weird sleep schedule. eating the same thing every time. specific rituals and routines. burst into flames at the sight of a crucifix. etc.

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every time theres a poll on here thats like "you get one wish but it can only be one of these 10 things 😜" one of the options is always money and the amount doesnt matter because its ALWAYS winning. $20 $400 $100 it doesnt matter we are all broke

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one of these is literally kill all life and yet 7000 tumblr followers is actually the worst option

A dragon. You want a dragon. Not even worth looking at the other options.

Sorry, I can't hear you over become kitty

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everyone stfu Vector the Crocodile is real and he's my friend now

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i love it when drinks are weird colors this is because i was meant to be a machine and drinking delicious blue cooling fluid and such

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being a renchanting fan in 2023 is so funny because it’s like

you log on tumblr.com and say, “man, i really miss renchanting duo.”

“same,” martyn littlewood casually replies, barely looking up from the fifth dogwarts fanart that he’s reblogging this week

maybe i'll actually be able to write a story this time

anyways i finished the prologue to efae >:D

it's a bit short but idrc

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niiiice

short but finished!

*moving expired potions from the shelf labeled Healing to the shelf labeled Poisons*

*moving expired Poisons to the shelf labeled Potential Mountain Dew Flavors*

tumblr is dangerous. not bc of stranger danger. but bc the festering lil communities we create cause me to walk around my apartment thinking things like "is biting you. is biting you. is biting you. is biting yo—"

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I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

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