𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚜 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛:

this is so fucking funny I love sharks

one more lonely night in my bedroom, sitting in my underwear with candles as my light source.

the dried glitter under my eyes resembles tears in the moonlight.

it reminds me of youth, being a kid.

face paint, pastel pink & the same cat cake my mother baked me every birthday, with licorice whiskers.

i don't care for birthday cake now, i tell her to buy whatever cheap grocery store one everyone will enjoy.

when i was little, about eight, i wanted to be my older sister so badly.

i liked the thought of freedom you get once you grow up, a boyfriend, makeup and short skirts. it's nothing like i thought.

to be a teenage girl, is simply hell.

dissecting my body until it's nothing, sobbing over every man that leaves, acting older than i am, becoming a whore at fourteen.

hot wax burning my skin, feeling super suicidal, daily prescription pills, counting calories, backstabbing and loving too hard.

i'd trade anything in the world to be young forever, to be back in my mothers arms as she sang "you are my sunshine" to me every night.

i don't know when she stopped.

"please don't take my sunshine away."

sometimes i still wish i left, but i'll stay for her.

i'll start baking her the same cat cake for her birthdays and make homemade cards with colored paper and sparkly stickers.

i'll start dotting my i's with little hearts, and apply eyeshadow with my fingertips once again.

i'll wear ribbons in my hair, and listen to the 60s music my grandma played while she taught little me how to bake a pie.

i'll embrace my sensitivity, and cry when i have to, i won't suppress my rage, i'll be wild and free.

i'll hold onto youth, and miss the old grace in silence.

written by grace isabelle

Saved for later <3

How to Make a Masterlist

Part 1: The Basics

Step 1: Open tumblr on a computer or laptop. It is possible to make a masterlist on a smartphone, but it’s much more difficult and doesn’t turn out as nicely as a masterlist made on a computer. 

Step 2: Create a new post using the ‘Text’ option. 

Step 3: Title your masterlist. 

Step 4: Create a heading. This step is completely optional, but I would recommend this step if you’d like to inform your followers on how often you update. 

Part 2: Organizing Your Masterlist

Step 5: If you write for multiple fandoms, I would start by titling each one. This is optional, but I prefer to make these titles bold, italicized, and I select the ‘Header’ option, although this is entirely optional. If you only write for one fandom, skip this step. 

Step 6: Separate your writing by style. Once again, this is entirely optional. I find it makes the masterlist much easier to navigate, though. I divide my writing into five sections; blurbs, imagines, smut, series, and miscellaneous. If you write for multiple fandoms, make sure to create these categories individually under each header. 

Step 7: List each character who has a post written for them under the proper category. 

Step 8: List all your works under the correct category and character. 

Part 3: Inserting Links

Step 9: Open a new tab, and scroll to the first writing on your list. 

Step 10: Hover over the top right corner of the white box until you see a fold down appear. 

Step 11: Right click the gray fold down. If you are using a laptop without a mouse, click with two fingers at the same time. A pop-up list will appear. 

Step 12: Select the option ‘Copy Link’. 

Step 13: Return to your other tab (the one with the masterlist). 

Step 14: Highlight the title of the link you just copied, and click the option that looks like a diagonal infinity sign. 

Step 15: A blank box will appear. Paste the link you copied into this box, then select ‘Done’. 

Step 16: Repeat steps 9-15 with each writing. This may take a while, but it will make your writings much easier to navigate for both you and your followers! 

I hope this helped anyone who was struggling with creating a masterlist. Please, feel free to let me know if you have any questions or need any clarification! I’d be happy to help. :-)

Part 6 of Celebrification

Masterlist | Entire Work | Previous Part

Works Cited

Attain Behavioral Health. “Celebrities With Drug Addictions.” Attain Behavioral Health, Celebrities With Drug Addictions Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.

Rodriguez, Karla. “We Spoke to a Psychologist About Child Stars and the Impact of an Unstable Family.” Complex, We Spoke to a Psychologist About Child Stars and the Impa... Accessed 8 Jan 2025.

Sabet, Cameron J. “The Effects of the Internet on Celebrification and Mental Health: From Britney Spears to the Vatican.” ClinMed International Library, https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/iaphcm/international-archives-of-public-health-and-community-medicine-iaphcm-5-065.php. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.

Tsioulcas, Anastasia. “Opinion: Britney is the Latest Victim of The Industry Machine.” NPR, Britney Spears' Court Struggle With Her Dad Is Nothing New In The Music Industry : NPR. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.

Turner, Chrisopher. “THE STORY OF: Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” Schoolgirl Outfit.” 29 Secrets, https://29secrets.com/style/the-story-of-britney-spears-baby-one-more-time-schoolgirl-outfit/. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.

Part 4 of Celebrification

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Word Count: 588

Act 1: Scene 2

The woman of middling age walks in from stage left and takes her seat in the middle chair.

THE VOICE: Hello 27.

27, slowly: Hello?

THE VOICE: Are you ready, 27?

27: Ready… for what? Are you planning on asking me the same questions that you asked 17? 

THE VOICE: Perhaps. It depends on what you have to offer me. Which, I suppose, is likely much more interesting and of greater magnitude than what she gave me, dear.

27, reluctant: I guess so. What is the purpose of me being here anyways? You’ve probably seen my life, just like everyone else. What else do I have to testify if you’ve seen it all?

THE VOICE: Well, you haven’t really had a chance to say anything have you? It’s all been by word of mouth, or rather by vision of pictures. Many, many pictures. 27 appears ashamed. I was just thinking that perhaps you would like a chance to defend yourself for once. To prove that it wasn’t just your own influence, changing your own life, spinning out of control as I’m sure many would describe.

27: I suppose so. Most of these things that have happened are really my own fault though. No one person made me like this. It just seems like these days, this is what all stars turn into.

THE VOICE: I guess so, but what happened? It seems like nobody saw it coming. You were young, successful, the epitome of a starlet. Everybody wanted to be you.

27: Yeah, but look at me now. Everybody’s seen my downfall. I’ve gotten addicted, and couldn’t kick it, and I’m losing a custody battle for my sons. The court wants me to pay 20,000 dollars per month for each of my kids for child support, and as much as I want to make sure my boys get everything they need, will all that money really be going to them?

[note: 20k per kid is 40k per month, in total it’s 480k per year. Yeesh] 

THE VOICE: I see.

27: I even made the stupid decision to shave my head, in the heat of the moment with everything, and now I look even guiltier. So many pictures were taken of me that day, and they were published everywhere, on probably my lowest day ever. Everybody’s hounding me, and I just really want a break.  

THE VOICE: Would you say that it was your own fault all these things happened?

27, looking down at hands: Well, the pictures definitely weren’t something I planned to happen, but I feel like the drugs were something I could have prevented by trying to be kinder to myself, and the atmosphere didn’t really help. Anybody who’s anybody does drugs to keep themselves… entertained? If that’s the right word. It was just hard to stop taking them when everyone around me was taking them too. But I wish people had just left me alone. Everything about me is already mass broadcasted, and I just… I just need a break from all of it. The people consuming all this media about me aren’t really making things worse, just tiring me out about everything. 

THE VOICE: Interesting. Well, we’ll see if your opinion on how far the public has participated in your downfall changes at all. 27 looks up. Goodbye, 27.

27, nods her head: Goodbye. She heads through the same door that 17 left through, and before she goes through the door, she looks back up at the ceiling, perhaps in curiosity, and then disappears.

Part 1 of Celebrification

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Word Count: 892

Overture [essay]

According to Cameron J Sabet, “Celebrities are not human in the world of popular culture. They are cultural deities,” (Sabet), and with further investigation, it seems this is true. Celebrities influence culture reflecting the methods of the control the Greek Pantheon holds on the human world. The lives of celebrities are constantly publicized via the news, THE VOICE shows, and, some of the most scathing and easily reachable, gossip magazines. The line between public and private is so far blurred that it is considered odd for anyone directly influencing pop culture to shy away from the outside world between jobs and keep their lives out of the way of the tabloids. Perhaps it is for the best that they choose so, as the spotlight seems to be easily corrupting, not only attracting the naïve youth, but also presenting them in a way to society that changes their lives permanently, and not in a way that brings any betterment to their lives.

Britney Spears was one of the most prevalent stars of the 2000s, and it’s safe to say that nobody could predict her downfall. Her music was a mark of its time, hooking itself to an era that many look upon in fondness. She was the quintessential pop queen. But, as it seems, she wasn’t the only star who succumbed to the pressures, and started radically changing their lives, for the worse. It was a growing trend that celebrities would get blinded by the spotlight, and start to derail their lives through substance abuse, another notable example from the same era being Amy Winehouse, an artist who died of alcohol poisoning after a fight with substance abuse in 2011 (Tsioulcas). However, many question if their spiral is truly just an internal problem, a mark of the culture surrounding celebrities, or an issue with the people who follow celebrities and publicize their lives. 

            Britney Spears, in particular, is an example of a child star who crumbled under the intense pressure of not only the public’s opinion of her, but the responsibility of being the breadwinner for her family. According to an article by Karla Rodriguez, child stars tend to suffer under the hands of those closest to them, often weathering greedy parents, who tend to steal away millions “before they were even of age”, and an unstable support system, which increases the likelihood of substance abuse later in life (Rodriguez). Typically, the kind of star that succeeds in their adult life is the one in which their parents do not rely on their success for their livelihood. According to Shauna Springer Ph.D., an interviewee of the same article, “When a legal guardian comes to rely on the money that their child generates, they may be more likely to overlook or conceal struggles like substance abuse, mental health struggles, or eating disorders—for fear that seeking help might negatively impact the income they depend on,” (Rodriguez). In contrast, other child stars with a more protective support system tend to live through their childhood better and avoid more “shady” activity that other child stars may be exposed to, something that Britney Spears did not get to experience (Rodriguez).

            Unfortunately, it seems that as soon as Britney Spears arrived into the spotlight, her light was doomed to flicker out. According to Cameron J Sabet, “The public asked for Britney Spears to be a perfect woman. The masses expected her to represent the competing ideals of virginity and promiscuity throughout her career,” (Sabet) and by holding these impossible expectations upon her, society itself had begun the countdown to her downfall. They celebrated her, “showering her with attention and special treatment,” (Sabet) and she was extremely successful in both music production and performance. However, this favorable treatment stopped the moment that Britney had begun to crack and reveal something else other than exactly what society wanted. Her downfall became exactly what fed the crowd’s desire for drama, with tabloids that began violating her privacy, and the public began to tear her down even farther than what was previously expected. It seemed that society derived a sense of fulfillment from her downfall, which distracted from personal problems and provided an intense sense of entertainment to the public (Sabet).

            This behavior still continues today, with the obsession with the lives of celebrities, There are still many celebrities who have been caught in the allure of the spotlight, only to be let down by society’s perception of them as they grow and change as people, and no longer fit the rigid mold that society had set for them. These celebrities turn to drugs, like alcohol, and often lead long, difficult battles to fight off addiction, likely ruining public perception, and their careers, in the aftermath. According to Attain Behavioral Health. “25% of celebrities have a history of drug addiction,” and, “40% of celebrities who seek treatment have a relapse within the first year,” in 2024, which is quite a high percentage (Attain Behavioral Health). This information suggests that more celebrities are relying on substances to relieve the pressure of society. It is important to note that much of the pressure on celebrities comes from the obsession of the public, and without creating boundaries between ourselves and them, and knowing that they deserve to live private lives, will likely ease off the pressure, as all human beings deserve the space to breathe. 

random medical facts to use for your hospital whump writing. let your whumpee be a patient today!

if a patient has a seizure that lasts longer than 5 minutes, or if they suffer several seizures, they risk sustaining brain damage — because their brain can’t get oxygen during the seizure.

if a patient’s coughing up blood when they’re lying on their back, make sure to tune their face to the side so that they don’t choke on their own blood (the same applies to vomit too)

chest compression can and often leave patients with broken ribs. because you have to push down hard enough in order to help pump blood from the patient’s heart to their brain (the point is so that the brain gets blood, in order to prevent brain damage), and more often than not, you’ll end up breaking your patient’s ribs — that is normal and okay, because it’s better for your patient to have broken ribs than it is for them to lose their life.

after a course of electroconvulsive therapy, you’ll normally have to give your patient a dose of muscle relaxant, otherwise the aftermath of the shock may cause musculoskeletal complications.

you don't use a defibrillator to shock a patient if they already flat line, because their heart no longer has any electricity. quote "asystole isn't a shockable rhyme, and defibrillator may actually make it harder to restart the heart." (Cleveland Clinic)

the famous, classic "a character was knocked out and they stayed unconscious for hours before they woke up on their own with no lingering damage" trope is actually almost impossible if you want your work to be medically accurate (but if you don’t care about accuracy and are just here for the whump, that is totally fine!). if someone was knocked out and they stayed unconscious for more than several minutes, chances are that they suffer permanent brain damage, so they won't "wake up on their own in the next hour or two and be completely fine without intense medical attention".

g  d o e s  a  t h i n g - how to make a tumblr theme from scratch;

each section of these tutorials will walk you through making your own theme from scratch with instructions, images and all the code you need along the way!  links to the code as you progress are included in EVERY section!

NB/ feel free to use these codes as you please, ( part 6 & 7 include full base codes ) - credit is nice but NOT necessary!

theme 101 part 1 - basic html, styling body, styling and positioning posts.

theme 101 part 2 - the padding function, the margin function, permalinks, tags and styling.

theme 101 part 3 - styling general links, styling bold and italic, styling blockquotes, post images.

theme 101 part 4 - styling sidebar, navigation links, headings and pagination.

theme 101 part 5 - index and permalink pages, float, post info, styling asks and quotes.

theme 101 part 6 - adding images, backgrounds, sidebar graphics, etc.

theme 101 part 7 - container theme, scrollbar, overflow, hover effects.

from part 6 - FULL PAGE THEME with SIDEBAR + BASE CODE

preview;

from part 7 - CONTAINER THEME  with HOVER SIDEBAR + BASE CODE

preview;