I Have Feelings For You. The Feelings Are Envy, Malice, Hatred, Crush Kill Bite Claw Claw Claw

Jules–Elie Delaunay (1828 - 1891)

Young Woman with a Sword

late 19th century

making a collection

attempted murder is a form of intimacy by the way . don't listen to people who tell you different

THEME 7: Unite

Syncs with your mobile theme colors and mimics the new in-dashboard blog view for a consistent look across platforms.

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Features:

Appearance options (show/hide header image/avatar/title/description, title font options, and background/text/accent colors) synchronize with mobile settings

Optional: Featured posts section, updates section, and blog member list in sidebar (require some HTML editing; see under the cut for instructions)

Unlimited custom links, plus a highlighted link under the title

Optional second palette

Customizable post width and font size

Optional search bar, like/reblog buttons, date/timestamps, tags (plus a show tags on click option), and Archive/Random links

Responsive

Supports new post types/pinned posts

And more!

For help, check my theme guide, or feel free to send me an ask. Theme credits and an HTML editing guide for the special sections are under the cut.

All of the below instructions assume that you've gone to your Customize page, then opened the "Edit HTML" menu.

Again, if you have trouble making your edits work, feel free to send me an ask or a DM for help.

Note for HTML beginners

Every bit of text or code is wrapped inside "tags", which have arrow brackets on either side. For example, a paragraph is placed inside <p> tags. Every element has an "opening" and "closing" tag; the closing tag looks just like the opening tag, with a / after the opening bracket. The content inside one section is bracketed by these; for example, a paragraph would look like this:

<p>Text here!</p>

In the above line, <p> is the opening tag, and </p> is the closing tag. Tags of this sort can be placed inside each other:

<p>Some <span>special</span> text.</p>

Note that the "span" tags, both opening and closing, are both inside the "p" tags. You don't want a misordered set, like "<p>Some <span>special text.</p></span>". The opening tag nearest to the start should also have its closing tag nearest to the end.

It is extremely important that while editing the HTML for your theme, you make sure all opening tags have a matching closing tag. If you have a <div> tag, but no matching </div> tag, this might break the theme.

Featured posts

This section fetches the 3 most recent posts from a chosen tag on your blog. To select the tag:

Ctrl+F to "EDIT YOUR TAG HERE".

On that line, there will be a link inside quotation marks, ending in "tagged=featured".

Change featured to the tag of your choice; for example, "tagged=photo". This tag can include spaces, such as "tagged=my writing".

Save and ensure your posts show up as intended.

By default, the tagged posts are fetched from your blog, but you can change this so that the featured posts are from a different blog:

Ctrl+F to "EDIT YOUR TAG HERE".

On that line, there will be a link inside quotation marks, starting with "https://{Name}.tumblr.com".

Change {Name} to the blog username of your choice; for example, "https://starlightthemes.tumblr.com".

Save and ensure your posts show up as intended.

Be careful not to change any other parts of that section. The code for fetching the posts from blogs is easy to break.

Updates section

The updates section has two editable parts: the title, and the actual updates.

To edit the title:

Ctrl+F to "EDIT HERE: UPDATES".

Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading "<h2>Latest updates</h2>".

Change "Latest updates" to say whatever you want. Make sure the text stays inside the <h2>...</h2> tags. For example, if you want the heading to read "My activity", that line of code should read "<h2>My activity</h2>".

To edit updates:

Ctrl+F to "EDIT HERE: UPDATES".

A little under this line, you'll see a template, with the outermost tags reading <div class="update">...</div>. If you're adding a new update, copy this template.

Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading "<!-- all updates below this line -->".

Now, for each update, paste the template once over (two updates are present for you to start with), and edit three things: -> "3-LETTER MONTH HERE": The first three letters of the update month, e.g. "Jan". -> "2-DIGIT DATE HERE": The two-digit version of the update date, e.g. "01" or "31". -> "UPDATE TEXT HERE": The actual text that'll show up as the update.

Make sure that all the updates are separate- the starting <div class="update"> and the ending </div> of two updates shouldn't overlap.

Make sure all your updates are above the line reading ""<!-- all updates above this line -->".

Save and make sure things look how you want them to.

Members list

To change the title of the members section:

Ctrl+F to "EDIT HERE: MEMBERS LIST".

Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading "<h2>Blog members</h2>".

Change "Blog members" to say whatever you want. Make sure the text stays inside the <h2>...</h2> tags. For example, if you want the heading to read "The gang", that line of code should read "<h2>The gang</h2>".

Scroll further down, until you find the line that reads "<h2>{lang:Group members}</h2>". Again, change this to your chosen title, such as "<h2>The gang</h2>".

The actual members list can be customized in two ways. One, for group blogs, you can have it automatically fetch the blog members' main blog names/titles/icons. To do this, turn on "Members list" and turn off "Custom members list" in the main theme settings.

The other option is to manually add any group members and their icons/links. This will also allow you to add customized names and descriptions for each member. To use this option, turn on BOTH "Members list" and "Custom members list". Then:

Ctrl+F to "EDIT HERE: MEMBERS LIST".

A little under that, you'll see a template with the outermost tags reading <a class="member" href="//BLOGNAME.tumblr.com">...</a>. If you're adding members, copy this template.

Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading "<!-- all members below this line -->".

Now, for each member, paste the template (two members are present for you to start with) and edit three things: -> "BLOGNAME": Next to "href" in the <a> tag, and next to "src" in the <img> tag. Change this to your member's username, such as "starlightthemes". -> "MEMBER NAME": Takes the place of the username. This will show up in bold at the top. -> "MEMBER DESCRIPTION": Takes the place of the blog title. This will show up at the bottom.

Make sure that all the members are separate- the starting <a class="member" href="..."> and the ending </a> of two members shouldn't overlap.

Make sure all your members are above the line reading ""<!-- all members above this line -->".

Save and make sure things look how you want them to.

Theme credits: Layout/design/icons by Tumblr, Style My Tooltips by malihu, NPF photosets plugin by codematurgy, dark/light mode toggle by eggdesign, custom audio posts by annasthms, scroll to top script by Fabian Lins

Preview header image from Only Vector Backgrounds.

I love a character who’s like “I know exactly who I am and I’m being very authentic about it” and then when you analyse his behaviour even a little bit you realise his self perception is completely selective and delusional.

You Don't Need an Agent! Publishers That Accept Unsolicited Submissions

I see a few people sayin that you definitely need an agent to get published traditionally. Guess what? That's not remotely true. While an agent can be a very useful tool in finding and negotiating with publishers, going without is not as large of a hurdle as people might make it out to be!

Below is a list of some of the traditional publishers that offer reading periods for agent-less manuscripts. There might be more! Try looking for yourself - I promise it's not that scary!

Albert Whitman & Company: for picture books, middle-grade, and young adult fiction

Hydra (Part of Random House): for mainly LitRPG

Kensington Publishing: for a range of fiction and nonfiction

NCM Publishing: for all genres of fiction (YA included) and nonfiction

Pants of Fire Press: for middle-grade, YA, and adult fiction

Tin House Books: very limited submission period, but a good avenue for fiction, literary fiction, and poetry written by underrepresented communities

Quirk Fiction: offers odd-genre rep for represented and unagented authors. Unsolicited submissions inbox is closed at the moment but this is the page that'll update when it's open, and they produced some pretty big books so I'd keep an eye on this

Persea Books: for lit fiction, creative nonfiction, YA novels, and books focusing on contemporary issues

Baen: considered one of the best known publishers of sci-fi and fantasy. They don't need a history of publication.

Chicago Review Press: only accepting nonfiction at the moment, but maybe someone here writes nonfiction

Acre: for poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Special interest in underrepresented authors. Submission period just passed but for next year!

Coffeehouse Press: for lit fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. Reading period closed at time of posting, but keep an eye out

Ig: for queries on literary fiction and political/cultural nonfiction

Schaffner Press: for lit fiction, historical/crime fiction, or short fiction collections (cool)

Feminist Press: for international lit, hybrid memoirs, sci-fi and fantasy fiction especially from BIPOC, queer and trans voices

Evernight Publishing: for erotica. Royalties seem good and their response time is solid

Felony & Mayhem: for literary mystery fiction. Not currently looking for new work, but check back later

This is all what I could find in an hour. And it's not even everything, because I sifted out the expired links, the repeat genres (there are a lot of options for YA and children's authors), and I didn't even include a majority of smaller indie pubs where you can really do that weird shit.

A lot of them want you to query, but that's easy stuff once you figure it out. Lots of guides, and some even say how they want you to do it for them.

Not submitting to a Big 5 Trad Pub House does not make you any less of a writer. If you choose to work with any publishing house it can take a fair bit of weight off your shoulders in terms of design and distribution. You don't have to do it - I'm not - but if that's the way you want to go it's very, very, very possible.

Have a weirder manuscript that you don't think fits? Here's a list of 50 Indie Publishers looking for more experimental works to showcase and sell!

If Random House won't take your work - guess what? Maybe you're too cool for Random House.

Okay but is there a premise better than "protagonist starts out alone and gradually gathers more and more and more friends as the story progresses, including former enemies they beat, because protagonist has the powers of kick-ass AND friendship on their side"? No. No, there is none better, this is peak story telling.

yes baby your emotional walls are high and impenetrable can we kiss now

“I wanna write”

“So write”

“... not this scene though”

I have learned over time to never give your characters placeholder names while creating them because while developing them you will absolutely get attached to the name to the point you don’t want to change it and ur epic character will be stuck with the dumbass name forever became it means too much to you