Relationship Conflicts that don’t Center Romance

[Prompt Calender: June 5th, Aromantic Visibility Day]

Mass Effect Trilogy Appreciation Week

When: June 15 to 21 (2026)

Tag: #metrilogyweek2026

What the week is about: It's a special week to celebrate the trilogy, our Shepard, the characters, the universe, the lore!!! Make it your week as much as you want, by posting, liking and reblogging what you really enjoy as a fandom participant. Have fun! :)

How is it different from any other week? Appreciation weeks can get people excited about a specific fandom and be more active. It can bring more fandom content. The fact that there's one tag that fandom can check every day of that week is very nice for everyone who wants to share their thoughts and fanworks. It's also a good week to find friends in fandom! So if you're new, enjoy!!!

What can be posted in the tag: Fan fics, fanart, gifs, picspams, meta, memes, fanvids, etc.

What can't be posted in the tag: Avoid bashing ships and characters, respect other people, don't be a bigot, etc. Apply the usual fandom rules that mean we can all share a nice space together. Be mindful that other people think differently than you and that's okay.

Prompts

They can help to inspire and motivate you. You don't have to follow them but here they are below.

@gravitonspike suggested those prompts (thank you!):

Day 1- Background / "I like the person it's made of you" Day 2- Choice / "This ends now" Day 3- Alien / "The food of my people" Day 4- Ship/AI or After the war Day 5- Citadel / "Big place!" Day 6- Love / Laugh / "I'll protect you" Day 7- N7 / Free Space

And here are mine:

Day 1- Shepard (Background/Identity/Picture) Day 2- Shepard's relationships (Friends/Li/Lovers/Family) Day 3- Characters (Traits/Quirks/Meaning) Day 4- Non-Shepard Relationships (Romance/Friendship/Family/Care) Day 5- Ships/Universe (Normandy/Miky Way) Day 6- Lore (Leviathans/Reapers/Citadel/Protheans/...) Day 7- End/Future - "Thank you Mass Effect for..."

Enjoy!!!!!! :) And if you're interested, you can also participate this summer in a Mass Effect Andromeda Appreciation Week!

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Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week! We loved reading all of them ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)

Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs. The new prompt will be up at 12pm CET <3

[#FFF333 Broken Wings]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Moroccan architecture (specifically, amazigh from Chefchaouen)

Post-colonial Algerian architecture (Algiers and Constantine):

Mozabite architecture (from Ghardaia, Algeria):

We would like to give a big Fluff Boost to Cozytober 2025 over on ao3. They don't have a tumblr, but their prompts are too good not to get a shout-out 🥰

Please note that we're NOT affiliated with them, we don't claim ownership of these prompts, and we cannot answer any questions regarding this event!

Make sure to head over to their ao3 collection - but as a little teaser, here are their prompts:

today's warm up: people should put up warning signs or somethin'

Here comes Pizza!

Name Reources

So, you’re writing a thing, and you need to name a character. And, as we all know, naming a character is a giant pain in the ass. I offer this list of shit I use pretty regularly, for this purpose.

Personally, I use the shit out of Trismegistos People, England’s Immigrants, and the Ancient Names Galleria. If you’ve got good sources I didn’t hit, feel free to add them in a reblog. I’m always looking for more good name resources. (And almost all of what I have is Europe and the Near East, with a little North Africa.)

Dropping this update in the most recent reblog in my notes, in the hopes it falls into as many laps as possible. Here’s some more good sources for names, this time with a more African focus.

Again, if you know any good sources, particularly for regions I haven’t covered, let me know!

Rebageling with some more good shit:

Things I am particularly looking for reliable sources for, if you’ve got them: North and South American aboriginal names, Southeast and East Asian names, names from the former USSR, Australian aboriginal names. (All of these by culture or language family, if possible, not just by current national borders.)

Good news for indie music lovers

Bandcamp is bringing Bandcamp Friday back!

Bandcamp is a site where you can purchase music from indie artists (they get paid significantly more than via streaming apps), and Bandcamp Friday is a special promo wherein the site waives its fees for that day's sales so that artists can earn even more during this time when performers and entertainers have been struggling.

Here's more info from the announcement post.

I thought they'd ended it last May (this began in 2020), but they're bringing it back for the first Friday of the month for the rest of 2022. So:

To make sure you're shopping in the correct time zone, check here:

isitbandcampfriday.com

Disclaimer that I'm not an employee or representative of Bandcamp or any artist on the site. Just someone who believes in supporting independent artists who are often at a disadvantage with the big streaming algorithms. Please help spread the word!

A fisherman and a mermaid have lifelong, playful game: whoever catches the most fish gets to keep them. Then one day the fisherman dies and his son comes to continue the game.

Once upon a time, there was an old man and a young girl.

The old man was a fisherman, hauling in fish from the sea to feed his family and village. The young girl was a mermaid, curious and poking her head out to watch the surface.

One day, the fisherman noticed the mermaid. One day, the mermaid noticed the fisherman.

He decided to ignore her. She decided to watch him. The mermaid watched the fisherman haul in his catch. The next day, she brought him a fish.

“I don’t need your help,” he scoffed. The mermaid bubbled angrily.

When he came in, he found the fish waiting for him on the dock.

The next day, the mermaid brought the fisherman two fishes. Once again, he rebuffed her help and he found her catch waiting on the dock. The third day, the same thing happened, as well as the fourth, fifth, sixth…

It became a game between the two of them, with who gained the most winning a prize from the other and the choice to keep all the fish. The mermaid liked shiny stuff from the surface, like jewels and flowers and pretty green bottles, stuff that the fisherman could afford with the extra fish. She had enough fish on her own. The fisherman could sell stuff from the sea, like pearls and sea glass and shells, stuff that the mermaid could easily get him.

Soon enough, the sight of them was common to the fisherman’s family and the village. Many enjoyed the sight of the mermaid skipping through the water and jumping over rocks in her hunts and the fisherman’s delighted laughter when the younger got one over on him.

The day the fisherman died, the village brought the coffin so that the mermaid could say goodbye, laying a wreath of shells and sea glass on her friend’s coffin as one last gift.

The next day, the fisherman’s son came to the sea. The mermaid perked up and came close, hoping that he came to continue the game. “He wanted me to,” the son confirmed, resting his hand on her head.

The mermaid leaned into his touch, content.

She didn’t see the knife.

“But a mermaid’s tail is worth all the fish in the sea.”

Another idea: Communities on Tumblr

For a while now folks have asked us for better ways to connect with other people who share similar interests. We’re listening, and at Labs we’ve been looking into fulfilling that need, Tumblr style.

Introducing Communities, a new place to connect with others on Tumblr:

Here in Labs, we’re working on big ideas that could transform how Tumblr is used, while keeping that Tumblr vibe alive. You can see one of those ideas above. We’re calling it “Communities”, a new dedicated space on Tumblr for people to share and discuss all the content they love. Communities can cover topics like your favorite show, artist, movie, video game, your school, your board game group, friend group, big or small, whatever you want.

Each Community has their own semi-private safer space away from the regular dashboard where you can interact with other Tumblr users who share the same interests and passions as you. There are moderators and members (you!), rules, and privacy settings. Each community has its own feed of posts from members, separate from your Following and For You feeds. Interactions within community spaces stay there and replies will work more like a traditional comment section. Folks will be able to reblog posts into a community, but not out — at least not yet.

We’re very excited for you to try it, and help define the best path forward. What we have is a prototype to help us validate the idea, but there’s still plenty of questions that need answering. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be reaching out to people across Tumblr, and the internet at large, to try our prototype. Based on the feedback we get, we’ll iterate on the idea to see what resonates best with all of you on Tumblr.

If this sounds interesting, please like, reblog, or reply to this post, and we’ll invite you to beta test this feature when we roll it out to a wider Tumblr audience, as a little perk for following the Labs blog.

Stay tuned for more!

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Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week! We loved reading all of them ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)

Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs. The new prompt will be up at 12pm CET <3

Stories

The attic was old, dusty, stifling. Pale pink insulation fluffed against the walls, looking as soft as cotton candy. When she found herself reaching out a delicate finger, Luna reminded herself of her grandmother’s words: It may look poofy, but you will be wishing you never touched it once you did.

So, she steeled herself and returned to her task. 

Time for my favorite failed reincarnation duo this flash fic friday! Thanks to @flashfictionfridayofficial and @drowsy-quill for the prompt!

[Image ID: white text reading “FFF268 Fractured Forms” on a photographic background of cracked dark gray stone.

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pull down the mountains, drag your cities to the sea

word count: 564

Content Warnings: past war and destruction associated with a war, past unsuccessful deicide, child endangerment and food insecurity, one line implications of burning to death

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It huddles small under cheaply woven layers, bundled at a fire—in a city, it suffers still!—between its divine sibling and their mortal attendant. Underfed and ill-treated to what a childgod deserves, her reincarnation is left with its very face uncovered to the mortals that surge through the wreckage of this world like bands of fish. They ought all be struck blind for looking upon a young god, and Myrtos would marshal the divinity shared to her and Aias in holy judgement, if only her fragile next life would not face the consequences.