#there's probably a niche of people who will like this

[10pm-cafe-lattes]

rayllum + taylor swift

in honour of both speak now taylor's version and tdp s5 and that cute asf rayllum moment in the trailer, a list of lyrics from 4 speak now songs that match rayllum in my mind:

mine

made for them. the whole song. 'do you remember we were sitting there by the water / you put your arm around me for the first time' midnight oasis from season three. The Scene.

'i was a flight risk with a fear of falling / wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts' rayla. that's all. season four and also poor girl's family situation.

'you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter' runaan's not really careless but like i'm JUST SAYING

'you are the best thing that's ever been mine' speaks for itself. 'what we had was something special' 'you are the best thing i ever had' RAYLAAAAAA

ok i could do a whole essay on that song by itself but like

go listen it's Them

2. sparks fly

'drop everything now, keep me in the pouring rain / kiss me on the sidewalk, take away my pain' ahem. if this isn't rayla to callum. i don't know what is. he dropped everything to help her return zym to xadia, they had that heartfelt moment in the rain with the lightning strike-

'get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down' self explanatory.

'gimme something that'll haunt me when you're not around' CALLUM. SEASON FOUR. NEED I SAY MORE?

'i'm on my guard with the rest of the world / but with you, i know it's no good' season four. callum asks /rayla/ for help with the whole 'if i'm possessed' thing and rayla lets down her guard to talk to him while he's asleep.

3. long live

'you held your head like a hero / on a history book page' 'it was the end of a decade / but the start of an age' end of season three. the way they hold hands and look so proud and zubeia looks at them like 'god damn how long was i asleep'

'long live the walls we crashed through / all the kingdom lights shine just for me and you' they crashed through the boundaries between humans and elves, katolis and xadia, and duren and katolis came through for them in the s3 battle.

'long live all the mountains we moved / i had the time of my life fighting dragons with you' not dragons, but like, they definitely had a very amazing journey and rAYLA SAYS HE WAS THE BEST THING IN HER LIFE OKAY I'M NOT OVER IT

'bring on all the pretenders, one day / we will be remembered' them against the world... they'll be remembered as the human mage and the last dragonguard... my heart...

4. back to december

or, rayla @ callum after season 4 i'm right and you know it. i don't even need to explain these lyrics.

'so this is me swallowing my pride / standing in front of you saying i'm sorry for that night' episode two.

'it turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you / wishing i'd realised what i had when you were mine'

'when your birthday passed and i didn't call' (eyes callum)

okay this one just makes me sad

i couldn't think of a 5th... if you can add it. pls. look i was listening to speak now taylor's version over and over again and then i realised it was Them

#there's probably a niche of people who will like this #right #am i delusional #look it's them #it's not just me right #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp rayla #tdp callum #speak now #tdp s4 #rayllum #tdp rayllum

[duchessofostergotlands]

Never related to anything more than the scenes in Ghosts where Thomas reveals he's Scottish and is mortally offended people didn't know, even though he’s spent the last four and a half seasons talking in a posh English accent.

#this is very niche as it will probably only appeal to people who like ghosts but also know how i talk lol #ghosts #bbc ghosts #spoilers #non royal #thomas thorne #matthew baynton #Scotland

[agentark]

so long and good night 🫡

#rtx #rooster teeth #rip rtx #rtah #no im actually sad some (probably most) of the friends I've made as an adult were people I met at rtx #it sucks that it is SO hard to make a profit for a con #as someone who's worked bts at several cons i know that many just want to break even #and i imagine a 'niche' con like rtx would have a tough time with that #one time I was working a con and I learned that it can cost over $1k to have internet in ONE room for ONE day at a convention center

[aroaceleovaldez]

the other half to my “Piper has sectoral heterochromia” headcanon is that she also has hazel eyes alongside the heterochromia and the Argo 2 crew just also doesn’t know how hazel eyes work, because they’re teenagers and its funny and makes sense for them to be A Little Dumb about some things. And hazel eyes tend to confuse people anyways. They just think she has like. Special Eyes™ or something. They think her eyes change color cause they don’t know that hazel eyes just look different depending on the light. And also Percy’s eyes do change color so they figure if one person on the ship already has color-changing eyes then Piper can too.

#pjo #percy jackson #piper mclean #hoo #heroes of olympus #headcanon #headcanons #i need more of the argo 2 crew just being A Little Stupid #not unreasonably ignorant of basic things but like #just semi-niche things like yeah. they dont know how hazel eyes work or even what hazel eyes are #cause a lot of people genuinely do not know hazel eyes are a thing #and these kids hang out with demigods who have like purple and grey eyes and stuff #so they probably just assume it's another demigod thing

[lifeisbeautifulandlifeisstupid]

Miles Vorkosigan is exactly Caleb Widogast's type (hyper-intelligent, driven, personality is five fronts in a trenchcoat, could murder him). Caleb isn't quite Miles's type (tall, competent: yes. brunette, woman: no), but he would fit in great with Miles's string of lovers, eg "when I met him he was a homeless vagrant and when I left him he was chief of research ethics at imp mil", etc. In this essay I will....

#vorkosigan saga #critical role #caleb widogast #miles vorkosigan #there are probably like five people on tumblr who fit in this niche but this vision needed to be shared

[uncanny-tranny]

A nice way you can involve others in the joy of transition is to ask them to help you choose a middle name, I think.

My best friend chose my middle name, and that is honestly something I really cherish as an adult. She supported me before everybody else did, and it honestly helped save me. I think it's a great way to memorialize others, even if you grow apart.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i say middle name because it seems like people always forget about choosing new middle names haha #i can't count the trans people i've seen being like 'wait shit maybe i should change my middle name...' #obviously you don't have to and this is just a niche piece of advice #shout-out to my bestie who decided on a name from a fucking MUSICAL lmao #it goes with the rest of my name though and that's what it legally is now so :p #i also think having them pick a middle name can be a lot less intimating because middle names tend to only be used for official purposes #so it isn't like you always come across it (which os probably why so many people completely forget to change theirs lol)

[icewindandboringhorror]

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh #AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game #(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random #townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can #browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around #and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.) #Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!'' #haha........................hee hee........................................hoho #Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly #i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing' #...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol #I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T #Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things #But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense #That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length #text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres #visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol #Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered #boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world #and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY #more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL #Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool #idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough.. #I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh #the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff. #Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope #''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months #learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have #a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that #and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY

[drbtinglecannon]

I know there are so many dynamics with Camila that we won't get or if we do they'll be extremely brief, and I genuinely lament all of them, but one I think would be so fucking funny is her & Eberwolf

Like, come on! Look me in the eyes and tell me it wouldn't be hilarious!

Camila is a veterinarian who canonically loves & is fiercely defensive of animals, even the "unlikeable" ones. You're telling me she wouldn't take one look at Eber and go "Aw, what a cute cat friend :)" only for Luz to be like "Oh yeah, the Beastkeeping Coven Head, he's one of the cool ones that helped with the rebellion! He chewed through my handcuffs once!"

The following whiplash this poor woman goes through would be astounding.

"Wait a Coven Head?? You mean those managers of the covens Hunter worked with?? -- Wait CHEWED through METAL? -- WAIT HANDCUFFS??? MIJA WHY WERE YOU HANDCUFFED?!?"

Now imagine how much worse it'd all be if she saw Eber's teeth & claws look. Go from "Aw how cute :)" to "dear god wtf is that?!" real fast. Bonus is Eber's sense of humor is to be a bit of a bastard, so like, he would overhear Camila mutter something about him being cute, then he'd flash his fangs intentionally & laugh when she screamed.

Long story short, Camila is a veterinarian who loves animals & keeps a fossilized snake skin in a frame by her bed because Luz gave it to her, and Eberwolf is an exceptionally strange creacher of the Boiling Isles who looks like a cute bipedal hybrid between a kid & a fennec fox and doesn't speak with words. Where demons like Hooty would be horrific immediately & endlessly, Eber would initially appear cute & approachable only to steadily become more horrific with each revelation of his character.

I just think the veterinarian who loves animals & the beastkeeping beast demon would have some common ground yknow. After the initial hilarious introduction I mean

#toh #toh spoilers #camila noceda #eberwolf the huntsman #i say this as a fellow animal lover who used to work w animals. if i saw an eber in person id be like ''!! cutie!!'' #camila would (probably) be polite enough not to say it outloud or shed quietly whisper about it to luz but i know in my heart she'd have #the same initial thought seeing him. hed def overhear if she tried to whisper it too so like. its just got a lot of potential for a #hilarious first introduction. & this isnt even touching on eber being darius' bestie -- the guy hunter has absolutely mentioned to her #''you didnt mention darius had a catfox for a friend'' ''oh you mean eberwolf? yeah hes gotten a lot nicer to me. used to growl a lot. but #not like speaking in beastspeak growling. just. angry growling.'' ''beastspeak? growling?'' ''yeah he cant speak words. darius was the only #one who understood him back at the castle.'' ''oh...i see...does darius speak in growls too?'' ''no he mostly speaks in sarcasm'' ''...'' #extremely niche posts for me & like 3 other people in the fandom go! #tc posts

[jencsi]

#julie finlay #nick stokes #csi cbs #csi crime scene investigation #elisabeth shue #george eads #grave danger #it’s grave danger day #I debated several things about this post #first I debated even posting it because emotions #second I debated making the gifs brighter so people could actually see them #but kept them dark because theme and aesthetic is what I was going for #this explains why I had Finn and Nick in my head stronger this week #a fic and a gif set in one week #who am I #anyways #happy grave danger day #hozier #work song #this song was probably used for a similar theme in the past #but boy does it fit him well #and third #not everyone likes Finn or even the idea of Finn with Nick #it’s a very niche ship #also TW for violence #cause GD really would need a TW if it aired live today

[sysig]

Eyesome propaganda (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Emperor Awesome #Eyesome #So hey I love them also #Have I mentioned lately that I'm a polyshipper lol #Then again Peepers is like impossible not to ship with multiple cast members so there's that lol #He just so happens to very neatly fit into my niche! #I'm sure he's very happy about it lol #Stick that man in situations stat #This is also slightly Awesome propaganda because I do genuinely think he At The Very Least has the potential to be very interesting #He's misused in episodes like Bad Neighbors but tbh who isn't :P Shame it's one of his and the Fist Fighters' few episodes unfair #My favourite appearance of his is probably The Cool Guy :D He gets to show off some of his more interesting facets! #Like the fact that he's decently good at reading people - owed to or reason for his popularity? You decide lol #And to that end manipulating people - he sees what someone wants and ''gives'' it to them for a price >:) #That's honestly why I think him pursuing a relationship/manipulation strike with Peepers would be so interesting #Peepers is ''real'' for lack of a better word lol - he's highly dedicated to his beliefs and motives and isn't one to fold easily #Awesome is the opposite - he's a cowardly hedonist who enjoys his shallow lifestyle as it affords him carnal comforts above all else #So their dynamic is an interesting one I think! :D I think they'd serve each other well haha ♪ #Peepers gets to cut loose a bit and Awesome is forced to develop a genuine relationship to some degree #And then there's also the size difference again lol - look some things are allowed to be exactly their face value! Haha #Peepers is so flipping cute hhggg I love him <3 And Awesome is so fun to draw in that mix of cartoony and Slight-slightly more realistic #His proportions are still extremely cartoony but drawing him with proper pectorals and a ribcage and the like is so fun <3 <3 #Peepers is still the most fun to pose tho I just feel so free to stretch and squish him around haha #Him sitting! Him laying down blustered! Pressing his feet against Awesome's chest to try to push away from him!! He's so fun!! #Plus finally drawing the more-than-half-closed eye style as sometimes featured ahhhhh <3 <3 This show man I swear #Not even mentioning going back to three-finger after so long on four haha ♪ It's been a while and it's just as fun!

[funkytoesart]

so i've started writing a book series (prose, not webtoon/comic) and I'm probs gonna self publish (?) mainly bc i doubt there'd be a publisher or even audience interested in it but basically the premise is:

Magic. Regency Era. Enemies (?) to Lovers. But... make it gay?

aka if you're into magical Regency era shenanigans but want it to be a sapphic love story then i gots u babe

#or if you've always wanted a SAPPHIC jane austen/bridgerton story than this story I'm writing may interest you ;P #basically I'm writing the EXACT niche thing my gay ass wants to read but probably no one else will lol T.T but anyway... hoping to finish #writing the first book's manuscript by the end of this year (or more this november but I'm giving myself until the end of the december) #cause i have to do research n stuff #let me know if this sort of story would interest you heh cause right now I'm like "i think i'm the only person who'd be interested in this' #but if i knew there were people who might be interested in reading a story like this it'll def keep me motivated 🥹

[ratgirlcopia]

i'm often thinking about this but i kind of want to make a funny sideblog for like. collecting lesser known women. not like, real people, i want a collection of women from obscure media. minor characters nobody thinks about. niche product mascots.

#i don't know how many people just. Have niche women like this that are beloved enough that they'd submit them lol. #i could probably make like. fifty or so posts of my own before burning out. #but the point is that i would WANT to see other people's obscure women. #anyway. things i may try out eventually because i think it would be fun but. who knows!

[an-eldritch-peredhel]

#dang it do i have a new oc now

Sounds like!! I'd love to hear more if you've got it!

(referring to my tags on this post)

You will meet a stranger, sometimes, if you make a habit to frequent taverns, inns, halls for game, or even the one tree where the young Bracegirdle cousins sneak off to play marbles. Well, you will like as not meet many strangers, except in the last case, but this one will be different. Or perhaps you get lucky, and don't frequent such places, but find yourself in one unexpectedly, and meet them regardless.

Everyone in Gondor knows someone who knows someone who met Lady Luck, no one has met her themself. If you do, starry-eyed romantics say, you'll be blessed with good fortune for all your days. The pragmatists tell you you'll be blessed with the good sense to discern a scam.

He may smirk at you after winning a bet, some dark-haired man, using his earnings to buy a round for the bar. It's always a different man, but it always goes to Alwed's tab. It keeps the crowd from getting too rowdy, even if the more superstitious get on edge.

No one remembers meeting them the first time, but dwarves with common sense avoid Audr's shell games and silver-toothed smile- you always win, but it's never worth it.

A woman with greying-gold hair and stiff fingers might call herself Eadrun, and challenge you to a game of dice. Few decline, and far fewer win.

For as few elves remain in Middle Earth, the one who calls himself Herendil and laughs as though his name is a joke should be recognizable. He seems young and lighthearted in a way most have lost, but he will play you cards, win just as much as he loses, and disappear, never recognized.

A hobbit-lass may giggle, red curls gleaming in the sun, and introduce herself as Peony Sandheaver, her family is visiting from Bree, and she wants to see how Shire-hobbits play Jacks.

Sometimes an orc prays over a set of knucklebones, knowing that at least one god will hear one prayer. Orcs have little luck in battle, but uncanny luck with dice.

There are countless stories, just as many true as not. Countless names, far more unnamed figures, always just out of place enough wherever they are to be interesting and promise new tales, never enough to provoke suspicion, not at first.

Even those in the Blessed Realm may find this dark-eyed stranger. Always dark-eyed, like bottles of dark glass. They stop by Aulë's workshop on occasion, to learn and suggest and play new games. They never win the first round, but most have the sense not to bet anything they aren't willing to lose on the second.

Oromë's people call them Umbarnica with a laugh and a toast in welcome. They thrive in the drunken revels after a successful hunt, sharp as ever as they dance from game to game, cackling at ill-advised propositions offered as collateral for or against a bet. Usually this means them winning to avoid it, a frequent enough occurrence as-is, but every now and then they'll decide to let someone get lucky. The bragging rights are the real reward.

And there are no guarantees with this stranger. No way to ensure their favor, though many ways to get their attention, few good. They like irony, take pleasure in hubris reaching its fall. They love superstition, even if they don't always honor it, and they love stories. There are gods that can be mistaken for kind, they are not one of them, created to serve the king the Dark Lord could have been. Their favorites are fickle, their grudges subtle but long-held. They love cheaters, unless they're at the end of the attempt. They will always catch you, and you will always regret it. They slink through candle-shadows and pipe-smoke, grinning, dance in town squares turned to faire grounds, curl up on comfy chairs indoors on rainy days.

But sometimes, in these days, you won't meet a stranger at all. Sometimes your storyteller will get a bright-dark glint in their eyes, and some dice will roll strangely high and some dice will roll strangely low and either way the story will be better for it. And if the next time the group meets you need to take a moment to remind the storyteller exactly what happened last session, well. That's why you take notes.

So pray to the dice-god, card-master, quick-sighted. It might do you no good, but they love superstition, and they love stories. And when you play a dark-eyed stranger, don't cheat at cards.

#ask #cuarthol #umbarnica #my writing #my ocs #they play favorites with the orcs because they feel like they have bad enough luck as is so they throw them some bones #and they like the Narrative of it all #i had fun writing this #they're very amoral not in the sense of being Evil and Bad they just. don't have morals. #they're kinda like a trickster god i think. and they like underdogs but not as much as people think #in my headcanon a lot of powerful maiar were intended to serve melkor before he went all evil but not all of them also went evil #and that leaves a very interesting crack for them to fall through because they just don't really. fit. anywhere #my arien is also a case of this (sibling of the balrogs) #and ultimately the deciding factor in turning evil is mostly if they are able to find support and a purpose with people who care about them #even if they still don't quite fit in #so umbarnica is also a case of this but instead of arien who found her niche by following the formula as closely as possible #(find a vala- take a role under her doing something directly related- oh whoops Fate called so i'm going to be a good maia and do my duty) #(if i don't do everything right i'm going to go insane and then go evil. please for the love of eru let me just do my valar-damned job) #umbarnica went 'yeah you can't tell me what to do. if you try to keep me stuck here in aman i will go insane and then go evil.' #'is that what you want? no? then let me cause nice low level chaos and fun wherever i want and i'll stay out of your hair' #i think they like dnd a lot for the sheer novelty of it #a lot of their domain is gambling or adjacent so to have a game of chance that seeks to tell stories and build community is intriguing #namo is probably the one who has official jurisdiction over them? but mostly in the sense that fate and luck are tied up #he does the bare minimum to make sure they don't get out of hand. neither *likes* this arrangement but they're content with it by now #but yes i'm gonna be calling them umbarnica #is that their name? sure as much as anything can be. #i just thought that 'little doom' would be a really funny euphamism tbh

[cupcake037]

Hot take: fanon Grian is to the Watchers what the Doctor is to the Time Lords

#no I will not elaborate #*drops extremely vague multifandom hot take and leaves* #i don’t even know whether this fits better on my Doctor who blog or Minecraft blog so it’s going on main #me? multifandom shitposting on main? it’s more likely than you’d think #there’s probably like 5 other people in this niche fandom overlap #doctor who #Grian #watcher grian #the doctor

[neon-glowing-rainbow-stims]

Posts here will likely be on hiatus for a couple weeks as I finish up the semester <3 I'll be back soon enough!

#not aesthetic #not stim #txt #txt post #I wanna build up a big ol queue for next semester because. Well. #Next semester is fixing to be... uh... course-heavy... and I probably won't have time to make new stuff for... well. a while... #But I still want a steady queue to come out even if I don't have time to make new gifs #because I wanna be able to check on the new comments and responses every couple days or so! #They brings me insurmountable amounts of joy #And... it's really nice to have the responses to read when schoolwork is overwhelming me and getting me down #Not to be a downer on here #Just... in a sea of things I'm doing wrong or doing late... it's nice to know that there's something I can do right #And do well. And that brings joy to people #Er-- well I didn't mean to spew all that into these tags. #I just wanted to say I love this blog and its niche community. And gif-making brings me so much joy #Thank you everyone who likes my silly little images <3 #I'll be back soon

[chicknparm]

I am the only person on earth who is Normal about Taylor Swift.

#no she is not gay #yes she is a skilled songwriter and denying that is being willfully obtuse and acting like you know more than her peers and predecessors #yes some of her music appeals to a demographic of gay people in a decidedly Gay way but that is almost purely accidental ie Bruce #yes she is aspirational for a huge chunk of millennial women who watched her grow from a genuinely niche teenage artist into a juggernaut #yes she is a ruthless capitalist who leverages her fans parasocial feelings to extract ever more (heh) money from them #yes she is at this point using vaguely liberal politics as an aesthetic to market herself to a politically aware audience #yes a large part of how she is treated and dismissed has misogynistic undertones at a bare minimum #no it is not utilizing girl power to fly a private jet around the world and charge loyal fans thousands of dollars for a concert #she’s a complicated figure in the way that most monolithic pop stars are and she’s simultaneously given more and less grace than others #I will probably write an essay about this someday idk comment on this post if you’d read it and also if you read these tags for some reason