I don't remember which of the numerous AU's I started and never finished this was for, but uh, have some Deirta being a good mom.
"I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Essek," Deirta murmurs,"He came into this world much too early. My clerics urged me to let him go, to spare him the suffering. They said my Den needed me more than he did."
"He was so small, fragile, his very existence hanging by a thread. He couldn't cry, his lungs unable to draw the necessary breath. But I refused to give him up. I held him through that first night, watching every rise and fall of his chest, counting each breath, waiting for it to cease. But morning came, and he still clung to life."
"For weeks, I barely tranced, terrified that even a momentary lapse in vigilance would rob me of his presence. Exhaustion clung to me like a relentless shadow, but he was my sole focus.”
“I thought he would starve, he didn't have the energy for more than a mouthful at a time, and what little he gained was quickly lost.”
“Leylas told me not to name him, to spare myself the pain, but how could I deny him that recognition? He was alive, a member of my Den, and I could not bear the thought of him passing without acknowledging that."
"My advisors, Clerics of the Luxon, and even his father, all reminded me of my duty to my Den, to the Dynasty and yet I held steadfast. They failed to see that Essek was hope for the future. How could I let him flicker out?"
"And then, one day, he cried. A torrent of sound erupted from him, as if he sought to reclaim all the silence that had come before. I have never heard a more beautiful sound in my life. In that moment, I knew the depth of my love for him. I knew I would do anything, sacrifice anything, for him. There is no lie too great, no power too daunting. I would rend the very fabric of reality to protect him."
"There is no crime he could commit, no treason so heinous that can unravel my heart. Let Leylas come and try to take him from me."
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New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)
More fun community label "features"! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can't be avoided by just using a different tag.
Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that's been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I've come to realize it's not. It's a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here's what it looks like on my blog:
I don't know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that's not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not "mature" enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I'll be damned if tumblr's going to force me to have one on MY blog.
After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I'm not a theme coder, so apologies if there's a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I'm now sharing with anyone else who may want it:
.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}
Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!
If you're not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.
Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people's blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:
tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper
Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.
Some additional notes:
After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.
The warning overlay only seems to appear if a "mature" post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see "mature" content they weren't warned about?!
The warning also appears on direct links to "mature" posts.
This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual "mature" posts.
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