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Threshold Update

Negotiations with the Thorian Break Down.

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people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

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worldbuilding

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Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people

Panel 1: A leaf green person and a lime green person are talking

Leaf: "Oh yeah I've been making more 'Hormones That Change Your Phenotype' comics by the way"

Lime: "…Why? I thought we both agreed they fell off after you added more than two genders."

Leaf: "No, I stand by that decision, the lore's been cleaned up after I deleted the ones with pymen. But anyway. Wanna see?"

Lime: "I… guess?"

Panel 2: The two are in front of a computer, Leaf in the chair.

Leaf: "…So what do you think?"

Lime: "I mean. It's still weird as shit. But I guess it's less reductive about huerarchy.

But… Why's there a green human?"

Leaf: "Oh that's just in-universe lore."

Lime: "What"

Panel 3: Leaf has turned around to explain while Lime is exasperated

Leaf: "Yeah so like sometimes humans put on body paint for fun reasons, but then this one got a batch that didn't wash off, and-"

Lime: "No. No, delete that one. This is a ridiculously inappropriate take on real-life chromatic issues. Why do your politics go to shit the moment you start worldbuilding??"

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being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

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Achievement Get: Play the Spam Song

Got a Spam Comment from a content farmer lol

Watch yourselves out there folks, the Supreme court made it illegal for federal agencies to enforce shit, so this crap's gonna get worse until the corrupt dipshits get booted or replaced and the Feds decide they wanna be a government instead of a machine for letting billionaires loot the country again.

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“The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts. In an announcement to readers, the news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it. “We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X,” the Guardian said. The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers.”

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Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts

Your move, rest of the media.

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Threshold Update

Greeting the Old Growth

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fanfiction is so unbelievably stupid you’ll be like oh i want to write about some finctional dudes and suddenly you’re knee deep in two hundred year old inheritance laws

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how to erase pencil guidelines from under ink

1. wait until you’re absolutely sure the ink is dry

2. wrong

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do you ever re-read your own wips like 'damn the bitch that wrote this oughta finish it'

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Basically this but earsplittingly painful Imagine Garrus doing this and breaking people's eardrums and you have Turian Death Metal

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Chapters: 107/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, Command & Conquer (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Female Shepard/Liara T'Soni Characters: Nihlus Kryik, Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Kaidan Alenko, Mass Effect Cast, Original Characters Additional Tags: Crossover, War, Politics, Outside Context Problem, Crossover: Blending, bioware stop simping for fascism 2023 challenge (impossible), cannon in a blender with some common f-cking sense, Exposition Series: Part 1 of Outside Context Summary:

Decades ago, a Turian patrol fired on an unknown, heavily armed reconnaissance force attempting to activate relay 314, sparking a war with a new, militant alien society armed with an almost entirely alien technological paradigm.

Though peace was brokered by the council, the Alliance's refusal to join the Council, their belligerent response to external aggression and their embrace of Sapient AI has kept tensions between them simmering.

When a rogue Spectre with an army of hostile AI turns a joint operation into the spark of a new war, keeping the peace will fall to an Alliance Commander and a Spectre. And keeping the peace may well prove to be harder than unraveling the mystery of the rogue Spectre, and his connection to the doom of the Protheans.

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Threshold Update

Encountering the Thorian

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Not sure about anyone else but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when I’ve had a rough day so if you’ve ever taken the time to write a deep, funny, or just kind comment, thank-you.

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If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

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eclectic taste (not to be confused with good taste) is the only thing you actually need to be a good artist. i don't care if you like the right things, i literally only care abt the multitude of experiences and practices you have ingested.