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[gatheredfates]

I ALMOST FORGOT MY OWN OC'S BIRTHDAY (I'm really bad at giving them ones in the first place) BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS KORET SWAN SORRY FOR THE EXESTANTIALISM. Have some cake and kiss some cat boys or smth.

[pocketramblr]

so speaking of height, i feel like the movie kept blocking Xenk as taller than Edgin, even though Pine is taller than Page, so i choose to believe that the player/dm/whoever playing Xenk is shorter than Edgin's player irl, but they deliberately made their cool paladin pc taller than Pine's bard just to annoy their friend.

[hollywoodsargeant]

6, 17, 23 💕💕

questions for fic writers

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

oh hm. i actually don't know... i usually do not have any very interesting secrets about my fic unvierses. and if i do i'll probably just hamfist it into the fic somehow. this is very much a non-answer but i thought probably too hard about it and i literally have Nothing

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

OH YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I WANT. au where logan is in indycar. i think it would be fun and interesting... like there is something in me that wants to write a sargewood teammates fic but the idea literally does not go beyond well. That. logan/kyle teammates. idk man i also just want more indycar fics in general and you know whattt maybe logan and indycar are two of my favorite things and i want them Combined. logan sargeant indycar au. i think loscar with logan in indycar could also be fun whether they're both in indy or just logan and oscar is still in f1 hey did you know i love indycar

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

there are actually a few things which most of why i Haven't written them is bc i struggle... but time loop, body swap, time travel, really any of that weird subgenre of vaguely magicky stuff that's kind of just accepted by society as a funny little thing. i do have a body swap wip atm (ik i've posted snippets in the past) that i Do want to finish but i am easily distracted. either way all of those kinds of tropes are ones i lovee to read and have been wanting to write myself for Ever but they always turn out being tougher than i think they'll be

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[weresprout]

Seaglass. They're in love btw. Nobody gets them like I do ohhh I <3 you Finn and Glisten. Seaglass canon real in my heart they are the blueprint to me

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[queenoftheimps]

Daniel Molloy has never been more relatable than when he visibly has the slow-sinking realization "Oh no, this man is about to forgive his boyfriend for all of it"

[thunderlina]

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

[gloriouslyscentedwizard]

Thought some bug nerds might appreciate this:

Aren't they beautiful? Is this not one of the prettiest cicadas you've ever seen. Specifically it is a swamp cicada (Neotibicen tibicen).

The blue-ish teal green is just absolutely enchanting. And lookit how cute those beady little eyes are💕✨

[neurovarious]

[puragranada]

Louis and Claudia, dancing in the sunlight

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[kwadlayns]

talk to me in french, talk to me in spanish 🍒

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.