#*posts before I can second guess myself*

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

…sorry

[zannolin]

sometimes it can be scary to open up

[anne-is-confused]

sleepytime tea bear lookin idiot

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I spent way too much time on what is essentially a shitpost...

But anyways. Post-Meursault road trip AU because it's funny to me and I couldn't rest until I drew this. (Read right to left.)

Basically, Sigma gets the information needed to stop Fukuchi but Fyodor escapes with the help of Hohol. Cat thief is alive and the four of them escape the prison and have to chase after Fyodor, leading to an impromptu road trip none of them want. Along the way, they pick up Adam to help with tracking him down.

Chuuya speaks to everyone else but is very adamant about not talking to or responding to Dazai at all - giving him the cold shoulder, basically. Dazai can't decide if he is more insulted that Chuuya isn't talking to him or that he's resisting his attempts at goading him through sheer determination. Adam is concerned at how tired Chuuya is and keeps making occasional offers to drive but he knows Chuuya's driving because he needs a distraction. Sigma is terrified someone is going to snap and he's going to get caught in the crossfire. Cat girl is having the time of her life.

(If you can't read my shoddy handwriting, here's the dialogue:

Thief: "Did you know that even with seatbelts, people die all the time in car crashes?"

Thief: "I thought that was interesting."

Adam: "Master Chuuya, if you are getting too tired, I would be happy to switch -"

Chuuya: "Nah, 'm good."

Adam, musing to himself: "The majority of accidents are caused by human error. If human drivers were replaced by androids, the roads would be safer."

Adam: "By which I mean the latest autonomous models, like myself. Those 'self-driving AI' are a disgrace."

Dazai, muttering after flicking a crumpled paper: "Chuuya, pay attention to me.")

@single-use-ship-of-theseus You get it!!!

[izzy-b-hands]

may be late on the first day of kloktober, but the fic is going to be ❤️ heart breaking ❤️ so that's something lol

[youngpettyqueen]

Houlihawk 29

29: “a kiss as a promise”

Putting this under a cut because um. It’s horny.

When Margaret’s shirt comes off, Hawkeye nearly stops breathing.

There she is, only half of her full glory out. He’s only dreamed of this moment, and those don’t compare to the real thing. Not even close. Margaret straddles his bare waist, her thighs locked around his hips, pinning him down. She grins down at him, smug as sin, and the list of sins he wants to commit is only growing.

“Like what you see?” She asks him teasingly.

“What kind of question is that?” He asks in return, “Jesus, Margaret, you’re glorious. I’m gonna faint.” He can’t stop staring. The soft pearly white of her stomach, up her chest- she still has her bra on, he really will faint when that comes off- and her shoulders down her biceps. She’s got the same tan line as the rest of them, the clear outline of an army shirt, but somehow on her it works. Can a tan line be sexy?

Margaret leans down, shifting her weight on him, drawing a helpless little noise out of him as her face lowers near his. “Say that again.” She says. Her voice is soft, but it’s not a request. It’s an order.

A shiver runs up his spine. “You’re glorious,” He says, obeying her orders easier than he’s every obeyed anyone else’s, his eyes caught in tracing the shimmering blonde hair that frames her face, “Radiant, divine, show-stopping. You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.” His eyes are sipping lower again. How can they not? Her chest is very close to his face. He’s barely resisting the urge to take her bra off with his teeth.

Margaret reaches up, traces a delicate nail down his cheek, watches him squirm. “The most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen?” She echoes, trailing her hand down his jaw, “I like the sound of that.” She hums, thoughtful.

Hawkeye’s on the verge of going crazy. “God’s honest truth,” He tells her, “Cross my heart and hope and all that. Margaret, please-“

“Shhh,” She presses a finger against his lips, which doesn’t help the heat building inside of him in the slightest. She plants her other hand on his chest, leans in close, till they’re almost nose to nose, “I’ll fuck you all night long if that’s what you want, but you need to be patient. You need to listen,” She trails her finger down, off his lips, “Is that clear?” She asks.

He nods eagerly. “All night long?” He asks.

“All night long,” She dips down, kisses him quick, teasing and promising more, “Think you can handle that?” She shifts, kisses his cheek.

“Yes, ma’am.” He rushes out.

Her next kiss lands on his jaw. “You know what I like to be called.” She murmurs, right by his ear.

Hawkeye’s breath hitches as she trails lower. Her lips find the underside of his jaw, he nearly squeaks. “Yes, sir.” He groans, his hips twitching up into hers as she nips at sensitive skin.

“Good boy.” She praises, which makes him shudder. Her lips find his neck next, and any kind of response he could’ve made only slips out in quiet moans as his brain sparks out.

[bmpmp3]

another old oc, she's a tooth fairy!!

[axeylotl]

blehh just brain-dumping abt the new Roger DLC trailer here but I'm thinkin abt what his arc might be. there's maybe an argument to be made that it'll go in a direction of "Roger grows a spine and learns to deal with his problems" but that's kinda just Randy's exact deal, and The Hound has mentioned that he's taking Roger in a slightly different direction than his DSaF counterpart specifically due to the two sharing a lot of idea-DNA.

My thoughts are that it'll focus on regrets about his past (failing med school, getting divorced, addiction, or possibly a continued struggle with alcohol?) and trying to be someone else ("id much rather be Scott than Roger") but idk i could be totally off. I haven't even started chapter 3 yet so maybe there's some crucial context I'm still missing.

oh also I haven't seen ANYONE mention that we're now at 4 out of the 1st 5 managers.

[wander-wren]

hi, calling all fanfic writers and readers and also people who have Made Videos for a little help with a potential project.

disclaimer: this is, as i said, very potential and still in the Shiny New Idea stage, i’m trying to determine feasibility at the moment.

so, you know speedpaints, right? as in, timelapsed drawing video with music or narration laid over it. consider the same thing, but with writing.

(the tentative term at the moment is speedfic, which has some precedent being used this way, because speedwriting means something else. but i digress)

the idea is that i would post timelapsed videos of me writing short fics and explain my process, probably focusing on specific elements like worldbuilding, character voice, plot, etc. i could also talk about planning, editing, and maybe some other general fanfiction topics.

this leads me to several questions. the main one, of course, is “would anyone else even be interested in this sort of thing?”

but assuming that answer is yes—there are some logistical issues inherent in doing this with words that aren’t caused by doing this with art, namely the “speed” and “narration” bits, and lots of other fiddly little things.

so i guess i’m just asking what writers/readers would want from a project like this, any preferences as far as video structure/length/content, just anything, really. before i go chasing the Shiny New Thing, i want to know if it’s worth it

[egginfroggin]

(Claustrophobia, trauma, and mentions of abuse and death ahead)

I was kicking a lot of Mistborn AU thoughts around in my head a few days ago, and on the topic of Ingo being sent to the Pits of Hathsin, I came to the realization that there would probably be a lot of residual trauma from being trapped in a place where your options are:

Try to resist your captors and be beaten, likely to death, as a result

or

2. Try to survive between the mistreatment and doing your one (1) job, which is crawling around in an enclosed, dark, probably stuffy underground crevice to find fancy metal and shredding your arms to get that metal.

And when I say "residual trauma," I mean Ingo doesn't like enclosed spaces anymore.

No narrow tunnels.

No tight alleys, even; especially at night.

I whacked him with the claustrophobia stick.

I just think that Hathsin ducked him up in the head a little, that's all.

I don't remember a whole lot of the books -- I have yet to reread them -- or how in-depth they went with Kelsier's time in the Pits, but just thinking about the concept... yeah. Not just from the abuse, but from the place -- the job. It's taxing, and the entire place is probably steeped in melancholy and despair because all the other prisoners know that they aren't getting out of here, that this is their life, and abuse by their captors is rampant.

The Pits of Hathsin are a man-made, man-run hell. It is meant to be a prison for those with life sentences, yet those sentences manage to be terribly short in many cases.

[sojourner-between-worlds]

Why can't the 5ds timeline be cleaner when it comes to duels. It makes coming up with a feasible timetable post Yusei's duel with ZONE an absolute pain in the neck.

If you catch the time display on any runner/d-wheel in the second half, the time is always 0:24. The middle of the freaking night. Even when it's broad daylight. Can't use that.

Supposedly it IS the middle of the night when Yusei duels ZONE though. You can see stars in the sky in multiple shots so it's not like the Ark is just blocking the sunlight or something.

But then you have the end of that episode when the Ark disappears. The sun is already VERY high in the sky, in the east, so supposedly morning but, like, 10am already judging by how high it is, and you cannot convince me it took, like, four hours for Yusei to travel back the sun gear, ZONE to literally yeet him away, and the Ark to disappear.

All we know is that they have twelve hours until the city is destroyed. From when? Who knows!

Hazy timelines will never not drive me insane.

[faking-god]

quick comic bc ive been feeling a specific way about art lately

[npdiyozane]

I don't like BSD I'm sorry if I'm putting myself through the little sister bullshit I'm doing it for a VN that does something interesting not for a basic shounen anime with a mafia aesthetic and some questionable literary references.

[artandsomethingcreated]

Todays Patch Notes!

More fixes to game dialog display problems in Chapter 2

Two scenes cut for parts and merged in to one

Reacuring minor side character now has a name

Weird continuity error corrected

Large chunks of meandering story telling cut down and focused

More spelling, tence, and such mistakes fixed

[ms-demeanor]

Sometimes college professors like to hop on my posts lamenting the sorry state of syllabi these days and joke about how they haven't thought that far ahead in the course themselves, or talk about how they struggle to complete a schedule for their students.

With all due respect, that's your job. If you can't do your job, you should have a different job. If you need help, ask your colleagues or your department chair or *someone* because I know that professors aren't given a hell of a lot of education on how to educate, so you probably *need* help.

But every single time I make one of those posts I get anywhere from ten to thirty messages, replies, reblogs, and asks say "oh man, that's exactly why I had to drop out of school; I couldn't keep up with the assignments because I didn't know when they were due until the week they were due."

I have been a college student in three separate decades, and "not having a schedule of assignments in the syllabus" is new to my experience. That shit didn't fly in the 2000s or 2010s and I think it likely has to do with professors being overly reliant on apps.

AT A MINIMUM your syllabus should have:

Contact information (including preferred method of contact) for the professor

Office Hours

Grading Policy

Assignment schedule.

Your assignment schedule doesn't necessarily need to have the exact page numbers of every reading or a full assignment sheet for each project, but it should have things like:

December 1st - Major Project 3 second draft due December 9th - Quiz 10 December 12th - Major Project 3 final draft due December 15th - Final Exam

If you end up presenting a more thorough schedule with readings and homework later, that is acceptable to present a week or two into the semester but it is absolutely insane to me that students these days don't know what homework they're going to have to get done over Thanksgiving break during the first couple weeks of class.

If I had three professors at once who didn't give me a schedule, how on earth would I know if I was going to have to read three chapters of a novel, take a midterm and turn in two stats homework assignments, and complete a history research paper the same week that I'm planning to travel to see family? If I'm aware of this from the beginning of the semester I can make sure not to pick up extra shifts, or I can plan to leave a day later to accommodate the midterm, or I can start working on the paper early to complete it before the due date but if I don't know what's going to be due when, I'm going to have a big problem.

If you don't give your students a schedule you are communicating that you don't care about their schedule, and that you think it's their responsibility to contort their life (and their job, and their other classes) around your class, and honestly my advice to students in that situation is "drop in the first week and pick up another class". That's actually part of why I recommend signing up for one more class than you can really manage - if you get a professor whose class looks like it's going to be a disaster because they don't have a schedule, you can bail before the withdrawal period and get a refund for the class.

I'm only in one class this semester but the professor's response has fully dropped me into "Fuck it, I guess I'll fail" mode and I don't even know if I can pull myself out of my current D grade because I don't know how many assignments we have left in the semester.

This is a shitty way to run a class. If you can't do better than this, you shouldn't be running a class.