#Albeit very slowly

[caffetato-the-caffeinated-potato]

What's this? Me actually posting art again? More likely than you think :> I've received a second wind for working on Ninja-monium, the Rise x Ninjago fic I've been cooking up for a while. Currently working on cutting out some unnecessary complexities and simplifying things.

But in the process, it occurred to me that I had an opportunity to design my own fan 'suits'. These are a little less classic ninja-like than their typical robes, but I think it'd help them blend into the streets of New York a bit better.

These are only a very rough first draft to get a visual of the general Vibe, and are subject to change.

[neewtmas]

psst

hi (!) hello (!!) how's it going?

I hope this doesn't come off as rude. If it does, I am so sorry. I'm just slinking in to ask if there are any updates on the fic?

Hi!!

please don't worry, it's not rude at all!! If anything it's a great compliment that you even took the time to ask for it and I'm so happy you care enough to do that :)

Currently I'm pretty swamped with Uni and just life in general (also writer's block yay) but in theory there are two more chapters planned (and 1k written of the first). I'm hoping to get them out as soon as possible.

Anyways, it's really good to know that there are people that care and maybe that's the push I need so thank you for your message🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[hippolotamus]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks for the tag @alyxmastershipper and @shortsighted-owl 💕

If it wasn’t for Christopher just across the hall, and Eddie making that very specific promise, he might have driven across town by now to snuggle in next to Buck. Just to ease the restless itch growing under his skin that reminds him how wrong it feels to lay alone in his – their – bed now.

He wonders if Buck is able to sleep. If he’s burrowed under his nest of blankets, snoring and drooling on his pillow. Maybe he’s awake, too, mentally counting the exposed bricks on the far wall. Or, more than likely, lost down a Wikipedia research hole about something obscure like the dental impressions of Madagascar tree cats.

Finally Eddie decides he’s had enough, blindly reaching for his phone on the nightstand.

Eddie: You awake?

The three little dots start bouncing immediately on the screen, flooding him with an unexpected amount of relief.

Buck: Guess I’m not the only one

E: Guess not. What’s got you up?

B: Nothing really. Maybe you haven’t heard but I’m getting married tomorrow.

Eddie rolls his eyes, even though Buck can’t see him.

E: Someone might have mentioned that 🤔

@vanillahigh00 @ajunerose @stereopticons @rmd-writes @apothecarose @alysiswriting @elvensorceress @lizzie-bennetdarcy @blackandwhiteandrose … Whatcha up to????

[birdsofpasssage]

ur art is so beautiful........ do u take commissions 🙏

thank you!! unfortunately i don’t take comms but i appreciate the thought 🥺

[theskeletoninthegarden]

I know I need to finish BG3 but Coral Island...it's really popping off with the cozy farming vibes, RN.

[chiropterx]

Carrying fruit in Gotham be like

[youunravelme]

UM DOES THAT POST MEAN WHAT I THINK IT MEANS???

lol depends on what you're thinking.

because if you're thinking an update, then sorry, it doesn't mean that. i'm still working on writing (and should hopefully have time/brain space to do that tomorrow if the children aren't annoying!)

but if you're thinking that it means the isles FINALLY WON A GAME, then yes. you are correct.

[gomzdrawfr]

I really like this one particular look

i know it's a very highschool basketball skateboard dude kind of vibe but yeah

[trappedinafantasy37]

Welp, I just did the embrace Bhaal ending with Daedra and I gotta say, this is objectively the worse ending. And it is very much the ending I never wanted for her. Because this was always going to be the ending for a Durge who embraced Bhaal. And Minthara being killed was always going to be her ending too. What makes all of this worse is that Minthara saw it coming too, she just did not realize it.

When she first tells you about Orin, she criticizes Orin by saying that if she could turn the plot of the Absolute towards slaughter, she would take it. Minthara also criticizes Orin for wanting to be Daddy's Little Girl who would do anything to please Bhaal. She perceives these to be character flaws within Orin. Sadly her analysis is incorrect, because these are innate characteristics of Bhaalspawn in general, including Durge. All Bhaalspawn are born with the same urges: kill other Bhaalspawn, breed more Bhaalspawn, and then kill everything. Of course, a Bhaalspawn can fight these urges. But it is a never ending fight, one we see Durge struggle with throughout the entire story. They only "beat" these urges by having Bhaal's blood removed from them.

But because Minthara sees these as character flaws within Orin, she fails to see them in Durge as well. And when Minthara learns that Durge is a Bhaalspawn, of course she is elated. Durge is the child of a god. A deeply religious Minthara would obviously admire that, almost as far as borderline worshiping Durge (cause old habits die hard). She truly believes that Durge is nothing like Orin and would never be anything like Orin, and she has to believe this to be true because she does not want to be afraid of Durge like she is of Orin.

Despite popular belief, Minthara is indeed capable of love and has a strong desire for it. I have always read Minthara as a person who strongly wants what she feels she cannot have. And in Menzoberranzan, genuine love is frowned upon (or at least making it known). So of course she wants it. And there is no shame in that. It is trust that she struggles with, and she always has good reason to be distrustful. And the moment she became an exile, we see her start to deconstruct her previous ways of life, but with great difficulty as it is hard to let go of the only things you have ever known. She wants to love, she wants to trust, she doesn't want to be afraid, and she doesn't want to kill her lovers.

Thanks to the business with the Absolute, Minthara finds herself in a unique position in which she actually can read someone else's mind. And for the first time in her life, she has guaranteed certainty that the person that she loves won't hurt her, or betray her, or use and abuse her, or kill her. And that was a promise Durge made to her. And so she openly embraced Durge with everything that she has and becomes devoted.

Sadly, devotion is Minthara's fatal flaw. There is nothing wrong with being devoted to someone or some god, of course. But Minthara is too devoted in which her devotion makes her blind, and she has spent so much of her life being devoted to someone other than herself, and she does not know how to live a life without being devoted to someone. She does not realize the crux of her devotion until she is turned into a sacrificial lamb by Orin. It is Minthara who questions the worth of devotion if it only leads to death and she starts to become a little more selective of who she devotes herself to. Cause she was once devoted to Orin and was willing to be devoted to Bhaal if given the chance, and yet she was still put on that altar. But this never happens if Orin never takes her.

Edit: I forgot that Patch 7 added in the second part of Minthara's dialogue about Orin. Meaning Minthara can still come to question the worth of devotion, even without being a kidnap victim to Orin. However, she questions her devotion after Durge has made their choice in regards to Bhaal. Despite her beginning to question devotion, she still remains devoted to Durge as she perceives Durge as her savior, and not being like Lolth or the Absolute or Bhaal.

Her devotion to Lolth, still ended with her being abandoned (or so she feels) and left vulnerable to the Absolute, because her devotion to Lolth did not make her an exception. Her devotion to the Absolute still led to her mind being ripped apart, because her devotion to the Absolute did not make her an exception. Minthara may be of a feline nature, but she does not have nine lives and cannot always get lucky. Every time she has devoted herself to someone, it always led her close to the grave. Her devotion to Durge, encouraging Durge to embrace who they are, will get her rewarded with death. And death was always going to be her reward.

And of course she thinks this could never happen to her. She read Durge's mind and Durge did show her that they would never hurt her. That Durge would never do to her what Lolth or the Absolute did, or even previous lovers did to her. That her devotion would be rewarded with mutual devotion. But this is coming from a Durge who has not embraced Bhaal just yet and does not yet want to become Daddy's Special Baby. And Minthara is not stupid for believing that Durge was sincere. No one wants to believe that the person that they love would ever hurt them. That does not make someone stupid or weak. Minthara could only read Durge's mind, not Durge's future.

When Durge embraces Bhaal, she still believes them to be the same exact person with the same exact desires as when she read their mind. Durge has finally followed her advice and embraced themselves, become exactly what she always saw them to be. Durge is now on the path to ascension, to true godhood. And Minthara's proximity to it all will keep her safe from all threats because she would be that god's consort. She can finally have a life without fear or distrust. She will have a god to worship, someone to love, and a new house in Durge's name. She will have everything she could have ever wanted and all she had to do was be devoted. All she had to do was be herself.

In that moment, her devotion to Durge makes her blind to the reality that Durge has changed and has become the very thing she herself criticized about Orin. She still believes that Durge won't hurt her and that Durge won't use the Absolute as a tool for slaughter. Her devotion makes her blind to the fact that Bhaal is like Lolth and the Absolute and most certainly will use Durge like a puppet. Her devotion makes her blind to the reality that Durge has only become a master of their urges, because they are willfully giving in to them and no longer fighting them. And the urge wants to kill everything, no exceptions. Her devotion makes her blind to the knife that Durge will inevitably turn against her, because her devotion was never going to make her an exception.

[hostiae]

i'm going to die on the hill that apologizing or excusing lestat's abusive behavior undermines him as a character. it erases any chance he has to grow.

and lestat knows. paraphrasing some of these but:

i am cursed with my father's temper at times.

when i'm tired, i'm not so kind.

i did it to hurt him. and it did hurt him.

i broke him.

what is worse than that? to crush what you cannot own?

then from the books themselves, admitting that he might have done what claudia did himself, as reason for why he doesn't blame her. he is aware that he hurt the people around him — intentionally. in mennoch, he admits he doesn't like himself.

it does such a disservice to him, to louis, and to claudia to erase who he is. especially when so much is cyclical — the fear of being like his father and seeing his father within himself. not knowing how to stop it or why he is how he is bc he's never really confronted it.

he's so afraid of loneliness, afraid that anyone who loves him is somehow lying. love is conditional and he needs so much validation ( which isn't fair to anyone else in his life ). they have to perform emotional labor for insecurities that lestat can't open up about.

and when he's hurt or when he's afraid of being hurt, he lashes out.

[ask-ri-73]

Missing: Has Anyone Seen This Song?

To start off, I'm on the fence about if this is lost media. I'm very certain that copies of it exist and it's not lost, I've just had trouble finding them on the internet. That being said, let me explain:

In recent months, I've had my eye on this crossfade of an all-Ritsu compilation album. The album, simply called 'RPG Compilation Album "EFB"', was a physical CD distributed at a doujin fair for UTAU fans in November of 2012. A lot of the songs on this album I am already familiar with and have been able to find online. HOWEVER, I haven't been able to find any traces of "The Invaded Planet" by TeaTimeP. Here's a 37-second clip of the song taken from the crossfade linked above:

The full song, according to some wiki pages, is 3 minutes and 31 seconds long. I tried to find reuploads on YouTube, looked through the artist's Niconico profile, and checked vocaDB and mikuDB (<- hosts a broken download link) for links. Nothing. If anyone knows how to find this song or where else I could look for it, I'm open to discussion! Hopefully I'm not just overcomplicating things!

[gumy-shark]

Hi this is perhaps a crazy thing to ask a random person on the internet, so feel free to ignore, but I was wistful for the good old scholastic wof forums and searched it up on tumblr since I knew that a good number of forumers had migrated to here, and lo and behold, I saw a post by you (from 2 years ago, sorry to bring it up NOW of all times) about an archive you had made of old wof forums (and SAMB) content. i would LOVE a link to this archive (if you still have it, and if you don't mind sharing) so I can indulge my nostalgia (I was around on the forums from 2016 until the end as brilliantdragon538/fantasticllama19/Eureka)

hi eureka!! i think i recognize you, i was catdragon13873/Jade back in the day.

UNFORTUNATELY. the google drive with my forum archive ended up being permanently deleted when i graduated high school, and by the time i realized it was too late for me to recover anything :((

you should be able to find the things i had by using the wayback machine though, since that’s where i got the files i had!!

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Mmm, yes, the Phineas and Ferb Marvel crossover episodes were better than Infinity War and Endgame.

[fallen-if]

How do you start writing a story? I'm interested in doing one myself, but I don't know where to start. Do you build the plot, the world, or the characters first? Do you have any advice you would give?

In my opinion you should always start with either the plot or your main character. Fleshing out worldbuilding and side characters becomes much easier when you do so!

I can’t think of any overly specific advice I would give because writing is one of those things where the process is different for everyone.

I will say though that taking the time to actually sit down and understand your characters and world is incredibly important.

Trust me - I know seems like surface level advice but I promise doing things like writing down small details about your characters or imagining them in different scenarios can be incredibly helpful when you need to make them feel more fleshed out and realistic.

I hope you end up taking the plunge and writing! It’s such a fun and fulfilling hobby. I wish you the best on your journey ☺️.

[neko-naruto]

fellas we, the billforder's, are gaining on them

[nikialexx]

WIP WORD SEARCH

Thanks for the tag @tracingpatternswrites

Using this word generator, search your current WIP for the word you get and post a snippet.

My word: entertain(ed)

I'm tagging: @blackberry-sunset @pinklume

***

“I ordered room service,” Sirius says as Remus eventually steps out of the bathroom. Remus pauses, startled, on the threshold, peering out at Sirius from behind the towel in his hands which had been rubbing vigorously at his hair to get the rest of the water out.

Sirius is sitting on the edge of the bed. He raises a brow at Remus, looking highly entertained. “I have a hairdryer.”

Of course he does. Remus, by comparison, doesn’t think he’s ever actually owned a hairdryer.

“Won’t it just air dry?” he asks, resuming his rubbing.

Sirius opens his mouth, starts to say something, and then seemingly decides against it. He laughs slightly and stands up.

“I ordered room service,” he repeats. “It’s in the kitchen. You can order anything else you like, of course. I left the menu there.”