#I hope this was insightful in some way

[uldahstreetrat]

there's that poll going around about thoughts on not feeling like the main character going forward and while personally I dont mind feeling less central to the story I... still felt like the main character regardless? perhaps Im misunderstanding what people mean when they say this but out of curiosity, for those of us who have finished Dawntrail:

and please feel free to elaborate your thoughts! I really do think I'm missing something to people saying this. but if you go heavily into spoilers when discussing it please make sure to tag that appropriately for anyone who isnt done yet!

[viiridiangreen]

[askpokepelago]

Moon, Gladion, and Hau’s Silvally playing tug-of-war on the shores of PokePelago

[spoopdeedoop]

this might be personal, but how did you know you were aro? asking for a friend!!

also, got any tips for joining the lmk art fandom?

ah!

i realized i was aro bc i’ve been asked out three times by three seperate friends and i would always say yes with the mindset of “they’re my friend, it’ll be weird if i say no, and i want them to be happy” which was the first red flag — romantic relationships should be for the pleasure and benefit of BOTH people, not just one. it’s not a transaction; it’s supposed to be a mutual thing.

i kinda glossed over that because, again, they were my friends and i want to make them happy, and kind of tricked myself into thinking i liked them romantically because i liked being around them (there’s a difference between platonic love and romantic love that i didn’t know yet, but looking back, whatever i felt for them was definitely not romantic. just wanting to be around your friends because you like their company doesn’t have any romantic connotations, really).

i think at one point one of them kissed me and i did not like it. and that made me realize i didn’t like the relationship at all. and i had to sit with myself for a bit to realize why. im not gonna go into too many personal details but aromantic was the conclusion i came to. i wasn’t happy with it, but it fit. and eventually i’ve just come to accept that about myself :)

for joining the lmk art fandom? i’d just say draw what you like tbh. dont worry about appealing to people, your art is for you :)

[lucky-clover-gazette]

if you think it's exaggerating when i write my self-insert character bluntly jeopardizing a romantic scene to talk about feelings and philosophy, consider that i literally did that with a guy for like 3 hours last night

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[missmungoe]

Hello there I have one question for you if you don't mind: Why do you keep on giving Makino all these submissive and stereotypical characteristics? I really don't want to be rude but if I have to say that if I hadn't already known that you're a woman i would've thought that the author was a bit misogynistic.

I saw your most recent ask and your apology, anon, and no hard feelings! I wasn't hurt, and I appreciate that you took the time to say it. I do feel like I want to address this though, because to be honest, this caught me a bit off guard!

First, I'm sorry to hear that this is what you're left with from how I write Makino. And while you are of course free to interpret my writing as you wish, I have to say I don't agree with you here - or rather, I think we have a very different understanding of this character, and these kind of characteristics. When writing Makino, I always try to keep her true to the way I've understood her character from canon, someone who is naturally gentle and empathetic; maybe a little shy in certain settings; merciful and kind above all else. She's soft and delicate and feminine, and it's true that I like to emphasise that in my descriptions, particularly in contrast to Shanks, but then I also don't consider those to be negative characteristics (if you do, maybe you should ask yourself why that is?). And her being delicate and feminine doesn't mean she's meek, or a pushover. On the contrary, I feel like my writing makes a point of demonstrating just how much she's isn't those things.

As for being submissive, I only feel like I write her as actively submissive in the bedroom, but what can I say, I have a kink, and I write what I like ;)

[intersexfairy]

random storytime bc im autistic about geneaology

family history on my dad's side of the family is weird. my (catholic) grandmother had a few customs that are like jewish mourning customs (shiva). there was another custom involving the red string that she had told me and my sister about when we were kids. her family is from germany, galway ireland, and moselle france. idk why she did it, but her sister said the mourning customs sound like something people "did in the past." mayhaps it's a whole anusim situation, since i did find a (unverified) connection on the french side to a tree on JewishGen.

then there's my grandfather, an only child who was orphaned (temporarily) as a child. his father was 9 years older than his mother, and seemed to have met her when she was a minor. they married when she was 19, and my grandpa was born when she was 20. she abandoned him and his father quickly after, and never got back in contact. he was taken care of by his aunt while his father was a soldier in WW2. his father remarried, so he had step siblings.

...but my dad has a half first cousin match on ancestry... meaning my grandfather has/had a half sibling out there somewhere (potentially, a brother who's 2 years younger than him and died in 2012). normal people would just go message my dad's cousin and ask about it. will i do that? not yet. i'm gonna sleuth on my own, cause this may actually be something i can figure out... unlike my grandmother's customs.

[hiding-in-the-vault]

As the author of that aita post, and an avid cDream theorizer who arrived late to fandom and have been back-watching vods and reading all the dreblr lore posts I can, i would love to hear your critique of my understanding of cDream's motivations. I am looking at it as a young man whose family abandoned him and didn't listen to his desperate attempts to fix what he saw going wrong, with a healthy helping of 'oh no death is permanent what do' and 'nothing I try goes right' on the side until he settles on the 'unite everyone against me and put me somewhere I will be protected' plan which backfires spectacularly against him when Sam betrays him.

But please, any thoughts?

I do agree with a lot of that! Definitely a case of "I tried, it didn't work, let's try something else, got nothing to lose, it'll be worth it in the end" situation. But this simply comes down to how much content you've back-watched by now. I was once eking on the 'unite everyone against me' mentality, but streams much later in prove that wasn't quite it- specifically, the Daedalus arc and discduo finale.

If you hadn't gotten to these yet, here's your spoiler warning lmao

Before all that, might I point out that c!Dream, while unwell <3, is smart and he knows having everyone team up a single time isn't going to fix their problems, which is proven after he's put into prison and the server becomes arguably even more chaotic. At this point, I think he had long lost hope of anyone being reasonable; the damage had been done. Dream's goal of being placed there was a temporary one, mostly to keep him safe from the many people who hated his guts. Which- yes, Sam absolutely betrayed him there. Dream trusted him to stick to the rules they set, and he suffered for it. (cries they were friends once;-;)

Dream always intended to escape, which is why he was saving the Techno favor, And he had stated to Punz in the breakout stream that the plan got delayed.

It all comes back to the revive book; his and Punz's experiments that offset the balance of the world- according to them- and their intent to fix that. Tbf I do need to rewatch the finale vods, but my stance on it is that their mentions of 'killing everyone to make everyone immortal' or however they put it, is basically resetting the world and removing the 3 life system, so it would be back to what's considered Normal. Vanilla Minecraft. The prison was just another step towards that, not an end goal. A distraction.

Also backtracking to the aita post, you're not wrong about Dream killing Tommy to get him removed from the prison, but there's more to it. Dream killed Tommy to prove the revive book worked, first and foremost. He had suffered a week in that cell with him, and didn't snap until Tommy said "I dont think the revive book is real." Because that is the one thing that has kept Dream alive. If anyone doubts that, he's a dead man. So he kills Tommy, revives him, and now everyone will know that they can't just get rid of him :D ! yayy

[patheticpuppyboyslut]

(not hornyposting just musing lol) so i’m a singer-songwriter and performer irl and i’m thinking about the fact that i go around on a day to day basis singing serious, professional songs that use dogs and brainwashing and cannibalism as painful heartbroken metaphors. and i’ve been doing this for years but little by little all these things i process my anguish through in songwriting, have also become how i satisfy my sex drive. and i don’t know what to do with that information i just think it’s wild!! fun fact abt me i guess. i go out there in public singing about how service is my fulfillment and calling myself a good boy and i sing about wanting to be violently torn apart and eaten and i’m like. yeah it’s a metaphor. yeah dw i’m really normal. i don’t fantasize about having my humanity stripped from me and being treated like a stupid sweet puppy barking and whining for my lovers sick and twisted pleasure what are you TALKING about. i just like the poetic imagery of it. i SWEAR.

[bahoreal]

i think i lost a couple followers for being annoying about wangxian. that's so rude. come back here and vote for wangxian in the ao3 ships poll right now

[13eyond13]

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[umbralaether]

A question about process. Do you think that Eisha is a reflection of you, or maybe a reflection of the life you want and are living vicariously through, or is she a complete fiction that you have fun imagining? I'm having a hard time writing from the perspective of someone other than myself, so any tips would be appreciated! Thank you!

Oh boy 😅

Well, to be honest Eisha does have qualities of myself mixed in (my more negative qualities) but she is also a lot of the things I wish I could be. I do tend to write self indulgent things that help me (if you’ve ever noticed my tendency to write hurt/comfort it’s mainly cause I find it soothing for myself) & I do live vicariously through her, too, which is why a lot of my writing is romance-focused.

As for writing from someone else’s perspective, I try to look at what I would do in the situation, and what I wish I would do in a situation. Then I write the latter, and tweak it to add specific character quirks that I’ve established for Eisha. You could also try to have your character do the opposite of what your do, but this really comes down to what you want your character to be like. Are they hot-headed? Are they more likely to be consumed by their inner emotions? Are they aloof, cynical, or detached? Are they cool in times of stress? If it helps, write a list of character traits you want your character to have that you can refer back to.

I also find ask prompts that are character focused to be extremely helpful for developing your character. Ones that ask how your character would act in certain situations, how they tend to respond in tough times, even silly stuff can help solidify your character.

[glassrunner]

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[pa-pa-plasma]

I feel like too many people don't understand that a bad person having normal human traits does not suddenly make them a good person

[permanentreverie]

omg I just realized Tumblr cut off my tags on my reading log because I had to do it on desktop since it's impossible to access my original post on mobile because of that dumbass update and desktop doesn't tell you you've hit your tag limit so my tag review of beyond the story is gone I'm going to commit mass murder in the Tumblr headquarters