#I just ate lunch!

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Reflecting on my writing process. I definitely qualify as a gardener vs. an architect.

Step 1: Write 5-75,000 words of vibes

Step 2: Start posting the fic. You have a lot of chapters, so that gives you time to finish it while you write the rest.

Step 3: Realize this probably has to have an ending ? or something? Feel violently jealous of people who plan out their fics in advance and like, outline what's going to happen in them? Is this real? Are people really doing this? Why can't you be them? Read other people's stories because maybe that will inspire you to finish yours, but it just fills you with inadequacy because everyone else's stuff is better than yours and why are you even trying again?

Step 4: Spend 1-6 weeks imagining a meteor striking the world you have written and killing everyone, so that's the ending, and that will be easy enough to write.

Step 5: Well, actually, then you could turn into like a post-apocalyptic survival thing, or maybe a character study on what happens when they are waiting for the meteor to hit, which would take like another 75,000 words of vibes to talk about and then you'd still have to write an ending. So scratch the idea about killing off everyone in the fic.

Step 6: Regret being born. Regret not being hit by a meteor. Painstakingly back-create an outline from your 20 chapters of meandering vibes to see if that makes an ending to the plot appear. It does not, just underscores how bad you are at plot, which you already knew, but look! Proof of your inadequacy. Cool. Google to see if any meteors are coming soon, in which case, why are you doing this to yourself? You might only have a few weeks to live.

Step 7: Force yourself to work on the story, but then you just do micro-managing edits like adding 900,000 commas that aren't needed and then add a bunch more vibes to the chapters you already wrote, so now it's worse and full of filler it didn't need and you have to delete all the garbage you just wrote. Why does this story exist? What's even the point? Of this story or like, literally anything? Go on tumblr to scroll mindlessly. Write a long, self-indulgent post about how hard writing is.

Step 8: Go into a fugue state fueled by panic and fear of disappointing the people who have been reading along with the fic because like an idiot you already started posting it even though you had no idea what the point of the fic was or how and why it would end. You hate the fic, but you hate the idea of letting the bastard fic WIN more than you hate the fic, so you are going to murder the stupid fic if it kills you. Ignore all responsibilities and have a panic attack because you forgot to eat breakfast lunch and dinner and you can't figure out why your body is shutting down and you are waste deep in garbage because you forgot to clean the house and the children were running feral and subsisting solely off Nutella while you were thinking about the STORY.

Step 9: Wait, it looks like the fic is actually finished, but you can't remember how you finished it so unfortunately the process isn't not able to be replicated.

Step 10: Finish posting fic. Feel immensely sad that it's over. Oh, how you loved writing it, the darling, darling thing. The grief, the loss, that you will no longer have this lovely story as a companion to your days.

[zhongrin]

i feel like zhongli would be the type to be absolutely and utterly horrified when he knows you've skipped a meal.

he understands that your job make you busy and sometimes it's best to not break your focus from the task you're currently doing. and he understands that most of the time, when you miss your mealtime, there are lots of factors that makes it hard to leave your post just to shove some nutrients into your stomach.

still, he thinks you being in a hungry state for an extended period of time is a crime. it's simply unacceptable.

so he tries hard to always make sure you always have a snack with you. maybe a thermos full of tea to go with it too. and of course he'd also try to get you to eat a whole meal.

if you work from home, be prepared to be hounded by a worried husband who would literally spoon-feed you your lunch while you're working. if you're really not in the situation which would allow you to eat, rest assured that he'll go as far as putting milk into your tea or get a boba delivered right onto your shared abode's doorstep. if push comes to shove, he'd walk in with a tray of food while you're on an internal video call and gently reminds everyone in the room that you're going to eat lunch first and that's final.

if you work from the office, sure, it would be harder for him to dote on you. but he's not above subtly messaging you to indirectly ask/remind you to eat. expect pictures of the lunch he's having along with messages like "i had a nice lunch. what did you have for lunch, my love? may i see it?" and if, god forbid, you continue with the habit of eating lunch late, don't be surprised if he pops into your office and smiles warmly at the receptionist as he declares that he's there to pick you up for lunch.

all in all, 10/10 husband who feeds you as an act of love.

[musubiki]

witches brew ???!!

[3-aem]

girl (gender neutral) what the fuck

[mamawasatesttube]

fandom and all its """kon resents clark""" this and """clark is mean to/mistrusts kon""" that. actually, kon canonically goes to clark to bitch about his rogues gallery:

"Superboy's told me all about this guy."

(adventures of superman #533)

can you imagine? he just calls up superman to talk shit about scavenger (and presumably others too!!). i just know he's lounging midair in the most ridiculous poses while slurping up a milkshake he made clark buy him and spouting ridiculous teen slang that clark has to make several mental notes to look up later. this is the mark of a truly beautiful family bond and i, for one, would like to see more of it.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Another weird question for you: How long do you have to fast for a blood sugar reading to count as a fasting blood sugar measurement? Also, does drinking soda (like, full sugar soda) slowly over the time before the blood test count as not-fasting? Asking because I keep testing* in the fasting blood sugar range when I am pretty sure I am not supposed to. Like, two hours after eating a meal when I've been slowly drinking soda the whole intervening time, or half an hour after drinking a whole full-sugar gatorade *with the home blood sugar test thing, not like doctor's office tests. though I test in the fasting range there too? I do know the word for the tester thing but I am brain fogged at the moment

[philzokman]

*grabs u by the shoulders and shakes aggressively until u agree that there’s simply nothing better than chuuya calling dazai osamu OR (arguably better imo) ‘samu in fics*

[heartonthejindow]

bangtan literally everyday of chapter 2: don’t forget about bts please

armys literally everyday of chapter 2: i saw seven rocks together at the park today and i cried

[softerpixels]

eloise dipped out as SOON as the sun came peeking through the blinds, but they met up for her lunch break and had a cute mini date.

[haliaiii]

Al haitham stuff

[oneleggedflamingo]

I woke up at 4 am because of the storm and I am feeling the consequenses (did a lot of chores before noon and I feel so exhausted and I am going to eat dinner at 1 PM.)

[tillman]

Inching closer to my next thousand what should I do to celebrate poll

Kill self 50%

Delicious pastry 50%

[fennthetalkingdog]

Someone just treated me like a dog today and it made me feel? So good?? Like I was caught off guard at first cause they've never done that before (they only pet my head but still), but then they were like, "But aren't you a dog?" and AGH, it felt so nice!

[cowardlycowboys]

wanna wear my prom dress

[c-kiddo]

got to ep96 in my rewatch

[darlingcloudie-9]

Live laugh love Kumonoue & Yuichiro’s straining relationship 💕