#I love when people are nice to me on the internet :)

[andhumanslovedstories]

Funny thing just happened at the Friendsgiving I was just at. My friend who is also in danmei hell mentioned Scum Villain fic, and I was like, “oh I’m actually writing one at the moment.” So per their request, I sent them the link, and it turns they were already reading this fic. Like, they had read it within the last 24 hours.

Always bizarre to know real people read my writing. Not bad! It feels very nice actually. Putting stuff online can often feel so abstract and for an often friendly and also faceless audience (hi). Then something happens, and you get reminded that any audience is made up of individual people who exist outside the internet. I’ve gotten the same feeling when I run into someone irl who recognizes my blog. On those very rare occasions, I am so deeply flattered and also blindsided that my higher cognitive functions shut down.

The reverse happened to me last year where I went to a book signing with Shelley Parker-Chan. There was a Q&A, so they’re twenty feet away from me, answering questions about She Who Became the Sun, a novel I absolutely adored reading. And I’m like, that’s just a person. Everything I love and admire were made by people who are just people. There isn’t this clear delineation between me and the people I respect.

I struggle with this idea that I have to become a different version of myself before I can do what I want to do. It becomes a paradoxical nightmare. Authors write novels, and since I haven’t written a novel, I can’t be an Author, and if I’m not an Author, I can’t write a novel. It’s good for me to be periodically confronted by proof that this is complete bullshit. You do the things you want to do to become the person you want to become, and that person is not a dramatic transformation from your current self. It’s just you, having done the thing you want to do and all the work it took to do it.

And at that book signing, for the first time in months, maybe years, I really really really wanted to write. I wanted to write a novel I was proud of and present it for other people to read. I wanted to be on a small stage answering questions about a book I wrote that someone else adores. I hadn’t realized that I thought doing that was impossible until I realized that actually it was attainable. Everything’s just people, all the way down.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Master manipulator vs Master manipulator

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[moeblob]

Happy Birthday to Ferdinand von Aegir!

I actually made 33 emotes, affectionately known as Aegirglyphics to some, for my own personal use on discord. However, I figure why not share some of them! They're free to use for discord servers/icons/pfps or whatever. However, my only request is Do NOT use them as subscriber emotes on Twitch. You can make them free follower emotes but you are not to make them locked behind a paywall.

[moregraceful]

max and i are closing in on launching [redacted sports rpf charity fest] and i am once again pondering how do i write "experience with writing form emails and manipulating google forms in ways no one has dreamed of" in a cover letter without saying "i did it for the rpf grind"...like there's no way unless everyone in this microsoft teams meeting gets really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly. you know

[capricioussun]

If you've ever replied to a post and I haven't replied to you just know if I saw it I nodded sagely and then either meant to reply and completely forgot or just had nothing interesting to add. We can all hold hands and be friends on this beautiful earth

[brainrotheartrot]

Hi there! I just finished reading the latest chapter of HLS and it’s such a brilliant work of fiction I felt the need to ramble about it to you; I hope you don’t mind. Right off the bat I think the largest reason why I’ve grown so attached to this series is because I relate so so badly to Jinx/Powder, Ofcourse I relate to her canon character in arcane/league, but this is an entirely different level of personal. All the way from the instinctive self harming to her music and fashion taste. It’s all so deeply personal to me, it’s as if I’m watching myself from a third person view. I may be a bit biased since I relate to her so much but I still have the eyes and mind to see and admit that you’ve absolutely nailed her characterisation. The story telling of HSL is just superb, so realistic and just so deeply human, all the ups and downs in life even in a day-to-day basis (especially with a relationship as unique as Vi and Jinx) it’s by far the best take on an modern arcane AU I’ve ever seen as well as all the issues mentioned, the way Vi and Jinx deal with trauma so differently, the reality of adoptive parents and “troubled teen camps” (by the way, was the inspiration for Valenworth taken from The Elan School of 1970?) anyway, its a few hours into the early morning and I can’t think much except I love love love this fic and all its portrayals, I hold vi and jinx so dear to me and I cannot wait for the next chapter. I hope and pray you guys grant them a happy ending <3

Hi! Thank you so much for the lovely message, I really appreciate it. Jinx is my special little princess, so it means a lot you enjoy her characterization and find it relatable. <3 Yes, Valenworth is in fact based on Elan School, good catch! I hope you'll continue enjoying the fic as it progresses! :)

[minobe-household]

me when i get spammed (/pos)

[cathalbravecog]

i'm the antonymph of the internet

[sadgirlautumn]

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[airbenderedacted]

So who’s your favorite character in Wander Over Yonder? And what’s your fav ship(s)?

Oh, I love playing this guessing game!! ♡ ～('▽^人) ✨

Favorite character? Well...

[🎨📺]

As for ships, I wouldn't exactlyy say I ship anything in this show tbch, but I'd say I'm especially fond of Sylava, in a strictly fanon kinda way.

[dani-the-goblin]

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[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Man not to be all "kids these days", but WHAT is in the water that has them all convinced that everyone who's more than 3 years older than them is a serial killer pedophile or something and everyone who's more than a year younger than them is a dumdum weenie baby. Like I get why some people have "under 18 DNI" in their bios if they tend to post NSFW stuff and want to keep kids out/at least be able to say that they tried, but when I was a kid we never did any of this "DNI if you're under 15 or over 18" shit. I'm like genuinely kind of concerned, it seems like an unhealthy mindset that would ultimately lead to more harm than good

[invinciblerodent]

OC Patron Saint Quiz

Tagged by @sketchyelvenasss for Iona - thank you love, I really like things like this too ❤️

Tagging @starfightrpilot if you feel up for it, for one of them plucky wizard girls I so love? ❤️

[And if i might ramble for a bit about Themes and such, this seems... very fitting, actually. Like, looking at the results, it honestly feels almost inevitable that she'd get this one, lol.]

Blood has always been something of a core theme in Iona's story. A lot of her imagery and general persona is meant to be very visceral, guided by blood, and in some ways, it's always all coming back to it: some elements are more surface-level (like the red of her hair being explicitly meant to resemble blood when stuck to her skin), but also a lot of her background is based around the rejection- and then the embracing of a legacy of blood.

.... Which makes her sound a lot like a Dark Urge character even though she's not, lol- what I mean lives more in the ballpark of the immortality and continued chain of existence of an elven soul, the magic continuing to be passed down through her bloodline, it just being matrilineal in its nature (since femininity in general is often conventionally associated with blood), her whole past being about denying and hiding what her blood is capable of... It's kind of a contrast of living in opposition to her nature vs. indulging in it, not to mention how heartbeats, warmth, and the consuming of blood, of life, all feature heavily as a theme in her most important relationship too.

I sometimes like to kinda "reduce" her almost to her cunning and wit because I find it fun, I like her being my weasel-woman too morally slippery to be caught by the consequences of her actions, but I do also love that beneath that veneer, she's just.... ferociously and defiantly alive, and learning what that means for herself.

Like, I really like the thought that she wears masks and plays roles and lies effortlessly, but if you cut into her, at her core... there is always going to be blood. She is blood, and fire, and force, and defiance, and yearning, and teeth, passion, life.

It's fitting that one of the first moments of genuine authenticity in her adult life was someone tasting her blood, and that the one most drawn to her would be an undead man seeking to feed off that heat in her, lol.

[imflyingfish]

Its weird because i dont actually have much of a desire to move to france or use french reguarly in my life but at this point ive deadicated over a year to learning it so i might as well keep going and finish

[im-a-freaking-joy]

Im really tempted to follow the therian tag on youtube just so I can comment on these poor kids's videos something kind and let them know that if they arent hurting anybody they can do whatever they want forever

[spotsupstuff]

Do you think moon takes slugcat friends along with her in the off the string au?

I'm picturing her trying to argue with tarrows while also trying to stay quiet because there's like 6 slugpups sleeping on her lap.

maybe, dunno. i don't,, really care about the slugcats unless a situation with them is funny

also y'all need to stop assuming Tarrows is gon stick for arguing with Anybody least of all Moon, fuck that shit. she's leaving the room and setting up a camp under Boreas' chlamys she doesn't want to have anything to do with a confrontantion especially with some aggressive mean stranger bigger and stronger than her