#I'd love to hear them :)

[chaoticstrata]

So I'm very very tempted creating a discord server where people can share their fan work (in progress or completed), just chat with other fans and check in on each other. I do have concerns about it though, keeping it drama free, a safe place, and not getting overwhelmed with trying to run it...=/ I don't know. I suppose I could do a small server, so not a whole ton of people, but I'm not sure if that would work either. -headdesk-

Another thing is, would anyone actually be interested? I know I'd be setting it up mainly for SWTOR fan stuff, but I'd be perfectly fine with a few channels for other games. idk.

[pencap]

Hey your poetry is so pretty and evoking and I've gotten back into practicing fiction writing in recent years but in my own criticism I don't think my prose is very evocative. It gets the job done and I think my stories are readable and enjoyable, but I don't think my descriptive language is particularly striking and I would like to improve on that! Sometimes I read and the author has used such creative brilliant metaphors and descriptors etc and it comes across as artistic genius. So, if you have any tips and time to share them I would love to hear about how you select your descriptors, if there's any advice you've heard before on this, etc. <3 feel like my brain simply can't come up with creative language after my decade long break lol

Hello, darling! Thank you for the kind words. I don't exactly have a formal process, but I can share some of what works for me.

The simplest, truest, and least fun advice I have is just this: practice. Practice, practice, practice. The more descriptive writing you do, the better you'll become at it. It's much easier said than done, I know--it's been months since I've posted anything here myself--but it's unfortunately true.

But beyond that, in terms of strategies, I have a couple. I think "evocative" can mean a lot of things, but it sounds like you're specifically thinking about description (as opposed to, say, emotionally evocative) so I'll focus on that. I'm gonna reference january 2nd a bunch, just for concrete examples.

Having a clear image to start with always helps. So when I wrote january 2nd, for example, I had a vivid mental image of an empty beach at dawn, practically abandoned 24 hours after thousands of people crowded together to watch the first sunrise of the year. The stretched out horizon, the dark blue twilight overhead and pale hazy dawn on the eastern edge, the shy peek of the topmost edge of the sun, the soothing ceaseless rush of the waves, the clear expanse and white-foam edges of the water, all of it. The loneliness of it, sure, but also the freedom of it. The quiet and the peace.

It also helps ot have a why. What are you trying to achieve with your description? Often in poetry I'm going for a specific emotional or visual effect, so I try to focus as much as I can on the pieces that resonate for that. In january 2nd, it was the horizon in particular. Nothing in the poem actually mentions a beach, even though that's part of my mental image, because the beach wasn't as important or effective. The sky and the horizon is what worked for the emotional tone, for me. Specifically their openness. Not the light, not the darkness, not the water, but being open, so that's what the first stanza revolves around.

If you're going for "fresh" / "interesting" / "unexpected" / etc. I like to play around with one of three things. One is transferring descriptors from one target to another. (In january 2nd, I take crowded from jostling people on the beach and transfer it to the horizon.) I think these are most fun when you take human(-adjacent) descriptors and put it on inanimate objects / the environment, but that's just my taste. Another trick is to try for hyphenates, which didn't come up in january 2nd. But two of my recent favourites are in Precious: sleep-warm and heartbeat-quiet. sleep-warm is about evoking both the cozy comfort of sleep and the warmth of holding a living, breathing animal in your hands. heartbeat-quiet is about both the volume and the intimacy and the repetitive rhythm of it. The thrid trick is simple and boring and exhilarating when it works, and that's playing around with synonyms. I remember sacred weight of the untouched being difficult. Is it sacred or precious or treasured or holy? Is it untouched or new or young or innocent or unsullied or pure? Try them out and pick the one that feels right, or at least feels the best.

Sometimes I'll think about sound, though not in janary 2nd. soothing ceaseless rush a few paragraphs ago was a deliberate sound-based choice, though. That repeated s-sound feels and sounds like waves. Sometimes I'll think about rhythm, although that's a bit more important in poetry than prose. Sometimes I'll think about length--of the overall description, of the specific phrase or sentence, of the words themselves. Rule of three feels good to me and you'll very often see me write things in triplets (young and fresh and new), frankly a bit more often than I wish I did. Short words can bring emphasis, or abruptness, or simplicity. Long descriptions can be more flowing, fluid, relaxed.

Almost every and any element of language can be leveraged for descriptive power. You'll rarely if every use all of them at once, but it's fun to try many of them out. Maybe you'll figure out versions that feel easiest or best for you.

Alright, I think that's long enough! If you had a specific line or poem in mind, I'm happy to break it down further. Caveat that some of the pieces on this blog are quite old and I might not entirely remember what went through my mind years and years ago, of course.

[frobby]

Rin: me and Yukio have crazy twin powers! :D

Yukio: no we don't, we're just both autistic

[saw2goth]

What do you think of the Ghosts from Christmas Carol/Do they exist in your AU?

If they do do you have designs for them 👀

YES!!! The three spirits still exist I love them very much. In my AU I like to imagine they kind of watch over Scrooge/act as guides to ensure that he's still keeping on the right path and doing the right things. My Scrooge interp really likes to help other people so he'll need as much of their help as he can get. They're able to give him some insider knowledge that nobody else can, but they're not around all of the time so Scrooge usually has to rely on his gut when he's without them! I also chose to ignore the fact that Present fucking. Died because I really like him.

Here's my Past, Present and Yet To Come designs in order:

I also have a Jacob Marley!

Marley and Scrooge had a lot of apprehensions about their relationship when he was alive and struggled compromising so he died with a lot of regrets surrounding that. In my AU the spirits give him the option to move on after the events of the book but he chooses to remain with Scrooge until the end of his time on earth instead!

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Most Huggable Ascian (Offscreen)

Note: this poll contains the Ascians who have not made onscreen appearances (although I understand Emmerololth is mentioned in Eureka). The remaining Ascians can be found here.

[leogichidaa]

So I was trying to come up with a suitable middle name for Barty and I looked up the origins of the name Bartemius hoping for some inspiration and

Hilarious. Why didn't I know this?

[edenorisshitposting]

My mac may be dying. I don't know if I should upgrade to a newer mac, or go back to windows.

Mac pros: very good at running design software, which is what I want it to do.

Mac cons: Expensive. I miss playing bideo games

Windows pros: Less expensive. Bideo games :)

Windows cons: Fucking awful operating system, I can't believe we let them get away with this for so long

[seelieyoulater]

I was living my life all well and peacefully until I randomly remembered Yussa existed one day, and he’s been the only character I’ve been thinking about since. I love my idiot hubris wizard. 

[sewi-li-suwi]

for real though, what's good about base 6? besides that its also called seximal, which is a little funny

i just like having highly divisible bases lol

being able to tell at a glance if a number is a multiple of 3 is nice, which i don't believe octal has the luxury of. i could talk about how seximal's superior to decimal, in that six has a higher percentage of factors below it than ten, or about how there are tricks for telling if numbers are a multiple of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 (6).

but honestly this is ignoring the multiple of numbers higher than six - y'know, 11 (seven), 12 (eight), 13 (nine), 14 (ten), 15 (eleven), 20 (dozen) that ppl generally make fun of base ten for being bad at.

so, idk. i just find it fun. here's a seximal multiplication table. here's an octal multiplication table. compare the two and see which one you prefer, ig!

[littlefox-multi-fan]

update

So I've been working on a few projects, all connected to object shows, the first is for Inanimate insanity, where I'm trying to both train myself on drawing in the Inanimate insanity style but also giving myself a sort of reference on how I want thier extra features or slight tweaks to look for future artworks

and the second project I'm working on is a possible object show, I will most likely do it in the form of a comic on entirely separate blog, once I figure out all the basics of course

Im mostly doing this for fun but if anyone here who finds this blog wants to help me out, I'd appreciate it a lot

I already have the name a possible story and at least three characters figured out

The title is: Let's Break the Forth Wall and its about a once human girl, and her soul ends up getting transported to a parallel universe where objects replace humans, this girl, who's name you find out is actually Rose, is now a (in very bad condition) drawing tablet, the one to fix her body is Syringe, who Rose can't really tell if he belongs in this parallel universe or was once human like herself, now Syringe has an unfortunate "friend" that looks like a Lightbulb, but certainly doesn't act like it...

This isn't all of the story but just the beginning, now this won't be a competition like BFDI or inanimate insanity but something different that i don't really know what i want it to be

If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear!

[eyesxxyou]

I wanna write headcanons for Miguel but I have like...all of three of them 🤧🤧🤧

[mint-yooxgi]

why did i just have an epiphany about MM but i’m just gonna hold it in because it’s probably wrong. honestly i’m so on the fence about it and just can’t wait for the rest of the story 🤩❤️‍🔥

Bestie, you cannot just SAY something like that and not share it with the class!!!

[incorrectpnatquotes]

Send in a Paranatural character to get a headcanon about a winter/holiday tradition they have?

Feel free to send in your own headcanons about how characters celebrate during the winter!

[bethorz]

Foo Thoughts - let's talk about Shifty's (old) song An Atheists Prayer

Chris's first Dead Peasants album was on my playlist a lot last year while I was deep in my Taylor feels (I say "was" like I am not anymore, sad lol). It's kind of moodier than any of Chris's stuff since, three songs in particular got a lot of play "Not Going Down Alone" which I have been convinced for years is about the Foo Fighters, "Death March" which fully made me cry a few times because it's so sweet and this one, "An Atheist's Prayer" which seems to be about wanting to help someone who is struggling but not being able to. For obvious reasons, that one hit different, despite being written in 2009ish and clearly being about a different situation. However, one night I was listening to it and something occurred to me that I had never considered before. What if it is actually about Taylor? specifically the London incident in 2001.

First, these are the lyrics (they are wrong in a few very key places anywhere I've seen them online)

It takes a tragedy, to get through to you and me It takes a tragedy, to see what’s next to me You went searching every road, but what were you looking for? Always a locked door, you chose to fight your secret war It’s temporary, that is all Hold you tight when you were falling Feels like you’ll sink forever, but when you blink, you’re coming up for air It takes a tragedy, to get through to you and me It takes a tragedy, to see what’s next to me Well, how many times was the gun to our head? But we never came up dead So close your eyes and we’ll cry for peace An atheist’s prayer will track for me⫮ It takes a tragedy, to get through to you and me It takes a tragedy, to see what’s next to me I wish I knew you better, I wish I would have been there I wish I knew you better, I wish I would have been there

⫮ this is the only line i am not 100% sure on but the last part is definitely "for me" and not "for free" as it is written on lyric sites

I'll point out that these are sadly pretty universally applicable and still just as poignant even if I'm way off. And also lyrics aren't necessarily about just one thing. I also don't mean this post to imply that I think that OD was T's COD, I really don't think it was, and this reading is independent of that. That said, lets see why this song might actually be inspired by Taylor.

The reason I had never made the connection before, is the last few lines (I wish I knew you better...) make it sound like the subject died. Which I had never really thought had tracked with other parts that were kind of hopeful. Or the "to get through to you and me" part. Much lesser so, the fact that he thought he might have not known them that well but was still affected enough to write the song.

But "I wish I knew you better" could also be in general (he still does wish that) OR in hindsight "I wish I knew you better [like I do now]". And I actually think this read makes the song hang together better.

It's not as talked about as much, because he was fortunate to avoid any sort of public incident like Taylor and flew more under the radar in the band in general - but young Chris, by his own admission, by early band interviews after he joined, and if a lot of his more recent song lyrics are anything to go by, loved to party. He seems like he tried all the drugs. He and Taylor were the younger guys and seemed to not show as much restraint as, say, Dave and Nate. They were both fans of the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll era of music and that lifestyle in a way that the others weren't. They were also both the only ones sober in more recent years. Even if they weren't super close (and I don't think they were, though I do think Nate, Chris and Taylor were closer then they get credit for, just from working together a long time and IMO doing most of the heavy lifting live) that (being sober in Dave Grohl's band) has to foster some sort of kinship/understanding.

It also makes sense, as the whole song is pretty much addressed to "you" and "our", which makes more sense if "you" is still around. I have always seen Taylor's OD as a wake up call for the whole band as young men. Dave has even said as much (it made him reach out to Jordyn). Additionally, I think, apart from Taylor, Chris probably needed it the most. And it seems like it worked, because it's when they all started settling down. Chris in particular seems like he was married/had his first kid by the end of 2003 or 2004 at the latest (his oldest started college in September 2022) after being flagged as the hardest partier in several early interviews.

All that to say, even if they weren't super, super, close, that would have have still be a very important milestone in his life. "I wish I would have been there" also kind of has the vibe of an AA mantra.

Regardless of the actual circumstances of the song can we talk about this devastating in hindsight line:

"How many times was the gun to our head, but we never came up dead"

Oof :(

I am aware could be way off, but there is not enough Foo Fighters content in the Foo Fighters tag so have a Sunday afternoon essay (you're welcome)

[moonchild1]

anyone wanna send me some recs i'm in the mood to find some new fics to read 🙂

[kociamieta]

some angel lore because they make me happy : )

i've considered having their form be based on some sort of angel hierarchy - it's been a lot of fun reading how they've been classified in different religions - but i'm not sure if i want to use that after all! for now, they're all equal.

the angels quickly realized that most creatures would fear them less if they looked similar to them. while the results weren't perfect - the "reshaped" angel would still be made of the same substance and glow - it was enough for them to approach most animals. humans were an interesting case. while many required the same treatment as other creatures, some didn't seem to mind their real form - and some were even interested in seeing it.