#I'm gonna stop now XD

[paintedkinzy-88]

...I can explain.

I'm drawing something and while filling in his gray spinal bones I thought of candy canes...

And thus this monstrosity was made. Sorry not sorry.

Not what I meant to do but when the mood hits ya I guess?? The actual drawings will be done soon, this is just a joke I thought I'd share XD

[softhe4rted]

on loneliness jenny slate / japanese breakfast, posing for cars / corinne von lebusa, big glow / dadushin / alejandra pizarnik, tr. me / fka twings, home with you / avocado_ibuprofen / fiona apple, left alone / anne carson, “the anthropology of water”, plainwater / kiki smith, free fall / alejandra pizarnik, diaries

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

This is an episode series of Cultish I listened to on hiatus, and while I know I've got LDS followers, it's geared toward Christians and I'm chiefly recommending it to my Christian followers.

These guys are part of a Reformed ministry to Mormons in Utah. They, like myself, have many Mormon friends and loved ones, so while the podcast name may seem inflammatory, it is meant to be literal & earnest, as they have immeasurable compassion not only for Mormons, but for all members of cults, from vanilla conspiracy theorists to literal Nazi colonies. They're not here to say, "Look how loony these people are," but rather, "There but for the grace of God go we."

Because their main evangelical focus is in apologetics, it's very important to them that their textual and historical information be accurate and their discussions accurately reflect the (quite diverse) views and professions of Mormons themselves.

As the LDS church's mainstream profile grows, in both negative ways--such as the countless new docudramas you can find streaming on any platform--and positive ways--such as the rise of Angel Studios--I think it's important that Christians understand what they ACTUALLY believe and how they ACTUALLY got there.

This series is by no means exhaustive (only one season is complete), but it is a great start.

[gadzooksgalore]

Someday I hope I'll make enough art to warrant receiving questions/asks about my characters unprompted. Which I recognize is unrealistic given my current (and past) output, but a girl can dream :')

[padmerrie]

even the best of friends don't always get along.

bookends au

[8km-2]

Apparently the way to heal and redeem our war criminal blorbos is to have them adopt a kid lol. We should just give them all random kids. That’ll fix them.

(i have not recovered from that second act send help)

I'M STILL CRYING OVER ITTTTTTTT

They were so happy and Vander was slowly getting his humanity back (that whole scene where viktor and sky go through his memories oh my goddddd). Like I KNEW. I KNEW. It was too good to be true but I still hoped... T_T

This part right here had me sobbing

Isha helped Jinx love her past self again and the writers just had to do it. They just HAD to traumatise all of us (she also had to watch Vander die again yayyyyy TT_TT)

[nelkey]

Can I ramble to any of you in dms about orv???🙏

I'm currently reading it, and I have some friends (who are also on tumblr) who are reading it too but I'm way ahead of them and I don't wanna spoil them too much. It would be really fun to talk to another person who has read it!!!!

[rings-of-power-realm]

RopWeek2023

Favourite Dialogue

ALL OF IT but I'm gonna put some of my favourites here ♡

(not in any order, features all episodes LONG POST)

"Even stone cannot hide the mark of one whose very hand is flame unquenched." Galadriel

"There is a Tempest in me!" Galadriel

"Put up your sword. Without it, what am I to be? What you have always been. My friend." Galadriel and Elrond

"I have said it already. A hundred times over, in every way but words." Arondir to Bronwyn

"We do have our secret names, for use only amongst ourselves. And we reveal them only to family. Wives, parents, sisters, brothers. Elrond...Save it, Durin. For the far side." Elrond and Durin

"Look, we don't slay dragons. Not much for diggin' jewels.But there's one thing we can do, I warrant, better than any creature in all Middle-earth. We stay true to each other. No matter how the pathwinds, or how steep it gets, we face it, with our hearts even bigger than our feet. And we just keep walkin'." Nori Brandyfoot

"You're staying for dinner. He's leaving. He's staying. He's leaving!" Disa and Durin

"So great were his deeds that the Valar lifted him beyond the bounds of this world...To forever carry the Evening Star across the sky." Elrond

"You remember what you used to say? When you would hold me in the dark? Would you say it to me now? In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beautyforever beyond its reach. Find the light... And the shadow will not find you." Bronwyn and Theo

"It is a tradition among Elves. Before the battle begins, plant one. New life, in defiance of death? It is believed that one of the Valar watches over growing things... And those who tend them.The rest...we shall plant after the battle is over. In a new garden. You and I." Arondir

"Perhaps your search for Morgoth's successor should have ended in your own mirror." Adar

"We do not say goodbye. We say namá...Namárië." Elrond and Durin

"The missus will be waitin'. Now, if you don't mind, I'd just like to sit a while, watch the Sun come up." Sadoc Burrows

"Where there is love, it is never truly dark. How could it not grow in a home like yours?" Elrond

"I'm good." The Stranger

"I alone can see your light. You would make me a tyrant. I would make you a queen. Fair as the sea and the Sun. Stronger than the foundations of the earth. And you. My king. The Dark Lord. No. Not dark. Not with you at my side." Halbrand/Sauron and Galadriel

"There's a sweet smell on the air this way. When in doubt, Elanor Brandyfoot...always follow your nose." The Stranger (Gandalf)

"Why does everyone I love the most always have to go away? You're my best friend in this whole wide, wild world. I'd do anything for ya." Poppy Proudfellow

"Hope is never mere, Elrond... even when it is meager. When all other senses sleep, the eye of hope is first to awaken, last to shut." Gil-Galad

[winterwrites23]

Just saw the new trailer for the httyd live-action and idk how to feel about it ಠ_ಠ

[theydoctor]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers✨ no pressure tho! ( ◕◡◕)っ ♡

(This is really hard btw because the last 80 reblogs in my notifications are just you and your Patrick insanity xD)

wdym i did absolutely not go insane over patrick (also you're to blame tss)

oki uhmm

- You <3

- bisexual people.

- jon & martin (except for when they make me cry)

- not dying ?

- punctual trains

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 6, day 18

(╯°□°）╯OBJECTS!!!!

I'm not even done. I still have stuff to do to that cylinder to make it look like a slightly melted candle. I've been at this for five hours. The course said it would take three ;-; I am WIPED. OUT. XD

[kingboohoo37]

YESS. WE BEAT GOD, I mean Burgh xD It was a really close one. His lead Scrafty did insane damage to my team and was hard to deal with... Eventually, I had to sack Small Fry the Vanillite. Big MVP was Molly the Spheal who Encored his Arceus into Earth Power so Hedwig the Tornadus could easily take care of it.

[gwydionae]

Top 5 anime!

(oh crap haven't thought about this in a while and it's probably changed uuuuuuuuuuuuh)

1.) Tsuritama 2.) Digimon Adventure 3.) Haikyuu!! 4.) Noragami 5.) Fullmetal Alchemist (03, not Brotherhood - no that is not a typo do not @ me unless you want a really long rant I am too old to put up with the 03 slander LOL)

(considering how often i return to the original naruto anime it should probably be here but shhhhhhhhhhhh)

[archaeren]

How I learned to write smarter, not harder

(aka, how to write when you're hella ADHD lol)

A reader commented on my current long fic asking how I write so well. I replied with an essay of my honestly pretty non-standard writing advice (that they probably didn't actually want lol) Now I'm gonna share it with you guys and hopefully there's a few of you out there who will benefit from my past mistakes and find some useful advice in here. XD Since I started doing this stuff, which are all pretty easy changes to absorb into your process if you want to try them, I now almost never get writer's block.

The text of the original reply is indented, and I've added some additional commentary to expand upon and clarify some of the concepts.

As for writing well, I usually attribute it to the fact that I spent roughly four years in my late teens/early 20s writing text roleplay with a friend for hours every single day. Aside from the constant practice that provided, having a live audience immediately reacting to everything I wrote made me think a lot about how to make as many sentences as possible have maximum impact so that I could get that kind of fun reaction. (Which is another reason why comments like yours are so valuable to fanfic writers! <3) The other factors that have improved my writing are thus: 1. Writing nonlinearly. I used to write a whole story in order, from the first sentence onward. If there was a part I was excited to write, I slogged through everything to get there, thinking that it would be my reward once I finished everything that led up to that. It never worked. XD It was miserable. By the time I got to the part I wanted to write, I had beaten the scene to death in my head imagining all the ways I could write it, and it a) no longer interested me and b) could not live up to my expectations because I couldn't remember all my ideas I'd had for writing it. The scene came out mediocre and so did everything leading up to it. Since then, I learned through working on VN writing (I co-own a game studio and we have some visual novels that I write for) that I don't have to write linearly. If I'm inspired to write a scene, I just write it immediately. It usually comes out pretty good even in a first draft! But then I also have it for if I get more ideas for that scene later, and I can just edit them in. The scenes come out MUCH stronger because of this. And you know what else I discovered? Those scenes I slogged through before weren't scenes I had no inspiration for, I just didn't have any inspiration for them in that moment! I can't tell you how many times there was a scene I had no interest in writing, and then a week later I'd get struck by the perfect inspiration for it! Those are scenes I would have done a very mediocre job on, and now they can be some of the most powerful scenes because I gave them time to marinate. Inspiration isn't always linear, so writing doesn't have to be either!

Some people are the type that joyfully write linearly. I have a friend like this--she picks up the characters and just continues playing out the next scene. Her story progresses through the entire day-by-day lives of the characters; it never timeskips more than a few hours. She started writing and posting just eight months ago, she's about an eighth of the way through her planned fic timeline, and the content she has so far posted to AO3 for it is already 450,000 words long. But most of us are normal humans. We're not, for the most part, wired to create linearly. We consume linearly, we experience linearly, so we assume we must also create linearly. But actually, a lot of us really suffer from trying to force ourselves to create this way, and we might not even realize it. If you're the kind of person who thinks you need to carrot-on-a-stick yourself into writing by saving the fun part for when you finally write everything that happens before it: Stop. You're probably not a linear writer. You're making yourself suffer for no reason and your writing is probably suffering for it. At least give nonlinear writing a try before you assume you can't write if you're not baiting or forcing yourself into it!! Remember: Writing is fun. You do this because it's fun, because it's your hobby. If you're miserable 80% of the time you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong!

2. Rereading my own work. I used to hate reading my own work. I wouldn't even edit it usually. I would write it and slap it online and try not to look at it again. XD Writing nonlinearly forced me to start rereading because I needed to make sure scenes connected together naturally and it also made it easier to get into the headspace of the story to keep writing and fill in the blanks and get new inspiration. Doing this built the editing process into my writing process--I would read a scene to get back in the headspace, dislike what I had written, and just clean it up on the fly. I still never ever sit down to 'edit' my work. I just reread it to prep for writing and it ends up editing itself. Many many scenes in this fic I have read probably a dozen times or more! (And now, I can actually reread my own work for enjoyment!) Another thing I found from doing this that it became easy to see patterns and themes in my work and strengthen them. Foreshadowing became easy. Setting up for jokes or plot points became easy. I didn't have to plan out my story in advance or write an outline, because the scenes themselves because a sort of living outline on their own. (Yes, despite all the foreshadowing and recurring thematic elements and secret hidden meanings sprinkled throughout this story, it actually never had an outline or a plan for any of that. It's all a natural byproduct of writing nonlinearly and rereading.)

Unpopular writing opinion time: You don't need to make a detailed outline.

Some people thrive on having an outline and planning out every detail before they sit down to write. But I know for a lot of us, we don't know how to write an outline or how to use it once we've written it. The idea of making one is daunting, and the advice that it's the only way to write or beat writer's block is demoralizing. So let me explain how I approach "outlining" which isn't really outlining at all.

I write in a Notion table, where every scene is a separate table entry and the scene is written in the page inside that entry. I do this because it makes writing nonlinearly VASTLY more intuitive and straightforward than writing in a single document. (If you're familiar with Notion, this probably makes perfect sense to you. If you're not, imagine something a little like a more contained Google Sheets, but every row has a title cell that opens into a unique Google Doc when you click on it. And it's not as slow and clunky as the Google suite lol) (Edit from the future: I answered an ask with more explanation on how I use Notion for non-linear writing here.) When I sit down to begin a new fic idea, I make a quick entry in the table for every scene I already know I'll want or need, with the entries titled with a couple words or a sentence that describes what will be in that scene so I'll remember it later. Basically, it's the most absolute bare-bones skeleton of what I vaguely know will probably happen in the story.

Then I start writing, wherever I want in the list. As I write, ideas for new scenes and new connections and themes will emerge over time, and I'll just slot them in between the original entries wherever they naturally fit, rearranging as necessary, so that I won't forget about them later when I'm ready to write them. As an example, my current long fic started with a list of roughly 35 scenes that I knew I wanted or needed, for a fic that will probably be around 100k words (which I didn't know at the time haha). As of this writing, it has expanded to 129 scenes. And since I write them directly in the page entries for the table, the fic is actually its own outline, without any additional effort on my part. As I said in the comment reply--a living outline!

This also made it easier to let go of the notion that I had to write something exactly right the first time. (People always say you should do this, but how many of us do? It's harder than it sounds! I didn't want to commit to editing later! I didn't want to reread my work! XD) I know I'm going to edit it naturally anyway, so I can feel okay giving myself permission to just write it approximately right and I can fix it later. And what I found from that was that sometimes what I believed was kind of meh when I wrote it was actually totally fine when I read it later! Sometimes the internal critic is actually wrong. 3. Marinating in the headspace of the story. For the first two months I worked on [fic], I did not consume any media other than [fandom the fic is in]. I didn't watch, read, or play anything else. Not even mobile games. (And there wasn't really much fan content for [fandom] to consume either. Still isn't, really. XD) This basically forced me to treat writing my story as my only source of entertainment, and kept me from getting distracted or inspired to write other ideas and abandon this one.

As an aside, I don't think this is a necessary step for writing, but if you really want to be productive in a short burst, I do highly recommend going on a media consumption hiatus. Not forever, obviously! Consuming media is a valuable tool for new inspiration, and reading other's work (both good and bad, as long as you think critically to identify the differences!) is an invaluable resource for improving your writing.

When I write, I usually lay down, close my eyes, and play the scene I'm interested in writing in my head. I even take a ten-minute nap now and then during this process. (I find being in a state of partial drowsiness, but not outright sleepiness, makes writing easier and better. Sleep helps the brain process and make connections!) Then I roll over to the laptop next to me and type up whatever I felt like worked for the scene. This may mean I write half a sentence at a time between intervals of closed-eye-time XD

People always say if you're stuck, you need to outline.

What they actually mean by that (whether they realize it or not) is that if you're stuck, you need to brainstorm. You need to marinate. You don't need to plan what you're doing, you just need to give yourself time to think about it!

What's another framing for brainstorming for your fic? Fantasizing about it! Planning is work, but fantasizing isn't.

You're already fantasizing about it, right? That's why you're writing it. Just direct that effort toward the scenes you're trying to write next! Close your eyes, lay back, and fantasize what the characters do and how they react.

And then quickly note down your inspirations so you don't forget, haha.

And if a scene is so boring to you that even fantasizing about it sucks--it's probably a bad scene.

If it's boring to write, it's going to be boring to read. Ask yourself why you wanted that scene. Is it even necessary? Can you cut it? Can you replace it with a different scene that serves the same purpose but approaches the problem from a different angle? If you can't remove the troublesome scene, what can you change about it that would make it interesting or exciting for you to write?

And I can't write sitting up to save my damn life. It's like my brain just stops working if I have to sit in a chair and stare at a computer screen. I need to be able to lie down, even if I don't use it! Talking walks and swinging in a hammock are also fantastic places to get scene ideas worked out, because the rhythmic motion also helps our brain process. It's just a little harder to work on a laptop in those scenarios. XD

In conclusion: Writing nonlinearly is an amazing tool for kicking writer's block to the curb. There's almost always some scene you'll want to write. If there isn't, you need to re-read or marinate.

Or you need to use the bathroom, eat something, or sleep. XD Seriously, if you're that stuck, assess your current physical condition. You might just be unable to focus because you're uncomfortable and you haven't realized it yet.

Anyway! I hope that was helpful, or at least interesting! XD Sorry again for the text wall. (I think this is the longest comment reply I've ever written!)

And same to you guys on tumblr--I hope this was helpful or at least interesting. XD Reblogs appreciated if so! (Maybe it'll help someone else!)

[hiimcanadia]

Nothing against Joel Grey but mannn I need to get my hands on an Alan Cumming recording of Cabaret again. He's such a captivating emcee

[massivementalitynut]

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