#Our Help is the Lord

[granonine]

Our Help is the Lord

Psalm 121. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor…

[terristre]

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[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

Favorite Aragorn scenes in Fellowship of the Ring as voted by my tumblr poll

Nr. 2: Strider 4k

[ichooseviolencetoday]

Gay divine beings have been miscommunicating for 6000 years, the gay pirates resolved it in 3 weeks. I SAID, THE GAY DIVINE BEINGS-

[cheese-hater]

*looks at my most liked post* wow, you people *picks up my pen* what's wrong with you guys *turns on the tablet* such weird interests *starts drawing something similar* i mean, seriou-

[poetryvampire]

Every time I write or think about Zevlor eating pussy I need a moment I need to sit down and try to gather my thoughts like the way you Know he'd make you a wobbly leg shaking mess in no time. Ass or pussy doesn't matter he's gonna get his tongue up in your guts, he's gonna solve your junk like a rubik's cube and fuck you up nasty

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Went on a Sips kick recently

[doydoune]

happy pride month to everyone and specifically to those two

[averagepsychouser]

The NCR when they see I’ve chosen to kill the president again

[raggedy-spaceman]

OFMD: and so Izzy dies at the end of season 2

Fic writers:

[opossumthing]

do you ever read something and you’re like. yeah. yeah. this is gonna stick with me for the rest of my life. this is gonna rattle around in my brain until it stops functioning entirely. this has changed the way i think forever. i am stuck with this for eternity

[shiftylinguini]

Fuck I Can't Write Crisis Pack:

@phoebe-delia asked in response to this fun lil ask game:

Do you have any advice for getting out of a slump/getting writing confidence back? . (for the ask anything) Do you have any advice for getting out of a slump/getting writing confidence back?

Now THIS. This is a good question, and something that is very much on my mind and has been for a while, as I am currently absolutely in the midst of this and trying to army crawl my way out. I don't have any magic bullets (is that the saying? idk) but I have been here before and i do have a small arsenal of tips or methods that I find can help me. 

Here is my Fuck I Can't Write Crisis Pack (In no particular order):

Write anything 

This is hardly groundbreaking advice, and it's also the hardest thing to actually do (imo) so do not beat yourself up if it takes a while to get to this. Basically, write ANYTHING―it can be aimless, it can be pointless, it can be crap (crap is subjective!! don't let the brain gremlins win!!). 

Don't think about posting it, don't worry about anyone else ever reading it, just fling a few words onto a page and feel the rusty faucet turn on, proving to yourself that it still works. 

Try and sus out what it is that's blocking you 

Again this one is hard and annoying but functional. Once you can put your finger on the particular reason you're staring at a flashing black line on a blank page it can help you kick that reason off your lawn and into the bin. 

And then, take it out of the bin and be kind to yourself about whatever that reason is. Maybe you feel shit because you're comparing yourself to others, your last fic felt like a lead balloon, you can't muster enthusiasm for what you once loved doing and fear that it's gone forever, you're projecting in a Tumblr post―whatever it is, it's something all the writers you admire and aspire to be like have felt, and been annoyed with themselves for, and so you can wrap it up in a blanket and put it on a shelf and be kind to it so it, (respectfully) shuts the fuck up. 

(and remember, everyone feels insecure about their stuff. Like literally everyone, at some stage, feels like their stuff is rubbish)

Cheat on your OTP 

Okay this one might not work for everyone, but it really does for me lol. Ruts (not the sexy kind) can often come with not wanting to engage in my usual ships, being annoyed by my lack of ability to fucking write them/anything/all my ideas taste like cardboard/bleh, and stepping out on them and reading something new can snap me out of it. Just, an injection of new ideas or scenarios or words or even just a little reprieve from being fed up with myself, which ideally, is why we're all here anyway. 

(And then I come crawling back, and am welcomed with open arms haha)

In a similar vein:

Engage in media 

This subtitle is genuinely terrible, i am sorry, LMAO, but essentially: find a piece of media that makes you go "oh, helLO sailor", unhinge your jaw like a snake, and consume it whole. 

Let it nourish you, inspire you, excite you, making you feel SOMETHING, and then take that and think "fuck, what if i wrote bleepbloopblarp" and even if you write nary a single word, you've thought about it and that fucking counts. 

It might be an album, a book, a song, a show, gifs of a hot person, the wikipedia summary of a movie, literally anything counts here if it makes you feel a twinge of creativity. 

Ask yourself, what would Astolat do? 

No for real. @candybarrnerd and I genuinely use this haha.  

Worried your idea is stupid? Astolat would say write it. 

Worried it's too weird? Nah, just write it. 

It's dumb and no one will read it? Just write it for you *waggles eyebrows* (and then find out that yeah, nah, someone else will absolutely read this and be real fucking happy about it haha.)

Worried you're a one trick pony and have already written this fic before, like, and not even once before, and also you're projecting again in Tumblr post? WRITE IT AGAIN! As Astolat once said, "it's a fic so nice, I wrote it thrice". 

It's good advice. 

Make a friend or lean hard on the ones you have here

Misery loves company because it knows they'll come out of this together :). I know, I know, that's fucking NAFF, but fandom is all about finding like-minded freaks and blowing up their DMs because you saw a gif and now feel a kind of ways about it. 

And lastly: 

FUCK STATS! 

I mean I love stats (yay validation!), but god can they make you feel like a worthless shit (hey where did my validation go :((( ). It can be really insidious, so piss that right off when it starts to fuck with your confidence or outlook on your own writing.

Hopefully there is something useful here, even if it's just looking at this advice and thinking "no that's shit, it's writing POISON" cos then you can maybe do the version you think is NOT shit, and that might work. 

Good luck, fellow travelers!!

[bitchthefuck1]

Six of Crows fans start treating Kaz's cane like a mobility aid and not a quirky accessory challenge

[diamonds-at-y11]

Going to sleep after being off tumblr for awhile and making some silly jokes to myself about how Minecraft parkour civilization is the second coming of my dsmp phase and then waking up to discover that dream smp is trending with absolutely no context was one of the most surreal moments of my life

[fast-andthe-curious]

okay does anyone just have artists block for no reason and just kind of go into a state of autopilot?

Becuase I have- I have so desperately been trying to create DBDA art for Halloween but I can’t

[wiirocku]

Psalm 33:20-21 (NIV) - We wait in hope for the LORD; He is our help and our shield. In Him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His Holy name.