#SKIM OR SKIP

[scaryscarecrows]

Full reply, actually: living in your comfort zone, no matter what it is, is not a hot idea.

I know. Bullshit! Unfair! But it's not.

Story time: when my dad first got his cancer diagnosis, my mother...did not cope. She refused to watch anything but Scooby-Doo and wouldn't play anything except the easiest games we own, which she had played already. She could probably speedrun them. That was all she did. No crafts, no reading, no nothing. Scooby-Doo and Mario and that was fucking it. Not judging, but it wasn't healthy. And it didn't help. Her anxiety got so bad that one day, I went out to recover the car after a storm and our neighbor (convicted sex offender, for context, broke into someone's house and assaulted her, has creeped on us before) was out doing yardwork.

My mother saw him and proceeded to scream and cry (not hyperbole; my dad got home and she was in literal red-faced hysterics) for me not to...take three minutes to cover the car, because the neighbor was outside and it wasn't safe and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh--

It was ridiculous. Cards on the table, it was utterly absurd. I'm not saying her refusal to engage with new media made her that way, but I think her refusal to get out of her comfort zone did her no favors. My father agreed. We steamrolled her and got her a copy of Breath of the Wild, which she had refused initially because 'it looks too hard'. We staged an intervention via Link. We had no other choice. It may not have been the nicest thing, but we basically held her Nintendo hostage. We made a deal: you play this for one weekend, and if you really can't do it, you can go back to your, for lack of a better descriptor, baby games.

She hated it for the first two days. Complained it was too hard. Complained she didn't know where to go or what to do and why are the puzzles so hard and yadda-yadda.

Come Monday, when she can go ahead and go back to Mario, guess what she puts in.

Not Mario. She toughed it out enough to get to Impa and get shit rolling, and honestly, her anxiety is still bad to this day (fair: we were all going through dark times and I am in no way judging her for struggling), but she largely kept it together after that. No more hysterics about me covering a car.

i promise its not ableist when people say you should try things that arent kids shows and fanfiction

[annabelle--cane]

heya comrades, before you share and comment on that booktoker screenshot going around about skipping long paragraphs in novels I would like to remind you that having trouble reading long blocks of text is a very common symptom of dyslexia, and even if the people in the screenshots aren't dyslexic you should still keep people with reading disabilities in mind before you say anything moralizing about "illiteracy"

[bumblingbabooshka]

The worst trope in the universe is when someone accuses character A, who is part of a real or fantasy or coded minority, of doing something bad and everyone's like "That's just your prejudice against [real or fantasy minority]!" and it turns out character A actually did do that bad thing and everyone else was stupid for not believing they did that bad thing.

[communistkenobi]

I don’t like when people ask how many books you plan to read/have read this year one because I think that’s a weird relationship to have to books and two because I think even reading a chapter or a portion of something is valuable. this is especially true with non-fiction but even with fiction I think any amount you read, even if you don’t read the entire thing, is not a failure or ‘incomplete’

[makiswirl]

thoughts on how jotaro shakes in the panel where he discovers his mom passed out in avdol's arms?

UNIRONICALLY I THINK ABOUT THIS SO MUCH ACTUALLY!!!!! THANK YOU TO WHOEVER ASKED ME ABOUT THIS VERY NICHE JOTARO DETAIL.

this actually isn't the only time he does this in sdc either! shaking is a thing that jotaro consistently seems to do when he's stressed, albeit usually very repressed. at the very least with the way it's presented you can assume it's him tensing up badly

he also trembles VERY frequently during the dio fight and i don't think either of the animated adaptations show it nearly as much. it still comes up though once or twice

either way, to answer the original question: i think it's a really neat trait that adds a lot to jotaro's character which really cements that he really is just a teenager who never even wanted to go to egypt and only ever went for his mother in the first place. like i genuinely cannot imagine how terrified he is at all times especially with how often his (presumably, only real) friends get injured. repressing all of that stress and only letting it show on rare occasions has to mess him up badly in the trauma department later

[rivangel]

i have so many questions.

the pose? can someone get him a pillow . an armrest. a blankie. HE'S TIRED. who unbuttoned his shirt that much. will those pants survive the width of his thighs?

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

Why is this chapter turning out so LONG to write?!?! Mitya tell a story in a concise manner challenge level impossible

[tremendously-crazy]

The Priory School Mystery my beloved <3

[glassamphibians]

i need you fuckers to post the triple goddess epub As Fast As Possible

[sorchasolas]

Have i never rlly connected with Venli on any level and really only like her because she brings a level of variety to the narrative + Timbre<3 ? Yes.

Will i hate everyone forever if anything bad ever happens to her? Yea.

[giantkillerjack]

It's difficult to describe growing up my entire life thinking my copy of All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 was in fact simply All Dogs Go To Heaven.

The last thing I remember from this property was watching An All Dogs Christmas Carol.

I have located the first movie, which I have never seen.

THE TONE SHIFT. IS. RATHER JARRING, FOLKS.

Imagine if you always thought that The Secret of Nimh 2 was the actual movie The Secret of Nimh... and then one day you saw the original.

[see-arcane]

Have you written in any other anthologies?

A handful! Though only the more recent ones have my finally-trimmed-down moniker of C.R. Kane.*

*My full name being both bereft of the beloved magical eye pun wordplay and, ironically, reading far too much like the pen name of someone trying too hard.

99 Fleeting Fantasies - "Angel Season," featuring celestial beings nesting on Earth. It's chill, it's fine.

99 Tiny Terrors - "Atoms Break the Same All Over," in which an apocalypse has been and gone. Bring your Geiger counter.

Offbeat: Nine Spins on Song - "A Walk, A Talk, A Death, A Life," based loosely off the premise of turning a song into a short story. Mine was "How to Save a Life."

Strange Little Girls - "Marco Polo," in which a child goes swimming and meets some new friends. Nothing goes wrong. Honest.

Creature Stew - "Tripping," which shows how the undead season their cuisine. It's free on Kindle!

And, if you want to duck into the backroom behind the curtain, (apologies for the sticky carpet)...

A couple erotica helpings too.

Blood in the Rain 4 - "The Married Woman," stars an amorous vampire sniffing out a bedmate who's already taken. Consequences ensue.

Mashed - "The Stray," wherein both halves of the supernatural x human coital collision assume the other one is the prospective party to be whisked away. Also free on Kindle.

[deathstrokewilson]

ooc: fun fact: this is also my first time rp-ing as a dc character!!! (i’ve rp-ed on online games like roblox before when i was younger.., aha…. so i have slight experience ig?? if that counts??? lmfao ^_^;;)

i’d def understand anon if they just. got caught up in the moment and forgot to realise that fiction and reality are two separate things., i sadly did so too before so i get it!!! but if it was hate, then you don’t deserve it :((

your writing is genuinely amazing?!?! like, if this was a fic on ao3 i’d be giving kudos and commenting and everything!! even if berns isn’t a big big part in this whole lore and is doing his own thing, i still love reading everybody’s parts on the sidelines because yall’s writing is >>>

imo, just . keep on doing what you like!!! no pressure at all if you wanna continue, stop or add a character, etc etc :3

((OOC: You're also really doing wonderfully! Genuinely, I've been enjoying seeing your Bernard interact with everyone. (If you want a JJ friend I feel that could be really fun, since JJ currently feels like a bit of an outlier from being a hero, villain, and a citizen, and he's trying to find out how he fits into the world, and having a civilian friend could help that :D) I remember when I was new to roleplay (god I sound old, just stick me in a rocking chair with some applesauce at this rate- 'let's get you back to bed now peepaw Wilson' lmao) and I also had trouble figuring out things like 'how many powers are too many?' 'what's good to say to others?' 'how do I set healthy boundaries for myself and respect others' boundaries?' and things like that. It takes time and some introspection, but also it greatly helped when more experienced RPers gently (or not so gently in some cases) told me what to expect, what was right and wrong in terms of RP etiquette. I feel like I'm rambling a bit so I'll ease off but thank you for sending this in! I'm really grateful for all this support, and it's really validating and humbling to get such high praise for my RP!))

[bonyato]

[taffybuns]

What kinda games have you been into lately if any? Im looking for something new to play!

wahh not gonna lie im about to hit 600 hours playing nothing but salmon run on splatoon 3 for a year agqjshd.. lately tho ive been getting into tf2, and kirby and the forgotten land, both for the first time- lots of fun even if i'm late!

my favorite recent ones i'd recommend might be pikmin 4 (goty), rhythm doctor (an update just came out!), the rusty lake series (underground blossom just released and it was soo good), hi-fi rush (goty 2), neon white (haven't finished but gameplay is incredible), transistor (or any supergiant game really)

i could go on but not sure what genres you're looking for and i just game too much after work ajdhdkk

i hope you find something nice to play!

[lilacpaperbird]

"can I skip [x episode] of spn??" no you can't and if you find yourself wanting to skip episodes just. don't watch the show wth (especially if we're talking about the first 5 seasons)