#Wired and Powered [ask]

[deerspherestudios]

now here's the thing. if mychael had mind reading powers, would he still help the mc? and if yes, what would he do when they woke up and weren't afraid?

For context! See, if we follow the original events of the game, I don't think MR!Mychael would save the MC after they fall victim to the mushrooms. He might feel bad, but he's been burnt too many times to take that risk. He'd gladly let you keep sleeping.

For you to meet MR!Mychael would have to be under completely different circumstances.

[thecryptidart1st]

Coffee machine is not just Mike's favourite co-worker, it is his favourite haunted robot too.

Mike: (while pointing towards the animatronics on stage) THE COFFEE MAKER DOES ITS JOB, IT NEVER WANTS TO MURDER ME UNLIKE *SOME* ROBOTSSSS

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

Ari do you think Suguru is a freak?

absolutely yes 😭😭 i don’t think he’s normal even in a no curses au ….. and i don’t mean that in a bad / scary way at all i just think he feels things very deeply and that makes him feel a bit … intense sometimes? like he’s a bit of a freak just in how fiercely he loves you i think …. but then obv . depending on the au he can be much freakier 😭 overall i’ll die on the hill that sugu is a sweet man but he is not normal god bless

[winxwannabe]

Thoughts on/Rating the S9 images that will probably be wrong in 3 months LETS GO -

Tecna is the best. Hands down, 10/10. I don’t care if they threw it together at the last minute to avoid backlash, give whoever designed her a goddamn raise. The bob with purple streaks, the vinyl skirt, it’s so perfect I can’t handle it. Me to Reboot Tecna:

Please let that be real. Please let the metal arm stay, Straffi.

My girl Musa is an official SHORT QUEEN, a popular headcannon that’s been going for years. I’m thrilled someone finally listened. Her iconic pigtails are also back, which is a bonus is my book (do they kinda look like Marinette’s from Miraculous? Yes, because Rainbow’s gotta steal one thing per season for Winx). The outfit isn’t my favorite, but better than others I’ve seen her in. A very respectable 8.5/10.

Rainbow’s art department raised enough money for brown paint, which is great news for Aisha! No more whitewashing! Her braids are stellar, her look is sporty, just very cute in general. The color scheme is very different from her original look, but I like it. Give Aisha bright colors. Let her be happy. And now tallest girl? 9/10

Flora’s look is the most similar to the OG series. Really the only difference is that weird ass green jacket - thing looks like it came off a one-day Project Runway challenge. It seems waaaay too structured compared to the rest of the outfit. That’s legit my only note. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, I guess. 7.5/10

Bloom’s look says 2 things; “I’m Bella Thorne from Shake It Up!,” and Certified Horse Girl™️. I do not vibe with either. Bloom is not either. Why is she in pink again? Why is her belt so big - Bloom is so impatient and always in a rush, do you think she has time to put a belt on every day? I get the skirt is paying homage to the S3 one, but the rest is…a choice. This would be lower if Bloom wasn’t my favorite character. But she is, and it’s not the worst look. 6/10.

No, no, the worst look here is your favorite Solarian princess and mine, Stella. I get Rainbow was trying for a new look, but it doesn’t land for me. I don’t like the sunglasses, I don’t like that her dress is pink because that’s never really been Stella’s primary color - it’s more Flora and Tecna’s (and now Bloom’s I guess because UGH). She’s also wearing sleeves, which Stella rarely wore in the series because she is the fairy of the sun and I always thought that was a cool wardrobe detail. The only times she’s worn long sleeves (as a primary outfit in the season) were in S6 with her Alfea uniform, and Season 8, which barely counts. Just…make it orange. Or yellow, or even blue. It would fix so much. 5/10 for doing this ray of sunshine so dirty.

Also, if we can afford new civilian and transformation outfits for the girls, we can do the same for Ogron and the Black Circle. C’mon guys. Also! Why does Ogron have a dark dragon? What the fuck does that mean? Please do not pull a S8 Valtor on the Wizards. They don’t deserve it. And probably get Duman in there before the fans come after you.

[reality-detective]

The tree is approximately 12" tall the wood is Live Oak

The wood it's setting on 👇

My latest creation with wire tree art

So far I was offered $1000 for this piece 🤔

[farosdaughter]

The only thing that inspires optimism is if they could give kiss Gal/El so easily, does it mean that they will be more free with Haladriel in the future and make them more romantic? Otherwise it will be a bit hypocritical on the part of the showrunners

Yeah, honestly that was my main takeaway from that scene as well! Obviously it served its own purpose within the plot, ie fooling the orcs, but I couldn’t find any trace of romance in their kiss.

It also helps that TROP as a show is very intentional when it comes to evoking romantic undertones in a certain dynamic, and Elrond and Galadriel have been established as friends throughout two whole seasons. I see no reason why they’d want to abruptly change that now when there’s still plenty of time for Celebrian to show up in future seasons.

On the other hand, the Elrond kiss was a small but very bold move that made absolutely no one happy, which of course bodes well for the future of Galadriel and Sauron. Now that they’ve made it clear that they’re no longer shy about breaking the lore, the door is standing WIDE open for all kinds of possibilities when it comes to their ‘cosmic connection’!

[ramenwithbroccoli]

Brb, I'm doing hot girl shit

[corroded-away]

nowhere to go but forward. (bestie guess who read your story with Radz and Lazarus? IM ONLY SORRY I DIDN'T SEE IT SOONER. CHEFS KISS. DELISH.)

//OH SHIT??? SOrry life has been kicking me in the dick I didn't even *realize* that you had seen it oh my stars-

[lemongogo]

[elektrostantsiya]

Electrical engineering: if the current is high enough, you only lick it once

Astronomy I-

[thecryptidart1st]

I swear Sammy could wrap his whole hand around mikes torso cause hes built like one of those total drama chicks

ngl i cackled so hard at this ask bc its very true

but it also triggered something inside...

something long dormant...

i've cursed your eyeballs forever

[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!)

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

Yay! I love ship ask games 💖

1. Who would be first to bite down and consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood?

Merlin

2. Who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus?

Arthur is the ant, Merlin is the ophiocordyceps fungus, obviously

3. Who is the dog and who is the master?

Merlin is the dog, Arthur is the master

4. When the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bullet wound? the phallic blade? strangulation?

Merlin, a God become a Martyr. And phallic blade

5. Cocaine or Heroin?

Cocaine to imagine, heroin to forget

6. Who licks up the other’s cigarette ash?

Merlin. The burned remnants taste almost as intoxicating as the fire

7. Who is Julius Caesar and who is Brutus?

Arthur is Caesar, Merlin is Brutus. It's dangerous for one man to have that much power, better to twist the knife already in his heart than to stab his back

8. Who is Jesus and who is Judas?

Merlin is Jesus, Arthur is Judas. To love a God is to condemn him

9. Did Jesus want it? did Julius Caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud?

Jesus was doomed from the moment he was born as human. That has always been man's fatal flaw, original sin: Adam ate the forbidden fruit because Eve told him to. It is a wretchedly human weakness to trust the one you love above the Gods. The only sins Jesus died for were his own.

Caesar was warned of his demise, any attempt to outrun fate will inevitably lead you towards the blade's edge. The only surprise was in who wielded the weapon, "et tu, Brute?"

In order to be betrayed, you first have to love someone enough to trust them resolutely. Is that not a feat to be proud of?

10. Who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans?

Merlin is a power bottom for sure

11. Did they ever kiss and why not?

No. Because a cigarette only reduces to ash once it is pressed to lips. Because the kiss of Judas is a death sentence

12. If they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails?

They are! Arthur is heads, Merlin is tails

13. And if the coin was the holey dollar?

It's original currency is obsolete – a price that can never be paid. But the coin lives on, defined by it's defect: a hollow centre. To reunite it with it's missing piece after all this time might make it whole again, but never complete

14. And if the dog bit back?

You let him, the first few times. It's invigorating to remember you can bleed

15. and if the dog bit back?

You scold him

16. and if the dog bit back?

You feed him

17. and if the dog bit back?

You tell him to remember his place

18. and if the dog bit back?

You tell him he has nowhere else to go

19. and if the dog bit back?

You love him, despite everything

20. Who buys the other flowers?

Merlin 💐

ship ask game 😁1 Who would be first to to bite down anc consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood 2. who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus? 3. who is the dog and who is the master? 4 when the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bulletwound? the phallic blade? strangulation? 5. Cocaine or Heroin? 6. who licks up the other’s cigarette ash? 7 who is julius caesar and who is brutus? 8. who is jesus and who is judas? 9. did jesus want it? did julius caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud? 10. who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans? 11. did they ever kiss and why not? 12 if they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails? 13. and if the coin was the holey dollar? 14. And if the dog bit back? 15 and if the dog bit back? 16 and if the dog bit back? 17 and if the dog bit back? 18 and if the dog bit back? 19 and if the dog bit back? 20. Who buys the other flowers?🥰

[reality-detective]

My latest steel wire tree I completed headed to Dallas Texas for Scott McCay the "Patriot StreetFighter 🪓.

It took me 5 ten hour days and it has over 300 individual branches measuring 21" tall x 16" wide. It has a copper bird nest and knothole.

Knothole 👆

I did one that went to California right before Christmas. 👇

Approximately 200 individual branches measuring 24" tall x 17" wide.

My hobby I enjoy doing. 💫

[recreationaldivorce]

LLMs empirically do seem to take up much more computational power though im not sure why ppl are claiming they don't? like run ollama and htop at the same time and you'll see, for me it seems to make my cpu usage go up 50%. not sure how to monitor gpu usage and idek if this is gpu-accelarated either but i'd also be curious to see that

[twcwheeler]

Cee is that partner who never got used to tunnels or caves but is the one who fits in those places - and ofc vents.