#advanced depression

[yourheartinyourmouth]

i am the gods saddest wettest little meow meow

[aroaceleovaldez]

tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.

Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.

That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.

And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.

By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.

[goofygoobsteroni]

sif in a skirt! and like.. a whole other outfit. fun fact! i drew the body and outfit on its own and decided months later on a whim to turn it into a sif. wow!

[angelpuns]

Just saved a note to myself in my drafts so here's ANOTHER note to myself:

JAMIE YOUR DRAFTS!! YOUR DRAFTS JAMIE!!

[sameyotherside]

An apology Nanami drawing for taking so long to update my fic 💀🙏🏽

[13eyond13]

a headcanon I just realized I have is that Light often has a lot of trouble living in the present moment and L often has a lot of trouble NOT living in the present moment. Light is a huge planner and forward thinker and accustomed to grinding through unpleasant current circumstances in order to achieve optimal future results. L is very keen on living for today and whatever is currently tickling his fancy and giving him the most excitement and pleasure and challenge, and prefers not to dwell heavily on the future nor the past. And I think that both of them normally feel uncomfortable and resentful if they are forced to do the opposite of what they are normally accustomed to doing.

[rukanthevampirequeen]

correct me if i'm wrong but Jax is not a Tumblr sex man..but Kinger is?

[grey-worlds]

Voices

"The reason it is so hard for me to be non-violent is because I hear voices, Phil.

I hear countless voices in my head all the time and the voices are crazy, Phil.

Sometimes they're angry, sometimes they're sad, sometimes they mock me.

But the thing about the voices, Phil,

The one thing I hear from them the most...

The voices demand blood, Phil, they demand blood.

I've been trying to ignore them lately, but they're just so loud. They're just so loud.

I just wanna stab something.

But I'm holding back. I'm holding back! I'm gonna be a good person, Phil"

[squeakadeeks]

theres an irony to drawing the transient characters in my physics class since i intend transient to be an infotainment/a physics education series....so in a meta way they are serving their purpose

[apollos-boyfriend]

i know at least like 30% of part 4 is about the priest and sarah parallels but oooouuuuhhhhhh priest and sarah parallels….,,..,,,, ⁝ƈ ͡ (ुŏ̥̥̥̥םŏ̥̥̥̥) ु⁝

[captainxtra]

Oh hey, Tariffs are actually bad!

If only folks who voted for Orange Palpatine bothered to listen…

[kneelingshadowsalome]

A gentle reminder that I'm taking a break from answering asks & from writing overall, but I haven't abandoned my Christian Woman fic 🩷 The last 2 chapters are going through an editing process so please be patient, you won't be left high and dry with it :)

[kentuckyfriedmegumi]

well, i am sorry in advance, but i wrote a terribly depressing, angsty, NO COMFORT, NO HAPPY ENDING one shot because my friends got into my head too much

read it, if you dare

[daily-whistlebreeze]

daily whistlepaw until ki becomes PoV day 1387

[caffeinatedopossum]

No one:

Me when the plans change:

[katyspersonal]

Lrb honestly one of the most important things I've learned in this fandom is to not worry about "being annoying" or "worrying people".

I've been asking literally every person I could think of, to the point I should earn infamy amongst Soulsborne dataminers as that autist you really hope you won't attract the attention of XD And yet, one person DID answer my request for checking every Dark Souls 1 NPC properly and clarifying the three that supposedly don't have faces! Not only Rayan was so kind despite (what seems like) Dark Souls 1 being tedious to hack, but we even discovered curious unused content character and extra lore for Lautrec! But even just faces should have been shot properly a DECADE ago!

And that would not have happened, had I gave up after several times of receiving cicada noises on my questions, even from people who normally talked to me! Just remember to never give up, there is always a person who will help just because they can!