#also half of the ref are from last year i don't like them too much don't look jkjdsjds

[inbabylontheywept]

Hi there! I just read through a few of your long form posts -- the one about the boss and the glue traps and the lizards, the one about the friend and the radishes and the cop, and the one about the breakup and the car and the neighbor's car and your dad -- and I'm just really blown away by your writing. And I'm just curious, are they actual experiences or are they fiction? They read like actual experiences, and the writing is so naturalistic and...idk, low key sweet, stream of consciousness without the major sidetracking that often happens in stream of consciousness writing and also more...more poetical in a way, I guess. I don't know. Are you published or wanting to? I mean I couldn't help with that or anything but if you've got a book out I'd love to read it.

Patrick McManus was kind of THE legendary writer to my family. When my dad was a kid, he'd sit on the porch the door that the monthly copy of Outdoor Life was going to arrive, and as soon as he got it, he'd run in with it and take it to his dad, who would gather all his kids around and read the stories out loud.

My dad loved it because his dad would make a whole performance out of the readings: He'd do voices, pantomimes, dramatic sound effects, the works. The stories are amazing, but the out-of-character behavior from his dad was half the selling point. Grandpa Hank was, to his core, a good man. But he was gruff, and socially, pretty stiff, and he didn't often show emotion. I think my dad said he saw him tear up one time growing up, and it was when he got dropped off at the MTC. My mom was married to my dad for three years before Grandpa Hank was comfortable enough to sit down in their house, and he liked her. That's just how he was.

(You just praised me for not getting sidetracked, but I'm letting myself wander down those memories a bit. He died last year. I miss him terribly.)

Anyway: Those stories were how I first started learning how to spin a yarn. I got older and I got more influence than just cowboys and Westerns, but the soul of my style is still just The American Tall Tale.

Which is to say that they're not outright fabrications. When I say that I cut all the worms up in my backyard and had a panic attack and hid in a tree until my mom got me, that happened. But I only remember the vaguest outlines of the words that were said. When there's a line in that story about my mom telling me that she's sure the worms will forgive me because they got six hearts to love and no bones to pick, that's not how she talks. That's how I talk.

Other stories, they're far less fuzzy than that, but I can still point out things I don't know. Wrestling story was from middle school, and a lot of those "crisp details" are just me painting by vibe. I've had some people that did wrestling through highschool point out things like refs not actually counting to three, or how double-legs are not actually super effective for tall wrestlers. I don't actually know how much the woman I wrestled weighed, nor do I remember how much I weighed, except that I was more than two weight classes smaller than her. Car incident, I got broke up with, went to her parents door, waited on the lawn, and was given some olives to go with a wireless phone. But exact wording of a lot of the people involved fails me. As a rule, the weirder an event is, the more likely I am to be distinctly remembering it and not just filling in the background. Except for dialogue, which often turns out weird because when I have to make up things for other characters to say, it carries too much of my own speaking style in it, and that's always been weird.

There are even points where things do come right off the rails. In the stories about J post, J himself became a sort of mythic figure after he moved, and lot of the stories about him, I don't even know I'm remembering them first hand or second hand from a story someone else shared with me.

I know it would be easier to just go, yeah, they're true, or no, they're not, but I did a weird thing and mixed them up and now even I'm a little confused.

Regarding publishing: I'm not published, and the thought of trying to get published scares the shit out of me. I

I don't know. If anyone has advice, I'd be interested.

[homosexualcitron]

I barely talk about oc lore but if anyone is interested i wrote a lot about Ambrose on Artfight.. way too much nobody's gonna read that but </3 if anyone wants https://artfight.net/character/3028314.ambrose

[mecachrome]

landoscar ao3 stats — 2023 overview

notes

retrieved ~sometime in march 2024

methodology: scraped metadata for every fic in the landoscar tag and...... that's it. however one important constraint is that all temporal data is date updated (not posted), so the above timeline isn't exactly a true representation of fic growth but rather how many fics were last-updated at that time. of course this is still its own reflection of fandom health in a way since dead fandoms don't update old fic but well... it's just not quite the same!

this is just info about general trends, fic content, tags etc... so nothing about kudos/comments or any authors specifically

i decided to focus solely on fics last-updated in 2023 (unless otherwise mentioned) because i wanted a tidy set that i can maybe compare & contrast in a year's time, because i expect a lot of details to look different then (tho as stated above this set isn't exactly static... 🤷‍♀️)

ngl i had to re-scrape a bunch of times because i forgot about it for like 3 weeks and then there were 100 new fics 😭 so if there are some minor discrepancies across the post it's because of that halfskh.

also i wanted to include more global comparisons (aka how 814 stack up against the f1 rpf tag in general), but this is also considerably difficult in some contexts since i can't exactly scrape 31,000+ fics can i... or i didn't even want to entertain the thought of trying to do so!!!

why did i do this? who knows.

anyway here's some viz T__T

ship growth

as evidenced in the opening graph, landoscar have been a very fast-growing ship over the past year — although interestingly enough they didn't really start growing substantially until july / the ~better half~ of the 2023 season. here are two views showing their "growth" (by date updated) alongside two other ships on the fringes of the f1 rpf top 10 (sebchal & galex):

landoscar are very much on-track to surpass them and officially enter the top 10 soon, likely before mid-april ❗️ :o

ship characteristics

onto the ship content — another thing i was mildly curious about was how landoscar differs in certain areas from other f1 ships, or the f1 rpf "global" average you could say. for example, here's a breakdown of rating popularity in their ao3 tag:

seeing as explicit is their most common rating, and that i don't necessarily expect this to be true for all ships/fandoms, i compared these percentages with the general f1 rpf tag to see whether some ratings are more commonly represented in 814 fic than average, which produced interesting results:

do lando ships simply skew more HornyTM in general? is it oscar? a secret third thing??? who knows... actually i think it would be fun to do more analysis in this direction but that can wait for another time!!!

similarly i also wanted to see which ships are the most "public" on ao3, as in have the highest share of fic that isn't user-locked... i will refrain from peppering in my feelings about the 4th wall too heavy-handedly but i was curious to see whether some sort of perhaps... er, generational gap (?) of sorts between ships that are more public vs. not could be identified. however i don't pretend to have any takeaways from this LOL i conclude absolutely nothing. (for ref landoscar is currently 72% public, vs. a global avg of 63%)

note that this graph is current stats, not filtered for 2023

looking at relationship tags, i also wanted to know whether landoscar suffer noticeably from Second-Ship Syndrome, so i tallied the first-tagged ship of every fic to find out. i know this doesn't necessarily mean that it's always the "main" ship but it's a good enough approximation. the results were quite positive!

filtered to top ships with count of >1 only

i then also calculated the number of ships tagged for each fic to discern the profile of multi-shipping in 814 ficdom; i did have to do a little bit of string standardization (all instances of implied / background / hinted collapsed to hinted for simplicity's sake + removal of other redundancies), but otherwise i left everything mostly untouched.

as you can see, landoscar also have a fairly promising amount of OTP: TRUE fic:

by the time you get to the fics with 10+ ships tagged, landoscar are less likely to be the primary ship, which makes sense just on a basic statistical level... this is also a very small sample size though

i also lazily tallied the 10 most common ships that weren't NOR/PIA or NOR & PIA to diff their shares of the 814 tag vs. of the general f1 rpf tag, to see which other pairings are more represented in the 814 tag than on average (because lestappen are the most popular by pure count but this is also true of fandom in general, so it would be a misrepresentation to say that their popularity is out of the ordinary):

maxiel's gap isn't really that surprising since i think that, generationally, in terms of when both pairings were teammates there is quite a gap; with carlando—actually let me tally this again but including all instances of "implied" and "past" as being part of the same ship, since that's how ao3 tag-wrangles as well:

Aha ! obviously as a direct ship there is competition between 814 and other lando or oscar ships, but this difference is somewhat less pronounced once we include all formats. tbh none of this really means anything but i thought i'd add it anyway... (it's also very possible that there are several errors in this, in which case my b 😔)

before we move on to additional tags, there are a few more basic characteristics of 814 fic we can calculate. i realize i never offered an overview of Super Basic Stats, so here are a few:

plus, looking at word counts, here is a distribution of those in 2023-updated fic, which shows that a majority of 814 fics were under the 5k mark:

85% of landoscar fics were under 10k & nearly 97% under 25k

i don't really have any reason to believe that landoscar's wc stats differ significantly from average ? so this is kind of just Data To Have Data, and it most likely reflects normal ao3 trends in general... but i thought i'd include it anyway because i already made it lol. similarly, here are word count distributions but stratified by rating:

& same info but heat map view:

i feel like this is also probably something you'd find across fandom in general — that gen fic is likely to have a higher share of under 1k works, since Building Up to sexual content often takes... Literal & Metaphorical Foreplay ! and the longer a fic is the more opportunities an author has to include a sex scene or other explicit content (ofc, not necessarily just porn but also graphic violence & so on). but i thought this was fun to visualize haha

additional tags & aus?

back in my old f1 rpf stats post, i made a table comparing fluff/angst "ratios" (not exactly a direct ratio because of how tag wrangling works, but an approximation) of the most popular f1 ships, and now that landoscar are somewhat popular i thought i'd first do an update:

also current data, not 2023 to make things easier

just like before, simi are one of the most fluffy ships and brocedes are by far the most angsty, but it's interesting to see 814 also extremely high up on the charts, with far and away the lowest % of angst. will be exciting 2 see how that holds or changes as the seasons progress !

finally, i also wanted to do a bit of au/additional tag analysis because you can kind of see this when you use additional filters on ao3 but the previews are limited and get bogged down by the prevalence of *checks notes* Fluff, Angst, PWP, Anal Sex and what have you. which are nice stats to have and all but what of the rest !

disclaimer that the set for these tables is a biiiit outdated because by the time i'd wrangled everything i was like I Am Not Changing It Again. unfortunately i clean my data with shoddy queries and regex functions in googsheetz...

there were 48 tags with at least 10 instances from 2023 fics, shown below, with ones that are (some ~vaguely) nsfw in red just to kind of get a rough sense of which tags get commonly used in M/E fic:

getting a bit too much into small sample size / specific fic territory so if you're an author i sincerely apologize for that... do not mean 2 put u on blast... TT__TT but i also tried to tally the most popular aus people write for 814, which is a bit dubious because people tag in really different ways and i had to accommodate for a lot of string formats but ... it's close enough ! (?)

i feel like this is very little interesting info but idk what else to add so i will stop here for now... well!!! if you made it to the end i hope u learned something or even vaguely enjoyed reading T__T and most of all thank you :')

[kelcemesoftly]

Request “You know I would die for you, right?” for Trav

Not My Girl

Triggers: swearing, alcohol, angst then fluff

Notes: Thanks so much for this request! I think I went a little overboard, but shhhh. I had a lot of fun writing this one :) Maybe angst is my thing??? Who knows.

Also, as much as I cannot stand the Bengals, I have nothing against any of the players or Logan Wilson. So no hate please ❤️💛

The Chiefs were down by a field goal at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Usually, that wouldn't cause you too much stress, but this was against the Bengals. And historically, the games had come down to the last possession. That thought alone made you feel sick to your stomach. You knew how important this playoff win was to the guys on the team. It would prove to all the haters, all the doubters, that the Chiefs were the real deal, and that Arrowhead would always be Arrowhead.

You watched as Pat, Trav, and the rest of the offense fled onto the field. You were up in the booth with Britt, some of the other wives, and Trav's entire family. Unfortunately, the Eagles hadn't made it this far in the playoffs, and while that was sad for Jason, it meant that his family could come and support Trav while rooting for the Chiefs to pull off a win. "Let's go, babe," you muttered, standing near the see-through glass of the family-style suite. Pat got the ball and threw it to Trav, who successfully made the catch. He gained about ten yards before he was tackled down by Logan Wilson. Only this time, the defensive player was preventing him from getting up right away. At first you felt as if your heart stopped, afraid that Travis had been injured. But, that worry was quickly replaced with utter confusion once he stood up and got in the face of Wilson. You couldn't hear any of the words being exchanged, obviously, but you could see his muscles flex under his jersey, even with as far away as you were. "What the hell?" you whispered, glued to the plexiglass in front of you.

The ref threw up a yellow penalty flag as Wilson shoved Travis, who then reacted out of instinct by shoving the defensive player back. Soon enough, both teams got into a scuffle, and the only reason Travis got out of that mess was because Pat literally pulled him out of it. "What happened?" Britt asked, popping up next to you, her brows furrowed in concern and confusion.

"I have no clue. He hasn't been like this... this mad, in years," you said, shaking your head. At the beginning of his career, Trav had a real quick temper on him, but that had progressively gotten better as the seasons had went on. Sure, he would get heated here and there, but this was something different. Listening to the ref's call, you heard that each player got an unsportsmanlike call, offsetting each other. You reached for your drink and took a long sip, running your fingers through your hair while watching the boys on the field below. Luckily, Travis had remained put together the remainder of that drive, with him scoring a touchdown. Unfortunately, Butker missed the extra point, so the Chiefs were only ahead by a field goal.

Kylie had made you up another drink, and by the time you were half-way through it, the Bengals had tied up the game. "You don't want 15 to have the ball in his hands in the final seconds of this game," Britt said, clapping her hands as the Chiefs' offense took the field once again. You watched them intently, immediately picking up on the fact that Travis was distracted. That altercation must have really rattled him, based on fact that Trav had now dropped three passes.

"Come on, Trav," Jason encouraged, placing his hands on top of his head. The game was down to the final 30 seconds, and the boys still had forty yards to go. Blowing out a deep breath, you bit down on your lip as Britt handed you a shot glass. "It's good luck," she lied, clanking glasses with you and Kylie before all three of you shot it back.

As you reached down for your drink, you shrieked loudly when you saw Travis and Wilson going at it once again at the end of one of their plays, albeit this time it was much more intense. There was clearly yelling going between the both of them, with Travis pointing his finger angrily at the man across from him. "Baby, don't do this. We need you," you begged, swallowing the bile you felt creeping up in your throat. Once again, Pat was able to break up the fight, but not without a flag being thrown. Thankfully, the penalty was only on Wilson that time, otherwise your husband would have been ejected.

"What the hell is his deal?" you asked no one in particular, shaking your head. You were angry that he was doing this because he could have easily jeopardized the game and his team, something you knew he'd regret. And it was a playoff game, to make it worse. You just prayed that nothing else would happen in the remaining seconds of the game.

Britt took your hand in hers and squeezed it as Pat got the ball, scrambling around the pocket until he spotted Trav being wide open. Your husband caught the ball and ran it into the end zone, spiking the ball. He screamed out in happiness and did one of his dances, only being stopped by his teammates embracing him. Pat gripped his arm and dragged him off the field before he could confront his enemy, not wanting there to be a penalty flag on the play to overturn the touchdown. As soon as the touchdown was confirmed, everyone in the booth screamed and cheered. "We're going to the Super Bowl!" Britt screamed, jumping up and down with you.

Everyone in the booth celebrated while the players wrapped up the game, and before you knew it, you were heading down to the field with the other family members in the booth. As soon as you got to the field, your eyes roamed around for your husband. Once you spotted him, you took off running for him. Trav opened his arms and you jumped into them, legs and arms wrapping around his sweaty body. "You did it, baby, you're going to the Super Bowl," you grinned, happy tears streaming down your cheeks. Even though they'd been to three Super Bowls before, winning two of them, the pride and joy you felt for him never got old. Giving him a sweet kiss, you told him how much you loved him before he set you down. He kept his arm securely wrapped around your shoulders as his family hugged him, as well, not letting you go for one second. It wasn't abnormal for him to want to touch you, but he wasn't generally this clingy.

Before you had a chance to ask him what had happened on the field, Wilson began to approach your small group. When Trav saw him, a low, animalistic growl left his throat, and he started to stalk toward him. You tried with all your might to hold him back, scared of what he might do. Unfortunately, you weren't strong enough to do so on your own. Luckily, Jason and Ed were right there. Jason gripped the back of his jersey and Ed stood in front of his son, pushing him back with his hands on Trav's chest. "I think you should give him time to cool off," Ed said, turning his head to speak to Wilson. With a curt nod, he obliged and walked away with his shoulders slumped.

"Travis Michael Kelce," you said firmly, eyes narrowing. You had no idea what the heck was going on, but you weren't going to have him risking his career over a petty football disagreement with someone on another team. When Trav's warming blue hues met yours, his face instantly softened and he swallowed thickly. "What the hell is this about?" you asked, putting your foot down. He shook his head, signaling he didn't want to talk about it on the field in front of all the reporters. You could understand that, so you didn't argue with him. Instead, you continued to celebrate with him and the rest of the guys before they headed to the locker room.

You and the rest of the family waited in the family waiting area while Trav showered and changed. It was eerily quiet between all of you, considering the win that just took place. "He had to have said something non football related. Travis has never been that pissed over a game," Jason commented, holding Ellie in his arms.

You sighed and nodded your head, looking down at your shoes. "Why don't y'all head back to the house? I'll wait for him. Hopefully I can get it out of him and he'll be calm by the time we get home," you suggested, rummaging through your purse to hand Kylie the keys. They agreed and after giving you a hug, shuffled out of the waiting area.

It wasn't too much longer before Travis emerged from the locker room. A small smile crossed your lips, and you offered him a hug and a kiss when he greeted you. Despite how irritated and slightly annoyed you were with him about his altercation with Wilson, you couldn't help but be immensely proud of him. He laced his fingers with yours and led you toward your car.

As soon as he pulled onto the highway, you turned in your seat so that you could properly look at him. "Trav, what happened? This... this anger, this rage, it isn't you. Not anymore," you said gently, stroking the back of his hand that was rested against your thigh.

With a heavy sigh, he glanced toward you and then squeezed your leg before turning his attention back to the highway. "I fucking hate his guts, Y/N."

You chuckled humorlessly, scrunching up your nose. "I gathered that from your two interactions with him, babe. Why do you hate him? You haven't had an issue with him in the past," you pointed out, placing your palm against the back of his hand before lacing your fingers with his.

"He made degrading and derogatory comments about you, babe. Comments that I wasn't going to fucking stand for. I don't give a fuck what he says about me. He wants to comment on my game? My appearance? My personality? Go for it. But he will not speak that way about my wife," he seethed, face reddening.

You swallowed thickly, shaking your head. "What did he say?"

"It doesn't matter. All that matters is that he said filthy things that he should have never said. I will never forgive him, Y/N."

"I appreciate you sticking up for me, babe. I really do. But you could have been ejected from the game. The playoff game, Travis! You would regret that for the rest of your life," you said, your free hand flying into the air.

"No, I wouldn't. You know I would die for you, right? Getting kicked out of one fucking game would be nothing."

And as much as you wanted to argue with him, as much as you wanted to say he would regret it in the long run, you couldn't find it in your heart to yell at him or be mad. He was defending your honor, being the most amazing husband and person you could have asked for. Instead of yelling at him, you leaned over and pressed your lips to his cheek. "I love you. To the moon and back."

"You already know, baby girl. I love you more."

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Taglist: @kelcemenow @hearts4papayas @keiva1000

[cchanticleer]

I'm still rankled by the lack of good refs for robin's clothes so i got more

As far as i know there's not a single bit of official art that shows them in their default tactician digs without their coat on so it's come to drastic measures, digging in to the actual models.

Fates, as seen above, offers the most complete look. In this version the coat is an entirely separate thing, and underneath it the clothes are fully modeled and textured. I used paragon to remove the coat; i'm not sure if you'd ever be able to see this all in-game normally. Maybe the coat goes away with clothing damage? I'll have to check later.

getting at things in other games is more of a pain, but worth looking into.

To be clear: I'm not looking at coat here, just what's underneath. TBH i was mostly personally interested in seeing what their golden collar bit is attached to. often when people draw robin's clothes they go off of this fan-made reference sheet, which adds a little mini jacket thing which i personally don't like the look of no insult to the creator it's just not my jam which is why i spent so much time trying to fine accurate refs while I always just assumed it was a part of the coat itself. Turns out we're both wrong!

I know the first model you'd want to look at is the one from Awakening itself, but unfortunately i couldn't find a rip of the model on first glance. BUT, while pulling usable models straight from the game files is out of my wheelhouse, i CAN pull the textures. So we'll look at that instead.

Here's the body textures for f!Robin from Awakening. It's a bit tricky to parse, but from what i'm seeing the parts of the clothes that are covered up are unsurprisingly not modeled/textured. The skirt-thing is almost the same, though the gold band running across the middle of the back segment is smooth instead of having two sharp bends. Other than that I don't see very much of note.

Next: Warriors. I got the models from here. I haven't touched blender in years but i remember just enough to tear things apart and see what's underneath. Looking at unpromoted m!Robin once again.

I only bothered to delete what was covering things on one side because it's all basically symmetrical, half's enough to get the idea. Again, my first priority was seeing what the collar was attached to, and it turns out the answer to that is "not much". They didn't bother modeling the whole thing, reasonably assuming that it'd never be seen. You can see that it's definitely its own garment separate from the coat and the top, but beyond that there ain't much. What we can see doesn't match the design from fates, though. I'd figure that it doesn't match because there's no point in adding details that no one'll ever see, but that's not where the changes end.

Here's the lower body, where we can see that the back of the skirt-y portion is completely different. In Awakening (as far as i can tell from the textures) and in Fates it's two segments, the smaller front segment and a second, larger segment that wraps all the way around. In this, there's four, with a matching front and back and matching sides.

Also there's a few points on the belt section where things are clipping through each other, but i'm pretty sure that was a part of the model as i got it and not a result of my cutting things up. Whether that's how it is in game or something that's happened when it was ported to blender, i couldn't say.

Last is Smash Bros.

I'm gonna be honest i had sort of run out of steam at this point and since i didn't see any models that had already been conveniently formatted for blender i kinda phoned this one in.

I looked around just long enough to see that a) there's even less of the collar piece modeled, it stops as soon as it's covered by the coat and b) the skirt-y thing is once again in two pieces. Here's the textures if anyone wants to try and parse em

I guess there's also codename: steam

I am not going to check codename: steam

In conclusion i spent entirely too much time on this but maybe someone will be able to use this mess as reference idk

[gioiaalbanoart]

Writer Questionnaire

Thanks to @wyked-ao3 (X) , @the-letterbox-archives (X)

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How long have you had your writing Tumblr/Writeblr? A fast and loose estimate is fine!

As in my bio this account was silent for years. I toke it back and I've been active about (counts....) : since may 2024?

What led you to create it? (take it back in my case)

I've been cursed with Banana Fish story so I landed to AO3 last year out of despair and started writing there.

Also AO3 posted mainly here, but I was still silent.

Then around april this year a lovely author (@the-golden-comet 💫💫💫) left a bunch of comments on my writing on AO3 and almost simultaneously followed me here 👀 👀 👀👀 👀 👀)

I got curious too, read and fallen in love with his work (ref below 👇 ) and interacted here more, so I met new people (again, ref below 👇 ) and here I am.

What’s your favorite thing about the Writeblr community?

Tips and advices, sharing experiences, sharing the fun, the snippets and other writings and characters. The quality and amount of good writing here is pretty amazing!

What’s one thing you’d like your mutuals to know about you?

Well, this might sound haughty but I'll take the risk. They probably know me as an enthusiastic reader, and I am, I tend to go wild with comments 😅

But I also get bored and snap out pretty easily, and probably end up being very selective. If I follow and stick to an author is that I really believe in them, I don't do half a way 💗

Is there anything you’d like to see more of on your dash?

I'm already seeing a lot that I love, mainly my mutuals. Then, of course, the more the better. One day I'll read it all........

WIP it Good

Which Works-in-Progress (WIPs) or writing projects are you noodling about, lately?

I have one (big) wip that is living in my head since already one year.

I've worked on and off for several months but since a couple of weeks now I'm fully committed only on this one (My OC is actually glaring at me)

How long have you been working on them?

One year...👆👆👆 (it will take a while I'm a 🐌)

Do you remember what inspired them/what got you started?

Ashley Knox, my main OC, came in my brain, curly blond, blue eyes and scars and said : write about me!

There have been more or less subconscious inspirations from Banana Fish, Omar little from the Wire, past women as gang leadears and others.

How much time, in your best estimation, do you spend thinking about them?

A lot....which doesn't make me go faster in writing 🤣

When someone asks the dreaded, “What do you write about,” question, what do you usually say?

Very few not on line know....and they don't ask 🤣

I don't really have a gender neither. I would say I mix reality/existential/magic/healing in a sort of fiction.

What do you want to say (if it’s different from what you do say)?

We can walk through fire

Let’s Rotate Blorbos

Name any characters you created.  Side characters, protagonists, antagonists, characters who’ve never been written, the first original abomination you ever pulled from your ass; whomever you’d like!

So far : Ashley Knox, Amy Salinas, Carlos Herrera, Frank Morales, 'The cook'.....

Who’s the most unhinged?

I would say Ashley.....but it's not the perfect term actually.

Who comes the most naturally for you to write?

Ashley and Amy. But it goes from moments to moments.

Do you ever cringe at them?

Until now not that much but I know I will....

How much control do you feel you have over your characters?  AKA, do they ever “write themselves,” refuse to cooperate, or do things you didn’t expect? To what degree? Are some less cooperative than others?

Same answer, for the moment they're relativeley nice.....

But I do struggle a lot until I don't feel it's right, they don't leave the grip so in a way they're already a pain in the ass.

Do you enjoy people asking questions about your characters? And do you have a preferred means of receiving said questions? For example, as Asks, as replies, as reblogs, as tag notes, as comments on AO3, etc.

I love it. Whatever way is ok.

On Writeblr Engagement

What makes you want to follow another Writeblr account? Do you follow ‘em as you see ‘em, or take time scoping out the blog to make sure you align with its content? Do you follow based on WIPs, or vibes?

It depends, sometimes it's someone that I see around for a few times and get curious. Sometimes it's interest at first sight and I give it a try. Quite a few are mutuals from mutuals.

What makes you decide against following?

If I cringe for some reason.....mostly vibes.

Do you interact with non-mutuals often?

I don't know about "often" but yes, then I love when they actually become mutuals.

Do your mutuals’ characters occupy space in your noodle?

I tend to get obsessed easily 😅.....

All OCs of @the-golden-comet (my safety blanket) 💫💫💫

All OCs of @fortunatetragedy (even if my heart bleeds like....a lot!)

The upcoming crew of "The Pirate king of deaths redemption" by @wyked-ao3 💗💗 I'm so waiting to read them

Nat and Ron from The Reburial of Natalie King by @saturnine-saturneight , just started and I'm already doomed 😅

....and I stop here for now.

Tag np : @alinacapellabooks @bookish-karina @fortunatetragedy @saturnine-saturneight @aintgonnatakethis + open tag and a drink 🍻 🍻🍻🍻 🍻🍻

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Hils Watches The King's Avatar - Ep 40

It doesn't feel like 5 minutes ago that I started this drama. It's so very bingeable.

It's been a real journey. None of this has been what I expected beyond the very basic concept of 'it's a drama about esports'. There have been so many wonderful surprises. There are characters that I hated that I now love, characters that I loved that I now love even more, and more ships than I ever expected to ship.

While I'm at it I want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has popped up in the replies to my posts or in my asks to either answer my questions or just yell about their favourite characters. I can tell this drama (and the novel and donghua) are so well loved and liveblogging this has really felt like a community experience. Thank you for not laughing at all the stuff I got wrong and for not making fun of me for shipping everyone. It's really been so wonderful and I almost don't want to press play on the final episode because I don't want it to be over.

But I need to see what happens so let's go!

Ah, okay. I misunderstood what happened at the end of the last episode. I thought they'd lost the game but no they could still win they just didn't have enough points to win the championship.

Is there going to be some loophole like the whole 'oh the ref's watch broke so actually you won'

HAHA! I fucking knew it! They got an extra two points for beating a league record. Because apparently that is a rule that has never been mentioned until now.

Eh, whatever. There was a nice moment with the fans before the found out they'd won

Ye Xiu finally gets the hug that he's needed since episode 1

Good lord how is there 30 minutes left? What's going to happen now that they've won?

God I hope Sun Xiang punches him

Except of course he won't because he's all grown up now. Also, typically it's the coaches/managers that get fired when a team does badly. I hope he gets booted

Love Shaotian dragging Wenzhou to his feet so he can cheer

Remember when their entire fanbase was just this guy. I'm definitely not crying at all

Look at that little half smile. He's grown so much considering they only lost on a technicality. I do think he's at least a little bit happy for Ye Xiu as the better player (for now)

GDI I can't believe I'm crying over Sun Xiang AGAIN

LOL remember when I thought he was going to be the antagonist of the drama when I watched the first episode. How wrong I was

Haha yes let's have a little joke about the time when I nearly banned you for life in the middle of an important game and caused your team to lose as a result

I have in no way been thinking about writing some King's Avatar fic with one based on the fact that Ye Xiu passes out after one drink

HAHA! Mo Fan pretended to pass out too so he doesn't have to talk to anyone. He is such a mood

Oh shit! I did not see that coming!

Oh no he looks so sad to see his former team like this, and it's understandable. He built that team from the ground up and put so much time and work into making them the legends they were

Yes, good. Baozi is cuddling one of his boyfriends as he should

Ah, yay, I'd forgotten about the team graphic. Time to add one more person right before the end

And finished! That was wonderful! Definitely in my top 5 dramas that I've watched this year. Might even be the number one, actually. I definitely should have watched that years ago when people first told me to give it a try. But, you know, I firmly believe you find things when you were meant to find them. Now was good.

I'll be starting a new drama tomorrow. If you were just here for my King's Avatar posts it's been lovely to have you. If you're sticking around for other liveblogs I'll see you tomorrow for more yelling :D

[fnafawoundleftbleedingau]

I don't really have anything made specifically for the new year, honestly I hardly ever do holiday specific art pieces, but, I thought I'd whip up a 2023 art summary thing real quick while I was waiting up till midnight, I figured it'd all be FNaF AU stuff, but what can I say, it's been my main thing through 2023. It's been, an odd year, definitely not my worst, but, odd.

I lost what little confidence I had in quite a bit of my creative works, mostly, anything OC driven, and I feel its begun to sink into my fandom stuff too, so I feel my FNaF stuff will be, slower, in 2024, but, still I hope to finish my main fic, AWLB, and begin working more on other FNaF AU fics I have rattling around in my head. I wanna do more illustrations again, like I started on the last couple months, along with character design refs. I hope I can finish part 2 of "A Wound Left Bleeding" But that's a bit up in the air on how long it's gonna take with how badly my confidence has wavered. It'll be finished eventually, but idk how long it'll be. I'm roughly 5ish chapters away from hitting the estimated half-way point on it, but I've also not been able to work on it in a few weeks.

That being said, I do feel I improved a bit with my art this year, both visual and written, I've a ways to go as a writer, something, I'm admittedly still very new to, but, have found enjoyable, I may be clumsy with words, but I've enjoyed telling my little FNaF story so far. Visual art, I'm happy with, I've tried to get a bit looser with character designs with the refs for WWLWWF, and I feel I've not utterly lost my "spark" for illustrations despite not doing them much. Overall, I feel I'm "content" with where I am in writing and drawing, I feel I'll improve still as I just continue to play around as I've done for let's see… almost 16 years now on a more "Serious" level. Sure I always liked arts and crafts and such, but about that long ago was when I decided I wanted to really learn to draw, I think the younger version of me would be proud of the art improvement, I just wish I'd kept the boundless confidence in my work that I had then haha.

Well, anyway, Happy New Years, may it be kind to us all.

[starsh0cked]

we've seen sectonia, wave 3, and kirby—do you have any other kirby gijinkas to share? (no pressure i swear)

ahhh. the fated question. i, in fact, DO have other gijinkas! they’re incomplete and lack ‘official’ references, but they’re far along enough that i can share them!

exhibit a: this embarrassingly lazy and half-hearted attempt at a gijinka of marx

(if i’m right,) i drew this last year with my initial concepts for wave 3. he didn’t really give me the right vibes though, so i dropped his design pretty fast. i felt like i wasn’t getting his personality displayed in the right way, and the design itself didn’t exactly feel like marx.

exhibit b: a genuine yet abandoned attempt at dedede

the goal of my dedede design was to actually try a different body type out for once (particularly that of certain wrestlers) which went sort of well! i managed to break the bulkier body down into simple initial shapes for me to start with. i don't exactly remember why i lost steam on this one...

exhibit c: WHY IS JORONIA SUCH A STRUGGLE TO DESIGN??

augh. yeah. both of these are incomplete because the designs i came up with for her REALLY didn't feel like they fit her. the concept and process for the first one was a bit maddening, too, since it was SUPPOSED to a reflection of sectonia in the shattered glass. not a lot of thought went into that one.

the second one, however, feels a bit closer to what i want. i can't quite describe the fashion style, but i distinctly remember choosing to give her a black shirt instead of a white shirt so that she didn't match taranza's design too much. in this case, the black is supposed to represent her height in the social hierarchy as a monarch. the red is supposed to match her cape in her original design and also symbolise her ever-flowing love for her kingdom and its denizens.

why did i just analyse my own stuff. naurrr.

i remember redesigning my marx gijinka on scrap paper but that's probably gone, and i have a few galactas lying around but idrk about the quality of them. hopefully sometime in the near future these three will get solid designs and refs from me, but for now they reside in limbo!!

[danwhobrowses]

My Highlights from AEW Double or Nothing 2023

We did Night of Champions now it's AEW's turn to do the big PPV. While people will say it wasn't built well (something they said last year if I recall) there's a lot of potentially great wrestling matches on the card, so let's see how it went down on the night and list out the positives.

Note: because of growing disinterest and lack of time on my bank holiday I won't be doing NXT Battleground that aired at the same time, sorry about that

Spoilers for the PPV

Buy-In

Paul Wight looking to Stokely when Renee said the 'biggest big man', their rapport was great too we could put them as a commentary team...if we still had Dark/Elevation

RJ's interview with Arn was funny too

The Gunns didn't have the same music but I do like that they kept the spotlight entrance

Gonna sound weird, but it's good to see HOOK sell, of course doing several squashes can help you grow a reputation but if you can't sell you're only doing half the work

It's smart that the Owen is finishing in Calgary this year, I wonder who is in it though

Main Show

Kip going straight for OC is clever and fits continuity, also it was smart that Bandido made the save given his affiliation with Best Friends

Swerve waiting on the outside too is smart

Brian Cage's run against the Luchadors were fun, reminded me of his Lucha Underground days

Trent sacrificing himself for OC

I had Jay winning but Ricky eliminating Jay was well done

The final sequence of the battle royale was great, need a proper Swerve vs OC match, the final move is hilarious as well, perfectly on brand

And I'm not upset that OC retained, because as much as this would've protected OC, whoever takes it from his exhausted bruised flavedo deserves to do it 1 on 1

Sabu's role was mercifully brief, mainly designed to remove the JAS

Britt getting some revenge on Jericho and Saraya with the Kendo Shots

Clever of Jericho to shift into a choke with the chain when he missed the Judas Effect

Mark Briscoe's ref outfit

The pop for Sonjay getting ejected

Also the heat for Karen hitting Aubrey, you don't hit Aubrey!

It was good story payoff too that Jarrett snapping on Mark was his own downfall

Tease of Bullet Club vs FTR?

Saraya and Jericho actually gel really well

Christian back with his turtleneck, it always puts a smile on my face

The final third of the ladder match was well done, it was a good adlib from the broken ladder incident too

Dang Julia

The Dominik burn by the Acclaimed's rap

Jade's entrance was impressive too

I don't think it was a Sit-out Blue Thunder Bomb (looked almost like an Olympic Slam/Powerbomb to me) but whatever it was I thought it was cool

STATLANDER'S BACK!

STATLANDER BEAT JADE!

Congrats to Tay and Sammy as well, explains why we hadn't seen Tay in-ring either

Darby's video before his entrance was hilarious too

And that attire, half bones, half Elvis, perfection

The orchestral MJF entrance with the descending throne too was on brand extra from Max

MJF's dialogue before being hit is still humorous

And his pop-up Powerbomb/Backbreaker is still meaty as fuck

The mentor finisher reference too was a great spot

Also Sammy tricking Max by laying down, saw it coming but still a clever move

The pinning sequences spot too

A clever finish to a great match too, Darby thwarted by JB and then Max, JB thwarted by his own indecision, Sammy thwarted by Darby but Max once again seals it with a headlock takeover

If there was any doubt that the Four Pillars match wouldn't rock, that doubt is now silenced

SHIT'S ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN

Irony of Vegas singing Kansas too

It's not Anarchy in the Arena if the match starts while Wild Thing is still going

Danielson was slid down the stair railing

Rick Knox is even blading!

And the Bucks Superkick the singer XD

Mox going full CZW with the fork

Piledriver in the back of a car

Moxley and Yuta doing the same move that lost them the last Anarchy in the Arena was a clever move that went under the radar

EXPLODING SUPERKICK!?

Claudio doing the crab walk with Yuta on his shoulder

Conclusion

It was not perfect, but thanks to the double main event the show ended up being a good one. I'm of course irked by some things; Takeshita heel turn (he's too pure for that Tony!), Jamie losing in what was essentially a sprint, and the finish of the Unsanctioned Match (if AEW is not responsible for the harm caused by the competitors why is there a ref stoppage?), but the lows are outweighed by the good. We had some exciting twists that did reignite the crowd when they got quiet and both the Four Pillars and Anarchy in the Arena matches were as advertised.

My hope is that we find directions for the likes of Taya, Acclaimed, and many of the Battle Royal competitors, which Collision may manage to cater towards, but I can honestly say while it wasn't a great PPV, it was still worth the money, and I had more fun watching this than I did Night of Champions by a fair margin.

Match of the Night: Tough to call but I'm gonna go with the Four Pillars Four-Way over Anarchy in the Arena, Take my boy why you gotta be heel? And not even BCC Heel you gotta be Don Callis Heel!? I would've preferred betrayed heel Dark Order tbf not the Cinnabon man! Best Entrance: Entrances don't get used too often which is why I tend to omit it but since we had 6 unique entrances in this show I'm picking Jade Cargill Best Attire: I feel fine about picking Jade for Best Entrance because Darby wins best attire for me with the Elvis/Skeleton suit Best Performance: Four Pillars tie, they all just did so well Spot of the Night: Exploding Superkick by Matt

[rays-of-fire-and-ice]

BLEACH: The Thousand Year Blood War Ep 2 Reactions and Thoughts

Overall reaction:

MY BOY IS BACK! MY GIRL IS BACK! AND THE HYPE JUST KEEPS BUILDING UP! However...I do have one concern which I'll get into down below.

Highlights:

The opening: in terms of style, animation, and content, it's an absolute banger! I loved everything that was shown, from the captain-lieutenant duos with their division's insignia flowers all the way up to Ichigo vs Yhwach. I'm not a fan of the song, but I think it'll grow on me. It's definitely not an opening that you skip!

Nel: she brought so much needed levity and also somberness to this episode. I loved her interactions with Ichigo, from her almost killing to Ichigo covering her eyes to her covering Ichigo's eyes. When she told Ichigo Hueco Mundo was in trouble it was affecting, hinting at the devastation that awaits them when the Karakura gang finally go there.

Yhwach's victory over Halibel: Yhwach hovering above his soldiers with Halibel and the Arrancars defeated was an incredible image. The music, sound editing, and animation absolutely sold this moment as one of shock and horror. It not only showed how powerful Yhwach is, but how bloody and dark this arc is going to get. This was a great addition! Which leads me to...

Yhwach is being built up as a credible threat: the beginning of the arc definitely does this much more than the second half, where I feel Yhwach's threat level becomes based on the freaky eyeball mess he becomes rather than his character, his role in Ichigo's past, and the bloodshed committed in the name of his quest. The anime absolutely shows just how threatening Yhwach is by taking advantage of sound design, music, and adding in moments like him fighting and capturing Halibel. He's without a doubt a massive threat to BLEACH's world in terms of what he commands [in numbers and powers] and the carnage he is causing.

Tres Bestia vs Quilge and the Quincy: I don;t mind Halibel's fraccion, but I've never been big fans of them. also didn't have many feeling toward their reappearance in the manga during this arc. However, the anime made their fight against the Quincy awesome! It made them look like such badasses! I found myself cheering for them when they told Quilge to not underestimate them, and then I found myself sad that they got defeated.

TOSHIRO AND MOMO ARE BACK: that is all.

I was more emotional watching the last episode, while this one hyped me up more. They backed a lot into it Like the previous episode, the animation and style is fantastic, with most scenes looking stunning and captivating.

I was also surprised by the level of violence and gore. I know I shouldn't be, seeing as they deliberately picked a later airtime just so they could get away with making the series as violent as the manga became, but it still came as a surprise to me when the Karakura Gang happened upon the corpses of the Arrancars and just how graphic it was comapred to the original anime. It's not a complaint by any means, just an observation.

However, there was something I wasn't a big fan of: the cremation scene; I have very mixed feeling about it's adaption.

On one hand, it's amazing to look at (like much of the anime) and I think the drums fading to complete silence does give it a more somber tone, especially when it comes to Yamamoto seeing an image of Chojiro showing his loyalty and the fact we don't see his expression when he commands for the pyre to be lit.

On the other hand , I felt it was too short, the cut to Yuzu cooking was so abrupt I unintentionally chuckled in confusion, and I was shocked that they cut Byakuya's monologue to Renji. @shirohyorin put it best here as to why this moment between the two is important, but I remember when I first read this scene it surprised me. We were hearing Byakuya speak about a lieutenant most fans weren't familiar with and gave us some insight into Yamamoto too, and the way he spoke was actually pretty emotional for him. It was also as if he were reflecting on his own relationship with Renji as a captain-lieutenant duo who both achieve bankai but the lieutenant remains loyal and doesn't run off to try and become a captain himself.

While I most definitely hope they find a way to incorporate this moment down the line (perhaps as a flashback during the As Nodt vs Byakuya fight), I must admit it worries me that they were willing to cut this for this scene. It's got me wondering what other moments have they decided to change or take out.

Overall, I'm still excited for the anime and can't wait to see how they'll adapt the first invasion. While I am concerned about what content has been cut, I'll keep my hopes up and withhold judgement until this quarter of the anime is finished.

[lebrookestore]

hello, sorry for replying 8 years later I'm very fucking lazy and also went to my relatives' place to get annoyed by my shit ass aunt but it was worth it because of the dog lol

about falling back last year, same lol, but I stopped really giving a shit about it because covid just a slapped a reality check onto my family's face back in the first half of the year and they no longer have the audacity to bring up academic performance for my final exam that happened in March which btw we were forced to give offline and everybody is aware of what happened after that, we had a lot of losses much like everyone else unfortunately and of all things, that seemed to beat some sense into them about what their priorities should be 🗿

sorry if this got a bit dark but covid has just taught me a lot about how fucking stupid people, esp my relatives are and it's pretty pathetic

so I really blame covid and an inflexible curriculum + education system that doesn't give a shit for falling behind last year (which most kids did considering the amount of kids that straight up failed certain subjects in my batch), I mean holy shit, they really expected their low effort budget curriculum to make kids focus during online, bro I have a hard time focussing while I'm SITTING IN THE ClASSROOM because this shit is so boring, I wouldn't blame the kids if they fucked up even these board exams because honestly when these people keep changing stuff and passing around different circulars everyday and their plans are so badly thought out, how does one expect kids to not get caught up in all the confusion and speculation and get anxiety

speaking of board exams, I absolutely abhore how obsessed these people are with these shitty exams. I have heard several teachers say that they're "training" us for them and I think that wording says enough. what this does is so harmful because it legitimately makes kids feel like all they should do is continuously grind for it even though in reality we know that the result wouldn't really be different if they just chilled out and that it absolutely wouldn't be bad if they just took time to do other stuff and rest but in place of that grinding is encouraged but when a someone gets anxiety and panic they go like "lmfao it's just an exam, don't be so nervous kekw"

as someone who really would get caught up in the moment when it came to exams and school and then stopped, there really is no difference in the result, I feel better and and also feel like I have been scammed so badly until 8th grd

I would study so much back then and it didn't even matter, I could have fucked around and done more art etc but no, I was doing some stupid notebook work so that I would get A+ and not A and some stupid 60 year old entitled bitch wouldn't give me the "I'm disappointed in you" stare

anyway, thanks for complimenting my blog! I'm still experimenting with how I can customise it and looking for different themes (so if you have any, please recommend)

and as for the fanart, it's gonna be for summer of seven years ! (sorry if you were expecting a taeyong or ten fic, jaehyun simp here 🌜, we live in a society and also I don't need ref to draw him so it's easier) prob the first fic I read from you and I really liked it and I'm a sucker for pointlessly connected stories that overlap in certain parts, I might make something for another fic too, been experimenting with blender on my eXTrRemEly HIGh SpEcS pc and might make a certain miniature something from favourite crime

random nct song for this ask is !!! firetruck because I love the mv, really charming and makes me wanna write something (I'm being unecessarily mean but unecessarily decorated performance videos for music videos are just not for me unless done very differently, the tax evasion milestone uncle Lee soo man and his gang really pissing me off) lol and a free picture of my other cousin's dog

also a request, please add me to the tag list for rhyme scheme ! <3

have a good night 🌞

dude. don't even apologize because i took another 8 years to respond to this 🤡 we stan a procrastinating bitch👍 but yes the dog makes everything worth it (she/he's SO CUTE GBYE I WANT TO PET)

bro frfr except my parents just became worse with how I did and I just ✨suffer✨now lmfao, our boards are offline and I'm just :///// HELLO?? they're not taking into consideration that hey! kids can't take the vaccine, you don't know if someone at home has covid and they're sending their kid, what if they're asymptomatic?? what if they're carriers?? brains? none. hotel? trivago.

and yes! our Indian educational system is BEYOND unreasonable and does not benefit the student in any which way! When everything keeps changing it's only harder on us and we've literally been through HELL as a batch.

board exams are harmful, because they don't prepare for the real world in any which way and tells us that 'oH if you don't do well, you're a failure.' i told this to my mother who was like "oH nO yOu'e NoT A fAIlUrE (mind you this woman is the same one who flat out told me I was going to be a failure if I didn't do well) and its honestly one the reasons I get so stressed and agitated.

Yes! themes there are several blogs for such like @/glenthemes and @/seyche and many more!! honestly thinking about changing mine too soon haha

AND OMG i can't wait to see the art ahh as long as you're good with the fic you chose I'm ecstatic because holy shit someone wants to make art of what I've written?? INSANE fjdfjfjk and I'm happy it was your first fic from me!! yes, i too am also a hoe for hopelessly connected stories (writing the last part of the series rn!!!) so make sure to tag me<3

👏FIRETRUCK 👏SUPREMACY👏 i love that song and mv no matter how odd lmao I go back a lot of times just to vibe yk??

and yes I shall add you to the taglist bby, have a great day<3

[the-necessary-unnecessary]

HiI 🙋i saw you talking about City and Chelsea as Favorite english teams to go to a forward stages on CL and I say don't be blind to Arsenal too and i explain: 1. we also made signs that will take us farther like Maritz and Catley, they may be not names that the media hyping but they are what we needed to bring into the squad cuz your back line was our weak link. 2. Chelsea didn't bring in players that better then their first XI and after watching every game last season 3 times i don't (1/_)

okay I’m going to put this under a cut because it’s very interesting but also very long so I don’t want it filling up people’s dash too much!!

think they have better squad then us. yes they beat us but if you look closely in our last league game against them it's not a secret that Joe chose the wrong tactic so in the second half when we do changed it we mostly controlled the game. In the CC final we were the better team so i don't think Chelsea squad is better but i think we had two problem in those games that also showing in our stats: 

1. we have mentality issue when we play against Chelsea that we most work on it and the other problem that we have also with City and show in our stats is that we not taking your chances in front of the goal while Chelsea and City does. I think it's the decisions in the last pass, Impatience of players that trying to shoot except of finding the hole in defense and our sharpness. we have the right players but we also need to improve in those areas. Also don't forget that in the final we played with players from the bench cuz we lack of key players like Kim, Beattie and and Lia but still manage to control the game (and with a masterclass from Chelsea keeper).

3. City did bring in world class players but those are players that needed in the first XI like Bronze, Mewis/Lavelle and Kelley so yes they may improve in some areas but also we will in the back line and don't forget we played them without Beattie and Little (key players missing like Lyon) and still control those games also with bench players (even in the game we lost) I'm sure City and Chelsea will improve next season but don't forget that also we will now that we take care if our back line, the bench quality and our key players that back. So if we look at all of this i do think that Arsenal in the same level that those teams are in CL of course we will that care of the mental problem (it's the biggest on imp) and will improve on attack area. i will not look too much on the game against PSG cuz i think all the circumstances need to take into account (5/_)

I watched PSG semi final game and final game against Lyon and also all Lyon preseason and let me tell you they didn't do better than us in their first game after 5 months without playing, so top team like them been our first competitive game after so long of not playing (the semis and final against Lyon gave them big advantage imo) the lack of game fitness, the shite ref and Joe late subs they all need to take on account here. yes, they played better but it also the circumstances that hurt us and i don't think City or Chelsea could do better in there. 

in conclusion all i'm saying is that we didn't fall from those team quality last year even when we lost key players and like i said i think it's mostly a mental problem and attack problem that we need to solve. go look on Chelsea and City bench and look at our bench next year and you will see difference in numbers but not so much in quality (and don't forget we have world class versatile players that can play in serval positions). 

and the last thing is that don't forget we also signs players that would also improve us next year like City and Chelsea so in the end i don't think those teams is a level up of Arsenal in CL but in the same. I know it easy to forget this when you remember only results but if you look closely at every game the all 90 min in the end they are not better and yes like every team we have to work on our problems and build but i do think we have the right players also for the CL (8/8

just a reminder that English is not my native language so if it sound a little bit harsh i didn't mean it. also sorry for the very very long ask 🙈🙈🙈 i hope i explained my point and you understand what i meant

No problem for the long ask, it’s a good discussion to have and yeah I do think I understand your point. As we’ve said before, chelsea and city might have brought more and bigger names to their squads this season but that does not take away from the fact that we have a world class squad ourselves which has practically unmatched versatility. Also in terms of play last year then it is good that you’ve noted how what lets us down are the fine details like not taking our chances, there being issues with the last pass etc. 

This was very much shown against PSG too, albeit due to a great performance from their defense but still something that if we’d truly been superior we could have overcome the solid defense at least once or twice (because let’s face it, with decent refereeing/var the goal that we did get would have been annulled).

Also, a lot of players don’t have much champions league experience in these last few years. Maritz shone on Saturday and although a lot of this was up to the fact that she had played with wolfsburg until up to a month and a half ago, I also think it’s because she’s more used to playing against the biggest teams in Europe and used to performing on big, international, club stages. It wasn’t just totally a rustiness from the players, it was also nervousness. They took their time to find their positioning, Katie couldn’t adapt to having to mark a player like Diacre (although I do get that this is also Joe’s tactical fault), Lisa took her time to actually play her role and Leah was hit and miss all game long making errors that even not having played any official games can hardly excuse. Basics like clearances and ball side goal side marking. So yes, I completely agree that their situation was really exacerbated by both the ref and the fact that they were really out of practise, but their inability to keep control in big occasions is also linked to that big game mentality thing which definitely is a great problem here.

But anyways, even with all of this in mind, I think why we were mostly talking about chelsea and man city is because they’re the ones that have qualified for the cl next year and ultimately are the only wsl teams with a chance to dethrone this year’s champion of europe. In a longer term scenario arsenal may well get another chance especially if the squad keeps adding a few very quality players per year and have high levels of retention over the players that we already have. But right now it’s undeniable that chelsea and city have made their own reinforcements to their squads and have been given more money to invest and so, although i’m still a bit cynical over this ngl, they may have a larger chance at this dethronement. What will happen in the domestic league is yet to be decided.

[pan-xichen]

(Long rant warning)

I think some people actually don't understand the process of writing. Like I see tons of people flip their shit when lm and jds say anything about how the story and characters were in the development of voltron and say they're terrible people for considering these as concepts in their story (like the idea to kill off Shiro, for example, was obviously scrapped both due to executives and also they were already thinking of a way to work him back into the story before the execs even stepped in; I had someone yell at me for like three separate replies in a post about how lm and jds are ~problematic~ because they wanted Shiro to be gay and there was a draft of the story in which he died and I'm just like honey... no... that's how writing works... creators change their minds and rework concepts all the time). People fail to realize how much drafting and writing and rewriting goes into producing a final product and it frustrates me as an author myself to no fucking end. Like... maybe understand how writing works before you yell about the showrunners being problematic because they considered killing off certain characters or whatever you idiots get mad about. Please shut up.

And for anyone who's about to attack me for possibly not knowing what I'm talking about, allow me to introduce you to my warrior cats character, Silverstorm:

I have had the same oc since I was an edgy depressed preteen who first got into warriors via the Graystripe and Millie manga which was the only book my school actually had. He started out as a super depressed, battle-scarred, emo she-cat whose mate was a rogue named Furyheart and I heavily projected on her. His original design had cheesy anime hair and one purple eye and one yellow eye and at one point she even had wings. A few years later (around 11th grade or so) I gained interest in warriors again and genderbent him because I felt like it and two years ago I scrapped the wings (even though it was super fun to draw cats with wings pff) and decided he was gay and this was his cat-boyfriend:

Silverstorm's reworked story at that time was that he was meant to be a medicine cat but felt that he was better at fighting and hunting so he hid his ability to communicate with starclan and relayed prophecies to his sister who had wanted to be a medicine cat. At one point in development he was a half-clan cat and his sister was in the other clan, too (now they are both in the same clan). He was constantly butting heads with an older warrior called Foxtail:

(can you also tell I don't know what a consistent art style is pffft this is the most recent ref I've drawn) who was an ambitious ass and a little too close to Tigerstar in personality so I changed the story fairly recently (like in August last year??) so that Silverstorm and Foxtail had trained together and been friends, and now Foxtail is Silverstorm's ex. Foxtail's motives for being an evil son-of-a-bitch are now "cat god is telling me to do this" instead of "I want power" because in this story starclan is now corrupt and has a leader (even though they're not supposed to) who banishes cats to the dark forest if they stand up to her. Silverstorm is no longer a supposed-to-be medicine cat and his sister is a medicine cat who can actually speak to starclan. He is visited by a dark forest cat called Flamestar who was the first leader of a rival clan and learns that his clan and that clan are actually connected by blood because the first leader of his clan was Flamestar's son. There's this whole thing where the conflict between Flamestar and his son parallels the one between Silverstorm and Foxtail but the parallels are reversed and eventually Silverstorm has to die so he can kill cat-god but like... I'm not even done? And half of what I just typed might get changed again before I get around to actually writing this?

As for an example of a very popular franchise other than voltron doing this, assassin's creed, one of the most financially successful and well-known video game series in the world, started out as a spinoff of prince of persia. An entire goddamn franchise almost didn't exist and because of a few decisions from the developers, now we have all these historical stabby simulator games. Another change that significantly impacted a video game franchise was the single decision to not have the evil ending of infamous 2 be canon. They changed it so as to not alienate players who preferred the good endings, and game that followed, infamous second son, was vastly different from what it could have been if evil!Cole had been canon instead.

The point I'm trying to make here is that a story can go through a ton of rewrites before it's finished. You can't fault an author (or any creator for that matter) for having concepts while in development that you happen find problematic. If those concepts make it to the final story, fine, be mad at them. But seriously, yall need to calm the fuck down and realize that this is the nature of storywriting. Go outside or something.

[abqryan]

You get only one picture, since the only way to post a picture is to share from my gallery and the tumblr app won't let me add another one or open a pic post itself.

Oh well. I don't have many anyway because I forgot to take them before the lights went off.

Anyway, game last night was at stupid 10pm again. I managed to avoid the theme of Monday (losing my cool and overreacting) so that was very good. My passing and ball control was total shit, but I had some good defensive plays.

The team played well overall and it was kind of nice how the playoffs matched us against the team some of us played with previously who are mostly good guys.

I felt we were the better side throughout, but not by a big margin. Their goaltender was very solid and saved a number of good chances while we held them to only half chances and shots from distance.

But one of those though was just about a perfect shot and they scored on it, by a guy I found out later isn't really on their team, but was also the most dangerous offensive player they had the whole game.

We managed to come back not too long after and finally get it past their goalie to tie at one. He went back to making good saves after that and the game ended tied.

Of course that doesn't work for playoffs so we started a penalty shootout, after three shooters each we were tied again when the lights turned off. So in the end the captains and the shittastic ref went over by the bathrooms where there was a light so they could see and flipped a coin, which we lost.

A pretty bullshit way to end the season actually, but at least the other team was nice about it and were complaining about the stupid lights and horrible ref just as much.

Like I was talking with some of the guys at half, he should pick at least one to do, not being a total prick or making good calls. He did neither though, made horrible calls and was a jerk. He gave one of our guys a yellow card for cursing, just cursing, not yelling obscenities or anything, in the 21 and over league, where I've seen only one previous card in over a year and last week a questionably drunk player was yelling curse words almost nonstop for the last five minutes of the game and got nothing.

Anyways, the coin flip loss means a bit of a break before playing again after the holiday when we're scheduled to finish one season and start the next on the same night, at totally different locations, probably at the same time. So that will be a fun added challenge.

[treadmilltreats]

Mixed signals

How do you know if the signals you think you are getting are actually the right signals? In today's world people don't know what they want, they have no idea the baggage that they are carrying with them from one relationship to another.

They say one thing yet their actions show another.They are hurt from before and so they are afraid of commitment. They are hot and then cold, so it's no wonder that there are so many confused people out there.

I was speaking to a friend recently and she told me a story and then asked for my advice. 

(Hello! Does she read my blogs? Didn't she know my track record with men?)

Anyway back to the story... she has been friends with a man for years, when all of a sudden there seemed to be a shift in their friendship.

He seemed more attentive, he touched her more when speaking to her. He looked at her with longer eye contact, he started asking her to hang out more often, he started treating her like she was a date more than a friend.

They started to go out more often, they would go dancing together, dinners, and to her.things seemed to be getting hot, there was definitely a chemistry there that wasn't there before between them.

She said it was all the typical signs of a man courting a woman but they were "just" friends, so she was confused. I gave her my two cents (with my track record, it may have been worth half a cent)

I told her to ask him outright what was going on, that way she will know for sure where she stands.

So after yet another hot night of dancing with him she found the courage to ask if there was more between them and was shocked when he quickly said they were " "just"friends.

Could she have been that wrong? All the signs were pointing that way and yes, they had been friends for a while and they hung out a lot but this was different, it seemed like their friendship shifted into the 

"I want more relm"

She says she is more confused than ever because he has done so much for her throughout their friendship and somewhere deep down she was hoping that this might turn into something more.

When she came back to tell me what happened and ask my opinion again, I was as confused as she was.

I've been there with a man who was hot then cold, in then out, the chemistry between us was off the charts but yet he wouldn't step up. When I finally could not take it anymore, I asked where I stood and he also said just friends, which was fine but to me there had to be a clear line, there had to be boundaries between us then. There was to be no touching, no snide comments about dating others, no sexual comments, there had to be a clear friendship line so I knew where I stood. When he couldn't keep those boundaries, I stopped talking to him. He then went on to blowing up my phone, lots of text messages and Facebook messages asking me why I would not talk to him..

Boundaries....there has to be boundaries if you just want to be friends. I don't flirt with my friends, I don't dirty dance with my friends, I don't let them cross that line with sly comments.

I say to them, upfront that we are friends and we will always be just friends, so please understand that. 

I don't play games or give off mixed signals unless I want it to go somewhere else from the start.

Look we are grown ass people now, so stop playing the games like we played back when we were in high school. Step up or step out, it's as simple as that.

I know I can't figure men out, I have a bad picker, so I am no one to give advice but my advice if you obviously have no one else to give you any, is be honest, ask straight away, and if you can't take the answer they give you then set up boundaries, clear boundaries you both agree to. Otherwise you need to step out if it's too much for you to handle or your feelings are already to deep.

Life is too short to play games, to sit around and wonder..

What if…

Maybe..

Maybe not ....

Please! Who has time for this shit? We have jobs and kids and responsibilities, I don't have time for games so please say what you want or what you're looking for in the long run, upfront.

Men, don't say on your dating profile your looking for a long term relationship and then text a woman something sexual. Your lying, just be real... just say that you want to hook up from the get go.

Women don't say you want casual then get upset when he dates others, be honest and say that your looking for a serious relationship.

Say what you mean and mean what you say people!!

So today my friends, remember to be clear, people can't read minds. Don't put off signals to confuse others and if your unsure for f***s sake say it.

"Hey, I like you but I am not sure where this is going or I like you but I am not over my last relationship or I am not feeling this" but be clear and be honest and for God's sake don't give off mixed signals.

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