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[astralhope]

I'm loving this

This is absolutely my favorite thing of the new UI

[genderqueerpond]

We don't talk enough about the fact that Amelia Pond, s5 Amelia Pond, before the timeline is reset, isn't just a normal orphan. Her parents didn't die, didn't abandon her, and didn't send her away. They never existed in the first place.

And if her parents never existed, then Amelia cannot exist. She is a causal impossibility.

"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces." A photograph. A face carved into an apple. Yes. Sure.

A child.

Now that's too big, surely.

But that's what she is. She is exactly the same as these things. A trace. An echo of something that could never be, never was, never could have been.

And the universe should never allow it. A whole person, that's just too much. She could not have continued to exist indefinitely, in normal circumstances, after her parents never existed.

In normal circumstances.

Because the Doctor didn't just save her from things coming out of the crack in her wall. He saved her from going into it. And he didn't just save her from the threat of going into it simply because of its vicinity.

No, by arriving when he did, he interrupted a process that was probably already in motion. And then by arriving again only moments later on a cosmic relative timestream (too quickly for the process to complete) and yet in the local relative timestream, years later --- years of a potential future caught midway through the process of rewriting -- he solidified that existence. Amy is a creature from another timeline, caught in amber. The Doctor prevented her from never existing, but only after she could already never exist.

And so, no one around Amelia thinks about it. Neither does she. There's some kind of consciousness block, because if you thought about it, really thought about it, for two seconds you'd realize she cannot exist. And the human mind can't deal with that. So, to protect itself, everyone's brain simply slides off it before ever noticing. They just assume that her existence makes sense, and don't question it, and don't notice what they don't question, that is staring them in the face.

But of course, to some extent they do notice. They can't think it, but they notice subconsciously that there's something they can't think. They notice there's something wrong with her, something uncanny. And they don't like it, and they alienate her even more because of it.

"Does it ever bother you Pond that your life existence doesn't make any sense?"

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

ily and I love your writing but can I just ask /how/ does one manage to write/post 180k in 3 weeks? I need tips and also your stamina

Okay to be really serious.

Practice. I've been writing every single day for two decades. A lot of it really is practice practice practice. You do something every day, you get good at it.

Write terribly. You gotta write a lot of shit before you can write a lot of good shit. Quantity doesn't equal quality. So get ready to write a lot of shit first.

Hold yourself accountable. For the past decade I've worked professionally in the publishing industry in one capacity or another. That means I've had to work to deadlines. I just got used to it. I don't recommend setting yourself a deadline if you're just starting out - that'll just put undue pressure on yourself. But if you've got a good rhythm going, it can help to set yourself a posting schedule for a fic (say, a chapter every week) as a form of self-accountability. It sucks but self discipline is sadly necessary.

Having said that...

TAKE. BREAKS. Stop if you're not having fun, and adjust your goals if you feel burnout approaching. At the end of September/start of October I had a very bad few weeks where I didn't think I could get all my planned Halloween fics out this year. So I was honest with my readers, and adjusted my schedule accordingly. You don't owe anyone else a damn thing, but you do owe it to yourself to take care of yourself.

Carrots, not sticks. Frankly? Treat yourself like a dog or a kindergarten student. Reward yourself! Gold star! You wrote 1k words? All right, a piece of chocolate or an episode of TV for you! Writers are so hard on themselves and that's just not how brains work. Teach your brain that writing gives you rewards! Writing gives you good things!

It's a marathon not a sprint. Stamina is something you build up to. If you want to run a marathon, you need to start training at least six months ahead of time, and you start very small: two miles. Not even five. Two. You build up slowly. And then, do you know what you do when you get close to twenty-six miles?

You drop back down. You run eighteen. Fifteen. Ten. Until for the last couple weeks before the marathon, you're down to just two miles again.

Then you run twenty six.

And then after that? You rest. You want to run another marathon? Great. Rest first. Then we build up again.

You can't run twenty six miles over and over and over. You will burnout. I burned out. I wrote 375,000 words last year for October. If you go into my Ao3 and look, I didn't write much of any fic the rest of the year. I wrote a Wednesday fic in February for a friend, two Xedgin fics in April, and then two more Xedgin fics in June. It was that break that allowed me to write so much for October.

I wish I had a ton of cool tips and tricks, but it really is simple, at least for me. Practice. For a long time. For years. Write a lot of shit so you can write a lot of good shit. Take breaks when you need to, use deadlines strategically, and reward yourself.

I hope any of this is helpful, nonny. Best of luck! ❤️

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[capricioussun]

🌻 for Edge?

🌻 (sunflower) - What’s something your character has grown out of? Did it happen gradually or was it a drastic change? What caused this shift?

When Edge was little, he was actually entirely nonverbal! I always like to imagine most Papyri are quiet when very young, and took a while before their first words, but few to the same degree.

Id say it was both gradual and drastic, as he started offering a few sparse words to Red when he was around 6-9, but once they were on their own, there was more pressure to "act normal", so he wound up forcing himself to verbally communicate more frequently than he would've chosen.

Whiiich also sort of answers the next part! It was mostly pressure from "the outside world" (the rest of the underground). Pretty much anything can be perceived as a weakness, and since "quiet" reads more as "shy" for a child/teen, Red discouraged Edge from communicating predominantly in Hands.

[valeriannnn]

I know little of the Keepers and their cultural norms, but I suppose it should not come as a surprise that matters of grooming and personal maintenance should carry a more pragmatic connotation for those who live in such isolation - or perhaps our friend is simply strange, regardless of his context. I must admit: it was no small comfort to me, in those frigid days heralding the twilight of the Dragonsong War, to discover that our champion did not share our Sharlayan intuition toward personal space. Our more guarded companions don't always share my gratitude for the attention, but I believe that after our long estrangement, even the coldest of hearts could not fail to be warmed by such a gesture.

Wolcred Week 2024 Day 1: Warmth | Home

ok as mentioned in the tags i didnt have time to render a complete scene for this but i found this old mspaint sketch that demonstrates the Vibe. tyagoa just walked up behind him after cleaning up from their meal

[lilacandladybugs]

sometimes i ask my math professors why we're doing a certain thing and i dont know how to explain that i dont mean "this has no real world applications>:(" i mean what are the math applications?

it was such an exciting moment for me when i realized that since combinations/permutations are ways to find how things can be arranged, and probability is just the ways we can get something we're interested in over all the ways we could get something(want/all), combinations and permutations give us ways to find more complicated probabilities without being able to individually list all possible combinations by hand. so the "why are we doing this" for combinations/permutations is "so we can take more complicated probabilities later on". (It's also the basis for the binomial distribution!!)

without being able to understand the direction we're going with an idea it feels like a random exercise instead of the doorway to understanding more complex mathematical ideas and it also makes me feel like i don't understand how all the pieces of the class fit together.

[moe-broey]

One thing they don't tell you about the Senshi tulpa that WILL inevitably manifest in your mind to tell you to eat better is that. Every time I make myself a coffee via kuerig instantly, I can hear him. Lamenting the fact that I have become so accustomed to convenience and ease that even a standard coffee machine has become foreign to me. I am thinking about how to make coffee without use of a machine in the first place, I am wondering where my french press went, I can see him. In my mind. Showing me how to make coffee in The Dungeon. Dungeon Coffee.

[todayisafridaynight]

i sprained my wrist but duty calls

[kp-studios]

Happy to get my edit to work now! :D!! Enjoy an-Other Mother edit-- (hehe-- I love alliteration)

[bitegore]

if your ocs were bosses in a video game, what do you think their boss fight would be like?

[skeletalheartattack]

im showing my friend clanker the awesome six eggs and single ice key i found today

[irradiatedpiratebooty]

Gotta wean fallout 76 off the bug addiction gently, cutting it off cold turkey will just make the entire game crash and die

So every month or so it just gets a little taste of game breaking glitches

[maripr]

I relate to Black Doom in sonic x shadow generations because I also like radical highway that much

[rockitmans]

I was tagged by @forabeatofadrum, thank you thank you 💖

So I've been working on my Valentine's Day challenge but as evidenced by the fact I have posted nothing, I have barely had a moment to work on it and February is already passing me by 😱. I may give up posting it for this specific challenge but will continue working on it regardless because the thoughts are all there.

So the story is straight (ha!) Blaine runs into his ex and in a foolish effort to be "winning" the break up, claims to be dating Kurt.

Here's a little taster from the first chapter:

~~~~~

Blaine can feel the exact moment his soul leaves his body. He would have been quite happy never setting eyes on his ex again, but especially not under these specific circumstances. Not when his hair is a mess and there's a child's blood on his sweater.

"Blaine?" Holly says again. Like it's somehow possible Blaine hasn't seen her. Like he can't feel his heart trying to throw itself out of his chest at her mere presence. It's much the same as when they were dating, except this is not the positive kind of heart leaping. This is the prelude to a panic attack. He takes a shaky breath.

"Is that Holly?" Kurt asks, eyes narrowing. Blaine had forgotten he was there for a second and is suddenly infinitely grateful that he doesn't have to go this alone. Except now he has another problem. Because Kurt looks about ready to maul a defenceless woman in broad daylight. All on Blaine's behalf. This day is so cursed.

~~~

Tagging: @cryscendo @fallevs @justgleekout @blurglesmurfklaine

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

it's probably the sunnier weather that's doing stuff to my brain to make me more optimistic but it's so interesting having a brain that craves a lot of self-fulfillment to the point where I can move past some hang-ups around perfection by going "oh I really wanna do that though" and then I do it well because researching how to do it right is also a rewarding part of the process