#and has to fix a lil bit

[magentakat]

Me, trying to get around the screaming and blocks my demand avoidance loves to put on me whenever it can so I can actually write some of the shit stuck in my head because I have so many story ideas (and want to be able to post and share them with others, damn it!), is always an… interesting time.

The latest strat, since a long-time issue of mine is “write a little, then edit those bits to death until i toss it all in the trash because I’m sick of editing but can’t get myself to write more”, is, like pretty much everything relating to getting around demand avoidance, stupidly round-about. How so? Well…

Basically, take advice of “write everything at once without editing, then edit (and revise and all that) once you’ve got it all written out!” but add the reward/rule-bending/getting out of that semi-demand of “…but you can edit anything still visible on the page while you’re writing” to shut up the brain gremlins gnawing at the bars and trying to painfully twist their way out of their cage.

But the important thing with this tactic is that I use typewriter mode in my writing program of choice, which sets the line I’m writing on in the center of the screen. There’s maybe 12 lines visible at most above that so pretty much all I can edit as I go that’s “on the page” is within the last paragraph or two at most as I’m counting from whatever the last stuff I’ve written is.

Get one-upped, silly brain.

[xeemaee]

Respectfully I need him to lay down on top of me

[secondbeatsongs]

they're fucking with the UI again I see

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[wingsofwater]

peach pit

[ID : a chubby skywing dragon named Pyrite, who has yellowish-orange scales with a lighter yellow underbelly and dark freckles across her scales, resembling the inside of a peach. she has a crest of dark spines along the back of her neck and on the tip of her tail, antler-like horns, her body is dappled with scars, and she wears a cord around her neck like a choker. she is sitting down, facing towards the left, with her wings held open and an uncertain expression on her face. the background is a teal rectangle with white peach blossoms overlayed on top of it. END ID]

[inkmaze]

found this old cheap secondhand leather jacket recently and I adoooore it, busted bits and all. also still repping my beloved barbed wire trans shirt from @homoidiotic ❣️

[bonetrousledbones]

ok so everyone who says its sooooo quick and easy to switch from chrome to firefox is a goddamn liar

[jcp1765]

i've done SO much adulting this week i've called insurance for drs on my plan, looked at low cost therapists, got a hold of AND sent for medical records from BOTH offices, looked at food resources, looked at emails, had a breakdown, and now a small creative project!

someone tell me their proud of me pls or i'll explode

[unmeinoniwa]

on another note, im finally planning to soon release a muse preview of my shadow man i teased awhile back!

his premise is that he's a shadow entity borne from dark emotions manifested into a consciousness by attaching to a dying human. in his case he was borne from "envy." his lifelong ambition is to become "human" or more accurately to feel "complete." shadow entities are not complete souls after all so by seeking out humanity, he believes he can become a complete soul.

as of right now, he's masquerading as a powerful noble mage whose family specializes in the forbidden arts. he travels constantly seeking for more knowledge and answers

[queenerdloser]

i uh. scratched my car pretty bad lol

[kelpiemomma]

Melli in the gear station family au is like that one lovingly overbearing family member who comes to see you at your job and tell you that you're doing a great job, except he needs an excuse to tell Akari & Rei their doing a great job so part of his getting lost is intentional and part of it is genuinely accidental (hc he has an absolutely terrible sense of direction and gets lost in a straight line, Zoro from one piece style) so when they find him and help him he's like "you two are SO GOOD at your jobs, the BEST employees here, honestly" and like half of the ten most recent gear station reviews are from Melli praising Akari and Rei.

Ingo and Emmet ask them if he needs to be banned from the subway and the younger twins are like "no, he's fine. Embarrassing but he means well and it's all good." (They have a hunch that Melli Knows Them which is why the kids are fine with hanging around him and helping him, but also all three of them are so at ease with each other that they had to ask just to Make Sure everything was fine even though they were Pretty Sure there was no issue)

[arolesbianism]

Some stuff I've drawn semi recently

[rainowbenstyls]

movie poster: first attempt

[dutybcrne]

Thinking of Kaveh with Unhinged partners again

[queen-scribbles]

So I finished the Night Before Critmas oneshot, and one of the suggested videos on the side was Grog’s oneshot. Since there’s no current-campaign CR this week, I went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “Sure why not, it’s fun”. 

Twenty minutes in and I have some thoughts.

First, I’d forgotten HOW fun. Also forgotten the Fjord/Jester cameo Travis stuck in there. And the hint toward Laura being pregnant. 👀 I have laughed to the point of tears once already and I know it’s only going to get worse better. 

Second, there’s someone in the comments saying the more they watch the show, the more they’re convinced Travis is a genius and, yeah, HARD agree. All you have to do is watch the Screw Job oneshot to see that. He’s TERRIFYING with a high int(I think it was 18 or something for that one) character. And it does show more easily with Fjord and Chetney since they have higher int scores, but it also shows through with Grog. There’s multiple times you can see Travis get an idea/thought from how the story’s progressing, a couple minutes pass, and then Grog comments. It might be phrased in a way that sounds “dumb” bc int 6 barbarian, but the thought itself is a really good one.

 An example: after they killed Thordak, and Raishan fled, and they’re trapped under Emon by the magical barrier, the others(+ Gilmore) try a few things to get out that don’t work. Grog suggests something that sounds simple, and is phrased like the thought process fits an intelligence score of 6, but is actually such a good idea that Keyleth and Percy immediately go “Shockingly, I agree with Grog, he makes a good point”. That ability to take a smart idea and basically translate it/the thought process behind it down to sound in-character for a low-int character while still sounding like a good idea is amazing. And he knows when to lean into Grog’s being dumb for comedic effect(Talking to Cravenedge in an outhouse? Getting Percy to title him? Getting cheated while supply shopping just to drive Laura nuts? GOLD) and when to pull back and just let “Intelligence of 6″ mean he’s no good with subtly and thus straightforward about his thoughts.

And even the Grog’s oneshot, having GROG dm for (part of) Vox Machina so Travis could fuck around with the rules and fudge stuff and not worry about getting everything “right” is genius. And it works so well in part bc they’re all such good friends irl, but just the idea is a stroke of genius.

Now back to watching :3

[sketchandsneeze]

Do you ever get bored and redesign your persona as a v-tuber for fun.