#and if i haven't been on the dms a lot it's sometimes bc i can't and mostly bc of tumblr's dms being a total ass

[hyunebear]

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[toxicanonymity]

You're such a good writer! I was wondering if you had any advice for someone who wants to begin writing on here? Like what's your process for making stories?

Ty nonnie, I'm flattered and excited for you. I wish I had a better answer but I spilled some thoughts below. Also, if you view this post on my actual blog and press the "writing" tag on it, you'll find some tips I've given before on story planning, writing dialogue, getting active in a fandom and more.

For good advice, @writingquestionsanswered has a great masterlist of resources and answers to Q's like this. Also, @creativepromptsforwriting.

Hope you have a good day 🖤

I daydream a lot. I tend to visualize before writing. Sometimes I jump in and sometimes I make notes. If I write notes, it's pretty leisurely / when a thought strikes I jot it down. Even if I won't use it. "No bad ideas." Then if I haven't decided how the story goes, I'll look at those notes and see if something takes shape when I consider them all together. Then to write it, I might start with whatever is the most vivid part in my mind whether that be dialogue or physical action or scenery. It doesn't have to be all planned out, I can see where it goes.

To make it less daunting, rn I will only start writing something I think I can finish in one sitting. So like a single scene. I try not to get hung up on details. I put stuff in brackets and come back to it. [He doesn't want to go to the function] <- I would come back and turn that into dialogue/mood. Or I might leave myself a question. [What's he wearing?]

If I'm "stuck," I might vary where I'm writing (Google docs, notes app, messages to myself) which is a nightmare for organizating purposes bc I can't be trusted to remember or consolidate. But sometimes helps ideas flow. Changing fonts is a less complicated tactic too.

Sometimes I do "sprints" where I write for a set amount of time and no matter how bad I'm writing i just do it until the time is up. And that gives me something to work with/rewrite.

Note: If you don't know what you want to write, you can start with who. And then, what are your favorite things about them. And what situations would make those things shine or challenge/validate them. Ask yourself what-if questions. You could try taking inspiration from prompt lists or blogs like creativewritingprompts to get you started. Your own ideas will come.

The truth is I'm too chaotic for my own good a lot of the time. You only see what I post, not all the stuff I don't. And this year there has been a lot of that. Scenes missing context, story fragments, dialogue with no setting, unedited drafts just languishing in various locations.

I hope you give writing a try and feel free to follow up or DM me. 🖤🤟

[shovson]

🔥 how do u feel about Logan Sargeant

uh oh

Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion. (bonus points for a topic)

Okay. Gotta just say. Obviously some of the treatment Logan has gotten....been kiiinnndddaaa questionable. Even beyond the nuanced explanations about Australia this year and also all the rumours and speculation about everything within that team. I'm sure there's a lot that goes behind the decisions of JV but from an outside perspective....the emotional intelligence isn't really there. The fact I needed someone else to show me the James quote after the Carlos signing of him saying it was awesome of Logan to be on the team etc. etc...you know doesn't bode well. I feel like everyone has really said everything that needs to be said: really unfair treatment, thrust in too early into an F1 seat, etc. etc.

That being said. I cannot stand this woobification babygirlification he's just a sad puppy losing dog stuff any longer. Annoying as fuck. I feel there's kind of always been this narrative around him of his isolation which is just...I don't know man. I really have so much feelings about it I'm losing my mind a little but I never really understood this. There are so many other drivers with the same "foreign place, had to move and migrate to push my F1 career." Doesn't make it right. But I can't imagine being let's say Zhou or Checo in a similar situation.

Also there is (was, I guess now he's got a foot out the door) so much to talk about with the fact I've seen people try to co-opt social justice language to make him seem like his treatment is worse than it is is pissing me the hell off. Man oh, man.

In terms of fandom/fan reception, OBVIOUSLY can't control fans yk etc. etc. BUT i do think it does affect my perception of drivers sometimes. NGL I haven't looked in the James Vowles tag in so fucking long bc everyone thinks I want to read the haterism about JV and how he's mistreating Logie and how he should get his revenge on that middle aged man. And beyond that, I don't think the Alex heads who have probably more of a community around them don't want to fucking see the shit talking about their guy and would rather live in peace too (not to mention...wtf did alex do to deserve that huh? why are u in that space?). People can say this is just a general community thing but also...yeah I mean fucking seeing the same guy in the wrong fucking tag would make me insane too. Especially when ppl r like "look at how logan OWNS and alex is LAME AS FUCK -> #alex albon".

In my complex nuanced mind, I think it's easy to bring up the European treatment (loose) of American Racing (loose) as lame, lacking history or interest, basically dirty poor ppl shit. I think this is also part of why people are so protective about Logan. And while I do think this is such an ignorant take on Racing in the US (and America's presence in F1 period), I think ppl are really using this to dismiss the amount of privilege Logan has.

My ass getting tired you know I've ranted about this in DMs and also voice call but like...Logan got a chance. I hate that it didn't work out. But also, you know how many people don't get a chance? That's just the reality of the sport. And it sucks balls.

[roosterforme]

okay, so... Emily... i don't interact with you as much as i'd like bc you intimidate me (in the best way. you're like, too cool), and sometimes i do it on anon, but today is the last straw. you get familiar-me because i like you a lot, and i'm fucking finished with these anons.

this last chapter of AEOY (is that it? i'm terrible with acronyms, i'm so sorry)... Roo and Baby Girl... Chapter 9. you know what i mean... THAT chapter was a lot on my heart. but it's autobiographically-tinged fiction (i know that, and i love you) and these little BITCHES need to take SEVERAL seats and calm THE FUCK down. i'm single as hell, but i can't tell you what i'd give to be in a relationship where we loved each other so much that we just wanted to show each other how much we love each other. SEX IS OKAY. SEX IS GOOD. AND IT'S PART OF (most) RELATIONSHIPS (i'm trying to be aro/ace inclusive, i swear). so if you don't like Roo and Baby Girl fucking... FUCK OFF. and when things don't go as planned, the blame game is easy to slip into, regardless of communication, regardless of how well-adjusted (or not) we are as adults. we, as human beings, are DEEPLY flawed creatures. that is going to be reflected in EVERY relationship, platonic or romantic or any other kind. it's not toxic. fertility struggles and infertility are WILDLY common, but there is a MASSIVE stigma around it, so it's not talked about NEARLY as much as it should be. it makes people feel alone. feel like shit. feel unloved, unworthy, and plenty of other crappy ass feelings. shit, i might have endometriosis, which can affect fertility, and even though i'm not 100% i want kids, that shit still has me fucked up. so if ANYONE has ANYTHING negative to say to or about you or your writing, they are cordially invited to get fucking wrecked. i haven't addressed my anger issues with my therapist yet, and i've been looking for an outlet. (ง'̀-'́)ง there is no reason to inundate Em's inbox with negativity. you don't like her stuff? KEEP SCROLLING. it costs NOTHING to move on. you're literally WASTING energy shitting on her FOR NO REASON. so leave her the fuck alone and get a fucking grip.

love, a fucking cunt

Anya! Next thing I know, you'll be in my DMs. Thanks for this message. I'm pretty sure the anon just couldn't handle the subject matter and warnings listed on my fic masterlist. Which is fine, but I don't need to hear about it. Just excuse yourself quietly.

Having (consensual) sex is healthy. Not having sex at all is healthy. Being in an established, long-term relationship and having frequent sex is sometimes necessary. Also, this is a FANFIC and those parts are fun to read and write.

I'll send you a little smooch, because even if you don't like kids and don't intend to have them, any sort of fertility struggle can really mess with your head, babe. I'm trying to write this from experience. The feelings of isolation and blame are so strong, and not just for BG but also for Roo. You want to feel helpless? Realize that there is nothing else you can really do to help the one person you love most when they start shutting down.

I don't know why there is SO MUCH nasty anon hate in this fandom. And truly, the anon I got was nothing compared to what I have seen before in my inbox and on some other blogs. But it's really uncalled for. And Anya will kick your ass.

[haloburns]

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TUMBLR DIDNT NOTIFY ME THAT I HAD AN ASK ALKSLFKJS SORRY FOR THE TWO DAY WAIT

(from this post)

🐚 ⇢ do you like or dislike surprises?

hmmm.... i like genuine surprises, like when an author updates a fic after a while, but i hated planned surprises?? like when people plan to Surprise Me with A Thing, i don't like that very much. mostly bc i hate the social expectation of formulating a response aljsdlkfjsdkjf

now in terms of writing, surprises like "oh here's a new headcanon about ur OC" that just...happen...to me while i'm writing get mixed reactions aksldjfdsk sometimes im SUPER EXCITED bc it makes xyz easier, sometimes i get irrationally angry bc DAMMIT NOW I HAVE TO CHANGE XYZ TO FIT. most of the time, tho, writing is just. surprise after surprise lmao

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

@dreamwraith is one of my FAVORITEST EVER authors, anything he writes, i will read.

@emeraldsandamethyst is another friend of mine whose works are INCREDIBLE, both funny and angsty, and GODS her smut is like. some of the best out there.

OH and anything @not-close-to-straight writes??? instantly opened and read. the fic i currently highly recommend from her is Territorial, bc HOLY SHIT vampires, but literally anything she's written i will tell people about.

i am reading a Linked Universe-related fic that i would recommend but a) i'm not dragging myself in public for that alskdjfkdjf and b) it has A Lot of Stuff that i would want to warn about before ppl jump into it. it is fucking GODS-TIER level good, and i'm in a discord with the author and some other fans and it's just...so much fun, i love that series and the discord sm. if u wanna know what it is, just dm me!

BUT WAIT ACTUALLY there is another linked universe-related series I LOVE that i will recommend: Linked Universe Townhouse AU by St0rmy it is SO FUCKING GOOD, i could talk about it all day. anything st0rmy writes, i recommend. she's a wonderful author and writes SUCH GOOD, COMPLEX CHARACTERS AND HER FIGHT SCENES???? THAT ONE FIGHT SCENE IN THE BRAVE????? OH MY GODS.

im really bad at recs, bc all knowledge of my fav fics and authors leaves my head immediately after being asked, but these are the ones on my brain currently!!

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

ohhhhhh okay, so this is a headcanon for mateo, my dp oc that i ship with danny. i wrote it out SOME in "stay for dinner?" but its full implications haven't been revealed yet, so here ya go!

mateo is a WONDERFUL liar. like. scary good at it. and its not bc he enjoys it, or whatever, but it was a coping mechanism he developed while dating this guy, santiago 'tiago'. kid was tryna be big and get in good with the gangs and dragged mateo along with him. mateo, young and naive, went along with it bc he liked tiago and he was slowly figuring out that he was attracted to danger so he didn't realize how bad it was until it was too late. after they broke up, the lying didn't necessarily go away, he just stopped doing it so often. but lying IS a skill that's needed, and he uses it when he needs to with danny (especially after his core begins to develop)

HOWEVER. he can't lie about like. petty shit?? or like when danny catches him doing something silly and calls him out (teasing) on it, he is suddenly THEE WORST LIAR ON THE PLANET (which just in turn reinforces the idea that he's a terrible liar overall to danny, which protects mateo's secrets further). danny's also oblivious, so he doesn't often catch him in a true lie. THAT is reserved for vanessa, emrys, manaia, luke, and eventually, dan. basically, everyone but danny (and nikau, poor bab) can see it alsflksjdfl

[desudog-gone]

Grrrbv ;'_';

Just saw a mutual who randomly blocked me (old blogs, i only saw them bc i moved sense then. Not purposfilly block evading) some months ago after we were really close (like, shared stuff personal with and gave free stuff on flight rising type of close) and it just. I can't feel fulfilled about it. Why. Like why did they do that. They didn't even like vague about me so I could tell what it was about. It just feels terrible. Usually I don't really feel this way about when people find it time to go, but it literally happened 100% randomly. Sometimes I consider asking them (of course, very consciously will make it sure I'm okay with any answer) because it really confuses me but I also just think that seems... childish? I don't know. I won't call it ableism but it kinda felt that way, just randomly blocking a very int disabled mutual and then doubling down on being buddy with the person who said I had the skills of a child among other statements that are just nasty over something that was nothing. It's just weird. It makes me feel really sad and sick inside and I just don't get it. I can let other stuff go idk why this one's so hard. Well I do, because I cared about them but was apparently overnight disposable? But it's happened before.

Idk. Hard to fight my fear of abandonment and issues trusting others when everyone I confide in either lashes out at me or wordlessly blocks me on every platform and every blog I've ever owned. I have a really hard time talking to people and trusting them these days. I kinda only talk in depth to ppl anymore 1 on 1 like on discord if I'm convinced I'm not the "weirder" one of us.. even mutuals I had and didn't block me just kinda faded away from me lately and it's just very uncomfortable and sad. Idk.

I really try not to feel like this or think like it but it keeps happening and i feel unsafe and upset. It makes me feel really sad. I just feel confused and sad. It makes me scared after I get vulnerable to others. I feel like I get retraumatized every few months. And I'm just too stupid to be allowed to be okay. I "have the conversational skills of a 5 year old." Its okay to not tell me why or when you leave, right? Insulting me for daring to sleep is okay because I'm too dumb to understand words right? Idk. I won't call it ableism. But I feel unsteady.

I really appreciate the freidns I have. The only problem always have. But I feel like I've been taught that no matter what I'm not worth appreciated. I just existed to make my mutuals laugh or to listen to their vents (but not mine) or to engage in their special interest (NEVER mine.) And when they get another friend I'm worthless idiot who can be thrown away. I don't belive that but it feels like people mean that...

I just wish I knew. I always wish I knew, I'm happier when people are meaner to me because I can process mean and angry to me. I can process that I know what it means and I can get over it but the quiet unannounced disappearance is bad and so scary and I think its worse because my disability. I'm sorry I can't tell. I can't tell when you started to hate me. But I'm never sorry that I was kind.

So many times I am worried now because I opened up. I regret it every time now. It's so scary. I regret ever opening my heart to people in dms about my joys or things that upset me it's so so scary when they hate me.

Sometimes it feels like everyone hates me. It's not true but I feel bad inside about people a lot.

I try not to look scared and I try to be brave for myself. Whenever it happens I get scared. Because I let people inside and it means they can hurt me once they decide I'm no longer valuable or human enough to be kind to.

And it like... everyone does.. ! It's not "I wont" it's "not for now".

I know they're talking about me. I know they want to hurt me if they haven't already.

I feel like talking is wading through MUD.

I want to love people stronger. I want to love people happy and confident.

Sometimes I forget not many people want this for me

[julien5-malfunction]

16022024

"Eating eggs with mayonnaise is about as dumb as eating tomatoes with ketchup"

Oh the random crap I mail bomb the unit supervisor's dms.

So! My dumb ass went to the library to return a dvd and you know how that goes, I leave with a huge fucking pile of books or whatever. Then I went to this christian seacond hand / charity shop thing, got some random fabric (yet again.) a plate that looks like a leaf (I thought it was cute) AND THEY HAD A BOTTLE OF HOLY WATER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND I THOUGHT, YEA THAT'S HILARIOUS I NEED THAT IN MY WEIRD ASS COLLECTION OF ITEMS OF SPIRITUAL PROPERTIES. LIKE???

That place also let's you take old books for free sometimes so I have a couple more old books I'll never read, I'm want to make something out of them but can't come up with anything. I have one project in ming but that requires at least a A4 size book to be destroyed and I don't have a suitable one for that right now...

Also the super market had little decorative glass bottles and I got like 4 of those for my little, uh, "herbs and potions and things" -collection.

A few super cheap pens and paper clasps, a weird, metallic container of what I believe to be juice concentrate (that I don't really need but I have it now) from this other shop.

and

FOOOOD.

I checked how much the stuff I had to carry back weighed, bc I had a hard time dragging it all back and like

14 kilos.

No wonder my back fucking hurts? Also my physical stamina is so bad atm, I might as well just have just ONE LUNG (1)...

(It's an old joke, we had to do this test at shool where you blow all the air from your lungs into a thing that mearures how much air it was. I got a fairly bad result and had to do it multiple times but it was still more closer to half of what it should have been, therefore ; 'maybe I just have one lung.'

I hope my psysical status will improve eventually but I feel I'm partly the reason for it. I literally just sat at home most of 2023, I like completely stopped all the physical stuff I used to do and my strenght and stamina stats dropped a lot and I got kinda fat. :(

I'm really tired so often I don't feel motivated to do any extra exercise than necessary to get necessities from the town...

I'm supposed to get my blood checked again to see the anemia status, they haven't been able to find anything else, but I don't think this is all just in my head...

[souji-upseta]

CW: animal harm, eating disorder, alcohol mentiom

yeah so i've been alternating between manic fervor, catatonia, binge eating, and jake english-ing my sorrows with the odd screw-top bottle of gas station wine mixed with electrolyte powder.

wait, no, that's not jake english-ing my sorrows. jake wouldn't be smart enough to mix it with electrolyte powder and he'd do that while drinking enough to supply an entire ill-advised indoor shooting range with a whole day's worth of practice targets [homestuck digression in f major, op. 69]

i've been kind of a wreck, is what im saying, lol.

this is bc one of my runner ducks was mauled on our property by an offleash domestic dog whi'd broken inside of their enclosure and my mental health skillset has proven ineffecient for this kind of trauma and emergency.

her condition is still very touch and go and her surgery if even possible will be extremely risky, expensive. like "her surgery where the anesthesia might just kill her anyway, or finishing your degree, pick one" expensive.

her name is splitzø, and it's pronounced like the word "split", the z and ø are silent. keep her in your thoughts, light a candle for her.

hell, light one up for me, too. not a candle tho, light up a fuckin fat blunt for me

or just light me a candle. or don't. just send good vibes to us, it helps a lot. ♡ i'm way more concerned abt her to the point where even tho it's not rly my thing to do, i probably can't go wrong stating on a public platform (affirmations are p powerful sometimes damn) that i need to prioritize myself in order to be able to give her care and that i need help too. i haven't even called my dr. about my colitis flare-up (i have colitis too it turns out, btw) gdi

she needs a lot more help than i do tho. i can't even imagine how much pain she's in. she doesn't seem to be outright suffering and she's been acting like herself (hard to tell w prey animals tho) and i hope she pulls through. it IS an injury that's possible to recover from.

i hope so. i raised her from since she was a day old little black goth fluffball of a duckling.

i don't have a gofundme or anything, i'm working on it, as well as emergency sales, and y'know getting a fucking job since my dumb ass quut mine at the worst time—

but, since she isn't exactly a relative of scrooge mcduck and my supportive family can only do so much, if anyone wants to donate towards her vet costs i'm not gonna say no, feel free to DM me.

and go tell your pets you love them and cherish them when u get a chance. 🖤

here's a photo i took a couple minutes after the attack. which it is AMAZING that she survived and that i intercepted it in time. it's amazing she only has injuries that are possible if uncommon to recover from. rn she looks exactly like she did before the attack (google "black runner duck". I promise they're a duck breed and not a variety of bowling pin)

she's doing amazing, all things considered. while she needs to be immobilized as much as possible inside her hospital cage in order for her to heal, she can hobble around, she's eating, drinking, bein a duck, still her sassy lil self. she's unfortunately a little terrified of me now bc i'm the bad guy who forces her to take her expensive prescription meds 😔

413 tomorrow and i probably can't celebrate with ya'll bc everything is Fuck but. im with u in spirit and ily. 💖

[captnjtkirka]

🍒 + mysericordia

@mysericordia/ positivity

So i am here to let y'all know how much nova means to me. ok so i love nova to bits and i enjoy writing with temp so much. okay??? shout out to when nova followed my multi when kirk was still on it and like???? day one rolled up in my dms like "your kirk is amazing???" because that day i was shook like????? me????? i haven't seen the aos movies in like?????? years???? i did try to watch 2009 one a few months back in march but like i never finished it. lmao. i can't believe despite all this nova still writes with my kirk bc i have 0% confidence in my portrayal of aos kirk. like sometimes i legit be like "is this ooc and no one is telling me?" but nova is still here still ride or die for kirk and temp and i love her??? so much for it. ok like i would die for temperance because she is an amazing oc. i enjoy her. she's gorgeous. she's well written. a lot of love, thought and care has been put into her characterization. not only that but nova's been writing this oc for like years. how??? i can't even keep canons for a year. i love nova's writing and i really hope my writing is up to par bc nova's writing is gorgeous and descriptive and just so aesthetically pleasing. literally everyone should go write with her and temp.

literally would die for them both ok? so would jimothy here.

[juicemitio]

Alright I went to Louisville Galaxycon and saw Travis and Clint twice, for their worldbuilding workshop and their Q&A. Here's some interesting stuff I learned (I didn't include stuff they talked about that's pretty common knowledge or they talked about on the last ttazz)

Graduation 

Fitzroy was originally going to be a jock that was weak bc he no longer had a team, Travis told Griffin that that didn't really work for the world so they reframed it as him training to be a hero, was great academically and behaviorally, but had a problem no one had seen before and no one felt like dealing with. It specifically wasn't "barbarian fails bc he can't keep his rage in check," it was that no one was willing to deal with his magic so they shipped him off

Someone asked Travis to explain fitzroy's magic, so from the DM's mouth- he's a barbarian subtype with elemental magic which has a random effect while raging, which we haven't seen yet (path of the wild soul if you want to look it up and see what he can do) and he took a feat which gives him the ability to cast 3 cantrips of his choosing. What I thought was interesting was that Travis described Fitz's magic using the word "elemental" twice, even though that isn't specifically stated in the path of the wild soul entry

Travis knows Argo's secret and is very excited about it 

Clint has a pirate fiction book he reads every night before they record to get into the headspace to play Argo, he told us the name but I forgot it 

There is one small little concept that made the whole of graduation make sense to Travis and is what the arc will be about, and he only figured it out a few days before recording. Obviously he didn't tell us what it was

Originally it was going to start with everyone starting at age 11 and slowly killing the other kids off, but Justin didn't feel comfortable playing a game surrounded by kids dying 

The accounting scene is already one of Travis' all time favorite taz scenes

The pegasus scene informed Travis on exactly how he was going to treat the firbolg

Also Travis referred to Justin's character exclusively as "the firbolg," which means "master firbolg" is solely a thing going on with the npcs in the game which I find hilarious. They just all decided to give him a dope title bc he deserves it, meanwhile no one will call Fitzroy "sir"

To Fitzroy, social threats are an extremely real and serious thing, like the Biggest thing to him (we were talking about what characters found threatening in the workshop, for context)  

There's some big concept/idea that comes up in the next episode that travis almost let spill and had to quickly stop himself from saying it

Someone mentioned eating breakfast in their question in the workshop and Travis goofed on it for a second, then said "cereal world" suddenly, and Clint had to pick up the question bc Travis had to take a second to make a note of it in his phone 

Travis started brainstorming graduation in March and they recorded the first episode in October, and his main job in that time was working on graduation 

Before Buckminster was adapted for graduation he could not fight at all, if he got into a fight he would die, he poured everything into charisma and could talk his way out of any fight (even the big bad of the game he crit 20d his check and the big bad walked away from the fight) 

Travis is really into psychology and how if you assign a label to someone they're going to act more like it (ie you tell a kid they're amazing and smart and talented and they become more like that, you tell a kid they're annoying and dumb and a problem they become more like that), and how that was a major contributor to play into hero/villain/sidekick/henchperson dynamics, you get assigned this arbitrary title of good/evil/subservient and you become like that to fit the role, and then the inevitable pushing against that mold

Travis is fully aware of his story being compared to harry potter and he doesn't care bc it's apt (people in a school arbitrarily divided into four groups and one of them is the Bad One), also he knows people describe it as "sky high meets Harry Potter meets my hero academia" and he actually finds that really flattering bc he thinks that sounds cool and like something he'd want to watch 

On that note, Travis is a self-identified Slytherin and he's always upheld that the reason Slytherin is depicted in a bad light is bc Rowling decided she didn't like them, and he's always sympathized with the idea of a first year Slytherin working their ass off following the rules and doing their work and getting points, and Dumbledore rewards three idiots for breaking like every rule and pulls the trophy away from you. This was a big inspiration for graduation, of one group getting a bad rep and being portrayed as evil for literally no reason 

Amnesty

Clint & Travis's favorite scene they've ever done together was Ned & Aubrey's final scene together 

Aubrey and Dani do move in with each other at the end of amnesty

Balance

Travis' main emotion around taz is pride and he's most proud of the scene in stolen century with the spirits in the robots, bc they had to record it a second time bc it got way too dark and ended in a really grim way and about 20 min after they finished they all decided that they weren't happy with it, that it didn't fit the tone, he's really proud they didn't just leave it be and they took the second pass at it to make it right

I'm pretty sure he's talked about wanting to kill Magnus off at the beginning before but he mentioned that it was only at the end of petals to the metal he actually realized he wanted Magnus to live, bc Hurley had to sacrifice herself to save Magnus bc Magnus had been so reckless, that hit Travis really hard. Travis realized that Magnus' recklessness was getting people hurt and so Magnus did too, so Magnus become a bit more cautious and took up rogue training to try not to get anyone killed again 

Dust

Dust wasn't designed to be anything more than a one off and the workload was completely unsustainable, the document of notes for dust was about 100 pages and only about 10% of it got used

The reason Travis loved it so much was bc it was a mystery and he found it really fun

Commitment

Clint would love to revisit commitment, but probably not in podcast form bc he didn't find himself really being in the moment as much bc of all the different things he had to keep track of, he'd like to see a comic adaptation/continuation if possible

It was based of a comic he wrote that never got published bc the company producing it failed (he still cashed his paycheck) so he reused it bc he still liked it a lot, it was about how America was founded as a monarchy instead of a democracy and what that changed in the usa's (united sovereignty of america's) history, and how people now were fighting to establish a democracy. Also there were cowboys and spaceships and other cool stuff he put in there bc he liked it

General adventure zone

The reason why they're are able to do romantic relationships w/o being weirded out by it (they joke about it but they don't actually care) is bc it's never done in an explicit or sexual way and since it's the decision the characters would make to pursue the relationship then that's the decision they make. He reframed it as it wouldn't be weird if a family were writing a script together and there was a romance and one person wrote lines for one character and the other wrote lines for the other. He did mention that two siblings playing characters in a relationship as actors on screen wouldn't be cool though

They sometimes get comments that some of the stuff they do is "fanservice," but they feel that they owe their success to their fans and they owe some to them 

They are both aware of and proud that Justin is the best at character creation, Clint specifically really was talking about how Justin's strong suit is definitely character creation and characterization

General mcelroy stuff

They walked pretty close to me when they entered the stage room for the q&a and like… they're short, like shorter than you think

Travis referred to his unborn child as "baby dod" (I'm not 100% certain but I'm pretty sure) which I looked up and is a nickname for George, and given with their older kid being named Barbera and nicknamed BeBe and Travis talking before about how he and his wife like classic names with cool nicknames it makes sense

Travis had an earing in his right ear, I didn't get to see his left ear and I couldn't tell if it was an actual piercing or a fake, it looked really good though. Also his tinted glasses look a lot cooler irl than they do in pictures

Clint told the teenage mutant Ninja turtle story with the signatures that griffin told on mbmbam, but Clint remembered it as happening at King's Island, not Disney. This story was prompted by the question of the biggest lie he ever told his kids, and he only came clean about this a few months ago

Travis told a story about how he finished a videogame when he was younger and was so excited that he picked up a plastic knife, yelled "throwing knife!" threw it directly at Griffin who dodged it and it hit and shattered a window

[muggle-writes]

11 questions

tagged by @writergurll

1. What is your favourite writing quote?

I.... don't collect quotes. I could Google one right now but that's not the same because I won't feel any long-term connection to it. but my favorite writing advice derived from a quote is the equivalent of "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" because you can't edit words that aren't there. write and keep writing, it can be good later, now you just want there to be enough words to work with

2. What is the name of your childhood favourite book?

Hmm Ender's Game was a favorite. as were the Harry Potter books.

3. When did you start writing?

the first time I wrote a story and cared about it, not just because it was required for class, was probably 7th grade? but I've been crafting stories to lull myself to sleep with for years, at least as young as 3rd grade. and now a solid half of my writing process is zoning in to that same narrated imaginationland that I tell my bedtime stories from, and crafting the story in a similar way (the thing with actually writing it down later is, now it does matter whether the story is self-consistent.)

4. Do you listen to music when you write?

usually, yeah. I have found what works best for me is putting on soundtracks from video games I haven't played. video game music is designed to be played on repeat, to complement but not distract from a task. and if it's music from video games I haven't played, then I don't get distracted remembering what I loved about the game. (the times I don't listen to music it's usually because everything is too distracting. music is too distracting, silence is too distracting, the surface I'm sitting upon is too distracting... on those days I get a cold drink and write in silence and hope and pretend I'm a functional writer. alternately I was so ready to write I put in my headphones and got in the zone and wrote 4 pages before I realized I was still listening to silence)

5. Who is your favourite character to write?

oooh, good question.

I like to write observant characters, because whether or not they're correct in their observations, it forces me to think about how truths can be misconstrued or hidden, or whether they're obvious to all or just to those who look. It also gives me an excuse to over-describe everything, when the character is observant enough to notice and mentally comment on all the details I want to add.

but also I like writing any characters when I have a strong sense of their voice, enough to be confident that I'm writing them in character

6. How do you come up with names for your characters?

I write a lot of fanfiction which makes names mostly a moot question, but when I am actually generating character names, I've got a few methods:

for a fantasy universe with names that resemble American names but aren't actually recognizable, I kinda just babble gibberish that also sounds vaguely like names until something sounds right. Then I repeat it a few times to make sure it still sounds right, and modify if needed. (...often I realize weeks or months later that a name sounds like something else and I'm surprised with myself for not noticing the similarity and then I second guess the character's name. once I wound up with a character whose name turned out to be the brand on the water fountains at my school.)

if I'm writing vaguely modern English or white-American names, I'll go through names I know and try them out, filtering by how pretentious the name sounds against family background.

and when I have to come up with names with other backgrounds I'll use baby naming websites or lists of "25 most common names in [country]

7. What’s your favourite book?

heck that's a really good question. I like lots of books. usually whatever I'm reading at the time is my "favorite" unless it's awful.

idk if I have a permanent favorite book, but the Harry Potter, Belgariad, Xanth, Pern, and Ender series all really shaped my sense of storytelling

8. What is your favourite part of writing?

either when I have a great idea and I get it down on paper/into a document before that initial burst of inspiration fades, or seeing people's reactions to my work, or occasionally just rereading something I wrote months or years prior and just enjoying it as much then as I did at first.

9. Who is a writer you look up to?

As much as I don't like his politics, I have been really drawn into nearly everything I've read of Orson Scott Card's (if I was old enough to Get It. tbh most of the Ender sequels went over my head bc I read them too young). and that's something I aspire to, to be so skillful, and to weave such a compelling story, that even people who want to dislike me are willing to kinda ignore that and forget it and pick up something I wrote just because my name's on it so they trust it to be good

10. Which genre is favourite to read?

when I was younger I liked both fantasy and sci fi pretty equally, but even though they can overlap, the tone is so different between the genres that I tend to prefer fantasy

11. How did you come up with your current wip?

lol which one? all my current wips are fanfiction (the last original piece I had half a plot for, I outlined and then abandoned during high school). usually I'll watch an episode or a movie and come away imagining "what if..." and if I get enough of a divergence from the original and I still feel strongly that I think it's worth writing, I'll start writing it up. I've started pieces because they were happening in my imaginationland and I wanted to force the scenes to be completed. occasionally I let a character (OC or fandom) work through a crisis I'm trying to pretend isn't happening in my own life. Several of my crossovers are inspired by "those characters should interact, it would be funny/drama-prone/intriguing/etc" (eg Julie Kwan & Hermione Granger: more-than-competent, sarcastic, academic friends. sounds excellent. OACET agent & Jodie Starling: time for (supposedly ex-)FBI shenanigans and Conan can be the one out of the loop for once. just things like that that sound like something interesting will happen) sometimes it's based on fandom commentary I've read (what if the Dursleys died instead and Lily and James raised Dudley) or just straight up "write the thing you want to read" (my long wip right now is because I got hooked on a trope and few of the fics were complete and none of them contained twists I thought would fit so I'm writing my own).

inspiration comes from lots of places and then it all kinda gets filtered through "what do I spend more than a single afternoon polishing in imaginationland?" and what survives is usually what I write.

anyway I'm not organized enough to have a taglist. I imagine I'm supposed to tag 11 people? but maybe @knightbusofdoom or @elizabethsyson to answer questions? no pressure.

and anyone else that wants can either do it and tag me or dm me and I'll edit you in so you're properly tagged

[luvdsc]

thanks for giving me some advice, miss cat <3

i have been crushing on him for about 4 years at this point which is kind of embarrassing but ... last semester when i started texting him, i slid into his dms w a pretty lame question about apush bc i heard from a friend that he had the same apush teacher as me 😭

i'm still unsure if it's a good idea for me to kinda go after him yk?? like for one, my dad said that i have to get straight A's this semester (and all of my classes are hard ;-;). and idk if i should just drop the boy and work solely on my studies? bc my parents are strict (typical tiger mom + same goes for my dad), they become control freaks when they're upset ;A;

also, idk if it's bc he's shy or smth bc he'll never text me first :(( does that count as a red flag ??

but he never texts first. i really don't know if i'm just picky ?? bc i have this issue with a lot of my friends,,, and usually i don't mind but sometimes i get self conscious and think maybe they never text first bc i'm annoying knsdhks :((

he's interested in landscape photography !! i'm one of his 24 followers so idk if that's a good thing but,,, i'll take it as one :)) i'm very loud with people i'm close with, but i'm very quiet and awkward with people i don't know too well, so i'm kinda scared talking to him in person at all HAHAHA

it would be a power move to just confess and see what he says LOL but idk if i'm bold enough to do that... but then again i was bold enough to cold call the teacher i fear the most today LMFAO

so i'm just thinking to myself, is it worth it? will i be happy? does he even like me at all? i'd love to hang out with him if i weren't so scared

summary of last sem: late august, i slid into his dms, texted him frequently until sept, when i stopped bc on 3 separate days, i texted him & he responded and left kinda? maybe he was busy. in november, i texted him again & it turned into a ~2 hour convo. over winter break, i texted him more. rn everything seems to be going well but i haven't texted him in abt 2 weeks bc i'm just... confused.

what does he mean? my friends think that he opened up to me more (kinda?) bc i left for 2 months, maybe he thought i was cool ?? but he's also not texting back anymore?? but also we never talk irl bc i'm scared but idk why he doesn't, bc he's mentioned that he knows i'm in his class :/

from, 🦊 anon :) omg sorry for the long ass ask

hello :) it's 🦊 anon here

idk if my last ask went through, so i'm asking again ;-; sorry if you have already seen it, i'm just not sure :(

i'm thinking about taking your advice about just going for it, but i'm scared bc i'm expected to get a 4.0 gpa this semester 😭 my parents are extremely strict too ://

but also i've liked this boy for almost 4 years, and i like him sm idk what to do :(( it's embarrassing how much i think about him 💀💀

and i really don't know if his lack of interaction id bc of him being shy or being uninterested,,, my best bet is probably talking to him irl but i'm scared and HSNDHSA i'm a coward. as much as i want to forget him and move on, i feel like i'll regret it 😭😭

last year in august-december i texted him but stopped halfway bc he seemed uninterested bc he didn't continue convos?? but then i texted him again and he was fine again :/ i'm very confused. did he miss me? was he busy? i waste so much headspace over him but i can't let him to ;A; i like him too much

from, 🦊 anon (this ask is stupidly long... i apologize 😔😔

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hey, sweetpea !!! omg i'm so sorry for the late reply, i got your first message, but it's hard for me to answer longer asks on mobile, so i finally had some time to go on my laptop tonight to answer !! 💓 how have you been? how's life been treating you, lovebug? 💛

omg four years :o it's not embarrassing at all, honey bee! romance is just one of the many things that make up life, and it doesn't have to take the front seat all the time. you can get to it at your own pace, and that's perfectly okay !! 💕 omg you made the first move heck yes honey bee, i'm proud of you for doing that !!!

ah i definitely feel that, i also had strict parents and a tiger mom 🤧i think while it's good to focus on your studies because education is important, perhaps there's a way to also enjoy your high school years while doing so? when you look back during these times, i hope you'll have more memories than just studying :') that's something i regret a little bit - i was very focused on my studies and extracurriculars too, but sometimes, i wish i did more fun things and spent more time with friends back then. maybe, in order to find some sort of middle ground between school and your crush, you can ask if he wants to study with you one day for the class you have in common? like prepare for a test together !!

you could never be annoying, lovebug !!!! ):< take that back !!!!! does he respond with one worded answers and try to cut off the convo as fast as possible? that might mean he's not interested, but if he's giving you long replies and seems geniunely excited to talk to you about things, like photography, then i'd say he might be a little shy :')

oooo omg landscape photography is so cool !!! maybe you can ask him if he's taking photos of anything new lately or if there's anything he wants to photograph next! 💖 one of 24 followers omg i'd say you're special, and that he at least sees you as a friend if he trusts you with that 🌸 aaa it can definitely be nerve wracking to talk to someone face to face, like you can't spend time thinking up a witty answer, but it's also a good way to see how he reacts to you in person and if he is equally as happy and excited to talk to you because uh.... boys can be the driest texters sometimes 😬

if you feel like you'll regret it, honey bee, then i personally say you should go for it 🤍 live without any regrets. would you rather find out what would happen if you confessed or continue to think of him as a what-if in your life? the worst thing that can happen is that he doesn't feel the same way. and it'll sting, but you'll get over it, and you can move on knowing that you did what you could, and you're now ready for the next step in your life, rather than sitting around in the past wondering what could have happened if you had just talked to him.

omg you cold called the teacher aldksjfhlaksjd that takes GUTS !!!! and it would definitely be a power move if you asked him out :') why not ask him to prom, sweetpea? or maybe ask him out on valentine's day aksdhfasd

ngl sometimes when boys disappear from convos, it's because they're playing video games or something alksdhflkasjd it happens to my friends and their bfs or i'm hanging out with my guy friends and they completely neglect any texts they get for the next 12374289 hours 💀💀 also, based on my own experiences, boys have a harder time of opening up to other people like girls can become instant bffs in the bathroom of a club, but i think guys are not as open to expressing themselves due to societal pressure and all that, and that leads to some roadblocks in convos at times. have you texted him again lately?

but wait did he just stop replying to your texts ?? or did he stop because you haven't texted him for the past two weeks? he knows you're in his class, so my suggestion would be to text him and ask if the two of you can study together sometime :') i think that gives an excuse for you to see and talk to him in person, but also have a safety net to fall back on because it's also for school purposes !! and from there, you can really see how he feels if he agrees to meet up for a study session! 💘

i'm so so sorry for the late response, honey bee, but i hope this is helpful for you!! and omg you don't have to be sorry, thank you for trusting me enough to send this in 💛 i wish you all the best of luck with school and the boy, and please keep me updated !!! 🌷🌷

[violets]

hello lovely!!! this is your bitch pack secret santa checking in to say hiiiiii. how are you doing? whats it like having your first christmas holidays in the uk? or are you going back to hong kong? ALSO, what kind of music are you listening to these days? when you make a playlist, what are some of your criteria to choose which songs go on it and where in the playlist? im curious bc ive been listening to your 2021 playlist hehe

HI <33 haven't done secret santa etc in ages on tumblr so 🥺 hello!!! honestly i haven't spent much time on tumblr lately but thank you so much for checking in <333

i'm spending my holidays in the uk yes ;-; i did want to go back home for christmas, but bc i'd have to quarantine for three weeks (and that's my whole break), i can't... that said, i'm having a better time here than i thought i would! i live with a few flatmates and they've all gone home, so i first thought i'd be miserable on my own, but i've actually been enjoying the solitude

as for music, i just... i don't even know hahah, like quite a bit of kpop, not a lot of new music? i've been listening to folklore and evermore. sometimes i just put on random albums as i do things (last week i had to wait for my laundry and instead of setting a timer, i put on sour by olivia rodrigo and did some other cleaning instead). if you have me on spotify (psst only mutuals get to get me on spotify hehe, dm me if you want my spotify!), i have monthly playlists that are just, songs i like throughout the months? so you can kinda see the trend a little!

playlists-wise, i'll be honest that for most of my playlists, they're more like compilations? not a lot of my playlists have a specific order etc, esp bc i usually play things on shuffle (not albums though no i respect the sacred order of an album even if i don't like the order kadjfklxvc). i think i just go along with the vibes, really. and thank you for listening to my 2021 playlist! do you like it so far? i've just kinda been like, going through my last.fm most listened to songs this year and going, did this song make any impact to my 2021?

sorry for the long long ramble and hope you're having a wonderful holiday my santa!! love love love your questions mwah