#and it's gotten me motivated again

[luins]

writing something.... mayhaps...

[oversizedsunhats]

I haven’t been obsessed with something as niche as Indigo Park in so long bro… I forgot how horrible being in a basically nonexistent fandom is😭 don’t mess with us Indigo Park fans, there’s like 5 of us

[girlivealwaysbean]

can someone tell me how to keep going if your hardwork does pay off but you don't feel anything when you achieve your goal just relief and numb again

[miyamiwu]

Time for me to put out a disclaimer before anybody gets the wrong idea because of my Link Click posting: My Chinese is actually not that good. I just try my best :3

I started learning Chinese so I can read danmei (Chinese BL novels) without having to wait for a translation. Naturally, I focused on learning to recognize written characters, especially those that tend to show up in web novels. Once, I downloaded a Chinese flashcard app, but the vocabulary decks I picked were on topics like Martial Arts, Chinese Medicine, Idioms, and other cool stuff that usually show up in web novels—which are handy for reading, but not really for conversations.

I took four Chinese classes for the mandatory language credit in my major, but in every one of them, I struggled with recitation and audio-based exams. (I can’t distinguish between tones for the life of me 😩)

But! I aced the reading and writing parts just fine. I’ve also taken classes in translation, linguistics, and sociolinguistics, and they have really supplemented how I interpret the language.

So yeah, for basic-intermediate Chinese literary stuff and translation meta, I’m your girl. But for native speaker insight, more cultural nuance, and anything else I might miss, I’ll direct you to my mutual @/rainibao

Lastly, don’t ever let me speak in Chinese. My ni hao will just sound like Vein’s 😔

[medusa-was-innocent]

Wow this sucks

[askbrasil]

"are you back???"

YESN'T

[bluejaybytes]

IS SPLATOON TRENDING BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE PISSED AT THE FEST RESULTS??? THIS IS SO FUNNY...

[bitterflames]

list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern (tagged by @sunriseverse on main, tyty! 💛)

...i've only got 9 posted fics so we're gonna have to make do lol. talk about inspiration to get off my arse and finish some of my wips >.>

1. how to deflower your martial brother (wo jia dashixiong naozi you keng, dongfang wuqiong/gong changsheng) Gong Changsheng had noticed this when he was younger, the way Dongfang Wuqiong would sometimes press a hand to his chest as though in pain, the recurring cough he’d shrug off as a minor seasonal affliction. 2. what's in a name? (mysterious lotus casebook, di feisheng & fang duobing) He didn’t mean to keep it, but something about the helpless little bundle of cream-coloured fur had stirred his heart. 3. no takebacks (mysterious lotus casebook, fang duobing/li lianhua) Li Lianhua is teasing him about his supposed upcoming marriage to the princess again, in that way he does sometimes that’s more of a defensive mechanism than anything. 4. to gravity and the unknown (elder scrolls online, verandis ravenwatch/prince naemon) It’s cold. 5. you and me and a bottle of wine (baldur's gate 1, player character/xan) Beregost is a welcome sight after weeks of trudging up and down the Sword Coast at the mercy of the elements, the wildlife both mundane and monstrous, and the seemingly endless roving gangs of bandits. 6. hold me tight and fear me not (baldur's gate 2, player character/xan) The dark elves are not much for merrymaking, Ceru thinks as she sips at her second tankard of black mead; in all her travels, she’s never seen a tavern so quiet. 7. snow and repetitions of snow (elder scrolls online, mannimarco/vanus galerion) Vanus Galerion sank into his bathtub wearily, the troubles of the day weighing heavily upon him. 8. a light that does not flicker (elder scrolls iv: oblivion, hero of kvatch/martin septim)

Nevos could only watch, mute and uncomprehending, as Martin was enveloped in a blaze of light so bright it hurt his eyes to watch.

9. into the abyss (elder scrolls iv: oblivion, hero of kvatch/martin septim) Blue, all around him is blue, a placid calm sky that stretches on in all directions as far as he can see. taking "first line" as the first full sentence, which... lol. if there's any consistency in these it's that i am very inconsistent! past tense, present tense, rambling run-on sentences or just "it's cold"? no pattern no rhyme no reason baby!!!

tagging! @shararan @strandedchesspiece uhh i think i've seen this one around a bit, i'm not sure who else has done it! any writer friends who are interested pls feel free to do the thing and @ me about it 💛

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel uninspired and lack motivation for art again so I thought of an ask game for me :)

Send me(or comment) a number from 1-34 and I will draw my corresponding oc

I mentally struggled over whether I should make this post, because ik ocs are niche and probably not many people care for it, but I realized I could have been using those hours to y'know. Actually draw something. So I might as well just post it

[houseofbooksandcandles]

Has anyone else been stuck in a massive reading slump since mid january or is that just me

I am not okay.

[raiiny-bay]

had an idea for yet another big project…

[themyscirah]

This is technically a Diana's age poll but I framed it partially around Julia's rescue because that's the event I need to contextualize and whether or not Diana is a thing yet is p important for my purposes. I would keep the Pérez run and postcrisis continuity in mind when answering this bc that's when this is relevant but I'd keep in mind that even though Diana is very young there (like early 20s) we don't know I don't think if she ages differently as a child (esp as a themysciran AND being made from clay) and in some versions she is older than she looks and was made earlier

Edit: I accidentally logic-ed this out in the tags lol 🤦‍♀️but feel free to still vote however you want. Going to publish this anyway bc I think I made some good points later in my tags

[margueritegracq]

Godddd I LOVE the change on perspective of Ellington as you read atwq. Like she very much the "femme fatale" mysterious girl archetype (as much as someone who's like 15 can be a femme fatale) to the reader (because ofc we're seeing this through Lemony's perspective and L's gonna L) but then as we go along we have more and more holes poked in this picture L has built up of her until all the stuff we know about L almost comes crashing down in a way in the 4th book as we realize that LEMONY has been more mysterious more suspicious and altogether more "Ellington" than Ellington the whole time

[fingertipsmp3]

There are two wolves inside me. One is trying to convince me to do extensive research for the job interview tomorrow and the other is saying “wing it”

[loverboybrightsideghost]

me whenever i roll an 11 on a d20: haha nice rqg 177 reference

[zarovich]

miss when i was younger cuz even tho i was still severely depressed and suicidal, at least i had still motivation and passion. now it's completely gone