#and not ending the post on an elipse

[mushroomsie224]

Suddenly remembered a headcanon of mine from a while back about how Cedric rarely, if ever, drinks around people because of how embarrassing he gets. He's already treated as a joke, imagine if he made a fool of himself when drunk...but he probably drinks alone in his tower sometimes. Never in the workshop, of course...he made that mistake once and that's the last time he's making it. I think he'd be the type to drink away his emotions.

[19burstraat]

unbelievably specific modern things the crows would love. too bad they live in a late-1800s fantasy world

Kaz: screenshotting nfts, those web weaving posts about dog metaphors, leaving people on read, stealing from the self checkout in supermarkets, emo phases, wearing headphones but not actually listening to anything so they're just there just as a conversation deterrent, winding up scam callers, escape rooms, pretending to know nothing about pop culture in order to annoy people, playing solitaire online, Knowing A Guy for everything

Inej: social media sleuthing, posting goodreads quotes, strictly come dancing, snoopy, easily accessible climbing shoes, mr darcy, shouting at the screen when someone's judged incorrectly on a competition show, getting unbelievably competitive about wii sports/duolingo scoreboards/goodreads goals/animal crossing islands/air hockey, texting..... With loads of elipses... Like your parents.... and dropping unprompted wisdom in them.....

Jesper: neon clothes, the 💯 emoji, making everyone as miis on tomodachi life but being so bad at it that kaz and nina's miis end up getting married, lisa frank art, scamming people on depop, cheap jewellery that makes you go green, complaining about how cottagecore videos don't correctly represent the Rural Farm Life, shitty 2000s club bangers, the kitsch movement, giving your car a name, hoiking your novelty socks really high so everyone can see them, shitty christmas films, first person shooters

Wylan: speedpaint videos, joe hisaishi, being judgemental about other people's spotify wrappeds, djungelskog, that gif of the japanese mascot costume running through a bunch of explosions, watching weird low-budget adaptations of shakespeare plays with kaz, those arcade crane games, piercing your own ears with a needle and a lighter then being somehow surprised when it gets infected

Matthias: making an instagram account in-character for your dog, posting low-quality graphics of inspirational or biblical quotes on facebook (yk the ones w the landscape or sunset behind them), taking frowning selfies from below like your granddad does, viking media of any sort, buying dozens of identical t-shirts from big tesco, mixing up celebrities all the time, perpetually caving and giving the scouts/guides/youth groups/football clubs/carollers/etc money for their fundraisers

Nina: making bait posts online in the style of 'why can't we just print more money', period dramas, wearing huge mother of the bride style hats to weddings, saving recipes/crafts/art ideas on tiktok and then never actually doing them, pink gin, tiktok edits of fit celebs/characters, 3 hour video essays abt pop culture, saying 'break up with him' in response to every relationship woe, buying cheerful tat from flying tiger

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Lincoln Project :: @ProjectLincoln

Kamala Harris delivers her closer at the Elipse, as Park Police estimate a crowd of 75,000 has gathered.

* * * *

KAMALA CLOSES

TCinLA

Oct 29, 2024

To me, Kamala Harris closing speech was the kind of closing argument a prosecutor presents to a jury, lioning out why they should make the decision they will.

Anand Ghiriharadas posted an excellent analysis of her closing speech, which I am posting below.

That was a very strong closing argument from Kamala Harris. Framing the threat of fascism as not an abstraction but a distraction from a focus on your problems. Promising to move us away from the chaos and division of these years and heal families and communities.

She very deftly pitted who he is against who we are and dared people to show that their country is much better than he is.Share

She pulled off the bank shot: saying we have to save a democracy, yes, but save it for a reason, which is to make your life better. It is a complicated maneuver, and she did it well tonight.

She invited men to stand up for the women in their lives.

She talked about the border, but then quickly and rightly pivoted to the fact that we are nation of immigrants, a fact we should celebrate.

Her reclaiming of freedom and patriotism is a coup, the good kind of coup. The crowd’s embrace of patriotism and “U.S.A.!” chants tonight shows how much that message has been transmitted and left an imprint.

There was something raw and personal when she talked about how she just is irked by unfairness. It just doesn’t sit right with her. It felt like a statement of motivation that was much richer than the generic fact of being a middle-class kid. It got somewhere visceral.

We are all so exhausted by fascist threat mitigation that we forget all the awesome stuff we could be doing instead. So her section on building houses also served as a reminder that building in general, creating, dreaming, can again become our focus when he is finally gone from our lives.

She is, on a deeper level, attempting a rebranding of the Democratic Party away from big program creation, dating back to FDR, and reorienting it around quality of life improvement. Don’t talk about the programs you want to create. Talk about the pain points you want to solve.

Many of the best arguments of recent years are weaving together now. Trump’s narrow, hateful vision isn’t who we are. His project is all about him, not your problems. The soul of the nation is good and can be reclaimed. The divisions can end. Let’s build stuff instead of fight.

Most powerfully, she invoked American history from end to end, and vowed that a country founded in defiance of a petty tyrant must refuse to submit to another.

[reiningsoral]

introduction post (finally...)

*i do not have the reach nor the money to help with donations, im sorry*

'ello, im reiningsoral, any variation of that is fine to call me (rein, soral, reining, ect.)

moodboard/doodle reqs are open!

end of post image creds: theriotype userboxes* polytherian userbox indoor cat userbox

*it's just occurred to me that this link is now dead, so the theriotype userboxes were made by the-infinite-wilderness, if anyone knows if they have a new blog, pls lmk <3

about me:

pronouns: any! including it/its and all neos, anything is on the table

theriotypes: red fox, black bombay cat, crow

im an artist, i mainly draw my ocs but i do sometimes make fanart of various fandoms, (some of) the fandoms i am in are:

mcyts/minecraft toh riordanverse hermitcraft/life series dhmis gravity falls doctor who heathers mlp welcome home scp spiderverse tmf assassination classroom nimona scott pilgrim twomp GOmens dead boy detectives batman (DC in general, too, but mostly batman)

quirks:

i have a couple writing/text quirks: i use a lot of comma elipses/regular elipsies, i use a crap ton of text shortcuts n abbreviations, i use a lot of tone tags (minus "/hj" i have many passionate posts about why i hate the half joking tone tag), and i use more emoticons than emojis (i rly like :] and :3).

i cuss a lot, like, a lot a lot

i have ADHD (therapist diagnosed), anxiety (officially diagnosed), and probably autism (self diagnosed)

i say "i love you" a lot, if that bothers you just lmk i wont say it when talking to u

im bi and aspec, non binary, and just generally very queer.

fantasy world masterpost linktree

writing tag: #sticky-note stories art tag: #the refrigerator poetry tag: #the writing on my walls *scheduled poetry will be tagged with "poetry list" as well

DNF:

homophobic, sexist/mysigonystic, transphobic, TERFs/radfems

anti-therian and anti-furry

generally just disrespectful about things you disagree on

if you refuse to use neo pronouns or it/its prns

if you hate one someone for something they cant control (their gender, race, sexuality, identity, ect.)

if you are a zionist or support Israel

if you think that physical nonhumans are invalid

NSFW/kink blogs, i am a minor :)

proshippers/comshippers

this blog is a safe space for everyone <3

[alicetallula]

DEArtfest - July 2020 - Day 23 : #FAKEDATING - 23.07.2020

It was a pleasure to participate to the the DEArtfest organized by @octopunkmedia, based on their movie, Detroit Evolution in the universe of DBH

Day 1 : REVERSE AU / Day 2 : #SHARINGABED / Day 3 : COLLEGE AU / Day 4 : #PROPOSAL / Day 5 : WESTERN AU / Day 6 : #AMNESIA / Day 7 : TIME TRAVEL/LOOP – Reed900 / Day 7 : TIME TRAVEL/LOOP – Valerina  / Day 8 : #DANCING / Day 9 : MERMAID AU / Day 10 : #SICKFIC / Day 11 : ALL HUMAN AU + GENDERBEND / Day 12 : #5+1 / Day 13 : COFFEESHOP AU / Day 14 : #ENEMIESTOLOVERS / Day 15 : SOULMATES AU / Day 16 : NOIR/MAFIA AU / Day 17 : #VACATION / Day 18 : CROSSOVER / Day 19 : #BODYSWAP / Day 20 : VAMPIRE AU / Day 21 : #MUTUAL PINING / Day 22 : PACIFIC RIM AU / Day 24 : ALTERNATE ENDING / Day 25 : #ROOMMATES / Day 26 : ROYALTY AU / Day 27 : #WHUMP / Day 28 : MONSTER AU / Day 29 : #STUCKINACLOSET / Day 30 : JANE AUSTEN AU / Day 31 : #TOUCHSTARVED

Day 23 : #FAKEDATING - Page 1/2 - 23.07.2020

Here is my take on Fake Dating with a long comic AGAIN ! The classic asshole ex that comes back. In the last elipse, clearly Nines and Gavin discussed what happened in the bar. Sorry it was abrupt !

Done using ink pens, graphite pencils, colored pencils and an acrylic paint pen

AO3 post / DeviantArt post / Instagram post / Patreon post / Twitter post

Day 23 : #FAKEDATING - Page 2/2 - 23.07.2020

Done using ink pens, graphite pencils and an acrylic paint pen

AO3 post / DeviantArt post / Instagram post / Patreon post / Twitter post

(reblogs are unavailable until I scan and edit the drawing and put it through Nightshade)

[madamemaximoff06]

Void state progress pt. 5

So I have kind of an update? Kind of? I’m not sure if it’s an update really, but I think I’ve been entering the void state every night without realizing it, I reblogged a post awhile ago saying that we always wake up in the void (when we’re in the middle of dreaming then suddenly it just gets black, yeah that’s the void, we’re just not as aware of it)

so tonight or last night (it’s 2:14 AM right now), I took a nap during the day to try to enter and I didn’t, then later at night I had decided to put on some Elipsion waves (probably spelled it wrong) that subliminal by slade, I had put on headphones and I slept with it on the background and then as I slept I don’t think I had any dreams at least that I could remember then near the end before I woke up, I was in this black space, I wasn’t fully aware of it but I think I was in the void but it felt different from all the other times, like I would normally feel very light, floaty tingly, I’d be aware but this time I didn’t feel anything, I wasn’t as aware which is why I said I think I was in the void but I might have been like halfway there but I’m honestly not sure. I won’t give up though. I’m determined to enter the void. I just have so much trouble becoming aware which doesn’t make any sense because my previous times I’ve entered I didn’t even use awareness affirmations and I was able to be aware and stay in the void for quite some time. I’m not giving up, I’m just frustrated but at least it’s something.

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

Okay, but for the fic author ask post you reblogged:

24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

I feel like we’re all scarred from some shitty English teacher or other such person who considered themselves an expert on the matter. Please share with us so we can all have a laff / Relatable Moment. 💜

So many stupid things...

Write what you know Like, sure, write the emotions the way you feel them and the way that you believe the characters would, based on how they present. But do you have first hand experience fighting demons or using blood magic against dragons? Lmao. If you can imagine it, go for it.

Like, writing characters is fun, and you should absolutely have a bit of caution when you're doing someone whose experiences you don't have (POC, LGBPTA+, Disability) etc and maybe check in to make sure you aren't using stereotypes, but like... I think we're beyond the era of an all white cast of heroes and one (1) ambiguously diverse villain.

Not like the characters don't have real life counterparts (in their diversity) who may have information on the net for people to educate themselves with. And you don't have to be super serious to be good either.

Not all fic authors are sexually active or into certain kinks, but they can sure write them well. Even accurately, based on information and feedback from people around them, etc. That's fine, that's normal, and you'd never know unless the author said something to you.

Are some fics wildly physically inaccurate and you think maybe an author has a kink they haven't realised yet on a few occasions? Sure. That happens. It's about learning how to write something too... but at the end of the day, your friend Character A is going to rail that hot dragon while Character B jerks it in the corner from the cuck chair/smaller gold hoard, etc. Not something anyone can really like, write from life... unless they order from say, Bad Dragon and have very specific equipment in their houses, I guess.

'wRiTe wHat yOu kNoW'

Like

Who is the most medically accurate med drama show? SCRUBS.

It's fucking hilarious, and they play around with all sorts of tropes, but they aren't too serious. So wwhen there is a moment of Damn That's Serious, it hits harder.

I forgot where I was going with this one, but you feel me.

Write what you know is certainly a good reminder to make sure you're not just digging through the Stereotypes Op Shop and not questioning the real character motivations, or how to write convincingly. But at the end of the day if you have a kick-ass story about dragon knights fighting in space, you have no way of at least trying the shit out before writing it unless you have access to a rocket, a very ig bird and at least one chill friend who wouldn't mind jousting in zero G.

(Side note: do you know people don't think Dr House MD is a disabled character with mental health issues? Fascinating. Just... fascinating. I want to study these people under a microscope).

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Elipses (...) and commas, and our friend the semi-colon; are yours to command, there's no such thing as... too many.

Release them into the wild to populate... as you will.

Using italics in order to emphasise is lazy.

You will have to pry my dead cold fingers off the italics button, because sometimes you need to emphasise the way Shit Is Going DOWN.

Like

The venemous glare thrown her way was scathing, striking home with the vicious accuracy of an arrow to the heart. Please, she begged the other with her eyes, please understand I didn't mean to cast suspicion onto you. Never you!

as opposed to

The venemous glare thrown her way was scathing, striking home with the vicious accuracy of an arrow to the heart. Please, she begged the other with her eyes, please understand I didn't mean to cast suspicion onto you. Never you!

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And while we're on nonsense rules

I love to write and emphasise words with capitals to emphasise The Importance of something, or the absurdity etc.

One can only imagine the Depths of her Depravity, and yet, it could not be denied that lovely creature before him was indeed a good cook. However, the chancellor couldn't help but avert his gaze when her Assets slipped from behind such a... Limited Garment. Indeed, what could be considered an apron for someone a third her size was Straining Desperately to manage the, ahem, workload requested of it.

etc.

I use it for comedic affect.

Also because "He gave her The Look over Jane's head, begging for help as he was wildly out of his wheelhouse with all this assassination conversation." is more powerful than "He gave her a look over her had that begged for help, unsure where to go with this conversation."

At least to me.

This had become a Situation. Not just an event, incident or other issue... a Situation that needed to be Dealt With appropriately.

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Stories don't have to be A to B.

Like, you can start them anywhere, there's no trope that hasn't been used and that's totally fine to reuse for your story.

Do we freeze frame inon the end and go How the FUCK did this happen?

Do we start in a time before the beginning, the Simarillion before the ring was made?

Are we in the middle when all is hopeless and it's a terrible moment of great emotional distress that we have to feel for the clues?

Do we pick up a story and learn the world-building as we go, or is some of it dropped in the margins?

My fave author for world-building was Terry Pratchett, in the way you got some of it in different stories for the same world, and sometimes got annotations, and the more series in Discworld you read the more the whole shitshow made sense. 10/10. No one can beat JRR Tolkein, though, for world-building, but his is very law-dense where others are lighter.

However, starting a story with an eighteen page discussion on the importance of flurgening your flactors in order to allow androids to quingle your dinglehopper before we get to the story... can be a bit hard to read. That's where a beta can be helpful.

If that's how you want to write it, though, do it. There's an audience for everything. Someone will love it, as well as you will as the author.

Also, for reasons I can never really understand, when I write, I segue little snippets of world building and side information in, that matches the story but also helps add information to the character's motivations or decision. I could not for the life of me explain how that properly works...

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I actually really dislike the whole spoon-feeding character traits to the reader thing. Like the whole My Immortal type thing, where you get the whole description there

Alternately, I have always loathed first person except for very specific types of story, it can get jarring. But hearing someone do a full two pages discussion of how they look is so annoying.

I might look in a mirror and notice that the dye in my hair is fading faster than expected, but say, could top it up tonight. But then, perhaps it's time for a change... perhaps we go with green this time, might highlight my eyes in a way that would distract from the burgeoning purple bags underneath.

I am not going to do a fourteen minute analysis of every flaw or curve or sexy little freckle, etc. Unless the character is anxious and neurotic about how they are perceived, and that can be written a certain way.

"I check the mirror for the fourth time, worrying over if they will notice my foundation is the wrong shade or if the yawn from before put lipstick on my teeth. Again, no. Though now I focus on them, I need whitening strips... fuck, fuck, fuck, this is why I never go anywhere!

The fabric of my outfit bunches and tightens awfully, rumpling in a way that makes me despair. Why did I bother to iron the stupid thing? No one's going to notice me anyway, not with (character) there, and why am I going? It was a secondary invite at best, probably out of pity... shit, and I'd said yes like some overeager little puppy desperate for approval.

The bra starts to feel like a tourniquet, as I blink back the tears of panicked self-loathing, because I spent half and hour trying to get this stupid eyeliner on and it was semi-decent now. Can't ruin it before the others arrive. What if I look too sad and ruin it all? What if they tell I'm just a pathetic broken creature wearing human flesh..."

Etc.

Slightly funnier if you find out that the character actually is a creature wearing a human suit and is worried the MIB are going to kill them if they fuck up, but either way. Anxiety + subscriptions can be super similar.

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Nothing wrong with making a description Funny.

But if you're bending over backwards to avoid saying like Titties, and call them pendulous orbs on their chest, ripe for the plucking" I'm going to check your search history.

Just say tits. It's okay. Especially if the character is likely to refer to it that way.

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Use character's internal monologue, it's fine, it helps to work out what their motivations are and can further the story. Also a little Chekov's gun for when they 'notice an ally is standing a little too stiffly, favouring their left side despite smiling along with everyone else in the post-battle bliss'. You get in there and let Person A catch Person B as they stumble, try to brush off help and get found family/hut - comforted to health damn it.

Just be clear who is thinking, if there are multiple characters.

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You have to push through to finish something.

Nah. It sucks, sometimes when a fic you were passionate for or an idea just... dies out, but it's okay to decide 'I have been pushing and stressing over trying to finish this thing from years ago that I have no connection to'. You can tell when someone is doing something by wrote, but more importantly, finishing a chapter or a story should feel you with relief and a sense of accomplishment.

Maybe a few offshoot ideas for next in the fandom, or series, or the characters, etc. But it can just be done. If you're trying too hard to force something out, you just feel frustration for it.

Interest can cycle back around. You can come back to something years later and remember where you were going with it. That's okay too.

When you're writing for fun, or to spill your inner demons into the hands of very confused characters who lament your existence like a cruel god who unleashes The Horrors on them regularly... you don't HAVE to do shit, by the way.

The main audience member is YOU. Do you like the story? Do you want to continue? Did it turn out differently in a way you feel works? If not, talk to a mutual about it, bounce the idea off someone until you feel the shape of it again.

No shame in rewriting your fic along the same path with a different end as well. I do that a bit when I try to get to The Scene but the way the fic turned won't allow for it anymore and I see a different trail to The Scene in another story, etc.

Something profound here.

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Plotting

A final complaint... sometimes you get a cool idea in your head and have to write to that scene, and things get... ridiculously wordy. Sometimes, you have a vague idea that twists and trns and writhes about until it's almost a separate story to what you thought it would be.

No shame in that.

Sometimes you have immersed in the characters deeply enough that you feel your idea twitching to a shape, a narrative, that makes slightly more sense... and that's normal.

You're doing great.

And AUs are fun, harmless and chaotic. Why not induldge in that sexy mermaid AU or the Extreme pathologists working late in the lab to cure the pandemic who become increasingly aware of one another over time but are also in like 8 llayers of protective gear so have nevermet face to face type AU.

If your plot is ??????? - The Scene - ?????

or The Scene - ????? - ????? Cliffhanger

or ??????????????????????????????????The Scene???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????The fuck emotional devastation

Normal. Fine, Valid. Very demure. Very Respectful.

You are God here, and the words will be formatted to your will alone.

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You CAN overdescribe shit.

But if you like it like that, go for it.

We all had a Very Purple Prose phase, and I pretend those fics don't exist anymore.

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The most annoying thing is the idea that fanfic is all just smut and badly written. For one, don't forget that accomplished authors frequently end up on the Worst Sex Scene Description Awards list each year, and some 15yr old who saw a sexy site once wrote a fic so steamy the comments are full of praise and horny nonsense... it doesn't equate.

Writing at all, especially if you like it, is a talent and a challenge. It teaches you to think outside the box on how you would describe smething, how to come from alternate perspectives, it can help you practice english (or a language of your choice), it can give you a wider vocabulary.

Forgot where I was going, bon appetite, I have to take my children for a walk now.

[aquato-family-circus]

Once again (or maybe for the first time? I forget what I've posted of this) presenting the idea of Helmut FullBEAR to you for your approval. Not my idea originally but just a very fun and good au overall.

also [insert missing page of set up where Helmut got Lightly Grazed by a psychic bear while parked off the side of the road one night] rawr XD am i right

Full image description under cut

ID #1: A greyscale comic of Helmut transforming into a werebear. The first panel is a shot of Helmut sitting up in his van. The window curtain is pulled back to show the light of the full moon. Helmut looks out of it, labeled as "half-asleep". He's holding up one of his hands that has turned into a bear paw and thinks to himself "That, uh, that's not right I don't think." In the second panel little bear ears pop up on the top of his head and fur spreads further on his chest. He thinks "Is the van shrinking?" The third panel shows further progression as Helmut's head hits the van's ceiling with a BONK! The fourth panel shows the shadow of werebear Helmut stuck inside his van as he scratches at the van's door and goes "uh, crap, c'mon door op-" and then only further speaks in confused growling. The last panel shows Helmut slamming the door open and hitting the ground as a bear. The van's wheels scrunch and creak under his weight. He looks very confused, making "upset bear growling" noises. End ID.

ID #2: A greyscale comic of Helmut in the forest the next morning. The first panel shows just the trees and bushes as the sun shines down on them. "UGH" eminates from one of the bushes. The second panel shows the same scene, but Helmut is sitting up from behind the bush. His shirt is torn almost completely apart, and his hair is messy. He puts a hand to his head and says "My head..." The third panel shows Helmut looking at his hand in confusion with elipses to show he is thinking. In the forth panel he clenches his fist as he says "Man that was a baaad trip..." Next to him a label points at him that says "Doesn't figure out what's up until next month." End ID.

[diver-up]

sometimes i forget luke is genuinely a 20 something y/o going up against a sarcastic teenage boy and i think there’s a lot of comedic potential in that. so i drew a comic that’s supposed to take place in botl, absolutely inspired by this post

detailed image description under the cut, only cuz it’s super long

[ID: 

a four panel, digitally drawn comic featuring luke and percy. in all panels, luke has tan skin, short blonde hair, and blue eyes. he’s wearing a green aviator jacket, a black shirt that reads, “i hate my dad,” and has a scar going from the corner of his left eye to his jawline. percy has brown skin, curly dark brown hair with a patch of grey, and dark green eyes. he has a scar across the bridge of his nose and smaller scars on his jaw. he’s wearing an orange camp half-blood t-shirt, a necklace with two beads, and holding riptide.

the first panel is divided diagonally, with luke in the upper left half of the image and percy in the bottom right. luke is grinning and looking down at percy, his brows furrowed. percy is looking up at luke with a neutral expression. golden light rises behind luke, which is reflected on percy. behind percy is a dark wall. luke is saying, “admit it, percy! you’re on the losing side!” while percy’s speech bubble contains elipses, implying that he’s thinking of a response.

the second panel features percy only. he’s in the same pose as the first panel, but now he’s grinning with a satisfied look on his face. he’s saying, “ok well at least i have eyebrows!”

the last image is divided into two panels of luke side by side. both are identical in everything but their expressions - in the left panel, luke looks surprised, his eyebrows raised. in the right panel, luke looks angry, his eyebrows furrowed and his irises smaller. 

End ID.]

[described-images]

image 1 description: a screenshot of a quotation that reads, quote, Like really nervous. Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men. I was confused. End quote.

image 2 description: a screen cap of a bio on some unknown website. The profile picture features a young white woman in makeup and with straight hair that was originally mushroom-brown, but has been dyed platinum blonde. The profile features her name and her bio reads, “I love writing angsty romance books set in magical worlds. Villainous men and sarcastic women are my favorite combination. When I’m not writing, I spend all my time reading Harry Potter Fan Fiction. It has me in a chokehold. I’m currently twenty-six years old and live with my highschool sweetheart turned husband in Miami, Florida and am the mother of a fluffy cat named Boo. End quote.

In the next paragraph of her bio, it reads, quote, I attended Georgetown University for Undergrad where I double majored in Government and Classical studies. Then I attended the University of Miami School of Law where I was ranked first in my class. As a result of girl bossing too close to the sun, the last two years have been filled with me writing books, studying for the bar exam, practicing full time as a lawyer, writing at night, and having mental breakdowns. However, in between the craziness I’ve found end quote. The rest of the autobiography is cut off. This is when OP says, did you think they forgot to teach her about plagiarism at the miami school of law? End quote.

image 3 and 4 descriptions: OP posts a screen cap of an Instagram message between themselves and the young woman, who uses the same profile picture as described before, but larger and we can now see she wears a jacket. OP says, quote, Hey Jasmine! smile emoticon I just saw an excerpt of one of your books, and it eerily similar to a silly post I made in 2020 on tumblr. Can you explain please? smile emoticon. End quote. The fourth image features Jasmine’s profile on Instagram, with no content visible, except her bio, which advertises her books. We can see she has 20.3 thousand followers, follows 64 accounts, and has 54 posts.

image 5 description: OP posts a screencap of tags from another tumblr user saying, quote, imagine plagiarizing a tumblr post and being afraid of the OP eight-period elipses. End quote.

End description.

mentally i’m a slut physically i’m scared of intimacy 

[roukabi]

[Note: long post bc I needed to put my image ids in here]

Spotify Wrapped is here and i

First of all how did My Alcoholic Friends win over Achilles Come Down or Dear Wormwood. Though I will say it's a banger...

[Image Description: An image with the cover for The Dresden Dolls' album, "Yes, Virginia...". A caption says, "Your top song of the year was My Alcoholic Friends by The Dresden Dolls", and smaller text reads, "You played it a very reasonable 19 times. As is your right." There is a side meter on the image, indicating that the music has been turned down to mute. This is because I suck at taking screenshots with my phone. End Description]

Where did this come from. Why is it the agender flag. This is all your fault VideNoirbyLordHuron

[Image ID: An image with a cloudy green and white aura of some sort. A caption reads, "Your top music moods are 'spooky' and 'affectionate'. End ID]

BROADWAY is my top genre??? PIRATE???

[Image ID: An image with 5 stretched out words, ranked from 1 to 5. These are my top genres. They are, starting from 1, Broadway, then Indie Folk, then Indie Pop, then Pirate, then Metropolis. Whatever those last two mean. End ID]

Cheezus Crust who are the 370 other artists

[Image ID: An image with a blue background and text that reads “You listened to 327 different artists, but things got pretty serious with one...” End ID]

#1 Artist! Top .5% babeyy

[Image ID: An image of a Two Truths One Lie card. This card says, “Truth”. It shows Lord Huron’s “Long Lost” album cover, with the true statement being, “The artist you binge-listened to the most was Lord Huron”. End ID]

The four horsemen of the existential folk apocalypse and then the one (1) Reeve Carney song I have in my entire Spotify Library

(Though I suppose we're counting Hadestown here?)

[Image ID: A list of my top 5 artists. They are, starting from 1, Lord Huron, The Oh Hellos, The Crane Wives, Brent Arnold, and Reeve Carney.]

Hmmmmm... needs more Arcadian Wild and Gang of Youths and maybe Damon Daunno imo. But not a bad roundup!

[Image ID: An image showing my top 5 artists (mentioned in previous description) and top 5 songs. Starting from 1, they are My Alchoholic Friends, Dog Nightmare, Ancient Names (Part 1, though this is cut off by an elipse on the image), Setting Sun, and Poor George. The image also shows my total listening time: 8,053 minutes, as well as my top genre: Broadway. End ID]

Oh for fucks sake acd is 6TH PLACE

[Image ID: the first seven tracks of my top 100 songs playlist. The first five were mentioned in the previous description (My Alcoholic Friends, Dog Nightmare, etc.), but the 6th place song is Achilles Come Down, and the 7th place song is Dreamland by Glass Animals. End ID]

[froggyfroo-art]

OC-tober may be over but I'm not done so I'm still posting some of these, though they probably won't be as frequent. This, believe it or not, was the answer to the prompt "Carve", and it features everyone wearing jumpers because it just got really flipping cold in England recently hhh (I like to think they still sold that cake afterwards)

Prompt list by @oc-growth-and-development!

ID under the cut once again due to the comic format.

[ID: A six panel traditional comic featuring my OCs Erika, Gareth and Anja in a kitchen getting ready for a bake sale. Erika is wearing a blue jumper with a dark blue wintery criss-cross pattern on it, Gareth is wearing a plain pink jumper, and Anja is wearing a lilac jumper with a darker strip wrapping round the top half of the jumper that says "Ayy" on the front.

In the first panel, Gareth is trying to use a large knife to cut a sponge cake into slices but can't get it to go into the cake very far. With a surprised expression, he says "Oh dear. I think I over-mixed the flour again, I can't actually cut into this thing...". Erika, who is passing by in the background holding a blue cake tin, looks over to him and says "Oh? Hold on, I'll give you a hand."

In the second panel, Erika is standing beside Gareth and has her hands on top of his and it pushing down with him, and despite obvious exertion they still can't cut into the cake. Erika says "...Oh gosh, that is difficult. Isn't there a sharper knife?" Gareth responds with "This is the sharpest one I could find!"

In the third panel, Anja is entering the room with a smile and a wave, saying "Hey guys, how's the back sale prep go-" before she cuts herself off.

In the fourth panel, Anja is looking more directly into the room with a bemused smile. A speech bubble is coming from her that contains elipses followed by a question mark.

In the fifth panel, the view changes to behind Anja so you can see into the room from her viewpoint, where Erika and Gareth are still struggling with the cake but looking at her with blank expressions and slight blushes. With a slightly amused grin, she says "Uh, are you practicing for your wedding or something?"

In the fourth panel, both Erika and Gareth are blushing brightly with shocked expressions, and the knife cuts right through the cake, hitting the work surface with a thunk. End ID.]

[viciousedits]

header tutorial by starfalledits

please, if this tutorial was useful for you in any way, like/reblog the post if you’re a lovely person, follow me on twitter @vicxtorvale. and remember treat people with kindness, always. fanart by l004p

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Oi moressssss. Eu estava tentando fazer uma coisa diferentona no photoshop com algumas texturas e consegui fazer essa header aí. Vamos ao tutorial.

Crie um novo documento com as medidas de 1500 de largura e 500 de altura e pinte da cor que quiser, eu usei a cor #a09380.

Feito isso, você irar copiar essa imagem:

link com qualidade. 

Feito isso, cole essa imagem no seu documento e ajuste ela para que fique centralizada:

Feito isso, vá no modo de mesclagem e mude para ‘Subesposição de Cores’ ou ‘Color Dodge’ se seu Ps for em inglês:

sua header vai ficar assim:

Agora crie uma nova camada e mova para baixo da imagem anterior e com a ferramenta de elipse (U):

Crie um circulo achatado dos lados, usando o espaço de dentro da imagem como referência, assim:

Agora nesse botão:

Clique em ‘Traçado’ ou ‘Stroke’ e uma janela irá se abrir, deixe nessas configurações:

Ou você pode ir alterando de acordo com seu gosto. 

Escolha uma imagem e cole em cima da camada do circulo achatado. Eu acabei escolhendo uma fanart da Aurie de Aurora Rising da l004p. Ajuste a imagem para que fique certinha em cima da elipse. Agora com o botão direito do mouse, clique em cima da camada da imagem e clique em ‘Criar mascara de recorte’ ou ‘Create clipping mask’ e a sua imagem irar ficar dentro da elipse:

Feito isso, vamos para o texto. Eu usei a fonte hey november para escrever o nome. Você escreve o nome do personagem e divide ele no meio, para ficar menor, clicando na teclar ‘enter’ do seu pc: 

sem dividir:

dividido:

E faça isso no segundo nome do personagem. 

Caso você queira essa listra parecida como tinta nos olhos do seu personagem, baixe esse brush, e importe ele para o seu photoshop. Para importar é bastante fácil. Clique na ferramenta de pincel (B) e lá em cima clique nesse botão:

E uma janela vai aparecer:

Clique onde a imagem indica e clique em ‘Importar brush’ ou ‘Import Brush’ e daí você vai na pasta em que você salvou o brush, selecione ele e clique em ‘Carregar’ ou ‘Load’. Feito isso seu brush vai estar na sua biblioteca de pincéis. 

Agora com o pincel selecionado, passe uma lista em cima dos olhos do seu personagem. Para que ela fique reta, segure a tecla ‘shift’ do seu teclado enquanto pintar a lista.

E é basicamente isso. Caso tenha alguma dúvida, só me mandar uma ask que irei te ajudar.

SE ESSE TUTORIAL FOI ÚTIL PARA VOCÊ DE ALGUM MODO, POR FAVOR, DÊ LIKE/REBLOG NO POST. 

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Hi angelsssssss. I was trying to do something different in photoshop with some textures and I managed to do this header. Let's go to the tutorial.

Create a new document with the measurements of 1500 wide and 500 high and paint the color you want, I used the color #a09380.

Once this is done, you will copy this image:

link with better quality.

Once this is done, paste the image into your document and adjust it to be centered:

Once this is done, change its blending mode to 'Color Dodge':

your header will look like this:

Now create a new layer and move bellow the image and with the ellipse tool (U):

Crie um circulo achatado dos lados, usando o espaço de dentro da imagem como referência, assim: 

Now on this button:

Click on 'Stroke' and a window will open, leave in these settings:

Or you can go changing according to your taste.

Choose an image and paste on top of the flat circle layer. I ended up choosing a fanart of Aurie from Aurora Rising made by l004p. Adjust the image so that it’s right on top of the ellipse. Now with the right mouse button, click on the top of the image layer and click ‘Create clipping mask' and your image will stay inside the ellipse:

Once that's done, let's go to the text. I used the font hey november to write the name. You write the character's name and divide it in the middle, to get smaller by clicking on the 'enter' key of your pc:

without dividing:

dividing:

And do it in the character's second name.

If you want this stripe that looks like paint on your character's eyes, download this brush, and import it into your photoshop. To import is quite easy. Click the brush tool (B) and above in the Photoshop settings click on this button:

And a window will appear:

Click where the image indicates and click on 'Import Brush' and then you go in the folder where you saved the brush, select it and click 'Load'. Once that's done your brush will be in your brush library.

Now with the brush selected, pass a list over your character's eyes. To make it straight, hold the 'shift' key on your keyboard while painting the list.

And that's basically it. In case you have any questions, just send me an ask that I'll help you.

IF THIS TUTORIAL WAS USEFUL TO YOU IN ANY WAY, PLEASE LIKE/REBLOG THIS POST.

[galacticgarlic]

[ID: A comment by user @/grubloved on the original post that reads, "isnt it joyful to be a large predator (elipses) eat a lot of food and then go lie down about it". End ID]

Being the person that needs to nap after every big meal is so embarrassing. I apologize for being a 1 week old

[mocweepe]

[ID: a uquiz question that reads, "haii feel free 2 infodump, copy paste two trucks lyrics, tell me how u r, w/e u want :]" (alt text: hi, feel free to infodump, copy paste two teucks lyrics, tell me how you are, whatever you want smiley emoticon)

and is answered, "ur typing style is literally so nice its so good on my dyslexia ?!?!? also also my english isnt da best when reading but once again .... so so so so nice ur using tha letters so well ?" (alt text: your typing styke is literally so nice, its so good on my dyslexia *repeating question mark and exclamation point* also also my engkish isnt the best when readingx but once again *elipses* so so so so nice you're using the letters so well?" end ID]

SOB SOBS SOBS i hope dis iiz ok 2 post since it iz anonymous neway 2 whoever wrote dis *kisses u*

[purple-possibilities]

Boomer vs Millenial Texting

Idk about you guys but I text my parents fairly often, and I find it funny how like... differently they text than the younger generation.

My dad types like he talks, for the most part, when he’s not misspelling things because he has chunky fingers, or accidentally sending emoji. Lots of accidental emoji. Idk how he does it. Not too different than normal texting. Go dad, you’re still hip...ish.

When I say he types like he talks, please don’t think that implies he talks normally. He talks to me like he’s this mix of some sort of knight in a regency era historical drama addressing his liege, a modern day soldier addressing his commander, and a spy discussing plans with a partner, but that‘s just his personality (e.g. “I have recovered the spoils as directed and shall make my return post haste. The time is currently twenty-hundred-hours, synchronize your watches. I shall arrive in twenty minutes, captain, and if not, I’ll take the lash!” means he’s coming to visit with takeout, it’s 8pm and he’ll be there at 8:20pm and absolutely won’t be late. You could have just said that dad but I guess this is more fun).

Dad also likes to call after he texts to see if you got his message, even if you’ve already texted him back. One or the other dad! Choose one!

My mom, however, texts like how they used to teach you to type. As in, typewriter typing. She took a class on it in high school or university, and they have very specific rules. Some you don’t really notice, like the fact that she always double spaces after a period. Not a big dif. You probably didn’t notice that I did that in this paragraph.

She often ends sentences with elipses. It reads to me like she’s trailing off, and I used to ask her if she had something more to say. But that’s not how she was using them. I got frustrated once and asked her why she never finishes her sentences, and she was totally confused. As it turns out, ending a sentence in “...” was apparently a way to make your sentence come across as “softer.” So while I thought she was sending shade or being whiny when she wrote things like “you didn’t fix my printer...” she was intending it to come across as “you didnt fix my printer but no worries do it when you have a chance.” She said that ending sentences with a period meant they were strong statements. So “you didn’t fix my printer.” would mean she was mad, which is something we both recognize as true but for different reasons. I told her than was what exclamation points were for, and she said “you never use exclamation points, it’s rude,” and that was that.

Whenever I text my mom something funny she always replies with “Haha.” Thats it. It sounds so sarcastic until you realize she just means lol or hahaha. Somehow the third “ha” makes the laugh genuine in text talk, but mom doesn’t have time for that.

She also just replies with “K” like with almost everything. If your friend sent you a “K” you’d be like “why you so mad? What did I do?” But not with mom. Mom is just an efficient typer. She doesn’t have time to write “cool” or “nice” or “sure” or even “K!” (You never use exclamation points after all. They’re rude. She must think I yell at her a lot over text...)

Those are the ones that come to me now, I might think of more later lol.