#aww ;w;

[smokes-and-bullets]

"Do you think this year is going to be any better from the last?" Jack asks, tilting his head upwards to Francis, "I know we can't prepare for the future, but, I'd rather have the future be at least somewhat manageable with the people that mean the most." Which, did include Francis. "I'm holding it to you that we spend more time together."

"I really don't know.. It's always been the same for me year after year.." Not really hopeful words and he was quick to realize this. "Though new year, new beginnings right? That's what it's all about, a chance for things to be better than what it was before."

"No one can prepare or predict the future, but it is easier when things are manageable and you're with the ones you care for and care for you." Chuckling with a nod he waved his hand.

"Why not start now, spur of the moment. New year and all, might as well and have fun with it, keep it going. I guess that can be our resolution." He was never into the whole new year new goals things but this he could hope for and do. Spend more time with the ones who mattered.

"I'm still down for drinks and doing something after.. or before we grab drinks. Cause a little chaos, have fun with it."

[batabids]

too busy to draw today so here is a picture of my lovely cat penny everyone say hi penny

[patetpluvia]

"Not exactly disappointed.. Just worried." Nix fidgeted a little, even now feeling the nagging sensation in the back of her head. That small voice telling her to keep busy. Make herself useful. Don't lay about.. Her only value lied in what she could do. "I am trying.. The best I can." Which the silverette did mean that. It was just.. complicated. "I've just.. never learned to relax. I always had to do something. Always stayed busy.. Back when I was a kid, I only really got to rest when I fell asleep. Or when I snuck away from lessons, even then I busied myself with something else instead.. If I can't do something. If I can't use my time to help people.. What good am I?"

Shiro makes a small grunting noise in his frustration, but presses on. The question was about feeling, not reaction, but Nix still gave him a response that he could work with. So, he continued on, "In other words, you would be frustrated with us. Maybe even disappointed because we did not listen to our orders and are not taking our recovery seriously."

"I can tell that you're aggravating your injuries, Nix." The fresh blood marks in new bandages is a telltale sign. "I'm asking you to stop that, for your own health and my peace of mind."

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Layne Staley 🖤 Alice In Chains

[chickengoldie]

NEW HEAD CANNON ALERTT!!!

OK OK SO I GOT BRAINWORMS AND I WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR THEM.

As a character, Phoenix doesn't have many interests other than art (I don't count beanix), and even then we don't see him really do much with art.

so new special interest headcannon

Snakes.

Yes you heard me. I want our resident silly boy to love snakes/danger noodles.

He has books on snakes, he wants a snake, he talks about snakes when given the chance

Why?

..................................

idk man.

I just think snakes are cute and I feel like Phoenix gives snake lover vibes.

also if he gets a snake this theatre nerd will 100% be naming it William Snakespeare and you cannot convince me otherwise.

anyways thanku for coming to my tedtalk about bisexual disaster lawyer man and danger noodles.

Oh and Miles thinks the way his eyes shine when he talks about snakes is adorable just letting everyone know hahahahaha I will go down with this ship.

[miawlabakim]

[beaulesbian]

Boimler & Mariner - Lower Decks ep. 1x1 || ep. 3x10

[hellishgayliath]

I love your art, you're a huge inspiration! If you're still doing fit requests can this be on Mikey?

Watch out Leo there's a new pretty boy in town 🧡

[emoassx3]

he so pretty:(

[uhohbestie]

TAMN Outline

Since we're so close to the end of TAMN, I just wanted to share what Lock and my outline looks like, especially because neither of us ever used outlines for writing fic before this LOL

The only reason we have one for TAMN is because we were determined to finish this thing within a year of starting it and really wanted to post a chapter a week. Realistically, between work and irl and different timezones, there was no WAY we'd be able to keep up with a weekly posting schedule OR our self-imposed deadline if we were writing on the fly, so an outline was a good way to keep us on track.

(Details under the cut 'cause this got long af lmao)

SO FIRST OF ALL. We have quick chapter markers to refer to just to keep track of where we're at. The obvious ones are as follows:

🐈 Scar POV Chapters 🦜 Grian POV Chapters 🧟‍♂️ Some sort of significant zombie encounter that chapter 💦 Smut

I took this screenshot a WHILE back so Chapter 12 was actually split into 2 chapters, as was Chapter 14. So while the two emojis in Chapter 14 were meant to signify both Scar and Grian's POVs in that chapter, we ultimately just split it into a separate Scar chapter and a separate Grian chapter.

As for the other markers, this is what they mean at a glance:

✔️ Chapter is written ✔️✔️ Chapter has been edited by one person ✅ Chapter edited by both of us; Ready to Post 💯 Chapter has been posted to AO3

The last one isn't in the screenshot above, but is another one we use. And, ofc, if it doesn't have any of those markers beside it, it means the chapter hasn't been written yet.

Other than that, every chapter heading has not only the chapter number, but a reminder of where Scarian are, the time of day that chapter starts at, and how long of a walk/drive to their next destination remains. Plus, the very first point is always the current date and the weather (in Celsius 🍁) for the day. It looks something like this:

For a short chapter like Ch. 6 where not too much happens, the outline is just a handful of points. Also, we put a strike through things we skipped as we wrote when we felt they no longer fit the mood we were going for. (Basically, the outline is here as a guide and we adjust as needed for full creative freedom.)

Now the LINKS at the bottom lead to ANOTHER document where Lock and I's original conversations are sorted, in case we need to reference back to something we don't remember. That looks like something like this:

So when you click the link, there's a pop up that will take you directly to the original conversation about it located in another doc.

Basically, Lock and I had talked about TAMN for months before every writing it, so when I suggested making an outline, Lock was like "yeah, we basically have a skeleton already with how much we've talked about it". So what we did was, I copy-pasted EVERY conversation we had about TAMN into a Google Doc, and then Lock went through and SUMMARISED EVERYTHING in each conversation into The Main Points. After that, I went and put them into chronological order in a new doc which then became the outline we use today! 💫

Thus, when you click on a link from the outline, you get taken to the conversation summary, and if you scroll down past the summary you get to the actual conversation itself, minus our usernames/formatting/timestamps to make it easier to read at a glance:

And then, ofc, the further along we got in the fic, the more complicated the plot and the chapters got. So instead of short and sweet outlines with a link or two to old conversations, we had to come up with a lot of in between events that still somehow added to the plot and moved the story along to the main points we wanted to hit.

This was actually what took me the longest during outlining, and poor Lock kept going "JUST LEAVE IT BLANK, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT AS WE GO" but I really wanted to have SOMETHING down just to give us a springboard to launch off of, because we had no idea if we'd have time WHILE writing to come up with anything.

(This continues on for more pages since we combined two chapters into one here, but this is the gist of what the outlines turned into per chapter as we got later and later in the fic LOL)

Turned out to be the right call, because it's saved our asses more than once when on a time-crunch! That said, there were a couple chapters where we DID in fact go "idk about what's in the outline, what if we do this instead?" and then do that because it Felt Right. So again, the outline was super helpful but not a hard and fast rule. (Though Lock and I had our fair share of "WHY DIDN'T YOU WRITE WHAT WAS IN THE OUTLINE"/"I FORGOR" moments that have been fun every step of the way 😂)

AAAND, I THINK THAT'S IT! THAT'S OUR OUTLINE! 🎉

Just wanted to make a post for it to document because it was such a novel experience, hahaha! Like I said earlier, neither Lock nor I ever used outlines before, even when writing fics together for other fandoms :')

I've got two completed longfics under my belt from before TAMN in my last fandom and I wrote those completely on the fly as well. Worked out just fine, but like. It took me 2-4 YEARS to finish the fics, and they were both MUCH shorter than TAMN is. 😅 Nothing wrong with that obviously, but it was a lot of fun to try something new and it felt incredible to be able to have a new chapter ready to go each week! ;w; 💜

We're almost done writing the fic and honestly idk what we're gonna do with all this free time once we've wrapped it up... time to come up with a new longfic ig LMAO

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR, HOORAY! 🎊

Here's a little bonus for you--

From the time I went to a gun range and shot both a rifle (near the head) and a shotgun (the spray by the stomach) and took notes so that we could use it in our fic JHGFDSKJHDF THE CRAZY RESEARCH WE'VE BOTH DONE FOR TAMN I STG 😂😂😂😂😂

[mintytealfox]

For some strange reason I can feel like if Norton and Alice had a daughter, she would become a land surveyor or a cartographer.

It would be a unique blending of Alice and Norton.

Oh my HEAAARRTTTTTTTTT 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞 AAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

a DAUGHTER ;w; aawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww~

Her having a job that requires travel and studying the land ;w; -Norton being grateful her job is ABOVE GROUND and not underground -Alice pleased she has found something she LOVES and gets to travel~ -Norton being relieved he taught her how to survive out in the wilderness cause its come in clutch SEVERAL times already 👀 -And Alice pleased she taught her how to get through any conversation and able to stand her ground when necessary ;w; (and BREAKING AND ENTERING, picking locks the whole 9-yards to breaking and entering LOL)

GOSH I LOVE NOTALICE BABIES AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[vaingod]

started watching a new anime w gf, a saga

- main character is a girl that crossdresses as a guy to get hired

- oh cool i guess we have a trans character? nice lets see what sort of trans they code her as

- she gets fired for being too pretty for a boy and getting female customers obsessed with him

- main love interest is a vampire

- vampire ends up owning him as a blood sack

- MC starts school in an all boys school

- MC continues to hide being a girl in her professional, educational, social, personal and love life

- MC constantly says she wishes she was a girl and wishes she met the love interest dressed as a girl so she wouldn't have to come out about hiding being a girl

- love interest is in love with him as a boy

- 2nd love interest, also in love with him as a boy

- MC tries to date a girl and gets sad when she isnt into him

- both love interests defend her as a feminine boy who wears womens clothes sometimes

- MC wears a wig for her boysona the same colour as her long hair cus she doesnt wanna cut it

- everyone is super supportive of them being gay and MC crossdressing as girl while crossdressing as a guy, everything is great, MC just feels like shes horrible for hiding that shes a girl. thats it. i cannot overstate how much that is the main conflict of the show

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Layne Staley Opening For Van Halen at the Toronto Skydome in Toronto, Canada, November 4th 1991. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

📸:by Mirjana Simeunovich

[spaciebabie]

would smash leshy

[silliness-inc]

lers that do the shit where they mock u + coo at u CANSOMEODY PUT ME DOWN

[gumjester]

CRYPTIC REWRITE UPD8S PART ?????: just figured out the maddie arc . ohhh.. OHHHH.........