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[endereies]

LONG RANGE - MS

No Nut November - Day 28

NNN Masterlist...

-➤ You say goodbye to Matt at the airport when he has to leave Boston

The look of the airport shouldn’t have made you tear up, you couldn’t help it. The triplets carried their bags out the vehicle before standing by your side. Dating Matt had so many positives, this was one of the only negatives, if there were any others. The suitcases piled up in each of their arms, your eyes scattered between numerous people walking in and out of the building.

“Hey, kid, we won’t be gone long, alright?“ Chris’s voice brought you some comfort as you sniffled beside him. Nick hugged the other side of your body, squeezing you with a giggle. He was honestly trying his best to keep you positive, but it was easy to know why you had tears brimming. Their warmth left you, walking backwards to Matt who was grabbing the remains.

“Matt? Me n’ Nick are gonna go on ahead. We’ll meet you in a sec, yeah?” Matt gave them a grateful smile and nodded them ahead. With the pair walking out of site, a shove from Chris being seen before disappearing, Matt begun to drop his bags and close the two-foot gap.

A hand placed on her shoulder, a smile crossing his face. One of love and care. He hated seeing you in such a state but he couldn’t help it, he couldn't just stop the necessary flights to LA. The sight of him made the tears glisten harder as one fell. Matt’s hand on your shoulder fell to your hip and pulled you that inch closer. “Sweetheart, I’ll be back before you know it.”

“It’s two months, Matt. I don’t want you to be gone that long… or at all”

His words murmured in your ear, the guilt of his departure starting to sink in slowly. “I’ll call every day, facetimes and everything. If you’re asleep then I’ll send you voice notes to wake up to.”

“You promise?”

“I promise every time, don’t I?” you weakly smiled and tilted your head. You couldn’t deny his words. Whenever he left for LA, he immediately sent a few voice notes, even if they wouldn’t send until he landed. A lot of them consisting of yelling at Chris or remarks of the flight. Even then it was never as good as the real thing. Both of you knew that.

You survived off the physical touches he’d give you. Holding hands, grabbing your waist, kissing. You couldn’t do any of it for two months. You grabbed the fabric of his hoodie, anything to ground you from the situation. He wasn’t gone yet.

“I hate that you have to go” Each syllable was pressed into his body, his heart breaking at the break in your voice. The voice he couldn’t hear raw for two months.

The timeframe had been known for several weeks, everything planned in advance for when they travelled, they had to for their filming schedule. Even so, it was only starting to settle in now.

Your head was pushed towards Matt with his hand on the back of your neck. He swiftly pressed his lips to yours, silencing anymore words that only broke his heart further. It would be the last one for many weeks, so you made sure to savour the taste, the mint from his lip balm transferring onto yours. It wasn’t hungry or passionate, but it was bittersweet. It was hard for Matt to ignore the way his lips were met with the saltiness of your tears. He reluctantly stopped the kiss but left your lips grazing each other. “I hate it too, if you could travel with us, id pay and organise everything… I love you, I’ll call you as soon as I land, okay baby?”

With a small nod and the time slipping past, Matt parted from your body and gave your head another kiss. All his bags were accounted for and he walked off into the airport, smiling back at you as he walked. His feet felt heavy with the weight of leaving you there.

But it would only be two months.

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[flightyalrighty]

Yo yo I got a question!

What does your process/workflow for creating comics look like? I’ve dabbled in making some myself but could never really get it right…especially the script. So what does yours look like? Any tips for laying out the panels and keeping people engaged with the story?

Howdy! I've broken down my process in this ask right here but I'll see what I can say say about paneling specifically that I didn't already say in there!

Hmm, well, I can certainly say that your biggest priority when setting up a layout for your panels is to make sure everything flows correctly. Make sure your eyes NATURALLY feel drawn to the correct next panel when you're going through it.

Here's an example of what not to do:

(Forgive me, I put this together super fast with a trackpad in photopea)

See, the thing about this, and why it sucks, is that your eyes don't know where to go next after that first panel. We (westerners at least) prioritize reading left-to-right, then go for up-to-down -- However, this creates a strange zig-zag for our eyes to follow. The flows all fucky wucky! No good! Clarity is the name of the game here, so keep yourself absolutely 100% aware of how easy it may be to figure out where to go next on a page. Now, that said:

This is literally just the same image flipped, but do you see how much easier it is to figure out where to go next? Left-to-right, and then up-to-down. EASY!

A final piece of advice (that I may have given before but I've forgotten) has nothing to do with paneling, but does have everything to do with scripting. This SERIOUSLY depends on if you're making a webcomic or comic or graphic novel, like do NOT do this unless you're doing a webcomic, but If you can get away with ending a page on either a joke or a cliffhanger, do it. You WILL keep people from forgetting about the story and moving on. Make sure they need to see what's coming next OR give em a good enough laugh to stick your comic in their heads for a while.

Really though, the true trick to keeping people engaged with your story is consistency. Have a schedule and stick with it (I'm bad at this but at least I post ONLY on Thursdays now and try to not take more than two weeks on a page). If people have to keep guessing when your next upload happens, they're going to lose interest fast. Give your readers a fair enough chance to stay engaged by being reliable -- And if you do end up slipping up with your scheduling, do be sure to tell people when you'll be back.

It's absolutely your project, so you set your own schedule! But people get busy, so absolutely keep that in mind!

That's all I can think of at the moment! I hope this was helpful to you!

[usagiarchive]

sunday mornings — jing yuan x reader

sypnosis. [ 0.5k words. fluff. domestic + married life. ] — weekend bliss with your husband and son.

“Yuan?”

“In the garden!” you hear Yanqing’s voice call out, echoing through the door from the kitchen.

You pad barefoot through the house, sleepily rubbing your eyes. It was a Saturday, meaning he would be over to spend time with his father to either play starchess or spar.

The moment you slide the glass door and curtains away, you see the both of them on the wooden floors of the patio playing the beloved game.

Yanqing goes to greet you with a smile and tells you they still have tea and you ruffle his hair affectionately, “Careful, baobei, he might steal your pieces again,” you tell him as you pass the two by to pour a cup of tea, drinking from your lover's teacup.

The boy reacts immediately and lunges for the man in front of him, “Dad, open your mouth, you better have not eaten the pieces again!”

“I have not eaten the pieces,” he whines as he opens his mouth for the boy to inspect, “It was one time…” he sulks as Yanqing returns to his seat, eyes narrowed as he makes an ‘i’m watching you’ gesture.

You chuckle at their shenanigans as you slink beside your husband, his hand naturally falling against the curve of your waist as you lean into his chest.

“How was your rest?” he asks and you feel the vibrations of his voice through the shirt he wears.

“It was well, could've been better,”

Yanqing makes a move and you feel him tilt his head then make his move as well.

“How so?”

“I could've woken up beside you,” you take a sip of your tea.

“Oh?”

You giggle from behind the teacup and glance towards Yanqing, he's unaffected by all of these by now.

Ah, you miss when he was a disgusted child telling you both to go get a room.

Nowadays, you only see him a few times a week, his position in the Cloud Knights and your schedule at the Alchemy Commission keeping you from your son.

You relish the moments on the weekends where you get to spend time with him. With both of them.

“Checkmate Xiao ‘Qing,” the general tells him and you see your son narrow his eyes before sighing.

He takes a sip of his own tea, “Nineteen years and you'd think he would let me win…”

You and Yuan share a laugh.

Yanqing never was good at losing.

“Well, next time, maybe,” your husband teases as he nudges your arm to give him a sip of the tea.

You raise your arm, no adjustments needed, just as you've always done in the past, he always did like it when you let him drink from the same cup.

Something about the intimacy of it, he says.

Yanqing smiles at your display.

Jing Yuan snuggles into the side of your face.

“How about a nap, Àirén? To make up for me not waking up next to you today?”

You placed the cup on the table and hugged his side.

“That would be a fitting solution, yes,”

It is hours later when you wake up still on the patio. Your head laying on Yuan's chest, his arm around you, sporting a smile on his face as he slept.

The sun has risen high in the sky, yet the clouds remain, providing shade along with the roof of the patio.

You spot Yanqing on the other side, his head laid on his father's arm as he slept peacefully.

Yeah, a few more hours of sleep wouldn't hurt.

usagi's note: hi yeah omg ao3 curse is real, i haven't been posting so consistently, i need to escape this curse somehow.

@usagiarchive 2024. do not repost, translate, or use for AI.

[compassionatereminders]

I've been long distance friends with this person for a long time. Going 8 years. Her life turned mentally for the better this year, physically for the worst. She has a great support system with a good friend, a girlfriend, and therapist. She's working on herself and I'm so proud of her and so happy for her. She absolutely deserves it. And I do wish her all the best.

I can't help but feel like, in a way, I've been tossed to the side. She asked for space when she wasn't doing well when we talked daily. That's completely okay. We used to video chat weekly. When she picked up contact again, we agreed to start talking regularly again via texting and video chatting. So far, it's always me reaching out and her replying days later. If we schedule to video chat she'll agree (whether I ask or she does) but then flake and not tell me she can't. I get that she's in pain a lot or has other friends/appointments, I just don't want to be left waiting on her call. I'm finding myself just distancing myself. I've communicated that I just want communication from her. I don't mind respecting that she's in pain, I don't mind giving her space. I do mind a lack of communication. Sometimes it'll also be to the point where when we do video chat after a flake, that I'll find out she did something with her girlfriend instead. Mind you, we schedule things days in advance. I need consistency and communication, she knows this. She knows a lot about me, I know a lot about her.

I feel like I've lost a friend. I feel like we're just growing apart now. I'm stuck at where I was and getting worse, she's getting better and doing her own thing. I was doing better, she was doing worse. I just wish she was there for me the same way I was for her.

If she is too physically unwell to be consistently available and you are too mentally unwell to be flexible, it honestly just sounds like your needs and desires are incompatible at the moment. Which is unfortunate, but it happens sometimes

[takemyhand-justice]

obsessed with the dan and phil need to pay their mortgage era of content - welcome back girlies

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[goldkirk]

If anyone remembers all the dental work I needed done uhhhhhhh three years ago and never went back and ran away forever…I’m finally going back to a dentist on Thursday to restart the process and face my deep and utter abiding terror. And I also scheduled my COVID and flu vaccines for a couple hours later. And my psych appointment to restart meds.

I figured get it all done in one day, have my miserable immune reaction on Friday that I seem to always get with Moderna COVID shots, and then flee directly into the weekend and never be a person again except when I’m on and off crying. It’s going to be so kind to future me to get these things done and I can do it no matter how much I feel like I am constantly about to Actually Physically Die.

[serizawasgamecube]

hi continuing my trend of posting fics at like 3AM, heres something ive been working on for a while! hikikomori serizawa fic :) given the subject matter its gonna be a lot heavier than like. anything else up on my ao3 right now. but if youre down to get sad give it a read!

[llycaons]

ough I feel wretched

[smoreboi]

im considering going back to making shitty youtube videos edited on imovie again just to try and feel some sense of purpose. dont have brawl stars downloaded rn because i kinda fell off on it, but i could to twst vids or something. record my dot connection game dailies or something, idk, just something to do.

[nymika-arts]

i quite literally think my job is soft firing me so uh. check out my store lol

[seventh-district]

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[queerofthedagger]

pro: i've been actually so consistent in my sleep schedule the last two weeks, i woke up at half past eight this morning despite having only gone ot bed at like, 4 am

con: i am so so so so so tired. all the time. how do y'all live like this

[hirazuki]

In happier news, I may have solved my can't-write-longfics issue...

Turns out, I just needed structure; who could have ever possibly thought? XD

[mutalune]

really wish there was a tag that separated “I’m having Big Angry and/or Angsty Opinions about Star Wars” from “I’m goofing off with Star Wars I’m playing in the sandbox none of this is real so yes I will make my blorbo and this random glub shitto go on an adventure that makes no logical sense” posts because there’s too much of the former and not enough of the latter for my current mental state

[arionaleilani]

1. it’s my 24th birthday today, so my goal of being published by the time i’m 25 is now a one year looming monster, but i never specified what kind of published and am currently looking in various literary magazines that are recommended for writers who have yet to be published, so i’m surprisingly confident that i can make it work? and tbh even if whatever i write isn’t officially published before my 25th birthday, if i have someone in the process of being published then i’ll be happy!! no matter what though, i’m gonna try to be proud of myself for at least giving it my best shot!!

2. i honestly love that my birthday is on the ides of march because the ides of march meme shitposting is only a thing on tumblr but it also being my birthday makes it easier to like. be excited about the ides of march outside of tumblr. like even in person i can be like “it’s my birthday! i’m an ides of march babe (:” and if someone is like oh what’s that? or if they say something along the lines of oh like julius caesar? i can be like yep!! and even if it’s a small thing outside of tumblr it brings me immense enjoyment and amusement being able to bring it up off of tumblr

3. transportation situation has been very rough since june 2023 when i totalled my car, my gap insurance are being assholes and i ended up putting my foot down on the phone with them yesterday which i’m pretty proud of because i am NOT a confrontational person (something i’ve been working on this past year, so seeing some improvement with my ability to hold my ground and not be a pushover yesterday was very cool!!) i was told i’d get a response from them by friday next week no matter what, and if i don’t then friday of next week i will continue to wreak havoc upon them. but my moms car which i’ve been using since my accident broke down yesterday, hopefully it’s fixable but my parents were saying it might be done for, so trying to think of how i’m gonna get to work next week is kind of stressing me out lmao, but for now i’m just gonna focus on enjoying my birthday the best i can because i don’t want to start off being 24 with an overwhelming anxiety for something that won’t be a potential issue until monday. plus i already messaged my boss today to let her know that i’m going to do everything i can to make it work out but just so she’s in the loop and knows of the potential of me not being able to make my morning shifts (one of my coworkers said she’s more than happy to give me a ride for our afternoon shifts which does help relieve some of the stress!) and i told her i’d let her know for sure sunday so that if necessary she can have time to figure out someone to fill in for me in the mornings!

overall: life is weird and i ended being 23 yesterday with a shitty situation but a positive outlook and i am going to enjoy my first day of being 24 no matter what because honestly i fucking earned it. happy friday everyone, i hope it’s a good day for you and me both!