#change my direction

[theredcapeofk]

WIP Wednesday Saturday

Thank you @inkedroplets for tagging me in this game.

This is a short extract from Chapter 17 of Change my Direction. I can't share more I don't wanna spoil it

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Kara nodded and watched Alex take the earpiece off as she was going out of the room. Lena replaced her a few seconds later. She almost ran towards the screen and put the earpiece in her ear.

“Kara, how are you feeling?”

Kara considered her options. She had to be honest but brief.

“I’m ok…considering…but my love…We can’t have this conversation now. I need to keep it together so I can talk to Clark, to finish what we’ve started. As Eliza said, this has lasted too long, it has to end tonight.”

Lena swallowed thickly. Kara could see this whole situation was taking a toll on Lena’s legendary calm.

“Do you have a plan?” Lena asked.

“Listen to him this time. He was trying to say something before I…uh..lost my temper. I might end up not liking what he’ll say anyway, but at least I’ll know.”

“What if you get angry again? I could come this time, I won’t risk getting hurt since you don’t have powers.”

Kara gave Lena a sad look. She knew it would happen. She knew Lena would try to find a reason to join her to offer moral support. But Kara couldn’t have Lena near her now. Aside from still finding it difficult to look Lena in the eyes after what she’d done, she couldn’t risk getting overwhelmed by Lena’s affection. Her girlfriend meant well, but Kara had to avoid her now if she wished to be able to talk to her cousin.

“My love, I have to do this alone. I know you wanna come here and be by my side. I know you wanna help lift the weight off my shoulders, and I love you for that. But in this situation, you being here would only make things harder for me. Your presence would make me more emotional than I already am, and I can’t have a breakdown now.”

Lena’s eyes watered but the look in her eyes showed she understood.

“Alright, I’ll wait for you at the loft then.” Lena concluded.

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I'm tagging @chaotic-super @waytooinvested @lenaralanvers

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[bamsara]

I think that one thing people fail to understand is that unsolicited literary criticism coming from an online stranger who is reading with no knowledge of what the authors intended goal is, is not going to be received the same as say: the authors beta reader or friends who know what the authors intended goal and has the sufficient knowledge and input to help the author reach that desired outcome.

"But I'm only trying to be helpful" How do I know you have the knowledge and literary skill for you to be able to actaully do that when we don't know each other and you are essentially a stranger to me? Are you applying this criticism based out of personal biased experience and desire to see the story or characterization be driven in another direction or tweaked, or do you know the author's intentions for the character? If the story is incomplete, are you basing your criticism of a character on the incomplete narration with only partial information available of them or are you building up a report until the story's completion? Did the author provide you with the information needed to make a fully informed criticism?

Have you discussed with the author what their plans are or are you assuming them based off the narration, especially if the narration is proven or implied to be unreliable or missing key points of the plot? Are you unbiased enough to help them reach their desired outcome for the characters and story regardless of your personal feelings towards the characters/antagonists and setting? Can you handle being told your specific input isn't wanted because you're a reader and/or have no written anything relating to their genre or topic? Do you understand and respect that the author's personal experiences might influence their writing and make it different than how you would have done it personally? Do you understand if an author only wants input from a specific demographic relating to their story?

If it's for fanfiction or other hobby media, are you holding a free hobby to a professional standard? Are you trying to give criticism because you feel like the author has produced 'subpar job performance' of their fic? Are you viewing their work as a personal intimate outlet or something that must conform with mass media? Are you applying rules and guidelines when the fic is shared for simple sharing sake? Is your criticism worded appropriately and focused on the parts where the author has requested input on rather than a general dismissal and or disapproval?

Have you put yourself in a place where you assumed you have the input needed for the story to evolve better, or have you asked what the author needs and what they're having trouble with? Can you handle having your criticism rejected if the author decides their story doesn't need the change and not take it as a personal offense against your character? Are you crossing that boundary because you think you are doing the author a favor? Are you trying to be helpful, or do you just want to be?

I think sometimes when people hear authors go 'please don't give me unsolicited writing advice or criticism' they automatically chalk it up to 'this author doesn't want ANY constructive feedback on their stuff at all' and not "i already have trusted individuals who will help me with my writing goals and- hey i don't know you like that, please stop acting so overly familiar with me'

[vriskan8or]

let her go

[clouvu]

Cooking up an older Clervie outfit design so I don't have to keep drawing her looking like her child self but Long

[m-m-m-myysurana]

To nobody's surprise, I am already deeply obsessed with the Crow...

[gvalesdraws]

finally visualised this meme after critrole watching because this is basically what happened

[bacchuschucklefuck]

doing chibi is a good design exercise bc it forces u to think on shapes n essential details, essentially thumbnailing ur designs. its also a terrible design exercise bc it ends up looking cute no matter what

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[theredcapeofk]

Change my Direction Chapter 17

Extract

Kara woke up with a start. She was lying in a room she'd never seen before on a sort of armchair. There was a large and blue glowing tube connected to her arm. Instinctively she reached for it with the intention of tearing it away from herself.

"Kara, don't." Said a man's voice.

Kara knew that voice. She looked up to find Barry Allen on her right. He was wearing his suit minus the hood.

"Barry? Where are we?!"

"On the Waverider. Still next to your Kryptonian place. Gideon detected an unusual and kind of worrying surge of Kryptonian energy in the Arctic so the Legends came to see if you were in danger. They couldn't get inside your Kryptonian place so they called me so I could phase in and I brought you and Clark here."

Kara looked around. Her cousin wasn't there. Not even in the empty armchair a few feet away from hers.

"Where's Clark?! Is he ok?"

"He's fine. His injuries healed nicely. But he…"

"His injuries?!" Kara worried. 

" A few broken ribs, his broken jaw bone, the deep burn in his shoulder and hands and a few bruises " Answered a robotic voice.

Kara jumped at the sudden intervention, then she remembered Sara explaining all about Gideon during Crisis after they’d been saved from Earth 38. 

“Hello, you must be Gideon.” She said.

“Precisely. Nice to have you on board Kara Zor-El. I have alerted Captain Lance that you’re awake. She’s on her way along with the rest of the team.”

“So what’s wrong with Clark?” Kara asked

“He lost his powers.” Barry answered. “And so have you…”

Read the chapter on Ao3

[medicalunprofessional]

wunderbar !

[longlivetv]

The culture around creation right now is fascinating to me, because whether we’re talking a blogger with a couple hundred followers on a dying website or the biggest artist in a generation, huge groups of people seem to think that creators should mold their creations to suit the consumer and get angry when they do not. When in reality, the creator gets to decide the direction and it is on the consumer to let it go and find something else to consume if it isn’t what they want.

[your-fave-jewish-magical-girl]

Shout out to people who are fans and enjoyers of hated media. Stuff people make 8 hour video essays on why it’s bad, shows or games or whatever that people dunk on to the point where it’s basically a trend even if they never interacted with said media. Bands or movies where people who have only heard of it will make judgement after hearing someone talk about their interest.

Keep being you, keep liking what you like authentically. Don’t let the bandwagoning or angry nerds get to you. You are some of the most awesome and chilliest people on the internet.

[claws10mileslong]

something i never rly see ppl mention in discussions abt the "hyperpop scene" is how much of its early fame and early artists came from the roblox audio community.

nobody even knows about the roblox audio community anymore cuz you cant even upload custom audios anymore but in like 2018-2020 there used to be this subculture of teenagers who would do wizard shit in audacity to mp3s to bypassed the audio filter so they could upload songs w swears in them lmao. and they'd all put extremely loud tags at the start announcing the username of the person who "bypassed" it and so people would get popular based on how good their bypasses were and how much they got played among people in the hangout games that were considered cool and hip back then.

im just laughing cuz. this was a song that was SUPER popular and influential on all those ppl back then but it's been mostly wiped off the internet cuz the guy who made it quit music. but the one reupload of it has a tag from a roblox audio creator at the start LOL. and so many of the current soundcloud kids grew up hearing this shit.

and i was there for all of this i was friends w this dude. but a lot of the early hyperpop ppl (quinn, twikipedia ((who remains my homie 4l)), lieu, kurtains, etc) idk if ppl still talk abt the latter two much even. but all those ppl got their early fame on roblox of all places.

lcd soundsystem losing my edge voice. I WAS THERE.

[logicpng]

personal experiences. sharing things for the sake of sharing at this point

the game doesn't have a whole lot of words to translate but russian translation hits different somehow

[christakisbang]

chanlix moments i think about a lot (7/?) - channie’s room ep. 105