#chat format

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Bruce, explaining why he has to have sex with khoa even though he doesn't consider himself gay: well, you know, he challenged me and we have to know who's best, it's kind of our "thing"

[emeraldsandamethyst]

This doesn't belong to any wip and isn't long enough for AO3 imo so I thought I'd put it here

Ship: Dead on Main

[chat between Danny and Damian]

Danny: how much effort would you say you put into that attempted stabbing? It didn't seem like your best effort bud

Damian: you are correct. 

Damian: I invested the minimum amount of effort needed as you are a pathetic fool not worth my time

Danny: thanks bud! :D 

Damian: you are an idiot

Danny: ^.^

—

[Group chat]

Damian: Todd you will explain why your brain damaged idiot asked me how much effort I put into killing him

[Several people are typing]

Jason: he thinks i don't like him because i never tried to kill him!

Dick: Jay's boo did what now?

Cass: 🤔❔❓

Damian: foolish

Tim: well, do you like him?

Jason: also he thinks you guys are besties because you did

Jason: the fuck do you mean do i like him Copyright Infringement?

Steph: well you didn't try to kill him so how should we know?

Jason: killing someone isn't a love language!

[Several people are typing]

[miyamiwu]

Me: Seriously, does anybody still use this Chat format? The font is so ugly.

Ghost in my room: The font looks like the one they use on drama scripts, so it’s fine.

Me: But the thinness of the letters unbolded and the lack of spacing between each speaker make this format difficult to read, especially when the text is long.

Me: Before the NPF post editor was a thing, the Chat format served a purpose. It used to be that theme editors can easily format the Chat post to look like actual chat messages on their themes

Examples:

Dusk and Sempiternal by @ cactusthemes

Space Race by @ laurenashpole

Discord by @ starlightthemes

Me: Now, with custom Tumblr themes and the username.tumblr.com view being sidelined as a way to push users to the Tumblr mobile app and shove ads in their faces, theme-makers are less motivated to give the Chat format any fancy styling. That, or maybe it’s just not possible to make it fancy because of how NPF works. Idk, I don’t code.

Ghost: I see your point, but I think the Chat format is still handy for short text

Ghost: Like this

Ghost: or this

Ghost: People don’t really use it for long text

Me: True

Me: I still hate the Courier font, though

Me: It looks fine on print but not really on a screen

Me: May I propose a different monospace font?

Me: Like the lovely Roboto Mono or perhaps Source Code Pro?

[ara270904]

I'm bored so chatfic with my OC'S :D

Alessandro: Massimo?

Massimo: ???

Alessandro: Can we talk?

Massimo: I'm not going to lend you money, what did you break?

Alessandro: I didn't break anything? I think

Massimo: you think? What answer is that dummy?

Alessandro: That's not the point, I just wanted to talk?

Massimo: Yeah yeah, what stupid thing did you do?

Alessandro: Why do you always think I did something stupid?

Massimo: Because you always do stupid things

Alessandro: I don't, liar.

Massimo: Oh? Well then...

Massimo created a group chat. Massimo added Alessandro and Sebastian

Alessandro: Massimo? What is this for? Massimo: My plan

Sebastian: Uuuuh what did you do Alessandro?

Alessandro: nothing, I think

Massimo: You called me liar, that's NOTHING TO YOU???

Alessandro: Yeah, that.

Sebastian: And I'm here because? I like talking to my BFF but Idk why I'm here. Alessandro: Aww thanks Seb <3

Massimo: The point is...

Massimo changed the name of the group to "Alessandro probably did something stupid and didn't want to tell me and then called me a liar"

Sebastian: I think I forgot that insignificant detail about your cousin, Alessandro.

Alessandro: What detail? That Massimo is slightly spiteful and I also forgot?

Sebastian: Yeah, that.

Massimo: You talk about me as if I'm not here =⁠_⁠=

Sebastian: Oh yeah, you're here.

Massimo: I created the group obviously I'm here

Alessandro: And we deviate from the main point, Massimo I don't know what the group is for?

Massimo: So Sebastian can answer my question and then you can see the answer obviously.

Sebastian: I like answering questions :D

Massimo: Answer Sebastian, Alessandro does always stupid things??

Sebastian: Not always, but sometimes I help him because it's funny and he's my BFF. Like yesterday when the ducks were chasing us and we climbed a tree on Alessandro's idea

Massimo: Why were ducks chasing you guys in the first place???

Alessandro: Bread, obviously

Massimo: Explain

Sebastian: We had bread, we gave bread to the ducks in the park, we ran out of bread so the ducks chased us.

Massimo: Alessandro, why did you climb a tree? You've fallen a lot of times trying to climb trees, getting off trees, being on the tree etc.

Alessandro: I didn't fell from the tree

Sebastian: I grabbed Alessandro very tightly so he wouldn't fall and then helped him down :D

Massimo: Crazy boys.

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

Cooking: 🤩🥰🤘 Cleaning up after cooking: 😵‍💫🫠😫

[westywallowing]

my favorite scene redraw from S5E13: "Migration"

[fawcetttweets]

A Concerned Friend

I forgot I made this one!! You guys almost didn’t get to see it :0 I wonder how many of these I’ve made and forgotten about…

Masterlist // First // Previous // Next

[xavathun]

i am fucking Thinking about how death is handled in destiny 2 once again.

in regards to guardians it’s almost treated as like a joke or something deeply unserious? possibly even alien in a way due to how we kill and destroy and wreck havoc against our alien foes, but we ourselves never die. it’s really interesting to me cause there really isn’t a lot that can permanently kill a guardian so it makes sense we’d have this perception. like off the top of my head you have weapons of sorrow, hive rituals where the light is drained from a guardian, and paracausal beings which ofc includes other guardians. but that isn’t a lot, most deaths are not permanent and so this perception of death among guardians seems like death really isnt that big of a deal.

we jump off the tower and then get resurrected and have a little laugh about it. guardians constantly kill each other for fun in crucible. we are always doing incredibly stupid shit but we are rewarded because our enemies do not share in our immortality. it’s fascinating bc this not only makes us become riskier as time goes on due to being rewarded (enemies defeated) for our lack of self preservation, but this also makes guardians as a whole uniquely unsuited to handle grief and loss. if you spend your whole unlife winning and thinking that if a friend dies they’ll just come right back, it’s such a shock if (or rather when) they actually do die permanently. and then that guardian has to spend the rest of their immortal, undying life remembering. they have to live with that while they watch the newer guardians flood into the tower with the same naive disposition as they once had.

i’m sure guardians know theoretically they could die permanently at any point, especially because of those like dredgen yor, but i feel like for most it’s one of those things that most would say “well that would never happen to me” until it does happen. guardians seem to just have this inability to let go and it makes me want to bite drywall because i think abt it too long and start going feral. like!! the past may be the past but it sure doesn’t feel like it when you’re immortal and you remember that shit clear as day!!! aghhhh pacing around my room in circles and eating ROCKS

[rhapsoddity]

So its been almost two years now since this comic,,, do yall still have Spectrum fever?

This was a very fun exercise to redraw an old comic, and see how my style has changed and art improved! I definitely prefer certain aspects of the original comic, but there's no harm redrawing it so ppl can see Spectrum

Comparison between panels under the cut!

[eddis-not-eeddis]

How To Stop Killing Conversations

Talking is hard. People are confusing. Making friends is difficult, and interacting with coworkers is tortuous.

You want to make friends, you want to reach out, but it's hard and every time you start a conversation it dies, or limps along until both you and the person you're talking to are looking for excuses to kill it and put it out of it's misery so you can both escape the increasingly awkward situation.

As an introvert who has suffered a lot of social anxiety in my time, let me share a few tricks I've learned over the years going through hundreds and thousands of excruciatingly painful conversations until I found something that works. I've kind of distilled the process.

ALWAYS ASK A QUESTION!!!

The first thing is to always leave your partner an opening. You need to let each other talk for a conversation to get off the ground, but it's more than that, really. You need to actively encourage each other to talk. The best way to do that is to ask questions.

Here are two examples of an introduction: Example A

You: Hello.

Them: Hello.

You: Nice to meet you.

Them: Nice to meet you too.

Example B

Y: Hello, nice to meet you, how are you? T: I’m doing well, yourself?

Y: I've been really well. How are you liking the weather?

T: I'm so happy the weather's finally getting cooler, I'm looking forward to pumpkin spice season. Do you like lattes?

Do you see how in Example A the conversation wasn’t going anywhere? It just kinda died, because there weren’t any openings for new topics, whereas in Example B, there were openings to keep the conversation going.

But what do you do if your conversation partner is as socially inept as you were two minutes ago and doesn't play along? All is not lost.

Example C

Y: Hello, so nice to meet you, how have you been doing?

T: I'm doing well.

Y: That's great, are you enjoying the nice weather, then?

T: Yeah. I'm glad it's finally fall, I'm looking forward to pumpkin spice lattes.

Y: I love pumpkin spice lattes! Pumpkin spice anything, really. I recently got the best pumpkin spice candle at the shop down the road, have you been there?

Even if they don't leave you an opening, you can usually make one. It may be difficult, especially when they don't give you much to work with. This is where having a go-to script is a life-saver--me, I always default to talking about the weather, so when in doubt, you can do that.* The important thing right now is to keep fostering the conversation, so once you bring up the weather, segue into a question. When they answer the question, make a brief comment or observation from your own experience and build off of that comment or observation to ask another question.

"But I don't want to make it about me. Doing that's bad, right?"

This is why that questions are important. If you haven't been asked a question, you kinda have to make it about you, you don't have a choice. But to keep from being an attention hog, follow up your shared experience or anecdote with another question.

Example D

T: I love pumpkin spice lattes

Y: Me too. I had the best pumpkin spice latte the other day at the cafe down the road, have you ever been there?

Now you've circled the conversation back around to them again, and you aren't taking the limelight. Sharing an experience is so important, you're trying to show that you understand, that you sympathize, that you relate.**

This really is the most important element of being a good conversationalist. You have to keep asking questions.

The one other thing I will touch on is introductions. DO NOT get into turn based combat.

Example E

Y: Hello

T: Hello

Y: Nice to meet you

T: Nice to meet you too.

Y: How are you doing?

T: I'm fine. You?

Y: Me too.

This will kill any possibility of continuing a conversation. Instead, get it all out of the way all at once, if at all possible.

Example F

Y: Hi, it's nice to meet you, how are you doing?

This is good, but this is better

Example G

Y: Hi, nice to meet you, how are you liking the weather?

Don't ask how they are doing, or if you do, before they can answer, follow it up with your placeholder (weather etc.) so they have to say some thing like

Example H

T: I'm fine, and I'm really liking the weather.

or

T: Not so great, the weather sucks.

Either of those options are much easier to work with than your basic "I'm fine."

Usually, if you can get past the introduction, you can get a conversation going. And then, even if you don't end up hitting it off with the person you're talking with, you at least don't leave the conversation feeling like you've died a thousand tiny deaths.

In fact, if you get past that introduction, you may have just made yourself a friend.

Remember folks, basically everyone around you is more afraid of you than you are of them, and in this benighted age no one has been taught conversation skills, so we are all pretty much in the same boat. (Unless you were born an extrovert, in which case we are all deeply envious and would probably kill you if we didn't need you in our sad and lonely lives so much.)

Have grace for one another, and for yourselves because talking with people is difficult.

Go forth, and stop killing conversations.

*If you are one of those awful people who likes to brag about how you hate small talk and only want to talk about important and meaningful things, I have one question: Do you ever have a conversation that lasts long enough to become meaningful? I thought not. Small talk is an important skill. Develop it.

**This is how you deal with sad or difficult situations too. When you want to show you sympathize with someone going through a hard time.

Example:

Y: How are you doing?

T: Not very well. My dog died last week.

Y: Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. My own dog died last year and I still miss her a lot. How are you handling it?

Now you've circled the conversation back around to them again. You aren't making it about you.

If y'all want, next time I can share how to extricate yourself from a conversation.

[queer-coded]

> be me

> autistic tgirl in IT

> develop a crush on a cute robot girl

> offer to host a development environment for her on my home server

> she says ok

> struggle to install Debian because I'm a windowsfag

> set up Debian and add her account to the sudoers list

> try to set up a tunnel to a subdomain to point to the box

> mfw it works after an hour of reading docs

This feels like peak nerdy transfem flirting. Tell me I'm wrong.

Do you think she'll like me now? 👉👈

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Teen Titans #100 like

Rose and Damian: We should kill Superboy Prime due to how big a threat he is Other teen titans: No, that's murder Kon: No, people can come back from the dead. Let's chuck him into an interdimensional purgatory from which no one can escape (Source Wall), that's both more ethical somehow and more permanent

[hbmmaster]

if(Link.joins(Ganon)) {

for(Face f: Korodai) {

if(Link.face < f) {

Link.setFace(f);

}

}

}

else {

Link.die();

}

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

Next time you get someone like that, you can also give them this image:

Marquis Fanon Stans: "Oh he's so cool, he doesn't hurt women or children! He kept the peace of Brockton Bay!"

Deep Tomrid sigh

Worm Arc 1: literally states the heroes came in and brought peace to Brockton Bay, because everything prior to that sucked

Dragon Interlude: admits to murdering his own mooks for failure

Amy Interlude: known as a pattern killer for all the people he's killed, including superheroes

Carol Interlude: known to stab women in the feet and refused to reveal he had a child hidden in a fight area

Marquis Interlude: wants to gaslight his daughter by "injuring" himself in a prison riot he would start on purpose to kill his own mooks

Arc 30: Was going to let Lung burn Taylor to death (so much for that code)

Ward: makes incest jokes at his daughter's rape victim, enables said daughter in making weapons of mass destruction, was okay with feeding human flesh to all his villain allies

[neon--nightmare]

quick headcanon: fresh (the parasite) does need to sleep! however, he’s really really bad at both taking care of himself and his host because he sees it as a waste of time (“Brah, whaddaya mean peeps are up ‘n supposed ta sleep TEN HOURS a night?! Ya could do SO many other things, you’re wastin’ half the dang day literally doin’ nothin’!! Nada!! Zilch!!”)

and a MASSIVE vulnerability (“Ya tellin’ me ya just LIE there for hours?! Eyes closed, floppin’ around like a ragdoll?! A snail could kill ya with ya guard down in da ground like that, broham! A SNAIL!!”)

plus, where’s the guarantee that his host would stay asleep the whole time he did? his host could wake up first while fresh was still out, and do who-knows-what! pull him out of the body, maybe, and squash him like a bug! so instead, he pushes both himself and his host to the brink of literally passing out from exhaustion, and then finds a cozy little spot to curl up and power-nap in until he wakes up, preferably before his host, and the cycle repeats. he doesn’t realize sleep-deprivation affects him because it’s his normal, and that to be fair probably isn’t helping his mental state. but it’s FINE brah he’s FINE stop askin’!!!

this also ties in to how he feeds his host (“Breakfast is the most important meal o’ da day, bro!! Can’t skip it!!”) cardboard (“C’mon, yo, it’s totes edible, no point in wastin’ it!”) with frosting + sprinkles (“gotta get a SWEET TREAT ta start da day right! Haven’t ya heard it’s good for the soul? <3”) with a raw egg (“PROTEIN, homeslice!!”) because well. outside of the endless soul-rending torture do NOT let this guy in charge of your body (love him forever tho <33)

(if he ever had the chance to live a peaceful life where he wasn’t forced to be on the run 24/7, he’d have to learn how to take care of himself for the first time and how it feels to actually be rested, how it feels to be able to take care of himself more than the bare minimum, how alien it must feel. how strange it must seem to be well-rested for the first time in your entire existence)

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

Me: Pls send me more asks 🥲

Also me: *Freezes when a post explodes, takes days to actually answer said asks*