#creative accounting

[rosewind2007]

Especially when you consider that Turi is an adolescent!

ART’s human Turi WHO WAS YOUNG LIKE AMENA!

You set a kid to tackle your rogue AI’s creative accounting!

I too am starting to wonder just what kind of university this is��

😉

This is the wildest thing in the book actually. What is it up to.

[dualityofinterwebs]

Two things:

1. The $100,000 bonus that trucks drivers for the Eras Tour got will bump them up at least one tax bracket

2. Taylor Swift will still pay LESS in taxes than those truck drivers.

[politicstpp]

Trump meets The Producers

[escespace]

Merlin: I'm not ignoring you, I'm exercising my right

Arthur: I am the king! I say what your rights are

Merlin: Yes, and you have declared that I am free

Arthur: Free to be yourself!

Merlin: Exactly and myself's attention is freely directed to another part that is not you at this moment.

[kinniska]

Oh I’m absolutely sure they’ve been keeping two books, so to speak.

I’m definitely a believer in the theory that Netflix and the other streamers are refusing to end the strike if it means releasing accurate numbers because it opens them to legal action.

Either they’ve been:

Underreporting viewership numbers to writers to justify short-changing them on royalties/residuals.

Overreporting viewership numbers to shareholders to make the company seem more profitable than it is.

Selectively saying both by either outright lying or just using different metrics to gauge viewership depending on which one is better for Netflix financially.

[writingwithfolklore]

How to Hold Yourself Accountable as a Professional Writer

              Okay maybe you’re not self-employed or professional yet and writing definitely isn’t bringing in the big bucks, but you’d like it to some day, and you’re working right now on making that a reality. This post is for you, because the best time to practice getting into a healthy writing habit and holding yourself accountable to writing for that future where it’s your full time gig is now—before it’s essential to do so.

1. It will never be easy

It’s easy to think that maintaining a schedule or habit for writing would be easy if only it was your full-time gig and all you needed to do. While it might be easier than trying to cram in writing between classes or jobs, it will never be easy. You’re always going to have multiple things going on, there’s always going to be something you could be or need to be doing other than writing. Developing good habits right now, when it is really hard, is going to set you up far better than just waiting for it to get easy before you fully commit to it.

2. Set a schedule that actually works for you

I did a whole post on making a writing schedule you can actually manage and maintain here:

But the TL;DR is that in order to keep to a schedule, you have to make sure it’s attainable. Fit when you write around your other life schedule. For example, if you’re really not a morning person, planning on waking up at 5am every morning to write for a couple hours is probably not something you’ll be able to maintain. But setting aside an hour before bed may be more manageable for you.

3. Form a habit

To train your brain to make your writing schedule a habit you’ll actually stick to, you should make it into a routine. Similar to how you have a bedtime routine that sets you up to feel sleepy at night, a routine that sets you up for writing will make it harder to turn away from your manuscript, and help inspire a productive writing block.

              You can create a writing playlist with songs that inspire your project you listen to whenever you begin writing, make a tea or other drink to sip on while you write, grab a snack, share your schedule with a writing buddy and write together, put together a document of inspiring quotes, photos, or other muses you can read, or really anything that gets you into the writing mood. By following this routine every time you set up to write, you’ll train your brain to get into a mindset that will make it easier to stick to your writing block.

4. Reward yourself

Brains love doing things for a reward. Maybe after a productive writing block you can spend some time doing something else you love, like watching an episode of your favourite show, lighting a candle, taking a bath, or having a glass of wine, I don’t know, anything that would give your brain the happy juice in response to your good work.

5. Set deadlines and goals

Writing consistently is basically the majority of the battle. I don’t typically worry about word count, but I do know that it can be helpful for others to set wordcount goals and deadlines to ensure productivity. If that sounds like you, make sure your goals are actionable while also being attainable. “Finish novel” isn’t a great goal, but “write 2000 words per week for three months” could be helpful if you know that 2000 words is attainable for you.

              Same as before, you can also set rewards for when you reach your goals. I have a big tattoo upcoming if I complete my goal for the year.

              The last tip I have for this point is to try to find an accountabili-buddy to hold you to your goals and deadlines if you think that would be helpful for you. As a professional writer, you may be held accountable by an editor or agent, so practicing through asking a buddy to help you set deadlines and deliverables will help prepare you for writing towards a date.

The TL;DR is find out what works for you and practice doing it consistently! Anything else I missed?

[a-matter-of-yeet]

“They’re canonically x you can’t ship them with characters they’re not attracted to”

Vs

“I know they’re canonically aroace but I like the ship and x character is hot”

Shit like this brings the movement down.

Everyone validates queer representation until the character is aroace.

[four-dogteeth]

Simon “Ghost” Riley

•Ghost was a dumb nickname. He wore the stupid mask his brother used to scare him with as a recruit. It was supposed to be a way to reclaim it, he’d guess, but also secretly to hide the little scars on his face. A few snake bites from his fathers abuse he hated to see and the uneven split of his cheekbone from a bottle broken onto his face. It was a stupid argument and he hates that the stupid scar always reminds him of it.

•He cant stand to see his body after Roba. That’s when the mask started to really matter to him. They just made it so much worse. He was hung on a meathook and the scars Still get shocks of pain all the time. They performed a fucking penectomy. He can’t stand to see his own body and remember the pain.

•Expanding on the penectomy. It nearly ended his life. Price and him have an unbreakable bond because he pulled strings to keep that entirely off the records. When Simon tried to kill himself out of shame, Price fucking saved his life and did everything in his power to get him back on the team. That was what saved his life.

•His family being murdered is what really inspired him to adopted “Ghost”. To wholly embrace it. No one knows his real name, not anyone he doesn’t trust, even if his family is already dead. He wants to protect the people he cares about a lot.

•He’s become a bit of a chainsmoker. It’s nasty and he tries to hide his addiction, and often actually calls himself disgusting for the habit. But he can’t quit bringing a cigarette to his lips.

•He has to say Soap is his best friend. The banter comes natural with him and he finds himself being more honest with the guy than he means to be. Sometimes he can’t help it and he just blurts out something insane like “my parents are both dead.” Soap would go quiet and kind of fidget. He gets this weird look on his face, almost gentle. “Yeah?“

•Often jokes about the two closest people in his life are named John.

•He likes television. It’s stupid and boring and none of it is good. He doesn’t admit to enjoying any shows. But whenever there is one available he definitely has it on and he won’t admit it, but you’ll catch him watching it.

•He has a flat, but he doesn’t go home often for leave. He tries to avoid the place entirely, actually. It’s barely decorated, very little furniture. Probably not even a drop of food in the place. On holidays, the team actually has him come home with them. Usually he goes with Johnny, but he’s joined the others, too. Their families are usually delighted to meet him.

•Sometimes it does make him miss his family. He’s a beautiful guest, he’s polite and engages in conversation. He even takes his mask off if they really insist. But it’s really bittersweet because inside he misses his family. The rage of what was taken from him is hard to ignore.

•Johnny is special. His mom is a delight and they have a charming home. His father is a little colder, but not entirely cruel. He uses a phrase Simon is not familiar with - buffty. When he tries to ask Johnny, the other won’t explain. He could look it up, but people have secrets for a reason and he won’t push.

•Actually he thinks about Johnny a lot. It’s dangerous, being this attached. Sometimes he wonders if he’s honest to God crazy. (He doesn’t have a clue he’s in love)

(I’m well aware a lot of this isn’t really canon but that’s kind of the point)

[cashmere-caveman]

forever obsessed w the fact that in bh lore vampires do actually die and stay dead for a short bit and then come back wrong. something that sadly never really gets elaborated on but that i find deeply fascinating bc it is implied that they remember the afterlife! which is such a cool and insane nugget of lore to give ur vampires like hello. also the implication that it scared the shit out of them, or at least out of mitchell..... can we talk about it!

mitchell eating his stupid fucking noodle box as hes waiting w the newly turned vamp to make sure he doesnt wake up alone and scared even though lauren mocks him for it!

mitchell making sure to remind george to NOT look at what's beyond the threshold when they are preparing to say goodbye to annie when her door shows up!

that little moment when annie decides to tell owen the secrets of the dead to drive him insane and george asks what that was all about and mitchell shakes his head so annie goes ahaha lol i was just improvising even though both her and mitchell know better!!!! thats their best friend who they will protect from the horrors of death as long as (in)humanly possible! they love you alive boy ♡

[dawnofiight]

Porter @ Vincent

[awesomebutunpractical]

More wisdom from me. Sleep-deprived wisdom. Best kind.

Sometimes a concept isn't meant to be a full story. Sometimes it's just meant to be a few ideas you scribble down for fun. A concept you leave in your notes isn't a failed story - it's a successful list.

[starry-bi-sky]

Danyal Al Ghul's missed potential - this kid is not gonna behave like his canon self if he's with the league of assassins until his late formative years, and my reasoning why

(feel free to take this all with a grain of salt this is just my thoughts on it, this is all mostly amusing to me and isn't trying to be negative towards anyone else)

similar to how i was talking about how danny growing up in crime alley would affect him, demon twin aus with danyal al ghul make me laugh a lot (affectionate) because... whose teaching danny to unlearn all the ecofascism he picked up from the league of assassins? whose teaching him to be kind? to be gentle? Not the LoA thats for certain.

(you could plausibly say Jazz but she's only 2 years older than Danny and do you really expect a fellow child to properly explain why X is wrong to another child and have it be 100% effective? i don't doubt it'd help to an extent, but not in the same way an adult explaining it would)

plus a ton of other things, like whose teaching him to value human life? not the LoA. Whose teaching him how to adjust to living with American society after he ends up with the Fentons when he's 8-9-10? Who teaches him that killing is wrong, whose enforcing that?

(not the Fentons if you're going the neglectful parent route, and Jazz can try but i really don't think Danny is going to listen to her, a stranger who isn't even part of his grandfather's league)

How do you teach a child to value human life when the greatest development window for that opportunity has closed and he's already formed his own opinions?

You're not gonna get a Danny whose exactly like his canon attitude if he's staying with the league during his formative years (0-8 years old). you're not. You could get someone LIKE it, potentially, or someone who has traces of it or is similar -- like danny's wit and jokes and sarcasm, and on some level his kindness. but you're not gonna have a carbon copy. Development doesn't work that way. "nature" can only do so much in the face of nurture.

If anything, it doesn't even have to be a major change -- in the league he cans till be kind, but it's probably going to manifest in a different way than what is considered normal. Tough love, for one. But there's gonna be something that affects him negatively. Why make him 'always good/kind' when you can make him a brat who develops into a kinder (if spikier than in canon) person?

TLDR: Danyal Al Ghul would not be like how he is in canon if he's with the league until his late formative years -- not without any lasting pr permanent impacts from the league at least. Missed potential to make him an absolute nightmare like damian was -- especially in his early years when he first arrived to the Fenton house.

(this doesn't apply to danyal al ghul aus where he's either given to the fentons as a baby/is reincarnated/etc. this is mostly aimed for danyal al ghul aus where he fakes his death at like, 7-10 and somehow ends up, personality-wise like his completely canon self by 14 without any differences.)

(and even then if he's five or four, or even three, he would still be traumatized and influenced by the league. he'll just have more time to adjust. the sooner he leaves the league the more likely he is to be like his canon self, but not like an exact copy)

(more under the cut)

Anyways what I'm saying is that there is prime missed Danyal al Ghul potential to make him an absolute NIGHTMARE to the Fentons however way he ends up with them, just like Damian was with the Waynes! Cuz why does Damian get all the fun? Danny got the same training and endoctrine as him! He is also an ex-assassin! Why is Danny the only one who is 'well adjusted and non-violent' hm? Hmm?

Why can't he also be mean, and stabby, and a total stuck-up in some way or another? Have fun with his characterization, its prime opportunity to play play-doh and clay with him! If he starts out as X how does he get the personality traits of Y, and thus become XY?

Like take this with a grain of salt if you will, but make him arrogant. Make him an asshole! Make him a bad person at first! Because he will be! He's the blood son of the batman and you mean to tell me that damian is the only one arrogant about it at first? Make him stabby and mean even at 14 when he's begun to chill out! Have fun with it! If he's with the Fentons at any point past the age of four or five then he's gonna be a nightmare to handle because he still remembers the league and his time there.

(and while it gives him more time to chill the hell out, his time at the league is still gonna leave an impact on him.)

also what im saying as well is have him and sam potentially get along like a house on FIRE. Again, Danny grew up under the views of an ecofascist cult and nobody to challenge those views to him until he got to amity park at whatever age in late formative years he was at. He could be about as intense or even MORE intense about environmental awareness/rights than Sam is!

(also him being supremely unimpressed with Sam's wealth. he gave up a palace in the mountains for this town. because that's funny to me - like let his past have more influence on him! it'll be fun!)

you could have a danny who doesn't kill but doesn't fully understand the value of human life because jazz is like two years older than him and isn't that good at explaining why people's lives are important. he won't kill but he's not morally opposed to it. there's very little chance he actually gets bullied at school because he nearly killed Dash the first time he tried anything.

Danny could have scars, physical ones, because its implied in multiple canon that training starts at toddling (my best bet is 3 at minimum and ~maybe~ 2 but only on the later side of 2. Good fucking luck getting any infant under 2 to do anything you ask, ESPECIALLY assassin training. They're gonna stick the weapon in their mouth sooner than they're gonna do katas. This is coming from a daycare teacher.)

there's more examples of how danny being at the league during his formative years would affect him, but those are just some of them. he could have a sword! An appreciation for weaponry and nature. Maybe he still speaks all shakespearan and formal, does he still make bodily threats to people? If Damian is still threatening people at 14 why can't danny?

[mydarlingdearestdead]

The sky began to darken above their heads. After a moment of murmured inquiry, each Olympian came to their solemn conclusion in turn: The very sun which hung at their will was cowering behind the shield of the moon.

When Apollo spoke, he did so with the reverence of a priest praying for selfish means, "I will have Olympus in ruin before I allow his death to continue unhonoured."

No peer dared raise protest.

The sun moved on, and the day returned. Apollo's expression, however, did not lighten.

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