#cycle scheme

[toxungen]

woof woof wats up lol

[inheritance-cycles]

Eragon & Saphira || Inheritance cycle

The wing is a little fucky but I gave up 😂

[little-pup-pip]

10 days of Agere Pride Month Moodboards day 6: Pansexual!!

[padmerrie]

She was decidedly uncomfortable with the switchblade. Although she very much liked the idea of it—Blue Sargent, desperado; Blue Sargent, superhero; Blue Sargent, badass—she suspected that the only thing she would cut the first time she opened it was herself.

[ratsbanes]

PLS GO WATCH THIS PERSONS VIDEO ESSAY I AGREE WITH ALMOST ALL OF IT

(and no, it doesn't just claim that everything is a mistranslation!)

[lilacerull0]

it's cool that you think l'amica geniale isn't actually about friendship. you can go fuck yourself

[mihai-florescu]

read MADK........ i think u would like it

Anon i need you to know that you have acaparated half my day and my brain for at least the rest of the night. Thank you for the recommendation...

[etirabys]

end of year fiction writing retro

An uneven year. A good half of my wordcount energy went into a single project, which I had to shelve in November for, mildly, mental health reasons – I got stuck in a major way and was not being normal about it.

The dated files in the bottom half are all 'morning pages'. Writing 1000 words about anything first thing in the morning was the keystone recommendation in Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer. I did it most of January before concluding that, if this is what it takes to become a writer, I don't want to become a writer. (All habits that force me to do something on a schedule seem to culminate in this realization eventually.)

After I stopped forcing myself to do morning pages, my brain showed zero interest in writing before casually emitting two complete shorts around the summer. One was fit to post (the green redacted link); the other – satia.md – resisted deep edits. If I posted it with only shallow edits, I would simply take it down again within a year due to my inner directives.txt. I'm okay with leaving it be; sometimes I shake things out of years-long storage and make major revisions. I'll consider it a gift to my future self rather than a failure.

In September I read a popular YA novel I thought was kinda bad, and that unlocked 50K of words in Sep-Nov. Despite being bad it was also compelling (which accounts for its popularity), a combination that usually reenchants writing for me. After reading that novel I decided to outline the dumbest, most self indulgent novel I could (SCHLOCK.md), which is a magic school harem story with lots of clan massacres and machinations. After generating a loose plot outline, I discovered it was a worse outline than the one I'd generated years ago for an equally self indulgent shelved project (the blue redacted titles), and I wanted to return to that instead.

I wrote ~50K words, got stuck, and shelved it again. Sadly, I'm not sure I added much for my future self to build on. I made a few correct moves in fleshing out the plot+setting, but they're outnumbered by new moves that are... just walking along an isohypse? Moves that don't make the work better or worse, just different, in a way I'm not enthusiastic about. They don't satisfactorily solve the problems they were meant to solve. I'm aware I probably haven't specified the problems correctly if it's so hard to solve them. (Random quote that popped in my mind: "In subjects such as number theory and combinatorics, some questions are simple to state but extremely hard to answer. Basic category theory is not like that. To understand the question is very nearly to know the answer.")

The only good thing I have to say about this is: if I'm not good at tackling fiction writing in a disciplined way, I'm not good at avoiding it, either. The amount of work I put into writing seems to have a low ceiling (that I run into painfully when I try to Apply Discipline and Consistency) but also a decently high floor.

Highlighted projects:

endosymbiosis.md – complete, one of those 'popped out of me with little effort' stories.

19th century geologist with mommy issues: stuck on setting. I want an irascible middle aged guy, neurotic and unbearable along the lines of Schopenhauer or Wittgenstein, falling for a slightly younger middle aged colleague because her interactions with her nieces and nephews crack him open psychologically. I want them out in the middle of nowhere for a month+ in a four person team, but my low-effort low-research explanations for what they're doing and what question their research is meant to solve don't satisfy me. I hope I'll figure it out years from now when I'm reading a geology/field work/whatever book and go "ah, that's interesting enough for me to use!"

Strange Justice: a Minotaur retelling, maybe with gettier case sibling incest. Stuck for thematic reasons; I want two competing moral views about animal vs human standing in there (this all started because the title is a plausible etymology for one of the Minotaur's canon sisters, Xenodice) but I don't have a dyad I like.

dungeon meshi school semiAU – takes place in the DM universe, but in a different dungeon where most of the main characters need to get certified for basic magic by the local authorities before they can enter. I wanted to see canon Laios in a school setting –unpopular, separated from his real competencies by bureaucratic hoops. Kabru, on the other hand, is thriving. Stuck on this one because I found I didn't care about the romance, which probably means perma-stuck.

childbirth horror.md is me working through childbirth anxieties: an advanced human civilization where pregnancy is longer, skulls are larger, all children are born through (painless, nanotech) C-section, and human pelvises haven't been subject to the selection of surviving childbirth in hundreds of thousands of years. Then a distant civil war in some planet that turns out to supply the only gadget for some factory that pumps out the diagnosis & repair tooling for the – yadda yadda. Shelved because I realized I'm a terrible horror writer. I looked at my clumsy efforts to build suspense and went, "maaaaybe after I spend 5-10 hours analyzing good horror shorts."

[squeakadeeks]

eeeeeeey whadda know I got Pupet's tutorial/buildlog out today!

its a 31-page pdf with lots of pictures about how I made this costume plus a lot of my design and concept process. Its free to download (but of course tips are appreciated) so please check it out if you get the chance!

[faithchel]

finished hera & started lady macbeth and we have got to start blaming women for shit again for real

[langernameohnebedeutung]

his stupid post-plan-failure misery-tinis

[aliusfrater]

poetry. to me

[pernapernaperna]

I hate how I can't take my bike on the bus. Basically my house is too far and unsafe to cycle to any train station so I have to get the bus. But the trains don't go exact where I want so it would be handy to be able to cycle from there to my destination (also cycling is free) and in fact the route between the station and my goal is excellent for cycling (and free). But I can't cycle on it because I can't transport my bike there. Because I have to get the bus

[akkivee]

I just read an Eng translation of a PT translation. SO GOOD!! KUKO ANGST!!! All the spiral talk is so funny. Uzumaki flopped so BAT could soar. But it does really feel like season one of BAT's story is at an end and we are truly moving to a new era. Like in the other teams, it feels like Jyushi and Hitoya's plots have been wrapped up for now, and BAT has come full circle.

YAY IK YOUVE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THAT FOR A WHILE NOW IM SO HAPPY YOUVE FOUND YOUR FAITH AGAIN 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

bat fully coming into their cyclical writing and showing just how powerful their storytelling has been this whole time is 😭😭😭😭

enlightenment is defined as breaking the cycle of suffering and karma, and upon attaining enlightenment, gautama buddha ascended to nirvana to guide all beings

*slams fist on table* AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT WE WATCHED HAPPEN WITH BAT LIKE TERMINUS, CONTINUED AND HEARTACHE COME TOGETHER TO SAY THE END OF CONTINUED SUFFERING KUUKOU FOUND HIS CONCLUSION HERE JYUSHI CUT OFF THE CHAIN THATS CAUSED HIS PAIN HITOYA LOWKEY FOLLOWING A CHRISTIANITY WAY OF JUDGEMENT OF BELIEVING IN HUMANS BUT JUDGING THEIR SINS THEYVE ALL ASCENDED AND ARE NOW READY TO GUIDE HUMANITY ITS SO POWERFUL