#does that make sense?????

[seconds-2-midnight]

Geigerposting at 1am

"My Atom Bomb" is a serious fic about trauma and grief and isolation and dying alone and the fear of hurting people you love and two damaged people bonding over being treated like burdens all their lives ... but it's also about two nasty, weird little freaks loving each other very much and giggling like fuckin dorks.

[ato-dato]

I'm in really deep art block right now, and it's like I want to draw, but I just can't. Whenever I look at my drawing app I feel nothing. How do you cope with art block, even if it's different to this?

I totally get the feeling!!! That actually happens to me a lot!! Especially when I don't have a hyperfixation that makes me want to draw my faves 24/7.

I can't really give you an answer on how to cure this but personally when I have no idea what to draw. I tend to just look for a good picture on Pinterest or something and draw that.

I might be completely out of creativity but I can still get some pose or still life practice in yknow?

I also feel like it's easier to doodle and sketch on paper. I don't know why it just feels more casual. Like the stakes aren't that high. Don't ask why it just does.

[demcnsinmymind]

@innerwar and @handtame sent : 💡 What inspires you to write the muse? | Mun talks about the Muse meme | Accepting

Oh, there are so so so many things to say here. Two very specific ones come to mind though.

1 - His relentlessness/optimism or however one might call it that he's got going on for himself.

He didn't give up in canon. He kept going. And going. And going. And going. sure enough, we got to see him break down. More than once. A character as stubborn, douche-y and headstrong as him. Yet by the end, even he cried. He was so severely done and undone. But even then, he kept going. "I don't really need the light anymore. I just keep walking straight. I could walk in the dark for hours. It's kinda like a game. How long can you go?" That's one of my favorite lines from him and just sums up his character so well. You can deprive him of everything. The situation is utterly dire. He's starving. He's alone. He's lonely. He's tired and done, but turns out he can still keep walking, so he does. Even then, makes it a bit of a joke. Wonders how long he can keep going. And canon shows that he can. For quite a while. Making him heroic and yet not.

Which kinda leads me straight into the second point.

2 - He's such an enigma. On so many levels. It fascinates me that he's a character where you really cannot quite tell where he'll end up. Sure, you get the idea that he's like a cockroach and that he's not gonna die. Yet he can go in either direction but also in neither. He has the potential to become a real heroic good character. The more GE1 progressed the more you could see that. But GE2 also showed his potential to become a villainous selfish bad character. You start out immediately hating him at the beginning of the first movie and by the end of the first movie and franchise, he end up rooting for the guy and loving him. He's both and neither, but not in a way where it's not fleshed out or poorly written, he feels real.

It fascinates me that even after so many years of writing him, I still cannot tell you his definite path, an ending, the shape of his character. The creators of the movies once called them a story about the deconstruction of his character. Dismantling him. Lance is both a character and a real person. And it is about peeling away layers upon layers of the character until the real person is shown beneath. Raw and at his most basic instinctual behavior and thoughts.

He's a character you have to explore, whom you have to get used to, see things through his perspective and it's entirely dependent on the situations he's thrust into. Even he himself explores his own thoughts and character in canon through his various logs and writings. Making sense of not just situations, but himself in them. And more and more I'm beginning to realize that this is exactly what he's also doing on my threads and what I'm doing with his character too. That doesn't mean he's a shallow character without depth or meaning. He has core aspects in there that won't ever change and just make sense and are there. But other than that? He's in constant flux into genuine personhood. One step at a time away from a caricature/character.

I just keep falling back to the word 'potential' all the time. He has so much potential and so many avenues he could take, and that's what makes him so interesting and incredibly fun to write.

[lemonofthevalley]

most of the time i understand and can remember phrases well but today my autism hates me .

[timeconqueror]

I cannot fully verbalize this thought but like

Chronologically, Nathaniel's progression is something like Iron Lad / Timely / Rama-Tut / Centurion / Kang / Immortus / He Who Remains

But there are also versions of Nate that like, stay at those personas and take it to their most extreme

does that make sense?

[petshopbutch]

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

[dogearedheart]

I'm if a girl was actually a pretty boy

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

best depiction of the batfam will always be "You grew up to be the person who would have saved you" but it applies to them each respectively and that's why none of them can see eye to eye and also get up their own asses about things and go to such great lengths to defend their personal brand of justice. Because they can never stop trying to save themselves from their own history.

[julymp4]

i dont know shit abt music production but i wish i did bc i need a better way to describe a song like this other than 'this sounds so full'

[rowoes]

Bored bored bored what should I do tonight?

[rocknbkdk]

“i’ll make sure you won’t become a hero.”

“you’ll become a hero?”

“you won’t become a hero?”

“i’ll make sure you’ll become a hero.”

[thetisming]

every month is autism month if youre autistic

[caterpilller]

constantly torn between wishing i was conventionally attractive and wishing i didnt feel like i have to be pretty to be worthy of anything.

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[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'

[whereintheworldiskamalakhan]

I have no info or preconceived notions about Dakota Johnson except for the fact that she just makes me not able to take her seriously re: her taking a superhero movie seriously, you know?