#get ready to be annoyed lol

[plague-parade]

if upon being told about someones illness/condition, your first thought is to say “have you tried X?” i want you to step back for a moment and think to yourself “if i thought of X after hearing about this condition for the very first time, the person who has this condition very likely has thought of this and possibly tried it already”

we are tired of constantly being told to try the same things by people who didnt know our condition existed five minutes ago.

you dont need to offer any solutions or try to fix us. i know it might seem like a polite thing to do or that it shows you care, there are other ways to show us you care.

[theloveinc]

bakugo technically can't stop you from having a job but he can pester you about not working overtime

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[ilkkawhat]

I’M FREE

[esaari]

wip of a shy boy

[docnefarious]

continued from x || @nether-twins

He somehow managed not to sputter in total outrage, and just glared instead.

"Maybe I'm just tricking you into letting your guard down!" Nope, he just couldn't figure out how Vendra kept getting in. Probably those annoying powers of hers. He totally wasn't jealous. "And you're falling for it! But little do you know, one day I'm going to shove you into a giant bug zapper!!"

[kuiinncedes]

:c

[calamarispiderart]

on the topic of dreams like. do your dreams ever give you fake memories? like going somewhere completely impossible that doesnt exist and thinking "oh yeah, i remember going here in kindergarten". like, nothing in my dreams ever seem strange because in the dream thats how its always been

this ask is most certainly years old by now, but i suddenly want to answer it because i initially misread it to be talking about fake dream memories that carry over into real life. this is something i get ALL THE TIME. its been a thing on some level in the past but its been happening a lot more lately and its infuriating, especially when the false memories involve other people.

i frequently dream about people saying certain things and dont realise that wasnt actually said until a while later (eg ive dreamt of someone saying they were planning on doing something which i then expected irl to happen for a month, i dreamt someone asked me to do something for them, someone told me something about themselves etc etc), and i dream about having certain obligations or doing certain tasks... sometimes i make an art piece in a dream or make a call that ive been planning to do, in the dream, and then get confused hours or even days later when it turns out those things didnt actually happen... its SO ANNOYING!!!!!

does anyone else get this im wondering? certainly they do, or else i wouldnt be experiencing it myself (no experience is truely unique) but does anyone whos specifically read this post have these pseudo-memories from dreams that carry over into real life so vividly and cleanly? and if so whats it like for you?

also yes to your original ask anon; in my dreams i am basically always thoroughly convinced of all details and premise in the dreams. i believe this is common for most people who dream! i do occasionally and with frequency have thoughts and acknowledgements within the dream that it is a dream, and this is typically the thing that would pull one into lucidity, but ive actually been banned from lucid dreaming so it never gets further than that and i remain convinced that the impossible false details of the situation are pure honest reality

thank u for the ask!

[devilsskettle]

i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill

[blujayonthewing]

I'm going to make a lot of noise on my art blog and probably, like, facebook or whatever about all the Totally Legit Reasons™ christmas cards are exceptionally late this year, but you, my friends, will know the truth: I am just simply a hot mess

[stargazingdustbunny]

A man appears from the shadows of the alley. His face is unmoving, frozen in a death glare as he locks eyes with you. As always, he is silent. Before you can move to prepare a counter attack, he raises his hand to his face in a gesture you recognize. You begin to feel the urge to sneeze, but you know that the sneeze will never come. His curse is upon you. You raise your weapon and charge, but he slided his hands together and suddenly yours are covered in paper clips. You drop your weapon. He flicks his boot, and suddenly, you stub your pinky toe despite your armored shoes. More gestures, and you end up crumpled on the ground, overwhelmed by the sensation of many small pains. The man walks past you and into the building you were trying to protect. You swear that you will one day get revenge, but for now, you have been defeated once again by your arch nemesis: Major Inconvenience.

[trevisos]

no one look at me i’m being sappy abt xarrastarion. anyway i can’t stop thinking abt astarion embroidering little fragments of xarrai’s poetry or songs on his clothes post-game like the one that larian patched out of the description for his camp clothes. smth abt keeping them close to his skin always… the way he starts to learn who they are when they start showing him the things they’ve never shown anyone else and the comfort he finds in their words (despite giving them so much shit every time they wax poetic at him). i’m ill. xarrai calls him a hopeless romantic and he tells them they have no room to talk bc they’re a fucking bard. he stitches their words into the cuff of his sleeve in thread just barely a different color from his shirt so he can ghost his fingers over them like a talisman against the dark and the weight of his memory. years later there’s a love song xarrai won’t outright say is about him embroidered in it’s entirety on the inside of his winter coat where it lays against his chest.

[miss-sheepy]

Finally making a ref sheet for my girl Whisper ✨✨✨

With the new campaign started figured it was about time I make a ref!

Last reference I drew for her was *checks notes* MARCH 2022?!?! WELP, she's a bit overdue for this I suppose lol

[ssspringroll]

next project i wanna get done is recoloring my overlay minipack in the pyxis intergalactic palette and also recoloring pyxis' intergalactic into my overlay palette. for funsies.

[eyepatchdate]

im at the point where the twisted tokyo fiends arent really viable anymore without dimensional hourglasses, so thats fun

[fitzselfships]

I'm so normal right now :]

LYING I'M INSANE