#gunpoint and forcing u to talk to me

[myli3s]

i dont like him

[saintsenara]

i know u are on record as a jegulus hater HOWEVER. u are also on record as a you can write your way into anything girlie. u can see where i’m going with this i’m sure but purely out of curiosity, if you were held at gunpoint and told to write jegulus, how would u make it interesting? how would they work?

it is true, anon - i am on the record as someone who is very much not a jegulus fan.

but the reason for this is entirely due to the way that regulus gets turned into something completely toothless within the pairing - the usual writing of which tends to gloss over the fact that he fucking loves filling his terrorism pinterest board with pictures of lord voldemort covered in human blood.

for me to find jegulus compelling, then, the premise of the story would have to engage with the fact that regulus doesn't become a death eater by mistake.

but i certainly don't think this makes the pairing impossible to write...

while i don't think james [or sirius, for that matter] are ever going to find themselves in a position where they agree with voldemort, especially when it comes to blood-supremacy, it's also going to be the case that - as purebloods [and, especially, as pureblood men] - they're going to have certain blind spots in how they relate to the world.

we see this in canon, for example, in ron's attitudes towards house elves, or in molly weasley's instinctive disdain towards muggle technology, or in the condescending way cornelius fudge talks to the muggle prime minister, or in the fact that dumbledore owns dozens of slaves.

the series' politics is striking in how unradical it is - the order of the phoenix is working towards the maintenance [with only a few minor changes] of the status quo of a society with an extraordinarily entrenched class-system, and the conventions which come with it.

james - since he serves the purpose, within the narrative, of a symbol of what the good guys are fighting to defend - must be similarly unradical in his politics.

which means, i think, that if regulus is written as even a little bit sophisticated, then james can be written as wilfully ignoring all of his red flags. we know from canon, for example, that james loathes the word "mudblood"... but we don't know that he's similarly outraged by more polite, more insidious prejudice. if regulus has the sense to couch his bigotry in the language the two share by virtue of their class backgrounds, then i think it becomes inherently possible to imagine jegulus as a plausible couple.

i would be most interested, then, in a sort of "death by a thousand cuts" premise to a jegulus fic - something which grows darker and darker as james is forced with increasing regularity to look the other way about what regulus' "i'm just asking questions!" spiel is actually masking...

which then goes very badly wrong when he realises he can't ignore the truth anymore.

[rottenlemonontheroad]

DNI:

terfs, homophobes, racist, nazi, prolife, antifeminist, p3do, antivax, Islamophobic, fatphobic, 45+ year olds, Proshippers (Proshipping like incest or child x adult)

My website :)

WRITING REQUESTS ARE CLOSED.

 INTRO:

Haii! My name's Lemon! Im basically just a dumb writer with a strange obsession with opossums and creepypasta.

My nicknames include Lemon, Roadkill, skittle, Starry, Moxie, Egg mold (I was forced at gunpoint to add that one), etc (I could really care less about what u call me)

My pronouns are anyyy!!! (He/They/It heavily preferred)

HOMOSEXUAL

I can speak both English, German and some Spanish so u can talk 2 me in any! (I only write in English tho) :3

Some Of My Fav Songs / Music Recommendations: "Once A Loser Always A Loser" By HappyHappy, "Molly Sells Molly By The Seashore" By Sorry Mom, "12 Foot Home Depot Skeleton" By Kitsch Club, "Boy's Don't Cry" By The Cure, "To Catch A Predator" By Icp, "It's Only Sex" By Car Seat Headrest

FANDOM STUFF:

Fav games: Stardew Valley, The sims 4, Paper's Please, Minecraft, Like Every Fnaf Game, Fallout: New Vegas, Sally Face, Undertale, All The Danganronpa Games

Fav Shows / Movies: All The Childs Play Moives (Chucky), Ramshackle, Scream 1-6, Death Note, Gravity Falls, Lisa Frankenstein, Zombieland, The Owl House

All the fandoms I am in rn: Creepypasta, Marble Hornets, Hollow Hemlocks, Fnaf, Scream 1-6, Death Note, Gravity Falls, Lisa Frankenstein, Danganronpa, Sally Face, Stardew Valley, Ramshackle, Chucky, Little Nightmares

Things I Will Write:

1. Gore 

2. platonic/fluff 

3. OG Characters / Stories (For Og characters / Self Inserts please send me as much info about the character as u can backstories, age, looks etc)

4. Self Inserts 

5. Fandoms (The ones listed above and ones not because chances are i forgot to list it and will add it)

6. Etc

Things I Will Not Write:

1. Smut / NSFW (Depends - I have never written it so it would be trash but if you really want it)

2. Sexual harassment / Sexual assault (It being seen as ‘hot’ and not a traumatic experience)

4. Insest (fluff or not)

6. Piss n stuff

7. Power fantasies of killing irl people

8. Any language other than English (I can talk to u in German and such but i am not confident in my abilities to write a story in it)

9: Child x adult

Current Things I'm Working On

(If you send something in and it is not added to this list within a week i am probably not going to write it) (Sry)

Stardew valley AU

Mushroom thingy (Idk how to explain it)

All images and dividers from pinterest and rentry if any of them are yours please lmk

ALSO GO FOLLOW @/rxccoonboo :333 HE'S REALLY KEWL

[ca-suffit]

Okay, I MUST be misremembering bc everything I see for her seems positive, but....Madeline's kind of an iffy character for me. I get she CHOSE Claudia and God did Claudia need that, but.... she also bedded down with a nazi, right? And it wasn't at gunpoint/forced, it was for relief? I feel like I'm missing nuance somehow bc everyone seems to really like her and I just can't get past it. I feel dumb and I don't want to provoke hate, I'm just genuinely confused tbh. I'm so sorry if this is weird.

it's not weird to ask about and ur not misremembering anything either. this fandom (and all of them tbh) don't like to criticize white ppl too hard.

I talked about this a little bit on this ask. idk if u know the real history behind the women who did this too, so it might also help to know about that if u didn't.

ultimately, the show is portraying everyone as a complex character and constantly asking the audience what line do u personally draw for what ur seeing and why? there isn't a right or wrong answer, it's just for u to reflect upon. there's a lot of examining of power dynamics too and I think that makes prbly especially white ppl uncomfortable to look at much.

notice how the fandom never brings up this nazi scene with lestat and claudia either. take a wild guess why lol.

[fictionkinfessions]

My ass was really gonna ask “Baptiste pls interact i miss u :[“ as a joke but after forcing one of my friends to duo with me at gunpoint the other day he just. Discovered he’s Baptiste. Like damn. Okay. Hi Augustine. You came out of no where. And then i kidnapped him and kept him in my gamer pad forever /silly /nsrs

Really though. Within 24 hours of him first playing Baptiste he gets a memory of sparring at Watchpoint with the cowboy. And then the day later i’m just talking about how much I miss August and my friend starts crying about it. Anyways he’s kinfirmed now. We stay winning !!!

— Maugaloa Malosi [Overwatch]

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[kyogre-blue]

Djdjjd oh yeah I remember that, I squinted at Diluc like "are you trying to throw me off the trail? Even if it weren't p obvious it's Venti, I'd literally just need to pick up a book and see the discrepancy?" Then I remembered that this is Mr "between eating a cryo slime alive or joining the fatui I'd prefer to be crushed to death by a meteorite" So subtle is, hm, shall we say, Not his middle name. But! If Diluc could indeed be subtle, that could have been the set-up to a diversion so you'd start looking into to what Diluc may be hiding instead of any possibly-the-wind-god-in-disguise candidates! (yes I know it's a typo but I like yarn-spinning :3)

Oh glad to know there was buildup to Azhdaha bc when I played Zhongli's second quest I did feel like the dragon came all but completely out of left field haha... like was I supposed to feel sad when I didn't get the backstory until the very end and Zhongli was so unemotional abt it? Like yeah I know Zhongli's Just Like That but idk, Venti's desesperate "no, listen to me!" still lives rent free in my brain (like yeah he literally says "you don't have to listen to me" in the end cutscene and it's a direct contradiction so they changed the text in the subtitles, but the delivery was amazing. Venti sounded so pained, I'm not even mad about them leaving the soundbit in) and compared to that Azhdaha just felt like an inferior copycat of Dvalin :/ ik I have the bad habit of comparing every region to Mond, but...

Also I had seen a lot of fans talking abt Guizhong so I came out of the quick-start lantern rite expecting her to at least get mentioned on his story quests lmfao, silly me. Though I may have just been inatentive bc there was like. 0 incentive in archon quest to explore liyue and I had been actively holding back on exploring bc I felt salty about being used like a cheap rag by EVERYONE throughout the ENTIRETY of the archon quest (except for Xiao and the adepti I guess, thank u funny pompous supernatural animals u kept it real) so I was like "you're asking me how do I find this region without an absentee archon? well I wouldn't be able to tell you bc I'M NOT GONNA FIND OUT. Bitch." I feel a bit dumb though because I DID do The Secret of Nantianmen before the Zhongli quests but I have absolutely no recolection of the infodump. Like, straight up, reading through the screenshots with the weird blue haired girl and not getting even deja vu. I remebered the tree bc it's blue-veined and huge and there was a hecking seelie I lost like twice on the branches, but not anything abt the dragon rip.

Djdjdj fair, I have heard THINGS about inazuma and raiden ei (especially from my sister, who's behind me in story despite starting several months earlier bc she's vehemently avoiding inazuma lmfao) but idk, I guess I just like picking up the shiny bits and holding them to the light. Sure, there's stuff I dislike about every region! But there's stuff I like about every region too! I try to focus on that :) reading your posts is super interesting for a more critical perspective though! (And yknow it's actually refreshing for someone to actually give the sideye to Zhongli, instead of the 1000th "haha venti cares more about getting drunk than Mondstadt" abyssmal take)

Wow though, the archon quest ending without removing the sakoku decree is REALLY awful though—I was already feeling like they were pushing it too much by forcing you to do both raiden story quests to unlock literally ANY inazuma characters, but they're pushing it even MORE? And is it me or does Inazuma have, aside from NPC-itis, a subset of the same problem in liyue that it's hard to get attached to the characters? You're basically forced at gunpoint to get close to Ayaka, and Thoma left a. rather bad first impression, shall we say, by leaving you stranded in Ritou with no way to get out. and by act 3 we've barely even met the major players in the war, like Gorou (I like him bc he's fluffy and obviously cares abt his men, and I've had him for a couple of months so I was excited abt finally meeting him, but still) Sara and Kokomi. I was more interested in Kazuha bc I thought the prologue did a fairly good job setting up who he is, what he wants, what he believes in (plus I outright cackled at his intro by beidou djdjdj) but he's literally not even relevant in his own region's archon quest? Straight up vanished until the very end of act 2? Why?? And now you tell me that literally none of what he tells us in the prologue ends up ever being relevant? like what the heck was hoyo thinking :/ that many red herrings with no payoff should be illegal

I have been told (cannot confirm) that Zhongli actually emotes in other languages, but the EN dub is... hahaha.

Anyway, there's a few things here that I've thought about a lot.

One, Genshin has a really bad habit of only giving you context AFTER the climax, which renders the entire quest preceding it just floating meaninglessly in the wind and leaves the actual climax with no impact cause you haven't gotten the context for it yet. Venti's quest is like that (as much as I enjoy it), Zhongli's quests are largely like that, Inazuma archon quest is like that, etc. This is a really obvious tell for the writers being too amateur to pace/structure their story correctly, the writers having no time to do a second draft to fix the pacing issues, or both.

Two, Azhdaha is a massive writing disaster not just in terms of the quest's pacing (let's spend the entire time on tracking down some miners... what is buildup or foreshadowing), but especially in terms of its message and implications. A developer interview video explicitly says that Azhdaha is meant to be a nature vs human progress aesop. And it ends with... "nature" (Azhdaha) being sealed away while suffering endlessly ("A thousand years of pain!") and going "no, you're right, I totally deserve to be sealed away, do it," while the humans learn nothing and face no repercussions for the damage they have done for now generations. (Seriously, there are multiple instances where Liyue's mining caused supernatural problems. It just keeps happening.)

Is this how you do a nature aesop. Is it really.

There is also a throughline in Genshin about the gods doing third party racism on behalf of humans. You get to Azhdaha and he is basically tortured by reckless human expansion and yet it's all his fault and he's the only one who faces consequences. You get the oni in Itto's quest, who have to make bizarre concessions to live with humans. You get the vishaps being a sentient race and the original native population of Teyvat, but due to the gods, they've been forced into the underground and mutated due to contact with the Abyss. Even Dvalin, while it's still okay with him because that's not the focus of his story, we never get the people of the city acknowledging him as more than a monster, which would have been nice, since the whole thing was kicked off by them rejecting him.

I really don't like it because people don't need to be coddled like this. They should be made aware of their mistakes and learn to be better.

Three, Inazuma is a hilarious mess.

See, every nation's story is about the archon. The archon is the most important character and the one we're supposed to care about the most. They're the heavy weight banner that's both meta as fuck AND emotionally appealing. Venti is obvious, but even Zhongli is like... the one actual character in Liyue, who is around the most and has the most complexity and impact.

But then we get to Inazuma. Ei is the final boss, so we can't buddy up with her. We don't even see her except in two boss battles, and then she dumps out her backstory in a poorly integrated animation and the story ends.

And then, the very next thing, is we go on a date with her around town. She likes sweets! She doesn't know what fiction is! She needs you, the player, you stud, to teach her about life! Isn't she so waifu?

And a good chunk of the player base went, "excuse me, what the hell."

The writers really wanted you to go "so maybe she caused a civil war and untold suffering with her negligence and selfishness, but have you considered... I love her??" And that's fine and normal. Fans do that, I do that. Insert Legend of Galactic Heroes meme.

The problem was that the writers did not bother writing Ei into the archon quest enough for people to feel anything for her. They did the opposite, they wrote a whole lot about how much all these NPCs are suffering. So naturally, what people care about is those NPCs and their suffering.

Which Ei's story quests entirely skip over. It's just never addressed.

This gets pretty funny if you look at Sumeru because the writers were obviously aware of the issue, and they tried to patch over it.

You see Nahida a lot in the Sumeru archon quest. She's around for a bunch of the stuff going on. The thing is, Nahida is SO able to move around and do her own thing that it begins to cause dissonance with the narrative they give her (CAGED BIRD METAPHOR). We're concerned later that she got "caught" by Dottore, but this doesn't correlate with freeing her from the Sanctuary of Surasthana. I believe we don't even discuss it until after Dotorre? Because before that, she's just too able to do stuff, so it doesn't really feel like she's locked up.

But the Sages sealing her is then treated like their worst crime (even though they just inherited the situation lol). It's not that they're encouraging people go insane from forbidden knowledge or causing so many scholars to have emotional breakdowns from the pressure or mistreating the desert people. Oh no, we're against them because they were mean to Nahida. But Nahida... was cool with it basically? She could travel around, she could talk to people, she was too fine for this to be impactful even if logically it wasn't nice.

Don't even ask why we're so set on making her the archon ruler. I don't think we even ask her if she wants to do that.

The writers made Nahida present in the story a whole bunch, but they didn't really make her a good character. If anything, her presences raises a whole lot of questions while not contributing much.

(It worked tho, people are totally up in arms about their "radish daughter.")

It's similar for everyone else in Sumeru. They're around a whole lot. But the emotional core of the story is still pretty much entirely NPCs. It's Dunyarzad, it's Setaria, it's the kid whose keeper grandpa was taken, it's Rahman. They're the ones who actually care about what's going on and emote about it.

People say Sumeru is better writing, but imo it's just longer. The core issues are pretty much all the same, just dragged out and more tedious.

[gremliinsart]

Forcing u to talk abt Lady Troublemaker at gunpoint so answer these questions

1. Outside of Keira, what other neighbor does she spend the most time with?

2. Whats her favorite snack/food?

3. What Joke will she use today at Howdy's :3

OUGH!! Woe is me!! Anyways >:)

1. Besides her best friend I think she likes to spend her time with Julie (and by proxy, Frank) making up silly and stupid games that they never actually finish because they keep forgetting rules/making up ridiculous ones...

Sometimes she'll stop by and steal- I mean help Eddie with his (f)arts and crafts (she's not allowed to lick the envelopes cause then she gets hungry and eats his stuff D:)

Her and Sally are some of the most dramatic bitches in the neighborhood, they could play make believe and practice for plays for HOURRRSSS... y'know when she's not actively sabotaging her set for shits n giggles

Oh and ofc she loves to steal from Howdys Store and then promptly getting kicked out (as if that'll stop her >:3)

2. Good question! I don't think she has a specific favorite, she likes just eating whatever tastes good to her (often stolen from other neighbors >:3c) but in particular she likes the stuff that grows in Franks garden (which she likes to call "the Farten" to make him mad) and Poppys baked goods! Sometimes she helps her make them if she's extra niceys! She's also partial to a pretty pink lady apple :3c

3. What do you call a man stuck in a hole? Phill! :D

[astrobei]

💌 hai :3

so i did hold u at gunpoint and force u to send this to me and then i did ignore it for two days which i think is kind of extremely funny. anyway!! mod u are genuinely one of the best people on this entire site and i mean that both because 1. u know how crazy insane i am about ur art which i tell u all the time and i will continue to so until my dying breath bc it’s TRUE. and 2. u are so easy to talk to and so funny and so genuine etc etc it’s so rare for me to click with people as easily as i did with you! it’s also very hard for me to respond consistently as i’m a loser with zero object permanence when it comes to notifications so consider urself so lucky and special that i did not accidentally ghost u. i’m kidding. mostly. kind of. anyways u have such a comforting presence and i’m sure this is true for anyone who ever talks to u ever but u feel like one of those people i’ve known forever even though we became friends like uhh. two months ago? u have this insane knack for making people feel so at ease around u even though u are so intimidatingly talented !! literally u have me laughing silently at my phone at 2 am and i have never seen anyone threaten to kill me as often as u do but i take it all in stride because i know it’s out of love <3 anyways all this to say that i love your sense of humor and your personality is such a breath of fresh air and i can even tolerate the wham! obsession and the fact that u are the biggest nerd i’ve ever met if it means we get to talk. read it and fucking weep loser. bye.

[seongminiz]

i’m kinda bad at chatting/small talk but i can try to send some random q’s if ur interested? if any of them ur not interested in answering pls feel free to just ignore!!

1) what is ur dream sonny angel figure?🤭👼

2) if u could only drink one drink other than water for the rest of ur life what would it be? no nutrional repercussions!! just based on taste lol

3) if u were a cat, what colour/breed do u think would suit ur personality most?

4) what is an activity you’ve really been enjoying lately? can be anything as long as it’s enjoyable!

5) if someone came to u and said “i want to stan cravity, help me!” which music video would you recommend them to watch first?

i hope these are okay!! no pressure to respond at all<3

- 🧁 anon

lmaooo sorry i just . fell asleep after i posted asking for asks (? lol)

1) mhhh idk bc theres soooo many but my fav ones r the strawberry one , honestly all the sea creatures ones but especially the seal n the starfish , from the dino collection the brachiosaurus , from the home sweet home collection the baking treats one n the sleepy time one , the bear from the 2023 winter wonderland collection , i already have the red tabby from the cat life collection but i rlly want the lucky pink one ! i also already have the normal rabbit hipper but i like the aries rabbit n the sheep from the hipper dreammind series , also the tangerine from the jeju series !! n the alien from the space adventure collection (thats a lot lmao n theres probably more)

2) mhhh no nutritional repercussions ? tbh i love water a lot like i just like drinking it butttt if there were no health repercussions either maybe the pink monster energy or melon bubble tea lol

3) aaaaa honestly idk bc i just dont know much abt cats ! but just based on looks i'd say one of those big ass cats with a lot of hair that look rlly pretty (ragdolls ? i think ?)

4) mhhh i've been designing some kpop freebies ! mostly for when i see tbz but also for other groups if i just find a pic i like . n also playing a lot of the sims n dress to impress n some minecraft lol

5) OK SO if it was someone who likes brighter songs/concepts i'd say adrenaline , cheese or groovy , if its someone who likes darker concepts probably vvv , megaphone , flame or love or die . n then i'd put them at gunpoint n force them to watch vivid :3

[jcmarchi]

Zeb Evans, Founder & CEO of ClickUp – Interview Series

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Zeb Evans, Founder & CEO of ClickUp – Interview Series

Zeb Evans is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of ClickUp, an all-in-one productivity platform that works as an ideal place for teams to come together, brainstorm, plan, and collaborate on everything from process docs to product designs.

You’ve stated that since you were 3 years old, you’ve been an entrepreneur at heart. Could you share some of your earliest memories of having the entrepreneurial spirit?

I found my calling as an entrepreneur very early in life. My first “business” was selling candy out of my lunch box in elementary school, and I actually got suspended for it. From candy, I went on to sell toys. It didn’t matter if it was my birthday or Christmas, I always asked for wholesale novelty toys that I could sell to my friends at school.

Then, when I was 10, I was in a jet-ski accident that put me in a hospital for months. I found the one public laptop at the hospital and discovered Alibaba. I saw that Disney DVDs from the Disney Vault had great resale prices, so I started buying and selling those from my hospital room. The DVDs turned out to be bootlegged, and I got in trouble yet again. But, the time I spent on the hospital laptop getting this hustle going is the moment I fell in love with technology.

There was a transformational moment in your life, a home invasion that made you realize you were on the wrong life trajectory, could you share this story and how it reinforced your need to become an entrepreneur?

I was a sophomore in college, running my own music/entertainment company, when I was robbed at gunpoint during a home invasion. Everyone talks about how your life flashes before your eyes in moments like this, but what I experienced instead was my life flashing in front of me – I saw that I needed to follow my lifelong passion instead of following classes in school.

The very next day, I dropped out of school, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I focused every waking minute on my passion of building something that would have a huge impact on the world before I die.

Could you share the genesis story of ClickUp, and why you chose to abandon your first startup Fast Follwerz to focus on this more ambitious project?

I started Fast Followerz, a social media marketing company, with only $100 and myself. I leveraged growth hacking tools and within four years had millions in yearly revenue and around 25 employees. I thought I had made it for a brief period of time.

Something was missing, though. After a certain amount of money, I realized my passion and energy came from something much more than that. I knew in my heart that I was meant to be spending my time on something that had a much greater impact, but it was hard for me to just stop what I was doing and spend time on something else, especially when Fast Followerz was paying the bills.

The universe has a funny way of working. I had a seizure randomly while watching the movie ‘The Martian,’ and for about a week I was convinced I had a brain tumor, which is something that my dad had. It was just what the doctor ordered – being faced with the prospect of death forced my hand to follow the path that I knew my heart already wanted.

Instead of continuing to boost people’s egos on social media, I set out to do something more impactful. I wanted to build something that would enable me to be okay with dying the next time around, knowing I had a hugely net positive impact on the world.

With millions in revenue, I shut down the company. I drove across the country to Palo Alto with a U-Haul and a few of our employees to start the next thing. We were going to build a new Craigslist, that had great design, ratings, reviews, and would prevent people from getting scammed like I had been so often on the site.

By this time, I had already been obsessed with productivity and efficiency, thanks to my perspective on life being so short. At Fast Followerz, this led to us using literally 14 different productivity tools at once. I knew there had to be a better way.

Before building the Craiglist replacement, I challenged the team to spend one month and build our own productivity tool. One that was flexible, customizable, and enabled us to put all of our work in one place.

At the end of that month, we all knew we weren’t going to build the marketplace app. We were totally obsessed with the productivity tool instead, which became the first version of ClickUp.

Can you tell us more about ClickUp Brain and how it integrates AI assistants for knowledge management, task management, and writing?

Productivity is broken. It’s mostly because of the sheer volume of software and platforms and tools that we have to switch between in order to get work done. The time it takes to toggle between these platforms makes us less efficient and valuable context is lost. ClickUp aims to change this by delivering something no workplace tool to date has: all of your work in one place, super-charged with ClickUp Brain.

Brain connects to everything inside ClickUp like your projects, tasks, and docs, and connects to everything outside of ClickUp, too, like your Google Drive, Dropbox, Figma, and Github accounts.

We all spend so much time asking questions about work – where answers live, what the status updates are, who owns what – at the expense of doing the actual work. Imagine the time saved from being able to ask questions and get relevant, full-context answers without the wait!

ClickUp Brain is your company’s personal AI assistant with infinite knowledge that makes you 10x more productive, and gives everyone in your company an executive assistant and a project manager available 24/7. It can brainstorm to write initial drafts, refine final work, build workflows, automate tasks, manage projects, and share progress updates. ClickUp Brain consolidates all of your company knowledge across docs, wikis, connected apps, and more.

How do these AI features differentiate ClickUp from competing AI productivity tools?

There are so many AI tools in the market, but they all kind of do the same thing. And they aren’t integrated into your workflow, so whatever you do with AI, you then have to copy/paste back into your work tools.

ClickUp Brain has native and integrated access with all of your work both inside and outside of ClickUp. We didn’t want to build just another AI tool. We wanted to build the first AI tool truly made for companies that has real features that save you time.

Yes, we have writing (and our writing tools can write just like you or your company brand), but we also have AI Project Updates, StandUps, and even Sprints.

ClickUp is known for its comprehensive project management solutions. How do features like custom templates, OKR planning, and complex project management at scale improve team efficiency and project delivery?

Custom templates provide a huge head start on projects and our users have access to our template center with more than 1,400 pre-built templates to choose from. Many teams also create their own custom templates specific to their workflows to save valuable time on future work. The OKR planning feature aligns daily tasks with overarching objectives, enabling teams to track progress and maintain focus on key goals. For those massive, complex projects, ClickUp’s hierarchy system keeps everything organized, from the big rocks down to the tiny details.

All these features work together like a well-oiled machine. You can kick off a project with a template, set up your goals, and then use ClickUp Brain for task prioritization and automation. It allows teams to focus on the important work instead of getting bogged down in work about work.

ClickUp offers all-in-one solutions for marketing and product management. How do these tools help teams build visual plans, manage agile workflows, and reduce development time?

Our platform is intentionally flexible to let all teams work the way that they want. Teams can choose to use the features that make sense for them, customize them to match their work-style, and ultimately streamline their workflows and boost productivity.

For visual planning, we primarily leverage our Whiteboards feature, where teams can brainstorm ideas, create diagrams, and map out product roadmaps. These visual tools integrate with the task management system, so teams can turn ideas directly into actionable tasks with just a few clicks.

We also offer flexible project views including Kanban boards, Gantt charts, and sprint planning tools. Teams can easily adapt these views to suit their preferred methodology. Almost every part of our platform can be altered to allow teams to tailor their workflow with features like views, custom fields, automations, and task types.

Combined with features like built-in docs, time tracking, and goal setting, any team can manage entire projects just within ClickUp.

How does ClickUp AI accelerate project plans and execution?

So much of work is just work about work. ClickUp Brain kills this so you can focus on doing the actual work that gives you energy and joy, without the crap that usually comes with it.

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[gayvampyr]

im sorry but season 4 of stranger things looks so bad. like it doesn’t look anything like the show i fell in love with 6 years ago

[sarioh]

hi rio! what is your favourite etho thing to watch, like a thing u keep coming back to? (aside from last life maybe lol)

OHH i love this question thank u for enabling me. i can't pick just one though so i'm going to say a bunch. team canada labyrinth of puzzles, project ozone 2, mindcrack season 3, hermitcraft season 7, uhc 8+11, and the 3 part finale to flyboys (episodes 13-15). ive watched all of these so many times over because i'm sick in the head

[godspouse]

it is so fucking funny to me that @ the bates motel section of universal studios they just put a little pond out front with the shark from jaws in it.. crossover of the century

[some-messed-up-writing-for-you]

I know u just posted it but could u pretty please continue short prompt 200??

Request #34

Warning: kidnapping, being held at gunpoint, death threats.

You guys sure like that one, huh? I like it too.✨

Part 1

~~~~

Civilian shivered as their captor slowly circled them, boots thumping lightly against the floor. Their head hung low, shoulders raised and tense as they awaited the next question. They must have been here for at least half an hour by now, telling the other about themself and their life.

Their full name, date of birth, address..., what they did for a living... They had to talk about their family, giving their captor details they really didn't want them to have, but in the heat of the moment, the civilian was too terrified to deny them the information they wanted.

Their captor stopped suddenly, off to the side of them. "Now then, tell me..."

Something pressed against the back of their head, followed by a faint click sounding in their ears.

A gun.

Civilian inhaled sharply, violently shaking in terror but not daring to try and pull away or move.

"What were you doing in that old warehouse?"

The gun pushed harder against their skull, demanding an answer. A sob wracked Civilian's chest before they managed to put a comprehensible sentence together. "A-A friend d-dared me to g-go th- there I- I didn't know- I d-didn't k-know-"

A finger touched their lips, ordering silence once more. They flinched at the contact, cowering, caught between the gun and their captor now standing in front of them. Their chin was grasped and tilted up, letting the other get a better look at their frightened face.

"Describe your friend to me. What do they look like?"

The civilian took a shuddering breath. "H-He's a-around 190cm t-tall. D-Dark short h-hair, and b-brown eyes."

"Anything that stands out? Scars? Tattoos?"

Their brows shot up at the last word. "H-He has a tattoo, o-on his ri-ght arm."

A strand of hair was casually tucked behind their ear by their captor. It made them shudder. "What does it depict?"

"A-A cat s-skeleton. W-With some t-text around i-it."

There was a moment of silence, and for a second, Civilian thought they messed something up and were about to get silenced for good. But before those fears could spiral any further out of control, the gun left their scalp, and their chin was let go off, allowing them to droop their head carefully once more.

"You're lucky we caught your little friend prancing around the outskirts." - their captor said, patting them on the head and scaring them again. "Though there was another guy with him. Another friend of yours?"

The civilian froze, eyebrows furrowing in confusion and worry. "A-Another guy...?"

They could practically feel the tension in the room rise as they continued speaking. "I-It- It was o-only me, and F-Friend. T-There wasn't a-anybody else."

"...Is that so...?" - their captor asked, suspicion lacing their voice. Civilian curled in on themself slightly in fear.

There was another deadly quiet, filling the civilian with dread and making them jump as the other spoke once more.

"Put them in a holding cell for now."

Arms suddenly grabbed them and forced them to their feet. Civilian put up no fight as they were dragged out of the room and pulled through a maze of corridors that their blindfolded eyes couldn't see anyway.

Eventually, after a few minutes of walking, they were shoved into another room, the door snapping shut behind them with a booming thud. They stood still at first, waiting for something to happen, but when nothing but their shaky breaths bounced around in their ears, they moved.

The civilian managed to find their way towards the nearest wall and propped their back against it, sliding down to the ground. They pulled their knees to their chest, face falling into them as they broke down, shaking and crying in terror, questioning whether they would ever get out of there alive.

[jackrrabbit]

it will come back [pt. 2] /// Yandere Shigaraki x f!Reader

Summary: You have a bad habit of picking up strays, and the half-dead villain you find bleeding out in a dumpster is no exception. [Part 1] [Part 3]

A/N: Title from the Hozier song—“don’t let it in with no intention to keep it / jesus christ, don’t be kind to it / oh honey don’t feed it / it will come back.”

Tags/warnings: yandere, violence (not directed toward reader), crying, Shiggy REALLY likes you, reader needs a friend and a good night’s sleep, non-explicit sexual content. [In later parts: 18+, sex, other stuff]

He—Tomura—keeps visiting.

At first you think it’s because of the free medical care, and you wish you had the spine to tell him to suck it up and go see a professional. After a couple weeks turn into a couple months and his wounds fade into ragged purple scars, though, you start to think differently.

Within a short time Tomura has figured out your work schedule, and he does a decent job of not showing up after your long shifts. The unavoidable consequence of this is that he ends up monopolizing your precious days off, but you come to the realization about a month and a half in that you don’t actually mind. You like it. It’s like spending time with a friend.

Mostly you guys talk. It doesn’t seem like Tomura really has anyone to talk to the way the two of you do, but that’s probably just you projecting. It’s usually shallow stuff—TV shows you like, video games he plays, funny stories from patients you treated. Sometimes when you’re cooking for yourself, you make extra for him. (It happens a lot, actually, and at one point you bring up how much his appetite is costing you and the next time you see him he brings a bag of rice and makes you a porridge that crunches between your teeth when you try to eat it. You can’t finish yours, but he eats an entire bowl and insists that you’re being picky.)

Sometimes he sleeps over on the couch, but he’s always gone when you wake up.

The two of you skirt around the heavier stuff, and you know it’s intentional on his part. You have to resist the urge to ask him about being a villain—he’s all but confirmed it for you, and it’s human nature to be curious, isn’t it? In the same way you can’t help looking at a car crash, you want to poke and prod and find out what it is, exactly, that Tomura does for a living. That part of his life is suspiciously absent from your discussions—if you didn’t know better, you’d think he spends all of his time sleeping and playing games and breaking into your place.

On the other hand, you don’t want to know. Plausible deniability. You can accept criminality in the abstract, but you’ve treated too many victims of the bullshit hero–villain battle to be comfortable really knowing why Tomura avoids public places.

So you don’t ask about it, and Tomura doesn’t tell, and you don’t look up his name. And it’s easy. It’s nice. You’d forgotten what it’s like to come back to a home that isn’t empty.

And then one day when you get off a few hours early from your shift, you stop by a convenience store to pick up some snacks for yourself (hey, you’ve been working hard, you’re entitled to binge a little on foods that you’re afraid to look at the fat content for), and you think, Hm, I wonder if Tomura wants some.

[You: 7:49 PM] > Are you coming over today? [T: 7:49 PM] > Yeah why [You: 7:51 PM] > Getting snacks > Want some? [T: 7:51 PM] > No

[T: 8:12 PM] > When r u coming back to ur place

[T: 8:58 PM] > Hey where are you

[T: 9:39 PM] > (Y/N)?

There’s a man with a gun in the convenience store.

It takes you a second to process at first. You’re standing in the snack food aisle seeking out Oreos and debating the merits of Double Stuf vs. Mega when you catch the mumbled demand and the metallic clicking noise you’ve only ever heard in movies before. It’s a gun—you know that, but your mind dismisses it because it’s ridiculous. Guns are rare in hero society. People don’t go around robbing bodegas at gunpoint anymore.

(You should know better. You work in a goddamn ER. But you compartmentalize, and the crimes you see written across your patients’ bodies stay out of the realm of your personal life because you need them to.)

It’s only when you see the muzzle of a hunting rifle pushed up to the cashier’s sweaty neck that you really understand what’s happening.

You drop to the ground immediately, looking toward the exit but it’s shut and there’s some kind of metal…thing holding the door closed. The cashier mumbles a denial and you can hear him fumble around with the cash drawer for what feels like ages.

It’s real. This is real. You’re in the middle of a robbery. Where are the heroes? Why isn’t anyone doing anything?

God, you’re a hypocrite, cowering behind the aisle divider and waiting for someone to step up while the robber’s demands get increasingly louder and more frantic. He wants money, and the cashier (who, you remember, is a man in his sixties with hands that shake with Parkinson’s when he holds out your receipt) isn’t being fast enough.

“That’s it? There’s no more? Are you fucking kidding me, there’s gotta be a safe or something—“

“No! No, p-please, I’m sorry, this is all I have!”

You cringe, crushing your eyes closed as if that will make it go away. You’re surprised you can hear at all over the sound of your blood rushing in your ears.

“Don’t fuck with me old man, I know there’s more! Show me the safe or I’ll blow your goddamn brains out!”

No! You have to do something. You can’t just sit here. You’ve heard plenty of death threats from your patients (not to mention that one from Tomura), and you know the difference between a bluff and a serious warning. Maybe you can catch the robber off guard, try to pull the gun away? You stand up quickly, hoping against hope that you won’t regret this, but in a split second you see that the cashier has the same idea and he’s trying to pull the rifle out of the robber’s hand and—

BANG.

Something warm and wet splatters across your face.

///

Tomura is angry when you get back to the apartment. As soon as he hears your key in the lock he rises from your couch so he can grab your collar with three fingers, jerking your head up to force you to look at him. “Where have you been? Do you know how long I’ve been waiting—“

But he cuts short in the middle of his sentence. Maybe because he sees the look on your face. Or maybe he just notices the traces of blood you haven’t been able to wipe off.

“What happened,” Tomura says. It’s not a question. He adjusts his grip slightly so it’s not quite as punishing, but you hold still anyway.

You have to force your mouth open in order to speak, but when your voice comes out it’s more steady than you thought it would be. “It’s not my blood. There was a robbery at the store. The cashier got shot.”

“Oh.” He releases you and frowns. “That’s it?”

“Fuck you.” You push past him into the kitchen to get yourself a drink with trembling hands. Pantry’s out of shōchū, whiskey will just make you sicker—ahh, there it is. Baijiu. The glug glug glug of the liquor into the glass does nothing to put your nerves at ease, but you pour yourself a double anyway.

“Wait—wait.” Tomura’s hands twitch and rub over his arms like he’s trying to stop himself from grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you. “Calm down. Why are you so upset? Don’t you see this stuff every day?”

You do. You’re an ER nurse. There’s no injury you haven’t seen. But it’s not about the blood. “I...I knew him. The cashier. He was nice. He had a grandkid on the way. I—“ You bite your lip and down the baijiu in one gulp. It burns.

Tomura clearly doesn’t know how to comfort you; probably doesn’t even really know why you need to be comforted. What does it mean that death is so meaningless to him? you wonder. But you need someone to listen to you, clueless or not, and Tomura will have to do.

The baijiu is still bitter and hot down your throat when you speak again. “You know something? Know what they asked me when the heroes finally showed up and pulled us out of there, me and the corpse?”

“…What?” Tomura asks warily.

“They stuck a camera in my face and asked me if there was anything I wanted to say to the hero who saved me. Any words of gratitude I wanted to share,” you spit. Now it’s your turn to feel your hands making fists at your sides. Your fingernails scratch into your palms like the pain can be an outlet for the sudden overwhelming fury spilling over you. “They didn’t save him. They were too late.”

Tomura’s eyes widen, and through your curtain of anger you can tell he’s looking at you in a way he’s never looked at you before. It’s unlike him to even look directly at you, and when he does it’s usually in disinterest or half-sincere irritation. This, though…this is different. He’s watching you like a believer watches a prophet. You can tell—or at least some deep, ugly part of you that you hope is wrong can tell—that he’s trying not to smile.

“I hate this,” you say, and the first tear drips out of your eye and runs down your cheek. It’s awful. You don’t want to cry in front of Tomura. You don’t want to show him how weak you are. But before you can wipe it away, Tomura’s hand comes up and does it for you, smearing the tear over your cheek in a gesture that—for him—is oddly tender.

Then he hugs you.

It’s stiff and awkward, like he’s forgotten how to do it, but the intention is clear. His arms fold around your back, pulling you into his chest while his chin makes its way to rest on your shoulder. He’s leaning into you so deeply that your spine is arched back, and you stagger away from him only for him to step closer again to make up the distance.

“It’s not fair, hm,” he murmurs into your hair. His tone is the closest thing to sympathy you’ve ever heard from him, but there’s an undercurrent of excitement you can’t ignore. “They’re always too late, aren’t they? The heroes… And everyone will watch that video of you thanking the heroes, and they’ll think they’re safe too. They’ll keep going about their lives and think that nothing bad can happen to them because a hero will always be around to save them…but you and I know that’s a lie.”

It takes you a second to recognize the emotion that’s raising goosebumps over your arms while Tomura rubs circles into your back, but when it clicks you shiver because it’s fear. You’ve never really been afraid of Tomura before, even when you should’ve been. Does he realize he’s backing you up with how forcefully he’s pushing himself into you? The backs of your knees hit the arm of your couch and you topple onto it with Tomura following.

He holds himself above you on his hands, legs tangled with yours. His eyes are wild and he’s not even trying to suppress his grin now. You’re trapped lying on your back under him—pinned like a butterfly under glass.

“Get off of me,” you say as calmly as you can.

“It’s all a lie, all of it…” A hand comes up and strokes your cheek, rubbing with two fingers at a stray fleck of blood on your neck. “I’m sorry it had to be like this, but I’m so glad you understand…”

“Let me up now, Tomura.”

He holds still for a long moment—waiting, thinking, considering—and then sits up, still straddling you but loosely enough that you can scramble back away from him on the couch. Your heart is racing, but you try to slow your breaths so he doesn’t pick up on how scared you are.

“Don’t freak out. You’re no fun,” Tomura says, and you exhale a sigh of relief at how normal he sounds. You never thought you’d be so happy about him looking at you like you’re nothing.

“I think you should go,” you say carefully.

He rocks back on his heels and runs a hand through his hair. “Are you mad? I thought I could stay here tonight, like usual. Since I waited for so long.”

“I’m not mad. I just…want to be alone.”

“I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to be alone tonight. Not after what you’ve been through.”

Oh, now you care. “Fine. Okay? Fine. You can sleep on the couch.” You’re too tired to argue any more, and you’ve never really been good at convincing Tomura to do anything he doesn’t want to. It’s a miracle he listened to you when you told him to get off you. Considering how often he breaks into your apartment, it’s not like you could keep him out anyway.

So he stays the night. He doesn’t bother you when you take a shower and go to bed, he just lies on the couch in his street clothes. When you wake up in the morning he’s disappeared like he always does, and for the first time since you met him you’re truly relieved that he’s gone.

///

You always thought it would take some level of courage you don’t possess to actually bite the bullet and look Tomura up. To do so would mean saying goodbye to whatever strange relationship the two of you have built over the months, and you’re just not brave enough to risk it.

Turns out it’s not courage that makes you type his name into the search bar. It’s cowardice. You’re lying in bed under the covers when you do it, and the blue-white screen of your laptop is the only light in the room. Your comforter is pulled up almost over your head like it’s a wall that can block out reality.

“tomura”, you enter into the search bar, but you don’t hit return. Instead, you look at the search suggestions.

> tomura shigaraki > tomura shigaraki league of villains > tomura shigaraki decay

Something about it sounds familiar. But you’re not ready. Still, after everything, you’d rather keep your eyes closed. You backspace and snap your laptop shut, and when you do your room is so dark that you think the emptiness might swallow you up.

///

[T: 5:52 PM] > Are u going to be at home tn

[T: 6:14 PM] > Hey check ur phone

[T: 6:42 PM] > Stop ignoring me > (Y/N) > (Y/N) > (Y/N) > (Y/N) > (Y/N)

[T: 6:46 PM] 3 MISSED CALLS [You: 6:50 PM] > I’m at work [T: 6:50 PM] > Don’t lie > you finished an hour ago

[T: 7:13 PM] 1 MISSED CALL [T: 7:14 PM] > You said you werent mad [You: 7:15 PM] > I’m not [T: 7:15 PM] > Then stop being a brat > im coming over > ill bring takeout

You’re nervous about seeing him, but in the two weeks since he pushed you down on the couch you’ve found yourself…missing him. Like it or not, he’s made himself a fixture in your life. So when you get home you’re brimming with anticipation, wondering who you’ll get when you open the door—the normal Tomura you’ve come to like over the past few months, or the one from that night. The villain.

But it’s just him. Good old Tomura, laden with plastic bags and containers of greasy fast food for the two of you to gorge yourselves on. You tease him for being cheap and he argues that you’re just a snob and everything seems so normal that you can almost forget the look in his red eyes when he told you that you understood.

Almost.

///

You probably have no idea how good you look when you’re crying.

Of the couple thousand views on the news channel video of your “rescue” from the convenience store robber, at least a tenth are from Tomura. Eventually he just downloads the video onto his computer so he doesn’t have to read the inane comments that the other viewers leave on the webpage. It seems like everyone but him thinks you should feel lucky that you were saved by a hero before the robber could get to you, too.

As always, the public are a bunch of shit-soaked morons. Reading the comments makes him angry, so angry he’s tempted to look into a few of these brainless sheep and see how lucky they feel when they’ve caught the attention of a violent criminal. But that wouldn’t be productive, so he saves the video externally and leaves the news website alone. It’s for the best. Besides, seeing the “views” counter on the website tick up and up by the dozen every time he refreshes is just another reminder that other people are watching this; other people are seeing how delicate and vulnerable and pretty you are with tears spilling out of your eyes and the cashier’s blood sprayed over your clothing.

Thousands of useless fucking NPCs are looking at you just like Tomura is. They’re probably thinking about how sweet you look, just like he is. And they’re probably imagining all the ways they can take advantage of your fragile emotional state, just like him.

You’re too trusting for your own good. Tomura used to think it was a virtue, and it is, but only when it comes to him. Whenever he thinks about how your face is slapped over a dozen different news websites for the whole world to see, he has to dig his fingernails into his neck to keep calm. It’s better when he can just watch the video and pretend he’s the only one seeing it.

And it’s not like not watching the video is an option. Tomura can’t resist your crying face. There’s a point around the three minute mark where your voice breaks in the middle of your statement, and sometimes Tomura skips there in the video just so he can hear that pathetic little sob and replay it over and over and over. Maybe it’s sappy, but Tomura really does feel his heart skip a beat at the way your eyes and nose are rubbed red from your misery.

How fucked up is it that he gets off watching you cry?

Would you be angry if you knew? You probably would, but you put up with so much from him already. Maybe you’d be okay with it if he told you he really and truly tried to hold out. The first dozen times Tomura watched the video, he refused to touch himself no matter how tight his pants got while you choked out your stilted answers to the reporters’ questions, but at this point he barely has to click “play” on the video before he gets hard and takes matters into his own hands.

At the end of the day, it’s your fault. Everything about you is so erotic, from your shaky voice to your pouty, bitten-red lips. Isn’t it completely normal to be aroused while looking at the person you like? And Tomura likes you, he really likes you. He doesn’t have any pictures of you, and with the high definition of the news channel’s video he can see every perfect contour of your cheekbones, every pore in your skin, every glistening wet eyelash.

It’s not that Tomura doesn’t feel sympathy for how upset you are in the video. He does! Not even just sympathy, even—he’s empathetic. He knows exactly how it feels to be let down by the heroes. How dare they tell you you need to be grateful while you’re still trying to wipe brain matter off your shirt? Always too little, too late. It’s not fair.

But if he’s being honest? As miserable as you are, Tomura is happy that you were in the store when that robber came in and that you had to watch a man you knew get his brains blown out in front of you. You need a wake-up call to lose faith in hero society. If you have to suffer some emotional trauma in the process, that seems like a fair price to pay.

And the fact that Tomura gets to jerk off to it? It’s almost like destiny.

➠ [Part 3]

[eulangelo]

i would trust detransitioners if it was a movement where trans ppl talked about how they were forced to go on hrt or get surgery to get their id/name changed bc thats an actually big issue us low/nondysphoric trans ppl have to deal with, but no its just a bunch of insufferable gays who say they got held at gunpoint to identify as transhet because apparently being trans was so much easier than being cisgay (i would love to see it btw sign me up for wherever it is that u guys live) or they are straight up terfs or they are kink freaks who think trans ppl being misgendered is hot so yeah i dont think any of these categories deserves the right to live