#help me i'm procrastinating

[aysrin]

snowfrin <3

[lynzishell]

What would be the opening intro song if your story/current legacy gen was ever made into a TV show? 🤍

omg this is such a fun Ask, thank you!!!! ✨💖✨

when i first read this, i thought it was going to be so hard to find a song, but i started scrolling through my playlists and this one stood out immediately:

Chocolate (Revised) by Snow Patrol

and then, of course, i had to go overboard and do this in case you want to listen and follow along...

enjoy? maybe? 😅

[erinwantstowrite]

Erin HELP. How do you get out of writer’s block. Please. I’m stuck and I have NO idea how to continue on and I’ve already rewritten said scene twice 😭😭

i have to break it to you now... writer's block is a bit of a misnomer. instead of a writer's block (or art!!) i would call it a "writer shift" or "level up," when you feel like everything you're writing is terrible, it's because you're growing as an artist! you're just seeing your art with a more critical eye, learning and adjusting. which i can probably get to another time because that's not what you asked

so!!! what is probably happening is that you don't like your outline as much as you think you do. this happens to me ALL the time. i go into a chapter thinking that i've got everything i want all set up and then i'm surprised when i procrastinate or i rewrite it several times (my record is 8 times). a good 86% of the time i end up changing my outline and trying again and it goes much better for me

if that isn't what's happening or you just REALLY like your outline, there might be another problem and here's some ideas:

go back and read your set up to that scene. you might not have given it a proper introduction/natural progression into what comes next, or you might be forgetting something

try drawing out a map of your setting and imagine your characters walking around it. there might be some white room action happening and it's bothering you

it could be something about your dialogue! try acting out your dialogue in a one person play and see if it feels natural for you to say (as in like, technicality. if you can't literally say the words then it might be hard for your reader to read) and if it feels like something your character would say

[verittean]

oK SO i ... forgot how i was gonna word this but i was thinking thoughts about wreck-it ralph and i made a realisation or two ... one i think is already pretty noticeable n i'm sure someone's pointed it out already and the other i think i could absolutely be imagining it but i have been thinking about this for days and my mind will not leave me alone about it so i have to share it anyway regardless of if i'm right or not or i think i will actually go crazy

(taffyta , swizzle malarkey and candlehead were kept for comparison but i cut the others bc i felt it was a little too much but they all have about the same cadence anyway)

so first thing ... i noticed how more enthusiastically vanellope's name is called out compared to the other racers when her name is put up on the board ... kinda like how one would announce a big event or someone of importance , almost as if it were announcing 'and now please give a royal welcome to our princess , vanellopppeee von schweetz !'

i think that part is pretty easy to notice , but now the part where i think i might actually just be hearing things and staring too hard at the colour blue that i swear i'm seeing red but i swear i swear there's something different about the way king candy's name is said ... like not just the bubbliness of the way 'kInG cAnDy !' is said which i already think is slightly odd , because everyone else is announced pretty normally , even vanellope aside from the previously mentioned extra enthusiasm , but i also swear ... the voice it just sounds ... different ? almost like it were someone else ... ? it couuuld just be the way the announcer is pronouncing it that makes it sound off but to me it almost sounds like another voice doing a really good impersonation almost ... ? regardless i have to question that if king candy wasn't supposed to be in sugar rush originally , how come he has a voice line saying his name ... ? sooooo , if the voice really is someone else's ... could turbo have done an impression ? i don't think it's tooo far off to assume bc also where tf did the kc portrait come from did he draw it himself too ? ofc you couuuld say maybe kc was a scrapped character who still had enough coding left over for the voice and portrait as well as the model but i don't think that's quite as fun

again i think i'm prooobably just hearing things and it's probably nothing , but i really can't help but feel there's something off about that voice line and it just will not leave me alone ... and i thought it'd be fun to point out anyway even if i'm wrong after all wEeEeEeE

[chalkrub]

vega my best friend vega

[faceeeeee]

I completely forgot that I have an art fight account with "old" refs.....chat should I remake the entirety of the gobb designs lineup🧍‍♀️

[royalarchivist]

Ramon: we need to find Cucurucho again

Fit: Yeah, that's really weird that he was just watching us -

Ramon: so Pac can adopt me

Fit: Oh yeah– Well, you know– I mean, maybe we can like– Maybe we can have it arranged where if Pac gives you a cookie, it counts for the full amount instead of half. And then maybe the same for me for Richarlyson. Right? 'Cuz I mean, like– We're... basically a family. I mean we have– I mean, let's be real, we have been for a while, but it just a little bit– it's just a little more official now.

Ramon: yeah but Pac wanted to throw a big party

Fit: Oh, a big party?

Ramon: adoption party

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Fit: Oh, an adoption party. Ohhhhhhhhh, I see. Yeah, well– I won't interfere with those plans then. Yeah, well I guess– um. It'll be a party for you, and then I guess it'll be a party for Richarlyson as well. Yeah, that'll be cool, that'll be cool Ramon. Are you- are you excited?

Ramon: [Nods]

Fit: [Laughs] I'm glad.

Ramon: Two dads

Fit: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, instead of just one!

Ramon: i appreciate u a lot >:(

Fit: Aww, Ramon, I kn– And I appreciate you too, Ramon.

Ramon: [Ramon bounces around happily, then gets shy / embarrassed and hides in the corner of the room]

Fit: [Laughs] I know, Ramon. It makes me happy, seeing like– You– you seem like you've been in a better mood the past, you know, couple weeks, especially with everything that's been happening. You seem like you're in a better mood. Yeah, I'm glad, I'm glad, Ramon. I'm glad.

[aroaceblahaj]

New art since I haven’t posted in a really long time

[azumasoroshi]

i love when i discover a new author from a really good fic, and i scroll far down enough into an their bookmarks and find a fic that has some similar scene to their fic, and then i go into the comments and see them gushing about the fic and i'm like I FOUND YOUR SECRETS. I SEE YOU

it's just endearing to me lmfao i bet if someone read my big stsg wip (stsgzume) and then read my favorite fics they'd be like "oh i see this homage to saturday night live (the stsg fic) or 1000 yen for a kiss everybody (the stsg fic) or 2 sorcerers (the stsg fic)"

one of the great things about fanfics is that like. a lot of it is already repeated content, eg. how many cafe aus or canon compliant aus can you possibly read that are completely entirely original plots, but fanfic readers are used to reading a lot of similar things and enjoying all of it rather than complaining about it being unoriginal or uninspired like with original work. i think it makes you pay more attention to the little artistic flourishes that stand out, like certain lines or descriptions or portrayals

which i think is beautiful!!! i think it's great to promote that kind of positivity around just writing what you want to (usually inspired by other people writing what they want to) rather than worrying over whether it'll be the most groundbreaking drama someone will ever read. it's seriously just the two cakes meme which is just such a great way of interacting with media i think lol

[beestards]

Me playing isat for the first time: Wow, what a cute game!! Surely this won't give me an Existential Crisis

Me, watching as Siffrin says, does, or think things I have said, done, or thought near identically: Wait. Is this fucking play about ME?

[gleepily-beep]

Ranfren has turned into the main thing I doodle and procrastinate with 😓

So as I neglect my essay due in 3 hours, here's some randal doodles! B3

smaller doodles:

I swear I'm not just a ranfren fanpage 😓

[steelthroat]

I think after this I'll need to actually try to adult-up and if i get diagnosed with something I'll then have to. Idk. Do something about it.

[alatariel-galadriel]

Need a little Magik in my life

[clarabeara2430]

The worst part of writing is knowing what needs to be written but being so nervous about peoples idea of you that you are afraid to write it.

[aroaceblahaj]

Puffwump doodle

[pynkhues]

Greetings from Canada!! Hope you are enjoying the election glow (I know we still are!! Even though it’s a closer call than your glorious landslide:))

Now that we are a little bit restored in our faith in human kindness and intelligence — any news on dogless bone chapter 3??? This weekend? Please please pretty please??

No pressure of course—perfection takes time and you’ve already been so generous with your time and energy!!

Greetings!! And yes! Congrats on your own election too! One of our political pundits said on the news the next day that Canada and Australia had rewritten MAGA these elections as 'Make America Go Away', which did make me laugh, I can't lie (sorry to my American followers!). Hopefully though it is indicative of a groundswell pushing back against these sorts of fascist politics, and that it might be the start of a wave back towards democracy and at least centrist if not leftist politics broadly (especially given the American midterms aren't that far away really).

And hopefully! I'm about to log off tumblr and try and knuckle down and get it done today. I'll be out most of tomorrow with Mother's Day, and really would like to get it done so I can focus on something else next week, haha. It does feel really close, so fingers crossed! 😊