#i accidentally posted this on my main but I'm too tired to delete it so I'm just gonna leave it here and reblog to my OC sideblog

[negative-speedforce]

Songs I feel like would be Siv's music taste:

[mr-shrimp]

It's September now, and I wanted to write about r*ssian schools, and I even had a draft about it, but I deleted it accidentally :(

Btw it's not a big deal, so enjoy this bullshit from typical r*ssian student <3

I want to do this bc I'm pretty tired of this, and I just want others to know that.

This post gonna be smth like QA format, bc it is a lot of easier to write ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Russian school core(I guess). Let's go!

First things first. How long do you need to study?

-> Well, if we talk about ordinary school, then you can study 9 years or 11 years(this is optional). In year it's 9 months for studying and 3 for rest(nice joke). After 9th grade you can go to the high school or go to the college and then to university as well. After 11th grade you can go right to university(but here is option to go to college after 11th grade). In university system is not different from European with Bachelor degree, but as I know in this year or maybe in the next one they want to remove this and make only specialty degree. It sucks bc your specialty diploma will be invalid in countries with Bachelor degree. And with specialty degree you need to study about 5-6 years.

How old must be child?

-> In most of the cases it is like 6-7 y.o. Some schools have pre-school studying, here children are about 5 years. In the end of your execution in school you may be like 15-16(9th grade) or 17-18(11th grade)

Does children also have such a fucked lessons table?

-> Nah, they have like 3-5 lessons about 35-40 mins. First 4 grades are such a relax, hah

What about exams?

-> in the end of the 4th year you need to pass two exams(as I remember): rssian language and math. In the end of 9th grade you need to pass 4 exams: rssian, math and two optional disciplines. And in the end of the 11th grade you need to pass at least 3 exams: rssian, math(base or profile), and 1-5 optional. Maybe now max number of optional exams has changed, but I don't care.

Which exams did you choose?

-> I gonna write biology and chemistry in any way, bruh. Maybe sociology, too, bc I also into law(not new laws they are bullshit) and this kind of thing. Or maybe I should be a designer, I like money and I like to draw:) my doodles pretty cute hah

What about rest? Holidays? Weekends?

-> Okay, this is pretty interesting. In most of moscow schools we have 5-1 system, which means 5 weeks of studying and 1 week of holidays. Also, we have a lot of holidays for all country such as new year holidays or may 1st and may 9th. It is really a lot of holidays in r*ssia, tho. Although I said it is 3 month of holidays, but for real you need to study and here. Why? It's pretty complicated. You need to read a lot of books, you need to practice all disciplines, you need to prepare to your exams and smth like this, bc if you not gonna do it... well, it would be sad. Weekends don't exist in rssia you just sleep. Really, you tired as fuck after this weekly five-day-in-a-row executing. And you even need to do your homework, but all that you can is sleeping.

What about study program?

-> It's hard. Really. I'm at the last grade, and this is my lessons for every week(in two versions, look at pics below). And if you want to know, math in r*ssian schools is like math in a lot of math universities in America or England or any of European countries. And it is not about math only, it is about all disciplines. Like, in 10th grade we learning about sinuses and logarithms(fckng bllsht)

-> In mscow schools we have special programs like medicine class(here I am), IT-class and more more others(Pic below, translate it by yourself). They call it "project classes". And for every project class it is its own main disciplines. For example, in medicine class it is chemistry and biology, but they added prof math for some hecking reason and I hate this shit, but BTW.

-> As for daily classes table, this is really tough. We starting at 8:15 a.m. and ending at 3 p.m. or even at 4:40 p.m. This is NOT optional. You must go for all classes even if you don't need physics or prof math. You just MUST. We have lessons every for 40 mins and breaks for 20 mins. And no, we haven't any special long break for eating. If you late to your classes you gonna be scolded, bc "why can't you eat faster???". Oh well, maybe because I just can't hah? Anyway you need to go from cabinet to another cabinet and try to eat if you want. And the most absurd that we have special breaks for eating, but they also lasts 20 minutes.

-> As for holiday, you can't relax either, bc this is a lot of homework. For example, my friend(from IT-class) in last year had about 400 mathematical equations to solve for homework for 1 week. Wild, isn't it? Ofcourse not all teachs like that, but anyway. Our literature teach said to write essay about 400-500 words(okay ngl she like to make us write it even if it not holidays).

What about food?

-> Oh yeah cockroach it my oatmeal and juice with water, love it. Not gonna lie, we really have cockroachs in our dining room at school. And I guess teachs like "well until cockroachs not fall from ceiling to children food it's alright"(no, it's not). I really like to eat, even if it just an apple, I like food, and food at school is really bad. You have a choice: first to not eat, second to eat at dining room, and third to bring your homemade food. In any case you don't have time for really enjoy the food :(

What about "ins" of school?

-> in mscow schools pretty okay, in my school we even have green room with a lot of plants, we call it "winter garden". Cabinets are okay, but light is bad like they older then me. But in other regions it like very old house that may fall at every second. And some of them don't have bathrooms. I didn't joke. Or it is a toilet like a.. erm.. hole in floor? Yea, something like this I guess. And some regions(villages, for example) don't have schools.

-> As for lessons, it is just very strict teachs and really hard program. Okay, let's talk about "conversation about important things". As you all know in 2022 rssia started a w*r with Ukraine, and from this moment in all schools started this shit. In short this is something like patriotic lessons where they just lie to you how good our country is and how good that we live here and how bad another world is. Well, smth like this was at ussr time, too, as i remember this right. But you know, this lessons are necessary even if they don't have marks for it. You just need to know that all people in the world are bad and only rssia are innocent and saint(/sarc). Fucking bullshit.

What about project classes?

-> Well, Idk for other classes, but in medicine class we have pretty hard program. You need to know all chemistry and biology, make an individual project, go to medicine college(uh um hello I go to high school bc I don't want to go to college guys what's wrong with u), go to lessons in university like RUDN, Pirogov RNRMU(rssian national research medicine university) and etc. And this is all after your ordinary classes, ofcourse :)

And what about college?

-> Nothing special, we just were riding the subway there 1 hour, then studied for 3 or 4 hours at college and were riding the subway back for 1 hour. And for sure it sucks, bc I returned home at 9 p.m.(or even 10 p.m.) every Monday. And our teach said that we were lucky bc they could make our college classes at Saturday. And in the end we can get our diplomas in the end of the 11th grade. Why? For what? Idk.

What about program? You always say this is hard, but why?

-> So, biology(molecular, botanic, anatomy, ALL biology), organic chemistry, prof math, probability theory, physics and more other. All this university level. And a lot of home work after which you don't even have strength for yourself.

What about attitude towards mental health? And health as well?

-I have diagnosed severe depression and I'm still studying full-time education program. No one cares if you can stand, even if you have a fewer. But at least tech can send you to nurse or back to home. In rssian schools no one really cares about your mental health, your pronounces and other individual things. Well not all teachers stop bulling towards kids, and some of them are bullies themselves. I think that's enough to understand this.

Well, that's all, I guess. It is really a lot of issues that I didn't say. Please repost or reblog as much as possible. As for living in rssia it is like, you know, living in "1984", just read latest news and new laws in 2022-2024 period and add to this w*r with innocent country.

And stay safe all of you♡

Yes somewhen I make this rq please don't beat me :(

[linzerj]

Me realizing I haven't actually posted any new art of my OCs in almost 2 years-

Anyway I'm entering Liz in the @smallartistocbracket ! Here's a quick masterpost:

Its the girl! Elizabeth "Liz" Turner was my first OC, made almost 13 years ago at this point? (2010 was some of the first art I did of her wow...) She's undergone lots of design changes and backstory updates/edits. Originally a Danny Phantom and Teen Titans crossover OC, Liz currently exists in a weird limbo state of me trying to figure out how she and her friends' stories can work in a totally separate universe. She and my other OCs were designed as a hero team, so im kinda just... trying my best to figure them out at this point lol.

Most of her backstory is unchanged - she and her parents were all victims of a terrible car crash. But while her parents passed on, Liz got stuck behind as a ghost. As she tries to figure out what to do with herself now, Liz discovers her electic-based powers; meets a gargoyle named Violet, two super-powered girls named Carmen and Brianna, and normal-girl-who-accidentally-got-roped-into-their-problems Laella; and becomes the emotional backbone of their little hero team. But don't let her cheery outward personality fool you - its all a cover for her PTSD from the accident and losing her parents and old life. She does such a good job she even convinces herself she's fine for a long time, but she does eventually recognize it's all a mask and seeks some professional therapy.

(AAAHHH tumblr why didn't you save the rest of this - heck. I'll try and add back what tumblr has lost...)

Liz, being a ghost, kind of... doesn't age. And cant die. And so.... she has. A bit of an existential crisis as time goes on, and her friends start passing on...

(Left: young, optimistic Liz, about 5 years after dying, and 4 years after she met all her friends. She'd be about 23-24, if she were alive. Right: older, tired Liz, about 100 or more years later.)

Liz is notorious for using her ghostly powers for pranks when she's younger. But invisibility, intangibility, and flight make for a great combo for spooking people - with harmless intentions of course!

But her main power is electricity, or lightning - because her ghost 'core' is electric-based, due to the environment (stormy conditions) when she died. She can generate small static shocks or devastating lightning bolts - she can act as a lightning rod, redirect or absorb electricity, make ball lightning or a lightning wall-shield - and she can even act as an AED in an emergency, after learning finer control.

(Fun fact: her hero name was originally Storm. Because in 2010 I had somehow not seen X-Men, and didn't know about Storm... currently, she has no hero name, as I haven't yet thought of a new one.)

I definitely had more, but can't recall what tumblr deleted ... so, here's some more pics of Liz! And links to the spotify playlists I made for her too.)

[grandmcff]

mutuals    only    &    selective    roleplay    blog    for     𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙼𝙾𝙵𝙵 𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙺𝙸𝙽    from     𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐒 . this    blog    will    contain    mature    content    (    violence,    gore,    etc.    )    so    please    only    interact    if    you    are    over    the    age    of    21 .

CARRD / PROMO

BLOGROLL . @wasteturns ( the ghoul from fallout ) , @twilekd ( twi'lek oc )

001. No drama whatsoever. I'm too old for it and quite tired. I am here to write my character in my silly sci-fi show. Curate your own experiences and do not police mine. I hardblock if I break a mutual if only due to Tumblr and it's glitch where it likes to make blogs think they accidentally unfollowed each other. It saves the awkwardness of any refollowing!

General dni criteria applies. No racism, anti-lgbtqia+, bigotry. I won't write rape, incest nor underage scenarios either. Basically if you're a creep leave me and my blog the fuck alone, lol. Mun =/= Muse and do not godmod mine.

002. Shipping happens rarely and with chemistry. For NSFW it's strictly beneath a readmore and written with those I trust. Despite that smut is not what I'm here for at all, and is at the bottom of my priorities in regards to this blog. Please respect that.

003. This blog is low-activity and slow replies. I run other blogs and tumblr itself is not my main priority. I have a life outside tumblr. Know I rarely drop threads, and if I do I will promptly notify you. I do not care about reblog karma. Just send something in every now & then and we'll be fine!!

As for follow backs they may take some time as I am mobile bound and prefer to read everyone's rules thoroughly as well as check out your blog. Assume if I do not follow back within a week I am not interested!

Anon is on but know that any hate I get is deleted and said anon blocked. If you have an issue with me please come to me privately so we can discuss it like adults, or use the block button. I promise I won't ever be upset if you need to block my blog!

004. My name is Werner (or Iggy) and I am 26. I use they/them pronouns and like long walks in the woods. Please know my DMs are open to any who may need them, and my discord is available to mutuals upon request! Tysm for reading my rules and I hope we can write soon!!

** I also feel I should stress my Tarkin is trans (ftm) and while he won't really express it due to the views the Empire has, please know that is a part of my portrayal of him. I plan to touch on this more in a future post. This comes from my original Tarkin blog of the same url!

[you-can-reclaim-your-crown]

i understand you completely! it's the same for me except i'm a native english speaker lmao. but the fact that you're willing to write a story in english despite it being your 3rd language is already an impressive feat, you should be proud! here's a protip in case you need it, consider searching these terms if you find yourself unable to properly convey your thoughts into your writing: (insert word or phrase here) synonym, (insert word or phrase here) definition, (insert word or phrase here) antonym. don't worry about it though really, i do think that art is challenging and difficult to create - be it drawing, writing or videos - it does require a lot of practice and studying to be able to reach a certain level of skill but it doesn't matter as long as you keep trying and giving your best! at the end of the day, more than anything else i think effort is of the utmost importance and it'll definitely reflect in one's works. i'm wishing you the best and i look forward to what you have in store <3 will you be posting it on ao3? the mods will add it to the sukugoweek collection if you tag your work with sukugoweek2023. i found out that they'll be accepting submissions until january 3rd so there's still plenty of time left! if you wish to post more than 1 fic, please feel free to do so too. they also just added a special prompt for gojo's birthday, you might want to use it if the opportunity arises haha. aw it's no problem, i'm happy to know that i was able to help you in some way <3 yes i feel you, these bitches had me in a chokehold since 2021 when i first got into jjk! it's going to be my 3rd year of brainrot soon in a couple of months, time flies so fast...

You really do say the sweetest things🫶🏻 i get a little message like this and i feel so happy it's almost embarrassing.

Languages are so weird.

How are "English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though."

And

"Gore gore gore gore"(croatian) even real?? Whoever decided this: buddy, you blew it. Super hard. Complete buffoonery.

Special prompt you say..🤔 it does give me some ideas...

i might have underestimated how long this is going to be. My plan was a one shot and a little bonus chapter/epilogue-ish thing. But we will see. Maybe i have to split the main chapter.

I think i started to ship them around October 27th, so I'm a sukugo baby. It's the first gojo ship I'm really invested in. I'm fond of nanago but it's just that.

(Shout-out to 0bstinate for this one sukugo on 'it is not enough to love you' post. That really got my gears turning... you're a hero)

And then it his my lika a truck. They have everything I'm into: enemies-to-lovers, honoured/fallen one, red+blue, canabilism as love language (bc i like them a little fucked up), monsterfuckery, i hate everyone but you, unhinged x unhinged, corruption/redemption etc. let's be honest their fight was basically foreplay. Archenemies? Kinda gay if you ask me.

Aaaand I'm rambling again😅sorry

But to answer your question: yes I'm going to post in on ao3. Because fuck anxiety, we are so back bitches. And I'm a people pleaser and you encouraged me, so you are my people to please. Sorry buddy but you are not getting out of it now.

Anyway my reply is probably a bit all ower the place. I didn't sleep well, I'm tired and i accidentally deleted my reply before so i had to typ it again.

I really really appreciate that you took your time and wrote me❤️ thank you from the bottom of my heart

[6okuto]

how'd u know i love to talk about myself and overshare. Wehehe... thank u for the tag!!! 🙆🏻‍♀️

started writing: Omfg. tried writing a luke hemmings x reader fic on wattpad when i was definitely not supposed to have wattpad almost a decade (🤯) ago. i don't think i wrote more than a few chapters before deleting it so my irl could follow me LOL

also tried writing one (1) jungkook thing when i was like 14 (it had like no plot & was mostly metaphors. sooo embarrassing thinking back on how my irls read it 😭💔), but then i didn't write again until tumblr 😭 some of you have watched my main writing journey from the start

started blogging: well known(?) nia lore… first post was december 2021… accidentally posted my asra relationship headcanons and here we are! but i was a lurker for a couple years i think

followers: 5.6k.... bizarre considering the long droughts i've put u all through + i only Rlly write for haikyuu 😭 i'm sure many are inactive or bots but 5k is still nonsensical like i'm just a girl fr… love u guys 🫵🩷💌 thank u 4 rocking w me.

communication: i don't. it's bad. i'm so bad dawg i'm so sorry to u all 😭 but i appreciate Every interaction and message !!!! 🥹🥹 i see an inbox/dm notif and go (!! :D !!)... i smile at my screen and think about ur message and how i could respond.. i pinky promise U r all Always On My Mind!! even if i don't reply to ur reaction I see it and go !! :00 YIPEE !!

really sorry i don't approach people…even moots... i DO really want to talk but i Still struggle to even follow people (back) because i get nervous. what if u don't want me to follow u. what if u think i’m stupid. i still only follow like 60 blogs because of this. fawk my stupid Baka LIFE bro IM SORRY 😭💔 i'm trying. i feel miserable and lonely when i think about this IMGONAN TRY HARDER PLS WAIT 🫵!!! thank u everypony who messages me despite it all. I will cry and wail and sob in front of u /pos /very grateful ☹️🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

for me,, i Love leaving long reblog tags but i can get overwhelmed(?) at the thought so it can take ages to actually reblog ;; i also try 2 make it clear i rock heavy w interaction.. i hope i give off a friendly aura. pls. how i talk here is exactly what my irls get too,, ur all my friends. it's just that i'm akin to a scared cat that takes months to be comfortable ☹️

likes: they're alright!! i don't mind spam liking, it's kinda fun to watch and i've never dealt with any shadowbanning because of it.. i don't know where that idea came from to be honest 😭?? i appreciate them & i get why leaving tags can be nerve-wracking or awkward to do at first, so don't worry ! 👍👍

i do wish the ratio of likes to tagged rbs/comments was better, but i found a post from a couple years ago where i talked about how my ratio was also only like 10% rbs (not taking into account which actually had tags) so it's never been very good/gotten better… it was better with multi-chara posts—i'd post late at night and wake up giddy to read all the tags but that doesn't really happen anymore.. probably both because of my posts and how the community has changed.. it's disheartening to say the least so i try not to check a lot anymore 😭 just try to write what makes me happy 👍

requests: general relationship hcs r OK to ask for. but other than that they'll stay closed… i push myself to write a certain amount minimum and then get tired… and i feel so bad when i don't get to one/i'm not inspired… they sit there for months and months like girl just let it go.

i think they're still good and fun for events though! and i like when people ramble or just share thoughts with me so i don't Have to write a full post ^__^

writing: let me get all of This out of the way. i think i've gotten less creative over time tbh.. and a lot of my ideas are fun to daydream about but feel flat or boring or too short when i try to write them… and i wish i was more concise,, had better descriptions,, filled the work with more than action beats and movement (or Stopped adding them and just let the dialogue exist),, could write fun au’s and stuff other than fluff oneshots…

i have a lot of thoughts but,, it's all still fun when i've locked in!!! i really like writing and i'm probably not as bad as i think, but i'll keep trying 2 improve on the things i listed. i think i've gotten a little better atp at least!!! 🙂‍↕️🫡

hcs are generally easier to write, plus i get to be silly and ramble 👍 that's why i didn't even Write oneshots in the beginning… twas scary.. especially bc i had no experience w them...

i don't even consider myself a Slow Writer i'm just not creative. LOL. literally just no ideas. if i had them i'd write more 😭 will try to do more short .txt posts..

dialogue is still my strong point. pretty much all my fics start as what could be described as scene scripts 👩🏻‍💻 i try hard to make it fun but still realistic,, and i think my characterization is pretty good.. hopefully... (;ﾟ∇ﾟ) maybe not my smaus LOL

and i don't really write angst anymore but i'm alright at it! 👍 i also have my moments writing nsft stuff and part of me wants to make a sideblog for it but,, IDK. we'll see.

i also want to write for more fandoms but.. scary. scawyyy... scawy... or just more for the ones i Have written for tbh. LOL. cove... may ask for ideas 4 him 🫡

works i'm proud of. umm. …

notes wise idk for sure, i'm assuming it's clingy boyfriends with 14k and flustering moments with 12k. all my old multi-charas did well. I ROCK W THIS! they're rlly fun to do when i actually have an idea to work with, and they Take Time, so i'm not mad they did so well tbh. i'd like to do some again ^^

i liked the iwaizumi sitting on the lawn one but i didn't like the ending… confusing mood and not what i wanted so i deleted it ;; you know it's serious when i actually delete a post guys. but i was cooking! tried hard on it and it was fun to do :3 will maybe go back and revise the ending some day...

i also liked “the most attractive person in the room” !! largely because i got to write banter, but also i was pushing myself to write more than Action beats and Movement so i was happy with myself ^__^

the smau where they react to your new post... i don't even like the actual reactions that much,, but people liked the different reader pics and that made me really happy !! 🙂‍↕️ i want to do another part but i'd have to remake all the accounts so 😮‍💨😭

#THROWBACK, this post for LL where mc wanted to go back to earth. who's rocking with nia 6okuto angst. i miss writing it sometimes LOL i remember really liking writing this one.. the ideas just kept coming...

and here's a Bunch of parts of fics i'm probably never going to finish / post bc i have nopony to (not nervously) tag so. u might as well get something + i like them. yaaayyy!!! ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦）ノ

(1 + 2, 3 + 4 (copium fic. mb if the beginning is cringe.), 5, 6, 7, 8)

Behind the scenes of a Tumblr Writer - Tag Game

Hey there, I love behind the scenes and since this is something that's rarely talked about, let me start the chain... if you feel uncomfortable with a question, just skip it. You can add some if you want as well.

Started writing: I wrote my first Harry Potter fanfic at age 10. Started posting around 15,16 years old. I'm now 31, so...

Started blogging: I started on a German fanfiction site around 2010/11 I think. Might have been earlier too, but back then I was mostly reading, no posting. I really started when I got into One Direction (very late, tbh)

Followers: Currently at 961, which is wild to me. I don't even know that many people IRL. I convince myself that half of them are bots tbh, so I don't freak out all the time.

Communication: The people I talk to regularly are: a few writers who answered after I constantly reblogged and commented on their works and a few people who commented and reblogged my work. Writing and blogging on here can be pretty lonely, depending on your personality and the time you're active (I'm from Europe and a lot of my followers seem to be living in Northern America, so there's the Timezone thing) ... And I found that the best way to strike a conversation is to reblog, comment, and to not be shy. I do wish I got more asks, though....

Likes: I actually filter them out. I have 793 original posts up at the moment. It doesn't give me anything to know how many likes a fic has other than to tell me which characters are liked more than others or maybe that one fic does especially well. My activity only shows me comments, asks, reblogs with tags, and answers to my own asks. I live for the tags and the comments.

Requests: I love talking to people about ideas. That's how I started the plotbunny game because I have so many ideas and so little time. And sometimes an idea just doesn't want to be written out fully. Requests are fun because YAY, I get some mail... but then I freak out because I don't really know how to write this NOW and then I freak out because it's been a week already, two weeks, wait, two months? I'd rather have suggestions where people tell me vague things like "I'd love to read something about this side character" or "Have you ever considered this character with a soulmate trope"? because then I don't have the feeling of failing the request when I write it a little bit differently.

Writing: I am a fast writer. I know that's one of my talents. I can churn out a oneshot of 1k words in less than an hour. People read slower than I write. That can suck sometimes because you've just posted this and you want to know what people are thinking but they're not as fast as you are. I do have a lot of ideas. I want to write constantly but my brain doesn't always want to. I am trying to respect that.

There are also certain things that I just feel wrong writing. I cannot write anything suggestive (I also don't like reading it) and everything past that gives me panic attacks. I can hardly write mean characters and jealousy feels so wrong to me that I cannot write it. I've also overdone it with the soulmark trope and now I feel like everything I write about it feels lifeless.

I write best in the mornings before going to work, but I don't have much time there. I don't need special music (but it helps), but I need to have at least some energy left and at best, no distractions. But I have been writing for over 20 years, so I will say experience helps a lot.

Tagging: @revasserium @shoulmate @lemurzsquad @screamin-abt-haikyuu @toomanygoldfish @satorisoup @emmyrosee @reverie-starlight @alienaiver and @writingsofanomnivore and everyone else who wants to join

[natolesims]

Check In Tag ✔️

Tagged by @someone-elsa! Please don't eliminate Lola, let her eliminate herself ;w;

Why did you choose your url?

There is a hot, sweet beverage in my country called atole. We mostly drink it as a traditional breakfast thingy (sometimes with other food) because it is a bit heavy, yummy and fulling (?). People call me Nat for short (my name is Natalia) and one friend at my university thought it was funny to call me N-atole because he saw me drinking a chocolate atole cup :D I've been using that nickname for my internet / gaming persona since then. In this case, I added the "sims" into it lol.

Any side blogs? If you have them name them and why you have them.

I made an art side blog, but it's empty xD I tried to share my art on instagram and had a reaaally bad time, so I thought I would migrate to tumblr. I'm still scared of media so I haven't uploaded anything... and don't know if I will tbh

How long have you been on tumblr?

On tumblr? I think since 2010, but I reblogged everything I thought it was pretty. I accidentally deleted my account, so I rejoined with this simblr exactly one year ago.

Do you have a queue tag?

Nah, I draft everything and post it manually. I queue individual posts when I know I won't be online.

Why did you start your blog in the first place?

I was hoarding a lot of gameplay screenshots and wanted to put them in good use! I discovered storytelling and gameplay simblrs when I was downloading cc and thought "why not make one myself?"

Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It's my simself doing funny paranoid faces, the same ones I regularly make irl, hehe. I've been wanting to go back to a floating head of one of my main sims, but I can't decide who...

Why did you choose your header?

I liked the poppy field gif no big reason there

What’s your post with the most notes?

This one, with 212 notes! I didn't give a lot of attention to it when I posted my villain but when I saw the notes coming I was a living surprised pikachu meme

How many mutuals do you have?

I have no idea! But not that much, I think. A handful, maybe? I'm guessing like 30 (that I regularly interact with)? How do you even check that .-.

How many followers do you have?

578

How many people do you follow?

166

Have you ever made a shitpost?

Not sure what it is, so maybe I have?

How often do you use tumblr each day?

When I have free time, in the mornings and before I go to bed. When I'm tired, busy or mentally fried, I don't check social media at all. I blame it on my asocial character o3o

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

Uh, not quite. I've got some random hateful anons I answered publicly (one racist, another... just salty?), but I didn't argue back. Just tried to laugh it off.

How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

I read them and try to be as informed as possible, but I'm trying to keep my simblr as a clean, mental safe space for me. I don't reblog anything non-sims related into my acc, whatever it is.

Do you like tag games?

Yeah! But I answer late or forget easily about stuff ;w; I suck at them

Do you like ask games?

Also yes! I love them! But sometimes I get too paranoid and shy about sending those, too. I'm trying to change that.

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Some of them definitely are, but I'm not tagging anything because that would be awkward. For me. Maybe for them too. I don't even interact with some of them because I get intimidated. Ok bye.

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Nah :D

I'll tag @reality-refuge, @ambrosiaicecreem, @pixel-bloom, @ashubii, @dynastiasimss, @goldoradove and @daisydezem!

[bisluthq]

guys 😬 advice please. ok so I have a 14 year old sister, and she has a fairly popular stan twitter account. she got cancelled yesterday, except it was over an honest to god genuine mistake.

basically, it was like the middle of the night, and she was really tired, like falling asleep and trying her best to stay awake, and she tweeted, "i wish i was bigger" because she's only 4'11", and everyone always calls her "small"

except she has autocorrect turned off, and the B and the N are literally right next to each other on the keyboard, and she accidentally tweeted, "i wish i was (the n word)" instead.

and she was so tired and sleepy that she didn't realize and just fell asleep like right after.

and then she literally came crying to me, like crying her eyes out bc she'd woken up and checked her phone, and she'd basically gotten "cancelled" while she was sleeping. she was showing me all of these aggressive DMs that she was getting and these @'s and people were sending really mean stuff to her.

and she showed me that she'd tried to explain to them multiple times what had happened, and she also said to them that she'd never tweeted it before on her entire year of running the account, so why would she just suddenly tweet it out of nowhere?

but most people didn't care and still kept attacking her.

(I know my sister really well, and I've never heard her use the N word before. she always says "the N word", and she complains about the boys in her class that use it all the time and calls them racist and immature)

she's getting so much hate and has even got a few death wishes. and you know how stan twitter is toxic and has like "rival" stan accounts? well, because she's like a fairly popular account, a couple of those big "rival" stan accounts that have been mean to her before just bc they were in like "rival fandoms" have like posted about it, and now their followers are all harassing and bullying her too.

and she's just been crying so much. she keeps saying, "I keep telling them I didn't mean to but they don't care", and I feel really bad for her.

does anyone know how I can like help her out? if it were up to me, I would just get her to delete twitter, but she says it's like her place where she can just be herself, so she won't agree to delete it. I'm not that familiar with stan twitter, so idk if there's anything I can do to help her get out of the situation she's in?

Stan Twitter is brutal. Your sister objectively fucked up. But basically my vibe whenever someone gets cancelled for the first time is:

Like... it’s the internet.

She did legitimately fuck up. I’m sorry she did. I don’t care what the backstory is, homegirl fucked up on main.

She needs to stop justifying herself and eat the humble pie and say “I really truly fucked up and it doesn’t matter that it was on accident but I’m gonna be better and more careful and I’m sorry to the people I offended. I’ll be taking some time to reflect and learn.”

After that it might be smart to take a break and delete the app for a few days.

And eventually it’ll pass.

The ultimate lesson here is bro don’t ever fuck up like that.

When you do fuck up, step up and take responsibility for the fuckup. Don’t dig a deeper hole for yourself (which is what she’s doing rn because let’s be honest the explanation sounds stupid).

Sorry if this comes across harsh but that’d be my vibe with my sister: lots of hugs and TLC from you to her but it’s also time for some tough love. This was a fuckup. She needs to learn from it and not do it again. And also she needs learn to take the flak because if she’s gonna run a popular account on the internet like she need to be able to take a dragging ya know? Sometimes one drags and other times one gets dragged. That is the way of the internet streets.

But also - give her lots of TLC and hugs and hot chocolate and stuff.

[tomtefairytaleblog]

Hi there hope you're doing well. Incredibly random but do you have any advice on navigating the Blogger platform? I haven't (actively) used it since 2007 and every time I try to use it now it's super complicated under google. Is it just me? I'm getting tired of WordPress though.

@battlemetal 

Hello, there! Sorry for the late reply; I had a busy weekend (Graduation weekend). I’m doing pretty okay; hope you are, too. 

I’m actually relatively new to using Blogger; I’m assuming you’re asking me because you came across my (sort-of professional) blog there, which is still pretty sparse in content. However, I do understand what you mean with it being complicated; twice while writing out my thoughts on Tart Magica, I almost accidentally deleted my paragraphs. Because of that, I’d say the first thing to do when using Blogger is to write your posts first on a Word document, just to keep them safe. I actually do that for posts here, too, when they involve a lot of references to outside texts. 

From my experience, the blog you make on there is tied to whatever email account you use to create it; I’ve had multiple emails over the years, but I really only use less than a few (mainly divided between professional and non-professional at this point). So you’ll have to keep track of what email you use while making it. I think it’s similar to how email compositions work on Gmail, and after the first couple of tries, I mostly got the main hang of it.

Fortunately, there are a lot of tutorials and tips online that you can find from Google, which are fairly easy. If you type in what you need clarification on, there’ll probably be a solution. I used that to figure out how to create new pages and add in links on the main page. If there’s anything in particular you need help with, just let me know, but I hope this helped in some way! 

[criticallyacclaimedstranger]

For the writing ask game please & thank you! :D 7. Your favorite ao3 tag.

28. Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing?

Thank you, @velocibee, for the ask! I gotta put this under a cut because dayum, it got long.

Okay so for the first... I don't read fic.

I know, it's crazy, right? I don't think I've read fic on Ao3 in like... 8 or 9 years. About five years ago, I went on there because I wanted to read Loki fanfic. I used every filter I could think of, and I still only found really shitty fic. So, no thank you. I post there now, but I haven't read anything in years.

I don't read fic here, either. I sometimes throw a glance, and there are a few ones I've read and reblogged, but for the most part, I don't read it. The main reason is that I'm really scared of accidentally plagiarizing something. I mean, we all write the same ideas sooner or later, but I'm just so worried I'll reuse something very specific - by accident, of course! I would never knowingly steal from anyone!

Another reason is that I already spend so much of my life staring at screens. Eight hours a day working, then several hours after that writing, or consuming other kinds of media. If I'd start doing my reading from a screen as well, I think my head would explode.

Then there's the whole issue with getting lost in a fanfic dream world. I've lived in those before, and it wasn't good for my mental health. If I were to both write and read, I'd get lost again. I love writing more than reading, so I stick to that.

I sometimes think I should just get my shit together and read more of what my mutuals write. I want to support them like they support me! And sometimes I do get over myself and read something, but it's very rarely. It's nothing personal, it's never personal. I guess I'm just not that into reading fic?

As for the second question... So, I've written (and published, and defended) a PhD dissertation. And this advice I give both doctoral students and fic writers:

Ask yourself: Do I want to write? If the answer is No, well, then don't. But also don't bitch and moan about it. (Maybe the next question you should ask yourself is why do you feel like you have to write?) If the answer is Yes, then sit down and write. Do you have writer's block? Well, boo hoo, guess what, the only cure to that is writing. Write any old bollocks. Maybe you stare at the empty document for hours on end, maybe not. Just write something. You can always delete it tomorrow, or maybe it's salvageable, and you can edit it? No part of staring at that document is wasted. Your brain is working all the time. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Let it take the time it needs. (Unless you have a deadline. Then you just need to sit the fuck down and write.)

(Of course mental health and Life should be taken into consideration. If there's Other Shit going on, give yourself a break, especially if you're a fic writer and don't get paid to write. Your health is the most important thing.)

This works for me, mostly. Even this past week, when I've been absolutely gutted with exhaustion after work every day, I've opened at least one document, read the last paragraph or page, and edited something, or written a couple more sentenced, then closed the document. Do I want to write more? Of course, but I'm too tired. Rest comes first. There will be other times when I'm not too tired.

Sorry this got so very long and rambling. I clearly have a lot of opinions on these topics...