#i def didn't mean to go on and on!!

[kentopedia]

omg rylie Your newest fic made me weep a little, it was so fuzzy and soft ❤️❤️❤️

if you don’t mind, can you drop any writing tips? i struggle a lot with formulating ideas and making dialogue :<

if you don’t want to answer, no worries at all !! have a good weekend !!!

hi lovely!!! <3 thank you very much, i’m so happy to hear that! and omg omg of course!! i would love to share some tips, i am so honored you asked me o(≧◇≦)o

my number one tip is such a cliché, but it’s to write as much as you can! writing is just like any art, you’ll only get better & better with practice. and be patient with yourself! some days i write things that i don’t really like, and some days, i know i don’t feel up to it, so i won’t force myself to write just for the sake of it.

also, another basic tip, but something i struggle with a lot is comparing myself to others. the thing about art is everyone has a different voice & reading would be so boring if everyone’s writing sounded the same! so even if your writing isn’t just like your favorite writers’, it’s still valuable & beautiful because it’s a little part of yourself!! <;3

as for specifics! i formulate a lot of ideas from getting inspired by things around me & other media i’m consuming. some of my writing has been inspired by songs i love, some of them by books, etc. or just things that happen in my daily life! i think just getting in that mindset and thinking abt the world that way can be difficult, but so helpful to coming up with ideas!

when i really struggle with ideas, i usually take a step back & write small things like headcanons or short little drabbles about basic scenarios like first kisses or something! that way, i can get the creativity going, but i'm usually less worried about making those kinds of things perfect, opposed to my longer fics that are more fleshed out.

i’m so happy you asked about dialogue bc it is my favorite thing to write! i actually have a good tip for this. so whenever i write dialogue, i have that conversation in my head, like i’m speaking to that character, without worrying about any of the action that follows. that way you can see if it sounds natural or strange! i find that’s the easiest way to do it, as you’re just thinking ok, what would a normal person say to this kind of statement, how would they go about it? and then you’ve got a baseline that you can kind of tailor to the specific character or situation.

sometimes it helps if i write all the dialogue out first, and go back and add description and action later. that way, you can read it without any interruption. also, if dialogue sometimes feels clunky, it might not need to be changed! sometimes, i find that my writing just needs to be broken up by an action. it could literally a simple change like "hi. you look nice today." to "hi." he smiled. "you look nice today." and that can make all the difference!!

also, i know everyone says this, but reading actual books is such a valuable thing. it helps my writing soo much!! i'm not really sure why it is, but the more i read, the easier it becomes to write and come up with ideas!!

[marciliedonato]

So... Apparently UA s4 is a massive flop.... I'm not saying we need to start bullying* showrunners and writers and networks/streamers (*putting pressure on them to do right by beloved pieces of media with passionate fan bases so much so that they feel they'll get the guillotine if they do anything less than perfect and justice by the story/characters) but.... We need to start bullying showrunners and writers and networks/streamers again. These mfs have gotten too comfortable

[scarlettaagni]

sketchy doodle of the immediate aftermath

[my-fancy-hat]

HE DEADASS CONFESSED BRO

[necrotic-nephilim]

I know you like Young Justice 98 so I have to ask what you think of my favorite problematic girl Greta Hayes.

I LOVE GRETA SO MUCH.

Greta Hayes is my favorite bbygirl ever. i think her backstory is super interesting and i wish DC had done more with the whole Warder concept, exploring other Warders and what her relationship could've been with them. i just love the like. duality of her? the way she appears pretty shy and timid but has this really deep, explosive anger to her. she's a hot mess and i love her dearly, she can do no wrong in my eyes. the only moment i didn't like with her was when she and Steph fought, but i blame that more on the writers bc "two girls must have a crush on the cool main character and fight over him" just happens a lot in comics.

i lost my shit when Stargirl: Lost Children brought Greta back. i'm so happy she's back around and i think Lost Children was an interesting plot to explain the concept of all of these teenage heroes and sidekicks getting lost to comic book limbo. i wish Anita had also been in Lost Children but, i'm happy for the scraps of Greta we got bc if you'd asked me before if we would ever see her again, i would've said probably not. i hope the New Golden Age stuff does more with her and i'm delusional that we'll see her reunite with Young Justice, or at the very least Bart, since that's who she mentions being friends with in Lost Children.

i do ship her with Tim, i fear. i think her crush on him was really cute and how much faith she had in him. and him being the one who was able to talk out of working with Darkseid? just very cute vibes. i do also like GretaSteph, but GretaTim is rlly fun and i wish we had more content of it. whether it be an unrequited love situation where she has to watch him grow up while she's trapped as her age in this life/death limbo, or them actually trying to make it work. i crave to use her more in fanfic, i just haven't thought of stories to easily slot her into yet.

anyway, i love her, she's a doll, she should've been in Young Justice (2019), begging DC to do something with her now that she's officially back in the continuity. give her a mini or something pls DC my kingdom for content of my dumb angry ghost child.

[13eyond13]

actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[feddy-34]

...girl.

[paperlovesadness]

ooh, guys. So I think I just noticed a fun coincidence 👀

- Who's Mr. Schwartz? (...)

- I don't know. It feels like there's maybe this sort of a... Some sort of production going on in the background the whole time through this record. There's like... Someone's like... Setting up some lights and carrying a ladder and I don't know... And it feels like he's a... He's got something to do with that.

[Alex & Zane Lowe's interview for Apple music]

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Omg...... Like Mother, Like Daughter is doomed Yuri (half yuri? One sided yuri?). TT0TT Sol doesn't feel the same way I'm pretty sure (sadly), but Som is DEF down bad. TT0TT And Som's not exactly the most mentally stable jakfjdksalfj (I think she has a bit of a "Sol's my pet" vibe going on as well. Som means well but she is NOT healthy either jfakslfj oh this is just going to be a fucking wreck I'm ready let's GO!)

(spoilers under cut, also under cut cause length and pictures)

Like she saw the boy Sol is hanging out with and was just ">:("

*sobbing* She is SO DONE when she finds out they are dating TT0TT

*sobs* ahhhh! klasjfdk OhmyGOAD SHE is tREMBLING as Sol tells her how she got with the guy TT0TT

She is literally SULLEN that Sol and guy have been dating FOR A MONTH! she looks os SICK TT0TT

My poor girl is literally doing the Arthur fist clench with her fist TT0TT

Som! Som! Girlie! I don't think this is just a friendship for you anymore.

LKFJDASKLFJKLAJFKL WAIT

"Anyone can see at first glance that he's good for nothing. But how does she not see that?"

OHHHHH MY GOD SHE'S LIEK 'HE SMELLY. HE STANK. HE POOR. HE BROKE. HE TOO NORMAL FOR HER." GURL! GET OFF THE FLOOOOOR!

"To be honest, I wish they'd break up" NO YOU DON'T SAY???? nEVER WOULD'VE GUESS!

Oh I was just here for the matricide but I've been blessed with more angst! Let's goooooo!!!!!!!!!

[mishkakagehishka]

You gotta also celebrate the miniscule wins tbh

[8thparadox]

for day two of @khazadweek - second age i did not care about rop. i was not planning on watching rop. but then i saw that there were dwarves and i had no other choice. to me disa and durin are the main characters. everything with galadriel and sauron and shit is just b-plot.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

i am literally so scared to take this bandage off im scared i think i misremember it as worse than it is but im scared i *don't*

[tblrthreadtracker]

A quick status update:

Still not entirely sure what's going on with the tracker outage but I'm in touch with tech support at my hosting provider. My working theory is that the codebase is now old enough that they basically just stopped supporting its framework without, like, giving any sort of notification, which is a bit annoying and is necessitating me doing a bunch of code updates to get everything back up to speed. Once I've done that, I'll be able to determine whether that fixed the problem or something else is going on.

Further updates will follow here. I appreciate everyone's patience!

Trackermun

[sugaurora]

Why do I feel like people are expecting rough asshole dom daddy Seokjin in Dream Come True? But it's actually the softest, fluffiest Seokjin I've ever written?? 😳

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Went on Pinterest for the first time since the AI boom. Baffled and dazzled by a bizarrely high-quality image of Lee Van Cleef. It looks high-def digital. His skin is so smooth. The texture of his costume looks wrong. I'm staring at it trying to figure out what feels Wrong about it and where they got such a clear image and if it's edited and oh. Of course. It's AI. I close Pinterest.