#it is an ongoing process

[seaglassdinosaur]

Haymitch struggling to break the unspoken rules of the Hunger Games. Seeing opportunities to fight back but choosing not to, because it’s hard to cross that line.

He puts the knife back in the basket. He lets the Gamemakers charge for the access pipe. And he’s ashamed of it, because it isn’t fear of the consequences that stops him, but something internal inclined toward bowing down.

Because it takes conscious thought to make something ‘okay’ to do. To logic through why a rule is arbitrary, or to be fine with consequences—being a nuisance or a criminal, or to separate the rule from the moral implications. It requires active deconstruction, or very firm lines you refuse to cross, both of which require a lot of time and thought to do and form.

Without the time and practice, it’s difficult to do—difficult to do regardless—in the quick, immediate moment. And Haymitch feels ashamed, that despite his resentment for the Capital, his intentions of messing them up, he still hasn’t fully deconstructed.

[kirrryash]

Oh yeah, free evening, let's do something simple, let's do a redraw

Many hours later...

[saltycryptid]

bro is NOT listening to Gale's dissertation on the mechanics of the underdark tunnel system

[wilderbas]

70’s springtime snuf redraw cos the flowers be blooming and the sun be sunning up here & I’m feeling sprightly

2022 ver:

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

documenting my journey to really actually making podfic! EDIT 12-FEB: 7 days One Month

EDIT: 10-MAR!!! TWO MONTHS Of Bedtime Stories & counting!!!

+++ i am contemplating making a podfic episode narrating thru my process from start thru posting to ao3. would there be an audience for this???+++

this post is gonna be an ongoing series of links (in the replies) for blog posts that inspired me to DO THE THING! it's like tracking what bits of tumblr i was interacting with almost in real time.

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EDIT: 2025.03.16--want to request a podfic ??? https://forms.gle/gAGQ4zap68qZ1kj3A

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EDIT: 2025.03.10--i've also been making updates of podfic resources and personal stories in the replies!

and! did you know about the tumblr podfic community??? https://www.tumblr.com/communities/podfic

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to everyone i reblogged and/or who replied to me: i just wanted to tell you that your post was part of the inspiration & motivation that led me to making & posting my very first podfics!!! tysvm!!!

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follow my podfic tag xk_s_reads !!!

what's possibly coming up next for recording??? 🔮 podfic teaser

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my self-aimed ao3 work notes / instruction guide so i remember how i do the podfic thing (CONSTANTLY UNDER REVISION lol)

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BABY'S FIRST AO3 POSTED WORK !!!

[podfic] Just One More by MaelstromOfEmotions

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baby's first podfic experiment

https://www.tumblr.com/xiaokuer-schmetterling/772445948782821376/hope-poem

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tyvm for the support & encouragement in chats

@ferntasie @maelstrom-of-emotions @travelingneuritis @keriarentikai @geck-motj

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ao3 resources

the list prev in this section compiled into the 'references' chapter of my podficcing notes to self/instruction guide: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62233522/chapters/160984369

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pinyin pronunciation resources

i took a semester of mandarin chinese in community college forever ago and this is something i found that is catchy and quirky and funny and memorable. it's part 1 of a 4 video playlist. actually really helpful if you pay attention to the shape of the mouse's mouth. the grouped consonants all have the same mouth shape with sequentially further back positioning of the tip of the tongue on the roof of your mouth fyi

this is a pinyin guide by user @pumpkinpaix and it has an accompanying transcript with tone markers and embedded audio!

https://pumpkinpaix.tumblr.com/post/619038202237452288/hello-cyan-you-have-the-cutest-voice-one-thing

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btw this is the image in my mind anytime i say I DID THE THING or similar

motivational art by @thelatestkate

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[canisalbus]

Where and how did you learn to draw bodies both feral and anthro so beautifully detailed and soft? I love all the lines you add that act as muscle and wrinkles.

This isn't going to be a very helpful answer but I think anatomy might just be one of those things I've been autistically obsessed with since I was very little. Bodies have such good shapes, they're very satisfying to draw and I want to do them justice.

I've taken a couple of life drawing classes over the years and they've certainly helped (especially when it comes to figuring out dynamic poses, perspective and line of action), but I think for me the bulk of it has been just looking at living things really intently and trying to mentally pull them apart like a ball jointed doll so that I have, like, a 3D model of them in my brain that I can rotate around and pose.

Mammals are pretty meaty and flexible, we have a lot of soft tissue, and it's always fun to try to convey that feeling of fleshiness when drawing. The different layers of the body (skin, fat, muscle and bone, mostly) all interact with each other in interesting ways and different poses accentuate different aspects of them. Managing to capture small nuances like where your skin wrinkles when you move your joints, where you accumulate fat that creates softer and rounder shapes, and where your bones are closest to the surface, can really make your drawings seem more alive and organic.

[actualjenna]

2024 SELF PORTRAIT 🥣 ENJOY MY SOUPHEADS

[tj-crochets]

Curly hair update! I think I got past the slightly awkward hair length where it was like hitting my shoulders and negating the curl a bit, and I absolutely love the way my white hairs look in the curls (not much of my hair is white or gray yet but I think it’s going to end up very dramatically salt and pepper and it delights me)

Also I couldn’t figure out how to get a photo that showed the white hairs without also showing my entire face so I just scribbled over it lol

[erinwantstowrite]

since there is stray tim in the catwoman au will his dynamic be the same as in lof with peter or tim will be even more protective since peter is even younger here

before it was stray!tim, the dynamic between he and peter was sort of like that time peter got minorly concussed, but with a lot of anger and suspicion on Peter's part, vs Tim being annoyed all the time (though they didn't hate each other). Same goes for the rest of the batfam,,,

but since this has changed, I think right now... their dynamic is hard to define. I haven't actually written anything for the Catwoman AU and now I have to reoutline what I was planning for it because @mockingjaylad became a worm in my brain and created this. Tim has been playing a bat and mouse game (ha) with the Bats since he started being taught by Selina when he was younger. He'll be around 16 in this au, while Peter is 12. Tim is confident in his persona as Stray, whereas Peter has barely figured out Spider-Man and has to be wrangled much like when Dick had first become Robin. Since Tim is still Dick's biggest fan in this au, Tim is going to be having a crazy time trying to wrangle Peter towards his father and figuring out what the hell is going on with him. All while the Bats are trying to steal custody of them both

[muninnhuginn]

Won't lie, this whole chapter is just generally really cathartic. From Shima showing his feelings towards Mitsumi enough to be picked up on (and actually understanding himself what Kanechika is getting at) to opening up about his acting career. He's never been so open about his past as he is now. Historically, he just lets it go unspoken so that only those who were there at the time have any idea. And even then, the others may know the *events* but that doesn't mean they know what Shima thought or felt at the time.

It sounds like Shima was in a bad place already when the whole drinking incident took place, captured in an anxiety cycle he had no way of breaking out of. And the drinking incident has always been spoken of as this black mark upon all involved (understandably so, especially for Ririka), but knowing that Shima was at rock bottom at the time, knowing that he now wants to speak to the person "at fault", I do wonder.

For all that the incident was a black mark, it sounds like Shima was at his breaking point by this stage. And the incident let him "get out". It didn't resolve the underlying issues and saddled both him and Ririka with some brand-new ones, but! If not this way, what was his escape? It would have been a full-on breakdown in some way or another, most likely.

So it'll be really interesting to see how Shima views it in hindsight now that he's finally in a place to process his feelings about back then

[writeforfandoms]

I am no great beauty, but what I lack in conventional attractiveness I make up for in kindness.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

thinking abt ids to put different Bugs in and going 'oh yeah this would make them absolutely miserable. send it.'

[wisteria-lodge]

so the thing about the sloppy hp worldbuilding is that it often does something interesting by accident

today's case study: the Malfoy family motto.

(it seems to have been a piece of production design set dressing, but they ran all that kind of stuff by JKR, and I see this frickin motto quoted everywhere.) anyway.

SANCTIMONIA VINCET SEMPER

This is always translated as "Purity Always Conquers." And I'm guessing that the idea is that the "pure" part is supposed to refer to y'know "pure blood." But like - "sanctimonia" just doesn't mean that. The Romans didn't have a concept of blood purity - so long as the family *name* continued, you were good. Adult adoption for political reasons was as common as marriage for political reasons. Adopting slaves was a thing... whatever.

If JKR had actually want to translate the "pure blood" concept into latin, the better choice would have been something like "eugenium vincet semper" or "the well born/good quality always conquers." Also the word makes you think of it's reflex "eugenics," which I guess is supposed to be the point.

What "sanctimonia" actually means is pure in the sense of chaste/virtuous/sacred. So okay. "Chastity always conquers," doesn't make sense as a family motto." "Virtue always conquers" ... I guess that could be meant ironically? And "The sacred always conquers," requires a little bit of thinking about, because the wizards in HP are pretty darn areligious.

So okay. I'll do "sacred" in the latin sense of "set apart, not of the ordinary world." in which case... the better translation would be something like "The Self-Contained Always Conquer" ???

which is honestly a *REALLY* interesting motto, and for the Malfoys specifically.

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

happy (belated. oooops. lol) TWO month bday to bedtime stories !!!

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PART 1--2025.03.21

also posted on ao3

podfic journal post so !!! i was gifted a pfp by a new podfic/fandom friend xxmiserysmilesxx and i made my new tumblr cover image for with it !!! (img template from my fandom bestie maelstrom-of-emotions btw !!!)

special acknowledgment and thanks go to!

@ferntasie . long distance IRL bestie very patiently waiting for me to put up a new chappie of lost creatures :) <3

@ao3addiction . who is doing spreadsheet things and gets me HYPE about autistic batman and superbat fics

@maelstrom-of-emotions . my fandom bestie!!! who encouraged me to start podficcing and is an excellent hype person always (btw she's who i'm talking to a majority of the time when recording mdzs fics lol). also maels made THESE for me and i use them in cover arts and BS related posts all the tiems (thx for the intro to canva boo) oh! and we discovered the joy of collaborative tumblr fic&podfic projects together with @sun-ashes and @undercover-stories

@bibookdemon . who keeps me motivated and entertained daily and does "food fight ficlet/podfic sprints" with me so i can keep up the recording momentum. and celebrates neurodivergent weirdness with me!!!

@severeddata . who is my favorite didi and gives me fresh superbat content and listened to me blorbo info dump about the untamed and word of honor so much that he watched it just to tell me if it was any good in his opinion lol

@thebatmansbiggestfan . who supplies me with a steady trickle of the good superbat content!!!

@tessabennet . kindly allowing me to do my first LONG LONG LONG podfic one measly chapter at a time lol. an interesting format bc i get to sing!

@gaywatch . a constant source of inspiration !!! y'all definitely need to check out her blog and youtube channel !!! -----

also still wanting to say thank you for your support in my endeavors to these lovely wonderful peeps: @geck-motj @keriarentikai @gavilansblog @mxrcusflint @sweetlittlevampire @gh0st-0f-luke @classygreydove @flamingwell @skeren @the-marathon-continues-nip @mcvices @icemankazansky @danegen @ijustwannabeajellyfish @rynnerie @westiec @ra1nbowsk1ttle @monsterbaity @scarlettohairdye @hangmanbradshaw @unexpected-readings-of-poetry @dynamiteaustenite @indiainswiftland @travelingneuritis @furbyairride @sunmontuewrites @girlwarlock @ardenrabbit @charming-and-charismatic @goneahead @inyourorangeshirt @youhideastar @beanie-baby-divorce @sapphic-giraffic @stratisphyre @labseraph @gement @deliciousblizzardshark @cowandcalf

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[redheadgleek]

It’s been an interesting experience as a fat, disabled woman having a driver who insists on taking hundreds of pictures of me in front of the different places we visit. Full body pics; no hiding in groups or trying to carefully angle the camera to minimize all of the flaws. Just me.

[canisalbus]

Is this a gorgeous and beautifully drawn webcomic or gorgeous and beautifully drawn art only?

Art only I'm afraid ´v`'

I love comics as an artform and I wish I could create one about these dogs, but making comics is hard work. It's extremely time consuming and artistically challenging and I just don't think I have what it takes to branch out into that right now.