#ive seen this in like 3 journals now

[plesiosaurys]

this is such a niche issue but it annoys me so much when im reading a paper on coelacanths and the author says "they're not living fossils! fossils are dead, and the coelacanth is alive!" yeah dipshit thats what the "living" part is for

[rexscanonwife]

btw I love this thing yaaay!! ^^^ 💖🫶💖🫶💖🫶

my partner and I are working our way thru clone wars again and we got to yet another arc my best friend made me skip the first time AND MY GOD THIS GUY IS SO SILLY I WANT HIM FOR MY OWN

[campirebites]

hi besties i just got back from the cardiologist and the good news is that i got answers and im not dying but the bad news is i have mitral valve prolapse and i am relieved and also still scared because it is a valve disease in my heart and it causes a bit of mitral regurgitation which is scary and i am being so brave about it

[weirdmageddon]

the shift in lore literacy in homestuck’s fandom

i was thinking about how the people who got into homestuck after it ended—whose interactions with the comic are in a static, archived state, not an ongoing thing—missed out on information that was more common knowledge in the fandom at that time. i don’t know if this is true since i’m not on tiktok, but i wouldn’t be surprised if it was. the fandom certainly isn’t the same as it was before.

ive found that many people reading homestuck now simply do not understand things in homestuck that were common knowledge back in the day, with calls for “homestuck literacy classes to become mandatory” in response to baffling takes because so many people just now seem to have glazed over the comic without absorbing important plot points, and i think i know why this may be. i ended up writing a post reflecting on my time with the comic, my perspective and how ive seen this change. i still think and write about homestuck because it still fascinates me. earlier i quote retweeted that call in my thread talking about the temporal relativity of dave and rose’s god tier ascension in the green sun, saying “my homestuck literacy is 100% so guess im doing my part as a teacher by pointing out whatever i think is really cool about it”. this post im writing now started out as a reply to this tweet i got in response.

i joined the fandom in 2013. i was 11. i had been aware of it since at least late 2011, early 2012 when my friend ryan in fifth grade told me to read it but i couldn’t get past the first few pages. i remember writing a journal on deviantart around this time (late 2011-early 2012) that was mocking people who typed like gamzee, which ironically was very karkat of me. and i remember someone on flipnote hatena i was following was making flipnotes with the alpha kids.

i dont know what caused me to flip the switch into reading it but 2013. i got into it somewhere between april (i think closer to april—i remember it being quite a span of time between the last update before HOMOSUCK dropped.) this was the most recent page the comic, meaning there was no > [S] ACT 6 ACT 6 at the bottom.

i got into it during a pause in updates, which looking into it, was the year 4 megapause. i wasn’t sure of the month until seeing the news post detailing the reason for the hiatus and the status report of the comic’s development at that time. pretty cool i could narrow it down by referencing the dates of those updates and the news post to correspond with the pause!

according to readmspa, the year 4 megapause was a 59 day hiatus from Apr 14, 2013 ==> (EOA6A5) running to 12 Jun 2013, [S] ACT 6 ACT 6. then for a few months there were the first updates that i was apart of the fandom for.

and what an exciting time during the story get into the webcomic! when the updates resumed in june, part 4 of homestuck had begun. here was a glimpse of the updates in that span of time before the next hiatus began in october.

that hiatus was none other than the gigapause, the longest hiatus in the comic, which started october 2013 and lasted for a YEAR, and i already posted about what happened on the date of return.

but here were the main events happening in the story at the time i first actually got interested in it. i wasn’t aware of the full context of them then like i am now, but i was looking at the most recent updates anyway with interest:

the alpha kids just emerged as god tiers from their slabs in derse and prospit, blown up by the condesce and caliborn / lil cal-possessed b2 jack noir.

the journey to the new session started 24 hours after jack called an early reckoning in descend—for context that was about when dave entered around midnight central time and before jade even entered. it’s pretty easy to forget that side 1 of homestuck basically happens within the span of a single day—and at this point in the story, the 3 year journey (which was also 3 real life years) had just ended. john and jade emerged from the other side of the yellow yard through the fenestrated plane on LOMAX. john’s real body was asleep upon arrival in the new session, while his dreaming projection out in the dream bubbles came across vriska’s ghost ship to learn lord english lore with vriska and aranea, and go on the treasure hunt where they found the ultimate weapon at the X mark out in in the furthest ring. in the dream john stuck his hand in the juju, started warping all over canon which removed his real body from the ship on LOMAX. he zapped around for a while but eventually zapped back to LOMAX, now awake, completely out of the loop of what everyone else is up to, and bored as fuck. what was everyone else getting up to while john was asleep?

jade was now once again within the domain of the green sun. im pretty sure her space god doggy essence comes with the power to sense what was anywhere within the domain of the session since her face looks like she arrived at that spot with intent (and she literally has jack noir’s exact powers from bec’s prototyping. also this panel). she immediately dispatched b2 jack to the edge of the incinisphere, defending the newly god-tiered jane and jake. i think even if they weren’t in any danger, she would have warped to them instantly anyway because she COULD now, and i can imagine she wouldve been sooooo eager to meet everyone. even davesprite comments about her rapid departure.

the pre-scratch refugees arrived during the only time serious shit ever went down in the nobles’ months-long inert void session. the condesce used her freak psychic bronze-cerulean powers to commune with jade’s bestial side and mind controlled her, which is super dangerous as someone with the powers of a first guardian. she then used jade’s powers to corrupt jane with the tiaratop. no funtime meetup allowed!

the trolls’ meteor with rose, dave, and the remaining trolls was pulling up into the new session with no way to slow it down. grimbark jade warped there once it was in the incinisphere and took active control. she warped everyone off the trolls’ meteor and sent them to LOMAX.

as john was losing his mind on LOMAX waiting for everyone, the meteor crew warped in. after 3 years he finally reunited with rose and dave, and at least saw the trolls in person. close curtains, end of A6A5. this was the newest [S] flash page at the time, one of my first impressions of this comic, and still one of my favorite flashes. knowing the context of the flash in the story only enhances the retrospective joy i have at getting into the comic at the time i did because it’s such an anticipated moment in the story for everyone, while for someone with no context of the story it was still enjoyable.

so that’s what was going on plotwise when i joined the fandom.

from this time, through those few months of updates and through the gigapause, i was familarizing myself with the characters in the story and overseeing the state of fanbase, getting myself acquainted with the story and wrapping my head around everything.

at that time i found that a new-ish group called colab HQ who were producing a let’s read homestuck series on youtube. hearing the voices and the pacing of it like that really, really eased me into it (maybe it was my adhd that gave me trouble actually starting it?). i caught up to a certain point using lets read homestuck and from that point was able to continue with the comic on my own, and by the time the gigapause came to a close i was fully caught up. i remember the rebranding of colab hq into voxus about a year and a half after i discovered them.

but.. back to the main point of my post. even these posts from hussie’s tumblr exist in archived states. how many new fans know about hussie’s old tumblr? i don’t know, unless theyre a new fan that must scour the internet for more deep more dives on homestuck and its fandom as a whole. but since hussie deleted his tumblr (it exists archived now on homestuck.net which, alongside from the unofficial homestuck collection, has nearly singlehandedly kept the most important relics of the fandom and lore archived), that page is not an active part of the fandom now, because it’s gone. it’s a pile of bones. it’s not living and breathing. it’s in an archived state. the whole thing is already there. homestuck and its fandom history is something you now binge instead of slowly consume and meld with as it comes out. it’s now this rapid information intake that you might forget about if you read it now instead of engaged alongside it. you’re not surrounded by people actively talking and theorizing about developments anymore. the ability to have those sorts of conversations during the ongoing development of the story reinforced concepts, ideas, and lore over and over as we tried to make sense of it.

being in a fandom when the author is still delivering the story is like nothing else. it allows you grow alongside the characters and engage meaningfully with the media and people in the fandom space around you. it feels like you’re participating IN the media itself, especially if you’re interfacing with the creator. it’s in always having something to theorize or talk about and speculate. and people become very aware of these sorts of forgotten story facts because they were applying the logic of the newest official post from hussie into making their sburb ocs or something and share resources and discussion posts about “what just happened in this update?? recap????” it was this cultural osmosis thing. i think this is why homestuck literacy is now at an all time low, at least from what i can see on twitter.

reading homestuck then vs now is like the difference between serialized shows with spaces between episodes to discuss stuff and time to reflect and learn and become attached to the story, narrative, worldbuilding and its characters, vs the netflix model where it’s all dropped all at once and people forget about it after binging.

at this point in time im getting the sense that “homestuck elders” now are no longer just people who were there since 2009-2010, but now also people who were there while it was still updating, probably stretching into 2014-2015. there are many sources of lore that were common knowledge in the fandom at the time that, since becoming susceptible to the deletion of content and link rot, and with the thanosing of mspaforums, are no longer accessible at the source. and a lot of people moved on after it ended, especially following the epilogues, the kate drama, and the whatpumpkin-sarah z drama, leaving a void of information behind if not for archivists and people such as me who continue to keep old facts relevant in discussions. my friend has called me a fandom scholar before and seeing this post i think i get what they mean.

EDIT: there is a series of video essays ive watched multiple times (because theyre that good) and they are exactly what modern fans need to see more of. they really help contextualize the comic and the themes present in it help you appreciate the basic fabric of homestuck a hell of a lot more. i highly recommend them and encourage any fan of homestuck to watch them, or someone considering getting into homestuck to watch the first one.

i think this is arguably as close to the “mandatory literacy class for homestuck” that person was talking about as you can get, especially the first video.

additionally, there is also the website https://rafe.name/homestuck which is essentially a sparknotes for homestuck and can help you follow developments in the comic itself.

[liquidsneaker]

The normalization of sexualization in flicker :3

i know i made an entire poll about this more than a week ago but i genuinely didnt know where to start- anyway now ive cleared my thoughts so #1. What's with the flirting?? These days, its increasingly common to go into a round of flicker (specifically anonymous in my case but ive heard that it happens even in custom) and one of the players drops a note thats extremely sexual and frankly vile. If you pick a male character or get a masculine presenting character the chances of this note being targetted at you increases tenfold. I have had numerous friends who primarily pick male get harassed constantly by other characters, and theyve told me how terrible it made them feel. These messages also find their way into journals, with many having something to the extent of "Thiago's pretty cute.. flushed emoji" or whatever. Of course, this example is much more tame compared to the traumatizing messages I have seen but I really dont want to type all of that godawful stuff out. Even I have experienced some of this, and i usually pick female/nb. The problem is, when one of these notes drop, or when someone writes a dirty fanfic about actual current players in the game, all we get is an "AYO??" or even if we're lucky that person gets silently voted out whenever possible. We need to address these issues before they get out of hand. Flicker is not the place to send these notes. These people aren't consenting to these messages. This is a clear violation of the consent of so many unsuspecting flicker players and its disgusting that it is so normalized that you can see a screenshot of this and think about a ship or find it funny. This is a problem. #2. Literal dating while the game is IN PROCESS This more falls in the line of teaming, but nonetheless it still supports the normalization of sexual content and harassment in flicker. Like it is common to see a dropped note, it is also common (though to a lesser extent) to see people calling each other something along the lines of "Pookie". This may be harmless at first glance, but not only does it distract two or more people from the entire game that is attempting to be played but it serves as an example for the impressionable audience of flicker. TL;DR - Stop making sexual jokes about the characters as there are real fucking people behind those avatars Please add anything you think is important to this conversation as i really think its important to discuss this :3

[auteurdefeu]

Ba2mia Spoilers

I’m so mad that I’m doing math during my summer break for something so fucking heartbreaking but here we are.

Ever since Murph established that Beverly’s Oath of the Ancients “Undying Sentinel” thing, where he would no longer suffer the effects of old age, meant that Bev was theoretically immortal, I’ve had this terribly depressing thought.

We’ve been reminded on several occasions, since Moonshine’s talk with Jolene in c1 and Hardwon returning to the material plane in c3, that both Bev and Moonshine were going to outlive him. Moonshine’s first time bringing it up, about not wanting to know a world without Hardwon Surefoot, sprouted a lot of Hardshine angst fanworks… but one thing I haven’t seen people mention is, what about Erlin? Halflings generally only live to 150-ish. We can hope that Erlin joined them in going to the Astral Plane, but when was that?

Hardwon was 26 in c1, reportedly 226 now but having physically aged to about 80-90 since the passage of time is wonky in the Astral Plane and they don’t really age there. For the sake of this, I’ll be saying he’s closer to 80. We know he’s spent about 3 years back on the mortal plane. This leaves about 51 years unaccounted for, where they were all still likely on the Material plane. So that makes Erlin, what? 67? Almost half way through his life?

Erlin and Beverly have always been outgoing, and they wanted to have their own adventures, that’s what they set off to do at the end of c1 to fill the journal together. It seems unlikely they’d stay within the astral plane forever. It seems almost cruel to. Erlin’s bound to grow old, and Beverly will have to watch another person he loves die and be unable to do anything.

I suppose the “easy” answer to that is that it was young love that wasn’t meant to last. A love that survived the apocalypse, sure, but love seems so much easier in comparison to the end of the world. Ive seen the fallouts y’all write on ao3, it’s heartbreaking- but is that better than the alternative? Worse than trying? Is there a good outcome???

Anyway it’s 5am and I haven’t slept, so yes I am crying about “Beverlin Foreverlin” not being forever. Sue me.

[thesherrinfordfacility]

Because of my heart break over Good Omens season 2, I have been trying to predict what might happen in season 3. Here's what I've got: I think Aziraphale takes on the forces of Heaven. I think Aziraphale is going to realize, the hard way, how toxic Heaven is and is going to fight Heaven to save humanity. And, I think he will start this fight alone.

Aziraphale has constantly shown that he values humanity above Heaven, but he has never really been given the chance to understand that Heaven doesn't have the same values. I mean he's seen it, but he has been told for centuries that Heaven is good - when you're told something so often it makes it hard to unlearn. He will not be able to stand by as Heaven does something to hurt humanity. He also will not be willing to see humanity last only 6000 years. I think there was a bit of foreshadowing that he will fight for Crowley's nebula to get a chance to really grow. I think having him start this battle on his own allows him to get his personal growth, and show Crowley that he is ready to fight for the things he loves (including Crowley). From there everyone will come together. I would also bet that we will get to see a lot more from God in the next season.

Any ways here's to feeding my delusions of everything being fine and Aziraphale and Crowley living happily in love forever.

hi lovely, i know your ask came in a while ago but I've needed to really take a minute to think about it properly!!!✨ I feel like ive been burned by fire as far as prediction goes (ie i got NUFFINK right haha), and think i ought to just stick to analysis lmao💀

however, possible thoughts on s3:

- second coming = greasy johnson, first up

- in terms of aziraphale, i think he's going to get a taste of actually how difficult it truly is to run heaven. i don't think we're suddenly gonna have him self righteous and be pitting himself against all of heaven's bureaucracy, because i think we need to see actually how difficult it is (as much as id hate to feel ANY empathy with any of the archangels). there's going to be red tape, stupid rules that must be followed for the greater good, moral dilemmas that as a lower angel he didnt appreciate had to be made... being a boss is hard. it's not fun, you have to please a lot of people, and make everything fair whilst essentially keeping a business afloat. i think, as it stands, it's pretty obvious that aziraphale is Not Suited for it, but is too much of a good person to not take his opportunity to make things Better

- the motives behind the metatron are going to be interesting to uncover. something tells me sTILL that aziraphale and crowley, together as a unit, are part of the ineffable plan, and this was a plan to separate them in order to prevent certain things coming to fruition (eg metatron references the second coming, but what if he's trying to prevent it???)

- the BoL has to come in again somewhere (the phrase chekovs gun now gives me a Twitch), but again i think that heaven has misunderstood what it actually is. i wonder, as the link says, if it's actually the deciding journal, or at least has a chapter in it, that chooses which angels fall and which don't... which, if aziraphale was meant to fall originally (and crowley took his place - TOTAL headcanon at this point), that could explain a lot about some motives crowley to keep aziraphale from returning to heaven's clutches, a last big secret that could make or break them... anyway i disgress

- idk about god. what really strikes me is the golden glow from heaven in s2e2, vs the sterile white we see now. plus, metatron essentially being de-facto sovereign over heaven? i think god fucked off a long while ago... i suspect she will come back, but maybe not as prominently as we'd like

- idk about crowley's s3 arc, im still thinking about that, he's probably gravitated towards tadfield or the south downs or st... but we're less than 12 hours post s2 release so all a little premature to be thinking about really!!!✨

[aroace-poly-show]

This is the fic i was reading: defining love by tinkonka. have i finished it? no. apologies if it takes a weird turn. however, i present two pieces of YEHFDKSKJKLFJSDLKFS: 1. implied arospec rui and 2. the most BASED emurui takes ive seen in my whole entire life.

and for completionist's sake, here's a few more fics i have bookmarked, in no particular order!!

poor communication kills by HakaiEve: THE og aroace wxs fic. also recommend their other wxs works too because they get them. (also i think they have a tumblr with some aroace wxs art, if you haven't seen it yet!)

ikanaide by Gummysaur: maybe im just a sucker for sick fics and poetic language but. they all just care about their idiot troupe leader so much.... there's another one by them with the reverse plot of tsukasa taking care of emuruinene too that i remember relating to quite a bit!

the study of the sky, the sun, the star, and the moon by JadeMeraki: MY FAVORITE SERIES OF ALL TIME THE LANGUAGE THE HEADCANONS THE ABSOLUTELY UNFILTERED RAW TAKES i love this characterization and have accepted every word into my personal canon. i love this.

and by the same author, with hope: rui writing letters to his future self. im genuinely not ok reading this fic. the crossed out lines. the language. the despair and the hope that defines rui's core. this fic inspired me to write my own journal.

polysho nails by nonchalantatall: to be perfectly honest i do not remember this fic but 1. miracle paint reference 2. acey's favorite band reference (ajr) and 3. i must have saved it for a reason so now you will figure that out

How to Be Free by SkylerHyrule: VBS FANTASY AU (featuring the one and only tenma tsukasa and co). looooooove the way this is written and also this author understands vbs so well. really fun akian interactions too, a rarity in the field. If you like vbs i would also recommend their Misadventures of VBS's Clothes!

Infinity Spectrum by kjcoded: mizuki focused fic! the way this author describes gender stares directly into your soul and gives feelings you didn't even know you had a voice. i think about some of the lines in this daily.

Disparate Threads by MiyoatThePineapple: a little tsukasa-focused poem on creation and loving your friends a whole great deal :) (i am a sucker for poetic language)

if you're ever tired of being known for who you know (you know, you'll always know me) by dizzi_dizzy: like it says on the tin, tsukasa through ichika's eyes. it has been a while since i read it but again. bookmarked it for a reason. i think it had some great language on the passage of time?

july 27th, 2015 by anonymous: i left a comment here about dragonfly symbolism and characterization. i think that's all i need to say about it actually. yeah. loved it.

that was... a lot more than i thought i had. lol. anyways. book club!

ourgh saving all of these to my marked later thank you so much acey i will have so much to read. if i remember some bookmarked fics in particular that i really liked i will recommend them to you as well. book club!!!!!!! :3

[shiftingtomydrs]

Hey this isn’t really an ask but I’ve recently seen ur posts about how your finding shifting difficult in like a mindset sense? I used to be like that too (I haven’t shifted yet but I feel 100% confident every time I try now) so here’s what helped me:

1. Deciding that I was going to shift no matter what. I learnt about shifting in 2020. I was not going to let my efforts go to waste and I refuse to give up.

2. Persisting is key. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not just constantly tell yourself you are going to shift/have already shifted. Eventually you’ll start believing it.

3. I started a shifting journal. I write down my dreams, attempts, what I liked or didn’t like about a certain method, what I want to try etc etc

4. Try to think from the end. Sometimes imagine that you already shifted how will you feel?

If you have the time throughout the day try to visualise your dr room or wherever you’re waking up and try to convince yourself you’re actually there.

I hope this helps and I want you to know you can do this. You will leave this reality and be somewhere much happier and better. Don’t give up. Keep going because when you finally shift you’ll forget all the pain you went through to get there:)

Best of luck <3

thank you <33

today has been kinda hard lol just bcs ive been feeling pretty dissociated from reality lately like everyone is doing something and moving on and im stuck for some reason (also like im running out of time) so this really made my day :)

[stardustinmyhands]

Trigger warning

Miscarriage talk

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5/21/24

I’ve been productive today. I swept, mopped (well used the swiffer, I can’t find our mop bucket). Emptied the dishwasher and filled it back up. Now all I have to do is wash the dishes that don’t fit in the washer. I took a 2nd dose of adderall (20 mg) and so wanted to fall asleep, but I stayed up and it kicked in and I got stuff done.

Tomorrow is my IVIG infusion at the new location. My autism and adhd are like what’s it gonna be like, will I like the nurses, will it be comfortable? I have to be there at 9 am. Which at my old facility they let me come at 11 am. They said it’s cause my infusion is gonna be 3 hrs long. I’ve been getting infusions since 2018 and now I have Tony my port, no more iv’s for me.

I journal almost everyday, in my journal I think of my son Ezra Malachi. I lost him on 11/11/1999 as I was walking home from a job interview. I left a trail of blood and bleed for 3 weeks afterwards. It was the only time I have been pregnant. He was not planned, I was 18 on birth control. But was on antibiotics for an ear infection. How I found out I was pregnant is I had a dream a gave birth to a red haired son. Me and his father picked the name before I was even pregnant. I loved the name Ezra since 7th grade, I read it in a book. The father picked the middle name Malachi. I wasn’t to keen on that name, but it flowed with Ezra so I agreed.

I almost married Ezra’s father. One night we took a road trip and he said let’s go to Vegas and married. I said no, I can’t get married without my mom. Also I wanted my mom to make my dress. I’m glad I didn’t. I’ve seen so many of my friends go through horrible divorces that took almost 2 years. Now one who is a single mom of 3, didn’t get child support last month. Now that I’m older I’m ok with never getting married. I’m also polyamorous, I have a girlfriend and a boyfriend right now. A marriage is a piece of paper it’s more important what you say and how you act instead of saying vows and signing a piece of paper. I don’t believe in till death do us part, would say as long as the love shall last. I would do a hand fasting with that “vow” in there, but no death do us part. 

I woke up to the black screen of death today on my IPhone it’s working fine now, so I don’t know what happened.

Yesterday I was in so discomfort almost pain. Ok pain. Today I’m ok and haven’t even taken tramadol. Ok body, whatever.

I washed my face and put lotion with 30 spf on. My skin doctor told me to use 50 spf or higher, but my window is covered and I didn’t go outside tomorrow. Tomorrow I will use the 50 spf cause I’m leaving the house. She gave me some samples, I think I had an allergic reaction to the first one I tried. Red itchy face, and it was hot to the touch. So I tried the Neutrogena brand and it was fine I put it in my Amazon cart.

I’m autistic and adhd, I saw TikTok yesterday that neurotypical people don’t think stuff thru they just get up and do it. I sent it to my gf and she said she doesn’t think stuff thru, she just does. I’m like I have to think EVERYTHING thru. And she said that explains a lot about you. Yesterday I was already planning what I’m gonna wear Thursday for infusion, what time I will leave, what kind of coffee and breakfast I will get.

[gregthedice]

Slenderverse review (stolen from @1fenfen1 )

Everymanhybrid The series is really good, the ending is SHOCKING (not clickbait) The crew is cool, especially Evan Oh yeah and Evan and Correnthal are badass as fuck Canyouseethewords was ok I guess TribeTwelve The acting sucks so much ass its insane but it leads to some funnies like Milo coughing for example Milo's journal was so terrible (I would rather not read about Milo just going to school for like 3 years or something) and I guess sebastians journal would most likely be the same thing only mildly more interesting The effects are one of the best Ive seen The boardwalk videos are the worst content from the slenderverse ever DarkHarvest00 I like the series excited for the ending slenderman looks cool again tho stop making blogs to just connect characters (its boring) I love the culty shit and the videos are fun MLAndersen0 I like that the name is an anagram for slenderman The final videos confuse me The series feels very different from other slenderverse series The videos are good but they can be boring at times WhisperedFaith Pretty good series Basically DarkHarvest00 but replace slenderman with the rake KeratinGarden The series is the most unique in the slenderverse The black dog is a good addition and the first videos are terrible I like Ajack (I dont remember how thats spelled) I would love to see the series continue TJAProjects I like the shadow version of the toddler and the lady with the blind fold The ending isnt really good the series is kinda boring tho 5Zer02 The series is cool I guess I like the ending Slenderman doing that funny thing with his tentacles and eating New York or something is cool I guess Stan Frederick This might be my favorite series ever I like Connor and love that the seedeater is in the series BTS is cool ICANSEETHEGIANT series confusion Slenderman can look kinda silly some times but most of his appearances are good the series is very very unique MyDarkJournal Series confusion again I do not understand anything that is happening so please someone explain whats happening through a youtube video or something CompileTruth I wish it didn't stop at a cliffhanger seriously did it have to stop as soon as a new entity was introduced I like almost everything about it except for the fact that it can be a little cheesy at times Lockdown in the Dark Im very dedicated to the series and I really enjoy it slenderman looks cool ROSES ARE BLUE I made that so...... Dont shoot the Messenger genuinly the best blog The side blog by Poe is really cool and I really like that there are like 2 recordings of the characters voices The Tutorial Havent really read much of it but so far it good I guess Neverending Marathon The ending is BRUTAL (again not clickbait) Theres really not much story in my opinion Now I Shall Know You Again Hyde/Jekyll is cool I like it Dark Days Im sad that it got cancelled because it had a really good concept A Wreck In the Dark the series seems cool but I have only watched 1 video ACloverInChicago I dont really like the series I like MousE I guess 1Daily0Nightly1 series is good so far JSCamera one of the best modern slenderseries I would love to see a reboot with the Harvester as the main character

[takeariskao3]

ooo ooo ooo idk if you’ve answered these before but: 7, 9 (I am forever taking notes), 15

okay okay okay

7. how does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you?

it's pretty simple, a comment pops into my inbox and i get a big ole grin on my face. i know every fic writer says it, but comments instantly translate into motivation. the more feedback/engagement i get, the more i want to write. because its like we are all little kids, and it is so much fun to mess around and play pretend with our friends.

9. what's your writing process like?

oh god i feel like it changes daily. ideally, i spend a few weeks/months (depending on the complexity of the story) outlining and brainstorming. i have a journal for each story that lives in my head and i'm always taking notes or jotting down little pieces of dialogue and things. i try to have a rough outline of every chapter before i start writing. then there is draft 1. which is me trying to write as much action and dialogue into the chapter as i can. this is basically blocking out the scenes and the action. then comes draft 2 where i go back in and try to add internal dialogue and feelings and the overall tone. then draft 3, editing and pacing. btw this is where i am stuck right now with chap 11 for me the longest stage is usually stage 3 because i labor over each section/scene and try to make it perfect when i don't need to. then i post to ao3. then i do final edits about ten minutes after posting LOL i can't resist a final read through after its out in the world and i swear i always find at least six typos or changes in that final after post edit.

p.s. i always try to get at least one good night sleep between drafts. meaning once i finish draft 2, i put it away and sleep on it before opening it up again the next day for edits. same with posting, i always sleep on it one night after its "finished" so i can go back in and read it with fresh eyes the next day.

15. How do you think your writing has improved over time?

drastically!!!! i've been writing fic for ten years and you can't write for that long and not get better. my one improvement that ive seen most recently is that i trust my readers more. and i think this is also what i've gotten the most positive feedback on too. as a writer, you don't actually have to tell your readers everything, more often than not, the less you tell them, the more they get from the story. if your readers connect the dots on their own as opposed to you connecting it for them, they get to add their own personal experiences and imaginations to the story therefore it becomes more meaningful to them. this is a really long winded way of saying i've gotten a lot better about showing not telling. a great example of this is in dialogue tags. not every piece of dialogue needs a tag. but you can still tell the reader what your characters are doing? if that makes sense? i've gotten so much better about using body language and facial expressions to expand on emotions, instead of adjectives and adverbs (though i still use too many adjectives)

fic writer asks!

[steelycunt]

hi ridi!! the 3 things i want to know are: how is the journal/notebook thing going?? my journal has been so neglected for months now but hoping yours has gone better and maybe been fun too? second is what you’re looking forward to most this summer! and then third, i have to ask…favourite season of love island (and why is it season 3 (and if NOT season 3, which i’m assuming could only be because you haven’t seen it, then why is it season 5?))

HI BAB! hi hello how are you!! thank you for these!!

journalling is going WELL thank you!! i dont use it super regularly but i think it is nice i feel like there isnt any pressure and ive been. writing + doodling in it when i want to which has been fun i havent done. ANYTHING arty like that is soooo long...

this summer!! in general i am looking forward 2. SUN and WARMTH. and sitting outside in it and maybe. goingto brighton because a day in brighton is compulsory in the summer...also just looking forward to hanging out with my friends!! we have lots of things we want to do both b4 uni ends + after once we get some nice weather. :-))

as for love island...gosh. coming in controversial perhaps to say best seasons for me were season two (last season b4 it got big + they started regulating things and making it tamer...also last season before i think. people knew they could make a career out of being on it and the majority of contestants just became influencer-types looking for a pretty little thing deal)...and runners up are. five as you say and also perhaps controversially--season eight...even though i hated so many of them...

[songtwo]

hiii babe, i was wondering how did u get into music journalism? it’s a dream of mine but i don’t really know how to get started <3

hiii basically theres this Instagram page i followed called dark impala that's like a digital blog/media and one day they said they were looking for writers designers photographers etc so i applied and like a month later they contacted me and that was basically it! i started writing album reviews or just articles about whatever i wanted and it's been growing so now we collaborate w ocesa the biggest concert promoter here so now we get to attend concerts for free etc .

i would say having social media especially Instagram is the only way these days to get into it especially if u didnt study something related (I'm in college for international relations lol) so yeah all the blogs and magazines are there and ive seen a lot of them sometimes be like we r looking for interns etc and thats also a great way to get in i think

and so that's it really i dont really know anyone else who works in the industry besides my team and they got in same as me so yeah... my advice is to make an Instagram account and just write even if ur not w anyone else yet like make a substack submit to digital magazines and just look out for every opportunity!!!!

[threeleggedart]

from discord: 2, 3, 9, 19, 22

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

depends on if the characters asymmetrical but generally dont have problems with either + i flip my canvas to check for inconsistencies. forward is weird because depending on character design its either super easy or a nightmare (ie any characters who were never meant to be viewed facing forward)

(next one was a text doozy so making this a read more!)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

this ones gonna be weird bc i dont think i can be sure on a lot of these lmao

bio/zoology + monster stuff definitely came from childhood interest, i likea tha critters :) i wanna say my interest in bots/mechs + funky inanimate object stuff too? i did play metal slug a lot as a kid and a bunch of childhood favs were mechanical characters. also ive found fanart of putt putt, captain underpants villains, and the brave little toaster in my childhood journals lmao

oc -wise, selena herself (and vicks) also are funny in their own ways. i can say for sure they were always distinct ocs in my mind but i never actually Materialized them till very very recently. selena was based on a childhood pokemon trainer oc (but noot entirely self insert? its hard to describe) and vicks is kind of. a catharsis character for me. i have been thinking about making an entirely split oc from vicks recently bc the character i view in scenarios i want to visualize has been vicks, but i dont really wanna anymore bc she deserves to be her own deal now

...i also would argue probably the reason why mws huge cast + me just being able to. establish how they interact with each other so quickly also came from childhood ocs i never put down on paper or knew how to articulate as characters. its something im very weird about bc i straight up had a "cast" of fundamental ocs (proto-selena was one of them actually) from childhood to high school that were so personal to me i never wrote or visualized any of them bc Crinj they were just for lil ol me lmao. they liked to hang out with each other :)

finding connections between my fixation on my current characters and stuff i thought about as a kid is a thing i think about a normal amount teehee

9. What are your file name conventions

stupid and goofy but still understandable to infer what it is for personal stuff, labeled straight for work stuff. "sketchbook" files have scratchpad in the name, pieces that include characters that arent my own usually include the persons username, and annual based stuff have the year

i like to be sillay but also i am a freak about keeping my files organized lmao

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

sid industrial machinery is really fun for me, buildings tend to be too basic and geometric for me to enjoy drawing... i wanna do more extremely stylized furniture and prop stuff (i really like those drawings that are character inventory layouts), i actually do wanna make fake object assets for my settings eventually bc i love that kind of stuff. bottles and containers are aesthetically pleasing but havent figured out rendering the sweet spot ive seen other drawings hit, at least for me

environments are something i wanna do bc those pics of super expansive landscapes with either huge structures or so open you can see the horizon stretch for miles are really cool, but still in the general learning process so itll be a while before i can even try reaching for that effect

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

:)

i sometimes do a little wrist wriggle or crack it a bit, or ill wring my arm/shoulder, but unless my arms got a weird feeling i dont really do too much...

i squeeze both my biceps with my hands too sometime bc thats actually where i normally experience soreness from drawing

[freeuselandonorris]

https://www.tumblr.com/freeuselandonorris/748039869693050880/httpswwwtumblrcomfreeuselandonorris748005292

omg ok. my brain is a vault of stardew info ive been playing since release basically.. u get copper ore from the mines, found frequently on floors 1-40. once you find your first ore, the blacksmith will bring you blueprints to make a furnace to smelt it into bars so you can use them for crafting, building, upgrading tools etc. the mines are located near robin’s house and linus’s tent, if you just follow the path to the left of their homes!

haley sucks at first (tbh half do imo) but if u gift her things she likes and keep talking to her, she warms up pretty fast! all of them have liked, disliked, loved, hated, and neutral gifts and will give shitty reactions to disliked and hated gifts ):

i played the fuck out of cyberpunk !! i loved the story behind it, smth ab having a flashdrive stuck into my brain and then some hologram dude talking to me just does it for me. i love johnny sm. what boss are u coming up on?

omg anon ur an ANGEL. honestly my one criticism of stardew valley is that it just kinda…dumps you in it and doesn’t really give you any kind of tutorial lmao?? i’ve figured out a fair amount of stuff through trial and error and followed the journal quests but holy shit it would have taken me forever to figure out that u have to go to the mines to do mining. which like. now it’s written down OBVIOUSLY that’s where you go to do mining but sadly my brain doesn’t work like that lmao.

side note: i went and tried fishing after ur earlier post and oh my GOD it’s annoying. 0/10. took me about four goes just to time the fuckin hit right to get the mini game loaded. horrendous.

CYBERPUNK MY BELOVED!! i have had such an insane trajectory w this game lmao. i was SO excited when it first got trailed because it’s so obviously inspired by neuromancer (i mean frankly the plot is very nearly ripped off neuromancer entirely at times) and blade runner and cyberpunk as a genre is a longstanding intense obsession of mine. and then i got the 1.0 PS4 release when they were practically giving it away for free bc it was such a mess and i barely got halfway through Act 1 bc it was buggy as hell.

THEN like…years? later i got made redundant from work (if you’re non-UK, i think the USeng equivalent is laid off?), impulse bought a PS5 (thanks, adhd impulse spending!) and downloaded 2.0 and promptly got fucking obsessed.

cut for mild spoilers

like. i have never been emotionally invested in a game like this. i’ve never wanted to live inside a game like this! night city feels so so real, and i fuckin love playing as V (i’m playing boy V which is a v good gender experience). there’s some elements of the gameplay i find frustrating and the levels/perks system drives me slightly insane but the storyline, voice acting and the whole design of night city is mind blowing to me.

i have also never ever wanted to fuck a fictional character as much as i do johnny silverhand lmao. GOD. my screenshots folder is full of pictures of him with that cyborg arm on show 🥵 i’m kinda desperate to finish it so i can check out the fic bc i need johnny/V porn but i don’t wanna spoiler any of the endings for myself lmao.

ANYWAY so the boss fight i have coming up is at the end of play it safe, after the parade…i’m just about to start taking out the 3 snipers but i’ve seen on reddit etc that the boss fight at the end of this is hideous, esp if you’re not really highly levelled on body attributes which like…i think i’m on about 11 for body so not super low but i’ve been focused on tech ability (after tbf taking a pretty scattergun approach at first and regretting it). if the boss fight at the end of i walk the line is anything to go by i’m fucked — i gave up on sasquatch in the end and just ran into the cinema lmao, i literally tried about 20 times to get her 😭 my hand eye coordination is NOT good enough for this!!

i have phantom liberty waiting for me after i’m done w the main pack i can’t waittttt