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I felt so sorry for her that moment.
#same girl FRIED GREEN TOMATOES 1991 — dir. Jon Avnet
#yeah#just get new clothes and a new hairstyle#and maybe a skin routine#looking old or young is not that hard#I am almost hitting 30 still people take me as a primary school student#crop tops#the answer are crop trops and a slim figure#you can be anything you want#just have to put effort to your projects
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to the people who write summaries and wikis with thorough breakdowns of all the lore and media for a series that breaks it up into 20 different formats: you are doing fantastic work, may it remain intact and accessible well into the future, I owe you my life
to the people that decide splitting your series into 20 different media formats with critical lore in most/all of them is a good idea:
ARCHIVE YOUR SHIT IMMEDIATELY, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING.
#my post#the hill i will die on is “DO NOT EXODIA YOUR MEDIA IF YOU WANT IT TO SURVIVE. DO NOT ASSUME. DO NOT SPLIT THE LORE.''#Example one: FNAF. It is in an absolute cocomelon state of comprehensibility. this is why the fans are insane (/positive).#Example 2: RWBY / RoosterTeeth. Were it not for the work of fans preserving their media#we would have lost SO MUCH fucking work and effort.#Example 3: Project Moon. Comics and fan-works have been scrubbed from the internet because they put their foot up their own asses.#(which at the same time i have endless respect for. but when the lore is any amount spotty. if you use a COMIC to supplement.)#Example 4: BATIM. Putting any amount of lore in the NOVELS is asking for karma.#(FNAF is not immune to this. AT ALL.)#Example 5: *EVERY FUCKING ARG OUT THERE*. It is SO stressful trying to get into a series on a timer-#-that is ENTIRELY decided by how long its host service keeps its components functional#Example 6: Warframe. Half the lore is in YOUTUBE TRAILERS. Half is in INACCESSIBLE EVENTS.#THE STORY IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE WITHOUT THE WIKI.#all of this is exacerbated by streaming services deleting anything and everything at the drop of a hat#and certain medias (BATIM. RoosterTeeth. FNAF) just straight up DELETING THEIR SHIT. for REASONS.#YOUR LONGEVITY IS DOOMED TO A BRIEF EXISTENCE WITHOUT A BACKUP PLAN
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in honour of me starting T uhhh transmasc Scorpius thruther 🫶🏻🫶🏻
he came out quite young, like a year or so pre-hogwarts, he always knew but finally found the language to express it. Drastoria were on board immediately and helped pick out his name 🤭
(astoria has a mothery sixth sense and was expecting it, and draco would never deny his child anything <3 Scorpius was what they were gonna call him if he'd been born a boy so he went with it ✨️)
🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
#i wont lie i could see him being quite literally any gender#trans fem or trans masc or any sort of nonbinary adjacent identity#just tbh struggle to see him being completely cis 💀#youre telling me you dont think that boy doesnt even have a little cheeky he/they pronoun pin liikkeee#just saying#trans masc scorpius supremacy#i could put more effort into making this a headcanon but im unimaginative#he uses gel cause he doesnt like needles (im projecting)#im saying that like he isnt a whole wizard#there are probably potions lets be reeaall#BUT I STARTED TESTOSTERONE EHEHEHEHE#scorbus#hpcc#scorpius malfoy#albus potter#harry potter#drastoria#trans#trans scorpius malfoy
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*BLASTS YOU WITH MY "OC DOODLE DUMP" CANNON*
it's Eyhm time.
(also guess who just started growing their first real mustache hairs 👍👍👍)
some spooky friends :)
(don't worry fake's nice unless you piss him off too much.)
yeah
(crawling back into my hole now to try and motivate myself to draw the comics some more.)
#a buncha random things i've drawn the past couple days. wheeeeeeeeeeee#my art#pizza tower oc#oc art#that uh. the fake peppino one was not originally gonna be as high effort as that but oh well. take my good babies.#still riding off the high and excitement of my art trade though~ half the reason i drew this many eyhms heh#anyways cringe is illegal now and if anyone tells you otherwise i'll fight them.#put your funny cat from a completely unrelated previous project into Pizza Tower. nobody can stop you. not even god.#hell i'd mod her in if i knew how to. and. if uhh. i didn't have to draw 5000 frames of animation for her.#mcpig what the fuck.#if anyone's wondering too. sugary spire eyhm is named Mac. based off Big Mac but name pending because mcdonalds sucks ass.#he's a good boy though. all eyhms are good eyhms really. just don't be a very small and potentially delicious creature near them.#eyhm stuff
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Thinking about geto because I want to pour milk on him and throw him against the wall. Imo his beliefs are inconsistent and self serving (which makes sense because he developed said beliefs at age 16/17 while his mental health was at an all time low). Because while he seems to have the primary motive of "only sorcerers = no curses" taking into account how he treats Maki, who has no cursed energy, it shows that the "no curses" thing isnt the main focus- bc while he decided on tbe "forced evolution" thing, theoretically he should not be Opposed to ppl w heavenly restriction bc. They still fuckin. Don't contribute to curses from what I can tell. Also heavenly restriction is pretty obviously something that is punished by uh. Is it just the Zenin's who have it. Anyway they hated Maki and they Hated Toji so he clearly isn't standing for "oppressed sorcerers" bc if so Maki should be like. The kind of person he wants to help more, as someone who would be oppressed by ppl who aren't sorcerers as well as the powerful clans.
Anyway. While getting rid of curses is for sure part of his motivation, as well as helping sorcerers (see Nanako and Mimiko) id honestly argue that his main problem that lead to him spiraling was. How do I put this. Being knocked off a pedestal
Because he was one of 3 people given the ranking of "Special Grade", and he and satoru are grouped as "the strongest". And consider that satoru comes from a powerful clan and literally has some weird omniscience and invincibility shit going on so that's a whole fucking. That's gotta be a wild ego boost, especially for someone who comes from a family of ppl who aren't sorcerers. Like you spend all this time being a fuckin weirdo and then someone finds you and it turns out you're actually incredibly special and strong, given the same rank as a fucking God Child? You're gonna have some wild self perceptions after that
Anyway then you get to watch your invincible friend get stabbed, watch the girl you became friends with and feel shitty about kinda ruining the life of get shot, and get your whole shit rocked by some guy who can't even use the magic power bullshit you have. (Though he's got a whole physical thing going on because of the trade off)
Also writing all of this out actually makes me understand the Cult Leader progression more, like besides the fact they killed ur friend and you want em dead. You're probably struggling with your ego (especially since your weird God like friend got a whole power boost from the situation) so you create a fucking eugenicist cult where you can consistently prove your superiority to yourself (surrounding yourself with people who will agree with everything you say).
Anyway in a similar vein I wholely believe in "a loving father is not inherently a good father" Suguru + Nanako & Mimiko dynamic
Final thought is roughly I feel like looking at Suguru thru the lense of "this character had a level of privilege that they felt they truly deserved, and after experiencing events that are genuinely traumatic and horrific for any person, they develop reactionary beliefs to try and regain a sense of superiority and control" rather than "oppressed minority who killed oppressors and wants to do eugenics"
#Eugenics TW#cult TW#ask to tag#Suguru when I catch you#Anyway this was me thinking Abt the fact that Toji ISNT a normal human. He just can't use jujutsu. He's like supernaturally powerful anyway#So Geto's whole shit is like. Pretty misdirected. Though also personal thought is I don't think His parents were good (and he's projecting#That onto every other person who's not a sorcerer) mostly cause like. Going straight to murdering your parents is not really expected#Progression in eugenics id think? Bc if you posit urself as the ''superior'' person theoretically ur parents should also b part of that#Bc genetics or whatever. Idk how genetic sorcery shit is but even tho his parents Weren't sorcerers usually ppl would make excuses I think#So. Basically I feel like he probably did not have a great relationship w them. Not that that makes him any better more just like. Thinking#Through what's happening in his head...why the fuck did he decide on a different last name for that woman. WTF is wrong with him#I am suguru's number 1 LOVER and his number 1 HATER. I'm suffering bc none of the fanfic makes him enough of a bitch#It's really fucking something bc like. Looking at him as someone who's had similar thought progressions and is unlearning the kind of toxic#Black/white extremist thinking he has going on. It's cathartic in a way to deconstruct that and be able to analyze my own thoughts as well#But then no one is putting in the effort to actually engage with his ideas and the flaws in them (INCLUDING THE AUTHOR.)#Anyway most people when they have a crisis and reach an extremely bad mental health situation would join a cult rather than take over a cul#But suguru is different. That's why I love him and also why I'm going to break his ribs.#Diversity win this autistic trans guy fucking sucks so bad you want him dead#I need to tag these damn posts w something but I'm too lazyyyu
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theres certainly a lot of interesting room for people to explore in fanfiction of like ‘what if this character was in a different situation how would they act’ but honestly i am personally so much of an AU hater so much of the time. especially when its a work that is largely shipping focused instead of a character study im so often just like ‘no! engage with the source material!’ it just feels like nothing to me once the connections become so tenuous beyond character’s names
i think this happened to me through being a baby communist middle schooler interested in history reading les mis fanfiction. i was always so ‘stop with the modern day coffee shop aus, no i dont care that you did it because les amis canonically meet in a cafe. you’d better start researching 19th century french radicals’
#ive barely read fanfic in years but i started looking for oofuri character studies and such earlier this week and its making#my teen opinions come back in full force. like sorry i kind of just dont give a fuck if theyre not and never have played baseball.#this is kind of contradictory of me when the fanwork i ever was most excited about making was a yowamushi pedal wrestling au#that was semi shipping focused instead of just character study or w/e. but i do think that wrestling maps really well to the type of sports#anime that yowapeda is so that it doesnt feel like its totally disconnected. but in the end that was intentionally a very self indulgent#project and its simply that other peoples self indulgent aus are not meant for me either#plus ig that i have more distaste for stuff that feels like its not engaging with the canonical setting because its inconvenient or require#research so it flattens it to a more stock trope-y setting instead. if youre like really passionate about something else random but that yo#feel theres a thematic hook to in the source material and then put in a lot of effort transposing that you can maybe convince me#cpost
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They day ppl finally stop telling me "you'll like it after a 1,000 tastes", "just keep trying and you'll get used to the food", "you need to try new foods", etc. etc. will be the happiest day of my life. I'm so sorry I'm not willing to subject myself to years of constant torture and misery for the faint hope I might someday be able to eat one or two more things. I simply don't think stress and throwing up are going to fix my severe lifelong sensory processing issues. I mean all power to those who decide for themselves that's the thing they wanna do, but baby I ain't gonna 'recover' bc there's no 'before' or version of me without these issues so fuck off <3
#personal#arfid#avoidant restrictive food intake disorder#ed#eating disorder#ed tw#it's not like i didn't try :)#when i was younger and my food issues were less severe- GUESS WHAT?!#i did the fucking food therapy! non-stressful well done and executed exposure therapy to an easy food#i did that for YEARS!#and guess what. zero progress!!#it did nothing for me i did not grow used to the food at all and it did absolutely nothing to improve my eating#ages 3-13 i consistently was always doing something and going to doctors and trying new things to help me#and there was never any progress#my arfid has only gotten worse since then and everyone who actually knows me#(doctor therapist friends family and such)#all agree that i'm never gonna 'recover'#if i put in the effort i could expand the foods i regularly eat to reach a balanced diet#there are just enough different foods i can eat that it is possible for me to remain healthy#but due to other problems (such as depression) that's not currently something i'm doing#my goal is to someday be able to eat justtt enough foods of varying types to maintain a healthy diet#that's it. i'm not interested in expanding my diet. i'm not interested in trying new things. none of that is a realistic goal for me#so if ppl could stfu when they don't know me and don't know what they're talking abt that'd be great 😊😊😊#mm i also think ppl rly understimate the amount of food-related trauma you gather simply by having arfid...#again. i wanna reiterate that if expanding your diet n being adventureus is your goal that's completely fine#just do NOT fucking project that onto me and spew shit abt how if YOU can do it I can do it#we are separate people with separate brains and lives and circumstances#rant#vent
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can HSR and HI3 players please just stop with picking on Genshin players already? we all like Hoyoverse, there is literally no reason to trash on the other games to try and get people to play your favorites. if anything you've only made Genshin players avoid HSR and HI3. you've accomplished nothing.
this post is not about the rewards players of each game get, I'm only talking about the Hoyoverse fans who trash on Genshin just because they think the other games are soooo much better and their opinions are better than "those stupid Genshin players'"
seriously, stfu. it's a game. if you don't like it don't bully people who do. and especially don't follow it up with "my favorite game is better" 😐
#hoyoverse#genshin impact#and if i see any reblogs or comments doing the same i will delete them. end of story#if you're one of the people who does this you're the problem. you're actively making the hoyo fans hate each other more by doing this.#just play your game and let people play what they want. it's not your life so it's none of your business#and yeah genshin has shitty rewards#but at least you can play for free and still enjoy the game.#not saying the other hoyo games aren't f2p but genshin is and that's part of why it attracts so many new players.#not just that but since Inazuma was rushed Hoyoverse has been making an effort to make the story better and less rushed.#idc that most patches are filler either. that's literally how it works y'all not every patch is going to be packed with lore#games take time to create and good stories can't be made for a game like Genshin in just three months.#if you don't believe me just look at Inazuma. they rushed that and tried to fit 5 acts worth of story into 3 and it did not go well.#games are passion projects and while i do agree that Hoyo wants your money it's important to remember that every game company is like that.#Genshin is not better or worse storywise just because the company can't make every patch not filler#or because Hoyo wants your money. like that's how it works what did you expect#the point is#the players who play Genshin for the story are having a great time and if you dislike that aspect just don't play it or engage with it.#the writers obviously care about Genshin enough to put massive amounts of effort into making it detail heavy and interesting.#if you think otherwise too bad ig that's not the game's fault#Genshin isn't your thing if you don't like the story. move on.#sorry for the rant#I'm not having such a good time and Hoyolab + the HI3/HSR community are so mean for no reason to Genshin players.#anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk
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bruh, i am apply for MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice and have got some offers too. if you don't mind sharing, why did you hate taking criminology?
it just wasn't for me! it's an underdeveloped discipline in my country, so no one really knows what a "criminologist" is, and i don't care enough to prove myself. i'd rather do something else anyway
but if it's something you have a genuine interest in, then by all means, do pursue it! it's tough, but if you have motivation, you can absolutely excel in this field 💜
#ask#99liners#it depends on the person a lot#like how much you care and how much effort you want to put into it#it was grad school in particular for me that made me realise that huh i really do fucking hate this!#but i have issues#so i couldn't drop out#and i suffered just for the sake of getting through it#and not bc i actually wanted to do this#but if you are interested#and if you know how to manage your time#and the uni you're considering does actually offer a decent program#then this can be a whole different experience for you!!#i had some good moments & experiences too so it wasn't just pain all the time#but it was tough and i made it harder for myself with my own expectations for my results#and the fact that i hated it lmao#another thing to consider is that grad school for me was very research-oriented#meaning they wanted us to write papers & participate in a lot of research projects#instead of being more practical?#and obviously the theoretical concept leads you more towards studying for a phd later on#instead of finding a Normal Job like Everyone Else#so take that into consideration when you're applying for sure!! just think what you'd like to do with this degree#and if grad school would help you get to that point
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I'm not going to lie your Eldritch Submas gives me severe brain rot, especially with the most recent post- the protectiveness, the love, THE FLUSTERING IS ALL SO 😩😩
Aw thank you! I'm really glad you like it <3 I will not make promises but I'm starting to feel the writing groove again.
#seth.chitchat#Thank Ro-boat#They asked me to post and I promised I would by nightfall#I have other projects I want to return to and want to finish but I am going to make a concerted effort to focus more#on answering asks and giving y'all more food#Not just for Eldritch Submas#But other characters and regular submas/monster submas/hybrid submas#Unfortunately I suffer from anxiety when it comes to my writing#anyway done rambling in the tags#Thank you very much anon <3#Your words are very sweet and getting an anon like this puts a smile on my face#I hope you have a lovely day ^^
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that was the most depressed sounding “wahoo” i’ve ever fucking heard im losing it
#mario movie#chris pratt once again letting the entire project down#BUT on that note it equally annoys me how little effort ATJ is putting into peach#like. we have literally heard peach's voice before. it sounds fuckall like that#once again jack black is the only one actually delivering any degree of Voice Acting#which! shockingly! voice acting is not just 'saying lines' it's .acting. with your voice#anyways. voice actors everywhere i'm so fucking sorry about all this. this must be infuriating#esp since i just knowww they're paying these guys a shit load for doing this and regular voice actors get paid pennies
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Gonna post about our iterator OC now. Fun fact: Unit of Radioactive Decay's umbilical arm has significantly less range of motion than other iterator models, including other iterator models from their generation!
It prioritizes delivery of water and nutrients to their puppet over movement, which makes it a good bit clunkier than other arms - almost all of the joints in there can only bend one way, and the few that don't are only two-way, unlike an arm like Pebbles that more or less lets him bend however the fuck he wants.
In general, they tend to prioritize having parts that are easily maintained or replaced over anything else - kind of a necessity for them, but some of the people who originally dreamed them up would have an utter heart attack over the sheer number of substitutions present in their structure by now.
#some day we will draw this. not today tho#rain world#ocs#unit of radioactive decay#this also means that they have an actual consistent schematic for their arm that we. havent drawn out a ref for#we usually only draw out the first five segments but their full arm has eight#granted the ones we omit are the three big segments they collapse or unfold to change their proximity to the wall but yknow#they dont have the joints you see on normal iterator arms because that shit is A Hinge#their citizens cared for them greatly and highly movable and jammable components are a liability when youre prone to jamming#a lot of their equipment is simply what requires the least maintainance since maintained or not things Will break constantly#theyre built in a swamp. shit needs to be replaced all the fuckin time bc that was a dumb idea.#they were a ship of theseus type project when they were a research outpost#and now theyre a ship of theseus project that is breaking down regardless#the amount of redundancy in their structure is the only reason they didnt break down less than six months after ascension#and as is it mostly just lets them feel them slowly break and decay and feel their systems shatter and fall back on backups on backups#knowing that some day their systems will ultimately fail and they will fall#they were a “at this point it would be less effort to build another iterator but we've already put in this much work” project#to their citizens at least
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When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.
The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.
Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.
So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.
This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.
(Source 1)
(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)
(Source 3)
#we can save the world just maybe not in the way we’d planned#long post#scicomm#conservation#lemurs#wildlife#ecology#animals#vet med#veterinary medicine#One Health
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got angry at a story last night
#uh not gonna tag this for visibility#mainly cause I don't know HOW to tag it lmao#I'm just angy cause like YES corpo zoos are bad because the people running it care more about the money than the animals#but there ARE zoos that want to help animals and put in the effort for them#and like it's so important especially for endangered species#but that's like just my general issue with zoo hate#THIS story pissed me off because it left no room for debate#and and it was framed in an 'objectively correct' light#I am like 90% sure the author is just a kid and this might be an early project of theirs#in a perfect world zoos would not exist#unfortunately humans are cruel#and sometimes zoos are the only way to prevent the cruelty from causing extinction#yeah my thoughts r all over the place lol#I'm just always confused because I am NOT a confident writer#I'm constantly looking up words and concepts I'm not familiar with to at least get a basic grasp of things#so when I witness people NOT doing that by having critical typos or obviously non-researched topics im like#what do you guys do with all that confidence??#I guess post your stories lol#I'm out here looking at my dozens of WIPs that have never seen the light of day
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google search how to tell my wife I'm sick of her extreme emotional crashes every time we go broke due to poor emotional regulation skills and that she needs to get better at Being Poor if she wants any chance of relief or to not drive me insane within a year
#Oliver speaking#maybe I'm just an emotionless task-fulfilling void but I've been poor most of my life and so has she so why is she so mf bad at it#babygirl the reason you get sad about your coin collection is bc you only look at it when we're broke and run out of weed :)#literally you have to put effort into taking care of urself sorry to burst your fucking bubble lmao but you're literally older than us why#is it our responsibility to emotionally regulate you for periods of time that you have endured since you were a child#literally all it takes is finding stuff to do#'wah there's nothing to do' false there's the game we've been playing the new game we bought a while ago and you never touched theres craft#projects like embroidery and leatherworking theres things you could be doing to improve our daily lives like fixing the damn table#or calling in a maintenance request for the fucked up bathroom ceiling or spreading roach killer or cleaning the apartment or reading the#multiple unread books in your collection and the other game you play and and and AND AND AND#THERE IS STUFF TO DO YOURE JUST BEING A BIG BABY ABOUT IT NOT BEING ~EXACTLY~ WHAT YOU WANT TO DO#BALLS UP IM BEGGING YOU#LITERALLY JUST BALLS THE FUCK UP IT AINT THAT HARD#'wah I can't eat Taco Bell for every meal and smoke weed 24/7' SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOWER YOUR DRUG TOLERANCE THATS A BIG GODDAMN EXPENSE#WE'D HAVE MORE FOR EVERYTHING ELSE INCLUDING FUCKING L A U N D R Y IF YOU WERENT SMOKING A GRAM OF DABS A DAY BY YOURSELF#LITERALLY JUST GET YR SHIT TOGETHER AND ACT LIKE AN ADULT
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What do you think your specialty area is in terms of fandom knowledge? I'm curious what everyone would say!
Oh god... I don't know...
I kind of generally focused on pure Canon when I was writing fics more often, tracking details.
I guess.... compared to other blogs... I brought up the timelines more?
Like, the best example of that is my fic Velaris. I think after the first 2 parts were up, I sat down and skimmed through ACOTAR (as in the first book, not the whole series) and actually made a full timeline of exact dates when things happened. Initially in relation to one another (assuming "couple" meant two and "few" meant 3 for things like "a couple days passed"), but you'd also get corrector lines like "it had been exactly three months" that helped fix where Maas had just said "several days passed" or other general terms.
I then reverse-engineered a timeline assuming Calanmai was May Day, established a general date (give or take a week) when Amarantha's deal was up, used THAT to reverse-engineer when the shields went up, and dialed the years, days, and months accordingly.
So like, in Part 4 especially, that's not a random number for years and days trapped, that is as exact as it's possible to get.
So, you could call it a specialty in terms of knowledge I had that I didn't notice other blogs featuring. But everyone was well versed in general Canon (I'm using past tense thinking back to when this blog was more active).
#ask#contrary to popular belief i do put unnecessary amounts of effort into fics#it started with my mega-series Project Echo#Part 1 I approached the villain in a new way#Part 2 I made the first letter of every chapter spell out 'never gonna give you up never gonna let you down'#i also posted a chapter every single day specifically so no one would notice when i slipped in an april fools chapter#and so for part 3 i decided early on i was going to have dueling timelines#one counting down to a disaster and one counting up away from the disaster#odd number chapters lead to the disaster and even away from it and both timelines have to work harmoniously to one another#and be hyper-accurate so the two lines of plot ignite at the exact same time#since clues to one direct the actions for the other#and that gave me an eye for locking in on timelines#project echo is the best thing i have ever written because the detail i put into that still surprises even me#it has over 300;000 reads and hundreds of comments across platforms#and i'm kind of finally at a place where i look back on it as a fan and not just as a writer#but yeah; my longform fics are where i really stretch and explore new ways of writing#short form fics i still do some experimenting#but it's more testing elements of a larger concept#what i've found is that when you're iron on a timeline; your story flows better for it
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