#literally the only reason i realized this was because i looked at the folder and went 'why is halloweird ep 8 when i know it's 10'

[candy-pants]

i just found out for 11 years i thought i had my s2 mbav eps organized in production order when really i had them in teletoon order even though i know halloweird is episode 10

[solxamber]

Can I get baker boy Trey realizing that his S/O is a super secret spy for another country. Yet, when confronted, said S/O admits that they faked their death to be with him.

Cocoa Conspiracy - Trey Clover x reader

He knew you as his partner, the love of his life, but he didn't realize your real identity: a spy vying for pastry destruction

Trey Clover wasn’t ready for this. He thought he was just dating you—the quirky, adorable, slightly unpredictable person who occasionally knew way too much about the inner workings of a high-tech security system. Sure, sometimes you went missing for a week without warning, but he figured you were probably just... really into nature hikes? Who was he to judge?

But now here he was, standing in the middle of his beloved kitchen, staring at a government-issued spy dossier that read like something out of a James Bond fever dream. The worst part? Your face was plastered all over it, right next to the words “Top Secret Agent: Wafflia.”

Wafflia.

He had to read it three times before it clicked. “Dear...” he began, holding up the papers like they were a particularly burnt batch of cookies. “Why does it say you’re an undercover agent sent by the nation of Wafflia to... sabotage the pastry industry? What is this?”

You, who had just casually walked in, munching on a muffin like it was a normal Wednesday, paused mid-chew. “Oh. Right. That.” You glanced at the folder in his hands like it was an old grocery receipt. “I, uh... meant to tell you about that.”

Trey blinked. “Tell me? You meant to tell me?”

You shrugged, your voice a little too nonchalant for someone who’d just been outed as a literal international spy. “Look, babe, I can explain—”

“Explain? You’ve been sent to ruin all pastries in Twisted Wonderland!” Trey threw up his hands, a little more animated than usual, which was saying something. “Pastries! My life revolves around pastries! Why didn’t you tell me you were some kind of... dessert assassin?!”

You chewed thoughtfully for a moment, as if considering the best way to let him down easy. “Well, first of all, ‘dessert assassin’ makes it sound way cooler than it actually is. I mean, it’s mostly paperwork. And second of all... I didn’t really take the mission seriously. I was distracted.”

“Distracted? By what, the buttercream frosting?” Trey snapped, incredulous.

“No, by you.” You rolled your eyes like it was obvious, casually finishing the muffin. “You know, because we’re dating. Thought that was kind of important.” You flicked a crumb off your shirt, as if this entire conversation wasn’t wildly absurd. “I couldn’t exactly go around destroying pastries when you bake this good. Do you even know how hard it is to sabotage a cake when it tastes like it was baked by an angel? It’s basically sabotage-proof.”

Trey blinked. “Wait. So, you’re telling me the only reason you haven’t followed through with your evil pastry-destroying mission is because... my desserts are too good?”

“Yup!” You gave him two enthusiastic thumbs up. “Honestly, if Wafflia tasted your cupcakes, they’d probably call the whole thing off.”

Trey’s eye twitched. “...Wafflia?”

“Tiny nation. Mostly waffles. A little maple syrup industry on the side. Really not a big deal.”

“You are literally a government agent from a country that declared war on bakeries!”

You sighed dramatically, as if he was the one overreacting here. “Yeah, but that’s not important right now. What’s important is that I faked my death to be with you.”

Trey stared at you like you had just slapped him with a pie. “You what.”

“I faked my death. Big explosion. Very cool. It was like something out of a Michael Bay movie, except with fewer explosions and way more sparkles. It’s kind of the Wafflian signature. Anyway, I’m legally dead now.” You leaned back against the counter, looking incredibly proud of yourself. “Did it all for you.”

Trey was about three seconds away from emotionally combusting. “You... faked... your death... so you could—”

“Ditch the life of a spy and bake tarts with you, obviously.” You grinned like this was all completely reasonable. “It’s called love, Trey.”

Trey had to sit down. He dragged a chair across the kitchen floor, the sound screeching in the sudden silence. He sat down heavily, trying to process the information bomb you had just dropped in his very innocent, pastry-filled kitchen. “So, let me get this straight. You were a secret spy for a country that wants to destroy desserts—the thing I care about most in the world—and you faked your death to... retire?”

“With you,” you corrected, grabbing a tart from the tray and taking a huge bite. “I mean, why else would I fake my death? Have you seen how good you look when you’re rolling out dough? I’m not giving that up.”

Trey blinked at you, his brain malfunctioning at the speed of light. “You—what—I just—how are you—”

You waved a hand dismissively. “Look, babe, relax. All I’m saying is, Wafflia thinks I’m dead, I think you’re hot, and your strawberry tarts are so good that I’ve basically retired from espionage to live out the dream with you. Problem solved.”

Trey opened his mouth, then closed it, then opened it again, resembling a fish out of water. “...I don’t know if I should be flattered or horrified.”

“Why not both?” You waggled your eyebrows, licking the last of the tart crumbs off your fingers. “I’m flexible.”

Trey buried his face in his hands, groaning. “I just wanted to bake some bread. I didn’t sign up for all this—secret spy, faked your death, sabotage the pastry world—what even is this.”

You patted him on the back, still munching. “Hey, look on the bright side. At least I’m not sabotaging your desserts.”

Trey peeked at you from between his fingers. “And... what about other people’s desserts?”

You smirked. “Well... no promises. But I’ll probably keep it to a minimum. For you.”

He groaned louder.

I didn't know if you wanted it serious or silly, but i made it silly. let me know if you wanted it more serious!

Masterlist

[floofeh-purpi]

Through the Screen. (Pt. 2)

Self-aware! Obey Me x Gn! Insomniac! Reader

MAG EY KA MUNA EYYYY!!!! Also, off topic but I think it's now going to sound like a fanfic... 😭🙏

『Beloved fluffball/s mentioned below! 💜』

@rotin0 @cherry-blossom-sword80 @leniisreallycool @mc-cos-charm @imtotallynotthere @cosmo112 @cheeseburgercasserole @kanashi-aivy @dead-d0ves

Warnings: Cursing, spelling/grammar errors, it feels like I'm awake at 3am even though I started this shit at 8:13pm, you might be based by me in terms of some stuff going on w you (sorry), one mention of you being su*cidal, what the fuck im now half-asleep.

【Part 1】

• Ok, you sometimes voice call your friends in messenger (or whatever app you use to call them) for whatever reason.

• Lets say you might call them so that yall can play an online game that doesnt have voice chat.

• Fuckers they can hear you.

• As in the characters, they can hear you.

• Every foul word that comes out through your mouth? Yes.

• Those noises of you aggresively clicking your keyboard? Yes.

• The air conditioning doing its own thing? Yes.

• Hell, THE WAY THAT YOU BREATHE? YES.

• You dont know about that part yet

• So now that you know that they know how to make some changes to the game's code...

• Let's just say your initial reaction was legit: :0

• But realization risen upon you. Oh shit...

• If they'll break outta the game and into your phone, does that mean that they can see what you have on your phone, gallery, and the edits you saved on your phone thats crying for you to free some space in its storage. 😨

• Luckily, this new yet somewhat not-so new phone has the ability to hide away your apps, files, pictures, and videos into a hidden folder! :D

• You kept your more not child-friendly stuff into that folder in case your parents will check your phone.

• And I kid you not, what if they will somehow find a way to connect/join with your other devices too?! D:

• You decided to play Obey Me, since that's how you cope with the fact that quarterly tests are approaching your grades dangerously close.

• ...Tests be damned?

• Tests, be damned it is.

★ (this means timeskip)

• ...Maybe it was a bad idea.

• Because you're literally sweating bullets as you're looking at the first question written on the test paper.

Welp, I'm fucked.

• No shit, the very few questions that you know that you'll get right is your name and date.

• And not to mention that time pressure is a thorn to your mind right now.

Class, you have 30 minutes left!

• Sternly exclaimed the teacher, with students making stressed-out noises and sounding like they we're binge-watching anime last night. This was totally not targeted towards a certain someone in my school. Nope.

• You groaned along with the other students before you buried your face in the sweating palms of your hands and then moving them to your forehead to answer the next question. 29 out of 30 questions... you'd be finished right now if it was your favorite subject. But this test was easy. Way too easy...

• Hm...

• God damn it. You took your words back as soon as you saw the arch nemesis of your life.

• And... Is that x3+y3+z3=k?

...EAHHHGGHH—

• Why... You were so certain that not a single math teacher could've taught this yet.

• You we're so damn thankful that this was multiple choice. Omfg.

• Anygays-

Eeny meeny miny Moe...

(This divider means a longer timeskip.)

• Ok so, after all that suffering, you can finally get the hell out of this dumpster of a fucking school!

• You skip your way out of that shitty classroom, with the first thing– or rather person– to greet you was your non-fictional and only best friend! Yipee! :D

N/n!!! :D (N/n means Nickname)

• Exclaimed they, the person who has been with you through thick and thin.

We'll go to your house just like you promised, right?

• So bright, like the stars blanketing the night skies.

• Sometimes you wish you were like them.

• Cheerful, positive, an absolute sunshine up your face, not-so suicida—

Uhm... N/n?

• Oops. You spaced out again.

Yah, lesgo.

• After y'all went inside your... miserable excuse of a house (you know you havent cleaned this shit up for god knows how long.)

• Luckily, your parents (mainly your dad) was in an EXTRA good mood today, (they weren't present after they screamed profanities at you last night <3) so you had the house all to your yourself.

Don't worry, my parents aren't here today..

• You said, which eased the concern building up inside your best friend's mind after they remembered what you told them about your... 'normal' relationship with your parents.

C'monnn, let's study in the living room.

• You best friend whined before dragging your sleep deprived ass to your couch.

★

Wahhh! Are you sure this ain't corn syrup?

I think so. Yah. Wait I don't even buy that shit to shove it up the drawer's ass...-

• Ok uhmm.... What was supposed to be a study session turned into a cooking session.

• Bless Solomon for not being present in the kitchen. Yet.

• You were about add some extra spices to- what the fuck were you making again??? when your loud ass 6pm alarm rang.

Augh...

• You groaned. Your hands were oily as fuck and you needed to take your maintenance. Great timing up my fucking ass.

Yo B/f/n, pass me my pills. Please?

Yah su-

• You and your friend suddenly got a loud ass obey me notification on your phones. They at least still had the decency to pass you your pills even while they're still shocked at the kind of notification they got.

• I mean, no shit dipshit.

• Bitch how tyhe fuck did they know that you eat dinner at 9 in the fucking eveni-

• Oh..

• OH...

• You forgot they can practically stalk you through your phone and you haven't told your good ol' bestie about that now, did you...

• ...Oops. 🥰

If you think this is short, and its your first time stubling upon the dumpster collection of a blog thats also 95% full of reblogs, wait until you see that sagau series that i havent finished yet 😭🙏

Published: October 14 2024. 8:13pm.

[thepaintedsable]

I just had the realization that there is probably a book binding community somewhere on this site and that I don’t just have to stew over the issues I have. Even if this is like throwing a tack at a wall, it’s better hoping for it to stick than metaphorically stepping on it.

Hello I am a beginner, does anyone have any good techniques for attaching covers to their pages? Or just some general binding techniques (maybe some that might work well with stiffer types of paper)? Hell, even if you’re not in bookbinding, got any ideas, haha? I’m basically teaching myself this whole process, and know literally nobody involved in it. Information has been a bit harder to come by, mostly because I’m making sketchbooks, and my medium of choice is watercolor. Meaning my papers are a lot thicker than what I’ve seen recommended on “beginner” friendly tutorials. Any tutorials, really. I have also decided I want to… well, for lack of better term, steal covers off of old books. I just like the look some old academic or hardcover books give.

I mean, look how nice! :) Goal is to have a bookshelf of neat little finished, inconspicuous sketchbooks. And, to make note, most of these books were on the path to being tossed for one reason or another. In this picture there’s even one I tried to make my own cover (red + blue cloth) but those don’t really turn out good either because I’m a little limited on materials for that part. I’d love to make a leather cover, but I’d have to be confident in the rest of my process before I even try buying the stuff.

Main issues are that the thicker type papers “folder” (they end up thicker at the backed end, forcing the end that opens to be thinner in comparison for some reason?), and that I’m generally unsure how to actually set up/prepare the back end of the papers to suitably fit into the covers. They end up very loose (not to each other, the papers stay pretty close, but they can wiggle) or just… not fitting the cover (too much paper, too little paper), and I’m unsure how to fix it.

Even though I’ve gotten better over time, my bigger “solutions” have resulted in it being unusable, either due to the pages being too rigid/full and not being able to open properly or something ripping.

Now, I will say my materials aren’t “up to par.” I don’t have a book press, I use clamps and old wood; I’ve become very familiar with hot glue and superglue; my string is old embroidery thread and I punch holes with an oversized sewing needle; and, clearly, I’m being stubborn and using overly thick paper. But in my mind there has to be a way, I just haven’t figured out the best way yet.

Help? 👁👁

O yeah, and books open :) My literal only current goal is usability + pretty cover. I use a lot of paper types, as you can see (loosest is marker pad, most rigid is watercolor)

[badaziraphaletakes]

Assuming best intentions: are people maybe submitting screenshots to you with the usernames already cropped out? and if you don’t follow that one person’s blog yourself, were you unaware just how many of your posts feature the same person over and over? I can tell you by looking at your posts the last several days/weeks that it’s well over half. Anyone who does follow that blog can recognize the text in the screenshots and can see that you do repeatedly end up going after them in particular. If that genuinely was not intentional… is that not maybe an upsetting realization? that you’ve accidentally been contributing to someone’s harassment for weeks on end? to the point that they’re now making posts about leaving the fandom?

(Found the ask it was in my Drafts folder wahoo!)

This is the first we've heard of that. Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

Yes, I'd say 75% of the time, they are submitted to us with the usernames cropped out.

And I wouldn't recognize who posted what, because I don't read any GO blogs anymore because of the bad experiences I've had (literally this blog is the only space in the fandom I feel safe).

As to your question-

It depends on what you mean by "contributing to someone's harassment". (Stay with me. I'm not trying to split hairs.)

I'm not sure what precisely has made this person talk about leaving the fandom. (Which I don't want anyone to do.) If it's because people are targeting them directly (which is what I would call harassment) by tracing our posts back, then... wow that just amazes me that people have that much time on their hands?? I would not have expected anyone to waste their time doing that, and if people are doing that because of this blog, I'm truly disamyed.

The whole point of not featuring handles was to avoid that. If anyone is doing that... please stop?? That is not what this blog is about and I'd feel bad if anyone thought that's what we wanted. (Although it should be obvious from the fact that we don't feature handles that we don't want that. I'd say we've exercised due diligence by cropping/crossing them out.)

Like, I can't believe I'm having to say this, I shouldn't have to say this, but please do not track down and heckle the people who write the posts we feature. We do not condone that.

Because no, we don't want anyone to leave the fandom. I (Mod X) started this blog because I didn't want to leave the fandom. I've had dozens and dozens of queer and trans and Autistic and neurodivergent and fat people and trauma and ab*se survivors message me saying this blog is the only reason they haven't left the fandom.

Oh also people are free to message us and say "those are my takes" but so far only one person has.

That's all for now. Going to think it over and ponder whether there's anything I want to add.

[theninth09]

I have a silly cute headcanon for you. Imagine after the war anyone asks Liam his favourite colour and he says green and Mason is like what because it’s always been different, but Liam just looks at Theo and looks away saying green. Now imagine imagine Theo being asked the same thing but since hes never had a favourite colour before now because it’s really not something he had prioritised with the doctors so in a quick moment of thought he looks at Liam and looks away before turning back and saying blue.

this is sooo cute omg!! i actually havent thought about what their favorite colors may be before, so i like this idea a lot. i dont think their clothes really suggest a favorite color (theo wears dark and neutral colors while liam also wears neutral colors with the occasional black, but he likes to wear red a lot? i think))

i totally agree, i dont think theo ever really thought about his favorite color. doesnt seem like something he'd really care about, even after the dread doctors. if he remembers his favorite color from when he was a child, i think he'd either feel so disconnected from who he was back then that he just doesnt feel the same about that color anymore or he purposely distances himself from anything thats connected to his childhood.

him choosing liams eye color as his favorite makes A Lot of sense to me, since i personally think hes obsessed with liams eyes (well, hes really obsessed with anything that has to do with liam, but yk.) i mean, its literally canon that he stares at liam a lot and they constantly have intense eye contact. theres no doubt in my mind that theo regularly loses himself in liams eyes (i love this concept sm, ive literally included stuff like this in my fics before lmao.)

his first knee jerk reaction being that he responds with blue is so sweet. just him quickly reacting with the first thing that comes to his mind, and obviously liam is always on his mind. afterwards he'd think about it more and realize that he didnt only say it to avoid getting judged for not having a favorite color or whatever else, but that blue has genuinely become his favorite because of liam. theo reminiscing about how hes constantly seeing/looking for liam in his surroundings: the color of his truck, the sky. even in the most random moments, like a small interaction with a stranger that has blue nail polish and all theo can think about is "liams eyes have the same shade."

and liam absolutely feels like the type that couldnt really settle on one favorite color. i see him changing it again and again over the years and mason literally having a whole folder keeping track of how long what color stayed at his favorite and reasons why he had a particular phase liking it, etc. people never know what his favorite color is because everytime someone asks him, he gives a different answer. and once he admits that its green and mason notices that its been green for quite a while now... and then mason notices that it doesnt seem like one of liams phases, but that green seems to be becoming his actual favorite color.

liam is just as obsessed with theos eyes (and theos everything) as theo is with liam. you literally cannot tell me that one of them feels stronger about the other, they're equally as down bad.

[justreckin]

20 questions for fic writers

alright @emonydeborah said hey there's a thing and i say yes (ages later)

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 6

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 28,070

3. What fandoms do you write for? Honestly, whatever's catching my fancy in that moment. Of the things I've posted, The Librarians is the only fandom that I've ever even posted more than one fic for.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Raising Harry (Harry Potter/Underworld) Where Selene comes across Harry playing at the park alone at night and decides that the best idea is to sorta adopt him.

Never Say He Isn't Grateful (Agent Carter/Captain America) Howard realizes he owes Peggy big time and the best way for him to repay her is to go rescue Steve.

5 Times Ezekiel Called Eve Mum and the Time They Made it Official (The Librarians) 5+1 what it says on the tin.

Second Time Around (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Coulson went in on the Bahrain mission, May died. Oneshot re-write of the first episode that I considered expanding and have actually written other chapters for but... 🤷‍♀️

How Apep got Ezekiel Grounded for the Rest of his Natural Life (The Librarians) Season 3 Finale in the same universe as the previous Librarians fic that has a second chapter I have yet to write...

5. Do you respond to comments? I certainly try to. I'm not the best at it, but I love getting to have a conversation with anyone who likes the same things I do.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Heh probably I'm Not Your Mother but even then it's a) not really all that angsty and b) mostly that I dropped a mean bomb on characters and then ran away because I have no idea what else to do with it.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? ...everything else? Look, canon is already regularly very mean to characters. I am here to live in my happy little fantasies where everything works out.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not hate per se but I'd left up an unfinished multi-chapter fic at one point and someone commented that I was the reason they'd lost faith in authors with unfinished works and is maybe more responsible for me not posting any of the myriad of things I have on my computer than I want to admit.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Nah. I write more family than relationship stuff, really.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Yes. Uh... it's not posted, but maybe the Harry Potter/Song of the Lioness that I hashed out at one point.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Don't think so.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?  Don't think so.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Ha! @emonydeborah and I spitball all the time (it's wonderful) and she absolutely gets credit if that parent trap fic ever gets finished, but I don't think I'm up to the group project that would be co-writting a fic.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? the Enterprise NCC-1701 dash nothing! All jokes aside, it genuinely is the only ship I go back to on a regular basis.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Uh... honestly, I don't know that I'll ever finish half the things in my WIP folder.

16. What are your writing strengths? Probably dialogue. I feel I'm pretty good at getting the character's literal voice down.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Anything happening around the dialogue. In my head these people are always moving around and doing things, but it always feels so clunky if I try to put that onto a page.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? Maybe an individual word or two for a curse or endearment. I know enough Spanish I'd probably be comfortable writing in it. But that'd be about it.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Uh.... Star Trek? One sec, must check files. Yeah, pretty sure it was a short TOS thing. Hmm might need to take a look at that again, clean it up, repost...

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? Posted? Probably Ezekiel calling Eve mum. Not posted? Nah, actually, don't know that there is one that's not posted.

.... @the-redhead-in-a-dress and @sun-lit-roses did you do it yet, did you do it? I wanna see 😁

[cosmogyros]

Today, Cinnamon was lamenting his inability to come up with band names, so I spontaneously gave a lecture that I hereby title: "How to Encourage Your Own Latent Creativity, or, 'Where Do You Get Your Ideas?'" (transcription below).

Him: The only reason I’m not in a wildly successful band instead of sitting at this desk is my inability to make up names for things Him: Literally the only reason

Me: I have GOT you Me: I have whole folders of name ideas stored on my computer

Him: Same way thinking up a team name is by far the hardest part of any pub quiz

Me: People names, song names, album names, band names

Him: >I have whole folders of name ideas stored on my computer How does your brain

Me: Well the secret is Me: And this is absolutely true, I’m not being funny Me: The more you practice noticing things that would make good names and writing them down every time you do, the better you get at noticing them Me: You’re probably saying or reading or hearing phrases all day that would make great names for things, but if you’re not in the habit of pulling out your phone and noting down every single one, your brain feels unappreciated and won’t put any extra effort into helping you notice them Me: Frankly even “Names for Things” would be a kind of fun band name Me: Be careful, though, Cinnamon, because if you do this too well, you might start looking at your source texts and suddenly EVERYTHING looks like a potential band name and you completely forget you’re supposed to be translating Me: This happened to me at work a lot Me: Translation texts are chock full of good names for things Me: It’s all in your perception

Him: Let’s see Him: Orthograde Flow Condition Him: Transtemporal Window

Me: Coming in strong, damn Me: Those are heavy af

Him: Non-Drug Therapy

Me: Hang on, I’m still stuck on Transtemporal Window

Him: From a misreading of a reference code: Malady Fork

Me: An instant classic Me: See? You totally got this Me: The other secret is to not start editorializing and scoffing at them, deciding if they’re “good enough” etc., because then you’ll convince yourself that NONE of them are good enough and your brain will stop seeing them Me: A good remedy for that problem is just to look at some real famous band names and remind yourself how stupid most of them are Me: All you gotta do is believe in the name and then it gains power

Him: Epicrisis Him: >A good remedy for that problem is… This is true Him: I know Dave Grohl hates the name Foo Fighters and regrets it immensely Him: As well he should Him: Because it’s a really stupid name

Me: >Epicrisis Fuckin genius Me: >Because it’s a really stupid name It really is hahaha Me: But it does roll off the tongue

Him: I’ll give it that

Me: Oh also you have to respect the magical power of misreading and mishearing Me: Probably a solid 10% of the names I come up with, lines for songs, etc. are all just misreadings or -hearings of something else Me: It’s an extremely fertile ground of creativity

Him: Like Malady Fork above

Me: Exactly

Him: I did actually start a list of potential song names a while back Him: Including some mishearings

Me: Or (especially for song lyrics) “mis-expectations”, as I call them – hang on, let me try to find some examples Me: >Including some mishearings Boom, you’re on the right track Me: Oh here we go Me: You know the song “Scar Tissue” by the RHCP? Me: There’s a line in the chorus that goes “With the birds I’ll share this lonely viewing” Me: But I used to hear “But the blood we shed is so lonely for you” instead Me: Which, nobody can deny, goes HARD

Him: Oh is that what that dickhead is saying Him: I think I’ve always heard it as “but the blood we shed, it’s a lonely view” Him: Which makes no sense

Me: So once I realized I’d got it so wrong, I was like, “wow, thank you brain” and wrote down my own awesome version to use in a song someday

Him: But nothing that comes out of that man’s mouth makes sense

Me: >I think I’ve always heard it as “but the blood we shed, it’s a lonely view” I feel extremely validated that your version is closer to mine Me: >But nothing that comes out of that man’s mouth makes sense Very true haha Me: I love singers who are hard to understand, they give me so many opportunities to mishear brilliant new lyrics

Him: How fortunate that there are so many

Me: Also when I listen to songs in other languages and I can only vaguely understand said language, my brain often fills in the gaps and invents its own translation Me: Which, again, is a great way to come up with new stuff Me: The secret to all of this is switching from thinking “oh I’m so dumb, I got that wrong haha” to “oh fantastic, my brain invented a lovely new idea” Me: You just gotta respect your own accidental creativity and take it seriously, and that will encourage more of it Me: That’s the end of my TED talk

Him: I thank you for the lecture and will subscribe to your newsletter for updates on future events

Me: Oh except here’s one more great example to end on: in Bruce Springsteen’s song “Ain’t Good Enough for You”, he actually sings: “Here comes the pitch / A swing and a miss” but I heard “If I’m a bitch / You’re a fucking abyss” which I’m OBSESSED WITH Me: So now you know two lines, at least, to look out for in future songs of mine someday hahaha Me: And if I get famous you’ll be able to reveal the sordid truth about my so-called “genius” in a tell-all interview

[fulgurbugs]

ok I missed the class where we started workshopping so im kind of going in blind with these letters, but i was snooping in the class folder to see what kinds of critiques other people were giving and im realizing im going to look like the biggest asshole in the room, becase these are all complimentary as hell with the biggest softball critiques ive ever seen. it makes me feel mean when mine are like 95% critical even though i spent a shit ton of time figuring out how to word it so i dont sound mean but like. idk when its my turn i DONT want to just hear complimentary drivel about how you liked it and its so good, actually, because this is critique and not everybody compliment time.

idk. It feels like when im doing this im elevating myself and my own writing which i dont want to do because i dont want these people to think i think im better than them because i'm not, but i've just been in enough art critiuques to know that just saying some variant of "i liked it. here is the thing i liked, very very good job" is completely unhelpful. maybe bc im a senior and this is my last semester i've just had more time to get used to it and i no longer take it personally when people tell me they dislike things/are confused by my choices/think i should change things, and this is an intermediate class where more of the people dont reguarly do peer-review on their art but like. can we PLEASE not sit in a circle and only do encouragement-style critique.

And i get it! it's important when you're working with your stuff to hear encouragement, because constant negativity can make you feel like crap. the compliment sandwich is good for a reason! but the point of the compliment sandwhich is that the filling is not a compliment. you want breads? you want three breads stacked up? I'm at the point where i just wanna eat the cold cuts, and i think that's made me harsher. and I'm just hoping i don't come across as mean or vindictive, or that I think i just write so much better than everyone else or something. I'm trying to give feedback i genuinely think is good, constructive, and helpful, but I dont know.... i still don't want to make people feel bad, especially in the in-person sections where my classmates are literally going to be on the hot seat. does that make sense?

[triglycercule]

upset that i just now realized that the reason why my art was bothering me was because they looked so "kiddy" when literally everyone i draw is a grown ass person (the downside of having only drawn girls that correspond with my age for all my life <////333)

so now UNFORTUNATELY now that i've noticed this i now have to actively try and fix it so that the mtt look less kiddy and i wont want to immediately die from below standard depiction of my trio. shout out to my shitty arts i'd like to study folder i have with art i dont even study you actually did your job for once

i love twitter i saw this and immediately went hold on analyzed the photos closer and then was like thats horrorkiller

[dodgerkedavra]

I loved your Erised fic and am now dying to know the magical mystery behind Only for October! My ask is: how on earth are you this prolific - and prolifically good? (I have a Google Drive folder metaphorically stuffed with unfinished fics that did not make it to their intended fests)

*trembling constantly with dark shadows under my eyes* I wasn't given a choice.

I'm just kidding, kinda, LOL. I've been thinking about your questions and I want to answer them in a way that will be, like, satisfying to you, but also truthful? It probably comes as no surprise that I find this easier to do in fiction.

Okay. So. In the spirit of just answering. How do I write as much as I write? The literal answer is probably the same as everyone else's. Just, like, sitting down at the computer and doing it. I feel like the question behind this question is usually more along the lines of how did you come to be a person who could write this much?

And the answer—one of the answers?—is that when I was very young, I started writing stories, and people said I was good at it, and so I kept writing stories, and eventually came to understand that this was my One Singular Gift, and so I doubled down on it, tripled down on it, kept writing. If you want to write a lot, you write even more than that.

A decade ago I was very into running and eventually got to the point where I wanted to run a marathon, and a lot of the prevailing wisdom about running a marathon is that you train to 20 miles and hopefully your training carries you to 26.2. Personally, I think this is why a lot of people hit the wall at 20 miles, so during my time of marathons I would train to 22, 24, 25 miles.

It's kind of the same thing with writing. I've trained beyond this for a long time. Because, you know, it was my One True Thing. The way, the truth, the life. I write so much about Drarry for the love of the game, obviously, and also because I don't have anything else to give. I know there's no requirement for me to give anything in exchange for being here, but for Reasons, I have that requirement for myself. I'm under an interdiction, of course. (Heal Thyself by Astolat joke that turned out more real than I thought)

Also, thank you for saying that my writing is good. I appreciate that so much!! I suspect that it's along the lines of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I can't imagine that I was actually good at writing when I was six, or even when I was sixteen, or even when I was twenty-six, perhaps not even now, but writing was and remains My Gift. And at some point, I realized the Gift (was it a gift, or was it just something people said? Does it matter now?) couldn't carry me forever. I'd have to take the practice seriously. I'll always have to practice. Everything I post on AO3 is me, practicing.

There's this section in Heal Thyself (I love that fic so much) that I think of often:

"The deep intervention course knocked out more than half of the mediwizards who signed on for it. Most of them weren't prepared to practise spells a dozen times over, finding the precise positioning of wand and body to make the one-millimeter's difference between cure and disaster. But Draco found it almost ecstatically satisfying, flying downhill after a long slog up the mountain. He could almost have coasted, but instead he devoted his time to making his castings perfect, making them beautiful. Where before he would have practiced a spell a dozen times over just to get it right, now he tried a dozen deliberate variations, with spell fields all round him, measuring the minutely changed effects." Heal Thyself, Astolat

This is more than you wanted to know, probably, but I'm trying a dozen deliberate variations. Measuring the minutely changed effects. I can't tell how a piece will sing until people react to it. I can't give it away until it's done. I do find it almost ecstatically satisfying sometimes.

Looking back on this, it seems almost embarrassingly long, but I've written it out now, so! Thank you! For reading my stuff, and I'm glad you loved my fic :)

[crazylittlejester]

Okay, so I finally finished the big fic rec project! I'm excited about having it posted at last, it took approximately forever to do, and I still have to go back and properly read everything I speed-read because I want to leave comments. The only problem is that I have no idea how collections work on Ao3. But the Tumblr post is done, and that's the important part! Every single fic and series on there is also in my Google bookmarks folder and properly labelled, so if anything spontaneously combusts, we're all good. But heaven forbid I have to go through and format that all over again.

Anyway, we're onto today's brainrot which is kind of the whole point of this. I've been thinking about Hyrule and his cooking (again) and come to two conclusions:

First one being that it'd be funny if the reason he was bad at cooking was because he was a time traveler or something and just stuck with the Civil War and/or WWI/WWII era recipes he grew up on. What prompted this idea? Absolutely nothing. No thoughts, head empty. Like, look, I know Wild's supposed to be the one that's behind on the times, but I think he'd adapt to the modern world fairly well given everything that happens in his games. Hyrule? Hyrule doesn't care. He would just do what he's always done because it's tried and true.

Second one being that he's totally the guy that knows what is edible and then just eats it. Casually snacks on plants while they're hiking, only to look like a deer caught in headlights when the others realize what's happening. Always looking out the windows in the car and then comments on the roadkill and whether it looks salvageable. His yard is a mess and there's an actual garden in there somewhere, but no one can find it, and he doesn't really care because as long as there's edible stuff out there it's good enough. He's also just casually prepared for hiking and the apocalypse at a moment's notice for no particular reason. Definitely owns a Nokia phone and hitchhikes around when the wanderlust strikes, even though he has a perfectly good bike and Twilight's told him he can borrow the pickup truck.

I'm maybe a little bit completely enraptured with the idea of an academia AU and the new version of Hyrule I have been fixated on ever since. Field researcher Hyrule is a win in my book, and you can pry him out of my cold, dead hands.

PS: I am honored to be your "knows ridiculous amounts of random stuff for seemingly no reason" person.

I SAW UR FIC REC LIST AND I LIKED IT BUT I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHIN AND IT VANISHED SO I GOTTA GO SCROLL THROUGH MY LIKES SO I CAN FIND IT BECAUSE YOU COOKED WITH THAT AND IT DESERVES REBLOGS, ALSO I WANNA READ FICS FROM ON THERE

I’m obsessed with Hyrule just snackin on shit he walks past because he knows it’s edible. AND HE WOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE APOCALYPSE ALWAYS 😭 I LOVE HIM

im obsessed with all ur cool facts i’ve literally learned so much from you

[magpierrecanarie]

Found the design sheet! Only took me a while to sort through the mess that's my "my stuff 2" folder. I don't even know why I named it that since this laptop is literally my own.

TL;DR: I talk about my Vocaloid Oliver design, show some progress pics and talk more regarding his overall concept.

↓↓ Click here if you'd like to know more! ↓↓

So... if you've been following me for a bit, you'll probably realize that I've changed from posting everyday to posting every other day. Well, about that, it's because I realized that I'll actually run out of artworks at this rate since I'm relatively slow in making art in general.

Which brings me to today's topic! I'd like to talk about some of the process I go through whenever I design a character, or in this case: Oliver.

Like, I don't know if you've noticed but I'm not exactly good at art, sometimes I reuse poses and it ticks me off, othertimes I literally reuse identical character distinctions and it takes me a while before realizing. However, I do always try my best to not have overlapping character designs so that every one of them is unique in their own way. My personal favourite trick is to add something that's awfully big and obvious that makes them look clearly different, even when they're completely shaded over with black (Oliver's tail).

First things first, I try to come up with a doodle with some sort of concept in mind. There were actually a couple more pre-concept art doodles that I made a good 4-5 years ago that isn't included in this post, I'm considering posting it (+ another one I drew up a year ago) in a separate post since it's getting a bit late and I don't feel like digging it up.

Since I'm playing around with an Oliver from a universe where the Vocaloids are an alternate version of their original VPs (more clarification in the previous Oliver fanart), + I mentioned that his specific side-effect was borderlining on life-threatening (also in the previous Oliver post), I decided to draw him as half human, half Nessie the Loch Ness Monster.

There were quite a number of reasons why I chose her compared to other monsters: 1) I've always had the headcannon that the PowerFX Vocaloids were like a big family, not necessarily blood-related but they're spiritually bounded to each other. Since I personally believe that Sweet Ann and Big Al are Oliver's new adoptive parents, I think it'll be nice for him to also be a monster in some way. (+ the amount of Oliver is a monster/half-monster headcannons in the fandom is uhh, hoo boy) 2) Oliver has always reminded me of a sailor. I don't know why and I'm pretty sure his entire costume is based off of a pre-existing choir's outfit, so there's literally no reason for it to have ties to the sea. Maybe it's the colour palette? Or maybe a Vocaloid fanfiction I read a long time ago that I've forgotten since then? Idk, but either way I really like the thought that he came from either a family of sailors or a family that lived close to the sea. 3) Okay, if you know anything about the Loch Ness Monster myth, you'd know that its origin is from Scotland and not you know, Britain, where Oliver's supposedly from. And to that I say, my argument as a South-east Asian is that it's CLOSE ENOUGH... Plus, I don't think there's other Sea Monster myths that are as easily recognizable as Nessie, who ironically enough doesn't even live in the sea, rather, she lives in a fucking lake. But still, the other couple of Sea Monsters/Sea Creatures myths that I think are decently popular are probably the Kraken or the Mermaids + Sirens. The Kraken is eliminated from the selection since this isn't supposed to be the Horror genre LOL, and the Mermaids + Sirens are a bit too far regionally, plus they're a bit basic (sorry to all my Mermaids + Sirens lovers out there) imo.

There are some ugly AF doodles here but it's what you go through when you're me, sadly.

Also, if you noticed but here I finalized the design you saw in the previous Oliver fanart where he was wearing a merge of these two testing designs of his cloak:

The former was partially inspired by the Scottish Kilt Sash, though it's not very obvious since Oli's not Scottish so I just took inspo from the way it's usually framed on one's body. The latter however was inspired by manta rays, they look STUPID as hell and I love them, so as a compromise, I merged the two cloaks together and that's what became of the current one! B)

It's actually getting a bit too long for my laptop to handle so I'll leave it here for now.💀💀

See you on Friday! B) Might be posting an original artwork then so you can look forward to it!

[neverloseguy]

Hey so, you might have noticed that I stopped posting tank drawings, and that happened for a few reasons:

This is mostly a Guild Wars 2 blog.

I was trying to promote activity on Twitter, which didn't seem to work but whatever.

I have come to realize that I'm usually stuck in this perpetual cycle of "trying to bring ideas into reality" and "scrapping it into the bin because I'm never happy with it". This means I usually just dump my art into an obscure folder and not look at it until months later, where I have come to appreciate it, but for a different reason (sense of progress/improvement) and not because "it's what I like to have at this moment".

All of these reasons has resulted in me, well, not posting arts about tanks anymore, because there is none. Most of my ideas only last a day or two before I decide to change things that would make the work-in-progress, in one way or another, no longer worthy in my eyes, and I "have" to start over.

Instead, I would rather provide some kind of "concept/plan" below, where I would list out my ideas about what I WOULD like to draw. It's going to change a lot as time goes even then, but at least it's just, well, texts, and those takes literal seconds to modify and change as I please. Note that it's a rather long table, so uh...

[collectionofsinglefathers]

I just had a realization about the way I construct stories and figure out plot lines and shit like that.

so I’m notorious for not writing literally anything down. I have so many ideas for different original stories, and also fanfics I wanna write but, to paraphrase jonny sims during the s1 q&a for TMA, I love the process of creating and coming up with narratives but I hate the process of actually writing it down. it’s why I have plans for several different fics, and only have one even out on ao3, and even that I haven’t touched in months, and I think part of the reason why is I get insecure about not finding good enough words to properly capture the cinematic image I have in my head.

but that’s not the epiphany I had earlier, that I already know about myself and I am actively working on it. but I’m also someone who works better if I have some kind of outline for something. the one fic I have on ao3 is a stranger things fic and, to be real, it’s literally just what happens on the show except for my OCs being there also, and a few of the fics I have in mind are like that as well. in those cases, the actual source material that I’m writing fanfic for is the outline, which makes it easier for me. but for other things, it’s way harder for me to actually sit down and work it out to the point where I’m writing it, so I try to make outlines, but I’m also at the whims of my adhd, so it happens very rarely and only when I have the motivation and thought to actually do it.

but I just realized something while on the way home. I had put on a playlist for a fanfic idea for the game stray gods that has been bouncing around my head for a while, and had the thought of “ugh I really need to start actually outlining this, gotta do notes 😒” and then got hit with an epiphany like a brick fucking wall.

I make music playlists for EVERYTHING. literally anything I can think of. I have folders on spotify so that my playlists are at least somewhat sorted because there are so many of them. and as I listened to this playlist I made for an idea of a fic that I’m still working out, and thinking about the laborious (for me) task of figuring out an outline, it dawned on me: I already did. the fucking PLAYLIST IS MY OUTLINE.

I have certain songs that have certain meaning to me in terms of stories or characters. like theme songs. and they may or may not be close to the actual meaning of the song, but for me it doesn’t matter because when I make a playlist, it’s for ME. so it only has to have meaning for ME. like, here’s a good example. I made a playlist for sean finnerty, and on it I put the song cheese by stray kids. now, when you listen to that song and then look at sean finnerty, you would be forgiven in thinking that it does NOT really belong on a playlist about it. except, for me, when I think about that song being on that playlist, I think about a very specific shot of bang chan in the music video of that song holding two baseball bats over his shoulder, and how one time at work when the finale of chapter 2 of candela had aired and I was REAL DEEP in my sean finnerty brain rot, I came across that shot and my brain went immediately to sean murdering a man with a baseball and a chair leg that he used like a baseball bat, and because of that, cheese is now on my sean playlist.

see, that only has meaning for ME. but because it’s a playlist that is for me, it doesn’t really matter if no one else understands it.

I do that shit all the time on my fic and OC playlists. I literally have five or six different songs that represent death to me, and I will use them interchangeably depending on the vibe of the story, like is it a “oh god i’m dying is this really it” type of vibe, or is it a “I’m accepting my death and it’s okay” type of vibe.

as much as I say to myself, and to my friends, that I don’t write anything down (which I don’t), I somehow still found a way to figure out a story and keep it straight in my brain, and I didn’t even realize I was doing it.

[supershanaynay1]

B and D!

B. What was the first fandom you read fic in? Which was the first you wrote fic for?

Oo ok. First fandom I read fic in was Supernatural. Supernatural also technically popped my fic writing cherry in that I actually put words down on a page. However, I have been creating fic in the form of literal scenarios in my head (usually that I would just create before going to sleep) since I was a little kid, in which case it would be Pirates of the Caribbean.

....wait I just remembered a game I would play with kids in my neighborhood that was lowkey a recreation of POTC but I didn't realize that because I hadnt seen the movies yet but I did have a self insert OC that then went on to star in those little in my head fic stories lmao

D. What's the most personal fanfic you've ever written?

Hmmm. The struggles of creating fanfic almost exclusively in my head, I have no idea. The only fanfic I technically have published is There'll Be Peace When You Are Done, which I havent updated in 2 years (nobody look at me or my pinned post on my blog). I do have others in my WIP folder, but they're definitely more ideas than fleshed out fanfic. IF we count creating lore for characters I play in a video game (which that lore document is going on 67 pages and counting and it's nowhere close to done, it's like bare bones beginning stages lmao) I would probably say that just because me and my very high number of OCs are very close from years of creation and backstory and research and also gameplay. There's also the hundreds of little self insert scenarios I just create in my head for funsies, which I will not share because they are personal which would probably actually mean those lmao. Ummm. But technically speaking, There'll Be Peace When You Are Done is the only official 'can actually claim the title of fanfic with actually being written down and published' fanfic I have written, and even not being active in the fandom or in my fic for the past couple years, that is still a deeply personal fic just because the fandom and show literally saved my life and led me to meeting lifelong friends. And since the finale that shall not be named was the way it was, this fic was absolutely created to fix the lives of my little blorbos that I don't heavily project on at all or hold very near and dear to my heart because of the reasons I listed. So that also fits.

Editing to link the original ask post