#many many concerns and fears

[fella-lovin-fella]

woah my body is straight up freakin it

[moeblob]

Happy Birthday to Ferdinand von Aegir!

I actually made 33 emotes, affectionately known as Aegirglyphics to some, for my own personal use on discord. However, I figure why not share some of them! They're free to use for discord servers/icons/pfps or whatever. However, my only request is Do NOT use them as subscriber emotes on Twitch. You can make them free follower emotes but you are not to make them locked behind a paywall.

[hallowclave]

What a whimsical looking young man I wonder if he has received any job offers recently

Original photo

[steorransaluki]

explorin'

[july-19th-club]

the thing is that dean winchester shouldve died of a heart attack. both because it's what was supposed to happen in faith, had the first reaper in the show not been forced to intervene. and because he's had like, half a dozen of them or something, all told, throughout the entire show's run, so what he should die of is being seventy-eight years old and he just finally stops getting lucky with his cardiac arrests

[mlobsters]

did not have kristen doing some cute flirting?? and maybe kissing?? the adorable nun at the silent monastery in my bingo card for this episode of evil. ok, kristen

[sysig]

You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)

[cryptidapprentice]

i just want... burbger...

[big-city-times]

various villain schooler headcanons as well as a random pb&wham shitpost

[jankwritten]

i think one of my biggest gripes with TSATS is the sentence structure and the way that things are phrased.

Sentence structure: the book is CONSTANTLY using ", and", or "then", or "but" instead of splitting up a phrase into two separate sentences. Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop noticing it. In some places it works fine, but right out the gate, as the first line of chapter one, it 1) caught my attention in a negative way and 2) felt immediately clunky and awkward.

The way that the book demonstrates action also feels unnatural and doesn't flow as well as it could. Things are described as happening "now", such as when Kayla takes her lolipop out of her mouth and holds it at her side, the book narrates it as "now holding the lolipop at her side". We didn't SEE that action occur, we're just being described the RESULT of the action, does that make sense? As a reader, you want to SEE the action, you want to SEE her tug the lolipop out of her mouth, see her hand hang by her side as her expression pinches with anxiety over the discussion. We don't want to just be told that "now" her lolipop is out of her mouth, y'know?

There are also sentences that just feel flat out unedited, phrases that have too many words for what they want to accomplish, or with a structure that doesn't make sense - like on page 56, the sentence "They raced up the steps to the platform, Nico easily outrunning his boyfriend, though that was mostly due to Will having to get his land legs again."

First of all - why are they running up the platform? In the previous line, where we're told their cab driver got them to the station with 6 minutes to spare, the specific choice of saying "to spare" makes it sound like there is plenty of time to make it to their train. In the sentences after, we even learn that Nico and Will wound up waiting for their train anyway, so, the fact that they're running when Will feels sick reads...weird, to me. If I was car sick, and then somebody forced me to run for no reason, I would not be a happy camper.

Second of all - The addition of the final third of the sentence, after the second comma, should be it's own phrase. It should be given it's own space, like "(though that was mostly because Will didn't have his land legs back yet)." because it's not important information, just an offhanded comment Nico is making.

Third of all - "though that was mostly due to" and "having to get his" are clunky and wordy. It could've just been "Nico easily outrunning his boyfriend, who didn't have his land legs back yet." It's a smoother sentence that doesn't get bogged down by the extra words.

And that's just one instance. This book is LOADED with moments like this, where action will get lost in a sentence's wordiness. The book tries to be quick and snappy, in Riordan's style, but it fails because it can't quite nail down the phrasing.

There are also moments where the only thing the characters are interacting with is each other, only grinning, grimacing, sighing, glancing at one another, etc etc, instead of doing actions while they speak. Fidgeting with their hands, shifting from side to side, looking away at their surroundings, that kind of stuff is how you convey a MOOD. Body language is important when writing character conversations!! Is somebody relaxed, or are their shoulders tensed up, arms folded across their chest with their muscles flexed, leaning back on one leg with their body halfway tilted away, as if they were ready to flee at a moment's notice? These are the kind of details that I'm missing in TSATS, the kind of things that feel like they're missing.

I also have a lot of gripes with the dialogue itself.

People don't talk like they do in TSATS. The content of what they're saying is realistic enough, sure, yeah, but the specific way that a lot of the dialogue is phrased? It doesn't feel natural. Try reading some of the sentences out loud without editing any of the words. It doesn't sound the way a human being SPEAKS.

THAT'S what I mean when I say these characters are OOC. The way that they're speaking is uncomfortable and feels as if they're being used as a puppet, or a mouthpiece for what somebody ELSE wants them to say.

[softpine]

i need some input!! i know i said the next post would be in the normal style, but i'm going on a trip and won't be working on sims stuff for a week. but i'll have a ton of time to write in the car, so should i post a long form stevie scene or would you rather wait longer to see visuals with it?

[theweirderofthetwo]

Wanna feel sad?

This is the attitude aviators in general have towards Laurence and Temeraire one(1) day before the treason:

”Captains can choose whom they like; that has always been the way of it,” Jane said, ”but I will not say thare shan’t be a noise about it: you may be sure that as soon as the promotions are posted in the Gazette, I will be hearing from a dozen families. At present we have more likely boys trained up than places for them, and you have got yourself the reputation of a proper school-master, even if they did not like to see their sprouts on a heavy-weight: it is a pretty sure road to making lieutenant, if they don’t cut straps before then.”

…and a limp little Greyling: not Volly, but Celoxia, and her captain Meeks. ”On the Gibraltar route, I think,” Meeks said, to their inquiry, ”if he has not been broken-down again,” rather bitterly. ”I don’t mean to carp at you, Laurence; God knows you have done all you might, and more. But they seem to think at the Admiralty that it is like putting a wheel back on a cart, and they want us flying all the old routes again at once…”

Like I’m sure this isn’t representative of everyone in the corps, but they have definitely been accepted by more than just Lily’s formation. There are officers who have only met Laurence in passing who have decided that the weird navy guy is pretty decent actually and definitely is one of the aviators now. Maybe they think back on how worried and angry they were when they heard that a heavy weight had choosen an outsider for captain and laugh a little, because sure there were some issues at the beginning, but now they have a cure for the illness and a diplomatic soloution with China, so surely everything will settle back into business as usual. And Then.

[adhbabey]

Hey uhm.... idk who needs to hear this... but its not your place to reality check random strangers on the internet. And its not your place to assume someone's experiencing a delusion.

They could very well not be experiencing a delusion, and you just said a rude thing to a person whose perfectly grounded in reality.

And if they are experiencing a delusion, you have no idea what their triggers are. You could very much be triggering someone worse if you reality check them. You could be causing a lot of harm to an individual you don't know.

So don't do that. Mind your fucking business. Unless they are your friend and you know them well, and you KNOW if they're okay with being reality checked, don't do it.

I see this happen most in communities where someone identifies with a character or has a spiritual belief. It's rude, annoying and can be triggering. Don't do it.

I personally get triggered by reality checking itself, and go into a spiral. And you don't know if someone's going to react that way or not. So keep to yourself, and if you're worried about something, don't be. You don't know them. Don't impose yourself on another.

[acourtofquestions]

Dont be angry, Finnula said. Be smart.

[gothmods]

This idea of enforcing lengthly wait times and psychiatric assessments in order to access hrt is a very personal matter to me as well since that was my experience and not only did it cause unnecessary and prolonged distress but also involved downright ableist and ill-informed probing on my status as an autistic person

I wasnt even approved for puberty blockers until 2 years in despite already being largely post-pubescent when i was referred and had to have a hospital board approve my case despite my turning 18 before them passing a verdict

What is so traumatising about the process is the denial of autonomy. I knew the consequences of hrt, i had them rigorously explained to me over almost 3 years of compulsory medical and psychiatric evaluations (including seeing a fertility specialist about freezing my eggs in case i wanted biological children, so i was considered old enough to consider child-rearing but not old enough to make my own decisions about my body outside of that????)

And still i had no control over the decision on whether or not i could start hrt

Then i transferred to the public adult sexual health clinic for the remainder of my care and it was such a system shock because one of the first things the endo said was that it was not her job to monitor my gender identity or feelings - it was mine, and that as long as i kept wanting hrt she would keep prescribing it

Surgery was a similar experience, my surgeon advised me on the best options for my body and the outcome i wanted - and the decision to undergo it was mine and mine alone

You cannot remove regret without removing autonomy

And yet people wonder why teenagers, a group so frequently denied autonomy in the basic happenings of their lives, would be resistant to being denied control over their transition

[self-shipper-snowdrop]

bro how are you brave enough to tell your dad abt this

Because I have the best dad! There's no bravery honestly.

My grandma [his mom] even kinda knew lol, she wished me a good wedding in Harvest Moon jkbvdfbkjfbjfvbjk she definitely didn't get it, but I think she was just glad I was happy.

As I said in the past [iirc, I think I mentioned this previously at least] dad even has written Christmas gift tags as "To: [my name], From: [character I like]". The funniest was when they bought me Book of Atlantic and the tag said it was "From your husband Sebastian" XD

He also extra supports me keeping all my old fanfics, considering how they're like "time capsules" of me at certain points in life. From the age of my self insert to even what she regularly wore in the fic [and how long the outfit descriptions are] can help me pinpoint when the fic was written, down to the month. Basically, a combination of fandom, Bronwen's age, her style, and even her chosen career path outside of writing all tell me when it was created. Kinda like carbon dating but for fanfic, lmfao.