#new journal idea

[h2g2gender]

The real magic that angel revealed to Solomon was how to format a journal that vibes with my type of neurodivergence. Truly some great knowledge.

Diagrams from a thirteenth-century version of the Ars Notoria.

[bluerosefox]

Of Godsons, Fruitloops, and Lois 'I will drag all secrets out into the sun' Lane

Danny loses his parents due to their own lack of safety in the lab (death? Coma? People finally putting their foot down about the Fenton's endangering their kids? Idk pick). Jazz can't take him in due to being in college and living on its campus (and he didnt want to force her into an apartment just to keep him, he saw the prices and knows she'll have to work to make rent) and Danny fears the only place he can go to is... Vlad. (Sam's parents would never let him live with her and Tucker's place doesn't have the room)

Vlad's been lording it over Danny, smug about it all, after all he IS Danny's godfather and he has the space and money to provide for the boy in his time of need.

Only, when digging into Danny's files, his social worker discovers Vlad isn't Danny's godfather, he was meant to be but the Fenton's forgot to send/sign in the final paperwork (even if those documents were the only contact they had with Vlad over the years before the reunion)

No Danny's godparent, the person to take him should anything happen to the Fenton's is....

Lois Lane.

His mom's childhood friend.

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[whozkay]

this is my new journal!

I'm changing a lot of things in my life lately and I want this journal to be my way to save all the memories and reflections and learnings.

I've been learning a lot lately, I want to learn more and keep this for my (bf's) kids and maybe turn this into a book who knows lol

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm learning learning and learning

[katabay]

L'APPEL DU VIDE

okay so. jack! jack. what a collection of guys. the overlap between jack and the beanstalk and jack the giant killer, though. that sure is something! sometimes king arthur is there, which always takes me by surprise.

this. specifically. is an idea I've been kicking around. jack and the beanstalk is not a story I've ever enjoyed, as a kid it was probably my least favorite to read. as an adult, I was INTENSELY fascinated by reading j.g. ballard's the drowned giant. I think about it frequently, and somewhere during a re read of it, I ended up revisiting jack.

combining different versions of jack into one character is not a new concept, but it IS a fun one! the version I've been assembling together plays less with the fun elements of a jack story (and adjacent folklore stories), and focuses more on the potential for tragic elements with the addition of the usual grim and jagged narrative edges that I personally enjoy.

jack with the backstory of the devil and the three golden hairs, only jack doesn't find love, he's TIRED, all he wants to do is go home, but there isn't a home to go back to. what is the point of being born lucky if this is what it gets you? jack the giant killer, only he doesn't want to kill giants, jack who saw a body of a giant when he was a small child and cannot bring himself to do as a king commands. jack, who climbs up the beanstalk and stops halfway to look down. etc.

to go back to the drowned giant real quick, both to set the tone about jack seeing the body of a giant as a youth, and also because I've been haunted and obsessed with this excerpt of it ever since I read it:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Giant

anyway! this was originally like, a two illustration concept to get out of my system. however. I'm halfway through outlining a narrative. so. maybe it will also be several illustrations and also comic.

[laidee-flegman]

Journaling prompts for when you've got a new start in life

What's one badass goal you've always wanted to crush? Why haven't you started yet?

Describe your dream life in vivid detail – we're talking no holding back!

What's the biggest obstacle standing in your way, and how can you kick its butt?

List three things you're leaving behind in the old chapter of your life.

If your life had a theme song for this new beginning, what would it be and why?

Who's your support squad? How can you strengthen those ties?

What's a skill or hobby you've been itching to pick up? Why not start now?

Reflect on a past challenge – what did it teach you, and how will you apply those lessons moving forward?

Write a letter to your future self, giving them some epic advice.

What's one small, achievable step you can take today toward your bigger goals?

Explore a moment when you felt unstoppable. What can you learn from that experience?

List three things you're grateful for right now, in this moment of new beginnings.

Describe your ideal morning routine to kickstart your day like a boss.

If fear wasn't a factor, what bold move would you make right now?

What's a quote or mantra that'll be your guiding light through this new chapter?

Share a memory that makes you smile from ear to ear – what joy can you bring into your future?

What's a habit you want to cultivate to enhance your well-being?

Reflect on a time you surprised yourself. How can you channel that confidence moving forward?

Write a mission statement for this exciting phase of your life.

List three people who inspire you and why. How can you incorporate their wisdom into your journey?

What's one fear you're ready to face head-on? How can you conquer it?

Explore a passion project you've been putting on the back burner. Time to bring it to the forefront!

Describe the kind of energy you want to attract into your life. How can you embody that energy?

What's a lesson from your past that you'll carry with you into this new adventure?

If your life were a movie, what genre would it be, and what plot twist is coming next?

Write down three affirmations to boost your confidence and self-love.

Who's a person you need to forgive to truly move forward? What's your game plan?

What's your go-to self-care ritual when things get a bit hectic?

What's an old belief or mindset that's holding you back? How can you flip the script?

Visualize your ideal day in this new life. What does it look like, and how can you make it happen?

[new-bug-ideas]

Yellow triginometry shaped bug with one eye who really hates like two sets of twins in Oregon

[syaolaurant]

I'm taking a break from Tumblr and other social media ....

Just kidding 😄 I'm not posting any new paintings but only for 1 week. I'm going on a vacation in Taiwan and enjoy our 1 year wedding anniversary there and will come back next Saturday 😌😌 This is the trip we've been planning for half a year and I'm very excited 🥳 (Is anyone here Taiwanese??)

I'd love to share my journey on Tumblr since I use this blog for everything not only HL. Oh and there's also a Harry Potter theme coffee in Taichung 🧙🧙

[crnl-chicken-tots]

Camping 101 - Roast a marshmellow or two and cozy up by the fire!

[littlestar-center]

N/21/2007

A winter so cold. It doesn’t even think of the people inside the eye. I remember that day, the day my brother came and the person I looked up to left. It snowed and he was clueless. That day was Unfortunate. But since it’s the past, no one cares about how I’m doing..

[raiiny-bay]

:-)

[aleesgaming]

My September gaming journal recap… trying to include more drawings to it!

[tazzx]

Does anybody else feel like their handwriting ruins their journaling experience? Such as I wish to post some of my journal pages, but my hand writing is just not pleasing or straight enough. It is wonky and cursive. it changes shapes throughout the writing process. (Maybe it is cuz I compare myself to other pleasing handwriting and organization)

[suddencolds]

sending u a star!! ⭐️ sorry i wanted to go thru and pick a specific fic but im too sleepy lol but any yvescent piece u had thoughts on :D

[from Fanfic Writers - Director's Cut]

hello!!! THANK YOU N, IT MADE ME REALLY HAPPY TO RECEIVE THIS 🥹🥹🥹

I also realize am responding to this like 2 months late :') I thought for a long time on which fic to comment on, and now that I've posted Atypical Occurrence pt. 2, I thought I might as well write out my thoughts on it while they're still fresh and bc it's close to my heart (I hope that's okay hehe)

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⚠️���️ Warning that I will be attaching snippets from my deleted drafts below!! Please read the published installment before you proceed to read this post. This is a little embarrassing... all I can say is that those drafts were deleted for a reason 🥴

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There’s a grocery store that’s a ten minute drive from Vincent’s apartment. 

I rewrote this scene... 3 or 4 times? It gave me sooo much trouble 😭 I think in the first draft Vincent actually tears up tasting Yves's cooking. (I know, Vincent, I want Yves to cook for me too 😭❗️)

Terrible (ugh 😭) first draft screenshot under the cut (screenshot = old draft, indented quote = current draft):

(Yves pulling up a chair at the end... you can tell he is totally at a loss on what to do 😭 and I, too, was at a loss on what to do)

I wrote this ^, and I was like... this moment just feels unearned? I personally despise outlining + I love going in (mostly) blind. Sometimes the first draft works out of the box, and in this case, the first draft (and the second draft, and the third draft) were all soooo bad that I literally had to take a month-long break to regain my confidence 😭

Anyways! I knew right away that Y was going to cook something for V (it's mentioned here and there throughout the series that he is a really good cook 😭 And in part 3 of Fool Me Twice, Yves promises to make Vincent something more ambitious than hot chocolate. He's finally kept his promise now, 12 installments later 🙇‍♀️ )

From draft 2, there was only one scene which I was sure I was going to include in the final draft, aka, spared from the recycling bin. (But I just checked the final draft and it's nowhere to be seen?? Interesting.)

I would have managed fine on my own.

On this (deleted) scene, and more broadly: I think it's important to me that Yves recognizes that Vincent is self-sufficient in many ways: when Vincent says he will be fine alone, he is telling the truth. Yves doesn't have to stay—he recognizes this too, when he heads for the door in the published draft.

Still, Yves stays, of course—initially, because he insists, and later, because Vincent asks :)

“…You won’t leave unless I eat, then,” Vincent says. He says it evenly enough that it barely registers as a question. Yves smiles at him. It’s not a wrong conclusion. “Exactly,” he says.

It was really, really fun writing the differences between caretaker!Vincent (in Fool Me Twice pt. 5) and caretaker!Yves 😊 I usually don't like to say too much on the end of character analysis, bc I like my work to be interpreted as it is: the text is canon, and everything I'm saying here is just me yapping on about my headcanons. (I have been roasted for saying this by a dear friend of mine, probably rightfully so:)

With that disclaimer: Vincent to me (I can only speculate, etc) is a very no-bullshit caretaker (he likes to enforce whatever will lead most directly to the person's recovery; he actually worries a lot, but his worry often manifests as frustration/snappishness), whereas Yves is a lot more permissive and, for the most part, manages his stress—he is the eldest sibling, after all! I think he does what he can to make it a more tolerable experience :)

“So this is just a Yves thing.” “What? Showing consideration for my friends?”  “Showing consideration is one thing,” Vincent answers. “You could have left after dropping off the files. You would still have been showing your consideration.” “I guess that’s true. But at that point, I was already here,” Yves says, with a shrug. “It seemed logical to check up on you.” “Well, now you’ve checked up on me,” Vincent says. “So you can go.” Yves supposes this is true.

Vincent takes things very literally (and I think he's actually quite aware of the social niceties around these kinds of things, which is in part why he is so skeptical to assume that Yves means anything more.)

There’s a hand on his sleeve, tugging. Yves goes very still. When Vincent notices what he’s done, alarm flashes through his expression, and he pulls his hand away as if he’s burned.  “Sorry,” he murmurs, again. And just like that, he’s back to how he always is—his expression perfectly, carefully neutral, in a way that can only be constructed. “I’m sorry.” But Yves doesn’t forget what he’s seen. “You can go.”

This scene means a lot to me!! It took a loooot of editing to hammer into place (the doc I wrote it on is titled "fixing this scene would FIX ME" haha). I think this is the first time Vincent has actively sought out Yves's comfort 😭 And he regrets it almost as soon as he's said it, because he does not do things without a good justification, and wanting something—even wanting it badly—does not feel like a sufficient justification to him. But give Yves an inch and he will take a mile!! He will take a hundred miles!! That is just the kind of person that Yves is.

I was talking with some friends previously about how I wanted to write Vincent reaching out for Yves. How I wanted Vincent to, through the haze of fever, cross a line that he'd previously not allowed himself to cross :') I think it is a time-old trope to have someone, in their feverish delirium, utter something embarrassing and utterly uncharacteristic of them, or divulge something that has been difficult for them to say.

This whole time drafting, I was thinking, how can I set up a moment like that and have it feel earned? How badly would he have to be feeling? What kind of setup would justify getting past his 590859 mental defenses? (I do not like to outline, but sometimes I do have an emotional beat that I have in mind, and then I have to work backwards to figure out the setup. This took SO much working back from, and I really thought about it for very long). I was almost sure that Vincent would regret it immediately after too 😭

Yves opens his arms out in offering, tries on a smile. “I’ve been told I give good hugs. Good enough to cure all ailments, obviously.”

Ahh, so Y offering V a hug is inspired by a fic I read 6 years ago, where a character offers another a hug as a joke and then the other character surprises them by taking it. Yves is really offering here, but I think he recognizes that joking about it will make it easier for Vincent to accept 😭

Yves has hugged a fair share of people in his life. He doesn’t think he’d be able to list them all if he were asked to. It’s different, though, being so close to Vincent—so close that Yves can reach out and let his hair fall through his fingertips. He can lift up his palm and feel the rigid line of his spine, the slope of his shoulders; he could reach out and trace the dip of his wrist, the form of his hand. Vincent’s chin digs slightly into his left shoulder. His nose is turned slightly into Yves’s neck—like this, he is almost perfectly still. Yves can feel the warm brush of air against his neck whenever Vincent exhales. He is so close that Yves is afraid, for a moment, that he might hear how badly his heart is racing.

I have nothing to say about this paragraph except that I edited it for like 40 minutes straight.

Last thing!!

“We had a habit of keeping the heat off, in the winters, and closing the windows.”

The scene near the end (where Vincent tells Yves about his childhood) is actually the scene which came the most easily to me. I also did not write it last; I jumped around. It took me around 1.5 hours. (By comparison, simply editing the scene before it took 11 😵‍💫)

I did always intend for Vincent to disclose... well, /something/ about himself. (You can tell that when I plan, that's really as far as I plan LOL)

Anyways, when Vincent wakes Yves up (after Yves falls asleep at his desk), I initially wrote it so that Yves wakes Vincent from a nightmare.

But (as direct a link to vulnerability as that might have been,) Vincent would not talk about his nightmare 😭 So I switched gears.

I also specifically wanted to write about Vincent's experience being cared for growing up. I think something that's culturally resonant with me (as an Asian American, and the eldest daughter to immigrant parents) is like, the ways families can and cannot say I love you—the quiet things that are done in place of a more direct expression of it. The way that while unspoken consideration can speak volumes, it can just as easily be invisible. But even now, writing this post, I feel like it's difficult for me to untangle the feelings and experiences I've had into something that feels sufficiently multifaceted.

Vincent has a different childhood from I do (it is probably worth noting that I do not project onto any of my characters, nor do I use them as a vessel to get my own experiences across). I think I'm just drawn to writing tricky/non-straightforward expressions of love, in general :) Sometimes that is the kind of love that resonates with me most.

[gigi-journaling]

Journal Ideas: Starting a New Journal

Hot tip: Do Not buy a new journal until you literally have a couple of pages left in your old one. You’ll be too tempted to start the new one to complete the old one. (From experience 🥲)

Never Fear, Stick Your Sticker There

Gather those stickers and materials you’ve been hoarding cuz they’re “too nice” to use. USE THEM FIRST. Stationery is meant to be used and it will set the mental tone for your new project.

Break In That Spine!

If you don’t have a 180 flat journal like midori md or campus, open the journal and train the spine to lay flat. If you have a flexible cover, go ahead and bend it a bit back. This will make it more comfortable to write in.

Create Pockets!

If your cover does not include an inner pocket, make one! You can glue down the edges of hardy paper or thin cardboard scraps to make a makeshift folder to. Pattern envelopes work just as well.

Decorate a Cover Page and End Page!

Use this to write down some long term goals or what you hope to achieve by keeping a journal. Name, starting date, etc.

Who are you in this moment? Who do you want to be when you finish this journal?

Decorate an end page and leave it blank for future you to write in!

And my personal favorite,

Make A Wish!

On a separate paper I think hard about what are some strong wishes I have. (Good health? A flourishing love life? Strength familial bonds? Finding a lucky clover?) write it down and glue it in! I like to keep it in a tiny sealed envelope.

Remember: At the end of the journal when it’s complete , recall your wish. If it came true, write a thank you note expressing gratitude. If it didn’t, explain why you think that it.

Come visit our journaling community!

[navy-the-tiger]

So I've had this idea in the back of my head for literally years but I was too nervous to do anything about it. Then I found @sonic-fankid-showdown and realized the cringe culture is dead and started thinking about it more and worked up the courage to free them from my brain. I gotta thank you so, so much for that.

Idk if I'm going to get into the tourny but regardless feel free to ask questions about them! They are just baby so they wouldn't be answering directly but y'know

Info about them under the cut lol

Did you know that the Biolizard can reproduce asexually, and those purplish pink orbs you attack during its boss fight are its eggs? Really morbid when you think about it, but it's canon.

I have a headcanon that these eggs spawn as a defense mechanism, like, "oh no I'm about to die, better make sure I live on through offspring, maybe use them as shields and weapons too. Nothing wrong with that at all" and then it's just. Bam. Eggs spawn out of thin air. Yippee.

Since the Biolizard is Shadow's prototype, it's possible he inherited this ability as well. But maybe it's more recessive, like the threshold to trigger the spawning is higher, he's gotta be at death's door, and instead of spawning a bajillion orbs you get 1 (one).

So one day Shadow gets gravely injured and??? What the crud?? There's suddenly an orb here???????? Surprise!

That's their name. Surprise. Shout-out to @mushroom-for-art for the name idea!