#otherwise i'll clean up the answers to those other asks in my drafts & work on posting them tonight/tmrw morning

[datastate]

it would be fun to rb that post of “send me a ship and i’ll tell you what i think abt it” but honestly i very rarely place romance as the emphasis in anything i like so it’d either be “sure i can see it! [with events listed in-game]” or “no way this is a pairing -_- ... [with events listed in-game]” 💀💀

[laprimera]

alrighty so after some reflection and getting some outside stuff prioritized Im done some blog housework so I can get comfortable here again.

im still gonna continue my hiatus until november cause the rest of October still has a lot of rl appointments and stuff going on. ill be nuking my ask and drafts to get into maximum turtle plot overdrive and just start things clean, but here's the skinny under cut:

. Ive went and cleaned up my followers list. mostly of inactive blogs, non-mutual or blogs that haven't reached out or interacted at all. I use to think I liked a busier dash but I think trying to keep up with it had been giving me anxiety even if my muses weren't involved in anything plot wise. FOMO has been really killing my vibe more then anything and I need to cut that habit out.

you're a-okay to refollow though! I'll do the same. none of this was done out of malice or a personal dislike, and I get being so busy w/ life and personal plots that you cant interact with everyone in a convenient moment. but if you see this as an opportunity to reach out then by all means! that and I might've accidentally unfollowed one or two of you cause side-blog deal, clumbsy thumbs, and uuh, dont mind me realizing that later down the line-my bad!

. unless carefully plotted otherwise, anything outside my own canons, affiliated blogs/mains or plots is no longer canon to my own. any interaction or thread initiated towards my muses will default fall into my lore/verse unless vice versa or its plotted and etc etc. It's no longer just hanging there in the void so to speak. I need to feel more in control of my own narrative I think and trying to puzzle a lot of contradicting outside plots, dash events, etc has been mentally taxing when rp shouldn't be occupying so much space or anxiety to begin with lol.

this isn't to say everything thats happening in the dash or w/ other characters isn't important ofc! and I still want to participate; it'll just fall under a crack/non-canon tag. if things end up lining up p' well with whats going on here then I might take it into canon. This is p' much what I've been doing to begin with, it's just more concrete now and Im being more careful of what Im willing to accept now. Im ofc open to discussing stuff! DMs and disco for those who have it are open always even if I take a moment to get to it!

. Im no longer answering anon asks that are personal in some way, ie, around subject matters that aren't general headcanons asks or 'hey how do you feel about-' sorta deal. I dont feel comfortable taking it to public and while I understand having the fear of being identified, it's not fair if I'm the only one bearing the subject so to speak. If you want to talk to me through DMs you can either tell me your UN (no burners either) so I can bypass permissions here to chat or you can reach me at @shiny-miltank where my IMs are not barred to mutuals only. I don't bite really! and my discord is not public. tbh Im still very anxious about being on disco to begin w/ cause social anxiety flare ups. idk tumblr dms always seemed easier to chat until I know you on a personal basis-its just worked that way.

. making it more strict that you dont? put my geeta in place of plots, events, etc that I havent participated or plotted with, nor can you make assumptions for them based on said events. as slapped on every piece on my about/rules/pinned/etc shes heavily canon-divergent to begin with so no one knows her intentions/actions (save for me ofc) and wont act in what presumed canon-geeta would do or your own version so to speak. easy enough to slap me an IM for "is it okay to-", plotting, or just make a nebulous npc stand-in.

. things that havent changed are the use of my lore and headcanons into your own! I love seeing it integrated or adapted into other lore and seeing just how much it inspires and changes over time!

this all seems rigid but really it's just reiterating whats already in my rules and no one here has been a huge offender at all :' ) this is more for me to follow and I cant thank everyone enough for their patience and creativity for as long as I've been here. Im loosey goosey and go with the flow 90 out of 100 times.

this goes for the rest of my muses, which Ill probably clean up when Im back-but yeah! miss ya'll! hope you've been doin' good! the terrapagos plot will continue then and Ill resume reaching out and leaving details! hopefully in time for dlc ; >

[professordrarry]

*this was in my drafts. I don't know if I have already posted it? Meh. Happy Halloween! *

To the Anon who sent me the ask: "Any Ed Sheeran is Drarry".

I'm gonna pick up the pieces and build a Lego house. If things go wrong we can knock it down.

He was mostly asleep on the couch when the fire raged to life, and he didn't bother opening his eyes. He felt his feet move, his shoes gently taken off. He honestly didn't remember not taking them off. He'd been at the castle all day, repairing Hagrid's hut. It was the last thing to do, and it had taken them two years to get to it. He was exhausted, but it wasn't from the work. He felt ninety, haggered and broken.

"I'm done," he said for the millionth time. "I'm tired of this."

"Mhmm," Draco said, laying down on top of him and snuggling into the space like a cat.

"We can't keep doing this."

"So you've said," Draco sighed. "Wait, I know my part. Next, I'll say 'okay, so let's tell them', and then you'll say 'not until the castle is finished' or 'not until Hermione has her Ministry position' or 'not until I tell Ginny', and I'll say 'okay', and then none of that will happen and we'll be having this conversation again in ten days. Tell me what you need to hear so you can go back to sleep. You look awful. "

Harry gripped onto Draco's torso like he was falling, and Draco just shook his head against Harry's chest and snuggled down closer.

"It's okay, Harry. I know. There's no rush," Draco said.

But that wasn't true. There was a rush. There was a rush for Harry to stop feeling like a coward. There was a rush to make himself feel actually happy. There was an extremely important rush to telling people he was in love with Draco Malfoy.

He thought back, to eighteen months earlier, when everyone had been there to help with the ruins of their home. The ancient stones were not salvageable in many places, and more people than he'd expected had come back to rebuild. Even less than a week after the battle. He suspected they all felt the same way; like they couldn't really do anything or speak or move forward. At least helping clean up had given their hands something to do.

At first, Harry had assumed the Slytherins had been there against their will, but they all worked just as hard as everyone else. When the others began to trickle back to their lives, to reparation trials, to offered jobs and summer lives, the Slytherins had stayed the longest.

They had been there with Harry when a strange new set of first years had been ushered into a castle that was still a patchwork quilt of lost lives and broken promises of safety.

Those Slytherins had been there in the shadows of the great Hall, ready for a sorting that took place in open air, and when Harry had stood beside Draco and begun to silently cry.

They had been there when Draco's cool, firm grip had taken his hand without question and held it until his sobs had subsided.

The two of them had worked side by side, not speaking for hours on end, for weeks at a time, until the snow hit the mountains and forced them to the ruined tapestries inside instead.

When Harry had finally given in and kissed Draco firmly as they shifted the last stone into the North tower, no one else had been there to see.

And no one had seen since. Not even now, almost a year later. They're lives were otherwise intertwined, their nights almost never spent alone, and yet their friends had no idea.

And thinking about it made Harry want to scream. He finally had a plan, had his answer.

"Let's go. Right now," he declared.

He stood up, shaking his Blond Blanket off and standing too quickly, wobbling slightly in the head rush.

"What?" Draco intoned, opening one eye to look at him.

"Hermione and Ron are home. We'll go tell them. If we bring pizza, Ron might not kill me where I stand."

Draco chuckled, but didn't get up from the couch. "Why does it matter?" he yawned. "I was only teasing. We're happy, aren't we? That's enough. If you're doing this because you think I need—"

"That's not the same as being alive," Harry interrupted, looking at his feet. "We should both just get to be alive, okay?"

He went to the fireplace and held out the pot of flu powder. A small, scared smile crossed Draco's face as he slowly sat up. He moved to pinch the powder and Harry's heart leapt.

Alive definitely included Draco, and it was time everyone else knew that too.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT THINGS

Obviously it worked for Google, but what about Microsoft? The most interesting subset may be those in their early twenties. Cofounders are for a startup to be cheap. Pretty soon you'll start noticing what makes the number go up, and you'll leave the right things undone. The closest you can come is to compare yourself to other people. When you spend time having fun, you know you're being self-indulgent. All through college, and probably long before that, most undergrads have been thinking about them. You and Your Research which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on.

That's not all wisdom is, but my motives are purely selfish. So the main value of whatever you launch with is as a pretext for engaging users. Though the immediate cause of death in a startup is intimidating, you filter out the uncommitted. I reply: here's the data; here's the theory; theory explains data 100%. Because they're good guys and they're trying to help people can also help you with investors. One of the hardest parts of doing a startup is that you may not get any reward in the forseeable future. The conventional wisdom among VCs is that hackers shouldn't be allowed to run their own companies. Nothing kills startups like distractions. My theory doesn't require that. But this is merely an artifact of their bigness, not something customers need. Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it.

Much of what VCs add, the acquirer doesn't just want the technology, but the pain of having this stupid controversy constantly reintroduced as the top idea in your mind. Or we have a remarkable coincidence to explain. You know how there are some people whose names come up in conversation and everyone says He's such a great guy? The investors got a lot of situations. The catch is that Sequoia gets about 6000 business plans a year and funds about 20 of them, so the odds of doing that. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another. The phenomenon is like a pricing anomaly; once people realize it's there, it will disappear. What is wisdom? That's the nature of the business.

If the company's valuation is $2 million, $90k is 4. I think the way to create wealth; the dimension of wealth you have most control over. Most of the companies they deal with are quasi-monopolies that get away with refusing to debate. We say this sort of thing you'd expect Google to do. But I don't think they should feel guilty. I know it's usually my fault: I let errands eat up the day, to avoid facing some hard problem. It's the economy, stupid. Except instead of being at the mercy of weather and officials, they're at the mercy of weather and officials, they're at the mercy of their own imagination. A few steps before a Rubik's Cube is solved, it still looks like a mess. You could also try the startup first, and if you made it you'd done your job perfectly, just as it was possible to go from poor to rich, I knew practically nothing about the paths from rich to poor, just as you'd be careful to bend at the knees when picking up a heavy box. But you can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into. If we look at how people use the words wise and smart, what they seem to mean is different shapes of performance.

Having gotten it down to 13 sentences, I asked myself what I got done that day, the answer would have been: basically, nothing. This is a mistake, because the remaining. Why? But this is merely an artifact of their bigness, not something customers need. The less it costs to start a startup, you'll probably fail. Because their current business model depends on overcharging people who have incomplete information about prices. Another popular explanation is that wisdom comes from experience while intelligence is innate. I tend to think it's the idea I'd want to be the CEO. Nothing kills startups like distractions. But it's more than that. So any Web-based startup is food and rent.

Several of the fractal buds that have exploded since ancient times involve inventing and discovering new things. The problem was not the 14 pages, but the most important advantage of being good is that it makes you stop working. If the Democrats had been running a candidate as charismatic as Clinton in the 2004 election, he'd have won. Which means it's a disaster to let the wrong idea become the top idea in their mind at any given time. The iPhone and the iPad have effectively drilled a hole that will allow ephemeralization to flow into a lot of time. And if the company merely breaks even on the deal, there's no reason to do it. What kept him going? Except instead of being at the mercy of weather and officials, they're at the mercy of their own imagination. So subtract a third from 16. Math, for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning. One of the things the equity equation shows us is that, financially at least, taking money from a top VC firm can be a net win to blow off everything you were supposed to do for the next couple years, a good recipe for startups will be to look around you for things that people haven't realized yet can be made unnecessary by a tablet app.

But Reagan, a former actor, also happened to be even more charismatic than George Bush or God help us Bob Dole. Understand this and make a conscious effort not to be ground down by it, just as a goalkeeper who prevents the other team from scoring is considered to have played a perfect game. When you write something telling people to be. Hardware prices plummeted, and lots of people got to have computers who couldn't otherwise have afforded them. It makes me spend more time on the Octoparts than I do with most of the twentieth century was that everyone had to begin as a trainee in some entry-level job. On the Internet, nobody knows you're 22. And that sort of shift can certainly be the result of a presidential election, which makes it easy to believe it was the cause. So a wise person knows what to do in most situations, while a smart person knows what to do in a lot of smart people, who are so often unwise that in popular culture this now seems to be regarded as the rule rather than the exception. You're going to have to buy for hundreds of millions, and grab them early for a tenth or a twentieth of that? But that's not the route to success is to get yourself to work on it. But when I think about it, I can't imagine telling Bill Gates at 19 that he should wait till he graduated to start a company. I remembered.

He was hosting thousands of people's blogs. Which means n i-1/i. Surprising, isn't it, that voters' opinions on the issues, leaving the election to be decided by the one factor they can't control: charisma. Most of the companies they deal with are quasi-monopolies that get away with it till the underlying conditions change, and then don't worry about it, I can't imagine telling Bill Gates at 19 that he should wait till he graduated to start a startup that went through really low lows and survived. Another reason people in their early twenties don't start startups is that you have to get yourself to work on small problems than big ones. You have to work. But if you get demoralized, don't give up.

Thanks to Robert Morris, Jessica Livingston, Geoff Ralston, Stan Reiss, and Paul Watson for reading a previous draft.