#reine rambles

[thislittlecowcanfly]

[sitting in a rocking chair while watching my grandchildren] they’ll never know the happiness i felt while watching Free! Iwatobi swim club season 1 episode 12

[bookshelf-in-progress]

No matter how many times it happens, I'm always shocked by how reliably all my problems with any given story are solved by making it shorter. If I go into a story with the idea that it'll be long, that I should use as much detail as I want to craft a full-length and fully-fleshed-out story instead of a short one, it always turns into this rambling, meandering, soulless thing that's no fun to read, and I get tangled up in so many flimsy, sprawling layers of character and worldbuilding that the plot becomes unworkable.

The minute I tell myself, "Let's make this as short as possible," the problems fall away, I find the heart of the story again, the pacing is brisk, scenes get multiple purposes, the world feels deeper because I'm implying things that spark the reader's imagination rather than trying to put every threadbare, boring detail on the page. Every time. You'd think I'd have learned by now.

[united-federation-of-trek]

why has tumblr been sleeping on miniminuteman. y’all would love him

[defira85]

Having a great day staring into the abyss and trying not to cry about how absolutely non-existent any sort of care is for people with chronic pain issues. Trying not to cry in front of patients, running the entire clinic by myself, replying to numerous emails with "I can't do that, I'm by myself today, you'll have to manage yourself" and just getting responses that completely ignore me and say they'll wait for me to update

I'm exhausted. I'm so stressed. I'm on the most painkillers I can take while still being allowed to drive to and from work safely. Nobody gives a shit because if I'm at work it can't be that bad :)))))))

[foreststarflaime]

I want to hear about your Genesis time travel fic idea.

How far is he going back?

Aaaa ofc! *rummages through massive wip pile*

The scenario I had in mind was that the goddess sends him back right after/during that scene after the final fight with him in cc, where he’s in the lifestream(?) and sees her—so he’s hurled from there right when he’s cured of degradation directly back into the moment his shoulder got slashed in the training room incident :)

Right back to the degradation again (but with the mental effects eased up so he can think relatively clearly enough to not go haywire again) oof. I wanna explore what he would do with that and how it would affect him; I love doing deep dives into his psyche! I also really want to write a tearful reunion between him and a confused Angeal

[etirabys]

god help me I'm making a kinkmeme on dreamwidth

[active-mind-15]

Welp, Tik Tok is officially down. And of course they put this fuckass message there praising the man who started this problem to begin with. But I digress.

[nem0-nee]

Statement of Lorreine Delos Santos, regarding a haunting dream from when she was younger. Statement given ██th of May, 20██.

Statement begins.

Reine, The Keen Eye

An intern providing information for various organizations, mainly to The Usher Foundation. Under the alias Khl0ros, they keep an eye on various websites, often on the lookout for distasteful individuals to terrorize and expose.

[ READ MORE for additional info ]

[ TRIVIA ]

aka shit I couldn't fit in

They're currently a 3rd year majoring BS in Statistics (nerdd /j)

In terms of personality, they're an INTJ.

Her DND alignment is Chaotic Neutral.

Surprisingly, they're really bad with technology. Shutting down your computer? Nahh just let it go on sleep mode!

They heavily dislike the head of The Magnus Insitute, going as far as referring to him as "Eliass Bitchard." When asked why, she refuses to elaborate.

She has at least one account running on every social media platform out there.

Their favorite site to use for "info gathering" is Facebook, since privacy doesn't exist in Zuckerberger's domain /j

Blackmailing is their specialty! They love seeing the look on people’s faces when she cites entries of their search history.

Reine loves to sleep, but that's frequently disturbed by her friend... who's an avatar of The Vast. He pulls a prank on her by making her feel like she's falling in her sleep,

Her left eye may or may not be missing...

[ BONUS DOODLES + FULL ILLUST ]

[ END OF ENTRY #074 ]

[untimelyambition]

so obsessed with the end of cinderella’s castle when they finally let bryce charles riff her fucking lungs out hatchet town style

[thislittlecowcanfly]

i’ve been seeing A LOT of hazbin hotel, helluva boss and the amazing digital circus on my dash lately and i think that’s a sign to finally start them

[finchmarie]

Gonna do a little portrait give away on bluesky when I hit 100 followers, if you're not following there come hang out 🖤 Bluesky

[united-federation-of-trek]

why are people acting like canada just walked into the collapse-of-neoliberalism party? progressive canadians have been screaming about this for years. “welcome to the shitshow, canada! now we can all see how trudeau is just like liberal politicians from other countries!” I’ve been trying to tell people that for years. canadian leftists have been warning about how trudeau’s government will be replaced by an increasingly far-right conservative party for years. the only difference is that this debacle is the biggest, loudest one yet, so the rest of you finally noticed

[dwelling-on-downtowns]

if I had the opportunity to go back in time to beat up any one historical figure, it would be henry ford.

at first thought, I figured it would be henry kissinger because you know. it’s henry kissinger. but I quickly decided against it, because in this hypothetical, everybody is being given this opportunity and any good leftist hates henry kissinger so the line to get a shot at him would be so fucking long and at that point why bother.

so I swung back too far and considered rob ford briefly, he’s less well-known and would have a much shorter line, but the scale of his damage is limited to the ripple effects of the what he did to toronto and I figure there’s enough people in toronto to deal with him. I’m not even from toronto. (similarly, new yorkers can take care of robert moses)

the happy medium is ultimately henry ford. there would probably still be a line but much more manageable than henry kissinger, and much more satisfying than rob ford.

[excelsior9173]

mm. smooth brained life is kinda nice

managed to make hot chocolate and order food for supper. completely forgot that i intended to go back to my room with said hot chocolate

have been sitting on the floor in my kitchen for the last 30 minutes for absolutely no reason other than i forgot to get up and move somewhere else :)

i’m kinda comfy though. anti-fatigue mat under my ass, hot chocolate is tasty. wearing my super warm, super fuzzy sweater. i am content

[mammon-s]

I know a lot of people don’t like dom Luci and think that he is so in charge of all other aspects of his life he would want someone else to be in charge for once but like why not both??

[daughterofhecata]

Btw, das Dad!Skinny AU hat inzwischen eine farblich codierte Timeline damit ich meine Subplots und den Hauptplot sortiert bekomme.