#simply having some Thoughts

[guiltyidealist]

I think that sometimes declining to trigger tag can be okay.

Sometimes.

HEAVILY depends on the trigger in question, the op, and the theme and context of op's page. There's also a right and wrong way to say it.

E.g. I run a rat blog. It's just rats, all rats, wholly centered on rats. Rats have funny tails, almost scaly-looking with a peach fuzz glow.

I could understand somebody being squicked out enough by it to avoid seeing rat tails.

But if they asked me to trigger tag rat tails, well... I could try, but that would be 95% of what goes on my blog and... at that point, it's probably best for the person to unfollow me.

I would fail to keep rat tails off that person's dash. I know my adhd ass. I couldn't keep up with tagging almost every post with a content warning for itself.

Of course I would want to-- I'd want Tail Squick to be able to bathe in the bliss of rats just like the rest of us... but tails just. come with rats

Tails are unavoidable on rats. If you don't want to see a prominent feature of rats, it's best not to follow a rat blog.

But I sure shouldn't go "no I won't do that<3" either.

Rather, I'd wanna say that I do not think I can do that due diligence, that I should not be trusted to do so. They can better keep themself safe from seeing rat tails by not having me on their dash because I would fuck up very often and put rat tails on their dash.

Another example: the word "queer"

"Queer" is not a slur and shouldn't be treated like one. Some people are upset by it, and it's okay to trigger tag it for them, just not as a slur.

I would feel for somebody who asked me to trigger tag q word or something. But I know that I wouldn't be able to fulfill it. I reblog queer stuff all the time because being queer is important to me.

It's not feasible for me to do the due diligence because of how much there is. I know myself-- I would forget constantly. It's best for someone who wants to avoid the word "queer" to not follow me, because I'm not conducive to avoiding it.

I would also Feel Some Kinda Way about having to blacklist my own identity (which is plenty erased) for someone. This is as much a "me" thing as being triggered by the word queer is a "them" thing.

We're both fully understandable and deserving of safe spaces, but our safe spaces aren't compatible. My safety is your danger, and your safety is my danger. We are best spending our time in our spaces that are separate from one another.

Best not to follow a queer person if the word queer causes issues for you, y'know?

Just... sometimes our safe spaces are not compatible with one another, and that's okay -- that's not a reflection of anybody's moral character -- and it should be okay for us to accept that we are in separate spaces and carry on separately, no animosity.

[tazmiilly]

[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

[shorthaltsjester]

have been thinking about the recent interview about the mighty nein animated series where it was mentioned that the series as a whole would be more of a departure and that vox machina s3 is a similar change versus the more canon retelling they started with in s1 and i’ve seen some negative reactions to it but honestly i’m Psyched to hear that is a change they’ve committed to in their writing and storytelling for the animated series because like. we have the campaigns. and for me the moments in the animation that have fallen the most flat or haven’t felt as fulfilling is when the show has tried to capture the Same Thing as the campaign without having the hundreds of hours of context that supported the moment in the campaign that made it Significant. and it is much much more exciting for me to have a changed story that is changed because it is now. a episodic television show and not a recording of actors playing dnd. like . yes actually Please change the storylines to be storylines and not the whims of game players. yes actually please make a good story in the medium it’s being told in.

[lets-try-some-writing]

A little reminder for writers:

You do not have to write 5k words every single day. So long as you do something, even a few words, congrats. You've done what you needed to.

Your writing is not nearly as boring as you think it is 95% of the time. You only think it's dull because A. You are writing it. And B. You've reviewed the scene a thousand times already.

The amount of dialogue to action to monologue ratio in your work does not define it's quality. Some of the best horror is only two to three lines. Emotion can be conveyed through sheer dialogue if it's written well. Descriptions can fill in enough blanks to make dialogue useless. And monologuing isn't bad when done well, as seen by the greatest world building ever done being a trilogy, a prequel, a long rambling origin story for the universe, and a series of short stories for said universe. Most of all of that is monologuing and rambles made pretty.

Don't stress your style of writing. It will grow as you do just like any other artform. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's yours. Find your niche and cherish those who enjoy what you do.

Take a moment to breathe mate. Sometimes life happens. Sometimes life happens a LOT. Occasionally, an idea will have to stew in the waiting room for a while. And you know what? That's fine. It won't go away forever, it just needs a nap while you handle important matters.

If you post your writing, do not feel beholden to the readers who engage with your work. It is your story, not theirs. Listen to their voices, enjoy their praise, acknowledge their thoughts, but do not let them control you. Thou art a person, not a writing machine.

And please, get some sleep. Drink some water. Go outside and talk to someone. Walk under the trees. Feel the sun on your face. Get away from your writing for a while and let your mind wander. Even the most creative minds need time to play.

[prismatic-ink]

another Minecraft SOS update for you all, this time about why there's a "no lore" rule put in place.

Here are my own personal thoughts about this: Good. I think a lot of us would agree that Empires s2 fizzled out at the end and that it was clear, even if they didn't show it, that the CCs were just not that passionate about it anymore. I think part of that has to do with the scripted lore stuff (the other thing would be the crossover which I have a lot of Thoughts about but it might be a bit too controversial, ig if you see an mcytblr confession about the crossover being *ahem* mid then you know who wrote it).

While the elaborate backstories and planned lore segments had their place... these are Minecraft creators, not actors or writers, and I'm sorry to say, but the obvious Lore moments were just a bit awkward and ill-conceived to watch sometimes. I like roleplay-based SMPs, but I prefer it when the bulk of the lore is kept to the fandom, yk? It leaves more room for imagination.

Minecraft storytelling is at its best when it is improv, which is why Empires 1 worked better. I feel like forcing a traditional storytelling structure on a non-traditional format is limiting the strength of the medium (can you tell I also want to write a paper on Minecraft storytelling and its completely unique approach to narrative and the dimensionality of characters, completely deconstructing/transforming the concept of the "protagonist?").

anyways good rule fwhip keep on trucking 👍

[giantchasm]

Hey, so, a while back I made a revelation, and I’m finally posting about it on Tumblr because I continue to have A Few Goddamn Questions.

Alright. So I want everyone here to take a good hard look at Joronia/Spider Sectonia. Something you might notice about her design is that she’s pretty clearly wearing clothes. And like… of course she is— why wouldn’t she? She’s more or less a mirror of Taranza’s design, and he’s wearing clothes, so she is too.

But… Sectonia. The Sectonia WE know. The final boss you defeat at the end of the video game… while she has design elements that evoke the image of clothing, seemingly only the collar, the crown, the gloves and maybe the sleeves are actual clothing. Everything else is just her body.

Which wouldn’t be all that noteworthy if she were a standalone design. Plenty of characters in Kirby, including Kirby himself, don’t wear clothes! I’m certainly not going to point at Marx and accuse his practically running around butt-naked of being weird, but in the context of the fact that Sectonia used to wear clothes?

It kind of makes it feel like she stripped for no discernible reason following her descent into villainy, and that’s really, REALLY funny.

GIRL! PUT YOUR SHIRT BACK ON!!! THERE ARE STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE.

[satans-knitwear]

Super quick pics, before I return to my blanket cocoon ✨

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[knifeeater]

you can do a lot of interpretation inside a narrative's diegesis, but a factoring in of production context and how television works as an industry (the network demanding more lestat, rolin wanting to get to the lestat season, focus in promotion) is crucial to media analysis too

[captainknackig]

Bonus:

Stargate SG-1 as text posts (12/12)

[turbo-tsundere]

Disaster duo eyeballs appreciation post

and sketch.

[seleneprince]

"I wonder what kind of sleepovers they have in Slytherin. Bet they spend the night worshipping the Dark Lord and preaching the importance of blood purity"

"Yeah, they probably just have silly tea parties and talk shit about the rest of us, those pompous snakes"

Meanwhile, the Slytherin dorms on a normal day:

(Spoiler: Pandora and Snape are the ones to suggest it everytime, and the rest of girls follow out of curiosity)

[angryducktimemachine]

I think what I personally really enjoy about AroAce Rudyard is that I know, in my heart, that he would not ONCE spend a single thought thinking he was broken. This man is fully convinced everyone else is just being unnecessarily weird, which really resonates with me, who also spend like 22 years of his life not even considering the possibility that there's something "wrong" with me and that everyone else is simply a little overdramatic over love and sex.

[essektheylyss]

I do love thinking about how the Tales of Exandria: Bright Queen comics interact with campaign 3 in terms of timeline. All we know about the comics is that they occur in 855 PD, except that... there are a good nine-ish different years covered, and virtually none of them are consecutive (and some of them require significant gaps). Lolth is very much present in the earliest portion of it, which spans enough years for a child to be conceived, born, and grow to be, I dunno, four or five-ish?, so at the earliest could've concluded within the past two years.

However, the first part could also conclude after the campaign, and in fact it's possible that that is the portion occurring in 855 PD, which suggests that the ultimate plan for the end of the campaign is not to kill all the gods (or alternatively sets up CR to really lean into the time-honored comic approach of 'fuck it, separate timelines' lol). But for now, let's presume the former, and go back to the situation in which the first part has already finished, preserving the continuity of the overall timeline.

The subsequent part, which follows an adolescent drow, implied to have been killed at the culmination of the first section, being guided through anamnesis, does not feature the explicit presence of Lolth. It does include corruption that she has personally caused—and this section, because the adolescent is somewhere over twelve, must take place after the campaign ends. So even if Lolth were to be killed during the campaign, this suggests that her influence is not then gone from the world. We could also take it as a confirmation that Lolth does survive the current plot, as we know that the gods' influence does decrease when they are severely wounded, as that of Lolth herself did when she was banished to the Abyss during the Calamity, though this is not a given.

Nevertheless, if we take the continuity of the comics and the campaigns as generally in alignment, then even if the most drastic action—shy of Predathos consuming Exandria—occurs and Predathos is freed and the gods devoured, we can say with some confidence that it does not eliminate the tangible influence of the gods upon Exandria.

[ohitslen]

College (uni??) AU catering to my own interests as it should always be hehe :)

[sickosdotjpg]

thinking very intently about a stern, severe, imposing sort of character, the type who despises being seen as showing weakness, who stifles their sneezes as quietly as possible when they're around other people. they sneeze so forcefully that it can't be contained or held back; the stifling is as much of a compromise as they can manage, though it gives them a terrible headache.

thinking about this uptight chronic stifler having one person with whom they feel comfortable enough to let out their sneezes around. it's an unconscious thing, not at all deliberate; the stifling in public is fully a reflex by now, as is the letting it out in private. they don't even realize! their One Person, on the other hand, is Very Aware. 👀👀👀