#so hopefully I can get advice

[demiboydemon]

Me: Miss Internet, I’ve been having a tough time lately. Could you please show me some relaxation and self care tips for autistic adults?

Internet: you should try ABA to learn to mask better :)

Me: ????

[myokk]

I wanted to share the tattoo I did yesterday!!

I really enjoyed the process🥹🫶 My “normal” art is generally a lot more detailed and time-consuming than these fanarts…something I genuinely LOVE is just spending lots of time focusing on the small details & forgetting everything else.

I’m overall really happy with how this turned out, I’ve been practicing A LOT😳 but even so, pork skin isn’t the same as a living, breathing human. I think this design might have been a BIT too complicated to be my first one but oh well…I learned a lot and pushing myself off the deep end is always how I learn best😆😆😤🙏

[cripplecharacters]

Just wanted to send some positivity! I've learned SO much from your guys' blog and continue to do so. Thank you for having this blog, it's always a treat to see a new post. Hope you're all having a great day! 💖💖💖

Thank you for the nice message anon 🩷 I'm glad you enjoy it and find it helpful, I hope you have a great day/night as well :) (smile)

[makorragal-312]

Yeah...I don't really buy that the guy who had a panic attack over his last girlfriend being mistaken for his wife and was more than ready to dump his current one for being a former nun is even going to contemplate proposing to her.

Knowing him, he would be so deep in his eventual gay crisis that he accidentally sends false hints that made Marisol think that he was gonna propose to her. And then, when she's expecting him to get on one knee, he's telling her to go the fuck home and stay there. (because dumping is still hard for him)

[crackmonkeytrash]

I need art advice 😭😭

what colours should I do this painting 😭😭

(I need the background to be more blue is all I know)

It's an undersea dragon inspired by angler fish, eels, and the like

PLEASE I work 20 hours the next 3 days, and am busy one day after work too, before I need to be done the painting and I'm stuck in a colour decision block 😭😭

[choking-on-roses]

One of my cats escaped over the patio wall yesterday evening and she has now been missing for almost a full 24 hours. I am so worried she's never going to come back.

[jcryptid]

Have to routinely stop myself from bashing myself for making characters certain races and genders bc “what if this is insanely offensive to some people?” by asking one very simple question:

Do people like this actively exist?

If the answer is yes, then maybe I can stop feeling bad about giving my beautiful, disabled, black, baby boy dnd character a love of the colour pink.

Ya know, bc art is all about translation, and people are gonna people regardless of if some random asshole on the internet decides their existence is problematic.

[medicinemane]

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[goodplace-janet]

i was so looking forward to having a different instructor for the second half of this two semester class, but i just got the notification that it changed 😔 so i have my most difficult professor again 😔

[pavlien]

i doubt this is really gonna get any response but does anyone have any recommendations for cute wheelchair decorations? my mom can no longer walk for too long and needs a wheelchair now and i wanna get her stuff to decorate it with

[mycological-mariner]

Beautiful thing happened today: the guy doing headshots had these brilliant nautical tattoos and I, a known ship nerd, pointed them out and said I thought they were brilliant. And he launched into how for 12 years he worked on a tall ship at one point as the captain. He got all excited telling me about it and asked if I was working on any ships. I said no, but I’d love to, have wanted to ever since I was a kid; he asks if I know so-and-so, to call him and even just being a passenger will get you credit with skippers. And at this point I’m grinning and laughing and I really want to talk more about sailing and historical stuff with this guy. He goes “Right tilt your head this way, you wanna look warm and approachable yet tough for any skippers!” Probably the best headshots I’ll ever get, those smiles were sincere. Then he recommended me his favourite book - its 700 pages and it’s 300 years of historical fiction called “We, The Drowned” which I’m checking out asap because it sounds brilliant

[phagodyke]

fun sunday afternoon plans my dbt workbook arrived + I have a lecture on adhd + seasonal affective disorder to watch that I signed up for a while ago. maybe either of those will tell me how to survive this winter without killing myself 👍

[4giorno]

oh my god. i just saw some of my OLD OLD digital art like before i made my art blog and holy fuck. suddenly faith in myself completely restored

[honeyblockm]

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1: the character everyone gets wrong

i just answered this but yeah it's fundy and ponk. come to think of it possibly also happyduo. the whole eggpire maybe.

8: common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

despite my best efforts i suspect i live in an echochamber but. spaces out for 10 minutes trying to think of common fandom opinions. you know i cannot really think of a take that has not caused awful awful discourse on my dash. i mean i guess re: the attachments advice that phil gave tommy that caused everyone to try to kill each other on my dash: i dont think it's that big of a deal? if phil gave some bad advice? if said advice was even bad in the first place? <didn't get too invested in that discourse

also i don't think las nevadas had to be destroyed for the. waves hand. narrative. or smth. it wasn't like. the root of all cquackity's evil or whatever. and i think it's good and reasonable that the LN arc ends with q deciding to build it back up again. sorry its my girlfriend

21: part of canon you think is overhyped

bedrock bros ^_^

[crossbackpoke-check]

wait you got me so invested in the stammer & heddy tailor au....

this is my standard disclaimer that i have never posted a fic on ao3* and for however much i say “au” i truly mean that it’s a universe that lives in my head & i am absolutely delighted to tell you all about, all the time <3 if it helps i ALSO got me so invested in the heddy & stammer tailor au

ok now that the author’s note is out of the way here’s some notes about the not!fic heddy & stammer tailor au:

stammer as the tailor from gent’s playbook, very reserved, quiet, with an excellent eye for details (honestly the evidence i have for his style sense is just that he’s best friends with pk subban so it has to be there somewhere if only by proxy irl) is hired by victor hedman, star of the tampa bay lightning who is every other tailor’s nightmare to dress (huge, opinionated, fashionable)

heddy is decently well-known throughout the league for being very well-dressed & becomes quietly well known for also being one of his new tailor’s favorite loyal customers [heddy has the nicest fabrics. he has his suits the first day a new collection drops & e v e r y o n e is jealous]

stammer’s business booms after heddy takes a chance on him as his first big client & promotes him, heddy sees him grow in popularity & get more clients

heddy also moonlights as a model for stammer’s suits on instagram, initially to help him grow his business because then he won’t have to pay for a model and then because he’s over there all the time anyway because they’re dating (that’s why the model’s face is never in the pictures)

there’s not really a plot to this besides the vague idea of a plot where stammer makes heddy his lucky suit that he wins the cup in & sews a special little tag into the lining of his jacket that says i love you

because love sometimes is picking out the perfect right color pocket square to match your husband’s beautiful suit that you fitted like a kiss to the curves of his huge body

& also sometimes love is making your beautiful husband who makes you beautiful clothing enjoy nice things for himself once in a while, like the fancy watch you bought him or the nice suit you custom-ordered for him (from him) just so you could take it off of him

[dreastmilk]

So for starting a fic, I'm very chaotic when I write so maybe this isn't the most helpful but hey you never know

So, as a person who's pretty AU heavy it usually starts with a concept. Then it's putting together my base world. What are the laws/norms of this au, who's what who is who etc etc

Then I go into my beginning and my end. I very thoroughly flesh out my first scene, bits of prose dialogue and thinking to my "inciting incident" to use proper terminology etc while also developing my ending. What's the big thing I'm going to build up too. What's the shift, where do I let all the tension go.

From there I literally start my writing that first scene and trusting in my process to keep going. As I write, I develop these other plot points that will all keep building up to the ending scene while also letting my character dictate the story.

So many things have had to be altered or added or cut out entirely cause one of my characters decided to take the story off the rails

And lastly, write for yourself. I totally get it, getting hits and kudos and especially comments are nice. But your target audience for anything you write, should be yourself. If you write something that you think someone else will enjoy, well, maybe. But if it's not something you would really wanna read, why would anyone else. But if you write something for yourself, well you have someone excited to read it. Don't care if other people wanna read it, if it makes you excited and happy, do it!

Sorry if this was the least helpful thing lmao

aah thank you for the advice! its way more thought out than I expected, but you have some really good points and ideas. I suck at taking advice but I'll try it thank you :( 💜💜💜