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bumblesimagines · 4 years ago

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Part 18

Request: Yes or No

Also kind of short

You stared out at the river, fingers warm from the heat of the mug in your hands. You felt tired, empty, and disappointed. The roof was a nice place to sit and think. Your gaze dropped down to the ground below.

"I don't believe this is the safest way to test your abilities, (Y/N). Especially since Sam doesn't have on his wings." Vision said in concern, watching Sam hype himself up. You shook your head, laughing.

"It's definitely not safe." You grinned, watching Sam. He looked down from his spot on the roof, shaking off nerves.

"Run the idea by me again." Vision said as Wanda chuckled softly.

"Alright, Sam is gonna jump off the roof and I'm gonna use my powers to keep up in the air. If they don't work, Wanda will catch him."

"You're gonna allow this, Wanda?" Vision looked at the redhead. Wanda shrugged, sipping on her tea with a small smile.

"Ready?" Sam called, sliding down his googles. You nodded, backing up a bit, grinning widely. Sam backed up out of sight before running off the roof. You raised your hand, watching him suddenly fly up. He screamed, arms and legs flailing.

"You might gonna to catch him, Vis!" You called as Sam briefly disappeared past a cloud. Vision flew up, catching Sam and flying back to the ground. Sam raised a hand to his chest, feeling his heartbeat as he panted.

"Again?"

"Again."

"Kind of chilly out here, don't you think?" You turned your head, looking at Tony. He took a seat beside you, sighing.

"So, how'd it go?" Tony asked, turning to look at you. You licked your lips, lightly shrugging as you sipped on your hot chocolate.

"Good. I learned a lot about my family. It was confirmed that, uh, I was indeed abandoned by my mother. It's great." You told him, giving a small nod. Tony hummed.

"It builds character." Tony said. You snorted, looking down at the hot chocolate.

"Yeah, I guess so." You muttered.

"What'd you learn?" Tony asked, watching you. You sighed, head tilting up. You stared at the passing clouds.

"That my dad was killed here... By.. The Winter Soldier." You breathed out. Tony stayed silent, frowning as he nodded.

"I.. I can't blame him. He was brainwashed and not in control. How did you react when you found out about Bucky and your parents?" You asked, looking at him. Tony licked his lips, looking away from you. He seemed to think about his words, eyes squinting slightly.

"I.. I was more hurt by Rogers than by what Barnes did. Rogers kept it from me and he never planned on telling me. Even if we didn't consider each other friends.. We were teammates. How was I supposed to be okay with trusting him with my life when he was never gonna tell me about my parents?" Tony frowned, sighing heavily. You bit your bottom lip.

"I'm sorry Steve betrayed you like that." You said softly. You wouldn't want to work with someone who betrayed you either. You took in a small breath, looking at him curiously.

"Do you think Steve knows? About my dad?"

"Unless Barnes saw some similarities between you and your dad, probably not. Your dad covered his tracks. He made sure he wouldn't be connected to his family. Very smart of him." Tony offered a small smile. You reached into your back pocket, taking out a photo. It was of the whole family. Your grandparents, Florine, Michael, and even Gerdie as a pup. You turned it around to the back, looking at the phone number.

'Call when you need me, kid'

"People really need to stop calling me kid." You mumbled, huffing softly. Tony chuckled.

"You look like one."

"Oh, fuck off, old man." You gave Tony a playful glare. He scoffed, touching his chest dramatically.

"Are you really gonna retire? I mean, at this point, you're asking to be called an old man." You pointed out, grinning when Tony rolled his eyes.

"Pepper and Morgan need me. I don't want to be an absent father. I know how it feels to have one and.. I don't want to be like my father. I won't make the same mistakes."

"You'll make new mistakes." You shrugged lightly. Tony shot you a look. "But I'm sure you're a great father!"

"Right." Tony grunted, shaking his head. You chuckled softly, placing your cup beside you. You inhaled softly.

"When I was drunk.. I vividly remembering saying that you suck before passing out. What happened?"

"Oh, you were a goddamn mess. Definitely an emotional drunk." Tony replied, making you groan softly, cheeks flushing from embarrassment.

"You said I was a lucky bastard and you cried.. You also kissed me." Tony looked at you, gaze searching for a reaction. Your lips parted, brows raising.

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Uhm.." You licked your lips, straightening up and clearing your throat. You stayed silent, thinking of what to say in response.

"Pepper doesn't have to know. It was a drunk kiss that nobody really saw, right? I mean, I already have enough on my plate. I don't need an angry wife on top of that." You blurted out, shrugging lightly. Tony cleared his throat, nodding.

"Yeah, of course. It barely lasted a second." Tony looked forward, scratching the side of his neck. Awkward silence took over, both you and Tony unsure on how to proceed without making things even more weird.

"How are you?" Tony suddenly asked, turning towards you. "Like, in general."

"Terrible."

"Yeah, I feel that. Wanna... Wanna talk about it?" Tony asked. You stared at him, brows furrowing.

"Are you practicing on me for when Morgan needs a talk with you?" You questioned, head tilting slightly. Tony shrugged.

"Yes and no."

"That's nice." You huffed softly, gaze drifting towards the setting sun. You watched him, shoulders slumping.

"I feel.. Incredibly alone. Yeah, Nat is here but I can't rely on her. She has her own issues to deal with. Bruce... Bruce is god fucking knows where and if I tried talking to him, he'd probably just stand there. Clint is also god fucking knows where. Thor fucked off the moment they came back from killing Thanos. The outerspace crew is kind of weird. Steve is... Steve. He'd just give me a speech and a pat on the shoulder. Carol barely comes to Earth and she's also pretty intimidating." You licked your lips, shaking your head as you brought your knees up to your chest.

"The people I used to talk to have either.. Died or chosen to leave. I have to take care of a big ass fucking farmhouse cause its goddamn owner left! My life is slowly falling apart and I have to comfort myself cause nobody seems to care enough! I am so fucking tired of feeling tired. I thought I had found a family but I guess I'm not good enough for those." You raised your voice, feeling the wind get harsh for a quick minute. You let out a deep breath, eyes shutting to keep the tears from falling. You felt an arm wrap around your shoulders, gently leaning you against a warm body. You sniffle, a shakey sigh leaving you.

"And I am so tired of crying." You whispered. Tony gently leaned his head against yours, hand squeezing your arm.

"I know.. I'm sorry." He said quietly. You relaxed against him, feeling numb and empty. You looked down at the photo. You wondered if this was the life Michael had wanted for you. To be a hero to a planet missing fifty percent of its inhabitants.

"You know what might make you feel better?" Tony asked.

"What?" You sat up, using the sleeve of your jacket to wipe your nose as you sniffled. Tony stood, motioning for you to follow. He offered his hand, watching you pick up the mug. You took his hand, holding it as Tony led you off the roof and down the stairs. You placed the mug on the nearest table, letting him guide you outside and onto the field. You stood in the middle, looking at him with furrowed brows.

"Letting it out." He finally answered, letting go of your hand and taking some steps back. He raised his arms.

"Let it out. Scream, kick, punch, curse. Let it all out." Tony said, smiling widely. You sniffled, still unsure.

"C'mon, I'll do it with you. On a count of three, okay? One... Two... Three!" You inhaled with Tony, eyes shutting as you screamed as loud as you could. You heard Tony chuckle in amazement, opening your eyes. You noticed he had been knocked down onto the grass, the trees nearby having been bent back by the wind. The grass around your feet were burned and gray clouds had formed in the sky. You noticed Tony looking up at something behind you so you turned, blinking and slowly looking up at the large ice spikes that almost reached the clouds.

"Holy shit." You whispered, taking a step back.

"You're still on the tip of the iceberg with your powers, Elsa." Tony said, getting up as it began to thunder. You felt some weight off your chest, turning to face you.

"You know.. That actually did help." You chuckled, smiling gently.

"Well, I am a genius." Tony replied, digging into his pocket and pulling out car keys.

"I should get going. Pepper's cooking dinner and I don't want to miss it." Tony said. You nodded, walking with him towards the road. A sports car drove out of the garage, stopping infront of Tony.

"All my things have already been sent home." Tony said, looking at you. You hummed, nodding.

"You can be an asshole sometimes but.. You'll be missed." You told him softly. Tony gave a genuine soft smile.

"You should visit, kid. You might like my new place." Tony said, opening the door and getting in.

"Give me a call and I'll visit when I can." You said, watching him buckle up. Tony nodded, sliding on sunglasses.

"I'll be seeing you."

"Not really looking forward to it." You replied, hearing a small snort before the car drove off. You watched it go, sighing softly. You looked over at the spikes, licking your lips.

"What more can I do?"

Tags: @geek-and-proud @wolfelocksley @babyvisionisamenace @jjk-is-my-shit

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michaelmilligan · 2 years ago

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27 36 39 :)

Ask game time! :D

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

Hmmm. I'd say the most stressful characters to write are the ones I personally dislike. As in, not necessarily the ones who are bad/mean people, because they can be great characters. (Looking at you, Michael!) But the ones I'd want to remove from the narrative with a flame-thrower. So I'd say John Winchester is definitely up there, but I also have a WIP with AU!Michael in the Dean vessel and yeah... That guy always makes me want to get out a baseball bat whenever he's on screen in the show, and I'm trying to accurately portray him in the WIP, so he makes my blood pressure go up, lol.

Generally, I'd say writing people who have a calm demeanour and smile a lot but will absolutely kill your family without a second thought is stressful. Unless those characters are also cool and I like them. Hope this helps. <3

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice…what do you Know?

Ah. Very little. I constantly have to google things like 'How do grades work in high schools in Minnesota' or 'Supermarkets in the US' to make sure I don't embarrass myself too much. But okay, that's because I don't live in the US and can only pick up so much from media.

On a less geographically specific note, I always fear my insight into and understanding of people, their motivations and thoughts, is lacking. Especially when the people I write about have different opinions and life experiences from me.

Wait, this was about what I DO know. Okay. So:

1. Bert and Ernie are gay...

2. There's a difference between the median and the average of things, and you should always differentiate which one is used (if any of the two - there are also other measurements) and be critical about what that number actually means. Especially in statistics, when conclusions are drawn from certain figures in a study and stuff like that. Just. Be aware. (Also be aware of percentages. A 50% rise in probability sounds like a lot and possibly alarming until you look at the actual numbers and realize the probability has gone up from 1% to 1.5%.)

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

This is a difficult question. There have been times in my life where I've barely written (if at all), but it was more that I had other things going on rather than me giving up. I mostly write for myself, and have only recently started sharing the fanfics part online. (It's been a little more than a year.)

Before that, only my closest friends and family got so much as glimpses of my writing (mostly original stuff). Writing is almost automatic for me - the ideas are there, anyway, and I spend a lot of time in my own head thinking about them. Writing them down is just a way to retain the ideas, to bring them in a form that I can enjoy again later on. (Yes, I read my own stuff. No, I don't always like it. But some of it is entertaining.)

So writing is more an outlet so that the stories don't get lost in my brain. And even when the writing is bad, the idea is still preserved, and I could always re-write it to salvage the story.

As for specific stories... Sometimes it's hard to get myself to write, but it's mostly because I get hung up on a certain scene and don't know how to get to a part that's more fun. This can keep a story in limbo for a long time. But what usually helps is to - once again - spend some time in my own head thinking of that scene, getting myself motivated for it again. And then forcing myself to put sentences into my Open Office Doc, even if they're not great. I can always fix them later. As long as there's a basis I can go back and re-do it.

So tl;dr: I don't really ever think about stopping to write. If anything, I would stop sharing my writing. Because the stories are a part of my life and I don't want to lose any of them (Shout out to my fifty billion WIPs). I'd still write if I thought I was terrible (which I do sometimes) and if I lost motivation I'd just take a break (on a specific story or just in general) and then come back later more refreshed.

#Thank you for the ask!#Not sure if this is what you wanted from the questions but here you go XD #You gave me an opportunity to ramble and I took it #This is mostly about fanfic because that's what I usually write these days #The original stuff is all lying in a metaphorical drawer #(Aka a folder on my laptop I rarely ever open)#Quick writing

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mayans-sauce · 4 years ago

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Halloween Prank with Riz (October/Halloween Fest) 🖤🎃

Gif Credit: @angels-reyes

Photo Credit: Google

Word count: 666 (I’m not even joking)

Warnings: nothing really, just a little bit spooky!

A/N: Happy Halloween🎃👻🖤 enjoy a little spooky Riz fic👹

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It was Halloween night. You and Riz had decided to spend the evening watching horror movies.

Cuddle up on the couch with Halloween snacks and each other. Everything was fine until the power in the house went out. “Well that's not scary at all”. “Don't worry baby. I'll go and fix it. Just stay here. I know how much you hate the basement”. Yeah you really hated the basement so you were thankful that you didn't need to go down there. “Hurry please”. “I'll be right back”.

You took your phone out and put the flashlight on so that you weren't sitting in the complete dark. You waited a while. Why was it taking so long? Surely it couldn't be that hard to fix the lights?

Suddenly you heard a loud scream that sounded like Riz coming from the basement. In a panic you got up to your feet, phone in hand as you called out for him. “Michael! Michael are you alright?” ...... nothing. You tried again to call his name but he didn't answer. Worried that maybe he was injured you made your way to the door of the basement.

Standing at the top of the stairs you shined the light on the steps to see if you saw anything. “Michael.. is everything ok..? I swear to God Riz you better not be messing with me..”. Again nothing.

“Alright I'm coming down”. Slowly starting your descent down the stairs. The wood lightly creaking under your steps. Your heart started to pump faster. What if someone had broken into your house and turned off your lights on purpose to get you both down here to kill you? What if Riz was dead? Fuck why didn't you bring a fucking knife with you.

When you got down you stood still for a few seconds to listen to any sounds. It was quiet as a mouse down there. That made you even more terrified. Making your way to the circuit box, the light of the phone helping you navigate in the pitch dark room.

A chill suddenly ran down your spine. You couldn't shake off the feeling like something was watching you. No, no time to start imagining things. You needed to make sure Riz was ok.

You felt light breathing behind you. Your blood turned cold when you felt a hand on your shoulder. Fuck. This is how you fucking die. Someone had come to kill you. You turned around and was met with a horrifying face. A face of a demon. You screamed. Like they do in the horror movies. You didn't know what to do. So you did the only thing your mind could think of. Getting down to the ground in a fetal position. It was no point in running. You were going to die no matter what.

This had all happened so fast. Maybe only a few seconds. But for you it felt like minutes.

Laughter could be hear and you immediately recognised it as Michael... That little fucking shit. He had scared you so good and he was enjoying himself to the max.

“Are you fucking kidding me Michael?! I almost had a fucking heart attack. I really thought I was going to die. It's not fucking funny! If I brought a knife down with me I would have stabbed you”.

Taking of the demon mask he was still laughing. “Oh you should have seen your fucking face. Absolutely priceless”. “Shithead” you mumbled under your breath. He offered his hand to help you up. You looked at it a little hesitant but accepted in the end. Pulling you up and into a big hug. “I'm sorry baby. But I did prank you really good you have to admit that”. “I fucking hate you”. “I love you too”.

You both stood dead still when you hear a few cans get knocked to the floor. Looking at each other, mouth's wide open. Both of you sprinted as fast as you could out of there.

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found-family-my-beloved · 3 years ago

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When it's time to sink or swim I always choose to do the backfloat

Fandom: Dream SMP

Relationships: Wilbur Soot & Tommyinnit, Ranboo & Tubbo, Tommyinnit & Ranboo & Tubbo, Wilbur Soot & Philza, Wilbur Soot & Fundy, Wilbur Soot & Yoghurt, Fundy & Yoghurt, Wilbur Soot & Eret, Eret & Fundy (mentioned), Wilbur Soot & Ranboo (tags to be added in later chapters)

Characters: Wilbur Soot, Tommyinnit, Philza, Fundy, Yoghurt, Eret, Ranboo, Tubbo (mentioned), Ghostbur (mentioned), Shroud the Spider (mentioned), Michael_Beloved (mentioned), Technoblade (mentioned), TipTup and Tiddy Pang (mentioned), other children on the server (mentioned), Karl (mentioned) (tags to be added in later chapters)

Word count: 1646

Chapter: 5/6 - Ranboo..? (Previous chapter)

AO3

Summary:

“Tubbo and Ranboo have been bugging me to bring him over for a play date with Michael since he's ‘pretty much my kid’ apparently. First off he's not my kid, he's a fuckin’ spider, and even if he was, my Shroud would be far too good to have to make the trek all the way over to that snowy shithole for a playdate.”

Wilbur stopped pacing and stared at Tommy, who had gone back to rifling through chests again. Oh shit.

“Michael?” he asked, trying to sound as nonchalant as possible.

Or "the 4 things Wilbur finds out about the _Beloved family through others + the 2 things he finds out about them directly"

Author's notes:

We're onto the +2 part of the story! Reminder that this is canon divergent from around the stream Tubbo joined Las Nevadas with Tubburger, so Hitting on 16 and anything after those streams probably won't apply here! I'm going off that one interaction with Foolish over the shulker box deal for characterisation here (and if I seem to be projecting autistic masking/unmasking here, shh no I'm not you can't prove anything). Admittedly there was gonna be a chapter between Eret's and this chapter focusing on Puffy and Wilbur going to therapy but I didn't really have enough to write it other than an intro. If there's a particular want for it, I'm happy to try again and post it some time in the future. There's also a brief mention of languages and I need people to know that I did so much googling about minecraft linguistics only to find an unfortunately small amount on ender. But I did find someone who made a conlang (an artificially created language) for Middle Ender which was really cool so I'm leaving it here!

"Y'know, I heard something interesting the other day."

While the statement alone should have sounded like a pretty normal conversation starter, there was something about the tone Ranboo used that made Wilbur freeze. Maybe it was the purple particles that seemed to be popping up around him or maybe it was the fact the seemingly innocent tone didn't sound quite as genuine as it usually did.

"Oh? What was that?"

The fact that Ranboo turned to him and leaned on the counter, trying to make an alarming amount of eye contact did nothing to ease his nerves.

"I was talking to Tommy and he mentioned that he had been complaining about Tubbo's insistence on a playdate between Shroud and Michael to you. He assured me that you already met Michael as Ghostbur so it was fine, but that you 'briefly forgot who he was before remembering'. Is this conversation ringing any bells?"

Shit. Wilbur should have known this would all come back to bite him in the arse eventually. He was just hoping for a miracle and a sudden increase in memories before it happened.

"It... might do? Sometimes things take a second to come back, right? You know how memories are." Wilbur was hoping he'd seem relatable and be able to get off easy, but judging by the unimpressed look on Ranboo's face, that was very much not the case.

"Cut the crap Wilbur. Do you actually have any of Ghostbur's memories? And believe me, I'll know if you're lying and it won't help this conversation go smoothly."

Well that was one possible response out the window, especially as it was difficult to judge the best approach when Ranboo was acting so differently. Puffy had said if he wanted to convince people he'd changed he would have to prove it through actions though, so might as well give it a shot. Even if doing so talking to one of Tommy's best friends was a risk.

"I suppose his memories could be described more like occasional flashes of deja vu... rather than actual memories..." Wilbur said reluctantly.

Ranboo sighed, only breaking eye contact to briefly close his eyes in disappointment. "Do you want to know why I took on this job? The actual answer, not just the one I would use to be polite.”

Wilbur nodded slowly against his better judgement.

“Because Tubbo said that he could forgive you, but he couldn't trust you. Believe me, I hated what I saw in that conversation on the anniversary and if I'd been able to, I would have spoken up then."

"So why didn't you?" Wilbur couldn't stop himself from asking. Because this conversation is a far reach from one he would usually have with Ranboo and while the platitudes and the masking were nice, he got the feeling this would be one of the few times he could actually hear what Ranboo was thinking.

"...Among other things," Ranboo said after thinking for a moment, "It wouldn't have helped Tubbo. On the anniversary of his country, the last thing he needs is his husband yelling at his predecessor. So instead I thought I could protect him in another way. If you did genuinely change and showed that you could continue to be better, then there would be someone around to see that progress if I worked here. On the other hand, if you showed that change was too difficult for you... I could keep you as far away from my family as possible."

Wilbur involuntarily shivered. He'd had to hold back from correcting Ranboo about it being his country, but Tubbo clearly loved L'Manburg as much as Wilbur had. He wasn't entirely prepared to admit that Tubbo had maybe loved it even more, just that they had used that love in different ways. Wilbur had used that love to destroy it when things went too far; Tubbo had used that love to rebuild it, maybe even improve it.

Now though he was glad he hadn't said anything, because despite the lack of detail, that vague threat had been kinda fucking terrifying. Ranboo clearly knew it had had the intended effect as well.

"Listen," the half-enderman sighed and spoke a bit softer, more like he’d usually sound, "I can see you're trying. You've been spending time with everyone, helping or just talking to them, and things have been going well. But one thing Tubbo and I decided when we started working for you and Quackity was that Michael was not gonna come into anything relating to Paradise Burgers or Las Nevadas. You may not have intentionally found out about him from Tommy but we've spoken to both Fundy and Phil. Digging into the topic more is crossing a line. If you want to ask questions, ask one of us and we will decide what information we want to share with you."

Wilbur nodded. "I understand. I was so caught up in making sure Tommy wouldn't find out that I had no memories that I crossed boundaries and for that I am sorry."

"Good," Ranboo didn't seem happy but at least seemed a bit less stressed now that Wilbur had apologised. "Tubbo and I won't tell Tommy, partly because it's not our place, but you should really consider telling him yourself. I know what it's like to keep a lack of memories hidden from other people, either because they'll worry more or simply because it's convenient. But the longer you leave it, the worse it's going to be when he eventually finds out. Besides, Tommy went through a lot while you were gone. Let him tell you what's happened rather than assuming you already know about it and just don't care."

Wilbur hadn't thought about that, but Ranboo was right. He'd heard about a second exile and remembered something about a beach, but that was the extent of it. And clearly something pretty dramatic happened for Dream to go from this almighty power on the server to being stuck in prison. But more importantly...

Wilbur sighed. "Tommy's really changed hasn't he? Sure he pretends everything's the same but there's something... different there. He's still loud and annoying, but maybe there's more of an awareness there now?"

"He's a lot more intelligent than you give him credit for, y'know. Heck, he's been teaching us basic piglin recently so we can communicate easier with Michael, which hasn't been easy! At least Ender uses similar sounds to common..." Ranboo grumbled but Wilbur was more stuck on the fact his brother had learnt a whole new language since he'd been gone. Or maybe he'd known it the entire time? Maybe Techno had been around often enough before L'Manburg fell that Tommy had picked it up without saying anything.

"I had no idea." Wilbur admitted. Ranboo didn't look surprised at the admission but decided not to press the subject further.

"Also if you want to talk about your memory problems more, Karl and I have meetups every few weeks. Sometimes he needs to reschedule at the last minute, so it's not completely set times, but we spend most of the meetup talking about any potential memory retaining methods we've found, realising they're pretty useless and then just complaining about things. It doesn't do much for the memories, but it's just nice to be around someone who gets it. If you want to join, I can make a note and let you know when we've arranged something?"

"That would be really nice." Wilbur said, perking up a bit at the new topic. "I don't think I've heard anything about Karl since I've got back, besides the fact that Quackity looks ready to murder someone if he or Sapnap are mentioned."

Ranboo winced. "Yeah, Karl's pretty happy to talk about his fiancees but since Sapnap's the only one he spends constant time with, he needs a bit of prompting to remember Quackity. It's pretty sad, but there isn't really anything either of us can do, since Karl doesn't want people knowing about his memory issues and Quackity isn't likely to believe either of us anyway."

A few brief images of Phil and Tommy came to mind as Wilbur nodded in understanding, some more recognisable than others. If anyone could relate to the fear of people treating you differently for having memory issues though, it was him.

"Anyway, I'll send you a message when I've spoken to Karl. It's getting late though, so I'm gonna head on out. And you've got a lot to think about!" Ranboo turned and started walking towards the door, when Wilbur suddenly called out to him.

"Hold on! I just quickly wanted to ask..." Wilbur waited until Ranboo had turned around again to face him. "I... know there's a reason you started this conversation and I still have a long way to go. And I'm going to improve, that I can promise! But... if there ever comes a time where you think I've improved enough and Tubbo maybe starts trusting me again, is there any chance I could meet Michael? As me this time, rather than Ghostbur."

From the expression on Ranboo's face, he could already guess what the answer was going to be, but it was worth asking. But rather than immediately dismiss him, Ranboo thought for a second before sighing.

"We'll see. If it really seems like things are improving and Tubbo feels comfortable then maybe. But don't get your hopes up," Ranboo responded.

Wilbur nodded. A reluctant maybe was as good as it was going to get, so no point in pushing. If nothing else he appreciated the honesty.

"Okay. See you tomorrow, Ranboo! Another busy day of work coming up!" Wilbur tried to joke.

Ranboo gave a small smile. It was more polite than genuine but was better than nothing. "Yeah, see you tomorrow, Wilbur."

And with that, he was gone, Wilbur left alone with his thoughts once more.

#dream smp fic #dream smp #dsmp #wilbur soot #dsmp fanfic #dsmp wilbur

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selfcareparker · 4 years ago

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(lovely anon) i'm so happy to finally be answering this oh my goodness hi gorgeous human being i feel that it has been too long 🥲 SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST TIME I'VE WRITTEN ONE OF THESE HOW HAVE YOU BEEN

to answer the things you have said most recently- i'm so mad that spring break is over bc now i have to go back to life??? like dancing and school and shit that feels so unnessacry 😭 and like i can't just do nothing anymore? i was so used to it and now...... ugh. i STILL haven't played sims (i think it's because ✨depression✨ be hitting sometimes) lol but MWAHAH IM SO HAPPY FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR!AU AND THAT THEY HAD LITTLE BABY LEO!! i feel the name thing.. i just come up with something that sounds nice? i think leo is a nice name, it makes me think about lea michele and the fact that her son's name is Ever Leo but anyway. i don't name my sims after what i want to name my children irl either... idk why though. (i don't know why i'm telling you this but for boy names i love Liam🥰 and if i had twin boys i think i would do Liam and Peter though i am not married to the name Peter.... anywho)

LMAOOO the therpaist coming made me laugh thank you :)) i hope it's helpful? this may be tmi but i've only really had negative thoughts recently and not many healthy outlets so i'm hoping crossing one thing off this sad list will make me feel better :') i think during spring break my anxiety and my depression really spiked? idk, it comes in episodes but yeah THIS GOT REALLY SAD

i think a lot of things when i read your posts but i never say them hahaha so imma say it now: i googled what bon appetit meant ( i also just had to google how to spell it ) but ur right, i feel like bone apple tea makes more sense than bone apple teeth.. the "th" is throwing me off bc how i say it bone appa (like app-a) teet (like you're saying tit but teet lol) so bone apple tea makes more sense to me lol

i never know really know the time difference for anything lmao but est to germany (that's not gmt is it?) is like 6 hours wOAH so it's like 9pm while it’s 3pm here? wowee

i feel mega weird after watching this show called hollywood (darren criss is in it, so is laura harrier and a bunch of other people) but i don't like it💀 i feel really icky rn and idk why but reading your last response to my ask (?) always makes me feel better :')

i am doing what you said btw, i'm typing this on my computer first then gonna transfer it to my phone's tumblr lol but when you said a digital detox, it's interesting cuz i feel like i've been having one since tom's new project was announced? gOD i don't wanna get into it bc i get so triggered but i've been off of instagram since then bc instagram stans literally stand by tom through whatever even when something ain't right- i’m just gonna leave it there bc i’ll continue the rant, but yeah so i took a break lol

also heard abt your driving lesson thing (?) was it that bad? i can't find the old post but someone asked if you hooked up with your lesson person and i was sOOO CONFUSED LMAOO LIKE OK ARIA GET SOME BUT UHH HUH?

now to address the actual response HAHA the way you touch my heart :') by :') bringing :') up :') halle :') being ariel :') (i honest to God don't remember if i brought this up first, forgive me if i did, it's been a minute lmao) i'm always talking about it and i'm pretty sure my family is so tired of me talking about it lmao, but YEAH when i found out they weren't twins i was so surprised but idk why i always thought they were twins? but YOU ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE WITH THE DISNEY TALK- everyone is always like "tiana is my favorite princess" and yea she's strong and stuff but...... she was a frog. for almost the whole time. it's about time we got another one!! i do agree with some people on the fact that disney should just make another black princess but halle is adorable and i was ariel on stage so it's already really special to me :')

yeah lol there are good times with my brothers but they make me mad for a good portion of the time (there's the 12yo vincent and the 7yo daniel but vincent??? psshhh he is a piece of work and i'm not sure how much longer i can put up with him HAJAH AND YES VINCENT IS THE ONE WHO WAS 👁👄👁WHEN I CRIED AND THE ONE WHO DOESN'T LISTEN TO MUSIC- writing this now makes it sound like vincent is awful. which he isn't... we're working on him ig. not to add to the awfulness but no, he listens to obnoxious loud VIDEO GAME MUSIC and won't stop when we ask him to stop... he gets beat up a lot) anyway i imagine being an only child is really calming.. like you have time to yourself and its just you and your parents 😌

yeah let me know if you end up watching it (wandavision)! i think it's great but if you like it lmk!! tfatws is sooo good like PHEW i am honestly loving it. sidenote: j*hn w*lker makes me wanna jump through the screen and choke him to the ground. i was thinking right, and the falcon and the winter soldier (THATS SO MUCH EASIER FAJHKDAH) would techinally be like a 10 hour movie right? because every episode is an hour long and there'll be 10 episodes? like wow. i get what you mean though, abt the racism in the show etc, like looking forward to it but not like..... no i get what you mean i will not try and give another example lol but you make me wanna learn more languages like really badly (bc of what you said about the german to american translation) & if you end up watching hamilton PLEASE LMK ABT THAT TOO HAHAHA i love it so much, same thing with lion king lmaoo

speaking of germany, i was at lunch on saturday with my mom and her friend and we were talking about my schooling and like-- she planted this idea in my head lol like what if i just got my GED and went around the world (to england probably) to get a theatre experience??? and i think it sounds so cool but no where near practical lol, it's just..... the dream haha and i would then try and learn a language 😉

uh yes we absolutely should order basically a resturant meal at a cinema, how about burgers, chips (fries), and a large drink? any time next week works for me, should i pick you up?

also about cherry (which i still haven't watched yet lol) i got the timestamps from tumblr😌 i couldn't find them anywhere else, but i agree, i probably wouldn't even look twice at cherry if tom wasn't in it? like i liked tdatt a lot, but it's not a movie i would be itching to see ya know?

HAHAHAHA THE 24 HOUR NOTIFICATION- i think i have around 1030 hours on sims? but i've had it since 2019 lmao (reading the screenshots, yes u are 100% a genuis, i take screenshots too but on anon you can't upload them so i just read them and retype what i wrote lmao) i think the university experience in the game is fun, but time consuming and it's all work imo. idk why i do it so often tho 😭😭😭

and agreed!! when you're making good money in the game you have to find other ways to make it interesting. my cousins who play it just continously do "motherlode" and i'm like.... then what do you do in your game?? it just sounds boring to me... my current sims household, i had a famous comedian sim, her name was dylan, aND SORRY IM LAUGHING SO HARD WHILE WRITING THIS BC ITS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE UNI THING UNLESS IM JUST DUMB, she went to college for communications when i wanted her to be a comedian and when she graduated i realized that degree did nothing for the career 🥲 so yeah, i think i'm just dumb. but she had a kid in college, guy didn't stick around and she was pretty broke HA but then she got married to this (great) guy named steve, made good bank, had 5 more kids (two sets of twins and one more lol) but then she passed. uhm... yeah that's still an open wound . lol i'm kidding, but when you get rich like that, you have to find a way to make the game interesting and i chose a million kids.

(this was one giant paragraph until i broke it up uhh yeah) i seriously don't pay attention to the sims prices and just end up spending way too much money and not being able to finish the rest of the house😭 but then again, i'm so used to having sims live in apartments... if i end up building a house FIRST OF ALL it'll look like what you explained before lmao but i'll tell you if i actually end up building a house HAHA & planning out your sims game is so fun to me lol, did enisa and michael take in his daughter yet? i may be thinking too far ahead lol and i love that they fucked woohooed (i say woo woo lol) in celebration HAHA but when i was playing with this one couple i had them woo woo every night hoping the dude would have horrible pull out game and they would concieve, but one night they were too tired and i was like why? get back in there man. if i was in college and lived with my partner we would be fucking every night homie. be grateful. i have been talking a lot about sims, and like you said: enough 💀 i just love this game a lot 😭😭

SORRY LAST THING i think the sims romantic and sexual stuff is so nice bc its what i want?? LMAO IDK like the whole hot tub thing you're talking about- puh lease ITS JUST NICE TO SEE OKAY

i'm reading the german section over again and i said aloud "my german friend is so cool" lol (i was saying that to my brothers & i know they don't care LMAO) (& i'm glad the uni zoom call went well!!) so on a form, in german, it could possibily say Einführungsveranstaltungsteilnehmer because you would be a participant to an introductory event? i swear german sounds so cool 😌 but i love reading your german lessons!! it's really interesting, most of the time my brain can't comprehend it tho?? like that word makes sense to you, but i need a translation. like to be able to look at that and know what it says.... its just appealing and seems so cool lol i kinda wanna write something out in german but i feel that google translate will fail me. während googeln "google übersetzen" mein Computer war so verdammt langsam und es fühlte sich einfach wie etwas Gutes auf Deutsch zu sagen. ich bin nicht sicher, welches Wort ist "fucking", aber ich mag es lmao (did it fail me like i thought it would??)

LMAOOO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP JUSTIN BC WHILE AT THE RESTURANT THEY PLAYED A JUSTIN SONG AND I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF YOU AND THIS STORY😭 lol i was thinking it's depending on your age but not even that either... i really don't know.... but tom's fans are hollanders💀 i would consider myself one? he's the only person i'm really into like that (like a lot lol) so idk lmao (directioners 💔💔the pain is real)

LMAOOO (both of these paragraphs started off with “lmaooo” smh) "i like my men when they look like they are on the brink of death" PLEASE, i don't like pete's blonde hair... i just don't. i'm not sure if i wasn't watching the most recent snls but yea. my mom thinks he looks like trash, but i think he's okay? like he said staten island people just look like trash LMAO and I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN KING OF STATEN ISLAND GIRL I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THAT!! now i'm gonna make plans to watch it lmao, & yes agreed i find pete hot, don't ask why i really couldn't explain it to someone he's just .

my favorite songs from rex are from pony oh my goodness 🥺 anywho i'm gonna go eat cereal (i ended up eating bun and cheese instead) and listen to the Stormzy songs you recommended... aria. aria aria aria. i would like to thank you for introducing me to stormzy i- i don't have any words or any emojis to express HOW GOOD STORMZY IS. i hope he's popular in germany/the uk because i haven't heard of him but GURLLLL

one second - delicious i love it. it's really good. it’s not my favorite from the album, but its great.

superheroes - at first i played the non-explicit one (on accident) and wondered why the words weren't playing but i was reading them in the lyrics??? THIS ONE THOUGH??? IS THE BEST SONG I THINK I'VE EVER HEARD. i am so SO SO into black people empowering songs (like brown skin girl by beyonce) and this song???? PHEW I CRYYYYY ITS SO GOOD.... i was gonna quote some lyrics BUT THERS TOO MANY I LOVE, "i am young, black, beautiful, and brave" "black queen, you're immaculate, it's coming at the world, they ain't ready for your magic yet, and that was never your fault" THAT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT- I ALMOST CRIED THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL (i played it twice lol)

lessons is another beautiful one, like its slow and it feels intimate and nurturing and just OO chefs kiss, beautiful . like you can feel the apology and the regret... it’s so good

own it - OWN IT OWN IT OWN IT IS AMAZING!! swear you would catch me dancing to this song, this song is so fucking good i cannot comprehend like this one might be my favorite for real... "it's the way you wind up your waist, i'm so in awe, you never have to worry abt nothing, you know its yours, you know you own it" 🥲 i played it two or three times honestly

rachael's little brother - YES I DID LISTEN TO IT LMAO AND YES I LIKE IT, its a very complex song and it's very layered in terms of emotions i think and i really like that about it. i probably won't listen to it that often, but its really good. i would recommend this song to my "older brother" bc he would just absolutely love this

shut up - i was taking this song seriously (also very good) until i heard him say shu-T up LMAO, this one is good, i probably wouldn't listen to it 24/7 like rachael's little brother but honestly its still fire

before listening to blinded by your grace and vossi bop, i know you brought up the religion bit, i definitely don't mind that, especially because i'm Christian lol and i actually liked that he brought up God in some of his songs like idk i just like it🥰🥰

(i then went to bed after that lol but first thing in the morning i listened to superheroes and... that song is probably my favorite tbh, i was gonna write MORE quotes that i loved from it but, yeah no there's too many. if you want i'll tell you lmao but this is already so long i would just be quoting the whole friggin song)

VOSSI BOP IS A BOP (lol) I CANT EVEN LIE, i love a song that hypes up a dude's girl so the line- i love that my phone decided to fail to load the lyrics, lemme google it, okay the lyric "looking at my girl like what a goddess" i was like AYEEE its honestly just really good. and no one in america says "sauce" like "i've got the sauce" but now i do (thanks to love island and Nas from last season) and now stormzy so (also im gonna watch the music video for superheroes bc it looks great so 😛)

(because this is already so long i feel like i shouldn't finish the rest but . no i'm gonna do it)

now for blinded by your grace pt2 idk why i’m nervous lmaoo PAUSE I'M NOT EVEN DONE WITH THE SONG GIRL THIS SONG IS *chefs kiss* no words, speechless PHEW y'all gon make me start jumping around. why did i not know about stormzy before, he is amazing i- ok yeah i finished the song, all i have to say is that Stormzy is immaclucate. period. i am literally sending his music to all my friends he is..... amazing

you want my song recommendations 🥺🥺 hmm uh okay lol i listen to a lot of old music, whitney houston, marvin gaye, queen, celine dion, i love "more than words" by extreme uhmm okay, but for actual music i listen to on the daily? (this is a lot of different music like.... they do not go together lmao so be prepared) a song about being sad by rex orange county, betty by taylor swift and lover by taylor swift and... most of that album lol, treasure by bruno mars lmao, OOOO and versace on the floor by bruno as well, lazybaby by dove cameron, creep by tlc has been on repeat lol, deja vu by olivia rodrigo (i saw what you said about drivers license and AGREED LMAO but i like deja vu a lot more haha) and two albums that i listen to in general, rare by selena gomez and ungodly hour by chloe x halle 🥰 you don't have to listen to all of them or any of them lol but that's a sense of what i'm into :) so basically everything haha, i'm into literally every single kind of music really so i wasn't too surprised that i enjoyed stormzy :’)

HAHASBSJHAHA your h20 story cracked me up,, like "wow these actors are so dedicated, learning german just for us" 😭 the beauty of overdubbing

once again, math and maths, in my mind maths makes sense because its mathmatics, but saying maths doesn't feel right to me lol, like if i said maths i feel like everyone would look at me like ??? and yea i was taught it as math so its just more natural for me. but yes math/maths is disgusting, easily one of my least favorite subjects so .

mkay. i- the first time i read this i could not contain my laughter when you said the only pollen you know is sex pollen LMAOKOOSHBABJFAJF STOPPP I'M EVEN LAUGHING WRITING THIS,, anyway. wow! that's interesting, my dad (<<< mostly anything else) gets migraines from the sun and the heat and stuff, yesterday (sunday, i was outside for like hours watching my brothers play football, the american kind lol) i was in the sun for like ever and i got a headache😔

summer clothes🥲 i need to go shopping fr fr. for my birthday my mom and dad got me a giftcard like dedicated to a shopping spree and we've yet to go so..... i should bring it up to my mom lol, but!! i went bra shopping (ended up returning literally all of them cuz they honestly didn't work for day to day work? its a long story) and if i could i would walk around in this new "summer bra" i got, i would. it's so fricking cute and its really light fabric (which isn't perfect for my nipples but still) so i don't get hot in it, but that bra and some shorts would be perfect. its the closest thing to being naked so

IS THE BIRD STILL BOTHERING U ARIA, TELL ME NOW ISTG, i laughed really hard that the bird isn't stupid and is really trying to torture you LMAOO like i was rolling, it wants you to suffer, badly

when you said "mensus" it was still close to mens!!! latin speaking queen 😌😌

okay STORYTIME i was reading back your response and started (fake) crying bc i love you lol and my youngest brother (daniel) gon say "oh man, catherine's crying about something we don't care about, again" I--- i swear when i tell you about them they sound awful, but they aren't that bad, just the stuff i say about them is sounds really mean LMAO

but the thing you said about being kind, same, what i always say is: don't be the person that makes people say "i hate people" ya know? like there's no reason to be a jerk or anything.... but its true 🥺🥺🥺🥺 you are really kind and every time i talk to you i would like to personally fly to germany and give you a hug 💖💕💞💗💓💝💖💘

& i'm gonna show my stretch marks some love bc of you 🥺😭 i really hate how men have basically everyone conditioned that you can't love your own body </3 fuck them, y'all beautiful :')

also thanks for what you said :')) you literally are the kindest, sweetest person i think i've ever spoken to and i love you 🥰🥺🥲💓💗

READING YOUR TAGS HAHAHHAHA the spelling errors makes everything so much funnier. once again, i like your german lessons & yea!! i'm gonna play sims after writing this hahah

#catherine's tags are back #i don't think i've told you my name before?? #anyway it's catherine🥰🥰🥰 #i'm typing this on my computer (without emojis) and if i didn't edit this you would be reading shit shite like #heartface and pout and cry LMAO #yeah abt the tattoos #some stuff with my parents i'm like deal with it??? lol #my mom tells me "if there's something you enjoy or you like but i don't have the same opinion on it... why would my (my mom's) opinion matter? #and i love that #like i'm not gonna go and do whatever i want #but if my mom doesn't like that i swear (which isn't true just an example) #its like okay.... #but whatever #and your tattoo ideas sound really cute!! #and yeah @ your parents, i mean you aren't getting something wild #and the tattoo album>>> #i'm gonna look up ariana's butterfly tattoos just so i know what you mean lol #but i'm guessing you don't want something so incredibily simple, but not super like over the top? #correct me if i'm wrong lol #LMAO the tags were in order don't worry ! #and yeah lol ily2 <33 #and once again, again, sorry for this post JSHJS ITS A MESS AND LONG AS HELL #and you don't need to go in order of my post its literally longer than your german compound words #u're fine #also !!! while writing this the birds were chirping outside and i was like 😳 #and one of your fics (i’ve read all of them, i don’t remember lol) that valentine’s day one where y/n had lingerie on (the pancake one lol) #inspired me to buy lingerie #like when i look back on me “growing up” #that fic & basically you lol really helped with that #that made no sense and i don’t know how to make it make sense... but... yeah. like ily

hiiiiiiiiiii <3333

Dear catherine, 😌

(you have said your name before, but it wasn‘t like an introduction or anything i think you were talking about .... was it possibly the incident at the cinema??? And you said something like ‘calm down catherine‘ like you were telling yourself to calm down idkd dkdkkdkd anyway i didn‘t mention it cause i wasn‘t sure if it was an accident or not dkdjd but now i know 😌❤️ Catherine is such a cute and lovely name btw omg and so are your brothers‘s names 🥰

Sorry that I‘m answering this so late, it‘s been an emotional rollercoaster for me since last week but i‘ll get to that in a second lol

Sksklssk girl i haven‘t played sims in like 2 weeks now ekejdkdlldld ok that‘s not that long at all actually but i keep wanting to play but then i end up not playing for whatever reason, so no news about my sims game 😔 but i love the names Liam and Peter and for twins!!! That sounds really nice actually

okay i‘m trying to answer your ask in chronological answer even though i wanted to wait for the depressing stuff and write it at the end or something OKAY so. i thought that i‘d feel so good when i start uni and that i‘ll like... have a purpose in life again and just be happy (cause in the last year i didn‘t do much and i was depressed like half of the time lol).... anyway i kind of feel even worse now? 😭 i think it‘s because in my brain it‘s like: university!!! that means your life will change and it‘ll all be so exciting. and don‘t get me wrong it is exciting butttt..... idk the online thing is so weird cause you‘re not meeting any new people (i‘m introverted anyway but still lol) and it doesn‘t feel like you‘re listening to/talking to actual people cause it feels the same as just watching a video?

also i thought i‘d be busy again but i only have one lecture (90mins) a day and theres one day where i dont have any lectures at all and just one day where i have 3 hours but.... idk i mean i shouldn‘t complain about having so much free time but i just don‘t know what to do all day and in a pandemic there really is nothing to do but i also can‘t relax bc it‘s like during the week and i know i have uni the next day and .... yeah.

There‘s also this one assignment i had to do that took me AT LEAST SIX HOURS AND IM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING????? so that was the only thing i‘ve been doing besides “going to“ lectures. for this one course we have to read two (really really long) texts (like it literally took me 3 hours to read them) and we‘re supposed to post it on this website that all the professors in our uni use. So after 5 days of anxiety (✌🏼) i posted mine this morning bc last night i realised that i didn‘t even know why i was having anxiety so i just posted mine today. The deadline is tomorrow at 12 and no one except me has posted theirs yet........ so i have anxiety again 🥰 cause idk if i‘m the only one who did it or if i even did it correctly

Edit while i‘m rereading this: my anxiety about uni is a lot better and i‘m not as d*pressed anymore maybe it was just hormones? idk but i‘m better so that‘s good

(I started writing this like 5 hours ago and then i randomly completely forgot lol)

I‘m in a better mood now though so let‘s move on from that (oh wait also, i think i‘m gonna see if i can find a psychiatrist bc with my anxiety symptoms (long story) i need to go to a psychiatrist, and so far i‘ve only gone to like psycholgists and it didn‘t help but i think that‘s just bc i was meant to go to a psychiatrist and not a psychologist so dldjdjsj

n e ways but yes you‘re not alone, ily, things will get better and yes i love you (i‘m not good at this type of thing🥲 but i‘d hug you right now if i could <3)

Yess i think the time difference between est and me is 6hours but gmt is uk time i believe? i think mine is called.... cet? For central european time? I could be completely wrong though lmao

Oof i completely forgot about hollywood, i remember when laura kept posting about it on instagram but i never actually watched it and i definitely won‘t now lmaodkdksjsn

Okay my driving lesson LEBDJDKDK I DID NOT HOOK UP WITH ANYONE AKSJSKSMMLM especially not my 40 or 50 year old driving instructor lol i like her but NOT LIKE THAT, the lesson was really really really good actually and i think i‘ll have my driving test soon, but i don‘t even remember why the anon would have thought that??? Oh wait now i remember okay KEKSKDLDL so during the lesson my instructor was like do you mind if i turn on some music? AND THIS WOMAN TURNED ON ONE DIRECTION I LOVE HER so i made a post about it and i said something about the song up all night and i guess i phrased it in a .... idk in a dumb way 💀 so the anon made a joke that i stayed up with my driving instructor all night and NO. No.

Wait did i read that right? YOU WERE ARIEL ON STAGE? SIALDBDJDKSLMSBDKDMDMDKDJSLSMDJFJJEDMBFEKLEFBJDLDVSIDLESKSKWKDKDJDOWNYUEKWNDUWLNSUFLWVSUDLEHDOENSIDBEISBEHENJELBSIEMWUDNRIW KB WOBE JO ON SBEUU HIII S HWS LV W ICH US KB okay this keyboard smash is getting out of hand but uh please do elaborate on that 💘😌???? Like you can‘t just drop that information and not say more??? I forgot if you‘re in like your school‘s drama group (is that a thing? lol idk anything about acting) or in an independent group? Either way - ARIEL that is so fucking cool

Your brothers loooooool, no i get it though obviously you love them and stuff but esp at their age children are so annoying so good luck with them 😭😭😭lmao

Yeah “anyway i imagine being an only child is really calming.. like you have time to yourself and its just you and your parents 😌“ yeah just me and my parents who constantly fight 🥰 lmao no i like being an only child, like i cannot imagine having siblings but i feel like if i had siblings i would be saying that i can‘t imagine being an only child so? but i do think it‘s quite different like i‘m trying to imagine having siblings and WHAT that‘s just so different omg i‘ve never really thought about it like properly ???

I saw a tik tok the other day that was like “sometimes i forget that my siblings have a life of their own. like i see them as side characters in my life“ and even though i can‘t relate obviously i felt that. lol, like i can really imagine how it feels idk what i‘m talking about like shut the fuck up, daria

(also my actual name is daria not aria but i dont like it, and also i wanted to be more anonymous on tumblr so now i‘m aria lmao. pls don‘t mention it though cause no one knows except for you and mel (peterbenjiparker) dkdkdkdnkdnd. but i‘m starting to identify with the name cause everyone keeps calling me that looool😭😭😭 (but i like the name, more than daria anyway? well it also depends on the accent, cause the way germans say daria is okay. the was Americans say it is also okay, but some of my family in England are from the north of england and i don‘t like how they say my name 💀 no offence to them(?) but yeah pls don‘t mention the name in your ask cause the chance of people seeing it is higher then (or if you want to say something about it just send a separate ask and i just won‘t post it (IDK what you‘d want to say about my name but yeah just in case slsldlldmsndnsns)

I‘m loving falcon and winter soldier so much but when i was watching an episode the week before last week (?) my laptop broke😭😭😭😭 during the scene where the dora milaje came at the end my laptop just shut down? And it had these lines all over the screen and i had to bring it to the shop where i bought it and they said it‘ll take 6-8 weeks to repair 💔💔💔 but at least it‘ll be for free, cause if i brought it back to apple it would cost like 400€ (i think that‘s nearly 500$) so yeah. but it sucks cause now i‘m “going to uni“ on a really old rusty laptop and on my phone which kinda sucks. oh yeah and also i can‘t watch anything on there 😭 i definitely want to watch wandavision but it‘ll have to wait🤧

Yessss you should def get your GED! I googled and I‘m still not entirely sure what it is dldks but from how you described it- YES!!!!!!

Idk if you know this? Like no idea if I‘ve told you this already (hmmm wait i feel like we talked about it actually?) anyway i was originally gonna go study in England, but for loads of reasons I ended up staying in Germany and I‘m def happy with my decision, but I definitely want to go to England sometime even if it‘s just for six months or maybe for my masters or something? And (obviously everyone is different) but i think everyone should go abroad and live in a different country once in their life, no matter if it‘s for school or what, and even if it‘s just for a few weeks. But i think that‘s something that you‘d never ever forget! And combining that with your acting/theatre??? You really would be living the dream 💘💘😌

how about burgers, chips (fries), and a large drink? any time next week works for me, should i pick you up?— sounds good see you soon 🥰🥰🥰

i used to be one of the people who‘d just do motherlode motherlode motherlode and just... what did i do? Why did i do that??? But not anymore lol. Like I said i haven‘t played sims in a few weeks but i‘ve been watching a few legacy challenge let‘s plays and usually i play with the aging off. So my sims just don‘t age 💀 but i could (should) turn aging on so that it stays exciting and i have limited time and everything. and once i get bored with my current sims i can just make them have kids and continue playing as their children when they get older- like recently i remembered that i haven‘t played the acting career in ages? and i haven‘t had a shop in ages? and i think you can even become a vet right??? like those are definitely some things i want to do in the next weeks!!! Also yes sksksjs i have a few hundred hours on sims as well (if not thousands 😭) it was just that one household that i‘d been playing with for 24hrs

AND GIRL SSKSKJD THE UNIVERSITY THING HAPPENED TO ME TOO, it was a while ago so i don‘t remember what degree and what job it was about but i made my sim study something for aaaaaages so she‘d get a better job from the beginning (you know what i mean like get in at a higher level)...... and i apparently studied the wrong thing cause i didn‘t get any benefits from studying and still had to start at level 1 and shit 🥴🥲

Oh also (this was like 2 weeks ago) Enisa and Michael did take in Michael‘s daughter and i think Enisa currently even has a higher/better relationship with the daughter than Michael but um💀💀💀 also i was hoping (since michael and enisa married (in their back yard i think lol) that the daughter (i forget what her name is😭) would have enisa as her step mom? Like you know how you can see the relationship and it says daughter or son or sister.. and i was hoping that it would say step mom but it doesn‘t say anything 🥲 but in my mind (and if the sims had proper family relations) she is her step mom😌 also Leo is a teenager now???? I mean I aged him up lol dkdk he was being too annoying as a toddler but i don‘t like children so i aged him up twice in one day and now he‘s a teen, but that means he can look after his half sister when she becomes a toddler which is good (the game recognises them as siblings tho even if they‘re just half siblings? why can‘t they have step family members in the sims🥲) okay i‘ve annoyed you enough with sims ✋🏼

I‘ve been a bit sick these past few days and now i‘m getting a headache so i have to finish this response tomorrow 😭😭😭 </3

It‘s not tomorrow, it‘s 3 hours later but i‘m better lol

oooff when sims are ungrateful and won‘t woo woo (lol i like that) cause they‘re too tired like?? Be grateful that you‘re not living with your parents anymore 🙄 no okay dkdkdkdl idk if you play with mods (i don‘t) but i know there is a mod (or it‘s part of a mod idk maybe wicked whims?) where you can adjust the percentage of how risky a normal woo woo is, like you still click woo woo (3dksksks okay i‘ll say woohoo again— wait is that what’s it called? 😭) but there‘s like a 25% chance that your sim can still get pregnant just like in real life there‘s always a chance of getting pregnant even if you‘re using protection (just not 25% lmao) but yeah i personally don‘t play with mods sksk and you can always just click try for baby but it would be cool if you could add stuff like risky woohoo to the game without mods (i have no idea how to download mods and i play sims on a really really old laptop and sims is literally tje only thing that works on it anyway so—) i repeat my words from earlier: okay i‘ve annoyed you enough with sims ✋🏼

okay i‘m so sorry i‘m gonna watch fast & furious 1 now cause i need to watch f&f 1-5 until the 30th of april cause they‘re only on netflix til then (i mean i could watch them somewhere else but the quality is never as good) so i will finish this tomorrow after all😭

it is now 1 am, i finished the film, can feel a new obsession coming up again (i always have these f&f obsessions for six months before and after a new film comes out)

THE GOOGLE TRANSLATE wkekdjdj tbh it sounds like someone is speaking with some kind of foreign accent i guess that‘s probably because it just is a direct translation and so anyway slsjsj i don‘t know if you asked me what the word fucking is in german? like idk cause the translation is a bit weird but in case you asked lol sidjsjs theres not really a good translation like we just say fuck for fuck lmao, i don‘t know if you typed in fucking in google translate and it came out as verdammt? cause that means damn (or damned sksjjs) ummm yeah idek if/what you asked so imma move on🤧

I‘m not gonna comment on what you said about every stormzy song cause you already said all the important things but SKSKSJSJSKNSNDBDUDOENWBSLSKKHSULSLSKSBSJSKSK I WAS SMILING SO HARD WHEN I READ YOUR RESPONSE FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH finally i know someone who loves him as much as i do 💘💘💘 also since you brought it up, i‘m pretty sure he‘s considered the most successful UK rapper or if not then at least top 3 so he‘s defffffffffinitely big in the uk, in germany more and more people are listening to uk rap too but not as much stormzy cause theyre dumb apparently 🙄 but anywY i‘m sooooo sooo happy that you like him. i think hith came out end of 2019 (i could be wrong but i think it came out on the 13th of december so (in a european way) you‘d write the date: 13.12 and obviously i don‘t KNOW this but i can definitely imagine that he chose that date because ACAB and yes, Michael. Yes. But he hasn‘t made too much music since then so i hope he‘s working on some new stuff 🤞🏼

Also i ordered the stormzy poster😌 also a nicki minaj one bc i decided i‘m gonna have one wall with red-ish posters (i already have two kinda red ones) and one with blue/green-ish posters (already have two) and i can add stormzy to the blue one and nicki to the red one, but i think that‘s it cause if my walls are tooo full it could look cluttered? I‘m not sure how that type of thing works lmao but my room is generally untidy so i don‘t want the walls to look unorganised too so i think that‘s it for now

I really want to finish this now but my brain is getting kinda slow and i need to sleep soon so this will have to wait till later after all 🥺🥴 (not that it makes and difference to you bc you‘ll see this whenever i post it buttttt i wanted you to know that i want to talk to you again but with my slow brain i‘m just taking too long to do it in one day😭😭😭 and i‘m so busy tomorrow hmm but i‘m sure i‘ll have 30 minutes to finish this then <3)

Okay wait I‘m so dumb I didn‘t realise I‘d nearly answered everything i could have posted this yesterday 😭😭

Oooohh that summer bra sounds so nice like if i was confident enough i literally would just wear a top that resembles a bra (or really is a bra lol) cause my tiddies always be looking amazing i‘m just insecure about my stomach sometimes 🙄🙄🙄 but recently i‘ve been loving myself more and more tbh 😌

also i hope you can go shopping for some nice clothes soon ✨😌

I‘ll be honest I haven‘t listened to your song recs YET but only because i wanna take my time with them and i‘ve been so busy and slso AJ tracey‘s album came out last week and I haven‘t listened to that one yet either so ekdkdj (he‘s also a uk rapper like quite popular and successful as well, but i feel like i‘m not gonna like his album cause whenever i‘m looking forward to an album it ends up being really bad and the albums where you weren‘t expecting it turn out to be bangers.... so yeah but i‘ll let you know when i listen to your songs!!!! :)

Omg i keep having to scroll up all the way to see the next thing you said so sorry if I completely miss some of the things you said😭😭

So when you sent this the bird was still bothering me oh my FUCK DKDLDMMDMDMD but now i‘ve been going to bed at like 1-2am so the bird is probably still asleep lool

Okay and for the rest of your ask my response is: 💘💖❣️💚❣️💛❣️💛💕💞❤️💓💟💞💕💕💖💘💝💟💟🧡❤️🧡💞💛💚💓💚💚💚❣️🧡💖💘🧡💝🧡💕💘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥺🥺🥺🥰🥺🥺💘💘💘💘💘 (okay that looked cuter in my head i don‘t really like the green hearts dldkkdksndnd)

#lovely anon #<3333333333333 #‚‘it‘s literally longer than your german compound words‘ LMAODKDMSLDKSLKS #ignore the comma at the beginning of the last tag????#aww wait i just read what you said at the end of your tags🥺🥺💘💘💘#love youuuu #ooooof i‘m reading my response and do i not know what a period is? like period as in. full stop.#my sentences are literally paragraphs and i use keyboard smashes to separate sentences from each other like what‘s wrong with me???#or ‚lol‘ snd ‚lmao‘#imma need me to do better (did you listen to heavy is the head as a whole? like the whole album? the song do better is stuck in my head toda #today so)#i‘ll try to write normal length sentenced in the future💀#sentencessss*

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recurring-polynya · 4 years ago

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I was reading your response to that anon about renji's character - very nice response by the way! - and saw your tag about "infinite jest." I own that book and i'm curious on your thoughts on it? i find it a bit daunting (my paperback is in size 9 font, single space [!!!]) and i have plans to read it this summer. How did you feel about the story? Would you reread it? Did you take notes? (I read a review where someone had a notebook on the book so they could keep track of the story). If you answer, thank you for doing so!

WOW I feel like I have been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me for my Infinite Jest wisdom! I feel so honored!

So, I read Infinite Jest twice, about 7 years ago. I am constantly threatening to read it again. The first time took me six months, I do not remember how long the second time took. I did not do this for a class or anything, I just did it because I am insufferable.

My first tip to reading Infinite Jest is to think of it as a project, not like reading a book. Reading Infinite Jest is not very much at all like reading a book. It is not a story. It is the negative space where a story should be. It is weird and boring and confusing and insufferable, and reading it changed my entire perspective on what stories are and formed a new lens through which I perceive all media. I habitually read before bed, and there were some nights I was not able to make it through an entire page. This is not to say I read it and gave up--the text is very rich and chewy and sometimes I was just “full” after just a few paragraphs.

I am not sure if taking notes would help. The problem with Infinite Jest is that it presents you with a fantastic volume of information, most of which is only tangential related to the “story”. I feel like trying to keep track of what’s happening might make things harder. A lot of the information is arranged in appendixes at the end for easy reference. I think I read The Filmography of J. O. Incandenza about eleventy-thousand times, and the very serious descriptions of made up movies featuring an anthology-style cast has stuck with me more than an other aspect of the book (Blood Sister: One Tough Nun and Medusa vs. the Odalisque in particular). I feel like color sticky tabs might be more helpful, if you’re looking for an organizational scheme? I had two book marks, one to mark my regular place and one to mark my place in the appendixes.

You should probably be passingly familiar with Hamlet before you read it. For some reason, the entire first time I read it, it never occurred to me that it was a retelling of Hamlet, but it is, in fact, a weird, tennis and drug-themed re-telling of Hamlet. That’s why it’s called Infinite Jest, you see. I am a moron.

I did not take notes. I just let it wash over me. The first thing I did when I finished reading it, was to pick up my phone and google “what happened at the end of Infinite Jest”. I read a few blog posts and learned some things. I also felt reassured that no one really knows what happened at the end of Infinite Jest. The second read was much, much more satisfying, now that I knew what the hell was happening.

If you are not enjoying your Infinite Jest experience, you should stop. It was a very rewarding project for me, but it was also a lot of work. There is a certain kind of person who will tell you “everyone should read Infinite Jest!” and I heartily disagree. It is definitely Not for Everyone and there is no shame in giving it a shot and then giving up or taking a pass entirely.

It takes place in the not-so-distant future. Half of the book is extremely prescient, and half of it misses the mark in a hilarious way. DFW completely predicted Netflix streaming and Zoom backgrounds, but he also thought that people would get obsessed with live events and would go to see ice melt on a duck pond. A significant portion of the novel details an amateur documentary made with puppets detailing an idiot president coming to power, taking over Mexico and Canada, and turning Vermont into a nuclear waste dump and I am honestly afraid to reread the book because of how it’s just going to be an extremely accurate depiction of the Trump presidency.

I do want to point out that DFW was both a problematic and deeply troubled man. He is not very good at writing anyone who is not a cis white man. I think he meant well, but we all know what that’s worth. When I read the book, I was not as discerning about these things as I am now, but I definitely recall some cringing, and I suspect I would be cringing even harder if I re-read it now. To me, DFW was an incredibly interesting writer. His descriptions of depression are unparalleled. He thought very deeply about what it means to be human, as is evident in his This is Water speech (a friend of mine happened to graduate from Kenyon when he gave that speech and said it was amazing in person). I often wonder what sort of person he would be if he had lived, what his opinion would be on things like the Black Lives Matter movement. I am not a DFW scholar, I cannot say. He is not with us anymore, though, and my philosophy is take his writings with the grain of salt that he was who he was. Infinite Jest is not a happy book about well-adjusted people.

Michael Schur, one of the creators of Parks and Rec, B99, and The Good Place is a huge Infinite Jest fan and wrote his thesis on it and owns the film rights to the book. Parks and Rec contains a number of Infinite Jest references, but they are mostly just names, they aren’t anything very clever. The Good Place is full of rich Infinite Jest vibes. Schur also directed the music video for the Decemberist’s Calamity Song, which is a scene from the book where the tennis kids play a weird game about nuclear brinksmanship. I did not know this the first time I saw the music video and I wish there was footage of me watching it and losing my shit in real time as it slowly dawned on me what was happening. If you have read my fanfic Call Me Back When the War is Over, the scene where they watch the Brawl is loosely based on this scene.

I wish you luck in your quest! One thing that may happen to you is that you may feel the need to talk about Infinite Jest, and if so I am here, please feel free to message me if you need.

#infinite jest #this blog contains multitudes

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fictional-worlds-are-exquisite · 4 years ago

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thank you! i think you're genuinely the only person that has ever said they actually like the fact that my bathrobe is obnoxiously pink. and you're absolutely right, one of the things i like most about it is that it hurts people's eyes. i love it actually. if you ever celebrate halloween you should absolutely add your bathrobe to your costume. an amazing idea. since it has a mouse face on the hood it could be two costumes rolled into one - both a vampire and a mouse (if in the middle of the evening you get bored of one), which i think would be awesome. and you probably wouldn't get cold (is it cold in nz during halloween? because here it almost always is). we don't celebrate halloween in lithuania either though. which i'm a bit bummed about, because halloween sounds super fun. mostly because of the dressing up! but i did celebrate it once, when i was 11 or 12 maybe? me and a couple of friends decided it would be fun even if it's not really celebrated here. so we dressed up, even went trick ir treating (half the houses had no idea what was happening and also i pretty much froze to death because i was dressed as a dead bride and refused to put a coat on because then you couldn't see my dress) and also watched horror movies. 12 (or 11) year old me thought it was amazing.

oh yeah! i've broken a knife on 2 separate occasions i think. once i tried to get something out of between the blender's blades, used a knife and then accidentally turned the blender on (i'm so fucking glad it was a knife and not my fingers). so the tip of the knife broke off (the blender was ok tho). and the second time i have no idea how it happened. i was cutting up broccoli and the knife just fell apart??? i was so confused, because one second i'm holding a knife and the next it's just two pieces of a handle and the metal part, all separate. had fun explaining that to my dad. you sound pretty unlucky too! i mean, a cut every time you use a knife, but you don't even notice it at the time? i think it's just that knives are out to get us (it's my newest conspiracy theory). i actually get double vision too sometimes! mostly when i'm tired, but i just figured that it was because i have really bad eyesight

they definitely SHOULD teach about gender and sexuality in school. it's a really big problem that in a lot of places it's either not compulsory or not even in the curriculum. honestly, everything i know about sex ed or lgbtq+ i had to learn myself on the internet, because we only had one class when we were like 13 years old with a guest speaker and it was mostly biology and then a little bit about menstruation and pads for girls (i have no idea what they told boys because we were also separated). so sex ed definitely sucks a lot in my country and i bet it's the same in a lot of others, which makes me really mad

exactly!! it's so hard to tell whether i'm feeling romantic or platonic love sometimes! it's confusing. also i remember one time me and a couple of friends had a sleepover and the friend's, who was hosting, parents weren't home so we watched romance movies (scandalous i know). again we were maybe 12. and they kept going "oh he's so hot" and intensely watching the sex scenes. while i was looking away from the tv whenever sexy times were going on and commenting on how much i loved the house design and the garden. gee i wonder what that means. (still can't believe it took me this long to figure out i was ace)

the breakfast went very well though! it's so interesting how different traditions are everywhere. i hope your lunch and the rest of christmas day went well too! (also i forgot to ask last time, but what is boxing day? google says it's mostly a shopping holiday, is it that? we just call it the second day of christmas and it's pretty much the same as christmas day but there's no presents!) but yeah i hope you had fun with your extended family on boxing day!

having acid reflux sounds like it sucks. i love breakfast, it's my favourite meal of the day (when i don't have to rush that is) and i skip lunch a lot because i usually have no time for it (my schedule kinda sucks), so i usually try to have a bigger breakfast. but hey, peanut butter is good! so at least you can have something that tastes good for breakfast!

aaand i feel like this ask got away from me. sorry it's so long!

it’s because i have t a s t e. it may not be GOOD taste but it sure is...taste...and i am proud of it. and yes, i love the idea of adding my dressing gown to my costume specifically because it means i’m basically in my PJ’s. minimal effort. comfort to the max. living the dream. halfway through the night i’m tired of being the vampire no one invites in so i drop to my knees and start the mouse act. mice are good at getting in houses and getting to chocolate and such. the dream. also i absolutely would get bored of one costume within the space of a few hours knowing me, so that’s a plus. uhhhh halloween is october which is. mid-late spring so it really depends on the day. it might be a little cold, might be shorts weather. I rarely leave my house at night so I’m not an expert on nighttime temperatures sdflsdfjsd.

I used to wish we did Halloween here but that was mostly because I wanted lollies. Although I also liked playing dress up as a young kid so maybe very young me would’ve vibed with the costume aspect. I know there’s a photo of me when I was like, 5 and my best friend of the time dressed up as witches at some point, maybe we had our own little halloween. I also possibly had a halloween themed birthday party once as a kid? I remember the little gift bags having spooky things in them and also possibly a bat cake but my memory is too bad to remember for sure. aha that’s the problem here too, no one locally would ever think to buy lollies to give out so it’d just be like um. you can have an apple I guess? at least you had fun though! i respect the commitment to the costume despite the cold.

that is such a stressful story to read, i fear for your life. although i understand the knife breaking in that first scenario. that would be terrifying though. what if the blender launched it,,, nOPE. i’m very glad it wasn’t your fingers, that’s some horror movie shit. the second time is just,, it be like that sometimes. it was probably just waiting to happen. my parents have a cheese grater with a loose handle and it. falls off. every time. i dry it. with the dishes. and every time i fear for my life as the grating bit drops off towards my feet as i’m left holding the handle. i should expect it by now but i never do. I get scared every time it happens. knives are definitely out to get us, i fully support this conspiracy theory. oh yeah, tiredness doesn’t help with double vision. i kind of need bifocal glasses by now but I also don’t want bifocal glasses so i just suffer but I suspect having them would reduce the double vision. maybe. maybe not.

yup! i remember someone handing out tampons and pads at primary school, i assume after giving a talk about periods, idk. i do also remember a teacher pulling the girls aside and being like yo, this is what a period is, here’s a horror story about my daughter and a tampon, enjoy the trauma, go back to class. good times. we did actually get really comprehensive sex ed concerning most things at my high school but that is faaaarrr from the norm around here, clearly. although teenage boys are good at filling in gaps, in my experience. they’re like little sex encyclopedias that offer up information without you asking. i didn’t ACTUALLY want to know that but i do now, i guess, thanks michael.

dude. the ‘oh he’s so hot’ comments are so confusing. ‘hot’ is like a category of attractiveness that I’ve never understood. ‘isn’t he hot?’ what does that MEAN rebecca. i think i asked once if it meant like, attractive or good looking. and the person i asked was like, you know, hot. you just look at them and, you know- no i don’t know. what is this. i don’t think i’ve ever watched a sex scene with people my age though, generally i just zone out for them sdkfhskdfh. i feel like there’s definitely all these indicators when you look back like oh yeah, should’ve realised i was ace then, but it’s just. such a hard sexuality to figure out. not that other sexualities aren’t but you’ve got to figure out an absence of something when you don’t even know what the something feels like- it’s a challenge.

I’m glad it did! It is interesting, for sure. I’ve always been interested in how winter Christmas’s work. As a young kid I didn’t understand hemispheres...obviously...i was like 5...and i’d go out on Christmas morning to see if there was snow. and sometimes it’d be a bit chilly in the morning and I’d be like damn. we almost had some this year. it’s a shame our climate tends to be too hot for snow on christmas :// like no you tiny dumbass it’s summer you little idiot there will be no snow no matter what. everything ended up going super well here :). boxing day is basically just a shopping holiday, i don’t know if it has any significance in any other way, i’m sure it did at one point, but i know there’s always boxing day sales everywhere. I think it’s also a public holiday (?) to give people another day off work and that, but I could be wrong there. I know I also used to regularly go to the races (horse races) nearby that were always held on boxing day, it was like a 150 year old tradition or something until people in attendance started dropping and I think they finally shut it down a couple years back. I didn’t care all that much about the horses but they also had food and carnival-type rides and such for the kids which is why I loved it. also we tended to meet extended family there for a picnic lunch.

acid reflux is like the least of my problems sdfkjshdkf. it’s annoying but it’s pretty managed with medication, I have to watch certain foods and drinks but I’m used to it by now. I think it’s also what causes me to not be able to eat large amounts normally so I survive a lot on snacks and a reasonable sized dinner. works for me. but peanut butter is good! i’m glad i can have that! I used to also have vegemite but that’s a bit more of a push, it’s easier to stick with peanut butter.

also it’s fine!! my responses are always very long too sdfjhskdf.

#i got told i probably needed bifocals like #at LEAST 2 years ago #probably more #but realistically i'm probably too dumb to use them correctly i wouldn't look in the right place for close vision or whatever #i'd probably give myself a headache #also to this day i have never gone NEAR a tampon #the horror story gave me enough trauma thanks #anyway gonna go eat an ice cream sundae and suffer #might fuck around and make my lactose intolerance hate me haha #it'll be WORTH it #i say now #in an hour i'll be dying #it's fine #Anonymous

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ninevillains · 5 years ago

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so i'm trying to draw a picture of a dude in a bathing suit... i was wondering if you could give me some pointers? especially in the anatomy lol

Sure! Excuse me if I go into too much detail. Or not enough! Feel free to message me again if you still have questions after this.

Short version:

1. Find a reference picture or two

2. Copy or analyze/reconstruct the image(s) to the best of your ability. (If you’re going to share your art publicly, you should use a license-free image, or credit/ask the owner – assuming that your art and the reference are clearly similar.)

3. ???

4. Profit

Long version:

1. Gather good reference

Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, Google… the internet is full of attractive people. Find some pictures that look close to the result you want. I like workout videos or TV/movie scenes because it’s always useful to see your subject from multiple angles, and I can select the exact frames that look best to me.

Sometimes I use little action figures, or 3D models in apps like Skelly or Handy, when I’m trying to figure out a pose. You can also use pics of yourself or friends. A big mirror or a smartphone is all you need to be your own model.

Don’t hesitate to take inspiration from art you really like. Instead of copying it, analyze why it appeals to you, and see how you can apply that in your own work.

2. Draw the pose first!

One of my favorite general principles in art is to work from big to small, or general to specific.

Try to capture the basic shape and position of the pose before you consider individual muscles. Place the head, torso, and limbs as flat boxy shapes using straight lines or simple curves.

At this stage it’s still easy to make changes and correct things. Don’t rush ahead to the muscles before you’re satisfied with the pose.

This is more or less how I start a figure:

(Both of these dudes are missing a cranium, and there are other proportion issues, so don’t mistake this as reference for anything but the overall drawing approach.)

3. Think of muscles as flat shapes

Muscles are complex interlocking 3D forms, but you don’t have to think of them that way in the beginning, especially if you’re sticking close to your reference. It’s easier to map the positions of the muscles onto your blocked-in pose with straight lines and basic curves, just like you did for the head, torso, and limbs. (See the chest of the second figure I posted above.)

This step is all about creating a clear guide for your final lines.

4. Final lines (or) additional steps

At this point you can make the contour more realistic, get the muscles just right, and add in more details from your reference, because you’ve got the pose established and you’ve figured out where all the major shapes are placed. If you tried to do this all at once, without blocking in the pose, you’d probably end up with a figure that’s way out of proportion.

For the final lines, work on top of your sketch. If it’s a traditional drawing, erase the sketch with a kneaded eraser until you can barely see it. If it’s a digital drawing, just lower the opacity of your sketch layer and make a new layer for your final lines on top.

If you’re familiar with constructive drawing (using perspective knowledge to translate your 2D drawing into basic 3D shapes, like wireframes), now is a good time to take your sketch further, using cross-contour lines and more accurate forms to define the figure in 3D space. Then you can do the final line work, or move on to the lighting or coloring phase.

Art is hard, so try to keep things simple and focus on one thing at a time. I try to think in a step-by-step way even when I ignore my own advice and rush to finish a drawing.

Generally speaking, the pose and overall proportions are much more important than detailed anatomy. Anatomy is the icing on the cake.

Resources for learning!

I should say that the main thing I covered in this post is an approach to blocking in a figure from reference. I left out a lot of the form building stuff that I rely on for most of my work, because it’s a huge subject, and you can get great results without all the complications if you use good reference.

To get the most out of your reference, it helps to learn observational drawing. Dorian Iten’s accuracy guide has some very useful tips.

In addition to observational drawing from reference, I use a constructive drawing approach, which I learned from resources like this:

Draw a Box - A great intro to constructive drawing. Highly recommended.

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton - Great to study after you know basic form construction, and before you dig too deep into anatomy.

My all time favorite figure drawing teacher is Steve Huston. Brilliant teacher and equally good artist. His book, Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count, is the single best guide to figure drawing that I’ve found. Also check out his lessons on New Masters if you want to get really serious.

Bryan Lee has posted a lot of great figure drawing tutorials and notes on his DeviantArt page. You can dig up most of the good stuff in his Tutorials section, and by searching his gallery for notes.

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My ego is forcing me to add a disclaimer: More experienced artists will see that the work I post here doesn’t really do justice to the principles I mentioned. Trust me, I know my doodles are a horror show of errors. This is my fanart blog for chillaxing and trying very hard not to be the perfectionist who hates everything that’s not fit for a professional portfolio.

#my asks #art advice #not art

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angelaiswriting · 5 years ago

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Hello✌ I'm a huge fan of your writing and your writing style! As someone who tires to write and improve your blog is an inspiration to me😘 I was wondering if you have any upcoming fics? Any requests/asks your thinking of starting? Just curious x

Hi! 💛

Omfg what an honor!!! Are you sure you meant to send this to me? 😱

Warning: this is going to be a slow reply because I’m from mobile now, so I’m getting in and out of the app to look for the links and other things haha (not an actual warning because you’ll read this once I’m done, but yeah).

There are def two stories I have on the backburner: Clint (the fifth and last part to my Clint Barton x OFC I’ve been working on since God knows when – link to the first part) and Chapter fourteen of The Assistant (Vladimir Ranskahov x fem!reader – link to story’s masterlist). They haven’t been forgotten, don’t you worry, guys.

Peaky Blinders-wise I’m working on a Tommy Shelby x sister!reader where the reader is a rebellious bitch girl. I’m probably slowly drifting away from the actual request, but who would I be if I didn’t do it? 🤷😂 Jk, I always do my best but sometimes I tweak some details.

When this story is done (hopefully very soon, I want to crank out one more story before uni starts on Monday), I was thinking of starting working on requests following the chronological order in which I received them. Last time I did this (back in 2017), it ended in disaster, not gonna lie, but I’ve grown now and I’ve changed the way I see things and Tumblr and everything, so I want to give it one more try because only God knows how much I hate to make people wait.

So, long story short, I’ll be working on another Tommy fic but with “x Romani fem!reader” as a pairing this time: she gets sort of kidnapped by some enemy of Tommy’s but he’s not worried because he knows she can hold her ground and he just wishes them good look HAHAHA I love this request, I find it exhilarating somehow, I just hope to make it justice. It’s also by the ever sweet @kind-wolf , to whom I want to give back as a thank-you note for all the encouragement she’s given me through time. 💛

After this, the future is blurry but my Google doc says I should be working on a... 🥁

Okay so, Finn Shelby x Changretta’s daughter (reader) Romeo-and-Juliet style, but I have an idea for this and I want it to be hella (aiming for 10k words like the parts of that Clint Barton fic of mine) long, so I’ll probably write this and the following request (Michael Gray x fem!reader) kind of at the same time.

Plus many more but this answer would get wayyy longer than any story I’ve ever written haha

This, of course, if my brain and I can manage chronological order, otherwise I’ll just go back to working on random requests. I’ll also be working on all of these things while I’m at uni, so a bit between classes, a bit on the train, a bit between the various assignments I’ll have... It’ll be a slow process and only God, again, knows how much I hate being slow, but I’ll have to learn this, too, I guess 🤷

Last but not least, thank you again for your kind words 😱😍 I’m always here if you ever need a helping hand 💛

#anonymous #anon #inbox #angelaiswriting #sort of writing update #reminder for me

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what-stop-the-presses-rly-means · 5 years ago

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Hi, it's aphandgflove's girlfriend, can I get a ship for DEH and BMC too (or Hamilton or Heather if you can? I know these better)? I a sex-negative asexual who enjoys telling dirty jokes to confuse people, I'm a total sadist, especially with people I love (my girlfriend, friends, and OCs) but I actually care a lot about their happiness (spits hearts(and blood)), I'm a gamer and a cheater (in video games) and I love reading, writing and talking about stories in as many details as possible. Thanks

This took me forever to respond to, and for that I apologize 😓

Also, I stuck with DEH and BMC because I don't know much about Hamilton and I'm only just now becoming a fan of Heathers so I wasn't confident in my knowledge of the two. Hope that's ok!

DEH:

I ship you with Jared!

He would be a little confused when you first tell him you're asexual. And in his very Jared Kleinman way, he'd probably make a couple lewd comments about it

Of course he'd back off if it ever hurt your feelings or made you uncomfortable. And eventually he'd grow accustomed to it (after doing extensive research on Google) and be less of a dick

If anyone can relate to picking on/teasing loved ones but actually very much caring about them, it's Jared. He doesn't show affection too often but you know he cares

It's in the little things he does, like remembering your food order when going out, knowing all the words to your favorite song, or always having your favorite candy on hand

He always has his guard up so he never likes to outright show that he's interested in something. He'll want to hear all about your stories but doesn't wanna look like a nerd. You've heard this more than once: "So... what happens next? Not that I care! But does it have a happy ending? Or whatever..."

You guys never give each other affectionate pet names, oh no. Everytime you see each other you come up with the best/worst nicknames you can think of:

"What's up, Assface?"

"Hey, Trashbag!"

"Later, Trolldoll."

"See ya, random comic relief/throw away character!"

*gasp!* "Too far!"

He would totally team up with you to make over the top sexual comments and jokes to each other in public. He already does that with whoever's in the room, but it's 10x funnier to him when he does them with you and everyone looks so baffled and confused

You guys spend countless hours playing videogames. You'll sneakily try to cheat your way to the finish line while he's less subtle. He'll straight up just sit in your lap, blocking your line of sight, or push you out of your seat. He gets very competitive

BMC:

I ship you with Michael!

Michael's always super chill about everything. You're asexual? Cool, dude! You do you. He thinks he might be asexual himself so there's no weirdness there

But you would totally catch him off guard by telling dirty jokes. He'd get all flustered and blushy, the cute boy. But after he gets used to it he'd just laugh, especially if you're in public. The more confused you make others, the funnier it is to him

He's a very creative person so if you want any advice on how your story should go, he's always willing to help. Hell, he doesn't even need an excuse to read your work, he enjoys himself either way

He would play video games with you all the time and it would kill him, not knowing how you beat him every time. When he finally finds out it's because you cheat, he is baffled. He goes into drama mode, claiming he could never trust you again

Then the next time you play (which is probably like the next day lbr) he dramatically glares at you like every 10 seconds to make sure you're not cheating. And you still end up beating him

He tries to get into reading because you love it, and he really tries his best. He picks out a nice book with a lot of action and adventures, and he sits down next to you so you can both read together...

And 5 minutes later the book is on the ground, he's for some reason sitting upside down in his chair, and now you're completely distracted from your book. But it's not his fault, the poor ADHD boy

He's such an emotional, loving guy who always wears his heart on his sleeve. So there's never a doubt in your mind that he cares about you. It can get a little much and sometimes you feel pressured into reciprocating the affection. But he assures you that he knows how you feel, no matter what. (You could probably punch him in the face and he'd say thank you)

Again, sorry this took forever and half to get to. Thanks for being patient with me! ❤

#dear evan hansen #deh #be more chill #bmc #Ships #jared kleinman #michael mell

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la-vita-in-arancione · 4 years ago

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Things me and my friends have said during lockdown cos we got sent home for 6 weeks this time:

"WIKI TRYNA SIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LUNCH HALL SAYS IT ALL REALLY"

"FE FI FO FIX IVE JUST HAD MY WEETABIX"

"puddles are my parkour"

"WIKI WHATS WITH THE BELT YOU KINKY BASTARD"

"#coolkids5lyfe"

"AT LEAST I WOULD HAVE A PENG WARDROBE"

"LIKING TEA IS MY ONLY PERSONALITY TRAIT"

"This feels so illegal but so right"

"These maniacs sit next to each mother aswell"

"HOW COULD YOU EAT IT BY ACCIDENT"

"Let’s have some death"

"at least i’ll die with some money in my pocket FOR ONCE"

"hot weetabix😋😋😋"

"“i wear black i’m depressed” ahhh year 7’s are great"

"my taste in guys 🤝 where tf are they"

"I can absolutely see your lip quivering wikalicious"

"This gc confuses me 24/7"

"PANDEMIC IN 🤸‍♀️style🤸‍♀️"

"NOW IM THE ONLY GAY IN THE VILLAGE 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩"

"COLLEGE BETTER SPICE IT UP"

"Yesh yesh I’m adding you to my collection of stripper wannabe friends"

"IT'S WHAT I LIKE TO CALL BULLSHIT"

"SOUNDS SPIFFULENT"

"NOT THIS SILLY CAMERON BUSINESS"

"DREAM DIVE DAVID"

"it’s like the sink shit all over again"

"OKAY THE AMOUNT OF THINGS I PUT WIKI FOR JUST COS IT'S ✨ SPONTANEOUS ✨"

"Live love luton year 7s"

"WIKI IT IS TIME FOR YOUR UNTIMELY DEATH"

"ON KISS A GINGER DAY I COULDVE KISSED TENNANT WHEN HE WAS GINGER FOR GOOD OMENS FFS"

"yesssss lick my face beccalicious"

"ITS KISS A GINGER DAY IM GONNA DYE MY HAIR GINGER AND STRUT UP TO MR DODD"

"My mum's just marking her class's homework and keeps raging at the laptop she's stress-eating chocolate send help"

"guys my mum thinks i’m doing maths but i’m playing episode eheheheh"

"Yall are on episode I’m on wattpad😭"

"should i become a pacifist. i would but sometimes my sister needs a good slap"

"WIKTORIA YOU TROD ON MY SOUL"

"The tea is piping hot this evening ladies"

"i wish dave was here" "When do you not wish dave was here"

"DID I ACCIDENTALLY KILL YOU"

"✨ multi tasking ✨"

"ev where are you we’re in our spanish mock"

"LET'S HAVE A GAY OFF"

"Y A L O U S E"

"Guys I'm not sure if I've gone delusional or something but why can I hear birds tweeting their lungs out at this normal time go to sleep silly" (it was 2:07 in the morning)

"You've stolen my chair. This is an unforgivable hate crime."

"IT'S THE WAY YOU JUST OPENED YOUR BAG IN TUTOR AND IT WAS JUST ✨ CARDBOARD ✨"

"It's 2021 we're past the need for correct grammar"

"EV ARE YOU STARTING A GAY WAR"

"HONESTLY THAT PSYCHOTIC LITTLE OWL HAS TAUGHT ME MORE THAN SHE EVER COULD"

"i googled the answers bc i’m naughty naughty"

"NEW POTATOES ARE SO GROSS YOURE WELCOME"

"EVIE ITS WHEN YOU HIT PEOPLE WITH RULERS DJSJDJDH" "BRO THEY HAD IT COMING"

"I HATE SPEAKING TESTS UNLESS ITS ON MY DODDS LAP"

"😭😭😭BUT CARDBOARD IS JUST A SPECIALITY OF MINE"

"i want mr dodd ev in more ways than one"

"i wish dave was the subject of my dream. he’s the subject of all my day dreams. michael mcintyre was last nights obligation"

"Oh jeez she was in the tardis with him"

"I’m only awake cause of Dr Pepper"

"MAYBE IT'S ✨ MAYBELINE ✨ new york"

"I found a bee once and I called him bertram and he was so fat I loved him"

"EXCUSE ME BITCH WHAT IS THIS LESBIAN ERASURE"

"Sweetcorn is sexy this is true"

"WIKI THE SMILE IS EVIL I STG"

"It's the group incest for me"

"IS HE LIKE COLLECTING THEM LIKE POKEMON CARDS"

"Why do some fish look like they want to kill you"

"Always asking me to wave at him like fuck off you kinky bitch"

"Yes yes group assassination attempt"

"Okay who gave aldi rosé wine the right to be that good jfc"

"No forgetti the spaghetti"

"Ah yes you can just buy a mermaid from Pets at Home"

"HE SWITCHING LIKE A BEE ON POLLEN"

"EXACTLY SHOW THE SNOW WHO'S BOSS BBY"

"Evie I sent a bless your cottton socks voice note YA FUCKEN BETTER NOT FORGET HOW I SOUND"

"Evie is goldfish"

"FRESH AND FRUITY" "NICE BOOTY"

"Erm murder,jail yk the usual"

"BECCAS GONNA MURDER ME AND THROW MY BODY TO THE CELLS"

"Felicity why must you bring dave into every conversation we have"

"I'M A LONELY GAY IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK"

"my taste in guys 🤝 men who have life insurance"

"How I haven't been assissnated yet I have no idea"

"THE AUDACITY OF THIS WASP"

"I WANT THAT HOT GUY THAT THEY ALWAYS USE AS GANG LEADER ON WATTPAD"

"EV IS GONNA GO FULL GAY GUYS EHEH"

"If I was a fish and I saw tennant I would down also"

"i acc love weetabix"

"THE PANNY AND ALL THAT LOCKY D"

"It’s what I like to call I’m dropping out and becoming a stripper"

"Your only personality traits for like 7 years were liking sheep and drawing eyes"

"I may feel sick but I still look like a cool kid and that's all that matters"

"Thank you for having eyes"

"YOU SHOULD PUT IT ON YOUR CV 'GREAT AT WORKING WITH CARDBOARD'"

"YOU'RE LIKE AN HONOURARY LESBIAN ISTG"

"I THINK I DESERVE A NANDOS"

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY MATT DAMON IS IN MY MATHS WHAT IS GOING ON"

"evie you told me you were 34"

"I'm a whole ass ✨ psychopath ✨"

"i wish humans had 3 eyes"

"This is oblivious dumbass erasure"

"soft>>>>hard"

"It's the pouring yazoo over the bridge and onto cars in year 7 for me ✌😚✌"

"GUYS I THINK THE SNOW IS TRYING TO KIDNAP ME"

"Someone look at me the way miss mcdonald looks at benedict cumberbatch"

"he is beaUtiful the EYEcontAct"

"felicity please stop thirsting over dave and focus on the ✨ acting ✨"

"DANZA MCFUCKING KADURO"

"I just ate a bowl of loose corn"

"You've heard of smart cookies now get ready for clever biscuits"

"I'M GAY LEAVE MY ICED CARAMEL COFFEE ALONE"

"Ah yes because my blood is deep magenta"

"JUST BARK AND RUN"

"IS HE THINKING YOU'RE THE HORSE FROM PEPPA PIG"

"I think collectively we all have like two brain icells between us"

"Lolly billy"

"Felicity I'm gonna rename you on my phone to fish chat queen"

"I'M GONNA GET KIDNAPPED BY SATAN AND YOU KNOW WHAT I'M NOT EVEN MAD"

"What in the name of sanity is normal duck research"

"I know I'm gay buy I'm not gay for ducks mmkay"

"THIS CHAT GETS MORE AND MORE HOMOSEXUAL"

"DROPPING MATHS IS SELF CARE 😌"

"Yes sheep cult time"

"IM GONNA BE FLIPPING DOUGHNUTS AT 3am"

"Like haha bold of you to assume I have morals"

"all i want is to buy a mini waffle machine thing and put cake batter and banana bread batter in it is it so much to ask"

"Fake a funeral and leave ;)"

"guys i have mad stress and my roots are growing in ginger"

"Can we shove bojo into a high school please i think it would do him good"

"if we can’t revise we can always have good skin"

"i’m gonna make friends with grimm reaper"

"YOU LOOK A BIT LIKE A BUILDER"

"Evie and that back camera are always terrifying"

"i want a mug in the shape of a pig"

"i left your suitcases in paris"

"evie you remind me of the direct line advert"

"I DO HAVE BEEF WITH TRAVIS SCOTT"

"FLISS GET THAT GAVIN;("

"Does ice count as a drink"

"omg i wanna buy a patch of land and be titled"

"HAVE FUNKY TIMES"

"UP AND OUT THE WINDOW BECCA"

"M2trappy LIVES FOREVER SUKI"

"GODDAMN IT WE HAVE DONE IT AGAIN ,ANOTHER CULT 🤦🏻‍♀️"

"I AM HEAD WIFE"

"Honestly I don’t know why this has became a normal thing that yall are just married off to each other 😂"

"Who needs mrs potter when we have becca"

"i am also silver because it’s a cold colour and i am cold always"

"good brain becca"

"I wanna be a glass lid"

"THE SISTERHOOD WILL STAND AGAINST EMOJI CREATORS"

"Seems like a toxic lesson, we don’t need toxic things ,throw the lesson in the bin"

"Ah yes the tears of innocent lids"

"lets do a blood pact but without blood. tear pact 😈"

"Wow shoul sounds like a good insult"

"She’s been insulting my google class profile all day😭"

"Martyna always wakes up and chooses violence this has been established"

"BEeF beEf I woke up and chose year 7"

"i’ve added some pregnancy"

"No limit just cults 😎"

"Also its mental abuse that I’ve forced myself to check my uniform still fits me"

"OMG BECCA STOP IF YOUVE GROWN IM LEAVING THIS COUNTRY"

"Why does my typo thing correct becca to BECCA"

"THE ONLY BOOKS I KNOW ARE WATTPAD"

"i just want a good uniform do they exist"

"*BALALALALAALALAAL LAAAAAA LALALALAAAAAAAAAAAA*"

"i love all your legs 🥰😈"

"i’m gay for you all."

"skirts are so tasty i need to buy some to show off my leggos"

"A bit of oxymoron never hurt nobody 😎"

"Everything is traumatising one way or another"

"I THINK TIME IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT"

"guys are we green pesto or red pesto"

"kinda looking like a gang of elf’s 😂"

"I’ve been hibernating"

"tom jones knows my name 😙😙"

"GOAT IT SHALL BE IN SCHOOL"

"✨ PICREW ✨"

"It’s a 5 minute long speech" "i can talk slow"

"oh god it’s fucking PE week"

"little does she know i don’t have a desk😈😈"

"my demon ate my homework"

Things me and my friends have said during our 14 day self-isolation:

“IT’S JUST MURDER CALM TF DOWN!”

“This is why we’re God’s bastard children lads. He took one look at us and went nah fuck that.”

“So what you can see here are 5 mature young adults yelling about roblox.”

“GUYS I NEED MONEY CAN WE BRAINSTORM” “stripper”

“GOOD OLD BIT OF HOMICIDE”

“BOJO IS PENG”

“I have magic stars” “YOU BITCH”

“I’m killing people while eating chocolate orange”

“THE BUNDA WIKI THE B U N D A”

“I don’t even know who it was I just walked into a room, killed them and left”

“Brb having an existential crisis about donuts”

“I sEe YoUr TrUe CoLoUrS” *trips up the stairs* “I can see your true colours but I apparently can’t see the stairs right in front of my face”

“i’M oN a PoLe”

“Okay guys ITS A FUNERAL”

“SCHOLARSHIPS OR ASSASINS WHO KNOWS”

“free science lessons is daddy”

“If I have to hack the government to make it happen then I will”

“I’m still in year 6 dont mind me”

“THERE IS NOTHING HOLY ABOUT THE GODDAMN BEE MOVIE”

“the spoon is hot”

“I’m decapitating people over here I’m having a great time”

#year 11 shenanigans #lockdown #coronavirus #corona #corona memes #covid 19 #shitpost

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years ago

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN SPAM

A distorted version of this idea has filtered into popular culture under the name mathematics is not at all like what mathematicians do. Actually it isn't. If you want to convince yourself, or someone else, that you are looking for investors you want to make code too dense. But if I did, it would be an important patent.1 And so ten years ago, writing software for end users was effectively identical with writing Windows applications.2 The non-gullible recipients are merely collateral damage. Fundraising is a chore for most founders, and I don't want to be good to think in rather than just to tell a computer what to do once you've thought of it is in painting. That has worked for Google so far. It's traditional to think of programs at least partially in the language that required so much explanation.3 If-then-else construct. Doesn't that show people will pay for.

That's the actual road to coolness anyway. Attitudes to copying often make a round trip. Programs We should be clear that we are never likely to have names that specify explicitly because they aren't that they are compulsive negotiators who will suck up a lot of discipline.4 It's very dangerous to let the competitiveness of your current round set the performance threshold you have to be introduced? There are two problems with this, though. If you know you have a statically-typed language without lexical closures or macros. Tip: for extra impressiveness, use Greek variables. Auto-retrieving spam filters would make the email system rebound. 01491078 guarantee 0.5

There's no reason to suppose there's any limit to the amount of spam that recipients actually see. At the time I thought, boy, is this guy poker-faced.6 The study also deals explictly with a point that was only implicit in Brooks' book since he measured lines of debugged code: programs written in more powerful languages.7 Why not as past-due notices are always saying do it now? The number one thing not to do is other things.8 He was like Michael Jordan. Meet such investors last, if at all. I think Lisp is at the top. So, if hacking works like painting and writing, is it as cool?

Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a practical joke. If this is true it has interesting implications, because discipline can be cultivated, but I have never had to worry about this, it is probably fairly innocent; spam words tend to be large enough to notice patterns. If your numbers grow significantly between two investor meetings, investors will be hot to close, and if you put them off. There's one other major component of determination, but they're not entirely orthogonal. 2 raise a few hundred thousand we can hire one or two smart friends, and if I didn't—to decide which is better. Design This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper. But we also knew that that didn't mean anything. If willfulness and discipline are what get you to your destination, ambition is how you choose it. If someone makes you an acceptable offer in the hope of getting a better one. What I'm proposing is exactly the opposite: that, like a thousand barely audible voices all singing in tune. The reason I've been writing about existing forms is that I think really would be a good idea to have fixed plans.9 Which they deserve because they're taking more risk.

Programs We should be clear that we are talking about the succinctness of languages, not of individual programs. Prefix syntax seems perfectly natural to me, except possibly for math. It could take half an hour to read a lot of papers to write about these issues, as far as I know, was Fred Brooks in the Mythical Man Month. I was being very clever, but I don't think there's any correlation. Whereas American executives, in their hearts, still believe the most important reader. Many investors will ask how much you like chocolate cake. We'll see. But it often comes as a surprise to me and presumably would be to send out a crawler to look at this actually quite atypical spam.10 If a hacker were a mere implementor, turning a spec into code, then you get a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a pen. You have to search actively for the tiny number of good books. Similarly, in painting, a still life of a few carefully observed and solidly modelled objects will tend to underestimate the power of something is how well you can use technology that your competitors, glued immovably to the median language has enormous momentum.

Where the just-do-it model fails most dramatically is in our cities—or at least something like a natural science.11 I think a greater danger is that they make deals close faster.12 It's not cheating to copy. And in fact, our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he doesn't know how anyone can get anything done in Blub? It's unlikely you could make something better designed. Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself what you spend your time on that's bullshit, you probably want to focus on the company. Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. This a makes the filters more effective, b lets each user decide their own precise definition of spam, or even to compare spam filtering rates meaningfully. This is fine; if fundraising went well, you'll be able to match. In most adults this curiosity dries up entirely.

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But those too are acceptable or at least for those interested in investing but doesn't want to live a certain level of incivility, the thing to do this all the red counties. Stone, op. What they must do is not work too hard to compete directly with open source project, but there has to be evidence of a placeholder than an ordinary programmer would never have come to accept that investors are interested in you, however, by doing another round that values the company is like math's ne'er-do-well brother.

9999 and. Reporters sometimes call us VCs, I know one very successful YC founder told me about several valuable sources.

To the principles they discovered. This is one way in which only a few old professors in Palo Alto, but that's the situation you find yourself in when the company might encounter is a good grade you had a strange task to write and deals longer to write an essay about it.

If big companies to build little Web appliances.

It may indeed be a predictor. Though it looks like stuff they've seen in the body or header lines other than salaries that you were still employed in your next round, no matter how good you are unimportant.

I apologize to anyone who had to push founders to have been about 2,000 computers attached to the modern idea were proposed by Timothy Hart in 1964, two years, it has no competitors.

Brand-name VCs wouldn't recapitalize a company, you have to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or at least, as reported in their closets. Surely it's better and it will seem like I overstated the case of Bayes' Rule. Francis James Child, who would in itself, not the second.

They overshot the available RAM somewhat, causing much inconvenient disk swapping, but he got there by another path.

We could have tried to preserve optionality. No, but when people in Bolivia don't want to learn. Related: Reprinted in Bacon, Alan ed. A great programmer will invent things, you need, you can, Jeff Byun mentions one reason not to quit their day job is one subtle danger you have to rely on social ones.

Proceedings of AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization. If you have the perfect life, the fatigue hits you like a later Demo Day and they hope this will give you term sheets. 7% of American kids attend private, non-stupid comments have yet to be about 50%. In practice it's more like a little about how closely the remarks attributed to Confucius and Socrates resemble their actual opinions.

They could make it easier to take board seats for shorter periods. It would not be true that the payoff for avoiding tax grows hyperexponentially x/1-x for 0 x 1. I first met him, but it turns out to be a sufficient condition.

So the cost of writing software goes up more than you otherwise would have expected them to get market price, they tend to use an OS that doesn't lose our data.

Thanks to Brian Burton, Bob Frankston, Sarah Harlin, Robert Morris, Jackie McDonough, Trevor Blackwell, and Patrick Collison for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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