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This previous post is really about examining the broader message that the fandom’s consensus sends, and how it’s ultimately unhealthy. When people defend Zoro’s words from Water 7 as if they’re the ultimate truth, it creates a dangerous narrative. It overlooks the deeper issues Usopp was dealing with, like the lack of a father figure, which left him without the self-confidence he needed. Instead of acknowledging this, the fandom often criticizes Usopp for letting his “pride” get in the way, when in reality, he was struggling with suppressed emotions and a lack of proper emotional guidance.
The idea that Usopp was wrong and should have just fallen in line is harmful because it reinforces the notion that “might is right” and that questioning authority or seeking explanations is somehow disloyal. This mindset is not only unfair to Usopp’s character but also sends a message that suppressing emotions and blindly following others is the right thing to do. Usopp’s apology after Enies Lobby, then, feels inadequate because it doesn’t address the real issues he was facing or the unhealthy lessons the fandom has taken from this arc.
In short, the fandom’s consensus around Water 7 promotes an unhealthy message that doesn’t give Usopp—or anyone in a similar situation—the grace and understanding they deserve.
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#I had to put my#technical writing skills#to test#so sorry for sounding#too formal#one piece#usopp#op usopp#one piece usopp#god usopp#usopp one piece#sniper king usopp#straw hat usopp#sniper king#captain usopp#water 7#water seven#Enies lobby#post Enies lobby#anime#manga#fandom hate#fandom#wesleysniperking
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what's the threshold theory
There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.
If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.
#every day is threshold day#tldr threshold cemented the time travel shenanigans#we're not counting her disparagement of time travel in relativity i know it's technically before threshold#but they've messed with the timeline so much that her past timeline is also changed.#Time travel is funny because the past is the future the future is the past#so while relativity comes before threshold in the prime timeline her timeline has also been changed in a way that it wasn't before threshol#we could chalk it up to a writing oversight but this is more interesting#not to mention her uncanny luck with the Borg which I think ties in as well#it's part of why her instinct is so strong#also the bio neural gel packs but that's a different theory#listen she's amazing with or without having seen all of time and space but she has seen all of time and that must have affected her somehow#those little salamander babies also have all of the cosmos in their mind#tried to explain as concisely as possible but it is part of my overarching theory#she doesn't second guess herself nearly as much following their jaunt into transwarp#I have more but I'm trying to be brief cause it's written up partially in my drafts somewhere and i have some things i need to do today lol#meta#Star Trek voyager#Kathryn janeway#threshold day#did you expect me thresholdbb to not have a serious threshold theory?#listen I can make anything nonsense and turn anything into a serious theory I was known for this kinda bs in grad school#I wrote a 25 page paper on NOTHING once#I wrote a paper about how corn fields were super gay and it made my professor cry I can spin the bullshit it is one of my skills
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more clone^2 memes because i think they're funny
#dpxdc#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#clone^2#danny fenton is not the ghost king#so canon to clone^2 and clone damian the portal that ends up transporting damian to amity park is left pr ambiguous#so really how he got there could be one of many things whether it be through divine intervention or clockwork's doing or hell#it could've also been quite literally the 1 in 1 millionth chance that a natural portal opened up beneath him and sent him to amity#and was a happy accident#but the idea that the laz pits or another adjacent such entity heard damian wanting an older brother (he meant og damian but oops never-#specified) and then sends him to the one person who could fulfill that wish and make him happy at the same time.#was really funny to me within the context of the lilo and stitch meme. the meme can also be seen the other way around with danny as lilo#and damian as stitch. but danny being stitch was infinitely funnier and ~technically~ more accurate imo#danny technically IS a nice angel but also. he's a developing menace to society (just ask wes) and he's going to make damian one too#danny being from the midwest means he has a midwestern accent and thats not something the bats know how to handle when they finally meet hi#hey look at that! my meme making skills are steadily improving. im no longer making the same joke six different times in different formats#those first two images i made a few days ago the rest i made in the last thirty minutes in a spur of clone^2 induced inspiration#and procrastination of writing the cfau rewrite of the first post. we are 10k words deep folks and just barely got past the 1st gala reunio#dunking on the giw is a god-given right and danny WILL pass it down to damian
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the Acolyte is so incredibly prequel-coded to me in that it's communicating legitimately great and interesting ideas through some of the most mediocre pacing and dialogue possible
#ep 3 was a huge upgrade from 1-2 imo (thanks in no small part to jodie turner smith)#i honestly really love how the jedi are portrayed in this ep (and im far from a jedi anti)#i just wish the writing team had stronger technical skills.#then again ik these shows are often produced on insane deadlines and all these issues could have been worked out with more time#the acolyte#acolytespoilers
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fairest of the fair
#hi! im alive and back and etc.#six the musical#six the musical fanart#katherine howard#thinking of that post going 'i think eventually you become the person you needed most' and like maybe that's the thing with my art#this started out as a redraw and <improvement meme> i think i've finally reached the stage where i'm making the things that my younger self#aspired to create. like i can do this now! i've reached That level of technical skill! tiny me would be so proud. it's very gratifying#redraw from august this year actually. i've made a surprising amount of improvement HAHA maybe it was the adamandi stuff getting me#back into digital rendering. i think that obsession has quietly slipped away but yknow. one never truly leaves a fandom. just less intensit#also speaking of old fandoms! we're back with the six stuff haha. as of writing i'm in the midst of blog revamp- figuring out how to chill#multifandom status doesn't mean ditch all the old stuff ! but i do feel much freer and less stressed. i think hiatus has been good for me#notes on this piece particularly: redraw about cutting hair and thinking of the lyric above. also lowkey &j ref + pinterest poem excerpts#of female suffering. and maybe a dash of amanda heng let's walk inspo. this work is really just full of contradictions..#1. the mirror and cutting hair as an act of self liberation 2. the & is part of the lyric but also a nod to &j (in another iteration it was#pink but the white looked better) and like. &j is really all !!! girl power!!! etc. and i was like hmmmm. also matching pink shiny aes#3. the frame as a cage; the mirror as a self reflection idea (ie. saville's propped insp) but also as a sign of vanity. 4. sparkly costume#and pretty pose- read one too many poems about women feeling like they have to be pretty even in their suffering. something i wanted to#explore. and also in 5. the show itself... all you wanna do is. despite all the dancing and pink and sparkly the content of the song is#darker. and even though it's a story of her suffering it's still presented as a shiny fun pop song and ajshdhfhfh ok... 6. the lyrics fall#outside the frame. sort of a caught inbetween. sort of a trapped in the narrative and yet#within the frame it's all. vaguely handwavy breaking free vibes. like i said contradictions?#7. cutting off the long ponytail vs the pull my hair lyric at the end. yeah#8. the blocked off & looks a bit like scissors. positioned to cut right at the neck#anyways yeah irl remains hectic! but if i get around to more doodles they'll appear here :)
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another petty thing that bothers me about acotar on a technical level is that all of the characters sound the same- none of them have fun or unique speech patterns, nothing special to distinguish them from each other. like I really wish I could describe it better but it all just feel….. early 2000’s fanfic writers idea of “sophisticated” speech. idk if that makes much sense but it’s writing 101 that you can’t have your characters all sounding the same because it’s just boring, it makes your characters feel lifeless like the cardboard cutouts you’re trying to elevate them from
#I’m sure someone’s complained about this before but I was forced to read some of feyre’s internal monologue#all of the ic sound the same on page and that’s one of many reasons I just roll my eyes every time I have to read their dialog#it would be cool if it were intentional like they had all picked up each others speech patterns over the years they’ve been friends but no#it’s just sjm being lazy once again :/#pls take this as a gentle reminder to go over your dialog and make sure that readers can tell who’s speaking just at a glance#it’s a technical skill I don’t see many people intentionally developing anymore and it’s kinda driving me crazy#sjm critical#acotar critical#writing advice with gold ig#gold talks.tag
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Someone write a 300k+ fanfic of jimmy and curly throughout the years of high-school and college till now that shows the complex nature of their dynamic and how there was always 'signs' of what jimmy could do but was always somehow enabled yet held back by curly because that's how codependent they are...
Pretty pleeease
#mouthwashing#ive been thinking about doing this#but idk if i have the technical skill#like i wouldbt want it to be 'Jimmy’s been killing little animals since birth there was always something off about him' type cheesy shit#i need something subtle...something creepingly concerning but not given thought to#always pushing boundaries subtly till he does a big fuck up later in life and thats the moment curly solidifies himself as an enabler#and THATS the moment where jimmy knows the exact extent he can push buttons and still receive love from curly#extra thing i also would like to write is them being frat bros#like im so sorry i can SMELL it on them#and id give them 2 matching brandings in their palms because i love religious symbolism#curly mouthwashing#mouthwashing jimmy#captain curly
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okay folks i need to get real with myself. how do i regain the nerve to start writing original fiction again and start tackling an extremely ambitious project that for now only exists as clouds in my head. Genuine opinions welcome
#it’s not even that i feel like i lack the technical skill im just SCARED. for no REASON#like i’ll never be able to record the album on my own because i lack the resources. dont need resources to write a book.#i think getting rejected from grad school twice did a number on my self esteem plus feeling like i#generally had to get my life together first. Well now my life is semi together but i cant work up the courage?? 😕#and i think my idea is good i just dont know how to. Do it.#i know it doesnt matter and you just gotta expell all the words you can no matter if it’s good or not and just Go#so why cant i. the only feeling i have here is Scared#of WHAT????? why are you SCARED???????#personal
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it’s all the rest of what i want with you
connor dewar/brandon duhaime :: 8k
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“Brandon,” Connor says with a sigh. “There’s no baby in there.”
“Not yet,” Brandon says. Connor feels his stomach twist, almost like what he would imagine a baby kicking to feel like.
in these trying times of dewvorce, may i offer you 8k of pwp inspired by @stillfertile’s wonderful art which i had. several breakdowns about 🫶 anyway please enjoy!!!
#OFFICIAL FIC ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️ i wish i had pretty fic graphics but alas i have No Skill and also. so much work i should be doing bu#HI SHE’S HERE i would love to say this is a complete surprise drop except i have Anxiety & i needed to ask you guys about it beforehand#in my defense i started writing this in like. january far before any tragedy occurred#because square asked about my tags on their dewey2 art and she spawned like. a million more thoughts about it#including the part where i got absolutely kicked in the face with the lightning vision of those two lines.#like those two lines are the first actual lines of the fic i wrote ajdhkwdiowdjiw ANYWAY please be nice to me i know i am always like#‘this is not the first real fic i ever thought i’d post’ and if i had a nickel i’d have three but this is the first pwp i’ve ever posted#and it’s 8k and it’s not a fic for an exchange (although technically i did very much write this for the dewey^2 hivemind so.)#i have SO many things to say i have so many comments on this doc also i couldn’t pick a title for the LONGEST time and i finally decided on#this one but the full quote was too long:#all the rest of what i want with you that scares me shitless#so. i was angling SO hard to make a yung gravy lyric as a title bc i saw the video of him at a wild game but i couldn’t find a good one#and instead y’all got a very sentimental title l m a o.#liv in the replies#shout out to the extended universe this lives in and also my unhinged comments in the docs.#if you liked fun fuck a baby in him friday i’ll be here all week i promise i am the exact same in the comments as i am in the tags 🫡#the NUMBER of times i wrote something in this by pulling it out of my ass and then actually went back and did the research & was RIGHT is.#far too high. also the amount of coincidental things that dropped while i was writing this (yung gravy song about pregnancy AFTER i wheeze#laughed myself into a yung gravy title the athletic player poll confirming my restaurant & bar choices from googling ‘st. paul good bars’…)#also if anybody got advice on formatting for these little announcements. help. this is different from my miro/luka one &i’m still not happy
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You have probably answered this before, but have you ever considered becoming a published author ? Your writing style is soo good
sure lol i’ve considered it but the older i’ve gotten & the more i’ve learned abt how the publishing industry actually works the less it’s become a priority… “author” was like my dream job as a kid but it takes a lot of time & money & connections that i simply don’t have rn 2 write & publish novels so! maybe one day i’ll give it a go but 4 now i’m more focused on writing & publishing nonfiction articles/research as part of my work…of course that is not something i will make money from lol but it’s what i’ve gotta do if i want a shot at building a career in my desired field so. current priority lies there…
anyway appreciate the compliment glad u enjoy my writing <3 let’s all hold hands & enjoy it 4 free…
#also feel like. in recent years 2 ‘make it’ as an author u have 2 like…become an influencer lol#which is NOT something i would ever want 2 subject myself to. if i was gonna publish i’d wanna remain a recluse…#anyway. feel like sometimes there is this idea that u just need 2 be a ‘good writer’ 2 get published but that is not the case lol#in reality it seems u need connections/money & marketing skills. none of which i have !#so for now i just have fun writing fic & my nonfiction writing is my actual work#supposed 2 be getting a paper published this year which is v exciting…just sent it into the editors this week….#also technically do have one (1) poem published in an anthology but will not be sharing my real name on here. so xx#<- that’s the other thing if i did get published idk if id share on here i want 2 remain mostly anonymous…don’t want my real name that will#be tied 2 my research 2 also be tied 2 hp fanfiction lol#ask
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I shake a magic 8 ball and ask it when I will feel like a real musician and it says never so stop fucking worrying about it and get back to making music
#frustrating but true....you know i was reading an interview yesterday where john flansburgh said when he first got a guitar he only had#the top 3 strings on it and didnt know how to play but immediately started writing songs by like making triads with the three strings and#being like oh that sounds nice and he had no idea what any of the chords were called. and i was like god i really#have no excuse to be like wahhhh i cant write songs im not a very technically gifted instrumentalist wahh i dont#understand Everything about music theory wahhh like#enough. just sit down and do it man#i have more than enough i think like musical skill and talent to do this ifi put my mind to it but i just dont because#i get scared i think because im afraid of failure 😋 so then i get nervous and run away and dont do it i make up excuses not to#aghhhhh
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if everyone fucks up the technical, YOU HAVE MADE A BAD TECHNICAL
#gbbo#great british bake off#gbbo series 14#if 4/6 bakes were fully inedible that is not the bakers fault#the technical is not ‘complete nigh impossible task’#its ‘demonstrate your abilities in a particular skill’#and if everyone fucks it up and can’t do it#that is not on the bakers#they have literally never seen the recipe before#write better instructions#or don’t assign technicals you cannot complete yourself#better yet!#DON’T LET NONBAKERS JUDGE BAKE OFF#fuck paul and prue ive fucking had it with them
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every day i struggle to make choices
#i should invest into some kind of education but cant make up my mind#mostly because options suck#i cant do trades unless my body sucks less which is sad because id love to be an electrician#cant even think about getting a pilots license cuz im not passing the med cert#i think id rather die than be a med assistant actually#working clinics at all makes me nervous tbh but probably where im headed in the short term#surgical tech would be cool but i cant do a Real program while working full-time#which is what limits most of my choices#i need to find more paid training programs i guess#if i had to pick a miserable but fulfilling job id go into education itself#but the teaching profession has always been in a downward spiral esp as of late#i dont want healthcare because i hate seeing dysfunctional glorified murder machines grinding around and around endlessly#acute care sucks id rather be in an icu for function but then im depressed because our patients are always dying#it was better as a phleb but this hospital doesnt have phleb and like i said im nervous about clinics#but i need to fucking commit to outpatient phlebotomy i think :/#the most fun ive had at a job ever#i wish i had more widely applicable skills but i cant be an emt/para even just for the training#because half of it is unpaid and the other half you pay for#and again#a job NOTORIOUS for being exhausting dangerous and traumatizing#if i was 17 again and wasnt escaping the tar pit of my mother id go for an english degree and i wouldnt even regret it#thinking about school in terms of a job i have to have forever vs for the sake of learning is so different#id like to know everything. i wanna read and write forever. and do research and have real technical skills that help people#im still riding off of the high of getting 5 ccs off of an oncology patient who desperately needed a port#they were able to run like seven tests off of it#i had to use a couple ped tubes#she only had to get poked Once and barely noticed it bc the doc team came in and im so happy i made her admission that muvh easier#labs are so miserable#checking back on the blood and seeing all of the results came through made me more pleased than anything else in the world
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in honor of the wicked trailer, I'm dropping this here in case anyone's never seen it before. cynthia erivo, queen
#cynthia erivo#is there a professionally shot version of her singing this at an event?#sure#but this phone video of an actual performance canNOT be beat#the sonnets I would write about her diaphragm#the epics I would write about her breath control!#truly one of the greatest musical performers alive#this isn't my favorite show in the world#but when I saw her live in it#I legit like........sOBBED during this#sOBBED SOBBED#I'm crying just watching the video now#but I was truly inconsolable#and not just because it's a gorgeous song with a meaningful message!#but because being in the presence of someone with a steel spine iron lungs and golden vocal chords#and watching them absolutely strip the paint off the theater around you#is honestly the closest I get to a religious experience#I have a lot to say about modern broadway and the vocal gymnastics that are going too far#bc people want to be able to do this shit but like - this is not vocal gymnastics#this is a craftsman being incredibly technically skilled at their craft#and an artist who understands the medium of musical theater#it's not.......pop runs you know?#other live vocal performances that made me bleed from the eyes (positive)#sutton foster singing gimme gimme at like...21?#heather headley in aida#every single fucking performer in octet#keisha setttle (?) in waitress singing I didn't plan it#and its a different flavor#but jonathan groff in everything I've seen him in#the purity of tone!!!!!!!
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still thinking about why community fics are so well written on average like theres gotta be some kind of reason right? whats so different about the fandom compared to everything else
#like tbc im not insulting other fandoms#but like#just in terms of straight up like grammar word usage readability imagery. why are they like that#i mean obv i havent read fics for That Many fandoms#but like. spn is spn right there are like a billion spn fics its a huge fandom so that makes sense#cm is just a complete shithole for reasons unknown to me#always sunny & 911 are both good#but like. the writing in my favorite macdennis & buddie fics is as technically skilled as what i’d consider probs an average trobed fic#& again i want to be clear im not disparaging other fandoms other fics i just want to know why community fics are so insanely well written#rambling
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honestly my real opinion on ai is not even from an ethical standpoint. my opinion on ai is that because it isn't actually artificial intelligence that is a misnomer it's not intelligent and it doesn't think it is therefore just plain not good at most of what we're currently using it for outside of like hyperspecific applications that i know nothing about and never will. it simply can't do the job man.
#jack facts#and this isn't an argument about what constitutes ''real'' art either it's about technical skill#the ability to self correct; improve; make requested changes; do something that hasn't already been done before or do it in a new way; etc#it just. it can't do it. it can't do the job.#and like laymen using it to make fanart or oc art or whatever like i don't really care that much#like i absolutely think you're tacky and a big whiner and i don't respect you but i don't think you're A Bad Person#unless you're dishonest about it and trying to pass off ai as self-made in which case you're the same as someone who reposts imo#but like as far as like industry ai. like the ethics of usage are complicated but i honestly don't care because the stuff is garbage anyway#whether it's ''art'' or not it will never be skillful and it will never innovate. it is low quality and it is boring.#it can't not be low quality and boring. skilled and interesting are literally beyond its parameters that's just the facts.#so truly there is absolutely no point in using it for anything that requires skill or interest.#or like. representing concepts. expressing an idea etc. those things can't be replicated only shapes/color/letters can.#which is honestly part of the reason why i don't even have any interest in caring more about the ethical aspect#it's not going to last for very long because it doesn't work. it just doesn't work! it can't do that!#anyway.#reading process#writing process#soc
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