#teviya in real life

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Gotta ask - what's your "Big Business Tried Hanukkah" score for this latke wrapping paper at Target?

At first glance, it’s honestly really cute— love the pale blue, the characters are adorable, and they used an acceptable spelling of Hanukkah!

That being said:

7/10

It’s awesome that they included both apple sauce AND sour cream instead of one or the other, but the applesauce jar character is holding hands with an apple, and Poppa Penguin and I both think that’s kind of weird 🤨

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Sick and miserable, plz entertain me 🤧🥺

Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask

😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

✍ Do you have a beta reader?

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

💋 First kiss fics. Love em or hate em?

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

🛠What tools/programs/apps do you use to write?

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

🙋‍♀️ Do any irl people know you write fanfic?

🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

🍷 Do you drink and write?

🍆 Do you write the spicy stuffs? If so, what's your most popular nsfw fic?

🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write?

💖 What made you start writing?

💌 How do you feel about comments and feedback?

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

💲 Would you ever open commissions?

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

🏆 What's your most popular fic?

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

🎯 Have any of your readers accurately guessed major plot points? Care to share which?

🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?

📈 How many fics do you have?

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

🤗 What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

💞 Who's your comfort character?

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

😬 Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career?

⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?

💥 How do you feel about criticism?

🤭 Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?

🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?

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First Night of Hanukkah 5784!

I have a real table this year!

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A gorgeous day to walk to vote!

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3rd Night!

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2nd Night All Right!

Community menorah lighting at the synagogue!

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4th Night!

Halfway there!

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I return with more Hanukkah stuff! This time it's a billboard on my commute home. I've been trying to get this picture for days and there was finally enough traffic the bus was going slow enough to get it. Sorry it's still blury, I had the zoom pushed to the max but the board was still a ways off.

…

…

what…

what the fuck….?

…

… this has got to be some kind of messianic bullshit… Jews don’t proselytize… like we specifically don’t proselytize… and we certainly wouldn’t just tell random goyim to perform our rituals without any context…

…

…

I went to the website.

It’s absolutely Messianic bullshit 😑

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Going to need to keep this in mind with the new job!

We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

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Further follow up to the billboard debacle - one of the tiny churches that 100% is a cult run out of someone's basement is currently advertising free massages for new donating members. I want to be joking. I so desperately want to be joking.

Holy shit that is so sketchy, oh my god

Also I showed Poppa Penguin your billboard and he thought it was hilarious 😆

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27 Hours and 15 Minutes to Erev Rosh Hashanah:

1) the sanctuary is not set up for services

2) THE POWER IS OUT IN THE TEMPLE

😱😱😱

There is literally nothing I can do about either of these things, and being at work while I cannot even access work stuff (wifi is out too) to distract me is stressing me out, so if the power is not fixed in 38 minutes or less, I am leaving.

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Happy Passover! Hope you have a great seder tonight!

Thanks so much! Chag Pesach Sameach to you as well!

Matzah ball soup time!

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I adore this

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Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask

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🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

Already answered this one here!

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

It really depends! I did a ton of research on American Sign Language in order to make sure that I was depicting it correctly as Yuyan Hand Language (the thing with the English alphabet of ASL versus the Chinese characters that ATLA uses threw me for a hot minute, until I decided to just say “fuckit, handwave”), but for some of DotY I just kind of winged it. Generally, if I have a worldbuilding question, I’ll check the wiki first, then if I can’t find (or am not satisfied with) an answer there, I’ll do some googling for a plausible real-world equivalent. If I find myself going too far down a rabbit hole, then I’ll cut myself off and be like “okay, time to just make it up”. I once lost an entire writing day trying to find a name for the shoulder pads on Fire Nation armor, and after that I decided that I had to make the conscious effort not to sink too much time into research.

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

Again, it depends! DotY as a series was very roughly outlined (basically a page in the Plot section of the DotY OneNote notebook titled “Series Masterlist” that listed the title of each installment, one sentence of what it was going to cover, and the episode it was tagged to or if it was Prologue or Epilogue), but each installment was pantsed for the most part. My current WIP requires a bit more planning, since I have over 125 years of backstory to rough out before I can get to the main plot.

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

Oh heck, can I actually think of 5 of these?? Okay, let’s see:

I’m apparently excellent at portraying various disabilities, which is very gratifying to hear from the people who actually have the disabilities that I’m portraying

I’ve spent 20+ years honing my craft, and it fucking shows

I can put something down to focus on other things, and then come back and finish, which is something I’ve only just learned about myself

My sense of drama in the little things is apparently impeccable (for example, Sokka’s observation of Zuko’s shaking hands in Pursuit)(snipers are trained to have incredibly steady hands)

Posting that random one-shot AU (Reconnaissance) was an incredibly good decision on my part

Ask meme here

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For the emoji ask game: 🎢

(and ✨ and ✅ if you'd like 😁)

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

Terrorism, without a doubt. I was so nervous to post it, and even writing it was pretty fraught, because I don’t usually do body-horror. Yeah, maybe it’s body-horror lite, but it’s still more than I’d ever written before that point.

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

Oy vey 😅 okay, um, well according to the majority of my comments, I have a really good grasp of characterization, which is honestly kind of cool now that I think about it!

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

Run-on sentences 😠 I ramble, and with characters like Sokka and Zuko I can let it go a little bit, but for the most part I’m constantly trying to stop using more than two commas in a sentence. Heck, I just did it!

Ask meme here!

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Hope you feel better soon!

🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?

I adore it! I would LOVE people to ask me about my fics! I generate the best headcanons and fic ideas that way!

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

Writing Zuko’s thoughts and observations during FUBAR was so fucking funny. Just, how much can Zuko (I) roast this absolute bootlicking maniac and his overcompensating fortress? I still giggle every time I reread it. Also, Sokka’s sleep-deprived rambling during Pursuit— I pretty much just took the brakes off of my tendency for run-on sentences and let it rip.

Thank you! I’m getting there— I spent all day yesterday in bed either sleeping or scrolling with my latest YouTube obsession autoplaying on the Roku, and I actually spent the majority of today at work prepping for a presentation I need to give on Sunday. I’m hoping to be fully better on Sunday for that, or at least at the point that with enough cold medicine, I can function long enough to set up for Religious School, give my presentation, process and file the tutoring paperwork that my madrichim generate, and put together an oneg plate for next Friday before I crash. If I absolutely have to, I can punt about half that list over to Monday, but I’d really rather not, because Monday has its own to-do list.

I NEED to be better by 9pm Monday, because I am getting up at 4:30am Tuesday morning to flap my way south for the turkey holiday (is it cannibalism if a family of penguins eat a turkey??) and I refuse to be sick on my vacation.

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