#that was entirely self inflicted

[zoe-oneesama]

How do you not suffer like soul-crushing burn out and exhaustion from making so much content so quickly? Like that seems like something that would degrade the quality of your work over time and basically incinerate a person. How do you avoid that?

For Scarlet Lady specifically, I didn't even start publishing pages until I had the entire "Origins" episode drawn, lined, and "colored". Back then, I was posting two pages a week, so that bought me about a month to work on the next part. I self-imposed a rule that I needed to draw at least one new page for every page that was posted, so I was never less than 7 pages ahead.

At one point, I changed how I was planning chapters - in "Origins - Part 1", "Origins - Part 2", "Stormy Weather", and "Bubbler" were all made using my old method of "write a page when you think of a joke" method. When I got to "Lady Wifi", I started planning the whole chapter start to finish with an overall plot and then making the script with jokes after the general episode was planned, which overall sped up my work.

Soon I was full episodes ahead of what was being posted. I was able to increase posting to three times a week and it wouldn't bite into my headway.

When I hit "Volpina", my favorite episode to work on, I had so much fun that I was finishing two pages a day. And then it happened again in "Dark Cupid". And again and again and before I knew it, I was like half a season ahead of what was being posted.

When I went through bouts of burnout, I had plenty of headway to take a break. I know mine isn't a perfect model to replicate for everyone, and there's certainly pitfalls (like canon adding something that changes a joke I made two months ago, or new lore dropping, or not being able to immediately implement reader feedback where it's warranted), but for burnout, it worked for me.

[jupitermelichios]

you know, D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die is kind of a dogshit game in a lot of ways. it genuinely has the worst control system i've ever used in a game; octodad has a better control system and being uncontrollable is the entire joke of octodad. the characters are infuriating. it has a borderline intollerable amount of what i can only call anime bullshit. it has fucking roland walker the creepiest non-horror game character in history. it ran out of money to finish and so we'll never know whether the story made sense but i'm willing to lay serious money that the answer is no

and yet

this weird mess of a game has the only use of a catgirl i actually like in basically all of fiction, because for all his many (many many) faults as a game dev and a human being, swery is not a coward, and when he says a catgirl he means a CATgirl

this is amanda. whether or not she actually exists is questionable, because the plot of d4 is just like that, but the first thing this free-to-play-hentai-game-looking bitch does in the entire game is destroy your entire apartment chasing a mouse, which she then eats in front of you. live.

she looks like this, and she has a tonne of unlockable skimpy outfits and a dance minigame, and she canonically eats live mice and birds, throws stuff on the floor to get attention, hisses at the MC's friends when they visit, and spends 99% of every day asleep on furniture that was not designed for be slept on, and however much of a fuck you i want to give swery for everything he did with deadly premonition 2, i have to respect his commitment to making the most unhinged character design decisions in history for d4

[qqueenofhades]

....I see it's another Stay Far Off Social Media And All News Sites kind of day. Sigh.

[blackhholes]

teen wolf meme: [5/5] motifs -> pain

It still hurt! And that's what keeps you human- pain.

[occulee]

Dread.

[wreckedandpolemic]

thinking white & gold thoughts (as per usual). thinking about surprising matty while he’s traveling for work by waiting in his hotel room and the rest of the thoughts are not innocent and i’m afraid will have me put down😀😀😀😀😀

FIRST OF ALL any and all horny thoughts are welcome here!!!! but i Suppose i will bear the burden of finishing the thought for you…

you were expecting getting into his room to be a mission, armed with a stack of cash to slide a concierge’s way, but the girl at the front desk just giggled and waved you up with a conspiratorial grin. which, mildly concerning, but not your problem. you let yourself into his suite and sprawl on the bed in your underwear, a pastel-pink number that you know he loves, your sheer, lacy stockings clipped to a garter.

you start getting bored waiting for him and snap some photos of yourself, careful to crop out anything that might give you away before you send them to him. thinking about you, you add to the last picture, your hand in your panties, your fingers buried deep in your cunt. matty’s groan is practically audible through his reply, had to cut dinner short because of you, brat. better make it worth it.

you shudder excitedly hearing him unlock the suite door, but he only wanders onto the couch before your phone starts ringing. “hi,” you giggle breathlessly, heart thudding. whether from being found or getting away with it for a while, you’re not sure. “everything ok?”

matty growls. “you fucking know what you did. my slutty girl can’t keep her hands off, can you, darling?”

“maybe i just wanted you to come see me quicker.”

“soon, princess, i promise. just a few more days.” you can practically hear the pout in his voice.

smirking to yourself, you fan your hair out on the pillow and arrange your face into the picture of innocence. “maybe sooner than you think. on the couch, daddy?” you can’t resist teasing. “so dirty.”

matty gets to his feet so fast he’s probably lightheaded, hanging up the phone and striding into the bedroom, his jaw going slack at the sight of you. “oh, my god,” he says, laughing in disbelief. “you’re here.”

you arch your back and slide a provocative hand down your body, playing with your waistband. “couldn’t wait any longer to see you. s’not the same, i’m going crazy.” you dip your fingers into your panties and toy with your clit. “please help me, daddy,” you pout up at him.

he’s on you in seconds, attacking your lips with breathless savagery, the familiar taste of him finally soothing the dull ache of loneliness. tearing out of his clothes as fast as possible, he doesn’t even take your panties off, just pulls them to the side and slides home. “god, missed you so much, princess,” he murmurs into your neck, your cunt fluttering around him. “missed filling up this needy little pussy.” he kisses over your heart. “missed my sweet girl.”

you thread a hand into his curls, moaning as his teeth graze your skin. “missed you too. so much. missed this, missed being your little slut, taking my daddy’s cock like a good girl,” the filth pours freely from your mouth, too long pent up to fall victim to your brain-to-mouth filter.

“it’s okay, princess. daddy’s got you, now. i’m gonna take care of you.”

[bizlybebo]

someone please just stop me from watching this. i know i like bad media but this is uniquely terrible and yet i can’t stop watching

[wickerfemme]

I need new clothessss

[jusst-you-race]

i love all of the snippet prompts i have been getting, but i am going to have to somewhat draw a line in the sand... i will do my very best to get as many of them done as i can but some of the more recent prompts i will possibly not do, or i will leave them for some time later down the line.

this has been ridiculously fun and i've loved writing all of these!!!! i just didn't expect to get so many and it's hard not to feel guilty about not filling the prompts quickly enough. i really wanted to get caught up by the end of the month which is... today... so that hasn't happened, and i'm trying to not feel guilty about that but alas... there's a handful of early prompts that i will try my best to get done over the next week, but then after that i make no promises!

between these snippets and continuing to update i have written about 20k words this month which is maybe not a lot for some people but for me that is A Lot... and again i've had the time of my life with these, i just want to put a disclaimer out there basically in attempt to feel less guilty. this is me just talking into the void now

much love to all of you you're all lovely and wonderful and i wish i could immediately fill every prompt as soon as i got it but alas i am only human <3

[franklyimissparis]

please tell the story how you met Damon albarn please please

it’s been over a decade and i still physically cringe thinking about it so i will not be going into detail for my own sanity but basically i was around 8 or 9 and i was hanging about while him and my dad were talking. and there was an Incident with a yoghurt that someone had given me which ended with me crying and begging my dad to go home.

anyway. i have met him a handful of times since and unfortunately he did remember 😭😭😭

[shredsandpatches]

Somewhat pursuant to this post (in the sense of productions' need to determine a sort of moral point of no return that is clear and unambiguous onstage) I also find it a deeply funny indicator of cultural differences that British theater practitioners talking about staging Doctor Faustus always lead off with a sort of embarrassed "well, of course nobody actually believes in any of that kind of stuff anymore so we had to cut a lot and focus on the psychodrama" and Americans always start with "well, we were staging the play at a small liberal arts college in the American South so we had to tread very carefully..."

like, I'm not at all opposed to using mental illness as a framework for reading this play! I do it all the damn time myself -- but I also think you can't let yourself be embarrassed by the Christian structure of the play if you're going to stage it. It may not be real to you but it's real in the play and you can absolutely layer the psychology onto that. Even if "we" aren't believers and even if our immediate cultural milieu is pretty secular we're still living on the bones of the culture that produced the Faust legend and the culture that Marlowe was railing against. If it's real to Faustus it will be real to the audience at least for the duration.

[samuelroukin]

another day another headache can i get a break please

[transphilza]

i have decided that my interpretation of c!wilbur’s ominous foreshadowing after the “Bust” stream is that he was suicidal and increasingly planning on committing suicide as his character heavily alludes to (because i believe that negating the suicidal overtones of cwilbur during this portion of his story by saying that he was always only ever planning on going back to utah: # 1 just lessens the impact of everything that happens in this arc, because he wouldve already decided to live thus making all those conversations and apologies forcing him to confront the realities of his own life and death wayyy less meaningful, but most importantly # 2 makes it impossible to provide adequate closure for his character’s deepest struggles because they wouldve never been re-addressed) — BUT that when he finally decided to go through with sending friend to ghostbur thus making the evident conclusion that ghostbur did not deserve to suffer eternally (and by extension and implication, himself, too) he changes his mind and chooses Life :) aka Utah <3

[mori-no-majou]

lesbian yearning hours are here again

[broken-clover]

*bonks head on wall* *bonks head on wall* you are not a content creation machine. You literally have no deadlines *bonks head against wall* you do not have to finish a writing project literally every week or else you are a failure. You have been told this a dozen-plus times and yet still for some reason struggle with this *bonks head against wall* *bonks

[corfisers]

love that he looks at doumeki's whole deal and recognizes how ultimately pointless and misplaced his self-flagellation and attempts at "atonement" are, but then frames his own suffering as some deserved punishment. funny how that works.