#was in fact the solution to my problem
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I don't know who needs to hear this but you don't need to beat yourself up over the fact that you're thinking about stuff like a camp Halfblood au of your ocs instead of "actually working" on your wip.
I actually encourage you to think those thoughts through!
Let them run around freely in your head because when they come to a halt you might just have learned something about your characters, their dynamics and their world, you may even find the solution to that plothole or the answer to that question that has plagued you.
Imagine your character's future to find out how they would act in a different phase of their lives so that you can write their present self in a way that leads to this future self. Think about what music your high fantasy character would listen to if they were in a coffee shop au. Figure out what Hogwarts house your ocs would be sorted in and if their relationships would change or stay the same. Create that alternate timeline where the best friends are on opposite sides and think about the consequences this would have for the world around them. Age up your characters just for fun and see where that takes you. Think about memes that a future fanbase could make about your work like a "[insert wip name] but as vines" YouTube video. Decide who of your ocs would say what if you see one of those fake quote posts or textpost memes on here.
All of that is information and context, all of this association helps you get a grip of that idea in your head, it helps you get a feeling of who your characters are, what your world is and what your story needs and wants to be. If you don't put pressure and restrictions on yourself and allow yourself to explore stuff freely without wanting results you often get them anyways, that's part of the creative process.
#exploring different ages just for fun and coming to the conclusion that one of my ocs is actually all of them and neither at the same time#was in fact the solution to my problem#giving a loner character who wasn't supposed to have one a love interest because it didn't fit what I wanted to say with the story#actually ended up giving her a voice (and me some answers) because it was the first positive interaction she had with someone#hearing her explain her past to someone who accepted her made me understand her better#writer#writers on tumblr#writing#writing advice#sometimes I stumble upon a crossover like what if characters feom x were in the universe of Avatar the last Airbender#and I really disagree with the element that the creater of that fanart choose of them and even that broadens my interpretation of them#please reblog to spread the word
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i think when cherik fuck charles just has to control himself so much that he reaches the point where he gets almost no pleasure because of the efforts and erik just doesn't see that for a long time bc charles is very good at simulating whatever it is so they fuck and erik is happy and cherles is close to tears every time because yeah he had sex but he spent all time of it struggling to remain control of his abilities and he didn't have orgasm and he just doesn't know what to do because he's afraid to tell erik and he's afraid to stop doing that because he thinks he'd project his thoughts and feeling all over the mansion and he's afraid to go on the way he does because it's exhausting and kinda awful
sorry im in the mood for angsty thoughts about charles's telepathy sorry
you jsut gon say this in fronta my salad. ..,
#nsft#snap chats#BUT REAL i love angst with charles and his telepathy so much you dont even know so i am in fact eating this. WITh my salad#speedrun category for how fast this went from funny to sad and im living for it if im so tbh#how fast you think erik catches on. cause im betting my kidney he will catch on at some point details about charles does not evade him#this why they oughta shack up away from the mansion. this why erik gotta kidnap him to Whatever resort they can go to#'resort' and its just one of his '''''evil''''' lairs away from everyone else vjlekjal#modern problems demand modern solutions ... still /having/ to isolate isnt fun#maybe if its a planned event Like A Vacation or somethin but what bout- if i may quote asia- The Heat Of The Moment#what then. what if there Is no isolating option. TRAGIC chat my head hurts#brain just wants them to bone without problems .... the problems make it more interesting tho im afraid brain you gotta deal#i repeat we gotta invest in the anti-telepath room....
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Hey Mayor, do you like puzzles?
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#lego monkie kid#lego monkie kid fanart#monkie kid#monkie kid fanart#lmk#lmk fanart#lmk mayor#monkie kid mayor#blue and violet#the dude loves puzzles#but you don't have to be good at something to like it#the fact that Mayor has terrible problem solving skills is just me being silly and projecting my own problems onto them#because I fucking hate puzzles like sudoku#and even though Mayor would probably enjoy a good sudoku puzzle the guy will never be able to finish it#they probably do crosswords in newspapers too#but again they can never finish them#because this dude cannot problem solve for the life of them#it sort of ties into the fact that they were heavily reliant on people (LBD) telling them what to do throughout their life#so basically they lack the ability to come up with solutions on their own#or at least thay ability is not as high as one might think it is#but again this is just a silly Headcon#trauma flashbacks to the syntax finger trap lmao
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Six Song Soundtrack: Clarette
Thanks for the tag, @kavalyera❣️ These are like...almost all about Rosaire looool
Rules: If you're tagged, make a new post with links to music and/or lyrics describing the following . . .
1. Event that defines your character's past: Drawn to the Blood by Sufjan Stevens
As fire to the sun Tell me what I have done How? Heart of a dragon How? Heart of a dragon ✧.*
For my prayer has always been love What did I do to deserve this now? How did this happen? ✧.*
2. How your character sees themselves: Nothing Without You by Vienna Teng
It's the crowded room that breaks me Everybody looks so luminous, and strangely young It's the crowded room that's never heard No one here can say a word of my native tongue I can't be among them any more I fold myself away before it burns me numb ✧.*
Oh, call my name, you know my name And in your love, everything will change Tell me it won't always be this hard I am nothing without you But I don't know who you are ✧.*
3. How others view them: Femme Fatale by Velvet Underground
Here she comes, You better watch your step, She's going to break your heart in two, It's true It's not hard to realize Just look into her false colored eyes She builds you up to just put you down, What a clown 'Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) ✧.*
4. Their closest relationship (platonic or romantic): All I Have to Do is Dream by The Everly Brothers
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine Anytime, night or day Only trouble is, gee whiz I'm dreamin' my life away ✧.*
5. A major fight scene: Cry Me a River by Julie London
Now you say you're sorry For bein' so untrue Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you ✧.*
6. End credits song: I Have Never Loved Someone by My Brightest Diamond
I have never loved someone The way I love you I have never seen a smile Like yours ✧.*
And if you grow up to be king, or clown, or pauper I will say you are my favorite one in town ✧.*
^This is assuming a happy ending, which has yet to be determined...
I'm a little late to this so I think a lot of people have already been tagged, but I'll add @gehennagone @porcelainseashore & anyone else who would like to join!
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#Fun fact: the ✧.* is not decorative it is functional bc the last three letters of each paragraph kept unitalicizing and un-small-ifying#so this is my new solution for that problem lol#oc clarette arsenault#toreador oc
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she looks so different in game it makes me mad
wlikewho the fuck is thattttttt thats not my sim bruh 😪
anyway lookbook
#this hair is so great but the black swatch sucks!#matter fact why is most hairs' black swatch sooo gray aaaaaaaaa#and u can tell i tried to edit tf out of it... 😪😪#me doing anything but fix my game yaaa im over it fuck the detective career 🖕 everytime i fix a problem another comes up#and i check the forums and theres a lot of people w the exact same and its entries from 2016 like.... come onnnnn! and no solution 😭😭🤮#when ive always been a get to work truther... so ungrateful smh
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Gratitude time
#today im doing it because it's easy and im overflowing with thankful things#very often i do it because it's hard#probably good to remember it CAN be easy#anyway#thankful for my team im gonna be travelling with and the enciuragement they are#its good to remember i am not on this ceazy ride alone#thankful for a genuinely good rich fulfilling day of class/prep#and the stories of God’s amazing provision from an incredible middle eastern guy who shared with us#and for the moroccan lady i met who now somehow is cooking us lunch tomorrow so now i get to try moroccan food#and her hospitality#and for a good comfy bed and the gift of a private room this qeek#and wifi cuz hey that's a bonus (not to be taken for granted this next month)#and a remarkable number of solutions for dumb lil problems#and for the fact that my goodby with The Boy tonight (the big goodbye. for 8 months)#which both of us were dreading because yknow the Big Sad#didnt actually hit either of us emotionally while we were together#which was such a gift. we got to spend 3 hours together just being peaceful and present and having good conversations#and thinking about how to do dating well this year#and praying together#and it was just. so good#and i am so so glad i get to date him this year and share this crazy thing with him even though itvis gonna be really really hard sometimes#and he made me a bracelet to take with me 🥺
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saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad
#pov u grow up in a 3rd world country(/planet) where healthcare workers are exported by the thousands like cheap produce to richer countries#it's your ticket out of poverty as long as you can deal with the loneliness the separation from everyone you know the discrimination etc#ive never talked about my hc that vespas mother was one of them sending money every month visiting every couple of years until it just stop#like why return to the swamps when youre doing fine working on a richer planet w much better living conditions#cost of living rises every year. sending home a % of your salary used to be enough to support your husband and daughter and then it isnt#you know how it goes#vespa is also dead set on this path until ranga realizes that hemorrhaging healthcare workers leaves them with little to none of their own#students on scholarships or in community/state universities are bound by return service agreements and are forbidden to leave the country#until theyve rendered a few years of work on ranga to pay back their tuition + as a really shitty solution to the brain drain problem#this is real in my country btw but my professors say a lot of ppl do break their rsa's and fucked off to work in other countries LOL#our state unis can barely afford decent facilities they do nottt have the budget to chase down their own alumni in other countries!#but the mental image is a bit funny#vespa ilkays first crime: tinakasan ang rsa#i do also think it lines up with her having a network of med friends everywhere in the galaxy (heart of it all) you kind of go into pre/med#expecting most of your classmates to leave to work in other countries eventually. mine are aiming for the usa / uae / europe / japan etc#anyway whether vespa breaks her rsa or not she leaves ranga asap decides to switch careers and the rest is history#i also deeply love the fact that she's superstitious i'm very sad it wasn't highlighted more (i've only heard s1-3)#as someone who did grow up in a rural area and went to more albularyos/folk healers than doctors in my childhood. (they never failed me)#lots of folk illnesses (ex. balis; pasma) local medical superstitions (dont eat noodles in hospital; youll have a really toxic shift) etcc#theres also a lot of potential in tying her past as a rangian + med student + assassin to me idk how to word this properly#being raised on cautionary tales of not to touch/disturb anything in the swamps then being given free reign to poke & prod at things in her#lab classes (now with the proper ppe)....she was having so much fun with the curemother prime too lmao#years of walking hanging bridges docks boathouses in ranga etc gave her great balance & stealth#cracking open alien shellfish in the swamps to cutting open bodies for studying then for assassination....#I MISS HER SO MUCH BALIK KN SAKEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭#i get why most people + the canon focuses on her being an assassin bc people find that cooler i guess#but vespa being a swamp girl > 3rd world med student > assassin is so personal To Me. the whole pipeline. eugh.#skl.txt
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okay so my current dilemma is that it's 4am, I can't lift up the mattress to put the bed slats back into place on my own, I did manage to lift it up enough to look at them and realised there are way more slats out of place than I thought and some are bent as if they've been out of place like that for a long time, and I think we're gonna have to take the mattress off the bed, but there's nowhere we can put it that won't result in our contamination OCD getting triggered really badly because putting it on the floor will trigger that and I don't know what the fuck we're gonna do. we're also probably gonna have to sleep before we can fix this but idk if continuing to sit or lay on the bed is a bad idea for the time being and I think I also just fucked up our back by trying to lift the mattress
#personal#thoughts#🍬 post#vent post#also like asking for someone else to lift the mattress up is gonna create a situation where our contamination OCD is gonna get triggered#and no matter what happens we're gonna end up using way more energy than we can afford to right now trying to fix this#I've already overexerted because I panicked and tried to lift up the mattress and wasn't paying attention to whether I got hurt#and now I can feel how much my back and shoulders and wrists hurt#and I've also already spent a decent portion of the night either dissociating or having random panic attacks#and this is not helping because I've had multiple panic attacks in a row over it#and the fact that I don't have a solution to the problem that won't cause a bunch of other problems#means my brain is not going to shut the fuck up#my whole back is spasming and I think I've dislocated a rib. fuck
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Some of you think a Fascist™ country is defined by an oppressive dictatorship that results in a greyscale dystopian society and it shows.
#ra speaks#personal#politics#‘don’t vote a fascist into power this fall!’ buddy I hate to break it to you but there ARE fascists in power. like a lot.#we have a lot of democratically elected fascists at every level of government. voting in a Not Fascist (we totally swear pinky promise)#into power won’t fix the fact that the majority of legislative power comes from career politicians with no term limits who will do#everything in their power to retain their power.#do you think all the ‘acceptable’ Germans in Germany were suffering sadly and powerlessly under the Reich?#no! they were for a large part normal. either ignorant or apathetic people living their damn lives.#Hitler didn’t come into power and suddenly they lived in a dystopian hellscape brainwashed into the nazi cult#their lives went on. as long as their status quo was maintained what did they care about their disappearing neighbors#who were ‘undesirables’ anyway???#don’t twist my fucking words nowhere does this rant say don’t vote at all ever.#this rant says don’t fucking kid yourself even if we elected a goddamn saint to be president they would still be stonewalled by the rest#of our fascist government if not outright killed for having the audacity to not protect the interests of the rich and powerful.#fascism isn’t a one person problem and there isn’t a one person solution.
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Realistically speaking, killing a healthcare CEO doesn’t fix the greater systemic problems with American healthcare, and Brian Thompson isn’t (/wasn’t lol) solely responsible for American healthcare or even just UHC’s particularly bad policies, because there’s a whole apparatus in place, and that’s often why people who consider themselves moral can do what UHC execs do, because they feel diminished responsibility; to some extent trying to kill ppl responsible would lead to like a whackamole, and I do think that would be immoral; I don’t think it’s possible to kill your way into a better healthcare system, and ultimately this isn’t going to fix American healthcare, certainly not in the long term, it’s just an act of violence which isn’t a sustainable method of change and can often make things worse long-term.
On the other hand: LMAO
#was violence necessarily the solution here?#no#is it however cathartic?#I can’t say it isn’t#do I feel bad for Brian Thompson?#no not really#I do worry that esp. if the shooter is in a fragile mental state#there is a bit of hero worship and I hope that’s not a problem#like Idk his motivations and all but if this was a kinda like#‘going out with a bang—throwing my life out to do something worthwhile’ type thing#like what you get w/ a lot of self-immolations#of course in this case he’s alive and that’s a big key difference#I also don’t know if this like#specifically someone in his life was harmed by UHC or if this is just a like ‘oh generally this dude should die’#I guess *strictly speaking* neither’s necessarily ‘healthy’ but the latter seems worse to me for some reason and Idk why#either way I hope he gets support from his friends and family (whether they figure out he did it or not)#also there’s so much I’m curious about but I can’t know about it w/o him getting caught#which I’d rather not happen#also I think the fact that it’s UHC is important here#given that it’s like THE worst of the health insurance providers#so it’s not just like killing someone bcs they work in a deeply flawed industry—it’s someone you view as culpable for a lot of fucked up shi#and this guy probably viewed as culpable to something that deeply affected him or someone he knows
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the funniest part about the fact that my chest has been hurting in a new and exciting way is that i already know that there is no point in trying to find a reason for WHY online since ive spent so much of my life already trying to look into chronic chest pains, and that there's really no point in telling people since my parents only seem to half believe me about it in the first place and the last doctor i told about it went "okay and what do you expect me to do about it??" so hopefully it just goes away on its own 👍
#<- previous life experiences tell me that it won't but like. what is there to do at this point#sorry im just frustrated and annoyed that I've spent half of my time on this earth with trouble breathing properly#and no one really gives a shit!! bc i guess I've lived this long!!#so despite the fact that it nearly always aches to breathe and sometimes actively hurts im still doing it so it can't be a problem!!#sigh#i know the solution is keep going into someone actually believes me but that's hard. it's so hard. it's so demotivating.#shh ac#seriously shut up
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#i've had many people ask me in the DMs what could be done to help me out given the orange menace is coming back into power#the best things for me right now (I can't speak to others) is this: 1. Keep supporting my creative endeavors#no matter how little I might post or interact. Please hype me up. I need community. I need spirit to survive.#2. Help me find resources that will help myself and others. Food banks. Community meets. Passports. Finances. Mental health etc.#these are important and I don't want others feeling like sitting ducks. Even though I'm scared I want to be a solution to the problem.#I am going to be a helper in this mess cause that's who I am and I need ammo in this capacity#3. Donate so I can up my ration storage. I've been collecting food water and nonperishables and I'm trying to stock up on medication#and other basic necessities. I'm collecting as if I'm preparing to be homeless again and if I am over capacity I'm giving rations to others#I've had to make peace with the fact I can't run away. I can't move to another country as I'm broke and poor like the rest of my loved ones#4. If you have friends who are disabled or a minority or lgbtq etc. do what you can to protect them and show them that you love them#and build community#5. Share my work and that of others. Who knows if we're gonna have sites like AO3 in the future or even access to tumblr.#this is all I can think of at the moment and again I can't speak for others this is what comes to mind for myself#And I admit I'm coming from a place of the worst case scenarios#because in my mind if I imagine I'm dead or homeless etc. and work my way backward to the next worst thing before that it unravels my fear#and it gives me back my power in the situation by sitting with those fears and giving them time to speak#because in my mind if I'm already dead if I'm already homeless or at war etc. etc. then its already happened and what else is there to fear#if I've been through everything already in mind?#I'm hoping that the worst case scenarios don't transpire but I can't ignore the fact many of them could and probably will happen#in some capacity but I can control the actions I take through prep and facing these fears one by one#and most importantly sticking to routine by making sure im healthy to help people#anyway this is why ive been quiet for a while besides for spending time with friends and loved ones recently to get over what happened#im going to keep going to my classes keep helping people through my jobs try to be creative when I have spoons and little by little#make sure I have enough of what I need to get through the storm and outlive the bastards in power#I'm not sure what sort of pink variant to assign this to but its along the magenta spectrum#love you guys#we'll get through this
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I have to accept that its been more than a week and I cannot count on homecare to help me out. I need to find a way out of this situation alone. Sigh. I just wanna be able to go out again. I hate being trapped in my home. Why did I have to live in a flat with stairs.
#it sucks so much i love my flat i never wanted to move until i left the city#but i havent seen the outside since. the hospital. 2 months ago.#cant even go to my medical appointments#alas the housing situation here. had#bad*#and an accessible flat? lmao#thats why i was hoping gvt services might be able to find a temporary solution since the hospital referred me#but no one gives a shit 🔥#sorry man i wasnt expecting to lose the ability to walk in my 20s#the fact theyre using the fact that its long covid to deny services.....#my symptoms are not new!!! stop saying 'oh we dont know how to handle long covid'#my problem is that im a wheelchair user thats not new 😭#long covid is literally just existing syndromes.... fuck this shit
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took me only three pages in my new sketchbook to start drawing gay shit....
poses courtesy of pinterest
i have regular brainrot of shipping redacted with various npcs from the campaign, this one, zarak, is a recurring one! do love me a grumpy tragic drow that i can soften up... and redacted may be a flirty fuck but i think zarak could get him flustered if he really tried
also his nickname for redacted is trinket. like. yes its bc when they first meet redacted gives him an origamy thingy But regardless!!! do you not see the potential!! in the immediate pet name!!!
#need to get more comfy w my sketches#lore for the tagreaders#so basically redacteds name thing works like this#since he has no name no one can just call him by one. vague descriptors like tiefling that guy the blue one work#but no one can just go “you will be jack from now on”#now. this obviously causes some problems roleplay wise. so the solution to this is that after a while ppl develop a nickname for redacted#that only they can call him by. this is based on the fact that we all refer to ppl in a specific way in our head#so after a while a nickname is developed organically#it doesnt have to be complicated. two party members call him bluey bc he is blue and bagpipes bc be was playing the bagpipes when she met#him#but if someone doesnt have a nickname for him they literally cant refer to him by any specific name thing. they are Unable to. bc Magic#anyways yeah totally normal thing to call someone trinket haha lol
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I don't know if it's the fandom or interacting with the wrong people or rewatching the wrong episodes...
But I'm starting to kind of dislike Yuya. He feels like a diet Judai or Yuma.
#yugioh#ygo#...too scared to put any other tags#don't kill me yuya fans#I loved him at one point#but... man he just doesn't develop by the end#I think this might be more so my growing issue with the show's themes tbh#what they're going for is nice#but for god's sake trying to make people smile is not gonna solve every issue#and the fact that the show acts like it's the end all be all solution at times (ie: the synchro arc) really pisses me off#and yuya is the brunt of that problem#rants#negative
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well lots to think about there
#I think...#it's good to come right out and say that turning back the clock is not the solution#i think that's accurate#the idea that you can have women kind of emerge as serious players in the last couple generations and then just snatch it away#not only is it cruel it's patently ridiculous#that said some of the concluding bits#I don't know#I wonder#is there an appetite for that kind of irenic posture?#it seems hard for one to adopt that yes-also posture you can be interested in women's liberation and also acknowledge this other problem et#he says something about how when you look at the 'traditional' way of thinking about gender issues and the traditional direction#you can't be surprised if all you have to offer men is to tell them how horrible they are or just to sign them up as allies#they just look elsewhere#i've felt that way about it for a long time#i've spent my whole life hearing about what utter garbage men are from every corner#not in the least from women telling me all the things Men have done to them#there's just no possible coherent response i can imagine#i've been increasingly worried as my sons get older that all i really have to offer them is an admonition not to be a rapist#and perhaps more broadly to get out of the way of women#this is the feeling among all the academics i know#put your tail between your legs submit smile no matter what they say about you and they do say some hurtful things and laugh#or else#again#this non-starter solution to just become some wild misogynist provocateur#I guess the stated goal of this guy's work isn't so much to establish solutions as it is facts#I do wonder what the solution could be#i sympathize with the desire to check out#oh I also cannot imagine any kind of positivity about fatherhood that would land or ring true or anything like that#however essential they find the presence of fathers to be#but that's another discussion
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