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Scrolling through OC ask memes is very funny sometimes because a good handful of them have questions that... we don't think apply terribly well.
Yeah, they're a bug, tattoos are a bit complicated. They can't swim because they're an insect. Their ancestry is Cricket and their blood type is green. They don't know what a car is.
#we speak#its extra funny when a significant number of questions are dedicated to dating. your guess is as good as ours we arent keeping track#bau could be dating half the explorers association for all we know#we Have Not kept track#we're looking at a romance and relationships meme right now and its like. we do not think of these things for our ocs 99% of the time#we dont think they would know what monogamy is#we also don't know how to quantify gender in a species that only has One gender (dune cricket)#we are out of the norm but ALSO we swear this is like “youre trans if you identify as a different gender than you were assigned at birth”#like my man. we realize we're out of the norm but we CANNOT give you a solid answer to that question. nothing is binary enough for that#we cant define what sexuality this character would be in human terms we can't even define if a pairing with them is gay or not
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I don’t like getting intense over petty things, but why are people calling large paragraphs “bad formatting” now. It’s just formatting. Sometimes, a larger paragraph serves its text well, and sometimes it doesn’t, and there is a LOT more that goes into making a text block readable than length alone.
Please please please fucking please stop inventing all-encompassing arbitrary rules about what features define “good” art and “bad” art.
#writeblr#i mean this lovingly and politely#flow of paragraphs is important to me!#if most of your paragraphs are three-to-one sentences that’s not necessarily a bad thing BUT#it does keep you from pulling off some real OOMPH stuff#for example;#large paragraphs to convey one-track racing thoughts#the absolute hit of a one-sentence wham line after a longer introspection#PARAGRAPH VARIETY#look variety in paragraph length ALSO helps people keep track of where they are in a text#in the same way that breaking up *too* large paragraphs can help!#babes i mean this very gently; if you struggle with large paragraphs then you may need to work on your attention span a little#(and that is not an indictment against you as a person)#also i struggle with continuous short paragraphs! It breaks up my reading experience & increases scroll time (sometimes for no reason)#much in the same way that overly large spaces between paragraphs makes me struggle#accessible text formatting is a nuanced topic#i’m sorry we just have so many feelings about this#related topics and actions are allowed to be kept in the same paragraphs for flow reasons okay??? okay
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"We couldn't want you anymore if we tried."
#fairly oddparents#cosmo cosma#wanda fairywinkle cosma#timmy turner#i can't believe they expected me to be normal about this#gif set#1.300.072 memories......... AND they kept track.#i'm going to sit on the floor and cry#i'm sorry to all of my mutuals who have to see me like this#but i am NOT NORMAL about the found family ''we would pick you every single time'' dynamic
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the thing i love about bill cipher is that even after i've learned all of this stuff about him, seen him at the most vulnerable he'll ever get, seen him at his most innocent, i still can't give a flying fuck about trying to justify his actions. yes he's traumatized, yes he was twisted into what we know today, and while it gives a semblance of context to why he did what he did, it doesn't matter. he still ruined ford's life. he still drove and baited multiple humans to suicide. he still tormented every human he saw as his ticket out of the consequences of his own actions. he still took delight in his actions. he was willing to commit genocide for fuck's sake!!! (freezing all of the humans into statues). trying to explain away what he did does not get rid of what he did, but it certainly puts it in perspective. you won't be catching me being a bill apologist any time soon <3
#gravity falls#bill cipher#the book of bill#pleaseeee dont kill me guys#also if anyone tries to twist this and apply it to ford i WILL be setting myself on fire#because like. i've seen many people hate on him because of what he did objectively#but the difference between ford and bill is that ford did not LIKE it. let me break down things ford has done @ stan that ppl dont like:#1: he was the favorite child hands down (not ford's fault. he was a kid. he was shoved into the role by his father)#2: considering leaving stan behind for west coast tec (which we dont even know was his intention. what if he wanted to bring stan with him?#what if he was going to ultimately turn the offer down? what if he went and still kept touch anyway? speaking as a guy who grew up#gifted in a poor neighborhood; college is your TICKET outta there. you'd do anything to do so--BACK ON TRACK)#3: didnt defend stan when he was being kicked out (he thought stan sabotaged his and his fams ticket out of poverty. of COURSE he's pissed!#also he was 17. of COURSE in the moment he wasnt going to take his scrawy ass and stand up to his 6'6 abusive ass of a father. would YOU?#4: told stan to take the journal (ford was on the brink of death and insanity. all he had left was STAN to trust. it also wasnt him saying#to have stan stay away from him forever--it was just to take the JOURNAL somewhere. he NEVER said he COULDNT come back!#do you REALLy think that FORD could have explained all that properly when he has beeen TORTURED FOR WEEKS ON END? I DIDNT THINK SO!#anyways. the point is that everything the fandom uses to villanize ford is in fact a result of circumstances outside of his control#and while you can argue that bill is the same; compare the damage they have done. consider how their trauma impacted them as people.#think about how bill took his trauma out on everyone around him. about how even now he still feels no remorse in that prison.#think about how ford tried to FIX his mistakes. think about how he is human; how he acted in spite of his misery#think about what that fucking triangle did to that six-fingered old man.#....okay! that was a lot. lets hope no one sees this!!
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remember how we were told from the very beginning that we were not supposed to take hitoya seriously at all lmao
#this is vee speaking#hitoya: *insults and threatens litigation*#kuukou and jyushi: lolololol he’s so funny#i was thinking about bat’s cross talk and how nakatsuka-san thought takeuchi-san was a scary person based off his voice in this first track#and kept saying he was scary any time takeuchi-san raised his voice at his team for being brats towards him lmao#(if you told me nakatsuka-san was a host of some kind i’d believe you lmao)#which is so funny to me because both character and seiyuu are harmless lol#but i kinda wonder what would hitoya’s vibe be without his teen team lol#what hitoya is capable of is very scary lol!!!!!!!! like he’s a force to be reckoned with and we see that in nagosaka’s manga!!!!!!#so like would he have a lurkingly sinister vibe if he didn’t get humbled by his team all the time lol???? ya gotta wonder sometimes lol
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I just want to write fanfic. But. I’m in one of those phases!!!! Where I can’t. Because Of Cringe
#like sure I could theoretically write whatever and choose not to post I. guess#and one of them I probably won’t post but#it’s that feeling of like#I cannot reread the docs without feeling afraid and immediately backing out!!!!#which behfjcnggtt sux bc i have more wips at the same time now than i usually ever do#like a week or two ago I kept having more spontaneous ideas#i was jotting down and getting started#but like I’ve said if I don’t chase ideas IMMEDIATELY#I lose steam :’( I get scared or lose track of where I was going#I gotta go FULL STEAM AHEAD as long as I can#it’s very like. 0 to 100 to 0 to 100 to 0 to 100 forever lol#bro I want to be free!!!#its okay I just have to indulge in other people’s works until I reset again. 🫡#‘what if strangers on the internet disapprove of my antics’ WHO is even looking. we r in da shadows mwah
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watching zootopia with my girlfriend we both just keep saying “they’re so yuri” “they’re so yaoi” whenever nick and judy do anything
#zootopia#important thoughts#we just finished having a tornado warning and we just got the urge to watch this movie#because i kept thinking of that song#also i took an edible like 10 minutes before the tornado happened and was so high stuck in the closet with my girlfriend and cat and dog#beautiful day i also left my glasses on the town bus and had to track down the specific bus to get them back#thinking about that one full length fan zootopia sequel what was that about#but yeah nick and judy#lesbians.#gay men too#they’re both they’re all of them#straight gays#nick wilde#judy hopps#high thoughts#hot takes#yaoi#yuri#sigh#meposting
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Help... My grandma's first and last initials are S and she, apparently, got refrigerator magnets of her initials (you can see where this is going)...
So now in the middle of her fridge, she's got a random SS on there 😭
#jumblr#antisemitism tw#personal thoughts tag#(for the implication of the fucking *Schutzstffel* 😭)#and i need to make it clear that this is for her *initials* because she's that kind of person (not a negative thing)#it's just.... let's just say i wish we kept our italian last name so this could have been avoided#i stopped in my tracks when i saw this like... what is Happening 😭😭😭
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side note but i'll be streaming bg3 again today with @hellfire--cult this time <3 it's roe's first ever time playing the game all the way through so join me in watching her hilarious reactions <3 see y'all if you feel so inclined to join us!! in 5 hours
it will be modded (mostly cosmetic), and it will be an easier difficulty. we're doing it for the plot, folks. the plot just being bloodweave.
#ghost plays bg3#gale has captivated her and i kept joking i could do a campaign with her to keep astarion away from her#and it WORKED#also there may or may not be actual cameras on us this time. we'll see if it works. who knows#if i'm ugly you guys have to mind your business though okay#no restarts after this though i SWEAR#we gots to see it through this time#it's me trying to fast track astarion wanting me again it's okay though im a pro at this :lolcry:
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Finnish writing problems, pronoun edition.
So, trying to write RP posts on our DnD group's in-character chat with the big blue nerd.
Using the word "hän" (he/she/singular they) feels overly formal and kinda awkwardly pompous among just normal sounding narration*, as that's mostly used in written language. Using "se" (it) as is the way in spoken Finnish feels weird as well, because this is text and not speech, and the character isn't human while still being a person, so it's kinda double headscratcher. Using the character's race is special brand of awkward, as dragonborn translated to Finnih is lohikäärmesyntyinen which is just So Dang Many Syllables long. In the end I keep cycling through just the character's name (Verna), class ("velho" as in wizard) and "tämä" (this)
Kinda feels like playing as a kid and using tämä/se/tuo (this/it/that) as kinda substitute pronouns for I/you/he-she-they-it speaking kinda past one's self and about the characters. Don't even know if English does that too, I just find it kinda fascinating to think about.
* I have a habit of typing my texts as in spoken Finnish instead of the proper book language, but those two are pretty different dialects anyway and the more I think about mixing the two the weirder it gets.
#shut up paper#Paper is Finnish#we have no gender specific pronouns and even human specific hän is technically a loan word#as spoken Finnish has kept the ancient quirk of using the equivalent of 'it' as a general third person pronoun#for all things beings and people alike#anyway it's my turn to answer and I got side tracked by linguistics
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So last night I made out with my friend (hopefully soon to be partner. We're talking some stuff out) and aside from just being really fun, I learned I apparently really like teasing them and I may not actually be 100% submissive
#dont get me wrong#im still a massive bottom#but also i grabbed them by their throat and made them purr#at one point they were leaning back to collect themself and I grabbed them by their jaw and said 'no no no. come here' kinda aggressively#and they made some *very* nice noises#we just kept going back and forth teasing each other and getting revenge when one of us made the other one flustered#at one point i broke them just by crossing my legs#i was wearing this dress with a tall slit in the skirt#so when i crossed my legs it fell open and showed like my *entire* thigh#i was still decent but i could see them rebooting and they just went 'what was that. what did yo do??' in this adorable shaky voice#we completely lost track of time and ended up leaving the lounge area we were hanging out in a little past 5 in the morning#and we'd gotten there at 11#and had a 2-3 hour break when some girls showed up to use the microwave for their dinner#they were cool and we hung out and shared queso#and then my friend got me super flustered as soon as the two of them left by telling me how cute I am when i talk about my interests#while they were choking me a little#i have. not recovered.#my post
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I've had anxiety pretty much all my life and having my fears/concerns brushed off is not a new thing for me and sometimes it's justified, but it is uniquely annoying in this case because I keep being right, repeatedly, throughout the pandemic, and people are still acting like I'm just being my panicky self and it's not as big a deal as I'm making it.
#for months my mom kept getting on my case about masking in the common areas of her complex#'everyone here is elderly they don't go out! why are you still wearing a mask here?'#and then suddenly what do you know two of her neighbors have covid and I was right#everyone: why are you still isolating and masking so much the pandemic is over!#me: it is not fucking over and it's gonna get worse again because of this#a couple months later: oh god there's a new variant that resists vaccines we couldn't possibly have predicted or prevented this#ironically I got covid somewhere highly improbable back in 2022 and it promptly made my anxiety like 5x worse so now I'm even more annoying#I also just kinda. got worse at spelling and keeping track of information#it's deeply frustrating but at least I never lost taste/smell and meds have helped with the anxiety so eh#still this could have been avoided if people would just take the goddamn thing seriously#and I'm gonna be salty about it for the rest of my life
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thinking about all the forms of magic MC has used, just suddenly as if they are fully trained. also the lack of magical tools used feels weird? Like we got a rune ward for rune carving, and a shadow seeker vacuum, a fragment of aideens light and a bottle of aideens tears but these all do... nothing? We dont use the rune wand to help channel energy, or rune-work outside of that one questline.
idk if it's just me but with some of the more recent late-game quests it feels as though MC has suddenly become adept in magic after training in the Sun circle (& doing minor work in the lightning and moon circle). It feels quite... offputting but that could just be me being weird
#sso#sso critical#(kinda)#idk it just strikes me as odd. the amount of training MC was put through in the sun circle and then there was not as much put into any othe#circle. we did rune running (again with no rune wand) with rhiannon.#idk SSO feels very... patchworked atm and i get that its an 11 year old game so writers and other workers will have joined/left#but there's not much continuity in mind. it feels like no one has kept track of the storyline#or what they want the storyline to be. so as soon as you get past the opening scenes they now have (which for all we know could get retcon#you're in the wild west of lore. one thing mentioned may end up being incorrect later.#'For a long time' Anne was missing and Lisa after a tour with her band. we know Linda is missing for about a week or two [depending on how#long it takes for the player to get to that quest. for SSORidethrough that was on day 9 and if we add in the new opening of all soul riders#being there then thats roughly what you get i reckon.]#but yeah. sso story is inconsistent at best
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Debating black jacquard curtains for the closet. Oob thinks it would be “too much black” in my very small bedroom, but I’m inclined to disagree. I liked the white when my room leaned more airy Victorian, but it’s decidedly more gothic these days.
#the sharp line at the bottom has always bothered me#so why not just replace them with Extra curtains#and I feel like the white is too bright? it worked before but I find it a bit jarring now#\users\oz#very nearly done with the gallery walls but who knows#I’ve been hard at the Halloween hunting because it’s my home decor#too bad it’s 110°F#if you’re wondering why I don’t have closet doors#it’s because this house is cursed#and they kept falling off the track#which we replaced#but it still happened#so Victorian curtains it is! and ngl I like them better
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2023 reads / storygraph
The Poisons We Drink
YA urban fantasy
a girl who brews powerful potions is coerced into making potions to interfere with D.C.’s most influential politicians in an attempt to stop a dangerous Witcher Registration Act from passing, and will do anything to protect her sister after their mother is killed
bi MC, nonbinary love interest
arc from netgalley
#The Poisons We Drink#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this is…….a lot of cool ideas but also so many elements and high stakes that i kinda lost track of them#the pacing is weird. the worldbuilding is random?#why is brewing SO overpowered & risky for her but the other powers seem to have pretty normal low-scale risks?#it’s definitely ambitious and has some cool ideas and also some great characters just. didn’t execute as well as I’d like#as much as we’re told the main threat is the government trying to put through a Registration Act#most of the actual antagonism we see is from other Witchers?#like the systemic discrimination got a bit lost in the witcher family drama and murder politics#important things to say about oppression and police violence but like....idk#she has this ‘deviation’- essentially evil sentient magic inside her head (and you KNOW I love that trope)#but it’s barely explained and very underutilised? other than helping her get out of bad situations you could take it out & would barely#change anything#also it’s explained at the start that she’s an empath but other than the very occasional mention I kept forgetting#will also note that I bumped this up my tbr because I saw the author talking/promoting it as the MCs sister being aroace but no mention#maybe it’ll come up in a sequel (there weren’t really any places where it would have made sense to bring it up here) but idk#(just the way the author was asking for advice on how to write an ace character and stuff you’d assume that they’d….put that in the book?)#not really a critique of the book itself but anyway. I really wanted to like this but the way it was put together just did not vibe with me#edit: I saw the author say on twitter that the version used for ARCs was before ace stuff was added and that there's other signif changes?#so perhaps that will be there! i'm not sure if I want to read it again but might skim just to see what that's about
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Snippet from 'lay-on-the-floor-and-scream dot excel' please ❤❤❤
As you might have guessed from the title, this is my 'good data management solves the Clone Wars' AU! Work had me pretty agitated when I put it together, so it's more canon-divergent than originally intended, but hopefully it still holds up.
I started off thinking that the clones, coming from Kamino, would be pretty used to keeping extensive documentation on themselves/each other. Multiple sets of books, even—the sanitized ones they show the longnecks, the informal tracking of things nobody else cares about, the multiply-encrypted ones with the honest data about how their siblings are doing—as automated and redundant as possible, and while yeah it would be difficult to maintain during wartime, they are 1) the best-trained military minds and logisticians in existence and 2) absolutely not going to pay less attention to their siblings when they’re in more danger.
For this fic also I focused in on a worldbuilding thing that I actually thought was true a million years ago before I’d ever gotten into any Star Wars nonsense, which is that Lightside users are a sort of filtering system for the Force. That the Dark was an agent or consequence of some sort of metaphysical entropy—the constant descriptions of it as cold and oppressive really reinforced that one for me—and Force-sensitives would dedicate themselves to opposing it on behalf of the universe. So they’d be agents and sources of the Light, not only directly combating Darksiders (and more prosaically evil people) but also through meditation (and to some degree intrinsic aura) functioning as something like metaphysical space-heaters. I was thinking of them kinda through a D&D lens, like galactic paladin-monks. It made sense to me.
Under this system, then, not only would things feel cold and depressing around a Sith, but the world would be warmer and more comforting around a Jedi. To, say, a statistically significant degree. You see where I’m going with this—what if there was a sweet little chart that proved, mathematically and objectively, that puppy piles around the Jedi general improve the quality of life/life expectancy of everyone involved?
Such a chart could also indicate a general getting closer to a Fall (Krell more cleanly than Anakin, since Anakin’s baseline will be skewed after the Tusken massacre, and conflated by Obi-Wan and Ahsoka’s recurring presences) or various other ongoing issues in a battalion (Corrie Guard, my beloveds) but we have to start by convincing our ascetic galactic paladin-monks of the efficacy of wartime cuddles.
Cody hums faintly, and still does not continue. Obi-Wan has years of practice and does not need the Force to tell him to be patient, that if he pushes Cody now he might miss his chance to hear something important. The Force tells him anyway. “General.” Cody begins again. “You know the kark you make up so you don’t have to directly answer a direct question?” Obi-Wan narrows his eyes. This conversation could be about many things. The Force tells him yes. It is unhelpful. It seems he takes too long to answer, and Cody continues on, delivering further defamatory accusations in his polite semi-formal voice. “As when you refuse mandatory post-mission checkups, and Helix hunts you down and asks if whatever put the holes in your robes put any matching holes in you, and instead of telling him what he certainly knows, you spin a charming tale about some other poor sap who possibly got shot but is probably fine regardless, no need for any medics who may or may not exist to get involved?” The Force says yes. Obi-Wan does not roll his eyes, because he is a master of the jedi order and also of himself. “I’m familiar with the rhetorical construction of a hypothetical situation, yes.” He replies primly. “Good. I’d like to discuss a situation with you, sir, with the understanding that everything I describe is purely hypothetical.”
(also as you can see this is a very fun Cody for me to write, because he and all the rest of the 212th have gone their entire wartime experience with Obi-Wan layering peace/comfort/reassurance over them like a mantle, so he’s a lot more comfortable speaking his mind and I get to lean into my favorite codywan bitch4bitch relationship dynamic from the jump)
#asks#zahnie#fun fact when I started this fic (over a year ago) I was in the middle of a supremely awkward transition period at my new job#and I did actually have a layonthefloorandscream.xlsx file that I was using in a desperate attempt to map my new responsibilities#the whole college was in flux and no one knew who was supposed to be doing which of the many tasks that needed to be done#and no one ever knew either who the latest person to do any given thing was so that they could train the next#and we kept finding out the day after something was due that no one had done it at all#and indeed eventually the day did come that I lay on the floor and scream but then I got up again and made a chart about it#and then the weekend after I made a fic about it!#the excel file still exists btw. things have improved so it's been renamed to sitonthestairsandrant but it's the same file#there's a column now to track how likely someone is to solve their own problems if I just trick them into using me as a rubber duck for it#it's a pretty promising metric. ultimately very encouraging for everyone involved
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