#will probably delete this once i actually work on it

[gnome-de-official]

I… have had bad experiences with nixos

I used it exactly once, and it took three hours to install because it was compiling python or something. I didn’t ask it to install python, so why was it installing python? That’s not even a very reasonable assumption for a base system. I don’t have python installed on my daily driver Arch box that’s been going for multiple months with programming, cybersec, and doing weird projects, so why is it a nixos default?

Also the entire configuration of the whole system is done through a single text file, which sounds cool and theoretically makes it great for reproducibility. From what I found, it just added a new thing to learn on top of the other systems that already exist, or (if you don’t want to learn the systems we already have in place) it put another layer of abstraction between me and the way the computer actually operates

I’d rather have control and simplicity than stability. If the system broke because I told it to, that’s a good thing. Adding a file that has to get interpreted before anything that I told it to do can happen isn’t a good thing

Arch hasn’t been unstable for me, and 99% of issues you run into can be fixed in less than an hour with the handy Arch ISO. No need for rollbacks or any losses. Even if you made the system unbootable, for example by deleting the kernel or boot loader, you can just put it back. This can basically be done from within the system itself because of the handy arch-chroot. You already installed/worked with all the important parts of the OS during first install, so fixing things is pretty straightforward, especially with the Arch Wiki.

This is the way that I operate. If nixos works for you, that’s great! I just don’t see the point of adding these systems that I work perfectly fine without. Also you can’t beat the AUR in terms of up-to-date packages of all varieties. If someone who has used arch cares about something, it’s probably in the AUR (or arch base / extra / other repos)

Oops accidentally made a rant

TLDR: nix is ok, I just don’t like it

Imagine not wanting debian trademark stability. Bestie that arch install will Stop at the worst possible moment, possibly catch fire and take all your loves ones away from you

[definitelynot-a-fake-cop]

ooc // oh my god another Reki mun oc. Holy shit.

// well yes bc with the death of Tori and the deletion and retconning of sai.... I had to fill the void 😔

// you know what time it is baby

OOC OC INTROOO!!!

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》Omg another blue themed character wowwww (sorry not sorry Indigo)

》Mack Briggs, he/him, 24-25ish (and refuses to admit it), he doesn't know what his sexuality is but he ain't straight

》An ex-villain in Gotham called White Snake (I don't think that name is taken 😵‍💫), because of his funky powers. His funky powers which include being absolutely dead silent on his feet, he's got these fangs that do in fact shoot venom when he wants, and that venom can either hurt or heal depending on if hes tryna help you or not, he's also poisonous if you bite him and break skin, changing his vision to infrared to see heat of others (helps in dark environments), of course he can turn into a snake (a very big white snake with blue markings because special), and along with snakey powers he has the floating gaster hands that Sai had (those who didn't know sai it's fine you'll learn). overall as a villain he was generally cold, smart, and cunning, like a much less expressive Black Mask.

》So now that he's not a villain, he's actually a cop. he like wore a mask and disguise and never actually revealed his true identity so nobody actually knew who White Snake was. Mack literally just forged papers and shit to be a "transfer" from Blüdhaven to the GCPD, made this whole story of working as a cop for a few years, his dad was a cop, yadda yadda it's all bullshit but nobody but him knows that. he's been working as a cop in Gotham for about six months now. stopped being a villain when he accidentally hurt some people he cared about and permanently lives with that guilt.

》his parents are in fact not dead (yay not an orphan). but they suck. Basically when Mack started getting his powers at the ripe age of six, he was forced into tests and experiments and shit. getting poked and prodded into oblivion and never let out of the house basically. so yeah he was a lil bit twisted growing up. he's on non speaking terms with his family.

》He does care. he is trying. he'll probably be just a tiny bit mean to you when you first meet but once he warms up a bit he does care quite alot. he's a protective motherfucker.

》He always has a way of making you feel like you've met him before, or seen him, because he was a relatively big villain but in a disguise always and never showed his face except the eyes really. so. yeah.

》white hair, down to his shoulder blades and usually up. piercing blue eyes, and yes he does have snake-like pupils that are pointy at the top instead of round but you don't really notice it until you stare for. like. ten minutes. and he's a heavy eye contact avoider. fangs, obviously. two tattoos going up his arms that are snakes, and one on his back. snake bite piercings (heheh) because mun still DESPERATELY wants those. ears pierced. always has an unapproachable look to him.

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Rules:

》RPs are welcome and encouraged!! drop a starter in the asks literally whenever you want, or tag me or whatever you wanna do. if you wanna establish it a bit first, DM me! love interacting with people so don't hesitate :)

》Flirting, suggestive stuff is fine, no downright NSFW and if you're gonna do that, character and mun MUST be over 18 please.

》Platonic, family, friend stuff is welcome to all to interact!

》Sillies are of course welcome, filllll my ask box. you can also ask questions, or drop lore stuff (love it when anons drop lore stuff or psychologically torture my characters :))

》Fluffy stuff is great, angst is great, but I do ask that if you wanna do an angsty rp plz message me beforehand just to give me a heads up. if you'd like to establish a romantic relationship with Mack, message me first. this is a must.

》Don't spam like, you will be blocked.

thanks yall, enjoy torturing interacting with Mack!!!

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Uhhh ok so for rps and shit the non-dialogue text will be in blue like this and then ye if it's blue in dialogue it usually means shits boutta happen

[bunanawhale]

a wip i figured i can post on its own

[deoidesign]

Can you make a tutorial on how you world build and make ocs? I can't seem to make any people in my brain, but then when I try to come up with environments jobs, beliefs and little details to slowly come up with someone, I think: well I don't really know how people have influenced the world- it's a weird loop

To be honest, I don't think I can! Writing is an extremely personal process. The way I write is directly related to how I process things, what I find important in stories, years of my own analysis of my and other's writing, etc... The way you write will be unique to you, as well. But I can explain how I personally think of it.

The short answer:

Write. Write anything and everything, it's a tool to explore your ideas. Analyze your own writing, and write more. Then, as you discover which ideas you want to develop, write more to explore them more. You won't know what you want otherwise!

The long answer:

I think this kind of loop is common. It's easy to feel like everything needs to be done "at once," because our job as writers is to make elements logically fit with each other for our readers. But as you've discovered, developing multiple elements simultaneously isn't really possible, or at least is extremely difficult.

Personally, when I think of writing, I break it into three major elements; characters, world, and plot. As much as possible every scene explores one or more of these, and as much as possible these three things tie back into what I personally consider most important: theme.

Everything I do is in service of the themes I want to present. Without them my events feel aimless. It can take a while to discover them, but they're the core of my work. You will have to discover what you feel is the core of yours. Analyzing other media helps with this too.

Concepts in your brain exist in a state of infinite potential. But when you start writing you have to start making choices, which removes potential as you move forward... But you have to move forward anyways. If there's ideas you want to explore later, you can always explore them later.

What this ends up meaning, to answer your question, is that I don't think of my characters as "people in my brain" or my worlds as something people have influenced... Not at their core, at least. They are tools that I use to represent specific ideas. Obviously they're also my blorbos, but mostly they're serving a specific narrative purpose.

So above all else... Write. Write, and discover what you're writing about, and then start over and write with that in mind. Keep doing this. But you have to write!

[oddberryshortcake]

I still don't entirely understand how Jamil is the oldest of the 2nd years while having a late birthday (September) that should make him, logistically going by year, a few months younger than Kalim.

For him to be older, he'd have to be 18 at the start of the game because the game starts in September at the school year. But his profile is listed as him being 17.

What does this mean for the other September bday? Is time just backwards in TWST and the year (not school year) DOESN'T begin in January

People kept getting on me on age consistency when it doesn't make sense. I am begging you to make it make sense.

I am a September birthday (same bday as Ace) and I'm younger than my peers.

hOW IS JAMIL STILL 17 BUT ALSO OLDER THAN EVERYONE WHEN SEPTEMBER IS A LATE MONTH. Please give me a logical answer I'm desperate, this has been bothering me

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

Please BE EXCITED about stuff you like/ want to be excited about 💞 That's what life supposed to be about, finding joy in the smallest things, in the things we enjoy and love. And the people that judge us for having that joy in our hearts lose their own life, because they spend too much time judging someone else's life instead of doing something with their own. FUCK them

this is one of my favorite asks and i love you

[cavity-collector]

i genuinely need to be put down like a dog i cant do this anymore man holy shit

[dinsbeskar]

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[xgoldenlatiasx]

I feel like I’m at a point where OCD has taken over my life so so badly but I can’t get the help I probably need because of my current living situation, and the only thing I wanna do these days is engage with things I enjoy to at least help me get through it until I am able to, but even with that the moral aspect of my OCD keeps telling me I’m a terrible person if I engage with fun stuff for TOO long

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

tumblr please stop deleting my drafts i will actually start sobbing

[captaindamianos]

I'm getting increasingly more anxious about the fact that i can't seem to finish drawings anymore. 🥲

And I'm not sure if it's the lack of drive/interest or if it's the pressure i put on myself over how it might be received and if it's good enough in the first place

[ghostprinceiii]

The plan was to Make Actual Lunch, and Do Laundry, but instead I used up literally my entire burst of energy on going down the street and buying a pumpkin pie of all things, which I don't even feel like eating??? Huh?? The first 20 minutes in like a month that I don't feel Completely Out Of It, and this is how I use my one decision-making braincell.

[hoshiszora-archived]

I did it y'all. I quit that hell of a place that starts with a W and ends with a T, and I now have a new job and hope it'll be better until I can find an even better job.

[reitziluz]

You could put the relevant flowers into the end notes of each chapter instead? It's your choice of course, but i recently read a six year old fic that required the translation of fantasy language words which were put in a tumblr post (similar to how you're planning). The problem was that the readmore somehow broke over the years and the fic writer had vanished at some point, so the translations were lost. That's just my experience though, you do you!

for a short list of meanings, or something as essential as fantasy vocab that's essential for understanding the fic, yeah, that's the obvious choice.

but you can look up flower language(s) (i referenced whatever comes up when you google "[flower] flower meaning]" and also some japanese sites) up on your own, and i would also want to write little commentaries or anecdotes about the plants in question. which would mean several paragraphs of text in the end notes. and, even though i wouldn't consider the flower info spoilers, some people do. being non-essential, making the notes unwieldy long, and counting as spoilers for some is why i've already put the rewrite commentaries in the comments instead of the end notes.

you could argue that there's nothing wrong in putting things like that in the end notes, and honestly, i agree! i just want to use the "more notes at the end of the work" link that appears in the notes on the top to provide people the chance to choose to view or ignore extra content warnings for chapters. and putting aaaaall this other info in the end notes might make people who need the warnings hesitate to access them.

but as i thought about this, i realized an obvious solution. duh, i already have the commentary in the comments! i can put the chapter's flower info in as a reply to that!

though idk, it also makes reading comments maybe a bit more daunting than necessary, if there's just a wall of text at the start...

... but then again, i have a whole unutilized fic just for spoofs and extras of shit-all! so i guess i could move all this there? i mean, i could then also attach the art i'm doing to each chapter's bonus materials!

(again, i could also attach them to each chapter, but i personally prefer reading my fics and seeing my illustrations separately. switching from reading to seeing an illustration can throw me off from a good reading hyperfocus, haha! plus in the bonus work, there'd be more space for image ids and stuff, if i finally were to figure out how to do them...)

lots to think about! thank you for letting me know that the readmores have been broken relativelt recently. i think i'll probably end up doing a hybrid thing, like both having separate listing posts on tumblr, and putting them on ao3 in some form!

if i remember/can be arsed ofc, lol

[allisonreader]

@sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway I accidentally deleted your ask about the top five things that I've created, so here is that posted this way instead.

I'm going to focus on things I've sewn as what I've created. (With a bonus top five writing projects) Just because I have easy access to the pictures I have of some of my favourite sewing projects. (Favourite photographs would be different and with that I could do a top five or ten flowers and sunsets with how many I have of them.)

Anyways to start off in no particular order (because I wouldn't actually be able to choose an order) my top five (sort of) sewing projects.

First off my selection of skirts. I couldn't choose just one, so here's my top four favourite skirts that I've made. None of them using a pattern, just an idea from my head.

Next, my dachshunds (pattern from Funky Friends Factory) one of which is using multiple small embroideries to dress up the one and the other using a variety of decorative stitches from a Janome MC8200, which I'm particularly pleased about how it turned out.

A hand embroidery that I sort of wanted to look like a stained glass rose which is fairly successful.

A free-standing lace mask that I glammed up with beads and sequins after it was stitched out. (But also showing a selection of other free-standing lace.)

Then last but not least, a placemat using decorative stitches off of a Husqvarna Epic (and I'm afraid I don't remember if it was the Designer Epic or the Epic 980Q, just that it was when we first got those in the store.)

Now onto the bonus of my top five writing projects.

Number 1 has to be Tales Of A Frozen Sailor. I'm still really pleased with myself and the fact that I mostly got it done within a year. The chapter The Autopsy is still probably my favourite piece within the story. (Mainly because the four reactions to it completely warm my heart and delight me to no end. Every so often I go back to that part in particular to read the comments.) I am in the process of rewriting the story, but it's probably going to take me at least a couple of years to finish that, especially since I haven't been working consistently.

Number 2 is one where I have it called A Royal Unmasking at the top of the story, but call it The Masquerade everywhere else. This is another that I find myself returning to on occasion. Whether it is to reread the story or reread the comments. (Generally both.)

Number 3 is the piece that started off The Hidden Royals. It is something that I'm going to have to rewrite for a multitude of reasons (one being that I want to include a certain dragon {aka Lalawa} into the story from an earlier point to add consistency.)

Number 4 is The Hidden Royals; The Spark. Which is the second Inklings Challenge story on this list. I just think it turned out extremely well and I have to admit that I love that my little dragon Lalawa was such a hit.

Number 5 is a small one off piece called Desert Wails .

It's short and doesn't have much to it but I still enjoy how it turned out.

And I'm just going to sneak in this last honourable mention of Time Loops and Sewing because it's a more recent piece that turned out rather well all things considered. I had no real plan at first and didn't end up really giving it a good edit, though it's not particularly a piece that I enjoy reading myself, even though I wrote it.

[onlythebravest]

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