#with this i am also at 200 followers like holy fuck

[cyberhughes]

hey bartender! congrats on the milestone. can i get a rum and coke #2 with quinn, please? put it on my tab 💳💥💳💥

cyberhughes 200 follower special ⋆ .˚

rum & coke coming up!!

prompt #2: "kiss me."

warnings: swearing, asshole quinn :(

thank you thank you!! i hope you enjoy this...quinn angst is gonna do it for me every time, like holy shit my heart ACHED writing this. guys also i just realized after i made this the aesthetic is lowkey giving twilight and mordecai dkm💀

prompt list

everything felt frozen. your hands, your face, time, your heart. yet here you were at quinn's door step, pounding on the front door as the rain poured heavily down on you. maybe this wasn't a good idea, you could catch a cold, or get your heart broken.

your day had started off great, having completed your to do list you had been putting off for weeks. you felt accomplished, so you decided to relax for the rest of the evening, taking a hot shower and preparing a snack before laying on your couch and scrolling through social media. it was when you scrolled through twitter that you could feel your stomach ache, and heart break.

the door creaked open, revealing quinn with tousled hair and dark bags under his eyes. "y/n? what are you doing here? it's 2:30 am." he spoke with a hint of annoyance. you knew he had early morning practice, so what the hell were you doing here?

he couldn't notice the tears that were streaming down your face, to him you were just an idiot standing in the rain.

you felt your heartbeat increase, adrenaline coursing through you. "why her?" was all you could get out, voice shaky as you tried to keep yourself from throwing up.

"why who? what the hell are you talking about-"

"you know what i'm talking about quinn." you gritted your teeth, watching his brows furrow in confusion. "everyone's seen the picture." you alluded and he poked the inside of his cheek with his tongue as he realized what you were talking about.

the picture of him and her. the girl with the shiny blonde hair that you envied with all your being. of course everyone's seen the picture, the picture of quinn hughes, captain of the canucks getting caught nearly fucking some mystery girl in an alleyway.

"you can't be serious y/n" he scoffed, "why are you upset about that? it’s not like i’m your boyfriend." you could feel your heart sink as he brushed off your feelings, was he really being like this? "you know we're just friends."

hearing that last sentence from him made something inside you switch, you could feel all the sadness in you morph into anger.

"just friends quinn? you've sent me flowers, you get mad when another man comes near me, you..." you looked into his eyes as you trailed off, unable to find any emotion in them. "you took my fucking virginity and told me you loved me." you choked out.

"you can't hold this shit i said when we were just fucking against me." he pinched the bridge of his nose, inhaling. he was too tired for this right now.

just fucking.

you were just fucking. that's all you were to him, a lovesick fuck buddy? he knew you were head over heels for him, and he took advantage of it. using you to get out the stress that he couldn't take out on the ice.

"kiss me." you blurted, your mouth acting before your brain could think. "kiss me and show me you don't love me then." he stared at you with dark eyes, and you felt as if he was stabbing daggers into your heart.

he took a step closer to you and your breath hitched. the porch light shining on his features, god he was beautiful. he moved his hands to cup your face and you shut your eyes, waiting to feel his lips on yours.

you could feel the warmth of his breath as he ghosted his lips over yours. your heart was pounding so hard that you thought it might break your ribs.

"i don't love you." he whispered and your eyes fluttered open in confusion, feeling the comforting warmth of his hands on your cheeks disappear as he backed away.

he stared at you with what looked to be hatred in his eyes. to him you were a burden, just another clingy girl that he could soon toss away.

hot tears streamed down your face as you pleaded, watching him step back into the warmth of his home, not caring that you would be left in the freezing rain.

"i've never loved you."

[tidalfoam]

hey look, legitimate reference sheets for my Fates AU. Look at me, doing things i said i would. my art is always shaky and im bad at consistency so hopefully this helps me.

more Fates shit beloooow (spoilers for the fanfic) (warning for MASSIVE wall of text).

how dare you read spoilers instead of waiting for me to actually finish the next chapter (i am sobbing im stuuuuuck). anyways.

i forgot lambert's jewelry in the ref sheet fuuuuuUUUUCK.

Uhhh so Fates is a 2-part story. Currently writing/posting Fates Worse Than, which is Narinder's POV. Love Can't Save You From is part 2 (working title lmao) thats Lambert's POV.

Basically switch em. Nari is vessel Lamb is god of death. After Narinder inevitably defeats lambert, lambert dips for 200 yrs and is a hermit while the world changes and Nari founds the New Faith.

Pt 1 follows standard gameplay and is a lot shorter than pt 2 (though my word document begs to differ), its a lot more about what's going on in Narinder's mind and unpacking backstory.

After burning midas's bitch ass place down, the other areas on the map (save for midas's bitch ass place and ratau's shack) become towns of their own. The old cult grounds break down and a Temple of TOWW is built. Nari rescues the old Bishops from purgatory, they become his disciples, and three of them run the temples in towns as Disciples/New Bishops (sans powers, just gold skull necklaces) and Shamura keeps the Main Temple of death by themselves. NONE OF THIS i actually write its just explained during the story. Hah.

pt 2 basically is Lambert & Narinder regaining trust (narinder feels shitty for what he did to lambert and cares for them greatly.) And then theres a lot of trauma unpacking, sibling reconnection, and the two of them growing closer.

BIG SPOILERS NEXT

Ya so basically Nari doesn't fully have control of his godhood powers and folks start ressurecting randomly, but 9/10 of them are Cursed and this is Not Great. After consulting with Shamura and doing their own investigating basically aaaah Narinder either has to monitor the gateway or give Lamb the crown back.

They fight over this, obviously, like right after they finally hit the "lovers" part too. fun!

and so in the end they both agree that Narinder will sit in the Gateway, at least for probs a few centuries to maybe a millenia until he has full control over everything. He asks Lambert to lead the New Faith and keep tabs on everyone, thus coming full circle. Narinder is TOWW in the gateway, Lambert is his servant (but no crown, Nari keeps the crown). End of Spoilers.

Also just fun shit. They can't reproduce, gods of death can't create life. I will 10000% make non-canon shittens content tho because ITS FUN.

Lamb is They/Them

Shamura is actually one of the Old Gods, and slaughtered other gods to steal their crowns to give to their "siblings". They literally stole Kallamar as a child, didn't like how he turned out. Stole lamb as baby, loved them and was closest to them, so stole heket too and were meh about her. They were in the middle of slaughtering other gods and destroying crowns when Lambert and Heket found a baby worm in the woods. They begged shamura to keep their new baby brother. Shamura and Kallamar weren't happy but caved to their beloved baby siblings. That worm baby was Leshy. Then shamura drove chemench insane, the group finished slaughtering all other gods & crowns, and that was that.

Goat isn't canon but i did draw him once because it felt like fun and maybe one day jokingly i'll do an au to the au whoops

everyone calls ratau old but he's not that old Narinder & Lambert are just dicks lmao. I promise i do like Ratau i'm just writing in the POV of two assholes.

if you got this far... why? i'm extremely honored but holy hell WHY. I love you now. I love you dearly.

Please feel free to ask me anything i'm foaming at the mouth constantly for this, its my new Sole Purpose. I am absolutely not avoiding my actual fucking novel i'm supposed to be finishing l o l.

[cottoncandytomu]

⛧THANK YOU ALL FOR OVER 1000 NOTES ON MY GHOSTFACE!ELLIE FIC HOLY SHIT!!⛧

AI Ellie Williams Audios Below!!

I literally can't believe I hit 1k notes, like truly I thank all of you. This was a fic I thoroughly enjoyed writing. I love slashers/horror and FUCK- Ellie as Ghostface is just top tier. DON'T Y'ALL WORRY THO! I definitely plan on writing more and even adding Ghostface! Abby to the mix. It just won't be immediate jshdksjhf - so pls be patient with me...

N E WAYZZZ as a celebration for this AND ALSO HITTING OVER 200+ FOLLOWERS FUCK - I decided to make AI Audios of Ellie with this specific fic!! (I definitely am NOT the first one to do this so credit to the first person who has made AI Audios of Ellie!!)

Enjoy Beauties~

(AI can sometimes sound a little robotic but - I TRIED Y'ALL <33)

(Same warnings from original fic apply to these audios so please read them!!)

Before I add them below - THEY ARE 18+ SO MINORS FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK DON'T INTERACT I WILL BLOCK THE HELL OUT OF YOU AND SAME GOES FOR AGELESS BLOGS - JUST PUT YOUR AGE IN YOUR BIO OR PINNED IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY WRITERS CONTENT!! THANK YOU!!

Read Scream For Me Doll~ Here!

[deadpresidents]

Holy hell, is this the end of Dead Presidents?

I remember when you were a big Bill Clinton fan and I know you stated Biden was one of your favorite politicians, even prior to being the VP. Now it seems like any respect you've had for them is gone. Are you doing ok, man?

Last night was rough. I love Joe Biden and have for a long time. I think he's a good man and has been a good President. That's part of what makes all of this so painful, but I can't pretend I didn't see what I saw during the debate.

People say this in every single election cycle and have been saying it for 200 years, but this is the most important Presidential election in American history. We've had a preview of what life under Donald Trump is like, and a second term would be even more dangerous because one of the features he's selling his cult of supporters is that there will be no guardrails this time around. After what happened following the 2020 election, this year's election is going to be scary even if Trump is decisively defeated. He won't accept it, no matter what, and the personality cult that he has built and commands will literally believe anything he lies about. And he lies about everything. He's dangerous. I can't stress that enough. Donald Trump and his political movement is the biggest danger to American democracy we've ever had.

So, to put it frankly, we can't fuck around. Donald Trump needs to be defeated. President Biden is the guy who beat Donald Trump in 2020, but I don't know if he can do it in November, and that's a gamble I am not willing to make anymore. Not after what I saw last night. Something has to change, or else we are in serious trouble. The blueprint that Trump and his allies have laid out for his second term is fucking frightening, and they are better equipped to do what they intend to do. They already have a friendly Supreme Court that is the most ideologically oriented judicial body in American history and has two justices who are at best conflicted and quite possibly corrupt and complicit. Just look at the decisions being handed down by the Supreme Court this week alone. They've already overturned Roe v. Wade and radically limited if not totally eliminated a woman's right to choose in a vast section of the country. Don't think for a second that same-sex marriage, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, and more aren't also on their radar.

I'm not the kind of guy who stops fighting, so I'm not going anywhere. But this isn't going to be fun. It hasn't been for almost 10 years now, but we're really in the shit now.

[irlpinkiepie]

anyway update on what i've been up to, since it's been a year since i've posted anything at all and much longer than that since i've actually talked about my life in any detail on here:

still in cleveland! left my parents' a few months after i graduated to go live with friends from uni (sidenote, if you are in a position to do so? holy shit, move out from your parents', it is crazy worth it) and now those friends are partners! might be nice to move someplace else sometime if those partners are up for it, maybe somewhere on the northeast corridor? but as it stands i am fucking loving this city even if it does not quite fulfil my childhood expectation of 'hey i have lived in the same country for more than two years, that's kinda weird'

i have a job now! a like, actual full-time job, which is still wild given quite how long i kinda expected that that would be something i would never be able to manage on account of the Autism. turns out though that people will pay you to just look over spreadsheets and write documents for them? would that it were easier to find such a place which paid better and had a better work culture but, such as it is

speaking of partners actually, i am up to uh. five now! it turns out that i have an absurd amount of love in my heart and basically the only reason that number is not greater than five is because of the aforementioned having a full-time job and not really having the time in the day to have more partners than that. so cool to be the weird freaky polyamorous trans girl i always dreamed i would be though

oh yeah! bottom surgery! hopefully that's gonna be soon! i've got an appointment next week to get the last of my insurance letters, and then fingers crossed i can get a follow-up and make it happen sometime next year? have i talked about getting bottom surgery at all on here? well i am not going to go into too much detail on a sfw post but the gist is i found out that there was a way to do bottom surgery that let you have both and was like 'oh my god okay this perfectly captures the way i want my body to look' and immediately called up a surgeon's office to schedule a first appointment

chicken pet. need i say more

writing again! for the first time in a good long while, taking a story i wrote a couple years ago and pulling it out of the shared universe in which it originally resided so that i can do more of the things i wanted to with it. if you're one of the like, two or three people who knows what that story is from that description, i'll put the original back up once i'm finished with the rewrite and have a place to link it to people; i would like to have the chance to tell this story on my own terms, but i absolutely don't want it to be completely lost media

cycling! one of the perks of living in a big city it turns out is that it's actually easy to get to places and so i have been cycling a whole bunch just out of practicality, but it turns out that it's also just really fun to do? absolutely not a sport cyclist by any means, my bike is a $200 cruiser from target, but it's just so so nice to go outside and do things and perform physical activity

in short: i feel like life has been generally pretty darn great! and i am glad to be able to share that here with y'all

[notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder]

LADIEEES AND GENTLEMEN

I have just finished The Secret History, reading the last circa 120 pages now.

HOLY FUCK.

HEAVY SPOILERS ON THE SECRET HISTORY GO FUCKING READ IT. GO. GOOOOOOOOOOOO.

First of all my heart aches for Francis, yet his story makes so much sence? I hate that. I hate that I knew, subconsciously, that his end will not be the happiest one.

SPEAKING OF NOT HAPPIEST ENDS THE TWINS? First of all, ew, second of all, Camilla my dear I want to hug you but also do I think her decisions and her love to Henry caused Charles's demise? Yes. Do I have a lot of feelings about Charles? Also yes. It was inevitable that she had to leave Charles, he is fucked up and he needs to stop drinking, but if this was going on for so damn long she choose the worst time to do so and Henry, goddamn Henry, is also at fault.

BUT also I like Charles in the same way I like Callum from the Atlas series. Conflicted, but I think they could be so much better.

(Can you tell how fucking conflicted I am about the twins?)

HENRY

FUCKING

WINTER

I think the book is brilliant simply because in the end, you feel the same towards Henry as Richard does. You love him (Richard you are not straight), his looks, his inteligence, his devotion to his ideas, but you also blame him for everything that happened. He was the mastermind, he told everyone what to do, and the question of Why did we listen to him is so perfect!

Also the only way Henry would die is suicide. There is no other way. He, maybe not even realising it, had the incredible need to be in control of everything and everyone, mainly himself.

Richard, oh Richard, in some ways I feel towards him. A man who decided he wants more from this stupid life but let's call him Icarus, he flew to close the sun called Henry.

I DO THINK HIS NARATION CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!!

Simply, and I already talked about this, he definitely drank and took more pills than he let on. He talks how Charles is constantly drunk (even though they all are to a degree), with a certain sadness and worry. Yet, he could very well be the exact same. We just don't know it, because we are following him. Humans are critical of themselves until they want to share something bad they actually did do.

ALSO the way Richard detaches himself away from the murder of Bunny is incredible. He was there, he helped plan it, and even though they all call Henry the one behind it all, they all went along. Richard is in a sence manipulated by Henry, they all are (just like they are all manipulated and isolated by Julian), but jesus christ you could step away in any minute. You could call the police the first time Henry proposed it. Or tell Bunny.

Bunny is an annoying prick. He is a dick. But I also think Richard focuses on his negative factors (even though he does talk positively about him) because throughout the book he is trying to justify the murder.

And that's what I think this book is at it's core, Richard Papen subconsciously justifying the murder of Bunny. That's it and I love you Donna Tart so much I want to scream and read 200 pages more of your stupid book.

[noobartperson]

participated in a oneshot last night and holy fuck. characters are as follows:

first time playing support bard

dnd nerd wizard in debt

and always support but not today paladin (me)

we were doing a dungeon crawl, and it started fairly normal. encountered some enemies, got some stuff, found some more enemies, wizard threw a wild fireball, found some mysterious rooms and ones got an empty basin, went downstairs, where we get to the first bullshittery.

lemmie just say that we were searching this place, which used to be an underground dwarven forge, for a magic crown thing.

anyway we get to the first room downstairs and theres some bigass dude. no problem. for some reason i was the only one without cloud of daggers, so the other two plan to block us into the much narrower entrance of the room by putting two clouds of daggers. they do that, i start wailing on the giants kneecap. so teh giant has an idea and grabs my paladin, pulls him through the meat grinder of dagger and dunks me into a fuckass pool of lava. i misty step out of the lava onto the wall (spider slippers) and immediately get slam dunked back to the ground by the giant and am put on 2hp. theres also invisible enemies. yay. anyway the other two are still in the entrance dealing with one of the guys that went invis and i get the finishing blow on the big one and thank fuck the other ones disintegrate on the spot.

more stuff happens, hammers are racist, the wizard completely clears a room with a single fireball, oh no the wizard has seen some spooky shit and theres wings and fire but we grab the gently trapped crown anyway, stone has been moved, magics broken, we get up to the first floor again and make it back to the weird room with a basin in it, which is full now. the basin levels everyone up and gives a long rest

i decide that i really wanna wear the crown, and it does not immediately kill me. plus three to strength and i get bonus shit when im scared.

so uh yea its a dragon outside and hes pissed n shit. its also like 11pm at this point and we started at like 6. so nobodys making good choices.

misty step on top of the dragons head and stab the eyeball. unfortunately the eyeball does not pop and now im on top of a very very pissed dragon.

the fight goes on until 130am. we forget that we have a flight potion until the last like 40 minutes, so im scaling a cliff with spider slippers and throwing shit at the dragon, who does not want to come back down. wizard keeps zapping dragon. bard makes fun of dragon. wizard has fae beef with dragon (or maybe the other way around???) my paladin is a goddamn cockroach.

i take over 400 damage over the course of the session, go to 0hp 8 times, actually die once, fall a combined total of like 200 feet, chug a few potions and do a metric fuckton of damage. our poor ard spends the entire fight bringing me and the wizard back up. i dont think i spend more than two consecutive rounds the entire time without getting knocked to zero.

all hope is lost when bard goes down but we get a deux ex

dragon dies

wizard eats some dragon and gets fucking possessed

i take a nap

i am never going back to support

@crowo08 any additions?

[pastafossa]

Stumbling and crashing and tripping with various crashes and a Wilhelm scream into your askbox to ask, YOU PLAY BG3????? ISN'T IT GREAT?!?!?!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH AKSHQKXBQ it's been my Focus since December!!! Who's your favorite so far?? How far are you in?? What kind of route are you doing?? Have you discovered any funny loopholes yet?? What race do you favor playing?? I LOVE to hear about other peoples playthroughs,

IT'S GODDAMN AMAZING AND I ALREADY HAVE MULTIPLE PLAYTHROUGHS PLANNED BECAUSE ONCE IS NOOOOT ENOUGH! I AM IN LOVE. Like I know these types of games (I've been a Bioware slut since KOTOR 2, so I looove this genre), and so I feel very confident saying holy shit, BG3 is one of the best! ALSO IT'S HUGE??? INSANELY HUGE??? AND FULL??? I LOVE IT SM.

Oh god favorites are hard, I'm gd attached to all of these little ducklings following my Tav. So far at least, storywise it's SCRATCH HE IS THE BESTEST BOY maaaybe Astarion. I LOVE his arc, his voicework is stunning, (I accidentally killed him with the big monastery laser and his reaction was hysterical) and his quest has been very moving. A close second is KARLACH, MY GIRL, MY FIREY BFF, like damn I HAD my little battle group (Gale + Astarion + Wyll) when I found her but I adore her so much I'm rotating Gale and Wyll to keep her permanently, SHE JUST WANTED A HUG. 😭

I'm in act 3, I just hit the city! I have no idea how but I am also STILL on my first PT after over a month of play. I love to sniff around under every nook and cranny granted, AND YET I STILL MISSED THINGS, IT'S SO BIG???

So far my route has been a chaotic good route! Outside, uh, occasional murdery hiccups goodbye creche but ya'll were assholes I've mostly managed to follow that alignment, and somehow still made friends with Lae? That was unexpected. I thought she hated my Tav's guts before she hit on her. 😂

Hilarious moments: setting off the giant laser at the monastery cause why wouldn't I grab the shiny weapon (sorry Astarion); being instakilled by Vlaakith at said monastery after basically mocking her with 'if you were really a god you'd be able to just kill someone yourself ha ha-splat'; friends telling me to talk to animals so I got excited when I saw a squirrel and ran to talk to it - it proceeded to bite me, then I failed a persuasion roll about being friends and it told me to fuck off; trying to get to that dwarf lady's husband in the Underdark and shooting an arrow at one of the mushrooms in the field he was in, thinking I could clear them one by one to get to him, only to set off a chain reaction that incinerated him and left the entire field a smoking crater (me as the explosions begin: oh, OH, oh no - wait, sir! Sir! Oh you're fine, you're - oh fuck, RUN SIR RU-shit he's dead); placing my druid in rothe/battle cow shape at the top of a ladder and charging whatever bad guy comes up so they fall back down (catchphrase: MOO, BITCH); and finally, I was having trouble with that one boss guy in the goblin camp, the one that sits on the throne. So when I saw I could get to the rafters, I painstakingly dragged every last explosive barrel and grenade I could find into the room and innocently placed them around the throne, then went up to the rafters and had Astarion shoot a fire arrow. I figured I'd at least bring the guy's health down but instead I set off the fourth of july, blasted that guy so hard he bounced around the room like a pinball before his body wound up glitch-stuck halfway through a wall, but hey, dead as a doornail sooo... it worked? Chaotic good alignment: MASTERED. 🤪

I'm playing a half-elf druid CAUSE I CAN BE AN OWLBEAR OR DINOSAUR TO FIGHT. I now have a chance to run around as a dinosaur druid with my 200 yo elf boyfriend, my BFFs, and find random bowls of poutine, this is the BEST GAME EVER. Also hilariously, I didn't check the stats closely and her intelligence wound up quite low, so she is very wise but also dumb as a bag of hammers, I love her, my first Tav is a good-hearted, unintentional bundle of chaos.

[longhands-the-second]

Trimax Vol. 4

I am reading ahead and I’m going to chew and swallow copious amounts of glass

1- Girl me too.

OH! My food questions are finally being answered!

I wonder how long that signal takes to get there? Seeds left something like 200 years ago, right? I wanna check but I fear looking it up will spoil shit

That’s ominous as fuck. This manga is way too long for that to go remotely well.

Either way I appreciate the casual clothes- never knew I needed to see them like that lol.

I’m surprised we don’t get more of a reaction from our main cast? They just look mildly pleased. I figured there’d be more fanfare.

Also, where’s that post that says “stop reading after this point” so no bad feels. I know it’s out there.

FUCKING UH OH

God love Vash and his way of just. Ghosting people.

I appreciate how far Brad has come in such a short time.

Starting with a bang this time around! I sure hope nothing bad happens! That would be terrible!

2- something something midvalley has that ‘tism swag

It really, honestly freaks me out when I see manga knives. He genuinely looks like his brother here- and I’ve gotten so used to trusting that face. Points for making me incredibly uncomfortable.

See, this is what i was fucking missing in 98. This is gripping. I love this. What the fuck.

The girls actually had me laughing out loud. I love them dearly. Where the fuck did they get a car

3- they’re so mean (affectionate)

I’m not quite sure I understand the unspoken part here? It could be a few things idk idk

Meryl has some kind of vibe about her- maybe like haruhi? It’s probably just the hair, but her relationship to femininity is interesting to me.

EW EW EW UGHHHHHHHH i hate eye shit so bad-

Vash is more chill about the girls following him around now? Good for them. Hope it doesn’t go horribly wrong.

I feel like there’s so much to say about this interaction that it circles around to being too dense for me to understand on a first read. Might come back to this later.

Well. Meryl’s been snatched. Didn’t think that would be this early. (<- got spoiled about this)

4- holy shit poor milly

I love that shit like. Involves Meryl in a meaningful way. However it would be nice if she had just a little more agency-

Oh he’s fucking LIVID. Man’s had it. I can’t blame him.

Based milly moment

5-*blaring careless whisper*

OKAY I stopped taking notes for the chapter because I was so into it. This is wonderful. It is also the first time I’ve legitimately enjoyed a fight scene on it’s own merits.

6- what a fucking tease. God damn it. Finish the fucking flashback, coward.

I am done taking notes now. I will reread later and actually have coherent thoughts.

7- Holy fuckinhg shit. I am going to read another volume.

(He did not, in fact, read another volume. This was not because of self control ((god forbid)), but circumstances. Put that guy in a Situation. Anyway starting monday i have all the free time in the world but first i am speedrunning a vash cosplay in a week.)

(I AM SPREADING THE GOOD WORD! I converted my whole friend group to the church of trigun this weekend and i may get one of them in on bookclub.)

[averysexyleon]

Uhhh CAN YOU JUST ANSWER THEM ALL anyways I won't use much to give other of your followers to ask as well so. I tried to limit myself ROFL

😈✨🤗❌💖

you should have seen me squinting to figure out which emoji is which. i'm too old for this LOL

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

In my fallout new vegas fic everybody wanted my courier and boone to bang, and it was kind of known they would end up together, but I just delayed it because I was TERRIFIED to write smut. everybody thought that I was being a troll, which maybe was a little true, because they had so many close spicy encounters before the smut. actually, the smut of that 200 chapter story was chapter 150 and i just named it "chapter 150" instead of giving it a nice name because of all of the hollering for smut LOL.

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

uhhh. my compliment to me is, good job wet vacuuming the entire living room today including the stairs. it may have literally killed you and wasted a day but it's done. and my compliment to my writing is, holy shit, almost 9 months into the year and closing in on 150 chapters, well done!

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

WRITE, FUCKING WRITE. don't matter if nobody sees it. this is a hobby for you. and find some friendly fic writers in your verse to talk to. it's less lonely that way. but it also might be lonely, writing in general is pretty lonely. but that doesn't mean don't do it. DO IT. STOP NOT WRITING. FUCKING WRITE.

What's a trope you will never write?

I don't know about tropes, but I can't ever write any kind of "toxic romance". If someone is abusive, they're abusive and I don't like it. I have moments in my romances where the characters' trauma comes through or they fight, but I have endured enough abuse and watched enough to not want to ever write it in any glorified way. people who write and enjoy VERY toxic/abusive relationships, you do you I guess, but I'll never enjoy it. I only mention this one because even though it used to be pretty rare, it seems like I see it more and more lately. I also see people take characters with ambiguous or questionable morals in the source material (like Karl) and just turn them into toxic disgusting villainous almost comically awful people and I....don't get it. I don't like Mia and never have, but I humanize her when I write her instead of making her a cartoon villain. maybe it's a maturity thing idk but I don't like it. thank you for coming to my TED talk on toxic relationships in fan writing.

What made you start writing?

reading a lot. when I was in school I was reading 3-5 NOVELS, NOVELS, a day. Turns out I have autism, but anyway, I started writing these little observation things about the classroom and my classmates thought they were hilarious and would ask for them at lunch. I realized that I had an affinity for writing, and that I liked the attention from having others read what I wrote (even if it was oddly vulnerable.) I also realized I had something to offer, because even though other classmates sometimes tried this it never really caught on the way mine did because idk, I'm a good storyteller and have the "it" factor when I write. I can say this confidently and also say confidently I have no other It factor and am a very disappointing person in every other way, so I have to write HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[anarchic-miscellany]

Reading "One Piece" for the first time: Part 18

Our gang are marching through the desert on the way to the big city where the plot/revolution is going to be occurring. The madness of giant lizards and kung fu manatees is, unfortunately all too brief and tossed aside; and it makes me think that this author has some sort of attention deficit disorder. He hurls out these daft looking pipe-cleaner lizards with boggle eyes and what I am imagining is a screech which could penetrate the flimsy veils of reality and tear mankind asunder (hello John Carmack); then a massive enormous chungus of a sand lizard thing and it's resolved in maybe three pages? Then he gives me solid, absolute gold-plated 259 carat madness of manatees knowing kung fu and following the Idiot because he beat them in a panel off-page (the same panel they were introduced in) - COME ON MAN! The "Fast and Furious" movies have better writing than this, and they introduced a character backwards! (This recap is on pause whilst the "Fast and Furious X" rant commences in a classified location) Whilst I'm fuming over the fact that we never got a manatee, and the fact that they did not have the kung-fu style of "MANATEES-style" haunts me for the next 200 years, our gang march on and the plot cuts away to two honestly super boring characters in a diner like it's a Tarantino opening. Ms Christmas tries to order some food for her and Mr 4, who also sucks in a unique way, and a Finger-Gun Weirdo shows off with them in some kid of quasi-fight? This isn't "20th Century Boys", man, you're not talented enough for this: focus on the vegetables of your current crop of maniacs before you start trying to add side plots for people we have no attachment or proper introduction to. These guys straight up fucking suck.

Give me good henchmen, or let the Crocodile God unleash some fucking carnage, Ohda, or I swear to William Gibson and all that is holy... Appreciate the Crocodile God having an actual giant pet crocodile in his palace though, it's kind of adorable and I want one: if only to make up for how badly he fucked up giving me kung fu manatees.

The next crew member had better be fucking baller, because he denied me kung fu manatees.

[homiro]

Vent and Vend

As we say here it's one of those things that if you tell other people nobody will believe it, but the TV broke down. The same TV that is used by my disabled uncle. This week is just being a flurry of Murphy's laws. If it's bad, it can and will get worse. And there's nothing so bad that can't get worse. Like holy shit what did I upset to attract this flurry of punches? And now ofc there's no money for that and I could venture into the tarot readings I've been planning to start doing, but with my energy the way it is, I wouldn't dare. And it may sound like I'm only thinking about myself but that's not it. It's really because I feel like I am the magnet for awful energy and bad luck that in turn affects everyone around me. Like holy shit seriously holy fucking shit what the fuck. And I can't even go to the library this week because I don't drive and the library is kind of far so the work is minimal since my pc is old and slow. Like what the fuck could I even try to sell to get 200 euros? I'm not rich I don't have items that are worth even remotely that. I've been selling my books on Vinted but it has to be basically given away since people want the things for free. And even if I tried selling my most expensive books, not only would I be giving up on the memories, I'd had to sell them for basically nothing and act like I was very pleased with the transaction. Like when I sold an 18 euros book for 6 lol and all the money was meant for my meds but then my mum hurt her leg and it went to that instead because she's the priority to me. Like it wasn't her who said it, I didn't even hesitate. She wanted to borrow from my aunt but I said I had that saved. And what sucks the most is that I've been working my ass off on these COMMISSIONED book translations and haven't seen a damn cent yet. Seriously what the fuck am I going to do to help. I feel so fucking useless. Neither me nor my brother can find jobs in this rural hole, the meds helped me calm down but the thoughts of being a useless burden won't go anywhere.

And I'm not talented or anything so I can't sell services except for my damn mid writing, translations, and the prospective tarot but the latter is not an option right now. I take it seriously, even if tarot serves only to guide people into finding answers they already have and only need a bit of food for thought.

So honestly, if you need a translation, check my languages in the pinned (there's a link) and let me know in the replies to this or just message me. I'll contact you if i don't follow you. If it's from Japanese to English and you happen to be well financially, that would be a blessing, since that's a language I know but need focus to get it to be accurate and contextualised. It can also be the translation of a song without lyrics anywhere. And trust me when I say that Google translate will return gibberish since it doesn't take context into account. All I need is the source text/song+context. The prices are in my pinned, too. There are more languages. I can do academic, legal, creative writing, etc. Translations. And if you need an English text in Portuguese or Spanish, that's also available. Ghostwriting, too, for academic stuff only, and poetry (only in English and Portuguese) in any style with any necessary figures of speech and themes. Rhyming, blank, etc. All of this includes an NDA obviously, and my method to maintain anonymity, is to state country if residence, year of birth, and the name of two grandparents who don't share our surnames. Our stated name is our initials. And the conversations are saved, too. This has been working so far, but unfortunately nobody wants more than one page or two so I stay broke in this freelance hell with a slow computer.

I also do proofreading of English {US, UK, etc.), Portuguese (EU and BR), and Spanish (the latter with a discount and aimed at learners in academic contexts, since I'm only a C1 writer in Spanish and only know EU Spanish).

No longer asking for charity, I'm advertising my degree and the skills I got from it and from being multilingual. I may not be famous or a big name fandom person, but I'm diligent when needed and my MA thesis got an A. If you need evidence, I can provide it without doxxing myself.

I'm not in the best state of mind right now, so the above may have typos and eaten words, but be sure that I'm careful when working for others, even with ADHD plaguing me. And this is an emergency.

Thanks in advance.

[infiniteglitterfall]

Omg this is so beautiful

Also I've been working on a list of all the pogroms, massacres, and exiles over the past 200 years. And while YES I DO kinda regret picking such a long timeframe, I'm sure as FUCK learning A WHOLE TON ABOUT JEWS IN ERETZ YISRAEL BY ACCIDENT, OH YES I AM

Anyway did you know???

Safed is also spelled Tzfat, Tsfat, Tzefat, Zfat, Sfat, and Ẕefat.

Safed is one of the cities in Israel that has housed Jews continuously for thousands of years - since it first became a town in 66 BCE.

Jews have been immigrating to Safed for centuries. Two liturgical poems for the Ninth of Av (which for me begins in an hour or so!) refer to Safed as a place where priestly families (Jakim and Pashhur) settled after the destruction of the Temple by the Roman Empire in 70 CE. There are documents showing Jews moving there in the 1100s. Beginning in 1492, it was a haven for Jews exiled from Spain. It became a hub of Jewish people and culture in the 1500s and 1600s. In 1778, over 300 Jews emigrated there, and even more followed in 1810.

Safed is the city at the highest elevation in Israel. The Jerusalem Talmud mentions Safed as one of five elevated spots where fires were lit to announce the New Moon and festivals during the Second Temple period. Who knew that fire was Calendars v1.0?

The Crusaders built a huge fortress there in 1168, in between massacring and enslaving Jews and Muslims.

The Crusaders can eat shit.

Then the Ayyubid Dynasty (Arab-Islamic Empire) conquered it, destroyed the fortress, gave the place back to the Crusaders in a treaty, the Crusaders built ANOTHER one, the horrible Mamluk Empire conquered it and expanded it... where was I going with this?

Nobody knows.

After the Mamluks was the marginally better Ottoman Empire. Safed became the center of an amazing center for wool and textile production, and also Kabbalah. The wool and textile production was as Jewish as the Kabbalah.

Safed became known as one of the Four Holy Cities of Judaism.

Safed's Caro Synagogue contains a Torah scroll that is at least 400 years old.

It's definitely probably not older than that, because HOO BOY have there ever been a lot of pogroms in Safed. And somehow people always seem to have made sure to shred the Torah scrolls 😭

They also liked to loot and burn the synagogues in all those pogroms. Hey, who doesn't?!?!?!?! Despite this, there's an entire Synagogue Quarter in Safed today, and a total of 22 synagogues.

Marc Chagall painted the one above in 1931!!

There's also an Artists Quarter. In the 1950s-60s, it made Safed the art capital of Israel.

Nearby Meron is mentioned in the records of Egyptian kings who invaded the territory more than 3,000 years ago. It had a synagogue in about 300 CE.

Meron is where the two great Talmudic sages, Hillel and Shammai, are buried.

Mt. Meron is where Talmudic sages Rabbi bar Yochai and his son Eleazer are buried.

According to tradition, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai hid in a cave in nearby Peqiin and wrote the Zohar. Now it's a monument:

Peqiin today is almost entirely Druze. But there is one Jewish family that has lived in the town since Rabbi Yochai was there.

Unfortunately, only one member of the family is left. Her name is Margalit Zinati, she's the only Jew in the town, and she is 93 years old. Her family home is run as a heritage site.

Interior of the Abuhav Synagogue in Safed, Israel. Photographer: Boris Karmi (1914-2002)

source: אוסף מיתר, האוסף הלאומי לתצלומים על שם משפחת פריצקר, הספרייה הלאומית Meitar Collection, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel.

[sensorybound-moved-blog]

            Happy Valentine’s Day, Fam! 

I thought this would be the perfect time to make one of these things. I’ve only had this account for a month and a half, yet this has been one of my favorite roleplay accounts in all my 4 years on tumblr. You guys are amazing, and I’m so thankful to have such wonderful followers and roleplay partners. You all inspire me to write, draw, and make new friends on here. I’m know I’m just some person online, but always remember that you leave a footprint where ever you go. Someone somewhere is thinking about you and has you tucked away in their memory with all their life experiences. I am thinking about you as I write this post, and there are people out that whose lives you have influenced even with the simplest of interactions. You guys do so, for me. You all help me in ways you probably don’t even realize. Don’t forget that. Whether you’re spending this Valentine’s day with a loved one or spending it by enjoying your own awesome company ( like myself ), I hope you have a wonderful day. Just remember that you are special and someone is thinking about you.

Roleplay partners / friends / comrades in shenanigans / fellow shit-disturbers:

@angelic-sorano, @arboluspugnitor, @bisutosouru,  @dokuseiryu, @dripdripdropthebass, @eternalfaction, @evxdent, @fervidice, @freedthedark, @hotlightning, @lockedfighter, @lyngud, @mama-dragneel, @moongleams, @ofwintersrealm, @saikxn, @sorcideur, @stormfated, @venenumdraak

People who are also baes that I mostly admire from afar &/or am mildly involved in shenanigans with:

@abysstrail, @absolutexdarkness, @acciaioxnero, @ankokunohono, @astracsoul, @astroarche, @cxrdmxgic, @cxrindgo, @deceitfulheart, @earthpxwer, @exhxbitionist, @friguxcor, @future-rogue, @galiciiaa, @glaciisregina, @hisuixfiore, @ignisaestas, @iiicyheart, @imperattore, @inpluxo, @koseilucy, @kuroganeslayer, @keyhclder, @laxusthelightning, @makubcsu, @mallacia, @mermaidsblade, @mircjcne, @nocentis, @ofiignition, @ofsiiinns, @oujo-heartfilia, @passionateheld, @pluviira, @regen-frau, @raioseucliffe-cheney, @rcnouveau, @sevenwait, @shinebrightlikealion, @sinfulstarfall, @skraxseidr, @souruteiku, @starbearing, @stonevanity, @sunfated, @tantiillus, @tenshcu, @theshiroryuumaru, @titaxia, @towerofheaven, @tthe2ndfallenmaster, @tumulte, @unmeinozuretehono, @venomoustigress, @venomslayer, @wingedborn, @xrushii, @xxatonementxx, @yxminotenshi, & every single one of my followers !! 

More fabulous blogs that are especially fabulous / I love you guys bunches:

@avnai, @boogey56, @freedjustineappreciation, @furidojasutin, @impracticaldemon, @loveisstronger07, @lucy-and-loki, @trilarkabeth

[spurgie-cousin]

Ok as someone who has written a 'niche' ebook I need to rant here so I will stay out of Bethany's comment section (long one incoming):

"YoU'rE aLrEaDy PoStIng!!!!" I. am going. to lose it.

Her insinuation that your average person with 250 instagram followers and zero influencing experience can organically reach hundreds of thousands of people advertising a 'niche' ebook with no monetary investment is just fucking false. It's just not fucking true.

Girl Defined found their way into the mainstream internet by pissing people off, full stop. I'm convinced it's one of their main advertising techniques regardless of what they say their "message" is, they know controversial takes get them clicks and followers. They didn't get their following by politely advertising their content on their personal social media for their closest friends and family 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 they created a business account, invested (their parents) money, and click-baited the shit out of millions of people until they were able to reach about ~70k bigots/hate followers that were willing to keep up with them.

The amateur ebook market is beyond saturated, even in niche markets, because of grifters like Bethany who sell it to desperate people as some kind of passive income holy grail. It has a reputation for being dog shit in general for that reason. The likelihood that people are going to stumble on your individual ebook while researching and be willing to buy it from a stranger they know nothing about (especially if you have no provable credentials) is slim to none. So you're going to need to do research on your market; if there are millions of ebooks already out on your 'niche' topic, it's not going to be a good investment of your time or money. If you find a market that looks promising, then you'll have to advertise.

Advertising to your personal instagram following by doing what Bethany is suggesting (just posting like you normally do while mentioning your ebook sometimes) might get you a few pity buys sure, but it's obviously not a sustainable income source. So now you have to get militant: 1. harass your friends and family to share your ads (they'll love it i'm sure) 2. buy advertising (for a niche topic that doesn't appeal to everyone, you're not going to get away with the bare minimum of maybe $50 a week on instagram. keep in mind that the average ebook costs will make you around $2.99 a pop) 3. post constantly (see Bethany's frequency)

And even if you're spending money advertising, it means nothing if your content isn't engaging and well made, so if you're not used to making it you're going to need to put in some time researching successful ad tactics. And the tone needs to be consistent with the material you're selling, not everything can be sold with 5-second uncoordinated tiktok dances a la Bethany Beal. You also might even need to invest money in equipment to make said content (like Bethany has) which could be anything from a Canva subscription to a $30 tripod to a $1,000 digital camera. The insinuation that people can make the same content she does when she has a professional photography equipment and software is just a lie.

Say you've done all of that, say you're spending about $200/week on marketing, you're making decent content, you're getting decent traffic. If your topic is truly niche, that means you may have to reach hundreds or even thousands of people a day before you get to one that is interested in your topic. And even then, some of those people aren't going to want to buy an amazon ebook written by someone they've never heard of, so you're going to need to reach lots of those people. That's tens i not hundreds of thousands of people a day, to make maybe 10 sales a day (less than $30 a day). That doesn't even cover your advertising costs.

So either Bethany is ignorant as fuck from a lifetime of having her parents foot all her bills, or she is a really, really unethical business person on the same level or worse as MLM creators. The amount of work the average person would need to do to make ANY decent money from an ebook like this is not passive income!!!!!!!!! She's taking advantage of desperate women in a horrible economy to sell her half-assed 'course' material and it just makes me so fucking angry.

[shiroikabocha]

so, like, the thing about Honest Hearts is that the racism would be bad enough on its own, but this story. is so goddamn fucking racist. I can’t even parse what this plot is supposed to be

so I chose to fight the White Legs, and then we won, and the Sorrows and the Dead Horses get to stay in Zion Canyon without getting shot at, yay! But Daniel “dies feeling like a failure” because the Sorrows have lost their “innocence”???? What? What does that even meeeeeeeeeeean Daniel????

like the aftermath summary makes it sound like it’s a big tragedy? That the Sorrows sometimes have disagreements with neighboring tribes? But that’s normal??? That’s normal human life???????

And JOSHUA WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR DEAL

I know the devs wanted to make Lawrence of Arabia but it’s in America but also it’s in the “holy land” because. there is a national park in Utah and we can do wordplay (and the wordplay will age like milk) (it will age like milk with a turd in it) but Josh buddy you are not Lawrence of Arabia. you are an offputting mormon mummy man with several guns and your choices do not make sense. Follows Chalk deserves a better mentor than you. I am appointing myself the new Official Best Friend/Mentor of Follows Chalk, we will explore the Mojave and have non-mormon adventures together

sorry guys the local gay bar is closing down (so: celebration goodbye party) and a very friendly man bought me shots so I am ~incoherent~

There was a time I thought I could re-write 90% of the Honest Hearts DLC and make it Less Racist (make Joshua Graham a Dead Horse! It’s not a white savior story if it’s a prodigal son story! And the taboo places in the valley make a lot more sense if you explain it as, like, these are the resting places of the Great War dead, to disturb them would be grave robbing, that’s why we haven’t done it in the last 200 years but desperate times call for desperate measures—also Daniel stfu about the ~innocent helplessness~ of the We Fistfight Yao Guai And We Win tribe, any one of them could oneshot you with a single swipe of their murder-mittens {and after what you hid from Waking Cloud you would DESERVE IT, DANIEL, don’t even lie} so when you describe the Sorrows as “defenseless” you don’t even sound racist you just sound stupid) but like, now that I have finished the DLC, I’m afraid there is no salvaging this. This is a dogshit premise that doesn’t make sense unless you lobotomize yourself into thinking the Sorrows and the Dead Horses are stupid, which: they’re clearly not?? They’re thriving as well as any society in this irradiated post-apocalyptic wasteland, I do not understand why this script treats it as a given that they’re just, like, babies. A whole national park full of babies. But the Two Mormons With Guns are the main characters somehow

anyways Honest Hearts is a shit-tier DLC and I will just imagine the versions of Follows Chalk and Waking Cloud that live in my head, the ones that are cool and act like real people, instead of lazy copy-paste Tonto and Tigerlilly, because they saved me from a lot of geckos and they deserve better than the absolute fucking horrible dialogue that was written for them

playing Fallout: New Vegas again and I was hoping Honest Hearts wouldn’t be as bad as I remember it

it’s worse 😭