#you’ll do great!

[rukkiya]

what got you into writing?? and was it easy at first cause i also want to get into writing so badly, not fics, i wanna start writing haikus and small poems like that but it's so hard :<

also that childe fic with only angst!?! i love it so much 🤭

ayaka! hello sweetie ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و!

ohmy here comes a quick story time hehehe!!!! I got into writing around six years ago when my friend told me about this one app to read stories (it was wattpad omg how embarrassing I was thirteen/fourteen tho LMAO PLEASE-) but it was so angsty and I was like hmm I want to try writing something like this, let me try this out. So I wrote my first story and I found out I really liked writing! My first story wasn’t the best of course lol but I still have it and I actually would love to take it seriously soon. but I genuinely fell in love with it. I’m not one to talk about my ‘problems’ or worries to others because I feel it’s burdensome ( I KNOW ITS NOT! EVERYONES PROBLEMS ARE VALID OK! that’s just how I feel) but when write, I portray what I feel or what I’m going through while writing for MC or y/n as a way of ‘coping’ since I get it off my chest without really doing so? If that makes sense hehe sorry I’m it’s confusing. but it’s a source of escapism really! AHH GEEZ SORRY for the rant I typed too much apologies, but that’s how I got into it! BUT YOU SHOULD TRY IT HON!!!! poems and haikus DO IT! I used to love writing poems too, don’t worry about if they’re good or not ( I’m sure you’ll write amazing ones!) just write what u feel and let it flow out it’ll come naturally and you’ll get the hang of it! don’t be afraid to do so it’s lots of fun and helps a lot in a way! ALSO THANK YOU OMG the childe fic hurt me while writing bc it was just angst piled on top of angst hehehe I’m sorry for the pain. I wrote sm omg LOL sorry for writing a lot but thank you for asking this, made me reminisce to when I first started ꒰´꒳`∗꒱ I do hope ur taking care and ur having a lovely day/night! ^~^<333

[l3viat8an]

Guys I'm litterally so nervous I'm supposed to be getting a call about a job today lowkey freaking out rn 😟

-🕸

You got this 🕸!!! Just breath and it’ll all go smoothly!!! 🫡

[phoebepheebsphibs]

Guys I found one of my first digital art pieces—!

It was a teensy animation of my comfort character

I made it using this horrible (but free) drawing app called YouDoodle that only gives you two layers to draw on along with a small collection of drawing tools, and a gif maker called ImgPlay.

I look at this and think “God strike me down now this is awful��� but then I remember that I drew so many frames without having the use of onion skin or any REAL animation tools, I did this FREEHAND ON AN iPHONE8 WITH MY FINGERS. I WAS MAYBE 16. NO TRAINING IN ANIMATION OR DIGITAL ART, JUST A FEW YEARS OF PERSONAL DRAWING EXPERIENCE.

She did amazing with what she had.

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

Hey so I’ve mentioned this a lot of times on my main blog, but I wanted to put this out over here since it is Hallow’s Eve. I always give out little tchotchkes on Halloween along with candy. This year, I’ve completely switched over to 100% doohickeys and doodads— think mechanical pencils, shaped erasers, little notebooks, squishes, vampire teeth and spiders rings and all. It started years ago in college when I signed up for a dorm Halloween event where kids from an area that was too dangerous to really trick or treat through got bussed in to trick or treat at our dorm. I bought some candy and dollar store Halloween themed stuff with what i had. And you know what the kids went ape shit over?

Motherfucking. Mechanical. PENCILS!!

These kids could not get enough of them. They literally went “PENCILS??!” I had never seen kids get so hyped up for pencils lmao. They were the first things to go. Candy is fleeting; the little pencils you can bring to school to flex are eternal, until you inevitably lose one of the refill parts and then they aren’t but listen, in that one moment they are infinite. And its nice thinking that maybe some kids who don’t always have access to school supplies not only get them, but get them in fun shapes and designs.

Anyway. I recommend people to give out fun stuff like this not just because kids seem to genuinely enjoy them, but also because there’s this thing called the Teal Pumpkin Project here in America. You can put out a teal pumpkin to show that you are giving away non-candy items and sign your address up so parents of children with allergies know that there are houses their kids can safely and happily trick or treat at! It’s a win-win! Plus, if you accidentally bought too much, it’s not like candy— just pack it away, pencils and fidget spinners will be good next year, too! :)

[tombstoneswerewaiting]

infinity on high, 2007 vices and virtues, 2011

[superfallingstars]

snape deserved everything he got and worse. he was an incel creep and james was ALWAYS the better person by far.

gonna say something real crazy here, buck wild, just balls to the wall insane – but what if they were both bad? what if it’s bad to join a fascist hate movement and be mean to children as a fully grown adult and teacher, but it’s also bad to bully someone and threaten to take off their underwear in front of a crowd? and it’s bad to try to manipulate a girl into going out with you by saying you’ll stop bullying her friend if she accepts? what if that part when james says he doesn’t like snape because of “the fact that he exists” is in there for a reason? i know this is a really bonkers take, just cuckoo crazypants, to imagine that two people can be bad at the same time. and it’s probably even crazier to suggest that it actually doesn’t even matter who is better than who, and that this whole argument is a pointless endeavor, and that trying to play judge jury and executioner with fictional characters is an unproductive and frankly dumb way to engage with media

[tristinian]

So funny that the people who talk about how if they were faced with the trolley problem they would simply derail the trolley and kill everyone hahaha funny lol. Well now they’re abstaining from voting in the US election

[cometrose]

wuwa 1.3 is so hard to describe like here we go

pros

Environments!! beautiful environmental storytelling, beautiful region. The black shores are gorgeous, and I like the underground portions as well.

Port of Guixu in the past!!! Loved how we got to see the city in its final hour and walk through a cafe, just beautiful. The music becoming more haunting as you travel through and the lights falling as the lament begins and when the timer starts i love that part (timer could've been a little shorter tho maybe by a minute or 2)

music was really nice. definitely improved on the music

cute robots the KU-bots yeah i like those

Cinematics, my laptop normally struggled with loading cutscenes not anymore thank you

From a physical interaction standpoint very good. I think the puzzles were nice, the setpieces were great, traveling through different dimensions were great

Aalto was a fun companion to have, and Shorekeeper was very lovely, personally one of my favorite characters

Robots developing human emotions will always get points from me

Lots of emotions

Great gameplay and great environments, very cinematic and dynamic

Cons

I got lost on the plot a couple of times lol (so like when the lament -> necrostar -> necrostar corrupts tethys -> SK becomes core -> Save SK and save souls trapped in necrostar is that right?)

oddly the characters which i don't understand this a gacha game

the quest itself wasn't bad but it just reemphasized the problem the game continues to have which is poor character interactions

character interactions with rover are fine but there is next to zero character-characters interactions

in this 3-4 hour quest the only playable characters we meet our aalto and shorekeeper who don't speak at all (where did camellya and encore go) which is understandable cause its a secret org and the whole quest is about SK BUT we did also just get through a festival where almost none of the cast interacted with each other except for a cutscene

I didn't think the pacing was too bad but I do think the beginning and end of the story were a lot weaker than the middle/climax

Now the biggest debate is over Shorekeeper and I get it. I liked everything up until the very last cutscene that was a little too much for me at 3am almost gagged. But i totally understand the harem/waifu/another girl/yumeship/nothing without rover I do I do.

I think I am more forgiving of Shorekeeper because this was very much her purpose for a long time and we've known her for many incarnations however I think it would've better if the game was more explicit about this.

However for other characters (Changli...Jinhsi...Zhezhi)) who have known us for approximately erhm 3 minutes their level of affection doesn't make much sense to me. (Like Changli especially there is just no reason for her to feel strongly about us more than Jinhsi her own student, I just don't believe you, nuh uh)

So like it feels bad to get another female character all over Rover and I don't like it

Hell I even don't mind the "is this love" I accept that one cause she was dying it works for me.

conclusion i guess

I think the story was fine on every front except characters cause it just emphasizes how bad they are at character interactions outside of rover. Also SKxRover stuff at the end was just a little too much for me (I didn't even mind the I love you earlier I was okay cause the girl died). Like that was just too cringe for me I'm sorry.

But it seems the keep writing characters profiles and connecting them to other characters but don't show that interaction in-game. To the point where they present a character but then when they interact with rover it feels like their personality gets super dumbed down to be more compatible (see: Jiyan and Changli). Especially cause this isn't a 90s JRPG where these characters join your party and go on adventures with you no! these people have jobs and careers!

You know that thing were its like "good characters can carry a shit plot" yeah that. So plot be damned if the characters don't work. That's the truth, and I really really hope they work on the characters. I think the best dynamic they have shown is Encore and Aalto for 1.0 like best non-rover dynamic and they just don't replicate that. Sanhua and Jinhsi, Jinhsi Changli, are both dynamics they show are real but don't capitalize on ever which is dumb and stupid.

And maybe a part of the problem is not the characters but Rover themselves yeah i don’t like pseudo-self inserts like it’s me but also a unique character like pick one or the other pretty please. So Hmm yeah we’ve got characterization issues.

So like in a vacuum yeah I liked 1.3 but it emphasizes the area that the game really struggles with and shouldn't like everything else was really good like i was having fun like the whole time. So yeah the high parts were high and low parts are low but at the end of the day?

TLDR: Shout out to FROVER we got YURI

[swordmaid]

think cannibalism should be a thing in menzoberranzan actually, or maybe it is and I haven’t known about it, but it should be a thing amongst the nobles where they eat rival lolth priestesses since they’re lolth’s fave sacrifices anyway. like if we’re all constantly vying for lolth’s approval, and you have these people who actually has her blessing (which is rare) why not….eat them….😳. like eating the priestess of a rival house would be a ritual after you’ve succeeded in bringing their house down as a way to consume lolth’s blessing, and its def an intimidation tactic and def one of the plenty weird shit nobles have done for the sake of playing their power games. maybe they eat males who are in power too if they’ve overstepped their position to remind them of their place in the hierarchy, or maybe matriarchs/nobles eat their favourite bed mate/partner so no one else can have them, kind of like actual spiders. anyway. if menzoberranzan is this immoral lethal and ruthless place cannibalism should def be a thing lol

[alaraxia]

What’s left, when the hate is gone

[promiscuousasexual]

the esteban ocon anon about the “fight”………what fanfic did you pull that from?

[otrtbs]

y’all are so weird. if you hate the way i characterized regulus in ahb! then,,, stop reading it? no one is forcing you to read it?? you can just put it down,,, you know that right???? who has the gun to your head making you click next chapter??? you can just stop reading it at any time. no really, trust me!

[hereforyourdispleasure]

Sorry I haven’t been active much lately. My course has once again changed several times, some being self induced as surprise surprise, some guy on my course was writing (non intended questionable narrator) grooming stories. Which I had to sort to get away from him. And then my course still hasn’t given us essay deadlines for a module, and the texts meant to be read each week keeps being changed around. And I’ve had multiple 400 page books to read. I read 300 pages in 2 days, best believe I’ve not done much else

Unfortunately my parents have also been asking me solely about when I’m getting a job, and nothing else. Which is ultra very crazy helpful

I just haven’t had the energy to talk to people. Or do much tbh. Everything feels like a lot at the moment

[quietwingsinthesky]

the last unicorn post from earlier has me thinking about the master. that yana is still in there, you know? is still someone he was, if even for a brief flash across the life of a time lord. there’s no way to unlive that life. there are ways to twist it later, sure, to make utopia into hell on earth. but the life was lived. in much the same way that the doctor can remember, can feel, the love he held onto as john smith even as that life is ripped out of his hands. the doctor choose denial and then grief and then to shutter it all away. and so john smith died, and so professor yana died, and the doctor and the master live on. the doctor has done this before, and he lives in orbit around humanity, trying to keep the best parts of them and hold them deep enough to take root (which he can pretend he gets to choose, as a time lord. as a human, it all floods in and can’t be dug back out.) but what about the master, right?

to borrow a turn of phrase: i think there are two time lords left in the universe, and they both learned how to regret.

[feelingtheaster99]

*squeals in omg baby Percabeth banter*

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

I love that one of the roles fire plays in this series is to represent how all consuming desire can be, and how it’s framed as something that can be world ending when uncontrolled.

So naming unnatural, untamable green fire ‘wildfire’ is therefore a stroke of genius. It’s the representation of how we humans manufacture our own doom in the pursuit power, of how uncontrolled desire will eventually blow up in our faces.

And the fact that barrels and barrels of it sit fermenting under Kings Landing, Westeros’s breeding ground of maniac desire, and the capital the ambitious and corrupt flock to for what it promises? It’s perfection!