#not fixing that spelling error i'm too lazy

[lunarparacosm]

pottery class au !!!

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I did this for school so, if it sounds weird blame me and my laziness.:

   A few weeks or so ago I Had a thought that maybe the (not ship) pairings of Beelzebub and Aziraphale, and Gabriel and Crowley are the perfect things to compare and contrast because in each pairing the two have a few things in common and a few things that aren't similar. Beginning with Gabriel and Crowley, because it is easier to explain. One of the most prominent similarities between them is how they either fell or got demoted, and how they both fell in love with an angel/demon, First, in episode six(every day) and one(the arrival) we see them both deny or question the supposed will of god leading to what happened. In Gabriel's case he refused to put another Armageddon into action, and in Crowley's case he questioned why his creations had to be destroyed. They both said in their respective episodes something along the lines of  “hey! Why are we doing this? It doesn't feel right.”. Second, Crowley fell in love with Aziraphale over 6000 years of miscommunication and Gabriel fell in love with Beelzebub over 3-ish years of strong communication. And there we have a difference between the two, the ineffable husbands(Azi and Crowley) have continuously miscommunicated and the ineffable bureaucracy( Beelzebub and Gabriel, they were the leaders of heaven amd hell) were built on communication between them. Another difference is the obvious, Crowley is a demon and Gabriel is an angel, they also hate each other for reasons(I might explain). Ending with Aziraphale and Beelzebub, I truly only have One common thing but I have a few pieces of evidence to support it.The one at least apparent similarity These two have is that they both want support from their sides (heaven and hell), Throughout the whole show and book we see Aziraphale ridiculed by his bosses, in the book it even states “Technically he was a principality but people made jokes about that these days”(pg 38 of the book at least in my copy) and in season two of the show we see Beelzebub complain about “just want someone to say what a good job your doing?”(s2), also when they chat with gabriel for the first-ish time both of them share a little bit about how their sides both asked if they could just make armageddon happen. This shows how they both just want some support from their respective sides.Now onto the opposite things; Aziraphale is a fuzzy, happy and very flamboyant angel and Beelzebub is a grumpy,goth and powerful demon, this gives us a basis of their differences which are relatively the same as the others except that they don’t hate each other. Most of the drastic differences between all of them are aesthetic based, not-so much actual plot based.

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I'd like to make the argument that yes, while there's more books out there than ever, there are also more deep craft books available than ever, too. I used to be so frustrated with all the watered down books until I knew where to look. "The Black Book of Jonathan Knotbristle," "New World Witchery," "Of Blood and Bones," "A Witch's Guide tot he Paranormal," "By Rust of Nail and Prick of Thorn" are all beginner and intermediate friendly books, and getting into advanced practices is more a matter of gathering enough information and experience to form your own gnosis and way of doing things, which is difficult to share because not everyone is going to agree with your ways to the personalization.

I love researching astronomy, so my astrology practice is based more off that than Tropical astrology, which is season-based, not star-based, and I get a lot of flack for that just as much as I get questions about it. I work with nomadic wind spirits that bring me gossip and news, I work closely with a team of spirits I don't like disclosing much about because I don't want anyone else trying to envoke them.

A lot of my craft these days is also a lot of self-therapising through astral flight, and while one ritual I'm working on is something I'd love to share, it's about healing the earth, and frankly the best way to go about that is doing the mundane work. Volunteering, donating, voting (though there may be cursing some corporations and billionaires involved in that one, but even that I'm hesitant to share because I don't want anyone interfering with that work).

It's a funny thing I've found that I started witchcraft to bring more magic into my life, but the more I work magic, the more mundane it becomes. But maybe that's just where I am in my practice right now. I still lean into my earliest practices, too: cleanse and protect your space on a new moon; glamour for social/work things I'm nervous about; working with Mercury and mercurial plants when I study; bubble and light armor (or dark armor, or mirror armor, etc) to avoid energy vampires; freezer/banishing spells when someone's ticking me off and talking to them isn't doing anything; tarot reading of the day/week/month/year. I think my favorite workings are still making charms for myself and others. I like embroidering charms, infusing magic into every stitch. Or I make enchanted jewelry. I still have a lot to learn as far as herbal medicine goes, but I'm starting to get into tinctures, though my favored book for this isn't witchy, it's "Backyard Medicine" by Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal. A lot of my kitchen magic is also informed by a lot of popular books, and when I go based off my intuition, it's difficult to explain why I make the associations that I do. I don't know why I associate juniper with dragon energy, but I do, and I use it in meals to help my feel as powerful as a dragon. I eat spicy food to put a fire in my belly for motivation, or to light up my words. Crystal grids for energy, or for dream recall, or whatever I feel inspired to make one for in the moment. Herb sachets to avoid jury duty, or for carry happiness with me. A bay leaf with the name of a challenge(r) under my right foot to conquer the challenge(r).

For a while, I had a hyper-fixation on Jinn and Jinn magic, and there's a podcast called "Spirit Box" that has a lot of episodes dedicated to the practice. I still haven't worked with Jinn, I just wanted to learn about it for knowledge sake. "The Whole Rabbit" recently had two episodes about vampiric magic. "The Frightful Howls You May Hear" had a great episode on "Law Stay Away and Magical Resistance," all spells and rituals based on traditional folk magic I've read in the books I listed above. Went into a big mythological dive focusing on The Watchers and Nephilim and their influence in magic throughout history (AWESOME episodes on the subject on "The Modern Witch Podcast," as a starting point.), again, just to know, even though I don't work with angels. The mythology just makes the world feel more magical to me, thinking witches are descendants of these creatures, be it literal or metaphorical. This led to a dive into ancient civilizations as a whole, which led to a dive into the topic of Atlantis-- it's a whole chain.

Like any research, it's a matter of knowing where to look, because I promise there's a lot of cool stuff out there. And like any craft, you can only learn so much from books or mentors before you decide to just do your own thing, which is isolating but also liberating. But I don't know. Sometimes I feel like my craft is too boring, too, to write about, because it's either very basic symbolism, or it only makes sense to me. It was easier once upon a time to write about because it was all new and shiny, and now I'm old a crotchety too, and I approach magic like I would going about anything else in my life. But again, maybe that's just where I am right now, and one day, it'll be shiny and new again and I'll write pages and pages about it. I don't really know what to write unless someone asks me for spell ideas, THEN I'll list out a ton of ideas, which I always end with, "but you know, go with your intuition."

This is going to make me sound like a cantankerous old bitch, but meh, I'm gonna say it anyway.

Witchcraft is too commercialised nowadays.

It's great to see so many witchcraft books and supplies available. I can walk into kmart or big w and find witchcraft books, tarot cards, and crystals now.

The problem, though, is that everything that's readily available to the masses (i.e. the first thing witchlings may interact with) is all so watered down to be socially acceptable that it gives a warped view to new practitioners while being simultaneously useless to experienced practitioners.

As much as I love how personalised the craft is, I genuinely wish more experienced witches published their personal grimoires and gnosis. I would love to see what others are working on/what works for them.

So here's my plea: if you're an experienced witch (I.e. practising for over 5 years and working your own path), please share a little titbit of what you're currently working/researching/crafting.

☆Marci☆

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Blitz is dyslexic (petty post about why I'm right with proof from recent episodes)

Disclaimer: I don't have dyslexia, so I can't speak from personal experience, BUT neurodivergent people tend to find each other, and I've been very close with a few people with dyslexia, to the point where I've extensively edited their writing. I've also learned quite a bit about dyslexia while working in the education field. Okay- let's go.

I hear way too often (yes, I'm referencing a certain youtuber here) that Blitz can't have dyslexia because we sometimes see him reading and we sometimes see him writing without errors. So when he shows spelling and grammatical errors in his texts and notes to self, that must just be him being rude/trying to be cute/being lazy.

And if the errors were just slang and abbreviations, maybe the people making those arguments would have a point. But they're not. And I'm convinced that he has dyslexia. So what gives? Why the inconsistency (assuming it's an intentional choice on the part of the writers)?

Most dyslexic adults CAN write correctly with extra effort. It's just harder. In the learning disability world, we sometimes call it self- accommodating. With any disability, that means doing work that neurotypical people don't have to do in order to overcome the obstacle that the disability poses- and often, no one else sees that work or understands that it's necessary. For people with dyslexia, that often means that they have to check and double check their writing.

When YOU AND I (if we're both non-dyslexic people) write casually and don't put in effort, our spelling is going to be mostly correct. And if we use slang and abbreviations, it's a choice. When someone with dyslexia shoots off a quick text, it's going to look messy, and they'll probably only do it in a text to someone they're comfortable with. THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE.

Let's look at some recent examples from Helluva Boss.

Blitz is writing notes to himself here, so he doesn't have any need to make them presentable. Cute inside jokes with himself are possible (i.e. the horses and nicknames that we sometimes see), but the spelling mistakes here don't really make sense as jokes. They also wouldn't be easier to write than the correct words for someone who isn't dyslexic. Mok(backward S)ie isn't shorter than Moxxie, and remembr isn't much shorter than remember. The spelling is also phonetic, which fits with how many people with dyslexia spell in initial drafts. He just isn't watching for and correcting his mistakes, because why would he in this situation?!

Okay, different situation . . . the apologies. I would argue that Blitz IS putting in physical effort here, even if it's not emotional effort. He brings entire gift baskets full of his favorite foods for the people on his apology list after all. Here's what he writes to the DHORKS:

I think "sowy" IS meant to be cute here. It's not phonetic after all. He put a little effort into drawing them a cute little horse too. And then the cherubs . . .

I think this is pretty interesting. Blitz actually bothers here to fix his spelling mistake. He spells everything right on the inside too, even though he's telling these guys "fuck you." Notice that he runs out of room and has to write sideways. And notice the nice block letters on the front. In terms of why he's trying so much here, well, it's to prove to Stolas that he can put effort into apologizing to people, isn't it? And that means that the unintentional errors get fixed!

Now, Blitz tries to text an apology to Stolas (and obviously stalls for emotional reasons), and we see him typing it in real time,

Yeah . . . it's a combination of shorthand and just plain old misspellings. He's focused on choosing the right words, not on getting the spelling right, and it's impossible to say he doesn't care at this point. Someone who has an easy time writing correctly spelled text might use some shorthand, but just like we saw with Blitz's notes to self, they wouldn't likely intentionally misspell completely unnecessary things, especially when trying to come off as genuine.

Sigh. I rest my fucking case.

If you'd like to see my thoughts on that text conversation from Western Energy, go ahead and click on the link- it isn't really about dyslexia, and I do actually think that Blitz is pretty literate in spite of his disability and limited education, but it does explain why I think the conversation goes the way it does.

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Hello ooohs! I just wanted to say that I adore your AU and just can't get enough of the change in dynamics for Rise!!

Your designs are incredible (( especially Leo's!! He is so adorable <3 )) and I get so excited each time you post!

So I have a question I want to ask: I have a huge soft spot a mile wide for Leo/Splinter family bond dynamic. I just turn to mush every time their familial bond is portrayed in comics/fanart/ and fanfiction.

Anyway! My question is: do Leo and Splinter develop a close relationship with each other later in the AU after meeting for the first time? I mean it has been shown how much of a fan boy Leo is for Splinter XD. Can your provide more insight into it and what Splinter thinks of the other three kids?

I also wanted to bring up a small error in The Cell part 3 that I noticed

For Donnie: "that's " was it supposed to be "that" ?

If not then I'm sorry for nitpicking your work. I just figured I'd help but my apologies <3 I still want to stress that I adore this AU so much and in extension; platonically adore you!! Keep being the best that you can be and take care!

Love,

🌹

Thank you!

And skfskbdwlskdisj yessss I love Splinter's and Leo's dynamic you're so real for that. And yeah, out of the of the Drax Bros, Leo is the one who ends up growing the closest to Splinter, both because he's been a secret Lou Jitsu fanboy for years at this point, but also because Leo was the first to change his mind on the evil world domination plan. Leo freed Donnie from imprisonment and tried to help him stop The Foot and The Shredder in the season 1 finale, and I imagine Splinter would be quite appreciative of that.

Not to mention, after Leo technically betrayed his family (even if it was for good reasons) Leo's and Draxum's relationship is a bit tense to say the least. And we see in the show that Leo has a tendency to seek out extra father figures, so in the AU Leo would be quite enthusiastic to recieve any positive attention from Splinter.

Splinter I imagine would feel rather guilty about not being able to rescue any of the turtles aside from Donnie when he fled Draxum's lair. He'd wanted to prevent Draxum from raising them as soldiers, so in failing to do that Splinter would continue to worry about how they were doing even years after the incident. After encountering the Drax Trio again years later, he'd be relieved that they don't seem to be TOO traumatized or anything, but they ARE still child soldiers, so that's a yikes.

That being said, while Splinter would've liked to find a way to get the other turtles away from Draxum, his priorities very much lie with Donnie. Considering how powerful Draxum is, and how Big Mama would also be looking for him, Splinter couldn't risk going back to the Hidden City to try to get Donnie's brothers without risking both his own and Donnie's safety. So he decided to cut his losses and play it safe by laying low in NYC and putting as much effort as he could into only protecting Donnie. This stays the same even after Donnie runs into his brothers as a teen, Splinter feels no ill will towards the other three turtles, but they WERE raised by Draxum so he does not trust them. Leo gains his trust after helping Donnie in the season 1 finale, but it takes some more time for him to start fully trusting Raph and Mikey because he wants to be sure that they're not gonna switch back to being evil or something and try to kidnap Donnie again.

Splinter's relationship with Draxum is the same as in the show, Splinter hates Draxum, Draxum hates Splinter, and there is NO underlying homoerotic tension between the two of them WHATSOEVER!

... Anyway, with that concluded, that IS a typo goddamit. I do appreciate people pointing out spelling and grammar mistakes in the comics I make, so thanks for that. But also it's a small enough mistake that I'm probably just gonna leave it be, I'm to lazy to fix it XD

[somehhuuuhh]

Tw eyestrain!

Pov-He told you that you aren't the one that he's looking for

Hibiscus x Enoki requested by @inkystar1983 <3

Nah you thought I was going to make it wholesome? I'm gonna draw every ship angst 😈😈😈

Hibiscus by @inkystar1983

Enoki by me :3

Close up and me rambling about them

Okay so some contents. Hibiscus used to be a god and had a lover but he died and got reincarnated. He thought since he got reincarnated maybe his long lost lover got reincarnated as well and went searching for them.

Mewhile Enoki is a semi-god. He can kill things just by things going near him so you can tell that he's a lonely gay but then he found Hibiscus and soon as he learned that Hibiscus can go near Enoki and not die, he tries to befriend him. It work! And soon they became more than friends.

Hibiscus was certain that Enoki was his long lost lover but then he realized he's not. He felt guilty for betraying his long lost lover by being in love with Enoki so he broke up with Enoki. Enoki beg him to stay because he doesn't want to be alone again, but Hibiscus told him to forget about him and then he left. Lol.

Ummm this isn't canon cuz I haven't talked to Inky about this but they would end up together in the end just that you know

Oh and sorry 4 the spelling errors I'm too lazy to fix them :P

[nyxypoo]

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Dad Taiju working out in the room over from you, except you start to hear giggling and walk in to see your daughter on his back while he’s doing pushups

Or like, hanging off his arm as he flexes

Or or!! He set down the weights he was using and is now lifting her as the weight and that’s why she’s giggling so much

FINN MY HEART OMG EHWJWM

when he's doing pushups in the living room, he has her sitting on his back because if she wants to hangout with him, he'll let her and it doesn't matter what he's doing. she's busy playing with his hair or tracing the parts of his tattoos that peak out from beneath the collar of his t-shirt. occasionally, he puts on some children's show on the tv so they can both enjoy this time. more than likely though, with or without the tv in the background, she's babbling utter nonsense about the most random topics. saying things like he has such funny lines on his neck, or how she wonders if mama can do this too, or she's simply telling him about whatever's going on in her little cartoons and silly shows.

lets her hang off his arm for fun sometimes, jokes about how she's like a slap bracelet with how she clings to him. makes sure she's holding on real tight before he's moving and flexing, but even then, he does it while he's sitting in case she slips. ughh and she's giggling because her dads just so strong and she's going on and on about how she's gonna train everyday and get strong so she can do the same thing to her dad when she's all grown up.

and when he decides that maybe lifting weights isn't the best thing to do when you have a curious little toddler so close by isn't the best idea but still needs to get a workout in, figures the little one is better than his old weights anyways. picks her up and starts treating her like a little dumbbell, all while she giggles and laughs when he tells her that he might need to get another one of her because she's too light for him to properly get a workout in.

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Hi, it's me, user Kidnappingvictim99 on tumblr.com! Formally known as Meatwormcritic/Meatwormfanfics. I am even MORE obsessed with Mistrick & Misfiction than I was in 2022-2023. Scroll down to read more about me and what I'll be using this blog for.

I have no clue how to introduce myself, I will try. I would say English isn't my first language so you can't get mad at me for grammatical & spelling errors but I would be LYING! Fun fact: my parents both speak multiple languages and attempted to make me trilingual as a child but I just never picked up on anything besides English. Tragic. I completely forgot French and Arabic (aswell as any other languages I attempted to learn when I was younger). But enough rambling about that. Just take any grammatical or spelling errors as evidence to my hatred of the English language. <- whatever that means.

Time for some actual introduction. For impersonal names, you can call me Meatworm or Meatwormcritic. You can also call me Kidnappingvictim99 if you realllyyy want to.

You can also call me ↓

Kiana / Lola / Victor(ia) / idc

those are my main names, I go by other ones too. (ദ്ദി ๑>؂•̀๑)

My pronouns are He & She, he preferred. I was born Muharram 8 (December 25th) and am a minor, be aware of that. Dattebayo!

Evil mixed fag, (W)blasian latino + American, I speak English & I'm Learning Arabic. Queer.

INTERESTS

My interests are ↓

Mistrick & Misfiction

My Hero Academia

Demon Slayer

Nana

The Summer Hikaru Died

Pearl & X (A24)

Ghibli movies (specifically Grave Of The Fireflies)

2000s, 90s and 80s movies and music

Horror in general

Musical theatre

Old internet and Tumblr culture / Heritage

Fanfiction and fandom culture in general

Cultural anthropology

Psychology & Linguistics

Queer history

Japanese history (Yamato period, Heian era, Edo period, Taisho era, Showa era. Mostly the heian era.)

Pre-islamic arabian history

Japanese cinematography

+ way more I'm forgetting and don't have the motivation to write again because TUMBLR. DELETED. MY. EDIT. I'll probably fix this up at a later date. The ones in bold are very special to me.

Tumblr deleted my FUCKING edits to this so I'm gonna keep this brief because I do not want to write everything all over again

WHAT I WRITE

I mainly write headcanons. I don't tend to post any of my writing but that's going to change soon. I write for ↓

Mistrick / Misfiction

My Hero Academia

Demon Slayer

The Summer Hikaru Died

That's it. I might edit this list as I grow up and evolve like a pokémon.

DO I TAKE REQUESTS?

I won't write full fics but I will write headcanons. Shoot me an ask and see if I respond. I might not though considering I am a student and EXTREMELY mentally ill. I may just drop random headcanons and scenarios when I feel like it. Dattebayo!

BYF

As stated above, I am extremely mentally ill. Don't expect me to be online all the time or answer your asks.

I am always flying into an angered frenzy and I am crazy. I am always moving closer to my prophesied demise.

I have unhealthy obsessions and am naturally protective over those obsessions.

I don't expect anybody to really interact with me so I'm not worried about writing an extensive BYF or anything, just ask me questions if you're curious.

DISCLAIMER

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MY TAGS (ok, I made this addition hours upon hours after the original post. But I thought it was relevant.)

#Kidnappingvictim99 / Meatwormcritic = general tag encompassing most of my posts

#Meatworm speaks = I give my thoughts on a topic, usually something stupid.

↑ possibly more to be added.

Ok bye that's all I'M STILL SO MAD THAT TUMBLR DELETED THE EDIT I MADE HERE AUGHHHHHHHH IF IT DELETES IT AGAIN I'M GOING TO EXPLODE AND KILL PEOPLE

[oct0bra1ns]

I apologize for any spelling mistakes/ grammatical errors ur abt to see

I'm typing on mobile because I'm too lazy to get my laptop

Lemme know (if u want ofc) if I make any mistake, I'll fix it

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Hiii, I read your post about the stiff dialogue in LO, and I wanted to add my own two cents!

I myself am a person with a nice case of dyslexia (it will most likely show in this message). While I can’t speak for everyone with dyslexia, I pesonally cannot and will not publish anything ”official”, without spell checking it to hell and back. This is mostly because I’m hyper aware of this being one of my ”shortcomings”.

I also wanted to say, that most of, if not all, people with dyslexia that I know are rather self-consious about it. I just find it a bit unbeliavable that all the misspellings/awkward text in LO are there simply because Rachel has dyslexia. To me personally, it seems to be more a product of laziness and/or indifference.

Of course there is the fact that I’m not working on a long project, and I can usually take my time with my work, so maybe I just have more recourses to be careful. I also want to make clear that I don’t mean to say that Rachel’s dyslexia doesn’t affect her workload at all, but I do think she should have the means to check these things, especially since she is quite successful in the field.

Thanks for pitching in on this! I myself do not have dyslexia, but I do understand the struggle of missing words or misspelling them as my brain tends to move too quick at times for my writing speed to keep up LMAO It happens a lot when I'm writing by hand as I can't handwrite as fast as I can type so words sometimes go missing while my brain speeds ahead 😂

I can get why someone might be a little more self-conscious about typos being pointed out if they're making their comic entirely on their own and for free, or if they're just self-conscious about making mistakes in general (it can be scary to put a piece of work out into the world!) but Rachel is literally the top creator on the platform so there's zero excuse for it to have gone this long without at least a copy editor. And frankly it's still weird that they hire a copy editor at all just for checking typos because that's something that can be done so easily (again, Rachel has 4-5 other assistants per episode, you're telling me NONE of them could do it for her? Oh that's right, because she has them all draw their panels in isolation of one another and then she slaps the dialogue in at the last minute -.- the copy editor she has right now seems like the 'last step' before she submits the comic).

That said, if you go back far enough, you can actually find Rachel's take on correcting her misspellings and it's... frankly way saltier than it ought to be? Like I get it, it might feel like an attack for someone to say "hey, I spotted this mistake!" especially if you're self-conscious about it or are living with a learning disorder that affects your every day life, but when you get over that self-consciousness of making mistakes, it's really not that big of a deal? Like, yeah, it can be really frustrating when people point those mistakes out because it makes you feel bad or reminds you that you're struggling with something like spelling that seems so natural and 'easy' to everyone else, but I find true genuine fans of your work don't point these things out to be mean, just to be helpful. Yes, some people are mean about it, but you can usually tell which ones are the mean ones and which ones are the nice ones.

I've made spelling and grammatical errors in both Time Gate and Rekindled that have been kindly pointed out, and you know what I do when people find them? I thank them for spotting what I clearly didn't and I go and fix it. Because it makes my work better for my audience and my own peace of mind.

Rachel, meanwhile-

(tiny picture translation:

Question: Why do you have typos?

Rachel's answer: Yes, believe it or not I speak English. (English-New Zealand not English-American) Remember... not everyone cares about spelling. And frankly if go around pointing out spelling mistakes in peoples comics you have an issue. Plus I'm dyslexic you insensitive ass!)

Like... that whole thing is from her FAQ section that she made herself and she's still having a tone of voice that implies she's directing her answer at one specific person as if it was like an anon ask LMAO and really, I get the spirit of what she's saying, it can be pretentious/rude to point out people's spelling mistakes... in an informal or conversational setting. If you're making a comic or writing a book, though, it's basically a bare minimum expectation that you should be using spell check and making sure things are readable. You're making the work for other people to read after all. So her tone in this followed by the whole "I'm dyslexic you ass" bit just feels so unnecessarily hostile over something that was an innocent mistake and happens to literally everyone. Like, she really do be hurting her own feelings in her own FAQ that she made on her own time, this isn't the only question in there that reeks of 2000's edgy era "fuck you for asking" energy lmao

That said, to be fair, that is from her 2000's edgy era, so I'm hoping she's grown out of that at least slightly, but judging by how she's been managing her comic the past few years, it's clear she still isn't bothering to employ simple tactics to keep mistakes from slipping through the cracks and would rather lean on her dyslexia as an excuse rather than a reason. Dyslexia is a reason for typos, but where it becomes an excuse IMO is when she blames her dyslexia and then doesn't fix the mistakes that arise due to her dyslexia or do anything to make her life easier going forward.

Again, she's hired a copy editor, so if they're a permanent part of the team now, that will hopefully make things better. But why weren't they one of the first people hired when it's clear that Rachel could really use the help to ensure her comic comes out being the best version of itself it could be? It's like she's been literally shooting herself in the foot for the last 5 years.

It really feels lazy and, frankly, disrespectful. I know that might be a hot take or seem a little overblown to use that word here, but if you're going to be creating a comic for an audience - and expecting that audience to read your comic each week and in Rachel's case be expected to pay money for it - then you should be doing them the service of making it worth reading and sticking around for. If you can't even do so much as spell check your work - or go back and edit the errors when they arise - then that really goes to show how little you care about your own audience because you're not willing to put in the time and effort to even just fix a typo, let alone give them something worth coming back to and paying for each week. Sure, not everyone pays for the comics, but those viewership analytics are still valuable and it's very clear at this point that they're dropping rapidly week after week, and yet Rachel is doing barely anything to help turn things around.

Lore Olympus disrespects its audience in more ways beyond just the typos, of course, but the typos feel like the shopping cart litmus test - it costs next to nothing to resolve the issue, so if you still choose not to, it speaks to how little effort you're willing to put in to do something helpful for others that already only requires the bare minimum to do.

Of course, much of this is all speculative so take it with grains of salt, but judging by her responses to her own audience way back in the day, it really paints a picture of how Rachel views her audience. It makes it feel like she doesn't release her work into the world to genuinely entertain people or to find others who may connect and resonate with the work, she does it purely for herself and herself alone. That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing in and of itself, it's pretty difficult to keep up a project if you aren't doing it for yourself to some degree (and you shouldn't create a comic just to earn an audience because that's just setting up unfair expectations for yourself lol), but in Rachel's case, it feels more like she's emulating the same edgelord energy of her "boss babe" Persephone - if you don't love every part of her and her work regardless of its genuine flaws, no matter how easy said flaws would be to fix, then you should just shut up and read her work and/or pay for it anyways because she should be allowed to do whatever she wants and if you don't like it, then you're an insensitive ass.

[ohmeadows]

hi meadows! did you actually studied english at some point you just became fluent in it by osmosis like the majority of non-native english speakers on online fandom spaces? im picking this up from your post abt media literacy where you mentioned reading lotrd appendix with a dictionary in hand bc this got me thinking... english is not my first language too and i learned it kinda out of nowhere, but now i feel like this affects my confidence in writing a lil bit. any tips on that?

probably osmosis, with a little bit of active work. i was home from school a lot (read: skipped two years in total) when we started learning english but the classes were so miserable anyway i don't feel like i missed much. i have a lisp so i was constantly berated for saying th- words the wrong way, lol

as for confidence, man. come close. let me tell you a secret: native english speakers are godawful at writing english most of the time. either they took one linguistics course and now slap everyone else over the back of the head with a grammar book, or they don't know how to spell complex words. 99% of the time they do not notice shit. so, don't focus on performing for them.

most simple writing mistakes, contrary to posts like "well i saw a grammatical error in this fic and had to close out immediately!", don't interrupt 90% of readers. and you can always go back in and fix them. i'm very grateful for readers who nicely point out little typos and errors i make, since i don't have a beta and proofread it all by myself and you eventually grow text blind.

second is just reading more books (because of professional editing) and writing down sentence structure, phrases etc that are either challenging or neat and working them into your text. i keep lists running for each fic i write of words, phrases, etc from books i read that i want to assimilate into my writing style.

my lazy writing trick is orienting my reading habits to suit the voice/narration of the character i'm writing. for fu xuan i ended up reading a lot of chinese poetry textbooks, as well as some on divination, and just taking on that type of voice. for kafka, it's a lot of unreliable narrator books (joe goldberg quadrology, gillian flynn, in general thrillers; movie scripts and beckett plays too) and currently for clorinde i'm reading a lot of "i would die for you" type poetry as well as austen/brontë. i should note i don't finish all books but sometimes merely flip around for the vibe, read half or a few chapters, whatever. pour words into the well until it's overflowing.

[autumnalwalker]

The Archivist's Journal: Complete

Well, as complete as it's going to be at any rate. The original "journal entry a day for a year" project is now up at @thearchivistsjournal in its entirety and clocking in at just over 330,000 words.

To everyone who's read any of this story, whether keeping up with it as it updates, reading it archivally (pun intended), or just reading snippets in tag games: Thank you. I hope it brought you at least some small amount of joy

I don't know that I'll ever do a second draft/editing pass, given that the sort of raw "just a journal I was keeping"-ness of the whole thing is half the point. Or maybe I'm just too emotionally attached to what ended up being a far more personal project than I originally intended to bear making the cuts that proper editing would entail. Or maybe I'm simply too lazy and too eager to move on to the next thing.

Although if I'm being entirely honest, this is - in a way - the second editing pass that's up online.

Confession Time:

While it is true that The Archivist's Journal was written at a rate of one entry a day for a year (plus Days 365-380 all in one marathon writing session on the last day), the dates that the project ran from was from July 16, 2021 to July 15, 2022. On July 16, 2022 I made my first ever post on Tumblr and began putting The Archivist's Journal online one day at a time, with each entry going online on the anniversary of the day I originally wrote it.

There were some minor edits in this, but they were all of the nature of minor typographical fixes. Spelling errors, odd line breaks, words that were technically spelled right but not the one I meant, the occasional addition/subtraction/substitution of a word or phrase. That sort of thing. Nothing that actually changed the story, or even altered an individual scene.

I apologize if this has all come across as a misrepresentation of myself. The truth is, when I originally started this project it was something purely for myself and it wasn't until I was approaching the end that I realized that I had something that might possibly be worth sharing, even if only one person somewhere liked it. But I felt that the serial format of one entry a day keeping analogous between real time and story time so I kept the posts staggered in that way. Honestly, I don't think that I could have written this project and kept it up at the pace that I did if I'd also been trying to maintain an online presence at the time.

And speaking of the pace, that's perhaps the biggest reason I ended the story where I did rather than keeping it up indefinitely. Averaging around 800 words a day every single day straight when I also have a full-time job and other hobbies (even after cutting back on those hobbies in favor of writing) was not sustainable for me, and as much as Iove this project, I was burnt out by the end, mentally and emotionally (and physically given how it impacted my sleep schedule and ate the time I used to spend exercising). And then there was the weirder factor of the journal format combining with pandemic lockdowns/self-isolation to start to feel enough like a second life to make me mildly concerned for my mental health were it to keep going the way it was. As I said, it turned out to be an unexpectedly personal work, and the Archivist became far more of a self-insert (albeit obviously with certain traits idealized and certain flaws exaggerated) than originally intended.

So, what's next?

For the most part, continuing on with Empty Names as my current main focus project (once I finish up with my current writing hiatus to take care of various personal and IRL things). I don't particularly like working on two things at once. One day once Empty Names is finished (most likely a couple years from now, given my much more leisurely pace these days) I'd like to go back and revisit that "Untitled Solar Punk Witch Story" in some fashion. Assuming I don't get some other grand project idea before then.

That said, over the past year I have written a few sporadic entries for The Archivist's Journal. A sort of checking in every few months to see how that world and those characters are doing. I'll most likely post those as their anniversaries roll around to keep them in temporal sync with the rest of the online postings. These entries are more epilogue than sequel though, so Day 380 will remain the end of the "main story" of The Archivist's Journal.

So, yeah. That's all that. And again, I apologize for any misrepresentation of myself. While I don't know that I'll ever do anything quite like The Archivist's Journal again, it will always hold a special place for me. Among many other things, it taught me that writing is something I enjoy doing and that I wish to keep doing for a long time to come.

And if anyone happens to like what I write, that's pretty cool too.

Thanks for reading.

[fallen-honor]

Here dawg after your response to my ask from last night or whatever im leaving you with this. Ignore any spelling errors cause im too lazy to fix em

I CANNOT EAT AT SCHOOL BECAUSE OF MY ANXIETY AND MOTION SICKNESS BECAUSE OF AN HOUR LONG COMMUTE. I DONT WANT TO BE THE PERSON THAT VOMITS ON THE BUS EVERY DAY. I EAT OTHERWISE. I'm fine

[fulgursmediaanalysisdrama]

After collecting more side quests and items that seemed like side quests but weren't I finished Ikana Castle and moved on to Stone Tower

There's no place for me to progress though, not even using the bunny mask for longer jumps. On the third floor I'm just stuck, I can reach only two platforms neither of which have any buttons or anything to interact with except for one hookshot pillar used to traverse between said platforms. It clearly is the only place to progress though, as the game had the rare instance of directly stating where to progress. And like, you generally being locked out of story relevant areas completely unless you have the tools to advance, and I don't think there be another tool I need other than the song.

What would suck is if I need to call back the plaforms I used to reach the third floor in a specific order in order to build a bridge to the fourth floor

The reason this would suck is that no matter where you fall from on the first or second floor you get send back to the entrance, but now I did get send back to the third floor after being knocked off the hookshot pillar (by something I couldn't see, but I was standing on top of it and all enemies are generally out of reach? There's only a few bats that don't even spot you), so I'd assume that I can always continue on from floor 3. Unless it wants me to manually go back to floor 1, as I can't reach floor 2 from 3.

Unrelated, but I do have sidequests left over that I'm 100% aware of. They have the usual problem of unclear objectives huge time waste by waiting or both. There's a lot of redoing in this, some of which is sped up, but I thought the appeal of this game was resetting cycles and doing things differently to achieve different things.

Not redoing the same things in the same way, with it not even speeding up and getting repetitive/boring (especially since most "challenges" are just annoying, in the sonic locking the player out of having control way, and don't provide any meaningful challenge to interact with in a way that can really be practiced. Everything that can be practiced is boringly trivial once you figure out how the mechanics work, if it wasn't spelled out to you), a number of times only to then time skip/wait and do one or two things before resetting and redoing again.

Sure at some point you have done everything and there's not that many things you need to redo any given thing for but in fact it's really annoying. Like at least make rechallenging the bosses worth something and keep the swamp healthy, the mountain thawed (you'd still get a reward upon replaying if you finish the temple quickly and gain the gold dust, since you don't need the sword for the dungeon), etc etc.

Shit like making me recollect the Zora Eggs because I didn't want to recollect the fairies is garbage btw, but at least more understandable. Now I just wish I had done the band side quest before the dungeon as the new wave bossa nova is permanent at least. What pains me still is that this is a remake and they fixed none of the errors of the first version, the quality of life changes that do exist hurt the immersion more than anything I have listed in this post of my big thread imo.

They were lazy quality of life changes too, bare minimum effort. But this is the way of this company, remakes as nintended. Money good, putting effort for money bad.

It's even more shocking as good remakes are 100% possible (ie a link between worlds), and what I'm asking is in the realm of a remaster. This is a remaster, I shouldn't have been calling it a remake my bad.

Anyways: tears of the kingdom is just a breath of the wild remaster and neither game is particularly good, botw is excusable as an interesting experiment that had good ideas with often poor execution. No one but Nintendo fans was impressed by this open world title, and no one should have been. Totk is an insult and should make it clear that botw wasn't bad because of lack of experience or anything but because of a lack of effort and care. The same bad designs got repeated uncritically even in the face of criticism, the reasons why botw was popular and sold well weren't examined and no growth took place, no improvements were made.

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

Persona Update Idea (Lore + Design)

I haven't done any art in months really, and this was going to be for a new profile pic but it's not quite right. I still love it but decided not to clean it up too much and just keep it fairly rough. New profile pic is coming soon though

Also, I'm playing around with lore for my persona because I never did that and it's super fun!

Sorry in advance for spelling and grammatical errors, I am far too lazy to go back and fix.

Lore(from the background):

Once upon a time there lived a kind, young soul who saved another. Little did the kind soul know, the one they saved was actually a demon who fed on stories. The demon was saved by melding itself with the young one's very essence. The two becoming one. Now this new soul, half demon, grew up plagued by night terrors. Which gave them two things, one a curse, the other a gift. The curse being insomnia and the gift being lucid dreaming. Alas the soul was unable to gain full control over their dream state and would still get nightmares whenever they fell ill. Even more unfortunate was that the soul became mentally and physically ill. At seemingly random moments, the soul would feel fatigued, lethargic, and bruised all over despite never having a single visible mark or sign of a tracible illness. They battled with depression, anxiety, and more. - Despite all this hardship, the soul remained mainly kind. They loved stories more than most things in life. No doubt, due to the story-eating demon's influence. The soul became someone who craved to create and consume stories in a vast variety of forms. Music, art, books, word of mouth, games, and more. They desired happiness but understood it's counterpart well. Often drawn to the dark, ominous, strange, and eerie just as much as to the sunny, pastel, cute, and fantastical. A contradiction come to life in far more ways than one. A battle against the self. If you were to ask them how they felt about themself you'd get two answers that would always be together and never alone. "I love myself," and "I hate myself." Both equally true.

[pbpsbff]

3, 20, 22~

hiiiii thank u for the ask

3. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)

ok so this is less a scene and more an entire fic concept but i literally cannot figure out a context to put it into and it hurts because i really like it

there’s a family living there now, from what he’s heard. a mom and a dad, and two daughters. maybe he should tell them about the money. but what would he even say? hey, there’s a twenty dollar bill somewhere in your walls. also, a part of me died here and i’m afraid his ghost might be wandering the halls. is he overstaying his welcome? i’m sorry if he is, by the way. i’d recommend you a nice priest for an exorcism, but he’ll probably just leave if you tell him to go.

peter thinks maybe he’ll slip a note under the door instead, but there’s too many words to fit on a page to describe the way his bones ache when he passes by the building, how he still wakes up in the morning expecting to smell burnt toast and hear may singing along to some garbage song from the 80’s she claims is the best thing she’s ever heard, or all the different creaks and moans of the apartment, all its quirks and flaws that he once knew like the back of his hand.

he could explain it all away; that faucet leaks because i was an overachieving nine year old who thought he could take it apart and put it back together without a problem, or that weird brown-ish stain on the ceiling is from when may accidentally flung spaghetti across the room, or why are you trying to rid this apartment of all the evidence of it being a home?

maybe i make it into something post nwh?? idk. this isn’t even all of it

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

i wish i could say that all my writing is really deep and there's clues everywhere but most foreshadowing in my fics is something i did on accident and then went holy shit i can use this. i'm a genius.

i will say though, the way tony rhodey and peter's dynamic changes throughout everything i have posted for r&r (and everything in my drafts oop) is probably my favorite thing ever like idk i'm a huge fan of the walking dead and the way relationships shift with each new experience and that is exactly what i wanted to do when i started the series

i was gonna look through a couple of my fics to see if i could find specific references but ao3 is fucking. DOWN and i'm too lazy to pull up my google docs. god bless

22. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

i reread them all the TIME omfg. a lot of the times i'm cringing at spelling or grammatical errors (and then i fix them) but idk there's something so fun about being able to go back to a fic and think wow i would've done that differently if i wrote it today. it's also fun to read through a fic i don't remember writing at ALL and being like holy shit............ banger.............. it's an ego boost i guess