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[17-noodlebird]

I meant to release it earlier, but uh...

Happy Pride Month 2025!!

@modgirlyreposts-revamped @artfulpopsicle @minsu-the-cowardly-human

The them.

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[17-noodlebird]

I jus had a trancendent idea holy shit. Okay so Caine crashout right? Usually when character with massive power break, it’s shown as flames spilling out of them etc, bursts of energy— but with Caine he’s already very unleashed. So I feel like it would be more compelling if his crashout made everything grind to a halt instead.

Like, Caine having such a massive fucking breakdown the circus buffers and freezes. He’s screaming and it’s dead quiet, because nothing can move, including the players. They’re stuck there frozen as Caine freaks out, because his Big Stupid Emotions are tearing the circus up like confetti

it would speak to his isolation, to. When he screams for real he’s the only one screaming, because Caine can comprehend nothing else. You’re living in gods veins and he’s having a heart attack.

[17-noodlebird]

Reblogging because-

*coughs*

@funnyguy788

omg i loved that zooble comic

imagine someone close to zooble discovers what's going on and zooble has to reassure them

don’t worry about it

[17-noodlebird]

Tadc Fandom, please tell me there is a want for Caine angst cause I have the perfect song to work with and it’s got me in a CHOKEHOLD.

[17-noodlebird]

Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

[17-noodlebird]

How to write hospital scenes 

From someone who’s definitely been in too many and would very much like a refund...ツ

⊹ Waiting rooms are emotional purgatory. They’re too bright, too quiet, and weirdly timeless. Fluorescent lights buzzing, TVs playing muted news no one watches, coffee that tastes like burnt stress. People aren’t relaxing in there, they’re just existing, awkwardly pretending their phones are interesting while dissociating at 40% battery.

⊹ Everyone talks in a whisper, but not because it’s respectful, no, it just feels wrong to speak normally. Like the walls might be listening, like if you talk too loud, something worse might happen, even the loud people get quiet in hospitals.

⊹ Overnight stays are hell. hospital chairs? medieval torture devices with upholstery. even if someone’s trying to nap next to a patient, they’re not sleeping. They’re half-listening to the symphony of beeping machines, nurse shoes squeaking, the occasional cough, and distant Code Something crackling over the intercom. it’s anxiety with a blanket.

⊹ The smell is unforgettable, like it’s not just antiseptic. it’s plastic and cafeteria meatloaf and sweat and fear and the smell of a place where people are very much not okay. the first time your character walks in, it’ll hit them like a wall. later, they might not even notice, or maybe it’s the only thing they can smell for days after.

⊹ Talking to doctors is a weird performance. You're trying to be calm, they’re trying to be calm. But no one is calm, your character wants to ask 47 questions and not sound desperate. The doctor explains things like they’re narrating a science video, and when they leave, someone will immediately go “wait... we forgot to ask” every. single. time.

⊹ Monitors beep constantly. half the time, it’s nothing. A wire got loose, someone rolled over. But the second it is something, the vibe shifts fast. Nurses appear like ghosts, machines start going off, and everyone starts moving. And your character? they might freeze, or panic, or forget they have lungs. Go with whatever makes sense for them, but make it visceral.

⊹ Time goes full funhouse mirror. Ten minutes waiting for test results feels like a year. A full hour stretches into eternity, meanwhile, three hours can pass without anyone realizing it. You can use this in your pacing, make it drag when the waiting is unbearable.

⊹ Hospital cafeteria food: Garbage. It’s either offensively bland or stupidly overpriced. The grilled cheese is six dollars and tastes like regret, and someone will 100% cry into a cold sandwich at 3am, because grief doesn’t care where you are.

⊹ People start fixating on tiny, random things. They can’t control the big stuff, so their brain zeroes in on a sock slipping off, a crooked IV pole, the repetitive drip-drip-drip of medication. Let them obsess over something small, it’s how the brain copes with being completely powerless...

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Tips on Writing Breakup Scenes

✦ People don’t always cry. shocking, I know. sometimes someone just sits there like a polite zombie, nodding and saying “okay” while their soul quietly packs a bag and moves out the back of their skull. They might want to cry, but also they might just go numb and stare at the salt shaker for ten minutes. Both are valid guys.

✦ Most breakups aren’t a single moment, they’re a slow unraveling that ends in a conversation, so even if your character feels blindsided, it should still carry that surreal “I should’ve seen this coming” haze. Because breakups rarely just drop out of the sky.

✦ The dumbest details stick, like seriously, no one remembers the whole speech, but they’ll remember the scratchy napkin, the weird buzz of a light, that their ex had mustard on their cheek and didn’t notice.

✦ You can always feel a breakup coming. no one says “we need to talk” out of nowhere, because people act different right before. overly nice. extra distant. weirdly cold or weirdly warm. characters should notice that, even if they can’t quite name what it is yet.

✦ Sometimes people still love each other. like, actually still love each other. it’s not always about the love being gone, no. It can be timing, fear, baggage, a hundred other things that get in the way. let your characters say “I love you” and still not stay. It hurts and it’s real.

✦ Closure? lol. most people don’t get it. a lot of breakups end with “wait, that’s it?” or a message that never gets sent or that one thing you almost said but didn’t. There’s rarely a satisfying ending.

✦ No one speaks in perfect sentences mid-breakup. people ramble. they say sorry three times and mean something different every time. Someone’s trying to keep it light. someone else is cracking. sentences trail off. someone forgets how to use words entirely.

✦ After it’s over, people don’t always sob into a pint of ice cream. Some people shut down, some go out and party, some clean their entire room, rewatch a comfort show, or post a spicy selfie with “new era” energy. Everyone breaks differently, so let your characters be weird about it.

✦ And if your character is the one doing the breaking up, let them feel complicated... just because they’re ending it doesn’t mean it’s easy. They might feel guilty and relieved, or they might cry after. Maybe they might mourn the version of the relationship that only existed in their head.

[17-noodlebird]

TADC Episode 5 Spoilers below:

Bubble: Explain to daddy Bubble how bad thing? :3

Me, a Caine x Bubble shipper:

Couldn't resist lol

[17-noodlebird]

Quick Tips for Writing Friendship Tension

They used to text all day, but now one of them isn’t responding, and it’s weird.

They’re laughing and joking, but it feels forced, like they’re both pretending everything’s fine when it’s clearly not.

Little comments like, “Oh, you didn’t tell me about that,” that are totally passive-aggressive, but covered with a smile.

Conversations that used to be long are now just, “Cool. Yeah. Fine.” So much tension in so few words.

One friend tries to ask something real, but the other dodges it, pretending they didn’t hear.

[17-noodlebird]

I'm gonna bring this guy back to further back this up lmao

Can't believe bro was real all along lmao

My god, please let this guy crash out as a treat, he desperately needs it

[17-noodlebird]

SCREAMING CRYING VOMITING CRAPPING ALL THE HAPPY THINGS 🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍🖤

Ahem. Sorry.

I am very happy. :3

Also @artfulpopsicle and @modgirlyreposts-revamped come get your rarepair dinner.

Tadc episode 5 spoilers

@17-noodlebird

How uhhh how we feeling about the cainble food chat

[17-noodlebird]

See y'all on the other side. ;)

[17-noodlebird]

*whistles in Caine Angst Club Discord server RP*

@funnyguy788

Just wanted you to see.

I'm sure he often called him a whore and put out cigarettes on his head

[17-noodlebird]

Lets go All Over The Fucking Place with mama

[17-noodlebird]

Same.

maybe tadc episode 5 is what will get my creative writing juices going again

*blows cobweb off of AO3 dashboard*

[17-noodlebird]

Can't not reblog; this is too funny

Evil Caine…??

[17-noodlebird]

ALEX IS THE FUCKING MVP OF THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS, AND YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE!

*explodes*

BTW EVERYONE HERE IS GREAT AND HAS A LOT WORTH PRAISING IN THEIR PERFORMANCES (IN MY OPINION), PLEASE DO NOT GO MAKING THIS A CONTEST OR GO SPREADING HATE TOWARDS ANY OF THEM.