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Dialogue Responses

"I thought you were dead!"

"Didn't stick."

"I kind of was..."

"Just wishful thinking."

"That was just a phase."

"Didn't work out for me."

"Wow, the miracle of life!"

"I thought the same thing."

"I did, but now I'm here again."

"You were supposed to think that."

"I'm so sorry! I'll explain everything to you."

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Important rules/tips I've learned as an adult that helped with anxiety

If people are mad at you, it's their responsibility to tell you, not your responsibility to guess

If they're mad at you in secret anyways, they're the ones in the wrong, not you

If people don't like what you're doing, it's their responsibility to tell you

If they say it's fine when it's really not, they're the ones in the wrong, not you

People are allowed to be wrong about you

If they are wrong about you, wait for them to bring it up, because if you try to, you will inevitably overcorrect

Some people are committed to misunderstanding you. You will not win arguments against them. Yes, even if you explain your point of view. They do not care. Drop it

The worst thing that will happen from a first-time offense is being told not to do it again. Maybe with a replacement if you broke something

You can improve relationships and gauge willingness to talk to you by giving compliments. It's like a daily log-in bonus and nobody thinks twice about it

Most things are better after you sleep on them

Most things are better after you have a meal

Most things are better after you shower

Your brain makes up consequences that are irrational. If the worst DOES come to pass and someone acts like they do in your head, they are overreacting, and you are entitled to say "what the fuck"

If your chest hurts after you feel like you've made a social error, that's called rejection-sensitive dysphoria. It means your anxiety is so bad that it's causing you physical pain, which is a good indicator that you're overreacting. Tense yourself, hold it for 20 seconds, let it go, then find a distraction

If you're suddenly angry at someone after you feel like you made a social error, that's also rejection-sensitive dysphoria. You are going to feel annoyed about it for awhile, but being genuinely pissed off is your anxiety trying to find something to blame to take the responsibility off your shoulders, and getting scared because it can't justify itself. Deep breaths, ask yourself how much you ACTUALLY want to be angry at that person, then find a distraction

"Sour grapes" is more healthy for you than stewing. Deciding you don't like someone who's perpetually annoyed with you, won't talk to you, etc. makes letting go of anxiety over them easier

If people don't like you, they will find reasons to be annoyed with you when they otherwise wouldn't. If people do like you, they will find reasons NOT to be annoyed with you when they otherwise would. People do not ping-pong between the two

You DO have to make a conscious choice not to think about something. If you're having trouble circling back to it, say out loud that you're done thinking about it and why. Then find a distraction

When you're upset, part of you is going to want to make false bids for attention (suddenly texting differently, heavy sighs, etc. but when someone asks you about it, you tell them it's nothing). Do not listen to it. You gain nothing from it except more misery

People like to help people they care about. It makes them feel good about themselves

If you think you're insufferable for needing help, see above. Yes, really. They get a serotonin kick from it

If you think you're insufferable for mannerisms you have, you either have to consciously choose not to do them, or accept that they're part of the package that comes with you. Being apologetic about existing does nothing except make you more miserable

If you do things you don't like when you feel meh about it, it makes it easier to do them when you hate it

If you avoid things you don't like when you feel meh about it, it reinforces and magnifies how bad it feels when you hate it

Seriously. Read those last two points again. If you can make yourself make a phone call when you've got nothing to lose, you will slowly lose that panic you get when you have to make a phone call you haven't prepared for. You do have to CONSCIOUSLY take that step

Hobbies that make you care for something get rid of that nagging feeling that you're not doing enough. Go grow some rosemary

If you don't engage with your hobbies regularly, you will feel miserable, and anxiety will spike

Hobbies are things that give you a bit of happiness. They do not have to be organized or named to do that. Go be creative in something. Play with coins. Make up lists. Start a new WIP

No one cares what you look like

If people point out things they don't like about how you look unprompted, they are being rude. You are entitled to say "what the fuck"

People who like you will find you pretty to some degree. Minor things about your appearance go completely unnoticed. Literally, scars and dots and blemishes do not register to someone who likes your company

You looking at yourself in the mirror is 10x more closely than anyone is going to look at you

If you're anxious about your body type, and you're creatively inclined, make/write an oc with that same shape. Give them nice things and make other characters love them. Put them on adventures. You'll start to see yourself in the mirror more kindly

You care about wording and perfect lines/colors way more than anyone who views your work ever will

Sometimes when you're upset, you're going to feel like not eating. Do not do that. Not eating makes you more miserable

Same with things you normally enjoy. Denying yourself helps no one. You are punishing yourself for being sad. Stop it

Both of these will take conscious decision to break the habit of. Make yourself do it anyways, and it will slowly get easier

And again, to reiterate: If someone is mad at you, it is THEIR responsibility to tell you, not your responsibility to guess

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i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

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What if there are three kisses because there are three stories? (This is my mind going wild learning there was more than one take)

We keep on thinking that there is something going on during S2. We had Crowley stopping time in S1, huge miracle in S2, Antichrist changing events, Book of Life… Things aren’t exactly adding up in S2 with things appearing/disappearing.

It could mean a lot of things but what if…

There are three stories.

They kiss, Aziraphale leaves, Crowley sacrifices himself to save him, dies in his arms.

Aziraphale loses it, burns the world until it’s gone and himself with it.

They kiss, Aziraphale leaves, Aziraphale sacrifices himself to save Crowley, dies in his arms.

Crowley loses it, burns the world until it’s gone and himself with it.

The Earth never had a chance to survive without its two main creators.

They are given the third, last chance. Time will reset again. But so will their memories. So how they ensure they make the right choice this time?

They leave clues. Everywhere. To trigger their memories. Crowley knows about forcing himself to remember.

Time resets. This time they notice the signs. They change some of their choices so they’re more aware of each other and what they think. Less secrets. So by the time Metatron comes, Aziraphale knows there is something wrong.

This time he nods to him too, but when he goes to Crowley, he stops him again. He comes over and whispers to his ear:

Stop the time

He does. They talk their plan through. They know exactly what to do. They’ve played Heaven and Hell before, they can do it again.

And just before Crowley can resume the time, they look at each other and they kiss. And it’s desperate from both, and there is a little whimper there, and they hold each other desperately.

They whisper I love you against each other’s lips at the same time too.

And then the time starts ticking again. Crowley leaves pretending to be angry. Aziraphale pretends to be heartbroken. Metatron happily takes him to Heaven.

And when Aziraphale turns just slightly towards Crowley, standing by the Bentley, they look at each other for a moment.

We can do this

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"If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing"

@themachomoron

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First love/unrequited maybe

"I like someone else"

You tell someone not me

The hope paces up my heart

So I stay in my delusion

That you might reciprocate the spark

- Pleasant Ace Verdicts

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Dead Souls

Why did I expect anything different?

You are still the same old apathetic,

Anaesthetic little girl.

You will under appreciate,

The life where everything is appreciated.

Why do you think I stopped?

It was important for me to protect my wretched heart,

That you would’ve stomped all through the start.

‘Together’ you said, well

I can���t do together if

You don’t want to be free.

My heart still doesn’t understand

Why we give human emotions labels.

You put everything in a box for me &

I can’t escape it no matter how hard I bang.

My fists are aching, my voice sore

From scuffling my screams

I want to tell you

‘You are wrong’

But I don’t think you’ll take it well.

It why I write in riddles rather than saying it

As it is.

As it was must I tell you, because everyday you change.

You say ‘it’s how I’ve always been’

I know better though. I always knew better.

I saw it miles away and still stayed.

It is my only regret in life.

I stayed and now, it is breaking my soul apart.

So I will stay stoic, show you nothing

but a piece of my stony cold soul.

It is dead

But it protects.

-Pleasant Ace Verdicts

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this is a book based on spite and this is an excerpt

The ticking of the clock signifies the end of the period, and the ticking of the clock signifies the end of her sanity. Every tick signifies that little time has passed. Many people don’t notice these but many people aren’t also driven half insane by the thought of sitting through Honorary Lessons.

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i have a whole ass rant on how perfect this song is for wolfstar with each lyric having certain meaning but sadly i’ve no motivation to write it out 

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Remus: *studying in the library*

Sirius, leaning against a bookshelf, smirking: hey, you come here often?

Remus: *looks up over his glasses*

Sirius: *falls over*

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Changes

This used to be a writing advice Tumblr, but then I lost motivation now I’ll just post whatever I like cause why not?

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Writing Prompts: Part I

Friends living in an apartment

Character A: Shut up 

Character B: Make me *smirk*

Character C: NOT IN FRONT OF MY DINNER!!!!!

Character A and B: *bitch face at C*

Character D: C is right you know 

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Platonic friends one of them is a Hacker 

*Over the phone*

Character A: Shut up you know nothing

Character B: please I was the person that completed everything for your sorry ass in high school, for the record I know stuff. 

Character A: Alright know-it-all do you have any information on *insert name* person. *insert pronouns* is important to me. 

Character B: I’ll see what I can do, bye *insert nickname*

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A heist group trying to steal something but failed incredibly 

Character A: pls tell me you didn't blow up *insert place name* without a plan

Character B: *hesitates*

Character A: OH MY GOD YOU BLEW UP THE *INSERT PLACE NAME* WITHOUT A PLAN. ARE YOU TRYING TO GET US KILLED!!!!

Character B: no I actually stole the blueprints of *insert place name*

Character A: oh,OH. oh thank God you didn't blow up the place. 

Character B: I am literally the most cunning and sneaky person on this team, I don't go boom unnecessarily. 

Character A: oh, oh that would be  *inserts a C character name* Sorry *insert character b’s name*, and Thanks for this *smiles*. Oh wait wasn’t  *inserts a C character name* with you?

*the line cuts and there is a sound of boom in the background*

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꧁𝕳𝖎 𝖋𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖜𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘꧂

𝓢𝓸𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓸𝓸 𝓮𝓶𝓸

ᑎOᗯ TᕼᗩT ᗯᗩՏ TOO ᖇOYᗩᒪTY

𝚂𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝙸 𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎

Oh now that was too detective of me sorry about that. We are back to normal now. So anyways let's talk about what this blog is for really.

Well first of all it's for little things that every writer in history can probably relate to.

Second it is for all the new writers seeking for help and need help with self esteem and confidence. I also give advice from the to time.

Thirdly it is to promote books that I think are phenomenal even if I can't remember the plot because I have a memory of a gold fish.

Forthly this can also become a dump for quotes I think at ungodly hours and writing prompts so hey you're welcome.

Anyways I am Ace, nice to meet you and I won't stand discrimination on this blog so keep thy filthy opinions to theeself.

Oops I did it again-

Anyways have fun follow me just because my blog looks aesthetic please I am very lonely.

Signing of,

A very depressed writer

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