#50 would have been fine but no

[lucalicatteart]

A new sculpture! Finally... I feel like I never sculpt anymore since I'm always sick or have some 500 other things going on or projects to finish, but I'm trying to schedule time to do it more often this year hopefully..! Just a generic fantasy creature as usual, but did try making the eyes a little more sparkly this time.. hrmm..

[kelocitta]

What a worthless animal

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[blujayonthewing]

it IS nice, as someone who's a lot more used to 'what if I meet my internet friends irl and they don't like me' type anxiety, to have 'what if I meet my friend's internet friend and I don't like him' anxiety once in awhile instead

[mariana-oconnor]

The library "request" option has given me too much power. BRING ME THE BOOKS! BRING ME MORE BOOKS! I WILL HOARD THEM* LIKE A BOOK DRAGON! MORE BOOKS! MORE!

*before returning them on or before the date shown

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Was soooooo happy with this phase 1 which is what made it so much funnier that I was immediately clapped by his phase 2 😂

[bookwyrminspiration]

reading gideon the ninth:

reading harrow the ninth:

[beatcroc]

listen. i love pizza tower with my whole heart & mind. you know this. you Know. but first and foremost i am a character design bitch, and the pizzas are, frankly, very bland. this is not a critique or a complaint, because obviously That's Not The Point and more importantly i would be horrified if anyone tried doing that much animation with anything more complex than what's there. but also it means when i get a taste of some truly whack ass insane design work again it is like fuuuucking catnip

[snail-email]

oooh i’d like to hear about your ocs! :0 which one is your favorite? as of right now

[surprised pikachu.png] oh god someone actually asked about them.

Honestly my favorite oc changes. So Often. Based on whatever i happen to be fixating on, so it's hard to choose a favorite?

But I'll pick Chea and Aster for now. Originally Chea was going to be a dnd pc [Aasimar divine warlock] and Chea was an important NPC and basically the whole reason she became a warlock. I could never find a campaign for Chea though so they became regular OCs. I plan on maybe writing a book about them one day?

Chea was born in this small village that's sorta nestled halfway into the mountains. She wasn't really abandoned or neglected but she WAS left to her own devices 90% of the time not super close to any of her actual family because of it. The two people she was closest to by far are her angelic guide and Aster. One day Aster gets sick with something. It doesn't start off all that bad but it only gets worse. Nobody can do anything to help, including Chea, who has divine healing magic as part of her birthright. There's rumors of a hag that lives even higher up in the mountains, making horrible one-sided deals as hags are want to do. Chea is desperate enough to make a deal, which the hag does with an awful smile. "Spread the disease ten-fold for one drop of cure." Of course, Aster's going to need a lot more than one drop of any cure, which is going to necessitate far more people than the village can provide. So, Chea leaves on her mission and tries not to think about how many lives she has to ruin in order to save one.

Aster is Chea's childhood friend. As previously mentioned, they're Sick with something that cannot be cured, and very aware it might very well kill them. I won't say what it actually is because of ~spoilers~ but it is at least somewhat magical, and the symptoms are all unique enough that they haven't been able to find anyone able to actually identify what's wrong with them. Aster is exactly afraid of dying but they're afraid of dying ALONE, and suddenly Chea's going off on some adventure ALONE. Aster knows it's all for them- to save THEIR life, but as time goes on they grow more and more anxious that Chea will return to a gravestone- or that Chea won't return at all. So, they leave in an attempt to catch up.

Surely nothing can go wrong with this situation and the questionable amount of communication going on.

[constelationprize]

My main takeaway from TSC now being the second trilogy is that I'm gonna spend the next two books waiting for Stuart to do his routine of showing up out of nowhere, being an absolute cunt for no reason, and then leaving at least one more time. Do I think it will happen? No, I didn't even expect it the first time. But a girl can dream.

[snapbackslide]

LMAOOOO no fr everyone kept saying "watch out for pickpockets !!!!!!!!!!" had me so nervous ...... not a single person approached me 💀

[californiaquail]

crying by the side of the highway new summer trend

[dent-de-leon]

do you think becoming Plank King kinda put a kinda big target on Kingsley's back? Was there ever a time when he got captured by enemy pirates, and the Nein had to come get him--

[toastsnaffler]

omg.... my new nearest audiology department actually has an EMAIL TO CONTACT!!!!!!! we're so fucking back baby

[sabraeal]

as a writer how do you stop thinking about like getting kudos/comments? I've just started writing fanfic, and when I start a writing something -- it goes well and then eventually I get to point where I'm like "ahh but what the readers don't like that? or what if I don't get as many kudos or comments" and it makes it difficult to continue because then it becomes stressful -- I guess how do you deal with "wanting to write stuff for yourself" and "wanting validation" thanks!

You're going to hate this answer, because I hated it too, but TIME. When you first start writing and you get kudos and comments and people love what you're doing, it's a huge validation of your effort and talent, and it's natural that you want MORE of it. When I first started putting up fics I already had been writing for 15+ years, knew I was good at it, and still for a good few years found myself really glued to the hit counter, and the kudos, and wondering how I'd be able to get people to comment the same way they did on things like Seven Suitors.

But the thing is that commenting comes and goes in waves, and unless a fandom has a big comment culture, or is large enough that you're guaranteed a good glut of them every time you post...you're going to hit a point where you write exactly what everyone wants and get crickets. And at that point you'll get ANNOYED, because LOOK, I MADE THIS, i made it for YOU GUYS, and now y'all don't have anything to say? It'll get to you. It'll make you doubt that you know what anyone wants at all. It'll happen and it'll suck the whole time.

Lots of advice will say "write for yourself," which is an excellent sentiment. You should always write what YOU want. Put into your fic what you want to see, write the nitpicky poetic metaphors and craft the most screwball twists your heart desires. Pour yourself into the most niche AUs and most tin-hat canon theories. At the end of the day, you want the IDEAS you put down to be for you, because comments and kudos are nice, but if they don't come...you have to be proud of what you put out, even when it feels like an echo chamber.

But also...we don't POST things for ourselves. We post things to share. Fic are a conversation with canon and it is perfectly natural to want to create something that creates conversation among other fans. So you're never going to fully get the need for validation out of your head, you're not. You can hide hit counts and ignore your inbox all you like, but the want to have someone interact with your work, to inspire someone to reach out to you will ALWAYS be there. You just have to create a healthier relationship with it.

Be confident in what you write. Think less about whether people will like it, and more about how you WANT them to react. The reader is the most important character in any novel, but it's the one most authors forget to manage. When you come to a point where you go "oh man, I hope this is good for them!" stop and go, "what do I *want* them to be feeling here?" Focus on where you're putting their attention and whether you WANT it there. There's so much you can do when you visualize your relationship with the reader as PART of the work, and it takes off a lot of the pressure of "is this good? is it disappointing? will this get me validation?" and brings it back into the realm of storytelling. You are taking your reader on a journey, and when you do it well people will think less about "did I like that?" and more about "what comes next?"

[lesenbyan]

you know, I might be Stepping In It, but I really hate people's tendency to "you're lucky" when finding out someone's naturally skinny really piss me off.

I'm not saying there's not privilege to being skinny, there absolutely is in this fatphobic world. But as someone who has spent literally over half my life wishing I could gain any fucking weight ever it makes me so fucking mad. I've tried working out, I've had physically demanding jobs, I've tried, back when i could afford it, eating as much as I could handle. I have literal dysphoria about being skinny.

and then when I Go Off at a coworker for being the second person in a week to tell me I'm lucky- while wearing braces digging into my joints bc I am physically too small to wear them right but they don't get smaller- I'm told "oh but you have to realize we never considered the other side" sure! but I'm still allowed to get pissed! you would be too!