#General Tips and Tricks

[victusinveritas]

Just a helpful tip. This used to apply to tanks too but they might have changed that?

[gothamspring]

im in a current search for academic law papers about batman's concept of justice (and his application of it) so i can be even more pretentious about comic books (and familiarize myself w legal terminology in general). and one issue that was already obvious but's now become 100% clear is that. whatever ethical critique you are going to do depends a lot on the comics you pick up as a source. it's not the same to do an analysis of year one-long halloween-dark victory than it is to do one of utrh, for example. the most blatant classification that could be made is batman as a newcomer (no legitimacy) vs. batman as a established vigilante (gained a certain level of legitimacy, if not full—depends on reactions by the authorities)

but doing a critique of his ideology based solely on legitimacy falls flat.....you'd have to analyze the flaws in his vision of crime, violence as a means to an end, punitive vs transformative vs rehabilitating vs restorative vs retributive vs whateverthefuck justice, etc. both when the story gives him full legitimacy and when it doesn't. judge it as a project too before it becomes "law" in application

and you also need to question from what framework are you to analyze bruce? as an individual? or as a possible equivalent to the State? because his status as the title and central character to gotham gives him a sovereignty of sorts that a personal analysis would not give him. i suppose it's a watsonian (individual) vs doylist (state-like) point of difference. but also....i may be tempted to equate him to the state just for ease of analysis since that's the theory im more familiarized with. and should that distinction even make a difference in the critique ? not really

it really just comes down to who's writing him and what the current continuity is. as it happens w every other analysis.

all in all i think what this has made me realize is that i have a far higher dislike for bruce's take on justice if i view him as a legitimate force in gotham, than if i view him as an illegal vigilante. which definitely has to do with my distaste for the state. but i should be able to criticize him as a personal ideology as well, bc i can't have such a blind spot in my political critique

[tahbhie]

40 Creative Ways to Describe an Old Wall in Tense and Eerie Settings #002

1. The wall stood like a silent sentinel, its surface cracked and crumbling.

2. An eerie feeling emanated from the wall’s worn bricks.

3. The wall exuded a sense of ancient dread.

4. Shadows danced across the wall's weathered surface.

5. The wall's peeling paint revealed layers of forgotten history.

6. A cold, unsettling aura surrounded the dilapidated wall.

7. The wall seemed to whisper secrets of the past.

8. The wall's uneven texture felt like a haunted relic.

9. Time-worn and mysterious, the wall held untold stories.

10. The wall’s fading graffiti hinted at long-forgotten memories.

11. The wall’s surface was pockmarked with holes and scars.

12. A strange chill emanated from the wall’s cracked mortar.

13. The wall's darkened crevices seemed to hide sinister shadows.

14. The wall's crumbling facade gave off an ominous vibe.

15. The ancient wall looked like it had witnessed countless tragedies.

16. The wall's surface was covered in creeping vines, adding to its eerie aura.

17. The wall’s rough texture felt unsettling to the touch.

See full list...

[nabaath-areng]

Perhaps this is common knowledge and I'm just speaking into the void here, but thought it couldn't hurt to share this trick just in case it might benefit someone else. This applies for Anamnesis on PC.

If you want to use the emotes of another race/gender than that of your character, you can do so by pausing and register the emotes you'd like to use and then apply it to your desired character.

It works pretty well across the board regardless of height or proportions, and the tweaking required is minimal (mostly for facial expressions and general hand/limb placement).

Again, maybe this is common knowledge, but this is my personal go-to screenshot trick nowadays so thought maybe it might be beneficial for someone else.

[yellowocaballero]

obito fic 👀?

HELL YEAH BABY. HELL YEAH. I HAVE JUST POSTED THE 70K OBITO FIC GO READ IT.

Naruto. Man. Very treasured aspect of my childhood. I've written a few fics now that are about an influential childhood media or character, and they always have such a unique quality about them. But I love my BAMF!Sakura fics so much. You Call This A Utopia is for her.

I talk a little bit about the specialness of that useless little girl in the author's note, but #justiceforSakura has always compelled me - on one level, just such wasted potential as a character, but on another level, it was one of my very early frustrations with sexism in writing. I wanted to live vicariously through her, to use her as a self-insert power fantasy like all the boys got to do with all the male Naruto characters, but even if she's a chakra master (!) and genius doctor (!!) who can wreck mountains with her fists (!!!) she was never quite able to make the tween girl readers feel special, because she was never valued. BAMF!Sakura fics were how I was able to have my little kid power fantasies in my favorite good-bad shonen. Today, if I'm reading BAMF!Sakura fic I am spiritually watching Saturday morning cartoons and eating sugar cereal and crying.

I didn't have very strong feelings Obito until I read butter_peanut and realized that one could hypothetically make him the most fascinating fucking character. Naruto fic writers are so creative and magnificent and better than Naruto. I do vaguely remember Tobi being my favorite Akatsuki character, because he had so much personality and was a lot of fun after Naruto got kinda serious. butter_peanut having Tobi say the word "bestie" truly inspired me. After writing him I now understand them completely, because I have happened to discover that he is the funnest fucking character.

I feel insane. Like a precious few people know and understand that Obito is so much fun to write. I love writing insane people and we know this but Obito is truly on another level (he is a villain in Naruto and you cannot match that level in any other fucking series). He is genuinely so unhinged and he genuinely believes that he is a normal person. He is so fundamentally broken and it is so funny.

What caught me about Naruto villains - because this is Naruto, it is interesting in theory and so stupid in practice - is that they are almost all, fundamentally, good people. The goal of most Naruto villains is "create a better world with no war and only love and peace". Which means that you have to be a special kind of nuts to be a Naruto villain, because you are a good person who got so incredibly fucked up and twisted by your incredibly violent life that you are now an evil schemer who is trying to blow up half the continent. The evil in Naruto is on a systemic level, not a person one. You Call This A Utopia?! is fundamentally about this. Except stupid.

Tobi is also one of the most challenging but rewarding characters I've written. FUN FUN FUN. Lots more to say about literally all of this. For now I'll just say that I'm an adult, so these days I gravitate to adult POVs. Obito is the adult's window into a kid's world. But Obito is honestly an overgrown kid himself. Let's see how that all plays out.

[will1]

DREAM BLUNT ROTATION DREAM BLUNT ROTATION

DREAM BLUNT ROTATION #self portat #timb? #moes a little gnome #deep #the deep #thee deep again?? #chase crawford #chase crawford again

[theintrovertedsculpter]

You know I have been put under general anesthesia a couple of times now, and let me tell you it has done wonders for tricking my brain into sleeping.

I have a fun trick where I remember what everything felt like down to the details and can recreate it so if I want to pass tf out I can now just say "hey the air smells weird and we feel heavy"

And my brain goes "oh shit!!! You're right. We're unconscious now."

[shortscircuits]

does anyone know how to deal with the existential dread of working under capitalism

[a-chaotically-small-lunta]

I don’t know if everyone knows this but there are tricks to google search that can help you make searching easier. If any of you remember the post about searching for big bird (if I can find it I’ll link it and reblog it) where they wanted a big bird and not Big Bird. But everytime they put more words into the search He’d always be there? Watching and being sad?

Well let me show you how these little tricks can make the process way easier.

And because this will be kinda long…

Well let’s just type big bird first

Well shit…that’s not what we want

Now if we use the minus (-) we can remove things we don’t want soo -sesame and -yellow

Awww sweet big birds. There’s other tricks too like using “quotation marks” to make sure the google results use what’s in them. Cause sometimes you’re trying to search something and one of the words is super important and google will be like “nah, you didn’t mean that word right?” The quotations is like grabbing google by the throat and saying “I did you dumb fuck”

There’s the star* that can just make it random like in this example

There’s others but I usually use the minus and quotations the most.

[inkats]

i should not have to go to work when im on my period i should get to stay home and play enstars and read dumb fanfic and have moments of pure euphoria through the act of creation. not at work.

[gentleshark-affirmations]

[Image text:

you can do it and don't give up: you will prevail. you have all the necessary skills to pull this off.

you can do it and give up: you don't have to prove anything to anyone. let yourself rest.

you can't do it and don't give up: the only way to learn is by failing. you will get the hang of it, but for now just push through.

you can't do it and give up: know your limits. not everything is your burden to bear. walk out. /end]

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

[gyantechnolgy]

Make your own doctor's prescription

[thatsbelievable]

[94erz]

https://x.com/chosoren/status/1912814924583120991?t=nk1QduyFZDreLOTRRqXowA&s=19

Nah this is insane taehyun and jk are actually twins

I literally saw this post yesterday on Twitter before even opening this ask, BTXT overlap is real LOL

It's so weird to me how my brain works 'cause as much as people say they look identical, I don't see it 😭 they DO have a lot of overlapping qualities that are obvious, like having rounder eyes or ''larger'' noses but I dunno, I think the way their faces are structed makes Taehyun's features stand out way more. Kai said it the best, but the difference is that Taehyun's face is small so his facial features really look bigger, big eyes, big nose, big mouth, whereas to me JK's face seems more balanced? Like his eyes ARE round, but they aren't big, his nose is round giving it the appearance of being big but it's not that large compared to the size of his face, it's more flat too, while Taehyun's is pointy, and JK's mouth isn't big, so like it's all in line with his overall face/head structure.

The side profile really helped the illusion LOL 'cause once you see them face on I think the illusion breaks down quickly.

I'm sorry I took this ask too seriously 😭 but like part of being Taehyun bias is my insane fascination with his face, he's literally so gorgeous to me. JK is good-looking but I don't have the same fascination with his face...

[pengtheplush]

600 words is not what I would consider an essay, at least none of my teachers called it that. I think I often wrote to much and might’ve been partially responsible for some teachers putting a maximum word count for assignments 😅

There was this one English teacher that absolutely loved me for it though. If I remember right, she’d give us a weekly assignment where we had to T4 a chapter of whatever book we were reading for class, then compile it into a table of examples to go with quotes we found interesting. On average I was writing about 1k words.

She’d read it all and add comments reacting to my ideas. It brought me so much joy reading them that I distinctly remember the most exclamation marks she used in a row (I’m about 80% sure it was 7).

The biggest essay I ever had to write back then was 4k, which actually did end up being hard to get. I credit most of that to bad time management though. I definitely spent way too long editing in between writing sections, rather than first writing enough content to at least go over the word cap. It’s also way easier to cut out words rather than come up with new ones.