#also a great way to learn HTML lol

[space-syzygy]

I know what this post advocates for is not a solution to the issues AO3 has which I do believe should be worked on, BUT I am fully in agreement with more archives being made available:

Single points of failure are not good for anything. And honestly, growing up this is how I read fics. I read on show fansites, sites for particular pairings, and author websites (my fave Due South authors had their own). The first archive I encountered pre-Fanfiction.net was the Gossamer Archive which housed X-Files fic. I miss this because it often fostered a specific community and it was just fun to discover new things.

[drawloverlala]

July status update and new commission opening date!

Hello! hope you had a great June! As per usual here’s a monthly update about my commission status and stuff! 

🌸I’ll be opening Illustration and comic page commissions next Saturday 15th of July!

As usual I’ll be updating my commission info pages for each thing in Caard with my email being available! 

Illustration commissions info page / Comic page commissions info page

🌸 As a reminder, pricing was updated last month so read the info and what the new prices are about carefully!

here are the prices + extras in detail anyways! 👇

The * in this, is that I need to explain XD,  I’m currently working on projects  where I take these kind of commissions, so they are not technically closed, but I’m not currently accepting them outside of these projects, so they aren’t really open either.

And yeah, this time I’m opening comic commissions! which is exiting but at the same time I’m a bit nervous lol although I get nervous every time I open commissions anyways, I just hope everything goes swiftly that day XD

🌸 Brotherhood Twist comic progress:

Well not much from last time, except that 4 finished pages have now their dialogue and there are now 4 pages left to ink! 

I’m trying my best to finish inking them soon, so that I can start adding colors to all of these! ^_^

🌸 Miscellaneous commentary:

I’ve been trying out new themes recently, for a little while I installed one called Glazed; a theme by Pale, is really pretty if you want to check it out,

but at the moment that theme can’t zoom-in single photo-posts and posts that have 1 picture on them looked pretty small. so I came back to the old one because even if it’s an oldie, it allows pictures to look big, and also zooms-in a lot. (although with the new post editor that feature seems to be gone lol, now zooms in like in a regular way).

still this small odyssey finding the theme that suits what I want, has made me realize that I should try to learn some HTML for once, not only because I actually enjoy shaping my blog in a pretty way, but because when I try to do so, there’s a lot I don’t understand about it 😅, so I want to try learning some of that coding language. 

Also I would like to start playing around with my Neocities site lol  maybe I can turn it into a proper main art gallery? dunno yet.

well but that’s all for now, other thoughts I’ll just ramble about when I feel like so lol

But well, see you! and I hope you have a great new week!

[hotarutranslations]

ConanEscape!!

Evening

Real Escape Game x Detective Conan "Escape From The Million Dollar Mansion"

Somehow!!!!!!!!!

I succeeded in escaping!!!!!!!!!

Its seriously amazing!!!!!!!!!

Conan's Escape, I've gone many times but… (3, 4 times…?)

I have never been successful🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Its really really difficult

Ah! By the way! I also went to the Conan Escape at USJ but, I think those who have gone will understand, Its no good with that fork in the road, there are those that can't make it to the end…🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Its just, the interactions with the characters unfolds before your eyes, so the excitement is earnestly high, when I participated, in particular Heiji and Kazuha were very Heiji and Kazuha, the guests were a buzz from the first comment! Also, if you say, Sonoko's cute! She gave a a very Sonoko-like reply, I felt a ton of respect towards it! Amazing!

It was fun~~~🫶🏻

This time with the escape, Protecting the jewels from Kid with Conan and Heiji..

It felt like I was working with 2 people, You can really feel it, It was fun as a real escape game~~

Since it was the first time I beat an escape game,

I was so happy I thought I was going to cry!!! lol It was to that degree!!! lol

At the end they explain the mystery but,

As someone who knew all the answers,

The team that couldn't find all the answers, were like, Uwa! It was like that!

My friend and I were like, This feels great~~🥴🥴 while watching them lol

I'm so happy about it~~🥴🥴 lol

The insight from the team I participated with, was wonderful! It was really fun! A serious round of applause for the team…

I also applaud SCRAP-san for the high quality of things!

I'll come again!

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[bluunxtes]

Update(?)

hi high hai! srry i've been kinda just lurking for a while, don't really have an excuse lmao. i built a pc btw!!! :D hehe i'm super proud of myself lol even though i lowkey embarrassed myself asking for help for the dumbest mistakes while doing so.

here are some pics of my ningning hot mess inspired pc theme :3 (srry for the crappy phone quality, my phone is ancient lmao) didn't include the other half of my desk bc it's a mess rn lmao, cable management is my worst enemy.

i've also been kinda trying to learn html so i could make a cute tumblr theme. i rlly wanna make smth that resembles japanese vending machines. a pastel pink vending machine theme would b pretty cute hehe >:3

n e ways, i was thinking abt starting a series w an oc after getting inspired by all the oc insert fics here. although, i wasn't sure if i should write everything and then post it all at once or post things as i write it out.

i tend to get lazy and my mind is always over run w ideas so i'm leaning towards finishing most of it first and posting it all at once.

might drop one of the finished fics as a teaser or smth doe humu

hope y'all have a great day/night! <3

[a-heart-like-a-sparrow]

February 1st, 2024 - Fuck this

────────────────────────────── I don't remember when I woke up What did you expect? Fuck this month ──────────────────────────────

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I think these are just gonna be a bunch of quick notes, I'm making noodles and I have to go back and forth between these things.

I don't think I started February in the best way. I listened to a bit of Radiohead and got out there crying lol. They're cool tho. I like Jonny Greenwood.

However, the next artist I'm listening to is Kate Bush! I like how she sings. This will be great! I still want to make a playlist for her discography, but my computer has been loading for hours and it never worked. I shouldn't have hit it...

Also, I finished my HTML lessons. Now I'm learning JavaScript. I have a lot of things to read and do there. But it will be fine.

I feel better after that huge dinner I had last night. I've also been watching more Steven Universe and a cartoon that was made for Latin America. It feels so nostalgic... I've been thinking about my childhood a lot. I wanna be back there.

Specially now that I'm going back to school very soon. I hope everything goes well this year. Last year was incredibly messy. So let's see how I manage in 2024.

I think I was gonna say something else, but I can't remember what it was... Anyway, I don't think it was important.

Rest well, I guess. I'm really trying to do it, too.

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[moonsquaremars]

11th house thoughts

Hi everybody.

I have an 11th house stellium, and I love it. Probably because my venus is in there, der planet of luv, as well as mars, lust et aggression, and mercury, th’ intellect. 

My sun missed it shy of 1° ; had i been born just a few minutes earlier, I would have been an 11th house sun. But I’m a twelfer. Why, might you ask? My mother has an 11th house stellium afterall, so did my ex-boyfriend. Well, if you ask, my father is a twelfth house sun. 

And I’m learning to live with that. 

Just kidding. Anyways, I love my 11th house stellium. If you’re unfamiliar, the eleventh house is ruled by aquarius. Each of the twelve houses in astrology corelate to each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The planet which governs both this house and sign is the planet of Uranus, which is my favorite one in our solar system :) I did a random generator a guy posted on reddit to find out which planet is dominant in your chart, and when I plugged everything in, I got Uranus. I was actually quite surprised by this, but overjoyed. I love everything uranus represents. Eccentricity, humanitarianism, chaos.

I am a cancer sun, though, and virgo moon. Cancer rules the moon, so wouldn’t that be my dominant planet? Or is it just my chart ruler? I don’t know. But the moon is so fleeting. Kind of chaotic, actually. Since the moon passes each sign every few days, that’s what makes us cancers so moody. We feel the energy of all the signs within a months time. Can you imagine how that feels? constantly knowing what other people are feeling and thinking? Or maybe I’m just imagining it. I am crazy, after all :p

I digress. The 11th house is fabulous. It rules the finer things in life. My ex-boyfriend was a dandy man, took me to fancy restaurants and hotels, the works. I need that sort of thing, I admire and crave it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very in tune with income inequality and the social issues that plague the world. But I still love dressing up in fancy clothes for a decadent night out. I suppose this is attributed to my stellium, but I’ll take it. A stellium by the way is when you have three or more planets in one house.

It’s kind of odd that my mom has an eleventh house stellium because we grew up quite poor. Nothing about her really screams fancy besides the fact that she adores drinking wine, is beautiful, and we live fancier only if you put us in to comparison with poorer people around us. We did grow up wearing nice clothes though. My mom would buy us second hand designer brand clothes like tommy hilfiger. Maybe that’s not designer, maybe that’s just brand name. I’m from Kentucky, give me a break. But we Kentucky fancy, baby.

Uranus being my dominant and favorite planet, is in my 7th house, the house of libra and relationships. Perhaps someone could pull up my chart {in the tags] and enlighten me on why it might be my dominant planet. I might also add that my draconic moon is in aquarius, which is supposely what your ‘soul’ truly is. I don’t quite believe that, because I think the soul is larger and smaller than the twelve signs of our universe. Or maybe just our solar system. At least of our conscience understanding of things at this time. Astrology is just a bunch of symbols made of our world to organize and communicate ieas n information. It’s not much more than that.

I recall being very internet savvy in middle and high school. My north node and chiron are in my third house, house of gemini and communication. All of my 11th house stellium planets are also in gemini. I see this being accurate because I am rather small in frame, standing at 5 foot 9 and weighing 125 pounds since I was thirteen years old. My mouth gets me in trouble, whether it’s from accidentally offending or just not being able to shut up! I would constantly be editing my myspace profile, using html codes, messing with the layout and how it interacted with my profile picture and song, and anything else I added to it. I loved it, and then that transitioned to my tumblr blog which I did in high school. Hopefully tumblr doesn’t die out, it’s definitely not what it used to be. Later when stumbleupon was something, I would look up things about futurism, humanism, design. I loved reading about the future. It made me so freaking excited. Like what will life be like in 2040? So cool! Or 2600? Then it made me sad once I accounted my age into the picture. I don’t wanna be 40! and that’s so far away! I hate waiting. 

I’ll end this post on something interesting I noticed. My boyfriend of a year had an eleventh house stellium. After we broke up, I had two guys I was interested in. I was actually quite torn, because they were both so amazing, but so different. One was elegant and familiar with astrology and addiction issues and had money. He was like this worldly man with fantastic package hehe helped cure this mundane “what’s the point?” feeling I had about learning languages and stuff. He made me feel like there was in fact a point to all of it. He’s a scorpio just like me mum and we just had great chemistry. But I was already seeing a nother guy, who was this gentle, down the earth, all around manly man’s man. I loved him, but in a different way. He was simple, but the first time I slept over at his house, he picked me up in this kinda old but kinda new like beat up stick shift hyudai sedan. He reminded me of Wario. But he had an amazing package as well. we mostly just slept though ,and when I slept with him, I felt like I was back in bed with my father when I was like five or seven years old. I already know how that sounds, and I know the childish bunch of you or dommage who lack a healthy relationship with your father if y’ar, are going to come for me and say that’s gross or messed up or perverted or weird. It’s not. I don’t want to fuck my father, I never have, and I never will. I really don’t want to open this can of worms because I could go on about people I’ve met who have been sexually assaulted by their fathers or who have an incest fetish and I’m not trying to shame any of those people. But, I felt like I was back in bed with my father like i was when i was a kid while I was laying with him, and that was a really, really, really good feeling. I never forgot it. He had an aries sun, which I used to hate aries. It was my least favorite sign, and probably still is tbh, along with aquarius LOL. Oh and his moon was in taurus which explained everything. My dad is a taurus sun, as are my two sisters, my grandpa, and one of my good friends, Chelsea. My moon is in virgo in the second house, which is the house of taurus.

Well, mr. fancy pants had an 11th house stellium, and my down to earth sweet S had a third house stellium. Finding these things out did nothing to absolve my confusion, only added to the ache of not knowing which to choose. Talk about love triangle though. It did make me realize why I was in this predicament though, and I suppose it worked out because I don’t really talk to either guy anymore. But The seventh and third houses are also air houses, just like the 11th. 

11th house - Aquarius/uranus, 

7th house - libra/venus, 

3rd house - gemini/mercury

That’s all for tonight. I’m ever behind on french homework, so I oughtta go take care of that. I want to write on the twelfth house, since my sun is in there as well as my father’s, and why I don’t appreciate its doom and gloom persona. If each house correlates to a sign, then the twelfth’s would be house of pisces. Pisces is the last sign with a bad stereotype. At least from my perception, it’s one of the best. So humanistic and kind. So why is its house the house of prison and addictions and psych wards and have all this hubbub, this &thatt?

Au revoir! -K  ý ll

[ashekirk]

Apparently I write fan fiction now

Ok so I've had a really weird couple of weeks.

One night, I had a dream about a TV show I'd seen exactly one episode of in its entirety. A show that I literally haven't seen anyone talk about in forever.

That show? Sliders (1995)

I woke up from that dream with the need to watch the show, so I did.

It's a mediocre show, really. Even at its best, it's hamfisted and full of plot holes, and the first season or two loves to idolise 1990s USA in a way that comes across as painful to my modern leftist sensibilities.

But despite that, I grew attached to the characters, and then I had to watch each one of them leave the show in increasingly infuriating ways.

By the end, I just wanted to give the characters a better ending. So that's what I'm now doing.

I'm not normally one to read or write fan fiction, so this is highly unusual for me and I have no idea if anyone will even care about this since the show is pretty obscure these days.

I just spent the past 4 days writing fan scripts of an imagined season 6 set in the present day. I've already churned out 3 scripts in that time and also made a rudimentary reader from html, css, and javascript to improve accessibility.

I ended up doing this because fanfiction.net doesn't allow scripts, and my new AO3 account is in some kind of queue until next month, so that's great.

Anyway, you can see the scripts on my website... take 'em or leave 'em. I had to get them out either way lol.

Hit the jump for descriptions of the 3 scripts I've done so far:

"Season 6 in the 2020s" Series

Conjoined Quinns, Part I

Episode 1 | 7464 Words

Over twenty years have passed since the events of Season 5. Mallory and Maggie are married with a child. But Mallory's not well - no matter how much sleep he gets, he is still always exhausted to the point of waking hallucination.

Meanwhile, in another world, a new sliding machine is being built by a familiar face.

Read Script

Conjoined Quinns, Part II

Episode 2 | 6652 Words

The gang attend a fateful concert. Mallory learns to adjust to his new arrangement. Cole really wants to scan some brains.

With old friends being reunited, it seems like things are all falling into place at once. But who could have expected who shows up next?

Read Script

Identical Quinns

Episode 3 | 6266 Words

Unexpected visitors create new hope for Quinn. Rembrandt goes out for a steak dinner with Diana. Cole gets to scan more brains.

The basement gets a visitor. Love rekindles. A ghostly apparition may hold answers to the mystery of the group's recent string of unlikely events.

Read Script

Future Scripts:

I've got several ideas for the continuation of this series. Here are some working titles which will give you a clue to the kind of story it will be:

Mandela Effect

Quarantine

Gender Police

Quinntuplets

Oops! All Quinns

Quinnpocalypse

Bear in mind that my ability to keep working on these scripts is directly related to my ability to receive dopamine from doing it, and that could change at literally any moment. Thanks ADHD!

[poirot]

Hi Sabrina! I hope you’re doing well. ❤️ Just popping up to say that I’m so amazed by your themes and codes… Can you please give us some advice about how to learn coding, where to start or what are the realiable sources that could help in learning? Thanks in advance ❤️

hiiii anon ♡ thank you so much for your kind words awww that honestly means a lot, I still feel quiet insecure about my coding ngl afdsha there are just so many talented theme makers and I feel like I'm still such a noob lol but sure !!

personally, I started with codecademy which I still think is a great way to get started and learn the basics of html/css/js. in my experience, coding is also just a lot of learning by doing/trial and error especially at the beginning but I do think it's quiet helpful to learn some of the basics first though, just because I think it's really beneficial in the long term.once you know the basics, I would also encourage you to look into 'more complex' stuff like flexbox because things like this can seem very scary at the beginning but is actually quiet easy to learn and is really helpful to know.

here are also some other resources which I would highly recommend if you want to get into coding:

w3school (general tutorials)

css-tricks (general tutorials)

stackoverflow (find solutions for problems you might run into)

web design basics by @eggdesign

this post by @eggdesign

the tumblr documentation

@bychloethemes undocumented documentation

[interact-if]

HALLOOOOO! first of all, let me just say what amazing work you mods are doing! this blog has been a huge help so kudos to all of you! thank you for your hard work!!! 😁😁😁😁

on to my question...what would you, since some of you write IFs as well, suggest to those who wants to start writing one? i really, really want to write one, but i guess i'm really intimidated by the thought of coding. also, how did you choose your medium? what made you choose ChoiceScript or Twine?

sorry for the long ask. 🙏

i hope you all have a good day!

Thank you!!

I'll start us off by saying that yes, coding isn't easy, but don't be daunted! Take it one step at a time, use your resources, ask for help, and you'll learn how to do it to a point where it comes a lot easier to you while you're writing!

I started Smoke & Velvet (now When it Hungers) in Cscript without knowing anything about coding in that language and I've learned a ton since then! I'm now transferring over to twine, facing the same daunting, overwhelmed, feeling I had when I first opened up the cscript tutorial :'D

W3schools is a great resource, so is freecodecamp and mimo, if you want to start diving in to html, css, and javascript (start with html, then work your way up, start small, read code line by line instead of looking at it as a whole lest you become overwhelmed).

I chose Cscript at first because that was my only interaction with the IF community at the time. I didn't even know that twine existed, and had been lowkey wanting to write a game for years before taking the dive.

Going into twine now is challenging but I've been having a lot of fun with creating a unique format that has more accessibility options and features, like save slots, back buttons, sound, music, and other things that amplify gameplay.

There's still a long way left to go for me, but it's been a journey worth having and the community has been pretty wonderful for the most part. Be patient with yourself, with your writing, with your learning, and surround yourself with fellow writers and readers who support you and encourage you but also remind you to take breaks and drink plenty of water :D

- Roast

Alright, I’m not even going to sugarcoat this since I’ve been really open about this on all of my blogs, but I am writing all of my future games on Twine and translating my ChoiceScript WIP (Greater than Gods) to Twine as well. This is merely because I genuinely disagree with Choice of Games as a company, and as someone who does want to monetize my games I didn’t want it to go through them.

Now, maybe you don’t have that much of an issue w CoG or you don’t want to monetize your games, so my justification won’t mean much to you. Coding-language wise ChoiceScript is kind of friendlier since it’s less overwhelming than Twine when you first take a peek, but as long as you’ve got someone to ask (which you can find plenty in our Discord servers!) I believe that starting off with Twine and getting the hand of it can be good! The hardest part is adjusting to different languages so changing halfway (and translating one to the other) makes it overall trickier.

Also, personally, I didn’t even begin to code until I had a good chuck of the story written since I couldn’t get the ChoiceScript extras running on the computer I used to have. My vote is that if code overwhelms you, then postpone it as much as you can and let the story take you at first, just focus on the parts you love.

Yet, to be fair, after reading what Dani said.... all advice is subjective LOL so what might be the answer for me might just be problems for you and viceversa, the best advice will always be fuck around and find out

- Cruz

Currently I’m using CS, though there will be Twine in the future as well!

Initially, I didn’t really even know about the other side of IF (itch.io/Twine), so I went with what I’d heard of (CS). Ultimately, CScript is beginner friendly due to the fact that you’re not adding on the additional challenges of UI (user interface)/styling, etc, and it lets you get acquainted with algorithmic thinking, which I think is probably what people struggle with the most when getting started—cold, hard computer logic. Building that foundation is very useful if you don’t have previous coding experience.

As for tips for those getting started, these are mine (as someone from the CS background). Take these with a grain of salt; not everyone works the same way, but this is what works for me and what I find valuable, but I know that some of the other mods work in opposite ways, for example, LOL.

If you know nothing else, know the key middle point/event of your story AND how your story ends. This is super important, not only for your story, but also for coding. Because IF is about branching and converging, all those branches have to go somewhere, and at some point you’re going to have to pull them back together a bit before you send them branching back out again. Knowing these two points will save you a LOT of pain with coding and planning your branches AND with managing the feasibility of your project. Ironically, many people tend to start with the beginning of their story. But knowing where you’re going will really save your bacon.

Map your code for your chapter before you write the chapter. Yep. I said it. I’m in the minority here, I know that most folks don’t do this. But if you can do this, it means (A.) you’ve got a really clear plot map of your chapter, so writing it will be a piece of cake and (B.) you’ve really fleshed out exactly what’s happening/the various causal relationships, which means your code is probably going to be neat and concise. Plus, coding first is a whole heck of a lot easier than adding the code in afterward, when you have to hunt through walls of text to find where the various code lines should be added. I know it sounds bonkers. I know. Really. But if you can manage the planning well enough to pull it off, it’s well worth it. (It’s also worth noting that doing this lets you test your code a lot faster/first, which can also be useful when you’re first getting started. But might not be everyone’s cup of tea, heh.)

For CS, if you know of a WIP that has a feature you’d like to use in your game, code dive and see how that author did it. For example, if a game has a function to randomize the shirt color of a certain character every time you meet them and you’d like to do something similar, take a look at that person’s code! Odds are you can learn more than that. Look at different authors’ coding styles and see what neat tricks you can learn. And if you don’t know how to code dive come DM me LOL.

Lastly, on a more general note, the two big WIP killers are the fraternal twins Scope and Planning; that is to say, when the scope gets out of hand and there isn’t enough planning, that tends to be when WIPs die because the author starts to feel overwhelmed and/or demoralized. So, from the very start be intentional about planning. I know plenty of authors say they don’t plan but. I’m telling you now. PLAN. LOL.

Oh, also, if you do use CS, CSIDE is a program that’s dedicated to editing Choicescript and great for light testing and the like.

I need to shut up now because I’ve typed too much but if I’ve left you with more questions than answers you’re welcome to come hunt me down on my personal blog!

- Dani

I don't have much experience with Twine yet (but heavily considering switching) aside from fiddling around, and the other mods have given their two cents on CS that I already think so I'll mostly just stick to giving advice on writing an IF as a fellow beginner!

From what the other lovely mods have said, planning is your bestfriend! It's very easy to get swept up in the idea of making your own IF project but it does tend to be more overwhelming down the line without proper planning.

You can use mind-mapping tools, or draw one! I'm partial to bullet point outlining but it can be a little tedious as the chapters become more complex with branching.

So, sit yourself down and do some outlining. This is a general advice a creative writing teacher of mine has given me: ignore the beginning, skip to the ending. And it makes a lot of sense. Because as a writer, you'll get hung up on how you want your story to start. We are, to some extent, perfectionists with what we write.

So ignore the beginning, and instead think of how you want your story to end. Trust me, while you're at it, you'll get so many ideas/prompts of what you want to put in the middle. The beginning is easy pickings once you have the foundation of an ending laid out. Writing is a separate matter entirely, but y'all already know that.

Now let's talk about organizing! If you feel like you'll remember an idea later on, trust me, you won't. Write it down, write it all down. OneNote is my go-to with organizing my thoughts/prompts/ideas with my current project.

It's uploaded on a cloud and you'll also be able to access it on your phone! The sticky notes feature come in handy as well. Also, it's a good place to back up your code-formatted chapters/assets!

Lastly, please be kind and patient with yourself! There will be learning and writing frustrations, but it's normal. It happens. Don't beat yourself up too hard over it. Writing is a complex process, but also very worth it.

I mean, I get it. I constantly fall down the rabbit hole of, "If this rough draft isn't perfect then that means I am a horrible writer," which is absolutely not true!

Remember to take care of yourself in the process of writing. Figure out your limits because burning out and losing passion for a project can happen. Above all else, writing shouldn't feel like a chore, it should be fun!

- Nines

Goodluck, and have fun!!

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[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

17, 22 for the writing asks? 🌠

of course!! <3 sorry this took a literal day to answer, i got busy and #17... 🤧 let's just say i like talking about my WIP. also sorry this is like novel length, rivalfic is my baby

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists.

usually, cough. not very. but with my current WIP (the f1 AU) that couldn't be more different, mostly due to the nature of this fic. i unfortunately had the marvelous idea to write it just before classes started last year, which meant that while i have pretty much the whole of the first part (there will be two, each covering one season of f1) planned, i had little to no time to actually write it down. so i needed meticulous planning, not only to give me a good road map when i did get time to write, but also to motivate me to keep going.

i do a lot of writing on paper before typing it up (thank god im good at touch typing. i learned when i was 8 and have blasted many a coworker out of the water on the occasion that a typing competition is used as an icebreaker.) most of the time, if dialogue or a fake tumblr post or headline comes to mind, i can just add it to a document i have for that purpose. different pages are set up for different races. if you've read every point a pressure point, i don't go into detail for every race. i have just chosen the ones that i think are most important to the story, and will let the fake posts, headlines, and/or classifications speak for the rest.

speaking of the classifications, uh. this is probably the silliest part by far so bear with me and don't laugh.

this past term i finally learned to use a programming language other than html, and obviously with great power comes great responsibility, so i decided to visualize the standings using python. i've already decided the racing characters' classifications and point totals from the beginning and they've been sitting in a google sheet for a while, so this past weekend when finals were finally over, i just downloaded it as a CSV file and read it with the DictReader class in the CSV module and then visualized the data into plots using matplotlib (i'm sorry if my terminology isn't correct i just do things that i learned in class and look up the stuff that was out of the scope of that course lol)

so this is the result (warning for mild spoilers ahead i guess):

now that i've actually visualized the data i now realize that i may have to tweak some of the classifications (it is entirely possible that i have made ilya and linda score too many points for how high i want caledonian to finish in the constructor's championship) and also ignore the 0.5s on the x-axes i need to figure out if i can even get rid of those. i somewhat tried to model the teams' performances on historical precedent but i feel like i got a little too subjective on the points scoring. linda should probably have scored a bit less than how she is now, and ilya a little bit more. anywhey,,, i dont really know what im doing lol these are kind of just vibes

so yeah! i spend way too much time thinking about this WIP as you can see, it's a wonder ppl have indulged me this far tbh. i promise i think about other things

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

bestie not to make an already long reply longer but.

i plan to write two (longfic) parts in this universe, i think i've said this already: one covers therlinda rookie season (every point a pressure point) and the other their sophomore season (every point a surer step).

a lot of the parts of this universe are based on historical precedent, though it takes place in the quasi-present. any timings stated in the fic are directly pulled from real timing sheets specific to a track/race. in my head, the cars look like how they did in 2021: example below. so in essence the rear wing still looks like That, front still looks like that, no covers for the wheels like 2022 spec.

the calendar is based off the 2018/2019 f1 race calendar, with 21 rounds, and everything takes place in chronological order. mcn's performance difference from part 1 to part 2 is sort of based on a team that's currently on the grid (though doesn't follow its history very closely). but mcn in part 1 is definitely a backmarker team for reasons that i kind of still have to fully set and iron out. (bc i don't have the aerodynamic knowledge for that yet.) i imply that caledonian's performance equivalent/championship rival is alpha tauri, but i consider caledonian to be a true midfield team. the ultimate goal is for both theresa and linda to make it to bigger teams; ferrari and alpine (renault) specifically. this is in a universe where the title battle is between ferrari and alpine.

that being said, the two central conflicts in the every point a pressure point universe are not based on anyone in particular in the present, or any historic rivalry between competitors; it was literally borne out of me lying awake on vacation last year going from 'wow why do i approach theresa & douglas / linda & herc so similarly' to 'maybe they have parallels somewhere' to 'what if they were racers' to 'what if they hated each other and then banged' to 'what if this was intergenerational' to 'what if i wrote a fic about this' to 'god i know nothing about any of this, time to research'

i'm a relatively new fan to f1, so i don't think any of my opinions would be very welcome; i'm not looking to make any big statements about the sport either or moralize. i'm a firm believer of shutting the fuck up if you don't know enough about a specific thing/topic/issue and don't have the capacity at the moment to learn more about it. there are others whom i really respect who do have the time to go through and learn about the minutiae of the (MANY) issues of this sport but i do not have the time to do it, ergo, i leave the big statement-making to those good folks. yea, i mean, some of the characters' opinions are a little bit my own, but i don't really think they're that seismic: i think generally people would agree with it.

that being said, i think there's a really big takeaway (other than pleasure/enjoyment) that i want for anyone who reads through either of the two parts of this story; what i want to say, if you want to put it that way, is that life's too short to be petty, really. more than anything, we need each other, even those diametrically opposed. not everything is worth vitriol. as i said: i don't vocalize my opinions about the sport so often. i'm not vaguing anyone, really. i just believe very firmly that we need one another to survive. there's not enough room in our very full lives for hostility. also, like, heal your wounds before it's too late. it affects more people than you think.

yea not to get really too deep about any of this haha but as i said above rivalfic is kind of my baby and i really enjoy writing it; i know people find it weird and the universe comes totally out of left field and i feel like i'm diverging really far from the source material but then again theresa and linda never interacted in canon anyway so sorry tito juan 😩

[queenlua]

hey, i started following you recently and ur bio says ur a hacker? any tips on where to start? hacking seems like a v cool/fun way to learn more abt coding and cybersecurity/infrastructure and i'd like to explore it but there's so much on the internet and like, i'm not trying to get into anything illegal. thanks!

huh, an interesting question, ty!

i can give more tailored advice if you hit me up on chat with more specifics on your background/interests.

given what you've written here, though, i'll just assume you don't have any immediate professional aspirations (e.g. you just want to learn some things, and you aren't necessarily trying to get A Cyber Security Job TM within the next three months or w/e), and that you don't know much about any specific programming/computering domain yet.

(stuff under cut because long)

first i'd probably just try to pick some interesting problem that you think you can solve with tech. this doesn't need to be a "hacking" project at first; i was just messing around with computers for ages before i did anything involving security/exploitation.

if you don't already know how to program, you should ideally pick a problem you can solve via programming. for instance: i learned a lot back in the 2000s, when play-by-post forum RPGs were in vogue.  see, i'd already been messing around, building my own personal sites, first just with HTML & CSS, and later on with Javascript and PHP.   and i knew the forum software everyone used (InvisionPowerBoard) was written in PHP.  so when one of the admins at my RPG complained that they'd like the ability to set multiple profile pictures, i was like, "hey i'm good at programming, want me to create a mod to do that," and then i just... did. so then they asked me to program more features, and i got all the sexy nerd cred for being Forum Mod Queen, and it was a good time, i learned a lot.

(i also got to be the person who was frantically IMed at 2am because wtf the forum is down and there's an inscrutable error, what do??? basically sysadmining! also, much less sexy! still, i learned a lot!)

the key thing is that it's gotta be a problem that's interesting to you: as much as i love making dorky sites in PHP, half the fun was seeing other people using my stuff, and i think the era of forum-based RPGs has passed. but maybe you can apply some programming talents to something that you are interested in—maybe you want to make a silly Chrome extension to make people laugh, a la Cloud to Butt, or maybe you'd like to make a program that converts pixel art into cross-stitching patterns, maybe you want to just make a cool adventure game on those annoying graphing calculators they make you use in class, or make a script for some online game you play, or make something silly with Arduino (i once made a trash can that rolled toward me when i clapped my hands; it was fun, and way easier than you'd think!), whatever.

i know a lot of hacker-types who got their start doing ROM hacking for video games—replacing the character art or animations or whatever in old NES games. that's probably more relevant than the PHP websites, at least, and is probably a solid place to get started; in my experience those communities tend to be reasonably friendly to questions. pick a small thing you want to do & ask how to do it.

also, a somewhat unconventional path, but—once i knew how to program a bit of Python, i started doing goofy junk, like, "hey can i implemented NamedTuple from scratch,” which tends to lead to Python metaprogramming, which leads to surprising shit like "oh, stack frames are literally just Python objects and you can manually edit them in the interpreter to do deliberately horrendous/silly things, my god this language allows too much reflection and i'm having too much fun"... since Python is a lot of folks' first language these days, i thought i'd point that out, since i think this is a pretty accessible start to thinking about How Programs Actually Work under the hood. allison kaptur has some specific recommendations on how to poke around, if you wanna go that route.

it's reasonably likely you'll end up doing something "hackery" in the natural course of just working on stuff. for instance, while i was working on the IPB forum software mods, i became distressed to learn that everyone was using an INSECURE version of the software! no one was patching their shit!! i yelled at the admins about it, and they were like "well we haven't been hacked yet so it's not a problem," so i uh, decided to demonstrate a proof of concept? i downloaded some sketchy perl script, kicked it until it worked, logged in as the admins, and shitposted a bit before i logged out, y'know, to prove my point.

(they responded by banning me for two weeks, and did not patch their software. which, y'know, rip to them; they got hacked by an unrelated Turkish group two months later, and those dudes just straight-up deleted the whole website. i was a merciful god by comparison!)

anyway, even though downloading a perl script and just pointing it at a website isn't really "hacking" (it's the literal definition of script kiddie, heh)—the point is i was just experimenting a lot and trying a lot of stuff, which meant i was getting comfortable with thinking of software as not just some immutable relic, but something you can touch and prod in unexpected ways.

this dovetails into the next thing, which is like, just learn a lot of stuff. a boring conventional computer science degree will teach you a lot (provided you take it seriously and actually try to learn shit); alternatively, just taking the same classes as a boring conventional computer science degree, via edX or whatever free online thingy, will also teach you a lot. ("contributing to open source" also teaches you a lot but... hngh... is a whole can of worms; send a follow-up ask if you want that rant.)

here's where i should note that "hacking" is an impossibly broad category: the kind of person who knows how to fuck with website authentication tokens is very different than someone who writes a fuzzer, who is often quite different than someone who looks at the bug a fuzzer produces and actually writes a program that can exploit that bug... so what you focus on depends on what you're interested in. i imagine classes with names like "compilers," "operating systems," and "networking" will teach you a lot. but, like, idk, all knowledge is god-breathed and good for teaching. hell, i hear some universities these days have actual computer security classes? that's probably a good thing to look at, just to get a sense of what's out there, if you already know how to program.

also be comfortable with not knowing everything, but also, learn as you go. the bulk of my security knowledge came when i got kinda airdropped into a work team that basically hired me entirely on "potential" (lmao), and uh, prior to joining i only had the faintest idea what a hypervisor was? or the whole protection ring concept? or ioctls or sandboxing or threat models or, fuck, anything? i mostly just pestered people with like 800 questions and slowly built up a knowledge base, and remember being surprised & delighted when i went to a security conference a year later and could follow most of the talks, and when i wound up at a bar with a guy on the xbox security team and we compared our security models a bunch, and so on.  there wasn't a magic moment when i "got it", i was just like, "okay huh this dude says he found a ring-0 exploit... what does that mean... okay i think i got that... why is that a big deal though... better ask somebody.." (also: reading an occasional dead tree book is a good idea. i owe my firstborn to Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development, as outdated as it is, and also O'Reilly's kookaburra book gave me a great overview of web programming back in the day, etc.  you can learn a lot by just clicking around random blogs, but you’ll often end up with a lot of random little facts and no good mental scaffolding for holding it together; often, a decent book will give you that scaffolding.)

(also, it's pretty useful if you can find a knowledgable someone to pepper with random questions as you go. finding someone who will actively mentor you is tricky, but most working computery folks are happy to tell you things like "what you're doing is actually impossible, here's why," or "here's a tutorial someone told me was good for learning how to write a linux kernel module," or "here's my vague understanding of this concept you know nothing about," or "here's how you automate something to click on a link on a webpage," which tends to be handier than just google on its own.)

if you're reading this and you're like "ok cool but where's the part where i'm handed a computer and i gotta break in while going all hacker typer”—that's not the bulk of the work, alas! like, for sure, we do have fun pranking each other by trying dumb ways of stealing each other's passwords or whatever (once i stuck a keylogger in a dude's keyboard, fun times). but a lot of my security jobs have involved stuff like, "stare at this disassembly a long fuckin' time to figure out how the program pointer got all fucked up," or, "write a fuzzer that feeds a lot of randomized input to some C++ program, watch the program crash because C++ is a horrible language for writing software, go fix all the bugs," or "think Really Hard TM about all the settings and doohickeys this OS/GPU/whatever has, think about all the awful things someone could do with it, threat model and sandbox accordingly." occasionally i have done cool proof-of-concept hacks but honestly writing exploits can kinda be tedious, lol, so like, i'm only doing that if it's the only way i can get people to believe that Yes This Is Actually A Problem, Fix Your Code

"lua that's cool and all but i wanted, like, actual links and recommendations and stuff" okay, fair. here's some ideas:

microcorruption: very fun embedded security CTF; teaches you everything you need to know as you're doing it.

cryptopals crypto challenges: very fun little programming exercises that teach you a lot of fundamental cryptography concepts as you're going along! you can do these even as a bit of a n00b; i did them in Python for the lulz

the binary bomb lab is hilariously copied by, like, so many CS programs, lol, but for good reason. it's accessible and fun and is the first time most people get to feel like a real hacker! (requires you know a bit of C beforehand)

ctftime is a good way to see when new CTFs ("capture the flag"s; security-focused competitions) are coming up. or, sometimes CTFs post their source code, so you can continue trying them after the CTF is over. i liked Stripe's CTFs when they were going, because they focused on "web stuff", and "web stuff" was all i really knew at the time. if you're more interested in staring at disassembly, there's CTFs focused on that sort of thing too.

azeria has good ARM assembly & exploitation tutorials

also, like, lots of good talks out there; just watching defcon/cansecwest/etc talks until something piques your interest is very fun. i'd die on a battlefield for any of Christopher Domas's talks, but he assumes a lot of specific x86/OS knowledge, lol, so maybe don’t start with that. oh, Julia Evans's blog is honestly probably pretty good for just learning a lot of stuff and really beginner-friendly?

oh and wrt legality... idk, i haven't addressed it here since it hasn't come up in my own work much, tbh. if you're just getting started you're kind of unlikely to Break The Law without, y'know, realizing maybe you're doing something a bit gray-area? and you can cross that bridge when you come to it? Real Hacking TM is way more of a pain-in-the-ass than doing CTFs and such, and you'll learn way more with the latter, so who cares lol just do the fun thing

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Did you watch it♪Onoda Saori (2021-08-17)

🍋She who has wanted to eat mostunabe so bad recently、I’m Saori♪

  Yesterday’s blog comments、I read them all！

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  Those of you on summer vacation this year、I hope you can enjoy it leisurely！

  Ahー I wanna toast marshmallows！！

     Yesterday、did you watch Solo Fes 2！？！？

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  Saori checked it out to see everyone’s performances、、、

  Each and everyone’s performance and presentation was completely different！！！！！

  It was really truly a learning experience to see😆✨

  By the way Saori、、、

  Sang Matsuura Aya-san’s 「♡Momoiro Kataomi♡」！

  This time we were able to choose our costumes、so I chose a cute costume that would match well with the song🍑

  Saori’s member colour is peach which is perfect for this song、

  And I wanted to perform a song that was very idol-esque、and very Saori-esque which is why I chose this songーー！！！

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  We also held a Solo Fes last year、so I was really happy when I found out we would be doing it a second time 🥺

  If we can hold it again next year、I want to be able to present myself even more clearly！

  So if there is a next time、I wonder what I should sing！！！

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[hotarutranslations]

Mei's 19 Years Old!

Evening

Yamazaki Mei-chan💚 Happy birthday~💚

Continuing from last year, this year as well, I went to her birthday event!

I watched a fun 2 performances!

Its the 28th, the day of Mei's birthday

Further, ..5:51PM⏰ 𓈒

We counted down to the moment, That Mei-chan was born, It was an really wonderful moment to be present for🫣🪽

Amazing…!

Every year, with the intention of "I want to do this", She planned it, and packed it in, And did it for a birthday event, (But everyones birthday events are like that~) I thought it was really great

Its not like really really get to see all the events so, I don't know how this is for everyone but, I was envious of Mei's clear idea what she wanted to do…🍀

Thanks for your hard work~~🥴🪽

Really, really, congrats! Its the last of the teens for Mei!

I saw and heard a lot of happy faces and voices today too,

Also, with 15th generation! They had their bus tour the other day! (really, congrats on 5 years🍓)

She told me about how much she enjoy the bus tour, Up until the moment I went home today🥴🫶🏻

By the way, I also want to hear, stories about the bus tour←

I even asked how the 15th generation were doing, the day after they got back🫣🫣← Thank you for the souvenirs🤤🤤

The year of being 19 years old, will bring a lot of love,

I hope its a wonderful year!

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I'm looking forward to the live stream talking a lot with Rairi about Royal Milk Tea, and I'm looking forward to the lots of Panda-san Power messages and reading a lot of them! lol

If everyone wins the lottery, then it would no longer be a lottery so..🫤🫤

There is a difference in winning whether its read aloud or not but,

I look forward to getting everyone messages, all of them without dividing them🤍

Ah, but, eh, its kinda, Its still? in a few months, It doesn't need to be like a final message, Its like? Its fine? Right? Eh, but if you think of it from that side of things, If you think this will be last time for you to convey things, I want you to convey what you want to say..?

Eh-- I'm looking forward to that too? Ok--🥴 lol

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[blackwoolncrown]

So the thing about Onlyfans is like...

I was around when it and its competitor were created and knew about the motive and all and at that point it was kidn of a big deal bc some of the money behind the push was all ‘sex workers creating stuff for sex workers’ (LOL nt way) but like...

idk this is going to be messir than most of my posts bc I just don’t care to translate this into civvie talk but no mainstream anything is ever going to help sex workers get agency bc IMO the entire approach is completely counter to how sex work works, what it is, and how a sex worker can best sell it.

Sex work isn’t fucking breakfast cereal. It is not best sold in bright sterile storefronts, row upon row of similar yet slightly varied faux-diversity that puts us all ‘one click away’ from the clientele.

I’ve always held this opinion that sites need to replicate the boudoir experience. If someone wants a sex worker or our content, whatever, they WILL go and find it as long as they know what channels there are. The more they push a homogenized sense of putting us all ‘out there’ lined up in the open the more it kills interest and drive and forces the performers to compete with each other for front page attention.

Any site that actually wants to give success and agency to SWs needs to replicate virtually the best IRL sex work experience. And that’s not gonna be a white and blue version of a red-light window district with us all put on display for ‘Free’ (I’m looking at every single fucking ‘free’ vidchat site here, ugh) nor is it going to be lining us up from ‘most mainstream appeal’ to least and paying us that way like we’re in some cheap brothel.

It’s going to be more like in/outcall.

While a platform has a huge audience that allows models who can crack its algorithms or meet its branding best to make bank, it doesn’t respond well to individual branding and disadvantages anyone who doesn’t meet the brand image. The issue with platforms, again, is that if you are on a platform, the more ‘platformy’ and streamlined the UI is, the more that UI takes over any possible branding the model can have.

If you’re on OF right now, you’re an OF model. That’s your brand. You can have a flavor under that but OF is your brand, OFs site layout and color scheme dominates and DICTATES how you are viewed. OF IS your brand and it owns your brand. You don’t exist outside of it unless you’re smart and eventually drag your core audience off of it and onto your own private site.

And with more and more sites leaning towards the silicon valley capitalist strealined format of hyperwhite sterile UIs, it homogenizes models down to an expectation. You are constantly competing for the users’ attention bc sites like this-- IWC is another good example, but pretty much every clip site is now using this model-- is NOT made to make YOU money it is made to make ITSELF the most money.

This is why they don’t want to give you a custom drop page, which would make a ‘space’ for you to define yourself, your brand feel, and prime your customers to YOU-- doing so would minimize the amount of browsing a user does on the site, so to fix that they not only keep you from being able to add a sense of personality to your page they advertise *other models* on the same page at the  bottom. That takes attention away from your content but do they care as long as the site makes the sale? Meanwhile it doesn’t matter what you’ve learned about site design, or branding bc you’re hardly allowed to describe or present yourself layout wise bc again, that would skew the branding to being about you and not the platform and the site would have to allow you the resources to do so. Older sites used to let you do this, either through HTML or just giving you paletttes/fonts to choose from. But none of that now bc we’re just meat lined up to make some fucker in CA rich.

This is also why, if you are a SW and haven’t already: YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN SITE. First of all p much every site will do some sheisty shit at some point and you may not want to rely on them. The site may go down. The traffic may go bust. And lastly clients WILL google your  name and guess what comes up? If you don’t have a site, it will be stolen content of you. If you DO have a site it will be your site ...and stolen content of you. Your choice. Many clients will go to your site and pay you-- but they won’t do that if the site isn’t there.

All in all I was never really happy about OF and while I’m always looking for different places to peddle my stuff the direction of these sites with these hideous impersonal UIs irks me deeply bc it’s a great example of hypercapitalistic ‘efficiency’ robbing sex work of any shred of personality and intimacy it has-- which is a good portion of its value-- and grinding it down to low dollar high sale profit machines for some rando in silicon valley while models sell their content way under value just to get audience exposure that in turn just exposes them to more and more cheapasses who wanted more T&A on their TL and expect the best quality content for the lowest fucking price.

[flowered-mp3]

hi can i ask for tips on how to start posting my fics on tumblr?

of course u can!!!!

ok first, i am so incredibly flattered that you would come to me for advice lmao. this blog is only around 5 months old so i’m still learning the ins and outs myself!

second, i'll just put my hopefully good, 100% subjective advice below (long af, i apologize in advance):

writing fics:

write what you want to write. this is why i don't take requests, because i find it difficult to write anything that doesn't inspire me. no offense to anyone that takes requests, it's just that my brain doesn't work like that unfortunately :(

for posting your first fic, i personally like including the summary, warnings (very important if there are any!), genre, and pairing (if any), at the minimum. anything that is over like... 200-300 words or so, i place the "read more" thing, just so it's easier for the reader to navigate and scroll through your blog.

it's ok if your first fic isn't perfect! tbh i went back and reread the first thing that i posted (distraction) and my tenses are all over the fuckin place and the continuity was weird, like lol i need to edit it alkdfj. but it's ok because writing is a learning curve!

as for tagging, i looked at what other writers tagged their stuff as. it’s helpful as a starting point.

when i have muliple wips, or even just one fic, i find it helpful to keep them as drafts before you actually post them. usually, i put the fic in my drafts, go to bed, wake up the next day and read over it. more ofen than not, i catch more spelling mistakes/grammar stuff/continuity issues/pacing issues when i edit with a fresh mind. it makes editing alot faster and easier. 

once you post enough fics, i would recommend applying to be a part of a writers net. it’s super helpful to get advice from other writers, you get great blog growth, and collabing is really fun as well! for example, if you want to add banners to your fics (tbh i don’t even bother, but that’s just me lol) there may be people in the net that have photoshop experience, and they can help u out! (just a disclaimer, most if not all nets use discord as their primary source of communication, so i would recommend getting a discord if you don’t currently have one lol)

i personally don’t use page breaks in my fics, i just use symbols to separate scenes in longer fics. i just think that it’s easier than going into the html to add page breaks.

put a copyright statement on your work. you can take my statement as a template if u want. just like. do it. plagarism is v sucky and i don’t wish it on my worst enemy. 

not sure if this is advice but... i was personally really concerned with having a specific style of writing. in my personal life, i write lab reports and scientific papers alot, so i was afraid that my writing would be too sterile? too specific? too wordy? i guess? just like. idk. fuck that. just write however you want to write and readers who are drawn to your style will come to your blog eventually. just don’t get hung up on it like i did lol.

blog organization:

look around on your fav authors' pages and try to see how they organize their fics. i took a lot of inspo from other writers, and took what i liked from how they organized their blog/masterlist. as a reader, i like seeing the description of the fic beside the title in the masterlist, so that's what i did.

at the very least, i would also include warnings for explicit content within your masterlist as well. just go with what you think makes sense for what you want to write.

as for learning how to make a masterlist and how to link your masterlist in your bio, i just searched up internet advice lmao, including this and this

tbh, i make a masterlist type thing for almost everything on my blog (about me tab, fic favs, networks, wips, etc.). it keeps it organized and it’s helpful to me as the writer and for the readers.

for picking a blog theme, i just picked the one that is most favourable for on screen reading. i try to ensure that my links and text are of the contrasting colour to the background, as it makes it much easier for the reader. just as a reference, i use the lilac theme.

general “being a writer on tumblr” advice

growth is slow, but steady as a writer on this platform. don't be discouraged by note count because tbh, i've found that note count is not correlated with fic interest at all. example, i had no idea that people liked releve so much because the note count is pretty low, but i have readers in my asks saying how much they love it so... don't be discouraged by low note count!

don’t be afraid to rb your own stuff. it does alot for engagment on your writing.

don’t plagarize. it’s not cool.

try to interact and rb fics that you personally love on your blog! it’s a great way to interact with other writers and i love it when i get shout outs, so i try to return the favour as much as i can.

don’t be an asshole? idk?

being a writer on this platform is super personalized. how i write and organize my blog is super different from the next writer, so just go with what you want to do and what makes sense for your writing.

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survey by egooverdose

Apple Cinnamon: Do you like anything with this flavor? I don’t recall doing so...I like some cinnamon in my desserts, but I think if you threw some apples in there I might back away.

Berlin: What is a foreign country|city you would like to visit? My dream vacation overall is Morocco or Iceland. If we’re talking in terms of what is probably more accessible to me at the moment, I’d love to go to Thailand.

Bill Kaulitz: What do you think of his hairstyle(s)? Oh my godddddddd I haven’t heard this name in a HOT MINUTE lol Andi was completely bonkers over Tokio Hotel and also unhealthily obsessed with Bill’s twin, Tom. When she showed me photos of Bill, my 11 year old self definitely thought his hair was a tad bit too wild but I didn’t judge it or hate him or anything like that.

Bleak Landscapes: What is your favorite type of landscape? Looking into mountains has always had a calming effect on me. That’s why it’s my desktop wallpaper.

Blogging: When was the last time you updated your blog? Idk, by the time I finish and post this survey it probably would turn up to be around half an hour since I posted the last one.

Body Language: Can you generally tell how someone is feeling by his or her body language? Are you good at this? I’ve usually had a good eye for it, yes. I’ve seldom been wrong about it; though to be honest, it’s easiest and quickest to tell when someone is upset, than any other emotion. My radar is strongest for that haha.

Books: What book would you recommend, and what makes it so good? I’d recommend to turn this question over to other survey-takers who read way more than I do and have better books to suggest.

Cairo: Is there any place with an ancient culture that fascinates you? All ancient cultures fascinate me but if given the choice, I would jump at the chance to visit Pompeii.

Carbohydrates: How many grams of carbs, approximately, have you had today? I don’t count those or any of the other stuff in food, so I wouldn’t even know where to begin.  

Coffee: What is one hot beverage that you like? Mmm, never been a big fan of hot drinks. There are drinks that are meant to be hot, like hot chocolate, that I would order because there’s no other alternative; but what I’d do is wait for it to cool down until it was room temp. I just really don’t like the feeling of something hot touching my mouth, especially after I completely burned the roof of my mouth eating freshly-cooked takoyaki.

Cold: When was the last time you were cold? Right now. Christmas weather has finally made itself at home and I’m not complaining about it.

CSS: Do you know any programming languages? Nope. Not my territory at all.

Emptiness: What is something you like when it is empty? How about full? Nothing relieves me more than seeing my to-do list with all the items crossed out by the end of my shift. If we’re talking of full, it feels great when my gas tank is that :D

Endearing Stereotypes: What are some stereotypes you think are funny? I don’t really find stereotypes funny; I think a great deal of them silently reinforce a lot of hurtful thinking for most groups. One stereotype I’ll hand a pass to, though, just because I’ve lived and continue to live through it and because it feels nice to poke fun at it once in a while, is the ridiculous strictness of Asian parents. That’s a lighter stereotype that’s easier to have a chuckle over; Sindhu Vee’s stand-up work on Indian parenting (”Did you put two spoons of chocolate in your milk? Fine, I am going to go beat myself up. Enjoy your milk”) has me rolling every time because it’s so relatable.

Explanations: When was the last time you were confused about something? This morning when I had a slight, harmless misunderstanding with a client. It was resolved relatively quickly.

Expression: What is your favorite way to creatively express yourself or do you even do this? The most creative thing I do nowadays is embroidery, but even the ones I work with already have a template. I’ve never been creative enough in that I can craft things from thin air.

Fog: Do you like fog, or do you find it bothersome? It’s extremely bothersome when I have to drive through it, but if I’m staying in then it can feel super cozy seeing fog. Fuck, I miss going to colder places :(

Foreign Cultures: What is your heritage? Are you interested in learning more about it? I’m fairly certain I am pure Filipino, maybe a very thin chance of having Spanish blood if my ancestors got into inter-marriages with foreigners but I highly doubt the possibility. I’m already Filipino, so I already know a great deal about my own history.

Foreign Music: Do you listen to music in other languages? Name a band? Yes. English. I’ll go with my fave, Paramore.

Free-Writing: When was the last time you wrote just for the sake of it? September. I didn’t really keep my journaling habit that I thought I was gonna get to develop, and I ended up writing only two entries.

Germanic Languages: What language do you think sounds the most beautiful? What about powerful?   Spanish or Italian. Idk if there’s a language that I think sounds powerful.

Germany: Do you think Grammar Nazis come from there? :D Ba dum tssssssssssssss

Hello Kitty: Did you ever watch the animated show? Nah, I wasn’t into Hello Kitty and Sanrio in general. My cartoon show of choice was Spongebob.

Hoodies: What is your "comfort|security" clothing item of choice? My favorite pair of mom jeans that I probably overuse at this point.

Horror Films: Do you like watching scary movies by yourself, in the dark? Not anymore, but I did this a lot in high school when I had been more into my horror movie phase.

HTML: Do you know what HTML stands for? Do you know any funny acronyms? Hypertext Markup Language. Not really. Most of the acronyms I use are slang or shortcuts and aren’t really supposed to be funny per se.

Icons: Do you collect any icons, graphics, or quotes? What sites do you use? No.

Imaginative Streaks: When was the last time you created something? I created a deck for work yesterday, if it counts.

Irises: When you see that word, do you think of the flower or the part of the eye? I thought of the eyes first.