#also no advice please

[obstinatecondolement]

I feel bad complaining when I have a roof over my head and don't have to worry about access to electricity, heating, running water and food, but I am so fucking sick of having my disability payment adjusted to account for an additional income stream I haven't had for almost nine months.

[leupagus]

On Voting in America

So one of the most profound comments on routine chores that I've ever encountered was, hilariously, the Pickle Rick episode of "Rick & Morty," where (after a lot of shenanigans have already ensued) this therapist absolutely lays Rick out:

"I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is some people are okay going to work and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."

I think about this at least once a week — usually while I'm doing my laundry or sweeping or some other task that needs doing and won't get me anything more than clean clothing or a dog-hair-free floor. There's no Pulitzer for wiping down your microwave or scrubbing your toilet; no one's awarding you for getting all the dishes out of the sink. At best you have the satisfaction of crossing it off your list.

Voting is very much the same (and I'm talking about the US here, as an American). Sure, you sometimes get a sticker; but nobody's going to cheer for you. There's no adventure here, no potential for anything more than crossing something off of a list. It's a chore, something that needs doing in order to repair, maintain, and yes even clean. So I get why people don't like doing it.

And I've decided I don't give a shit.

Do it anyway. Your country takes astonishingly little from you — taxes, the once-in-a-blue-moon jury duty, and a theoretical draft that hasn't been used in over half a century and likely will never be again — but it asks you (asks! not requires! not demands!) to vote once a year. It's not always easy; especially in conservative states, the impediments to vote can be ridiculous. But it is once a year and unlike in our nation's all-too-recent past, you will not die if you do it.

In fact, the worst outcome from voting these days is that the person or issue that you vote for loses — but you won't know if they lose until after the election. Polls are less accurate now, for a whole host of reasons; you cannot know until after the election who or what will win. This makes your vote more valuable than possibly ever before.

Use that power. Not because it's exciting or even rewarding, but because your vote is what keeps our country's metaphorical teeth from falling out and our metaphorical ass from stinking.

Brush, wipe, vote.

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #61 Part 4

Danny woke up to a stream of sunlight on his face. The room was just as rich as he remembered, he stood up and stretched a bit before he heard a knock at the door.

It was Alfred bringing him a change of clothes, “Breakfast is ready, Master Danny. You can find the dining room down the hall to the left.” the old butler smiled at him. 

“You don’t have to call me Master, Alfred, I’m not your Damian.” Danny said, turning around to address him.

“Ah, yes, however you are still Master Bruce’s son, even from another world.” The butler gave him a cheeky smile.

Danny shrugged and headed to the bathroom to get changed. Once he was decent again, he headed down to the dining room. 

The room was just as fancy as the rest of the house with a chandelier and ornate vases. 

Danny noticed Damian and a few others already seated at the table. Damian wore what Danny could only assume was his rich kid school uniform. He sat across from Damian who made a small ‘Tt’ and turned away from him. 

Next to Damian was Tim who put away his laptop once Danny sat down. Tim was wearing a business suit, a dark red colored one. “Ah, you sleep much longer than Damian does, you must have been tired.” Tim smiled at him.

Also seated at the table and wearing a navy blue suit, was Bruce himself. He was drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.

“Stop comparing me to him, Drake, I’m nothing like this imposter.” Looks like Damian still thought he was a clone. 

Whatever, he shrugged it off and filled his plate. 

“I don’t really have a lot of free time,” was all Danny said before he started eating.

Tim kind of watched him for a minute, he looked kind of shocked for a second, “You’re eating meat??” 

Ah so that was another difference between them, “again, I’m Danny, I’m not Damian.”

Damian scoffed, “So that’s what you call yourself, imposter.”

Danny gave Damian a tired sigh, looks like the him of this universe was a lot more prideful than he was. Danny went through way too much to carry the same, dying and being crown prince of the infinite realms wasn’t exactly something he was born into. Danny was a bit jealous if he was being honest with himself. 

“Damian, please at least attempt to be friendly. Danny is our guest for the meantime.” Bruce said, putting his newspaper down. He then turned his attention to Danny, “I know it isn’t ideal but I think it’ll be best for you to stay here until we can get you to your own world. I’m planning a trip to the Watchtower tomorrow so I can speak with some of my colleagues about the situation.” 

Danny sighed but nodded his head, “I get it, you can’t have two of us running around.”

“Quite, you’re more than welcome to go around the mansion and the grounds, I’d also like to invite you along to the Watchtower but we’d need to come up with a disguise for you, secret identity and everything.” Bruce continued after taking another sip from his mug, “Alfred will still take you out today to get some basic necessities for you. We’ll get you a proper disguise so you're able to go with him.”

Danny nodded again and continued eating. He thought things over as he ate, he technically had a disguise they could use for the Watchtower but Danny was still on the fence on what exactly he’d tell everyone here.

It wasn’t exactly an easy conversation to have, thankfully some more people arrived for breakfast.

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[basketobread]

would you guys follow his youtube channel. he does self help content. (vyper in the second image belongs to @ratscrap)

[ohno-wallace]

And the rest is history 💌

[genericpuff]

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[thatsbelievable]

[katapotato55]

how to make your writing be remembered forever and possibly be well loved.

(incredibly stupid and silly fanfiction line at the end of this post) I know that title is incredibly daunting but listen, its very simple. you ready?

MAKE STRONG CHARACTERS

"but kat! surely its not that simple! " nononono listen. bear with me. I want you to think of your favorite thing. Now ask: what do you remember the most about the thing you love? I will go first:

I love team fortress 2. and guess what: this game has been around since 2007, and was in development hell since before I was even born. The game has been around for 16 fucking years. And guess what? in the strong year of 2023 team fortress 2 Is STILL getting memed about. and do you want to know the crazy part? the character designs to the naked eye are not special at all. ok sure from a designer standpoint, these are very well designed characters made so that you can easily tell who they are based on their silhouette. but from the average joe.... tf2 is iconic but overall it looks ok. it doesn't seem special to a stranger to tf2. look at this completely random and arbitrary example of a game in the same genre:

I don't know shit about the characters in overwatch. Yeah i have a BASIC idea on what their personality is like based on voice lines and some videos i guess... but in-game they just exist. these characters are brightly colored, they have beautiful unique designs, hell they have even more diversity such as robots and people from other cultures! but i don't remember shit about these characters. Maybe I remember the ice lady and tracer, but nothing else. and yeah part of overwatch struggling right now is incompetant development, BUT: The characters in team fortress 2 are SO remember-able because the characters have such a vibrant personality. I am an orange box owner, its been a decade and a half and I am still remembering this game and enjoying art about it.

"but kat! that is a comedy game! Overwatch is a very serious game! are you saying comedy is needed to make a character more noticeable?" no. though I think allowing your characters to lighten up every now and then would humanize them. Not full on goofy, just give them something that makes them likeable. and if you cant do that, you can STILL make a compelling character even though they are mostly seriousness. I have an even more awfully thought out example:

kung fu panda is a masterclass in making a serious comedic movie somehow work. Master Oogway.... he isn't a comedic character at all. Yeah we made memes about him, but ignoring that, he is a wise and resourceful person. He is at calm and has faith in this intuition. there are a lot of characters like this. What makes Oogway stand out is that he is also a little bit kooky and sassy.

this youtube clip sums up what I mean. It is a funny line, it fits the character, and It doesn't ruin the seriousness of the moment. Some of the most successful series in history have something about them that has appealed to people. In my opinion: characters with strong personality and interesting traits is always a good way to ensure your writing is successful. The second most important is the characters bouncing off of each other in terms of their chemistry with each other. There is a reason why I spent years playing the first Destiny game and all of the DLC, but I remember fuck all about the characters. I think I maybe remember the bootleg star lord robot guy.

A writing exercise

here is an exercise to get you in the spirit of character making. step 1- get a random character from a random bit of media. In this case let me bring you master Oogway. Step 2- Get a completely different character from a completely unrelated series. I am going to give you Scout from team fortress 2. step 3- write a random ass thing about them interacting. Think about how the characters would react to each other and why. Think about each characters values in life and think about how they would bond and conflict with each other. Think about characters similar to the character they met in the past and how they reacted then, and if they have never interacted, make something interesting with it. Step 4- keep experimenting. Once you get into the spirit you can apply this to any new character you could want to make anyways thats it byeee- "arent you going to do that ?" do what? "make a writing thing about oogway and scout. " ........

Scout: let's go turtle you got nothing on my speed- Oogway: The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments. Scout: that sounds like chicken talk! come on tough guy let me have it- Oogway then proceeds to make scout eat shit before vanishing in a cloud of cherry blossoms and dust from the desert. If this post isn't popular I want you to know my dignity was lost for nothing.

[lqfiles]

bae have u seen the shit ab taeil…

my first thought after finding out news about nct is to just come to u it’s kinda funny😭

—🪼

it was the first thing i saw when i opened twitter yesterday morning and the way my stomach dropped.. i don’t even have anything to say other than that i’m utterly disgusted by someone like him and the fact that the victim had to endure this while he got to live his life without any consequences is truly sickening.

i want to put this out there, i advice everyone to be CAREFUL with the information you consume. right now, there are a lot of unconfirmed rumours going around by people who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who made the theory themselves. ESPECIALLY on twitter, a lot of people are using this issue to gain quick hit tweets, i’ve seen a LOT of misinformation as well as people straight up making up fake stuff and screenshots being spread in the last 24 hours. this all takes the attention away from the ACTUAL words provided by both the victim and police themselves so i encourage you to not believe everything unless it came from official sources and only spread the words of the victim. all you have to know is that taeil is being charged for sex crimes, that alone should be enough to dislike him.

lastly i wish nothing but bad on him and want it to be known that i do NOT support nor want his supporters to follow me anymore. i’ll never stand for someone who is a SAer and neither should you. ruined my whole day yesterday but that’s nothing compared to how long he has ruined the victim’s life for. may she get her justice.

[melikes-reads]

To German speakers

Serious question: how do you think, before you talk?

I've been watching German tv series and reading German fics, so my reading and listening comprehension is improving.

But.

German syntax is puzzling. Extremely so.

I know the grammar rules, I do! But my mind automatically goes subject + verb + object + conjunction + subject + verb + object when I want to speak.

When I write, I have time to reflect about the correct order of each word (and pieces of a word!), but trying to speak and remember where every part of the speech goes, and the right declensions… Impossible.

So, any advice?

[ibrithir-was-here]

Hey you, yes you. The person who needs to hear this

Your Fun Idea thing you're working on isn't bad, and you're not making anyone upset by not doing it "fast enough"

You just used up all your Seratonin making it and you haven't eaten/slept enough after. Go get some actual food, not snacks and remember that you're not getting paid for this so why are you stressing over deadlines that don't exist?

People who will like your thing will like it and people who don't wont and nobody who you actually want to care about will be a Jerk about it.

It's supposed to be Fun, so go have fun 🩷

[redinthesea]

Oh my god I can't believe this actually worked. There's still a ton of small issues to resolve (mostly clipping / animations, some seams I forgot to close etc, and I haven't figured out the boss battle ink color yet. Also he makes cut-scenes lag so bad even though his file is very close in size with Frye's...) but it... works!!!

I wanted to do all of C-Side but that's gonna have to be indefinitely postponed due to me being insanely busy.

Feel free to ask any questions since I know that modding tends to be very niche and it's hard to discover information around it!

[the-shinysnorlax]

God I’m begging. On all hands and knees. If you are going to write Miguel in a fic. Read his comics. Go to his wiki page. Do RESEARCH. Because I am sick and tired of people mischaracterizing Miguel ESPECIALLY here on Tumblr. It’s ridiculous.

Like my guy is not flirtatious. He’s a pathetic sad little nerd (Affectionate) who alienates himself from everyone and doesn’t know how to express his feelings so he just becomes overtly sarcastic. That’s Miguel.

Also y’all. REMEMBER THAT GABRIEL EXISTS. HE HAS A FAMILY.

Lastly Miguel was abused as a child. Hes tried unaliving himself. Miguel has trauma that isn’t just his daughter dying.

So yeah. Miguel is a complex character. I get it. But again, it is not hard to do research on him and his character. I beg. I’m tired of the blatant Mischaracterization of him. Please please PLEASE read his comics or at least read his wiki page. Anything. I’m done with him being written as a completely different character.

[flintandthegendercrisis]

Ok so! I’ve come for some advice on writing- how do people actually follow through with writing?

Like, I have plenty of ideas for my characters that I really wanna write, but it’s hard to put stuff into words. Sometimes I just get overwhelmed at the thought of trying to write a story and end up not writing it at all.

Does anyone have any tips and/or advice for writing stories in general? Or at least on how to not get overwhelmed by writing?

[faededaway]

Aizawa x camgirl(you) part 3

[themes: fem reader, cam, idk what position they were in but it's a mythical one that they pull off with the power of love and horny, squirting, calling 'Zawa daddy like it's his middle name]

This was his idea. To show the world how beautifully he fits inside of you. How beautifully your pussy swallows him. The camera is set up to show the mirror that faces your bed. Aizawa is sitting on the edge and you're on his lap.

“Look at yourself, look where we connect,” he whispers in your ear when he bottoms out in you.

He holds your chin and makes you look at him in the mirror. He raises his hand, brings it up to your face, and slowly drags it down your body, making sure you watch his hand in the mirror. You shiver as you see and feel his touch on your body. He stops his hand just above the point where he disappears into you. The point where you connect.

A whimper leaves your body and you arch your back into him.

How did this happen? Why is Aizawa in the stream with you? Well, one too many viewers were concerned about how lonely you were and kept leaving their contacts in the chat for you to find. They even tipped generously. Saying they'd pay to be in your stream. Aizawa had found you here so he wasn't going to tell you to stop streaming because "you have me now".

But he did want to do something. So he suggested being on stream so your viewers could rest assured that you're being taken care of.

As such, you came up with today's theme. You come over to visit me

You weren't sure if it'd sit well with all the viewers but some comments were creeping you out a little.

But doing this like this? Seeing yourself connect with Aizawa? Watching every movement of his and every way that your body reacts to his touch wasn't some thing you had in mind.

You're clingy and desperate. Like a person dying of thirst, you grab onto him wherever you can. His arms when they wrap around you, his face when he kisses you, your hands are always onto him. Your body burns, he's the only thing, his touch is the only thing that can put out this fire. You're moaning or crying, maybe. You're not sure.

His name leaves your mouth in a chant but Aizawa's mouth is quicker. He kisses you shut and wraps his thick hand around your neck. You're too out of it to remember that you're online and people do not know you or him. Yeah, they can't see your faces but they can hear you very well. (You have to compensate somehow) Plus, the way your pussy squelches around him would be many guys' porn for days.

“Baby, call me daddy,” he says into the kiss as he lifts your hips and pounds into you.

Daddy! Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, da-

No other words leave your mouth. Just his name. Just him. You're so full of him. His hands cups your breasts and pinch your nipples. Your squirm in his lap, grinding into him.

The noises in the room, the smell of you, the sight, and his voice whispering “so good for me baby”, make your head mushy.

You don't know where you are, just feel him. So much of him and you. You breathe faster and holding his neck with one arm while the other holds his hand.

He knows you're close, so he unclasps your hand and brings it to your clit. You jump from the touch.

“We're almost there, baby. Almost there. Just a bit more.”

He guides your fingers to rub your clit slowly and deliberately.

When your pussy starts squeezing around him, he pinches your clit with his fingers and undos you.

You orgasm makes you lean into him and take his cock deeper into yourself. His warm cum fills you up and in the mirror, you see it drip out of you.

He groans into you neck, “so good for me, baby”.

You don't feel like you're done yet. You take his hand and bring it over your mound. You see it in the mirror, how his large hand can cup all of it. You clench around his arm that's between your legs and feel yourself cum like you're never cum before. A liquid gushes out of you, covering Aizawa's palm and shooting into the mirror. You see yourself in the mirror coming off your high, though the reflection is blurry as it's drenched in your squirt. Aizawa kisses your shoulders and your hands.

With himself still in you, he kisses your lips. “Love you, baby”.

“And I love you, S- so much”.

You stay in that position until he softens in you. Both of you groan when he pulls out. You can't help but laugh when you catch each other's eye.

He gets a mask from the bedside table and puts it on your face, carefully fixing your sideburns. He puts one one too.

You crawl onto the bed to get to your laptop. Aizawa turns off the floor camera as you use the laptop's cam now.

Now that you ceased your activities, you could hear the loud barrage of tings going off on your blog.

You read some of the comments.

“fuuuuuuuuuck, she's never sounded like this before”

“WHO'S THAT??? HOW DO I PAY HIMMMM”

“So hot baby, fuck, im-”

“SHE SQUIRTED ON THE CAM”

“Held my phone to my face, it was so real”

“These sounds- God, fuckkkkkkkk”

“his dick is better than mine, my queen deserves someone like him”

“Bet she feels amazing”

“want ta hold her like her”

“her moans, fuck, I'll be hard for days”

Total tips: *happy number, bby*

The results shocked you. You never had such a big payout on any other streams before.

Well, at least you now know that you could have Aizawa on stream without upsetting your viewers. In fact, some want to see him again.

You thank your viewers and tippers and avoid answering or reading any questions about Aizawa. Meanwhile, Aizawa runs a bath for the both of you. He comes out of the bathroom with a wet towel and wipes the mirror. You catch his eye and stop your sentences midway.

The chat's tings breaks your stupor and and quickly say goodbye as you don't want Aizawa cleaning your mess alone.

“Shou! Don't hav'ta do that!” you take the towel from him and wipe the mirror yourself.

“Mm? We did this together, didn't we?,” you blush at his words and puff your cheeks.

“No!”

“Hmm, we made a beautiful mess, baby. Beautiful one,” he brings your hand to his lips and kisses them.

His eyes, full of love, look at you like you're the best thing in his life. You hope he can see the same emotion being reflected in your eyes.

🩷Part 1 🧡Part 2

[shrimp-propaganda]

"change your filter cartridge every 3 months" is a lie made up by Big Filter to sell more filters. i haven't changed mine in ten years and whatever's living in there is like my family now