#editable certificates

[pangur-and-grim]

my old man yaoi is getting published!

you can grab a pre-order here

[littlemissmoodswings]

me and my friend were talking about lucy and cooper encountering "the little white chapel" in vegas and while it might be fucked up and all, elvis is still there. or a robot elvis who's initiative of marrying people has morphed into not letting anyone who comes in leave without being married (so anyone lone wanderers were killed) and lucy is like "shoot the robot." and cooper's like "i'm not killin' 'im, that's elvis." meanwhile this is the mf they're dealing with

[freetobeafcknriot]

Once upon a time, there was a young prince who was born in a castle, and there had never been a prince quite like him. He was born with his heart on the outside of his body.

[brbgensokyo]

i realy love seeing forgotten kancolle characters still have their shooters bc eventually it always falls into them going about their daily life with an undercurrent melancholy. it lends a touch of realism like nothing else.

[songsofwaterandnight]

Why I got into Kagurabachi:

Why I stayed:

[jojo-rolo]

And here comes all the awards I made for the Gala Event itself!! I had so much fun making these - this was my way to give all my appreciation to the winners and to give back to the community X3

I won't tag everyone who appears in here since this is really more of a means to archive this for me, BUT I will link you to all the artists' who's art I used to make the RaphCass and Apritello collages! So please peruse the works of @/turtsmcgurts, @/blymathin-cove, @/lovelyladylavie, @/shiveagit, @/lastknownstatus-alive, @/plaidartist and lastly Squeaky!! ((though I don't have her instagram handle yet- will be editing it in))

[keepthedelta]

there is no possible way that it is easier or more cost effective to keep coming up with new shitty american street tracks than it is to do a bit of upkeep on one of the existing grade one fia certified tracks that exist around the world. kyalami is right there, buddh is right there, sepang is right there, korea international circuit is right there, instanbul park is still there, chang international in thailand is certified. every single one of these tracks in more interesting than any ridiculous street circuit crammed into an american city

[peeb0]

love how @banalope and i have known each other for over a decade now and we still can't get each other's birthdays right

"Yours is the 2nd, right?"

"yours is the 17th, right?"

neither of them are correct

We have both just assigned each other new birthdays and we're sticking to it. anyway this was her response:

[tragically-jane-doe]

Every so often I get sad over never having the canon twilight/hunger games phase or boy band phase

I just never could get into as my mother would call them those "teeny bopper boys" aka one direction,Justin Bieber, BTS

[cheddar-baby]

Bella Freud

[arionaleilani]

hello, hoping to build a portfolio for editing, so if anyone is currently screening for beta readers or know of someone screening for beta readers, i’m looking for people/places to apply ✌️

[radioexe]

what apps do you make your psds, stamps, and blinkies?? i need to know your ways. 🫤🫤🔥🔥

i use photopea.com for all of my edits!

[evany-star]

my. Friends keep telling me that Bede looks like fucking George Washington please help

[greenheld]

i owe my professors my entire being and soul

[squiddokiddo]

Do not be fooled by his charms, this old man is actually an asshole who has done thousands of pounds worth of damage over his life time.

But

We still love this old man and wouldn't change him for the world.

put that old man in a situation

[phoenixcatch7]

Fanfiction is great because you can see so clearly how people learn to write.

Some people, it's clear, learned almost entirely through absorbing the world around them. Grammar and punctuation will be all over the place, spellings are approximate, but the voice of the narration will come through so clearly. You can hear the dialect of the people around them as of they're telling the story. It's not a written story, it's a transcription of how they talk in their day to day life.

Some people learned through reading a gazillion books as a kid. Grammer and spelling will be rock solid, formatting occasionally based on the single tab of physical books rather than the double tab of online scrolling, but dialogue is often stilted and overly formal. You might notice a lack of contractions and very rigid rules they made for consistency that actually have a lot more flexibility than they think. They tend to have a fantastic grasp of sentence flow, though.

And other people formally learned how to write. This could be anywhere from taking school classes seriously because they enjoyed writing stories as a kid to literal certifications and jobs in the field. Grammer is flawless. Punctuation is triple checked. Foreign words are in italics. Characters have distinct voices. But their self indulgence is tempered by perfectionism. They know precisely what they want from a fic. Authors notes often feature mutterings about their happiness with the chapter. Kaomojis often appear! They seek a style to their writing, and it makes for some wonderfully clever plots! These are the ones most likely to get fun with formatting!

And some people.... Some people examined it all. They dissect dialogue, people watch, cross reference behaviours and compare characters to people irl. You can tell almost immediately who had formative experiences with Terry pratchett and/or ghibli, because it's these people. While others see writing as fun, expression, craft, they see it as art. Plain and simple. Sure, the grammar is occasionally sacrificed on the altar of creative freedom, and the occasional sentence might miss a full stop, but these people seem to self reflect on themselves as part of the art making process. On occasion, these people have the most masterful grasp of dialogue and invocation and hand sewn characterisations. Formatting is pretty standard because all the focus is on the actual words. These fics can be edited to the moon and back!

All of these can vary wildly in forethought and quality, and betas can often catch individual problems before they hit post, but just. Isn't it so cool? What's that one Oscar Wilde quote about every mask just being another fragment of yourself?

Did you recognise yourself?