#idk im a mobile user generally

[cpunkwitch]

Hey, chronic pain anon back again to ask some questions

My first question is to ask if you have any advice for how to handle or deal with the pain, I mean usually I just ignore it, but i dont know if that's really a good thing

I also wanted to ask if you knew of any mobility devices that might help with taking weight off my hips and spine? If that makes sense in a way?? I was thinking of getting some when possible as I noticed whenever I stand still I get a lot of pain / pressure in my hips and spine, like they're crumbling under my weight or something — idk if that makes sense, im like half asleep right now

Okay, uh, thanks :3 you're really cool and even if you can't answer these questions I don't mind ^_^

- chronic pain anon

Hey hun

DO NOT IGNORE PAIN /lh

Pain is your body sending your brain a signal something is wrong, listen to your body or it will get worse

Depending on the type and level of pain there are multiple ways to handle it

My methods are hot compress, soaks in baths or showers if I can manage one or the other, anti-inflammatory meds like ibuprofen or even Tylenol or advil (I can only take liquid or chewable meds but if you can swallow pills and know what meds you can take please do)

Compression socks, gloves, support shoes, braces, especially a back brace can help relieve and lessen pain by the end of the day

Sleeping with an extra pillow under your tailbone and/or between your legs depending on your sleeping position can help as well, preferably small pillows if you have one but whatever works

As for mobility aids

I'm looking into the same thing and the reason I was looking into using my moms walker before was because walkers and rollators have better weight support than a walking stick or cane, definitely better if you want to avoid the wrist and upper body pain leaning on a walking stick can give you at least from my experience

Best ones I know of should be within your height range, and can include a seat though the foldable ones are likely to have less weight support and there can be weight limits for aids so best to look at the weight limit on one before getting it

A walker or rollator feels like a middle between a cane and a wheelchair to me so I'd say it's good for spine and hip issues as I deal with the same

Actually last night because my mom wouldn't let me user her walker on my coffee run I ended up being hunched over with a lot of lacking mobility due to the extra pain I was in by the end of the day, the walker would have helped a lot and even helped me pase myself better walking uphill so I wouldn't have fallen into my habit of speed walking (or marching, Sea cadets will drill marching into your muscle memory)

So yeah tldr?

Anything that takes down swelling and inflammation in your muscles, joints and tissue in general wherever the pain tends to be can help a lot, even pain creams can help some

Small stretches can help too so your joints don't become stiff overtime just be careful not to strain or stretch too far or anything, light stretches can help get your body out of bed

And a walker or a rollator could be good for a mobility aid to look into

Hope this helps!!

[chipsonthemenu]

tell me about your headcanons!!

EHEWHEEHHE HI AURORA THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME YELL

okay so basic list stuff:

chip: he/him transmasc greyaroace bi and has. some sort of back problems. also his pinkie that i keep forgetting about! also adhd too bro has 0 attention span /pos

jay: she/they transfem bisexual and BBBAD KNEE....thought she had this in canon but i might be mixing them up with mari omori.....occasional mobility aids that ollie helped her decorate :3

gil: any pronouns agender aroace but is very down for qprs. autism as hell <3 also probably other stuff i cant think of rn OH GLASSES GIL FR

ollie: THEY/THEM GENDERQUEER UNLABELLED SCREAMING IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS THE LITTLE BOY THE KEEP ONNTHE SHIP IS A GENDERNEUTRAL TERM DO YOU SEE MY VISION. also probably needs glasses. to me. and heavily adhd n autism

drey: they/them nb unlebelled nblm. gots their arms yk 👍 also kinda strikes me at nd in some way fight me on this

gryffon: okay. hear me out. they/he/she nb panromantic asexual. please. do you see my vision. also their arm and autism. gryffon is autism do you hear me.

finn: he/she genderfluid pansexual bro is a whore. also love the idea of fully mute finn and she is autism as FUCK DO YOU HEAR MEEEE

earl: nobody escapes from my queerness beam not even earl. he/him cismasc bisexual. bad back bad knees uses a cane. old man shit but also he hits people with the cane and uses it when making juice sometimes. ollie put fruit stickers all over it once and he actually kinda likes it but will never say that

queen: MY LOVE. MY ONE AND ONLY. ANY PRONOUNS PANGENDER AROACE. THEY HAVE AUTISM AND TICS (IM BLANKING ON WHAT THATS CALLED) AND STRIKES ME AS SOMEONE WHO NEEDS MOBILITY AIDS BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT FOR. XE ARE JUST LIKE ME FR AND I LOVE HER WITH EVERYTHING IN MY BEING

lizzie: she/her transfem lesbian. shit vision not jusy due to her eye but just in general. refuses to wear glasses

caspian: they/he libramasc achillean demisexual :) sssooooo many jrwi characters strike me as mobility aid users despite me not being one and caspian is no exceptionnnnnnn to this

john: sorry bee but. he/him cismasc VERY VERY GAY. MARSHALL JOHN IS A MAN LIKER. ALSO VERY AUTISM AND ADHD

niklaus: throwing in motherfucker too because i do have stuff. she/they/lun/he transfem genderfluid bisexual. thats it

i thibk thats everyone i wanted to yell about lmk OH FUCK ALPHONSE

alphonse: dont care. doing the silly. it/they/he agender aroace i do not care if they are the boat now it deserved better and he gets my headcanons

okay thats everyone i think thank you for letting me scream <3

LIED. LIED SO BAD.

jaz: JASMINE DRAAAAKE <3 he/they transmasc gay with autism and why do i see him having a prosthetic arm. no idea why okay i think thats ACTUALLY everyone now

edyn: she/e cisfem sapphic HOW DID I ALMOST FORGET HERRRRR

ensa: omg her. they/she transfem nb lesbain asexual. got her prosthetic leg and probably adhd

kira: SHE/THEY TRANSFEM SAPPHIC KIRA IS A WOMAN KISSER mwa love her

okay. goodbye fr this time i promise

wait no i wanna do the apoth crew too as an apotheosis enjoyer

peter: they/he transmasc demiboy with so much autism that likes men. also probably post-campaign cane user the shit they went through can fuck someone up

rumi: any pronouns genderfluid pansexual. there is some sort of thing i think they have (i dont think its imposter syndrome) but its something about never actually seeing herself because changeling shit yk idk

thanatos: it/they unlabelled :) doesnt need labels doesnt want em :)

OKAY. I THINK THATS IT FUCK EXANDROTH RESPECTFULLY OKAY WAHOO HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY UNGODLY LONG POST

[angelgendered]

She also told me that im 'using my wheelchair too much' and am 'getting lazy'

Like.

She does know there's a big reason i get the highest rates of PIP, right? And that I have a chair on Motability ffs because they also think I need one? I was assessed by an OT who said I CANNOT self propel but that they couldn't give me a motorised chair through them bc I can stand and walk a bit 🙄 but they gave me an attendant propelled chair which I HATE cos it makes me reliant on my mother to push me and she bitches about my weight the whole time and it just upsets me.

So yeah, I use my motorised chair a lot. Can you blame me? I can walk, yes. Under like 10m without stopping. I have to use crutches if I'm doing that outside the house cos of uneven flooring. I get immense pain and fatigue in my back and my body from walking and mobilising generally. Standing and sitting repeatedly, as well as bending, are all triggers for my pain. All things I'd have to do without my chair.

And yes it's a lifeline I've become reliant on. But that's the POINT of a good mobility aid, is it not? That's the whole idea of them! They enable you to do things you couldn't otherwise do! Seeing as my granddad was paraplegic and near enough quadriplegic at the time he died, it rally shocks me how bad her attitude towards wheelchair users is. She's disabled herself ffs. But I forgot, no one is allowed to feel bad or struggle unless it's her. Any time anyone in the family has a health condition, my mother suddenly acquires something similar or the same. It's so tiring because she makes it a contest and it makes me so so so tired.

Anyway, as I was saying. My chair is my lifeline. Since i got it, no exaggeration, I've been out more than I have since I was like 16. I shut myself away for years and withdrew from everyone, even people who expressed desire for friendship, believing I wasn't worthy of the attention. Well last years crisis and me coming out as trajs finally have changed things drastically. I am worthy of attention and love and I don't have to apologise to anyone for anything. Least of all my mother who sees me as a glorified dog sitter and nothing else.

Sorry, this got long. If you read this then idk. Have a cookie or something. I'm just really deep in my fed up trough today lol

[twisted-rat-king]

hey, idk if you're a pysichal aid user, but from your posts i assume you know shit and i wanted to ask for advice

do you have any tips on writing disability aids in an urban fantasy setting? Like, with various non-human creatures of various flavours. I want to try and represent better with my OCs but im not exactly sure how when there's shit like magical sheep or weird goo cat things

i've got a few general tips but idk how helpful they'll be

Disability & mobility aids would mostly work the same regardless of how much fantasy is going on, unless the fantasy directly interacts with the disability (like a magical physically disabled character who uses magic as a mobility aid). Definitely look into how mobility aids and your setting interact. Is the city walkable, are the walking areas maintained, etc. Rain & being wet can make mobility aids slippery, especially on smooth floors, and strong winds have blown my (very light) cane off course and nearly tripped me more than once, so weather and wind / water magic may be worth keeping in mind.

If the character is a disabled humanoid, I'd suggest doing some research on / asking folks about the experience of using different kinds of mobility aids. I'd suggest looking at how disabled writers write mobility aids too (I don't have anything of my own to plug here but I totally would if I did lol)

You could add a fantasy touch to the mobility aids (like a wheelchair with wings? or possibly some sort of symbiotic relationship between a disabled character and a sentient mobility aid?) or give the character mobility aids that have concealed weapons (like a gun or sword hidden in a cane). If you don't want to make the aid into a high-tech weapon you can also use a typical mobility aid as a weapon by just whacking someone with it lmao

I hope something in here is helpful! I may come back and add some more later if I think of anything. Anyone else feel free to add on too ^^

[hopelessfragility]

Okay I think I’m ready for an update again haha

1. Mobile app is out - it’s amazing but user acquisition is a lot harder than I thought it would be. To be fair, I’ve been lazy. I need to pay for marketing at this point but I’m also cheap.

2. ESE is dead. To us at least. Turned out that it was may more work than it was worth for us. We’d be essentially doing free labor for a while and with two kids and 5 other jobs between the 2 of us, there was just no way.

3. Our girls are perfect lol. They are both so smart, so independent, so ambitious and most importantly they’re obsessed with each other. Norah is trying so hard to communicate and Noelle is testing boundaries. Norah say mama which describes me and food. She also says baba which describes everything else 😅 but she’s so smart. She points at the things she wants and brings things to you as well as leads you to what she wants. Noelle is in the “I do it” phase; where she wants to do everything herself lol. The only thing that’s been a bit hard to get used to is Noelle walking into our room all hours of the night unannounced. I miss privacy lol.

4. I’m on the CUSP of a new job!!! I’m praying so hard that this is for me. I’ve been doing the interview process for the past 2 months now and I officially will know either tomorrow or early next week. This will be an interesting move in my career. I’m taking a SMALL step back in title but I’m gaining more in salary and at a MUCH bigger company. Fortune 20 🤫 so I’m praying very very hard for the opportunity.

In terms of the old job, it got tougher. They fired my boss and another one of her direct reports. So essentially the buck starts and ends with me and my direct report. The difference is they’re not paying me for now the even more responsibilities I own. It’s also a boys club with no diversity. I work almost exclusively with men (senior leadership-wise) and I am the only black person left. Basically I’m over it so even if the is new job doesn’t work out, I have to go.

5. The addition is happening. Very very slowly. We finally got things submitted to the city in JULY. the whole process has been so off putting. Our architect is so unhelpful and hard to work with it. Our general contractor has proven to be even worse. The city has been quick though. They rejected our plan with thorough notes so hopefully we can resubmit in the next couple of weeks. It’s honestly depressing to even talk about. The good thing is we’ve saved a little more than half of the cost of the Reno in all this time, thank God. And my husband is working towards at least 2 more bonuses outside of his normal bonus period so we are praying on that. Hopefully all will fall into place soon.

6. I had made a new friend (kind of) and then they kind of turned into a networker. I wanted to use the term “user” but that’s not entirely true. Their sole purpose is to promote themselves and their family’s businesses, which is understandable but that’s just not how I roll. I wanted a real friend. So essentially I just kind of distanced myself after they skipped my daughter’s birthday party. Idk I just don’t have time for no authenticity.

7. Exercise has been great! I’ve been consistent for most of the year only skipping a week here or there. I’m running an average of 2.5 miles each class and I’m getting stronger and faster. I’ve lost a killer amount of weight which has been a huge ego boost. However in the last month I’ve gained a little less than 10lbs. Not great but it’s for sure my diet. Im still super proud though.

That’s it for updates for now! I hope you all are well!

[misqnon]

u gotta try harder /j

I WASNT ON TUMBLR MUCH TIL LIKE.. A YEAR AGO... SO I HAD NO IDEA .... that is extremely funny. thank u

theyre in a 3 way qpr with luffy as the center

THAT ZORO IMAGE IS SO FUNYN AHFHSJD

"i like to imagine he speaks with the emojis like you typed them. (“how are you saying that out loud-”)" NAHDIAHE hes magic thats how

i have a big crush on ace too but TRACE HEATFIST.... something abt him.... idk he just hits the spot for me. i love big brother characters n characters that r good with kids.. ace fills that spot.. and then u add his silly smoothness in the 4kids dub and its like wow. u are Perfect.

STEAL THEM!! i have . a pinterest board of . meme image. silly meme image. (is pinterest something ppl still use... i only started using it a few years ago)

NO A CUP MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE... I think u were rightm.

THATS SO FUNNY... see i never thought dragons were real but i DID believe . that unicorns were real for quite a while (i never liked to admit it). honestly i didnt consume much dragon content but i did like to just. think abt them . i had this mobile game i liked playing that was just a choose ur own adventure type story . but ur a dragon. never played spyro (and didnt even know about it til i was like... 12) but it seems rly fun and i would love to play the remaster,, purple dragon ily. i cant believe ur the kind of kid who could beat games... i was so stupid as a kid i didnt even know how to play animal crossing city folk correctly .... YOU ALSO??? FLIGHT RISING???? i joined in uhh 2019? i think? i found out abt it in like 2016 but forgot and then tried to join in 2018 but it wasnt accepting new users.. and then yeah. 2019. so ive been on and off a lot but i LOVE flight rising. i love my dragons. even tho theyre mostly un-gened 1st generation dragons..

sanji is . arguably the most human of all the straw hats.. which is interesting bc he is also the only one who was supposed to be inhuman. ofc i think theyre all very human but sanji has the most moments where i can relate to him. the sanuso fic i was reading yesterday... he was so full of shame... and they wrote him hiding behind his hair.. and i felt so intensely SEEN by that. like oh my god he is ME i do all these things.. i find that my comfort characters are usually... ones who suffer a lot. i love suffering. in media.

SHREK SCREENSHOT..

"I WANT TO PUT THE SANJI FEEDING MICE AND THE CREW IS CONFUSED SCENE IN A FIC SO BAD BUT I HAVE WRITERS BLOCK ATM 😭" i will write it for u

"sanji vs. minnie mouse his hardest battle yet" oh my god........ ur mind...... wow...... genius...... crackship time (have u seen . oh wait ur not into jjk.. ok have u seen frollo x goofy... its insane...)

BEING MAD ABOUT SIMPING FOR SANJI IS SO REAL.. please dont be attractive please stop please... please . IVE SEEN THAT OUTFIT and every time i get ANGRY (not for real but y'know.) because he looks SO GOOD and i dont like to admit that.. i hate to admit that. UR RIGHT that outfit is extremely gay like wtf is going on with that tie???? or whatever it is? around his neck??? this is like gay men wearing scarves

"have u seen that post where its drawings of each of the strawhat “rescue teams” of arlong park, enies lobby, and whole cake?" I SAW THAT A FEW HOURS AGO AHDHSH

"law 1: edgy. flipping u off. deranged. a bit evil looking. kinda hot" i see u...

i love law so much he is so antagonizing and then . the contrast.. when he is stupid or cute. its wonderful.

"HE ALSO LOOKS SO SO PATHETIC 😭 SOPPING WET CAT OF A MAN" i LOVE how pathetic he looks. i like pathetic people so much.. like why are u like that.. making me pity u.. only in media tho never in real life 🙏🙏

ZORO LOOKS LIKE A DOG AHEJDHA WHAT IS THAT

USOPP?? USOPP?????? HES THE MEME IMAGE ...

CHOOPA MY GUY.. he looks so silly as a full deer i wish he did that more often

this is blue period but im running out of funny images i have saved ...

dw abt taking a bit to reply!! i am patient /gen

IM TRYING MY BEST 

sharing my veteran knowledge

3 WAY QPR IS PERFECT 

trace heatfist the magic man. skeazy magician and fuckboy

ace is VERY likeable idk a single person who doesnt like him. even my non one piece friend likes him but i think shes weak to his freckles

i trade memes like pokemon cards. i look forward to this symbiotic relationship

arent unicorns the national animal of scotland…(or ireland maybe…) THAT WOULD MAKE ME THINK THEYRE REAL

I COULD ONLY BEAT SOME GAMES a lot i didnt but usually bc i got out of the rhythm of playing them and left them unfinished. when i was younger i made my older brother play the hard parts for me a lot LMAO. ALSO DO YOU WANT MY FLIGHT RISING DRAGONS. IDK WHAT TO DO WITH THEM ALL MAN I DONT PLAY ANYMORE

i love that sanji is arguably the most emotional of the group (aside from franky or chopper, but for them its just played for laughs) and that overemotional/low self esteem part is exactly what makes him so relatable. i actually really appreciate that oda gave that trait to a male character. sanji cries a lot and is overemotional and kind of hysteric sometimes jdvbvfjdk so im glad they didnt make it like nami or robin who was like that stereotype. GOD I REALLY CONVERTED U TO SANJI TOWN DIDNT I. SORRY WE’RE ALL HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE LOW SELF ESTEEM AND PROJECT ONTO THE WEIRDO

*FROLLO X GOOFY????* 

I HATE ADMITTING THAT I THINK HE’S HOT BC HE DOESNT DESERVE IT. BUT I DO. I THINK SANJI IS HOT. I DO. UNFORTUNATELY. in that maroon wano suit…ODA WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THAT!!!!!!!

and yes law too…listen. i have a big heart, ready to love, [possessed by sanji]

the little scarf/ascot is the gayest part 

“"HE ALSO LOOKS SO SO PATHETIC 😭 SOPPING WET CAT OF A MAN" i LOVE how pathetic he looks. i like pathetic people so much.. like why are u like that.. making me pity u.. only in media tho never in real life 🙏🙏” exactly…PATHETIC FICTIONAL MEN GO HARD

I LOVE THE DOG ZORO SCREENSHOT HE LOOKS LIKE HES GONNA BITE SOMEBODY

AND USOPP KDSJNKJ I USE THAT ONE SO MUCH

i agree i like almost all of chopper’s other forms better than when hes a little baby 😭

IS THAT MAKIMA NSCKJAS???

also u are free to keep sending me e-letters but if you want to just message on discord that is also fine. as i said. message me whenever 🫡

lets see what we have for 2day...

[c0rpseductor]

with my ankle bugging me a little again lately and how it gets kind of painful if i walk too much part of me wonders if i shouldnt start like keeping that stupid little cane in my bag or something Just In Case when i go out. like for example the coffee shop is a bit less than a mile away from my house and i can make the trip okay but it starts to bug me and then hurts a bit when i'm on the way back, and generally i'm ok going grocery shopping for instance but only Really Quick bc if im out doing stuff at stores for like more than an hour or two i start to have pain in BOTH feet anyway (bc i only own slutty knee high boots) and sometimes my ankle really bugs me.

HOWEVER. i'm not sure what that would help that an ankle brace wouldn't (supposing i needed an ankle brace, which, i can still COPE and walk it just hurts so do i really), and furthermore, i would feel like an idiot. like, just walk on it. you know? plus like with how i dress and the fact that my only like "disability" here is minor pain from an old sprain and whatever popped (?) ligament thing i needed and did not get physical therapy for in high school, i feel like trying to use a visible mobility aid is basically like taping a "KICK ME" sign to my back. like "hi, i'm doing this because i'm a tiktok user! take photos of me and post them online accusing me of faking some nebulous disorder!" (i don't use tiktok but nobody would care.) idk if i'm being too paranoid about it or what. the only time i've really ever used it was when my knee injury was acting up so badly i could barely walk for a week, and one of my coworkers made fun of me because i would struggle to carry coffee back to my desk, so that's kind of my experience with using something like a cane.

idk i think just the whole thing frustrates and embarrasses me. i hate that i feel like my body is just completely falling apart all the time, it makes me feel like such a stupid idiot. i try my best to push through as much pain and discomfort as i can without resorting to anything drastic so i wouldn't want to do that about my ankle, which certainly isn't my worst issue anyway, like usually it's just "oh it hurts when i walk but i can still walk." like, then still walk, dummy. idk

[tulip-crafting]

Heyyo! I’m Sage and I’m a fairly new Minecraft (side)blog and I wanna find some cool mc related blogs to follow.

I’ll generally be posting about the dumb stuff I do in my worlds and things I build. 

I’m into using mods and cool texture packs bc aesthetics and stuff. I generally enjoy building and decorating houses but at the same time screwing around on a server with a few of my friends. I’m also surprisingly good at lava survival. 

I’ve been playing Minecraft since the classic days when I was a dumb 6 (or so) year old. I played a few of the classic servers and somehow landed a co owner status on one. I was very confused that day. I have many stories from my classic days including one where little 6 year old Sage lost a friend bc she didn’t know timezones existed. 

Early Minecraft for me included the parodies (don’t mine at night, those jams) and survival series's (two words. survival. island.)  I remember first playing on a server with people and I was sooo stoked bc that was really my first introduction to the internet. One of my fondest memories was listening to the Oran Berry Forest theme (yes I also rlly like Pokemon) while surviving lava and stuff while my mother told me not to use YouTube bc it slowed down the internet. I still did it anyway tho.

I use an Acer Travelmate Laptop with around 4 gigs of RAM and an Intel Graphics Card so I can’t rlly use good shaders which is saddd bc i love the look that they produce.

I hope yall liked this little insight into my history with minecraft and my introduction! feel free to follow and check out my posts if ya want.

[ink-flavored]

WIP Title Tag Game

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Tagged by @endless-minds. Another poor soul who has no idea what they're getting into.

I've done this game in the past, you see. It took me more than an hour to list all my WIP folders and the titles of the documents therein. Since that day, I've collected even more WIPs.

In the interest of time-saving (yours and mine), I won't be repeating the documents present in the past game, you can just go look at them. If anything's changed, I will list it. Tumblr will probably break these bullet points again, so you should view this on my blog instead of your dash (RIP mobile users).

The horrendously long list is under the cut. Feel free to pick as many as you please to send asks about. I will not be tagging anyone, but feel free to play along if you wish.

Shall we?

Like last time I'll be going in order, starting with original and then moving on into my current fandom for fanfiction. Bold is a main folder, italicized is a subfolder, plain text is a document.

Books + Poetry

Both Flames

old

Faith in Fate in Second Chances

images

Firesoul

other

old

diamond flames

Dragon’s Breath

Of Lelia

The Diamond Pommel

To Kill a King

Out of the Park

Poetry

categories

creating

life

death

love

magnetic poetry

mental health

queerness

rewrite

society bullshit

visual

collections

being gay

love

me (tm)

mental health

recycle bin

short stories & flash

the dream

character generations

name ideas

That Dream I Had WIP Notes

that dream i had 

The God-Dragon’s Wife

backstory posts

inspiration

worldbuilding

The Pyramid Report

The Stories Never Told

website

writeblr

Collection

CR

DA

HTTYD

maybe

ME

OW

PM

TPOH

UT

WTNV

YGO

bartender au [not a WIP anymore]

country club prompt

banners

extra

fanart [not writing]

nsfw practice

Angle of Approach

AOA Author’s Notes

Arabic Phrases By Chapter

Arabic phrases i want to use at some point

outline & notes

dance (multiple)

dragon

Gameboy

hhsh [not a WIP anymore]  

Hocus Pocus Zine [not a WIP anymore]

inkflavored discord [not writing]

misc writings

eh

fanart [not writing]

posted [not WIPs anymore]

A Portrait In Red

aro_yugi_and_ace_atem

dnd stats

Duly Noted

Un-Love

prohibition era

fanart

images

pre-written

Domesticity

haha i wasn’t looking at you... unless?

horny gender playing

lead free

spinny kiss

blowing smoke

homosexuallife692fiel.pdf

preview chapter

the bit where they find yugi

wait im gay

PuzzleJune [not WIPs anymore]

rocknroll

snake charmer

fanart [not writing]

images [not writing]

soul one

space robot

stripper au

fanart [not writing] 

Stripper AU Notes

title pending

YGORealm

dragon au

fanart [not writing] 

angsty dragon au

It Takes Two

The Hand That Feeds

The Weight of the World

Where Shadows Fall

Worth Silver and Gold

yeehaw au

fanart [not writing]

images [not writing]

idk yeehaw something

yogurt

fanart [not writing] 

The Legend of Yogurt the Frog

yogurt banner.psd

yogurt2.png

author’s note links

Buffer Fic Plans

Happy Hour Event Cast List

YGO Fanfiction Plans

[clulessmess]

☆.。.:*『She/Her • 22 • Mixed(Black/Asian)』*:.  ◦.☆

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- I sometimes rb lefty opinionz and discourse. I do not tag these posts so dont follow if u dont like that stuff in your dash

- I usually dont follow back, usually its just that im not interested in what youre posting or have takes I personally don’t like. This goes for IRL friends/ppl who know me outside tumblr who wanna follow me here too (its nothin personal bud!)

[lizardthederp456]

sooooooo i found something out about japanese anime dedede from kirby right back at ya (ik thats the name of the dub but idc)

thx and shoutout to @ace-of-clovers for tellin me this

but u might not like what they said

im not saying theyre a bad person, cuz what they told me was good, and it was basically exposing something controversial, its just that it contains sensitive content

also idk how to put the read more thing on mobile posts so im just gonna say massive trigger warning

okey here we go

basically i found a post comparing the "virgin" anime dedede (the japanese one in particular) and the "chad" game dedede, and one of the reasons anime dedede was a virgin was because he was homophobic

ace/clover (which one do u wanna be called or do u not mind both?) clarified by saying that japanime dedede himself was a homophobic stereotype

the only example they wanted to give was in an episode where dedede wanted to break escargoons shell so he could see his body

and apparently thats an extremely offensive gay stereotype

ace of clovers recently told me the stereotype involves assault just as i was finishing typing this whole entire thing

but this was long before japan made it illegal to lgbt discriminate (i actually dont know if that was true or not about japan but i read it in an article)

still tho its disgusting and stupid that a character from a kids game made an anti lgbt joke in front of, well, kids

and the fact i havent seen ONE piece of japanese media that perfectly depicts lgbt people in a positive way pisses me off even tho they literally have a law that says u can no longer be like "haha gay people suck"

like srsly they need to step into the west a lil more

also speaking of the previous sentence i saw an article about some japanese twitter users roasting western artists for "censoring" anime characters and making them look "ugly" and they also criticized their art styles too

altho i think that actually happened a long while ago tho its still extremely disgraceful and not to mention racist

the lack of diversity, representation and inclusion in japanese media sickens me and honestly if i could id go back in time and beat the ever-living BALLS out of the person who had the "good" (sarcasm) idea to make a fan-favorite from a cheerful game-to-show homophobic and show it to a child audience

and altho it LOOKS like they said sorry with kirby fighters 2 making dedede and meta knight loyal friends, they repeatedly confirm that the two are NOT GAY, and that its just a platonic close relationship (but not to the point where theyre lovers, so technically the ship was sunk and nobody knew about it), so basically its a fake apology and, once again, a fart in the general direction of the west

soooooo ye thats it

but it dededisgusts me that some asshole behind hal labs said "hey lets make a character with a good redemption arc homophobic and put a homophobic joke in there that will hopefully teach kids that being gay will make u dumb and also only make the character do one good thing throughout the whole show and for the rest of it make him an asshole to everyone, especially children" and everyone else there actually agreed to that

im extremely sorry i posted this, and if i worded any of it uncomfortably or rudely, let me know and ill try to fix it

i 100% support lgbt and diversity and inclusion and all that stuff btw

[tisalovestory]

Hey im a new fanfic blog thats just getting into writing (dw im not going to ask for a shout out)

I really like your writing and blog in general, but idk how to do some things on tumblr (im on mobile anyway) which is making it difficult to setup my blog and make the writing bit enjoyable - stuff like making a masterlist to make my works easy to navigate and a simple pin system so things dont get too cluttered.

How did you get yours setup?

Hi anon! To be honest my blog was a mess LMAO (re: my old blog’s evaluation) even though I have been on tumblr for quite a while, I really didn’t try to make it user friendly (to other ppl and to myself) until I started doing more writing. I’d say just try things out as you go to see what works the best for you! But I did follow a good amount of writing blogs before I started wanting to write so I already had a brief idea of how other ppl do it before I have to figure out how I want things to be done myself.

I definitely suggest doing most of your blog keeping stuff (esp making a masterlist/making changes to your theme) on desktop because formats and links in posts made on mobile will sometimes look different on desktop but it won’t happen vice versa (smth about the codes? I really dk I’m technologically illiterate but it’s just what I learnt from trial and error)! It’s a good thing that tumblr rolled out with a pinned post function, I’d say it’s a p common thing to have a navigation-type post pinned so all your links, tags etc can be found there.

[collisiondiscourse]

Why is he your profile pic??? (idk who this man is sorry, so I'm just saying he)

oh well we were doing the. second mishapocalypse as a joke to end 2021 nicely!! and so what ended up happening is a bunch of my mutuals (the beloved kiri, topsie, aj, neko, etc.) changed their profile pics to cas. i wasnt aware of this bc im a mobile user n pfps generally take longer to load . but then after topsie pointed out that i was a lone child in a sea of castiels, i decided to whip out classic bewildered, bisexual, and biphobic dean winchester

[misterbitches]

Hello! @flootweed replying to the post from before. the long format was killing me. why does tumblr look like this...

I haven’t watched episode 8 yet...or have I? If it’s the most recent one. No.

Is the hornbill a bird? It probably is but I have a terrible memory and I’m dumb so. I skipped the last few weeks because I’m scawwed. How are you liking it? I did see someone say that the hornbill makes sense (without knowing what it is...at all) bc heart transplant patients only live like 5-15 years after but someone in those comments pointed out that he was so young when he got his and that’s pretty rare so he has a higher likelihood of survival. Frankly, this is the only way I will proceed. Since when did shows ever care about the heart transplant health? Never and it needs to stay that way!

What did we think of ep 6? LMAO. I need opinions! And omg it makes me feel special when I can point things out to people because I so...rarely get to LOL. Editing is like one of my favorite things ever so I can be super particular about it but I try to do the thing you do when you’re supposed to see if it works within its context. I’d like to go in with scissors and glue but alas. 

THe mic covering....the rustling....it’s like guys...please. Ironically the audio today wasn’t great. I don’t know why. IDK if you watch c-dramas but I am not even sure what’s worse between them because they dub their dramas. But actually no it’s best to have the dubbing because even tho it is painful they have to put a lot of effort into it. LOL. 

Right? @ Aey! It’s just weird if they would show us more about what he’s done instead of saying he’s done sth bad and not even explaining that....like you could even do some shitty exposition. I think if he is to be a true villain then we really need to be privvy. All the warnings make it seem like he’s a fuckin’ serial killer so when we get the scene of him at home it’s like....actually this is really serious? Maybe his pain is like...for a reason. Althought you won’t even TELL US WHAT HE’S DONE WRONG BESIDES BE JUST FUCKING WEIRD AND ANNOYING! So from what we have it’s just a realllllllll fucked up sad person lol. god i forgot about the dinner! and i totally agree. he really needs them to succeed. i like your theory because it would make the scene where he like blocks the twitter user make more sense. he also says they dont really know each other etc so it’s realllllyyyyy probable that he just sees it as a way out. if not then we shall pretend u wrote it :)

god yea i wouldnt say it is art but i also guess we technically have to since it is technically. in the way that technically performance artists are artists but mostly i uh technically ignore them. Also one of my fav BLs is called the best twins. If you do not know what it is I will not elaborate further.t 

i want to know more abt poli sci majors lmao but they sound DRAMATIC/ hopefully most ppl in ur cohort arent losers! 

hahahha i understand. there was just a thing on twitter about DSA and then the day before about reading discourse. the same thiings. over. and over. and over. and over. we are our own worst enemies but also our own best friends? but i hate tankies and that wont change. but hasan’s a decent guy. he said sth abt black ppl during biden’s primaries in GA or whatever and i was like chill. but he’s insecure and has adhd which means ur more open to being wrong and changing otherwise u will suffocate and die. 

and totally about hiding fuck ups. i’ve tried really hard bc of organizing IRL to like...be honest, question, etc but also like...approach it naturally? because if you’re trying to be perfect and so worried you’ll fuck up you don’t realize that puts  more stress on you, makes you seem like a robot, and could potentially not make you realize the mistkaes you made. also if we’re privileged in certain spaces there is just no possible way we won’t get something wrong. im light and i know that honestly any way to speak up on colorism is going to be difficult and that’s a space where i have power so i just have to figure it out. we should be uncomfortable because we have to sit with unpleasant feelings and sort through our own whatever. that just makes the next time even better and people can trust u more.  i think some people sweat it sooo much or maybe they think their personal life and what theyve been through is more the norm? on the other hand people can be sf reactionary in the worst way and idk what their issue is. there was also a user who said sth very inch arresting about tankies which i thoroughly enjoyed (how like violent lefitsts or tankies / ppl who are like ooh a gun whatever just want to be violent in another space so they have shit tendencies from jump and nothing of substance which i think i agree with tbh fo ra lottttt of ppl. like their anger is actually like “no im about to beat that ass” instead of what we actually want to get done) 

sort of in the same vein re: taking it easy...we coudl all be more understanding too. to slow it down like you mentioned about not being privvy to fucking eveyrthing and saying anything on our mind. i saw this person talk about y2k which was a huge deal while happening bc it was the turn of the millenium (bruh were u even alive?) but this twitter user grew up in a super super SUPER religious household and was like why do ppl make jokes about Y2K it was insanely traumatizing? though my first instinct was confused ive tried hard to like look more before i judge especially thanks to a friend of mine. turns out that with the further reading the more we found out he was just really traumatized; it was very common in religious households to be afraid of 2000. so we could have come at him with no understanding and he could have thought that everyone had the same experience with that year that he did. his feelings sit precedent though but i think it was just very hard for him to fathom. 

i didnt reply bc he didnt need that and what could i have said? he’ll see what the truth is with exposure and unfortunately this was something he really did go through. 

and that’s what makes most people think others could be over the top. because it sounded ridiculous but then it was this huge traumatic thing that we could have never known about. so maybe when someone sounds like actually crazy they have an explanation? of course some ppl are just batshit or annoying but that’s anywhere not just leftists it’ just means more i guess when a ~~librul is annoyed~ but it can be easy to want to make fun of ppl too. lmao.  basically what i am saying is the internet? especially twitter? for leftists? in this economy? bitch it’s the wild west out here.

i am 29! idk if i said it or not. i am OLD u probably werent even born in the year i was talking about wah. i know not old-old or old at all but compared to you i’m due for a colonoscopy.

omg i hope u can get vaxxed soon! are you wfh rn? i hope ur also not in a bad state as in state state not state as in ur being :| bleh what a fucking time. it sucks that you have to fucking do work. well unless u like school. which i hope u do. i just assume everyone hates it cos i did lmao

was it the lindsay ellis drama? that bitch is dumb. if there was other drama oh wait the drama i was referring to it all happened on the same day. idk book twitter that well but i saw something from someone who was abt that shit and wowie! the american people are not that.....intelligent to put it lightly.

i’ll get better. ppl tell me they miss me and im like aw. i have insanellllyyy bad insomnia and a lot of stuff happened this year HOWEVER I SLEPT FOR TWO DAYS FOR 8 HOURS AT A REASONABLE TIME. im a new woman.  anyways you too! i hope ur not too burnt out with school. we just dont know when the burnout is or we just dont know we are burnt out until we are. the panaramiciccici hit and all the things i was ignoring kind of just fell on me and sooo much happened at once. and frankly it’s hard to take care of ourselves. lord. 

Like if you aren’t interested in expanding on the issue in a way that hasn’t been done before all you gotta do it like… spread resources and donate if you can. I dont see the point in having to say something about every issue especially if you (not at you specifically just in general) aren’t immediately impacted by the issue. Like is the 14 yr old white marxist named sarah on twitter really gonna have meaningful insight on anti-asian violence ?

this is part of why i cannot telecommunicate. i dont want to do shit on the internet. i am able bodied so i know that this time has been of such ease for other people. but mentally i just can’t. i don’t have a comment on hand like that and i hvae no desire to engage with ppl that way. i am a super super super solitary person but thats bc it’s MY time so when it’s like all this effort with other people i dont ever want to be alone. it’s the same with the way i approach filmmaking. it isnt a sole thing so i hate it not together. that’s part of how u can get so sucked in and repeat doom scrolling. i was in this webinar last may after [redacted] and this black woman prof said “read with a community and talk” because otherwise she said we are torturing ourselves. you can’t carry that weight all on your own. unfortunately i hate zoom, discord, slack, signal, whatsapp, facetime. you name it this panera has made it evi.. L

you make a really excellent point. i think the young young gen zers are really really just interesting because it’s like this whole new world for them with leftist politics and they just can’t grasp the horrors of the world and the kind of freedom being a leftist can bring. and so many people don’t grow out of it. those people so happen to be the “least productive” in terms of how much time they spend IRL withe these issues. naturally, younger kids are gonna have a harder time. they are not as mobile as well so the internet becomes this place. but then it’s this echo chamber. and many times just things posted without sources. and social media NEEDS that to exist.

i think of the irony of leftist kids on tik tok and while i am happy it’s reaching them it’s just....different. very different. the growth of social media is so good but also so fucking sad, it’s too much! i think the point about not writing everything is major. even i have to do this which is part of the disappearing.y ou need to detach and make sure your head is on straight again. but when you think eveyrone has to be privvy to every thought and you can’t just sit back....which twitter and social media doesn’t encourage. you have to join in. that’s often why when i have something to say it is dense because i don’t feel like repeating it. ever. lmao ust ever. i cant pay attn. social media is a fucking minefield for my brain u can get so lost in it and absorb it but once u start talking you may not be able to stop. 

i think a big part of that is it not being a leisurely thing but sort of just in our lives always. this sounds like a grandpa rant but ykwim. We dont have to see the same thing over and over again. And eventually it gets sincerely diluted or its diluted bc of capitalism or whatever. Or if theyre very young or maybe they don’t have like the greatest way of sharing the knowledge? then it can be butchered. I hope this is making sense...i’m talking beyoond the boring surface-level milquetoast shit. i see really ahistorical stuff on there from leftists (like this thing about NK + africa and it being a beneficial rship as opposed to a um not beneficial one. and it isn’t.  beneficial but this young black girl was talking abt it and noname rtd and i was like it’s just too complex. there’s no good/bad here just bc it’s not america. dont get me started on this.)

but Lol that was kinda off topic but I think what I meant in my last reply about not turning off the voice in my head is about when I consume media, not necessarily when I’m online talking about. Even if I have criticism for something, I’m usually pretty chill when consuming fandom content bc I think being serious online all the time is kinda boring. Like sometimes I’m analyzing theme and shit but really most of the time im memeing.

exactly.........gotta laugh. thats why sometimes im like i cant think lmao. unfrotunately i have been ARGUING with ppl on the internet for rly no reason when  i could have replied to ur very nice fun wholesome message. i love torture. i miss memes.

“ i think the people who get the least enjoyment out of that are those so obsessed with getting upset with anyone thinking outside of their lines as if it equates to them “ EXACTLYYYYY

kekekekeke im glad u got it. it’s like with conservatives throwing around snowflake. now im beginning to question who the real complainers are. 

LMAO exactlyyyy. i posted a screenshot of this writer from twitter saying that exact thing. Like first of all, I’m...an adult? and if you are as well uh? i’m sorry for you but are we 12? But how is it affecting u this viscerally? And if it does why dont u...do...research? pihgofuaipoajghou but honestly everything u said. we’re trained to go into it with nothing. i was only around ur age when i started to get more serious about this stuff but you’re like lightyears ahead of where i was at 21. did i say this but i’m in iww and literally i can tell u in 2016 i did not think 2019 me would be in a union bc i told my friend in a train station that we don’t need unions. i was 23...but the thing is i didnt know what i was talking about. at all. and i knew i didnt know and she knew i didnt know and now i am the clown.

also yes at critical engagement. i had to learn so much through experience and this is tuff that i coudlnt be shielded from. there’s an empathy you kinda have to develop and this understanding that you move through the world as this person who is “nowhere and everywhere; nothing and everything” so i’ve always had to think about things differently just to survive. that’s also what can drag a lot of people towards it like theres so many black kpop fans bc i think a lot of the pain in SK can be mirrored (sort of) through our history. and theres currently a history now but it had to be forged. uh what was my point oh yea however i wouldnt have been able to move further if i didnt have my background to go off of  bc i knew something was off when i started getting into all these things (ill give u a hint) but if i had no prior knowledge and didnt have to think about it then the critical approach is either stale or stupid. 

i had to research but i dont understand how ppl are so bold with little to no research and understanding? thhey just inherently know with also like ZERO experience in what they need experience in. engaging critically means “how i see the world” with dashes of trying to be open adn understanding or whatever. actually that’s another thing like being afraid of criticizing things bc theyre foreign to you so u give it a pass (like we discussed) but it doesnt hAVE TO BEEEE JUST REAAAAAD and then take all the info ur teensy brain and apply it. be a normal human being and dont be fucking rude and racist. thats it! u can complain abt literally anything without being a dick.

as we start with LW and end with LW.....what do we think (i asked this already) omg please share wbl thoughts i THINK i know what ur talking about. well it could be two things; their rship when they came back and the physicality and then pei shou yi. i almost dont even want to use my brain to fucking look at that. i think wbl can get away with more bc of visual~*~*~* reasons (like literally, the look of the show. there’s more space to get lost in the frames. many thai dramas are a lot more literal? this isn’t the right word but it’s very heavily character focused particularly bc of $ i think) though good production also underscores flaws so i am also wrong. but like do u know what i mean? u have to kinda focus on it? or maybe it’s just cos like.....ur so used to it in thai bl idek. i’ve seen tw bl ofc. 

look i swear i will justify this forever bc there are some things we miss right but if u feel like someone’s a bad actor....theyre bad. it’s about tone movement etc etc etc and since most thai bl productions have 0 interest in that....well. they take these newbies and put them in these situations. we dont understand thai but if we see them and we’re like “wow this is really bad” then they’re bad lmao. IDC i will never be like cos idk what theyre saying NO WHY HE LOOK LIKE A ROBOT???????? DOES HE EMOTE? why is he CRYING WITH NO TEARS? and it’s not even a total requisite to cry with tears(i mean for me it is) but it’s just like what is happening on ur face right now young man????????

painful.

the inflection stuff is very valid ooh good point tho but that’s only a part of the piece. plus we get used to the way they communicate. like the ppl from sotus were prtty bad. i dont like that show but thats an ex of ppl liing the actors and the person i thought was better other ppl dont think that? well apparently hes a shitty guy but. um. so when theres decent acting its so glaring.

although i must say even tho i dont care for 2gether anymore and would never like to be reminded about its existence (only bc i just cringe lol) i honestly....didnt think bright was a bad actor? but people keep saying he is and i am much more inclined to believe them than myself. though i am not often dickmatized that could have been it. until he opened his mouth and ruined it and then i stopped paying attn.

although honestly i’m so much more critical than i could be positive. i have ben stumped for the last day about how i wasnt mad at his acting in the show. is it me? is it him? who’s......the wrong one.....(me) 

oh shit they have been denied? i haven’t been paying attn to whats been going on recently. i just got into it on MDL because of snowdrop. sometimes i literally cannot engage bc ill just be like alright well im black so this power button in my head is going off when ppl talk abt that shit. back in the day when kpop jawns were saying some real outta pocket anti black shit (now everyone is slick with it) it’d always be THEY DONT HAVE GOOGLE THEYVE NEVER SEEN A BLACK PERSON but really it’s like no...maybe they are just racist? that’s ok too.

also the past 2 weeks have been um atrocious bc how fucking easily people fell into the pit of white supremacy and started to turn their ire towards black people and making a competition between our groups just like they wanted. it’s not about the women who are dead anymore, who were sex workers, their womanhood, being asian, being poor anymore. it’s about how much black people get attention and why people only pay attn to us. i am not feeling very generous this week for ppl to excuse that hsit.

on a lighter note, ppl say that abt the whole husband and wife thing. i dont know how to explain how angry that shit makes me but maybe it’s because i do not want to think of my body in relation to a fucking penis at all hours of the day. if bls could kindly not do that it would be nice lmao 

yes there are a lot of those. who are only there to gawk lmao. and just idk worship bc of the cult of personality thing bc of how weird and open they have to be as actors. some of the others are people who /think/ theyre really smart (i think im asmart but i also think i am very dumb and i have adhd to prove that MEDICALLY!!!) but are actually not? or their observations arent great? or idk if they are they arent interesting? but i think well..........we have more refined palettes :P

jk also theres just different personalities. you and  i mesh more bc we have a lot of the same beliefs and are coming from the same place. that makes it easier to understand as well. i really try to remember that but some people are really weird so. again just...the perception of certain things even down to acting skills. but i also dont like.......believe this genre can really do anything at all. on one hand i want them to do it right bc it’s a piece of work so they should. be proud of it. cos most things arent advancing us bc representation and culturalism are a lie bla bla. it’s just that when the depictions are negative or not done well it adds to the problem as opposed to the things that are well done are fairly benign and can’t really pull us back (perf example is the black panther film. i woudl definitely not say it was transgressive as a literal work but visually it’s just stunning. and it’s sad that it’s stunning and surprising but still with basically an all black cast of mostly dark people abd like what it means in the zeitgeist yes. it’s also just a good movie. but it’s still imperialist prop and unfortunately and this is fucking pathetic to say it “opened eyes” in other countries where they hate black ppl and ignore their own racialized minorities HENNYWAYSSSS a better ex is moonlight except moonlight isnt mainstream and is indie tho...still thru a funnel of capital bc a24 but who cares bleed the fuckers dry is my motto. my point is moonlight is both a great work and doesnt bring any failures to the table and its existence helps in ways outside of art but they arent the defining things giving us material advancement sooooo i mean it’s complex (this is my conclusion to everything um guys it’s complex) 

er i had one more point in conjunction to above. oh yea so i like dont need all these extra things to make it progressive. like people really want more women in the show and i am honestly like i really dont. i dont want them to actively do this. if they cant do it naturally then let someone else do it. i am not asking for more bc i dont want it from them. when something comes along i embrace it but i do not see why women should be represented when the genre RELIES on patriarchy. there is no complete satisfying existence for the women in these series. i dont want it. i dont ask people to show us~*~* or respect~* like fuck no the people who make it make it and hopefully more will make it in the future but i will not beg bc THEY DONT WANT TO DO IT SO WOULD FORCING IT MAKE IT BETTER? just fucking leave them out entirely. that’s the answer if theyre gonna make nasty female characters then those bitches can geaux. we have other plcaes to be. booked. and. BUSY!

[leosabi]

nsf.w topic ahead, but if u are 18+ i really need opinions on this plz its important to me

was literally thinking about drawing just. straight up porn this morning but i saw a post about how it’s wrong to draw nsf.w content of characters from kids’ shows, especially because a lot of characters in those shows ARE kids, and like...wasabi’s an adult he’s 21 in canon but he. he certainly is from a series meant for kids isnt he

i’ve like. had this thought before, and i keep the VAST MAJORITY of my Spicy Content on discord because im so worried about people thinking im a creep, but seeing the post earlier just made me think about it again, and i just kinda want to know what the general consensus is?

like, is it creepy if i post that stuff and should i keep it to myself, or keep it on discord to make sure FOR SURE kids cant find it,,? idk. ive posted some under a read more before but sometimes those don’t work cross platform so like mobile users might see without clicking it or if i post it on mobile desktop users might

plz help aaaa

[bbytetsu]

Do you think you could delve a bit more into your graphic design major like what you’re learning and/or what you do in classes and stuff like that please? I got my degree in marketing like my mother wanted for me but I was never really interested in business 😅 I was always more interested in making the presentations, posters, flyers, etc. than the actual info if that makes sense? I feel like if I were to take classes, it could probably go along with my degree idk sorry if this is a hassle 😅

yes ofc! no worries it’s not a hassle, im happy to give u my take on it and share more info to anyone else who’s remotely interested. it’ll all b under the read more button since i think it’s gonna b a bit long. i think it could definitely go well with your degree and seeing as you were always interested in it i feel like u would have a lot of fun!! 

so to start off i do wanna say that curriculum varies from program to program so this is just what i’ve experienced! 

in general our classes are usually spent critiquing each other’s work kind of like an art critique. we work on projects outside of class and get comments during class and revise outside of class. be prepared for lots of drafts and iterations, what you start out with will probably look rlly diff when ur done with the proj (like writing an essay with many drafts!)

here’s what i’ve been working on in class. i’ve also included some examples from (i tried to find some student work but it’s kind of hard...) so you can see what i’m talking about!

GRAPHIC DESIGN BASICS

learning how to use a grid/when to break the grid (layout + composition), hierarchy, typography/typesetting, space, color, scale, visual balance, etc.

http://thinkingwithtype.com/ (a good resource on type, the anatomy of letterforms, text, grids with type, etc.)

DESIGNING ACROSS MEDIUMS/SYSTEMS

print design vs. digital design vs. animation/motion

print design: designing for posters, books, etc. (which have very different considerations, actually! e.g. for a book like a magazine, where the reader often flips through and has a short attention span, every layout should capture their attention and offer some excitement. whereas for a novel, their designs are often very minimal and restrained so that you can focus on the content, while a lot of work is poured into the covers/construction of the book)

digital design: designing for websites/apps, different devices (desktop vs. tablet vs. mobile)

designing across systems (could be applied to branding): how do you translate your vision/creation across mediums/products while maintaining a cohesive identity? each medium has different capabilities and considerations, so how do you create something that takes advantage of each medium’s characteristics? 

examples: 

print design examples (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

digital design examples (1: CSM undergrad 2019 exhibition site, also has cool works in there beyond the website!) (2) (3) (4) (5)

branding/system examples (1) (2) (3) (4)

DESIGN THINKING

i don’t learn this within my graphic design classes specifically (those are more studio based) but they do go hand in hand

especially important if you’re interested in UX/UI

thinking about how graphic design is not just an aesthetic practice, but a means of problem-solving. how can you you use your work to better a problem? who is your audience/user? how can you combine research, strategy, storytelling, and visuals to intervene within a problem space? 

how can design uplift? how can design destroy? 

SOFTWARE

the industry in the U.S. largely relies on certain software so we use start learning those/getting really comfortable with them

adobe suite: adobe photoshop, indesign (must for graphic designers), illustrator (also must for graphic designers), aftereffects, premiere, XD (lol it looks like an emoticon but it’s literally called adobe XD)

UX/UI software such as: sketch, invision, origami, figma

this is super long and a bit dense, but lmk if u need clarification on anything <3 hope this helps b!