#it's barely done ... there's a timeline ... i just want this out of my drafts ... don't judge me please ...

[stewahrt]

( elizabeth of lancaster ♕ devrim lingnau ♕ 29 ♕ queen of scotland ) ⸻welcome ELIZABETH OF LANCASTER. you hail from ENGLAND and have been risen to the position of a QUEEN. you are a member of the house of STEWART and will go down in history as the STEADFAST. though you are PROUD & RESENTFUL, you are blessed with being OBSERVANT and DUTIFUL. 

written by lu ( she / they ).

DOSSIER ⸻ WANTED DYNAMICS

you can find my little discord tl;dr under the cut ( it also complements what's in the dossier page ).

she was raised like any proper lady would, her mother had high expectations on her even as a "spare" and when her brother died a year after her family went into exile ( elizabeth was 7 years old when he got mortally wounded i reckon ?? unless my math didn't math right nbvcvbnm ) those expectations grew even higher because she was now the heir !! as a young girl, she liked horse riding more than anything else, closely followed by painting / sketching and she always had a romantic view on life even after all that her family lost ( so much so she foolishly though she'd marry a man she loved ... silly silly girl ... probably had a little guy that she wanted to smooch but alas ) but that got chiped away at time and time again and she became sort of ... disillusioned with life and a bit cynical, becoming more and more pragmatic. it only became "worse" when her husband, whom she married to help her family ( though i need to plot their relationship more ), took a mistress and she's left like "ooohhhkay then" and at this point she just wants to get pregnant so she can at least secure her position and help her family like she's meant to. wants her mother to desperately get rid of the mistress just so she doesn't have to feel embarassed walking around knowing people are very aware of it mnbvcvbnm feels very alone at the end of the day, she is a lonely lady but tries not to show it but she is her mother's daughter at the end of the day hehehehe

[olderthannetfic]

Someone recently left a comment on one of my fics that they were disappointed I wasn't addressing any of the criticism or comments I got on Goodreads. After all, I reply to comments on the actual fic. Why am I ignoring the Goodreads commenters?

Well, 1. I didn't know there was a Goodreads page for my fanfic 2. I think if they wanted a reply they'd say it where I'm known to reply to every single comment without fail and 3. the kind of dumbass who treats 800k of free fanfics in a series like something they paid for is not the sort of person I want to engage with. If 800k of stories, with main stories, tie-ins, prequel asides, missing scenes, etc. for free wasn't to your liking, just... go read another? We have stories in this fandom whose whole series clock in at over a million words. We have stories where people have done fan songs and fanart and fancomics tying into their main work. We have stories with multiple timelines. You have so many options, all of them totally free and easy to access. If my stories, which I fully admit ares flawed and show some of my weaknesses as an author, don't do it for you, you have options. You have wonderful options.

If I had an editor and a publisher and my stories were actual books, I wouldn't have this reaction to this comment. But these stories have one person working on them total. I'm not making income off of this. This is what I write while working two jobs, for fun. As much as I do view writing fanfic as something that helps me learn the ins and outs of writing and put my all into it, it's going to be rougher than if I'd had help with it or had time to do more drafts than the three I normally do.

And if I was known for ducking criticism, I would get having comments on another site. There are authors in my fandom who delete anything that's not praise. But I have had long conversations with my haters in which I take everything in good faith and explain my writing choices, word choices and ideas. I have my tumblr which is just about my fandom stuff listed in the AN of every chapter. DMs are open and anon is on. My Dreamwidth account, also under the same name, also has DMs open. I have publicly stated when I have made shit narrative choices and owned that yes, sometimes I have genuinely dropped the ball. This has influenced later chapters where things go off of the original outline in order for the shit choice to have consequences in a way that makes sense and feels true to the characters in the story.

So "why are you hiding from the Goodreads commenters?!" feels like the most baffling thing I've ever been asked. I tried to be nice about it, but all I could think was, "why didn't the Goodreads commenters who wanted a reply post their comments where they know I 100% would've responded to it?"

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Madness!

(Also, lol, half the pro shit with a lot of comments on Goodreads is barely edited. Maybe they were bitching about content? But if it was whining about craft, the bar is in the floor and they have nothing to complain about.)

[velvet-vox]

What makes you think Doll wasn't a fully realized character in the pilot when the concept art clearly shows she has the Solver?

That's technically not exactly proof or anything, but it relates to that one reblog I saw you do. Doll clearly was suppose to have the Solver even at that point and could possibly fight the DDs. Which was kinda the point of the whole thing. She still might not have been fully realized but when it comes to how you were using it, I think that point is invalid.

(also, I'm not the anon that asked the original question. Figured you could tell that from the different writing styles but wanted to make sure you knew that)

I assume that this is the post you're talking about, the one with my reblog:

About that concept art of Doll with the Solver, knives, and evil smile, I always assumed that it was drawn and released after the pilot aired, as I wasn't aware of the fact that it dated all the way back to the first few drafts of the story.

If it really is that old, please, show me the date of its public release, so that I can get a better idea of the thought process behind her character's realisation.

Anyway, if post-pilot and pilot Doll were always intended to be Solver users, then I have two possible explanations as to why episode 1 Doll didn't protect the colony from J and V, both of them based around one of these theories: Doll's parents died during the pilot, or Doll's parents died before the pilot.

- In the case of the former, it's likely that Doll wasn't as courageous or as skilled with the Solver when the Disassemblers came in; with this timeline of events, V killed Doll's parents in front of her, then, the russian escaped to that giant storage room where the battle takes place, and as N and Uzi drag away V, Doll's left to metabolise her trauma and slowly begins her villain arc, the Solver activates as a result of high mental distress, and she starts to practice her powers, which would then lead to the events of the show.

This explanation is, admittedly, the least plausible, as many people have already pointed out all the issues with the "Doll's parents died during the pilot" theory, leaving the second one to be the most likely.

- For the ladder, I believe that Doll was in a state of panic and shock when J and V barged in, we saw this happen on numerous occasions (when she starts to backpedal from Uzi after failing to use her Solver powers against her, how she starts to hyperventilate when her death scene plays out): Doll, to me, looks like someone who prefers to be in control of whichever situation they are in (she's so me fr :) and whenever she can't plan ahead her next couple of steps, she's left stunned and doesn't know what to do next until she recomposes herself; she was probably asking herself if it was worth it to reveal her powers now knowing how much attention that would bring to her.

With all of that said and done, I still don't believe that the Doll that we saw in the pilot was already fully realised as the final version of Doll that we see in the show; there are a small handful of things that don't line up together:

Pilot Doll and her correspondents fanarts (the aforementioned smiling evil one with the bloody knives and the one with Lizzie and Thad in it) portray Doll as a somewhat happy and outgoing individual, one who enjoys bullying Uzi, while in stark contrast, canon Doll barely smiles or emotes, and if this line from Lizzy in ep 3 is anything to go by "Dude, no one is going to notice she is missing, just do your thing and I'll let in V", Doll was apparently against killing off Uzi.

It is my personal theory that, since Khan was originally intended to be the main antagonist of the show, and was most likely going to be a complex, layered douche rather than a straight up villain, the series was going to be far more comedic and less story focused than it ended up being.

Therefore, I believe that Doll, in this old version of the story, was conceived as a far more evil opponent meant to serve as a threat, kind of like our current Cyn; there's a lot of proof that demonstrates that the Absolute Solver was always a planned event, and although I am unable to tell how much concept Solvy deviates from their final implementation, I'm fairly certain that Liam Vickers originally intended Doll to be another, more reoccurring Pure Evil villain, and as the various rewrites went along he started to give her more and more sympathetic traits, while still maintaining some of her original Pure Evil roots in the story.

This would explain a lot of the various problems that I, someone who spends an ungodly amount of time thinking about Doll, often find when analysing her.

Also, no, I don't think my point isn't invalid, as it was extremely vague; in that reblog I've literally stated "Pilot Doll wasn't a fully realised character yet, I'm sure Liam Vickers would have changed the scene if the development of her character was completed by that point".

"Changed" in this context can mean literally anything, like changing the facial expressions she's making in one frame, it doesn't necessarily mean a rewrite, and since you yourself have pointed out that she might not have been fully realised by the time of the pilot, I don't think that the concept art showing her using the Absolute Solver means much when I didn't even specify how the scene would have played out alternatively.

[mournmourn]

I was asked by @vinthund for a breakdown of the killing moon/organ chrords playlist, here's my meta ramblings down below ✨

I chose the songs by how they resonated with käsh for me with either themes, lyrics or the genre. I also had a rough feeling of a timeline/story when I was choosing the songs. I wanted the songs to reflect a progression of where we leave them at icip. That magical moment in the forest? Yeah, they transferred their respective homicidal instincts to each other.

I tried to convey this while writing the bio for the playlist, but this isnt a story with a happy ending. Im very much a truther of icip!käsh being a hannigram story re-visioned, and if youve seen the whole show, it is very much a tragedy.

I have drafted a more soft and happy käsh playlist bc I too want some fluff after being focused on this list for a good while. So, that's coming later ☺️

Have fun and sry for being morbid on main lol

SLAUGHTER HOUSE

Aftermath of icip: riding into the sunset moonlight in the truck, while the storm gathers. An omen for some, surely.

Deliverance

The breakdown of the song at the last minute reminds me of icip. Lyrics wise it is about Kä's side of introspection.

Tommy agrees.

Graveyard

Scoping out prey. Just for a goof, I swear.

Eat Me Alive

Chase and a first kill. Themes of masochism & cannibalism. Kä's feelings. He likes the aura of game and pursuit in Tommy. He loves to see the chase happening real time.

Haunted

Tommy's showing the side he hasnt yet shown to Kä. It is very much appreciated

Laura les is in 100 gecs, 100 gecs made a song with Tommy as feature. The cycles, man.

gOth bb

First interval.

Kä's aftermath of dealing with the first kill. It feels exhilirating but he has moments of clarity in intervals, realising the terrifying reality of their actions. But the power feels amazing. Tommy notices this inner turmoil.

Feral Love

Peak of attraction in their dynamic. Dumping of the body into the lake. Tommy feels sentimental and vulnerable.

I Want You

Tommy's feelings towards Kä. It's as much about love as it is about wanting to consume, own, treasure, and hide from the world.

I'm Not Done

Tommy had been almost found out once. He loves to tell that story.

Tear You Apart

Mutual feeling of their relationship. If I knew how to edit videos, I'd do an icip edit with this. Tiktok edit core, but I've had this song on my liked list since 2015.

Biting down

Second interval.

In order to consume and to love is to bare your teeth and chew. Seeing your partner as a meal can mean a lot of things.

Stockholm Syndrome

I don't see their relationship as a stockholm syndrome, this is mutually being freaks and as bad as each other. The lyrics and atmosphere however are perfect.

Kä's feelings of being whisked away to their rampage. He revels in the pretentious feeling of being taken apart, and their mutual violent nature.

Keep the Streets Empty for Me

They have a dynamic. One distracts, one takes chase. Tommy is an entity on prowl.

Kerosene

Tommy will take care of him, rinse the crimson from his hands and embrace him in the smell of kerosene and disinfectant. The hold feels like a bed of web. He's lulled into a rest without sleep.

Acid Rain

Third interval.

Chase. Rain. A forest, again. Too little oxygen to the brain. Too much strain on calves. Sense of wrongness, failure, fear.

If I Had a Heart

Obsession isnt enough to aspire love. Love isnt enough to aspire devotion. Certain hunger cannot be sated by mere attraction.

The Killing Moon

He senses the turn in the tension. He'd willingly become the sacrificial lamb if it was required to see him smile again.

13 Angels Standing Guard Round

It's quiet again.

How Will You Meet Your End?

[askblueandviolet]

DF: Hey so you guys know how once upon a time I had mentioned that I would be writing an LBD centric prequel to Blue and Violet in an author's note in one of the last chapters of Colours?

It's definitely still happening if some of you were waiting for it!!! It's just, I haven't been working on it lately (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ. Actually, I've barely worked on it at all. Technically, I am more than a third way through writing it because it's only a three chaptered fic (well, that's the plan as of 'right now') and I have the outline of the whole thing pretty set in stone (aka, I know exactly what's going to happen).

The first chapter of it is... Actually, it's already done! Pretty terrible draft but not something some quick editing can't fix! But me being me, I don't particularly like to publish chapters unless I have some more chapters in the backlog to be published the following week (to uphold a consistent schedule). Hence, why I'm able to keep up the weekly update schedule!

However, I... Genuinely don't know how long it is going to take me to write the other two chapters. Because my brain is not good at multitasking. So, since my main focus is on Winter Mornings, Summer Nights (WMSN), this ask blog, and my life outside of the internet, it's hard to find time and energy to actually... Write the prequel I've been wanting to write for ages. A piece of work that I really wanted to share before WMSN came out because it's actually meant to be read after Colours (despite literally being a prequel. But it contains so many spoilers for the timeline beyond it because ITS LBD'S POV) but lmao it is what it is.

HOWEVER: If you are all willing to endure the very unreliable production of the prequel (it literally could take me months to dish out the second chapter), I could publish the first chapter for it! Just so you guys can like, I don't know, consume it.

Um, do bear in mind though, I might not end up following the results of this poll. Because I don't know, I'm a little silly I guess (or just incredibly unreliable lmao). But I will take the results from this into consideration! Ultimately, I will try to do what I feel like is best for you guys and the series (and my own sanity too I guess).

So, this is more of an update post than anything else. To tell you guys that I'm working on the thing, I swear XDDD!!! But if you guys really want to see some of it now, I am willing to share what I currently have :DDD.

[edward-cabrini]

2nd Book Update: "Fear Claidmhte" Series

I am beyond tired, I write in a foggy haze as horrors etch themselves onto the pages. There is no rest, no respite.

The work is nearly done.

The end of this book has been a real challenge to get right. Just shy of the midpoint Lorcan and Ernin barely survive what I'm going to describe as "Consequences". At the end of this book I they will rencounter these "Consequences". This time though they know what's happening they can prevent it.

There are two new characters introduced in the bread protest arc. One is very clearly a villain borne of good intentions the other is their victim. One of them is to be the cause of this round 2 of "Consequences" that Lorcan and Ernin will try to prevent.

My problem is deciding the following: Who should be the reason for "Consequences", Victim or Villain?

By my prediction there's about 30 hours worth of effort left to finish this 1st draft. Followed by perhaps 50-70 hrs on the second and a modest 10-30 on the third (Mostly a final pass for grammar and spelling). The end is very much so in sight. Once these two books have been concluded the Empire Arc will be concluded and the Fomorian Arc can begin.

I want to go back and write a 2nd edition for the first book still. Those few mistakes I've spotted on repeated rereads would be quick to fix and I'm so annoyed I didn't see them sooner. I'm only human and it was my first book, which I did race to publish out of fear I would never do it otherwise. I don't regret that as now I'm hella confident about this next publication but yeah... That's the update.

TL;DR:

Nearly done with first draft, publication expected early to mid 2025. There is a timeline where I get it out before the year is out but that seems unlikely. 2nd edition of "The Curse of Want" to follow around the same time as publication of "The Death of Empires"

[pauls1967moustache]

Hellooo!

1. I’d love to know more about your writing process! Do you go through the same steps every time, or does it depend where the fic takes you?

2. Are there any fics/types of fics that you’d never write but you wish someone else would?

3. What’s next in the mo-oeuvre?

Thank you!

hi jav!!!

i go through similar steps usually. on rare occasions i have an idea comes to me so clearly that i can kind of just breeze through writing it out without really going through any sort of process except a bare outline. usually i have an idea and just let it cook for a while noting down bits of it that i like until it's coherent enough for a story. depending on what the fic is about i'll do some little timeline research or whatever (or crowdsource my research by just asking tumblr to find me whatever quote i know i saw but can't find anymore lmao). and then i move into the Mo Classic (outlining). the writing part of it is always the same though. it's bullet point outline -> expanded outline -> get a first draft down without looking at it -> edit/filling out the first draft with details -> final edits and posting. although how much final editing i do depends on how bored i am of the fic by that point. but it's a pretty quick, self-contained process.

i love a good epistolary fic but in many ways i also don't. they're hard to get right without feeling too much like "this is a fanfiction" but when they're done well they slap! i almost had an idea for one that would include like newspaper articles and then it occured to me that i don't want to fucking write any of it lmaooo.

(love the pun, thank you) currently working on paul/yoko, with a twist 😈

[the-haunted-office]

If a reply isn’t coming easily do you draft it for later, delete and start over, chat with your writing partner for help, or something else?

Are there any writing elements that you sometimes find difficult? Monologues, character engagement, setting, progression, dialogue, other?

roleplay / writing habits

If a reply isn’t coming easily do you draft it for later, delete and start over, chat with your writing partner for help, or something else?

I save all of my received replies to my drafts by default and keep them there until I'm ready to write my reply.

If I'm having a difficult time with writing a reply, honestly it depends on multiple factors. It depends on how close I am to the mun, if we get along well VS if I've had repeated issues with them, how long the thread has been going, if it's an important character-building thread or more of a crack thread, how many threads I have with that mun, how many threads I have total, and just generally how I'm feeling. Muse plays a big factor too - sometimes certain muses just aren't speaking up, like Doomsday is very easy for me to write because her voice is always there, but muses like Classic Stanley and September usually take more time for me to reply with because they are quieter in my mind.

The number one thing that is most likely to make me drop a thread is if I keep getting back replies where all the other person's muse has done is responded/reacted to what my muse has said/done. There has been no advancement on the thread in any way, nothing for my muse to respond to, and this has happened for multiple replies in a row. If this happens multiple replies in a row, I will lose interest in the thread and stop responding to it. It's frustrating and annoying when you're the one doing all the work in the thread in every reply and I don't have the energy for that anymore.

If we've been writing together for a while and we have a good rapport and I'm having difficulty replying, I'll probably reach out, especially if it's an important thread.

I don't mean to cause any offense or anything when I drop threads, it's just that I literally don't have the energy anymore to reach out every time I need to drop a thread. I'm okay with people dropping threads with me without telling me too.

Are there any writing elements that you sometimes find difficult? Monologues, character engagement, setting, progression, dialogue, other?

Strictly speaking in roleplaying? I think setting, progression, and continuity are my biggest challenges.

It's often difficult for me to figure out where the setting of things is, like where things are taking place. Most often I find threads are taking place in the Office, but when things are outside of the Office is when it gets confusing for me. My muses can go pretty much anywhere, but sometimes I'm not sure of where other people's muses are and I end up confusing myself on where exactly to place my muses.

Progression and continuity are hard for me to figure out a lot of times because my muses mostly operate within a sort of linear timeline. That is, their character arcs and progression are mostly forward. But it's hard to figure out where other people's muses fall into that because... quite frankly, my muses have not been able to form that many meaningful relationships with other people's muses. A lot of times when I do plots on my blog where there is character development happening, it's been either barely acknowledged or not acknowledged at all by others, so it makes it difficult or impossible for me to figure out where that development fits in with other people's characters. I'm not saying other people must participate in the plots on my blog, but it does make it difficult when my muses grow and change as characters and there's no acknowledgement of it. Like, one muse literally died and nobody noticed, not even the muses who knew her, and it was... disheartening to say the least.

So. Those kinds of things are difficult for me personally. A lot of times I'm wanting to progress an overall story on my blog and with my characters, and it seems at odds with what others are wanting to do, so that's difficult.

[effloradox]

Number One Guest

pairing: hitachiin twins x gn!reader

summary: when an event the host club are running starts to bore you, you’re desperate to find a way to get out of staying for the whole event. luckily for you, you have some very attentive best friends who don’t fear kyoya’s wrath.

notes: i have a masterlist for all these ouran fics/drabbles in my drafts, including the timeline of when they’re all set in the series. will it ever get out of my drafts? who knows.

You considered yourself to be a very supportive friend. To be friends with a bunch of teenagers running a host club you supposed you had to be, but you liked to think you went above and beyond when the right situation called for it. Not that that mindset had done you any favours. You're currently cursing yourself out for being such a good friend.

Sometimes the events the hosts ran were a lot of fun to be at. Sometimes they weren't. This particular event had been a real drag and you'd spent most of it watching the ornate clock over the main entrance of the hall ticking the minutes away. You’d promised to stay until the end of the event and with every minute that passed you regretted that decision more and more. You’d tried your best to hide your boredom, but one knowing look from the twins and you knew that you weren’t fooling anyone. It's not your fault, any event that mainly includes the guests just fawning over the hosts tends to bore you.

As quickly as they appeared in your line of sight, the twins disappeared again, and you can’t help but sigh as you finish the drink you’d been trying to make last. You’re just in the process of looking for somewhere to put your empty glass, trying to come up with some half-convincing excuse to leave, when you suddenly get the impression that you're not alone.

"C'mon." The voices from behind you make you jump slightly, as you turn to face your best friends.

"Let's go."

"Go where?" You’re aware that you’re looking at them blankly, but for the life of you you can’t work out where this conversation is going. They roll their eyes, but the expression on their face is one you know all too well. It’s one filled with mischief and you can already feel Kyoya’s eyes on the three of you.

"Home.” Kaoru starts.

“Duh." Hikaru finishes. Part of you can’t tell if they’re joking, but another part of you knows they’re serious.

"You guys can't just leave." Your mind runs through the list of events that were meant to happen tonight. Most of the major ones had passed earlier in the night but you could've sworn there was something all the hosts needed to be present for at the conclusion of the event. The twins merely shrug at you.

"Sure we can."

"What about all your guests?" You gesture to the other people in the room. It’s not hard to spot the longing look on some of the guests’ faces as they look for the twins only to find them by your side. A few look fairly annoyed and you don't want to think about how Kyoya will react if you get some bad feedback from those particular guests.

"You're our number one guest." You’re about to argue against that, that whilst it’s true you're at the club every single day, the rate you pay per session (which is barely anything) wouldn't get you on the ladder of their most important guests in the eyes of Kyoya. Kaoru doesn't give you time to respond though.

"What kind of hosts would we be if we didn't attend to your needs?"

“And right now, your needs are not being attended to in this environment.” Hikaru finishes triumphantly, like he knows you can't argue with his logic.

The two of them are quick to take your hands in theirs as they quickly guide you to one of the more secluded doors at the back of the hall. The pace they set is steady until you're out the door and then they're running, pulling you in tow. You can’t help but start laughing as they continue to run, only stopping when their car is in sight. Their chauffeur stands by the open passenger door, a knowing smile on his face. The twins bundle you into the car, and you barely have your seatbelt fastened before the car is driving away from Ouran.

For the first time all night you finally feel like you can breathe as you relax into the car seat. Your eyes flutter closed as a wave of relief rolls over you. You might have been raised on events like this evenings, but nothing fills you with more joy than leaving the stuffy environments you’ll be spending the rest of your life dealing with. This isn’t the first time your best friends have rescued you, and you’re fairly sure it won’t be the last.

“God I love you guys.”

series masterlist

[ntuankhann]

RMIT Design Management Sem 1 - 2024

Team 9 - IRD VN Brief 2 & 3

Week 8: Filming & Rough Editing

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What's been going on in week 8?

Team's organization chart: Tam - main idea guy & director and video editor Thao - communicator, storyboard and vid editor Ngan - storyboard and editor Khanh - stickers and presentation slides. Other than that all participate in pitching ideas for videos and making the video.

Timeline: We were supposed to have finished shooting videos and start editing them now but IRD requests a lot of changes so we will need to reshoot some stuff again in week 9.

Individual contribution: the only individual stuff I did was the stickers but because I drew fast so it wasn't feel like a task at all. More like an excuse for me to draw. Other than that our team do everything together.

Peer review: Dunno how many times I have to say this but I still very much enjoy my time in this team.

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For this week, we supposedly finished filming and has edited rough drafts and send to IRD for feedback. The response wasn't that good lol.

For some reason IRD really wanted dialogues in the video about changing socks. We really don't want to use dialogues as a funny skit since it's pretty boring and cringe to certain people and it might make the video unecessarily long. Plus I think that having no dialogues through out all 3 videos would be a nice theme. But oh well, if they want dialogue then they shall get it I guess. It's just barely 3 short lines but we hate recording our voice lol.

For the dirty socks video, we thought it would be funny to wear socks with crocs since it's something people hate in a funny way. But yeah, IRD wants clean shoes so clean shoes for them I guess (boring people lol).

And for the multiple color socks video where they combined into a rainbow in the end, IRD wanted the end to be everyone all wearing rainbow socks. For this I think it's pretty dumb since it doesn't really make sense? Having everyone wearing different colors and then stand together to become a rainbow sounds more like "community" and "togetherness" than just a bunch of people wearing rainbow ones. For this we think we will still try and use our own idea and try to convey the message better.

The stickers are well received, just need to make the colors pop more and done.

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Other than that I'm still preparing the presentation slides. I did find troubles in trying to design the slides since we don't really design any assets like posters and mascots - things that we can use to decorate our slides with. That means we don't know what to put in other than the stickers and videos and maybe some info. Other than that, we can't really put anything in there including colors since most of the stuff we make are videos and we can't really control the colors in the vids to match the colors of IRD so yeah…

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Document your learning for this week. What theme, common to all of your work irrespective of subject or media, can you identify in all your own work?

Most of the work I produce are somewhat personal to me. Not just the artstyle but also the subject I'm creating despite the obvious brief telling me it's not ideal. That might mean that I'm stubborn and not good for corporative projects.

[ciceroprofacto]

Well it's putting the cards on the table time apparently. I heard once about a rumor that basically said that you didn't do the research for soa, nor did your wife. That some Tumblr user(s) actually made ("an important") part of the research. I think the ones that told me that hate you or something.

So I just wanted to know - is that true? Because well, even i sometimes thought that it was almost impossible to make that amount of research by oneself. Or even two people. Both in so, so busy careers and being successful in those careers.

Look, it's not as if I believed it's completely impossible. I mean, I've been building a world with my bf for some years now, and just a month ago we discovered that its political laws are incredibly similar to spartan ones... without any of us having ever studied ancient politics before.

So anyways. Have a nice day!

ugh. I've seen this one (or a variation of it) before and I have some questions.

what's this 'important part' of the research that I didn't do?

and if not me...who's doing it?

seriously- who? I'd love to call them up. I was begging for help when I first started- what do y'all think that obnoxiously-long timeline post (made January 9th 2017) was? it's literally titled as a call to action...and it barely got feedback at the time. it took 6 chapters for @madtomedgar to pick me up and help with editing until I got my footing and then @denialandavoidance picked me up. if anyone can be credited with helping me, it's them- which is why they are credited on those chapters. but, I will say, and they could attest (though this is so far below worth our time...), the legwork was always there on the details. I just needed touch-ups, fact checks, and proofreading.

on that- did we just...scroll past the years of posts where I was discovering details for the timeline and sharing them...some of that process was pretty public? unfortunately, a lot of it was also just in my notes and on the chapter drafts because I was more worried about writing the story than showing my work...because it's a fanfic. I couldn't imagine anyone would need me to prove that I'd researched.

which- what is the bar here for citations? the closest thing I've done to a bibliography has been the recent meta posts I'm making on the reread, but the idea of including that on the work itself is nightmarish. even my meta post leaves a lot out, and you'd end up with ~2k words of notes on each chapter. that ruins the immersion, distracts from the plot, and worst- adds extra effort on my part. I just won't do it. sorry. I'm not making money off this, I'm not being graded on it. it's a fanfic.

even if I tried, a full-bibliography isn't going to have all the records for every nitty-gritty detail that's included in the story. I wasn't adding footnotes on my drafts as I went along. I just wasn't. my method was to keep it as simple as possible, and a bibliography wasn't the priority, just getting the information. I basically just had a timeline that was like an agenda for each day and I was backfilling it with details from all the books and journals and primary source documents I was reading. anytime a date would come up in a source, I'd add it to my notes. anytime there was a gap or I had specific questions, I'd dig around until I could fill it (or I’d make something up because it’s fiction). though most of my sources were publicly-accessible (we stan Wiki in this house), I don't even have access to everything I used back in 2015-18. I was in college and had access to academic databases, my library, and @john-laurens was also still in school with similar accesses, and towards the end of 2016, started helping me find specific details. google could get me 90% of the way there, but the really detailed day-to-day stuff was in letters and journal entries.

it seems a lot like how someone might research to write a biography, they'd just be more thorough about annotating their sources since their goal is to publish...I might not be doing it for the same reasons, but why is it so hard to believe I could?

anyway- no. that's not true. I've had contributors. the people I've mentioned above have helped me directly and they're credited in the work because of it- though I would still emphasize for the context of this question, their help has mostly been as editors, occasionally fielding specific questions or giving me source recommendations. any contributions other than theirs would come from posts that are public on this blog, but I truly, genuinely, can't think of any that have already been incorporated or would warrant recognition...

if someone feels like I've missed something they gave me, they're always welcome to take it up with me.

[nightswithkookmin]

First, this is my THIRD TIME I send you my question. If you don't response I move.

Second, why still jikook shippers exist when jimin & jungkook was barely communicate. The fact, we can't ignore that, jimin & Jungkook avoid each other. Something between them was not good. I really miss their genuine interaction. Other hand Jk seems normal with other members. WHY?

👀 Ok but I'm really doing my best here 😒

There's literally 400 plus unanswered Asks in my inbox. If I answered one Ask each day it will still take like a whole year to clear my inbox and there will still be some unanswered Asks sitting in there.

Besides, I think I have answered this exact question? I have said I believe Jikook experienced a hiccup in their relationship between October and November last year post JM's birthday but I don't believe they broke up. Not sure how many times you want me to repeat that.

Most of the content with 'no interaction' and 'tension' between them were filmed around the same period within this timeline.

I will uploading a blog on that timeline soon. I have a rough draft of it sitting in my drafts somewhere. I've been answering a lot of Asks lately and I just haven't had time to write an actual blog post. Sigh.

Why Jikook Shippers still exist...

I ask myself this question every single day darling- why do people still ship Jikook when Jikook is more than a ship? They should be supporting them not just shipping them.

Also, I don't think real Jikook supporters support Jikook just because they interact. Those are the shippers. The trad shippers as I like to call them. I support Jikook because they are queer first and foremost and secondly because they are in love with eachother.

Just because they 'don't interact' in a moment, on camera, don't make them all of a sudden straight. It doesn't work like that.

Jimin is my bias and I know beyond a shadow of doubt he is queer. I love him more for it. I really love him more for it. You have no idea. I am not going to withdraw my support for him as an LGBTQ plus member in a conservative space just because he isn't interacting on camera with another member. That's just silly.

The love between them isn't going anywhere anytime soon. As long as they both want it and they both go out of their way to nurture it, it will always be there. I think that's what you should be paying attention to- whether or not they are nurturing their bond outside their interactions on camera during this period.

Because if they are not, then that's when they will become a real fanservice ship. No shade to a certain ship💀

JIMIN AND JK AVOID EACHOTHER. WHY?

Well damn I got nothing. Lol. My crystal ball is on the fritz. Would have to call Dumbledore for assistance. Help, Dumbledore! Lol.

Jokes aside, I see what you mean. But I keep saying Jikook are not broken up. It hasn't been smooth sailing all 7 years you know- ok take a few years. I don't think it will be either going forward either.

Jikook are not jikooking all the time. It's part of the contract they have with us. Lol. Sometimes it's because they are having relationships problems, other times it's their environment, a producer they ain't vibing with, bad hair day, the members getting on their nerves- a myriad of reasons Anon. A ton. I can only speculate. Could be anything from a break up to a lost change. Know what I mean?

They do have issues from time to time. They are human too. Sometimes they hide it behind smiles and perform knock off versions of their bond for us.

Other times they choose not to perform their bond, especially if whatever they are dealing with is serious- if it is, they set boundaries and respect eachother's boundaries to allow them to emotionally process and deal.

Most times too they push and poke at eachother's boundaries till the other cave. Especially if one of them feel whatever is getting in their way is a trivial issue.

During Jin's birthday VLive in December, they sounded a lot like they were enjoying eachother's company to me- apart from the part JM was throwing shade at us left right left, I didn't sense any tension between them then.

Chilee JM, whatever did we do to you?🤧

All we did was call you 'a liar' once and now you just keep rubbing your relationship in our face?😥 You really didn't have to tell us you were with Jungkook when Jin put you on speaker.😒 You really didn't. You knew he was putting you on speaker. Acting like Jin was bothering you or something. I see you. Smirk.

Their moments at GDA and the end of year award shows were equally telling of the state of their relationship.

In some content post Grammy you could see them hanging in the background playing games and what not.

Arriving together at KBS in the same car at 5am, leaving set together at 1am and heading lord knows where- cough, Itaewon.

Then this happened... was JK high? Chilee.

Like I know my bias is sexy and fine but JK you don't have to be scanning him like that😭

I've been saying, Jikook 'relax' in certain contents, act serious in others- as they should. They literally had the GMA performance before this shoot and people were screaming there was tension between them and what not and that JK seemed mad at Jimin. Mad bunny where?! Lmho.

The 'less open' one in that performance was JM not JK. To me. I felt he was putting up a tough exterior, acting like he don't kiss ass in that time period. Not sure if it was the haircut or his inner shadow hunter but something had shifted in him. Lol.

You could tell JK really wanted to show off their bond and chemistry in that event, and had perhaps wanted JM to engage like he'd done with him in previous performances?

But JM wasn't doing none of that for whatever reason- No, I don't think it was because he was mad at JK.

He just wasn't on his Jikook agenda.

They enjoy eachother and when they get lost in a moment it's usually for them not us. But they know and are well aware we like their bond and we love to see it. You'd often hear them, JM especially, ask the fans if they like certain moments especially after he's interacted with JK in a certain way or shared certain intimate details about their relationship with fans at fansigns.

They troll us, they tease us, they include us in certain moments- Jk deliberatly stealing JM's tear stained tissue( a reenactment of a popular Korean sitcom where a creepy ass lady stole her crushes used tissue to convey she adored him) him pointing at JM to indicate he desires JM, slowly taking off his shirt while holding JM's gaze, the you are me, I am you, what's tasty in Busan and all these other moments.

They each have their own Jikook agenda. But they are both not always in on it. Sometimes JM has no idea what JK is up to, other times it's JK who's clueless. Like the Holiday remix video where JK bolted after that intense fanservice moment with JM.

I don't think he knew JM was going to do what he did. It was shock and desire rolled into one for him. I just know it. Lmho.

As I said, the director probably had whispered something in JM's ear and had asked him to give them a moment.

JK was probably having wedding dreams flashbacks. His entire Itaewon gay future flashed before his eyes. I'm dead. Lmho.

Jk'd initiate in moments where JM wasn't initiating (during performances) and he'd bump shoulders or just shamelessly wrap his hands around Jimin and have a moment.

Same energy from JK different periods in the timeline- one before Grammy, one after.

May be you should be paying close attention to the things they do when they 'don't interact?' What they do when they do interact. Who initiates, whether the other reciprocates or not etc? The setting and environment equally counts as well.

Literally these two contents were filmed on the same day but half the fandom was screaming there was something off with Jikook in one just because Jikook didn't touch eachother.

JK was hesitating to initiate skinship with JM in one content, but didn't in the other- on the same day. What gives??

Contents filmed with Suga, Tae in dark hair, JM with an undercut were all filmed after 11th October and before 3rd November when Suga had his Surgery.

Content with JM in blue hair were filmed after 24th November.

JK's mood was pretty consistent to me till the pop up in late October, the holiday remix filmed after 3rd November but before Grammy, the Grammy reaction on 24th November and the recent run which was also filmed after Grammy where he seemed mostly closed off to JM's Jikook agenda- do you see what I mean when I say all those moments on 'tension' you and others mention were filmed within the same period?

Jimin's reaction has equally been consistent, going from putting up a tough exterior to being mellow and somewhat humbled or subdued.

Make of it what you will.

Not sure what you mean by genuine interactions. I think you have to embrace all aspects of them and their relationship. They have 'genuine' moments, they have fan service moments, they have good days, they have bad days. Sometimes they don't interact at all.

It's ok to miss them. But don't demand that they change or interact in a certain way to suit your shipping desires. That's dangerous.

They are human.

Signed,

GOLDY

[kevindayscrown]

Why Kevin Day is the most in-depth character in the All For the Game series

An essay by a Kevin stan, so you know it's at least 70% biased

Hello, hello everyone, welcome to another session of me, brainwashing you about the amazingness of Kevin Day. In this short essay, I'll discuss how our number Queen asshole striker is, in fact, not just a whiney bitch, but one of the most key characters in the AFTG series. I'll also discuss how Nora pretty much did him dirty and how much I appreciate the fandom for doing him better.

I've decided that it will be much easier to take things chronologically, so I can delve deeper into what makes Kevin the character whose stans won't shut up about.

Unlike the rest of the characters in the series, Kevin started off in a somewhat stable family condition. He was brought up by his mother, Kayleigh, but still probably had to live with the title 'Son of Exy' from the moment he was born. We've all witnessed what being on the spotlight from a young age has done to child stars. Kevin, upon growing up, would start feeling the burden of a whole legacy created by his mother. Because Exy, despite being a bastard sport, has a large fanbase around the US, and possibly further - since it's mentioned that it's also an Olympic sport.

It wouldn't be a surprise that Kevin more than likely looked up to his mother and wanted to play Exy for her. Suddenly though, Keyleigh died in a car accident (if it was even a car accident; knowing the Moriyamas, it could had been done on purpose) and left Kevin in the care of Tetsuji Moriyama, the head of one of the yakuza's branches, and his now adoptive brother Riko.

Let's be honest, both of them were just kids. They only had each other, so it was really easy to get attached. Kevin has lost his mother at this point and Tetsuji is not exactly a proper father figure, so Kevin had to cling on Riko. Despite us seeing him in the main timeline being an asshole who snaps at everyone, his willingness to submit into the position of 'number 2' even if he's better than Riko, shows how much he depends emotionally on people. Riko and Kevin had to meet certain expectations, had fans from a very young age, and Neil even mentions that he literally witnessed Kevin grow up from media outlets and coverages. Kevin had to stick close to the only other person who's going through the same thing.

As a result, it was easy for Kevin to focus on what he's taught to believe; he should aim for the stars, he should be good, great, but never the best. Because Riko is the best. Kevin accepts that.

I hate how people call him a spineless coward just because someone mentions it once in the book. Kevin isn't like Neil. Neil was given a chance to escape. Kevin could never escape Evermore. Even if he did consider it his home, he was still abused on a daily basis. Riko mentions in Raven King, when he's about to torture Neil, that Neil is basically in the same position as Kevin once had been:

People forget that, Kevin probably had to live through what Neil did ever since Riko turned into his fucked up self. Which literally means years of physical and mental abuse, with no hope of escape but the bright future he had ahead of him. So what did Kevin do? He focused on playing.

Stop making Kevin all about being an Exy freak or an alcoholic. Kevin was so obsessed with Exy because it's the only thing he has ever known. He probably couldn't even drink before he escaped Evermore.

Imagine being torn between loving and clinging on the boy you once called brother because it's the only family you've known, and being hurt by him, again and again at a later age, having him shatter all you think you are good at. Riko didn't just break Kevin's hand. He almost took away from him all he thought he had left, and possibly the only way Kevin had of feeling close to his mother.

Kevin loses all he's ever known, and he blames himself for it at first because he thinks it's his fault that he even dared to show he could be better than Riko. He's in pieces and the only thing he does is to cling yet on another person. Aka Andrew. And somehow like this, we come back to the point about Kevin not only being far from an emotionless asshole, but actually being the most emotionally attached character in the series.

Entering the timeline of the books, Kevin appears as the epitome of a narcissistic asshole. It's fair for someone (as a reader) to not like him at first, when we don't know all that much about him. But as the story unravels, a clear distinction is made:

Kevin is not a narcissist. He's egocentric.

Kevin knows and truly believes he's the center of attention. Because, admittedly, he is. The books could had easily had Kevin as the protagonist. Like mentioned before, being raised on the spotlight, has had a tremendous impact on how he sees himself. He's obsessed with what image he's presenting to the public. I don't think he said 'being heterosexual is easier' without a reason. Kevin has led a life full of suppression. He can flash a 'press smile' for the cameras, he can snap and be cold at the Foxes, when in reality, he's suffering from severe PTSD, with panic attacks that he's handling in the worst way possible:

Alcohol. Why? Because the Foxes are all assholes and hypocrites. Don't get me wrong, I love them. But the fact that they just ignored Kevin everytime he had a panic attack and simply thrusted a bottle of vodka his way and called it a day? Inexcusable. Kevin needed a lot more than that.

Oh jeez, I wonder why he didn't tell Wymack he was his father all along.

If I see another person saying that Kevin was an ass for not telling Wymack straight up, I might slap a bitch. Do you think that Kevin would have been able to handle another rejection, another loss of a parental figure? All he did, was in self defense. Yes, it was selfish, but it was probably the only time in his life he could really make a choice on his own.

But you know what? Kevin overcame all this. Maybe and most probably not completely, he will never be able to wash away some stains, but he became more confident and emotionally independent. He detached himself both from Riko and from Andrew, and became the best striker in the history of Exy.

One of the reasons why I love Neil and Kevin - especially Kevin - is because their healing journeys are more fleshed out than Andrew's. But in this case, Kevin's was not really given the attention it deserved, it happened on the side lines and he had to do it alone. Neil had the foxes, had Wymack and Andrew. Kevin had no one, because the foxes, despite being assholes themselves, kept dismissing him and his problems. I really do believe that, in the first drafts when Kandreil was canon, Nora had potentially explored his character more. I wish we had gotten that instead of this sloppy attempt to squeeze in his ark along with Neil's.

I'll end this with some highlights that also showcase how badass Kevin is. He's a mess, but he does grow some spine when he finally becomes his own person:

Oof, if you actually read through this, thank you for tolerating my probably incoherent thoughts. I actually barely scratched the surface of my thoughts on Kevin's character but for now, this will do.

[popatochisssp]

Hi. What's your writing process? Because I hear that outline stuff and honestly... I don't have a writing process, which might be why I'm a mess lmao. Please explain your magic Poppy!

‘Process’ might be too generous a word for how I do things, but I guess everybody kinda feels like they have no idea what they’re doing, so!

When it comes to a project, I start with an idea. For DL, as an example, that idea was, “I mentioned in my hcs at one point that Rus doesn’t really know how to do laundry, that would be a nice Meet Cute for him to run into somebody at a laundromat to help him out.”

Then from there, I kinda just think it through and expand on it– it could be a fic about Rus coming into his own and learning some life skills, that would be nice! How would his brother factor in…? Well, I’ve never done a poly fic before, I think it’d be fun to try one out, maybe if I…

So there the idea, and I probably mull over it for awhile, thinking up scenarios in my head based on the premise I have, usually not explicitly interconnected, just Things I’d Like To See, or Things That Would Be Funny/Cute/Romantic. Two problems– all these things are just sorta random, and also they exist only in my head where they’re probably gonna get lost or jumbled up if they stay in there, floating around in the mental void.

Which means it’s time for the outline step! I start to write down the ideas I’m having, very briefly and just enough to cover like, the general vibe of a part before jotting down the next one. When I see all the ideas written out in little bullet points like that, it’s easier to start organizing them– this thing has to happen before that thing, or hey, that thing would transition really well into this other one, those have to happen together… 

I can’t give a full example since DL’s ongoing and y’know, spoilers, but that eventually gives me the first full draft of the main outline, from where I think the story starts to where I want it to end. It’s like a little bare-bones timeline of what, broadly, is supposed to happen and when.

From there, I break it down into a chapter outline, so I take the relevant part of the full outline and elaborate on it. For example, here’s the chunk of paragraph that eventually turned into Chapters 6 & 7 of DL:

“Papyrus developing a crush on you, hanging out more even without tutoring, he’s getting a pretty good grasp on life skills and it’s boosting his confidence a lot, he’s starting to flirt with you and you’re SO conflicted—you like him, he’s cute, you’re DEFINITELY interested, but stars, you feel so guilty, you’re lying to him, accepting money from his brother, you feel downright scummy—so when he finally makes a move and tells you he really likes you (like-likes you) and tries to kiss you (while admittedly a lil drunk), you shoot him down and run away”

That’s the gist of what happened, obviously, but it’s super condensed and ultimately a lot more than what’s in there ended up happening! That’s ‘cause the chapter outline takes that ultra-distilled, ‘this is what’s gonna happen’ and breaks it out into ‘this is how that’s gonna happen.’ In this particular case, I open Ch 6 with a little of Papyrus’ perspective to show how he’s crushing, move to Reader’s perspective to show her inner-thoughts and set up the not-quite-a-date she has with Papyrus… buuuuut also I wanted to build up a little more narrative tension, for The Drama, so I ended the chapter with the misunderstanding fully in play and dive right into the failed drunken smooch with the next one.

But y’know, it goes from a simple, ‘Papyrus developing a crush on you’ to several lines of how his thought-process is going to be like (in the chapter outline, there’s about 350 words of that).

…which makes it a whole lot easier for me when I transition from there into the actual chapter-writing part! I don’t have to, on the spot, try to figure out what’s gonna happen, or how to transition this into that, I already did all that stuff in the planning phases– now, all I have to do is get started actually writing and see where the words go! XD

It’s hard to describe, y’know, all of what goes on in my head while I’m doing this stuff, so I hope this isn’t too confusing, and even if it is, everybody has their own way of doing things and finding inspiration/motivation/organization with their work. This is just how I do it, and it may be a total mess to someone else, but it’s what works for me!

You just gotta find out what methods work best for you! :3

[topazshadowwolf]

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE LotR and adore Aragorn/Arwen. I would vote for them if it wasn't for the fact that I have been writing Soriel fics for years. So, yes, as much as I love seeing Aragorn and Arwen together, they didn't inspire me to create.

My love for this odd couple has led me to imagine all sorts of paths for them. I love to think about them in all the different timelines that are canon in the game. So please enjoy this tiny fic and have some fluff. This is in the neutral ending with Toriel as queen, as no one died except (poor) Asgore.

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“knock, knock,” came the calm, deep, and soothing voice from the other side of the door.

“Who is there,” Toriel replied. She was so tired and had no time for this. Yet, she could not turn him down.

“hive,” came the response, and she smiled from her desk, resting her head on a hand.

“Hive, who,” she said as she continued their ritual greeting of jokes.

“hive got my arms full… can you get the door?” He asked, and at first, she laughed. When he didn’t open the door to her office, she realized it wasn’t all a joke.

“Oh! You were serious!” She said before jumping up and rushing to the door.

In all likelihood, he could use his magic to get in, but that would go against their tradition. Toriel opened it, and Sans shuffled in, arms indeed full. He was carrying a large stack of folders, files, and papers. Magic dotted the top of his skull, imitating sweat. A look of relief crossed his face as he set the stack on her desk. 

Once they were out of his arms, he flopped down in the armchair he used when visiting and huffed out a sigh. “there,” he said.

“There, indeed…,” she replied as she walked over and looked over the stack. “And what is this?”

“reports with summaries, the documents you wrote first drafts of for the peace orders… edited and typed out for you to read over and sign if i transcribed them right… and other paperwork you’ve been bogging yourself down with. hive been a busy bee,”  he replied, then leaned back into the chair cushion, looking rather pleased with himself.

“… Sans… when?” she looked everything over. It was well done and not his usual, barely cutting it, work. “You have been busy, indeed. This saved me hours of work. How sweet of you, honey!”

A slight hint of color dusted his cheekbones, and she hoped her joke wasn’t too forward. “thanks, just wanted to help the… uh… queen bee…. you’ve been working so hard lately. wanna make sure you know you don’t gotta do this all on your own.”

“Well, thank you, my dear friend. I just have one last thing to do, and then I will be free to tell jokes and talk,” She said as she smiled at him.

“what’s that?” Sans inquired.

“I need to try finding out who Asgore had appointed as a judge so I can set up a meeting with that monster. It is vital that the Queen and Royal Judge agree on laws. Asgore made being human in the Underground illegal. I wish to know if the judge agrees with my change of that law, and if not, I will need a new judge,” She sighed.

“no worries, tori, i happen to know who the judge is. wanna meet the judge tomorrow for lunch?” Sans asked.

That surprised her as the judge's identity is supposed to be secret. But Sans did seem to know nearly everyone, as he said. Perhaps the enigmatic skeleton had somehow come across that information?

“i know him well enough to know he’s free tomorrow at noon,” Sans replied with a grin. It was a cheeky one, too… he was up to something. What though, she didn’t know. Still, she trusted him at his word.

“Alright, I will meet him then,” She replied and stood there momentarily.

Sans did the stack of paperwork she had been fearing… and now he also set up her meeting with the judge. She was caught up with her work. Until now, it was a constant fight to keep up with everything. With everything she planned to do today done, she suddenly didn’t know what to do.

“come over here,” Sans said as he stood on the chair.

“What are you doing?” She asked while giggling.

“tryin’ to be taller, now turn around,” he directed, and she did as he asked.

“You really should not be stannnn… ooooh…,” Toriel felt herself melt as dexterous boney fingers started to knead her shoulders.

“wanna sit?” He asked, and she nodded. Stepping back, he directed her to sit in front of him. With that, he continued to work, and she felt the tension she had been unknowingly carrying roll away.

Once done, he moved to sit on the arm of the chair. Toriel frowned for a moment as she looked at him. “I do not think this chair was made to support someone sitting there.”

“s’alright, tori, not like I weigh a skeleton,” he chuckled.

The pun got a giggle from her before she sighed and leaned back into the chair. “I am sorry, my friend… this was supposed to be jokes and talking.”

“eh, i’m tired too. point is, we are buddies hanging out, right?” He asked, and she nodded.

“I suppose so. Other than that stack of papers, did you do much today?” Toriel asked while looking at him.

“me, no… buuuuut, my brother had quite the day,” He said. 

Intrigued, she asked him to continue, and he told her about Papyrus and his time in hot lands. The younger skeleton spent part of his day discussing the vent puzzles with other engineers. She didn’t know when she fell asleep through the story, but his calm, deep voice soothed her worries. When she later woke up, she found that the lights had been turned off and a blanket laid over her. Soft snoring got her attention, and she looked over to see Sans sleeping soundly where he had been sitting. He had ended up leaning against her in his sleep. She found even that slight amount of weight against her oddly comforting.

It meant she wasn’t alone…

Toriel smiled, moving the blanket to cover him before letting herself drift off to sleep again. 

[kobithedragonblr]

Cuz I use tumblr like Pinterest or even image search engines like yandex images (it's actually a lot better than Google images for finding interesting images). So i like to just collect stuff.

Key reasons why tumblr is infinitely better than pretty much any image collection platform like the aforementioned and also ones like Instagram or Twitter or whatever:

The reblog system. The via chain. The upcoming reblog balls. These are unique to tumblr ways of finding blogs I'd never have dreamt of finding if I relied only on a algorithm that looked for posts or blogs that were "similar". Because I don't want stuff that's similar I want stuff that's interesting. And I know this is pretty niche because most people don't care for finding random interesting stuff, but for niche users like me and some people I've met through doing this, tumblr is excellent.

Which brings me on to my next point - the dashboard. Having a feed or timeline where people can take in the stuff I'm sharing makes what I'm doing so much more meaningful. And I meet interesting people through this. Some people genuinely crave as many posts per day as possible. And the people who don't can unfollow. My unfollow rate is healthy and high, and I'm very happy with that because it shows people are taking the choice to not have their dashboard consumed by my posts. The people left following therefore genuinely want as many posts as possible. But hey what if people can set the number of daily posts they wish to see from each person they're following? A strong contender for another unique to tumblr feature, further solidifying my will to stay here more than any other platform.

Furthermore having your posts placed in a dashboard for other people to scroll through makes the incentive to post SO much higher. And so the content shared gets way better because there's that need to show your followers all the cool stuff you've found or made. It's like with stories you post lower quality stuff but on a feed or dashboard you're always placing your top notch posts.

So yeah I mean I could easily use Pinterest or yandex images or Instagram or Twitter or we heart it.... But tumblr is better. It just is. It has more image grid view 3rd party clients than it's cousin twitter (which is inferior in its content resharing attribution amongst many other things), it has more features like queueing posts and drafting posts, it has immortal reblogs, it has SO MUCH that's unique to it. And I know it's not meant to be like Pinterest but it's so much more enjoyable to scroll through a blog rather than a set of pin boards that are designed to push you out after scrolling for a bit due to weird quirks in the app I've annoyingly discovered. Other platforms force you into using the algorithm generated content feeds using annoying quirks but tumblr gives you more of a choice to scroll through any pool of content you like. And combining the save for later post feature (replacing likes to save for later) with the already perfect queued reblogs feature would pretty much eliminate any spam in user's activity feeds, and choice would be the reigning champion on this wonderful platform.

Now obviously since barely anyone hits post limit as you've said, this is all very niche and therefore unimportant to the core userbase of tumblr. But as someone who likes collecting and sharing large numbers of images per day and has done so since like 2012 on other platforms, tumblr is my favourite, and I've found a lotta people with tens of thousands of even hundreds of thousands of posts here, so I can gladly say I've found my community on tumblr - even if it's a weird niche community that sorta annoys the devs and half the people on here lmfao. I hope this clears some things up anyway because from the perspective of someone who uses tumblr in the way it's supposed to be used, you know, as a social network and blogging platform, it's probably puzzling as to why anyone needs more than 250 posts per day or more than 1000 likes (preferably bookmarks/saves that don't display user activity feed notifications) per day. Everything I share is genuinely interesting to me even if it seems random or stupid (which is usually the purpose honestly, aesthetic rabbit holes are fun). So I'd never share the same thing a million times or share anything for the sake of anything other than building up my archive of stuff I find cool and Sharing it with other people who also find it cool. Peace 💜

Hello! Do you have any idea as to why the post limit is still in effect? The number seems pretty small for a current day user and it seems to me like something that would've been taken out years ago.

i have some idea. here are my thoughts. a couple main reasons:

there needs to be a limit of some kind, always, as a kind of sanity filter and technical limit to prevent one account from publishing tens of millions of posts in an hour and breaking tumblr. we have the same kind of limit in place for how many blogs can be followed. so there’s that. this is surmountable but it’s a technical challenge.

we need to prevent spam and bad actors from doing malicious things. having a “low” post limit is one, very old school and basic and incomplete, way of handling that. we have a lot of limits for this reason that you may never notice: limits on how many mentions can be in a post, how many API calls you can make in a day (or per hour or per second even), how many asks you can send, etc etc etc. these limits are designed to prevent one account from really abusing the platform. bad people still find ways to fly under these limits anyway, but at least there’s a throttle on their behavior.

we just don’t have a better heuristic or algorithm or something to replace the above two points. not yet anyway. we’re working on it. automattic (the company that owns tumblr) has this product called akismet that’s pretty good at fighting spam and finding these bad actors, so at least that could solve point 2. having to solve for point 1 would be easier: we’d likely switch to a per-hour limit or something you have to really be abusing tumblr to hit.

also worth considering that the number of people (not including the spammers we catch) who actually literally hit the daily published post limit per day on average is much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much fewer than you think. i know the number because i put the logging in place to find them. i’ve contemplated making a dashboard of just them to wade through what they’re posting and ask them why they feel like publishing more than 250 posts per day. i just might! if you’ve hit the post limit, please tell me what you’re up to on tumblr so i can understand better.

also also also very important thing worth considering is the product experience for your followers. if people are able to post 5,000 posts a day and actually do so, for example, your followers’ dashboards will be overrun with posts from you. we already get a ton of complaints about this kind of problem, and it makes tumblr harder to use for some people. this is actually one reason why we made the “Best stuff first” algorithmic dashboard – it helps even out the posts on your dashboard when you’re following people who can’t be bothered to use the queue or not make tons of posts. that’s probably a big reason why Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc, all have algo-powered main feeds.