#letter format

[yourtastefulcannibal]

5th September, 2024

Dear Hannibal,

I’m gonna learn how to pick up on social cues and the like better. My reason being that someone asked “what are we doing” as a joke, because on the board it says “WORK WRITE WORK WRITE WORK HARDER KEEP ON WORKING, WORK TIL YOU DROP […] WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK DO MORE WORK MORE”. I answered him seriously. Autism be damned I wont do it again.

- Sincerely, a frustrated Sel

{P.S.: I may have missed a “work” or two. It’s a lot.}

{P.P.S.: I’m not officially diagnosed, I have been asked by many people who either a) have it, b) are related to someone who has it, or c) someone who raised someone who has it. So I assume I probably have autism. Perhaps..}

8th September, 2024

Sel,

My sincerest apologies in my tardiness replying to your letter. Work has been taking up more time than I would like, as of late, leaving much less room for personal affair... such is the way of an individualist society, however; the pendulum will swing the other direction, and soon I will be left to ponder my idle hands.

I must say I was surprised to receive a letter from you, though reading the words of a friend certainly broke up the monotony of a strenuous day, even despite the frustrations that you expressed during the course of your correspondence.

We do live in a world changing faster than perhaps ever before -- with this, attitudes are changing, too, towards neurodivergence in its many presentations. When I was a younger man, in medical school then, later, when pursuing my degrees in psychiatry, the understandings of such disorders as ASD were very much still solely based in the medical model, rather than the prevailing social model becoming increasingly popular.

It is still an important distinction, in this psychiatrist's mind, to make the distinction between one who is formally diagnosed versus one who has ample suspicion to believe that they may fall under a certain diagnosis. Diagnosis is not always accessible (due to lacking specialists or high diagnostic costs) or even necessary (if one is able to function at a level they are content with without intervention; for those who have aged out of the education system where accommodations would be applicable; etc), but one should be careful to outright assert that they have a mental illness or disorder without a formal diagnosis.

I... apologise for the lecture, it was certainly not my intention to lecture you, Sel. You are far from alone in your struggles, in any case. I do look forward to hearing from you again, if you elect to write to me in the future.

Kind regards,

Hannibal Lecter

[ellowynthenotking]

Apr 12

Dear Dad,

That was a huge waste of time. An unbelievably huge, massive, colossal, gigantic waste of time!

I can’t believe we fell for it, and I can’t believe other people keep falling for it! Hundreds of people have gone into this wizard circle for help, but they can’t really help anyone! 

We should have known better. I mean, I should have known better. With all the people we’ve seen and talked to. We should have known that none of them would actually help us. No one in this world is actually able or willing to help us. They just don’t want to help us. They give us just enough hope to go on to the next place, so we stop bothering them and move on to the next people. 

Just one after another. That’s all they do, all they’re willing to do. Just get us out of their hair or use us until they can get rid of us. It’s ridiculous, it’s insane, it’s so, so so mean. Why not just help us? Or just tell us that you can’t actually help us? 

I mean, the people at the temples have been telling us that all along. Because they know that it’s what’s actually important. Actually, right, one might even say. Because we deserve to know if you can’t actually help us. It’s not like we’ve gotten mad at anyone for not being able to help us. Usually, we just try to get them to point us in the right direction. Which isn’t hard at all! Even if I don’t know where something or someone is, I can usually at least point someone in the right direction.

But then again, maybe that’s what these people have been doing. Doing that, they think, is pointing us in the right direction when really they don’t even know where the right direction is. Maybe in their minds, it’s better than nothing. 

But it still hasn’t actually helped us at all. It’s done nothing, nothing at all for us. All it’s done is send us further and further away from where we started with no actual certainty of anything.

And these guys are the worst of all the people we’ve run into. They didn’t even try to actually help. I doubt that they’ve actually helped anyone! They’re not even wizards! The so-called wizards are actually just a bunch of dudes in a castle using magic items to pretend to be great and powerful wizards. They don’t even know how to use half the stuff that they’ve gotten stashed away. They just take all these insane, potentially helpful to someone magic items, and they hide them away from the world, using them to convince people they’re the ones with magic, and then they take more of the mafic items in trade. 

There was nothing there that could help us, because they weren’t actually any people who could help us, and they didn’t actually have any items that could have helped us. It was all duds, all of it.

They tried to do their drama theater show on us to show how magic-y they are. But I could see when they used scrolls and items for it. And Zunair called them out for using ambiance music in the place to make it seem more mystical. Grace was the one who actually tore into them for it all, though. When we pointed out all the items that they were using to give us a sham show of power, she was probably more mad than the rest of us. She tore them to shreds, asking what they did, where they got the items, how they could do what they were doing, and calling them scam artists to their faces. 

I thought she was actually going to attack them, but the most she did was break one of the wands that the guy at the front had, which was mostly just making bright and shiny lights, which was kind of amazing and terrifying. At least, it really terrified the stupid fake wizards. We interrogated them to see if they had anything, anything at all that might be able to help us, but the most useful thing they had was a scrying bowl. But since we didn’t know exactly what we were looking for or where it was, it was useless to us. 

A castle full of stuff, full of magic, and we couldn’t even get directions from them.

They wasted our time, they wasted our money, they’re absolutely useless.

I can’t believe they have an entire city, not just an entire city, but an entire kingdom, really, fooled. Convinced that they’re these great and powerful wizards when they’re just fancy con artists. I mean, someone else’s gotta know, right? That they’re just taking people's time and money. Tricking people, good people, probably. Cause of what, money? The illusion of power? 

Bastards, the lot of them. I hope something terrible happens to their castle and all their magic items get spread to the corners of this world.  

We wasted days, Dad. We wasted so much time looking to get here and looking for them, looking for work to pay them. All for what, for them not even to be able to help us. They can’t even point us to someone else who might be able to help us because they’re fakes. Big fakes. The fakiest fakes to ever fake in this kingdom. 

I wanted to yell at them more. I wanted to scream at them. I wanted to take everything from them and show it to the world. 

We should have grabbed a few things out of their stocks. They weren’t even using most of it, just showing it off and hoarding it like terrible fake dragons. Using it to make themselves look good. I’m sure there was stuff in there that we could have actually used. Something that might have actually been able to help us later on, or that we could have sold to help fund other research, other things that might have been able to help us. 

Wasted so much time. I can’t believe it. And there wasn’t even anything to show for it. We didn’t get anything from them, didn’t have any items to show, didn’t have any directions. 

We didn’t get home, god I can’t believe I was so stupid to believe that they would acutally be able to get us home. 

It hasn’t happened do far, why would it happen now? Just cause we waited in line? Just cause we thought that it might be able to help us?

No, it was a dumb ploy, a dumb con, and we fell for it: hook, line, and sinker. I can’t believe that we were so dumb.

We’re going to keep on through the city, but if the cult was looking for us here, they might have more than caught up. We still have the temples to look through. The one we’re staying at, Willow, is covering, so tomorrow, one of the others and I are going to go look for the other temples and see if they have anything or might be able to help us in some way. I’m not going to get my hopes up again. I’m going to stay firmly in the “we’re not getting home, but I’m gonna keep trying” camp until we’re actually home. It might help, it might not, but I can’t keep hoping like this. It’s hurting me, really hurting me, I think, to hope so much and to keep having it dashed on the rocks like this.

The time wasted is going to come back to haunt us, I’m sure. I’m hoping the cultists aren’t still following us because if they have been, they’re already 4 days closer to us because of all the time wasted. Time was wasted waiting outside the city, time wasted just finding a place to sleep, and then even more time was wasted at the door of the stupid wizards and their stupid castle. The stupid fake wizards. How many people have they tricked? Is there even a point to this? To all of it? 

Are the cultists looking for anything, too, or are they just going to hunt us down to do terrible things to us, too? I mean, what are we even going to do if they catch up with us again? There’s no real answer because the answer is probably going to be something terrible.

I want to go home, that’s all I want. I want to not be here, I want to be able to see the world again without worrying about cultists of all things. I want to be able to sleep in a bed that I don’t have to barter for. I want to know what else the cultists are planning, if they catch up to us, I don’t have to wonder about them too. 

I don’t want theme to catch up with us at all. I want them gone. I want us gone. 

I want to find a way home in one of these libraries. So I’m going to keep looking for a way, home, but I”m not going to trust anyone elses’ word on it. I can’t. 

I don’t know how the others feel. I don’t know if I want to know. I want to go home.

We don’t even know where to go or what to do next. We’re just fumbling around, hoping that the way home is something we’ll be able to find, and find soon. But I don’t know if it is something we’ll find or find soon.

I wonder if the Seers were even telling the truth. We trusted them, too, and I don’t know if we can actually trust them. 

I don’t know if I can trust anyone.

I can’t stop, though. I don’t know what I’ll do if I stop. Maybe die like a shark.

Jack

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[kids-worldfun]

How to Write a Letter to The Editor of a Newspaper

by Dr. Shanthi Thomas Ray was an important member of his community. He was in fact one of the founders of the ‘Responsible Citizens Forum’ which worked for better living conditions for the families of the community. Therefore, when the district council announced that they were going to convert the local park into a shopping complex, he felt he had to voice his opposition to the idea, on behalf…

[seikumo]

Application

Nonfandom, self insert, letter format, under 500 words

Congratulations, your automatic application to The Five Point School for Potential Gods has been accepted!

Everyone who graduates from our school will obtain the power of at least a minor magical being, but the truly talented among our number can evolve into a true God among Gods. Never be trapped in an ordinary office job again when you can manipulate your boss with a beautiful siren's song, or simply throw them through a wall with your inhuman strength. Cops mean nothing when bullets simply bounce off you and no jail cell can contain you!

If you accept your enrollment, please use the provided return envelope to send your response, and begin packing. You will be automatically transported to the school on August twenty eighth to begin your classes.

___

Greetings Andania Quille,

We at Five Point Academy would like to invite you to our Traveler's Exam in three weeks time. The Traveler's Exam is a very exclusive test, and only a thousand people a year are given the invitation required to attempt it. Ever fewer opt to take the exam.

The exam itself is taken in three stages, in order to gauge your mental, physical, and practical fitness for the Traveler's course. Tests are judged not by right or wrong answers, but by thought process and general suitability for the course.

Those who pass the exam will secure a place in the course for themselves, regardless of number, and are all but guaranteed a job as a professional Traveler at the end of the course.

For those unfamiliar with the job, Traveler's are typically assigned an area to watch and maintain. Within this area, Traveler's will often help solve minor problems and aid communities, but may reach out for larger problems in order to keep their area relatively safe. Traveler's are free to solve problems by whatever means they deem necessary, and in the absence of any pressing problems, Traveler's are free to do as they wish. More details will be covered at the exam and within the course. Those who take the exam and find it not to their taste are free to refuse their acceptance into the course.

The test will take place on June 12th, if you're interested in attending, please...

[pugugly001]

Write a letter about an ruthless femdom conspiracy wearing latex to brainwash men into lovesick slaves of all women.

Dear Friend,

I am writing to tell you about a sinister conspiracy that I recently discovered. It is an organization of powerful femdom women who are using latex and other mind-control techniques to enslave men into becoming lovesick slaves of all women.

These women have perfected the art of manipulating their victims with pleasure and pain until they become subservient creatures who worship every woman they meet. The cruelest part is that these poor souls don't even realize what has happened to them; they think it's normal behavior when in reality, they have been brainwashed into complete submission by the ruthless female masters behind this scheme.

The conspirators also use extreme fetish clothing such as latex body suits, corsets, boots and gloves to heighten the effect on their subjects' minds. This clothing not only looks sexy but also reinforces their control over them as well as keeps them completely focused on pleasing their captors at any cost – no matter how degrading or humiliating it may be for them personally.

My advice: steer clear from these dangerous ladies if you value your freedom! I shudder at what could happen if anyone were unfortunate enough to fall under the spell of this insidious plot against mankind…

Be safe out there!

Sincerely yours, [Your Name]

[nickriya]

[alena-draws]

Can you tell I love this guy?

(I'll delete this little edit later, but: I'm still selling prints, among them Trigun stuff, so check out this list if this might be smth for you!)

[matchalovertrait]

After about 10 months of dating, Dulce decided it was time for her family to meet Caruso, and well... let's just say that things could've gone better.... Will this shake things up in the Alegría household?

Note: For those who don't know, the "discovery" of "spa water" was a very real thing 💀 That sounds so unappetizing. Insulting in many ways lol.

Transcript

Erick: Nice to meet you, Caruso!

Noemí: What a pleasure to finally meet you.

Caruso: Thank you. I see where your daughter got her good looks from.

Noemí: Oh my! How flattering.

Ángel: Um... is he really using his phone at the dinner table?

Noemí: It's so nice to have every seat filled up at the table! Now we wait for the grandchildren to come.

Erick: [Whispers] Are you seeing what I'm seeing...

Pavan is completely oblivious, too in love with Ángel to notice anything.

Ángel: [Whispers] Yeah...

Erick: I'll give him another chance... Nice shirt, what's your favorite album of theirs?

Caruso: Oh, I don't listen to this band. Their music is boring. I thought the design on the shirt looked rad as hell.

Erick: I see.... please excuse me.

Noemí: Your agua fresca is amazing! It's agua de pepino, right?

Caruso: ...Agua... fresca? No, no. This is my creation! I call it "spa water."

Noemí: Oh... clever.

Ángel: I'm not sure if my drawing is conveying the message y'know?

Pavan: Looks great to me. The colors play into the theme of not escaping one's past.

Ángel: Ah perfect. I was going to sign myself up for Color Theory 101 again.

Caruso: Color theory? What's there to theorize? Colors exist, obviously. Just look everywhere, haha. Am I right or am I right?

Ángel: Is this a joke?

Noemí: Ahem... Mija, can you come help sing a lullaby to the fish? They won't sleep.

Dulce: Oh we have pet fish now? Since when do fish need music to sleep anyway? [Says quietly] Also, I sing well?

Caruso: Yeah you sing beautifully.

Noemí: Um... It's a new kind of science. Let's go, just the two of us.

[yourtastefulcannibal]

Hello Dr lecter, it is a pleasure to see you again.

I come looking for some... opinions, I guess.

I just want your thoughts on something of mine

I painted this when I watched a very dark but beautiful show, i would even say it was a masterpiece (it's hannibal)

During it, there was a moment where I was incredibly sleep deprived and tired, and in that state I painted this while my eyes were still on the TV watching the series, i fell asleep at some point and woke up with this in my hand.

What do you think?

[[this is actually true by the way, I watch Hannibal till 5 am while drawing to keep myself awake and when I woke up i looked through what i drew and this was one of them]]

[letter format babeyyy]

Haru, I assure you, the pleasure is mine.

The work of art inspires a sense of unease, I believe, at least for me. The impression I initially have is that I am looking at some part of the human body, the red being the obvious culprit for that, alongside the curve of the ‘doorway’ and the other curved red lines giving the suggestion of ribs and arteries. Upon further inspection, one sees it is a winding path, with the darker red to either side resembling perhaps trees in a dense forest, where the doorway ahead is, ambiguously, either an escape or perhaps a further trap, luring you into the impending darkness.

Perhaps this is not at all what you had in mind while creating it, but this is simply my interpretation upon viewing it for several minutes. I would be curious to find out your interpretation, as the artist, and whether we were thinking along similar paths or not.

Warm regards,

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

[ellowynthenotking]

Nov 16

Dear Dad,

You know how most of the time Grace is really nice and, like, super cool and fun to be around?

Did you know she can be absolutely terrifying?

She came with me when I went to look for someone to translate the spells. She promised that she’d keep it a secret from the others. Though I think she’d just be nice cause I’m already sure that Zunair read my last letter to you and told everyone.

But she’s still being very nice about it, so I have to hope she won’t tell anyone anyway.

But anyway.

So we went out to see if we could find someone who would tell me what the spells I copied down did. But unfortunately, pretty much everyone charges for that kind of stuff. Apparently, they charge more for different types of spells?

I don’t get it, but ok? I guess?

So I’m going to be struggling with that, and cause I don’t really want to spend the group money cause I was an idiot, well, I’m a little stuck. And most of them won’t even accept work for payment. I mean, I guess nowhere back home does that, but I've gotten a little used to it. Which is a problem for later, but really, why won’t they just translate for work? It would be fine for them!

But I guess they wouldn’t be making money, which is kinda the point of a business, and if they can better spend their time doing other things, they probably should.

And if I can’t do that stuff for them, then I guess they should probably do it themselves. Which is slightly irritating because, like, they’re right, and I know why, they gotta be the one to do it, but it doesn’t make it any less irritating. Also, I don’t want to waste money on it, so I’ll have to pony up even though I don’t want to because I was an idiot.

But you probably want to know why Grace is terrifying?

The most likely answer is she's scary because she is, but you can read the rest here:

Or read more by this author here: 

[miidnighters]

It's my birthday ! To celebrate, I wanted to put together a little shout out of people I love because it's the most surefire way to get compliments back in return (I'm kidding!). Thankyou so much for writing with me and mashing our barbies together and making this hellsite such a fun place to be.

Also, seeing how this has changed from my last shoutout at Christmastime - notably, the people I tagged as "people I love who I don't write with very much" but who now I write with or talk to every day lmao.

Please let this have tagged everyone I wanted to tag

@92328

I love u so much. U know I do. I love all the random questions u ask and ur request for Isaac Facts and the fact that you refer to Morgan as "Nora's Husband" and the way you wanna lock Flynn up in a tower to keep him a baby forever. Never change lmao.

@bloodykneestm

Bender ur characters are chefs kiss and our dynamics are chefs kiss and I get such a huge smile whenever I see u in my notifs (either here or on disco). I love the things we come up with together.

@cigarettesandcoffee

My darling! I know you're not writing a lot atm but it makes my day whenever we chat and whenever you pop up with some random love. All of our pairings are so good and I can't wait to see what we cook up for the others.

@draconisa

I know you're ALSO not writing a lot atm but Dany and Isaac have my whole heart plus everything that we're doing on the multi for everyone there like. My brain is still stuck on Harts and Vasile like. Does it get any better?

@epistrefei

HELLO. ARTEMIS. WOW. I am so in awe of the original spin you're able to put on such a well-known character - and it's not just Artemis and Billie, it's Barty and Flynn, and watching what you do with Zahrosa and so many others.

@exquisitexagony

Sami is my baby. The relationship they have with Flynn and Bella (or Bella and Arthur) and all the others is so special to me, as well as everything we have going on your other blogs (Callie and Shimi, for example? Yes).

@fangmother

Rainer is who I want to be when I grow up. If I could be half as confident and gave less fucks. I love seeing all the wild shit she gets up to and following her different relationships with people who have been in her life for varying lengths of time.

@freekzout

What can I say about the freekz? Callie and Funke's relationship is so special to me BUT also the friendships we've built? Lu and Ruth? Flynn and Ruth? Bella and the both of them? Not to mention your other blogs - Bella and Connie in particular.

@inrovina

Every relationship my characters have with Xeno is SO special. Flynn and Lake are SO special. I'm so excited for what other shenanigans they get up to and all the potential new stuff we're doing on your multi !

@kurjaks

I need to put this man in an enclosure and study him. I love him so much, and I love the careful way you've crafted him, and the truly unique way he carries and conducts himself. PLUS the way we chat ooc? Peak.

@mystiika

Every one of your muses is a darling to me. We've started creating such interesting relationships between a few of our muses in varying stages of romance or friendship and I cannot wait to do more with you.

@recitedemise

Every time I see you in my notifs I know I am getting fed the Good Shit. You have such a way with words and what we've crafted between Gale and Callie is really something special to me. Plus to varying relationships w Harts and Bella? Yes.

@sorrowsick

There is no muse of yours that I don't love down bad. We have some truly batshit stuff going on and I know that I can always come to you with the wildest ideas and we can make it work. I am truly your biggest fan.

@soulmissed

August is the only child character I write with and I think that says something bc it's hard to write a child without them being too much of a caricature and it's hard to build relationships without them being one-note but you so it SO well, so we have such beautiful ties.

@starlyht

One of the true lights of my life I adore seeing u on my dash and in my notifs. We have some great ties between our characters and I truly love seeing your thoughts on lycanthropy or drow society or whatever takes your fancy.

@stcllata

I love that every pairing we toss together just seems to Work lmao. Whatever the situation, whoever the muse, we can always put them together and come out with something good. And by good I often mean shippy but like. Who's gonna tell us no?

@tewwor

I am so in awe of your mind and your worldbuilding, and I am so lucky to be able to play in these spaces you've built. I love the relationships we've built and I love that we can throw different characters together to see what sticks.

@vitalphenomena

I say this with the UTMOST affection but this is the most messed up roster of characters I've ever seen and I adore writing with them. I adore exploring all the different facets of their characters and how my characters interact with their struggles bc they're NOT perfect.

@whileurmine

If I see a man over 30 on my dash, odds are it's you. I love your roster and I love our OOC hate sessions and I love that we can both puck up and put down starters like nothing. Whether it's something established or a new idea we can always put a pair together.

@yxkanna

I know you're ALSO not writing atm but I have to let you know how much I love you and your babies. Not just Nick but all of them. We have some really interesting dynamics both platinic and romantic and I can't wait until you're back to pick them up.

And then of course some other shoutouts of people I don't love any less but perhaps don't write with or talk to as often <3 (which should change, honestly. Come yap w me <3)

@abysswarden | @berylcluster | @bucketkicked | @byanyan

@coastercrushed | @corsey | @cragsnow | @demonstigma

@downspirals | @fvzzyelf | @godstrayed | @hegrudges

@idnull | @kxllerblond | @lcngdays | @nabaidhean-neonach

@platiinums | @pohlepen | @redemnation | @strszyga

@withbeasts | @xinxiins

[sugarpasteltmnt]

Also can you explain to me how you do these kinds of words? I keep seeing them everywhere but I have no idea how to do it

(The photo is taken from the Neon Void fic)

Sure!!!

Here are some of my resources I like to use!

Glitch Text Generator (link!) - has a wide variety of spooky texts! I typically use the first one (called "C.R.E.A.M") to make ₩ØⱤĐ₴ Ⱡł₭Ɇ ₮Ⱨł₴

Yaytext: MiniMe (link!) - helps me make floating little letters like Haͣhͪaͣhͪaͣ. It also has some other fun texts to play with!

Zalgo Text Generator (link!) - this is the most famous one. it's the one that makes a lot of scrambled text above and below a word l̵̝̖̾͂í̷͎̜̘̃͊k̸̝̇̈́̍́e̸̻̖͒̈́̈́̐ ̴̲̼̪̓͋̽͌ẗ̷́́͛̏͜h̶̰̊̔̅i̴͍̪̬̊̈s̴̜̮̻̃

But! Be cautious with Zalgo text! sometimes it can be too intense! Glitch Text Generator (first link) can also make Zalgo text in specific levels; I often use level two or three.

Also beware that sometimes altered letters don't always load depending on what browser is being used! I noticed this with some of my chapters (sorry! >.< ) but otherwise, that's all there is to it! have fun! 🩵

[watermelinoe]

reading really does make you calm down

[godlovesdykes]

teaching my gf all my resume/cover letter tricks. i have this down to a science