#old coot

[excitementshewrote]

[geopsych]

Not a good picture I know but I'm just posting it to point out that on the day after a significant birthday on my part nature and the world chose to show me a coot. I couldn't tell if it was an old one but still, rude!

[barney-bushkin]

Serves you right!

Merry Christmas, Mr. Jameson!

CAN’T TALK NOW, I’M BEING HAUNTED BY THREE SPIRITS. MAY BE SPIDERS. CAN’T TELL.

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

[eggariesalad]

more ironkup content :3

[thegoodmorningman]

Too true. Too true.

[mortalscience]

[scarapanna]

They make me so ill...

Chat I frfr fell HARD for this rarepair, it's so cutee (And bittersweet)

[roach-works]

what if i specifically throw out bullshit numbers just so i can piss off those specific types of people "Yeah guns were invented in this setting 2 million years ago" "How much gas is used in the laser? 1." "how old is this city? 3"

im not your boss or your editor, and if you disagree with any writing advice you see on the internet you can reblog it and say so.

however, you're just asking for more advice, i will tell you that writing things specifically to piss off your audience is an unfortunately common motivator and lots of guys do it. it makes you feel very clever and in control and it also makes your writing suck shit. at best you end up like the jackoffs who spent a million seasons of supernatural trying to get rid of women, and at worst you end up with no audience at all because few people enjoy a story that holds them in contempt.

mean writing is poor, reactionary, impulsive, constrained, unimaginative. writing to enrage and exclude people means you're spending your time fighting your assumed enemies, which uses up a lot of parts of your brain you could be putting to better use.

i joked 'don't let them do math at you!' but i feel as though this is an easy low-conflict way to avoid friction and to help readers continue to suspend their disbelief. it doesn't THWART your enemies who seek to overthrow you, it just keeps your readers moving with the narrative instead of hung up on some accidental and irrelevant discrepancy.

a lot of people feel powerful when they impose their will on other people. story tellers have, by some metrics, a very great deal of power. but when you get insecure in that power and see your story as a thing you're forcing other people to submit to and agree with, you can end up with the sense that your audience is an opposing force, so you get caught up in the need to assert and maintain your power. i personally think this is a lousy attitude that leads to badly constructed stories.

i prefer to see storytelling as a collaborative experience, and i give advice with the assumption that story tellers want to get along with their audiences. your mileage may vary.

[basil--and--sage]

The Hobbit au, where everything is the same, except Dwalin and Thorin are a couple, tho without ever showing any pda whatsoever, except for Dwalin calling Thorin Sugar throughout the whole quest, without anyone ever acknowledging it. At one point, Bilbo seriously starts doubting his own sanity.

[youandthemountains]

DOES ANYONE ON THE BRIDGE DO ANY WORK

[sheepoftheseus]

happy mothers day to qifrey's mom (mother figure) who is also his dad (father figure) who is also his mom (genderly) who is also his dad (genderly)

if you like what i do, you can tip me on kofi so i can afford a a much-needed wheelchair that i will then kit the hell out of to look like a goat. all of my art will always be available for free but i do unfortunately need to feed myself also

[mementomortalitasi]

Lich Emmrich is so trans coded to me

- His main considerations/worries seem to be: how this will change his perception/experience of the world & going through the risks of the transformation itself

- Has been thinking about making the change for years

- When you meet him he's wearing a skull mask, basically lich drag

- Path to lichdom is buried in hidden knowledge & whispered secrets

- Needs to prove himself to a bureaucratic council to do it. Specifically a 'weighing of his soul' that he is doing it for the 'right reasons' & 'won't regret it'

- Rook waiting for him outside of his big surgery

- Anxieties over whether romanced Rook will still be into him as a lich

- Formally coming out as a lich to the group. Even if they were accepting, some of them are still weird about it 🤷 (and getting outed by Harding/vorgoth!!)

- Invasive 👏 questions 👏

- So much paperwork

- Renegotiates physical intimacy without leaning on assumptions/old scripts

- 'Passing' around strangers to avoid prejudice (even though it hides how cool & awesome he is)

[squeakadeeks]

for the past few days ive been overwhelmed with this feeling of 'god i miss fire emblem' its been ages since theyve come out with a character/story that ive been invested in and i have a bad feeling it will be awhile still but goddamn when it hits it hits and i miss that year when everyone was playing with their respective FE3H barbies and making them kiss and die of medieval diseases

[0donto1nsanity]

Historians will call them best friends

[ttte-in-the-sky-au]

It's technically a WIP but I wanted to post something for Edward Day so yeah

Had a ton of fun drawing it, even though side view is a nightmare