#oof this was a long time coming

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Bruce keeps accidentally calling Tim by Jason’s name.

And it’s fine. Really. This was— not exactly Tim’s plan, but it seems to help keep Batman stable. So— so it’s fine. He can be Jason. For Bruce. For Batman.

[bereft-of-frogs]

Me: wow I’m looking forward to getting back to the main timeline and getting answers to some questions, including but not limited to whether Indeera recovers and her reunion with Bell, something that is explicitly discussed as something he hopes for and looks forward to in Fallen Star…

Phase III: who?

Like did I get that that wrong? Did I read Fallen Star that wrong? I don’t get it, I feel like I’m going a little crazy with this someone tell me I’m not insane

Like I am not insane right? I did hallucinate this? You are all reading the same thing in the highlights? Did something happen between writing phase I and phase III? I vaguely know the comics sort of answers the recovery question but like what happened with the book authors? Why is the only mention of her name drops as if they’re strangers? This is a genuine question I am really puzzled (and kind of disappointed)

[snapbackslide]

dunno if you’re reading this but i hope you are enjoying your break and hope you are doing so well🩷 -🫶🏻

heeeyy 🥹 thank you so much you're so sweet, I hope you're doing well too!! 💓

[gophergal]

What do you think about the lack of importance Edenia have in the last (and probably in the upcoming too) games?

Seriously, it makes me really Sad. Edenia was so important in the first timeline. What the hell happened? Only a few characteres mention this realm in MKX

It sucks. Big time

If you'll note, basically none of the realms matter anymore, aside from Earthrealm and Outworld.

Sure, the Netherrealm exists, but that's pretty much it. Dreamrealm is of dubious canonicity (introduced to explain Freddy Krueger as a guest fighter, then used to explain Tremor's glow up. Given he isn't shown in the storyline and arcade endings aren't canon in that game, I don't feel comfortable saying "yeah. That's important to the story"), and means nothing to the plot.

Chaosrealm and Orderrealm also don't show up despite being neat concepts.

What I'm getting at is that it makes the MK universe feel small. Edenia is only part of the problem, but I think it's a good example. Mortal Kombat feels more focused on nostalgia bait, Realistic Graphics, and more grisly Kombat than being, y'know, Mortal Kombat. None of that is necessarily Bad, but it's making it feel a little generic to me.

Maybe it's my bias and nostalgia, but that's just wrong. I'm not saying they need to bloat the worldbuilding, that would suck too. I'm just saying that they have these fun concepts, could they PLEASE do something with them???

Not to be the "they changed it, and now it sucks" guy, but I really love the original timeline's absurd worldbuilding. That's a major draw for me. Not only is it absurd, but it was constantly rolling and acquiring new and interesting bullshit. To me, that gave it a personality.

The original timeline feels like you took Enter the Dragon, the Matrix, Magic the Gathering, and classic slasher films, mixed it all up, then used it to bread and batter the gameplay. Deepfry that sonuvabitch until golden brown and serve it hot. Its the fried fish and hush puppies of gaming. I wouldn't say that it's Good For Me, but it's fucking delicious.

Its also not widely palatable and, just as Long John Silver's isn't exactly a big name restaurant, MK was kinda in a slump for a while, profit wise.

I think what happened is they cut back the weirder shit in order to make the games more popular. Its a chicken tender now. Not bad, but it's more of a "I'll take it if there's nothing better/nothing else I feel comfy eating" dish. Still not Good For Me, but often dressed up to seem healthier. By which I mean "able to be taken seriously by more people." The worldbuilding is more Serious ™️, so is the Gameplay. Don't get me started on the State Of The art Graphics.

Its all done this way for profit reasons. I don't doubt that folks on the team are still passionate about the games, but you can't forget that NRS is owned by a bigger company than Midway was. There's more executive meddling, so we see less of the more niche worldbuilding elements like Edenia

[foxgloveinspace]

There’s something profoundly awful about googling screen induced migraines on your phone.

[fair-fae]

welp, the post in question I keep hearing about finally crossed my dash and I gotta say I'm indifferent to the post itself because I didn't wanna take the time to read all that at the moment, but I peeked in the notes and there was some scary stuff about "emet-selch was right and everything he told us was true" and "perfect Ancient society" in there lol. Real frighteningly bad media illiteracy.

[figofswords]

man doing research for my steph essay is just continuously making me mad about her treatment in the writing. girl i’m sorry chuck dixon can’t write women i’m so glad becky cloonan has you now

[mrhugolloris]

everyone on my dash: being understandably anti france

me:

[peachypede]

I finished some christmas presents I was working on, so my brain wanted to draw something I've been really want to... So hey! It's Pear! He's finally here!

He's still a relatively new oc so I'll probably throw a ask meme at some point but feel free to ask whatever. He's a work in progress for now, though!

some info I've thought about him below:

General backstory

Prickly Pear Huerte, most commonly referred to as Pear by friends and family, was born to Sitrus Huerte and Ocotillo Cactus Huerte. He was an oops child (although he was still loved dearly) which made him quite a bit younger than his older brothers: Passho and Saguaro.

Despite his age gap with his siblings, Pear had 2nd cousins on his father's side that were close to his age, Pecha and Rawst, and since they were being raised by their grandparents the three felt closer than distant cousins usually are. Many of their summers were spent together.

When Pear was fourteen, he was excited to find that his cousins would be coming to go to school at Naranja-Uva Academy with him. The three became even closer during this time.

Around the time Pear graduated, his grandmother, Babiri, began getting sick. Due to her increasing age and arthritis, it became much too difficult for her to take care of herself. Being the youngest and not really having much of a job other than the family business, Pear stepped up and took most of the caretaking work for his nanita himself.

Pokemon

Eclair

Species: Clodsire

Gender: Female

Nature: Relaxed

Pear's main baby gurl. His starter pokemon and partner who helps around the farm with her trusty earthquake to till the soil and watergun to water the crops.

Donut

Species: Paldean Wooper

Gender: Female

Nature: Impish

One of Eclair's babies that Pear held back. She's wild and free, listening to no one else other than her mama or Pear.

Miscellaneous

Pear accidentally comes off flirty to many people because he likes to compliment a lot. He just feels like if someone is pretty, he should just tell them. Plus he likes their smiles when he does.

He likes to talk to and about plants like they're people. Often names the trees in the berry orchard.

Isn't as bashful with love as his cousins, but he is a bit busy to actively pursue romance. If he's asked on a date he'll accept, however, with a broad smile.

[running-in-the-dark]

if there's one thing I hate it's nurses who treat you like a child or an inconvenience when you're in pain despite them insisting you shouldn't be.

no, I can't sit on the side of the bed to eat my soup, sitting up hurts like hell and I don't care that you don't think it does. it does. I know it does because it's my body and I feel the pain, so what the fuck is that about?! I had surgery this morning, there's a wound in my belly button, so it's going to hurt for a bit, I'm not being dramatic or anything!

the weirdest part is that I didn't complain or say anything, I just started sitting up very slowly to eat, and she felt the need to treat me like I'm an idiot for being in pain 🤷

she also rolled her eyes and made an annoyed noise when I showed that I was in pain during and after she gave me the injection to prevent blood clots. lady, I don't know what your problem is but that shit hurts like hell for me, every single time I've gotten it, and it keeps hurting for over an hour. so I'm going to fucking wince a little and you're just gonna have to learn to deal with that without being an asshole.

it's like there's two categories of nurses - the ones that are incredibly sweet and kind and caring, who apologise if something they do hurts and are calm and understanding when you show that you're in pain. and the ones that are completely dismissive and treat you like you're a fucking idiot for every single question, statement or reaction.

[arrowpunk]

Haha whoops what........ She/They now....... Thank u all kindly for ur cooperation

[darthsuki]

The entire month of August really tried to come for my throat I swear to god. First it was realizing that a new medication I was put on was causing a relatively dreadful wave of depression, then it was getting sick for almost three weeks (first diagnosed as bronchitis, but later realized it likely was bronchitis that quickly became covid), and THEN it was abruptly learning that my current manager at work will likely be moving to take an open position at another location (she’s the best and I genuinely wish her well if she takes it) and that I am the one being shoed-in/highly encouraged to take her position as the current manager of my bank.

All. In. A single. MONTH.

I’m absolutely TERRIFIED of being put in a work position with so much responsibility, but I’d rather get promoted and paid to do the job instead of someone with absolutely no knowledge getting hired and me wind up having to help/learn the responsibilities anyway.

So if anyone wondered why I was so dreadfully quiet on my blogs/patreon/ect for the last month, now you know!

(I promise I’m doing better from most of it I just needed to get some of it off my chest)

[softersinned-arc]

WHERE DOES YOUR ANGER LURK?

IN YOUR EYES. rage in silence, in wordless defiance. cheeks dampened, clenched fists tremble, yet cannot move, cannot rise. wronged, your heart demands justice and aches at its absence. you can do nothing but weep, tears flooding the space fury hollows out.

tagged by: @balldwin​ (thank you sweet pea!) tagging: @lovemaim (for nico & mona) / @literarist / @serendpitous (for libby & hope) / @gilmor / @higheverlost / @fnalguy

[hauntingblue]

de la tula

[leechandoki]

Reading fanfics and my golly... at first I just thought "OH, the way the fic is formatted must be an old fic—" *see the fic was made recently*

*Inhale... exhale... remembering that one post about writing how you are talking in your fics*

YOU! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

okay, so it's not entirely that person's fault. HOWEVER, it's upsetting to see recent fanfics..., no, just writing in general, degrading. Being reduced to separate sentences because people DO NOT want to read a proper paragraph.

I get that a long/huge paragraph is a big no-no or turn-off to many people (trust me, I read some fics where I just stopped reading it because the paragraph was just too big) but that is not an excuse to degrade your own writing just because you don't want others to "suffer" reading your stuff.

You have no idea how confusing it is to read your writing because... and I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings but please understand it's the truth... You're writing at a 4th-grade level.

I remember writing like this when I was in 4th grade.

Keeping my sentences separated so that way it's easy on the eyes and I can go between the lines and fix them.

Instead of jumbling them all together.

Because again, this is a 4th-grade level writing.

A little exaggerated, yes, but you get the point. DO NOT DO THIS WITH YOUR WRITING! PLEASE! It will damage not only your writing ability but also your reading abilities as well. And before anyone thinks "Oh, but what about those that don't speak English or those that have English as their second language?!"

Bruh 💀,... they have better writing than you. So what if they misspell some words or some of their sentences aren't correct. They're not writing like that. They're actually writing a story that is so easy on the eyes that legit, it flows like a river. That is a huge ass compliment. Like, if you can get your readers from start to finish with ease. You fuckin' done it, you wrote a story. Some of my fav stories are made by people who don't speak English or have it as a second language.

It's so confusing when I read these people's writings.

[Small paragraph (like tiny), describing what person A is feeling/doing]

Person A: [Talk for a bit]

[Person A, showing emotions]

Person A: [Talks again]

Person B: [Shows up out of nowhere]

[Person A, showing emotions/reactions]

Person B: [laughs]

[Person A, showing emotions/actions]

Person A: [Talks to Person B]

YOU CAN PUT QUOTATION MARKS IN THE PARAGRAPH AS WELL IF IT'S STILL THAT CHARACTER!!

DO THIS -> "Blah blah blah," Person A spoke, with no care in the world, "Blah blah blah... blah," Having their voice slowly trail off again. They paused to think to themselves during this quiet night. When suddenly the door barged open with a grand slam. There stood Person B, with a wide grin on their face as they witnessed Person A startled by their entrance.

Person B laughs with amusement, "HA! You should of seen your reaction!" Person B continues to chuckle to themselves, putting their hands on their knees to support themselves standing only to fail miserably and falling to their knees, hands clutched to their stomachs as they roll around in laughter, furthering their enjoyment.

Person A only scowled at Person B's reactions. "It was not that funny..."

"OH YOU'RE RIGHT," Person B gasped "IT WAS HILARIOUS!"

Ta-da! Just like that. That is how you write dialogues.

NOW, writing like the example out of storytelling is different. I sometimes write like that when I just want to either journal or I know it would be a quick post to make and does not involve a lot of writing.

But I'm not talking about that! I'm talking about storytelling. Upgrading your ability/skills to write better. The only way to improve your writing is literally read and write.

It's a skill and you will get there. Am I going to stop reading these people's fics... FUCK NO, I LOVE READING! Am I a little upset to see more of these fics being written like this... if it's not their first fic then yes... yes I am... granted it takes time to write don't get me wrong but like... if you are continually writing like this and not pushing yourself, especially to those that want to write as their passion and not as a hobby. You need to take risks. Be creative with your work process.

But at the end of the day, I can't change people's minds right away so have fun writing and reading stories.

I am now going back to read some fics I have bookmarked and also have open on my tabs... they have been there for days but I will get to it when I am done reading this fic... and that fic... and that fic as well... OH AND THAT STORY AND THAT STOR—

[lilgynt]

i love blaming issues on me being hot and sexy jokingly bc of self esteem issues when in fact the issue in question is bc of being hot and sexy also i hate when shopping trips take longer bc of random men 💔💔💔