#someone wrote a speech

[james-p-sullivan]

i managed to write about 1.4 k words yesterday and i am over the moon about this

[vrains-rewrite]

Some fun updates!

Plan for episode 1 is complete (it took a while because to kick things off with a bang i felt we had to add in a few things else it’d just feel like you’re reading a book version of the show. Of course, other episodes will greatly vary in how canon or non-canon they are) either way, writing can start! (though im not sure public postings will happen until a few episodes in advance are written, in case someone gets hit by a bus, we can still keep regular updates for a bit)

Ive also spoken to Utopia and Void about adding more writers and artists. They were both skeptical but also i dont think they realised how big of a project this will be, and they didn’t wanna do any of the stuff they said they’d help with other than their One Favorite Scene and were shocked when it sank in that Im Thinking Of Every Episode, so i was like ‘u both know either we get help with this or its never getting completed’

sooo im now making a discord server and some sorta signups!!! Give me a while to set it up (im not great at discord admin stuff but we persevere) and you guys should be able to properly get involved with this :)

-Teal

[marsixm]

big spoiler cw for the finale- i understand why a lot of people didnt feel like it made sense for how ed was acting during izzy’s death scene, like it didn’t feel earned or whatever bc they’d been at odds w each other since last season, but for me, and understand i’m not saying my personal experience making it make sense for me is trying to give undue writing cred or whatever, but i had a very difficult relationship with my very transphobic/bigoted mother. she made my life a nightmare a lot of the time. but i had to care for her in death. i had to watch her die for months. it was a waking nightmare, and it had a profound effect on me. it was complicated. it made my relationship to my memory of her very complicated. (and even if it hadnt been a months long ordeal i was caught in the middle of i’d probably still feel similarly) and that’s how ed dealing with izzy’s death feels to me. just like him having to kill his father, it was the right thing to do, but it still left him with difficult emotions. when ed says “you’re the only family i’ve got left” to izzy, after all the bullshit they put each other through, i get it.

[t0ast-ghost]

*looks back on something I’ve written* wow that’s not great and borderline incoherent and I love you babygirl <3

[prim-the-living-torture-device]

People I know were talking about stuff like "why do people like my art, it's garbage, is it all out of pity?" so let me set this straight.

When I look at someone's OC drawn sloppily with the Scratch vector tool, I don't like it out of pity. I like it because that's their OC! That's their funny blorbo they made with their own hands!

When I look at someone's beautifully rendered, dramatic painting of a character they love, I like it for the same reason! It's their funny blorbo, made with their own hands!

It's not about skill level. It's never about skill level, because that's not what art should ever truly be about. It's about the feelings, lovingly laid out with the artist's own hands. They MADE that. They made that funny blorbo. They made that landscape. They made that incoherent mass of abstract shapes. They. Made. That.

Who cares how many lines it has, or how neat those lines are? Who cares if the colors are dull, or vivid, or neon and bright enough to burn? They made that. They got themselves together and they Made A Thing that otherwise could have been only a half-formed emotion lasting maybe all of five seconds. But now? Now it's a thing, and they made that thing.

They got their Scratch vector tool and made their funny blorbo. They picked up a tablet and drew a landscape in an art program. They made a funny clay figure with bent and mashed up legs. They got a paintbrush and made an abstract painting. They got out a goddamn hammer and chisel and sculpted a marble sculpture of a naked dude, and now modern society has it in a museum. But they didn't give a damn thought towards where it'd be put in modern day, because it wasn't about the museum.

It was about the marble statue of a naked dude, and everything else came second.

So go on - no one can stop you.

Draw your blorbo. Sculpt your marble naked dude.

[thecreelhouse]

still didn’t finish the eulogy and i need to be there early tomorrow lol

[upperranktwo]

Good night everyone 💞 need to make sure i'm well rested for tomorrow! I am absolutely terrified, but I've gotta remember that in about 14 hours, my entire speech will be over with, and I can rest after 6 weeks of hard work and practicing! Just hope I don't fuck up and have a panic attack 😭

[walison-abigobaldo-iii]

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo but Celia and Evelyn are Broadway actresses doing a production of Wicked as Elfaba and Galinda.

[crimeronan]

trump shouting the quiet part into a megaphone two days before the georgia runoffs is KILLING me. like this is clearly a very sad very old very rapidly neurologically deteriorating man who has been surrounding himself exclusively with people who just nod indulgently with "ok sure that's all definitely true granpa now let's get you to bed" to everything for so long that he Actually Fully Believes that he has been cheated. and also that the general public loves hearing him Say Things and is on his side. and it is. DELIGHTFUL. i know the actual thing he said was serious and scary and should not be downplayed but that's Why this is so fun. it's so inexcusable and antithetical to not just average american culture but also Specifically Republican Values that it's wreaking HAVOC on the party atm. the way i KNOW that the repubs who play the game properly are shitting their pants and sobbing and suffering migraines and throwing up over twitter calls-to-action and making desperate phone calls screaming "WHO LET HIM HAVE ACCESS TO A PHONE, WHO LET THAT HAPPEN, TAKE IT AWAY, TAKE IT AWAY!!!!!!!" to whichever strategists will listen.... oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. i am basking in it. soaking it all in. i love this song

i do take the little joys where i can get them.

[whoa-where-did-the-pancakes-go]

What if I just don't sleep. What then.

[archived-2001]

they handed me the microphone how do i make clear that despite my unbridled ADHD energy and loud speaking voice I CANT HANDLE ATTENTIONNNNNN

[ehlnofay]

Ugh, that story with Kazari is so cute! How did they meet Efri? And what furstock are they? Senche?

ah thank you so much! yes, they are senche, and I've written their meeting here (and here on ao3.) the short version (and with some context that I didn't elaborate in that piece) is that kazari was travelling to the college of winterhold and was going past helgen as The Event occurred. they got separated from their travelling companions and also quite badly lost, and so spent a solid amount of time wandering around with no clue where they were and no way to ask for help, until one fateful day they ran into some fucking kid who decided they were a sabre cat and did not interrogate all evidence to the contrary. and the rest is history

[kentuckycaverats]

i've done such a good job of forgetting everyone i knew in high school that learning that people still remember me feels like getting hit by a train. banish me from your memory what's wrong with you

[essektheylyss]

everyday I wake up, I lay in bed for an hour or more overwhelmed by how many things I want to get done, and then I check my fucking email instead of doing them.

[13thpythagoras]

[eclaire-went-bam]

ME WHEN I POST SOMETHING WITH CONFUSED WORDS AND LEAVE IT UP FOR HOURS WITHOUT NOTICING I'M SO EMBARRASSED ????