#these things happen

[the-pen-pot]

Me: this will be a ficlet. A small, concise story under 3000 words long.

Me, 60,000 words later, confused, bleeding, wild-eyed, looking at the length of the first chapter compared to the last: I'm going to need to pad that out a bit.

[leletha-jann]

Why Girl Genius, for me (3/?)

Because this page:

I read a lot of YA fantasy. ...a lot, a lot.

"oh no which boy will I choose" and "oh no I like the wrong boy" are MAJOR tropes (and timewasters) for far too many YA novels with (straight) female protagonists.

Kids and kittens, be told: it is boring.

Having a main character skip the whole trope because everything is on fire and she's busy and doesn't have time for this nonsense, declare as much, and then continue getting work done... I have been waiting YEARS, probably DECADES, to see that. Such perfect delight has few equals.

I think my comment to myself at this point was simply, "FINALLY."

(I also appreciate that this promise to Violetta was eventually kept. Good continuity, excellent work.)

[agarthanguide]

For Ashton’s new art, they're using the Immovable Rod feature of the hammer to make it a bench/rail to lean on, right?

I noticed the wrist positions, particularly the left, isn't really good for holding up the hammer's weight.

Yeah idk. We changed the pose late, and tbh I’m aware that it doesn’t really work? Like maybe if the head of the hammer was on the other side, or something, but even then, the weight isn’t quite balanced. But this is what happens, you know. You wanna show certain things, you want to let everyone see the new hammer from the correct angle, you wanna let the character face the camera. So you allow for unseen forces to guide the work, a little. Hopefully in a way that isn’t distracting.

But then someone said he had the immovable rod engaged and was leaning, and I was like- oh yeah, I like that. I sure didn’t think of it, but I wish I had!

[lazypapers]

Some random person named chris_09_zz on tiktok reposted your Dutch post, when he says “Arthur needs to rest” uncredited. I put your handle in the comments but jsyk! -@irishmacguirefucker

You would think that some people would have the common courtesy to credit other people's art but in most cases they don't. Most of the time I think it is just out of pure laziness and not a malicious intent, so frankly it's not a big deal. I appreciate for letting me know about it and thank you for adding my handle in the comments. The best way to help with that is just comment my handle, that is all it really needs. Those who like the art and want to find more art will have the initiative to look for it if you just show them the way. No harassing or negative comments please, I find that petty. I guess in my part I will have to put my name on the art.

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

consider. t4t (or nb4nb??) bi4bi bowigi co-parenting the koopalings

[tamvmat]

The Soup Nautilus Colossus

S O U P

(Discord server randomness lol)

[katherynefromphilly]

I feel like if Jensen Ackles can get his SPN fanfic on the air then Eoin Macken should absolutely be able to get his Merlin fanfic broadcast, too.

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

Planar Disruption Dragon didn’t mean to break reality 😿

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

I have a younger version of Bjalla on Seraph I rarely play, and I like the FF16 glam enough I bothered to get it for him:

We can compare him to Old Bjalla:

I find it pretty amusing how this glam seems to look good on literally everyone.

[mppmaraudergirl]

Okay I love that you’re A mom who writes fanfic. So am I!!! I only wish I had more timer to write bc it’s such a love of mine.

#momswhowrite

I am indeed! Solidarity, my friend 🤝 Making time to write is one of the biggest challenges.

[aro-barrel]

i used to go through the aromantic tags pretty often and i stopped for a while, but now that i'm looking through them again, it seems like there's an uptick of alloaros who seem constantly annoyed at aces? and like, my blog is mostly an aro blog (even though i'm aroace), so i get miffed when people mention asexuality on a post specifically about aromanticism. but the sentiment i've been seeing seems kinda hostile and rubs me the wrong way. there's a reason we formed a community together, all of us aspecs (including aplatonic people who everyone fucking forgets). we all understand being defined by what others perceive as our absence of humanity, of heart, of care, or whatever. and our aspec identities blur together—maybe not for us, but in the eyes of others. i just wish people in this community could better mediate our differences and have open conversations instead of jumping to policing and drawing lines in the sand.

[saintxgerard]

Men will choke their line cause their crush got too close. SAD

[lovepackdelivery]

1 week clean again ♡

[lauronk]

Don’t think we haven’t noticed that the chapter count is up to five (FIVE!!) for ‘on the road again (there i go)’ 😏

Hehehehe oh is it 👀 inchresting development, that

[flashfuture]

I'm gonna be real. I think many comic fans in DC and Marvel are completely stuck on how the character was written in whatever run they read first. And are now unwilling to engage in good faith with Any comics. Not every comic needs to be ground breaking reinventing the wheel. Just like not every comic needs to stick to the status quo but fans seem to somehow want both happening at the same time.

And I've said it before but having multiple weeks to ruminate on issues gives people time to nitpick where when you read entire runs at once they seem much better than they are. A story is a sum of its parts and we get slow-fed the parts. Yes sometimes the whole is a cake filled with sewage. But sometimes we're just eating the cake flour first. I think fans, myself included, could really start being a little more patient with how comics come out. Every comment section I look at, tumblr, twitter people are so unhappy with new comics. And it's because we're going into it with a predecided opinion on how a story should be when we're not the ones telling it. Again sometimes the author is dogwater and the story is trash. But then again... are old comic arcs we cherish any different?

[dogmotif]

god died and we forgot to let you know. sorry