#they're at the vet </3

[porcelainfreak-zacrucian]

Current rp situation

[free-n-wild]

Best rescue of the week so far; this nakey lil joey that I arranged a vet to assess after she was orphaned <3

[sga-owns-my-soul]

wow made it three whole months at the new job before things went to absolute shit and i want to quit

[ralphiesaces]

Cal: It’s so weird how so many months start with the letter J. January, June, July, Jaugust, Jeptember.

Bobby: One of these is not like the others…

Lightning: One???

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

:(

[torchickentacos]

Good news: hit 4k words today.

Bad news: it was on what was supposed to be a brief outline of a shitpost au, and I've only written the outline for 1 and a half chapters of it as well as a character sheet, and it's longer than half my actual-fic-oneshot wips end up being.

Good news again: pokeani western au. yeehaw.

[hazellvsq]

ideal hazel levesque careers

wall street broker

cement mason

urban spelunker

cowboy

archaeologist

hedge fund manager

oil painter

speleologist

jeweler

antiques dealer

backhoe operator

[reckless-glitch]

hey! did you have that date with that woman? I remember you were panicking a little because you hadn't dated a woman in awhile just wondering how it went 💚

so remember this

that was her the morning of the date

i uh

i cancelled lmfao

i've got a date tuesday though! with a very nice enby (their word not mine I know a lot of nonbinary people don't care for it) who hasn't once called me something weird or gone on a two hour long monologue about fucking me

[scundered]

they were being sooooo cute yday

[ghost-of-someone]

literally just saw some radfem bullshit on my dash, & then when I went to their blog to block them not only was it full of anti-trans half arguments & accusations of other people being childish, but one of the very first posts was about how a certain show would be better if one of the main characters was a young woman instead of an old man because they "don't like old people"

[kelpiemomma]

somewhat accidentally beta’d the start to akari’s first pokemon, fixed the start of misbis 3, and got started on another artfight project :) time to chill and read some manga before dinner, take care of the ponies, and then do a lil more artsy stuff before bed tonight. kayaking tomorrow!!!

[allpromarlo]

rb position in the mud omg

[raspberryconverse]

Today I had to tackle the cat with a towel so we could give her her asthma inhaler.

While I am very proud of my ability to move quickly and grab her as she tried to run away without crushing her tiny ancient body, it also was a moment of realizing, "So this is my life now..."

[slashpaws]

Surprise Kitten Event ft. Voice Reveal I Guess.

[coldflasher]

soooo idk if i mentioned this but for the past 2-3 weeks i have been tearing my hair out bc valletta suddenly decided she did not like her food. you know. her expensive prescription food that helps her not die (ckd cats that eat a prescription diet literally live twice as long as those that won’t eat it). she suddenly was not interested at all. i could persuade her to eat maybe quarter of a pouch a day at most, when she should be eating 1.5 pouches at LEAST. bear in mind that the vet already side-eyes me every time i take her in because she was underweight to begin with. she was 3.5kg when i adopted her. last time she saw the vet, she was 3.29kg. then she decided to go on hunger strike and since then she has dropped to 3.18kg. and guess what ALSO massively lowers the life expectancy of ckd cats!! you guessed it: being underweight. most of them don’t actually die of kidney failure, they starve to death instead bc the disease makes them inappetent. fun times for all

so for the past 2-3 weeks i have been doing everything in my power to make this cat eat. i bought a pack containing 12 different brands/flavours of prescription food and offered her all of them. i swapped her bowl for a plate in case she has whisker fatigue and left plates of food all over the house. i microwaved her meals. i cooked chicken and fed it to her by hand. eventually, in a moment of sheer desperation, i fed her some ordinary non-prescription cat food i had in the cupboard just to get her to eat something and then cried because i saw someone in the kidney disease facebook group say that felix is a super bad food for ckd cats bc of the high phosphorus content and i was HYSTERICAL thinking she would never eat her prescription food again and that i had signed her death warrant by letting her deviate from the diet. 

anyway she still wasn’t eating, so i booked her in at the vets so we can get her an appetite stimulant, and made a right tit out of myself at work in the process bc my group leader told me to ask HR if i could use my appointment allowance and they were like no, the appointment allowance is for humans, and im like OBVIOUSLY I KNOW THAT AND NOW I LOOK LIKE A RIGHT DICKHEAD FOR EVEN ASKING

then, yesterday, i offered her the first food again and you will never guess who suddenly got her appetite back...

[liltaz-asatreat]

oooh 1 and 11 for the horror fic with Lup and Taako ! :3

Ooh!! I never get to talk about this one :3 I worked really hard on it too, and not a lot of people saw it so I'm just gonna sliiiiide a link right here <3

Also, anyone can send in a question about a fic from these questions here or just other questions in general! I like talking about my fics and never know how to shut up lol

What inspired you to write the fic this way?

So this was back when I first started getting back into writing and had virtually no following of anyone who consistently read my stuff or sent me prompts. Actually, I think at the time of writing it, I may have not even reblogged a prompt list yet. It's hard to say because this was obviously before I got an ao3 account, and when I tried to upload all of the fics I had written by the time I did get an account, somehow the publish date on some of them got mixed up and was set for the day after I actually published them?? And I didn't know how to fix it, so I no longer know the order in which I wrote everything. That's neither here nor there though. Point is, I used a prompt from a pdf of a prompt book I got in an online writing bundle called Roll-A-Prompt Writing Journal Box Set, box set meaning that it had prompts for horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. I used that book a lot in the beginning because it's a really fun book to use the few times I used it. Basically you pick a set of prompts from any of the three genres, and the prompts are ordered in three different aspects of the prompt (in this case, it was character, mood, and word, but there are other options depending on the prompt set you choose), and each aspect has a list of six options. Then you roll a d6 for each aspect, and you generate a prompt by combining the three different options you rolled. Like the monster factory from Wonderland! lol Only, I took it up a level and rolled a d4 to determine what genre I was going to do (usually I use it as a d2 to pick between sci-fi and fantasy), and then I roll a d100 to pick what prompt set I use because there's thirty prompt sets in each genre. I just used this roll as leaving it as is if it landed on 1-30, then if it was 31-60, I would just subtract 30, and if it was 61-90, I would subtract 60, and if it was 91-100, I would just reroll. Then I count that many numbers down starting from the top of the chapter until I got to the right prompt set.

If anyone is interested, I could share it! It is a pdf though, so I think I'd have to send it through email because I don't think that's something I can just share elsewhere.

Anyway, I felt like throwing in a little extra, why not? that day when I decided to roll up another prompt and added horror as an option to my d4 roll, and I ended up getting that, so that's what I went with lol I am definitely not a horror person though and know very little about the genre, and I'm unwilling to do anything too gory or gross. The most I can handle with horror is creepy and abstract concepts of other horrific events, and the top thing that came to mind that day that I thought I could pull off was someone torturing students to bring back an old dead god. So I looked up wheel torture methods because I couldn't remember exactly what the torture device I had in mind was called or did, it was the wheel thing that like, you get tied to on the side and it's supposed to stretch your body apart? Idk, it's the torture method that always stuck out most to me besides quartering, and there was no way in hell I was writing that. I get uncomfortable even rolling that idea in my head and have to try really hard to not picture it every time I remember it exists. Anyway, so I looked up wheel torture methods, and the only thing I could find was the wheel that is called a female name that starts with a c then wheel? Cathie's wheel? Cassandra's wheel? idk I don't want to look it up. Last time I looked it up (to write this fic), I literally gave myself nightmares, and I already watched a fucked up movie today. It's past 11pm and I have to be somewhere at 1pm tomorrow, so I have to go to bed soon, but the grossest part of the movie I watched is still playing in my head and aaaahhhhh

So yeah, that's why I went with a hopefully more creepy vibe for most of it (also to build up tension), and I used physical descriptors of the dead bodies in the wheels very sparingly. Probably not the most immersive experience, but hey, I'm not a horror writer usually lol

Anyway, so I needed characters to be in this scenario, and I thought doing a sibling bonding moment would be cool, and it definitely seemed like the kind of weird shit that would happen in Taako and Lup's lives pre-stolen century. Also, it gave me an excuse to end the story with Taako saying he'd always find Lup >:3

I was really proud of how it turned out when I wrote it, and I suppose I'm still proud of it because it's something I wouldn't normally do, and I do feel like it's okay. But I can definitely tell I grew in my writing capabilities since then, and honestly, the twin interactions after Lup gets kidnapped is so cringey lol 🤦🏽‍♂️ I was so worried about trying to make sure that I didn't portray either of them as weak or like a damsel in distress, especially Lup, that I didn't just let her need to be saved. I wanted to show that I still think of her as a badass who can take care of herself, especially because I was really worried about the weak woman trope or whatever, that I didn't let her just need help. I honestly thought about switching the roles, but Lup just seemed like the one to pick up on something being wrong first while Taako got distracted by how hot the professor was than it being the other way around, and of course the person who picks up on it first has to get kidnapped lol

Anyway, I've rambled on about that long enough sldgkhsldaghd

11. What do you like best about this fic?

Honestly, the part where Taako gets hit with Phantasmal Killer. It was interesting figuring out what exactly would be his number one nightmare that Keth could conjure up, and between having an inconsistent childhood where either the twins left places for their own safety or people left them and them only having each other, having Lup being the one to yell at him, blame him for fucking up a great opportunity, and then leaving him would probably be something major psychic damage worthy lol I also really like how I wrote that confrontation in his mind in general, though I feel like I could do it way better now

It's just a perfect way to spin the situation on its head you see, and fuck the both of them up just a little bit <3