tammyhybrid21

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

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The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.

"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."

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“i’m not the same as who i was before [x] thing happened to me” does it help to know that you would not have stayed that person regardless

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this pride month i want everyone to consider the benefits of abolishing the sex binary

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If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again

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I actually get a bit frustrated when I see dc fans complaining about the Danny Phantom and Miraculous Ladybug crossovers on ao3 because it’s so easy to filter those out. You just go to the fandoms list and exclude em. Maybe exclude Danny and that ladybug girl and catboy as characters too.

You can’t do it that easy with the dc crossovers though.

I like Danny Phantom crossovers a lot, and that includes stuff like Teen Titans, Superman, Justice League 2001, and Young Justice. I can no longer access those without spending 10 minutes working around with the filters.

Not a fan of batfam crossovers? Just exclude Batfam. Oh? A good half of them weren’t under the batfam tag and were just under the main dc tag? Just exclude every batkid except Dick Grayson. Oh? A good chunk of them didn’t have character tags? Just search for Teen Titans specifically.

Well, turns out 10 of these are actually Batfam fics and have nothing to do with Teen Titans. And they don’t make that clear in the tags, summary, or the first 8k words of the fic since it’s all on the Danny Phantom side of things until chapter 4 when Damian Wayne comes out of fucking nowhere and calls Danny Danyal for some reason.

Please can we properly tag stuff, I can’t deal with the batfam takeover. I’m being entirely serious when I say that more than half of all Danny Phantom crossovers are batfam and there is no way to easily access other danny phantom and dc crossovers.

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ingo in hisui is an invasive species so lacking in proper enrichment that he goes out and engages with supposedly uncontrollable alpha pokemon just to feel something. he literally made personal, specialized challenges for every single hisui dex pokemon. he drags in three wild alphas for a fight at the drop of the dime. also he's still a warden. who has that kind of time or energy? ingo submas apparently. if left to his own devices theres no telling what creature is getting a sudden and ferocious beat down next. it could be you. it could be me.

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Fanfiction is great because you can see so clearly how people learn to write.

Some people, it's clear, learned almost entirely through absorbing the world around them. Grammar and punctuation will be all over the place, spellings are approximate, but the voice of the narration will come through so clearly. You can hear the dialect of the people around them as of they're telling the story. It's not a written story, it's a transcription of how they talk in their day to day life.

Some people learned through reading a gazillion books as a kid. Grammer and spelling will be rock solid, formatting occasionally based on the single tab of physical books rather than the double tab of online scrolling, but dialogue is often stilted and overly formal. You might notice a lack of contractions and very rigid rules they made for consistency that actually have a lot more flexibility than they think. They tend to have a fantastic grasp of sentence flow, though.

And other people formally learned how to write. This could be anywhere from taking school classes seriously because they enjoyed writing stories as a kid to literal certifications and jobs in the field. Grammer is flawless. Punctuation is triple checked. Foreign words are in italics. Characters have distinct voices. But their self indulgence is tempered by perfectionism. They know precisely what they want from a fic. Authors notes often feature mutterings about their happiness with the chapter. Kaomojis often appear! They seek a style to their writing, and it makes for some wonderfully clever plots! These are the ones most likely to get fun with formatting!

And some people.... Some people examined it all. They dissect dialogue, people watch, cross reference behaviours and compare characters to people irl. You can tell almost immediately who had formative experiences with Terry pratchett and/or ghibli, because it's these people. While others see writing as fun, expression, craft, they see it as art. Plain and simple. Sure, the grammar is occasionally sacrificed on the altar of creative freedom, and the occasional sentence might miss a full stop, but these people seem to self reflect on themselves as part of the art making process. On occasion, these people have the most masterful grasp of dialogue and invocation and hand sewn characterisations. Formatting is pretty standard because all the focus is on the actual words. These fics can be edited to the moon and back!

All of these can vary wildly in forethought and quality, and betas can often catch individual problems before they hit post, but just. Isn't it so cool? What's that one Oscar Wilde quote about every mask just being another fragment of yourself?

Did you recognise yourself?

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One of my favorite stories to tell about myself from when I was a kid is the story how my grandma’s “Catching Fairies” game was banned because of me

So when I was really little my grandma had this game she made up, she’d give me and all my cousins jars and containers and tell us that in her garden there were fairies but they were smart and tricky so they disguised themselves as caterpillars and butterflies and as grasshoppers and worms.

Whoever caught the most ‘Fairies’ won but we had to set them all free because they tended to the garden

One summer day my brothers were at the age they were dreading ‘girly’ stuff so I was playing alone

At this point I had met all the fairies in the garden and I was getting bored without any competition and with finding the same old fairies

But then just as I was begrudgingly heading back to my grandma with the same fairies as usual I found a new fairy!

I thought she was so beautiful! She was resting on the sparkly thread in the leaves and her black body gleamed in the sunlight, she had long legs and a cool red spot on her back

Excited I coaxed her onto my hand and was so giddy I found a new one! I rushed back to the farm house to show my Grandma and Dad, gently carrying my new friend.

But when my Dad and Grandma turned around to see what fairy I caught I saw the color drain from their faces and both of them freeze, I could tell something was wrong but didn’t understand

My dad congratulated me and asked me if he could see the pretty fairy, I let him but felt a little nervous seeing how terrified he looked as she moved into his hands from mine.

Slowly he walked back towards the door, my grandma clutching my shoulders then my dad LAUNCHED the fairy back into the garden which I thought was rather rude

Then we had a nice long talk about Black Widow spiders

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one of my favorite things about the pokemon universe is how the humans are esp. the bad guys 

like mob boss giovonni can pull out a glock and waste my 10 y/o ass but he doesn’t he just accepts that i knocked out his cat and hands me money

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one of my favorite things about the pokemon universe is how the humans are esp. the bad guys 

like mob boss giovonni can pull out a glock and waste my 10 y/o ass but he doesn’t he just accepts that i knocked out his cat and hands me money

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If you haven’t changed your url in years tell me why as someone in your same boat it’s for science

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dumb meme doodles since I've been busy

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And the winner of The Sexyman Scholar’s sexyman tournament is…

INGO!!!!

Thank you to everyone who voted! I had a blast.