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pastafossa · 9 hours
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Things I thought I would say when I became a mod for a Very Large Online witchy group: 'Yes, you can post that picture of a cool crystal/your pet/a neat leaf!'
Things I did not expect to say: 'Due to liability reasons, bees are restricted from joining this group due to member allergies.'
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pastafossa · 9 hours
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Charlie Cox in Daredevil (2.06)
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pastafossa · 1 day
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Ooooh this was fun, and it took me some thinking!
And that thinking led to me realizing there are two wolves inside me, one wants to move to the Irish countryside and cuddle with Michael Kinsella in front of the fireplace in my Hobbit Hole style house while eating coffee and scones, then we'll read our books while our Newfoundland dog snoozes nearby-
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-and the other wants to be in New York City in a witchy ivy covered brownstone with Matt Murdock and we regularly go to cool coffee shops and witchy stores and eat naan bread and see the occasional Broadway musical before we go home to our cat.
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Both wolves support the existence of dandelions however, I really love dandelions
gging: @shouldbestudying41 @wonderlandmind4 @ancientbeing10 @thenerdlordparade @bunmurdock and anyone else who wants to give it a go!
Me and the girls on discord came up with this new aesthetic tag game idea!
Place your dream cottage/cabin/castle/home, view, pet, activity, food, outfit, flowers/plants, and the character you'd love to share this life with. Just literally make the (fairycore/witchcore/cottagecore/etc) life of your dreams!!! <3
For a Kickstarter, here's mine:
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Tagging my lovely moots @galaxies-and-moons-and-cox @floral-charlie-cat @bellaxgiornata @babygirlmurdock @1988-fiend @mattmurdocks6thscaleapartment @chvoswxtch @c-mrdck @loveroftoomanyfandoms @shiorimakibawrites @munsonownsmyass @saltedlays @shouldbestudying41 @itwasthereaminuteago @lazyxsquirrel and everyone else is welcomed to join!
Note: vampirecore is also welcomed! <3
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pastafossa · 2 days
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My name is Pasta and I drove 6 hours one way yesterday to go with a friend to see a production of a musical version of 9 to 5, and then 6 hours back today, my body aches and I regret nothing.
I think it's obvious which one I am here couldn't find any of my girl power type shirts so a shirt with jessica jones felt like a decent substitute
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Also I saw this giant wooden pretzel carved out of a tree stump right outside a pretzel place my friends took me on a walk to today before I left. I admire their dedication to pretzels.
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pastafossa · 6 days
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pastafossa · 7 days
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Ok so I accidentally stabbed myself while wood carving, just like I did a few years ago. The scenario was damn near identical: my knife hit a knot in the wood, and skipped from the wood to the meaty bit of my hand. Last time this happened I needed 7 stitches at the ER, and it cut deep then because, no surprise, a knife sharp enough to cut wood has no problem with skin and muscle. But I'm not in the ER this time, because there was one VERY important difference.
I had my no cut gloves on.
6 bucks was literally the difference between an ER trip and being able to stay home.
I have two bloody punctures on my hand, one quite painful admittedly, where the knife tip got through the kevlar fibers. That still sucks and I'm grumbling about it because it hurts like a motherfucker even now that the bleeding stopped. But honestly? I'll take it compared to the alternative, the reminder of which sits right next to my bandaids.
Never underestimate what a few bucks for safety can do for you.
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pastafossa · 7 days
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I hate this time change What purpose does this shit serve You are ruining sleep
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pastafossa · 7 days
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Late to the party, first time watching DD completely, not in bits and pieces.
Ya know, thinking about it, in TRT, you've added ANOTHER parallel to Fisk and Matt.
They both fall in love with women who enable them.
Vanessa reassures Fisk that he's doing the right thing, that he's not to blame for what happened as a kid.
Jane reassures Matt that he's doing the right thing, that he's not to blame for what happened as a kid.
They both calm the raging fury that's inside of them.
I'd love to see Venessa and Jane have a conversation, just one. Just to see their personalities bounce off of eachother. I have a feeling Jane would start to show her teeth and Venessa would start to show her second face by the end of it.
(Not fully caught up with trt)
YESSSSSSSS! And that's the thing, like - the parallels between Matt and Fisk have always been an amazing piece of writing for me in canon. They set it up so beautifully, weaving in all these layers where you see how similar they are, but also slightly different: their first drink with their father (Matt while stitching up his dad, Fisk trying to please his dad), their father's deaths, the rage, trying to 'fix' the city, etc. And so it felt right to show something similar with Matt and Jane versus Fisk and Vanessa who, spoiler alert: I also fucking love as a couple.
Both are arguably healthy (ish) relationships in their own way. Supportive, loving. Like you said, they encourage or enabling the other depending on the circumstance/where you're standing: you're doing the right thing. I believe in you even when no one else does. You can do this. You're not to blame for what happened then. They're kind to their partners. And neither of them are as innocent as Matt and Fisk initially think.
But much like Matt and Fisk, there are slight differences, showing the different ways the wheels can turn even in similar people, namely in the way Vanessa leans into that personal darkness, and Jane is, at least for now, trying to lean away from it. Because Vanessa's very comfortable, confident with strolling through that darkness, as is fitting for a villain power couple. Jane meanwhile is more like someone who's trying for the second time to cross a Decent Person wire above a darkened I Want To Murder Many People canyon but she slipped and is now hanging onto it upside down, holding onto that rope with her teeth, fingers, and toes all while Circumstance butters her fingers and Matt desperately uses his balancing pole to swat at Circumstance from the nearby wire Matt himself is barely walking labeled 'Violent Catholic Vigilante Issues'.
ANYWAY, I agree. I think Vanessa and Jane would have a lot to talk about, and the push and pull between them both would be really interesting! Because there's so much they agree on, and yet, there's just enough different that ooooh... that slow build in tension would be delicious. How long before the masks fell, and they both got a true sense of the other? Only time would tell.
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pastafossa · 7 days
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Another addition, i love matts method of tracking people is him standing on the sidewalk like 🧍‍♂️and everyone is like, yup normal blind guy standing around.
FOR REAL. He just hangs out on sidewalks, 🧍‍♂️ing it up, not suspicious at all, definitely not listening or tracking someone, especially not with his head doing the dog tilt every now and then.
He's... just distracted by the smell of the hotdog cart nearby. That's all.
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pastafossa · 7 days
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Pasta.....i was reading the angst arc where matt finds out about los angeles....at work.....girl i was fighting TEARS when he was setting up the lights for her. Putting the flashlight in her hand over and over 🥲😭😭😭
That was, at the time, one of the saddest things I felt I'd written and I may have gotten a little choked up writing it. 😭 Just Matt, treating her like she's awake, like she's there, her limp, frozen fingers nonreactive, but it's fine, it's fine, it's not that she can't hold the light, she just dropped it is all, he can just put it back into her hands, prove to her that he's here, and he brought light, made up for their fight, see, sweetheart? I'm here now. I came, and I brought light. It's alright. You can come back to me now.
...Please.
Please come back to me, sweetheart.
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How do you get past writer's block? I have a fic that I'm working on that is updating on a schedule, and I made the mistake of giving myself a month off in between parts and now I can't really get back into writing it. I don't want to leave it abandoned because I have a few people who I know are really invested and I don't want to leave them hanging, but I'm having a hard time getting as excited to write it as I did before.
Ok so I'm in a weird place for this, hilariously. Because The Answer That Usually Works For Me (TM) and that carried me through a regular weekly update schedule for almost two and a half years is, in fact, not at present working for me apparently my brain can write through a pandemic but not through recovery from the shit that went down in December/Jan so we found my writing kryptonite. However, I'm going to assume you're closer to 2021 Pasta than 2024 Pasta. SO LET'S GO WITH THE METHOD I NORMALLY USE SINCE IT WAS SUCCESSFUL FOR YEARS. Cause that's the thing: sure, I've written almost a million words, and pumped out chapters for years (ignoring the past few months) but I promise, I hit the same walls as everyone else even when nailing weekly uploads. But over those years, I came up with a fairly solid list of steps that I'd go through one by one.
Fun one first: when I'm in a block, I almost always try re-engaging with canon first. I'd rewatch my favorite episodes, binge a whole season, or even the whole series depending on how much of a boost I needed. For me at least that was often like Pavlov's bell, my favorite story triggering a flood of affection. I'd remember why I loved this fandom and the characters so much, and it could often kickstart my brain and excitement back into gear. If you really want to dangle a carrot and your fic touches on canon, focus on watching parts you're excited to get to in your story. A big one for me in TRT for example was the post-Nobu, Nelson v. Murdock episode, since I'd had that planned for TRT almost since the start, and I was very excited to reach the hurt/comfort I had planned. Even if your fic isn't following canon though, see if it'll give you a creative rush again!
So let's say step 1 doesn't work, either because the canon just isn't hitting the spot or because your fic is dealing with something else. In this case, my next step was usually to jump ahead to write a scene I was really eager to get to. It was often a short blurb, but it was always something I REALLY wanted to explore, and because I'm also a reader who likes exactly the tropes and plots I'm writing, I want to read what fucking happens. Except, fuck, I'm not there yet, am I? And I can't see how that scene finishes until I write my way up to it and finish it. This is my own carrot. Multiple scenes in TRT were written months or even years in advance, simply as a way to bribe myself. This is also an option!
But maybe this doesn't work. Sometimes it didn't. This is when it got a bit more serious. For anyone who was reading at the time, you'd have noticed that I'd sometimes drop side fics, either Matt POVs or one-shots. This was me, in essence, working on the shower principle (basically, ideas/solutions will come if you stop thinking about it and do something else, like take a shower). I figured if I went and wrote something else - either with less stress, or something fun and dopamine-inducing - the part of my brain focused on my Big Fic would wander around the writer's block beneath my notice. And it almost always worked, all while I still kept my brain trained that, hey, even if we're not writing This Thing, we're still writing.
But let's say this doesn't work either. You're well, and truly, stuck. Been there now and then. And, you're going to hate this one. I hate it but it works 9 times of 10. And it is: Write anyway. Half of it was spite. I was not going to give up my schedule, I liked my schedule. The other half was that I knew myself. I knew if I could just get past the chapter/plot/dialogue I was struggling with, I'd be able to roll along again. And so I made a rule: whatever I wrote didn't have to be pretty. It just had to exist. If that meant I wrote, "Jane chased the cat in circles and caught it. She was happy." then that's what I wrote. Because everything, EVERYTHING, can be fixed in editing. But you can't fix what doesn't exist. And so there were those nights when I would scowl and groan and snarl and bash my head against that writer's block until 5 in the morning, but in the end Jane chased that fucking cat adn caught it, it was written. Hilariously, sometimes those chapters have wound up amazing (likely because I spent so much time hammering at them) and reader favorites. There are absolutely, I believe, moments where you can, and should, see if you can push through.
But that brings me to *waves* now. A lesson I've only recently recently and with encouragement. Namely... sometimes brain no go and that's ok. My steps work for me 99.9% of the time, but I've done the above during the past few months, and it just... hasn't dragged me out entirely out of it yet. Sometimes, our brains demand that break, especially when things just aren't going great. There's a reason TRT had a break of roughly 2 years between chapter 4 and chapter 5 (feel free to check the chapter index with dates on AO3!). I had some life things happening and I just was not in a place to write, even if I was still busily plotting and planning and thinking about TRT behind the scenes. And that was ok. We're not machines. I came back like a bulldozer in Jan 2021, yes, and bulldozed through weekly updates, but that break was needed. And now I'm obviously taking a short one again while I recover from everything. It's ok if you're not in a place for it. So the last step is one I've been told a lot by dear friends recently as they helped me through this: be kind to yourself, and try not to stress if none of the above works. The story will always be there, and if TRT is any indication through all its highs and lows, your readers will be there when you start up again.
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pastafossa · 7 days
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Charlie Cox in Daredevil (1.01)
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pastafossa · 8 days
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I have finished carving the lil bun and he came out SO FRIKKIN CUTE, lil chubby cheeks and all. 😭 He just needs a bit of cleanup and some paint and then he's finished!
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pastafossa · 8 days
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Respectfully: IT'S FUCJING MARCH, WHY IS THERE SNOW, I WAS IN A TANK TOP AND SHORTS ONE WEEK AGO 😂
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pastafossa · 10 days
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Me, to my favorite character as I write: you know, some days I just want to wrap you in blankets and feed you and make sure nothing bad ever happens to you ever again
Character, hopefully: is that day today?
Me, slowly raising a story bat covered in angst nails: no, no it is not
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pastafossa · 10 days
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Charlie Cox in Boardwalk Empire (2.09)
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pastafossa · 10 days
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no talking stage I pull u towards me by our red string of fate and then we kiss on the mouth
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