#and write more

[eyesopod]

gay people do u know good horror books

#kades bs #i need to read more #and write more #idk whst good books are

[theoriginalladya]

Real life insanity below the cut

So, let me say this upfront: no matter what job you have, big or small, whether you're a worker bee or the boss, please please PLEASE have procedures in place should the unexpected happen!

Last weekend, my boss at my part time job passed away unexpectedly. He and his business partner run a local comic shop. My Ex, who also works there, got me on board about 6-8 months ago for a few hours a week, just to get me a little extra income to help out but also because I'm good at doing 'computer stuff'. So I joined on, I've been working on my small part of it, and things were going good. I had just reached a point where I could learn a little bit more to add a few more hours a week, etc. and the boss and I were just trying to find a time to do that.

Then he passed away. Now, he was a great guy, of course, and had a passion for the comic industry. I don't know how long he's been working there (he bought the company out when they downsized about a decade ago and closed their other shops), but you could tell when you talked to him he loved what he did.

He was a detail-oriented person, so he knew how the shop ran - all the big things, little things, and everything in between. Sure, he delegated when necessary, but ultimately, he knew ALL that was going on and how to do it.

BUT HE DID NOT HAVE IT WRITTEN DOWN ANYWHERE.

Unfortunately, this leaves the business partner, my Ex and me scrambling to try to figure out how to do all of this stuff. All of us know a little bit about what the boss did as it reflected back on our parts of things, but we do NOT have an OVERALL PICTURE of everything.

Also, the boss used a software program that hasn't been sold for close to 20 years at least, and so we now need to figure all this out without using that because only the boss knew ALL the ins and outs of the program (I've never ever used it so I relied on Excel).

I managed to recreate two of the big reports they needed for today - fingers crossed I got all they wanted/needed into them and didn't muck it all up (the other liability on my end is that I'm a relative newcomer to the comic industry, so a lot of what they say goes over my head!). Tomorrow, I will be trying to recreate something that the boss should have done about a month ago (which, yes, means we're behind), and if I can get it done for April, I'll probably be diving in to do it for May next week. And there are at least one or two more reports I need to figure out, but they rely on other things that we have to get updated first, so that's kind of at a standstill at the moment.

I'm trying to be positive and encouraging to the business partner and the Ex - neither needs all the stress right now and I really do think we can get this sorted out, but it's going to take some time. If the Boss had taken the time (and he had over a decade to do this) to at the very least, make a list of everything that gets done on a daily/weekly/monthly basis and where we pull that information from, things this week would have been a hell of a lot easier!

Anyway, that's where I've disappeared to and where I'll likely be lost for the foreseeable future. I'm taking care of myself - I try to write a little every day still, though not nearly as much as I used to - and I refuse to stress out about this too much. We can do this. I know we can. We just have to figure it out is all.

#ladya rambles #real life challenges #this is why I've been suddenly silent again #because I really was trying to get back here more #and write more #and share things

[cellophaine]

For some reason, I thought my one-year anniversary of posting fics on Tumblr was around the end of August, but it was actually on August 4th.

So here’s to one year and 22 days on Tumblr to me!! 🍾🥂

#may me struggle less #and write more #🥳🎉

[good-realtor-bad-realtor-dynamic]

Happy New Year!

I took a long, long break for the holidays because I thought it would be "healthy" and "allow me to focus on fun irl things" or whatever, but I'm back now and ready to be insane again. I mean, I was still watching IASIP because I've not been replaced by a new person (yet), but I actually went outside! Sidenote: why haven't they done a New Year's Eve episode yet? :/

We're finally on the home stretch to S16 and I'm so fucking excited! This will be my first time watching Sunny as it airs because I hadn't caught up far enough to watch S15 as it was airing in December 2021. I mean, I could've but I like some order in my viewing experience sometimes. Maybe I'll finally finish some of my garbage fanart and edits this year with all the extra enthusiasm generated by the new season. Fuck, is this a resolution?

In other happy news, tumblr seems to have FINALLY fixed all my account glitches! I wasn't able to do replies or messages, and all my likes and reblogs were getting hidden for weeks. It was like I barely existed here and it sucked so much because I love talking. It only took one whole bloody month for Support to get back to me about my complaints and fix the bugs, but at least it's done now. I'm so happy!!! But also, what a relief!

So what did I miss when I was gone?

#time to go back through the tags and be a historian #thankfully there has been limited to no iasip podcast content since i took a break #speaking of which why didn't we get an episode today and why can't they just fucking tell us if they're not releasing an episode! #and while i'm complaining about bad habits #stop leaving your art incomplete you slacker #and write more #and like eat actual food and go to sleep on time and stuff #and go outside and do exercise or whatever #just be a fucking human already #and email your professors #you wouldn't have to pull all-nighters if you just stuck to your schedule better #goals? #happy new year #sur #sur rambles

[oh-katsuki]

im procrastinating SO hard on final projects rn. absurdly hard. i have three projects, two due monday and one due wednesday and i have not started the two due monday. 

#pls im SO CLOSE to being done for the year #and then ill have time to work on personal projects omg #and do art for fun #and WRITE MORE #OMG PLS #IM SO EXCITED

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

#the ethics are whack but more importantly you didn't even want to write it?? who is it even for?? not you? not me? #you didn't even have enough interest in the premise to take a crack at it?? then who cares? #please don't populate in my search results I'm looking for things that people wrote because they liked something #ao3

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

#i love reading your examples! however next person to be like um actually this exists?? it’s on sight #i know it exists. i think it’s fun. that’s why i think more people should do it. #sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul #and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd. #i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist! #something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content #idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently #mine

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

#eleanor shellstrop #you know i was thinking about how we hold female characters to such high standards #and severely criticize bitchy female characters while praising asshole male characters #and then i remembered eleanor and realized that she is the perfect example of how to write an asshole woman that the audience likes #the worse she is the more i'm drawn to her (and honestly same for tahani) #we need more cringe-fail women who nobody likes (for good reason) #the good place #female characters #writing women #girl failure #girl loser #she's so mean #i love her #my favorite #fucking asshole #iconic #the good place eleanor #tgp #tgp eleanor #kristen bell

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

#just kidding the third option is i drive myself insane #trying to find a way to write someone like me in a way i may be respected as a human being #without shaving away the more frightening aspects of my experience or life #challenge level . impossible. i will die. or they will make youtube 3 hour long rant videos about it someday #scratchpost #txt

[excavatinglizard]

Shoutout to my dad for being the funniest person I know

#mitski #dumb shit i do #lesbian #I'm turning reblogs back on but you all have to be nice to each other or you're losing Lesbian Dad privileges #would like to add that mitski is an incredible writer and lyricist and so much more than sad lesbian music. #I am. however. a sad lesbian who is haunted by said lyrics and writing

[rattledazzlebones]

Kind of obsessed with the tumblr Twitter account

#tumblr #twitter #meme #my stuff #funny #pissing myself at trying to tag #nothing more humbling than writing funny

[angelsdean]

me whenever i see /pos and /hj: why are you calling me a piece of shit and what do handjobs have to do with any of this :/

#this is joke. light-hearted or /lh if you will #but fr there's GOT to be a better way to indicate these things. esp the /pos one #like i'd rather ppl just write out the whole word it's only a few more letters #vic.txt

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[timelesslords]

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.

#tbosas #the hunger games #im sure someone has already said this much more eloquently than this #but i cant stop thinking about it #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #hunger games #tbosas spoilers #thg #catching fire #i could write a thesis on this #suzanne collins the woman you are

[the-whitehurst-files]

It connects, okay!

#writing #writing problems #writing memes #memes #author #more potholes in this plot than in the roads of England

[redactedrem]

Headcanon where after so many arguments between the batkids and Bruce over his paranoia and complete disregard for his kids privacy, the entire family had compromised with (in the healthiest way possible) downloading life360 on their phones and that's how they all keep track of each other.

Now Bruce knew that this is mostly for his benefit and is supposed to be a healthy alternative for his unhealthy paranoia and helicopter parenting, but what he wasn't expecting was for his kids to start keeping track of him.

He's putting gas in his car and Dick calls him because apparently Dick has been watching him drive around on the app? And Bruce is currently at a gas station thats right around the corner from a Taco Bell and now Dick wants him to get food for everyone since he's already there.

He's driving home from a meeting and Steph calls him because her and Duke were shopping in the area and wants to know if he can pick them up, when he asks how she knew he was on the same street, he gets a "Oh I just like to stalk everyone on the app for funsies." as an answer.

Jason calls him and he can barely get out a hello before Jason cuts him off, "Bruce why the fuck is your phone battery on 5%, charge your damn phone" which completely stuns him because why does he know that. He clears his throat before answering. "Jason, what?"

"Everyone can see each others phone batteries on '360, now charge your phone." Is all he gets before Jason hangs up on him.

#I have more ideas in my head #but I didn't want to make the post too long #might repost later #might write a small fanfic off of this #I actually don't have life360 but my friend does and I'm basing this off of how she interacts with her mom #batfamily #batfam #headcanon #dick grayson #nightwing #bruce wayne #batman #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #red robin #cardinal tim drake #stephanie brown #spoiler