#ik i’m not very good

[obikinetic]

Star Wars: The Sub Awakens

Aka, Anakin has a very ill-timed ~realization~

This is my contribution for Sub Anakin Fest [@anakinfest], which I actually didn’t sign up for but decided to butt in on anyway! As such, this doesn’t correspond to any prompts :)

#subanakinfest #star wars #obikin #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #sw fanart #fanart #art #please please tell me if I went about this the wrong way because I have no idea what I’m doing #it’s a very good thing the deadline kept being pushed back because I literally just finished this today 💀 #I am HORRIBLE #anyway I’m glad I got it done because I really wanted to participate #ik this is barely subby but it was fun to me at least!

[why-the-heck-not]

christmas things

#and since christmas I made a grand error of starting to watch Lost bc never did watch that and ik it was very popular at one point and I #wanted to see and it’s been 2-3 days and I’ve watched the whole first season #if something happens to charlie sayid or vincent I’m going to have a nervous breakdown #and I’m so sure that there’s no way that the dog (vincent) could survive the whole thing #nice to watch a good show I haven’t seen a billion spoilers about (a rare thing) #so that’s how my ’’i’ll be productive after christmas’’ is going #bookblr #studyblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #christmas #december 2023 #2023

[chateautae]

hi 🥺

#guys don’t throw stones at me #BUT I’M BACK!!!!!! #mainly because I’m finally reaching the end of the semester and I started missing this blog especially with the holidays nigh #I haven’t written something in ages and I was getting so nostalgic with my old stories #I’ve just got exams to get over but I’ve been keeping up well so I’ll be back soon!!! #ik loads of people are still excited for to turn a bad thing good so I’m definitely writing that very soon #I’ve had at least 1/3 of the third chapter written but I haven’t visited the doc in a while #also I’ve decided to finally let my boyfriend read some of my stories so it’s really him who brought me back to writing #everyone shall thank him ❤️ #sammy files

[wander-wren]

small things to stop doing in your fics

(or any kind of writing, but i live on ao3. we begin with flat-out crimes and then slowly start moving into things that just bug me personally but aren’t wrong)

epithets. if i’ve said it once, i’ve said it a thousand times. you should only be using epithets for characters whose names we do not know. they can also be used VERY rarely to break up the repetition of names/pronouns or to emphasize characters’ relationships/viewpoints, ie “his boyfriend” or “the asshole.”

writing out accents. please stop. you can include a couple of small things, like “somethin’” or “ya” (for “you”), but even keep that to a minimum. specific turns of phrase/references go way farther imo to establish a character’s culture/background/etc. a little goes a long way, and doing it repeatedly can make sentences hard to parse. this also! applies! to children and babytalk! have you ever listened to a child speak? toddlers can enunciate pretty well!

not enough commas. put commas before names and titles. it’s not “Hey John” or “I’m on it captain,” it’s “Hey, John” and “I’m on it, captain.” also, put them after discourse markers/interjections such as “well,” “so,” and “now.” you should be writing “So, how are the kids?” not “So how are the kids?” even if your character is speaking quickly, you still want the commas because of grammar. it can occasionally be acceptable to omit them if you want to indicate extreme excitement/panic/anger/etc, but use it sparingly.

too many commas. i’m a comma fiend like the rest of you so i’m guilty here too, but we gotta at least stop with the comma splices. commas split and independent and dependent clause, meaning that one part of the sentence cannot grammatically stand alone. if all parts are complete sentences on their own, that’s a comma splice. try splitting it into two sentences, using a semicolon, or rewriting. this is usually fine in dialogue, though, that’s just how people talk.

also, using a lot of commas to denote panic is something i used to be HUGELY guilty of and now i hate it. instead of, “I, I, I don’t, I don’t know,” you can try, “I-I…I don’t—I don’t know!” probably not that much punctuation that close together, but for the sake of example. emdashes and ellipses, my beloveds 🫶

roleplay speak. i don’t know what else to succinctly call this? i’m referring to the tendency to be redundant and over-explain, especially in dialogue. it’s a phenomenon i see constantly in rp circles, usually because of post length requirements (and i have little issue with it there, it’s just the culture). things like:

“Surprise!” Adam shouted, popping out from behind the door.

“Oh my god!” Scott screamed, having been completely startled and not expecting Adam to be home yet.

yeah, we can guess that Scott is startled, right? because of the screaming? and clearly if Adam is surprising Scott it stands to reason his presence is unexpected? why are we stating this twice?

i believe this also comes from the mistaken idea that every line of dialogue needs a tag attached, which is….horrible. you can let the dialogue exist on its own sometimes, friends. you can also include an action beat without a tag. like above, i could have just said “Adam popped out from behind the door” and omitted the shouting altogether. we can assume he is being loud because that’s usually how people do surprises. anyway. moving on.

condescending to readers. this isn’t so much about writing as it is author’s notes and the like, and “condescending” may be a strong word, but i’m trying to be succinct. at any rate, please stop telling your audience to not read your fic? “do not read if sensitive to [blank]” or “if you have [disorder] skip this fic!” is a horrible way to trigger warn. people know their own boundaries. tell them what the work actually contains and let them self-select.

i also find “rest stop/check-in” type notes condescending, like “if you are reading this between the hours of 10pm-4am, go to sleep” and “STOP! have you eaten/drank/walked around in the past few hours? go do that!” again, we know ourselves. i’m not your kid, don’t tell me what to do. i don’t mind a polite, casual little “thanks for reading, remember to drink water and take your meds, bye” note, though.

the others in this category? i will straight up not read the fic over that on some days. ESPECIALLY because, in my experience, the people who are most intense about warning for every little thing are the ones with the mildest fics, and that’s not what i’m here for.

complaining about your own wrong tags. this is, admittedly, such a nitpick, and it definitely is more common in certain communities than others. but as longtime followers may know, i’m a bit obsessed with ao3’s tagging system and it drives me BONKERS when people use the wrong tags and follow it with “not actually but there’s no tag for xyz.” here’s the thing: you can still look at all the works that have ANY tag, just the non-canonized ones can’t be filtered on. and the best way to get a tag canonized is, guess what, to USE it! imagine that. also, if you’re using the wrong tag, you’re just going to clog the filter results and get people who don’t actually want to read your fic. just stop.

#writing advice #fanfiction #wren writes #writeblr #this has been in my drafts for a while getting things added to it as i come across them #i think it’s good now #feel free to add your own grievances as long as they’re small #last addition was the commas bc i just dnf’d a fic for having like no commas ever #why is every character talking at warp speed i cant focus #also yes i’m a hypocrite bc you can probably find at least most of these in my fics. ik i have the rp speak one very recently. but thats bc #its a rp turned fic and i’m lazy about editing #i dont mind it in that case i think rp fics are fun its when its clearly Not a rp fic that i get annoyed by it

[diabolicjoy]

[ID: two images of the same ceramic bowl from different angles. the bowl is white with lilac birds painted around the inside. there’s a tiny blue heart in the center, circled by blue leaves & two small oranges, marching the beak of the birds. the rim is painted in cobalt blue with little swirls reaching the outside. end ID]

#ik i already posted pics of this little bowl but these are better quality i think #let me know if the id is alright btw i’m not very good at it #ceramica #pottery #my art #m

[heraldofcrow]

Young Laurence and Ludwig

#@certain mutuals #THERE I DREW THEM #lol #i’m very late ik #but i guess now was a good time because uni is swinging back around #they’re going to byrgenwerth for the first time #hahaha first year suckers hahaha #(also my Laurence is…not subtle at all with his look and the glaring reference -_- sorry) #(refuses to elaborate) #(leaves) #laurence the first vicar #ludwig the holy blade #byrgenwerth #byrgenwerth squad #bloodborne #CrowSketch

[spicyicymeloncat]

Okay here’s another controversial “Green family take” tell me if I’m wrong.

“People who hate Harumi and Lloyd family dynamic ignore that Lloyd and Morro also shouldn’t have a family dynamic, when Morro did the exact same thing”

Because besties I agree I honestly think green cousins doesn’t make much sense either since yknow Morro and the whole possession thing, but at the same time if you look at canon, they just aren’t the same thing and yknow I need people to actually stop looking at Harumi as the girl version of Morro and the only reason we hate her is because she’s a girl.

Because she’s not.

Like yes I agree there’s definitely a lot of bias towards Morro, if he was woman he would be demonised to hell and back but since he’s man then he is adored, and vice versa with Harumi and sexism fucking sucks.

But Harumi and Morro are different guys. Harumi is portrayed as worse in canon in Lloyd’s eyes. Yeah Lloyd got possessed by Morro and that’s obviously bad tm but other than what people assume possession entails, Lloyd was never as shaken as he was with Harumi.

In s5, we never saw Lloyd be conflicted about the possession thing. He had no fear of Morro. We have no reason to believe that a ghost possession feels worse than being a sleep and maybe having a vague awareness of what’s going on. He barely mentions Morro after s5. And I will say I think this is a writing flaw, obviously it would’ve been cooler if Morro actually had some kind of impact on the ninja, but regardless this is the canon. Lloyd hates Morro but he’s not traumatised yknow. It’s not to the point that Harumi got to.

I feel like getting possessed should be worse than getting lied to, but Harumi did on top of it, start a cult in his name, Kill actual Characters (the royal family and Hutchins) and then kidnap Lloyd and his mother and his uncle and then resurrect his father removing vital parts of his father’s mind/personality/emotional cognitive abilities etc. on top of that she also nearly killed the ninja and wu (which Lloyd believed she did).

Somehow she was much more dangerous than Morro was, she was a much more successful villain.

Additionally I would say Morro has more of an excuse to be seen as family, even if I I’m less of a green cousins fan. Because Morro and Wu actually have a father son relationship, in which Wu was actually responsible over Morro. They had a normal albeit imperfect dynamic before Morro left. Regardless of Lloyd and Morro’s interactions, that dynamic was still present even in the very end.

It doesn’t mean and Lloyd and Morro have to be buddies, just because there’s a family connection doesn’t mean shit (this is the show of found family have we learned nothing? Blood connections don’t matter, only friendship).

But like in comparison to Harumi and Garmadon’s absolute parody of a relationship, where Harumi turns to the man who doesn’t remember what love is and asks him to be her father (at this point neither of them know what “father” even means), Morro does have a family dynamic and Harumi does not.

So in response to the original quote, Morro has a much more solid claim to any kind of family dynamic bc his relation to Wu is much more family esq, and also he was bad yeah, but the show portrays Harumi as worse especially in Lloyd’s opinion.

I just don’t like the argument that Morro and Harumi have done the same things, when the severity is definitely different imo and they aren’t just copies of each other. Imo it’s an oversimplification to reduce their characters down to each other.

#u heard it here first #spicy is not the biggest fan of green cousins or Garmadon siblings #sorry #if ppl make good content for it then I’ll let it slide but generally not a fan #i feel bad for saying it but I guess I really just don’t like Harumi as much #i feel like whenever people talk about Harumi it’s always ‘oh you hate her cuz ur sexist’ #no I hate her because I don’t like how she’s written or how her character is established #like Ik some people like her backstory but I just don’t #it just feels like the writers went ‘let’s blame the characters for no reason’ #and I’m just so sick of the evil love interest trope I hate it so much and that is what Harumi is on s8 #because it’s happened 3 times now #THREE #PIXAL SKYLOR HARUMI #It’s that mindset of women are evil they’ll seduce you with their crimes against human nature #okay that tag is gonna sound very appealing to the gays on here but like in the context of the show it’s just demonising women #like take out the romance aspect and fix Harumi’s backstory and maybe I’d like her more #i will say Morro is badly written also he does nothing interesting really other than his backstory #i like what he means about wu but like they do not even explore that dynamic much in the show #he’s like an unopened present #his set up is so good but they don’t do shit with it #idk idk #obviously all my opinions #ninjago

[mattodore]

hi river !!! 🫶🫶 i may have asked you this already so please disregard this as i have but im thinking about trying to get into the sims for the first time again and was wondering if you knew of any masterposts or blogs to help get someone new to the sims started? either way thank you for your time & wishing you + ur ocs a good evening/day !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

hi jo <3 i’m so bad at answering stuff like this but thankfullyyyyy there's actually this gameplay guide on google docs i know of that links to some good gameplay mods along with editing resources, tips from other simblrs, and graphic mods! and you can look at resource pages that some simblrs have like nova’s resource page here for links to cc and mods that might make your game more lively.

as for personal recommendations i'd say to follow the “#ts4 gameplay, #ts4 cas, #ts4 story” tags, follow some cc finds blogs, and follow some other simblrs whose posts you like! i’d also say download ratboysims’ ratsave file to play in so the world looks more lively!! alongside getting the @.k-hippie terrain replacements for better world visuals (unless you dig the cartoony look of the sims worlds). also northernsiberiawinds’s better in-game lighting for your sims.

#river dipping #asks #ahaura #i don't think you've asked abt this before or if you did tumblr eviscerated your message before it got to my inbox </3 #i’m assuming you mean like… simblr. #unless you mean you’ve never played the sims and are totally unfamiliar……. in which case i’d say play the sims 3 first instead 😭 #ts4 is notoriously not as good or complete as ts3 #mind you i’ve only played ts4 but i’m more into the game for oc reasons anyway #and can make my own fun even when the game’s uhhh. not very fun without gameplay mods #sorry if this isn’t helpful btw 😭 ik i only made this blog a year ago but i actually have been into ts4 since the demo dropped #so i kinda don’t. really remember what it was like to first try to get into the game… #ummm but there are a TON of videos on youtube about ts4 like there are tutorials and cc recs and mod walkthroughs #like the community is very helpful generally speaking so !! #also pirate the dlc… i’m being serious don’t spend money on a game that’s incomplete by design and to this day still has issues #hopefully this helps……….. 😭 #i’m like half asleep typing this out so idk 🧍

[vonkarma2]

reading hill house + enjoying it for the yuri

#this captures what it’s like to interact with a bi girl that’s out of your league so well #I am paying attention to other things besides that ofc <3 I like the way the house is being characterized so far #the style of description is very cinematic imo like kind of weirdly so #when it introduced all the characters and when it like cuts between them in a montage #the descriptions are all really good imo so I don’t want to be that guy that’s like I wish it was a movie. but I do think it would be cool #though it’s a shame they couldn’t actuslly have the like menacing atmosphere of hill house that makes anyone who looks at it hate it #ik there’s a Netflix series but Ive heard mixed things + that it’s not that accurate :p #idk I’m interested to see what happens :) #also she’s literally me

[davidjrpalos]

I am very happy with the person I am growing into and aim to become

#text #I’m always posting depressing posts on here lol I’m just actually proud of myself bc ik I’m making an honest effort and taking #accountability for what I do. was tb some stuff and it just made me remember I’m doing really good and I am okay #even if I’m not exactly where I want to be I’m still on the right track and that’s just life taking it’s right time ! #a big thing I always have to remind myself to have is patience but I do feel good about myself and what I’ve accomplished for myself so far #and just generally living w less shame over me is nice and very freeing

[pollenallergie]

do people with adhd have special interests? do we do that? cause i’ve been in my free willy shark week marine biology era for a solid decade now and like shit has not changed.

#ik i say i have audhd. and my therapist and i definitely think i do. #but my psychiatrist won’t diagnose me bc i am a woman and apparently this is still the 90s ig #so idk lately i’ve been having an identity crisis and being like… do i even have it??? if i can’t get a diagnosis?? #like yeah this specific psychiatrist won’t diagnose me but i’ve been to other psychiatrists in the past?? #so like if i had it wouldn’t they have caught it?? #and like yeah my cousin has it but who knows he could’ve gotten that from his dad’s side of the family not his mom’s (my aunts) #idk big crisis over here #it’s also been like months since i last saw my therapist which is just not good… #but yeah idk if i have autism? and now i feel like shit for essentially diagnosing myself as being audhd based on like nothing #so now i’m just trying to see if all this shit that i thought was maybe autism is actually just my adhd or ocd #or just like a fun non-disordered quirk #also i am very embarrassed about the way i talked about autism on here when i thought i had it now that i’m not sure #like it feels very rude and offensive in retrospect #so i’m very very genuinely sorry for that #that just was not okay for me to do #i promise to be better going forward and i’m very sorry #pol’s diary <3

[objectshow-enjoyer]

finally got around to watching the new one ep,, and well I had to

dumb little 10 min doodle

#hfjone spoilers #this is so dumb i’m sorry #also ik I’m not very good at drawing globes #hfjone #backpack hfjone #liam hfjone #one object show #I enjoy the little sillies #stone is the moon if it’s not clear #my art #digital art #object show #undescribed

[meathounding]

my beautiful wife who is a distant mother

#oh man ooo okay #family lore bc i’ve been thinking abt it for a while #whatever name i chose for glados i don’t remember #but anyways #i’m giving gleebo a sister doesn’t matter who she is bc she’s dead #anyways dead sister is mavs mother. died during childbirth yadda yadda #glados adopts him happily ever after #except it’s not bc she nvr wanted to be a mother in the first place so surprise surprise #she isn’t good at it at all #he isn’t her priority she just makes sure he doesn’t die #so mav is a very lonely emotionally neglected little boy #blah blah blah things happen she gets married to yours truly 🤭 #gy already exists 2 yrs earlier than mav (his mother is undisclosed until i figure all that out) #i’m realizing how terrible this is 😭😭 anyways ik i’d be a terrible father #bc i’m just not built for that life #similar circumstances to glados except this time the baby actually is mine #dead nameless wife #anyways we get married mav and gy are siblings in a complicated household and yea

[tonariofjananda]

Happy Birthday Mizuha!!! 4/6

(I’m a little late to the party sorry 💔)

#Mizuha #my art #fumetsu no anata e #to your eternity #to you the immortal #this is my first time drawing her face is it obvious lol #the Fnae eyes are so fun to draw and color in but especially the descendants bc I have to layer like 3 colors to get it juuuuust right #not that it translates super well when I take a picture on my phone so sorry for the quality but #I’m trying to prioritize having fun with art and boy did I have a lot of fun with this one #this honestly took a little while bc all I had was volume 14 #and I can’t even lie something about the way she behaves in that one made me feel a little sick so I couldn’t look at her for too long #not to mention there weren’t that many great shots I could use as reference so #I had to wait til I could swap for volume 13 and 15 with my boyfriend #worth the wait tbh she was VERY fun #anyway I’m just rambling at this point but I really liked this one little outfit she was wearing with the big collar #I think they’re called Peter Pan Collars or something like that not sure #and then the teeny tiny cardigan that she fit underneath it like how cute Mizuha. this is a fit she wanted to meet Hanna in lol #can’t wait to see this one in color tho cuz I just guessed on the dress #also ik the caption is referencing how she’s good at everything but this is supposed to be her like #a year after her disastrous birthday in the manga lol #ok I’m definitely rambling now byeeeeeeeeee!!!!

[dateko]

if me and gojo are both entp… who’s driving the plane..

#ik that makeup sex is crazy- I MEAN #uh… #minagojo is toxic but very fun #took way too long to confess to each other because we don’t know what boundaries are #married couple who is always fighting #lots of ‘i’m right’ ‘no i’m right’ ‘ok fine you’re right (i still think i’m right’ #hard time saying i love you #break ups are something we do for fun #clingy #very extremely loud household #laughing all the time arguing all the time #sometimes too independent for our own good #‘maybe we should see other people’ ‘it’s too much work trying to get to know someone again’ #✧˖°. mina speaking!

[tartppola]

twisted wonderland i think u twisted a bit too far in this one

#i say stuff #no bcs #what r they trying to imply #🤡🤡🤡 #cus at least the great seven’s villain crimes are typical disney villain crimes #where its not too big of a deal if they’re twisted in a good light #FROLLO THOUGH #his villain crimes r like crimes against humanity so like #so like eeeeee not really a big fan of how they’re trying to put frollo in a ‘this villain is actually a good guy all along’ #IK THIS IS IRONIC FOR SOMEONE WHO WENT INSANE OVER MCFUCKEN ROLLO FLAMME 😭😭😭 #ngl i was expecting them to do a nuanced take on notre dame #i hope they do a ‘OH this guy’s actually really bad’ with a disney villain #we’re still in the first phase out of five in this event so i’m like #holding on to a little bit of hope #very little hope 🥲 #i joked abt rollo being a contra-sebek #given how they went out of their way to give rolllo a voice actor #surely they’d have plans for him #SURELY… #ok rant done #oomf said that hopefully the gargoyle snitch to malleus on how actually the jester judge was bad and i think theyre right