#it's been sitting in my drafts for like. half a year

[thetomorrowshow]

Last Life as text posts in honor of s3 coming!!!

#last life smp #3rd life smp #this is another one of those i never posted lol #mcyt #it's been sitting in my drafts for like. half a year #i have. i have more #i cant wait to make even more with the new season coming up!! #idk what else to tag this as #the little loaf eating freak one is my favorite #i think it perfectly sums up their relationship circa session 6 #mas memes

[molinaskies]

The thing that bugs me about the many conflicts of interest that happen between sonic and shadow is that no one in the fandom seems to consider that the fact sonic was wrong doesn't mean shadow was right

This is such a good point. Say it louder for the people in the back!

Sonic and Shadow fundamentally butt heads because of how they both view their responsibilities to protect the world.

The most pointed example of this for me is the inciting incident in Sonic Prime. I’ve already said a while back that I think Shadow is equally to blame for shattering the crystal because he was the one who prevented Sonic from doing what he had to do. I got some pushback saying that Sonic was the instigator of Shadow’s aggression, but I have a hard time believing that when Shadow literally greeted Sonic with a punch. Yes, Sonic still made a lot of mistakes that I acknowledged in my original post, but Shadow immediately set the tone for that encounter and it was NOT positive. My point in bringing this up again is to say that they both fucked up, but Shadow, the show itself, and much of the viewers blame exclusively Sonic because Shadow somehow stole the moral highground.

More nuanced, however, is the discussion around Sonic’s moral code as presented in the IDW comics (which are canon to the mainline series, btw, if anyone didn’t know. They are the same picture).

In issue 7, Sonic and Shadow argue over whether Eggman should live freely as Mr. Tinker. Shadow states that Eggman deserves to pay for all the pain he’s put Sonic through (among the other harm he’s caused). While Sonic agrees, he hinges on the fact that Eggman isn’t around anymore. Sonic doesn’t want to punish Mr. Tinker because he doesn’t want to be an arbiter of justice.

Yes, Sonic was “wrong,” but was Shadow really right in this case? Everyone in-universe gets upset with Sonic for not knowing something he reasonably had no way of knowing (literally who tf would have predicted Starline? lol) but what they’re really upset with is the fact that Sonic didn’t mitigate the risk.

I really feel like you can’t ascribe moral boundaries to these things. One isn’t good while the other is bad and vice versa. It’s all shades of gray.

#anything underlined is a link to another related post! #it’s like a reward #I’m sorry this took so long to come out it’s been sitting in my drafts for like half a year because I died #I don’t remember exactly why this came up in the moment #I think there was general discussion around how babied shadow is as a character #but I really don’t remember #overall I still agree with this take #though I will note that I have not seen season 3 of sonic prime so I’m missing a large chunk of context #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic #shadow the hedgheog #sonic prime #idw sonic #sonic idw #idw shadow #molina asks #molinaskies

[rrrromeo]

some trc doodles cause i’m on my bullshit

#trc #the raven cycle #trc fanart #sam draws #these have been sitting in my drafts for like a year and a half so fuck it I’m posting em

[stopthatfool]

in top gun meta hell rn. what the fuck am i doing in top gun meta hell. i don't think i'm supposed to be thinking so hard about this movie. it's not designed for this.

#me debating the agency of Ice's character rn #“can Ice's character truly exist outside of maverick” technically yes.. but plot wise.. no. #me about ice: #“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?” #thinking about ice's “motives” like he's a fucking bond villain or something #my drafts are just full of half written ice essays about his “agency” #somewhere in my notebook it says “if mav left the navy ice would turn to ash” #my room is probably the messiest its been in two years and i'm sitting here trying to verbalize why Ice's career seemed so hinged on mav #TOP GUN META HELL! #top gun #iceman #tom iceman kazansky #maverick #stopthatfool goes crazy and explodes #seriously. im gonna explode. #sorry needed to get this out of my system

[arialebenthal]

it's you i'm haunting

a playlist for harrowhark, with cover art here by deidameias. and yes, there are nine songs on purpose xo

Funeral Bell by PHILDEL "oh, i could pray, but it won't stop you leaving."

Make it Holy by The Staves "i could make you want me, make you need me, make you mine; i could make it holy, make it special, make it right."

Cherry Wine - Live By Hozier "and it's worth it, it's divine, i have this some of the time"

Metaphor by The Crane Wives "i keep my closet free of skeletons 'cause i'm much better at digging graves, but i always dig up bones in your sympathy."

Surrender by Bear Attack! "you're fading off into the grey, i'm listening, i'm giving everything to save, but you're giving me nothing"

Becoming All Alone by Regina Spektor "when i heard god call out my name, and he said, 'hey, let's grab a beer, it's awful late, we're both right here,' ... and i said 'why doesn't it get better with time?'"

Wretched by Bartees Strange "i need you back in my system... my life feels wrong without you. i can't be here lost and abandoned... i said to god what i said."

My Ego Dies At The End by Jensen McRae "i lost the girl i was over a winter... i could not cry for it, sank down to search the bottom of the river. leave my body and the water early, tried baptism but it felt like burning -"

Nine by Sleeping At Last "i have been sleepwalking since i was fourteen. still, i check my vital signs - choked up, i realize i've been less than half myself for more than half my life... but i'm just trying to find myself through someone else's eyes."

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #tlt harrow #locked tomb playlist #tlt playlist #griddlehark #my post #this has been sitting in my drafts for almost a year bc tumblr deleted like half my annotations while i was writing it last time and i got- #so frustrated i put it away and forgot to come back to it LMAO #anyways. i'm still very pleased with this playlist and i hope you all like it too xxx

[autisticlancemcclain]

y’all i have the best fic i’ve written in MONTHS i’m so so excited about it

#the first half has been sitting in my drafts for like half a year i’m so pumped to have finally finished it #please enjoy

[grasslandgirl]

guys savfic posted on ao3. manifest with me.

#i want it to HAPPEN #ive got one draft of a longer thing that ivebeen working on for. a year and a half ish that needs another pass or two and then its postable #and then ive been wanting to cross post my gore zine fics !!!!! #but my brain is like noooooo u dont wanna ao3 formatttt booo #so. hopefully. maybe tmrw. please bully me #anyway jamie sitting next to me on the couch reading my fic. love and joy on planet earth everything is wonderful

[lesbianadammilligan]

I made sure all the angels and prophets burnished His image on earth: the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-caring God.

#this has just been sitting in my drafts with no caption for like a year and a half for no reason #don't even remember what i was going to do with it #may as well post it! #michael #michael spn #spn #*gifs

[antstarion]

cough. starting to realise i really dont care about my dissertation. scared

#i was supposed to submit a draft before monday but like uh its just not done #been sick and still sick but it needs to be done #usually the panic would have set in by now and i would be able to force myself to sit and do it but. i am just sat here #i wrote about 100 words and i need to write at least 600 more (and actually fix my fucking algorithm but we dont talk about that) #but alas i dont care. I will care tomorrow (sunday) OR AT LEAST I HOPE SJDLFHSDKFJSDK #i think the one of the shittiest symptoms of my various Brain things is the lack of motivation #Because there are so many things i want to do but i simply cant do them #i was getting 90%-100% in EVERYTHING at uni until half way through my second year when i had a psychotic episode #now i average about 60% #this isnt bad and i will get my degree #but its not really what i went to university to do #anyways maybe if i wrote as many sentences as tags on this post i might finish my disseration tonight

[sofflepoffle]

A Jon with many eyes, inspired by Resigned, Though Not to Fate by @jevonne This fic has stolen my soul. I loved the spine chilling imagery of the many many eyes so much I just had to draw it

#hi I drew this like. a year and a half ago ;—; #and this has been sitting in my drafts unposted that whole time #uh. I got nothing #but this fic was sooooo fucking good #is terrifying. and beautiful #and drawing this Job was so fun I loved it #anyways I hope you enjoyyyyy #tma #jonathan sims

[im-still-watching-anime]

reading my drafts like damn this is so good i should really finish it and post it as i am actively closing the window

#this blogs drafted posts #the fanfics i have been working on for literal years #you name it #brain is convinced they are the best things i have ever made but REFUSES to work on them smh #i reread my in progress fics all the time because i like them so much and STILL take zero action #like id have to relook at some of my published stuff but im fairly certain that at LEAST my top three of my own fics are unfinished #just rotting away in my drafts smh #can always tell how much i like one of them by how many different versions i have saved #or if they have outlines #i’ll outline for eight years before i write three words #have a bsd fic that has been like 500 words away from being finished for half a year that bothers me every day #and im still NOT working on it #i know this is a common problem and lots of people struggle with it but GOD i really do feel dumb about it lol #like babe just sit down and finish the things if you want them done so badly #i was rereading a few of my wips this week to try and spur myself into writing but just ended up annoying myself lol #and then i nearly doubled the drafts i have for this blog with half written posts #so i just had to complain about myself for a hot minute don’t mind me rip

[races-stupid-cigar]

Davey: don't worry Les Spot doesn't bite

Race: well he sure did last night but ok

#Newsies #Sprace #Racetrack Higgins #Spot conlon #Not tagging Davey don't want to clog up his tag #This has been sitting in my drafts for like half a year

[mxshapes]

I think I'm hilarious

#макс фрай #Мелифаро #лонли локли #max frei #fanart #this has been sitting in my drafts for like half a year and i still kinda hate it

[bushelofmuses]

I was listening to Killer in the Mirror by Set it Off and it made me think of this. Not the lyrics so much as the title but...

So uh, Dirthamen, Deceit, and Fear chilling out and ready to escape the damn prison Fen’Harel locked him in bc of his war crimes.

#dragon age #dirthamen #dragon age dirthamen #outofink #mine #edit #since dirthamen is sometimes called falondins reflection #this has been sitting in my drafts for like a year and a half #took me a few hours to edit it then #was so damn tedious but worth it

[shatteredfears-arch]

i had a red bull for serotonin boost bc my pill serotonin isnt giving me the happy its supposed to and suddenly its 8 pm and ive had a long insta story abt why p/amela i/sley deserves a new and better girlfriend whos also an ecote/rrorist and my drawing pads sitting open on my lap

there is nothing on my drawing pad

#out. #thank u jessie for the message btw id reply now but mobile n no spoons for computer #upside i have build a b/ear on tuesday and i hope they have t/eddiursa #tbf ANY eeveelution is also good but my primary reason for going is they nust released t/eddiursa and #idk his anniversary is the 17th so #even tho boobear looked more like a lillipup #i doubt lillipup will ever get a bear and he was named after t/eddiursa #so a teddiursa named teddy feels appropriate #will i cry??? probably #has it been 6 years? yes #does that also mean loki is now 6 years old bc she came jome 7 days later? yes #teddy will come back to me i just wish i had a recording of his bark or smthn #anyways i was gonna do more starters and i have a ton drafted #but my dumb body said ‘no period for a year and a half???? herez bleeding after u sprained ur ligament’ #ALSO i got the after visit summary and it said they couldnt figure out whay was wrong #yet she wants mE TO SIT AT WORK FOR 4-8 WEEKS #i aM AUTIE AND ADHD DO THEY KNOW HOW BORING THAY IS #i overexerted myself today tho so lol #w my pain tolerance tho the fact im in pain and end up havign to sit is just wild to me #like???? am confusion

[dduane]

Do you have any recommendations on what to do when you can’t write?

I’ve been struggling to write for years, but telling stories is all I want to do. I have ideas and plots and characters all figured out! But actually getting the words onto paper? I just can’t do it. There’s a mental block or something getting in the way.

I want to write, I so badly do. I want to tell my stories! But no matter how hard I try, no matter how much I love the story, the words never work properly. I can day dream scenes up perfectly, but as soon as I’m near paper the words all vanish.

I guess what I’m actually asking is: how did you defeat the blank page?

Well, first of all, I can confidently tell you that your storytelling per se is working just fine. You just told me a perfectly cogent story right there, in writing. So that's good to know.

Now let me put your mind a little at rest by telling you something reassuring about the Writer's Brain:

It's not the sharpest knife in the block, if you take my meaning. It can be tricked. It can be fooled. It can be bamboozled into working when it doesn't want to... sometimes with embarrassing ease. (And this approach is, by and large, far preferable to sitting around over-analyzing one's interior life to figure out what went wrong with your developmental process somewhere in the dim lost past. Just hornswoggle the silly thing into working and then do the analysis later, if you can be bothered.)

Sometimes just changing something basic in the process the Writer's Brain is expecting is enough to make it lose the plot (so to speak...) and let you get on with work. And in your case I'd say, more or less immediately: Have you tried telling the story to yourself out loud, recording it, and then transcribing the recording?

Because this problem is a commonplace among storytellers. Sit them down in the pub and give them tea or a drink and start them going, and you'll get half an effortless hour of hilarious prose about What The Cat Did In The Middle Of The Night or When The Neighbors Were Fighting In The Street Again Yesterday. But show them blank paper, or an empty screen, and (now that the pressure to perform is suddenly in place) they freeze.

So try doing an end run around your writing brain. Borrow or otherwise procure a little recorder of some kind. (Or if you've got a smartphone, add a voice recording app to it.) Go get comfortable somewhere and get yourself into that daydream state, and then—making sure the recorder's on—start talking.

It doesn't have to be perfect unblemished prose. The pursuit of that comes later, after draft zero-minus-one. Just tell the story... or some of it. Or a fragment of it. Even a few paragraphs is a triumph, in a situation like this. You may, during the recording, have to talk yourself into the story stage by starting out talking about something else first. Let that happen.

Then when you're done recording, listen to it and transcribe it (typed or handwritten, as you please).

And maybe a day later, do this again. And a day or two later, once more. And so forth.

You're going to have to keep at this, because your Writer's Brain may start suspecting what you're up to, and try throwing spanners into the works. (Its favorite being "Oh, this isn't working, I may as well give up..." Pay no attention to that nagging little voice behind the curtain. Just keep doing what you're doing. Persistence is a superpower.)

The thing to keep reminding yourself, as you settle into this process, is that sooner or later the WB's resistance is going to flag, because you really do want to tell stories. It does too. What you have to teach it is that—to coin a phrase—resistance is useless. :)

Anyway: give this a try. You'll need to be doing this daily for at least a couple of months to find out whether it works or not. So let me know how it goes.

(BTW: once you've broken through the barrier, you may well find that dictation is a good routine way for you to generate your first draft. At that point—should you feel inclined to go a little higher-tech than recording and hand transcription—let me recommend Dragon Anywhere. This is a month-to-month subscription version of Dragon's flagship text to speech program—the one @petermorwood and I got Terry Pratchett to use when he started having difficulty typing. I use Anywhere a lot, on days when it's easier to write stretched out or lying down than it is sitting up. It transcribes what you say, and then you can just email it to yourself and cut-and-paste it into your writing document. Very handy.)

Hope this helps!

#writing #writing advice #the Writer's Brain #storytelling