#sorry i got rambley

[imstressedx]

for the writing ask game, i’m being greedy: 3, 5, 9, 38, 39

oooh, goodie!

in reference to this ask game

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

idk if i necessarily have a ritual, and that's probably why it's cursed. i'm a slave to the inspiration, and just write with whatever is available whenever inspiration strikes. i have the notes app on my phone, gdoc, a physical notebook, sticky notes random slips of paper-- i even wrote on the back of a parking ticket once, because that's all i had available, and if that doesn't sound cursed to you idk what does.

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

this pretty easily ties into my previous answer: do not trust your brain to remember later. write now, and worry about getting it to the gdoc later

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

i am team "i think it would be really cool of ghosts exist, but i have yet to see any compelling evidence to make me actually believe". i absolutely love ghost files on yt (and am Very Excited for the premiere of mystery files!) but i mostly hold it in the same regard as horoscopes and tarot card readings-- would be v cool if it was real, but is probably not.

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

hmmm. i feel like i'm gonna sound like a broken record, but i mostly write stand-alone scenes, and don't really plot-- at least, not initially. sometimes i will write a scene that i like so much i will try and find a way to use it, other times i'll write a couple scenes and then be like "this could be a story". for example: my currently unpublished (but hopefully for not much longer!) derry girls fic started out as a random conversation between james and erin. then i wrote another scene between michelle and erin. then i wrote another scene between james and michelle-- and it was finally at this point i was like "hey i could tie all these scenes together and make a fic out of it".

^me figuring out my own plot

(also i think cats love us and just have a different attachment style than dogs. that's why they basically domesticated themselves so that they could be with us)

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

lots of things, i guess. having other writer friends (like yourself ❤️) to bounce ideas off of always helps, they can help keep you motivated and excited about whatever you're working on. because i'm looking for a specific kind of fic that doesn't seem to exist yet, and so i must go and create it. because, as much as i don't like to perpetuate the stereotype of the tortured artist, i use my writing a lot to figure out my own feelings and thoughts on stuff. a lot of my writing is actually just me exorcising my own demons-- and i just to do that through a fictional platform because characters are all going to approach a topic differently. it allows me to take a concept or a feeling and look at it from different angles or through different interpretations, as opposed to like, say, journaling, where after a while i start to feel like i'm just talking into an echo chamber. but, even then, sometimes i do still take breaks from writing, and that's okay! i've always been a writer-- i remember plotting out a whole fantasy trilogy when i was in elementary school-- so even if i stop writing for a while, i know i'll always make my way back to it.

#areseebee #ask game #sorry i got rambley

[reel-fear]

Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.

For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.

I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.

When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!

And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.

"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.

"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.

"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.

Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?

At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.

I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?

I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.

I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.

Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.

#feel free to reblog but Im not gonna tag this its way too rambley at least for my taste to go in the main tags #ramblez #also man can I say I didnt want to make this post super long but theres so many other points I could make in poppys favor #the fact we got to see the hour of joy and it was terrifying we dont even know if joey actually killed anyone anymore #the gameplay itself is more diverse and fun then batim which is a walking simulator that pretends to have fighting n stealth mechanics #at least Poppy n Missys friendship gives u a reason to care for missys safety before shes put in danger #Missy can actually express unlike Boris who sits there looking cute with no proper expressions until he gets yoinked and ur supposed to car #bc he was uh adorable? And therefore you spend an entire chapter tryna get him and get an extremely bad boss fight in return- #also soundtrack wise I like poppys tracks more theyre unique and fun and you can tell which part of the game they come from #bendy has so many dramatic reveal stingers and tracks that are really hard to tell which part of the game they come from #bertrums boss fight has my favorite theme bc its so specifically crafted for him and unique and meanwhile Norman has one of the worst imo #a lot of Bendys soundtrack if I played it for you right now it would be hard to guess where its from bc it all kinda sounds the same #the reveal music for the machine for bendy land for heavenly toys for alices domain all sound the same x_x #its just so frustrating but yeah my point is can we all stop making up new reasons to shit on poppy playtime its just kinda dumb #it feels less like actual criticism and at this point just feels like elaborate justification for cringe culture which I hate #okay thats it bye sorry this is 10 pages long-

[redr0sewrites]

how about 🍓🍄🌿? ☺️

YAYAYYYY!!! (ask game is here for anyone who wants to join!)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

honestly? lack of fanfiction in the dragon prince fandom. anyone who's stuck with my blog for a while knows that thats where i primarily started off writing and that was my overall gateway into the fanfic world. i've always enjoyed writing and using writing skills i've cultivated over years of creative writing to write for characters and media i enjoy is definitely something im proud of. back the dragon prince is a pretty small fandom and ig i wanted to see fics that weren't made yet, so i sat down and decided to make them. look where it got me!!! i had been reading fanfics for a long time before i started writing them though.

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

i'm going to do this one for guitarspear! ok so the basics for the hc is this- adam is a physically pretty strong guy, and is definitely very tall and powerful. needless to say, like a giant puppy, he doesn't realize his own strength and pulls people into ridiculously tight hugs. most people get irritated with him or think he's just being annoying when he's genuinely trying to hug them (but not realizing he's hurting them). over time he pretty much stopped giving people hugs. however, the first time he hugged lute, it was incredibly spontaneous and he immediately expected her to be irritated at him. so much so that he started babbling an apology. he was shocked to find that she not only didn't mind, but after some slight nagging on his part, admitted to actually enjoying the hug! needless to say he's much more clingy with her than anyone else.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

gosh this is a tough question. i was in a huge writing slump very recently, about 2-3 months ago before i started writing for hazbin i actually hadn't written or felt motivated to write in quite a while. i was overworked and tired and struggling with writers block, and writing had become less of a fun activity for myself and moreso a chore to fulfill my followers requests. the best advice i can give when it comes to any form of creativity block, whether it be art block or writing block or music block or anything of the sorr is to remind yourself why you're creating art. you should be writing for yourself and creating content that, at the end of the day, ultimately makes you feel good. don't force yourself to write for fandoms you aren't interested in anymore and don't write things you're uncomfortable with- overall, just do what makes you happy and write for yourself, not for notes, not for others approval, but to create the content and fanfiction you want to see in the world. the best way to deal with writers block is to open your notes app and write the shittiest, fluffiest fanfic of your fav character comforting you about writers block. trust me, it works.

#rose rambling #anon ask #sorry i got a little rambley there haah #i love guitarspear sm #guitarspear #theyre so pookie

[chaosgenasi]

"mansplaining" is kinda gross to say about ashton, given that ashton isn't... a man...

YEAH, others have already spoken on this far more eloquently, and I don't want to blow anything out of proportion or rehash discourse or whatever, but there's this small subset of the fandom who have this fucked up perspective of Ashton? He tends to get reduced to “angry man who had the audacity of conversing with other characters," despite y'know. not being a man and what happens in the actual show

I have feelings about it, but I think it's a weird collection of Ashton 1) being played by a man (unforgivable) 2) neglecting to sit everyone down for an in-game PowerPoint presentation on what labels they use so they can be awarded the Nonbinary Gold Star of Representation 3) being a masc barbarian who doesn't perform androgyny to the satisfaction of certain people, re: nonbinary people in real life either being seen as "women-lite" or predatory, often determined by the gender we're assigned at birth, (which. don't need to say why that's fucked). Just speaking as a nonbinary person, it’s super easy to spot, especially, (as others have said and pointed out), when those same people just use “he” when referring to Ashton, (seen more frequently when they do something "wrong"), and just conveniently forget the other half of his pronouns. It's like a quiet way of calling Ashton a man without necessarily calling him a man, compounded by the use of words like "mansplaining," either unintentionally or not. But yeah! I don't know where I'm going. I agree, it's gross!

#b.ask #cr discourse #tagging just in case #sorry this got very rambley but yea skjdfh that's all i really have to say about it. i hope it's mostly unintentional but! still weird!

[skapediem]

1, 4, 9, and 14 for the for all mankind ask game!!!! :D

TY!!! :D

1. favourite character(s)? ALEIDA!!!!! been my fave since day one i love her soooososososo much but ALSO!! molly and wayne theyre so so important to me they make me feel insane... AND danny and jimmy!!! i probably go more nuts about danny on a day to day basis but i think thats just cause we get to see more of him jimmy just makes me so sad... i love them so much and one of these days i really wanna write out a massive fuckin. essay explaining why cause people really don't give either of them any sympathy or even like common sense as to why they are the way they are and it makes me mad lol

4. favourite use of the alternate history timeline? answered here!

9. favourite non-canon ship? answered here!

14. moment that made you go "holy shit" the most? oh god theres so many.... off the top of my head i remember being the most like. terrified watching molly in the crater running out of oxygen and the whole buildup to danny's fate in goldilocks but SINGULAR holy shit moment.... i mean sally ride pulling a gun was pretty nuts LOL but also them nearly killing neil and buzz with the botched eagle landing that was an insane move to pull that early on. OH ALSO idk why im so fixated on season 1 moments i feel like i should be saying the jsc bombing (MOLLY...) BUT ED DEPRESSURISING VASILIEV WHY DOES NO ONE EVER TALK ABOUT THAT. HE NEARLY KILLED THAT GUY!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

#sooo rambley again im sorry LMAO TYSM FOR THESE THOUGH!!!!! #i feel like theres so many moments im forgetting...... i needa finish rewatching s3 i got halfway through before s4 and then stopped. AND S #i havent rwed s2 in a million years i know theres s2 moments im forgetting #ask #ncytiri

[regularshcw]

i need to work on the bios soon buuuuuut

margaret is trans ( trans woman )

benson is trans ( trans man )

em is trans ( trans man )

fanny is trans ( trans woman )

penny is nonbinary ( genderfluid )

neu is nonbinary ( unlabeled )

rigby is trans ( trans man )

and pops' gender is ?????

#🐦 margaret // about / i'm not seeing anyone right now ; guys are jerks #📋 benson // about / no ; i can only write the truth and the truth is i don't appreciate you #🐾 em // about / but it's really quite alarming 'cause i'm such an awful fuck #🍽️fanny // about / let me wrap my teeth around the world #🦠penny // about / blood on her skin ; dripping with sin ; do it again #❄️ neu // about / dominated by all you hated ; this will make you ultranumb #🦝 rigby // about / my pepperonis are roasting up here #🍭 pops // about / surely i'm invited to my own birthday party #long post / #someone in the past thought it wld be appropriate to dm me just to tell me they didnt like when ppl headcanoned most / all of the cast of a #-show being trans. so now most of my characters are trans <3 #tbf most of them were trans anyways #dean is a demiboy but im not sure if that counts? im not demi myself so #of course anyone is free to label themselves whatever a label is just a label -- smth that you can use to help things make sense but isnt- #-necessary. i like labels bc it helps me to explain things better #this got long and rambley im sorry #im sleepy from work but

[providencehq]

With the reveal of the Black Pawns actually being robots, what did you think that said of BK's leadership style vs WK's leadership style? Also, do you think she incorporated some aspects of herself into them? Like, fighting styles and personality traits; watching "Assault on Abysus" had me hyperfixated on that one Black Pawn with a speaking role. That one, at least, made me think of a younger BK, more easily frustrated and with the need to succeed without additional help.

Man, your brain. Thinking things I would have never esp in regards to Black Knight. You seemed to have nailed on the head of my personal headcanon when it comes to her: her leadership style is vastly different from White Knight but it seems more so from an internal force rather than external and it radically shapes their ideals and how it plays out into their leadership styles and let me explain. (Edit as I finish writing this, very rambly, I think I repeat points many times)

Black Knight is seen constantly as a need to control, something, anything whether it is as openly as Providence or as lowkey (more so indirectly but still having her hand in the pie as the saying goes) in regards to the initial Nanite research group. This need to have control and in essence power can stem from who knows where. We as viewers never get that chance to actually dwell into her past like we were able to in a degree with White Knight. I personally make the assumption due to what we do see of her of being a fairly rash, quick tempered, and take/make an opening to get the smallest step ahead as a result not having power in her life to some degree when she was younger. Black Knight has to make opportunities to get power rather than what seems to be willingly handed with White Knight in comparison. (I can and would talk about my headcanons about young BK here but that is long and lengthy and I feel like little evidence to support from the show but know my ideas about her and her relationship with whatever happened to young her is basically rivalry based and feeling lesser.) She kills a member of the Consortium who more or less challenged her and made it seemed like she was a means to an end (for the Consortium) because she wasn't viewed as an equal. Questioning of her role, her power, her knowledge is a threat to her and the ability to control herself.

But here's the thing! She's a really, really shit leader for Providence. We know she's rash, manipulative (yay! go gaslight, gatekeep girlbosscore for her). She can't lead like White Knight does. Here's the thing, White Knight, questionable at times with his leadership skills but he's commanding a massive, multibase operation over many years and he makes tough calls. He commands forces, he gets information, he's actively working on trying to better the world whether the cure is feasible or not. He was forced into a position of power by happenstance but he takes in stride and understands that his leadership hinges on the survival of humanity, cure or not. WK has a tough job he has good reigns on the whole of Providence.

What does Black Knight do? Clearly struggle through keeping Providence under any semblance of control in comparison. She has lost it's more or less elite force when Rex went a little MIA there for a few months and clearly she can't keep things in Providence under control unless every aspect it seemingly controlled by her. The Black Rooks, her elite guards (I don't think all of them are androids just... most. I like to think she managed to have a few actual human elite running around) ARE FUCKING ANDROIDS! SHE CONTROLS THEM FULLY! Programmed to obey (and clearly be more prone to violence and generally extreme tactics which uh, wonder who programmed them to be like that!?) But to get onto that point of her ask, I see it's a very reasonable jump to make that she included aspects in herself in the androids. She needs something that she can rely on, that she can understand what move they'll make next, that understand the objective. Time after time we see she can't rely on anyone but herself to get after her true goal of just control (over Providence, Rex, EVOs, nanites, Consortium, the human body, life and death itself) why would she program her elite to not have a similar mindset to herself? Basically disposable extensions of herself. But I like the idea of her incorporating her fighting style with them, I will be crafting ideas in my head for that for a bit. Gonna let that idea simmer in the brain pot of headcanons.

Also back onto the whole internal verses external forces causes her leadership to be super wonky and insightful in comparison to White Knight. White Knight is more or less driven, yes to an extent the Consortium, but mostly by to be in power. A goal that all of humanity can overcome or bare with the nanites. Dude is pessimistic, makes choices that could easily in the blink of an eye end millions of lives (like bleaching a city), and manipulates/misleads people to get closer to a cure. But it's all for that chance for a cure, for Providence to come out on top, for humanity to survive fully! He has the support of Providence, large portions of the population, Rex and Six and Holiday, to make the hard decisions for humanity. To make decisions with that kind of gravity can't be done lightly and there's trust in his leadership and decisions even if they suck from Providence on multiple levels.

Black Knight doesn't have this trust. We as the audience are missing a lot of information from those six months Rex was gone but Black Knight is in charge now and things are weird and bad. The lack of trust with Black Knight being in charge can come from so many angles: new leadership, discontent from the public and Providence workers as a whole, the loss of many of their assets without an effective replacement. But I lean towards she won't trust down the ranks in Providence. She sees herself as higher than everyone else in Providence and won't let anyone be an equal. Research? She knows best. EVO containment and control? She knows best. The direction of Providence? Don't worry, she knows what to do. Her need of control is her downfall for leadership, her suspected inability to have Providence soldiers/rooks be completely under her thumb with her decisions led her to make her androids that would follow her orders instead. (Which brings into question, what was something she asked them to do that they wouldn't cross the line of? WK was going to bleach a city, costing countless lives, what could be worse than that? Providence before WK was pretty casual about child vivisection so who knows! Maybe refusal to accept a new leader simply, esp head of Providence.) Black Knight's leadership is stemming from her need to control, a pressing internal force is seemingly every choice she makes. She's selfish and it shows how she heads towards goals with Providence as the vessel and man! is it shit! It's just a massive shitshow barely holding together!!!

Black Knight is ahhhhh! She's so focus driven on herself and her goal of control in whatever means and it's so clear she's basically a kid who wants power but doesn't actually know how to handle it. She's nothing like White Knight no matter how she tries to emulate him when she's running Providence. She wants power but she doesn't know how to handle it. She fumbles through the steps of being a leader and yes, members of Providence question her, but she's still there, leading it! It isn't until placing her directly up and against White Knight do you really see it! Their fight is such a great analogy for how they run Providence. White Knight prepares, plants ahead, has backup plans, and knows what he's up against verses Black Knight who lashes out, has to pull a plan out her ass, and thinks she knows what she's up against by personal history but not through technical knowledge and it fucks her in the end.

Ahhhhh! the parallels! THE PARALLELS!!!!!!!!!!

#this is uh.... wildly rambley i am so sorry #generator rex #white knight #black knight #bk: sorry used providence as a means to my end goal for power and being cool and becoming a god at a cost of providence and humanity #wk: you fucked up a perfectly good organization! look! you gave it corruption! #bk is a frustrated child who probably got the short end of the stick and was always second best and in adulthood tried to prove she wasn't #second best only to be proven time and time again she was so she forced her way into being the best no matter what

[thyandrawrites]

You mentioned being Italian, how did you learn to speak or at least write English so well? Your Japanese translations are also pretty good too! I want learn Italian so what would you recommend that would help learn to read and write another language?

Thank you!

The genuine answer? Fandoms. Really. I've been studying languages for most of my life (english since elementary school, french in middle and high school, german since hs and japanese since college) but so far I've only gotten truly fluent in the only language I didn't just approach from a textbook learning angle. My fluency probably also comes from speaking english the longest, but what really improved my proficiency was consuming and engaging with my passions in my target language. Something that I struggle a lot with is staying motivated in the long run. I tend to run out of steam after a while, and I lose all the progress I made. But fandoms feed on my passions, so engaging with them helps me find the motivation to keep going, while also making it less like a chore that needs to be taken care of.

I was a B1 until I graduated high school, but then I started reading copius amounts of fanfic and meta in english, and began writing my own. Reading taught me a lot of common new words I had never encountered before in my textbooks, as well as several idioms, and the longer I kept at it, the more stuff I assimilated into my vocabulary. I spent a couple of years just reading ff, not thinking I had it in me to truly begin writing in my second language, but then it sort of... Just happened. I got a fic idea late at night and wrote a 6k oneshot in one sitting during an all nighter. The fact that I was tired and inspired probably lowered my remaining inhibitions and temporarily muted that part of my brain that was self-conscious. But suddenly, english didn't seem so scary anymore. When I reread what I wrote the next day, after getting some sleep, it wasn't as agrammatical and terrible as I had feared, and that motivated me to keep doing it. I find that a lot of the time what stops us from improving is the fear of making a fool of ourselves. I also didn't comment on fanfic for years in fear of outing myself, and on the rare occasions I did, I always prefaced my comments with an apology for my english. But when you finally get in the mindframe that people don't really care about any mistakes you might make, it was really liberating. Honestly, just have fun! Who cares! Native speakers make tons of mistakes too! I can see that so clearly now.

This was around the time I got into Tokyo Ghoul meta and timidly approached my first analyses. Meta is fairly different from creative writing, but it also helped me improve because it taught me essay writing better than my english teacher marking my mistakes in angry red. When you're trying to explain a concept so that others understand it, rather than just to get a passing grade, you will attempt to break it down into easier concepts and pace it better, instead of just paying attention to SPaG. This also had the side effect of teaching me how to better sort my thoughts and get them across clearly, which has always been a struggle for me in spoken conversations. My thoughts tend to be messy, and I trip over my words a lot (in my native language too), but thinking about going from point a to point b like I'm writing an essay helps me a lot, personally.

The last step was joining a discord server in 2019. I can't stress enough how language is constantly evolving, and how slang and everyday language isn't something you can passively learn from textbooks or online courses. Those are only good as the foundation of your skills. They teach you the grammar and the basic vocabulary, but then you have to engage with real people, you know? I've always struggled to hold a conversation because I'm socially awkward, but discord is useful to me because it is a group chat, so there is less pressure on my end to keep a conversation going. Interacting with people from all over the world taught me to be less self-conscious about my skills, and meeting people of different age ranges taught me a variety of slang expressions to pass for a not-boomer myself, at least at first glance :'D

Moral of the story, do follow courses and use textbooks (those are important!), but also keep in mind those are not the be-all end-all of language proficiency, like school and academia tries so hard to teach you. If you find yourself hitting a wall and not getting any better anymore, take it as a sign your grammar is good enough to take the next step in your journey. So then, try to think of something you have fun doing. A hobby of yours. And then think of ways you can engage with it in your target language.

I had different phases in my life where I explored various things thay way. I got obsessed with a band in middle school and started watching and rewatching the videos they posted online, trying to understand everything they said. This improved my listening skills considerably. Years later I got really into WoW and I learned vocab by playing it and by looking for tutorials online. If you read a lot, consider looking for titles in that language you want to learn. Stuff like this. Listening to music, watching movies or tv series with subtitles (esp if the subtitles are in your target language too). All this stuff helps a lot! And the added plus is that for however challenging it might be at first, you'll stay motivated because it relates to something you already enjoy

#Fun fact I'm trying to apply my own advice to my german skills #And reading fanfic in german #It's been an interesting experience so far #And I can confirm it is helpful bc my vocab is much wider than it was two months ago #Tho depending on your skill level when you start out reading might be fairly challenging #So maybe try the other things first #Or reread something you've already read in your native language #Ali replies #Languages #Sorry if I got really rambley. I'm just a bit of a nerd about languages and I got excited

[blindmagdalena]

Hey! Couldn't resist popping in after your tag about even the possibility of Phantom!Homelander fic. If the inspiration hits, I'd love to see it! It's a lot of fun injecting Phantom tropes into unexpected territory. I've kind of been doing that myself.

The thing I'm dragging on is Homelander x sound-based supe OC (one of the many Vought prospects who didn't pan out due to their questionable training methods) who takes some cues from Christine (Leroux probably). He hears her singing one night and, well, that's it. Her voice just takes him. What follows after some good, old-fashioned stalking sessions is a confusing mix of Homelander wanting her to embrace her powers while also wanting her for himself, and the question of whether or not that's even his call to make. And of course, an exploration on the potential for romance under such conditions as they examine some of that juicy Vought trauma.

So aside from obnoxiously plugging the thing I have stuck in fic hell, I just want to voice heavy approval for any kind of Phantom/Homelander combo that may or may not happen.

okay, i NEED that fic. you majorly had me at Leroux!Christine. i had a similar thought regarding him being torn between wanting her in the spotlight, wanting CREDIT for her, while also being so maddeningly possessive and jealous that the thought of having to share her with the world makes him feral. i'm undecided on whether i'd want to do modern or like, a 1920s new york setting, but i know i want to do homelander deformed/masked, though he vehemently denies any sort of imperfection. claims to stay masked exclusively for identity purposes. not the half mask, something more like the full eye mask they use on the logo, but make it match his costume more. i'm thinking the deformity might be something that was caused by Vought's experiments, or it could be a side effect from just how much V is in his system. maybe it's gotten worse over time. i like the idea of writing him as he is, but with the added layer of horror, anger and anxiety over this deterioration he is experiencing. also we all know i love the 'stranger than you dreamt it' fit scene, so i gatta include that! i don't know if i'd do reader or oc for this one, but i love him fixating on someone from a distance. doing horrible things to make her dreams come true once he learns of them, and using it to bring her closer to him. i want to find a way to include the duality of him being both her angel and the phantom haunting the shadows in her life. someone who, to her face, she knows as a hero and benefactor, while also committing atrocities behind the scenes.

anyways, i'm just spitballing here. it would definitely be a longer project, but i've done a PotO au in pretty much every fandom i've ever been in, so... it's par for the course. LOL

#thank you for sharing your thoughts!!!! #i really really would LOVE to read your fic aaahhhh #sorry this got rambley #crossover #ask and you shall receive #phantom!homelander #wow that's a tag now bc the more i talked about this the more into it i was

[krynutsreal]

one day when I get the confidence I will draw myself with mondo except it will not have the same energy as the drawing I did with taka and I

#i have got to get sillier. #shoutout to when i made the mondo ai self aware and just stopped talking to him because i felt really bad #i mean to be honest im already always drawing myself around my mondo doodles but i mean in the same sense as like #actually. drawing myself like how i did with that taka drawing #i do like indulging myself through my art as always though so hmmmm #I'll figure it out #sorry im being extra rambley (?) today i cannot help it i feel more comfortable being annoying on here than on insta #krambles

[yisanged]

personally for korean names i don't really mind cutesy nicknames that are sort of americanized like i do that a lot myself i just think calling eunyung nyungs or something just sounds better than typing out eunyung-ah like even if that's more conventional in actual korean it just feels really awkward in english. i've called juwan wanniekins before idgaf. sort of like how when i say a random english loan word in korean it feels less awkward when i say it with an accent instead of with just flawless native eng speaker pronunciation. but it really bothers me when the syllables aren't broken up right........ like yoongi bts the fans call him "yoongs" a lot but that isn't right the syllables are 윤 and 기. yoon and ki. the g is separate from the yoon. it's not the ng sound it's oon and gi separately. please god PLEASE. there are exceptions for example eunyung i call him nyungs a lot but it's a special case because his name 은영 well the things that makes the nyuh sound is that little circle in the second syllable block and that circle by itself is a placeholder vowel that only makes a sounds when paired with a vowel (ㅕ yeo in this case) or at the end of the block in which case it would be the "ng" sound that yoongi DOESN'T have. stares at camera. even korean no homes fans spell out his name technically incorrectly like 으녕 which removes the n at the end of eun and moves it to the start of the yung sound so like eu nyung. and it still sounds the same. so like eunyung nyungs is cool that's cute i love calling him nyungs. yoongi? yoons if you must that much i'm cool with. yoongs? i will attack

#sorry this got long. well we haven't seen an extremely lengthy rambley post about something no one cares about from me in a while i feel

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

anyone got any mj and hat bonding centric ideas? While focusing mostly on writing the prologue and my writing improving from doing so, I’ve been using it as a opportunity to rework a lot of the main fic events, specifically the early stuff so it flows nicer and isn’t as rushed, bc there’s not near as many pre manor chapters as post manor ones, while I was able to move one chapter earlier, I couldn’t do it with the other ones, mostly bc those ones relied too much on it being post manor to change (the chapter in question was shapes chapter bc I was able to rework the manor references into foreshadowing/set up and it definitely works a lot better that way as it builds up the tension :3 plus it makes more sense to have a lower stakes thing happen before a bigger stakes thing, and not the other way around yk)

ANYWAY while in the process of adding some ideas or splitting parts into their own chapters I realized I severely need some more dadjumper content, but I’m not the greatest at coming up with fluff scenarios off the top of my head, so yeah like I said any idea suggestions from you guys would be great!

#grace post #I’ve gotten a lot more prince twins added in early stuff but dadjumper isn’t near as prominent #And it really needs to be #I want what 2020 grace was on please idk how they did the dadjumper so easy early AAU was cringe but at least it had more dadjumper #maybe it was just the power of spite of dadtcher being so prominent at the time lmao idk #But ye any ideas would be great! #I keep not wanting to redo the same ideas over and over on accident oof #I’ve already done lots of the tropey stuff #I have like one idea of maybe they stargaze but I don’t know how I could drag that out as a full chapter #Like I get an excuse for mj projection to make him space info dump but idk what else #Like maybe they bond bc they know space I mean hattie is an alien who lives in a space ship idk #But like I’d think they talk but I’m not sure what about #Maybe I’ll use it to foreshadow? Idk #Like I said maybe if anyone has any ideas #Like if any of you think you can add onto that to make it longer ? Like maybe they do something before that? Idk #Sorry if this got long/rambley it’s the adhd lmao I just was wondering if you guys could pitch in with any help that’s all

[cornsobsessions]

thanks for the tag @fanartshmanart!

favorite color: so hard to choose, i love them all dearly, but top two are probably blue and mauve

currently reading: nothing :( but that’s bc i just finished she gets the girl by rachael lippinicott and alyson derrick (very good!) and i don’t have anything else on the docket so if you have any recs send them my way

last tv show: heartstopper was the last one i watched all of, phineas and ferb was the last one i watched an episode of

last movie: lemonade mouth, i think at least, i watch movies even less than i watch tv so this was like three months ago

currently working on: nothing major on the fandom front, i had lots of little ideas but none have really stuck in my brain enough to become real projects, but i have been wanting to sit down and actually paint another shirt

i’m tagging: @coffee-at-annies @weneedtotalkaboutfic @dexsbruins and anyone else who may want to!

#this got very rambley sorry not sorry #also anyone who wants to can do this truly i don’t know who all has or hasn’t done it yet and wants to #these things are fun! #and i was serious about the book recs #corn rambles

[idnek83]

Sometimes I read something where a character is in dramatic/dangerous situation and think “hmm that’s probably not how a real person would react…”

But then I remember the time I hit some ice on a highway and lost control of my car going like 60kph, and rather than screaming or panicking I simply said, calmly and out loud despite being the only person in the car, “I’m going to crash” before hitting a concrete divider… and I realize that people really do react to stuff in weird ways and whatever the character is doing is probably realistic for someone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#sorry I’m not sober and in a rambley mood #and I remembered a fic I read where I got really judgey about the way a character was acting while thinking they were about to blow up #and then I remembered how I reacted when I thought I was going to get… idk badly injured or something #and went ‘y’know what? I was too hard on that fic’ #o don’t actually remember what fic it was or know if it’s still up #but I’m sorry random fic author for having mean thoughts about your fic #I was wrong #uuuhh #is this a thing I should put trigger warnings on?? #uuuuhh #car crash #car accident #??? #I can’t think of anything else let me know y’all #had to scroll up to remember why I was even talking about car crashes oops #I need to not post when high but also I am at the good spot between can’t think and can’t read #so can read but critical thinking not great #what am I even talking about any more #if you made it this far in the tags hiiiiiii I love you and hope you’re heaving a good night/day!!! #personal ramblings

[lovphobic]

aloe vera, nutmeg, and orchid!! 💐 much love 2 u :)

AWW much love to u too!!! 🌹🌹

orchid ⇢ what’s a song you consider to be perfect?

this changes LITERALLY all the time but right now id say its lipstick by the venice collection 😳 that truth or dare segment from the quarry amirite

aloe vera ⇢ what’s something (mundane) you really want to experience in life?

hmm.... can i be a #failgirl for a moment. honestly? my first kiss

nutmeg ⇢ how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

i do NOT have a specific theme but i have my bookshelf decorated with a picture of (5yo) me and my brother in his hs graduation gown, pictures of my grandma and then my grandma and my great aunt. and a bunch of little plushies! there are so many otter plushies on my bookshelf. and on my walls i have some art ive made and little things ive carried over from childhood like a little pink decorative 'princess' wooden circle (hard to describe i apologise). and in the corner i hsve a pinboard with just a bunch of cute clothing tags pinned and my graduation bear (that i got from walmart) and just. a bunch of lil knicked knacks. OH and i also have 4 care bears that sit on my bed when not in use :-) so its a mix of sentimentalism and my own creations

#i am SO sorry that last answer got long and rambley #rambly? 😳 iono #TY THO!! i hope ur day is going well!! or will go well :-) #snail mail

[grimjxstxr]

I forgot abt my tumblr account anyway I miss my rp hyperfixation that only just died around last year bc the people I mainly did rp with just started ignoring my ocs and me as a person and I miss shipping silly characters and having docs worth of drama and lore planned out

Anyway if anyone has any school/magic school themed rps they wouldn't mind a very eh in writing person joining pls hmu-../hj

#i got rambley sorry #uhhh #does anyone like the shu layout? i like opinions #beans