#typing away on my keyboard

[quenchiestcactusjuice99]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. okay done

#back to work clickity clack #typing away on my keyboard #making mock interview questions that i have to answer tomorrow in front of a real live person #kill me. or put me in stasis so i can watch house md indefinitely to calm down

[syntia13treeman]

Case files 02.01

what I think happened in:

Case 02.01, the case of "Portrait of Daria Gray" or "The artist becomes the canvas."

Daria's story is pretty straightforward. What we know about Daria: she's a struggling left-handed artist who used to wear a lot of hand-me-down clothes from her sister, and she doesn't like the way she looks. At some point she decides to get a bit of a makeover and, among more mundane things, she starts shopping for a new tattoo. She finds a deal too good to be true (it is) offered by one 'Ink5oul'.

Ink5oul is sketchy as hell, and definitely has something supernatural going on. The tattoo they gives Daria (with no input from her, WTF! - paintbrush, floral patterns and glittering symbols) hurts much more than it should, but also heals almost instantly.

Looking at the tattoo (which is 'perfect') fills Daria with sudden desire to paint an autoportrait (which comes out 'perfect'). And once that is done, looking at it again makes her realize she can adjust herself (and make herself perfect).

So she takes her painting tools, most notably a pallet knife, right to her own face (and soon pretty much every other body part) and gives herself an impromptu plastic surgery. Which goes on uninterrupted for several days (???!?!!?!) until her room-mate Sarah comes home. Poor Sarah walks in on Daria while she has a knife stuck in her jaw, understandably freaks out and punches Daria, at which point half of Daria's face collapses under her hand like putty.

Having no idea that her room-mate has been touched by the spooky, Sarah comes up with the only rational explanation she can think of, which is that Daria poured some acid on her own face (which is very comic-book logic, but maybe Sarah paid more attention to Batman than chemistry and biology class as a teen).

So now Daria has severely disfigured face, and also is officially considered suicidal and a danger to herself and must go to therapy. (Honestly, she needs therapy).

There are two things, aside from the obvious, that grabbed my attention here:

The voice. Narration in the first case was that of a pretty normal email - a little bit rambly, a little bit disjointed, referencing things that the recipient would know about that we can only infer. The second case had a perfectly average forum thread. This case... also starts out with pretty realistic voice - right until the moment Daria stats talking about the tattoo. Then suddenly this story gets ridiculously verbose. The way she describes the studio, the tattooing process, the tattoo itself, the painting process and finally the 'adjustments' - the details, the wording - there's no way a regular person talks that way. Not in real time, not about a traumatic event that they very much don't want to talk about at all. So where is this coming from? I think it's the ink. Until proven otherwise, I'm going to assume that Ink5soul's tattoo somehow infused Daria with power to 'express herself' perfectly in whatever medium she's using - be it words, paint, or her own flesh.

Invasion of privacy issues all over the place. First Daria's tattooing session is streamed for who knows how many Ink5oul's fans without her say-so, and then her be-damned therapy session gets intercepted by some weird basement government branch. Daria glosses over the former and doesn't know about the latter, but they are there. And there was that private email in case of 'Not-Arthur' too. I wonder how present this theme will be in rest of the show. One thing I can bet on: if one of the cases doesn't deal with a conspiracy theorist yelling about government spying on them, I'm gonna eat my hat. (And the poor paranoid guy will be 100% right, just not in the way they think).

#the magnus protocol #tmagp 02 #tmagp case files #tmagp case 02.01 #Daria Gray #(not her actual name but I'm going to nickname there that for now) #Ink5oul #that little rat bastard #also #I was away from my PC last two days and I TRIED writing this from my phone #and I absolutely could not do that #how on earth do some people manage to write whole damn essays and fanfics from their phones #HOW #how do you type and edit without mouse and keyboard #are you wizards? #I fear you and salute you #ep. written by Alexander J. Newall #ep. written by A.J.N+J.S.

[fruitybashir]

The Holidate (Spet me k tebi vleče)

Relationships: Bojan Cvjetićanin/Kris Guštin, background Nace Jordan/Jan Peteh

Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Enemies to Lovers, Getting Together, Eventual Happy Ending, Slow Burn

Warnings: No Warnings

Rated: Explicit for future chapters

Excerpt:

“I could be your holidate.” Bojan says then and Kris pauses. He turns to look at Bojan, who keeps his eyes fixed on the ceiling.

“My what?”

“Your holidate.” Bojan repeats. “Your Holiday Date.”

“I'm not going to date you, Bojan.” Kris deadpans.

Bojan finally turns his head to him and rolls his eyes “It's not a real date date, it's like-” He waves his hands. “Like a date, but no strings attached and only for the holiday, to have someone to show off to your family and stuff.” Kris blinks. Bojan shrugs. “I saw it in a movie once.”

Read it here!

#once more but this time with feeling! #doing this post again bc now this url is old enough that it will actually show up in the tags haha #joker out #bojan cvjetićanin #kris guštin #bokris #also because the first chapter got such an OVERWHELMING response (to me) that i just. did not expect at ALL #im blown away #so im promoting it again while im typing away on chapter 2 rn #my fingers are going clickyty clack on the keyboard at the speed of light #new chapter

[beforeyougo-turnthebiglightoff]

they can invent like everything why cant they make something that makes my phone float in midair so i can type with an actual keyboard while looking at my screen in bed

#like if i use my laptop itll overheat so i have to use my phone but typing on my ohone keyboard is like medieval torture #i need my phone floating midair abt 20cm away from my face so i can see and a keyboard on my chest so my arms stay warm #BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK CHARLI XCX I LOVE YOU I COULD DO BETTER THAN GEORGE #(i can NOT) #blah blah! #not 75 stuff

[captorations]

i understand why and how it happened but that era where people were trying to teach kids to use keyboards in the same rigid, methodical way that adults had to learn it as it became more commonplace was. so fucking bizarre. like those stupid quizzes and games and timed typing challenges, where if you deviated even slightly from the Correct Hand Position and Which Fingers Can Touch Which Key you were considered to be failing even if it had the same effect. to anyone even slightly older or younger i probably sound insane but i assure you this was a thing

#and now i have a completely unique to me but also probably very average typing style #slightly-clawed hands sort of hovering over the keyboard #primarily using both middle fingers but others if convenient #even swapping off roles fluidly so if one hand is too far away the other fills in automatically #hell. i can swap to one-handed typing to do something and then back without missing a beat #and sure it ain't lightspeed but i type plenty fast #however. if i tried to do this consciously i would end up tying my fingers in a knot #it's all instinct and muscle memory #and teaching it to someone else? forget it

[honeyboyfelix]

*has a mental breakdown because my keyboard leds wont turn on and i am unable to see the letters on my keyboard* i am so chill and normal 🥰

#typing this with my face 0.5 inches away from the keyboard caUSE I CANT FUCKING SEE #also before anyone says anything i did take typing classes is school #but my hand eye coordinating is worse than a goldfishes and my hands are so small i can barely reach half the keys #and also i googled and pressed every button on my keyboard amd unplugged it and reset my computer #and the leds WORK! because they briefly turned on when i unplugged it and replugged it #idk whats its fucking problem is #i can barely type while i am looking at the keys this is fucking awful

[eddis-not-eeddis]

I cannot under any circumstances romanize Korean words. My brain refuses to do it. I keep making weird Hangeul/English abominations. chonchon히, bonjyo가 etc. etc. It completely short circuits my brain and I suddenly can't type in either English or Korean.

#i have been trying to transpose a song for the golden princess #but it broke my brain so hard i had to walk away from my keyboard for five minutes just so i could type this post out #XD

[confetti-critter]

The night is young and I am free to do whatever my heart desires but unfortunately I have once again found myself trapped in the Time Prison and so I

#the good old 'I don't feel like doing anything including doing nothing and I want to go to bed but I know I'm not tired' #WEH. #I'm enjoying typing but I don't want to commit to practicing typing for real so I'm just making excuses to type more #I was looking at custom ESC keycaps because I was thinking about that whole community of ppl obsessed with keyboards and like I get it I #like the clicky clacking and keyboards can look so pretty but some of those key caps man wtf. #why would you want 3D transparent donald duck ESC key from temu what is wrong with you #saw a set of key caps that were little kittys with little kitty ears n I was like fuuuuuuuuuck #49.00 USD probably 100000 CAD+shipping goto helllll #I was thinking about what if I had like confetti keycaps and a custom kittycake esc key or like an actual little cake and matching desk mat #or even just a new cute mousepad cuz mine is old as fuck and I spilled vegetable cream stew on it once #and then I was thinking like sighhh and wouldn't it be cool to have arcade carpet on the stairs leading down to my basement hovel and #rainbow lights along the ceiling corners and what if I painting my bedroom like I wanted to do and sighhhhh #I haven't been wasting my money buying shit like that but I'm thinking about it again. #but the same thing stopping me from doing anything at all is stopping me from wasting my money which like that's good I guess??????? #gosh I really like typing why did I stop doing daily typing practice #oh yea The Thing Stopping Me From Doing Anything At All #meow meowm meow meow meow #ok I really gotta tear myself away from my computer and brush my teethses and try going to bed #I already played minecraft earlier it's fine I didn't do NOTHING tonight it just feels like I did #and tomorrow is another day #and next week is a short work week thank fucking christ almighty #literally cuz its easter sunday and he was in that tomb but he escaped or whatever he did #thanks jeezy boy #you maybe shoulda milked it for like half a week at least #moved the big ass boulder like have an inch at a time #*pause for laughter* #that s from my new stand up comedy routine do uiuop like it djfskll;askjdgflksjdflksajdflksjdf the dsjalkjfolidasfgjoiweljsdalkjflskdjflak #meowww #I am the only one I know on here who 'talks' this fucking much about absolutely nothing #I do all this and my poor followers can click read more and spend time reading alllllll this garbage

[afaramir]

i just understood something about denethor’s second-best complex and it's that when you have always been the second choice you either develop awful internalized self loathing or you become filled with bitter resentment against the entire world forever and ever. and he is so much the second option (lol. that was unintentional) that it physically pains me. he is just. his pride. his pride is so towering that i think the only possible interpretation is that he thinks that no one who has ever relegated him to second-best has ever understood him or his purpose or, later on in his life, his destined position to lead gondor into war. it only strengthens his resolve, not weakens it, but it festers long and deep and bitter.

it's not like he wants to BE anyone he's been compared to. he is exactly who he is and he is born and made and honed to the edge of the purpose he is facing. and the tragedy of it is that he has become less of himself, in meeting that need. to sharpen himself to a blade has meant carving away parts of himself too dear to survive. hey what's up with that. better to burn sooner than later for burn we must. better to make myself into a weapon rather than have the war take my softness from me. not understanding, blinded by pride and the desperate need for any sort of agency, that the end result will always be the same.

it could have been understanding, between him and faramir - to be someone who is not naturally suited to the times that they live in but going on, despite it. but instead he just recreates the cycle. because he is second-best again - to gandalf, to faramir's moral code - and he thinks you are most like me - how dare you not understand. there’s jealousy and resentment in saying that faramir wants to be a lord of old kingly wise gentle etc. because maybe once he wanted that, too, yet could not allow it for himself anymore. he is the only one that can be who he is, what he is, and so he has no other choice. doomed by his own self-image but like...is he wrong? augh.

#.txt #denethorposting at my desk in this zoom meeting ✌️ #like i wrote 90% of this typing on my work keyboard on my phone. thank you multi device bluetooth connect<3 #you can put the denethor girl in corporate but. or something #anyway. im home now and still feeling crazy</3 #denethorposting #i had that revelation about carving away parts of himself IN REAL TIME btw.

[the-final-sif]

anyways my secret toxic trait is despite being a huge proponent of open source software I actually believe in my heart of hearts that windows phones fucked and i miss them. i had a windows phone with a slide out keyboard and it was the best phone ive ever had, the total lack of software be damned. the UI was amazing, tiles were so good and easy to use, give me back my hard edges and sharpness and my physical keyboard i miss them so much.

#sif speaks #listen I love andriod #but as someone who actually had a windows phone #they were better #like the lack of apps totally sucked #but the ui was so fucking good #like okay the way it worked was you had like tiles and you could make folders and stuf #and instead of this left to right homescreen nonsense it was up and down which was a lot more natural #and the tiles could be big! or small! or in folders! #it was so nice and easy to customize! #and then if you swiped left or right you just got a alphabetical list of all your apps #which was super easy to navigate #also god I would stab someone for physical slide out keyboards to come back into fashion #like #I hate the constant phsyical keyboard thats blackberry style #those look dumb and are too small #but slide out physical keyboards are So Extremely Good #it doesn't take away from the screen at all and makes typing so much easier and felt so good #i could write novels for days on my physical keyboard #anyways ive been thinking about her (lq quantum windows phone) today #maybe ill see if anyone has made a recreation of the windows ui for andriod yet #and then when I need a new phone eventually I can see if sliding keyboards have finally been understood as ideal

[bitegore]

my bedroom specifically is like a rube goldberg machine designed to cause me physical pain.

#red rambles #my desk is so high my computer is at eye level with me. this is the only comfortable chair in the house but it is also abnormally low. #(when i say the only comfortable chair in the house i am not exaggerating.) #therefore i have to sit on my feet in an uncomfortable way that aggravates the stupid ankle thing i picked up last summer anyway #typing on this keyboard aggravates every problem i have with my hands because my desk is fucking eye level with me #despite me having three (3) lamps the room is insanely dim because there are no normal lights. this gives me migraines #its cold in here. i hate the cold. and also there is the issue of the fucking mold #which im pretty sure is contributing #and any time i look away from my screen i get lightbulb directly to the eyeballs because to the left is one naked bulb and to the right is #the other naked bulb and then behind me! is the fucking third naked bulbk #its still so dim i cannot read papers without getting a headache.

[livv-watkins]

“Byler will be Murray’d” “Byler will be Dustin’d” “Byler will be Jonathan’d” so on and so forth.

WHAT ABOUT A GROUP INTERVENTION??

Something happens (a fight or an almost kiss, whatever you prefer) with Byler and there’s so much tension between them while the whole group is planning. Eventually they leave and Lucas and Dustin point it out first, asking if “anyone else felt that? The electricity?” Steve catches on, then Robin, then they explain a bit more in detail to the rest of them.

Then there’s Murray and Jonathan to the side being like “didn’t we already know this?”

#byler #Byler group intervention #Byler gets murray’d #Byler gets dustin’d #byler gets jonathan’d #Robin felt it with her gaydar from a mile away #my keyboard just autocorrected mile to Mike HELP #IT SUGGESTED M!LEVEN WHEN I TYPED MILE STOP

[todayisafridaynight]

*kicks a ball through your window and runs away giggling*

HELLO?

#snap chats #jesus fucking shit i almost type da bunch of nihongo nonsense in these tags i forgot to switch my keyboard #anyway HELLO? #is this bout my Masato Trans Momence post the other day #unless you just felt like committed acts of violence then yk what i cant be mad i like a lil violence here and there #BUT BRO MY WINDOW #/MY CLOTHES/ you guys ever watch Red Sun #my god my favorite western movie it's cowboys x samurai it's the best shit #in that movie the cowboy steals the samurai's clothes while he's bathing and i can't remember why #OH I REMEMBER its because- ok so the plot is that the samurai came to america with Other Japanese Men #and they were supposed to meet the president and gift him a sword right #well cowboy's bitch ass ''''''partner''''''' kills the samurai's kyodai and steals the sword #and so the cowboy gets crossed by his partner so now the samurai and him have to team #and they only got a week or else samurai's gotta commit seppuku since Great Dishonor for lettin this sword get away right #BUT YEAH HE STEALS HIS CLOTHES cause samurai's just been talkin bout murderin cowboy's partner #and cowboy obvi like Hey.... Dont Do That..... #and so while samurai's in the cold he takes his clothes and makes him promise not to kill him #sorry my tag turned into a summary of Red Sun but i love that movie #we need more cowboy x samurai media me thinks.... #I FORGOT THE OG PRUPOSE OF THIS POST if yo WERE refing that post anon uhhhhhh OOPS SORRY #i was so appalled by a ball flying through my window on the fifth floor that i completely forgot #ill make a follow up if you follow up. because im very stupid #and ended up talking about red sun 💀💀

[beefstrugglenoff]

I really need to work on my composition. Like i know good comp when i see it but it's so hardt to focus on mentally zooming out with enough clarity to sketch in it. Almost envious of artists that have a good grasp of it but ik it's just a wee bit lacking bc it's easier to enjoy it by looking at it than by doing it, because im bad at it. xx i dont have a point i was tryiong to make i dont think. just typing.

#owning a nice mechanical keyboard will have you simply typing away for no other reason. #i remember my dad once saying that i was 'good at all the things i do' and i didnt have the heart to tell him it was because i dont do - #things im bad at LOL

[tonguetiedraven]

This is more a question for everyone, but what do you like to do while writing? Is it grabbing a quick snack or eating a whole dinner? Laying in bed or sitting at a desk? Listening to music or do you prefer to have a quiet work space? (Of course, don't stay limited to the questions I asked, just say what you like doing most.)

I polled my writer friends (from the aoex writers server), and the consensus seemed to be yes to music, but everyone has a specific sort of music they like to listen to (some even having specific playlist for specific scenes/fics) while a few preferred calm and quiet with just a few ambiet noises.

Desks won as the preference, but beds and late nights were also quite popular.

Snacks were not generally used (too distracting) but sometimes enjoyed for refulling to get that final burst of energy for a scene or used post writing as a kind of reward.

It did seem like writing late in the day was the general preference.

As for my own preference, I will do quite literally anything while writing. Eat, walk, sit, lay, crochet/knit/weave (yay for voice to text, lol). I even have an exercise bike for really wet days that I'll type on (can't do it on a real bike or I'll crash, lol.) I don't tend to do it a lot while I'm eating a full meal because messy fingers or easy spillage do not go well with keyboards or phone screens. (Sometimes I get an idea and will frantically try and scribble it out on a napkin.) However, I'll totally snack or drink (tea for the win!) while writing.

If I'm laying in a bed, then I'll use my phone (I don't like to use laptops on beds unless I have something under them because blankets/sheets/pillows can all make laptops overheat) and I will usually only write on my bed later at night after I've wound down and found myself hit with a sudden idea I know I won't remember in the morning. I don't have a desk at my house (funnily enough), and I have a laptop, so most of my writing is done in my living room. Sometimes I'll use my dining table for writing or drawing.

I struggle hard writing in silence. I like to use music (lofi or scores), but most of the time I have some YouTube videos playing while I'm typing. Some times they're lets plays, sometimes they're video essays (typically literary analysis, scary game or scary movie analysis), sometimes they're crafting videos, and sometimes they're funny video compilations. Sometimes I'll even watch something that goes with what I'm writing, but mostly they're more random than that, lol.

I also tend to have two or three wips open at a time when I'm writing so I don't feel pressured to stick to one story if the words won't come for whatever I started with. I don't typically edit as I go--unless it's a big misspelling--because that always takes me out of a creative headspace. When I do edit, I usually do a read over in the doc, and then another read over on ao3 because the different layout makes it easier to see my goofs. (I still miss a lot because beta reading is not my strength xD )

I like to use different doc and font colors when I write, because it makes it easier to pick my docs out in google, and the colors make me feel more creative. Plus, weirdly, the unique color palettes help me get in the headspace for certain stories more easily.

Hope that answers your questions ^^ let me know if you have any more <3

#writing #my favorite is typing away on stormy nights while something a little spooky is playing #and i really don't know why #tea will always be my go to beverage #pringle #popcorn #and carrots tend to be my snacks of choice #i try to make my doc colors match the story #like i have an icy blue for frost bite #a fiery red for avidya #a gray and green for spellbound #etc #i am very good at typing on a keyboard #but phone keyboards make me feel slow and clumsy so i don't use them a lot

[fellcharas]

Yeeeeeeeee I appreciate the rambling.

One thing I like about this ship in its native habitat of the Multiverse is you can do both domestic and more existentialist-meta stuff. They still have their places in the AUs, but every once in a while they can just get a little cottage in some isolated AU and chill for a bit.

EXACTLY!!!!!

i think they should cozy up together in a cute little house that ink makes with his magic (error also helps make the house because ink is like 'yknow you can create too in a way' and error's like 'show me' so he does), in some post-true pacifist timeline AU

they go on dates and ink takes like 10-15 minutes to get ready but error always takes like. 2 hours. because error is just soooo very into looking good for his partner and it's very rewarding for ink to have his breath taken away each time. classic cheesy romance between two gods who got their own issues going on every now and then... i live and breathe it

#inkling.asks #(furiously typing away on my keyboard) i need to write a fic where it's just. them getting ready for a date.