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thee-rat-king · 2 months

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S & D Tier Comic Adaptation - Issue 1 (draft one)

This is deeply unfinished by I believe in showing my work and this is my first time scripting a comic. It’s not professional formatting, but I’m doing my best and I’d like to share what I have so far. Constructive feedback is appreciated!!

(NOTE: I know that describing panel layout is a bit gauche, I have done it in a few places just for visualisation, as this is being read by anyone, not just a specific art team)

Page 1

Panels 1-4 - introductory splash art of four seperate FAIRNESS ASSOCIATION HEROS. (first draft first draft I don’t have all the details yet).

Panel 5 (central inset) - a group of FAIRNESS ASSOCIATION HEROS, led by THE CHADSTER are flying towards the outer atmosphere in the invisible jet.

Chad: my friends, this time I am certain we shall defeat this dastardly villain

FAH #2: [something vaguely reasonable, Alex is Big Scary blah blah blah]

Page 2 and 3 - a double page spread of SPACE!!! it is BIG AND EMPTY!!! To the lower left of page 2 we see the invisible jet. It is very small compared to the vastness of SPACE!!!

Page 4 and 5 - another double page spread. Wow!! I’m so creative. This also shows the vastness of SPACE!!! Except that now ALEX is in the centre. They look unbearably hot (details unimportant). To the lower left of page 4 the invisible jet has been disrupted as though by a sonic blast. To clarify ALEX is big enough that they could probably pick the jet up in one hand if they wanted to.

Page 6 (three single image strips with the vastness of SPACE in the background)

Panel 1 - FAHs 1 and 4 (I really need to give them names) blast out of the front windshield of the invisible jet

SFX: CRASH

Panel 2: ALEX grabs FAH 3 from the wreck, who is actively firing back at them with their laser vision (to no effect)

Panel 3: CHAD and FAH 2 watch on from the wreckage of the invisible jet, leaping into action (note: I cannot for the life of me remember what chads powers are rn. That is perhaps why he’s not doing much yet).

Page 7

No idea of the formatting, I got bored of vague art direction with no dialogue. It’s going to be a maybe 7 panel layout depicting a the heroes and Alex fighting their way back towards earth. Maybe a second group of heros in the distance. IDK how powerful I should establish Alex to be this early ?? (I’m not changing anything, but pretend this is going to be read by a fresh audience. Information is shared in bits and pieces.) (chants under breath: first draft first draft)

Page 8

Panel 1 - a column up the left side of the page showing a perfectly normal, if slightly industrial apartment building in a nice city

Panel 2 - wide shot! A nice, comfy apartment. One wall has a BDG-style conspiracy theory board, maybe with an old treasure map pinned to it, but otherwise the room in very normal

Panel 3 - mid shot, in an armchair MORGAN is reading a book. They are average looking (details unimportant), and wearing a soft jumper.

Panel 4 - MORGAN takes a sip of tea, and continues to read their book. Perhaps there is a fucked up statue in the background.

SFX: siiiiip

Panel 5 - wide shot of the apartment, from one side ALEX comes through the door loudly, while on the other MORGAN is in their armchair. (Or couch?? Maybe it should be a couch. Or a beanbag chair.)

Page 9

Panel 1 - close up of ALEX walking towards MORGAN

Alex: the heroes foiled my plans and blew up my castle

Panel 2 - MORGAN in their armchair, looking surprised as ALEX continues

Alex: then they chased me into the outer atmosphere! And they know I killed Rebecca the Rebreathable last month

Panel 3 - ALEX sits

Morgan: that’s weird

Alex: no, that’s pretty much the norm

Panel 4 - Morgan and Alex face each other, either in chairs or on a couch

Morgan: really? Because that hasn’t been my experiance at all

Panel 5 (this takes up like, the bottom half of the page). MORGAN talking happily while ALEX looks on in bemused confusion

Morgan: like, when they rescued that person I kidnapped last week they also fixed my toaster and found my car keys and all the pieces to the jigsaw puzzle I dropped last week, and they fixed the electrical issues with the cable car, and the cleaned up my junk draw, and set the timer on my microwave…….

Image fades into the bottom of the page with no hard cutoff, as MORGAN presumably continues on with the list of things the “point-and-click” heroes did.

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Thanks for reading!! In case you didn’t know, most of the dialogue on page 9 is taken from the original video that started S&D Tier. I’m not sure how many changes will happen between this VERY PRELIMINARY FIRST DRAFT and the actual final comic, but I’m excited! (Yes this is just 9 pages. The next one will be longer. It’s a start.)

#s and d tier comic #s and d tier #s & d tier #lighthouse raiders #original comic #first draft #unoriginal thoughts #my writing

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outropeace · 3 years

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elotito tagged me on this so i’m gonna do it for her <33333

1. describe how you first started writing and when you first posted

i began to write in general since i was around 14 like any other emo kid kdjdjsks and o began to write fics when a friend asked me for one as a birthday present. it was written in a hurry and it’s not my favorite but i really enjoyed doing it. i posted that exact same fic on their birthday

2. which of your characters do you typically resonate most closely with? do you base any characters off of yourself?

it depends the fic i guess. and not really, i think the closest i’ve been to do that is in the rockstar au (coming to the @bottomlouisficfest very soon), i put one or two of my old insecurities in h so he could connect better and wouldn’t be persieved as just an asshole-y dude cause i don’t like that and louis don’t deserve that uwu🌸

3. where do you often find inspiration?

music, movies, tiktoks (DONT JUDGE KDKDKS)

4. has quarantine helped or hindered your writing process?

before the quarantine i had around 3 wips, now i have 8

5. do you listen to music/noise while you write or do you prefer silence?

i listen lofi youtube playlists shjdkld

6. what is your biggest writing pet peeve in your writing or in general?

me repeating “Oh...” over and over again through tall my fics, it shouldn’t be legal

7. describe your ideal writing setup

rainy day, good coffee, comfy sweater, my cat besides me, arely sending texts about teeth/imessage games, snacks

8. favorite time of day to write?

nights (it’s usually when i have time)

9. favorite genre to write + one you’d like to try writing in the future?

i’d LOVE to write a thriller

10. do you struggle with writer’s block? how do you typically overcome it?

i just leave the fic for a bit, i don’t really like to push myself about this cause i’m just doing it for fun

11. what is the easiest part of your writing process and the most difficult?

the easiest is the dialogues, i could write pages and pages of just dialogues in hours and the hardest is the smut dhjdd

12. how do you come up with original characters? (if applicable)

it depends, is the antagonist? i ask myself how’d i feel if i were them, like a third party just trying (and usually failing) to get in between

13. what is your favorite and least favorite word?

i like “wet” i just... yeah.... and least favorite i don’t really know tbh

14. what is one thing about your writing that you’re really proud of and one thing you hope to continue working at?

i like that people conect with the characters because i always put a lot of effort in making them realistic (as much as i can), i make them flawled and sometimes even messy but with good hearts and intentions, all of them are (even the antagonists). and my grammar OH MY GOD MY GRAMMAR

15. what work of yours has your favorite ‘verse/world building? how did you come up with it?

hands down the ice prince fic. and funny thing is, i already had my prompt for the fic fest but i just couldn’t stop thinking about one particular prompt about a bratty prince and an alpha who hated omegas and the amount of POSSIBILITIES that had. two days later or so, the mods of the fest gave us the opportunity to pick another prompt if we wanted and the rest is HISTORY

16. what font and size do you write in? single spaced or double?

11 and single

17. what is a typo(s) you find yourself making consistently?

baby do we have TIME FOR THIS ONE?

18. (if applicable) do you separate fic writing from fandom?

yes, always 100000000%

19. what emotion is your favorite to write? which is the most difficult?

angst, sadness, anguish, sorrow, jealousy, i love to hurt hearts. and it’s not an emotion but after they get together it’s really difficult to me to actually keep going (oh god dkdkdkkdd)

20. what is one thing you hope readers always take away from your works?

that that’s okay to fuck up, that no matter the circumstances you have to respect your partner and TALK WITH THEM and that a person can be successful, independent and a badass while being soft and a c*mslut

21. what is the best and worst writing advice you’ve ever received?

i think “write whatever you like, you’re not being paid for it anyways” is the best and only advise i’ve actually listened to

22. which one of your works would you most want to see turned into a film/television show?

it’s complicated cause my two favorites are abos and idk how that would work dkskkss but the ice prince and the alpha/alpha fic

23. do you write scenes chronologically or out of order?

chronologically but i have a document apart where i write everything that comes to my mind at the moment, that one is A MESS

24. how do you handle criticism?

i think good, if it’s respectful

25. what is the advice you would give to someone who is looking to start writing?

trust yourself, have fun

26. what kind of feedback on your work always makes your day?

ANY type of positive feedback makes my day tbh

27. which fic ‘verse of your own would you most like to exist in? which fic’s characters would you most like to befriend?

none tbh dkdkks and louis, obviously

28. what do you always enjoy getting asks about/wish people would ask about more?

about my stories, i love when people just come to rant to me about certain things the characters did and ask me why they did it

29. what has writing added to your life? how has it changed you?

it relaxes me a lot. i just can write for hours and hours and it just feels nice and in some way exciting

30. why do you write?

refer to question 29 kdkdkxk

boost yourself + tags!

1a. share the last sentence you wrote

from the exes to lovers au:

The second hiccup of the night came in the form of his ex smiling to a boy sitting next to him on a couch. The boy had gorgeous, dark and wild hair, clear hazel eyes and a pretty pouty mouth. Their body language screamed attraction and that they both were ready to devour each other. Louis was familiar to the smile Harry was giving to him, bright and seductive, ready to give anything you asked for.

2a. describe the wip you’re most excited about

right now i’m very excited for the happiest season au, my “cliche story” au and for my exes to lovers au dksks i’m excited about a lot of my wips i’m so sorryjdjd

3a. share the piece of dialogue from one of your works you’re most proud of

from the alpha/alpha au:

“I’m not giving up on love,” He softly touched the hand that was still grabbing his thigh. “To me, love is like flowers. Each one needs a special treatment, if you give an orchid the same treatment you give to an iris, the orchid will die. Same thing with love. I’m not giving up on love, I’m just changing the treatment. We might not be an orchid, but we could make such a pretty iris.”

4a. share the best first and last lines from your work(s)

favorite first line from the sugar baby au:

Powerful people only end up with powerful people. The rest are just playthings in their lives. Louis Tomlinson was many things, but he wasn’t anybody’s plaything.

favorite last line from the ice prince fic:

“Who would have guessed…” Harry whispered after a while, smiling against Louis’ lips. “the dragon finally got to keep the princess.”

5a. link the last fic you read

HAYLEY’S MASTERPIECE

6a. link the last work you published

that’d be the ice prince fic

7a. link to your ao3 (if applicable)

hereee

8a. someone that inspires you

louis teheeee

9a. a comfort fic/work that you’ve been grateful for this year

god, again, there’s so so many of them, like the amount of authors i’m so grateful for, the list is infinite but these are a few that comes to my mind

all elote’s (@defencelesst) fics makes me really really happy and never fails to give me a cozy/wintery feeling, her louis IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING ON EARTH AND HER HARRY IS JUST PERFECTION, i’m in love with her descriptions and how she just takes you THERE. hanis @loulicate-recs always makes me smile so fucking hard. ris @falsegoodnight fics NOW.... well.... ris fics they make me smile but also make me want to throw my phone to the other side of the room BEST OF BOTH WORLD IG. MAR’S FICS (loubellies on twitter, idk their @ here i’m sORRY) ARE LITERALLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS AT THE MOMENT, such a pretty louis IM SO IN LOVE WITH MAR’S LOUIS ITS UNFAIR

10a. other writers that you’d like to tag!

omg i’m probably so late to this and idk how many of you have actually done this so here goes nothing @allwaswell16, @runaway-train-works, @greenfeelings, @kingsofeverything, @thepolourryexpress, @larents

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dianaallvarez · 4 years

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Dark Academia Book Tag

Hello! this is the very first post for my book themed tumblr, (this is a side blog, my main is @dianaallvarez), and I wanted to wait until I had finished my current read to post, but I’m quite excited about building this space. And I chose this lovely tag created by CarolynMarieReads and * e m m i e * from YT to introduce myself.

Dark Academia Book Tag Questions:

1. What is you favorite "academia" or "dark" book + movie?

Book: Enigma Variations by André Aciman.

The books follows the life of Paul from his teenage to his adult years through the eyes of his love experiences. I think this is a very unusual pick because it is not a dark book, at least not dark academia dark. But it has the elements that I enjoy about da: the very witty, talented, scholar protagonist who struggles with himself; art, music, literature, glowing scenarios, YEARNING. I love Aciman’s writing above many things and the way he takes you deep into the character’s mind to the point of losing yourself.

Movie: The Dreamers (2003) directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the ’68 Paris student riots. (Letterboxd).

I love love love this film with a passion. And this film loves films too, JESUS. Philosophy, poetry, the streets of Paris, desire, the way this three young people embrace their love for art and all things raw and beautiful mesmerizes me. The burning of the outside. I can’t put into words how much I adore watching it.

2. What dead poet would you like to have a drink with?

Percy Bysshe Shelley, he is one of my favourite poets of all time. Love’s Philosophy, Time, Good-Night, his poems make shiver. Also, if we were to have a drink, Mary would probably be there, so, double win.

3. What is your favorite painting and/or sculpture?

Monet’s Antibes, view from the Salis Gardens [1888] Monet is probably my favourite painter, I also love his nympheas, water lilies, peaches and Rio della Salute.

4. What is your favorite architectural marvel?

My hometown is pretty cool, architecturally. So, yeah. Morelia.

5. What Shakespeare play would you like to be the lead in?

Richard III, mainly because of Al Pacino’s docu-drama. He seems a very complex and miserable character, I would love to build a performance around him.

6. How many languages do you speak and which language would you most like to learn?

I can only speak Spanish and English.

My target language is Italian, I really like how musical it sounds, and the words are BEAUTIFUL, like, Insieme (juntos, together), mmmm love it. I’m also interested in learning French of course, (one of my goals in life is to watch french movies without subtitles), and Russian! The sound is gorgeous and I’ve read some russian poems (Tarkovsky ESP / ENG) in Spanish and I want to read them in Russian too.

7. What is your favorite quote (from poetry, prose, plays, etc.)?

Chuck Palahniuk’s “Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary”

8. What fictional character's death is your ideal way to go?

I don’t want to go, as in go death. But I want to go from home, so my ideal way to go would be... idk, soon?

9. What university/college would you most like to attend?

This is a sad one because it is practically impossible for me to go to the college of my dreams, ever; the major I want isn’t even avaliable in my town, nor in my whole state! Enough ranting tho. I’d love Edinburgh Uni or UCL.

10. I’m skipping this one, sorry.

11. What mythology would you most like to be a part of?

Norse mythology! The fact that there’s little information about it makes it so appealing to me. Also its connection with nature and humanity, the diversity of creatures, the main values, the symbology. I love Norse mythology for so many reasons, some of them spiritual, it means so much to me that sometimes I feel a part of it already.

12. If you had a PhD what would you choose to do it on?

English Lit., I’ve consumed it since I was 12 y/o, I feel in love with Literature through English Literature. But there’s no place for it on this school system:(, we are a whole different world. Still I hope I can study it someday <3

13. Which fictional character would you die for?

Robb Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire series. I grew up reading him!, I felt such a strong bond with the character, it broke me to read his death. When he was fourteen, I was fourteen; when he was fifteen, I was fifteen... something in me left with him, and even though he’s a fictional character I carry him always, and I adore him to infinity.

Rapid-fire: Pick One!!

1. Leather bound or cloth bound books

I only own leather.

2. Dog-earing pages or highlighting pages

Both.

3. Sculptures or paintings

Paintings.

4. Piano or violin

Cello, Oboe and Guitar are superior.

5. Films or theatre

Films.

6. Poetry or prose

Prose.

7. Museums or bookshops

Bookshops.

8. The smell of books or the smell of coffee/tea

Books.

9. Fountain pen or typewriter

Fountain pen.

10. New or used books

New and used, as long as they’re complete.

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bma-2020 · 5 years

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Okiedok here’s the delio. I have a list of all the blogs from the last six months who’s actively either responded to a meme i sent, responded to a message ive sent, replied to something regarding mally herself, has actually written with me, written a starter for me from my liking a starter call, has at least liked a starter i wrote for them to awknowedge it exists, all that jazz, i have a lot of open field so it’s not just a possible tumblr didnt let them no option anymore, because i send memes to everyone who posts them that i see. I reply to most peoples ooc posts. I like most starter calls I pass by. I try my darndest to actually interact bc i know how it feels to be ignored and its… i’ve been called one before so i’m using the word, thats fluffing cunty behavior, and honestly if you complain about not being interacted with but never even try when i try with you, ya being cunty, end of. I gotta list. That list only entails Mally because she’s who I care about the most. I’m probably gonna start instilling a new rule in all my blogs that if you ignore Mally and/or Darcy( @tasedandconfused ), since I would say they’re my two main blogs tho darcy gets ignored even more than mally does, probably bc i denied canon and left it entirely we know fandom hates that, if either of them is ignored then… Ya out of luck, I’m gonna unfollow you. I’m debating soft blocking everyone who ignored me on both of them but I don’t want to like be mean and deny the chance to eventually try again but at the same time i shouldnt feel bad for taking a stand and saying this is bullsheet, idk my anxiety says im awful for giving a fluff about myself but also i should give a fluff about myself probably, ive nearly died in the last three months, my brain almost exploded, i just had three root canals on one corner of my face, i have to potentially get surgery on my inner ear which i cant even afford, i dont got time to deal with only being used for like smut memes or like as a resource blog or utter bs like that, i dont got time for it. So new rules here. 1: If Mally or Darcy are not acknowledged, written with, responded to, viewed as more than just their fluffing bodies? ya dropped, im unfollowing, potentially soft blocking, which means blocking and unblocking for those not in the know, on all accounts I follow you on. Every single one. I know most of my muses are on sideblogs but despite not being able to send memes from sideblogs you can block people from sideblogs fun fact, i will do that if i have to. 2: I’m gonna be posting SCs, PCs, memes, etc. I like and respond to plotting calls, starter calls, i send memes, all of that. If I don’t get any response within.. I’m giving one week for people who don’t run on a queue and a month and a half to people on a queue based system, if i dont get anything within that time like at least an im being like ‘its posted’ or ‘its queued i wanted to let you know in case tumblrs a fluffbutt’ (i do this sometimes if i dont get even just a like on the starters i post so i at least know people saw it since i know tumblrs bs, i wait until the day they’re active to do so in case theyre busy yknow) basically i need acknowledgment at all. No you can’t claim this is abt follower count bc when you unfollow someone they inevitably unfollow you too, thats gonna drop my following, not as quickly as soft blocking would but i wanna be fair i guess, which leads to: 3: I’m basing this on your activity too, like if i like a think and you’re gone for a month after that its fine, im not gonna unfollow you unless you never come back or youre online and posting others just not mine because that tells me youre specifically ignoring me and im gonna drop you for that end of. I’m done with the bullsheet im done w the dillish behavior, i love friendship but if im giving and never receiving thats extremely one way and not gonna work. I check through my follow list weekly and i go back about five-10 pages on someones feed before i unfollow them to see their actual activity and see if theyre here or if its a q so. I’m thorough basically. 4: You dont have to be active with me on all your blogs, i mean i’d prefer it but thats hard as fluff so essentially if you have like five blogs and are just like trying w me on two or three thats fine. Ten blogs, four or five with at least a plot formed is cool. Multis just one muse is all I’d need. I’m not gonna unfollow the blogs youre not writing w me on if you at least write w me on some. Again, specifically Mally and/or Darcy. If you ignore both of them, we’re done. I havent been active on darcy because of being ignored and its a huge butt mess and im just tired i wanna use my babies, you don’t get to have my ‘better’ muses like i know a lot of ppl only follow me for my boys or my villains, you don’t get them if you ignore my baby. But, there is a limit there too. 5: If you never respond to a meme or thread even once with Mally or Darcy, or post a starter, i reply, its never replied to again after a month, I’m unfollowing and/or soft blocking for that too. Bc that means youre just raising my hopes to fluff with me or get someone else and honestly, youre even more cunty than than the people just flat out ignoring me if you do that. And this isnt a specific person, this is five of the people actually on my list. Yes, my list is also annotated with specifics again I was very thorough on this yesterday, I hyperfixated I’ll admit it, I’m in a fluffing depressionary bubble and being told to get over it because people want something they dont deserve to have to. I am a believer that people deserve good things but if youre purposefully being cunty… no you dont. 6: No I’m not releasing my list, maybe I will and I’ll omit the urls because I don’t want people being buttholes to each other too but otherwise, yall not seeing it im not giving a callout because… really thats just unnecessary here. I don’t think yall are toxic people or something i just think yall are unintentionally being cunty. And no I don’t mean everyone that follows me i mean the ppl that add up to what i’ve documented so far and fit the bill of butthat that i’ve shown, its behaviors yall gotta check before ya wreck. Yes there will be some people who have priority, everyone has those people, I write w kathryn on other platforms since she doesnt go on here as often but when Kathryn returns from war here (if she does cause she also agrees most ppl on this platform are cunty, i feel really bad saying that word so often but im gonna keep doing it i recently deleted an ask saying I was a huge cunt for not sending someone smut memes when I didn’t even follow them or know they existed so, again the travesty of this place is nutballers) same with owly, alex is here too, my most active partners are always going to be priority because theyre the ones who show the most interest and the most care. I understand that with others as well which is why I have the timeframe set up, because I want to be as open and shizz as possible while atill being firm i guess. I don’t want to have extreme double standards like its impossible for double standards not to exist at least a little bit but I want to avoid a golden chest full of them I guess. 7: I don’t have a seven rn, this was an even number and it bothered me. Seven is nust my warning that I’m bittery writing this on mobile so formatting is not real but i tried my dandest to make this look like something people might actually mind. I dont want to be butty, i dont want to be awful, i dont want to start drama or have drama but that shizz comes around anyways so i might as well make my space as okay for me as i can cause im supposed to avoid stress so my brain doesnt almost explode again, like again i almost fluffing died i dont need ppl fake being my friend or anything, i want stuff to be real and clear. I want to be happy to be on here again and have fun like i used to since my health is plummetting and I’m not allowed to go outside near plants by myself anymore because i welt up. I have plants outside my work place and im surrounded by chemicals all day long I’m welted from here to new york constantly and never comfortable in my own skin because of it and constantly see people online acting like these actual real problems are pretentious because ‘its an excuse’ when, im a fluffing sagittarius, do you know how much i want to magically be a millionaire so i can pay for friends and my own medical stuff and go on traveling and adventures, be outside probably not camping bc as a pagan i know thats a death sentence but like be outside, lay on grass, go back to swimming because i used to swim competitively and due to health reasons i can barely even go in a pool anymore because theres too much sunlight which, bit plot twist i know, im fluffing allergic to vitamin D and the rays of the sun, so go figure, attempts to be healthy kill me more, i also cant eat most plants and am constantly dying from just eating food, they dont know whats wrong with me. i cant fix it by going ve/gan for a month inf act i tried and it almost made my heart stop thanks society. These arent excuses these are the lives of disabled and diseased and to a lesser but still very real point, ethnic lives every fluffing day. This is real shit and its murder and online and gaming? It may be all I have soon since I can’t just go out and make new friends cause, again, I’d fluffing die. I get sick going to the mall or the movie theater, I miss theme parks so much but have to minimize it to weeks i dont have work so i dont get fired for having a welt while working in the beauty industry. I may have to get a degree online and change my field entirely because of my illness that nobody understands. People even make fun of it constantly online and I wish I could just drop online entirely because of how unbelievably ableist the entirety of the world is, i wish i could drop humans in general for their ableism, but i cant. I don’t have choices in most cases, but throwing away people who maybe purposefully maybe unintentionally thats why i’m giving you this warning and will be repeating this warning for awhile, this is where i have choice. I have to use what little choice I have in life while I can since everytime i go to movies or a concert or a theme park i almost die because of not having an immune system that functions or being in certain air qualities pr being near plants or unclean people, I may not have much time and I gotta do whats best for what little mental health I have, and if that means dropping people i care about and really want to write with and do things with but who ignore me then, i guess so be it.

#out.#illness cw #health cw #food mention #ive been writing this since noon and its now two pm so this is great #i’s usually put this under a read more but... maybe most people dont deserve a read more rn lol #their behavior will keep being awful if its not pointed out to them so #im done im gonna go welt up from hugging my cat and cry for a bit because i feel mean

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pennyfynotes · 7 years

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8.17.17 // 11:30am // guide to time management

requested by @hufflepuffwannabe @feminist-fan-girl @meg-is-studying

sooo i'll be the first to admit that i'm not the greatest at time management. however i think this is still worth writing because sometimes the best advice doesn't come from people who have it down (or to whom things come naturally), but rather those who struggle to make something happen. hence, here are some time management tips from one procrastinator to another :)

1. prioritize. ok i'm sure you've all heard this one a billion times. the most important starting step for me is listing out all the things i need to get done and then ranking them based on their priority. admittedly, sometimes i do this in my head but i (and you) should really do it on paper.

2. get pressing things done first. for me, this generally includes things like emails to professors, applications or things that have to do with business. anything that involves another person (especially when its a work email which is only checked from 9-5) should get done asap.

3. schoolwork is generally pretty important. second to emails and important interactions, this should be close to the top of your list. you probably already know that. moving on.

4. if you're in a time crunch, ditch the busy work. though it might make you feel more productive with less effort (say it's coloring and illustrating all 50 us states), you probably won't get much learning out of it in the long run. obviously if you have the time for it, you should still try to do all your assignments. if you don't, pick ones that are going to have more value.

>>>from a purely pragmatic, grade-oriented standpoint, you can prioritize things with higher point values (like essays over small hw assignments). another way you can determine value is the amount of knowledge you would gain from doing the work (if you're more of an idealist).

>>>going back to the coloring example. your teacher is probably not going to grade you on how pretty your illustrations are or how well you colored in the lines. i totally understand having personal standards and wanting these types of "artistic" assignments to look nice, but don't spend a lot of time you don't have making your assignment a work of art. it's not worth it.

5. don't forget non-academic "to-dos". when you make your plans/list of priorities, don't leave these out. if you budget your time so that you finish all your academic work at 1:30 in the morning, that might be ok if you can then go right to sleep. but then you realize ~sh*t~, i forgot to wash my laundry and wash my dishes. maybe some of these things you can push off. but if your laundry is on your bed, you might still need to do that to be able to sleep. that's another 2 hours. here's how to incorporate these kinds of things into your schedule:

>>>make sure they're in your plan: especially laundry. since you have to wait for the cycles and then take the clothes out/put them in the dryer, you can plan to do other things while you wait. this way you're not wasting a bunch of time at 2 in the morning waiting for your clothes to dry (and yes, they will wrinkle if you leave them in the dryer)

>>>use them as study breaks: a lot of these chore type to-dos require you to get up and move around. perfect for breaking up the monotony of sitting at a desk. you can make this a little less boring by blasting music and dancing around your room, but you'll be taking a mental break and you'll feel more productive.

>>> side note on the dishes. you cannot continually put them off. bad things will happen. like mold. don't do it.

6. gather everything you need before you start. getting up to get something is the easiest way to lose focus. it's awful. yes, sometimes studying is unpredictable and you won't always remember to bring everything, but make a list if you have to to minimize this occurrence. what really sucks is when you've walked all the way to the library and then realize you've forgotten something.

>>> things to consider: snacks, drinks, eraser, ear buds, extra paper, pens, pencils, lead, highlighters, reference materials, page flags (most of these things *should* be in a standard pencil case. but sometimes they escape. it's good to double check)

7. keep your phone out of sight. preferably out of reach as well, but that's a little harder if you listen to music or if you're in a public space. if you are still holding/looking at your phone, make sure to turn off notifications (any blinking lights or push notifs) and make sure it won't vibrate or beep. it's hard to resist the pull, so eliminate it.

>>> there are timer/pomodoro type apps you can use to time your study and break time. forest will plant a virtual (or real, if you get the paid version) tree every time you start a period of productivity. if you open any other app before your set time is up, the tree will die. i believe the break time is fixed at 5 min. tide is very similar but there is no "consequence" (virtual or not). i don't think it tracks whether you open other apps. but it does play nice background noise during your productive time. there are a few different options. breaks are also fixed at 5 i think?

8. if you simply cannot do the hard things, try completing a small, simple assignment. i know i said to skip/postpone busy work in time crunches, but if you have time for everything and simply cannot make any progress on the "more important" items, try a small assignment. completing it might give you that boost of confidence/energy you need to jump into that other thing.

>>>warning: do not use busy work to procrastinate. this is very dangerous. while you might feel productive, you're not really getting anything of importance done and your big assignments will suffer for it.

this is all i can think of atm (it is still currently summer break here, even though it's almost over) but i might make a part 2 if i think of more. though i'm not an expert time manager so this might be all i got... idk. hope this was helpful and hmu with any more questions/masterpost suggestions! xoxo, m

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the-ginger-is-loose-again · 7 years

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CALL OUT POST

@hufflepuffs-and-hugs this woman has a like of 65 things she hates about herself and 7 things she likes "there aren't 65 things to like" bitch please 1) beautiful straight hair, never fuzzy, how it do that 2) does makeup on herself and others so well 3) the clean roommate 4) willing to do dishes 5) will drive you to class or pick you up of rain 6) casual witchery 7) makes really cool nice smelling soup 8) artistic 9) great fashion sense, particularly in professional wear 10) motivated 11) organized 12) great sense of humor 13) will cook for us 14) logical and level headed 15) good at ice skating 16) keeps car clean, idk how, it's a gift 17) good with kids 18) the best gay 19) would drive in the storm for anyone 20) will cry while reading this (STOP CRYING YOUR ALLERGIC TO YOUR TEARS) 21) is letting me eat the corner brownies of the batch she just made 22) will buy you a thing if you are short on cash and let you pay her back 23) cuddly when tired 24) makes sure you don't die when drunk 25) makes sure others make sure you don't die when drunk if unable to herself 26) will clean up vomit of drunk friends 27) will change a drunk persons clothes (this one wasn't actually me I swear) 28) amazing writing abilities, I can't write a page long easy lay without 3 anxiety attacks and she write 10 page ones in 3 hours flat 29) green thumb 30) introduces cute holiday decorations to the living space 31) 100% salt 32) we r saltmates 33) amazing singer 34) cute eye shape, noticed it while doing makeup, makes cat eyes look really smol and adorbs 35) works that choker 36) crystal/stone/gem expert 37) is graduating college in 3.5 years 38) WHILE DOUBLE MAJORING 39) wants to be a lawyer or a humanitarian aid of some kind 40) such caring, many compassion 41) politically informed 42) sprit animal is an otter 43) has an adorable otter tattoo on her ankle 44) cried at Might Joe Young, so she's def human 45) makes the apartment smell good with essential oils 46) took my owls on the window sill and turned it into an owl shrine 47) my dog loves her, and he's crotchety and old 48) can rap most of the songs from Hamilton and that part in "your welcome" from moana 49) can be relied on to shout "THE WHAT" when you say "consider the coconuts" 50) can be relied on to shout "OR AS WELL LIKE TO CALL IT, THE ONLY WING" when prompted 51) so positive and sweet 52) not overly optimistic, brings the right amount of realism to a situation 53) will write an email to a professor when called upon because of anxiety 54) always down to share food or drive you to food 55) never salty about being dd 56) dat butt doe 57) high gpa, many smart 58) can and will use logic to get her mother to come to an idea, letting her think it was her idea to treat her to something 59) looks really good in glasses 60) has gone to the gym more times this semester than I have in 4 years here 61) hasn't reached the "fuck it I'm good, imma wear this cause I like it" point yet but working on it 62) will emotion paint with you 63) not terrible at math, I know that is number 63 on your list, well number 63 on mine is yes you can count 64) is actual space princess, I find you Alluring 65) hasn't erased that same pun from her board yet, I drew it like 2 months ago 66) will read voltron fanfiction with me, kept me updated on where she was in "Don't break the connection babe" so I could read along with her cackling 67) hasn't judged me for watching beauty and the beast 6 times (she has 4 times, we're all in this together) 68) made us those little rice bags that you use as heating pads, one gryffindor and one owl (that one mine) 69) remember that time... and people yelled through the window .... and we cried laughing ... cause ... yea ... that time 70) forgiving 71) but willing to hold that necessary grudge 72) didn't vote for trump 73) is a manager, such responsible 74) afraid of thunderstorms, probably some kind of self preservation that I should have 75) keeps me from wandering around thunderstorms at 3 am 76) keeps us alive 77) understands depression naps, and won't wake me from one 78) always buys the toilet paper 79) has the goal of making out in front of brother Ross (comes to campus to yell at us about how we r all going to hell and down with gays and shit) and that's a goal of mine as well 80) too gay to function when watching ice skating (I have the pictures to prove this, she's totally in love with one of the US female skaters, it's perf) 81) doesn't judge me for watching murder shows like snapped 24/7 82) knows when to be childish, let me build a blanket fort and keep it for days, living in it with me 83) knows when to be an adult 84) morbid sense of humor 85) her browser history just popped up and she's looking up Ashley wagoner posters on amazon, way too gay to function 86) didn't assume I was kidding when I said I was bi 87) blasts the music in her car without busting your eardrums 88) you can sing a single line and suddenly we r all singing a song from moana right this second as I type 89) keeps Sarah from eating everything in sight, mainly inedible probably toxic things 90) doesn't kinkshame 91) snark for days 92) has same abilities to find lost things as a mom 93) apartment mom 94) beautiful 95) dress for success 96) is driving us to get food 97) has matching bunny ears with me 98) actually locks our door every night, protecting us from murderers 99) always ready to bitch about something 100) will always clap to "I can make your hands clap"

#positive #will add more I'm sure

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Ranking All 67 Movies I Watched in 2019 from The Bad to The Best

The Bad:

Adaptation. Let’s be honest. It’s rare to like any movie you’re assigned to watch. I was starting out from an obvious place of resentment (sorry Professor Taylor). With that being said, I think it’s safe to say this story is objectively awful and so, so, so masturbatory. It’s about a screenwriter struggling to write a script. Need I say more?

Ossos. Ok, so nobody watches a four hour long plotless Portuguese film for fun. But to say this was an exceptionally difficult film to watch would be an understatement. I was more aware of how sore my butt felt in the chair than anything else about the viewing.

The 400 Blows. Apparently it’s great and important? I don’t know. I just don’t really like classic French movies about children.

The Theory of Everything. This movie probably wasn’t that bad but I saw it on a layover on my way to Iceland to see a guy who I was going to break up with in a few weeks, and the movie reminded me of him because they’re both theoretical physicists. Need I say more?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Didn’t really have the powerful nostalgia factor I was hoping for. Still, it gave us Lana Del Rey covering The Season of the Witch so that’s something.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Low-key decided to break up with my ex over this movie.

(500) Days of Summer. Didn’t age super well. Or well at all.

Shrek. I watched this for a very difficult traditional narrative class. Thus, bad memories are now attached.

Harry Potter. I really think if you haven’t watched this by the time you’re thirteen you should just leave it the fuck alone. Also led to a bit of a falling out with a friend. I’m coming to realize a lot of dramatic interpersonal things happened in my life this year surrounding films…

About Time. I watched this on the way home from Edinburgh which is among the saddest days of my life, so there’s that.

6 Years. I also watched this on the way home from Edinburgh.

Skyfall. Better than I thought it’d be. Nothing like watching this on a luxury bus on your way back from the Scottish highlands.

Fish Tank. Don’t really love this movie but it’s good in a pervy way I guess?

Wine Country. It’s not too bad if you’re totally drunk watching it. Which I may have been.

Truth or Dare. This was honestly pretty bad but I don’t remember hating it as I watched it as much as I did once it was over.

Going the Distance. Mediocre.

Tell it the Bees. Goddamn it I wanted this movie to be so much better than it was. Anna Paquin was just too dry to really fall in love with (God knows I wanted to).

The One I Love. Not super memorable. I may have been drunk though? Or just tired. Tbh I really have no recollection of this movie at all. I watched it while I was pretty depressed.

The Favourite. This was a weird fucking movie.

Calibre. Mediocre. But, at least it was Scottish.

Life of Brian. Didn’t age terribly well, but there’s nothing like watching it on Easter weekend.

La Strada. Not my favorite Fellini but ok.

The Girl on the Broomstick. Campy Czech movie from the 60s? It’s worth it on premise alone.

Midsommar. Definitely did not live up the hype.

The So-so:

Office Space. I related. Perhaps too much.

The Lighthouse. I’d certainly never seen anything like it before.

Circle. Idk, it really should’ve been shittier, but I like the premise of a bunch of people just standing around literally deciding who to kill next. It was bizarre and thought provoking.

The Seventh Seal. Classic, but less subtle than Bergman’s other works.

Wild Rose. Idk. I have conflicted feelings about this movie. I watched it in a theater in Edinburgh with the person I was seeing and remember walking back through the meadows as the Cherry blossoms bloomed. It was so lovely and the music was ok.

Knock Knock. God, I hate so much about this movie. Don’t ask why I kind of liked it.

The Perfection. If there wasn’t a weird sexual abuse plotline this would’ve been in my top ten.

The Wind. It was beautiful but too arcane for its own good.

Hustlers. Pretty girls and great music but it didn’t change my life.

Boy Erased. It was good.

A Taste of Honey. It wasn’t terrible for a random old English movie about an unmarried teenager?

Us. Just felt a little cluttered/messy compared to Get Out. It still made me terrified to live in a city with an underground system beneath it.

The Good:

Concussion. Honestly how could a movie about a stay at home lesbian wife deciding to become a prostitute for women not be amazing?

Lizzie. Not the best, but it’s Chloe and Kristen so of course it’s good.

Zombieland. This was a hell of a lot of fun to watch at the gym on the elliptical. That’s all.

Apostle. Spooky as fuck and very random.

Thelma and Louise. Classic lesbian cinema.

Over the Garden Wall. Nice nostalgic fall miniseries.

Captain Fantastic. I was happy when I watched this.

Carol. Everybody needs a Carol phase. Preferably one they can live-tweet to a good friend.

Nights of Cabiria. It’s a good one.

You Were Never Really Here. The last scene of this is so good. I still think about it.

Together. This film introduced me to my European Cinema class so it makes me nostalgic.

Blue. Can’t really remember this well but I think it was really good?

Cleo from 5 to 7. Always.

The To Do List. Was fun and relevant at the time.

Knocking Down the House. Inspiring.

Before Midnight. Depressing as fuck but I still loved it.

Beast. Johnny Flynn, man. Johnny Flynn.

Colette. Bisexual writer movie? Yes please. Particularly right after I read “How to Suppress Women’s Writing”.

Three Buildings Outside Ebbing Missouri. Really great, but obviously not written by an American.

Unicorn Store. Relevant as fuck. Loved it.

Wild Strawberries. Such good Bergman. I must’ve read three books on it for my final in my film course.

The Double Life of Veronique. Peak snobby foreign cinema and the first movie I watched this year, while I was in Paris.

Always Shine. Creepy and disturbing and feminist and lovely.

Submarine. Cleverer than I thought it would be.

Head Count. Fun horror.

Happy Death Day. More fun horror.

Cold War. Depressing but oh so good.

The Best:

First Reformed. Yikes. I loved it. Despite the unnecessary het romance. Not sure I’d ever recommend it to anyone ever but it just felt right to me somehow.

Before Sunset. Yes. Just, yes.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Favorite horror movie I watched this year by a lot.

Before Sunrise. I can’t even get into it without ranting for ten pages but it’s basically excellent so watch it now.

#ranking all the movies i watched in 2019 #before sunrise #autopsy of jane doe #before sunset #first reformed

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Alright it's late so I should get this written and get to bed. So today was fine. Woke up on time (yay!) and made it to the bus and took the bus to work without falling asleep. They changed up the sheriffs doing the security checks and suddenly I don't set the alarm off every time anymore....I knew it was that one bitch that always set it off manually on me (it's okay, I'll make a lot more money than her in my life even if I work for the government). Got to my office, boss isn't around, so I go through the DCP packets in the case we've been working on and created profiles for all of them, who's involved and who the allegations are against, and how they may or may not be related to this case. So that took more of my morning. I did do my caffeine in the morning, but around 11 or so I think I did start to feel overwhelmingly tired, so I took a half hour nap at my desk and just continued what I've been doing, working through lunch to make up to it. So after I was finished with that I returned to the phone calls for most of the day. There was one really good one they talked about their daughter and I got a page's worth of info from it, so that was helpful but most of the rest of them are like.....they're either being so sappy to each other or fighting over the stupidest shit- like she called going out with some friends a "double date" and he flipped a shit on her, and then there was something about her talking to his grandmother and he flipped out on that and I was just like wow this is actually a really emotionally abusive relationship (which is funny because in the calls they were like "the foster parents are probably telling our daughter all sorts of lies about us and emotionally abusing her" and I'm just like okay sure buddy) but nothing else was too ground breaking. Since it really didn't take all of my concentration, I tried to do some other stuff done in the mean time. I had looked at theatre auditions in Chicago yesterday and gotten frustrated that my options are sadly limited, which doesn't make any fucking sense but half the shows listed up there are like, out in some suburb like bitch I don't have a car it's not happening lol. But I went back through them today and identified 3 that could potentially work, and emailed each of them questions about the time commitment details they didn't post on the page. One of them was like "please make sure you can make all Monday rehearsals before submitting" but didn't state when the Monday rehearsals started or ended so I emailed asking that and got the reply of "thank you for submitting yourself to audition..." and I was just like, ugh lol but hopefully that will work itself out better. Later tonight I did hear back from another one whose schedule just might work very well for me, their space isn't far from my apartment, so the only hustle would be getting to the few weekday 6 pm rehearsals on time. So I went ahead and sent in my headshot and resume and got an audition slot for Saturday and I'm so excited!!!! This is the first thing I've auditioned for in Chicago haha it's been so long and I'm so happy to be back. The show is an original and I think it's part of pride, it's called "pride ever after" and from what I can tell it's fairy tales + homosexuality haha for audiences 10+, which sounds like great children's theatre content to me. And of course I'd just have so much fun personally with the concept because I could run around my Christian conservative circles screaming THE GAYS ARE COMING TO INDOCTRINATE YOUR CHILDREN EVERYBODY RUN and it probably wouldn't go quite like that but you know what I mean. Lol. So after I finished looking at auditions and had nothing else I could really do, I decided to play candy crush which I haven't played since 2013 when I got stuck on a level for like, a month, and gave up out of frustration. It was a decent level of distraction while still being able to listen to the calls. It's too bad the government isn't the one paying me, it'd be really satisfying to be earning government money for this 😂 but hey, school money is good too. So I did that until the end of the day and left a few minutes early to catch the 5:02 bus. Got home an out of my business clothes by 6:20, so I had a small amount of time to get ready before going to physical therapy at 7. I had the guy I had last week that I liked a lot, and I felt like it was pretty productive, though I definitely came out of it with some aching muscles (though that's more or less the point, I suppose). After I walked across the street to Jewel just to pick up some cocoa krispies and milk because I was running low on both and I'm very suspicious of milk right now because we keep finding the refrigerator door open a tiny bit and then I look into it and it kind of looks curdled but like idk how to tell if it doesn't really smell, so I've been using it but felt really uneasy about it and my stomach was bothering me today, so I may just blame it on that. Jewel, however, did not have any cocoa krispies in stock, which of course I was shocked and appalled at, so I had to settle for cocoa pebbles (inferior, but still decent). I then grabbed milk and remembered I had like no yogurts for lunches because I ended up tossing a few because of questionable edible status so I grabbed a couple of those too. Paid, and I was walking back to my apartment by the parking lot and I feel something on my right arm and I look and it's this big bug just sitting there (big like, in relation to a mosquito which you'd expect in this situation). So of course my immediate reaction was to freak out and drop my grocery bag on the ground, and the girl that was passing the other way was just staring at me like wtf just happened and I was just like "I'm fine, there was a bug...." haha and then of course my PT guy had to show up at that moment too also walking home and was like "yeah, we'll work on lifting techniques next week" totally joking and I was just like there was a bug!!! Lol it was humorous. Got back to my apartment and my roommate's friend is there with her and they're playing guitar hero, so I just join them on the couch as they play and then start SNL and a couple other shows. Roommate's friend left shortly after 10 so I then turned on Supergirl. Overall I thought it was a really good episode! The return of Cat Grant obviously made my life because she IS my life and I just so wish we could've had her this whole season, it would've been soooo much better. Teri Hatcher is very good at playing evil Rhea, her and the actress that plays Lillian Luthor are both very good at the whole I love my child more than anything except my power and how that trips them up. The whole time I was like WHERE IS JAMES DAMMIT but him swooping in at the end was pretty epic, and of course Cat knew who he was in about 2 seconds flat lol. When her and Supergirl were talking by the dumpster I really wanted Cat to just deliberately call her Kara but I guess they want to play it out like she's pretending she doesn't know (because she obviously does). I mean, everyone on that spaceship really should've been able to tell that's Kara Danvers, lol. The whole Meh-El and Lena forced marriage plot made me cringe more than a little bit, just because it reminded me of the Oliver and Nyssa forces marriage is season 3 of Arrow and just how bad that was. This one wasn't that bad, but it was still rather uncomfortable. But I liked it a lot and look forward to next week's episode, which will hopefully contain Meh-El dying in some way or being sent away to lead his people or something up that alley. Okay, that's it for today. Tomorrow will hopefully be the end of the child death case and we'll get a final ruling, so fingers crossed for that. Goodnight starlights. Keep shining.

#daily journal #May 2017

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