#perhaps it was easier that way

[mbti-enemies]

Hey! About that ENFP and INFP being different thing someone sent, I have some thoughts on that.

I'm graduated now, but when I was still in school there were two girls who were best friends from day one, let's call them B (ENFP) and S (INFP).

They were pretty different indeed, B was very social and loud, and I mean LOUD, she seemed to love being the class clown, very touchy and funny, she was so energetic it was hard to keep up sometimes, she laughed at everything, sometimes she'd be doing nothing and started to laugh at nothing apparent "I wrote a J that looks like a dog having a stroke" would be the reason (real example btw), she said the most random shit at the most random moments and everyone would laugh, never fought with anyone, if she was mad she'd just put on a frown and be quiet, everyone loved her.

S was noticeably more quiet, her voice was soft and low most times, - except when she was excitedly talking about something, which wasn't so rare if you actually made her feel listened (I know that because I was in love with her for a while, oh well, I promise I'm not biased), she must be some kind of life enthusiast - kind, very easily distracted too, was always reading, drawing, humming or talking, she was friends with everyone, even the teachers and school employees, magnetic almost, she was a great listener and advisor, she was very honest, but not in a rude way, it was more passive aggressive? I guess, when she decided not to like someone, she didn't mistreat the person but the difference in her face and behaviour was visible. And now this is very stereotypical but if she was listening to someone's vent and the person started crying, she'd usually start crying as well, I thought that was cute 💀

Now when they were together it was a whole new thing, they seemed to enter a private world, they had their own language that they made up, like legit a whole damn language, always laughing at everything the other said, always glued to each other, they arrived together and left together, pictures together on Instagram, they walked hand in hand and laid their heads onto each others' shoulders, hugs and kisses, very affectionate, their friendship was the nightmare of every teacher, even if they kept them physically apart, they'd be giggling at something only they seemed to understand, S once went to the principal's office because the teacher was being extremely rude about B's eating habits, apparently, and S started a discussion with the teacher, it was the literal first class of the day, it was intense, I'd never seen her so mad at someone, and I had seen her proper mad times before, oddly enough, i know INFPs have this reputation for being really nice and stuff, but S could get incredibly outraged sometimes in very specific situations, again, she never raised her voice, but everyone shut up in these moments, she didn't have to, but they had very much main characters energy, it just wasn't the same thing when they weren't there or if it was only one of them without the other, not that it was bad, but it was always better if there were the two of them.

They were quite different but also so alike in many ways.

Extra: We graduated 3 years ago, they're still best friends but have been dating for a year and a half now. I don't know how are INFPs and ENFPs ranked as a match, but they seem to work out pretty well, I don't know

- ENFJ.

stop anon my can’t take such a description of friendship that seems to touch the stars you can’t do this to me. nvm, it doesn’t even seem to, it actually does. the world is spinning.

anyways, i hope your love for infp left peacefully and felt beautiful despite

So, og enfp infp asker, here you go

#I’m reading a book now with friendships like this #I read it…. all the way; never quite believing that such friendships could be real #perhaps it was easier that way #but this ask is the final strAW #(Ty anon) #infp #enfp

[canisalbus]

How do you draw so frequently???

I'm starting to think I probably have some passive ADHD so I end up always admiring ppl who can just constantly do stuff, it's like a dream, your art is also like a dream, Vasco is also a sweet dream, I really like Vasco, he looks really sweet

I set aside a little bit of time every evening just to draw, it's become almost like a wind down routine for me. It helps if I don't treat it as serious 100% effort hard mode art time, I usually multitask a little on the side, watch a movie or take breaks to do little chores around the house and art just sort of happens if it happens. Lately I've been making mostly personal low pressure feel-good pieces.

#this isn't really normal for me either I'm typically way WAY more shiftless #I've been unusually productive during these past few months but I may slow down sooner or later #drawing Vasco/Machete stuff is nice it gives me some badly needed serotonin and results in this positive feedback loop #so I keep making more #I also switched to different antidepressants earlier this year and I'm thinking maybe they have something to do with it #perhaps they reconnected some wires in my brain and suddenly drawing became a lot easier and more enjoyable who's to say #I'm just trying to make the most out of this creative period while it lasts #answered #anonymous #own characters #Vasco

[twottie-m8]

#the sandman #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #art #my art #ive seen some Big Dream pieces out there and had a Need #also lmk if i should stop tagging the characters and only tag the ships #i saw a post about how dreamling was flooding all the tags and people couldnt really enjoy some tags without being bombarded by this ship #but i still want to enjoy this ship #so i was thinking of keeping it contained to just the ship tag #that way it makes it easier for folks who dont want to see #perhaps taking out the show/series tag as well #phone doodles #ibis paint

[ambrosiagourmet]

Kabrin is like what if we survived the trauma together but I needed you more than you needed me and I’m angry and bitter and trying to keep it together but I’m FAILING and everyone can see I’m failing and that I’m a failure and what if you only keep me around out of pity, what if you only ever befriended me out of pity… except also I see you and your calm focus and your suave demeanor and I understand that you are just as messy inside as I am, and I wonder how many parts of yourself you have cut off just to keep everything small enough to fit inside of you.

#am I reading too much into this. perhaps. perhaps. but I am a simple Rin lover and I think her dynamic with Kabru is soooo…. it’s sooooooooo #I don’t necessarily view it as requited romantically but I think Kabru does care a lot about her #in some ways the romance thing they have is almost like. a way to keep the messiness at arms length? like… #it’s a common joke in world that the caster and the fighter have a thing #and I think it’s probably easier for Kabru to tease and poke at her #(and easier for Rin to be like... the Jealous Girl to his Suave Guy archetype) #than for them to actually talk about the shit they’ve been through and how they feel about each other #anyway 👍

[greenerteacups]

Hi! I am an ardent fan of your writing, and I hope to be as sorted and planned as you some day in my own writing journey.

My question is: you have a keen eye when it comes to planning character personality, dynamics, and such. I've also been wading through your ask replies, and your insights into how you write people and how you make them play off of each other is so wonderful to read. If it's not too personal a q, how did you learn how to write like this? Did you go to school for writing, does it come from years of observing people, do you have reading list recs for "how to write real people and real interactions"?

Thanks! This is a really flattering question. I'll try to answer it honestly, because I wish someone had been brutally honest about this with me when I was a young writer.

I didn't go to school for writing. I started doing it when I was about nine years old. It sucked very badly. I kept writing throughout high school, and it still mostly sucked, but some of it was occasionally interesting. ("Interesting" here does not mean "good," by the way.) I took a break in college, and then came back. I've been writing ever since. Sometimes, I feel good about it. A lot of the time, I don't!

I hate giving this advice, because I remember how it feels to get it, and it's the most uninspiring, boring-ass, dog shit advice you can get, but it's also the only advice that is 100% unequivocally true: you have to write, and specifically, you have to write things that suck.

I do not mean that you should make things that suck on purpose. I mean that you have to sit down and try your absolute hardest to make something good. You have to put in the hours, the elbow grease, the blood, sweat, and tears, and then you have to read it over and accept that it just totally sucks. There is no way around this, and you should be wary of people who tell you there is. There is no trick, no rule, no book you can buy or article you can read, that will make your writing not suck. The best someone else can do is tell you what good writing looks like, and chances are, you knew that anyway — after all, you love to read. You wouldn't be trying to do this if you didn't. And anyone who says they can teach you to write so good it doesn't suck at first is either lying to you, or they have forgotten how they learned to write in the first place.

So the trick is to sit there in the miserable doldrums of Suck, write a ton, and learn to like it. Because this is the phase of your path as an artist when you find what it is you love about writing, and it cannot be the chance to make "good writing." This will be the thing that bears you through and compels you to keep going when your writing is shit, i.e., the very thing that makes you a writer in the first place. So find that, and you've got a good start.

Some people know this, but assume that perseverance as a writer is about trying to get to the point where you don't suck anymore. This is not true, and it is an actively dangerous lie to tell young writers. You are not aiming to feel like your writing doesn't suck. You are aiming to write. You are aiming to have written. Everything else is dust and rust. And of course, you'll find things you like about your pieces, you'll find things you're proud of, you'll learn to love the things you've made. But that little itch of self-criticism, in the back of your brain — the one that cringes when you read a clunky line, or thinks of a better character beat right after it's far too late to change — that's never going away. That's the Writer part of you. Read Kafka, read Dickens, read Tolstoy, you will find diary entries where they lament how absolutely fucking atrocious their writing was, and how angry they are that they can't do better. A good writer hates their sentences because they can always imagine better ones. And the ability to imagine a better sentence is what's going to make you pick up the pen again tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that.

Which is what I mean, and probably what all those other annoying, preachy advice-givers mean, when we say: a good writer is just someone who writes every day. It's that easy, and that hard.

#by the way a lot of this draws on ideas inspired by 'letters to a young poet' by rainer maria rilke if you're interested #that's a formative text for me as an artist #it won't teach you how to write but it will teach you how to think perhaps #and once you know how to think. well. life is just pretty good #and i can't say the writing gets easier but when life is pretty good i find myself enjoying it a lot more #this word vomit was prompted by the question 'how do you write real people and real interactions' #because that's like — i'm not trying to be pedantic but— #that's kind of just 'how do you write literature'? #because that's all literature is. what are human beings? how do you write a person? how do they interact with each other? #like shoutout to the void if you know for sure how to write real interactions then please for the love of god tell the rest of us #because i think most of all authors in history have just been giving it our best stab #'this is how the world looks for me. is it how the world looks for you?' #so my advice on that score is: try to see how the world looks for you #and then try to share it with me #don't worry about whether it looks the same for me. it won't

[apollo-just-ice]

Textpost time yay! :-)

#feh #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #fe heroes #textposts #feh textposts #fire emblem memes #feh heiðr #feh heithr #feh heidr #feh sharena #feh Seiðr #feh seithr #feh seidr #feh mirabilis #feh elm #feh gullveig #feh askr #feh embla #heiðrena #Heiðelm #hi yes I do kinda have two Heiðr ships #just. one is a lot harder for me to articulate any points on so- #we will just slowly spread the word of Heiðelm #I do have ideas tho a bit. like they probably exist in the same universe as Heiðrena #Elm realizes his feelings way sooner but it’s not till a long time after Sharena dies that Heiðr realizes she’s grown to have feelings for #for him lol. And perhaps a bit longer till she accepts that too #anyways idk I can ramble a bit here bc it feels easier to #They r like. Elm being himself (kinda mean/snarky etc) but Heiðr just thinks it’s funny and laughs #She will tease him. And he will grumble about it. And many et ceteras. Alas I’ve run out of tags that’s all ur getting for now sorryyyy

[avedoodles]

personally i like when the mosquito humanoid is more mosquito than human

#as i was drawing this i realised perhaps the additional appendages should be legs instead of arms #but i like them being arms more because its easier to draw him as bipedal #i dunno tho maybe ill change my mind if i can come up with a multipedal design #also his right leg is way too far up lol but i only realised after i started colouring and im too lazy to fix it #🦟🦟🦟 #brawl stars #brawl stars art #brawl stars fanart #brawl stars angelo

[clfixationstation]

one thing that I will criticize about Mikasa's character is that she doesn't understand Eren's (and Armin's) dream at all. The only insight we're offered into Mikasa's perspective of their dream is that she doesn't understand it and doesn't know what they're going on about. Like?? She doesn't get Eren's basic motivations?? Unless I completely missed something, Mikasa doesn't know that Eren wanted to explore an unoccupied world with Armin or that he desires 'freedom'. Which again, are Eren's base-level motivations. And she just. Isn't allowed to know??

#we'll see if i regret this in the morning #it's one of my spicier takes #cl thoughts #mikasa ackerman #it just baffles me #like. I'm sorry but I can't get behind a romance where one person doesn't know basic facts about the other #and maybe doesn't even care to know?? #is that just how the author views het romantic relationships? #but no - Armin and Annie are based on having a thorough understanding of each other & motivations #so idk what the deal is #like that's the whole reason that Armin wanted to join the survey corps #and the original reason that Eren wanted to join #and she doesn't know?!?? #armin arlert #eren jaeger #ema #erearu #eremin #and yes i know Mikasa fills a different narrative purpose #perhaps it was easier to keep her separate from knowing Eren in that way for plot-purposes? #and i really do like her overall arc #it's just like. damn. girly doesn't know shit about her besties apparently #idk I'll shut up goodnight

[damiemontclair]

the muse is giving such a hard time (no words have been written all day) I decided to try and get my piercing back in my ear since its laying on my desk... the page is still blank, I am still missing a piercing but now my ear hurts \o/

#does this count as self-harm? its really just boredom from looking at a blank page and not being able to come up with *anything* #anyway the hole is not closed or anything #i can get normal earrings through. just not the damn piercing thats supposed to go in there #its super frustrating... I wonder if its bc the damn screws at the end are less than ergonomic #and the earrings are shaped in a way that uh. makes gliding through the hole a lot easier #can't say I blame my ear for not wanting to get screwed by a screw XD #and yes I do use plenty of wound disinfectant stuff as 'lubrication' but perhaps I should just bust out the real lube for this.... #damie talks

[askkwieon]

wip

wanted to put kerdor in a famcy fit and it... got outta hand

i do plan on doing this to All my trolls. so this will take a while

#arts #kerdor #jaespe #selnie #hieser #i was watching a music video and i was #so gay enamored #i was like perhaps if my trolls looked like the rap ladies #maybe id play with them more #but i think the real problem is i dont have a tight enough narrative for em #i might have to retcon my whole fantroll cannon back into its original form #like. the shit im currently interested in includes several AUs for characters who arent like #consequential to any cannon i have #which. i cant really figure out why #maybe cuz its easier to do random smutty shit w them without feeling like im contributing to some overarching narrative #maybe i need a looser narrative for my trolls actually #thanks for coming to my ted talk ig #this piece has me in a semi-manic state #probably because its way past my bedtime #and i work a fucking retail job and its sorta killing me #but i digress

[its-wabby-stuff]

Am I the only one who thinks Donnie would actually WANT to attach to the technodrome again?

My dad convinced me of this after our watch of the movie together, my resident Donatello and technology expert, so here goes.

Obviously, I don’t think Donnie enjoyed being RIPPED from the technodrome, and the connection process isn’t the cleanest thing, but those are the only two downsides really.

Think of what you gain. Complete control of a massive spaceship with all its crazy technology. Control at a thought, not the press of a button or flip of the wrist, a thought. All you have to do is think something and the ship will MAKE IT HAPPEN!! Do you have any idea how impressive that technology is? How incredible that feeling would be? This is the PINNACLE of technology, a once in a lifetime experience that Donnie may spend his entire life trying to recreate. I’m sure Donnie would love to do it again.

It’s like- everything he’s ever wanted.

Ripping him out might’ve been the only way to get him out.

#perhaps I didn’t convince anyone of my point #because it’s way more of an imaginary feeling then anything actually explainable #which I’m sure would also be hard for Donnie to describe to his brothers #I bet Donnie would feel pretty empty afterward especially regarding his own tech #he was connected to so much only to have it stripped from him #but here’s another thing #I don’t think the ship is connected to the hive mind- cause otherwise Donnie would’ve been able to tell Prime was coming for him #I don’t think the ship caused as much damage to his shell as everyone likes to think #but sure Donnie could have some hesitation but I still think he’d want to do it again #like cliff jumping cause that like never really gets easier #yeah #rottmnt #wabbystuffpost #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #Donatello analysis #technodrome #prime #krang prime #donatello #TMNT #rise movie analysis #movie analysis #character analysis #but that’s just a theory

[newtwithtdp]

Poor Soren. The thing isn't Claudia doing what Viren wants anymore. Now it's more like Viren does what Claudia wants.

#actually if she still was ready to do what he wants it would be so easier #yeah she inherited and improved his past beliefs #but they are her own now #if i were Claudia i would be really mad at soren for thinking that only reason for my doings was blind obedience #it's understandable that he thinks this way because it was HIS reasons to be on a wrong side #but if he wants to change claudia's mind it's better for him to realize she's different #and perhaps to give her some actual reasons why changing is good #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp s4 #tdp spoilers #liveblogging

[iman-92]

one of my best qualities is my ability to simply not care. at a moment in time i’ll care a lot. think about it constantly, obsess over it. play things over in my mind again and again. and as soon as i decide i don’t care anymore… i just don’t.

#I think it’s not even really just my ability to not care but more my ability to just come to a conclusion #even if that conclusion is that there is no conclusion #once i’ve decided i’m done with something i just am and i can never get pulled back in again with the same amount of feeling #it’s accs probably not healthy but i’ve always been able to move on when someone’s wronged me lol cause i dont see it as a personal failure #i just accept it for what it is and move forward or just delete you from my brain altogether #perhaps it’s a conversation for a therapist lol but I wonder if it’s bc I’ve grown to just not expect much from people ? #in a way it makes it easier to forgive people but also easy to leave people behind too #this whole post screams avoidant attachment init loooool

[spencerwatchestoons]

ok i’m sorry i just finished s3 ep7 and holy fucking shit,,,, what the fuck,,,,, the closet is GLASS,,,,,, you’re not hiding ANYTHING,,,,, (please send me screenshots from the episode pretty please i need them)

#animaniacs #pinky and the brain #brinky #i just CANT with them #this episode was by far the best along with happy narfday #when i tell you i stimmed so hard for like a solid half an hour #I LOVE GAY PEOPLE #i need to find the quote at the end hold on #there's got to be an easier way to get over an ex. perhaps if i experiment more with special relativity... oh never mind.

[svtskneecaps]

the only thing stopping me from writing a fucking charlie slimecicle + elmariana + juanaflippa family centric time loop fic is the fact that i missed every single flippa stream live (finally plunged into qsmp a few days after tallulah appeared) and i don't have the time to watch back through the vods because HOLY SHIT CAN WE GET 30 FUCKING SECONDS WITHOUT SOMETHING HAPPENING ON THIS SERVER WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

#qsmp #the venn diagram of ​my awake time and bad's livestream time is a fucking circle #and i also WORK. I HAVE WORK. i can't watch vods for hours!!! #like i worked this afternoon. i got back home right as bobby's fate was sealed for the livestream. i had to watch an hour of vod to catch up #and WHILE I DID THAT #MORE LORE HAPPENED #LIKE THINGS HAPPENED WITH QUACKITY. TAZERCRAFT SCOOBY DOO'D ONTO A DRAGON SKELETON. #PEOPLE GRIEVED. JAIDEN ENDED STREAM ABRUPTLY. APPARENTLY SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH SOFIA. #I STILL HAVEN'T CAUGHT MAX'S POV FROM TUESDAY BC I WORKED THEN TOO GODDAMNIT #LIKE. APPARENTLY BAD KNOWS ABOUT SOFIA? DUNNO WHEN OR HOW. I MISSED THAT ONE. I WAS EITHER AT WORK OR CATCHING UP ON VODS #i. am. screaming. #like i understand why people watch live #it was soooo much easier to keep up when i just kept three distinct povs open and could hop between them like tv channels #oh forever just went down and richas is with him? no worries i have his stream open rn lemme just unmute #hmm cellbit is getting pretty animated let's see what he discovered i'll just unmute rl quick #quackity's saying some sus shit in chat lemme pop his stream open #instead of 'ok i want to see what foolish was doing at chume labs after bad stole his banana so lemme find the time stamp in foolish's- #HUGE FUCKING GIANT LONG VOD and watch thru that but oh. perhaps i want to see what mike was saying after foolish yeeted him.' actually uh #i don't think mike's pov was up that day (unless it was just on yt idk i'm not familiar w how tazercraft's stuff works yet) #BUT YKNOW. I'D HAVE TO VOD SCAN. ITS ANNOYING. so yea its way easier to follow #long tags #block game brainrot #shut up vic

[thekidsarentalright]

I love fall out boy very dearly, but I dont know if I can handle them playing their we didn't start the fire cover tomorrow 😭

HFKDNFKD okay personally cannot relate bc i find this song so inoffensive (man lists things off for 3 minutes song ends) that i have never managed to form a strong opinion on it either way But. im sure u wont even have to watch it ppl will be exploding abt the important stuff on here enough anyways fnrkfndkd

#i think fr its an autism thing that for a while i didnt even understand the point of the song bc i took it so literally so genuinely it is #just the listing stuff off song to me. fob gets bonus points bc patrick sounds so good on it JFKDNDK #perhaps thinking abt it this way will make it easier to watch for u idk JFKRNF at least u will have patrick beard to see! #asks #anon