#and I just hit 40k

[lyralit]

just quickly coming on to say that I'll try to be more active, I've been focusing on my studies and writing lately! thank you to everyone who keeps sending me asks; I know it'll take time, but I'll try to get to them eventually.

in the meantime, ✨ the sparkles of writing motivation!

(and also my blog is open for submissions, if you want your writing prompts to reach a different audience !! or to share your writing !! I will take it all,..)

#lyralit #thank you lmao #I've been writing since January 6th #and I just hit 40k #writerblr #writers block

[solanj]

Desperation

#rogue trader #Theciya von Valancius #Tervantias the Archmachinator #warhammer 40k #rogue trader spoilers #haemonculus #solanj art #this game is doing THINGS to me #I can't really express it without sounding all fake #so I just try to draw stuff #not even really the stuff that hit me the most #just the stuff that I CAN handle #both skill-wise and emotion-wise #hopefully eventually I will be able to draw the OTHER stuff too #also I'll get back to illustrations too at some point #I swear #for now just bear with me please #also do I need to spell out which companion she chooses to get back there #or is it obvious enough at this point? ^^"

[critter-of-habit]

I recently scrolled through all your marvel art and wanted to say it is AMAZING.

The Peggynat ones in specific are feeding my gay ship obsessions.

Have a good day

Eeee thank you so much :3 I'm glad you like the Peggynat art, I will definitely make more.

#tumblrs been a real let down with with the numbers recently so notes like this are really really appreciated #I know numbers aren't important REALLY but I like to be validated #I'm needy lol #also its just wild that with over 40k followers I can't even hit 200 notes with new art?? #thats like #not even 1% of my followers interacting #just throwing gays into the void and hoping something gets seen I guess lol #tumblr aint what it used to be #wait I have 44k followers #thats WORSE #rant over thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[nekokat14]

being phoenix wright must be crazy because I have never seen someone more doomed by the narrative as him.

#phoenix wright #naruhodo ryuichi #ace attorney phoenix wright #phoenix wright ace attorney #the universe tried whipping to death. boiling hot coffee directly to the face (mug included). falling through a burning bridge 40 feet > #into a river known for sweeping away its victims. direct hit by car sending phoenix 30 feet into a metal pole (head first). literal > #POISON directly into his stomach and bloodstream (cuz he bled when chewing it up). literally tased by what i believe is a 40k watt taser! -> #what else..? i know there's more... anyways the universe wants him dead so bad but hes just built different ig #SO YEAH. JUST SAYING #ace attorney

[brin-bellway]

Ooh! Brin!

Is your fiction anywhere we can read it?

Or is it only secret, and private?

The current one is semi-private, but most of my fiction is publicly available at the Glowfic Constellation (a roleplay/collaborative-writing site: some rat-Tumblrites may recognise it as "that format planecrash / Project Lawful was written in").

Glowfic is an infamously high-context medium and needs a certain amount of tolerance for reading things without having read their prerequisites, but you can get a head start on understanding the background context relevant to my stuff by reading How to Read Glowfic and the glowfic wiki page on medianworlds (people who understood the phrase "the format planecrash was written in" may recognise this as the relationship Keltham's homeworld has to Eliezer Yudkowsky).

#(it was not in fact planecrash that introduced me to glowfic) #(my own introduction to glowfic has been lost to the mists of time but was no later than 2018) #(but planecrash was a breakout hit‚ which makes it a useful reference) #and yeah that post from today's queue is very much a thing #if you told me in early 2022 that I was going to write over 40k words of fiction in the following calendar year #I would boggle at you #I do think early-2022!me would *endorse* this development‚ though #it's just not something that I ever particularly expected to be *capable* of #and was making no active attempt to change this

[wentian]

stop looking at me so, it's not my fault your ex's son ate all my credits and resin 😭

#hsr stuff #tbd #i was so tired of farming for blade and yanqing that i just didn't properly prepare for this nerd #well he still hits 40k with his basic attack??? so he'll wait

[zenatness]

Took a little break from proper NaNo writing to spend the day editing a 6k BG3 fic I wrote earlier this month. It was almost relaxing. Almost. Except for, you know, editing NaNo-level first drafts.

Writing Holly for so long has really fucked with my writing. Skipped pronouns in the beginning of sentences, lists of three but we don't need that pesky 'and', etc. and naturally I changed tense repeatedly. As one does.

Either way, it's finished and published (whoo!) and out of my hair. Hopefully the "say please" in act 1 will stop haunting me during my waking hours now.

#nanowrimo #Baldur's Gate 3 #Astarion/Tav #obnoxiously canon compliant tbh #Astarion while on a personal quest for protection is acting like a brat #and Tav looks at him and goes 'well I can't NOT fuck him' #honestly pretty chill all things considered #she said eyeing that Astarion/Durge fic #the nano-writing has hit 40k #(hurr hurr) #I'm also running on 2 hours of sleep so... things are just generally Fine But Won't Be Soon atm

[stonekeyy]

I...I won camp nano. is this real life.

y'all I've been trying to finish nano - any nano - since 2006. TWO THOUSAND AND SIX. and I finally did it.

#when I updated the wordcount and the winner screen popped up #I just sat there in shocked silence #I...still need to actually finish the fic but #WOW #text post s #there have been years where I set my camp nano goal to 20k #and still didn't make it. or even close #my goal was 40k #I'm at 43k rn and will hit 50 by the end of the month #I genuinely don't know what to do with myself #I kinda thought nano would just always be that thing I burn myself out on #twice a year #who am I now

[sad--tree]

keep saying i don't want 2 work another retail xmas but canNOT 4 the life of me make myself finish my goddamn fucking job applications !!!!!! death & dying & despair etc. etc.

#i dont dislike the application process for gc jobs on principle BUT #it does not mesh well w/ my difficulties re: starting & finishing tasks #but like i understand why u cant just send in a resume n hit done #NOT that there are many IT listings up atm...... and ill apply 4 clerical/admin stuff too #but an IT-1 STARTS a good $10k a year higher than a CR-5 soooooo :/// #which is whatever its fine money isnt everything!! ill gladly make less if it means not hating my job!!! #but i also wanna. u know. LIVE. move out of my parents house. buy brand name snacks occasionally. maybe -gasp- go on a vacation #(not 2 say i dont make an attempt at travel now but thats with very finite savings that are def only going down not up) #also extremely frustrating 2 me the emphasis put on having a degree that completely locks me out of certain job categories #like. yes. there are for sure some where having the bg knowledge is important eg. an AU (auditor/accountant) or MA (methodologist) #and there are certain skills a degree (in theory) provides eg critical thinking research etc. #but not all of us have $40k+ to get tge fancy piece of paper saying we have those things. and u can have those skills w/o a degree #and smth like an EC which needs a degree in economics sociology or statistics is so arbitrary #and maybe not necessarily actually based in the majority of work done by the majority of positions in that category #ANYWAYS not me being bitter abt education standards YET AGAIN lol #idek if i could go to uni even if i could afford it. even tho i have 2 college diplomas id probably have 2 redo my grade 12 english 😶‍🌫️ #also if money were no object id probably go for like. film studies or smth lol not sociology #tho. ngl. if i had the willpower and determination 4 smth so rigorous (i 100% dont) accounting does seem. interesting asdffhkkfdghh #ANYWAYS pt. 2 all this 2 say this is why i instead spent $10k+ on the only possible 2 yr diploma #that can still get u in2 the higher paying public service jobs. even tho ive discovered i Dont Particularly Care for programming. :( #thats an understatement actually i was actively in hell for like 80% of that program and the remaining 20% mostly wasnt coding

[dallonwrites]

i already hit my word count goal for today but i’m still feeling really into it and also love the part i’m at so i think i’m just gonna write until i want to go sleep and see how many words come out of it. not an accountability post this is just for funsies. an experiment if you will 

#im behind the nano par but i hit 40k today which. slay. but also im coming out of my writing break #where for a couple days i just barely write #and usually after that i have big writing days #so depending on how much i write tonight i could probably hit 45k tomorrow #its 9:30pm now and i wish i could say i had a good sleep schedule but i fell asleep at 5am this morning OOPS #and when i say i hit 40k i mean my word count rn is lit rally 40018 LOL

[tippenfunkaport]

Congratulations on getting viral Mr Bow

Save me, Anon!

#if you are trying to communicate with me via tags #i assure you i have not seen it #that one post has taken over my notifications completely #though not to jinx myself but so far going viral with a tumblr post is not nearly as horrible as everyone said it would be #though it only just passed 40k notes so idk what level of viral I should fear #it's already hit reddit

[silverspleen]

local game store is having a casual event for the mtg 40k commander release tonight, I have a cosplay and disposal income, obviously going to attend, obviously going to dress up, but having a mild crisis about the terrible ordeal of doing something harmlessly weird and fun

#feeling the return of the shy parts of my personality long since buried post college #The Dragoon Diaries #mtg #warhammer 40k #cosplay #idk sometimes the shyness returns and hits me like a truck and I just gotta chew my way through it

[elftwink]

also i have promised myself that i will finish that stupid widofjord fake married fic before i graduate which i realize for other people who see me post about this once a semester and otherwise never hear hide nor hair of this fucking document are like 'sure jan' but this post is not for you it's for ME to be publicly accountable. my convocation is in june so sometime between then and now you will be seeing my masquerade heist fic mark my fucking words

#good idea generator #i have been working on it lately. its kind of a mess bc i was emailing it back and forth to myself #and i kinda got the document versions mixed up so i think my primary working document is an older version and is missing a scene #but i have all the docs saved so like. we'll cross that bridge when we're editing. which we are not #i keep adding scenes lol. i dont know why i do this to myself #i also left it alone for most of winter so im in the honeymoon stage with it rn #i read it to myself on my bed kicking my legs back and forth and giggling #like omg wow this is so funny and smart and well-written... twirls hair #every time i read it i wanna post excerpts but one that feels kinda rude when its not done #but two most of the good bits are only good in context. my favourite bit is like literally meaningless #without the 40k words of buildup that precede it. it might be ok as a quote but it just wouldnt be the same #its really not very quotable bc it requires so much context for any of the good one liners to hit #which imo makes the work overall stronger but is very annoying to me bc i love sharing excerpts

[goonlalagoon]

Camp NaNo this month didn’t exactly go to plan, but it went. I thought I’d given up a few days ago then managed to hit 40k and went “yeah I can do the rest in a weekend”, which may not have been the most sensible decision but hey, I did it.

#Nanowrimo #this doesn't have a point I'm just tired and amused at my rollercoaster of a word count #In theory I should have finished up 3 almost done stories #In practice I have 40k of random “other” stuff oops #At least I got most of the rest of SPQR 4 done I think #so maybe i'll actually finish and post it before we hit the 2 year mark since I finished posting SPQR 3

[mimicteruyo]

“Oh right, not everything has to be presented in chronlogical order,” I remind myself when re-ordering a chapter in a fic that already utilised non-chronological order.

#teruyo talk #learning to rely less on chronological order is something i really need to work on #as is relying less on a single pov #anyway writing's going well hit 40k for the year yesterday #i just hope to wrap something up soon i lose hope in progress if i go too long without finishing a draft

[boyfhees]

5.6k on my oikawa fic yas

#from—shoyotime. #35k more to go 😵🔫 #im just assuming it'll hit 40k + or - 10k works too #i wrote a LOT today #and i will write tmr bc i want to post this asap i had a sudden burst of motivation #not too sure if ppl w like this bc it's diff from what i usually write #esp the writing style !!!!!! hope u guys like it when it comes out !!!!! #which wont be anytime soon !!!!! 😁🤡🙌