I read your Jiraiya fic. It was life-changing.🙄 As an aspiring writer myself, a part of me felt so many things when I read it. I felt exactly how the characters felt in your story, I felt relief that I was able to read something that I relate so closely to on a spiritual level. But I also felt a pang of jealousy because as a Rock Lee stan, I’m writing a project for him and I just want to make people feel how you made me feel with your story. I know nothing about you. I don’t know how you’ve garnered such incredible skill or why your characterizations are so poetically accurate. A big part of me wants to ask how you got so good. A big part of me also wants to know if my writing could have the same effect on fellow readers. if you ever have the time or interest, it would be such an honor if you read my Rock Lee fic. It’s called Nirvana, and it’s perfectly fine if you decline. I just want you to know that you truly have a gift, and have given so much to the Naruto fandom/Tumblr writing scene already. Thank you💗
I’ve seriously read this like 20 times! This made my whole week, thank you so much for your kind words 🥰🥰🥰! I’m so sorry for the late reply to this. I don’t get on tumblr much anymore for a myriad of reasons, but I still LOVE coming back and seeing things like this, or even just reblogs of my work. It’s nice to know people still appreciate what I’ve written, even when the author may not seem “present” anymore or whatever. I know tumblr can be weird like that. I have sometimes even wondered if my stories would be remembered at all, so it’s nice to know they are still being consumed and enjoyed by people!
I will definitely be checking out Nirvana when I can. I can tell just based off your message to me that you’ll have a writing style I’d enjoy 🖤. I appreciate you sending this into me so, so much. Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, thank you!
I wish I could say I have advise for you. I wish I could say I’m even confident in my own work, but that wouldn’t be truthful. In reality, it’s hard for me to go back and reread anything I write. In reality, I’m always constantly nitpicking myself. I even sometimes edit my works when I reread them. I’m always striving for some unattainable level of perfection and that’s a big reason why I’ve stopped writing. So, my best advise: don’t be like me lol. Be confident in yourself and be proud that you took the time to write; that you took the time to finish anything at all. The hardest part is posting. So long as you keep doing that, and remain proud of yourself, you will only improve your craft and get better.
Much love,
Az 🖤
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me eat you whole
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Every time YouTube nonsense happens I'm always like "I can't wait to see what Sergle says about this" because you're the only person I follow that talks about YouTube nonsense.
Please take this is an invitation for you to talk about the Watcher's apology video lol
I am a filthy youtube enjoyer so you can absolutely count on me and GODDDDDDDDDDD... I mean the apology is not NEARLY as funny as the blunder, so it hasn't kept my attention as much but like
the obligatory upfront thing is that, like, it is good that they posted it, they apologized for being insensitive and whatever, they're not scraping their channel clean or going forward with their old plan to only post their shows on their own platform, and these are technically good and correct things, because they could have pretended not to notice all the negative feedback. So like, responding is good.
BUT LIKE I HAVE QUESTIONS NOW... Because they took SO LONG to film and upload a video that basically is just "we fucked up, we're sorry, we're not gonna do that anymore", which doesn't exactly take a writer's room several days to cook, but I DIGRESS...
They were quiet for long enough for everyone to LOOK REALLY CLOSE. After the initial reaction, people had time to do some pretty comprehensive cost breakdowns for their stuff, and for what they have to be pulling in from adsense, sponsored segments, patreon, merch, and touring
Like, they'd need to be really mismanaging their finances, because they're doing very well for themselves, making good, stable money, and the vids they make are super duper advertiser friendly.
SO... you take long enough without putting out a holder statement or a quick heel-turn apology or anything, it gives people more time to get comfortable with not liking you, and also to dig around and google things about you, or scrape up info/trivia about you to corroborate their new opinion of you.
It gets personal, is what I mean. So pulling this move has still, at BEST, caused some permanent damage to their relationships with fans, in both directions. They all got a huge flood of negative feedback, and even a perfect, emotionally mature, non-entitled person would have a negative reaction to people being upset with them at such a high volume. But now they're gonna remember the things that people have said about them, and there's no way that at the very least, Steven isn't gonna feel spiteful about this.
People TOTALLY unloaded on him (funny) (valid) about his evangelical christian conservative leaning tesla privileged out of touch boy gold flaked ice cream eating ways. He definitely is going to remember that ppl said they never liked him in the first place. As for Ryan and Shane, people didn't have any dirt on them, but they definitely still received a lot of angry messages from people, most of which will have been reasonable, but they're gonna remember the really really mean and intense ones.
Anyway, they made a booboo dumb enough for jack to want to make a skit about it, so for that I'm very grateful, because I thought it was really really fucking funny
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Every femstars artist I've seen draws Mugi with big boobs and I'M NOT COMPLAININGJFKSNGK I just love how she has the biggest boobs and then nat is like.... Flat.. I feel kinda rude saying thatdbsknf😭 I love them so much ❤️❤️
I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE DRAW THEM LIKE THIS!!!!!!! it's my ultimate hc for their bodies ever since I?? started shipping them ig??
Fem!Tsumugi not caring about her looks yet being well endowed while Fem!Natsume is like. always looking super pretty, but being flat as hell (and a little bit jealous of mugi's overall body proportions)? SIGN ME UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
IT'S MY FAVE SHIP DYNAMIC. I EAT IT ALL UP ALL THE TIME.
I love seeing other artists having this as their hc as well!! Imo it suits them so much OUGHHHHHHH i need to thank all the artists who also draw them like this bc you're the reason why im so well fed. thank u for your service.
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tiny yoichi (unwillingly) lures out soldiers by being his helplessness little self so his brother can strike
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OK
so, I'm really really sorry to anyone who's sent me an ask that has gone unanswered.
I have like, 17 asks in my inbox and some of them were art requests (and good ones), some of them were comments about Snoots that I wanted to draw doodles for, and some of them were just messages, but I've been avoiding my inbox because of some unknown reason and now it's stressing me ouuuttt😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Some of these askes span back to OCTOBER. 2023. AAAHHH
SO. I'm going to keep some of the art requests on my own little to-do list, but for my sanity's sake, I need to clear out my inbox.
Idk why this is stressing me out so much, but I've had like, inbox paralysis for months and then I feel guilty for posting things when I have 17 unanswered asks and then I avoid it more and then as soon as I answer one I get another and AHHH.
now LISTEN. I LOVE ASKS. it's just my time of the month so I'm acting super extra and now I have to DELETE FOR MY SANITY.
Feel free to still send me asks, I just need a clean slate.
ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU ALL❤️❤️❤️ GOODBYE IM GOING TO DRAW LEGEND WHUMP FOR THE NEXT WEEK STRAIGHT HEHE
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my thesis advisor asking me to send them my current draft, and me suddenly realizing I somehow haven’t written a single fucking sentence in 2 weeks, dudes it’s a pr nightmare (been hella unproductive the past weeks idk what tf happened)
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there's an alternate reality where this vegas:
and this pete:
most definitely fuck.
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I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO ARE SCARED OF PLAYING. Look look look, the whole point of the game is to figure out your play style and have fun. You will suck at the start but we all do and that's okay!! We get better!!!! I started from using only supports to only melee/ranged by just using the "fuck it we ball" or "random bullshit go!" method!!!! Personally I haven't seen someone shitting on a beginner, in fact I have seen people giving tips in game!! but if someone is an asshole to y'all, tell them to fuck off and that they're tripping BALLZ for being so pissed off in a ROBLOX game.
GOT IT BOSS 👍👍👍👍👍👍 ILL KEEP THIS IN MIND
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really wish people would read blog rules more, it makes running blogs like this very low reward and you feel like a machine if people aren't commenting and aren't even abiding by one of the, honestly, very few and politely phrased rules i even have
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The doctrine of discovery is one of the core concepts used to justify colonialism, especially of the settler variety. This is what the Canadian Museum of Human Rights says about it:
The Doctrine of Discovery is a legal and religious concept that has been used for centuries to justify Christian colonial conquest. It advanced the idea that European peoples, culture and religion were superior to all others.
The doctrine of discovery comes from a series of declarations from the pope in the 1400s that suggested christianity and christian cultures were superior to all other religions and cultures, and basically said that christian europeans had the right to invade and claim land and resources from non-christian people, and also had the right to subjugate and convert those populations. It's literally at the very core of colonial history and the myth of white supremacy and christian supremacy.
When the pope was visiting Indigenous communities in canada last summer, more than an apology for the catholic church's role in residential schools, what people were asking for was the overturning of the doctrine of discovery. An apology is meaningless as long as that doctrine stands.
Today, the vatican formally rejected the doctrine of discovery. It's a symbolic gesture, sure. But it's still a sign that things are changing. Space was held for Indigenous voices, and the vatican of all places listened to them.
Obviously, there's still work to be done, and colonization didn't just suddenly end because of this announcement, but this is still huge news, and it feels like we're a tiny step closer to Land Back.
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Still not over Oda deciding to have every single male character peep on the girls’ bath in Alabasta- including Luffy, Chopper, (disgustingly) King Cobra, and the fucking camel- EXCEPT for Zoro. In fact I’m pretty sure he’s the only main guy to have never been included in any of the many pervert gags. We talk about Luffy’s sexuality and very deliberate aroace coding a lot, but I think Zoro’s disinterest in women’s bodies is just as important to how he’s portrayed, and just as intentional on Oda’s part. Like, when we talk about the extremely (and justifiably!) popular mlm Zoro HC, it’s usually just our personal readings of his relationships with men like Luffy or Sanji, or (cough) strangely sexy one-liners, nothing we actually believe was intentional on Oda’s part. But this, I do believe is on purpose.
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PLEASEE POST A NEW CHAPTER OF THE SUGAR DADDY FIC I AM ON MY HANDS AND KNEES 😭😭😭😭😭
Updating All These Nights tonight and then Sugar is next to be updated, promise promise.
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