#by time they're 20 the aging processes/time is identical

[gabessquishytum]

just to flip the age kink thing, i've got a suggestion for how they'd have hob as the younger one. hob's getting to the point where he needs to start his next life and he decides that he wants to keep teaching but wants to change up the subject this time. there's a grad program he's really interested in so he figures he'll do that and then teach the subject, he starts crafting his next identity, and dream's so interested in the process since he hasn't seen hob doing this before. he sees the age hob's going for and offers some help -- he could make everyone perceive hob as younger, so he'd be able to get longer out of this identity.

hob, of course, is thrilled. he starts off as young as he can, of course, but it's been centuries since hob's even tried to pass himself off as 22. he could pull it off when people lived harder, but it just doesn't work anymore. dream makes a couple more suggestions -- hob's used June 7th as his birthday before, it sort of is in a way. now tgat he and dream use it as their anniversary he would have picked a different date but hey, if that's the date dream thinks he should go with, no big deal.

so hob goes off back to school, he's having a great time, he's sort of loving pretending to be in his 20s again. his friends do give him odd looks when they see him with dream, though. that's fine -- dream is, frankly, odd. it's probably nothing. until he starts seeing how dream's presenting himself to others and... yeah, the first time hob sees the dusting of silver hair at dream's temples, he drops to his knees to suck dream's cock in the stacks of the uni library. it's fine. he has very normal feelings about it. it's fine.

he's not totally clear on the specifics of the game dream's playing until the end of his first year, though, when dream mentions, in careful earshot of a few of hob's more gossipy classmates, that he'll plan something nice for hob's birthday. it's their anniversary, after all, and five years is a number worth celebrating. hob doesn't realize until later that dream just made sure all hob's classmates know that he got together with his significantly older and significantly wealthy boyfriend on his 18th birthday. and that dream's been supplying most of hob's wardrobe again. and giving him jewellery. and keeping hob at his side any time they're in public together. and that maybe there's a reason he keeps getting carefully worded questions about his relationship, because dream has very intentionally made him look like a pretty young thing being taken advantage of by an older man. hob needs dream to fuck him about this immediately, actually.

(it also occurs to hob, once dream's fucked him through the mattress while calling him little one and darling boy and pet, that this is. probably how gods and fey and other immortals actually do see a relationship between dream of the endless and a human. and gets turned on about it all over again.)

-🐈‍⬛

This is literally what I look like right now. Oh my fucking gOD

I don't. I don't know how to add to this? Hnnngg. Dream with grey in his hair, treating Hob like his little plaything, making Hob’s friends somewhere between concerned and jealous. It's making my mouth go dry.

I think you might have finally bit the "horny overload" switch in my brain, my darling.

ffffffuck.

I'm just thinking about Dream renting a fancy apartment for Hob to live in while he's studying. He comes home from the dreaming every day, and Hob’s friends skedaddle from what ever study club they've been doing (they're a little intimidated by Dream, although hes nothing but polite). Dream gets to have Hob all to himself for the evening, gets to relearn Hob’s body as it hasn't been for a very long time. Being physically 22 has a lot of advantages when it comes to joint flexibility and sexual stamina, and Dream wants to enjoy them to the fullest. Hob is very much immersed in the fantasy of being Dream’s kept boy, and he likes the attention, he likes it when Dream showers him in gifts. He keeps Dream updated on his grades and soaks up all the praise and sweet talk Dream lavishes on him. They go to the opera together, or to fancy restaurants where Dream publicly shows Hob off to absolutely everyone. And the sex afterwards is just insane. Hob rides Dream’s cock in the limo on the way home, or sucks him off in the dressing rooms of fancy boutiques.

They have literally all the time in the world to be horny and stupid and I, for one, want to see it.

#🐈‍⬛ anon #the sandman #dreamling #nsft #dream x hob

[fieldsofview]

20 Questions (for fanfic writers)

I got tagged by the absolutely lovely @sarah-sandwich Thank you!!

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

17 :)

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

157,867 (2/3 of that is SMH hahaha)

3. what fandoms do you write for?

atm all my WIPs and upcoming fic ideas are Spidey related, but I used to write a lot for MLB and OL:BA (and A:TLA back on ffn in hs but we don't talk about the dark ages hahaha)

4. top five fics by kudos:

Under The Moonlight - OL:BA smutty oneshot of what should have happened after the charity ball scene 😳

Crushtomer - MLB coffee shop AU one-shot with Barista!Adrien and Overworked Uni Student!Marinette (heavily inspired by my barista days in College, when I was writing this) ☕

King Agreste - a MLB AU oneshot inspired by the Grimm fairy tale Allerleirauh "all-kinds-of-fur" 🏰

You Said You Loved Me - an MLB kwami swap identity reveal wip i never finished and probably never will sorry 😬

Spider-Man: Homesickness - My take on what the MCU Spidey's life could be like 5 years post: No Way Home and his journey into letting people back into his life and not being so alone (My CURRENT BABY and WIP that I'm ALMOST DONE WITH - it's so fucking long alskdhasasjdkhksdjhfkfh my hope is that it ends up in the no. 1 spot someday when it's complete) 🕸️

5. do you respond to comments?

So I didn't always, but nowadays I try really hard to respond to every comment thread at least, even if I don't always have the last comment on the thread. I really REALLY appreciate each and every comment and I actually often re-read them when I'm feeling insecure in my writing (is that cringe? maybe lol but it's true)

6. what is the fic your wrote with the angstiest ending?

Definitely The Beauty of Green. 268-word OL: BA drabble that smacks you out of nowhere in the last two sentences. I never write things that short anymore but it just worked

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

A lot of my one-shots back when I was writing for MLB like 5 years ago have happy endings. I prefer more *complicated* endings now, but a genuinely happy ending can be nice too. May I present Drops in a Pond for consideration though? Not traditionally fluffy or sweet, but I like to think it's a soft and hopeful kind of ending.

8. do you get hate on fics?

I haven't yet. I think I'm too small of a creator to get hate lol

9. do you write smut?

I've posted one smut fic before, Under the Moonlight, listed above. It's my top-rated fic so I guess I know a little of what I'm doing. OH and my side-wip I'm working on when SMH is too angsty for me is all fluff and kinky Parkner smut and I'm so excited to post that someday when SMH is fully out and done.

10. craziest crossover:

I haven't written any crossovers, unless you count pulling from marvel canon across different adaptations to make SMH (it's got Gwen and Harry and Miles even though they're not in the MCU 19999 as of now). But I used to write a lot of aus

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but I would be so honored if someone did! I once had a full conversation in the comments with someone in another language by using Google Translate and that was fun!

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

I think my writing process would be a little too unconventional to co-write with someone unless we were trading chapters and perspectives. I go back and edit my drafts a lot as I move forward and I would be too tempted to edit their writing too, which feels mean...

14. all time favorite ship?

I LITERALLY CAN NOT PICK DO NOT DO THIS TO ME!!!!! I will be a multi-shipper until the day I die, in basically every fandom.

15. what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have an idea for a series of long fics making an MCU HS AU inspired by Degrassi, but I think it would be just too many hours and too many words that I won't ever commit to. I love a good HS AU every now and again, but I feel like a lot of people (across fandoms with hs aus tbh) write the characters as if they already have a lot of the canon quirks the characters have as adults. I would want to write them truly as their HS selves, acting like real teenagers and all the dumb shit teens do, as the reader follows along on the journey of their growing up.

16. what are your writing strengths?

I think I really like detail and trying to portray a level of reality with the characters, even in more fantastical settings. I want the character's choices and motivations to be both complex and clear to the reader, even when they're making choices that the reader disagrees with. I also think this is a skill that is more and more prevalent in my recent writing, so my earlier MLB stuff doesn't have as much of it. My OLBA stuff and now my Spidey stuff though? Yeah.

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

Staying motivated to finish WIPS. (This is something I've improved a lot on though and at this point, barring some kind of life-or-death calamity in my life, I will absolutely be finishing SMH. I'm literally 120k of a predicted 150k words deep and going strong sooo).

OH ALSO comedy! I'm so bad at writing funny characters and making them actually say things that are both funny and make sense. Sucks when writing Spidey cause he can be such a little shit with his sarcastic comments and each dialogue point takes me 3-5 business weeks to come up with.

18. thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I do it very rarely and only when it feels 100% necessary. I had a small bit in Spanish in ch 6 of SMH because Jeff and Rio were literally talking about Peter right in front of him and he could hear the words they were saying, even if he didn't understand them. But it was very brief.

I did it because the POV character literally didn't understand it, so it made sense to have it written out. In fics where the POV character understands what's being said, I prefer it all be written in the fic's primary language, for reader ease.

19. first fandom you wrote in?

A:TLA, like I said. That was back in the dark ages of my Junior Year of HS on my old ffn account that will never see the light of day again hahaha

20. favorite fic you've written?

Every current WIP has always been my favorite because that is what I'm thinking about. So SMH is definitely my current fave. It's my baby and I've put literally hundreds of hours into it (I keep a spreadsheet lol, it's nearly 150 hours of sheer writing, not including the early days of brainstorming and outlining.)

HOWEVER, back in the day, I was really proud of writing Answer Me and it's literally my lowest-rated fic, but I was such a fan of the genre and the Night Circus inspiration. Plus, I love Alya as a character and it was really fun to write from her perspective.

OH, and I'm still proud of Under the Moonlight because it taught me that my acespec ass can write smut and is also good at it, lol. I just have to write smut that's rooted in ~*~feelings~*~ and also has an element of humanism and imperfection. Which is the type of vibe I'm putting into my side-wip rn.

Thanks for tagging me, Sarah!

no pressure tagging: @seek--rest, @abcd-em, @missamyshay, @pbpsbff

#fic writing #fic writer ask #ao3 #foviewpoint #This was so fun! #some of these works are literally so old I'm a whole different person now #writer ask #Spider-Man: homesickness

[dragonagitator]

Like House MD, time travel, radical canon divergence, and author-self-insert isekai fanfics? Beta readers wanted!

Welp it seems the brainrot I contracted from @acrownforaking is compelling me to write my own House MD isekai fanfic featuring an author-self-insert who unexpectedly reality shifts / time travels from January 2024 in our universe to January 2004 in the Houseverse, then immediately decides to seize this opportunity to unfuck the shitshow that is Greg House's life while simultaneously rewriting 20 years of history with nothing but her shitty memory and her hubris to guide her.

Unfortunately, while I've spent the past 30+ years reading 100+ million words of fanfic in various fandoms, my only previous experience in writing fanfic has consisted of starting and then abandoning a few Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate 3 fics. I wrote thousands of words, but I wrote the scenes out of order as the ideas came to me. I never published even a single chapter of those fics on AO3 because my writing process failed to produce a coherent Chapter 1 before getting hopelessly bogged down in obsessively researching the lore of the games' settings.

I've learned from my mistakes and this time I'm going to force myself to write my story in chronological order so I can begin publishing chapters while it's still a WIP. I've heard that those sweet sweet dopamine hits from AO3's email notifications can be a great incentive to keep writing. Plus the Houseverse being nearly identical to our own universe means there's very little setting-specific lore for me to research.

I'm seeking beta readers both for the usual reasons (motivation, accountability, and general writing feedback) and to help me untangle the messes I'll be making every time my OC uses her foreknowledge to force a radical deviation from show canon and/or IRL recent history. So, if you're the sort of person who enjoys pointing out a plan's fatal flaws or rooting out logical inconsistencies, then oh boy would I love for you to rip my drafts apart. Make both my OC and me cry. Please.

Warning: This fic will be dark. The source material is already pretty fucking dark -- House MD canon includes all four of the major archive warnings -- and my story will likely include even more potential triggers than in canon because one of the major themes will be how quickly things can spiral horribly out of control when you think you can predict the future.

So, if you have any triggers that you avoid reading about for the sake of your mental health, you probably shouldn't volunteer to beta read my fic because I won't be working on the trigger warnings until the final polishing for publication. It would be safer to wait until I've posted on AO3 to read it because I plan to break the chapters up so that triggering content is quarantined in its own separate chapters that can be briefly summarized and skipped.

Please let me know if you're interested in beta reading chapters before they're published on AO3. Any level of involvement welcome -- I am fully aware that most people don't have the time or interest to volunteer as a copyeditor or developmental editor! Quick feedback like "he would not fucking say that" or "yo there's a giant plot hole over here" would be super helpful to me too. Thanks in advance!

#house fanfiction #house md fanfiction #house #house md #hate crimes md #hatecrimes md #greg house #gregory house #beta readers #beta wanted #beta reader #beta request #beta reader wanted #beta readers wanted #beta reader request #beta readers request #time travel problems

[nightwing-scp]

hello everyone

welcome to @n1ghtw1ng-scp's RP blog :]

featuring my main SCP OC Night. some extras include her ex-parasite Entity and coworker Lewis. also the Graveyard AICs from SCP-7374 for some reason.

general information about them :

Name: Nightwing Sky, alternately Night.aic

Age: 20 at time of death

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: ace and demi

Species: AI construct (mind), cybernetic human (body)

Abilities: She can use her core energy and manipulate it, up to a point. Also has retractable metal blade wings (think Murder Drones) and claws that can be equipped with a shock module.

About: Night is an AIC (artificially intelligent conscript) that works with the SCP Foundation. She is part of Mobile Task Forces Alpha-9 (with other anomalies) and Kappa-10 (with other AICs). She is also part of the dimensional research program, often traveling to different realities to gather and send back information. She was formerly a human/dragon hybrid, created by Red Nexus and employed by the Foundation, until she 'canceled out' 3125 and died, then her consciousness was brought back as an AI system and put back into her original body, which was heavily modified.

Playlist:

everyone else: ⬇️

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Names: the Graveyard AICs - Janus, Caerus, and Hermes.aic

Age: on average, 2-3 months

Pronouns: they/it

Sexuality: sexuality? they don’t even have identity down yet

Species: collective AI system

Abilities: Individual: Janus can manifest minor memetic hazards (decomissioned for not ‘communicating effectively’), Caerus can access the Foundation intranet at will, and is able to find a way into most networks (decommissioned for not ‘showing signs of sapience’), and Hermes can perform minor localized reality manipulation (decomissioned for putting a researcher into a coma).

About: They’re originally from canon SCP-7374, they only show up in that one article and then they get destroyed, so this is sort of an AU in which Dr. Parker is less violent, and they're still there. They mostly speak together and often identify as one (because its easier that way), even though they have different personalities and skills. They're currently incorporeal, communicating by transmissions through devices (and their abilities.) .aic stands for Artificial Intelligence Construct, used to designate a specific AI as created by and working for the Foundation. All 3 of them escaped the "AIC Graveyard", a server where the Foundation sends AICs that they deem ineffective or dangerous.

Playlist:

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Name: Entity

Age: 25, 16 at time of transformation

Pronouns: it/he

Sexuality: aroace

Species: mist parasite (idk)

Abilities: Can possess biological minds, including most animals and humans, partially or completely occupying their brains.

About: Entity is a parasite/symbiont who’s original form is a vaguely humanoid red mist figure. Originally only known as Phoenix, he was a test subject for Red Nexus along with Night. He got selected for ‘intensive testing’, and they put him through a series of processes that temporarily stripped away most of his base personality and eventually he took the form of a mist entity that could only survive through extended contact with a host consciousness. It ended up finding Night again, and taking her as its main host, until her biological consciousness was erased and it was forced to take the mind of her pet snake, Fang.

Playlist:

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Name: Researcher Ashton Lewis (formerly D-9355 / SCP-939-102)

Age: 37

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: bisexual

Species: human

Abilities: Currently no notable abilities. Is very bad at dying, though.

About: Lewis is a researcher for the SCP Foundation, specializing in interviewing and talking with different anomalies. He was formerly a successful experimental psychologist, until he got charged with assault. He accepted the offer of becoming a D-Class for the Foundation instead of taking jail time, but while he was a D-Class he started metamorphosing into a SCP-939 instance. They eventually turned him back using SCP-914. He recontained 682 during a breach by himself, which convinced the Foundation to let him temporarily become staff so they could utilize his skills in talking to anomalies.

Playlist:

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[panicdeleter]

the unfortunate experience of having dissociative identity disorder diagnosed young is that I go to a fucking psych hospital tell them I have DID and they just, don't believe me. I had fucking Fuge. Motherfucking fuge. Nowhere online can I even find a description of what fuge looks like during the process other than "bewildered wandering" and these psychs definitely got the abnormal psych class at the local college that I've been told by someone who took the class "doesn't even mention the disorder" so my *absolutely has had dyskinesia like 6 times because my first doctor gave me 5mg of abilify as a 5 year old and wrecked my brain* having ass bitch got put on antipsychotics and because I was also age regressed out the ass, and totally disconnected from reality and deep in some antichrist demon boyfriend fantasy (I have... interesting power fantasies when totally unable to cope that apparently just, took over? like I *was* the maladaptive daydream) yeah I just, I want to go on, I can't I don't have the energy to pop back three stages of disconnected connected thoughts. This is just, how I think. I had a point but the amnesia kicked in and now I'll have to walk back through the thought process to find the idea and pick it back up with a new thread of self. I feel like I'm mostly fragment and not even alter. It's fucking atrocious in here guys. I am sorry for the incoherency. I'm tired of doctors not knowing what this disorder even is while also contradicting themselves by believing they're capable of distinguishing between "true" and "false" did like anyone would honestly pretend to be like this... like BPD and DID... I've met several people diagnosed BPD and like, low and behold after a while of hanging out and just, talking about myself and them BPD, CPTSD, and DID all feel like a spectrum of the same fucking thing. It's the same shit. I have at least one friend who's a diagnosed autistic narcisist and she's *also* dealing with the same underlying shit. Like it's all fucking trauma. I'm fucking pissed about how little information there is about DID vs Schizophrenia and how people don't have enough training to recognize did.... which doesn't respond to medications and shouldn't be medicated in the first place... and it takes 5-12 years on average to get diagnosed. That's 5-12 years of intense psychiatric drugs. 5-12 years of being a fucking hostage to a system that isn't educated about you, being passed from psych to psych as they slowly realize they don't know what's wrong with you, from therapist to therapist as they say they *aren't qualified to help*, direct quote from a therapist of mine. I have no idea how to emphasize on top of this how exausting this all is. How much each intake appointment means ripping into your history of trauma and telling them your entire backstory as much as you can. Every bubble sheet filling how much you struggle. Every psych eval... after psych eval after psych eval. I must have had at least 20. I'm tired. This is a major injustice no one gives a shit about. It won't improve, because unlike autism we don't have marketable devices, unlike schizophrenia we don't seem scary or dangerous, unlike chronic illness we can't be scienced in imperical ways, we can't be examined through the lenses of biopsy and genetic testing... what little research is even out there is mostly about detecting "fakers"... when a commonly known symptom of did is dissociating about your dissociation. I want help. I really, truly want help. There just *isn't help*.

#disability #plural #dissociative identity disorder #disability rights #I wish I had access to a dissociative identity disorder friend group #but like the plural tag is 90% syscourse #fuck it it's going on this post anyway #traumagenic #fuge

[worldismyne]

The fandom culture in the past was a time and we're still learning...

This is 100% my opinion based on my internet experience growing up.

A common take I see coming up is that late 00s early 10s fan culture was cringe and problematic. It's usually to do with things like Yaoi fan-girls and genderbend. (there's probably others that fall in this category, but these were the main ones that came to mind.) I just think there's something to be gained by asking why these online phenomena happened rather than writing it off as bad and don't look back.

This is a something I've been thinking about a lot lately as someone who grew up with the internet.

Which is that, at that time, a lot of us were kids/teens seeking representation. We were growing up in a time where trans/queer characters weren't readily on TV. We didn't have the language to describe the dysphoria or ostracization we felt; or a jumping off point to explore things like gender expression safely.

So we took to the wild west that was the internet, we came across fetishized examples of what we were searching for and latched onto it without critically analyzing why.

It led to people regurgitating foreign vocabulary we didn't fully comprehend and while others tried to co-opt it into what they found into actually were looking for. And yes, I mean regurgitate, whole and unanalyzed, fiercely defended without an alternative readily available.

Because the truth is sometimes Stacy, age 13; was looking for a role model on how to live as a queer man; and now is a married 20-something that really doesn't want to think about the years they latched onto uke/seme junk when really they were looking for gender expectations for cis/queer adult life.

That genderbend is very appealing to a young person that didn't realize they were gender fluid themselves; and liked the idea of their favorite characters living in both spaces simultaneously but was forced to share the same spaces with shippers that just wanted to 'no-homo' certain ships.

It was hard to look for stuff without getting bombarded by overly fetishized stuff made by straight creators for straight consumers. And adults were reinforcing that it was all part and parcel irl. (Legit wasn't allowed to say lesbian at the dinner table growing up, because the very idea of a queer relationship was assumed to be inherently sexual in nature by my parents' generation; we see this still argued about at Disney all the time)

Fandom was and, in some ways, still is one of the easiest 'safe' (as is safe from family) places to explore those topics of identity and idealized futures.

I think as my generation's gotten older, we've realized that we need to create safe places in fandom explore queerness. That it's important to divorce queer stories from fetish (though they aren't always mutually exclusive. I's the distinction that matters). And there's been more of a push for genuine queer rep on tv (especially kid's media)

I've found tumblr to be relatively kind compared to other platforms like tiktok, or amino; but some fandom tags are still a homogenous mix of nsfw, sfw, and fetish.

I 100% agree it's on creators to properly tag their stuff. To help people filter out things they don't want to see. Things like safe-search only work if human beings cooperate.

But I also sincerely urge people to not to mindlessly consume fandom content. It's a sure-fire way to accidently absorb notions/vocabulary you don't fully identify with or understand. Normalization is a passive action, not a conscious decision.

Those bad habits in art/writing/etc, they're hard to shake unless you look back and critically analyze why you like/hate the things you do. And it's still really easy to pick up flawed ideas wandering around anywhere on the internet. It's a constant process, and everyone goes through it regardless of age or orientation. Internet culture is always changing

Also, look back at what you make. The commonalities between your OCs and yourself. What about those ideas actually appeal to you? What ideas are you recycling out of habit because that's the way every other thing like it was made? It's the only way to make new spaces/tags/etc for what you want, versus settling for what's already there.

#myne talks #long post #none of this takes into account 2010's 'shock humor' that's it's own beast #long story short if you cringe and walk away you're doomed to keep making cringe-worthy stuff it's the cycle of cringe

[thenetvvork]

(cross posting to our DreamWidth)

Lately (last night and today) the subject came up of what was here before The Network. Memories are fuzzy because it deals with us before the age of 9 (so before 2004. 20 years ago and back). Plus it's one of those personal history things that isn't necessarily about accuracy in a historical sense. It's more of a story in the way people tell stories of their histories. Like a myth or folk story. Like somewhere right in the middle of all that. (There is no concrete physical proof from our childhood for this that we know of so it's hard track)

We've talked about this before but The Network has been a social identity. Right now it functions as shorthand for every more than one experience in this body because we're all in The Network. But what if someone (besides Mew) from before that identity solidified came back somehow? There were a few different things going on.

There were The Hordes which were all fictives from the Redwall series. So theoretically, they're the same as us. Fictives. And there was a lot of overlap between both groups, especially early on but even up through high school. I think it's probably good we "won out" against the Hordes in that I really think the way we work allows us to be more grounded in the present moment in this reality. I think for that to happen with the Hordes a real world view shift would have had to happen, a bigger one than any that would have happened with us.

Also within that timeframe we had other fictives too. But they were more few and far between and before The Network so since they weren't in the Hordes they just free floated rip Chester you would have hated The Network. Probably. I didnt ever know you but I think Megan might have

And before that, or maybe at around the same time (see it's hard to track with two fuzzy memories and a paperclip and the memories don't show overlap but logically they had to because past time is finite) we had factives - a completely different type of gain and working than us as fictives. And the only clue to them being factives and not Mew just imagining things is a very specific memory during a summer break where he was trying to ignore them because he thought hey maybe it's weird and time consuming to have imaginary talks with fictional characters people I know from school and writing camp and daycare. Maybe I shouldn't imagine tragedy beset upon their families and then they have to live with me and my family and I see them everyday (we were a lonely child who had attachment issues). And it worked for (in his mind) a month (but given how long time is for a kid probably a lot less than that) but they came back unbidden and Mew was happy to see them again. (To be clear he had also done this same mental process with us a few times but we just. Refused to play along.)

The Hordes truly stopped showing up when we moved out of our parents house and into college in another state. They lived in our parents backyard. They don't show back up when we visit.

The factives, well.... I don't know. I truly never met them. Mew grew out of it I guess. Probably when we were separated from the person they were sourced from for long enough they faded. Megan doesn't seem sure when I ask her when and if that overlap would have been. For one of them it would have to be 1st grade-5th (1st grade being when we met the boy, end of 5th when we stopped going to day care), so ages 5-10? Another was a girl who was in a writing camp with us, so probably also elementary school age. I don't know if it would be before the 4th grade though (that's when The Network solidified). There might have been more. Or the memory is conflating the factives and the fictives. Either the free floating ones or the Hordes.

And to Mew, these are completely different sections of his life. No overlap in his mind. Except the timelines overlap and I know people in The Network talked to people in the Hordes. I was there for that overlap. So his weird perspective isn't helping

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All of this to build up to the idea/joke that The Network is built on top of the factives. On top like they're in headmate hell? On top like how a building is built on another building? On top like those new tubs you just lay over the old one? On top like literally if we literally dig down with our hands we'll find them? We just don't know lol

This discussion also alienates Mew as a Network member. The Network kind of solidified Around him. He's the "original" so whoever "won out", he would still be around in whatever fashion. Of course we're all quite happy with him here as he is now but he would be here regardless. Like a force of nature

#we could have had sidesystems #rip what could have been; all of us as factions could not coexist #any more us vs them in here and we really will bring back being allowed to hit each other #b #network log #i KNOW we have talked about this before I KNOW we have. i need a new tag for it #pre-network

[wrote-a-article]

Resume Hacks 101: Little Known Tricks to Boost Your Job Prospects

In the vast sea of job applications, your resume is the light that can either guide you to a promising opportunity or leave you lost. It's essential to go above and beyond the basics and use some clever tactics to make your CV stand out in today's extremely competitive employment market. Let's explore some little-known tips that can greatly improve your chances of landing a job.

I. Introduction

The job market is like a battlefield; your resume is your armour. With so many contenders vying for the same positions, you need to ensure your resume isn't just a document but a compelling narrative that convinces employers you're the one for the job.

II. Modifying Your Resume according to the Job

Gone are the days of the one-size-fits-all resume. Employers want to see a tailored document that speaks directly to the skills and experiences they're looking for. Take the time to dissect the job description and align your resume with the specific needs of the role. This catches the eye and shows that you've done your homework and are genuinely interested in the position.

III. Crafting an Engaging Summary or Objective

Your resume is not just a list of places you've worked; it's a story of your professional journey. Start with a compelling summary or objective that paints a vivid picture of who you are and what you bring to the table. This is your chance to showcase your personality and set the tone for the rest of the document. Tailor this section to the role, emphasising the unique qualities that make you an ideal fit.

IV. Quantifying Achievements and Impact

Numbers speak louder than words, especially in the corporate world. Don't just list your responsibilities; quantify your achievements. Instead of saying you "increased sales," say you "boosted sales by 20% in six months." This gives the weight of your accomplishments and provides a clear picture of your impact in your previous roles.

V. Incorporating Action Verbs

Your resume should exude energy and initiative. Swap out passive language for dynamic action verbs that convey a sense of purpose. Instead of saying you "assisted in project management," say you "orchestrated and streamlined project management processes." This makes your resume more engaging and reflects a proactive attitude.

VI. Showcasing Skills Strategically

The skills section is not just a checklist; it's a strategic tool to capture the attention of hiring managers. Organise your skills based on their relevance to the job you're applying for. If the role requires specific technical skills, ensure they take centre stage. Balance hard skills with soft skills, showcasing a well-rounded professional profile.

VII. Including a Projects or Portfolio Section

Your resume shouldn't be confined to bullet points and job titles. If you have noteworthy projects or a portfolio, create a dedicated section to showcase them. Provide links or attachments that allow employers to see tangible examples of your work. This adds depth to your resume and demonstrates the practical application of your skills.

VIII. Formatting for Readability

No one has the time or patience to decipher a cluttered and confusing resume. Opt for a clean and professional layout that makes it easy for hiring managers to scan your document. Use a legible font, appropriate spacing, and bullet points to create a visually appealing and easily digestible resume.

IX. Customising Your LinkedIn Profile

Your online presence is as important as your resume in the digital age. Align your LinkedIn profile with your resume, ensuring consistency in your professional narrative. Use keywords relevant to your industry, and actively seek endorsements to boost your credibility. A well-maintained LinkedIn profile complements your resume and provides a more comprehensive view of your professional identity.

X. Seeking Feedback and Continuous Improvement

Your resume is a work in progress. Don't hesitate to seek feedback from mentors, colleagues, or friends. Fresh perspectives can uncover blind spots and help you refine your document further. Regularly revisit and update your resume, keeping it in sync with your evolving skills and experiences. Stay informed about industry trends and resume best practices to ensure your document remains relevant.

XI. Conclusion

Crafting an effective resume is both an art and a science. By implementing these little-known tricks, you can elevate your resume from merely listing qualifications to a compelling story of your professional journey. Remember, your resume is not just a ticket to a job; it's your marketing tool. Stay proactive, keep refining, and watch as these hacks transform your job prospects in ways you never imagined.

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[haitokunohonoo]

Meme thing because I'm procrastinating. Originally from here. Don't feel like answering every question though.

1. What is your species? - Ugh....

2. Are you out? To whom? - I talk to friends about it sometimes but I know most of them think it's weird. Twitter and Tiktok kinnies have made things... difficult.

3. How old were you when you realized you were not human? What made you realize it? - [REDACTED]. Friends joked about it. Went and read some studies and anecdotal essays about it. Realized they were right.

4. Do you identify as a part of the “otherkin”, or, “therian” community? What communities do you identify with? - I stay on the edges and just observe but sometimes I use the 'kin label. Can't narrow it down between "otherkin" and "fictionkin," hence an apostrophe.

6. Have you faced any abuse because of identifying not human? - No. There have been jokes but people shut up when I put my foot down.

8. Do you believe there should be non-human pride? What do you imagine it being like? - It'd be nice if more people were accepting of alterhuman identities but it's very hard to get anyone outside the community to take it seriously. Even parts of the community itself don't take it seriously. If these obstacles were overcome, I think a non-human pride event would be similar to a furry gathering but with a larger variety of non-animal things. Maybe similar to a combination furry/anime convention.

9. What does being not human mean to you? - Slow organization of whatever the hell is bouncing around inside my skull.

10. What have other people said about your non-human nature? - They're jealous of my excellent night vision and high tolerance for spicy food.

14. Tell us about a time you met another non-human, whether in real life or online. - The sister of a friend of a friend once dated a guy that was a vampire. Him and the sister had gotten frisky and he'd bitten her and left marks, which her brother was not happy about. I don't think he knew it was just a foreplay thing but the family was weirdly religious. Who knows. Anyway, the brother ambushed the guy and sucker punched his balls. It was brutal, I don't know why they didn't just talk it out. After the guy recovered, they finally came to an understanding about it but the whole thing was wild. He got punched when I was like 4ft away lmao

16. Your favorite “non-human” book (as in, non-human characters are the main focus). - Monstrous Affections by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant. It's an anthology.

17. Your favorite “non-human” movie. - Lost Boys is good. Terminator on a technicality.

19. Is being non-human spiritual for you? - No.

20. Tell us a few thoughts about what it’s like being your species. - Always fogging up the damn windows. Weird dreams.

22. What do you believe causes non-human identity? - From the studies I've read, it makes sense that in a lot of cases it's a coping mechanism for some difficult to process trauma. There's the spiritual aspect too, though I haven't read as much on that and won't write about it here. Another possibility is that everyone plays pretend as a kid. You're supposed to just stop doing that once you reach a certain age? Alterhumanity is deeper than just "pretend," but it's bullshit expecting people to not ever feel like something else as adults.

24. Write something or post a picture about non-humans that upsets you. - Two words: Twitter kinnies.

25. What is the worst argument you’ve heard against being non-human? - "It's just a social media/reality/delusion/etc disorder and shouldn't be taken seriously." Like no shit something's off.

26. Who is your biggest ally? - They follow me here (hi)

27. What is your favorite types of cake? - Local place has this chocolate mousse thing with chocolate shavings that's awesome.

28. What is your favorite type of pie? (Or, is pie an acceptable replacement for cake?) - Pie and cake are both killer. I like pumpkin or strawberry & rhubarb pie.

29. Where did you first learn about being non-human? - DeviantArt back around 2005-2007. I knew a lot of wolves, but I was young and mean about it.

#kin tag /

[mirceakitsune]

⚠️ My Patreon may be shutting down in the coming months

Wanted to post about this earlier but frankly I didn't have the energy or will to bother. This is an important announcement so if you're a Patreon supporter please read the first half.

Since the beginning of the year, Patreon has been harassing NSFW creators with a new policy requiring them to hand over sensitive documents to the platform. They've been doing this to target creators for age discrimination… sorry, I meant to say age verification. Hiding behind the excuse that Mastercard is making them do it, those who went through the process describe being asked to install a special app on their phone and film themselves holding sensitive identity documents in front of their webcam… yes, literally like ISIS hostages when they're filmed by their captors and the video sent to authorities for ransom. Needless to say no common sense observations, like the fact I've been on this internet for nearly 20 years and would have had to register on many websites when I was some -3 years old, are enough to make it clear I'm well in my 30's for those so desperate to kiss my ass about my personal and private life and identity. How does a child open their own bank account anyway… like you just walk into a bank and say "my name is Nina, I'm 10 years old, and mommy sent me to open an account and get my own credit card" in the minds of those people?

It goes without saying that I will not be subjecting myself to such abuse. Both due to the ridiculous and disgusting motive behind it, as well as it being blatant identity theft that should be illegal in any normal country. At the moment my Patreon is still functional and there are no restrictions only periodic popups, however they threatened that our ability to pay out may eventually be suspended. As such my Patreon is now on borrowed time: I'm using those potential last months to get as much as possible out of it before it all goes down. Unless some miracle happens and they get their heads screwed on straight, my plan is to shut down my page the second they introduce limitations that makes it unusable. For this reason I'd like all supporters to be on standby as I don't want you losing your money: I'll immediately make a new announcement the moment these bastards place restrictions so you know to pull out! If given the option I'll remove every supporter myself or revert to a non-creator page which should do the trick.

I've thought about requesting they revert my page back to SFW creator but don't think I'll go that route: First of all I'd need to find and delete countless posts I made over the years… those fools will surely look through all my stuff anyway, I don't want them seeing and judging it with their broken little primate minds that may perceive god knows what atrocity. My main problem is even if I made the request, they likely still label SFW content as NSFW even when it's not explicit; There are rumors of staff members being intoxicated about themes like furry / macro / vore into thinking it's undercover sexual content or some shit… something similar happened on Youtube, it's why independent animation has been impossible or at best risky to post there in recent years. I don't want to live with the feeling that I stand to be attacked for anything I post when I least expect it… platforms like Furaffinity and some governments are causing that enough as it is.

If I do shut down I'll likely keep creating content and posting it for free in the other galleries, as I always had before Patreon came into existence. For as long as even that remains legal and won't require logging in with the United Nations to be allowed to share or view art, seems that's what some psychopaths would like if they had their way. My goal is to move to decentralized platforms like Mastodon, though I'm still waiting for something better suited for media that uses mirroring / seeding for proper censorship resistance. In this way I plan on living off the money I have left and simply creating what I like how I still can, till I either die or am arrested for it under Western Sharia Law.

Not worth going into any more of a rant beyond that. Just never forget that in the year 2023 during the age of logic science and technology, it became impossible or a danger to make a living off creating art, reasons including religious superstition left over from the industrial revolution about porn being harmful to children up to merely seeing or creating fictional art on the fucking internet. I'm just baffled to remember all the nice dreams I had about the future more than 10 years ago, when in my stupidity I thought we'd have a real civilization and America in particular would be heaven on Earth; Took quite the hard lessons to realize the human species will never evolve past the status of tribal savages, you could throw holograms flying cars and warp drives at this world and it will remain but a medieval society with some technology sprinkled on top. I'm past hating anyone for better or worse… at least people, I will die hating the concept of human morality and notion of "empathy" used in their attempts to control and destroy me: When my time comes, maybe even a not so distant future seeing this planet made it clear I'm not supposed or allowed to be alive and exist here, it will at least be without any real regrets.

#announcement #patreon #censorship

[atwistedtalehq]

CHARACTER NAME: steve harrington CHARACTER FACECLAIM: joe keery CHARACTER AGE/DOB (if from enchanted forest, general age okay): april 22nd 2000 / 23 years old (technically 20) CHARACTER PRONOUNS/GENDER IDENTITY/SEXUALITY ETC: he/him, cis in the 'i'm not talking about it way', bisexual/romantic/polyam CHARACTER FANDOM: stranger things OC OR CANON: canon WHICH LAND ARE THEY FROM (examples: earth, enchanted forest, wonderland, monsterland [frankenstein, dracula, vamps etc], neverland): earth CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY: growing up as the only child to wealthy parents-- daniel & juliet harrington-- steve felt a lot of pressure to perform in life. to show his worth at every turn. to prove to his parents he was something. especially when they themselves had made such great strides in life. but in all honesty, steve always felt he fell short. he could never seem to get just the right grades to get their attention. he could never join enough clubs for them to be interested. steve learned early on, that to have his parents attention was a rarity. but that didn't stop him from trying.

and it spread to other areas of his life too. it made him the centre of attention at school. king steve. the legend. being popular and liked was all that mattered to steve. positive attention was everything.

that began to change when he learned of some of the true horrors of this world, and finally started thinking of something other than grabbing attention and adoration.

in the years since learning of the upside down, steve has become a changed man. gone is the egotistical, attention seeking and arrogant person he once was. now, he's unafraid to show his heart. he's unafraid to show how kind and truly caring he can be. he knows that any minute could be his last, so what was the sense in pretending to be something he's not? what was the point to any of it? he credits his best friend, robin, a lot for these revelations and changes.

this all empowered steve in the final battle against vecna-- so much so that he made the hero play, sacrificing himself in order for the rest of the gang to win. it worked, it did. they won, they defeated their big bad. but steve was lost, killed in the process of sealing up the gates…

only to wake up in another realm. ruled by another entity. one where he had to undergo trial after trial. in different places each time, against different killers, with different survivors. three long years passed outside, for steve it felt endless. until, that final trial… in familiar territory.

hawkins lab. but as if it were pulled into the upside down. and he knew-- he finally had the upper hand. especially with familiar faces at his side.

they got out-- damn near blew the realm to shit as they did. and now, they're waking up in storybrooke, with no clue as to what they have missed.

admin alex app.

#steve harrington app #accepted

[lucyhannahart]

Major Project Update 19/1/23 - 25/1/23

19/1/23

During my meeting with Odella I raised the fact that I felt that creating a docufilm on top of running an Instagram and creating other forms of media may prove to be difficult given the amount of time I have for this project. In response to this, Odella advised that I create it on TikTok as opposed to long-form content, as this is what I usually make. This may prove to be easier as I can be far more flexible. I already feel quite overwhelmed with the amount of work I have to do. This would also mean I could vary the work I make a lot more, as I would be able to

Odella also advised me to change the logo for BDTM. This was understandable as I wasn't entirely keen on it either.

20/1/23

As for the Instagram progress, I had been able to go from 0 followers to 29 within the first 2 days of the account's existence.

To keep people engaged with the movement, I have created a linktree, a platform where users can share multiple links to different websites in one convenient profile. BDTM's linktree contains the Instagram profile, TikTok page and a personalised playlist comprised of songs by women that I feel reflect BDTM's aesthetic, attitude and ethos.

In order to create the best possible content for my intended audience, I needed to further establish who this intended audience was going to be. Odella had suggested targeting older women, as there was talk during our session on Thursday of doing a piece on the differing attitudes to mum bods vs. dad bods. Whilst I did think this would be interesting, I didn't want to limit my audience to just the older demographic, due to being advised to use TikTok and Instagram as my primary forms of social media communication. If I were to market BDTM for older people I would more likely use Facebook. I began to narrow down my target audience into specific categories.

Category 1 - 'baby' activists: Gen Z/X people who are starting to become increasingly aware of sociopolitics in the fashion industry. They primarily use TikTok and are huge consumers of content due to the current climate of the internet, therefore engaging content is necessary to grab their attention. Alongside the usual content they enjoy, they are most likely still figuring out the nuances of their own political compasses and use the internet to learn.

Category 2 - blog enthusiasts: These are millennials who were in their late teens/early 20’s during the ‘golden age of blogging’ - think Zoella and other, smaller lifestyle content creators. This was during the early 2010's. They primarily use Instagram although they're likely to have a TikTok, Facebook and Twitter account too. They are left/centre-left politically and engage in more traditional content related to feminism and politics on a semi-regular basis.

Category 3 - art/fashion fans: Gen Z people with a strong interest in the arts, that understand the fact that art and fashion go far beyond aesthetics. They value the integrity of art and want to revolt against the commodification of identity and discrimination in arts, which draws them to BDTM. They may also be willing to submit their own work, as BDTM is a community-based movement.

When thinking of the TikTok content I wanted to create, as per Odella's recommendation, I thought about the types of content that I frequently see on my homepage. One genre that stands out in particular is the impromptu interviews, in which content creators will encourage or ask people to answer questions. The process is filmed, edited and uploaded to TikTok. This inspired me to use this format, as gathering the opinions of others would contribute to conversations that should be taking place in response to the shortcomings of the fashion industry.

I thought that, instead of filming in Kingston or even in London, that I would travel to Brighton to conduct my interviews. By veering away from the place I have lived for several years, I feel that I could garner opinions that may differ more, as London does tend to be a bit of a 'bubble' at times. I created a list of questions which would act as prompts for myself and any interviewees.

I also created a sign to wear in Brighton in order to encourage people to approach me.

I then ordered a microphone to ensure that the audio quality would be adequate.

Additionally, to aid my research into what other types of content I should create, I wrote a survey to send out. Examples of the questions are as follows:

How critical do you believe you are in terms of the fashion media and advertising that you consume?

Of the fashion media/advertising you consume, how much of it do you think is harmful?

Do you enjoy content that critically analyses fashion or fashion-adjacent content?

Would a platform/community focusing on critically analysing fashion media interest you?

What would encourage you to follow a platform that focused on reshaping the fashion/lingerie industries and posted fashion/lingerie content that was inclusive, creative and aimed to raise awareness of industry issues?

Which of these issues in the fashion/lingerie industries would you like to see an analysis of?

I began putting together a presentation to show to my peers and tutors on Tuesday 24/1, which outlined the idea, my plans for content creation, the target audience and research to support my idea.

24/1/23

I presented my work to my peers as well as Niki, Odella and Tony. I believe this went well but am still awaiting feedback forms from the session. Tony stated that he was impressed with my work from the previous project, which was very encouraging to hear. Both Niki and Odella suggested that a podcast would be an interesting format for the type of content I was going to be creating. I may use this idea after I have properly launched the TikTok content.

[cuhcuhcuhcory]

bioethics blog 1

Hi deep thinkers and smooth brain babyloves, I'm blogging for posterity now. who knows how long this will keep up <3

Its day 2 of my Bioethics class and I am already ahead of the curve. This is a 2 week 3 credit hour rollercoaster and I started the dang thing front row seats with our arms up. Anyway, I just got done reading the passage in the book about the ethics of Christian Scientists and others who don't believe in medical treatment and how horribly common it is for parents to be providers of maltreatment on religious grounds. I thought the quote from the supreme court ruling about the Prince V. Massachusetts case was incredibly sharp and on point. It said, "Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves"

beautiful logic. brilliantly written. chef's kiss. i just wish it were that simple. cults are so so powerful. belief is terrifying when diametrically opposed to any facts or logical processes of any kind and those people represent the ultimate opposition to logic-- Healing by faith alone bc your wounds and ailments are a symbol of your failing relationship to god, not the reality of being a goofy little delicate meat machine. all systems can be vulnerable! But I digress... We're not going to spiral down that rabbit hole because here i doth present the only conversation I ever *knowingly* had with a Christian Scientist Nurse.

I did hair for about 8 years professionally in my 20s. This is from nearing the middle to end of that 8 year period. I had seen this woman a few times but infrequent, maybe once or twice a year but she alwys came back to me and she was sweet, pretty with lots of freckles and very bright eyes. It was probably 4 or 5 visits before she came out to me as a Christian Scientist Nurse. She was always really sweet but kind of in that guarded yet pleasant way-- Not a moral judgement just an observation based on the premise that people kind of let you know how to they want to be engaged if you let them (and hairdressers who pick up on this make better money). Anyway, she started venting to me about how hard it was to treat with people and work with them with end of life care and that sometimes she wishes she could sneak in some real morphine or some drugs that are more effective than ibuprofen. And i said yeah i cant imagine how painful dying of old age is, I dont think i could do it without hard drugs XD Then I asked her what it was like to provide care like that but not medication and she said that its basically just regular hospice care. sitting talking, helping with the little things. Holding their hand and listening. I was really nice and pleasant but she kept going on about people she was "treating", more elderly and end of life care, more diabetes related complications. I was just floored. flabbergasted. What could I say to her face but holy hell i was upset and confused hearing all of this willful ignorance, failure to comply with practical medical advice, idk what to call it bc faith "healing" implies people get better and they dont. they die.

So thinking about it now years removed seems so strange. Cuz like at what point are you not a monster for pretending to offer treatment but only offering hollow words and hand holds. Its so strange. I still dont understand if that is good or evil. If they truly believe they're doing good, how can we make them see the harm or be responsible for truly setting aside their moral stances for the betterment of their kids when they see it as a complete failure of faith. failure of faith or not, I certainly wouldn't call it moral to withhold medication or to promote the rejection of modern medicine. Plus, by the morphine comment, it felt like she knew that medicine would work in some capacity so i just dont and will never understand the decision to choose to suffer and to choose to witness and support suffering like that.

anyway maybe i'll write my paper on christian scientists and how fucked up they are. religion is a cancer sorry not sorry

[icyheart-and-friends]

now that im a lil more awake and clear headed for now am gonna continue based off of theSelin and his attachment to his capes posts I made last night bc i got thinkin bout maybe *why* he would be so attached to the capes other then well- not being neurotypical jdgsdfgsdj

and I got big sad ideas so am gonna put them under the cut

So it also got me to thinking a little bit bout Selin’s parents bc I know damn well that if they hadn’t been killed then Selin would’ve grown up to be a pretty decent person emotionally bc dragons have a LOT of needs that even a village of people cant keep up to bc it requires at least one dragon to properly raise another.  So I was thinking bout every time Selin’s parents both had to go do something important they would always try to set everything up so the village could take care of him just enough until they returned, and for these two dragons specifically it would involve wrapping him in a blanket that had emeralds woven into it. (They believed Emeralds had protective and comforting properties and they did, just only for Selin though)  Selin still remembers the day, his parents set everything up for one of them to be back within two hours. Just like every other time they were very apologetic and comforting while he asked why couldn’t just one of them stay and then when the other comes back the first one could go? They took turns holding him and comforting while the other was setting things up. They were getting him tired and sleepy so he would sleep for the time they were gone to make it easier on the village folk.  He remembers them wrapping him in the blanket that had so many small pieces of emeralds in it that it looked as if the blanket itself was green and how when it shifted in the light it was like a new pattern formed on it. The same blanket he would hide under during really loud storms before he learned to not be afraid of them, before he grew to love the storms. He remembers drifting to sleep as his parents kissed his head before saying ‘we’ll be back’ before they left.  Then he remembers waking up hours later, when his parents had left it was bright outside and now it was dark. There were at least 10 different sets of eyes stareing at him. Sure the village folk would take care of selin but they’ve never been this close to him while he was awake, let alone when his parents were so late to return. They weren’t sure how the young dragon was going to react.  The first hour was calm with some anxiety, the folk helped him tie the blanket around him like a cape so he could pace when he wasn’t looking out the windows. He remembers them muttering trying to figure out what to do, while he could understand them they couldnt understand him as he hadn’t yet learned how to speak english other than ‘i, me, you, them’, he only knew how to speak in dragon tongue.  the second hour is where his panic started to set in as a storm was starting. How would his parents find their way back in the storm?? it’d be really difficult to see! What if they miss the village and get lost?? and couldn’t find their way back? flying in rain can be a lot harder than flying in clear weather especially if you’re already tired! The villagers had a hard time trying to calm him down as he started to run through the house, hoping maybe they had already come home and they were sleeping and wanted to let him sleep and that’s why they didn’t wake him up or come out yet!  After that he just remembers running in the rain, crying both literally and crying out for his parents. The village folk were worriedly shouting his name while some chased him just so if he got lost they could guide him back. Which did eventually happen.  He remembers sitting and looking up at the pieces of the sky he could see through the trees while his blanket did its best to protect him from the rain. Sure he was terrified of each thunder he heard and every flash of lightning but he was more terrified bout the fact his parents weren’t back yet. That they had just... disappeared. He remembers holding on tight to the blanket. Until eventually one of the villagers that did follow him walked over to him and simply just said “Come on, lets go and get you warmed up. You’re shaking like a leaf.” and he listened. he walked with them all the way back to the village, crying hiccuping and shaking the entire time. That was the first night most of the village stayed in his house. It wasn’t the last either, every time he requested for some of them to stay the night they would without question. He always held on close to the blanket which as he got bigger eventually turned into a cape as it got too small to be used as a blanket.  Before moving into the city he got replicas made with dyed fabric instead of emeralds and the village folk even added on little details to remind him that they were still there for him like how he was for them.  In the city he never wears the original, for fear of losing the last memento of his parents that he can take with him. Sure he has the house back at the village but it’s basically been converted into a church based around him at this point so it’s not the same. It’s not like the blanket.  He still catches himself thinking that his parents just.. disappeared and maybe one day they’ll show up at the village. Though the more reasonable part of him says otherwise.

#When it happened Selin was about??? 8 or 9 months old but for dragons that's like out 6-10 years old depending on the type of dragon #6-10 years old like a human* sorry my typing is a lil fucky #so he was purely in his dragon form at the time. he didnt learn how to shift into his human form until he was a year old #also if you're curious how dragons age at first its hella slow but then it gets really fast bc a 20 year old dragon is the same as a 20 year #old human. its around the 16 year mark is when the aging processes start to line up #by time they're 20 the aging processes/time is identical #my writing #selin tag #ask to tag

[ectonurites]

if u were a dc writer (bc dc themselves dk what they're doing) would you let tim stay as robin rn or move on to a new identity? would u age him up? dc is just making him blah what do tim stans want to do w him

I mean okay I obviously do not speak for all Tim stans (and I know several off the top of my head who def would disagree with my opinions on this- which is ok! we can all have our own opinions and coexist lmao) but

Rather than like making a point of aging him up i'd just kinda confirm that 'oh yeah he's been aging at a normal rate like everyone else we just didn't mention it' because as I've talked about before- you could pretty easily make a case for him being anywhere between 16-20 based on stuff from canon right now without it being an age-up that needs like an in-story justification/acknowledgement ya know? I'd probably put him at around 19 (because while in my heart 21 to restore the original tim & damian 7 year age difference feels right, that might need a bit more specific explanation since it's such a big jump from his last mentioned 16)

And I'd want to spend some time with him in the process of figuring out a new identity. (like. maybe a 6-issue mini or something where he comes up with that new Identity at the end) I think that him trying to stick to Robin right now because he's going through changes in his personal life and Robin is one thing that's a constant for him makes sense, and is something he'd try to hold onto for a while. But I want him to reach a point of personal discovery where he can try branching out again and making something of his own (I've talked about how Drake was in theory a great core idea but just the execution was terrible) as he transitions into being an adult.

I've very frequently been asked what I think a good new hero title for him would be since I talk a lot about wanting him to move on from Robin, and I usually come up blank! Because god that's an overwhelming choice. And I also think that right now Tim's in a similar headspace to that where the thought of trying to come up with something new while also dealing with "hey holy shit I just realized I'm attracted to men and that changes some things for me” is just a lot to deal with so it gets put on the backburner (especially after his last attempt was so poorly received not only irl but in-universe too).

And so exploring some of that inner conflict he's got going on now (now that he's started solving the sexuality crisis aspect of it) as he maybe has to go up against someone from his past* that could make him re-examine himself... and like by the end he could come to some new conclusions about who he is as a hero/what being a hero means to him outside of just 'Being Robin' and as a result decide to redefine himself as a new hero

*(idk who exactly... my heart says Lonnie because he was one of the earliest ppl Tim went up against back before he even officially became Robin but also Lonnie since the reboot has NOT felt the same... maybe with Infinite Frontier tho he could be more like his old self… could even be a cool thing where at first they’re fighting but slowly Tim & Lonnie both remember more about their partnership in Red Robin and end up working together against someone else entirely)

I also do think it'd like... be nice for a new hero identity for him to be original. Main continuity Tim has taken on mantles that came with a lot of inherent baggage (Robin obviously was in the wake of Jason's death so there's All That To Unpack and Red Robin originally because of being in such a rough spot & using Jason's identity as a form of punishment as speculated by Kon and/or more simply so he could cross lines Robin couldn't) so I think him getting to establish who he is going to be as a young adult by creating something new that doesn't have preconceived notions attached would be really nice.

For ideas I see a lot of people list various bird names and/or names associated with the color red (Cardinal is a pretty popular one, and I had some people saying Scarlet in my inbox a few weeks ago) but idk I feel like even that kinda stuff is so close a tie to Robin & Red Robin, that it feels more like a substitution for his old names rather than a reinvention of his hero identity, if that makes sense? Unless there was a good in-universe justification with something like that it's just not what I gravitate towards. (like how yes Dick went from Robin -> Nightwing so still with bird motifs, but in-universe Dick picked Nightwing because of Superman not because 'oooh gotta stick with a bird motif' even if out-of-universe that may have been a factor)

I think something rooted in old detective novels could be interesting, though I’m not well-versed enough in those to be able to come up with something without doing more research than I have time to right now (but like man if I was actually given an opprotunity to write a Tim story like this you bet I would sgfdhg), but like back from Tim’s early stuff he was involved in two different real life Sherlock Holmes fan clubs (The Sherlock Homes Society [Detective Comics #618] and the Baker Street Irregulars [Robin (1991) #2]) so him drawing inspiration from something he enjoyed in childhood as he reinvents himself now as an adult could be a cool full-circle thing. (Before anyone makes any sort of BBC Sherlock joke or makes me look at that guy’s face I would like to point out the panels abt these societies are from 1990-1991) And in my head when he moves on from Robin he’d definitely be leaning most into detective work over the other aspects of being a hero (like. he’d still be a ‘superhero’- but just that’s his main theme & focus) so it’d be thematically relevant.

IDK I have lots of ideas on this but I just haven't really had the time to put the research into it that I'd want to, so they remain half thought-out.

tl;dr: I'd explore him realizing it's time for a new identity which would then lead into him moving past Robin, and i'd also confirm him as being a little bit older.

#i jst think tim is neat <3 #sam talks about tim too much

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I'll be honest with you, I admire how you've established yourself a strong identity and are thriving in your own art. I'm 18, and I had expected to reach somewhere of that good level at this age. Do you have any advice? Thank you!

You're only 18!!!! You have plenty of time to grow. I'm quite a bit older than you, and I just now feel comfortable and confident making art for a living MUCH after I left school. Your life only really starts in your 20's-30's, cuz you're an adult with control over your life.

I think the most relevant advice I can give to someone of your age group is - don't fall to peer pressure or social media algorithms.

A lot of people raised on social media equate youth + popularity with "good art". FALSE!!! Chasing the social media algorithm is bad for art, both money-wise and for your mental health. Numbers don't mean anything if you can't form personal connections.

I barely have a following compared to other ~professional~ artists, but I can scrape by on drawing. And I'm hilariously overconfident in my art because I know I'm the only one who can draw what's in my head.

I love getting comments and having conversations about my art! But above all I like my own art, I like the process of making art, and I like bringing my personal ideas to life.

I wouldn't be happy drawing currently trendy topics. I wouldn't be happy in a studio art job drawing some exec's awful corporate ideas. I'm only happy drawing my own weird niche interests (read: wrinkly old men, tentacle monsters, and sausage dogs), and I'm very lucky that I can make a living off of drawing weird niche stuff for other people who share such weird niche interests.

Also, don't fall to bullying and conservative bullshit.

I've dealt with stupid republicans AND prudish fandom nerds, both sides telling me I should stop drawing sex and violence and dead grandpas. They should all read a book. Any book. Be kind, but don't take shit from people who don't deserve respect. Having confidence in your artistic identity means knowing that the art you make is meaningful. Even if media-illiterate dullards can't tell the difference between personal storytelling by small artists vs racist, anti-queer, anti-Semitic propaganda that reinforce the worst of societal power structures.

That's a lot. I ain't the best technical artist, and I ain't the richest guy around. But at least I'm happy with my life n' wife, and I suppose that's rare for many people even when they're like 50.

#hella long posts #asks