#do you see my conundrum

[gayemeralds]

worst thing ever is watching the movie version of a book first because i always end up liking the movie version better and it infuriates me because i know if i had read the book first i would absolutely hate the person who likes the movies more

#do you see my conundrum #sega official speaks

[shrimpnoodless]

i want short hair but i want long hair but its irritating when my hair gets in my face but i love being able to let my hair down but

#liza.txt #im constantly fluctuating between i want to chop off all my hair and i want to grow my hair out as much as possible #do you see my conundrum #currently my hair is shoulder length so its like the midpoint

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

actually hold on there’s enough poll options for this.

every single soulmate pair in double life had some crazy twist of fate attached to them in some way. from teammates in past lives to people who’d never spoken but were perfect matches.

to be abundantly clear. this is not your Favorite. but the one that you look at and go “literally WHAT god put those two together”.

#trafficblr #double life smp #double life #here’s the thing. i recognize desert duo is gonna sweep this. i don’t think they should! but i recognize they will. #but my conundrum. #i think the RIGHT answer is clockduo. #because it’s the right answer. #however. i think bigb and ren are like. a really close second or third (can never decide if they or desert duo are more insane) #my conundrum with that is i want bigb and ren to get votes because i think they’re so insane #and i want to vote for them because i don’t think they’ll get like. anything. because none of you people want to talk about bigb. #but like. i’m also a little afraid clockduo won’t get any votes. and they Are my number 1. do you see the conundrum.

[sshcomic]

You have given me a great joy in life with your Renkaza au

May I ask, what happened to the rest of the Kamado family? Did they get their canon ending or are they with Nezuko as they try to deal with her new demonification?

oh yay im glad you're enjoying it so far! 🥰

nezuko's actually with her brother in the box, like in canon lol. i just havent drawn her--or inosuke or zenitsu--in the panels we've seen, but they're there!

as for the rest of the kamados... i actually havent decided LOL. my instinct is to save everyone, since this is a light-hearted comic strip, but also i'm not sure i'd be able to reliably write that since it involves more plot than the "stupid jokes loosely following canon" i mostly have written down aha. so i suppose it's a surprise for now, even for myself.

i guess we'll see!

#thanks for the ask 💖 #sorry if this isnt a satisfying answer but i genuinely dont know rn haha #rei replies #ssh extras #like the thing is. the thing is i had like a short emotional 'i see you' moment planned out between renkaza #for when upper six die but if i save the kamados then i feel obligated to save gyu and ume which means id have to rejig that #and i have Ideas for how but they lean into the kind of fluff that feels so divorced from canon idk if i actually want to write it??? #bc i do also love me some angst. hnn. i suppose we'll see how self-indulgent i decide to be about this #but looking at the way im characterizing hakuji u can tell im already being pretty self-indulgent LOL. 😂 #so yeah it's a surprise even for me! but i AM leaning toward the 'everyone lives' route rn. #it's just. upper moons 4 and 5 are much harder to want to save versus upper moon 6 yknow. or even 1 &2. #but it'd be weird to be like 'f those guys in particular' lol. u can see my conundrum. #at the same time... this is my story so i can do what i want to??? hm. #WE'LL SEE.

[andersdotters]

Zhongli and pda don't belong in the same sentence.

#genshin x reader #zhongli #can you picture that old man hugging anyone or holding their hand? no #the most he'd do is offer you his arm let's be real #this conundrum has gotten in the way of me trying to understand how a romance with him would work #he has a wall up and he's not physically affectionate #that being said? #if you get him laughing heartily enough i can see him taking your face and kissing it #in that 'youre so endearing' amused sense #which is odd because he's no pda but then random kiss? #this is the first in my physically touchy vs physically affectionate series #it's uhhhh off to a bad start i'm not in the mood to make the post portion substantial #zhongli is neither physically touchy nor physically affectionate #if you want a range.... #physically touchy and affectionate: bennett #physically touchy but not affectionate: tighnari #physically not touchy but affectionate: thoma #most boys belong in the physically not touchy but slightly affectionate category #'slightly affectionate' having multiple meanings #if you want anyone specific feel free to send in an ask

[qkmlh]

Out of curiosity what are y’all’s go-to comfort kdramas?? Not in the sense the drama itself has comfort, but that it’s comforting to y’all~ Could be from any year and genre ♪( ´▽｀)

Mine are Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, W: Two Worlds, & The K2!! ‎(˶╹̆ ▿╹̆˵)و✧♡

#Lowkey realizing my top 3 can all be different points on a single chart hnnn #Anyways this is also my way of asking for recs cause it’s been a hot minute since I’ve properly watched a kdrama so let’s see I’m curious as #to what I’ve missed :> #Strong Woman Do Bong Soon #SWDBS #W: Two Worlds #W #The K2 #Kdramas #Kdrama Recommendations #7 years later and I’m still willing to fight on my hill screaming Ahn Minhyuk best male romcom lead #HE CHANGED THE GAME FOR ME AS A MALE LEAD IN THE CLASSIC MAIN MALE/2ND MALE LEAD CONUNDRUM AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE BESTEST BOI #Min Min & Bong Bong I LIVE for their cutesy cheesy hecking adorable fluff #But also man oh man did it go HARD when it came to angst and horror hnnnn #W…oh W how you ducked me up so bad at some points but were also so ducking /good/ #Had its flaws for sure and there was so much more I wish it had touched up on/executed but I still love what was given so much :(( #The ending had me bawling knowing they /were/ able to make their peace and their happiness and their love TvT #AND THE K2 OH THE K2 MY G O D ! ! ! I’ve never been one for political dramas but I was HOOKED from beginning to end and idc what anyone says #Go Anna I love you Kim Jeha I love you all the wonderful silly and lowkey insane side characters I love you #THEIR GROWTHS AND RELATIONSHIPS MADE FROM BEGINNING TO END AAAHHHHHHH #AND MY GOOD GOD OUR LEADING ANTAGONISTIC COUPLE THEY WERE SO DUCKING MESSY AND AWFUL AND FASCINATING AS CHARACTERS #After everything their ending felt so fitting and compelling to me #Ani Rambles #Tag Bait

[todayisafridaynight]

streaming comic-makin sessions would be a nightmare cause i know damn well id just be digitally pacing between twitter and youtube before actually doin shit. it'd be like trying to host a writing stream where everyone would look at a blank canvas for half an hour as i try to figure out what the fuck im gonna do

#snap chats #having a whole ass crisis ignore me #this is one of the rare times where drafting a comic is taking longer than five minutes uh oh #i have one more commission to do this week but i wanted to finish the outline to a comic i wanna do #but the problem is i wanted to try writing it as a full fic first just to see if i could get myself familiar with the vibe i wanted #and now aint NOTHIN gettin done cause yk my comics are At Max six pages long with me #but this one should only really max be one or two but when i put shit into fic form i feel like i gotta make that shit longer ????? #like bro you coulda wrapped this up a thousand words ago bro we JUST needed an outline we dont need all this extra shit #like Welcome Back To The Demo We All Know i hate having the conundrum of not knowing if i wanna make an idea a fic or art.. horrendous #so now im stuck in that very familiar rut where its like. Thing I Want to Do vs Thing I Have To Do vs Other Thing I Want To Do #cause alternatively i could just go straight into making a rough draft of the comic cause In My Mind's Eye i think i have what i want #but yk. wanted to try 'scripting' for once in six months and now look where we are.. #in any case im just gonna go make a rough sketch of that commission i guess and see how i feel when i come back #i especially want to finish that commission cause i do want to try streaming again this weekend so. #best to have that out of the way so i dont worry #ok im gonna stop procrastinating now bye

[lovelyspam-wonderfulspam]

#i've been planning to go to town this weekend for a while and hate changing plans :( #also i'll be running out of (not instant noodles) food and toilet paper soon #so maybe i should at least go buy that #but i also want to just lie in bed pitying myself #do you see my conundrum? #(also a big 'wahey' to having found out how to make polls) #polls

[dragonji]

slightly exaggerating the state of an injury hoping to be excused for being late to work and then being told actually dont come in its fine is like. on one hand it would be sensible to just take the rest but on the other are u guys(my coworkers) not mad at me... i'll force myself to show up I swear I will,

#j.txt #fucked up my ankle so thoroughly 2 nights ago (for work actually<3) so its not a lie to say im injured #however in my head any admittance of weakness is an unnecessary excuse when I should just be doing the task without complaint so #you see how this is a conundrum to me yes. grhahhhhh. fine. I will stay home and tend to this the way I shld have when I first noticed- #things were Not Right w my ankle</3 and beat the guilt back with the largest stick I can find #n e ways!

[fablecore]

this is an incredibly silly long confession that you can just delete but years ago when i stumbled on your blog, your art and your words. it changed how i saw writing and characters forever. i had just been settling into a new phase where i stopped engaging with OC content after years of being ridiculed for it in a lot of ff/rp circles. that stigma made me stop reading other OCs or making them as i believed what everyone told me but i was so unhappy and i didnt know why. -1

and there were days when i was in school and i read or watched something and i would get this itch to sit and create my own character but i stopped myself. i thought that this urge was just me wanting to self insert myself into these stories like so many of these communities told me and i started to see original character as just self inserts nothing more and yet ever since then i couldn't write the way i wanted to anymore. i thought what i was doing wasn't any different from y/n fics. -3 idr what really had me decide to read mnp but i know the day i read it i laughed because i found sophie so charming and i forgot my own hate and insecurities and then i kept reading and i continued sticking with this story and when i finally went to your blog the first time idk i just. cried. its so dumb i know but it told me so much about myself that i didn't know until then. that i didn't write OCs as a self insert, i wrote them because i wanted to make a story, i wanted to make characters. -4 i realized what i wanted was to unashamedly write so that one day i could write my own book with a plethora of my own original characters. my OCs were just the seed of that. seeing how much you loved literature, how much you loved art and how it almost felt like all of this was your air and food and using it to channel some of the best ff chapters of my youth changed me so much. i read more literature and drew myself in, i took writing classes, i watched more films and sobbed through them -5 and all of it was so freeing. i know am working on my first ever book. and really it's thanks to you.. i know it sounds dumb to say your existence and words shattered everything for a young impressionable me but it did. i don't think you get to choose who leaves an impact on you but you always get to decide what to do with that lingering awe. i used it to take writing seriously. thank you for helping me find my happiness again.

i'm really touched by this message.

joan didion once said that writing is an act of hostility. "In many ways writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act."

if we assume creation is a hostile act, then the writer has the responsibility of being subtle and charming and conniving as they guide the reader into a world of their own making. this is what good writing does. when i read works from writers who take their craft seriously, the pain is more real, the humor is funnier, the light is brighter. i used to think good writing simply entertained people. i don't believe this anymore. i think good writing, the best writing, is an act of investigation - observing humanity, studying your life and experiences, and understanding the types of stories you love/want to tell because through that knowledge you'll see the shape of your own heart. writing is for yourself. the sensitive reader who perceives your private relation to words and the emotional possession of your vocabulary "is one of the mysteries and preservative forces of the art" as richard hugo put it. i have nothing against y/n stories and self-inserts, but i admit i have little fascination for either of them. what i am fascinated by is the hostile act of creation, the sensitive reader, the trust we build together, and my private relation to words that no one else will truly know but me.

it’s difficult to fearlessly declare what you love. it’s difficult to believe there's a story within you worth telling. therefore, taking yourself seriously is brave. taking what you love seriously is brave. earnestness is brave. this i'm certain of.

may you have the courage to say “i will be a published author", may you have the perseverance to keep saying it, may we one day sit at your table and eat well and toast to your book. may you also send me a signed copy 😉

#-2 did not appear in my inbox but that's okay. i felt the words i didn't see <3 #i love you very much! i am wishing the best for you #addendum: the subject of self-inserts is a conundrum to me #most major characters that i write reflect parts of myself - to understand them i've had to pull from my own experiences + emotions #this is nothing to be ashamed about. it's what all writers do. #letters #宝 #sophiefic

[milkweedman]

Having hap problems... i finished the socks this morning and decided to frog the old hap progress (which im glad i did) and re-evaluate what i was trying to do here. Since i dont currently have the brainpower to do the recreation of a traditional hap that i planned, i figure if nothing else i still want a warm, practical, and non-delicate shawl of some kind. But after a bit of ravelry scrolling im realizing that i don't think i have the yardage to do that :( i never measured all of it but if i kept consistent with the first skein, which i think i did, i have around 815 yards (745 meters) of light worsted yarn. And everything that ticks the boxes of 'uncomplicated' and 'looks warm' requires like double the yardage that i have.

#so essentially the problem is that i dont have enough yardage for a shawl and i probably never have #but i do want to make a shawl with it. so you can see the conundrum im running into #im considering dragging the rigid heddle loom back out and just weaving one bc i know i will have enough yardage then #but i dont wanna >:( if anything id rather weave it on a warp weighted loom (which i dont have) #i guess the other option is to knit a shawl using other yarn.... #see but then i wont have a hap and i want a hap and not a shawl ! #yeah my brains just going in circles today lads #i woke up at 5 in the morning checked my email and saw i seem to have gotten the job i applied for (yay) #and that i had to complete an online seminar. and it was early and i hadnt had my coffee so i just started it without checking to see #what it was about. which was 'how to recognize and prevent CSA'. they had a section at the beginning that was like #'if youre a victim of csa this is gonna be upsetting as shit ! so you should talk to your supervisor and ask to skip this' #like ah yes ill just start my first conversation with a new boss by saying 'hi im a csa victim !' thats exactly what i want to do for sure #so... anyway yeah it was a very unpleasant hour and ive been deeply out of it ever since. and still am but also annoyed about hap problems #knitting #csa tw #(for tags) #i guess if nothing else it says good things about my mental health that im not currently binge drinking and walking into freeway traffic #because thats absolutely how i would have reacted in the past and instead today i wrote in my journal a little #and talked to my fiance a little and then thought about textiles for. in retrospect. 10 straight hours #but it still would be nice to maybe not have had to deal with this at all #the last several therapist ive seen have all said that if i want to unfuck my brain i need an intense outpatient program and multiple #therapists working on me at once and well i havent done that because im not a millionaire. so i assume my brain is still fucked #and im just a lot better at pretending it isnt so as to not self destruct constantly #idk. :/

[orcelito]

Possibly will make pizza with mushrooms the right way. Oh that is so much work though

#speculation nation #hi i am home and chewing on my fingers bc i am hungry #i already ate some chili but there isnt a lot left #pizza... hmmm #i want to but also i dont lol #maybe i could do that tuesday. it includes sautéing the mushrooms. which is . ugh. #i wanna play stardew valley. i do not want to cook. the decision is clear. #maybe i should find smth to snack on tho. so i stop. chewing on my fingers. #REALLY i just trimmed my nails so the sides r bothering me. also im hungry. it's a conundrum you see #im hoping that maybe after some gaming i will have the mind to write maybe a little bit #or maybe i go to bed early and write a bit in the morning. hmm

[josiebelladonna]

why has tumblr not touched the curse of osiris video like that home boy was just made to be gif-ified 

#idk the first thing about making gifs so do you see my conundrum #testament #testament band #text

[sunkissedfawn]

#just when i thought my distaste for the way social media / the internet has become it keeps getting worse #i’m mad. the search bar in instagram changing to meta ai was the trigger for my incoming rant #i wish advertising and marketing didn’t follow us into the internet #i wish ads didn’t get into instagram facebook twitter tumblr etc #i wish all social media platforms didn’t need to have advertisements to survive and keep going as a site #i wish companies and corporations (you know which ones) didn’t pander and infiltrate and poison our entertainment #i wish ai was more like jarvis. like THAT kind of tool. not a tool that’ll replace a human’s unique touch #i wish some people would stop and see and realize all those who have been crucified since 2019 aren’t what the loud few online say they are #i just want to burn social media. i hate the state of it. i’ve been thinking about deleting everything but if i do i’m cut off from society #the conundrum… #meme #gif

[hukkelberg]

I keep sitting here and coming back to one single thought:

Benedict would simply never marry someone so boring.

#hukkelberg.exe has stopped working #book sophie is a lovely noble kind woman. but she's very simple. #not through any fault of her own she is given no opportunity to even have a decent conversation #JQ uses wealth markers to imply intelligence but never expounds on it #and it never translates into conversation in the way penelope's clear wit and skill do #those are things i see my Benedict be clearly drawn to: and things thatd KEEP him looking back #but sophie's draw is the conundrum of her situation; the paradox of her education and her station #and once the mystery's done what then? how will you keep having conversations with someone so simple? #it's not that you can't! it's just that it doesn't seem fulfilling in a way I'd wish for MY benedict #im sure That Man would be happy to have her sit in silence.

[heliopixels]

They were so right when they said the only thing worse than drawing is not drawing

#DYING #I HAVE TO GET MY IDEAS OUT NOWWWWW #BUT I CANTTTTTTT #i have not 1 not 2 but THREE very atomspheric transformers fanarts in the brain and they cant get out until i finish the tf PRIDE ART #which i DONT WANNA KEEP DOING because its BORING #and i also need to finish the SOUNDWAVE HELMET #its a difficult conundrum you see