#halfway there

[beepborpdoodledorp]

HE FINALLY ISN’T ALONE!!!!!

#halfway there #and chica STILL HASNT SHIPPED YET WHERE THE FUCK IS MY CHICKEN YOUTOOZ #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #montgomery gator #roxanne wolf

[daceydeath]

Hey Dacey, I been miss you & I really hope you recovered from your sickness. I was so shocked when you tell us that you have bowel cancer, I wish you the best for doing chemo or therapy & hope you get healthly back like your normal life as before yoi have a cancer

Hi! I have missed you too 🩵

I am still recovering from surgery and hopefully I will start treatment on the 31st (not my ideal Halloween). But the surgery has left me 90% cancer free so now I am looking at a total recovery from this which is incredible but that is still a long way away. I honestly hadn't even attempted to write but I thought if I just finished one I had started maybe the desire to write will come back but it will depend on my recovery. I hope everything in your life is full of love and light my darling.

Dacey xxx

#daceydeath writes #fuck cancer #but at least I will survive this #halfway there

[andorshitdaily]

My dreamboat, beef cale of a man Brasso please and thank you 🥰🥰

so glad you said this

#halfway there #asks #anonymous

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Go to google maps

Zoom into your current location

Right click

Choose "measure distance"

Find the current location of your best friend

Left click

You now have the shortest possible straight line path between the two of you, taking into account the curvature of the Earth. At the bottom of the screen it'll tell you the exact distance in miles (and kilometers) to two decimal places. The line is dashed like a tape measure, and the more you zoom into it the more precise the numbers get

Divide the total distance by two

Zoom onto the middle of the line

Click and drag to adjust until you find the new measurement

You now have the exact geographic midpoint between you two.

Sometime in the future, meet your friend in the middle.

Someway, somehow, make it work. Make plans to travel to the halfway point and meet up.

The exact midpoint may not be feasible, so adjust your destination accordingly. If it's on private property, or in the middle of an ocean, a forest, a desert, a mountain, etc., then zoom out and look for the closest accessible town, find a nice restaurant there, and share a meal. If you've come this far, you've probably been on the road for hours and could use a break.

Equal distance doesn't necessarily mean equal travel time, so if you want it to be as equitable as possible, use your GPS to find the route between your two locations and meet up at that midpoint instead.

It doesn't have to be soon, not in this economy, but someday. Save up a little at a time, if possible, and splurge when you can. You deserve it. This may be a once in a lifetime thing. This may be prohibitively expensive. This may seem impossible, but I figure that if I'm never gonna be able to afford a house or have kids or a fulfilling career then I may as well try to enjoy what time I have left with friends.

#meet in the middle #road trip #road trip idea #travel #travel idea #adventure #friends #halfway there #halfway #midpoint #halfway point

[chippertowns]

It’s my boy Dizzy! He’s got a lot coming in the next few parts of this pinkerlocke story, and things are all going to be set in motion pretty quickly now that the gang has reached the sea. Wish him luck!

Work is slamming me against the wall in every way it can but I’m still trying to find time to update this locke when I can! Read it here: https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/3245041/1#post_3245041

#THIS GUY #WHAT IS HIS DEALL #flight rising #fr #my art #flight rising art #flight rising fanart #fr art #fr fanart #fr mirror #flight rising dragons #Halfway There #pinkerlocke #flight rising pinkerlocke #my art :) #flight rising mirror

[ghostradiodylan]

🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄

🎶 On the sixth day of Christmas, The Quarry gave to me,

Six Abi sketches,

🎶 Five silver shells,

🎶 Four calling nerds,

🎶 Three blood-drenched men,

🎶 Two boys in love,

🎶 And Max Brinly on top of a tree. 🎶

🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄

#the quarry #the quarry 12 days of Christmas #she’s at it again #bunny commits to the bit #halfway there #tumblr is going to start refusing to post these because of the number of image lol #didn’t think that through did you bunny

[justinhubbell]

just realised that when I was a baby trans (probably about a month or so after realising), I came upon a comic strip about taking things at your own pace and not rushing into everything all at once.

I've been following you for a little while now, and have just realised that that comic strip was created by you!

several years later, and that comic still sticks with me to this day; spreading positivity and acceptance where we can is so important and so often overlooked, but sharing your journey with being a trans-nonbinary and your experience with trauma and therapy has really helped me feel like I'm not so alone, after all.

keep being you, and never change, justin. 💕

I finally figured out how to respond to this

witchcomic.com is a 200 cartoon slice-of-life book about being Trans Nonbinary with Trauma and also a Witch. Kinda had a hard week y'all. I go through long stretches of invisibility, both in my personal/working life, and most definitely here on the internet. It's a strange feeling to be shadow banned and bullied, while also having your art stolen by nonprofits and Notified celebrity types. I try to smile and say thanks to both, you know? Anyway, I'm working up the nerve to learn how to get an art agent or publicist and it's just really hard. I often feel crushed. Terrified. And then you get a missive like this and absolutely this will be my 100th cartoon. Yes. In the book. SEEN I was!

This is why to be Trans is to Beloved Community.

I see you. We see you. You're excellent.

#jhubbell #jthemthey #trans #nonbinary #witch #wizard #comics #thank you #100 #100 milestone #halfway there #thanks for reading #trauma #ptsd #cptsd #recovery #healing #mental health #gratitude

[rawliverandcigarettes]

One thing that becomes clearer and clearer every time I dare to dip back into The Empire of Preys, is that it's a story for... almost nobody.

(beware: I express a ton of feelings regarding the series under the cut, not all of them positive --and I talk a little bit about my current relationship to the Mass Effect fandom)

Don't get me wrong: I adore it, I am still extremely puzzled at how my brain even began to conceive a story like that, and the first chapter is a complete banger in my honest opinion, and the characters are uncomfortable in a very interesting way, and the worldbuilding is extremely dense with things I hope are meaningful, but.

It's also... pretty hostile to readership? By that I mean: I don't think it can be read passively. A big part of reading TEoP is, first, to understand how systems function normally; and then, understand how these systems interact altogether, how they can be abused, how they are actually abused, and what chain of events these systems will lead to. I am really proud of this interconnectivity --at the same time, it is incredibly dense and demand work. For all the fun and games I can try to inject in there, there are basic principles that can't skip being understood well for the plot to make sense; it's a politically driven story in the dryest possible way --with disaster bisexuals and fashionistas sprinkled on top to lush it up a little, but at heart it is a story about systems interconnecting from the bottom to the top, and it's a tangled mess in there.

So it's... If I'm being honest, and in spite of my genuine love of it, I have to admit it is a little hard to dedicate myself to pushing it further to the degree of polish that it needs. Not to say I won't do it --I will-- but it's impossible not to notice how *barren* the Mass Effect community has gotten in the last couple of years, this year being particularly bad. The readership was barely there anymore when Halfway Home got out, and I'm like... who's even left in there to read 200k worth of words of salarian/turian/asari politics in excruciating detail? Who's even interested in peeling up that toxic system of governance and how soft imperialism manifests in that universe? I still am, because I am invested in that version of Mass Effect and the characters I have put together in that context. But who else?

Of course, there's always this thing of "don't write for an audience, write for yourself", and I'm an absolute follower of that mentality. However.

However.

(oops here comes a condensed version of that Halfway Home post-mortem I promised six months agoooo)

Halfway Home was *hard work*. It's work I decided to go through on my own, and I knew from the start it wouldn't reach that large of an audience --on virtue of being stupid long, about an OC (and a salarian at that, who cares), and having a trigger warning list longer than most people would find reasonable. I am happy that I did the work, and that I chewed the text over until I was absolutely sick of it --but it was basically the best version of what 7 years worth of change and growth and experimentations could get to before absolute burnout. And I am even happy about the readership! I had wonderful comments and I am truly honored that some people invested in that story to the degree they did, and I am fully aware that stories that take much more work get even less attention on the daily. But I would lie to say that I kind of felt... drained, when I saw that I had, indeed, taken too much time to complete it, and the fandom was basically dried up when I finally released it. Watching seven years of my life disappear down the Ao3 drain felt... Well, I won't lie. It felt kind of bad. It felt kind of like grief.

At the end of the day, it is true that nobody ever cares more about your story than yourself --and again, I am neither fishing for attention nor am I really complaining, even. It is a difficult story to sell and to read through, and I always knew the readership would be extraordinarily slim (and it did find it, and I am beyond uwwuuuuwuwu about it, truly ;;). I knew all of that going in. But I also won't lie that fandom timing was... horrendous --and it is even worse today. The fact that I have *barely* seen a hint of speculation on my dash from the latest N7 trailer does kind of say something as well. Sometimes, things come and go. And I suppose that's okay.

But what of The Empire of Preys? What of my deep care for the characters? What of my (I think, understandable) reluctance about jumping in to the next installments, knowing *for sure* that I'll be lucky if I graze 500 hits on Ao3? And that's me being beyond generous, honestly? I wish I didn't care about that, but I guess I do, a little. I also think it's understandable, wanting to work on things and see an impact from whatever you do --even if it comes from love and care. I'm glad I got to do it once, but do I want my literal masterpiece (I know the wording is strong, but I genuinely think TEoP is the best thing I ever did, counting my professional work that will be experienced by a *much* larger audience, and I have zero ideas how I could top it off conceptually given it felt like everything was being served to me in a trance-like state) being sandwiched between futanari porn and a story about a... certain main pairing being plastered absolutely everywhere and tending to suck all the oxygen in the room. No hate to either concept in particular, I actually like the coexistence of everything, it's part of what's cool about fanfiction! But, also. Also.

I suppose it is the curse of having a brain that works best creatively in the context of fandom --and daring to believe in the importance and necessity of creativity for its own sake, without monetary gain. But also, the very human entitlement thing of... not wanting to pour all of its life energy into a black hole.

It's complicated. I do not have a good answer as of now, at least regarding TEoP. I will keep on working passively on it as of now, once in a while, rediscovering it's genuinely really good from time to time and then moving away from it somewhat, until next time. I'm still doing Zelda stuff as of now, which... has been way more rewarding creatively, not gonna lie. It's a fandom full of lifeblood, with ideas bouncing around, people wanting to meet up, boundless creativity. I have written a micro-trilogy this year (it's here if that interests you), and, while in the same ballpark of attention than Halfway Home, it was undeniably more rewarding. I think I also needed to change mediums --I am currently experimenting with animatics, visual storytelling and extremely humble 2D animations, and I'm having a blast.

So... Yeah. I am fairly certain I will complete The Empire of Preys, because I love it deeply and I want to complete it, for its own sake if anything. But in regards to a timeframe... I'm not promising anything. It will happen. Not sure when! I'm following where creativity feels the more urgent at the moment.

But one day, this is a story that will exist, at the very least, and I think I'll love it deeply as well no matter how it's received. But I think I need a little bit of a positive feedback loop right about now, and so to work on projects that like... will be read. Or watched. Or played. Or experienced. And I'm not positive The Empire of Preys will be that for me, at least right now.

#personal #the empire of preys #teop #halfway home #mass effect #gorgeous art #writing #fanfiction #salarians #salarian #salarian oc #halfway there #zelda #kind of a downeeer I'm sorry #I kind of wanted to be the insufferable person going “yes after 7 years of work I can tell you it was all worth it believe in yourself” #you know like the shitty version of ted talks speaker energy? #and yes! I do think that! I don't regret that or working on that story or anything of the sort! #it was absolutely essential in my life and it did literally save me more than once! #and I love the characters! all of the things! #but I also don't want to be a hyprocrite and pretend I'm above sunk cost/investment return dynamics #*even* while knowing ahead of time #I think I worked on halfway home for too long if I'm being honest #I'm glad it got to that point quality-wise #I don't think I would have been happy doing less #but it was still too long and I burned myself out #I don't think I would have cared about it if I had worked on it a little less #but here I relied on the finish line too much to motivate me #and I think it was a mistake #though tbh it's hard to balance this stuff out

[porcelaintoybox23]

I didn’t realize how mentally taxing writing 1.6k words, or in my behind case 1.9k words, everyday would be

#nanowrimo #nano 2023 #nanowrimo 2023 #writing is hard #writing #creative writing #writeblr #writer problems #halfway there

[exhofluer]

Turns out that this wasn't the first time Ink has pinned broomie to the wall and flirted with them. (ERROR KEEPS WALKING IN ON IT LMAO)

DAY 15!!! HALFWAY THROUGH INKTOBER!!!

@comyet

#inktober #inktobertale2023 #silly #undertale #ink sans #inksans #sansau #hes so silly #doodle #errorsans #error sans #broomie #halfway there #flirting

[seek--rest]

anti-hero

E | 12 chapters | collab with @weezly14 | part 3 of midnights

You shouldn’t be here.

It’s a voice whispering to him in the back of Peter’s mind that he tries to ignore, putting on a smile and sitting up straighter in the uncomfortable seat.

You shouldn’t be here, and yet he is— facing forward and determined more than ever to be here, be present as the commencement speaker rattled off some speech about beginnings and endings, the words coming in one ear and out the other as he puts more of his attention to the act of staying together as much as he can.

He does a good job of it, as good as he can anyway, right up until the speaker mentions Steve Rogers and the sacrifice the Avengers made— even MJ’s graduation not being safe from the weight of all that he’s lost, of all the ways he’s failed.

Peter’s hands tremble as the speech continues.

(He isn’t supposed to be here.)

Six.

#irondad #spideychelle #petermj #petermjane #peter parker #halfway there #this is where it starts to get better

[noroalia]

praying to god i will be able 2 finish this before the splatfest ends

#HALFWAY THERE #shush nono shush #I FORGOT FRYES OTHER EAR

[dragonbleps]

one hand successfully drawn!

unfortunately, most people, including Dal, have 2 hands

#missy rambles #halfway there

[thatautisticlesbian]

Oooh oooh we're halfway there oooh ooh booping and a prayer

#BOOP #boop #bon jovi #halfway there

[lydiannettelizabeth]

Wishing everyone a happy one week until the next episode

#halfway there #I just got caught up last week and the wait is killing me #they’re always so good at cliffhangers #It’s been a really good last few episodes though #they’re hitting their stride this season #and it’s so great #dndads #dungeons and daddies

[chippertowns]

Halfway There is up!!!!

All guardian dragons have their calling. When a guardian comes of age, the next step is always the same: begin searching. What the individual is searching for changes between dragons, and most don't know what they're looking for. But the Search always stays the same, and the end of the road is the charge. So what happens when, despite all efforts, the Search doesn't end? When a guardian scours and searches the land, but never feels the connection to a charge? Well, she must keep searching, right? A guardian with no charge is a dragon halfway there. This is Alwyn's story.

--

My Pinkerlocke, A Dragon Halfway There, is now live on FR! The story follows Alwyn, guardian with no charge, in her journey trying to brute-force the end of her Search - and what happens to her when this doesn’t work. 

The first day will be posted tonight. This ‘locke is starting right as I am making the flight change to Water. I have high hopes for this story and I’ll be posting any art that comes with it on here as well as other little creations outside the actual writing part - all of that can be found in the thread! 

Updates will be posted bi-weekly on Sundays and Thursdays.

Read it here: https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/3245041/1#post_3245041

#fr #flight rising #flight rising fanart #fr fanart #pinkerlocke #flight rising pinkerlocke #my art :) #flight rising guardian #flight rising mirror #flight rising nocturne #Halfway There #long post