#however there’s also no reason I needed to see that thread. it was not indicative of a current problem.

[tmmylovejoy]

One thing I hate so fucking much about people dig up shit to “cancel” people for is that they are never part of the affected demographic. They are not looking for shit someone did wrong 10 years ago because they want to make sure they’re a good person, they’re doing it because they want an excuse to hate them.

The obvious consequence of this, however, is that suddenly an entire demographic is deeply uncomfortable with a creator who once brought them joy.

A thread recently came out about how when Wilbur Soot was 19 he made a lot of very harmful antisemitic jokes. He is now 25 years old. He has talked numerous times about how much he hates the person he was before he was about 22, and how much he’s grown since then. He’s demonstrated this growth too.

The person who published this thread was not jewish and I would assume that the person who gave them the information is not either.

I am jewish. Seeing these screenshots of “jokes” about the genocide of my people fundamentally hurt me. These screenshots do not show his current beliefs or behaviors. It would be impossible to find these jokes if you hadn’t gone actively searching for them. However I still felt betrayed and panicked, no matter how much I knew that Wilbur has changed. I do not know if I can ever watch his content again and find comfort.

This is the problem with digging into peoples past this way. It is never, and never has been, a selfless act nor a form of activism. It is the very opposite. It is the exploitation of marginalized identities to justify your dislike of someone.

#this is ok to rb 👍 (please rb) #obviously I am not trying to minimize marginalized emotions that get brought up by this sort of thing #because I am one of those ppl. idk if i can ever watch wilbur’s content again. #however there’s also no reason I needed to see that thread. it was not indicative of a current problem. #it feels as though a great comfort of mine was forcibly taken away by someone for no reason. like a little game to play. it’s infuriating. #wilbur soot #adora lore #also not adding a link to the thread cause I don’t think the person who posted it deserves that attention lol #i deleted all my old posts about it because they just like. didn’t accurately show how I felt and i didn’t wanna just have that up #sorry to anyone who has had to watch me process all of this #had a category red tornado siren sounding autism moment for a while there

[yunwooz]

Hii you should correct the info bc that thread about KQ was wrong, you should see another that refutes it, you can search it by putting this "A thread CORRECTING ALL THE FALSE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THIS THREAD" by the user atiny1117army

The only thing is Yeosang needing to have more lines plus other issues they need to correct now like not collabing with nft companies to say one.

Also I don't entirely trust Eden for obvious reasons bc of the bad line distribution, tho I don't think he is the only responsable, but firstly there is more story to it that you can see searching on yt "210616 Hongjoong Jukjae late night workshop" that makes you understand him (tho still was obviously bad) and you can tell is all in the past (the resentment idk bc sometimes like in that link they called him out but also indicates they are in good terms if they can openly talk about it no?). As for now they seem to get along just fine even if it's just as co-workers and there are proofs to it. And who knows is Hj or Atz secretly doesn't like him but for what we know there is nothing that indicates that.

thank you for offering that thread i was trying to hunt it down but couldn't recall the user who made is so i'm very grateful you provided it TT i don't agree with everything said in either thread and i think both hold a good amount of bias in their respective directions still, but the first thread was accurate to the story eden himself told. however, i disagree that the only current issue now is yeosang needing to have more lines and nfts, i believe there are far many more issues that kq need to address as a business.

not only just yeosang's lines but also the issue of him consistently expressing desires to do both vocal and dance covers but never being given the opportunity to do either. yunho as well has talked about wanting to do a dance live and this has yet to happen. mingi expressed wanting to do a mixtape and said that the company said no. yunho, the main dancer of the group, has not been given opportunities to do dancing related activities on his own since predebut. he featured in an mnet dance documentary alongside jongho for a total of maybe 8 seconds earlier this year but aside from that he is often pushed to the back of dance portions in songs and not given enough recognition by his own company as the main dancer of the group.

also. i am well aware of the entire story behind eden and i never stated that there is bad blood or animosity between the two. in fact i directly stated otherwise in another ask i answered:

i'm still bitter over it. me personally, i'm not speaking for hongjoong or anyone else in the group. i never stated that anything indicated there's bad blood or animosity either, and i never claimed that that is still occurring to this day. i simply gave the story as eden told it and said that is what happened in the past bc that is truthful to what he said happened. and i never stated he's solely responsible for the missteps taken towards ateez as a group, i specifically stated that kq as a company is the problem - not a single individual.

#luna.answers

[wingedcat13]

I found Call Me Menace yesterday, at around 3 am in the morning and then proceeded to read it and the available parts of Vilains Never Retire. I was hoping the next part would come out sooner rather than later, because the story was amazing, and I craved more. I was delighted to find that part 4 came out today, and I'm writing this after I've finished reading it. The whole story is brilliant and amazing and I'd love to see more of your work.

But anyway, as for the actual question, how do you come up with and weave in all of those details in your writing? Is it something you plan beforehand or do you come up with it on the fly? If it's a combination, then how much of each do you do?

Anyways, once again, the Synoverse is fantastic.

Thank you!

It depends on what you mean by 'details,' I think. A lot of it comes from spur-of-the-moment ideas. I'm not sure if I have ADHD or just what my mom jokingly calls 'ADHD-by-proxy' since both her and my brother have it, so weaving different threads of thought together and juggling multiple topics is kind of just my natural state of being at this point.

Other things are more if-this-then-what's-reasonable-for-that. For example, Synovus gets caught by surprise in Call Me Menace when Athena shows up with Alexandria. They were surprised out of sleep. You can't really set alarms that far out, and Athena moves fast, so the alarms are at set increasing intervals, like a really, really annoying alarm clock. Synovus wears a costume that covers the entirety of their body - ergo, they don't need to do the normal hair-and-teeth routine when getting dressed, particularly in they're in a hurry. They haven't slept, so when they go to have a conversation about morality, they want some caffeine. Can't drink in a helmet, so helmet comes off. Still haven't had time to go tend to personal hygiene, so Synovus's got a bedhead.

Things like the concrete joke and the garbage bags references developed naturally - concrete because I realized that it was the most common building material I could think of getting thrown around in hero movies, and figured Synovus would have developed a particular distaste for it. The garbage joke was initially just something I wanted to give Alexandria as an indicator of her character, and then it became a conscious call-back when Alex and Syn were starting to find common ground. (And also a joke about all-black costumes)

Other times, however, I will completely forget to include things. For example, there was supposed to be a scene in either VNR 1 or 2, before the Villain meeting, where Athena tried to get Synovus to swear to protect Alexandria, no matter what. Syn kinda half-dodged it, and left Athena believing that they'd sworn to it, which gives the end of that chapter much more weight. However, my brain completely ate that scene and it never made it to paper.

Whoops.

(Luckily, I do think it still works - Athena is instead referencing that Synovus didn't tell them the whole truth in Call Me Menace, or in the time since, but I do understand why some readers were confused by that.)

#ask box #call me menace #villains never retire #synoverse

[legiomiam]

FIND THE WORD

Tagged by @awritingcaitlin (x2) my words are: shrug, see, short, sure, sign and plan, blink, swore (I surprisingly don’t have), small, run

Here enjoy another project From Ashes And Dust

I tag: @juls-writes, @mr-writes, @carrotblr, @botanistweak

And your words are: needle, thread, grin, and toast

☙❦❧

SHRUG

“Get a translator,” Captain Jonah was calling towards the open door, people scrambling to find someone who could understand what the young woman was saying.

“I know a little that I can help you with.” Officer Lumburg let himself into the interrogation room and sat next to Jade, briefly introducing himself in that same language she had spoken.

“Officer Lumburg will help by translating for me. We caught you robbing a medical lab. We also have you on camera, so don’t deny it.” She waits for the translation to be done and the young woman sighs and then shrugs.

Mouth moving as she mumbles some more russian.

“She says that she passed out from lack of food. She has food in her bag you took.”

“You can eat once we are done here.” Jade holds up a paper, “we also have reason to believe that you may be involved in the murder of a local man.” She waited and Leon held his breath watching, if the girl gave any indication to the statement — instead she sat back, frowning. More words.

“She won’t answer until she eats.”

☙❦❧

SEE

“Okay, Wyck, thank you for the update.”  Her footsteps didn’t falter at all, and she could see Hesting Tower, the tall pillar cut through the center of the city.  “Here I go.” All or nothing, bitch.

She kneeled on the ledge there, one shin parallel to the roof of the brick building she was perched on. Soon enough little rows of lights made their way across the street below her, she could make out the uniformed bodies of the patrol officers.  Usually they were very easy to avoid if you knew which direction they were heading. Normally they weren’t seven minutes ahead of schedule.

The schedule change was part of the new security in place within the city limits thanks to terrorists trying to contaminate the blood transfusion center’s supply with an undetectable toxin a few years back, it seemed a repeat was hinted at happening once more. While it kept the citizens believing that they were safe from harm and that they could trust the medical empire that Doctor Derrickson Ehvtz had created just forty years ago.

Yes, good ol’ Doctor Ehvtz. His face was plastered on a billboard when you entered forty-five, treated like a god. It was disgusting.

☙❦❧

SHORT

The smooth panel of wall at the bottom shifted under her touch and she pried at it with shaking fingers. Were the nightmares a warning about this? Pulling out a case wrapped in a dirty cloth she opened it to grab the syringe gun, metal freezing to her skin. However, the relief at having the weight in her grasp was short lived, the little shots of what she needed were not in there. A curse escaped her lips, too loud for her ears, as she hunted for them in the case, hoping one rolled out of its place and was lying on the edge.

No such luck.

Alexia’s fingers brushed a small round pill as long as the length of the tip of her pinkie finger to the middle knuckle. None of the vials for the gun were there, but a suppressant was, and she was thankful, that little yellow pill would do the trick. It would prolong the destruction in her body like the injection, but she’d have to take the capsules weekly instead of a shot every six months.

☙❦❧

SURE

The extra lacings and fastens made sure they stayed on, once when she was very young a shoe had fallen off, thankfully into a dumpster so she wasn’t caught. It had been a mortifying experience as she had to shuffle along the street wet from the storm that had suddenly come on.

She locked a harness around her, one that she got through the underground because it was made from designs from weaponry used to fight people like her. The buckles and clasps clicked as they locked and straps were pulled to tighten it.

Alexia hit that same panel again and the shelf slid in with a soft hum and a purple light lit up inside the drawer underneath as it slid out, a glowing keypad illuminating the room, begging for the passcode to release the glass over the weapons stored there.

“Hello, ma’am.” The familiar voice of her A.I came out of the wall. “Passcode please.”

☙❦❧

SIGN

A breeze blew a few strands of curly hair around her face as she backed up. “Wyck, trajectory from this angle?”

Her robotic partner in crime came to life with a series of beepings, “landing is showing a chance for survival of eighty-nine percent.”

“Eighty-nine?” More strands of red hair curled and twisted in the wind, “what did they do, add spikes to the floor? A button that if you step on it little lasers will slice you into cubes? A pit of man eating rats opens up and you fall into it?”

“Are you done?” A beep, “the glass doors to the balcony are closed. While calculating they were open yesterday, today they are not. Therefore, Lex, if you launch yourself at this angle there is an eleven percent chance that you will not be able to safely grab the railing above the door and swing in undetected. I also didn’t want you to smack into the glass door and get hurt, that would be embarrassing for both of us.”

“Smartass.” She huffed rolling her neck to pop the cervical joints of her spine.

“Good luck to you too, signing off.”

☙❦❧

PLAN

Alexia stuffed another bar of sweet breaded meat into her mouth, chewing slowly. It had gone off just like she planned. Getting the files wasn’t the hard part, none of it was hard actually, too easy for such an amount of money.

Well, compared to what the man was going to give her.

See, his wife had found his messages — and after a tear filled conversation at a bar overheard by a once upon a time customer — the woman had her number and called her making a request for the positive tests and files, while it didn’t necessarily didn’t seem to make a difference at first the files would keep a judge from deciding that the wife, the obvious breadwinner, would pay him.

While Alexia had committed to the job assigned to her, not liking to betray them without a good reason and lose out on money. She couldn’t refuse to help the woman. Plus the pay was better by triple.

After she had tucked the printed papers into a folder that she, then placed into a hidden slit on the inside of her jacket, she continued to search the records. Alexia didn’t need anything; she just was curious.

☙❦❧

BLINK

“Sorry,” her silvery voice rang out in the space between them and Leon’s head turned to follow her down the steps, his partner looked her over once before turning to continue up the stairs that he stood in the middle of.

“Gwerder?”  He shakes his head as if to clear it from a fog, lids blinking to clear his vision.  “Job?”

Right, no time. He shakes his head, “Yeah. Just she looked familiar.” Leon couldn’t place how she seemed so familiar but he bit his tongue and headed out onto the bridge, the breeze seemed stronger the higher up they were.

“No cameras pointing as to where he would have had to jump from, no way to tell if it was a jump or if he was pushed. But the cameras at both entrances should have caught something.

His phone rang.

“Gwerder here.” Leon frowned, leaning over the side to peer down at the monument, a crowd forming to look at the carnage from above. He points and his partner gets the hint.

☙❦❧

SMALL

All it read was scheduled infusion at ten-fifty.

She had time and walked back to where the vials were to take one— stuffing it into her jacket pocket opposite the file. “Wyck.”

Her A.I. beeped to life, “yes ma’am?”

“Record,” with a duck down so the sensor on her ear piece could see the storage units, full of embryos. No later did her mouth open, did the machine whirr and she held still as her ear piece beeped. She watched one of the tiny vials appeared in the center of the tube and a needle pushed through the top, with a click the liquid in the vial disappeared and her eyes followed the red liquid against the fluorescent lighting in the core. A smaller thinner needle pierced the amniotic sack the embryo was encased in and pumped the fluid to mix with the amniotic fluid.

As soon as it started the needle was gone and the process started over until one entire row was filled. She noted that there were other embryos surrounded in fluid varying shades of red.

☙❦❧

RUN

With the sweat cooling on her skin, she kicked off the simple quilt on her bed and rolled to sit on the edge of the mattress. Her feet pressed flat — a mattress on the hardwood floor was all it was — and walked to the bathroom feeling around in the dark. For fear of what she, of what her face, would look like in the mirror she kept the light off too. The thought of her sweat soaked curls hanging limp and her bloodshot eyes didn’t entice her and wouldn’t be a great start to her day. Her heart was hammering behind her ribs as she lifted her hands to the faucet knobs to twist the cold on, watching the faint outline of the water run out of the spicket into the basin. With her breath echoing in the space as that feeling came back she cupped shaking hands under the water, letting it and splashed it on her face, hoping the real feeling of cold water would let her body realize that what she had dreamt was just that— a dream.

The cold water dripped from the tip of her nose, it ran in little trickles down her jaw and shin. In an impulsive decision she decided to stick her entire head under the water. It plastered her hair to her neck and face, and ran up her nose. She opened her mouth to breathe occasionally spitting out the water that trickled in. The darkness behind her eyelids giving way to her nightmare, the tightening of her chest becoming unbearable. The images replayed themselves on repeat even after she had opened her eyes. It felt as if she was slowly sinking into the floor, a floor that ceased to be there.

#tag game #almost human #from ashes and dust

[zhalar]

i did these posts with books i read in 2020 i think, bout to make another for black sails. this is just a yardstick for my progression with the series, aka my extensive nonsensical notes and quotes i liked etc. no clear indicators whos saying what and when, just Vibes and Real Drama Television so i'll generally remember whats Happening. watch out its quite a wordy fucknig thing if you press read more also i started at episode 4 of season1 for some fucking reason and it pisses me off immensely. IT TOOK ME SIX MONTHS AND NINE DAYS TO FINISH THIS SHOW. I NEED TO PUT THESE THOUGHTS SOMEWHERE. heres also a twitter thread of reaction for however long the site's gonna be usable at this point

(watch and read as my opinions on characters and decisions change in real time)

ep4 fuckign FUCK jack is the funniest motherfucker in this SHOWWW . "you'd be a valuable asset to anybody .. my [most valuable thing??] is my wits [and as someone who just lost 5000 pesos of their own crew's money, it isn't worth much atm]

"and that, my darling, i feel compelled to state out loud, life is simply too FUCKING SHORT".

also anne as the muscle and him as the wits.❤️ straight rights

ep5 "i specifically tried to talk her OUT of getting wrapped up in my selfish scheme" it's the Best when men are. self-aware.

ep6 eleanor holding john's life in her fingers❤️ tasty delicious i love women with power yes girl destroy every other person for the woman who you love

the enslaved people fucking their captors shit right up. i love this flavor. fucking hell. fucking fuck the stunt scott pulled almost got me ooohhhh thank god it didn't go as i feared.

john has this cadence about him it's like he's constantly trying to sell me a used car

BILLY ? FLINT. ARE YOU. FOR REALLLL

"you had your say. now i'll have mine" ANNEEEE

ep7 gates: "because billy. Wasn't expendable. To Me." MY MANNNNNNNNNNNNN IM GONNA. CRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

eleanor PLEASE get your head outta your assSSSS....

back to jack rackham's funtime brothel business attempt :) hes so bad at this... what the hell.... "the wRong tree" BITCH.... he is so pathetique godbless

"get your fucking house in order" MAX. I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

the . fuckign tears in Gates' eyes when Dufrene says that after this trip, Flint dies. . ajdslfhjl

ep8 flint you . flint. Flint. you fucking. YOU SADDDD PATHETICCCCCCC LITTLE MAN. NOT! GATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not the sobbing and im sorry's and cradling his dead body in your hands. this sucks. this fucking SUCKS

i wish vane would suck some sand and die :)

john's manic smile "had to be done" you are. sssssso. YOU.

"no-man's-land. there was a time when stopping halfway across this bridge would have been unthinkable to you"

sorry to be so crude but flint's tits are fucking Humongous. Who allowed this.

s2

ep1 "but i'm the only person within a hundred miles of here who doesn't want to see you dead" hm. my god. so flint and silver, like...

"maaadam guthrie" jack <3

"so i actually have to fight him?" "WELL WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN"

"you have absolutely nothing to worry about" i doubt that, jack. but thanks

OH MY DOUBTS ARE UNFOUNDED !

flint and silver make each other worse :) yay!!!

ep2 ".. but seducing her was certainly... an interesting approach"

idk where this is going to go yet . but jack. "take our, predicament" bruh. MANN. hes so pathetic and i feel bad for him but do nottt be a dickkkkk. HE'S TALKING LEGALIZE LIKE A DICK AND JUST. TAKES THE SHOT. [DRUMROLL] READY TO LEAVE,

. JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK. "Please know that all i have ever wanted for you is to be happy. come to bed when you're through" for. REAL?????????????????? JACK MY BEST FRIEND JACK?? POLY KING..

ep4 im sorry i know theres all this war and politic intrigue happening but the . threesome morning after, jack's awkward but jovial ?? grimace at max when he's leaving the scene, ohh my god... also max being a ma'am now within the brothel❤️ and jack kissing anne's head as he rose from bed....

flint and john insane homoerotically charged conversations. always reverting back to his share of the gold huh.

ep5 miranda's actor doing SO much for big frustrated female emotions(tm)

(utterly unimpressed) "all right. what's the matter with the articles"

"so again fuck's your problem?" anne... anne your voice is like a SO~NG

"and another to tell them why they should want to do it"

ohh my god, uhhuh. Uhhuh. huh? . yeah. yeah i thought so. i mean. fuck. Wow. uhhuh. no one's spoiled me enough to prepare me for this, then, huh. james fucking flint you complicated hard-headed queer jackass of a man. your plan is bad but fuck man who am i to tell you anything

ep6 please tell me jack doesn't know how to be a sailor please please PLEWASE he is so pathetic. "listen... no women" SHUT UP!!!!

anne's stride to that man's neck to get him to spill the beans about the gold. her voice and eyes. i love you strange angry violent bisexual woman. god. you know. trauma !

thhhe fucking shadow work when small scared traumatized anne lifts her gaze to max. oh the shadow in that. MAX'S VOICE.... MAX PROMISING TO. PROTECT ANNE?? at some cost i bet.... BUT ANYWAY????

i love the fact that jack is just compleeeteely not scary intimidating or physically impressive at all. wet blanket of a man but at least he's got a brain (?) and a heart ???

ep7 max standing up for anne, both of them owing so fucking much to the other. i love how much authority max has...

oh its sooo fucking delightful how silver and flint are just. thick as thieves, suddenly, i love to fuckin see it. OK NEVER FUCKING MINDDD LMAO. but theyve still got that rappor!!! like!!! cant get rid of the other fast enough. or at all!! no matter what! tied at the ankles together!!

oh. thank. fuck max hugged her. ohh my god... and [the other lady] was so .. idk whats going on exactly but how kind of her to . come and usher anne out of the situation. you dont need to be doing this. go. HHHNNN

silver telling max about the gold >:) MAX'S SMILE. ILOVE HERRRR

hyiiii EWW THE ENDING OF THIS EPISODE... EWWWWW

ep8 "please go with him, so he doesn't get himself killed" ".. oh for fucks sake.."

the power that silver holdddds. ooohhhhhhhhh

wait HOLD UP. ? DID :) did flint kill hamilton's father for putting him in an asylum (??) am i reading this girl's tale correctly..

"for if anyone is responsible for what happened that day, it's, Me." ma'am. ily

oh god oh lord. the birds of prey over the fort. has vane Really just murdered 40 men ON HIS OWN.

ALRIGHT. YEAH. WAIT. NO. I FORGOT ABOUT THE NASTY UNPLEASANT VIBE OF THE LATEST EPISODE LOL <33

FUCK charles vane i HATE THIS BITCHHHHh EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKING DIFFICULT ALL OF THE TIME

ep9 "footrope. bitch of a spot"

"you idiots are the fucking riggers of this ship" AHSDHFJKH

oh but i thought there were two ships. one in charlestown and one at nassau. and that vane's men would yknow. be in Nassau. cuz how did they get into charlestown THIS QUICK ?

i know it's main character syndrome but man oh boy is silver good at keeping himself alive

"where are we going?" "to execute the third option"

i hate that anne has to kill :( but it is also so fucking sexy that she is so GOOD at handling a fight

fuuuuck eleanorrrrr,,, GRRRR

tjhe lingering hand hold with anne and max.... AUUUGH

the LOVE. that miranda and flint share for thomas is SO FUCKING WILD TO ME WHAT A POINT WHAT A POWER. ????

OH . SHHHHE. FUCKING. DIES??????????? JUST LIKE . THAT????????????

john's smug ass grin when vane says theyre saving flint... whaaaatttt

NOT THE AVALANCE ??????

ep10 "like we was two halves of the same thing""i can't be your wife, jack"[A TEAR FROM JACK'S EYE]"but you and i are gonna be partners til they put us in the fucking ground" HET! RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!

john seeing how the crew starts rising up for him.. oh the power. oh the power is DELICIOUS.

"everyone is a monster to someone. since you are so convinced that i am yours... i will be it"

"what do you suggest?" "that we remind them that they were right to be afraid" FLINT!!!!!

"where are his keys, and has he seen them since he took me away from my men" BRO. JOHN!!!!!!

oh flint is. fully gone :) kill my lover kill my wife i've HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the fear the genuine guttural fucking FEAR at john's voice over the state of his leg . the crew all around him. oh this is. OH THIS IS.

point of no return.

"would you like to see something shiny?" PIRATES!!!!! WOOOO YEAHH

MAX AS THE SEASON'S FINAL FRAME ILYSM

s3

ep1 TEACH!!

"any capital sentence against a pirate would hear my answer" he's an avenging angeeeeel. OF SOME SOOORT

haircut and facial hair to show that time has passed, yes, i see

"this crew has spilled a great deal of blood to make your name what it is. it doesn't belong to you" WOW

oh. Oh! alright! jack you piece of shit huh! vane i'm sorry for my very mean words (still deserved, but you know, people, being human, piracy)

"take this, and leave me be" max.....

"jack, if i thought it gave you any pleasure, i would've killed you the moment you suggested it" goddamn. goddamn these two. fucking fuck.

season three poster kicks ASSS

ep2 "lovely. good old jack gets buried beneath a pile of rubble while you two begin a well-funded life of leisure"

"i am here in part to ensure my own future, i will not apologize for that" max you deserve eeeveeerythiiiiing

sjhaking jack and max in a bottle grr GRR they both love anne GRRRRRRRRH

"this is the second time in the last few months im facing certain death, and you are again offering moral support" "does that mean we're married?"

oh . oh :( john having to witness and hold this guy through as he's helpless and fucking drowning before his eyes. fuck tthis fucking SHOW!!!!!

i love how much this all. Affects john. he's so fuckjing sad to lose yet another of his brothers.

"just how fucking stupid, exactly, are your men" "... it's hard to say"

"... like fucking rodents, preparing for the winter"

flint's nightmares in this... ough. miranda... HAUNTING

oh fuckyes the becalming be upon us. IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.

ep3 "no, i think we should feed some of the men and not, others" dfhjk flint flint flint flint this is FUCKED UP. BUT WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO???? AS CAPTAIN!!!!!

jack's "[whistle] that's enough. you, sit down" charming charming guy

"though might be you're the only one who actually made a career of it" jack and anne and jack and vane and hdsfdbkjbvkvj what is this do they even like each other is this old friends is tHIS ABOUT OLD FRIENDS ???

"i think it's torture for him. and i think the only way he can imagine it stopping is when there are no more of us left to witness it" john's insight into flint.... why is he so clever about this man. huh!!!

the ghosts hunting flint❤️ oh christ i cant do this . fucking trauma. fucking piracy. fuck this noise. FUCK!!!

"if you're not strong enough to do what needs to be done, [then] i'll do it for you" flint. my man. is this a love confession (fuck no it isnt but also HM)

oh shit, oh fuck , anne and max fucking love each other. FUCK. "you should stay. to see it divided evenly" ".... i trust you" AH! HOLY! SHIT!

"i'm one of the two men who've been on full rations for the last few days. you're the other. let's go" YAY AT THIS DYNAMIC. YAY AT TRYING TO BECOME WHAT HIS BEST FRIEND AND WIFE WERE TO HIM. YAY AT THIS ENTIRE TRUST-BONDING EXPERIENCE :)!!!

fight me or kill me "or acknowledge the fact that you and i would be a hell of a lot better off as partners instead of rivals" HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!

ep4 the men shouting and lying and demanding shit outside the fortress, appealing to jack, trying to get to vane. jack point-blank shooting the guy❤️ oh my god.

fuck yes retribution by enslaved people <3 oh man. where is this going to Fucking Take Us. ethically choppy waters, black-n-white thinking, i dont fcking know

jack is . so focused on leaving a legacy...

"how much?" "... mmh !"

"i was just gonna say 'i'll see you soon', but that would probably be a lie, wouldn't it?"

"i hate to be the one to say it, but is it possible we've all missed the point of that story? they all Died."

flint and john's epic fatherhood over billy ahljsdf:djflgk

"she will not let us leave this place alive" and good for her for that

MISTER SCOTT LOVE OF MY LIFEEEEE LIGHT OF MY DAYSSSSSS YEAH YEAH !! YEHAW!!!

oh fuckers and shitheads you did not just . shoot at him. did you. im going to eat you

ep5 "so i might oversee the survival of both places outside the scrutiny of either" mr scott.......

"you should know, people do not speak to me that way anymore" max you deserve the moon and the stars. eleanor get the fuck outta here...

h e r  v o i c e  w h e n  s h e  s a y s  a n n e

scott smiling so fucking gently softly at his wife and THEN HIS DAUGHTER OUGH MAN HE'S SO..!!!! flint i swear if you fuck this up. if you get a knife on her im gonna [jsdfhmgjkfjngj]

"strange how little separates us" :( vane and that dying spanish dude talking...

"it's awful, isn't it. how the money makes sheep of us all"

max demanding herself a seat and a future. god i love you.

"and yet for some reason, right now i am bothered by it" the flint fucking curse i see

HE LEFT THE KNIFE!!! HE LEFT IT!!! THE CROWD GOES WILLLDDDD

"bring down nassau. maybe you bring it all down"

jack and his name..... ohhhh brother.

ep6 "in a few hours time, there's a good chance you're going to look awfully smart"

jack so angry and peeved and hurt-of-pride bc that english dude got the city to work and he didn't... ouhh the pride. OH WHY ARE YOU HERE YOURE GONNA GET IN TROUBLE.....

"no one prepared you for this, did they" ah the similar fates "but i know how"

"but it cannot be borne if you cannot stand"

"please understand i'm quite particular about my library"

"to have been a partner to him in this way" the homoerotic subtext mmmhh-hm!

"you don't think i can convey a thought to Anne comprehensible only to her? a thought as simple as 'run'?" ;_; BRUH,,, he's ready to . Not let Nassau be 'english' and for anne to have a chance out NO MATTER WHAT THE COSTTTTT

"english it will not be" or however the quote went..... badass... fuck yehaw.....

scott and his daughter ,,, scott continues to be so. fucking loving father to her despite the great gulf between  them :( MANNNN

FUCK! ROGERS!!!!!!!!!!!

ep7 jesussss this plan is big and dangerous🙂

yes yess YES YES YESSSS THE DAUGHTER GETS ON THE BOAT!!!!!!!!! please tell me her name next. ffs.

billy taking her hand and helping her onto the ship COOL SHOT !!

".. but this battle is ours as much as yours. my word and your will govern in consort or not at all. and when i'm not present, that word shall be given by my daughter" POWER TO WOMEN!!!!!!!!

"we're all villains in nassau. don't think cuz youre new youre any different"

fuck :) now they gotta give jack as well as the gold. max is so pissed abt this. she gave anne her WORD.

i love that she had power and say over white men now. btw. love this flavor.

HER NAME IS MADI. BTW. THANK YOUU

"i understand this is the place cowards come to beg forgiveness from a king"

"captain flint is dead" "not anymore he's not" HE GOT BETTER

ohhhh ffffuuuuuck did silver just. kick glasses-guy's head in with his peg leg. ohh Brother.

"my name is john silver. and i've got a long, fucking memory"

flint coming to ask silver "are you alright?" after this all :)c not to be annoying. but im gonna be annoying. these two fucking guys <3

flint talking about both miranda and thomas this episode i love bisexuality

"... and spiteful to anyone who would find.. Happiness, under her rule" AFTER REFERRING TO THE FACT THAT BOTH THOMAS AND MIRANDA WERE KILLED FOR THE FIGHT FOR THE PARDONS ETC. WOW!!!!

vane and jack and anne and max polycube of all time. at this current moment just the three of them at all actively but it still stands.

ep8 anne and flint discussing routes. vane is there too. vane is playing with some tea cup. gets his finger slightly stuck on the ear--

"don't despair, some other poor bastard'll take my place soon enough" jack..... the RAT......

"there's a whole world out there, that ever so often rewards ambition"

"this does not seem like release"

"one waits for mr de groot to finish speaking, frowns thoughtfully, and then repeats phonetically what he said to the men"

"the depths of my ignorance on the subject" oooh yes. oh YES. learning the job. ON THE FLY.

he and madi have an interesting thing going on :) they should be friends i think

i really dont care for eleanor anymore. like good for her for girlbossing her own way but ohhhh stay away from max thaaaanks

ok sorry yeah i do like it when she's cussing men out its good its fantastic

the fucking spiderweb of people and relations and ideals and pride and trust and power and dsshfkdjfgkj

"for reasons passing understanding, mr dobbs still has a number of friends on this crew" fuck dobbs but FUCK this line is funny

madi :(....

jack is the son of a long line of tailors omg...

"but jesus did i make up a lot of ground to catch you"

anne clambering into the wreckage to kiss jack square on the lips hello............ "ow" HELLO

vane jack and anne "right behind us" vane's INSANE fucking stare at flint as he says "yeah" GOOD STUFF

i mean im not trying to sell the polycule but uuuhhhhoooohhhgh vane helping jack out of the carriage.. that hold is GOOOOOODDD

vane's NOT ABOUT TO FUCKING DIE RIGHT NOW. IS HE. I JUST STARTED TO LIKE HIIMMMM

ep9 "charles vane's death is inside that box. along with my good name. along with her lost love. along with your late quartermaster's life." holy fucking shit speak UP jack oh i LOVE THIS. oh my godddddd

"that, or he doesn't know how to say no to the both of us at the same time" flint and silver parents of all time

"... it could be catastrophic" "HE KNOWS." JOHN'S FACE HEREEE

"if you have something to add you should just fucking say it"

"i can't tell if this was a warning, or a welcome" WELCOME!!!!!! WELCOME TO H E L L ! ! !

madi hugging john OH GOD. OH THE . GHRGHGGRHG THERES A TRUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"get on with it motherfucker" oh fuck me i really like vane actually. he's not gonna fucking DIE, HAHA, THAT WOULD BE . WRONGGGG

huh. well this fucking hurt actually. gol d roger ass move btw. FUCK THIS SUCKS ACTUALLY!!!!!!

jack taking on vane's mantle . my teeth are gonna be ground clean off with the way im clenching my jaw right now. fffuck me this episode was pretty rough after all

eleanor guthrie youre a fantastic character i hope you also get whats coming to you❤️

hello mr teach and your sad little camp.... dad's about to be fucking furious about a certain someone's hanging.... "what do you want to do about it?" and the movement of his eye.... GIRL WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WANTS TO DO ABOUT IT

ep10 "the irony wasn't lost on either of us"

"but the one in whose name this war is to be fought... it is still a stranger to me" oh Words. also flint's stare in this moment mmmmmwah!!

"and given how much we have sacrificed to earn this battle, how can we do anything other but to see it through. my friend may have given his life to earn this battle"

flint sacrificed fifty of his men in a senseless massacre just to entice the english to chase after him.......... bitch this fucking MAN.

blackbeard coming to avenge his SONNNN and also jack closing his eyes to take in the news of charles' death oh my GOD

he is. so righteously PEEVED at eleanor over what happened to charles oh my god.....

BTW really very good hair insp from jack here. around 19minutes to the ep

"... once our relationship had been exposed, defiled, scandalized... everything ended"

"england was broken, and that sooner or later a good man must resist it" BRO. BRRRRROOO

flint's voice and face during this conversation haHa. haha ha ha. Ha., huh.

john..... partners and trust and dying 'for' flint ghngrhg

"there may be no one in the world closer to you than i am" THIS IS . INSANE. INSANE!!!!!!!

"i think he feels shame. for having disappointed me. and a great need to redeem himself in my eyes"

"but among them is the sincere confusion as to why charles invested any time and energy in you" BECAUSE THEYRE FRIENDS!!!! DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!

"there wasnt any more to that thought, was there" JACK YOU LOSER....

"to be underestimated is an incredible gift"

"someone better suited to do what must be done" madi's so fucking cool and i would lay down my life for her .

"see you on the other side" "always." fuck will and elizabeth actually these are my emotional support straights (not straight). also jack just called charles their brother im going to dshfjkdbgjkhjhklfdg

oh i love comedy. blackbeard's ship getting shot at and jack faltering in his step, while Teach. Literally Just Stands there. giving him the eye. Jack trying to gather himself. lmao

"TELL YOUR GOVERNOR. YOU TELL HIM I'M COMING" YAAAAYYY

"but in terms of out future and the danger that you believe you may pose to me, bear this in mind. I've survived starvation, a tempest, pirate hunters, jealous captains, mutinous crews, angry lords, a queen, a king, and the goddamn british navy." the rest of that quote. THE SCENE WHERE THEYRE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER OVER THE BODY OF WATER. WOW!!! FLINT'S SMILE IN THE FLASHBACK. WOW!!!!!!!

"but that name isnt doing anything for us. see about that"

cant fucking describe how insanely fun it is to me that the crew at nassau are creating a myth, a man out of thin air, to serve as the poster boy for their efforts or whatnot. this is the Neatest fucking thing. WHAT the hell.

best fucking thing to have max be in these season finale final shots so often

THE LETTER. MADMEN, RICH MEN, TYRANTS AND KING. THE TABLE!!!!

s4

ep1 "if it makes you feel any better, i havent considered killing you in months" aw he cares ❤️

also hhhiiiih the opening sequence underwater stuck in that ladder thingie :) yikes!!

MADI HOT AS HELL.

"today there will be vengeance for the death of charles vane" JAAAACKKKKK

THE REVENGE :)<3

oh that was. a nasty fucking trick, the barricade whatever. oh fuck me.

OH FUCK MEEEE flint i cant believe you'd leave silver on his oWN OH NNNO. and madi's reaction as well oh no....

"i dont know. got to make this" girl this is . So.

im still wondering about max and eleanor's roles in all this. who will max side with. No one? herself. is eleanor actually This, Now. after all That? shes the most selfish mf (honorific) that im finding this all Very difficult to swallow

flint telling madi how it seems that silver and her have become 'friends'.... "he is my friend, too" i see. I See.

MR. FEATHERSTONE DO NOTTTTTTT TRIFLE ME RIGHT NOW. BE. FOR REAL.

no no nnno not mister de groot :(

"there will be no pirate King here. of that much i am certain" GO GIRL!!!!!!!!! I SUPPORT THIS

ep2 "i gave you a life, and you repaid me by conspiring with my enemies" MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh NO???

aah, good ol sexism on the high seas. whats teach's fucking issue with anne.

madi has the fucking, CLASS and SWAG of a chAMPION. TALK BACK TO FLINT MORE!!! ILOVE THIS FLAVOR

israel fucking hands lmsjkdfglfk i fucking knew it was fking waiting for the name to drop i cant fucking, believe this

i love this, when john is spinning this tale about himself, i dont know if he believes any of it himself, whether he's so deep in the lie just to get out of a bad situation, is this where his heart actually lies. i love this. myth of a man. "now i am here". like some goddamned god

"at a certain point there is a good chance he'll just decide to kill you than take your no for an answer" "he can try" anne loml loml loml

"now that we're here, it'd be so easy. and i don't wanna do it"

[looks at the camera] oh. i Love Infighting.

"someone who shared anne's mistrust of sentimentality" anne and charles bff's for REAL.....

oh fuck off fuck me, teach's memory of charles and that bird and what it might mean, "dinner" fuuuuck meeeeeeeeeeee this FUCKING gUY

max is so tired of this fucking situationnnn but she has some sense of moralityYYY oh my god this tangle of WEBSSSS

john just lost a friend in max :(

ep3 max's voice when she's angry... loml

"the empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. but it isn't. and they know that. that's why they're so terrified of you and i" flint and madi bestfriendism arc begins Now

wait this occurred to me out of nowhere as jack is pondering about his future status and whether he's gonna be blackbeard's equal one day. oh are these daft bastards all doomed by the narrative. cuz of the history thing. idk  what happened in nassau, historically speaking, but is this whole entire endeavor gonna end Bad for them. oh no. OH NNNNO

madi YOUR EYES. OH THE TEARS

"do i need to run?" "that'd be fun for me to see. how would you do it?" "with great difficulty, i imagine"

this episode is paced and shot in the most . bizarre fucking manner. why does this look and feel like a relationship drama or a cheap version of one.

"i did not fail to do it. i refused to do it and would again"

teach offering that shithead rogers a tight lipped smile while he's captured. ok blackbeard you have rights

oh. oh they fucking killed. huh. teach is fucking dead, then. fuck rogers fuck him entirely what the fuck is this dudes deal

ep4 flint saying "our shared authority" like a . fucking confession. oh my God.

"a lot of them end up that way too. though i admire your optimism" AND THE WAY FLINT LOOKS AT HIM. THIS IS INSANE ON THE BRAIN

silver's personal vendetta against billy. <3 flint and silver sharing the mantle of Captain(tm) <33

"i think we all agree that it helps none of us to have those idiots armed to the teeth" "... yeaH"

this john billy flint + max conflict is so interesting. oh my god it's so . HM!!

"any man" "absolutely -- absolutely not" LET ANNE FIGHT FFS !!!!!

"anne get up" her hands. fully open. bleeding down to the bone now,

JACK JACK JACK MY BELOVED RACKHAM

"that i would have had to live with it" max is not a killer ohhh she's got the sensibilities of a human-person still when everyone else is ready to reign bloody murder upon anyone who crosses them ohhhhhhhhh

"do i need to be concerned that you took almost two hours to tell me about it?"

i know i know i know its about miranda (and thomas) but mostly miranda i know i know but fuck man fuuuuuuck when john tells flint that madi is the person who makes him the most vulnerable and flint is spacing out after it. dude. FUCK. but also uhhhhhh UHHHHHHH this could be. Bad❤️ flint is. NOT a good person. HHHHHHH

"wouldn't you trade it all to have thomas hamilton back again" HUUUUUUUUUH ? OH I DID NOT EXPECT US TO GO /HERE/ ACTUALLY

the way flint's face is twitching. sir toby stephens THANK YOU

"i suppose the good news is that's how we'll know we're finally getting somewhere interesting" AND THE SAD SMIRK AT THE END OFTHISSSS

fuck eleanor but the look she grants flint before the gate closes. damn.

eleanor i am sooooooo sick and tired of your shhhhit leave max ALONE <333333

ep5 eleanor's handmaiden lady is quite brave actually, to trust her word and go out to the wolves like this

billy is so. Baffled. this actor is really fun in this kinds of emotion

john trusts flint.... or at least. he is trying to convince billy that he does.....

ok this is Quite fucking fascinating actually. this Quarrel-type a beat between rogers and eleanor

i.... dont,,,, care for eleanor getting all emotional about madi and her mom and mr scott. dude. get real.

LOVE the way flint says "i'm not concerned" in regards to the change in plans (cache, and john)

sucha fucking powerful frame when flint and co. come from that tunnel and madi with her men are there <3

"HE just Said it."

"all it guarantees is we no longer have the cache that we all agreed was Critical" I LOVE THAT JACK IS SO. PRACTICAL AND SMART...

WHERES ANNE.

eleanor's commanding officer or whatever . his face when looking through the looking-glass and max asks him what he sees. priceless.

ep6 yes yes yes madi, stomp on those white girl feelings. FUCK eleanor

"'this deal'? as in the one in which you walk away with all My mOnEy?"

"i did not want this" :-(

"thats the power youve given me" oh, BILLY. YOU SHOT YOURSELF IN THE LEG WITH THIS CHOICE !!!

billy's vendetta against flint, wanting to see him dead...... silver asking him to stop it/be over it...............

max and jack, hm, not friendship necessarily. but the General Understanding between them. at times. yeah.

MAX AND ANNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"i loved you. and i betrayed you. but i cannot apologize for it" ... "and i do not wish to lie to you ever again" MAX. GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR VOICEEEEE

did madi just. fucking die.

oh. shit. did eleanor fucking die also.

everythings. COMING UP, FLINTHOUSE,

flint's face acting once again, now that he's telling silver about the. Hnghn. situation. oh god.

"anyone who can't make it to the beach, i want them carried. i'll not leave anyone behind"

"how can we all have sacrificed so much and none of us has anything to show for it?" oh i get it now i get it . max isthe fucking insightful oracle or smth like that of the series. she's always on all sides and on her own side, selfish and giving and caring and loyal and scheming. oh she. Oh She.

"... and the governor is sitting in Nassau in mY ffFFUcking chair, victorious !!!"

this spat jack and max are having. Oh Man. i revisit my earlier statement. I LOVE THEIR DYNAMIC????

"youre goddamn right i do"

"eleanor is dead, anne is nearly dead, and i want him to pay for all of it dearly" this is not the point but hoooooohhhhmy god if anyone suggests that this woman is bisexual rather than a lesbian im going to [choking noises. but humorously]

oh this shall be. Really Good. <- scene opens of silver lookng Fhucking worse for wear and red-teary-eyed. and flint's opening the captain's door

ep7 "she was curious and strong, not made to be hidden away from the world" THIS SUCKS. SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

flint asking "how are you" from silver...... hngnh. theres something so genuine in his voice in this. and in silver's eyes. oh fuck fuck fuck this

"they call you king, but only in the kingdom that is no more. we're all free men here, and i wish to Stay that way."

MAX FUCKING LOVES ANNE. LOOK AT THOSE LINGERING GLANCES FROM THE DOOR. FUCK!!!!!!!! FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"you told her to fuck off. she listened" IM SO SAD

jack's funy little breakdown over the whatever-fees like. bruh. this is SO domestic

jack's got the energy of a single father of four, methinks.

"when i was drowning myself over miranda, you helped me find my way out. Look at me. I will do the same for you"

"charles vane was my closest friend in the world" bruh............. JACK....................... BRO!....................

eleanor's grandmother's actor hello hello hello. Hello

hyii vittuuUUU the dead eleanor having moved her gaze towards rogers in his minds eye eeewwwwWW CREEPS ME OUT

"they are strong when flint and silver are united, but separate the two of them, turn them against one another and their world collapses" JESSUS THE CODEPENDENCY THE ISSUES THE . WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

BITCH. BITCH ??????????????????????????? BGIHNTUTDBGJK H:)DFGFNK MADI IS ALIVE?????????????? FLINT WHAT DID YOU . DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think max is the only character in this show actually. thats what i think actually.

oh fuck Oh fuckkkk silver looks like a drowned cat when he realizes that flint and the queen are not... in favor of. getting madi ? oh goddddddddddddd

".. to divide us like this, i will not permit it,  MADI, would not permit it..."

flint is like. RIDE OR DIE. for silver rightnow about madi. i respect this i like this this feels like an insane person thing in its entirety this is so good to me

"when you and i are of the same mind there is nothing we have not yet been able to do" and then he kinda Smiles. at silver. flint youre Insane.

ROGERS CAN SUCK SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

madi is so fucking through with this shes angry and tired and powerful and everythign and she will also die fighting i Hope this iSnt Foreshadowing🙂

"i mean, how could you be someone who would do that?" aint that thefucking question

"i do it for us. thats how it started. thats how its going to end" DID JACK FUCKING RACKhAM JUST INVENT. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEE ? ?

"you'll. you know." "i will" bro they. they both love anne like crazy. they dont love each other they kinda despise/respect/pity each other but By Golly Gee God They Both Love This Woman and Will Put Aside All Arguments For Her SAKE

ISRAEL HANDS ARE YOU A LITTLE WEASEL BITCH IN THIS UNIVERSE ALSO!!!!!!!!!?????????

ep8 "right people ... to hold the world together while it finds its balance" "you think so much of what you and i can accomplish together -" "you and her." OH MY GOD????

"i think that you are the best of us" AND I THINK THAT THIS IS A LOVE CONFESSION. UNLESS????

a cold winter's niiiight. HEALING ONE'S WOUNDSSSSS. MAX AND ANNE!!!!!

oh the trust is so fuckingbroken. between max and anne. between silver and flint... jhessus the stare flint offers silver after the cache is revealed. FUCK.

ooooh the lady of the brothel and the lady in waiting and JACK JACK JACK

dads are. FIGHTING.

"but do not ask me to choose between a war, and a wife. i do not think youre going to like the answer"

"... but i demand your support. [...] do i have it?" [LONG ASS BEAT] "yes." HE SAID, YOU KNOW. !!!! LIKE A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"but max refused" BUT MAX REFUSED. BUT MAX. REFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"she's a breath away from winning that fight. for whatever reason, she wants to share the spoils with you" IM GOING TO SPILL OVER IM GOING TO DROWN IN A PUDDLE IM GOING TO GNAW ON MY HANDBONES AND TURN INTO A FLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no no no noNO NO NO!! SHES BEEN FIGHTING THIS WORLD EVERY DAY SINCE SHE WAS BORN!!! DO NOT!!! MARRY HER OFF!!!! TO SOME WHITE MALE DIMWIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

youre forcing her to sell herself again, to be someone else's to belong to someone who does not deserve her nor her affections, to hide behind a white man, im not angry at the show or the writers i am thrilled to witness this fiction but FOR FUCKSSSS SAKEEEEEE THE STORY OHMY GOD!!!!! SHE IS THE CENTRAL PIECE!!!! TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"that... is a Very oldman"

silver still making sure. that no one does harm to flint. he fucking trusts that man. oh i am in so So much danger

"it's a fucking mess out here, come inside" ANNE. YOU AND YOUR WAYS!!!

SHE SAID NO SHE SAID NO SHE SAID NO SHE SAID NO!!!!! I LOVE YOU MAX!!! DO NOT GIVE THEM AN INCH. GIRL YOURE MY EVERY.THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

"... because i refuse to situate a man in a position where he might interfere one day with my ability to repair things with you"

"you are the bravest ... the truest .... and i betrayed you [her voice breAKS] and it sickens me" IM IN THE FUCING TRENCHES.

"for failing to see there's nothing important that does not include you"

hey yo <3 the hurt and . tears in silver's eyes as he watches flint Fucking betray him. after everything. after all. burrowing mmy head in sand right now effective immediately. i hate this. I HATE THISSS. he's not gonna trust flint EVER again about ANYTHING, and flint is SO. he is SO GOING TO END UP LONELY FRIENDLESS ALL HIS CLOSEST COMPANIONS AND LOVERS AND PARTNERS  D E A D  BECAUSE THEY HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF EXISTING A HAIRS WIDTH TOO CLOSE TO HIM. HATE PREVAILS LOVE LOSES FUCK MY STUPID BAKA LIFE

ep9 "after i just climbed that fucking hill are you being serious right now?" heh. COMEDY.

god the fucking. gentle grins and smirks they share . to let pride get between them... and then they did. let it get there. right. i hate this show (i LOVE THIS SHOW???)

TALKIONIG ABOUT. LEARNIGN HOW TO DEFEAT YOU . :) THE GENTLE SMIRKS CONTINUE OHMYGODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD THIS IS AGONIZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"on his own and disadvantaged countless times since i've known him... and here we are"

"i wonder if he knows just how much youve learned from him" ENDME.

we dont know who silver is.

"i'd be forced to hesitate before doing you any harm" hes putting silver in the same line as thomas and miranda.

"no seriously ive got quite a lot riding on this" JACKKKK

is this fucking bitch rogers blaming . MADI. of all people for eleanor death im going to k*ll this man

OK FAIR THE KNITTING NEEDLES CLICKING ELEANOR'S GHOST THING IS PRETTY EFFECTIVE

"i must answer to them" and "MY war." madi. fuckingchrist girl.

"THAT. YOU did." MADI RIP HIM TO SHREEEDDSSSSSS

flint bodily regretting his choice of companion as this guy will not fkcing Shut UP.

FLINT STILL. idk if this is care or plotting. BUT HE DOESNT WANT TO PART FROM SILVER

"that is to say you know my genuine friendship, and loyalty" im. going. to . scream

"can that be enough and there still be trust between us?" IM. GOING TO. SCREAM!

irrelevant to everything going on but my god the way flint is build. i'd like to look like this man thanks! gender OUTTTA the wazoo

THE OLD MAN LEADING JACK JUST FUCKING . DIED????????? NATURAL CAUSES?????? WHY ARE JACK'S STORYLINES ALWAYS COMEDIES IM LOSING MY MIND

THE THREE "mm-hmm's" JESUS

if flint fucking kills joji right now i will not be a happy camper i swear

god fucking fuck.

"it would be preferable to me if we solved this another way" AND WHY DO I STILL BELIEVE HIM!!!!!

"i know you cannot see why this must be. but it must be"

LIKE WAIT A MOMENTTTT silver i love your drive and love for your wife its only right <3 but fooor fucksake madi MADI HERSELF. ON THE ENEMY SHIP. is ACTIVELY SPITTING IN ROGERS FACE AND SAYING yeah whatre you gonna do kill me do it coward AND SHES LOOKING FORWARDDDD. PLEASE GIVE HER THE COURTESY OF DOING THE SAME.

mr de groot. i fucking despise the english.

"i have his true friendship, and so he's going to have mine" bruh.

ep10 ok i said i wouldnt comment on the last ep as i was watching but here me out. i hate that theres no fondness between them, at least not the sort that you(as a watcher?) can Reliably trust upon. its all just politics and selfish wants and needs and the flotsam and dead bodies that happen around you as you strive towards your goal. i hate that i cant trust jack!! and that flint cant trust jack!! and silver cant trust either of them!!! fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

. : D MOTHERFUCKER ALRIGHT !

#särmäs sermons #literature ramble #on a very personal note regarding this whole six months. loved the feeling of engaging my soft mousse of a brain to actually ponder at #themes and . meanings and characters on a deeper level than comedy/etc shows might force you to do. this is Not A Dig at comedies. #brother i live and breathe comedies. but as previously stated this was like PROPER DRAMA. AND I (ME!!! THIS FUCKING DUNCE????) WATCHED IT #AND GOT SOMETHING OUT OF IT TOO!!!! #fuck this was fun. THIS WAS FUN. despite it alllll #a nothing post by yours truly once again 💖

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Cliffhangers (stupid)

A cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction (or even a chapter of a book, where this is not even, as stated later, economical). A cliffhanger is hoped to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma. (wikipedia)

I do not like cliffhangers because of the way they alter the writing style of writers apparently addicted to them for no clear reason, and also because if the reason is clear, it is to give the audience a reason to return beyond the continuous quality of your series (assumed: for money), though this only slightly explains why this is done in book chapters.

The apparent need for them

On the one hand, ending especially a chapter at all if your story is multi-threaded is probably hard, but then there's chapter 16 in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" where Doughlas Adams rather obviously makes fun of this device, stating that "Stress and nervous tension are now serious Social problems in major parts of the galaxy" and going on to 'spoil' events and facts which would have slowly unfolded in the next chapter, including that they are of course not in mortal peril.

This shows the approximate (u|dys)topia I would apparently want instead, where no suspense is created across chapter boundaries, especially if the next chapter switches to a completely different perspective and thread of the story (though this is not actually on display in chapter 16). Imagining the cliffhanger would not exist in a more serious novel I'm rereading does not appear to have any downsides, except that it might get down the readers engagement with the novel if they have less points at which they have to continue reading, and so their sessions reading the novel are shorter overall, and so they think they like it less, because surely the way I binged through this book indicates it was well written all the way.(?)

Stress and nervous tension are actually at least mildly annoying in at least one part of the Galaxy

I would subjectively state that the feeling a cliffhanger induces just does not feel good. This does however call into question what I want to feel reading, and alternatively how bored I must be to consider feeling nothing an acceptable free time experience. Sample feelings include:

Romantic giddiness (e.g. in twilight by Stephenie Meyer) (not actually much more relaxed than suspense)

Considering the Implications of the presented Setup or Universe

Considering the authors intent behind some pun, character trait, or cliffhanger (oops)

Indignant awe at the absolute planning they must have to write 300 pages at all, which are also on average nonboring, especially considering the shortness of my school essays (of course not in comparison to a novel but to other essays of my friends or whatever)

The maybe-Contradiction in this with what I otherwise want from a book

I also do not like cover texts because they apparently ruin some of the suspense by just telling you the weird people in the book are vampires or even what the name of the most important one is. Considering there are different types of suspenses, this one kind of makes sense: it means that apparently I like slow revelations of the plot only if they do not seem delayed on purpose.

The strange fixation artists of a medium where they do not obviously boost sales have with Cliffhangers

It may just be some social self-expectation from hearing the phrase "to be continued" too many times, it might be the reader engagement, but I couldn't imagine a novelist who thinks to themselves: "my readers are sure going to consciously like how I am withholding information from them, and also wouldn't they like it so much if I did that at a chapter boundary". Firstly, chapter boundaries don't really mean that much, and conventional suspense feels less forced to me, as I would apparently want a novel to sound like it's not plying psychological tricks on me. Secondly, thinking a cliffhanger is good like a consistently constructed fantasy world that isn't confusing, or a joke, or a sudden reveal i didn't expect, I still don't get what I'm supposed to like about a cliffhanger.

Do tell. I have 0 novel writing experience

#writing #cliffhanger #reading

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Time Loops and Hair Dye - 9/25/23

This dream contains some spoilers for Madoka Magica's ending. If you haven't watched it and have considered doing so in the future, I advise you not to read it!

In my dream last night, I met Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica. This dream took place after Madoka had made her wish and became the savor of Magical girls.

Homura was trying to find a way to go back in time in order to try and get Madoka to be human again. I was able to help her come to some form of realization about some kind of "threads" attached to certain events in the time line. She managed to find a way to cut some of these threads, shown in a physical timeline, which, with each one cut, the timeline would get pushed back slightly. It was in a way, incremental time-travel. She pushed the timeline back to just a little bit before the very beginning before she stopped.

Not long after, she ended up cutting my hair, for some reason. From my perspective, it felt like it was cut only an inch or less from my scalp. She also put some hair dye as well as some bleach in my hair. At one point I got bleach on my fingertips, which became paper-white after a few minutes. After a while I asked if I should rinse it out, but she (or someone else in the room) told me that the colors weren't right yet, and I needed to keep waiting, so I did.

Not much later, I went into the bathroom to see what had been done to my hair. In my reflection, my hair was shoulder-length. The colors were a bit uncoordinated, but they didn't look too bad. My hair was much darker in the dream than in real life, and there was no indication that bleach had been put in my hair. The dye put on gave my hair a iridescent look.

Notes - 1. My hair is brown in real life, however it appeared to be black in this dream. 2. I have no idea what the setting of this dream was. Definitely not a house. Everything was pretty dark in color.

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Cognitio (2018). Short film review

Cognitio | 2018 | Denmark | screenplay and direction: Rebecca Emcken

Do you happen to watch short films? For me, it's usually the result of coming across this type of movie rather than targeted searching. After all, is it possible to build a bond between the viewer and the character in 20 minutes? Is this enough time to get carried away with the plot?

However, in the case of Cognitio I didn't ask myself these questions, because a few years ago an accidental click led me to watch it. Finding it again after years was a challenge. And since I searched so persistently, it means that the questions above can be answered in the affirmative.

Quoting the description:

The boy Tobias is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. Here, he meets the boy Emil, a boy with an entirely different view on life and the situation he and Tobias is in. The two boys develop a close friendship that puts the mind and boundaries of Tobias to the test.

The strongest point of Cognitio is consistency, which is expressed in gentle suggesting. To achieve this, you need well-thought-out frames, dialogues, and sophistication.

The main plot is not about building the emotional relationship between characters; this thread pulsates on the second plan. I think this in itself makes the movie an interesting position between movies with the BL theme. Tobias doesn't share Emil's enthusiasm, who talks about girls time after time. A watchful eye will catch the boy's consternation and that he is not taking up the subject. These are indications, that he is not interested in the opposite gender. This is also suggested by the scene with his fantasy, where he imagines someone's touch. Although we only see close-ups of parts of the body, we have no doubt who this person is.

Consistency also manifests in the minimalist soundtrack used throughout the film. It is a repetitive voice and slow piano sounds. The background music appears even when teenagers get to know each other, when they smile, or during a liberating dance together. The feeling of coldness accompanies us also during these scenes, which are supposed to bring joy. I think this is the factor that allows you to connect with the main character and get into his emotions.

I'm pretty sure Emil was just a figment of Tobias' imagination. The reasons for this appear already in the psychiatrist's room. The camera leads us deep into the character's imagination, defining the plane on which we are. During the jealousy scene, the newly met man talks to Tobias but doesn't turn around when Emil butts in their conversation. When the orderlies enter Tobias' room to search it, they say Hey Tobias without mentioning Emil. After the sedative injection, Emil only appears next to Tobias for a while and then disappears; he goes away symbolically when the hallucinations subside. These are exemplary scenes from which you can pick up suggestions, directing you to the path of basic interpretation.

However, this is not the end. My mind craves for considering other possibilities as well. It is very interesting to approach the subject from different perspectives. Why? The structure of the film allows for this. By contemplating, we can wander into the deeper corners of the human psyche. If the gate remains open, I feel invited.

Let's assume that Emil really existed and he was in the hospital. How will the situations mentioned above apply to this? The newly met man could not turn around at Emil's words, because he simply ignored him. He had a reason for it because Emil had already shown his reluctance towards him during the scene on the lawn. When Emil interrupted their conversation at the table, the man left because he felt hostile. When the orderlies entered the room, they addressed their words only to Tobias. It is not said that they hadn't seen Emil before and didn't search his room. After the sedative injection situation, maybe Emil visited Tobias. However, he, being still half-conscious, could only have a fleeting sense of someone's presence. One thing is certain - if Emil existed, it would be difficult not to call him a possessive egoist. He wanted to bring Tobias down to keep him by his side.

The starting point for alternative considerations is the fact we don't know why Tobias ended up in a mental hospital. Perhaps because of the trauma associated with the one-sided feeling he had for a boy? We cannot exclude that Emil really existed in his life before the reality of the white walls. Now he could become a kind of flashback where Tobias got stuck. Maybe he processes the painful relationship over and over again, maybe under different characters that are products of his imagination. These, in turn, may be projections of fears that only unhappy love awaits him. After waking up, Tobias should be furious with Emil; but I get a distinct impression that he misses him. Or maybe he misses something that's over because he became a prisoner of the past?

You might say that Cognitio is about mental illness, but is it only about it? For me, it is also a metaphor for overwhelming loneliness, from which the only escape is our inner world - safe space - imagination.

In the end, I must praise the interesting form of the film: in less than 20 minutes they managed to include the compositional frame, and its closing part is also a plot twist.

Cognitio is worth watching at least twice. For the first time to let yourself be surprised. For the second time, to analyze the film anew, having the necessary knowledge. And here the short form turns out to be an undeniable asset.

Nerise Medetai

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ABOUT THIS RP BLOG & THE MUN: • you can call me vii • mun/muse over 21 • mun is not a native speaker of English • replies may take a bit since I have work and uni • i also absolutely suck at reaching out first because I'm awkward af but I do try! > also once we break the ice you're not getting rid of me again :D IN GENERAL: • selective & private > I will only write threads with mutuals, but you may send in rp-memes regardless. • literate/descriptive/multi-para-style • open to asks from anyone, but not terribly quick about answering them • canon typical violence • plotlines of any kind are welcome, adventure, romance, crack, fluff, angst hit me up we’ll probably find some common ground •  I don’t queue replies, only aesthetic posts and so on > if I owe you I want you to get that reply as soon as possible • general warning: NSFW will occassionally occur and will be tagged #nsfw CONCERNING ALEXANDER’s PORTRAYAL •  I do not write him as a villain, nor do I intend to in the future. In my opinion in his canon verse he was a civilian forced into a war by grief and an overwhelming need for revenge for his fiancée’s death. He did not join the resistance for glory, out of patriotism or because he believed in the cause, even though he used these reasons as a front to hide from his grief and the guilt he felt for everything he did during the war. > that does not mean your muse may not perceive him as a villain if they know/or learn about who he is and what he has done before/ or during the plot of RE:Damnation. • This is more of a headsup - but since Alexander’s mother tongue is not English, yet I personally do not speak Russian, I handle him speaking Russian in threads either without outright dialogue by simply stating he tells someone something in Russian or by marking his dialogue with [ ] instead of the usual quotation marks to indicate that he is currently not speaking English. ABOUT RP-MEMES: • I don’t care how long ago I reblogged something - send the meme • I don’t care if our muses met before - send the meme • I don’t care if we follow each other - send the meme • I don’t care if we never interacted before - send the meme • I don’t care if you already send 52849412 memes - send the meme • I don’t care if we have 20 threads already - send the meme • SEND. THE. MEME. ABOUT ROMANTIC SHIPS: • multi-ship, but will not ship with multiples of the same muse. • I love ships and chances are I already ship our characters. So, lets go! • I mostly ship chemistry. meaning I’d like to see how our muses interact on a base level before jumping right into a ship, but if we’re mutuals feel free to send in shippy memes or random shippy asks regardless - just know that they will likely not immediately turn into threads with a fully established romantic relationship in threads if we’ve never interacted before. • I also headcanon Sasha as demisexual, therefore it will take him forming a deep bond with your muse first to actually consider a romantic relationship in any case. However he does perceive himself as straight initially, since he never even considered being anything other than that even after his fiancée died. SMUT: • won’t write smut with minors • it will be tagged nsfw • I’m game for rping most things, just ask, I won’t judge • BUT please refrain from writing: > spanking > your muse calling mine babe or baby in a context that isn’t crack. just. no. > other pet names are circumstancial and might need discussion since I often find them ending up feeling too ooc. VERSES: • canon verse and slight divergences preferred > meaning: I follow canon by default and it will take some serious plotting and just me vibing with you ooc for any plot to happen outside the canon/ or canon-adjacent universes TRIGGERS: • I don’t have any triggers • mention of torture will be tagged with “tw: torture” • mention of death will be tagged “tw: death” • also I’m not a fan of gore so please keep fights and injuries reasonable THINGS I WILL NOT RP: • scat/watersports • vore • explicit torture

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3 Steps to A Healthy, Blessed Life

Many of us recognize that we would like to be thinner, have more energy, and live happier, healthier lives.

Although we realize this, it often feels like the distance between where we are and where we want to be is a chasm wider than the Grand Canyon! Lord knows we’ve tried to eat healthier, started ambitious exercise programs, signed up for weight-loss plans, and bought volumes of new cookbooks. Time and again, we lose momentum and then quit within a matter of weeks, if not days. The arduous endeavor of getting from point A—where we are now—to where we would like to be at a very distant point Z—the trim, healthy, flexible, energetic, happy person we believe we should be—is just too great and too difficult to navigate.

If that even remotely describes you, I have good news for you: Change is not as hard as you think.

As Dr. Mark Hyman wrote in his bestselling book, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet,

When it comes to weight loss, studies show that social threads have a bigger impact than genetics. When people join together to lose weight and get healthy, not only is it more effective, it’s also more fun! Losing weight is a team sport.

And how does he know? Dr. Hyman was one of the advising-physicians for The Daniel Plan conducted at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. During the first week, 15,000 participants signed up for the program, and in the first year, those people lost an estimated 250,000 pounds! But that wasn’t the most startling discovery. What was? According to Dr. Hyman, “The research indicated that those who did the plan together lost twice as much weight as those who did it alone.” It’s best to team up if you want to get healthy and stay healthy.

Wake-Up Call

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity of North Americans. More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7 percent or 78.6 million) and approximately 17 percent (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2–19 years are obese.

#1) Identify the Enemy

No matter your reason for picking up this book, I have good news for you. Regardless of your health goals or challenges, the foundation for alleviating, healing, or in many cases preventing health challenges begins with facilitating your body’s natural inborn ability to adapt to and recover from stress.

We all have stress—it’s inescapable. In fact, stress is really what makes life challenging and fulfilling. It is often in overcoming stressful challenges that we find life’s deeper meaning. At the same time, however, stress must be properly managed. or it will become destructive. Giving our bodies what they need to cope with and recover from stress begins with changing our lifestyle choices. These are choices like the way we eat, how much we exercise, how much time we allow for recovery, and how we manage our reactions to life’s adversities. It has to do with adding the right foods and activities first, then slowly eliminating the foods and practices that are detrimental to your overall health.

Myth Vs. Fact

Myth: “I feel healthy, so I am healthy.”

Fact: Imagine, if you will, a battlefield. Both sides have been fighting for weeks with heavy casualties. On the one side, an army serving a totalitarian dictator who seeks world domination. On the other side, a group of freedom fighters—locals who don’t want to see their land taken over by a madman. The commanding officer of the freedom fighters is burdened with the battle. No matter what approach he takes with his men, he is met with resistance at every turn. It’s as if the enemy knows his every move. But how can they? Some days he doesn’t plan his move until the last minute before he engages the enemy. He trusts a few good men, career men who would give their lives for him at a moment’s notice. What he doesn’t know is that one of those men is a traitor. He spies on the freedom fighters and reports to the enemy on a regular basis. As long as the commander doesn’t recognize this fact, and identify him as the enemy, the freedom fighters will continue to lose men until they have to retreat or surrender. The end is already spelled out. The war is already lost. No matter how well they plan, how prepared they are, how hard they fight, or how ferociously they stick to their war plan, until that spy is identified and neutralized, they will continue to lose.

Every day people are diagnosed with dental disease (cavities), heart disease (high blood pressure/cholesterol), and all types of cancer (breast, colon, prostate) and don’t even feel a single pain, lump, sensitivity or symptom. Many suffer heart attacks, cancer, strokes, and other “sudden” illnesses when they feel perfectly healthy— some even immediately after seemingly good checkups with their doctors.

How you feel doesn’t matter as much as what is really happening inside your body. Not only that, but most of us don’t really feel as healthy as we think we do— we have just gotten used to masking fatigue with caffeine, aches with medications, and chalking up symptoms to our age rather than what is really causing them. Until we identify that stress is the enemy in our own camp, then it won’t matter how much we try to eat right, or exercise, or take vitamins. Ultimately we will lose the battle to get healthy and stay healthy because we aren’t fighting the right enemy. We are just shadow boxing.

You want to feel really healthy? Then realize and act on the fact that stress is your biggest enemy in the fight for health! You will be surprised how fit, strong, and healthy you can be even into your 80s and 90s if you just identify and neutralize the stressors on your body, and give it what it needs to begin once again to adapt to and recover from those stressors.

#2) Identify Your Vision

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I use the word vision rather than goals because a vision is much more holistic than a list of individual objectives. As far as goals go, we tend to look for numerical changes such as lowering our blood pressure, LDL cholesterol counts, or losing X number of pounds. A vision, however, includes the motives behind why you set those goals, as well as how they work into your lifestyle. It includes the strategies and character with which you want to achieve those goals, as well as a practical understanding of the challenges you will face along the way and the realistic recognition of the amount of work necessary to see your vision become a reality.

There is a Jewish proverb that says: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” However, when you look at the original Hebrew for this phrase, it doesn’t really say, “the people perish,” but rather “the people are unrestrained” or “cast off restraint.” Why are people undisciplined in the pursuit of their goals? It’s not because there’s anything wrong with them, and it’s not because there’s anything wrong with their goals. It’s because they don’t have a compelling vision that motivates them to stick to their plan. If we don’t have self-control, the problem isn’t that we are weak-willed—the problem is we lack vision.

People can go to the other extreme as well. They focus in so tightly on their goals that they forget why they are trying to achieve them in the first place. They make unnecessary trade-offs and compromises to achieve the numbers, but they lose on other fronts like relationships or quality of life. So, for instance, people will radically change their lifestyles or starve themselves to get to their ideal weight, but they forget that the real point was to live a healthier and happier lifestyle that they can maintain. Not only do they compromise their health getting to their goals, but after they reach them, they find they can’t maintain the lower weight without continuing to starve and work out at a feverish pace. They got what they wanted, but they lost the “Why?” behind it.

We don’t attain what we casually set out to accomplish—we’re just not designed that way. We obtain what we envision passionately. When we spend time adding to and developing a vision for the life we want, that vision becomes a powerful force, pulling us toward its fulfillment. What we visualize in our mind’s eye changes us. Our habits change. Our thinking changes. Our willpower aligns with our vision, and our expectations become more magnetic. This is why professional athletes use visualization techniques as well as disciplined practice to hone their skills. Our minds don’t differentiate between what we have done in our imaginations and what we practice in reality. When we see ourselves doing things the right way over and over and over again, it affects how we perform.

Myth Vs. Fact

Myth: Having fast-food French fries now and again never hurt anyone.

Truth: High-temperature frying, especially of potatoes, creates the chemical acrylamide. The fats used to fry fast food also stay in the body for many days causing a decrease in nerve transmission, increased hyperactivity, decreased immunity, and an increased risk for diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

The point of having a vision is to focus on the results rather than on the pain of achieving those results. When we focus on the pain, we tend to give up; when we focus on the rewards, we keep working until we achieve them. It can be as simple as focusing on what you will feel like after you work out rather than how much you don’t want to get out of bed. Realizing how much better you will feel sitting down to a healthy, home-cooked meal with your family rather than driving out to get fast food and eating it in the car. The key is to pull future rewards into your present state of mind and focus on the benefits rather than on the obstacles.

The more we develop and contemplate our vision, the more it becomes part of who we are. It doesn’t take long for what we reflect on in our minds to become the reflection we see in the mirror! An unclear or ambivalent picture of how you want to look won’t be enough to propel you toward achieving your ultimate goals. You need a detailed vision that you nurture, develop, and meditate on every day.

#3) Identify Your Plan

Another crucial component of creating a healthier, happier life is proper planning. Most of us fall into eating at fast-food restaurants and buying convenience foods in the supermarket not because we are weak or don’t have time to do better. Most of the time we drop the ball because we fail to have a better plan. When you make decisions while you are tired or stressed, the default setting is to do what you’ve always done. However, if you have a written plan, the easiest thing to do becomes to follow your plan!

Planning today is easier than it has ever been. There are apps for your smart phone that allow you to synchronize shopping lists between family members. You can set alarm reminders for preparing food ahead of time so you are ready to cook dinner at the same time every night. There are websites galore with health tips, recipes, downloadable meal plans and shopping lists, as well as video exercise programs. There are even YouTube videos that show you everything from how to set up your kitchen to walking you step by step through meal preparation. It has never been easier to learn about how to create a healthier, happier life and then planning and incorporating that plan into your weekly routine.

It’s Not Entirely Your Fault

In the last 40 years, the world has become increasingly more industrialized, and stress is at an all-time high. Our society looks nothing like it did just a generation ago. Over the last two decades, the number of unhealthy, diseased, overweight, and obese North Americans has skyrocketed. People have more chronic health issues than ever before, and are on more medications than ever before. This isn’t because you have bad genes or are just getting older. This isn’t an epidemic that has happened because of a change in climate or because our generation is lazier than any before. If I were going to identify one factor, it wouldn’t be that we watch more TV, play more video games, or surf the Internet more than we ever have before. The real issue is that our bodies are stressed. We have more stress than we have ever had in recorded human history. When we refer to stress at this point, I mean that stress is anything that puts an undue burden on the body. Some stress is good, but chronic stress with no relief is devastating to your health.

One of the many reasons that we are stressed is that our food supply has changed so dramatically. We put certain things into our bodies that should never have been called food. Just because something gives energy (calories) doesn’t mean that it is food. If man created it, or it is filled with preservatives or sits on the shelf forever, it has more than likely been altered in harmful ways. Look at margarine; it’s not a real food. It is a combination of artificial chemicals that give a certain taste. We put it in our mouths, but it is not a naturally occurring substance. Now we can taste strawberries in a syrup that has no strawberries in it. It is just a fabricated chemical designed to taste like a strawberry. Even at times when we think we are making a healthy food choice like vegetables, we learn that the process of industrial farming has stripped those foods of value and they now create more harm than good. America’s topsoil is depleted, and the very DNA of food has been altered for reasons of economic efficiency and convenience. These factors of modern life all put complicated chemical stress on our bodies.

In order for topsoil to stay fertile, it must be cared for with good conservation practices. Unfortunately that is not happening today. In order for plants to thrive, the soil in which they are grown must contain vast amounts of naturally occurring potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorous, as well as hundreds of trace minerals. Soil conservation is a set of strategies that prevent erosion or chemical alteration from overuse, acidification, salinization, or contamination. Strategies like crop rotation and planting cover crops and windbreaks are necessary steps to protect our topsoil and help it to retain its integrity. The current use of glycophosphate (also known as “Roundup”) in standard farming practices has poisoned our food supply. Even those who choose fruits and vegetables over junk food find their bodies assaulted by toxins that cause chronic stress, genetic mutations, and cell death. The company Monsanto, with their push for acceptance of these chemicals and acceptance of genetically modified foods, will someday be responsible for more human deaths than any totalitarian dictator in history!

The standard American diet today is higher in sugars, bad fats, bad carbohydrates, sodium, and other nutritionally bankrupt and downright harmful ingredients than ever before. We are paying the price for not getting enough of the right things in our food and getting too much of the wrong things. We are eating more than ever before, while our bodies think they are starving. Simply put, our food supply lacks the proper nutrition. As a result, we are constantly storing fat because our bodies are tricked into thinking that because nutrients are scarce, food must be scarce. We are coming to a time when being overweight is going to be a greater world issue than poverty and hunger. We are very close to seeing more people on earth dying from the associated diseases and conditions of obesity than from being underweight or starving.

The processed foods that line grocery store shelves today have been carefully engineered to be as addictive as cigarettes or drugs. This is especially true of those that have added sugar, salt, fats, carbohydrates, or some diabolical combination of the four. Many of these processed foods—even ones that advertise themselves as “healthy,” “whole,” “gluten-free,” and “organic”—don’t have nearly the nutritional value that foods grown or raised in the right environment do. We need to recognize that much of what we eat out of habit is not because we lack willpower or self-control, but because those foods have been deliberately designed to be addictive. At the same time, they have so little nutrition in them that they leave us hungrier than we were before we ate them. Then, to feel satisfied we binge—reaching for foods that please the palate, but stress our internal systems because they have so little of what our bodies really need.

Wake-Up Call

Obesity-related conditions like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer are some of the leading causes of preventable death in our country today.

Despite such complications, the answer is relatively simple: As individual families and as a culture, we need to get back to eating real foods. When you eat real foods in the right combinations, something amazing happens—you feel full much sooner, and your appetite remains satisfied much longer. Your body is getting the fiber and nutrients that it needs. Your hunger hormones balance, and your appetite switches off. If your systems have been out of whack for a long time, this balance will take time to correct.

I want to warn you up front that you will be in for a bit of a fight, especially in the first few days. Food addiction is a real thing. When you eat gluten (wheat protein), casein (milk protein), and sugar, your brain is flooded with chemicals that make you feel calm and content. As you begin to remove those substances from your diet, you may feel some anxiety or other physical effects. Hang in there. With each passing day, your body will adjust, and your cravings will diminish. You will find that it takes about seven to ten days to do most of the work of recalibrating your appetite. This will vary depending on what your eating habits were like before beginning.

At the same time, when you begin to take small steps toward a happier and healthier life, you will be surprised at how much your eating habits and appetites will have improved. You’ll know something is different when you look forward to a hardy spinach salad with avocado, roasted pine nuts, wild-caught salmon, and a little feta cheese rather than a super-sized burger, fries, and a shake! And, oh boy, when that starts to happen, things start to get exciting!

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A guest post by @shealynn88!

The new writer in your writing group just sent out their latest story and it’s...not exciting. You know it needs work, but you’re not sure why, or where they should focus.

This is the blog post for you!

Before we get started, it’s important to note that this post isn’t aimed at people doing paid editing work. In the professional world, there are developmental editors, line editors, and copy editors, who all have a different focus. That is not what we’re covering here. Today, we want to help you informally give quality, detailed, encouraging feedback to your fellow writers.

The Unwritten Rules

Everyone seems to have a different understanding of what it means to beta, edit, or give feedback on a piece, so it’s best to be on the same page with your writer before you get started.

Think about what type of work you’re willing and able to do, how much time you have, and how much emotional labor you’re willing to take on. Then talk to your writer about their expectations.

Responsibilities as an editor/beta may include:

Know what the author’s expectation is and don’t overstep. Different people in different stages of writing are looking for, and will need, different types of support. It’s important to know what pieces of the story they want feedback on. If they tell you they don’t want feedback on dialogue, don’t give them feedback on dialogue. Since many terms are ambiguous or misunderstood, it may help you to use the list of story components in the next section to come to an agreement with your writer on what you’ll review.

Don’t offer expertise you don’t have. If your friend needs advice on their horse book and you know nothing about horses, be clear that your read through will not include any horse fact checking. Don’t offer grammar advice if you’re not good at grammar. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give feedback on things you do notice, but don’t misrepresent yourself, and understand your own limits.

Give positive and constructive feedback. It is important for a writer to know when something is working well. Don’t skimp on specific positive feedback — this is how you keep writers motivated. On the other hand, giving constructive feedback indicates where there are issues. Be specific on what you’re seeing and why it’s an issue. It can be hard for someone to improve if they don’t understand what’s wrong.

Be clear about your timing and availability, and provide updates if either changes. Typically, you’ll be doing this for free, as you’re able to fit it in your schedule. But it can be nerve wracking to hand your writing over for feedback and then hear nothing. For everyone’s sanity, keep the writer up to date on your expected timeline and let them know if you’re delayed for some reason. If you cannot complete the project for them, let them know. This could be for any reason — needing to withdraw, whatever the cause, is valid! It could be because working with the writer is tough, you don’t enjoy the story, life got tough, you got tired, etc. All of that is fine; just let them know that you won’t be able to continue working on the project.

Be honest if there are story aspects you can’t be objective about. Nearly all of your feedback is going to be personal opinion. There are some story elements that will evoke strong personal feelings. They can be tropes, styles, specific characterizations, or squicks. In these cases, ask the writer to get another opinion on that particular aspect, or, if you really want to continue, find similar published content to review and see if you can get a better sense of how other writers have handled it.

Don’t get personal. Your feedback should talk about the characters, the narrator, the plotline, the sentence structure, or other aspects of the story. Avoid making ‘you’ statements or judgements, suggested or explicit, in your feedback. Unless you’re looking at grammar or spelling, most of the feedback you’ll have will be your opinion. Don’t present it as fact.

Your expectations of the writer/friend/group member you are working with may include:

Being gracious in accepting feedback. A writer may provide explanations for an issue you noticed or seek to discuss your suggestions. However, if they constantly argue with you, that may be an indicator to step back.

Being responsible for emotional reactions to getting feedback. While getting feedback can be hard on the ego and self esteem, that is something the writer needs to work on themselves. While you can provide reassurance and do emotional labor if you’re comfortable, it is also very reasonable to step back if the writer isn’t ready to do that work.

Making the final choice regarding changes to the work. The writer should have a degree of confidence in accepting or rejecting your feedback based on their own sense of the story. While they may consult you on this, the onus is on them to make changes that preserve the core of the story they want to tell.

Some people aren’t ready for feedback, even though they’re seeking it. You’re not signing up to be a psychologist, a best friend, or an emotional support editor. You can let people know in advance that these are your expectations, or you can just keep them in mind for your own mental health. As stated above, you can always step back from a project, and if writers aren’t able to follow these few guidelines, it might be a good time to do that. (It’s also worth making sure that, as a writer, you’re able to give these things to your beta/editor.)

Specificity is Key

One of the hardest things in editing is pinning down the ‘whys’ of unexciting work, so let’s split the writing into several components and talk about evaluations you can make for each one.

You can also give this list to your writer ahead of time as a checklist, to see which things they want your feedback on.

Generally, your goal is going to be to help people improve incrementally. Each story they write should be better than the previous one, so you don’t need to go through every component for every story you edit. Generally, I wouldn’t suggest more than 3 editing rounds on any single story that isn’t intended for publication. Think of the ‘many pots’ theory — people who are honing their craft will improve more quickly by writing a lot of stories instead of incessantly polishing one.

With this in mind, try addressing issues in the order below, from general to precise. It doesn’t make sense to critique grammar and sentence structure if the plot isn’t solid, and it can be very hard on a writer to get feedback on all these components at once. If a piece is an early or rough draft, try evaluating no more than four components at a time, and give specific feedback on what does and doesn’t work, and why.

High Level Components

Character arc/motivation:

Does each character have a unique voice, or do they all sound the same?

In dialogue, are character voices preserved? Do they make vocabulary and sentence-structure choices that fit with how they’re being portrayed?

Does each character have specific motivations and focuses that are theirs alone?

Does each character move through the plot naturally, or do they seem to be shoehorned/railroaded into situations or decisions for the sake of the plot? Be specific about which character actions work and which don’t. Tell the writer what you see as their motivation/arc and why—and point out specific lines that indicate that motivation to you.

Does each character's motivation seem to come naturally from your knowledge of them?

Are you invested (either positively or negatively) in the characters? If not, why not? Is it that they have nothing in common with you? Do you not understand where they’re coming from? Are they too perfect or too unsympathetic?

Theme:

It’s a good idea to summarize the story and its moral from your point of view and provide that insight to the writer. This can help them understand if the points they were trying to make come through. The theme should tie in closely with the character arcs. If not, provide detailed feedback on where it does and doesn’t tie in.

Plot Structure:

For most issues with plot structure, you can narrow them down to pacing, characterization, logical progression, or unsatisfying resolution. Be specific about the issues you see and, when things are working well, point that out, too.

Is there conflict that interests you? Does it feel real?

Is there a climax? Do you feel drawn into it?

Do the plot points feel like logical steps within the story?

Is the resolution tied to the characters and their growth? Typically this will feel more real and relevant and satisfying than something you could never have seen coming.

Is the end satisfying? If not, is it because you felt the end sooner and the story kept going? Is it because too many threads were left unresolved? Is it just a matter of that last sentence or two being lackluster?

Point Of View:

Is the point of view clear and consistent?

Is the writing style and structure consistent with that point of view? For example, if a writer is working in first person or close third person, the style of the writing should reflect the way the character thinks. This extends to grammar, sentence structure, general vocabulary and profanity outside of the dialogue.

If there is head hopping (where the point of view changes from chapter to chapter or section to section), is it clear in the first few sentences whose point of view you’re now in? Chapter headers can be helpful, but it should be clear using structural, emotional, and stylistic changes that you’re with a new character now.

Are all five senses engaged? Does the character in question interact with their environment in realistic, consistent ways that reflect how people actually interact with the world?

Sometimes the point of view can feel odd if it’s too consistent. Humans don’t typically think logically and linearly all the time, so being in someone’s head may sometimes be contradictory or illogical. If it’s too straightforward, it might not ‘feel’ real.

Be specific about the areas that don’t work and break them down based on the questions above.

Pacing:

Does the story jump around, leaving you confused about what took place when?

Do some scenes move quickly where others drag, and does that make sense within the story?

If pacing isn’t working, often it’s about the level of detail or the sentence structure. Provide detailed feedback about what you care about in a given scene to help a writer focus in.

Setting:

Is the setting clear and specific? Writing with specific place details is typically more rooted, interesting, and unique. If you find the setting vague and/or uninteresting and/or irrelevant, you might suggest replacing vague references — ‘favorite band’, ‘coffee shop on the corner’, ‘the office building’ — with specific names to ground the setting and make it feel more real.

It might also be a lack of specific detail in a scene that provides context beyond the characters themselves. Provide specific suggestions of what you feel like you’re missing. Is it in a specific scene, or throughout the story? Are there scenes that work well within the story, where others feel less grounded? Why?

Low Level Components

Flow/Sentence Structure:

Sentence length and paragraph length should vary. The flow should feel natural.

When finding yourself ‘sticking’ on certain sentences, provide specific feedback on why they aren’t working. Examples are rhythm, vocabulary, subject matter (maybe something is off topic), ‘action’ vs ‘explanation’, passive vs. active voice.

Style/Vocabulary:

Writing style should be consistent with the story — flowery prose works well for mythic or historical pieces and stories that use that type of language are typically slower moving. Quick action and short sentences are a better fit for murder mysteries, suspense, or modern, lighter fiction.

Style should be consistent within the story — it may vary slightly to show how quickly action is happening, but you shouldn’t feel like you’re reading two different stories.

SPAG (Spelling and Grammar):

Consider spelling and grammar in the context of the point of view, style and location of the story (eg, England vs. America vs. Australia).

If a point of view typically uses incorrect grammar, a SPAG check will include making sure that it doesn’t suddenly fall into perfect grammar for a while. In this case, consistency is going to be important to the story feeling authentic.

Word Count Requirements:

If the story has been written for a project, bang, anthology, zine, or other format that involves a required word count minimum or maximum, and the story is significantly over or under the aimed-for word count (30% or more/less), it may not make sense to go through larger edits until the sizing is closer to requirements. But, as a general rule, I’d say word count is one of the last things to worry about.

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The best thing we can do for another writer is to keep them writing. Every single person will improve if they keep going. Encouragement is the most important feedback of all.

I hope this has helped you think about how you provide feedback. Let us know if you have other tips or tricks! This works best as a collaborative process where we all can support one another!

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