#instead of writing

[ceilidho]

ill get to the welder/rugby player ghost au at some point when my brain turns back on

#ive been reading and watching rupaul's drag race for days #instead of writing

[issylragold]

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#ferdinand kingsley #hob gadling #the sandman #thesandmanedit #sandmanedit #*mine #just going to slowly make gifs #of everything on velo's ferdie google doc #instead of writing #because my brain is garbage

[empressofmankind]

Grabs @ruledbyproblematique 's shoulder and wheezes

#is it too soon to make this joke? #cackles #I am not even in the same Blue as sorry #still #talking about writing #instead of writing #I'd like to nominate 'maximising buggy's insecurities' #as an Olympic sport #why? #I'd like to win at some thing some time #lmao #buggy thoughts #one piece #sir crocodile #buggy the clown #buggy x oc #crocodile one piece #buggy one piece #cross guild #KINDA

[tideswept]

the devil is a gentleman [ch1] → ao3

Alternate Universe - Actors, Flirting, Top Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bottom Anakin Skywalker, Fluff and Smut, Sexual Tension, Older Man/Younger Man, Seduction, Manipulation

#fanfiction #obikin #star wars #i spent half an hour doing this #instead of writing #wise decisions were not made #berryfic

[dracocheesecake]

He vroom

He zoom

#kung fu panda #general kai #kai #kfp3 #screenshots #instead of writing

[bylightofdawn]

Does anyone else get haunted by the knowledge that in a few hundred years from now (yes I'm gonna be an optimist and hope there will be humans in a few hundred years) that people are going to look back at our written words and laugh themselves silly over what they find? Sure if our digital age continues at least that might be slightly less awful to read but you know the amount of errors and misspellings we do because we've been taught 'hooked on phonics' and what have you. Which might be serviceable for learning how to read but is complete and utter shit for teaching people to spell?

And since we've frankly gotten lazy and so used to our little pocket computers auto correcting our spelling that if we have to actually write something out then we're fucked. So we know this NOW but imagine what people 500 or 100 years from now are going to think when they find exant writing and immediately lose their shit like we do over middle english? (much less old english) The general populace is pretty much oh, look at those silly, quaint and uneducated people putting their ye and their olde's into everything, etc. And like….completely ignoring the fact it was literally just a handful of languages thrown into a stew pot and left to melt into a bastardized version of SOMETHING. So we look at it and it just looks like a typo riddled hot mess to our modern eye.

Now imagine someone finding our exant modern writing examples and tell me they wouldn't do the same thing. All those desperate attempts at phonetically trying to spell certain words and our utter and miserable failures. Not to mention our SLANG, often completely centralized in certain areas. Philly's infamous Jawn comes to mind right off the top of my head. Or AAVE. I'm clearly speaking from a English speaking American POV but I know other languages and cultures have the same fun flavors and things that make language so endlessly fascinating.

Also imagine someone finding our tumblr blogs with our widdle meow meow and our blorbos, our baby girls and any of a dozen weird tumblr specific vernacular which is kinda it's own weird tumblr ecosystem dialect.

These poor bastards in the future are going to be SO CONFUSED. And at LEAST we have a centuries long record of how the English language has evolved and changed over the years to help guide us. But for dead languages or ones that don't have that rich history of documentation? Lets say some awful global event happens and we lose their history, they're going to be even more confused by our little meow meows because maybe something like the knowledge cats = meow survives because it's so prevelant. But why the fuck are we calling these random characters who have no feline features our little meow meows?

So yeah, that's the shit I think about sometimes. And it haunts me.

Also this entire post was brought to you by my struggling for a good four minutes to try and figure out how to spell buoyancy and the many fucked up and terrible attempts I made desperately trying to get close enough my spellchecker would understand wtf I was trying to type only for it to keep suggesting bouncy?

#el ponders life #instead of writing #language is fun

[scribe-of-stories]

Would a culture that had telepaths create a new form of story telling where they pass around unspoken, unwritten, unseen stories?

#Scribe Thinking #instead of writing #unspoken traditions #unseen plays #unheard music

[toomanystoriessolittletime]

If Negan bad, why played by JDM?

#watching TWD dead world #instead of writing #though I did write 3k today so I deserve a treat #and chicken nuggets

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

cant stop thinking about bloody levi i i i i

#hmmm #im incoherent again #what a shame #literal random screencaps as i'm making my 50th levi compilation #instead of writing #smh #kat rambles #levi thirst #levi ackerman #levi ackermann #levi heichou

[circa-specturgia]

Make Me Write Tag

Thanks for the tag @bloodlessheirbyjacques!

Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP or scene you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, WIP, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title or scene or project gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.

I’m gonna set this a bit differently and make this a Make Me Finish Tag, to get me to finish one project, since I’ve begun a few and divided my attention. Or at the very least dedicate more time and focus to it.

I’m gonna tag… @manuscriptsatmidnight @forthesanityofstorytellers @the-void-writes @kittensartswriting and @tryingtimi! Have fun!

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing community #writing #tag game #make me write tag game #make me write tag #god I’ve just been drawing a lot #instead of writing #anyways yeah pls help lmao

[lux-scriptum]

personal demons is just two really really sad and traumatized siblings who should be in therapy, the emotional support hellhound they accidentally share, and their very confused human along for the ride. oh, and the angel i guess.

#personal demons #shitposting #instead of writing

[unclekaz]

sorry about literally dying yesterday. i was learning how to draw

#vigilante.bmp #god has forsaken me #i have been cursed #i now want to draw landscape scenery my beloved #instead of writing #fuck. damnit.

[i-am-still-bb]

I never would have thought

that I’d be putting this much though and effort into dying Easter eggs. 

I wasn’t planning on doing dying any this year because Æ is still so little. We’re not even doing a basket, because the stocking at Christmas didn’t mean much to him. He did hunt eggs last Saturday and he’ll hunt some more on actual Easter (some containing the little things that would have been in his basket if we had done that). But then I saw a video tutorial on Insta/Facebook/interwebs showing a way to safely dye Easter eggs with a toddler. And it seemed like fun for him that had a nice result. You put the dye in cool whip and roll the eggs around in it. Let them rest in the fidge for a few hours. Rinse the whipping cream off and voila you are left with beautiful eggs.

Not. 

This is the tutorial I used. (I could not find the video I originally saw, but as far as I can tell everything was the same.)

So the process was fine. One of the eggs cracked. No biggie.

I did the vinegar bath. It was diluted maybe half-and-half with water because that’s A LOT of vinegar. And I don’t think that they sat for quite 5 minutes. When drying the eggs a thin layer of shell came off leaving the eggs a slightly lighter color.

So after the eggs are safely in the fridge to set I decide to show Æ what is inside the things he was just playing with. I finish cracked the egg. It’s still 85% raw. I did do two batches in my pressure cooker. I have guesses as to what went wrong. But one batch was cooked and one was not cooked (positive, the batch that was cooked peeled beautifully.) But I don’t learn that until after the eggs have sat in their colored cool whip for a few hours in the fridge. 

I start rinsing the eggs. VERY little color is on the eggs. I did use brown eggs, and I know that that will make the colors more muted, but they should still be visible.

The color is actually stronger in the areas where that thin layer of shell did not come off following the vinegar bath.

I try and fail to figure out which ones need cooked more by spinning them. I resort to peeling them and having my husband buy more eggs so we can try again tomorowing instead of re-dying these eggs. 

In some places the dye seeped through the shell and onto the egg white itself (the reason behind using cool whip rather than shaving cream for this). In some of those spots there was a bit of color on the shell, but in others there was NOTHING on the shell.

Tutorial said gel dye (as did others), but the pictures had the liquid food dye. I used the liquid dye. Tried one eggs with gel dye and cool whip. It sat in the fridge covered in cool whip and dye for 20+ minutes (more than double the instructed amount of  time). Nothing. No color on the shell.

In interest of finding a toddler friendly way my mother suggested just gel dye in a ziplok bag and then squish the egg around. I am currently making a test egg to see if that even works. I’m testing it on one of the hardboiled eggs that had the vinegar bath and on a raw egg that has neither been hardboiled or bathed in vinegar to see if the vinegar stripping that layer from the egg actually decreased color adhesion rather than increasing it. 

will try to remember to update

#personal #easter eggs #this is why parents seem boring to their kids #i have spent HOURS doing this #setting it up #and trying to figure out what went wrong #instead of writing #reading my biography about Stalin #reading a fictional book #playing stardew valley #or hp #or anything #HOURS of my life devoted to the coloring of eggs for a toddler

[empressofmankind]

Do you have any idea how annoying it is writing smut choreography and having to remember there's a gdamn hook involved?

Sure, it's sexy in some hyper specific situations (neck pulling, ahoy!) but literally the most annoying prop in every other damn instance. And it's not small, either.

No sexily lighting cigars. You need two hands for that.

No little clap when she does the cute spin around. You need two hands for that.

No sexual-tension-riddled slow-mo finger linking. You. Need. Two. Hands. For. That.

No quintessential hip-holding for those extra deep thrusts. Because. You guessed it. You neED. TWO. HANDS. FOR THAT.

I mean, I can make it work, don't @ me.

But you get my frustration?! I am going over this perfectly fine draft, having to revoke hand privileges left, right, and centre, and it hurts my emotions.

And that's even ignoring the part where you could actually accidentally rather seriously, rather easily gauge yourself, your partner, or any of the squishy bits of skinsack (or very expensive bedsheets) involved in the throes of any of this. I need to pay so much attention to the damn thing's whereabouts at all times that it's basically its own character at this point.

Like, I have to consciously remember which hand he can gdamn finger her with. I can't even remember which eye Euron's eyepatch is supposed to be on. How am I expected to remember this?!

WHY is my life this hard.

Wtf did I do.

#sir crocodile #one piece #yea not actually about Peter Pan #though I am down with Hook also (quick act surprised) #granted this is obvious my man's theme #what with the crocodiles and everything #talking about writing #instead of writing #buggy thoughts #cross guild #crocodile one piece

[late-to-the-fandom]

#me right now #making this #instead of writing #as a break from staring at the screen #also not writing

[dracocheesecake]

Going back on my headcanon about Kai being a heavy sleeper- some side headcanons:

Kai would snap awake in an instant if someone tried to interrupt Oogway's sleep. No matter how deeply asleep he was, if someone tried to wake Oogway he'd be up in a second. You don't interrupt his co-general's sleep!

When Kai slept, however, Oogway would stack things on top of him until he woke up, or draw a character on his face (think like a perilous version of the hangman game, mixed with Scrabble- draw one character on his face to spell out a word, then pass the brush to someone else- and whoever wrote the longest word without waking him wins).

#kung fu panda #general kai #general oogway #when they were young and stupid #the old war days #headcanons #yet more silly headcanons by me #instead of writing