#mail from: friend

[strangerhands]

<3

me rn because my first ever ask is from lord fen themself🫶🥹

#eee hiii #still barely know how posting works but we move #mail from: friend

[nerdpoe]

Kill on Sight Orders

The Flash fam has a secret. Okay so they have a lot of secrets, but there's one above all others.

A kill on sight order.

In the worst possible future (one of them there's a lot), a beast named Phantom decimated the world. He took out the entire Justice League, the entire Justice League Dark, any and all small-time heroes that stood in his way. All of it. Everyone.

If they see Phantom as a kid, to prevent the slightest possible chance of Phantom being a thing, it's kill on sight. They all have anti-ghost weapons that can destroy a ghost's core, locked away in a secure facility that they can just run to and grab real quick to get it done.

None of them like it. None of them can risk it.

Bart stumbles into a town that doesn't exist, almost gets got by a ghost that managed to possess him, and gets saved by...Phantom.

A scrawny, teenage Phantom.

He's funny, makes puns, worries about if Bart got hurt or not-he's nothing like the Bad Phantom!

He's not gonna kill his new friend! No way, no how.

But he's gotta keep it a secret from the other Speedsters now, because he doesn't know who came up with that rule but they probably won't understand, and then he'll have a speedster fight on his hands, and no one wants that.

But the government keeps sending letters of complaint to Max, and Max keeps asking why the government is mad at Bart now, and Bart can't tell him "oh it's because there's this town that is off the record and a secret and also where phantom is and i broke in" because that'd rat Phantom out, and even if he didn't mention Phantom Max would want to investigate.

The mailman doesn't understand why his letters keep disappearing but he thinks it might have something to do with the Flash, because there's always a red blur.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #danny nervously not mentioning that dan. the evil version of himself from the future. is actually very much in the present #but living with some psychotic cheesehead in wisconsin #he and bart kick it off #bart will protect his new ghostly friend with everything he has #wally gets a letter of complaint from the us postal service #telling him that stealing people's mail is a felony

[sunderwight]

Thinking about the weird camaraderie that exists between demons but not angels in GO.

Have we ever seen two angels who are actually friends? Or even friendly to one another? We have met angels with a capacity to be friendly in general, but I think the closest we've come to two angels actually getting along would be Gabriel making a point to laugh at Sandalphon's terrible "can't have a war without War" line in S1.

Most scenes between the angels actually seem to have an undercurrent of absolute hostility. Teeth-clenched teamwork. No wonder it took them so long to notice that Aziraphale wasn't on the same page as the rest of them! The rest of them are barely on the same page as one another, either! When Gabriel goes against the majority vote, no one bats an eye at demoting him and wiping his memory. Michael and Uriel immediately begin vying for his job. The only times we've seen angels team up is when they're working together to bully someone else, like when they're trying to intimidate Aziraphale in S1 or going to the aftermath of the bookshop raid in S2.

Saraqael's overall neutrality towards Muriel is the closest we get to two angels in Heaven getting along, and it's more a lack of hostility than any kind of friendliness. At least until Gabriel loses his memories and Muriel shows up to spy on Aziraphale, and Aziraphale decides to be kind to both of them.

Demons, on the other hand, actually seem to form alliances and even friendships among one another. Hastur and Ligur are awful, but Hastur seems genuinely distraught over Ligur's death, not just fearful of suffering the same fate. Shax and Furfur conspire together and even though the 1940's investigation into Crowley's fraternizing doesn't work out for Furfur, it's not due to any double-crossing on Shax's part. Unlike the angels, who stick almost exclusively to making threats until the Metatron decides to try dangling a carrot at the end of the season, demons actually offer rewards to other demons when trying to work together. Beelzebub offers Crowley a promotion if he can bring them Gabriel, Furfur offers to back Shax up politically if she goes for the Duke position opening, and Crowley successfully stalls Hastur in S1 by pretending everything was a test and he's going to be put in charge of a legion as a reward for passing. They're still not great at socializing, but they're significantly ahead of the angels.

Of course, it's a fact that demons are awful to one another (Eric's treatment is really bad, they throw that random demon into holy water just to test it, "it'd be a funny world if demons went around trusting one another", etc) but they still seem more capable of forming friendships than the angels do.

I think that's because Hell cramps and crowds everyone together to try and increase their suffering and hostility, whereas Heaven isolates angels to decrease the odds of questioning or rebellion. Hell's methods are unpleasant, but it still ends up putting demons together, and some of those demons inevitably forge alliances and make friendships. Because as Crowley and Beelzebub demonstrate, demons are still social creatures with the capacity for love and affection, even if it's strongly discouraged and buried under nine million layers of trauma and a cultural mandate against kindness.

Angels are the same, but isolation makes is harder to form connections than overcrowding. Muriel and Jimbriel are both so eager to make friends, but Muriel's spent the past millennia shut in an empty office, and Gabriel has been distanced from his peers both through his position and also through Heaven's culture of fear and surveillance. He only breaks away from it when he finds something that's stronger than "choosing sides" (stronger than the fear of being rejected by Heaven and Falling, in fact strong enough that Falling seems worth it if he gets to be with someone he loves). Both Muriel and Gabriel are only able to start forming connections when they're away from Heaven.

I just think it's interesting that demons, despite being supposedly devoid of love, have an advantage in forming relationships compared to angels. Angels are supposed to love, but have far fewer opportunities to actually do so. Demons aren't supposed to love, but they make connections anyway.

#good omens #ineffable bureaucracy #both angels and demons are suckers for a bit of kindness too #even if they pretend otherwise and even if there are exceptions to the rule #like yeah you're probably not gonna win over the likes of hastur or michael with a nicety #but according to word of god furfur would be highly susceptible to a kind word #and well we see how it is with muriel and jim #i think this is why shax also weirdly toes the line between getting crowley destroyed and being almost-friends with him #that's just how it works in hell when you don't actually despise somebody #you can't be nice to them but you're still also kind of helpful and non-hostile a lot #don't let it interfere with your goals but sure deliver their mail and get their help with your boiler issues why not #maggie took the wrong approach to confronting the demons #if she'd been nice instead of telling them off they wouldn't have known how to handle it i bet #they're USED to being mocked and yelled at #should have given them jim's tray of canapes and offered them tea and stuff #not that I expect anyone to intuit that under the circumstances just that it might have actually held them off a lot longer #bunch of demons sitting outside of a bookshop passing around a tray of tiny little dinners and listening to records playing from inside

[dailycephalopods]

Hiya! I never really used an ask before but what's your favorite cephalopod meme?

i think about this one a lot

#i cant remember where i found this but its been saved to my phone from the moment a cried real tears laughing at it #shimp post #squid #vampire squid #squid mail くコ:彡 #actually i believe a friend sent this to me from ?? somewhere??

[bonesbuckleup]

Hi, random q. I saw in your tags that you swear by Scrivener for original fic. I’m still plugging away in ye olde Word and now I’m intrigued to know what about Scrivener you like so much. I’ve def heard about it but never used it, so I’m curious :)

YES I would love to tell you about my lord and savior software Scrivener. I hope you don't mind I published this long, long answer publicly.

So. The main issue I have with Word and Google Docs is that you hit a certain length/word count, and it starts to lag and load kind of jerkily. You know? Also, navigating chapter to chapter or scene to scene is awkward for me--you either have to have a whole bunch of individual documents and multiple windows open, or you have to use headers and the table of contents...which is fine for quickly finding chapters but less so for scenes within those chapters.

Messy, basically. Does not spark joy for me.

Enter Scrivener.

Now, before I evangelize a bit, I will say that Windows Scrivener and Mac Scrivener are not 100% created equal. They are both better, I think, than Word or Google docs, but the Mac version is a bit slicker and a little nicer to look at. I only say that for if you're using Windows, because if so my screencaps below won't exactly match what you see if/when you download the program.

ONWARD.

So, the #1 thing that Scrivener has over Word is that it's a one time fee, not a subscription. So while it is a little pricey (Just went and looked, $59.99 USD), it's only the one payment. All updates and such are covered and available as free downloads. I will also say that Scrivener gives you a 30 day free trial. That's not 30 consecutive days, but 30 days of use--if you only use it every other day, you'll have the trial for 60 days. They make it really easy to figure out if it's for you or not.

This is also going to feel like a lot, but there are built in tutorials and it's actually pretty intuitive, depending on how your brain works. Anyway! The basic gist of Scrivener is that it's a digital binder. You can keep all your book stuff in one place:

As you can see, there's the manuscript (aka my book), notes, research, more. Tbh, I mostly just use notes and Manuscript, but if it floats your boat, you can store maps, place names, worldbuilding, playlist links, moodboards, a whole ton of stuff, all in one menu that's easy to access and in a single window. You can organize it however itches your brain the best way.

But like I said, for me, the best is that Manuscript part, which I'm going to go into now. I use a three act structure for books (but break the big ol' middle act into two pieces because it makes my brain happy), so each act gets a folder.

When I click and expand that act, each chapter has it's own folder. However, it also shows quick-reference index cards, so I can have an at-a-glance at what's going down in each chapter. (I'm using a outline system called Save the Cat for this book, which is why all my chapters have titles like 'Catalyst', feel free to ignore those...I also have a very compact timeline, so to help me stay organized, I labeled each chapter with when it happens.)

You can do the same with each individual chapter and the scenes, where when you click on the chapter folder, each scene gets a card. If you don't type in a summary, it'll just auto-populate the start of whatever content you were writing. You can see this in the 'Copper's Candids NEW' card.

And, of course, it is writing software. When you click on the individual scene, it opens the blank document, and you can get cracking.

So. This system is nice for a few reasons. My favorite is that it makes navigating, reorganizing, and/or rewriting scenes extremely easy. It's just point and click, drag and drop. You can also open two docs in the same window at once, like this:

Which is a nice feature for several reasons--you can work on a new version of a scene with the old one pulled up next to it, or if there's something you wrote earlier or that comes later that's important to what you're working on now, you can have them both up for quick referencing.

Another slick thing is each doc has a notes section off to the right side of the screen--which is optional! I use it for future revision notes/descriptions of how I want the scene to go:

My other favorite part of Scrivener is that it makes it very easy to hoard your deleted scenes like a deranged dragon in case you want them later. My garbage looks like this:

There are SO MANY FILES hanging out in my trash, and you know what? I so rarely actually need them, but my god am I glad they're there on the rare occasion that I do. Word, again, can make it more difficult. I always had a massive 'cut' document that was longer than the actual project and again, awful to navigate. This just makes it easier.

Scrivener also makes it easy to compile the manuscript into other doc types--pdf, doc, docx, etc--for easy printing and sharing.

ANYWAY. I'm sure there are approximately 1 million other things I'm missing, but basically Scrivener takes all your book/long project bits, puts them in one centralized file, and makes it super easy to navigate. I've also found that outlining is easier, because I can just make the folders and scenes and drag them around while I noodle through the plot.

10/10, would recommend to any long-form writer. If you have any other questions, please let me know! If anyone has read this far and has a thing about Scrivener to add, please do! I love Scrivener, and a lot of my writing buddies love Scrivener, and it really kinda has revolutionized the way I write original fiction. I'm always happy to yell about how great it is.

#mail #story-monger #long post #Scrivener #free yourselves from the shackles of Word and Google Docs my long-form-writing friends #there is a Better Way #writing

[skunkes]

didn't know you were a dorm warrior cheye, how' was 'd you like the experience of living away from home?

(general) unfortunately i didnt have a cawr then, and also the kitchen was communal (and had the washer and dryer units in it) so I tried to avoid being spotted in there due to the Embarrassment and Shame of being alive, so it was really not too different than living at home where my room is my entire world...just a bit more quiet and peaceful loafing.

(specific) the college i attended is surrounded by water so was nice to walk around the few times I did. I saw Raccoon in person for the first time in my life ^_^ and many smunks and osprey, pelican my best friend pelican

#skunk mail #Anonymous #there was a bus i took around several times but it never seemed worth it to go #(until i made the friends i did and we'd go on it together to the mall) but ykwim #id eat at dining hall but if they didnt have anything i wanted id have to get creative #not only bc getting to the grocery store by bus was a whole planned ordeal #but also because well id be on edge in the kitchen all the time. like please dont walk in on me making embarrassing meals. #im embarrassed. #but as a whole was good experience #those posts about how the ideal living experience is like a college dorm is true in the way that everything is close together #for ex. i liked that i had to take a long long walk to get my mail from the mail room...forced to get sun

[elvensorceress]

The thing is, even if they do the whole moving in thing now… to me it is almost like putting Eddie as a side character. We’ve had time to see the evolution of everyone else’s relationships, and as you pointed out even Tommy and Buck’s was developed better than Eddie and that woman. Making them live together all of a sudden almost feels as if they don’t care about Eddie enough to give him solid development. Because what we’ve had so far isn’t it…

Personally I want her gone. I can’t stand the actress and it annoys me she’s still there. Because she doesn’t deserve it after her behavior and because I am at my limit with her smug attitude. I wouldn’t mind Tommy staying for a bit longer, I like him and the different dynamics he brings in (wow look at that, maybe a developed character can be likeable!) but honestly I want her gone like, yesterday.

Been trying to think of a reply for this, but I basically just want to say:

100/10. No notes. Because. Yeah. Yes to all. Eddie and Tommy's relationship is more developed after one episode, too. Hell, Maddie and Eddie's relationship is more developed at this point and they've had one? group scene together? But we know more about what they think of each other and how they fit in each other's lives even without a single duo scene of them together. So. 🫠

But I agree. It wouldn't make sense. It's been a few months of them dating. Because they put the cruise ship disaster right at the beginning and the first three episodes spanned a week? Or so? And the cruise was two months(?) after season 6? Does anyone even know the supposed timeline they're working with? Or is it hand wavy like s4 was and we'll just never know for sure?

idk the timeline is fuzzy so don't quote me on anything. But it can't be more than maybe three months that they've been dating? And it's so late in the game to try and back track and show development now. She was in 6a. They could have done something to keep up that relationship throughout the whole season. Not that it really matters or that I want her on my screen for any longer. imo the lack of shown development would have to be on purpose. We know Mr.Minear doesn't like relationships like this where you seclude the characters and can't have them interact with the rest of the story so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(let's go quicker, Timothy! get there faster!)

If that moving in disaster (a la BuckTaylor) does happen, I would hope that it's for a reason. A good reason. But even then, it's like. Is there really a good enough reason at this point? Because I just don't think so. I am tired. She's insufferable.

🏳️‍⚧️🕯️Prayer circle to get the biphobic/homophobic transphobe off our show 2Kforever 🕯️🏳️‍⚧️

#will no one give my boy the storylines he deserves??? 😭 #when will Eddie stories come back from the war??? #911 spoilers #911 s7 spoilers #911 speculation #thank you friend! #jenwyn gets mail

[marcmorrigan]

theyre holding hands and getting party schwasted

#death note #mellomatt #mellodramattic #mello #mihael keehl #mail jeevas #matt death note #mello death note #my art #sketch #theyre at some Event matt probably doesnt realise is full of mafia people #mello told everyone theyre not allowed to try to recruit or flirt with his *cough* friend because matt is Off Limits #but several people have made a pass at matt Anyway #and now mello is eyeing their necks with Intent and considering dabbling in some of his old hobbies again #which tbf he DID warn them ahead of time so would it REALLY be unfair for him to treat them like the barbie of a particularly violent 8 y/o #who can say #refd from a photo of niagara and ron asheton btw... love using vintage photos as refs for dn art #sowwy for never posting btw i promise i do draw a lot actually. this is like months old at this point

[zo1nkss]

referencing my last tags but actually I'm gonna say it, if you weren't around when people got regularly called slurs and sent death threats for having gay ships you literally do not get to judge what the worst fandom ever is, thanks :)

#Void Rambles #if the worst thing you've ever seen is a little fandom discourse you have no room to talk #I grew up in the age of “no slash ships” rules in public forums #waking up every day only to hop online and beat back the subliminal homophobic messaging from my closest friends with a stick #fighting just to get ffnet to let me post songfics #while hoards of readers actively went out of their way to mass report you for it #next thing you know everything you've created and shared with friends is deleted without warning #swaths of hate mail from complete strangers hiding behind a message board for saying Dean is bi #literal fandom-wide campaigns to kill off gay coded characters and women who moved wrong and beloved characters of color #if the worst fandom take you've ever had to look at is a misinterpretation of your blorbo please exit stage left

[strangerhands]

Let's look at Kane coughing up blood together

yes brother let us stay and stare a while🤝🧎🧎

us staring at this:

#why is it so. #why is bloodied injured miserable men so. #help us #mail from: friend

[bookofmac]

Renee/Phoebe slowburn real I am speaking it into existance

#class of 07 #class of '07 #renee williams #pheobe stewart #(thank you first ep for the i am __ stickers so i can get everyones surnames beside Tegan and Megan) #like they have THE convo in the first episode about how Pheobe was on the outs bc she a scholar ship kid #and renee reacts in such a way that i think she also was going to Ridge Heights at an expense to her family so didnt get to go on trips #and it tracks with her being TAFE accredited Nail Tech which is seen as a more lower middle class asperation #(not a bad thing mind but a general aussie cultural observation) #and then they become FRIENDS?!!?! THEY COVER FOR EACHOTHER?? #THEY START THE REVOLT AGAINST SASKIA TOGETHER? RENEE BEING IN DANGER IS PART OF PHEOBE STOPING THE BLACK MAIL!!! #i am personally on the 'dont date your class mates from catholic school' bc i am personally biased HOWEVER i think renee/pheobe would work #anyway i think they're neat

[anoddopal]

Me: It's not a big deal you guys. It's not that deep. It's not that deep. Everything is fine. I am normal.

Also Me: [*buys this and slaps it on my car*]

#ordered this and it got lost in the mail for a bit - but it's here!! #do you hear that? that's the sound of my friend jj floating down from the heavens in order to crucify me 😰 #you guys i think this has become a bit of an issue-

[lvoless]

isn’t it all about old friends?

twin peaks: fire walk with me (1992) / speaking terms - snail mail / orphanims on ig / two slow dancers - mitski / holly warburton ( @holly-warbs ) /ribs - lorde / girl pictures- justine kurtland / mister impossible - maggie stiefvater / house of the dragon (2022-)

#art #web weaving #mine #twin peaks fire walk with me #donna hayward #laura palmer #snail Mail #speaking terms #orphanims #two slow dancers #mitski #holly warburton #ribs #lorde #girl pictures #justine kurland #mister impossible #maggie stiefvater #ronsey #trc #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #poetry #literature #music #girlhood #childhood #old friends #from my head

[kvaradonaa]

my friends will send me articles about sheva being cringefail and say "is this your man?" well first of all yes. second of all he lied about being from the exclusion zone for attention, do you think that him wanting to question the refs with lie detectors will make me back off now?

#i wish i made it up #but no #he lied to a journalist from daily mail about it #he is really shameless #ps if you are the friend i 'vagueposted' about ily please don't be mad 😭

[ddejavvu]

doc hudson, toto wolff and aaron hotchner and that black and white grumpy dilf fish from nemo

*dreamy sigh* gill

#mei's mail #update on toto from my f1 friend she hates him and when i told her i thought he was mildly attractive she was brought to tears

[xiaojuun]

fuck you AND your plaid red shorts. theyre ugly as hell

those are a family heirloom ...

#my first hate mail ... #erimail #mail from: anonymous friend! #can i even call u that .