#quarantine writing

[junflower123]

You’re right!

I have changed

We both knew a different person all those years ago

I barely know her anymore

But, you still know her well

And you refuse to mourn her loss

As if mourning her would mean losing me!

I don’t understand how the hell you could miss her

You think she just died

But really, she has been long gone

But you never noticed…

You miss the girl that was broken

Weak, dependent on you

You needed a child so you could feel like a parent with some level of competency

A superiority complex feeding off my inferiority complex

You can’t swoop in and save someone who doesn’t exist anymore

But you made it your mission to find her again…

I’m not interested in bringing her back from the dead

Bringing us back from the dead

Our story was only a fairytale

Because you were the only one doing the writing

You never taught me how to write

Because you told me you could just do it for me

But you were scared

Of the power of my voice

I am loud.

You had to convince yourself you couldn’t hear me

So eventually, I would be quiet

And then, this could be based on a true story

You didn’t want what was best for me

You wanted what you thought was best for me

Was actually what you thought was best for you

And while I don’t know what’s actually best for you

I know holding onto who I was isn’t it

Please, mourn her.

Sometimes, I think I miss her too.

But, who I really think I miss is you

But, we have to finally lay her out rest

Lay this to rest

Lay us to rest.

You mourn her

While I mourn us

#writeblr #writing #mental health #mental health poems #mental health matters #toxic friendship #toxic friends #self growth #self care #poem #poetry #poetryisnotdead #original writing #original poem #quarantine poetry #original poetry #creative writing #quarantine poem #quarantine writing #dead poets society #poets corner #am writing #writers of tumblr #writeblogging #poets on tumblr #writeblr community #writers #poets society #poets of tumblr

[themeghanamanjunath]

Your path will unfold

Your history will be told

Behold the light you hold

Shield it from the cold

Be ever so kind

And you will find

It is this part of you

That stays ever true

Despite icy winds that blow

Find a way to glow

In darkness abound

You will be found

Above all, I'll choose you

And everything I do

Will be with you in mind

After all we're one of a kind

Self-love isn't just a harp

It's both shield and sword sharp

Loving you isn't a task

All of you under that mask

Shake off the weariness of the world

Open up, let your petals unfurl

Loving you is long overdue

And as long as I am, I will continue

#spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled words #writeaway #poems on tumblr #quarantine writing #poetry #writing #writers #longing #love #note to self #short poem #self worth #self care #self love #self ship

[buddiedaydreamer911]

if eddie really did sleep in buck’s bed during quarantine… then i 100% believe they both lied on the sides, facing each other while eddie’s phone was between them with christopher on speaker while they both talked the boy to sleep. then when it was finally time to hang up, one or both men would get emotional about not seeing christopher and the other would comfort them instantly.

#evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 on abc #911 buddie #911 fox #buck and eddie #incorrect 911 quotes #oliver stark #911 season 4 #ryan guzman #christopher diaz #i think i need to write this #quarantine

[chrliekclly]

#frank reynolds #iasip #always sunny #just to show my thought process on the 'hmm which frank is th most deservedly unconscious' for that rb'd post #he's catatonic in th hospital but its on a bed which makes it feel too normal #in th booth its a good pose but he's awake and talking to th twins #sanitizer frank is obviously hilarious bt hes writhing around n it so....doesnt feel right #him on th ground w sausage links coming out of his pocket is so funny but hes just ACTING like hes dead.... #poison i went w he is @ least fully unconscious @ th time of photo evn tho he is halfway outta th frame #plus being on th floor trumps everything (xcept maybe th 'carousel') #was hard to choose! #screencap #sweet dee has a heart attack #charlie catches a leprechaun #the gang gets quarantined #mac and charlie write a movie #the world series defense #n e 1 else remember some? only othrs i can think of is th gang replaces dee w a monkey waking up on th bar #nd wen hes on acid in th trash can on th ground n th gang gets invincible #nd maybe gang turns black waking up on th couch but....none of those r worthy imo #frank aes

[paper-mario-wiki]

There's such an interesting cyber-anthropological phenomenon in feeling a communal pressure to act a certain way, or use the platform a certain way, when joining a new online space. Not in terms of the types of opinions or political views that are deamed acceptable, but in terms of specifics of etiquette and posting formats.

Making a Tumblr post that sounds "like a Twitter user" is met with scorn or derision a lot of the time. And when asking someone why they react like that, typically the answer is some form of "that kind of comedy doesn't work here" or "it doesn't sound right to post like that on this website", which is essentially just "it doesn't fit with the traditions I learned in this specific place".

I will always find the ways social media platforms evolve naturally like societies interesting.

#text #random thought #before i withdrew from college (isolation and quarantine was killing me) i was writing my thesis on cyber anthropology #which is the fastest growing and most overlooked branch of anthropology #my thesis wasnt specifically about this #it was about the essential archival of information regarding internet societies #specifically putting forward the somewhat radical idea that any internet society with more than 100 people should have an archivist #and any group with more than 1000 should have a dedicated historian to track the history of the group and its culture #honestly twitter culture should have literal books written archiving and documenting the many things that happen in my opinion #sounds silly but it is a pillar of our current international society's communication #this is what i think at least

[can-of-slorgs]

I'm personally blaming @starbiology and everyone who has reblogged or commented the other piece for this.

Bonus comic featuring my grundo:

#every minute i keep working on this i take psychological damage #neotag #neopets #vin memes #you'reall to blame for this monstruosity #i literally just searched “babygirl” pose and went “I... i can do that” #i didn't stop to think if i should though #Star i was gonna respond 2 the reblog with the first image only but decided it needed its own post for quarantining this... thing #again if youre seeing this with no context #you dont need context #i... i don't think there's any for that matter #just picture me writing all this tags while losing health in posion damage every turn #i am working on neo oc images i just need to render them but i.... i needed the world to see this before #my blog's already tainted anyway LMFAOO #yeah uh im dead in neo canon i drew this and inmediately got taken back by yours trully and never came back #also i'll try making a ref as well for my sona so i can draw them more im just really indecisive in what color to make him #split it is for now #i don't want to look at this anymore end me #i am making more drawings to kinda cover this thing from the light but at this point it just keeps reappearing like a mold #thats it im done see u all in kreludorian therapy #kreludorian health insurance in a farse

[whetstonefires]

“The Justice League and the Avengers are very different teams”

In what respect? Like, how would you say both teams differ in terms of overall function, how they respond to threats, how they’re viewed by their respective publics, etc?

😂 who even are you?

anyway, these two teams have been reformed and rebooted so many times and are the flagships of the two juggernauts of their industry, so their natures have evolved and influenced one another heavily over the decades as you see armies tend to do in prolonged warfare, so there is probably not one single statement you could make about either one that's always true.

it would be crazy to try to explain the difference in diegetic terms, because those aren't goalposts they're hockey pucks. the difference in kind exists at a publishing level.

fundamentally, the Avengers was designed to rest, in narrative terms, on everyone's personal relationships and neuroses, and develop soap opera subplots and office drama around how these intersected with each other and various villains. because in the 60s Marvel was launching the Big New Thing which was heightened naturalism and relatability in comics.

(spiderman and the whole genre of underdog superhero who can't catch a break rather than slyly winking at the audience as the world looks down on his secret identity, not knowing how impressive he really is, dates to this pivot of Marvel's. both Superman and Captain America did the latter in their early days, which is highly dissonant from Cap and Bucky looking at them today, but Cap was retired from print for like 20 years and got heavily rebooted for the new age.)

they had an actual mansion they could all live in, and many of them did, for a solid chunk of time early on. there's a reason people swung so hard for the 'everyone lives in stark tower' scenario foreshadowed at the end of Avengers (2012)--that's how the Avengers are! you bang the action figures together and give them angst and bonding about it!

they fractured repeatedly under the weight of all that drama (because psychology and because stories that don't end are unable to make any narrative sense, and breaking up a team is honestly a half-decent substitute in the Eternal Now of big comics) and at this point the current avengers is much more impersonal and even pays salaries, like basically the commune-underwritten-by-rich-buddy has reincorporated as an NGO.

but it still runs on the same types of narrative tensions mostly--huge epic stuff will be happening, but the Avengers tension comes down to whether everyone really hates T'Challa this month for that thing he did. and what this is doing to group cohesion.

the Justice League on the other hand was not built for character-driven story.

they've done plenty of them, after it became the done thing, and even imitated the Avengers and did the diegetic collapsing and reforming arcs and so on. but it's not fundamental to how a Justice League runs; you could do a super long run where the interpersonal tensions never rose above B-plot status and it wouldn't be tonally dissonant.

it would be weird for many of the Justice League to live together--when a character is shown living in Justice League facilities it is usually to signify that they are isolated and don't have a life and this is Bad. the Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord dominated era was deliberately aping the Avengers imo and came out weird as a result, and Lord turning out to be a mind-controlling supervillain was not unrelated to how weird most people felt it was.

the Justice League is like. joining a club rather than a frat. like being on the board of an NGO, rather than taking a full-time job there.

you know? the type of commitment is different. the level of intimacy is different.

cap and iron man's relationship has generally played out primarily in the context of their positions within the Avengers, even though it spills into their own titles, while superman and batman have had entire joint books just for them, and their friendship has not usually been allowed to take up much page time in Justice League issues. because that would be indecorous.

commercially speaking, Justice League is first and foremost an easy-buy showcase for high-profile hero characters and anyone you want to burnish up by displaying adjacent to them.

They've totally gotten messy with it over the years but like. I think the seminal Justice League internal dramas were 1) that time Barry Allen killed the guy who'd killed his first wife and was about to kill his second one and they put him on trial 2) that time Wonder Woman killed a dude who told her under truth compulsion that the only way to stop him from mind-controlling Superman to murder people was to kill him and they put her on trial 3) blah blah Batman paranoia exploited by eeeeevil (barely counts imo) and 4) that extremely oogy time it turned out the Justice League had been using magic to forcible reform criminals and erased Batman's memories of this being a thing when he found out and objected because ethics wtf.

That last one was sufficiently story-breaking they started pretending it hadn't happened as quickly as possible. Which was amazingly quickly considering Identity Crisis was the basis for things like killing off the presiding Robin's remaining parent. They actually soft-reset the whole world fairly soon after by timeskipping over most of a year and being like ahem anyway the past is in the past. And then the universe just kept serially ending for over a decade, so it's been weird.

Justice League has reliably gotten a shiny coat of polish with every reboot tho lol.

(Still not over the way they were like, okay we're wiping Green Lantern back to Hal but now we don't have the token black guy everyone who saw the cartoon expects, let's promote Cyborg people know him because of that other cartoon, ah shit he doesn't work without a partner to do bits with. well we can't put garfield logan in the justice league it's too prestigious, he's from the doom patrol for a reason, yeah i know we've had folks like plastic man shut up this is a Cool Sexy new reboot where Superman and Wonder Woman are fucking, we're not using friggin beast boy. how about Captain Marvel? yeah ok shazam is An Silly Joker now and besties with this 20 year old who may or may not know about his elaborate cognitive situation. i don't actually think they put even this much effort into it but otoh maybe they debated really hard and this was the compromise.

........actually vic could probably work up a decent oppositional patter with eel o'brien ik they were never gonna use plastic man but i don't hate it.)

Right. There was a point.

Obviously I'm probably missing a few big dramas here, but the point is DC was trying to keep up with the fantastic dysfunction of the Avengers because if it bleeds it leads, but even in the Dark Age they could not dive in groin first without tarnishing valued brands. The Justice League is simply not built to tell the same types of stories that the Avengers are.

In Justice League stories the narrative will typically be split in focus to a varying degree between the problems created by the villain and the personal emotional situations--the problems--of the heroes. Usually the villain leads and provides the emotional stakes. Only occasionally, overall, do problems between the heroes rise to the same level. Even when they're having them canonically in some other book Justice League tends to be ruled not the right place for that.

Secret identities are traditionally kept to a minimum in the League and League stories, though what this means in practice has gone through some shifts.

This is not just the difference between DC and Marvel house styles, though of course that's part of it, nor is it the League being older, because it isn't by any significant amount. It replaced the Justice Society of America in 1960. Other teams, even the Titans to an extent which was just the junior wing of the League at first, were allowed to get more into the grit sooner, and have the experimental story of Speedy's career-ending heroin problem happen and intra-team dating drama take the foreground, and all that. Doom Patrol was all about the dysfunction, god.

But the Justice League is simply not designed to be that kind of a team book, and when it's occasionally written that way the seams usually creak.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #despite racing to the bottom of the pit in many ways #dc has never stopped being fundamentally more conservative than marvel #somehow even now that marvel is disney owned #like partly that's just dc being in internal meltdown mode #but also like the incredible hulk got to be a hellacious horror comic under disney etc #soon i will be out of quarantine and these asks will stop working #comics #damn i spent so long writing this shit i almost lost my duolingo streak #i need to make different life choices #i'm putting away laundry and going to bed

[boxofbonesfic]

i tested positive for covid 🥲

#i’m in quarantine till thursday #so i guess i’ll be writing? a lot?

[swag696942069]

What anime do you guys think Regulus would've been obsessed with during quarantine?

#i don't really watch anime #but regulus being an anime girlie is something i feel deep in my bones #anime #regulus black #quarantine #Regulus Black and The Emeralds #the fic im writing #i havent forgotten about it #i just didnt have any motivation until 5 minutes ago #james potter #sirius black #barty crouch jr #evan rosier #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #pandora rosier #mary macdonald #marlene mckinnon #lily evans #dorcas meadowes #fic writing #marauders fic writing

[daboyau]

Hey, for the writing challenge, I'd be interested in seeing 38 for whichever of your AUs you prefer, if you're not overwhelmed!

Also, your latest chapter for the Hunger Games AU is so good! Donnie helping Digi and Gizmo is a little heartbreaking. He wants to be cold so bad, but no. And the descriptions were so excellent. I want to see all the designs! Especially the farmer and the corn haha. That cracked me up a bit:D Thanks for writing, I love to read it!

Sorry this took so long!! For some reason “hole” was just not wanting to cooperate with me! I had a handful of fleeting ideas (Zombie au, raph’s death in the bad timeline, shell rot, after the foot cass joins a cult that worships The Pit instead, etc) but ended up going with something for my Leave AU. I feel like I should have written you something RHG related since you gave me such a kind compliment about the last chapter. 😭 alas, my brain didn’t want to cooperate there. I hope you like this regardless!! @eb177

@boots-with-the-fur-club

It’s the fifth time they’ve run through this drill, but for some reason, Three just can’t seem to wrap his head around it. There’s something in the footwork, and the transition from one flowing movement to the next that he just keeps missing. His brothers are eyeing him nervously now. Their movements slow just a little, trying to give him time to catch up, or the opportunity to see how their steady movements differ from his own clumsy ones and fix his mistakes. 

Draxum has noticed. He’s watching them, eyes narrowed, lip curling with disdain. Three knows he should be better, just like he knows that his blundering and his brothers’ trying to cover for him will mean they get punished, too. He can’t let that happen, so he needs a way to draw all the attention (and all the ire) towards himself. Draxum draws closer, fury in his expression, a look that promises punishment for their unsatisfactory performance. Three’s heart is pounding hard against his plastron, and it’s easy to see that their creator is out for blood. 

When Draxum tells them to do it again, Three waits for him to circle closer. Then, he lets his ankle twist. He lets himself fall. 

One gasps and Four covers his mouth in a futile attempt to muffle his whimper. Two freezes, expression empty but eyes gone glassy and distant. Three barely has time to hit the ground before Draxum’s hand has circled his arm with bruising force, claws digging into muscle as he hauls him to his feet and drags him from the room. His brothers try to follow, but Three frantically shakes his head at them, eyes pleading. They fall back, watching him until the door slams shut between them.

He knows where they’re going. The fear is already rising like bile in his throat, choking him. It’s hard to breathe, and Draxum is so much bigger and he’s dragging him along now because Three is too short to keep up on his own, and the mark his grip leaves on his arm is going to take forever to heal, and he knows that this is going to hurt, and all he can think is at least it’s just me. 

The lab is usually forbidden. The only time Three is taken inside it is when he’s done something wrong. Something bad. Something that will require their creator to pick him apart to discover exactly what it is that has malfunctioned inside of him this time. Three doesn’t like the lab. 

There is a pit, tucked away in the corner. Maybe it used to be used for something good. Like a well, or a place to burn trash. Now it is used to hold them until Draxum has the time he requires to run his tests. To poke and prod and rip and cut and get answers to his many questions and grievances. 

Last time, he’d spent four days down there before Draxum had deemed it convenient to begin. Three trembles despite his best efforts to hide the fear that rises within him. The waiting is almost as bad as the tests. He wishes that Draxum would just get it over with, but he knows he’ll never get that lucky. After all, he’s the one who always puts himself into this position. He should just feel grateful that none of his brothers will be down there with him.

He hovers at the edge of the hole, his position held in the balance only by his creator’s hand on his arm. He wonders how long it will be this time. Draxum’s angry gaze tells him that he won’t like the answer. 

Draxum lets go of his arm. For one terrible, stomach churning second, Three remains where he is. Heels overhanging the emptiness, balanced only on his toes, swaying slightly as he stares up at his creator’s face. Draxum sneers. He presses one finger into the center of Three’s plastron. 

He tips backwards, into the darkness.

#Rottmnt #asks #my writing #leave/remain au #I think this is the final ask!! #I had so much fun with them #(If anyone wants to send me more prompts about anything i’d like that actually lmao) #I hope you like this!!! #Also shout out to my rise bestie for being the evil mastermind who introduced the idea of quarantine to me in the first place for this fic

[astromechs]

meanwhile, jyn while sick:

I’ll kill him, Jyn thinks. It’s not a thought that has much in the way of teeth, considering that it’s been at least three hours since she’s been able to lift her head from the pillow, but she holds onto it with all the strength she has as she watches Cassian settle into a chair on the opposite side of the room. Cassian, who can actually do things like walk around and sit down in a chair without losing his balance or collapsing, like she already has twice today. The nerve of him. How is it that they can have been on the same assignment, and therefore have exposure to all the same things, yet she’s bedbound and he doesn’t appear as though anything has happened at all? This isn’t fair. This is the biggest pile of bantha shit she’s ever seen in her life.

#this is from the quarantine fic i started when i had covid a literal year ago 💀 #and never finished because... covid 💀 got delirious after writing a page and then promptly forgot about it #kind of want to finish it now though because the start was hilarious #i have her pov mingled with status logs filed by cassian and it's funny #i SHOULD finish this fic #(the basic premise is they both got exposed to a pathogen while on assignment and have to quarantine together for five days) #(and it goes about as well as you would expect lol) #(and puts a lot of strain on a newly established relationship because that was funny to me lmaoooo) #rebelcaptain #ok i'll tag it

[junflower123]

Fake shit

Over it

Wanna throw a fit!

Instead, here I sit

All prim and proper

Wearing a fucking dog collar

I’m an obedient pet

Thousands of dollars in debt

Giving up my soul

To fulfill the valiant goal

Of the American dream!

…more like a god damn pyramid scheme!

#writing #writeblr #fuck capitalism #capitalist hell #poem #poetry #poetryisnotdead #original writing #original poem #quarantine poetry #original poetry #creative writing #quarantine poem #quarantine writing #dead poets society #poets corner #am writing #writers of tumblr #writeblogging #poets on tumblr #writeblr community #writers #poets society #poets of tumblr

[sanddollarpoems]

I feel it closing in

With every ping of my phone

Another friend wanting to talk

Or hang out

Or grab drinks

And I get it, this is what we do now

As a culture

This is how we "society"

But my introvert ass wants bed and a book

And I don't want to talk

Or be friends

Or exist

For a couple of months at least

God, I think I miss 2020

#sanddollarpoems #spilled ink #poem #poetry #quick write #MY TRUTH #confessions of an introvert #introvert things #please #can we all just fucking quarantine again? #is that too much to ask? #all these goddamn extroverts are killing me #maybe I'll fake my death #and move overseas #I'm taking suggestions #halp

[dyrewrites]

I have managed to make myself uncomfortable with this horrible thing I wrote and I don't think it fits the story either.

SO

I'm going to be deleting an entire chapter and figuring out another way to get these two off the ship--I have ideas, I'll be fine.

But if you see anything in snips about a weird bleeding forest or a walking tree man who speaks with a voice like a warm breeze...

Those aren't real anymore. That is a fever dream. It didn't happen.

#before deluca #writing rambles #seriously what is wrong with me why did i write this #it's going in a quarantine folder because i like 'how' it's written #but the content is awful and needs to die in a fire

[silverbastardgoldenfool]

Make no mistake I am still wallowing I just haven't had time to make any posts but my every move is still haunted by that bastard and his very good friend!!!!!!!!!!

#i had to change my lock screen from fitz and the fool to ambwr and paragon cos i was getting choked up every time i checked the time lol #realm of the quarantine #really hoping i get around to writing some reflections on this 4 year reread but we'll see 😭

[snoopyreadsliterature]

really disappointing.

#wilbur soot #i watched dsmp during quarantine and fell in love with l'manburg #since then i've moved on from mcyt but #those stories have definitely influenced my own writing #i listened to lovejoy and recommended it to friends #now ill never be able to look at what he has produced the same way. #ive removed lovejoy from all my playlists. #fuck you wilbur. #shelbysupportsquad #i wish shelby and everyone else harmed by him the best. #honestly finding out from tumblr a few hours ago hurt.