#smaller goals

[utilitycaster]

I always think about, in long campaigns, the fact that characters have to change. You can't do a character that has one problem that resolves over ten and twenty episodes, right? It's like they have to be so dynamic that they can have character flaws, work on them, achieve growth and catharsis, discover a new problem, start over again, like, that kind of thing." - Brennan Lee Mulligan (Fireside Chat for WWW ep 24)

#worlds beyond number #this was truly such a great point like #i think even good players often get hung up on like...one giant goal #and forget they need to seed their characters in a longform campaign with a bunch of smaller goals #or yeah dynamically come up with new ones #and on some level i think every player i've mentioned as standout who's been in a long campaign is someone who DOES do this

[mitamicah]

I redrew probably my most slay picture that I took of the SYS tour x'D

#my little challenge going strong :3 #context: since i have no plans for all of easter break I decided to see if I can catch up on some bigger art projects #by drawing one per day #so far i have the dtiys for monday (posted just before) then a collab on tuesday (not official yet) and now this for wednesday :3 #I actually had another drawing I worked on yesterday but given I had a minor breakdown I decided to chose something smaller #to make sure I'd reach my goal and have a nice experience :'D #this was nice I enjoyed this ^V^ #kris guštin #joker out #sys tour 2024 #jo see you soon tour 2024 #joker out spring tour 2024 #göteborg gig #gothenburg gig #my gig #mine #my own art

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Gotta say your au mixed with the art style and such and amazing work in what we seen so far with the horror and some laughs it's just become a treat every time I saw new details (whenever you supplies them up, thanks for that)

I know you already disclosure that it's gonna be bad BAD TIMES for the puppets gang but does it have it's soft ad fluff times??

The shot were Frank ask Wally if they're dying will looking up for the ceiling hasn't leave my brain, such a raw emotional clear on them, I wonder when they were just the two of them for a while they cuddle or hold hands for comfort??

I just.i just want them to have small victories of comfort

of course it has fluff and comfort! a lot of it! having a nice blend of both makes the fluff feel sweeter & the hurt hit all the harder <3 i will now supply some (written (for now)) examples and tidbits. putting it under the cut cause it got kinda Long

Frank & Wally do become very affectionate with each other! ofc as soon as Frank woke Wally was like "ok im holding your hand everywhere we go, this is Non Negotiable". because its dark! he doesn't want Frank to stray too far or get lost! and it's easier to yank Frank outta harm's way if they're already holding hands. comfort factors into it later, when Frank starts initiating & Wally does it purely to make sure Frank is still there. but yeah they get Very comfortable with each other, to the point where when Eddie wakes up he asks Frank - misinterpreting the situation entirely - "if you'd rather have Wally than me, i understand." ofc Frank laughs his ass off bc uhhh no that is Not what their relationship is, Ed

~ similarly, (almost) everyone acclimates to Wally's need to be as close as possible at all feasible times. he's Very physically affectionate and has little to no regard for personal space or boundaries anymore. like, he'll listen when someone asks him to back off or somethn, but until then he does not give a fuck. and this rubs off on the others as they get used to it

and then there's OH WAIT IDK IF I'VE MENTIONED THIS YET but! Wally - during his main exploration phase - found the Welcome Home episode recordings! and he eventually figured out how to work a tv he found, so he added "watch an episode of me and my friends" into his Routine. when the others wake up, he includes them in this. is it horrifying for them at first? yeah. but they get used to it and find similar if not the same comfort and enjoyment in it that Wally does. like in This Scribble, Frank & Wally & Poppy & Howdy are all watching an episode, and are quoting the lines they've memorized. they all cuddle up on a couch together and watch their favorite show <3

& Wally also teaches them (as they wake up) how to repair and care for themselves / each other, sleeping or otherwise. picture a little sewing circle of Frank, Wally, and Poppy, with Poppy giving tips and guidance on how to improve. these sessions provide them with genuine smiles and sometimes even some laughs.

before Wally & Home's divorce, they'd pass much of the time with games! go-fish, charades, i spy, etc. one of their favorites was when Wally would toss a ball at Home's door, and Home would hit it back. additionally, whenever Wally discovered something new, he'd rush back to Home with it - either the information or the actual thing, if he could carry it. ex: when he'd find books or files, he'd bring them to Home and (quietly) read them aloud while resting against them

and just in general know that the Post Office is a place of safety. Wally has made sure it's secure. i like to imagine like... little craft sessions and impromptu dancing lessons and story sharing going on in there among the awake neighbors. they try to have fun despite it all

that's all i can recall for Act One's fluff tidbits rn, but trust me there is More. and also abundant angsty comfort. the downright painful stuff has to earn its existence yk yk this au is Not grimdark

#oh there's also a really specific scene in my mind of like. #poppy taking notice that wally has developed a disregard for his appearance & that he doesn't seem to think he's attractive anymore #and recruits frank & howdy to give him like... a lil spa day as best they can #they tie (most of) his hair up in a ponytail and scrub some of the dirt out & they make a little patchwork sweater for him #and poppy tells him he looks very pretty #and wally has a moment of '...? im pretty? im still...? oh...!' #they notice him putting a teensy bit of attention towards his appearance going forward from this #oh also he makes sure they All get a little 'spa day' #good feelings all around.... #rambles from the bog #wh lights out au #they all pick up little Habits towards each other #like wally will hold others' hands and just fiddle with em w/o a real point or goal #frank will adjust his friends' clothes hair if it's a lil Too out of place #poppy will hold her wings around/behind others w/o really realizing it #howdy will pick up / carry the smaller neighbors for no particular reason #eddie tends to keep a hand on the nearest person #etc etc! #there was. Something Else i wanted to add. i don't remember what it was! #but yeah! there are good things. there are Always good things.

[tea-time-terrier]

Little fish behaviours while also periodically chucking kibble behind me for the world's wiggliest puppy.

#everyone wants to be involved #I have to find smaller training goals bc the current trial/test goals feel too big en #*rn #rally excellent #cgn #open scent detection #she's got basically everything but I haven't trialed or taken classes in a while #the anxiety around working with my dog in public is eating me #turnpike #rory borealis #gif set

[not-gray-politics]

Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

#I see so many transfems say they want to have “flat stomachs” or do diet and exercise regimes to try and get an “hourglass figure” #and it really worries me. girls you do not have to destroy yourselves to fit into unachievable beauty standards #the vast majority of cis women don't even fit those standards #and the same goes for you transmascs! I see you! I see you trying to get smaller chests and hurting yourselves with weight loss routines #and excessive workouts. it's not worth it. weight loss has OVER a 90% long-term failure rate and there's a reason for that #I assure you whatever diet you think you've found that “works for you” won't be working so well 5 years from now #and you're going to blame yourself for “slacking off”. but it's not you. it was never you. it was designed to fail. #these standards are made to hurt people and then sell them a false solution at the price of your health #I encourage you to transition if you'd like and live your best life I really do. but please please please do so SAFELY. #if weight loss is part of your transition goals please reevaluate WHY you believe thinness is necessary for achieving femininity #(or masculinity or androgyny but this stuff particularly affects women in the way it's marketed) #do research on fatphobia and the roots of weight loss culture. Learn where these ideas come from and why they're so prevalent. #It's extremely important #take care. stay safe. love you very much #trans #fat liberation #transgender #lgbt #trans rights #fat positivity #diet culture #fatphobia #transfem #trans positivity #transgirl #trans women #trans woman

[horce-divorce]

Help two (2) homeless, disabled trans guys survive the winter for the cost of one!

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I made a longer post on kofi about the living and art sales situation, but the long and short of it is: we still don't know what's going to happen! We're staying with a good friend for now, but the future is very uncertain. We're just doing our best to roll with the punches, bloom where we're planted, and any other applicable metaphors.

I'm hoping to have some more art for sale soon, but until then, we still need all the help we can get! If you have any cash to spare, absolutely any amount goes a long way for us! 💕🙏

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#me #forever trying to strike a balance btwn enough relevant info and keeping it short sweet n rebloggable #also ill admit fully i never know what to set my goals as. #i know how much we need but its easier to meet smaller amounts and post more frequently #than to have one post for the whole month #in my experience anyway

[zerosugargrapesoda]

i want a slutty waist

#i wanna be tiny #wl motivation #th1nsp1ration #th1gh g@p #wl diary #not ana just using tags #sk!nny #sk1nn1 diet #sk1nny aesthetic #anatumblr #tw ed but not sheeran #tw ed sheeran #i wanna be sk1nn1 #ed implied #ed rant #thin goals #thinspø #i wanna be skinnier #thin$po #th1n$pø #wl diet #i wanna be smaller #4n4m1a #ana miaa #skinnni #i will reach my ugw

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Alright. So ya'll know I have embarked on a mission "Operation lose this gut". You have seen my victories and struggles.

One thing I was looking for recently was this waist trainer that I got back when I was married.... idk 2017?

I saved it thru 2 moves, a divorce and a fuckton of decluttering.

I had lost it and was recently looking for it.

I found it!

I am still have trouble fitting it though.

Does it actually help to wear these things? Idk. But I have a dress I need to fit so I am gonna try it out. Hopefully over the next month it will help.

Also - good God, I have lost 100 pounds. Wtf was I thinking buying this?????

It took alot of work to get it on this far.

This is after 100 pounds of weight loss.

Still doing all the things. Cardio & weights & diet.

Keep going keep going keep going.

#waist vest #waist training #healthy lifestyle #getting healthy #losing weight #healthy eating #fitblr #healthy habits #operation lose this gut #weight loss #operationlosethisgut #weight loss journey #active fitblr #active blogs #active blog #trying so hard #trying new things #trying #goals #getting smaller #weird stuff #weird shit #doing it for myself #doing the things #doing it for me #idk what im doing #idk what else to tag #idk how to tag this #idk #idk man

[theygender]

I switched to buying the happy egg brand recently bc I know chickens are the most abused farm animal and I figured paying a couple extra bucks for some of them to have at least a marginally better life was a fair trade off, and I've been really happy with it. Today when I went to boil some eggs for breakfast I found that the two eggs I picked out were different sizes and for some reason that was so charming to me. Like... It makes it feel more real. These are real eggs that come from real chickens who have a somewhat decent quality of life. Hens naturally lay eggs of different sizes, and I feel like it's probably a good sign that an "imperfection" like that was allowed to exist rather than the company being set up in a way where hens are just made to keep pumping out eggs until they can replace all the natural variation with "perfect" ones

#rambling #and like i know happy egg still isnt perfect. no factory farm is. and i know there are other farms with even better qol for their chickens #but happy egg is the most ethical option sold in my area #and if the options are between 'chickens roaming free in areas with at least limited access to outside spaces #in a company that has built their whole image around caring for their wellbeing so their reputation is tied to how well they treat them' #or 'chickens spending their entire lives in indoor cages too small to stand up or turn around in—possibly painfully mutilated— #at a company with absolutely no transparency about the welfare of their animals who doesnt even bother to pretend they arent abusive' #...yeah ill spend like $1-2 extra for the first one #ideally i would love to start getting eggs from local chickens if i could reliably find a source #and end goal i would LOVE to have pet chickens and my own eggs so i dont need to worry about it at all anymore #(my gf and i both come from rural families who had pet chickens) #but uh. i live in an apartment rn lol. so im taking smaller steps where i can

[svampira]

i think im going to try and make longer comics about my ocs' contained stories next

#im a big believer in scaling things up slowly #ive done 4 pages last time so my next goal is something like 10 #and then its a mini comic story that takes like 20 or more pages #I'd love to turn the elias imesh story into a comic but that might be too long so his embrace might work #im so obsessed with elias' sire i should draw him soon #anyways now i really need to pass out. #actually thinking abt it ive decided the smaller comic is going to be about the immediate after math of the last painting ive made

[thesulliedone]

Got a little sidetracked this evening and ended up trying to 3D model a custom snap-fit pegboard for the shelf portion of my desk. Dunno how effective it'll be (plus it'll have to be cut since it'll take 3 prints to get the full length of it), but it was fun to mess about in Fusion again for something after so long.

#self #personal projects #my ultimate goal is to use this so i can have more mini-shelves to put smaller figurines since i'm running low on shelf desk space

[soldier-poet-king]

I love my Nonna dearly but I also just got my first real "here's how you should find a man" advice so truly 2023 IS my Charlotte Lucas year

To be fair, I'll give them credit, this is one of the first times my family has pulled this shit on me. I suppose my "I'm too busy focusing on school" excuse that I used through all 8 years of undergrad and grad school doesn't really work now that I've been working full-time for a year. And she also didn't bring it up in front of everyone or out of the blue, it came up because we had been discussing how insane my motherhas been about babies lately and my Nonna said "oh it's BC she's waiting for grandkids"

And like??? Just because my mother got married and had kids by my age (which may have been the right decision for her, this isn't judging even if I think her life went to shit bc of it) doesn't mean it's the right decision for ME

In fact, it is the ABSOLUTE WRONG decision for me. Theres a whole long list of reasons why I'm not getting married + or having children, including but not limited to: the trauma of my parents marriage and my childhood, my own ongoing health stuff, the whole religious queer anxiety guilt complex I've got going, the fact that if I were to get pregnant the resulting mental health crisis and dysphoria would undoubtedly make me *** y'know not soemthing that is frequently a source of nightmares for me or anything, my inability to take care of myself let alone CHILDREN, and the anxiety of raising children religious when I don't even know wtf is going on with me, CHILDREN??? IN THIS ECONOMY????

Ofc I can't exactly say any of this to my Nonna who, while incredibly sweet and loving and Good, is also like. Not at all exposed to these concepts and would probably freak out if I was like hello yes I am a big fat queer and I rlly hate the concept of gender and societal ideas of womanhood :) it also doesn't help that rlly the only single, middle aged woman my Nonna knows is this lady who works at the church who is DEFINITELY a badly closeted lesbian but also she's super fuckin mean and condescending and no one likes her BC she's a bitch, on top of the whole being a badly closeted lesbian in a conservative heteronormative religious environment

Like even IF I were to get licitly Catholic married to a man. You wanna find one for me??? My Nonna was like "go to church more to find a man" HELLO??? WHERE??I GO TO MASS EVERY WEEK?? Every religious man I know irl is a radtrad women can't wear pants type or is a manchild. Even if I COULD find a normal man, he'd have to get real cool about some stuff real quick. In that forever dilemma of too leftist queer for the religious and too religious for the leftist queers. (Obvs your partner doesn't have to be your duplicate but I'm like. Generally being on the same page. The same BALLPARK. is probably conducive to having a healthy relationship, y'know?)

Besides a significant part of my having 0 social life is because I am living in my parents basement which is in a shitty not-a-suburb of mostly immigrant families with youngish kids or super old folks from when the neighborhood was built, so it's poor and run down but also super fuckin far from anything To Do, so it's the WORST of both worlds of urban sprawl. And I have no car. And I already spend 2.5 hrs a day commuting for work. And I'm chronically tired. And joining a fencing club or taking art class or whatever costs MONEY y'know the thing I'm trying to SAVE by living in this hell place???? She literally said in the same convo "live here as long as possible to save money" like??? YOU CANT HAVE UR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO as long as I'm living here I'm NOT going out and meeting ppl BC there is literally Nowhere To Go. Big box stores like Walmart? Yet another strip mall? The highway??? THIS IS SOULLESS HELL of neither nature NOR accessible city amenities

And anyway, I would rather be in a long term marriage for tax benefits relationship anyway. Not platonic, not romantic, but a secret third thing (jk but also serious). Like. Mutual devotion that blurs the lines and transcends labels. It could be completely chaste. It could not be. It's not a dealbreaker really. It's about trust and devotion and companionship and love. But also I'm insane and I KNOW how insane and obsessive I sound, and society prioritizes nuclear family relationships and not the weird ass shit I crave, and I feel too much too fast and would ruin any relationship I had even if I WERE to somehow find someone who prioritizes those things too

So like. It's fine. Most days (not all ofc, but I'm trying) I'm okay with this and being on my own and learning to cultivate my own peace and Goodness and I know who I am and what I believe and what I trust to be Good and I'm working toward that and I'm not sacrificing it for anything. But also. Can you give a bitch a break. Please. I'm so fkin tired

#franposting #my bday isnt even til JUNE #im going to bitch anyway #im genuinely really upset but part of that is bc my headache has come back #and its worse than ever #i might cry but my head already hurts too much #i got really good news at work and only the men in my family made a big deal #the women were just. meh. and ofc none of them have careers so why should ot be important to me? #as the only granddaughter ofc :)))) #i am going. to crawl into bed. hair washed. lavender candle on. #do a lil meal planning. and then read or maybe just sleep. #tmrws goals after church are gym and grocery shopping before dnd #have to make my body hurt so much i cant think again #ofc bro 1 has claimed the car. so maybe i cant go #god. gos. i fuckin need to get out of here #but i literally cannot afford even studio apt rent in the city #and moving to one of the boroughs doesnt gwt me any closer to anything esp without a car #literally. just like. fuckin kill me #or find me a decently paid not soul killing job in a smaller city or even a town #where i could have a garden #or a porch swing. sit in. the sunlight

[theoptimisticdaydreamer]

Can we have a season of bake off where all the bakers are over the age of 50? Even better if they are in their 70s.

Older generation bake off.

I assure you that I will still faithfully watch every week because there is something so classic about the people who learned how to bake the old fashioned way: Watching their relatives who have baked for decades. With measurements like a pinch and a hint and a smidgeon. Recipes being passed down on the backs of notecards with the ink all smudged away or only through word of mouth alone. Who grew up having to stretch every ingredient. Who didn't have the internet or a lot of recipes/ingredients readily available for a significant portion of their life.

Give me older charming bakers. Give me an entire tent full of Nickys and Keiths and Dawns and Maggies. Bonus points if they have a really salt-of-the-earth life. Bonus bonus points if they have supreme British wit (a la Dame Maggie Smith) that will leave the judges speechless (and subtly insulted). Give me an entire tent full of people who do not give a damn about what Paul and Prue care most about--- presentation and ~finesse~. People whose only goal is to feed the people they care about with the food they create.

Give me a season of ~rustic~ bakers.

#gbbo #great british bake off #gbbo 2023 #my thoughts #older generation bake off #there is just something different about baking when your world is so much smaller then it is today #when your baking sphere was so incredibly local #local ingredients #local recipes passed down by your family members or your neighbors or that one random magazine #when the only goal of baking was to feed their loved ones #not a single whit given about its finesse #nobody has time or money for elaborate designs #older charming supportive good vibes bakers #i would happily watch that #also to see paul and prue get insulted by some good ol fashioned british wit #throwing rustic right back in paul's face #rustic has been delicious and feeding people for generations paul

[24hrfrog]

GUYS ITS 4 AM AND SKETCH COMMISSIONS ARE OFFICIALLY DONE AND CLOSED (for the time being ;))

Thank y’all sm for the support on them, I wasn’t expecting so many people to be interested much less support my little commission journey through helping reblog the commission sheet and even just commenting on the finished commissions loving them (mwah)

I’ll try to reopen again on a smaller scale as my winter break is coming to a close and freelance work plus family holidays are picking up, but I hope to do this again! And a big ol’ thank you to all the commissioners for working with me and being so patient 💚 It’s very much appreciated really. Thank you!

#kisses to everyone #my goal is to try to reopen near the end of December/start of January if #i don’t wuss out lol commissions are actually stressful kinda bc the messaging can be overwhelming sometimes and I make myself nervous #rlly glad I didn’t feel so overwhelmed it was bad in the beginning since there were a bit too many and I may have overstim? myself #but got good as the list got smaller! I’ll prob only take on three or four next time for slots instead of doing the unending list 💀

[datastate]

i've done a fair amount today and i feel. satisfied. it's been so hard lately to dredge through many of my tasks, but by some stroke of luck i bypassed a part of the barrier usually restricting me from doing what i intend for that day and... i feel genuinely happy and at ease. it was hard and my body hurts a lot, but if this were a more common experience i. think i have just come to the realization of how abnormal my typical day to day is.

#i cannot emphasize how much i wish this was a common occurence for me #sometimes i can achieve parts of my planning but typically not all. but despite feeling overwhelmed at many points; i made it through today #finally having done everything i meant to do. i didn't have to settle for smaller goals or strain myself to the point of collapse #i could just. Do things. i don't know how to describe it. . . #maybe i should ask abt adhd w my psychiatrist ahhh... #jestersvaguely #in any case... goodnight!! i wish i had the energy to speak more... though i have spent most of my spoons today.