having conniptions at 3am as I realize that my only fully finished and realized fanfics are a one shot warrior cats vampire AU and a long ass one piece self insert shipfic that no one other than me will ever lay eyes on (probably?)
why am I like this help
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twisted scientist: I have a bunch of brains in jars😁
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ill be skinny. it will happen. ive been trying for so long now. once it was just trying to eat less and be smaller but not much real focus on my physical appearance. now its all about that. 11 years of my ed and 7 years of wanting what i want now. i dont live with my parents anymore. i have more control. i will achieve it.
there was a time where id eat 300-700 consistently. ill get that back. i will.
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the conflict between being immensely frustrated that pokemon dlc in general just seems to throw as many new characters at u as possible so they can keep being like 'look at this! look at this new thing! new content!' insted of actually expanding the themes and characters we actually give a shit about, and being relieved that because of those dumbass decsions, i never feel the urge to buy them
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While this isn’t technically dndads specific, and the fic seems not to come up for a few people (it may have been deleted, idk?), I’m bringing it up because I’ve seen a few people find and tell me about a rather,, unsavory/triggering fic on the ao3 dndads tags- and I think it’s important to give this note incase anyone stumbles upon it or any others:
The best thing to do if you see a fic like that is to ignore it. Don’t hate read it, don’t comment your disgust, don’t look at their page or try to find their social media- Unfortunately you can’t block people on ao3 as far as I’m aware, and as much as it sucks, if they tag it correctly they aren’t breaking any site rules and therefore a report wont do anything. You can also blacklist certain tags if you don’t want them to come up at all when you search. But again I encourage as much as possible that nobody, especially not minors, go out of their way to intentionally read/interact with something that’ll trigger them or make them feel uncomfortable.
It can feel really gross to know that kind of stuff exists. Feeling like that, disgusted, angry, upset- those are incredibly valid and understandable reactions. But please don’t let morbid curiosity lead you to interact with content that’ll ultimately harm you. eventually it’ll get buried under all the newer fics.
The more you talk about it, share it, try to get others to send hate, try to show how gross it is etc, only exposes more people to triggering content/sends them to interact with someone who made the content at hand. Again, especially minors in this scenario. (Though adults should also be careful here.) Feel how your feeling, but don’t indulge in it.
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also like to clarify.. we were not expecting her to leave. and any time she would have left would’ve been bad timing but it’s like.. this was HER program and we didn’t have enough time to really get to know it as well as she did (and still does probably). and there are so many flaws in it that we didn’t have time to address and our attention was spread so thin bc we were / still are juggling a million things and trying to compensate for the vacancy in our already extremely and egregiously small staff. so i get that the leaders may be feeling unsupported and resentful of that and that is very valid. but it’s like.. if that is in fact the case i think it’s important to know that this is not ideal for us either. we lost the person who knew this program inside and out and we still haven’t recovered and even though her position has been filled now (by my new colleague bestie who is AMAZING and has been helpful and supportive and has gone above and beyond in every way and i adore them don’t get me wrong) we may never fully recover from it or at least we won’t for a very long time. and im not even just talking about like the impact on our work. i mean on us as people who were closely psychically bound together. which sounds freakish and weird but we were. that wound is going to take a long time to fully scar and when the scar forms it will always be there. so excuse us for not putting on a perfect asb less than a year after she left us we are kind of seeing the consequences of all of the horrors right now lol.
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i know i chose sustainable engineering because i didnt have many options but I absolutely hate the people aspect of sustainability
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Guide: Natural Character Arcs
Anonymous asked: My MC will have a "not my circus, not my monkeys"- behavior, but I want her to slowly want to help peopel as she gets more powerful throughout the series and eventually grows into her role as protector of the people. I want to give her natural character growth without it seeming "out of nowhere" or "out of character" since it will be a total 180 from the start of everything. Do you have any tips for the natural transition in character development that is drastically different from the start?
(Ask edited for length...)
Having a character do a complete but natural 180 between the beginning and end of the story is what's called a "character arc."
Here are the steps in creating a natural character arc:
1 - Understand the Internal Conflict - Stories are either plot-driven (centered on an external conflict/problem in the character's world), character-driven (centered on an internal conflict/problem in the character's self), or a combination of both. Character arc occurs in stories that are character-driven or both plot and character-driven, mainly in the protagonist and other important main characters. It's this problem in the character's self that causes who they are in the beginning of the story, and it's this problem that they must resolve in order to change by the end.
2 - Choose a Relevant Internal Conflict - Your protagonist needs to have an internal conflict that is relevant to the story events. If your story is entirely character-driven, the character arc is the whole story. The events of the story should naturally stem from your character's journey to resolve their internal conflict. If your story is partially plot-driven, the internal conflict should tie into the external conflict in some way. Both conflicts should stem from the same problem, or the path that leads to resolving the external conflict should lead to resolving the internal conflict--either directly or indirectly.
3 - Events = Experiences = Change - As the events of your story unfold, your character should have experiences as a result of those events that impact their understanding of their internal conflict. Let's say your character's internal conflict is the belief that they have no value beyond their role in a villainous organization. As the events of the story unfold, they would need to start seeing evidence that challenges that belief, makes them ask questions, and motivates them to push against the boundaries of that belief. In other words, as this character gets involved with things outside the organization, they start to see evidence that they do have value outside their role in the organization. This avalanches into questioning not just their belief but the organization itself and their involvement of it. As they test the waters of this new understanding and find confirmation that change is right for them, the change naturally takes place.
4 - Include Doubts, Fails, and Setbacks - Although you want the overall trajectory of their arc to be in the direction of their change, you still want to illustrate their doubts (Could this really be true? Do I really have value beyond the organization? Could the organization be bad? No, surely that can't be right...) and have the occasional failure or setback in their attempt to change. In other words, you don't want them to have an easy transition from where they are at the beginning to where they are at the end. Their internal conflict's claws are in pretty deep, so there needs to be some struggle as they try to move in a different direction.
5 - Show the Completed Change in Action - Wherever they end up, you want to give the character the opportunity to show that they've changed. For example, maybe the villainous organization comes at them with an "offer they can't refuse," and the old them would have jumped at that opportunity, but they're not that person anymore. Showing them refusing this offer illustrates that they've really and truly changed once and for all.
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Tips for any new redditors joining Tumblr today
If you're going to be moving from reddit to tumblr, there are a couple of important things you need to know. This site, has a culture, and it's important to understand it! So here's a few tips for new users:
On reddit, people will often say things like "have an upvote, good sir". Here on tumblr, we shit on the fucking ground.
On reddit, there's no reblogging of content, so you might not know the etiquette. Basically, it's to crank your hog fast and furious style
If you see someone write "prev tags", that means mao zedong, chairman of communist china, is their celebrity crush and they write all these like ten thousand, hundred thousand word stories on ao3 about him romancing and seducing vladimir lenin, and so on
People here will be like "kill this guy kill that guy I love to kill I'm a killer I kill people, I stick figure biting and gnashing angry stick drawing all the time" but they're simply a lesbian in their room. Don't fear them they are timid even at the grocery store.
FUcking shit lol, big cocks and penis
Almost all our power users are members of this or that ideolgoy, we've got all these catholic midwestern chicks who do a lot of drugs and post racist memes, we've got stalinists and also trans girls who want to upload their brain to the computer. When you see a funny post remember its by one of these peopel.
irl I know a guy who eats human flesh for a lving and if you ask me I can get you some if you want to try it
Crank your hog crazy style over here
kill kill kill the president kill the first lady get um kill people on purpose (you, in the audience: kill a man). did you know that covid was created by the little jizz men, little jizz homonculuses that live in our ears? stop masterbating and they will die :(
it is determined that you are a nazi pedophile or not based on which cartoons for example sponge bob or stephen universe you like but I won't tell you which ones. good luck you nazi pedophile *nuggies your head endearingly*
crank your hog maoist style.
the glory of the chinese communist party is what sets the people free! remember that mao is always beside you!!!!
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i adore you, noble haltmann… (president haltmann x reader fanfic)
A/N: hai guys i wrote a haltmann/rader fic as a kind of sequel to the dedede dating simulator bc i dont feel like coding another game to make a haltmann dating sim so take this haltmann x reader fic instead
ok so like u are in dream land right??? well :) it was taken over by capitalizm!!!!1 omg
you, (y/n) the SEXIEST freak in planet plopstar is almost crushed by one of those leg things on the haltmann works company star dream thingy ok? yea so you dodge that and like… there's a window or somethin and a guy falls out of there
you watch as he falls. he falls for like 10 minutes. but then he lands on the ground next to you and you hear a crumch.
"ow" the male says
"omg!!!!! are u ok" u ask the masculine man
"i think i broke my pelvurouscula" he says
"omg no……" u say and hold him gently. u have magic healing powers so u heal him
"gasp" he gasped. "i don't feel like dead anymore"
he gets up and u cant help but admire he. his beautiful egg shaped bod and wicked pinstripe suit. and his luscious hair and mustache.
"newayz my name is haltmann. max profitt haltmann" he said with not a trace of happy
"haltmann….. my name is (y/n)" u smile
"ok" he says. "i have to go home. bye"
he goes into his headquarters but u follow him. u keep talking to him "um so wat are u doing? i almost died" u frowned
"oh no" haltmann says. "did i accidentally park my plant on u"
"ya" u nod
"im so frickign sorry" haltmann starts crying. "i'm such trash i cant commit capitalizm without almost killing peopel"
u frown at the egg's sadness. "dont cry haltmann…" u say comfortationally
"no it's not okay i'm shaking and crying rn. i might throw up" haltmann starts crying
haltmann cries and opens his office door and runs in and throws himself onto his bed dramatically like a sad disney princess. u enter his office and hear some haunting lyrics…
"I pull away to face the pain
I close my eyes and drift away
Over the fear that I will never find
A way to heal my soul
And I will wander 'til the end of time
Torn away from you
My heart is broken
Sweet sleep, my dark angel
Deliver us from sorrow's hold
Or from my hard heart"
u turn off haltman's ipod. "Haltmann" u say
"no my music" haltmann sobbed
"haltmann." u say again but more like… asssertively
"ouuu" haltmann screams into his pillow. "first i break my airpods and now my music is dead"
"HALTMANN" u grab him and sit him up
"what" haltmann sniffs
"whats wrong" u ask
"u see (y/n) i lost someone in da past… i forget who that was tho… but like someone died ok? and now im sad" haltmann explaines
"halmann" u look into his deep blue orbs. "i…"
"yes (y/n)?" haltmann blinks his beautiful sapphire saucers at u
"i…" u blush "i…"
"..." haltmann …ed
"i think u need to seek therapy" u gently stroke his bangs
"omg… ur right" haltmann tears up. he gives u a hug. "thank u (y/n)"
"ur welcome" u smile
"im so tired of depression. i will defeat this evil inside me. thank u (y/n)"
u get on his computer and start googling local therapists in dream land. "here's one," u say. "call them and see if they're accepting new patients"
haltmann gets his sexy cellphone out and calls the therapist. "hi mr. therapist, my name is max profitt haltmann and my friend (y/n) says i need therapy"
"ya we can take u in" says the therapit. "we will have u do an intake next month ok"
"n. next month." haltmann starts to tear up
u look at haltmann ernestly. "better late than never, haltmann… ur patience will be rewarded"
haltmann sighs haltmannly. "ok. we will do next month"
haltmann finishes scheduling his therapy appointment. u look at him with a pleased look on ur face. "that was kinda sexxy of u haltmann, working towards self care like that" u smirk and wink
haltmann blushes "haha yea i guess that is pretty sexy. um, not that i'm trying to be cool or anything" he stutters
"hey u can call urself sexy and cool all u want," u laugh. "ur epic even"
"(y/n)..." haltmann blushes. he leans in and gives u a kiss. his cute little mustache hairs tickle ur upper lip.
"teehee" u giggle. "ur mustache is so cute"
"thank u" haltmann says. "star dream says its ugly"
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2 MONTHS LATER
haltmann knocks on ur door. u open it
"hi (y/n) my sweet honey bunches of oats" haltmann wraps his hands around u and dips u for a kiss
"h-haltmann" u blush "where did this come from"
"so u see, i followed thru with therapy like u suggested. little did i kno this would change my life" haltmann says. "going to therapy made me realize that i wasn't treating myself with respect, and if i want to feel respected by others, i need to develop respect for myself. without respect for myself, i won't be able to recognize gneuine respect from my friends and employees. and i cant live being so cynical anymore. i need to love myself, (y/n). i need to be my own bestie becuz who will be there for me when everyone is gone? i need to be there for myself"
u look at haltmann like this:
"haltmann… u… u mean…"
"yea. i love myself, (y/n), and its thanks to u…" haltmann kisses u again. "sory i didnt talk to you for the past 2 months btw i was depressed amd busy with therapy lol"
"its ok haltmann i love u no matter what" u stroke his egg head
"yea" haltmann nods. "um btw i like need some new music to listen to bc my therapist says i shuld stop listening to such depressing music if it makes me wallow in sadness more"
"say no more" u say as u smirk and take out of ur bookshelf a CDs of Hannah Montana 3 and the High School Musical Sountrack
u and haltmann spend the night picking out the best disney channel songs to boost his self confidence. soon enough its morning. "omg its morning" haltmann gasps
"it was nice spending the night with u haltmann" u blushed "we should do it again someday"
"no, (y/n)" haltmann gives u an onion ring "we will do it again today. marry me"
"ok" u blush
u and haltmann have a beautiful wedding with the stupidest most extravagant dress and cake bcuz hes rich. ur live happy ever after the end
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Hiya! just wanted to show you more support after the mess of transphobic lesbophobic people on your post.
I have seen this rhetoric around some queer spaces and felt so isolated and hurt by other queer peopel invalidating both of my identities (trans woman and lesbian) and seeing support from other queer people who aren't invested and dont care about harm to trans women or lesbians, I really really appreciate you standing up to this stuff, It helps me feels less isolated and know there are people who don't buy this crap. I hope you have a good day today and know that you're awesome!
(cw mild trauma talk related to thing)
I have trauma around being forced to be with men because of my therapist who withheld access to hormones for me unless I was actively in relationships with men to 'prove how woman i was' and grew up around 4chan queer people who agreed with the transphobic homophobic people in their environment for the slightest bit of being allowed to be non cishet acting and this hits a particularly painful chord for me of internalized transphobia and homophobia that I know is linked to this stuff, especially from some toxic bi people I was abused by who reiterated this "everybody is a little bi so its okay if i creep on lesbians and try and get in their business or trans people calling them something they dont identify with)
Thank you so much for this ask, and I am so sorry you had to go through that. I actually saw your tags on my post earlier and thought about reaching out to send support, but I was worried I'd overstep.
I totally understand if you don't have the emotional bandwidth to do this, but what your therapist did to you was wildly unethical, and I think you have grounds to file a report about them to your local/state/provincial board of licensed therapists. Even disregarding the terrible homophobia and transphobia of that therapist's actions, requiring a client to date anyone in order to acquire medicine is horrible.
Regardless of whether you take action or just need to focus on healing, I wish you all the best.
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What makes you like splatoon? We all have our own comfort games and reasons we resonate with them. So what do you like about splatoon the most that makes you such a fan?
What makes you like splatoon? We all have our own comfort games and reasons we resonate with them. So what do you like about splatoon the most that makes you such a fan?
That's a question with a HELLA long
If you don't feel like reading my response. This person captures how I feel pretty well
I think the number one is my love for the esthetic of the game, how the world changes over time, character age with me, and all the little details of the culture, in game bands, idols and maps. The sound track absolutely slaps and each game is like its own peice of art! I'm absolutely in love with the massive amount of lore we get from the game too. I'm a huge nerd for world lore and when I found my first sunken scroll in splat1 I was hooked! They put so much work into all the scrolls and lore and it excites me everytime when we get more! As an artist I focus so much on all these tiny details they add into the world that make it seem lived in and not just made for online play like alot of other online games look. (Like being able to see the Greek statue in the water on the bridge in the 3rd game, not necessary of a detail but they added it anyway to show time is actually passing!) I love that you can explore maps without being in a match too I did that SOOO much in each game.
2. super huge sea creature nerd and cephalopods (octopi specifically but mostly all cephalopods) are my favorite animals and I was stoked to see a game made with the main character being one, and their world just being ocean themed in general!!!
3. It was the first competitive/online game I've played where i actually felt apart of a community without really being apart of the community itself. Seeing peopels drawings in the square and squid parties made me feel very accepted and not having any voice chat made the game feel much more friendly cause you'll never hear or see anyone screaming at you for messing up, positive vibes only from this game!!
4. I can't play shooters, I'm horrible at aiming, so splatoon was perfect for me with the splash weapons! I was able to actually get good at playing competitively because most other players were also my age, so I was able to match skills with a lot of players. I tried tf2 and other games in the past before spaltoon but none really ever stuck because most players were much older than me and I always just died over and over without ever actually feeling like anyone really cared?? Not sure how to describe that but splatoon always felt more accepting to me.
5. I think it's also the time it came out was just perfect for me too. I was 15 when I got the first game and the characters being a similar age I instantly felt more connected to them rather than a game where all the characters are already adults. And now that I'm an adult all the characters I grew up with are also adults and it makes me feel some kind of way in my heart ;_;
Overall. Splatoon was there for me when I was going through the worst times in my childhood. there was always stuff for me to explore, Read, and play to distract myself and it never failed to make me smile. Especially octo expansion. The positivity from the characters despite the super dark things happening around them made me feel very hopeful for my own hard times and it bonded me to these characters even more y_y
There's so much more I could say but I'll leave it at that giant wall ✌️
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OKOK SO. sorry this is so late i had to have a shower rghagdhd
So so most of these are just silly headcanons however:
-I am such a glasses tash truther but i think he doesn’t wear them cuz he’d go ‘wow my eyes hurt today and everything's blurry but thats normal :]’ poor boy needs glasses tho (this is me projecting id did this in primary school dhdhdj)
-BLIND OWL GIRL. SO. you might be thinking oh she walks around and finds her way around with magic and may i pitch you ‘Echolocation’. i know birds don’t have that but her whistles made me think of that!!
-Owl girl’s deal with Somni is something that lets somni leave the train? Or tash is connected to the train cuz of the station meaning he can’t leave the train. one of the two?
-The bugs and the monster in the woods might not even be related but i like to think the bugs are aquatic in a way same with how the monster ‘squelched’?
ok reading these back sound more like wordbuilding hcs and not much sense but yeahhh very happy that this fandom is growing and you seem very cool :]]
silly headcanons are still so real, this is gonna be so cooL.. sry im gonna like. actually reply with my own takes on these; not trying to disprove you or some shit o7
- REAL. THAT BOY HAS GLASSES ‼‼ thats.. yeah hed do that.. i like thinking that he has a glasses chain bcs when he DOES wear them hes scared of losing them.. bcs he has before. hdfghdf. eye pain is normal though right??? right, tash?????
- ooOOOOOHH YOOO. OKAY. ECHOLOCATION. THATS COOL. THATS FFUCKING COOL. i love that. if she can make her owl noises she can echolocate !! who cares if birds dont do it, shes special Ɛ>
hdfkjhd tash has no clue that shes blind and cant rly hear the clicks cause theyre out of human (or axolotl hehe) hearing register (did actually check this!! typical bat echolocation frequency is mostly out of human range and DEFINITELY out of axolotl range)... he never finds out until someone, probably somni, just casually mentions it and hes like 'whAT. but.. but you went through those woods even faster than i did?' ...he gets no explanation other than a glare dkfjhg
- ooohhh.. oooh !! oh thats fun.. hadnt actually considered train somni.. shes always seemed like something Outside of it to me! like something that Knows about the train and how it Functions but was never a part of it.. oh thats fun. train somni is fun bcs. shes Left it and she Knows about it now and has reached whatever he destination is and shes just Done with it and. oh thats cool..
(tash is deffo connected to the train bcs of the station. somehow. i odnt know but SOMEHOW.)
- !! oh fun ! aquatic monsters and bugs.. plot twist: the entire world is underwater. THIS IS HOW AXOLOTL TASH CAN STILL WIN- sorry im thinking about that too much dfhlgkd
okay thats all sry i have lots to say fhdsklg
!! i am also soo happy to see the fnadom growing, i had no one to post my insane thoughts to before so it all just went in dms with figg but. HAHAHA NOW THERE ARE OTHER INSANE PEOPEL 💥..ahem you seem very very cool too !! ᗡ:
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ppl who hate precure must be very sad
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so I've never really been active in the cod fandom and I also never really plan on getting active in it besides maybe making a cosplay to match with my homies when we go to cons as a group, but I have read a bunch of fanfics and looked at fanart and
this guy here, König, he's austrian and austria and germany are over all pretty similiar in terms of the shit we like culturally speaking and that also includes names.
I've seen a lot of very classic but also stereotypical name headcanons for this dude like klaus, hans , arthur and stephan which are all very based because you do really see these names all over the fucking place over here but let me as your local german gremlin throw you a curveball with my personal headcanon.
Torsten.
You know how sometimes people act or sound a certain way and you just instantly associate that behavior with a name?
Yeah this guy sure sounds like a Torsten to me. Actually a semi-common name for dudes above 35, especially in rural areas.
Also I'm 100% convinced that there is no way to actually shout that name without making it sound silly as fuck so have fun imagining a combat situation now.
Actually now that I think about it Karsten sounds even worse but something about it just doesn't hit the right vibe. Same with Jürgen.
Also you can tell me what you want but if you make the accident to let this guy partake in the karneval/faschings scene you'll never get him back and yes he absolutely would drag horangi to one of the events and give that guy an absolute culture shock and then they proceed to get wasted together. And before anyone tells me that this wouldn't vibe with his social anxiety: it totally could, this obviously dosn't work for everbody but I know a crap ton of peopel that have high social anxiety and suddenly loose all of it the second you put them in a silly costume and play "helikopter 117" by tobee at max volume.
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