#~it's burnout babey ~

[threewaysdivided]

Remember when I used to get a chapter out every couple of weeks?

Would love to be able to do that again sometime.

#TBH most of you probably don't. I've been writing at glacial speed for many years now #admittedly those chapters were... not especially great #but I do miss the unfettered creation #anyway it took me a whole day to write half a page #I wanna write fast again #brain go bad #writing update #writing problems #that ding dang revival went and tipped my creative juices right out #Git Lies-man owes me personal compensation for making the fandom an exhausting place to be #(admittedly the insomnia also doesn't help) #~it's burnout babey ~ #blegh #3WD

[raineandsky]

#43

It’s been three weeks since the hero saw their villain. None of the other heroes have arrested them, none of the superheroes have killed them—or at least not that they’re admitting. It’s been long enough to make the hero restless, and they figure they’ll have to be the one to find out where they’ve gone.

The hero isn’t proud of the fact they know where the villain lives. They found out by pure coincidence, honestly, and once they had the information it refused to leave their mind no matter how unprofessional they knew it was. They’ve never been here before—work stays at work, and they’re not coming all the way out here just for one villain—and today marks the first of them knocking on the door.

A hero announcing their arrival is clearly unexpected, since the villain answers the door looking mildly startled. The hero never imagined them to be so casual; their usual flowing coats and all-black, slender outfits are replaced with an oversized t-shirt and a pair of loose joggers. 

“Oh my god,” is the opening the villain graces them with.

“Where the hell have you been?” the hero demands, and it’s only now that they’re saying it that they realise that it’s a little weird to ask. Why would they care?

“Why do you care?” the villain snaps like they read their nemesis’s mind. “It’s none of your business where I’ve been.”

“It is when my job is on the line because the city’s most prolific criminal is missing,” they retort shortly, and the villain scoffs.

“Well, you know I’m here now, so you’re welcome. Bye.” The villain starts to swing the door shut but the hero catches it, their foot caught between the door and the frame. They don’t want to admit how heavy the door is. They can feel the bruise forming already.

“Absolutely not.” The hero shoves themself through the doorway a little in an effort to stop the villain from their valiant attempts to shut them out. “Why’d you disappear for so long? What kind of evil scheme are you planning?”

“Just wanted some time off!” the villain cries with a surprising amount of dismay as the hero slips into their house. “I don’t know why you’re coming in, there’s nothing to see in here.”

The place is oddly domestic and well-kept. It seems that the villain is strangely… tidy. “And that makes me suspicious. There’s definitely something in here.” The hero beelines for the door across the hall from them and the villain tries desperately to stop them.

“God, I should’ve answered the door with my knife like I usually do.” The villain makes a last ditch effort to pull the hero away as they slowly push the door open. “I need my dignity intact, please don’t—”

The door creaks on its hinges, and the noise is met with small, heartfelt shrieks. It takes the hero a moment to realise the sound is coming from below them, and a glance down reveals several tiny, ferociously meowing kittens.

“Jesus Christ,” the villain mutters as the hero takes in the sight. One of the kittens is already attempting to climb their leg, sharp claws digging into their thigh.

“Is… is this where you’ve been?” the hero asks uncertainly. It feels like they’ve come to the wrong house—the place is so nice, and home to a flurry of kittens who’ve all decided to hop on the trend of climbing the hero like a tower. The only indicator that they did get it right is the fact the villain is here at all, looking particularly flustered as they try and pull some of the claws out of the hero’s suit.

“That’s none of your business,” the villain snaps coldly over the racket of kittens yowling for attention, “but maybe.”

“Why’s there so many of them?” The hero gasps like they just put the pieces together. “Wait, the cats are going to be part of whatever plan you’re putting together!”

“That’s the dumbest idea you’ve ever had. Glad you think so highly of me.” The villain dumps a kitten on the floor, which immediately starts its climb again. “But no. I’m a villain, not an immoral freak. The kittens are just fosters for a few weeks.”

A couple of the kittens have taken to trying to climb the villain now, and they just let it happen. “I can’t believe this. You put everything aside for cats?”

“Yeah, they need feeding every few hours.” One of the kittens has reached their shoulder in record-breaking time, snuggling into the crook of their neck. “Can’t exactly go and whoop your ass in that kind of time. I have to be here until I send them off again.”

The hero can only stare as the villain gives the cat on their shoulder a scratch under its chin, and it purrs so loud it sounds like TV static. “This one’s my favourite,” the villain continues idly. “He’s called Beanie, but I think Harbinger of the Apocalypse suits him better.”

The cat’s purr somehow gets louder as if he agrees, and the hero raises their eyebrows. “Okay, there is still villainy at play here. Naming an animal like that is cruel.”

“He likes it!” the villain defends, but there’s an uncharacteristic softness to their tone. “I might keep him anyway, so I’ll get to name him whatever I want.”

The hero hates this. The sight of the villain, dressed down, normally, with a tiny kitten perched on their shoulder and leaning into their fingers, it’s—Jesus, it’s making them soft. They can’t believe this is making them reconsider how they see the villain.

“It’s kind of unfair that you stay here while I do the dirty work in the city,” the hero points out, and the villain frowns slightly, finally tearing their gaze from the kitten. “I’ll go half and half on the care with you if you actually go back out and let the agency know you’re not planning to end the world.”

The villain squints at them suspiciously. “Is this an excuse to rummage through my house?”

“You have a pretty good security system.” The hero gestures to the kittens clamouring over them. “I just need you to save my job, please. I know you keep everything at your lair, anyway.”

The villain scowls as if this is somehow a bad thing, but after a moment they nod. “Alright. I’ll write down everything they need and when, and we’ll take it in turns. I need a break, anyway—they’re needy.”

The hero smiles, and the relief that they don’t have to worry about the agency’s paranoia anymore is overwhelming. The kittens might even provide some much needed stress relief. “Perfect.”

#writing #creative writing #writing community #writers on tumblr #writblr #heroes and villains #hero x villain #i wrote this from the bottom of a pit of creative burnout can you tell lmao #also!!! graduated on tuesday babey!!!! ya bitch got a degree!!!!! #tragically i will Not be using it but hey. cool to put one extra sentence on my cv ayyyyyy

[melien]

#sims #ts3 #sims 3 #photoshoots #character verse #lydia fletcher #I'm back babey I installed ts3 on my new laptop and it's SO SMOOTH #I firmly believe if it was that smooth before I wouldn't have had a burnout #because I was attempting all these heavy saves and increasingly growing frustrated especially with cas #please let me go back in time and play all the legacies and BCs I played in the past on this laptop #idk if it's my processor or smooth patch working or idk but thank heavens I only hope I can get my mojo back #also lydia deserved a solo photoshoot long ago she was infamous in melverse for not having one #despite her being literally the best character in the verse #I think she played a role into bringing it back into place #she's so effortlessly chaotic #also fun fact her middle name is lacey because I sometimes do little callbacks to the old legacy and they had a sister named lacey there #who didn't survive to see the character verse #but also because lydia lacey and irene hayley?? iconic #definitely felicity naming them

[memoryoflife]

one month to uni... much to think about

#ell shut up #listen i basically accidentally entered uni i think i'm still reeling ahfndhgd #i wasn't planning to till next year but. shit happened #ugh... i will miss having the time to write #i know my own burnout cycle #i probably will struggle to write once the projects pile up #on the bright side? might return with some improvements to my writing style #studying english babey B) #'ell how did you accidentally enter uni' apply last minute bs the test and interview and get an acceptance 5 days later #i'm in a league of my own #waaaaaaaaa i will miss writing though TT #i wanna write one more bthb fic before it starts :') #this is a bunch of ramblings idk if ill delete it later or not #contrary to my typing style i am generally decent at english #i just stockpile English Power for when i like. write properly #which is NOT on social media...... or discord...... #sorry getting new mutuals makes me happy to ramble more now

[brosif40]

#the mood of the year babey!! #not just artistic burnout but yea #brosif rambles #hooughh #and by perish i mean i will barely draw art for those things until i feel crazy for it again

[loveofastarvingdog]

guy who has gotten rid of three garbage bags of stuff and another huge garbage bag of stuff 😏 who want me

#timothy's txts. #it’s so easy to get rid of stuff when i don’t have to worry about hurting people’s feelings #like BAM i got rid of all of my dresses except for three hell fucking YEAH babey #there go those fancy pants i never wear and those jackets i hate because of the noise and etc etc etc #i love to get rid of things fr #i only need like five pairs of shoes! #and even then i only regularly wear three! #going from months of burnout to a day of manic energy and so far three days of writing energy…. woaugh fr #tw swearing #tw emoji

[orangesands]

#art #my art #comic #digital art #burnout #healing #mental health #digital drawing #artist #self indulgence babey #self indulgent #man going back to school has hit hard #so many assignments and we’re only like 2 weeks in #im just very very tired #and attempting to make it thorugh

[underwater0firework]

sitting here stressing over my finals and suddenly my head goes "god i wanna play dnd sooooooooo bad"

#not to mention all the fic ideas that i've had during this one week alone #i can't wait to be OUT #and then promptly collapse and fall terribly ill for like 3 weeks #because that's how burnout works babey!

[ut0piaaa]

whoopsies got too busy while i was at the parks and completely forgot my page is still christmassy😭

#burnout babey

[vegetable-soup-wizard]

I somehow got straight A’s this term even though I was extremely mentally unwell the entire time so suffice to say it’s fueling my god complex

#idk what god complex I hate myself lol #gifted kid burnout? #I’m still kickin babey #mine #meme #lol #humor

[ink-asunder]

Someone could make a really cool post about how autism burnout is affected by chronic illness. And by someone, I mean me.

Just consider it. Autism burnout occurs when an autistic person is overworked by the demand of living--as opposed to occupational burnout, or "alot of things keep happening all at once" burnout. And the demand of living is so much higher when you're chronically ill, disabled, and/or in chronic pain.

Self care now has a barrier of being in physical pain. Keeping your livingspace clean so it's not sensory hell is impossible when you can't even bend down. Being in constant physical pain just wears on the body, mind, and emotions in general, meaning even a "sensory good day" still merits the demand for noise cancelling headphones and sunglasses indoors.

Appointments are sensory hell. Offices are always brightly lit, cold, the chairs are uncomfy, and you have to be there and sit still and mask for so fucking long. Not to mention all the physical touch you have to endure. Oh, and the DEMAND AVOIDANCE of it all. I could kill god over giving his most autistic soldiers a chronic illness, because having a chronic condition is just Demands Central, babey.

And keep in mind this is still my life post-accomodation. I wear headphones and sunglasses, I use a shower chair and cane, I block out recovery days after appointments to help recharge. But there's just So Fucking Much that happens as a baseline to being chronically ill that just doesn't happen irl for everybody. Accommodation doesn't stop the meltdowns. It doesn't fix things.

#chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #chronically ill #disabled #i could also go into how my medical physical pain compares to autistic physical pain-- #think of 'when i repress a stim it physically hurts'kinda deal #but this post is long enough #autism #actually autistic #autism burnout #chronic illness burnout

[just-anotherrandomartist]

fucking loved the sunshine court i started these like last week but it’s peak burnout season babey

#my stuff #my art #all for the game #aftg #the sunshine court #neil josten #kevin day #andrew minyard #jean moreau

[devotion-disorder]

I'm planning on setting up an ask blog for my yandere ocs, do you have any tips for running a blog like that?

im not sure if im the best person to be asking about running an ask blog since im…frankly not doing a very good job at it, but i’m still happy to share some thoughts! take em with a grain of salt tho

I think one of the best things about running an ask blog is the collaborative aspect of it! As in, i dont often think of it as “people ask questions and i give answers” but rather “i am given prompts to deepen/ explore my characters”! So really its thanks to all the kind people who send asks to me to shape my ocs into who they are. this is kind of a horrible example but coke can Noel only became canon because of the whole small pp debacle LMAO Point is, i think it can be a fun way to figure stuff out along the way!!

With that said, its about a delicate balance of giving and withholding information. Sometimes im deliberately vague about key information to hopefully intrigue people into asking about it, eg: initially i only stated Noel has face-blindness but did not talk about how/when/why he got it or how that affects him. Once again, and fortunately, people were willing to engage with me and i get to release the lore organically bit by bit. This is not foolproof though, and you gotta lay down a foundation before others can build on it…i’ve received 100+ asks and not ONE person has asked about Kuuya’s right eye, but thats entirely my fault cause i never brought it up myself LOLL

Also i think its useful to diversify the type of content you put out! I originally planned to answer ALL asks with drawings but soon realised that was just impossible, hence i dabble in writing when im unable to draw. It also helps with burnout in general. Its a good way to keep up a regular posting schedule, which i find is very helpful in encouraging people to actually engage with you!

and lastly remember its your blog so its your rules babey!! go wild!! do whatever you want its literally your house. good luck and have fun!!

#anon #i also think very very generally 1-st person content seems to elicit the strongest responses #sorry for mistakes in this im typing this on my phone #i’ll be on the lookout for new yan ask blogs that pop out >:))

[cosmik-homo]

Oh I never made content for my Government Assigned Randomized Star Trek Ship by @traitorslament because burnout and school stuff, and I don't have a lot of Photoshop time so I needed to make do with my phones editing capabilities, but I think about it all the time so.

Rom/Chekov till the end babey

#my edits

[atlanticdaydream]

i have finally recovered from grad school burnout and im back babey!! photo of patrick cred: FavSightsSounds on xitter

#fob #fall out boy #patrick stump #heaven iowa #so much (for) stardust #smfs #photo edit #my edit

[loveofastarvingdog]

ohhhhh [redacted] i am killing and biting

#timothy's txts. #it’s a bad idea no it’s not yes it is #i am tired and sad and overwhelmed and exhausted and i need to get stuff done but burnout babey #do i eat or not because i ate dinner but i am hungry but it’s not healthy food and i. anyways. ough