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Even if it takes months or years, you'll come back to it when you're truly ready to. You may feel like you're ready and like you're done with being on break, but clearly you're not done or ready. Let your body do what it needs to in order to fully rest and revitalize.

You'll write again. Go do other things, find new joys in life. Go find new beauties in your world around you. Don't obsess over what you can't do, but rather find new things or old things you forgot you loved.

Writing will be here when you come back. 💖

Don't waste your life away wishing you could do something that'll mentally and/or emotionally drain you.

#…yeah. yeah.

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i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways

#Loki and his brother <3

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Hey teenagers.

You aren't slick. We adults know you look at our smut. We know no amount of minors DNI is gonna stop you from looking at our smut. We were teenagers once too, you know?

But please. Don't interact with people about sexual things online. Reading somebodies adult fic is fine. I don't like it, but you're gonna do it. Commenting on that smutfic, or joining a discord server for it, puts everyone in a really dangerous situation. Thats an entirely different level of risk. Not even with people your own age, since you can never know for sure.

#I am once again BEGGING people on my hands and knees to stop putting your info online #I keep seeing the with adults too! please please please don’t share your triggers and personal info online #yes! even first names and birthdates! #hey. I’ve found people online with literal breadcrumbs after they’ve supposedly gone offline #ALSO #CHANGE YOUR USERNAMES EVERY NOW AND THEN. #don’t use the same username everywhere for everything #just. be safe #don’t make yourself intentionally more vulnerable

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I have a lot of feelings about the rise of he would not fucking say that attitudes in fandom spaces and the paralysing effect it can have on creators. As a writer i think it’s important to just write what feels true to you and not what you think others will “approve” of. Like even as a reader i have enjoyed a variety of different characterisations that all work because the writer makes them work for a particular story. And a fic that’s written out of character to some will be in character to others. Writing fic is not your job you’re not being paid it’s your hobby please. Make them as close to canon as possible. Make them completely different. Who cares! Have fun! Have so much fun! There is an audience for every kind of fic and every kind of character interpretation i promise

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Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.

#the last one HFNGNJFNGJFNG

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Me when I haven’t even started my finals yet and already get bombarded by people telling me I’m basically jobless and broke already and only gonna live on social benefits if I don’t start collecting job offers RIGHT THIS MOMENT like. brother I’m so burnt out, the old pans in the kitchen cabinet got nothing on me and if I have to face one more thing connected to graphic design when I’m done with this, I’m going to spontaneously combust

#vent tw #I’m so fucking tired man #I wanted to retake the year okay. I talked to my teachers and everything #everyone has been fucking telling me not to #and in the end I kept going because honestly. the only thing I could handle less than those finals right now #is to live at home for another year #I don’t Even Care about how I get through this anymore I just wanna be done with it #which is such a fucking shame because I was having an amazing time at this school until my health went to shit

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friendly reminder that if i have ever befriended you and have not spoken to you in a while it’s nothing you’ve done wrong it’s just because i’m a piece of shit at keeping in contact with people and i still love you okay good

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They put me into a dress at theatre practice and straightup everyone has been telling me how cute I look and then everyone also added how fucking uncomfortable I seem, but I guess that’s. The price to pay when your family members play in the same play as you so you can’t, y’know, out yourself

#transmasc adventures #at first I was like ‘heheh guy in a dress’ but now I’m more like #not having a good time tbh

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The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

#me when i reblogged this at least three times before #yeah its honestly fucking terrifying

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"Disembowel" is actually a hilarious term. Guts undone, bowels cancelled. Got your entrail privileges revoked. You can either act a clown or you can have your guts intact, but you can't have both and I can't unclown you.

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#still trying to fucking undo whatever happened there

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Mild

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

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Can we please stop making caretakers act like literal robots? I don't necessarily mean to make your caretakers hide really bad injuries, even worse then whumpees. I mean just make them something more then just a medic-therapist sorta thing. They can be whumpees friend, sibling, partner or mentor, anything really. Giving them their very own problems other then caring for the hurt is quite importand, otherwise its not realistic whatsoever and like i said - makes them seem like robots or some kind of helping machines, of course unless thats the look youre going for.

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So this was originally a response to this post:

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Which is about people wanting an AO3 app, but then it became large and way off topic, so here you go.

Nobody under the age of 20 knows how to use a computer or the internet. At all. They only know how to use apps. Their whole lives are in their phones or *maybe* a tablet/iPad if they're an artist. This is becoming a huge concern.

I'm a private tutor for middle- and high-school students, and since 2020 my business has been 100% virtual. Either the student's on a tablet, which comes with its own series of problems for screen-sharing and file access, or they're on mom's or dad's computer, and they have zero understanding of it.

They also don't know what the internet is, or even the absolute basics of how it works. You might not think that's an important thing to know, but stick with me.

Last week I accepted a new student. The first session is always about the tech -- I tell them this in advance, that they'll have to set up a few things, but once we're set up, we'll be good to go. They all say the same thing -- it won't be a problem because they're so "online" that they get technology easily.

I never laugh in their faces, but it's always a close thing. Because they are expecting an app. They are not expecting to be shown how little they actually know about tech.

I must say up front: this story is not an outlier. This is *every* student during their first session with me. Every single one. I go through this with each of them because most of them learn more, and more solidly, via discussion and discovery rather than direct instruction.

Once she logged in, I asked her to click on the icon for screen-sharing. I described the icon, then started with "Okay, move your mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen." She did the thing that those of us who are old enough to remember the beginnings of widespread home computers remember - picked up the mouse and moved it and then put it down. I explained she had to pull the mouse along the surface, and then click on the icon. She found this cumbersome. I asked if she was on a laptop or desktop computer. She didn't know what I meant. I asked if the computer screen was connected to the keyboard as one piece of machinery that you can open and close, or if there was a monitor - like a TV - and the keyboard was connected to another machine either by cord or by Bluetooth. Once we figured it out was a laptop, I asked her if she could use the touchpad, because it's similar (though not equivalent) to a phone screen in terms of touching clicking and dragging.

Once we got her using the touchpad, we tried screen-sharing again. We got it working, to an extent, but she was having trouble with... lots of things. I asked if she could email me a download or a photo of her homework instead, and we could both have a copy, and talk through it rather than put it on the screen, and we'd worry about learning more tech another day. She said she tried, but her email blocked her from sending anything to me.

This is because the only email address she has is for school, and she never uses email for any other purpose. I asked if her mom or dad could email it to me. They weren't home.

(Re: school email that blocks any emails not whitelisted by the school: that's great for kids as are all parental controls for young ones, but 16-year-olds really should be getting used to using an email that belongs to them, not an institution.)

I asked if the homework was on a paper handout, or in a book, or on the computer. She said it was on the computer. Great! I asked her where it was saved. She didn't know. I asked her to search for the name of the file. She said she already did that and now it was on her screen. Then, she said to me: "You can just search for it yourself - it's Chapter 5, page 11."

This is because homework is on the school's website, in her math class's homework section, which is where she searched. For her, that was "searching the internet."

Her concepts of "on my computer" "on the internet" or "on my school's website" are all the same thing. If something is displayed on the monitor, it's "on the internet" and "on my phone/tablet/computer" and "on the school's website."

She doesn't understand "upload" or "download," because she does her homework on the school's website and hits a "submit" button when she's done. I asked her how she shares photos and stuff with friends; she said she posts to Snapchat or TikTok, or she AirDrops. (She said she sometimes uses Insta, though she said Insta is more "for old people"). So in her world, there's a button for "post" or "share," and that's how you put things on "the internet".

She doesn't know how it works. None of it. And she doesn't know how to use it, either.

Also, none of them can type. Not a one. They don't want to learn how, because "everything is on my phone."

And you know, maybe that's where we're headed. Maybe one day, everything will be on "my phone" and computers as we know them will be a thing of the past. But for the time being, they're not. Students need to learn how to use computers. They need to learn how to type. No one is telling them this, because people think teenagers are "digital natives." And to an extent, they are, but the definition of that has changed radically in the last 20-30 years. Today it means "everything is on my phone."

#as someone who studies a subject where he absolutely needs a computer every day. the amount of people in my class who have no clue of things #like how to download and paste a picture into photoshop #is absolutely BAFFLING. #I have seen people use their phones to google how to use a program on their laptops WHILE USING THEIR LAPTOPS #my brother has never in his life used a computer before #you see I think it’s so strange #my family was relatively early with buying a computer #back in the 90s #so even though I’m not from the 90s‚ I grew up with a computer by my side all my life #I gave my mother computer support at the ripe age of 4 #and I assumed that it was just kind of…normal for people my age to have had at least SOME access to a PC or Laptop some time in their youth #because this was the time juuust before the smartphones #but yeah no I was wrong #and it’s really something else to realize that

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Give me whumpees that are brutes in every sense of the word. No more pretty boy (gender neutral) whumpees - give me fat, hairy, heavy browed whumpees. Give me whumpees with blood on their knuckles and sweat stains on their shirts. Give me whumpees that trust their brawn more than their brain. Give me whumpees who bear every blow with a grunt; who groan and grumble and spit. Give me whumpees that break the moment their physical strength isn’t enough. Give me whumpees that look and smell like they crawled out of the literal gutter. Give me whumpees who can’t outwit their tormentors, who don’t even try. They think they’re the lowest of the low in every sense of the word, but it can always get worse.

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Removing a character's clothing to better access/treat an injury- easing a boot from a rapidly stiffening and swelling ankle; peeling blood-sodden fabric away; tearing a rent in a garment wider to see the wound beneath; carefully working a glove free finger by finger; pulling the good arm out first in order to slide the other sleeve down the wounded one; loosening a collar or tie; undoing fasteners that are now out of reach to the wounded wearer; lifting the weight of heavy layers from a frame unable to bear them; removing constricting items of clothing; putting aside a mask; extricating someone from a helmet; fumbling with unfamiliar items of armour or costume; unwinding makeshift bandages; cutting off clothing either carefully at the seams or with no regard for anything besides immediate access to the wounds...

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAARGRHRGAHGEHEGRRGARHATGHHGRAAARG