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Fucking love this has happen multiple times lol
ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
- i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
- there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
- there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
- doing nothing is good for my soul.
- i am not defined by what i produce.
- my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
- i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
- i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.
I think I've figured out the best way to explain what I consider the way to tell Heads of Pack to be in my omegaverse worldbuilding.
I know a lot of people like to have it as the Main Breeding Pair or the Mum and Dad of the pack (either biological or just mum/dad!friend) which is cool and I get it.
But no - the head/s of the pack is whoever would have the deciding vote on a 50/50 split in a debate within in the pack. Normally that is because they are the most senior/most competent but sometimes it's for dumb social rules (Kings in monarchist societies are basically always going to be the Pack Head even if they are like 16 and everyone else is older than them).
Pro-writing tip: if your story doesn't need a number, don't put a fucking number in it.
Nothing, I mean nothing, activates reader pedantry like a number.
I have seen it a thousand times in writing workshops. People just can't resist nitpicking a number. For example, "This scifi story takes place 200 years in the future and they have faster than light travel because it's plot convenient," will immediately drag every armchair scientist out of the woodwork to say why there's no way that technology would exist in only 200 years.
Dates, ages, math, spans of time, I don't know what it is but the second a specific number shows up, your reader is thinking, and they're thinking critically but it's about whether that information is correct. They are now doing the math and have gone off drawing conclusions and getting distracted from your story or worse, putting it down entirely because umm, that sword could not have existed in that Medieval year, or this character couldn't be this old because it means they were an infant when this other story event happened that they're supposed to know about, or these two events now overlap in the timeline, or... etc etc etc.
Unless you are 1000% certain that a specific number is adding to your narrative, and you know rock-solid, backwards and forwards that the information attached to that number is correct and consistent throughout the entire story, do yourself a favor, and don't bring that evil down upon your head.
Editor here. Can confirm.
"Two centuries later" just triggers a mental note to check if timing is consistent throughout the book, because it may mean more time jumps are ahead. "200 years later", or heaven forbid, "201 years later" will have me draw up a time line. The more specific the number, the more critical people become.
Strange phenomenon. Well spotted, OP.
actually i think i might have an explanation for this from linguistics? i think folks get more nitpicky if you have specific numbers because of gricean maxims, specifically the maxims of quality and quantity
basically gricean maxims are a set of guidelines that we all carry in our heads that we expect other people to follow when having a conversation in good faith - i’m copying and pasting definitions from someone else because my attempts at summing up quality and quantity weren’t going so hot
The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more.
The maxim of quality, where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.
so basically, when you put a rough number in a text, people think subconsciously ‘oh, the exact number isn’t important, because if it was they would tell me an exact number, so i don’t need to worry about this’, whereas if you put something precise in, people’s brains go ‘wait, they think i need to know this information so i’ll remember it, but now it’s later and they’ve said something that contradicts it, so at least one of those times they were lying and i must figure out which time it was’
Do you ever read a fic so interesting you want behind the scenes lore, ten pinterest moodboards and one of those fancy .gif edits but none of that exists bc it's a fanfic?
fun fact! most fanfic authors would be thrilled to provide behind the scenes lore! all you have to do is ask about it! they may even have a fic playlist or moodboard
I was just explaining how I saw “To Wong Fu,” in the theaters as a 17 year old with a bunch of highschool friends and absolutely nobody was scandalized. This drag panic is entirely orchestrated and much ado about nothing.
I mean, somebody’s going to mention Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, or Flip Wilson as Geraldine, but way back in the fifties, Milton Berle was on Texaco Star Theater and your grandparents or great-grandparents loved it.
A reminder that drag is old. It's so old it's ridiculous. Drag has been done in theater since the beginning of theater. And sometimes those characters are supposed to be another gender [Peter Pan is usually played by a small adult woman, and Edna Turnblad from Hairspray is famously a woman's role that's supposed to be cast with a drag queen]. Sometimes it's just a part of the show. [Some Like It Hot, where the two male characters are disguised as women to hide from the mob, and one ends the movie with a wealthy man] Drag queens as a trope have always been sassy, world-weary, and absolutely confident in themselves and their ability to attract men. Hell, sometimes the joke is that they're [deliberately] making a straight male character uncomfortable and we're supposed to be laughing at the straight male's discomfort. Law & Order has shown drag queens for decades with asshole detectives referring to them as "ma'am" when they're in drag even as they're trying to avoid the sequins.
This rhetoric is frightening because of how quickly the neo-fascist movements in the US have managed to get it to take hold.
There’s even the theory that the term “drag” comes from Shakespearean times and was written in scripts to mean “dressed as a girl”.
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It's almost like writing is some kind of craft that people take years developing and a program designed to aggregate and regurgitate data in the most effective way possible isn't all that effective at replicating the experience of genuine creativity or...something.
these tags also have excellent points
"Why are you so obessed with found family?"
I watched this as a kid and internalized it for forever
Lilo and Stitch really said "This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good." And i still live by that
Need a new word for old blorbos that aren't really your blorbos anymore but you still feel fondness or them. The series ended or you fell out of the fandom, but your mutuals still put them on your dash sometimes and you go aw. he's still out there making it in the big city.
Blorbeens is the funniest response so far thank you. They been my blorbos
The ending -ín in Irish means little. It's anglicised as -een.
blorbeen just sounds like little blorbo to me
Pact Bond AU.
Turns out those aliens don’t give a shit about how this is slavery. They’re pretty much content about what they’ve done and as far as their concerned theres no way to reverse it.
Give Anakin some credit though, he waited at least a solid minute before he tried to rip them apart.
Infected AU
Leon doesn’t like the smell of smoke, but he doesn’t really mind Chris smoking. He gets it, he knows it helps Chris relax despite how bad it is and honestly, they could die the next day with how their lives are.
But that doesn’t mean Leon can’t have a bit of fun by razzing him about it.
Carrion AU doodles
Tim is emotionally stupid in this AU. Having never been truly loved by his parents, he really believes that no one could like, or even love him at all. Bruce and Alfred have tried to prove otherwise but Tim doesn’t believe it, thinking they fake it so he stays around so they can use his intellect.
Tim’s fine with that though. He’d determined to make himself useful so he can keep his place and has a deep fear of losing home. (This is also why he is so confrontational with Damian, since he’s afraid the kid will make Bruce cast him out.)
He also has a control problem when it comes to the health of his family and friends. NO ONE DIES without his consent.
Tim has several secret injections in his belt, injections mixed with water from a Lazarus pit. No one realizes it, except for Bruce, but each member of the family has actually died in several fights, only for Tim to revive them with the shot. They usually wake up in the cave thinking the scrapped by, having no idea Tim literally rezzed them from the dead.
As for Kon, well, of course they get together. At first Tim is bewildered and annoyed by Kon’s attitude, but soon enough he harbors a huge crush for him. Unfortunately for Tim he has no idea how to even be friends, let alone love someone. Lucky for him, Kon is stubborn enough to break through his shell and teach him.
Steve10 AU
Little did everyone know that ‘Dad Steve’ would end up being both extremely hot, and heartbreakingly cute.
-Some facts about Jake and Mila. Jake is very lively, while Mila is very shy, but both are incredibly well behaved and kind. Jake is really into music and when he gets older starts to learn how to play the piano. Mila on the other hand develops an interest in film, especially horror movies, and wants to make her own.
-Necrofriggian babies usually eat metal, but Jake and Mila stomachs are too similar to humans to digest it. So they have to eat foods with high amounts of Iron in them, their favorite being raw sardines, or small fish.
I got inspired to do a bit of fic writing.
Disclaimer: I haven’t watched Stranger Things in a while and can’t be bothered reactivating my Netflix subscription to watch S4, so characterisation may not match up.
OH MY GOOOOOOODDDDDDD!! I love this SO.MUCH. (´∀｀)♡
This is pretty much exactly how it would happen in the AU. You NAILED IT!!! I love how BigChill/Steve was still gentle with the children despite being a hormonal momma bear, as well as having Jonathan take the pictures the kids (Which Steve will most definatly want copies of), and El sensing the life force of the babies.
This was just really well done and I really enjoyed it! THANK YOU!
Surprise, some Steve10 AU doodles!
-Upper left one shows Steve taking care of Jake during one of his frequent episodes of suffering from a high fever. Steve usually has to stay up and be transformed for two whole days, making sure Jake’s temperature doesn’t get dangerously high. But no matter how bad they get, the fevers always break, and Jake goes back to being his usually excitable self, while Steve earns a well deserved 24 hours of blackout nap.
-Bottom Left shows Steve when he possesses Billy to free him of the Mindflayer as Ghostfreak. Steve has to navigate Billy’s mind and find his consciousness first before he can kick the Mindflayer out, which he does, but unfortunately he doesn’t realize that Billy can see Ghostfreak’s true form. Which, let’s be honest, doesn’t look like a wholesome guy.
-Bottom right, is Max with RathSteve. Steve’s protective instincts go into Mega overdrive when he’s transformed as Rath. If anyone or anything so much as harms one little hair on any of the kids, they will be put through a brick wall…several times.
-Middle right, is Steve’s reaction to being called Mama for the first time by Mila. He’s slightly embarrassed by himself when he feels his heart melt into a lump of happiness the same way it does when she also calls him Dada. He wonders if he should correct her, but when it really came down to it, he was literally both her father and mother….and god he is STILL trying to wrap his mind around that shit, so honestly fuck it at this point. He’s both Dada and Mama. ((all the girls in the group think this is the most adorable thing ever))
-Top Right is just XLR8 doing ….stuff? Idk…
DriderSteve AU
While investigating the Creel house, Steve gets bitten by a spider. Normally this would be fine, but when Steve bites into the demobat, he accidently swallows some of it’s blood. The blood and lingering spider venom mix together and the result makes Steve transform into a spider/human hybrid. Or as they’re called in D&D, Driders. ((You could use this same plot for NagaSteve too actually))
-Steve spends his days at his house with his two new roommates, Dustin and Mrs. Henderson. The two recently became homeless after they lost their house in the quake and Steve was more than happy to offer his own home to them. Steve’s predicament shocked Mrs. Henderson at first, but she quickly got over it, silently adopting the older teen as she gave him a much needed hug after she saw how miserable to poor boy looked.
-Steve’s room is covered in silk and he is both utterly embarrassed and horrified by it. He won’t let anyone see it, doesn’t want them to think he’s more of a monster than he is, that is until one day he gets sick. He can’t muster the energy to move and after awhile Mrs. Henderson comes in to check up on him.
-To Steve’s shock she makes no comment about the state of his room when she walks in and checks his temperature. Turns out he has a nasty cold and she needs to go to the store to get him some medicine, so she has Robin come over to watch Steve with Dustin. Turns out Dustin LOVES Steve room and wants him to do the same to his, while Robin just flops into the middle of the nest and instantly falls asleep.
-To help curb his desire to encase the whole house in silk, Steve learns how to knit/sew. It helps settle his nerves and he ends up making piles of sweaters, scarves, hats, and mittens for everyone, which turn out to be both SUPER SOFT and SUPER indestructible.
-They find this out when Dustin gets attacked by a demodog. The monster can’t rip or tear through Dustin’s sweater, and the worst wound Dustin receives from the encounter is a bruised knee. Hopper later finds out the silk stuff is bullet proof too.