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If I had a nickel for every time someone told me they thought I was writing an epic novel to be published years from now only to find out that it’s actually a fanfiction and you can read it any time you want, I would have two nickels. Which is not a lot, but hey, it makes me think that I should mention it! It’s free to read any time on tumblr or archive of our own.
this pinned post now comes with a clones explanation!
the nights have never felt this bright
it's Pull myself out of the spiral Wednesday
I love that the books are called The Murderbot Diaries. Not the Murderbot Journals or Records or Logs or anything else that might sound serious or scientific or professional. No, these are diaries, purely intended for writing love letters about your friends and/or furious complaints about your friends and petty rants about your job and capslock yelling about your shows. This is for FEELINGS, not necessarily for facts. That distinction is very important to me.
I’ve never thought about this that much but you're SO right. I think it's definitely kind of a play on other media that's called The X Diaries, because usually that's a lot more light and fluffy, you know? (Personally I associate it with like, middle grade realistic fiction. I think I knew of or read several series that were styled as someone’s diary in elementary/middle school.) If you throw ‘Murderbot' into that framework it doesn't match, and makes you think “oh? what's a murderbot and why does it keep a diary??” Taking the sci-fi killer robot and put it in an almost cutesy sounding title formula subverts expectations. I had forgotten this, but I remember finding the series title funny when I first heard it, because of those subverted expectations, and I think that’s the idea that Wells (or whoever came up with it) was going for. It actually does a really good job of capturing the vibes of the books imo. It’s telling you right up front: this killer robot main character is going to be telling you about all its feelings, of which it has many.
…hmm. You know what else makes a diary different from a journal or a log? A diary is private. Secret, even. You put a cheap little lock on it or hide it in a shoebox under your bed. That really is the perfect word for what TMBD is, isn't it? The place where murderbot writes down all of the thoughts and emotions that it has to (or feels it has to) keep secret. (I’m having a bit of an emotion about this now.)
do you want to go to the seaside?
YJ bedroom comparisons Part 2: the girls! (Part 1 is here.)
the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week
Honestly this is one of the best formatted jokes of all time.
Trigun mutuals, I am delighted to report that there is a Love and Peace Rose, and it is BEAUTIFUL.
Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3
oversharing online is so important cus like what if someone needed to know that
Does doing art feel too hard? Can't bring yourself to start even though you want to?
Lower your standards
And more importantly, Lower your expectations
Just start it. You can just put down some colors, or just sketch, or just do lineart. It doesn't have to be more than this. Even starting is enough. Don't think about all the work you need to put into it. Don't set unnecessary expectations for your art.
If you get some sketches going but decide to do something else, that's perfectly okay. If you get to coloring but leave it halfway, that's perfectly okay. There's also no wrong way to start an artwork. And don't second guess what to draw first, because you can draw whatever you want and you can always draw other things some other time. You can start on an idea and abandon it, or move onto the next idea. You can always come back to unfinished artworks. But you don't have to do that either. An unfinished work isn't a failure. It's just a memory
My Space Dogs web weaving breached containment :((
crow 675
ID: A stressed crow drawn surrounded by flames, saying "wow that was an extremely stressful day but y'know what it's ok I'll try again tomorrow and do my best" /End ID
actually, you know what. let's do a quick psa, because i periodically see people who write fanony/batfam fluff fic ask if the girls should be around at this point, and the answer is almost always YES:
tl;dr: steph (and helena) show up well before cass, who shows up well before jason, who shows up well before damian.
Pearl and Shawn!
Ahhh, interesting characters! You've picked the two clowns who are perhaps least biologically human out of my whole double armful of characters. You'll appreciate Pearl's interesting body situation, I think, and Shawn's whole wonderful rodeo thing.
Here is the premise of the world for anyone who doesn't know about it! Basically, when a human clown entertainer dies, a whole new being (whose personality and appearance is based on the human's clown persona) pops into existence as a fully-formed adult Clown. This clown has full language skills, but no memories and no possessions.
