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I had this queued since september
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I had this queued since last December
Source: kasiix
Hey, everyone!! This week we’re premiering the first episode of our short story! We’re excited to show you what we’ve come up with together. So please check us out on Webtoons and follow us for all three episodes!
WOOO!!!! We did it!! We finished!!! 🤩 🤩
Thank you all for supporting us over the past three months! We don’t plan on winning anything lol We’re just glad we were able to challenge ourselves to make something new!
I’m sharing this before reading it because it looks heeeellllla cool.
Update: I read it. Can confirm.
that look of fury and humiliation on a supervillains face when theyve just finished making fun of your trick arrows and then get totally pwned by one
its so beautiful
good job arrows
There is nothing so satisfying in this world as the look on someone’s face when they get hit in the back on the head with a boomerang arrow.
Hades: *carrying a stack of supplies with both hands*
Persephone: *reaches out to help him*
Hades: *moves the supplies to one arm to hold Persephone's hand*
Persephone: That's not what I- okay.
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Spock, tired as hell, kinda out of it and craving affection: softly headbutts Jim
Jim, who had a bunch of farm cats growing up and knows what headbutting means:
Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?
Here’s the link if anyone wants it!
We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.
Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.
This is not my picture- but husband just called, made me put it on video phone, and walked up and down the block to show me this amazing library and I really want to go to Kansas City now.
I never thought I would need to go to Kansas City but here we are
Um...I live here, I like books (I probably have a stack of 20 to read don’t judge...) and have never heard of this library but you best believe imma be in that bitch sometime. BET!
I’m bout to head out there and see what this is all about. ETA 16 minutes. I deadass threw on some clothes and was just like fuck it let’s go. Gotta hurry, it closes at 5!
I deadass walked around the wrong building but, we out here!
I worked up damn sweat walking out here but fuck it!
Here’s the front door...
This is right when you walk inside. Some punk ass dude said he was going to photo bomb me. I invited him to take a picture, but he was like nah bruh.
A little lounge area, a cafe, elevators and stairs for those who want them! Its legit!
Taking a stroll on the second floor now! We have some artwork, some videos!
They have a place for kids and teens too on the second floor! It’s dope! They do say though that as an adult I couldn’t use the bathroom. They don’t want those problems! Kids was in there playing some Area 51 game? They got a spot for toddlers to chill! They got that little area like you see at the doctors office where kids can go and kill time. But kids play on iPhones and shit now tho but it’s still dope!
3rd floor now. This place is friendly for those who are homeless. They got WiFi in here! Individual tables with outlets to charge your shit! Very very quiet in here since it is a library...duh K! Caught a young dude in here going over his football highlight tape. 18 years old, doesn’t know where he’s going to school, says he plays linebacker and running back. He was blasting on his highlight tape. He said his favorite player was Marshawn Lynch, just like mine!!! Also got a lil spot to watch tv! Onto the 4th and last floor...
Restroom is also on the 3rd floor too! Heads up!
4th and final floor now. It’s more secluded than the other three floors but they got books for years in this bitch! They got little study areas for people who want to chill and be by themselves. Whatever you want! Fiction, non fiction and everything in between!
Back on the first floor! If you go straight ahead from the entrance you’ll enter this other lil study hall area. They got more places to chill! They got iPads and computers and shit you can use! This is a dope ass public library. If you in the KC area and wanna check out a book...bring yo ass over here! They gotchu! If yo ass need to study for a test...come park yo dumbass over here and study!
I hope you all enjoyed the tour! Thanks to @jewleshasbadideas and @downtostars (I hope that’s the right name...) for bringing this to my attention! I’m hungry and I’m starting to smell a lil musty, working up a sweat doing all this walking... With this last pic...I’m out!
Check out this library! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✌🏾😊✊🏾
Read books dammit!
“why are you reading/watching/listening to the same thing again, you’ve already seen it before”
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also
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vamp fang studies from last month I forgot to post
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shitty headcanon of the day
glorfindel switched the sugar for salt in erestor’s coffee one day, and he did the typical “chugs it all because he’s not a coward” but then he just. kept drinking it like that. erestor drinks his coffee with salt. by choice.
Awwwww😂😂😂
"Then how do you say aisle?" 😂😂🤣
Anonymous asked:
Hi. So, this is more of a rant/vent than asking for advice, so take this as you will. Recently, someone bookmarked my beloved fic project (a series, totaling ~400k worth of fic) and left a loooong analysis of the fics, tearing apart the fics and shining light on all my errors and faults as a writer. Including ‘author has potential, BUT…’ and ‘author forced angst in chapter [x] when…’ and ‘lots of awkward scenes where [x] happens and I totally had to skip’ and ‘author left plot holes when x (1)
y, and z happened’ and ‘author didn’t take story where I’d hoped, so I had to stop reading because author didn’t meet my expectations’ and ‘OOC characters when…’ and ‘author unable to address conflict adequately’ and ‘parts of fic were too contrived, too dramatic, I had to stop reading’ with an end note of ‘You might be interested in giving this fic a shot anyway, but beware all [x, y, z] the author does not manage to pull off successfully. I only partly recommend this fic because of all the things this author does wrong, even if they did try their best’…
and I’m just…HURT. You would think that after a little bit, if the fics weren’t to their tastes, that they would Nope Out quietly instead of writing a whole essay on my flaws. I absolutely realize bookmarks are Readers’ Spaces from reading this blog. I absolutely respect this reader’s right to an opinion on my works. I appreciate the time spent paying such close attention to my work and giving detailed feedback. I acknowledge that some – not all, but some – of their criticism is valid and in time I might even go back to revise (but not right away, because I already spent YEARS on this fic series and it’s been DONE and I like it being finally DONE. It’s a huge pressure off my shoulders.)
IT STILL HURTS. It hurts that they didn’t message me directly, especially as I in every author’s note say something to the effect of, ‘Thanks to so-and-so for helping me with [x],’ so it’s not like I’m the kind of writer who doesn’t respond to constructive criticism. It hurts that it SEEMS like this person is shining a light on all my mistakes in a public venue to dissuade readers from clicking on my fics. It hurts that in 400k of fic, this person is purposefully focusing on the negative. It hurts that it SEEMS like they think they’re doing God’s work by explaining what I did wrong so this fandom knows not to give my works a chance. It just HURTS.
I haven’t even been able to go on AO3 for about a month now because there’s this icy dread associated with, ‘I have this long and incredibly detailed criticism connected to my fic and my online identity and I can’t moderate it.’ And because it’s a bookmark, I can’t respond to the person (no social media on profile, etc.).
I’m just…hurt and drained. I’ve needed to take a step back because it hurt too much, especially because this was a tipping point after a lot of RL mental health issues. It made me feel like not even AO3, my safe space, was actually…safe. I feel unwanted. I feel like not only a lesser writer, but a lesser person – because one random internet stranger tore apart something that was (and is) so close to my heart.
I guess I just needed to vent, maybe know if anyone else has experienced something similar and ask how they got over this pain? In any case, thank you for listening (er, reading). (End, sorry for long post!)
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*hugs* I know there’s nothing I can do to take away the hurt, so just imagine that you’re getting a big hug from someone who cares about you and wants you to be okay.
Criticism like this is never easy to take, and it’s all the harder when it’s done by a faceless stranger that you can’t respond to. You’re hurt and you’re also helpless and that combination of feelings is so difficult to deal with. Taking time away and working your way through it is a good idea.
If you’ve got comments from readers saved on your phone or in your email (I know I do), it might be worthwhile to reread them. That always helps me when I start to doubt myself. That one person had a lot to say about your work that was negative, but you have a lot more people than that who were positive. Remembering the good can sometimes help outweigh the bad.
I wish I could do more to make you feel better, anon, but know that I’m thinking about you and wishing you well, and I’m rooting for you to find your way back to the thing you love ❤
Editing my response to add: could we please stop insulting the reader in the notes? You can comfort this author without tearing the reader down. Thanks.
I’m so sorry that happened. 😔 I’ve had similar things happen to me, where I’ve stumbled upon harsh criticism of my works. One thing I’ve found very helpful is legitimately blocking pages where I know criticism might be, like my bookmark pages. There are so many nice comments hidden in bookmarks, but the ones tearing apart my works aren’t worth it to me because I take take unsolicited criticism pretty hard. So I have all my works’ bookmark pages blocked on my phone and computer so I can’t look at it. (I also have my stats page blocked, for similar reasons) I know it doesn’t help with the comment you’ve already seen but it might help in the future, if the comment is inaccessible to you.
Your writing moved this person to spend hours of their time reflecting on what you wrote. Ultimately, whether they liked it or hated it is actually less important than the fact that you got into their head and made them think.
Nobody likes bad reviews. Nobody finds them easy to deal with. I don’t really understand what it is about our human nature that makes us fret more over one scathing review than rejoice over a dozen reviews praising our work, but so it is.
Anyway - has the critic posted any writing of their own? Is it any good? In short, are this person’s views worth taking seriously? I once received a “damning with faint praise” review from some guy who’d made it his personal mission to up the quality of fic in our fandom. However, when I went to look at his own fic, his writing was so bad I couldn’t have any respect for his judgement. So before you let fanfic be ruined for you for life by this critic, remember that they are just one person, and they well be simply wrong.
Secondly, bitchy reviews like that have less of a negative effect on potantial readers than you might think. Whenever I read such a comment, my first reaction is to wonder what particular axe this critic has to grind. My second is to empathise with the author being criticised, and go check out their works to judge for myself.
Really, think about it. Why should anybody take this critic’s judgement at face value?
There isn’t a published author alive who hasn’t received excoriating reviews tearing apart their works in minute detail. The more famous and successful they are, the more somebody out there hates them.
“It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass , only that he did not burn it afterwards.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The Atlantic, “Literature as an Art,” 1867
I had never written anything in the fandom. I knew the best language was English, so it could reach a lot of people but I was very insecure and realizing I couldn't write would have killed me.
The thing is that I wrote a small chapter and waited for the response, people loved it and I wrote a second one right away. I was halfway through the third one when someone posted a long ass comment in the second chapter tearing my grammar apart because I didn't used puntuaction in the dialogues, which was true to a certain point, we give a more liberal use to periods and commas here in my country. But they told me it was impossible to read with all the tenses and my writing was all over the place. I went to this person page and they had a bunch of WIPs from 2012 or something without even a close amount of hits, kuddos and comments that my story had. So, I was very polite and told them thanks for the criticism, because that person wrote a detailed comment for a story they claimed couldn't read and started by saying that it was good criticism, which truly wasn't, I have a friend who gives me good points and the wording is important. Being critical of something doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.
My point is that I look back on that and it was when I had written 6K words. Now I'm at 90K and a lot of people have complimented my giant monster and reread the story up to three times. I wouldn't have forgiven me if I had stopped when that person tore me down in one comment. But I choose to say: Thanks, man, I lived in your head for free for a while and now I'm off to write my stuff, see ya never. Because I'm really proud of what I made.
There is a lot of negativity in the writing world, people carry this awful attitude "I could have done this better" but they couldn't have. The story is yours and you are the one telling it. It's so easy to stare at a building and decide that the color is horrible, the windows are ugly or that it has to many floors or not enough once it's done. But how about when you look at a empty land and start building something from scratch? That's where creation really exists and the will and passion that goes with every decision you make is the point of writing or creating in general. Sure, you might be done and when you stare at it decide that the color is ugly or that you wish it had more floors. But that's your call and you can take all your experience and use it to be better. Maybe you won't choose the same color in the future or maybe you will because even if some don't like it, you do and someone else will.
Don't let people destroy your drive to create just because they didn't like one work. Take what can help you grow as a creator and toss the rest aside.