[wingedcatgirl]

tumblr is frustrating us lately - both the platform and the userbase, for separate but related reasons - so we're gonna take a break of a few days i think. idk if anyone will even notice since 99% of this blog is just spitting out queued posts and that's gonna last at least two more days. but yeah if you wanna contact us you're gonna have to go offsite.

[wingedcatgirl]

the realization that social media in general might be bad for me. not even tumblr in particular at this point

this break might be extended for a while

if you wanna get in contact, there's dreamwidth and a cube and other stuff you can find via those two

(crucially, interacting with us on dw doesn't require an account - you can follow our posts via rss and you can comment anonymously)

[wingedcatgirl]

"is dreamwidth blogging not also social media" idk but it doesn't have the endless scrolling hell thing so i'm counting it as not

[wingedcatgirl]

previous pinned post for reference

we’ll be back for brief periods of time before leechblock kicks us out with a reminder that this place is too much, and also for whispering infinities

[rocket-sith]

Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

[jamiesfootball]

General question regarding favored writing processes-

What is your preferred final editing method?

I have a beta reader or some other poor soul that I torture

I use an editing software (Grammarly, etc)

I read it out loud to myself

I make a robot read it back to me

I print it out on paper and attack it with a pen like schoolteachers of old

I just re-read it?

What’s editing?

[lyricalanemoia]

[more-notes-than-you]

wild animals don’t have “mutuals.” you know what they have? predators and prey. and to me, the blue site is nothing but the serengeti on a hot afternoon

[princessvexus]

[cascadiarch]

The unforgiving serengeti claims another individualist.

[theconcealedweapon]

[headspace-hotel]

the autistic view of the world has insight and beauty in it, and we’re taught that there’s something wrong with it.

[sensicalabsurdities]

What’s fascinating is that the parents who didn’t know it was the work of an autistic kid praised it as well.

[theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea]

Technically, we don't know that it's an autistic kid's work, either. 5e infographic doesn't say Cadence is autistic.

[neuroticpantomime]

"appropriate play skills" is such a horrid phrase, goddamn

[lesbiacebian]

people demonize autism so much that parents think their children aren’t playing “correctly”. it’s play, how could it ever be wrong?

[paxamericana]

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

[cryptid-sighting]

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

[goonforhigher]

I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode

[joycrispy]

Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.

[bluejay-in-flight]

Op I refuse to let your tags stay in the tags cause THIS!!!!!

[mothernatureslonelyson]

Anyway on a lighter note in the vein of the “let yourself be a beginner” post:

I love it and I wish people would work on the skill of being a beginner

bc it really IS a skill. it’s acquired and honed.

being willing to learn to find humor in the process of learning and your mistakes. learning to tolerate frustration and confusion. learning to pace yourself when you want to rush past discomfort. learning how you like to learn. and should the time come—learning to take take critique and correction.

please please please work on being a beginner you never know what you may fall in love with and who you might meet thru your interests

[birdblogwhichisforbirds]

and also it's okay to be a beginner at being a beginner. it's okay if you struggle with not throwing a hissy fit bc you're not immediately excellent. just keep trying.

[eldragon-x]

I always think about that one Aether Foundation employee who is implied to have been one of the Ex-Team Plasma grunts who were around in Driftveil in BW2 and tried to fix their wrongdoings. They must've been in fucking shambles after the events of SuMo.

[eldragon-x]

when you join an organization in unova that supposedly helps pokemon but turns out your boss and even some of your co-workers were manipulating everyone and actually abused pokemon for their own personal gain and also your boss is a shitty father so after everyone disbands you try to make up for your mistakes and decide to join an organization in alola that helps pokemon but turns out your boss was secretly experimenting on pokemon in an underground lab and your co-workers were in on it and also your boss has a collection of living frozen pokemon and shes a shitty mother also

[bananatwinky]

I've waited years to draw this