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so i started with doing requests from the last scales post and then became woefully carried away

Not a fan of having those problems where you try to look for solutions and all the advice is "just practice trying harder you dipshit :)"

glorioustidalwavedefendor

In my experience what helps is finding out what the real problem is

Trying harder to spell correctly, never helped me

Finding out that I was dyslexic actualyl did ...

homunculus-argument

Okay my problem is that I can't tell when there are people behind me, whom I can't see nor hear, nor sense in any other way, and I am unaware that I am standing in their way. Or if they are walking, I somehow instinctly step right into the spot where I am standing in their way, even if I wasn't in their way a second ago. I can't tell that I am in the way, PTSD hypervigilance didn't get me to become aware of where people are or where they are going, it just ensued that it startles the shit out of me when they suddenly pop out of nowhere in a place I didn't expect them because I did not see or hear that there was a person there.

How do I fix this?

purple-hel

A vest with 'I have bad peripheral vision, I can't see you' on the back?

homunculus-argument

I was thinking of getting metal band style prints on the back of my shirts with text like

"If I am in your way, find another way" or "THE LORD IS TESTING YOU"

just to let people know that I'm aware that I'm not aware.

teaboot

I just noticed my darling baby boy (cat) sitting in his little loft bed about 5 inches away from the most delightful sunbeam, so I scooted it into the sunlight for him and he looked me with the biggest widest expression. I don’t think he knew that was an option. I think I just blew his whole little mind

teaboot

^guy who didn’t know I could do that

roostingwindow

Hi I hope you like Ollie. He took me several days

teaboot

HOLY SHIT MY BOY

thewritingumbrellas

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

writerlyn

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

unusual-suspects

bell mare - david crawford

softwaring

by tucker

dark-angels666

ex0skeletal-undead

Lovecraftian Entities: Hastur, Cthulhu, and Nyarlathotep by João Sergio

ex0skeletal-undead

Deer Skull and Flowers, wood block print by ratmunkus

ex0skeletal-undead

Armadillo Abduction, wood block print by ratmunkus

karroana

one more gouache study :')

you guessed it, that's my favourite medium

homunculus-argument

Consider: One of those twee and charming cozy murder mystery shows, set in a quaint little rural village somewhere in the English countryside, but every character in the show is perfectly aware and unsettlingly casual about how batshit high their murder rate is for such a small place.

One episode, the victim of the murder is one of the two random road trip tourists who happened to end up there while lost on their way to somewhere else. The victim's body is badly botched, with obvious signs of a complete amateur's attempts to get rid of a dead body. The other tourist is the obvious primary suspect and has the strongest motive, but the circumstances make it absolutely impossible that they could have been the one to mutilate the body.

Then it turns out that while the other tourist was the killer, the one who did the botched up body hiding attempt was a local lad who had fuck-all to do with any of this. He just accidentally came by the body and figured out that since this is an outsider, someone from the big cities is sure to show up looking, and Start Asking Questions about what the ever-loving fuck is going on with this twee little village. So best to get rid of the body and act like nothing ever happened, at least not here.

And when he's explaining all of this, he's just shrugging in embarrassment like "you know how sensitive city people are about this sort of thing. Someone in London gets stabbed to death with garden shears once and it makes the national news!"

And the investigator just shrugs like "oh yes, you're a sharp lad. God forbid we offend city peoples' delicate sensibilities." And nobody knows exactly how the other tourist also ended up mysteriously disappearing, but it certainly wasn't the first time that old nan Wilson's hogs got incriminating evidence for dinner.