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My Fanfiction and Other Writings!

I've been thinking about making a pinned post of all my stuff over on AO3 as well as any further writing I do on here, so here we go. I've also linked my Fanfiction.Net account for the truly curious as well as catalogued my fanfiction on tumblr itself. Enjoy!

Me on AO3!

My Works on AO3:

#aura's fanfiction

wakingfromthewater

This was shared as a "bad" joke but I was so charmed by it I've been thinking about it for days.

artistic-octopus

wordswithkittywitch

Moose at the next table: No they don't. I've been waiting here for an hour.

totally-not-an-al1en

messsssmer

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

fireknightqueelign

thy mother

messsssmer

Art thou for fucking real

3liza

no-dopamine baddies approaching every single list of tasks like "which of these things will cause the most amount of personal suffering to me if left undone"

3liza

guess who just read yet another list of "tools to combat decision paralysis" that was mostly reward-based and got mad

3liza

hey this is really insightful. do you have any advice about identifying the linchpin task? i mean obviously "think about it really hard" might be all there is to it. basically i think this concept is good and would welcome more commentary from you, if you have more to add

ocean-again

the trouble is that Thinking (or at least applying the Talking Brain to the task) is counterproductive here, because that's the voice going "we need to clean the kitchen, why aren't we cleaning the kitchen??" and in these circumstances, giving that sector of the mind more oversight won't help.

it is necessary instead to sit down and kinda try and quiet that voice, and then start with considering my physical needs, kinda mentally run through the maslow's pyramid from bottom to top as if I'm dealing with a little kid throwing a tantrum. like, did we sleep last night? have we had lunch? am I lonely? should I call my aunt? do I want to finish the book I've been reading? do I want to boil chicken bones today? what's bothering me? I'll then try out a couple of things that seem likely and while they may not be The Thing it's useful to build momentum anyways.

but like, if I give it space, the answer will float upwards into view and it's usually something I've been putting off for a long-ass time.

and it'll sound So Stupid to the Talking Mind, who has important tasks that it's trying to get done, but we're going to tell that voice that the kitchen will wait while we take down the Christmas tree, fold the laundry that's been in the basket for a week, sketch the idea, call my aunt, whatever it is, and inevitably the Linchpin Task will take about half an hour, and once it's done I can feel the weight lifted off my shoulders.

Linchpin Tasks are sometimes that it's time to deal with The Emotions At The Bottom Of The Pile, which is when a pile of stuff builds up to cover whatever is at the bottom being emotionally fraught. (letters, the shirt I wore the day my grandpa died, y'know, The Emotions)

I've gotten better at identifying when those piles are starting to accrete and dealing with them before they get bad, but like, you gotta be able to identify the pile of stuff your eyeballs keep slipping off because it feels too emotionally difficult to deal with right now, and like, learning to ignore the part of the mind that wants to assign task priority levels is a counter-intuitive way to get things done.

I hope this makes sense. basically, when it comes to doing stuff, do the thing that's most emotionally fraught first, especially if you can come up with a bunch of excuses to not do it.

fortheninth

image description: tags reading #I tend to go for "which of these tasks is the secret task my subconscious has decided is the linchpin of my productivity" #sometimes that task is not something that's actually urgent in a normal sense but if I don't do it first I will put myself in waiting mode #and like I don't want to be waiting on myself to do a thing that I'm specifically not doing because it's not important

girlfailure-poetics

I have kind of a niche political view on tumblr, which is that I think misogyny is bad even when it’s just hurting women

girlfailure-poetics

and I don’t even think it needs to have a singular benefit for men for feminism and the abolition of patriarchy to be worthwhile

girlfailure-poetics

in fact the abolition of patriarchy could be a net loss for men and I would still think that feminism and the abolition of patriarchy was worth it

aberrantemotion

Always funny to me when indie devs who already sell games for dirt cheap participate in steam sales with like 90 percent off. Like. "Yeah this game is three dollars but you can have it for one right now." Like your game costs as much as a pack of m&ms and youre selling it for the cost of a pack of m&ms in the 1950s now? Okay

medievalthymes

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

dyk-this-musical-song

Do you know this Musical Song? #401

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Remaining time: 6 days 21 hours

partycoffin

When you’re trying to get into the meat of your Canned Cinnamon Rolls, how do you open it

Whack it hard on the counter until it opens

Politely press down like the Packaging says too!

Huh??

Remaining time: 20 hours 23 minutes

#I press it down with a spoon #not my tender fingies getting exploded

lowpawly

people foolishly dismiss desserts and treats as having no nutritional value when they actually are necessary for refilling your sanity stat. to prove my point please observe the emotional stability of the next person you meet who doesnt let themselves ever eat any form of dessert

#honestly same thing with music #my bestie has a coworker who doesn't listen to ANYTHING while she works #no music no podcasts nothing it is all work #she is exactly as delightful as you picture her to be from that

dustbunnyaac

I think any time anyone has a migraine $2,000 should be directly deposited in their bank account as compensation

daniela--anna

Miniature di Mara Swelt

callmestannismaybe

lazer-exe

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

anyone else find boomer comics funny in an ironic way? like, if some kid actually said this I would think it's fucking hilarious

mchi22

i fuckin hate games where u furnish/decorate a house because it reminds me i truly have no fucking idea what youre supposed to have in a room

mchi22

#I wonder if in games it's a disconnect from the function of the space?#and I'm saying this as someone who watches a lot of interior design YouTube and some info is finally sticking #like I recently moved a shoe bench by my bed #why? because the shoe bench was in my closet but all my shoes ended up by my bed #it's a little messy over there right now but all my shoes are currently on or right next to the shoe bench #it's hard to design a space until you know how you use it

tinylilemrys

Oh one thing I will say is if you do go watch The Odyssey and you're sensitive to flashing lights in any way, step out for about 5 minutes after the part with the cows. I'm not particularly sensitive to flashing lights normally and even I was finding it super overwhelming. Just as a heads up.

#flashing lights warning #the odyssey 2026 #the odyssey

whatbigotspost

2021:

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

2021:

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

2018:

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

2016:

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

2012:

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

2010:

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

whatbigotspost

This post needs a "it's been 5 years" update, so here we go:

2022:

Spanking is a risk factor for children's social competency. However, establishing causality is a challenge, given selection bias in samples

Background There is a vast literature on the negative associations between spanking in childhood and various psychosocial developmental outc

2023:

The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical method for management of behavior concerns and causes harm to stude

Spanking has been linked to multiple maladaptive child outcomes. However, previous research linking spanking with children's executive funct

2024:

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly d

2025:

This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any pu

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower

whatbigotspost

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME TUMBLR

So annoying. So GD annoying.

headspace-hotel

The World Health Organization report I highly recommend because there are so many conclusions that are shocking and yet completely obvious.

For example, being exposed to corporal punishment as a kid makes it more likely for a person to commit domestic violence against a partner. In places where corporal punishment is normal, people are more likely to think that rape and intimate partner violence are normal. Kids who are spanked are more likely to be violent with and to bully other kids.

Spanking is literally teaching a kid that violence is okay and normal and it affects the whole society.

It also talks about how corporal punishment affects the brain in its development. It changes the structure of the brain and slows the development of mental abilities. Kids who get spanked have much stronger hormonal responses to stress.

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