Not a minor! But that’s all the info you’re getting about my age.
This is a side blog to dump my /extremely/ self-indulgent x reader fics. If you don’t like those, you only have yourself to blame if you continue on after you’ve been warned.
Won’t write smut, sorry go to another blog for that. (I don't think that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just too shy to post any myself >///<)
I appreciate interaction in the notes and reblogs!! But, uh, please be niceys to me lol.
WRITING MASTERLIST:
Tim Drake
Having a partner that has a Maomao-like dedication to plausible deniability
Dick Grayson
Teaching him about make-up part 1
Teaching him about make-up part 2
Having a partner that has a Maomao-like dedication to plausible deniability
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
KIA ORA CREW!!!! they're building a five billion dollar AI data centre of absolutely colossal size in waihōpai/invercargill.
if you don't want this to happen, it's VERY QUICK to sign this petition which will eventually be sent to parliament! you don't have to be from aotearoa to sign.
no community should have to face the consequences of an AI data centre of this size. the cost is also heinous. this money could go towards so many causes. it would mean the world if you could give this a quick boost by sharing or taking 15 seconds to sign the petition!
I randomly bought a second-hand 1990s/2000s dating advice book and it's very interesting
Though it mostly seems aimed at heterosexual women, there's a section about advice for men, too.
Here's some gems from it:
A genuinely good bit of advice imo. I personally don't have anything against age gap relationships in general but inappropriate age gaps definitely exist.
??? This isn't the only quote that drags het men either.
But there are some sweet(?) ones
And probably my favorite:
An early version of the "my dick has lead me to places that I wouldn't go with a gun meme"
There's much more but I didn't wanna make the post too long.
if anyone feels bad that their fic might contain medical inaccuracies, be comforted to know that whatever creative liberties you take with your medical scenes can never be worse than the one I just read. where one character tries to stop the bleeding on their friend's head wound by putting a tourniquet around their neck
Consider this (based on a conversation I had with some friends a while ago): Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for people who actually like Pride and Prejudice.
Look–I tried to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I got about 20 pages in before I came to the conclusion that the person who wrote it did so out of the belief that the original Pride and Prejudice was stuffy and boring. There were out of character vulgar puns. And the trailer for the movie did not convince me that I had missed anything by cutting short my reading experience.
So, what I’m talking about here is this premise: the world of Pride and Prejudice, but if you die, it’s highly likely, almost certain that your corpse will get up and try to eat people.
But no one dies in Pride and Prejudice, you might say. In fact, few or no people die in any Jane Austen novel.
This is true. But people do get sick with some regularity. Imagine the tension added to Jane getting sick after going to visit Bingley if there was the chance that she would become a zombie after she died. Becoming a zombie in an eligible bachelor’s house probably would have seriously wrecked any chances of any of the living sisters ending up with him.
Imagine Mr. Collins, as a minister, having the duty upon someone’s death of severing their head with a ceremonial plate or something that would prevent the corpse from rising. Obviously important, but this only makes him more self-important and obnoxious.
And dangerous.
For you see, in this version, Mr. Bennett, who stays in his office all the time, whose life is the only thing allowing Mrs. Bennett and her daughters to stay in the house–Mr. Bennett is definitely a zombie. He died at home, and Mrs. Bennett decided that, no way were they dealing with this, and so…just started faking it. Jane and Elizabeth know. The younger sisters don’t.
In this universe, I think we have to go with zombies that are not any faster or stronger than the humans they were, and in fact tend to get weaker as time passes because their flesh is rotting. And…hmm, okay, how about they are pretty violent upon rising, and for about a week afterward, trying to bite people and spread the infection (even though most people are carriers anyway, but getting a nasty bite from a corpse will give you other stuff that will have you die while carrying the virus). But then they calm down and basically just start sort of attempting to act like they did in life, that is, taking habitual actions with no consciousness, in a depressing and desiccated way.
So Mr. Bennett is a zombie, and Mrs. Bennett’s number one goal is to get her daughters married before anyone finds that out. And this, actually, makes Elizabeth’s refusal of Mr. Collins more frustrating for Mrs. Bennett–obviously Mr. Bennett didn’t tell Elizabeth that she could refuse Mr. Collins, because Mr. Bennett is dead, but Mrs. Bennett can’t say anything or the game would be up.
Another question in this version–does Mr. Darcy find out about Mr. Bennett being a zombie somehow? Does Elizabeth find out that he knows and didn’t say anything and this is something that helps repair his earlier actions?
Anyway, this is the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that I was looking for.
Okay also: in the original, when Elizabeth walks through the rain all the way to bingley’s to care for Jane while she’s sick, it’s a very dramatic expression of both Elizabeth’s love for her sister and her penchant for flamboyant rebellion, but consider, if there is a chance Jane will wake up a zombie and Elizabeth knows it, how does that change the dynamic? Elizabeth might be going to help take care of Jane, or to *take care* of Jane should things take a more morbid turn…by killing her zombie sister.
This works especially well if zombieism is communicable prior to death; if mr. Bennett is a zombie and only the elder Bennetts know, that means Jane has been pre-exposed and is almost certain to wake up as a zombie should she die in the Bingleys’ care— which the Bingleys do not know. Elizabeth has to forge through the rain to be there in case things get ugly, because she knows that the Bingleys aren’t prepared.
And I think you pretty much HAVE to make Mr. Bennett’s zombie status play a role in how and why Darcy separates Bingley from Jane—the heavy implication behind Darcy’s line about the want of propriety shown even by her father hits Elizabeth like a ton of bricks as she realizes he knows—he knows, and he thought Jane lying to Bingley about it was evidence that Jane didn’t love Bingley—but—but Darcy must not have told Bingley that part of it. Bingley couldn’t keep a secret on his life; if he knew, his sister would know, and word would already be out and they’d have been ruined by now—
And of course, not only does the fact that Darcy, who owes their family nothing, has kept and continues to keep this secret for them even after Elizabeth’s refusal deepen the gratitude she begins to feel for him after the letter of explanation, but it also liberates Elizabeth to fall in love with him. Because Elizabeth-who-wants-to-marry-for-love would never be happy marrying someone who didn’t know the family secret in advance. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood because she couldn’t be satisfied with having to hoodwink someone to have their hand, but also couldn’t put her family at risk by trusting someone who wasn’t bound to them by more than an engagement. (Maybe she was even tempted to confide in Wickham at one point, and hasn’t Darcy’s letter proven she was absolutely right not to yield to that passing thought.) But Darcy figured it out himself, and he’s kept her trust, and she could fall in love with him without guilt—if she hadn’t already turned him down.
AND THEN LYDIA HAPPENS. And Darcy realizes immediately that Mr. Bennett can’t do anything to recover her—and if Mr. Bennett doesn’t do anything about Lydia, Mr. Collins might become suspicious, or even just officously involve himself, so find out the while thing. When Darcy blames himself for not revealing Wickham’s character, it’s with a much more immediate sense of urgency. It’s not that the other sisters’ marriage prospects being ruined may impoverish them down the road—it might immediately drag them all into destitution. That’s why he rushes off to go look for Lydia himself.
nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
I've got kind of a silly pet peeve. If a movie/tv show is live action and there are sibling characters in it, but the actors look NOTHING alike, it'll lowkey take me out of the immersion. You're trying to sell to me that these two people sprung forth from the same womb? Nope, sorry, do not pass go.
It annoys me sometimes with parent/child characters too, but not nearly as often because sometimes kids look more like their grandparents than their parents or whatever, but two people who are supposed to be full-blooded siblings can't really get away with that.
One of the shows that I think handles this well is BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995.) There's five women here that are supposed to play sisters, and the actresses playing the Bennett sisters don't have any resemblance to each other if you look up pics of them. However, the costume and make-up techs worked really hard to make them look somewhat similar to each other to distract from the fact that they have really different faces. (Also Jennifer Ehle and Susannah Harker had plenty of scenes together that really sold their sibling bond. Very talented actresses.) Like LOOK:
However, sometimes I'll be watching an episodic TV show and a character will refer to another character as their sibling and it's just. Like, one is very clearly a 30+ year old man playing a teenager, the other is a teenager playing a teenager, and they're supposed to have mannerisms of siblings, but can't manage it because of the disparity in age. Those two people could not more clearly be not related!!! That is a 30+ year old man calling a teenager "big bro" because the script writer was an only child who has no idea how siblings talk to each other!!
TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.
Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.
Hmmm I was thinking about this recently because of that x reader thing I wrote, so I felt like writing some of it out despite literally no one asking lol.
Make-up and skin-care 101 (pls take with a grain of salt)
Firstly, if you might not need make-up if you just want your skin to look healthier and to help prevent acne, a good skinscare routine is all you really need. When I started one I started to get compliments from people even when I wasn't wearing make-up. For a very basic skin-care routine all you need is:
Cold water and a towel. That is literally it. Splash your face with cold water every morning and night and it should help close your pores so that they're less visible and your face develops less pimples overnight. Ideally this is the only skin-care routine that preteens and young teenagers should feel the need to do.
However, a very basic skin care routine that uses products is made up of 1 cleanser (suited according to your skin type- if you aren't sure what your skin type is, try to find a product that says it's suitable for all skin types.,) and 1 moisturizer. Use the cleanser on your face every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to bed. It serves the same function as cold water but the correct cleanser will also leave your skin feeling smooth. (They're also really good at removing make-up.) Use the moisturizer only before you go to bed at night.
Some people like using toners and sunscreen in their skincare routines, but personally I've never seen the benefits of toners and I only do the sunscreen step in the spring and summer. Toners theoretically also lessen your pores and make your skin 'glow', but personally I think if you find the right cleanser and moisturizer for your skin then you don't really need one. Good sunscreen does, of course, give protection against sunburn and skin cancer when exposed to the sun, but adding it to the face for a skincare routine is generally more about not looking greasy when applied like ordinary sunscreens and being able to put make-up on over it. However, a good skincare sunscreen should give you as much protection as ordinary sunscreen would, and you'll need to re-apply if you're spending a lot of time in the sun like you would with regular sunscreen.
Don't ask me about skin serums because I know jack all about them.
Make-up
The most basic of basic make-up routines is just foundation and concealer, but it's vitally important for both to find ones that match the shade of your skin, so it's not really something you can purchase online for your first time buying it. After you know which shade you need, sure, but if you're buying them for the first time then you had really better go to the store in person.
In my experience most places selling make-up will have test bottles for items where you need to find a skin shade match. For foundation, you put 1 teeny pump of it onto the back of your hand, rub it in a little with a finger, and then apply a little to your face. (Ideally there should be a mirror nearby, or your phone camera if not.) The shade of the foundation should match your skin as closely as possible otherwise it'll look really odd against your neck, eyelids and ears.
Foundation is for evening out skin-tone and, as the name implies, creating a foundation over which to apply more make-up. When skillfully used with other products like colour-correctors and concealers it can even hide pimples and other blemishes, but that goes a bit beyond basic so I'm not discussing it in this post.
Lastly, concealer. I think some people advise that it should be one or two shades brighter than your skin tone, but I think that depends on what purposes that you're using it for. A concealer that's a little brighter than your face MIGHT be good for evening out the colour of them if you have really deep and dark eyebags, (I once accidentally bought some concealer that was a little too bright for me but it turned out to be really good for that purpose,) but you have to be careful with it or it'll be really noticeable. It's generally better to find one that's as close to your skin tone as possible.
Once you have these two things, you'll need a make-up brush/blending sponge to apply them. You can find plenty of videos on the pros/cons of applying foundation with a brush vs a sponge online, but when it comes to concealer under the eyes I personally prefer a sponge because it spreads the colour a lot more evenly. To apply concealer under the eyes, put one (1) small dab of concealer into the corner where your nose meets your eye (be careful not to stab yourself in the eyeball,) then blend outwards with the sponge. Hopefully you should see an immediate difference, like you've just gotten a good night's sleep. You'll need to clean your make-up brush/sponge at least once a week or more often if you're using them every day. And that's it.
Don't forget to remove your make-up with cleanser or make-up wipes before you got to sleep, or it'll clog up your pores.
Disclaimer: I don't know you and what's specifically best for your skin/face. This is just really general advice that you should take or leave as suits you best.
P.S: DO NOT SHARE YOUR MAKE-UP OR MAKE-UP BRUSHES/SPONGES WITH ANYONE!! That's a really good way to spread illnesses like pink-eye and colds. There's lots of bacteria living on your skin that your make-up and make-up brushes/sponges comes into contact with that won't necessarily play nice with anyone else's immune system. Also, the other person doesn't what battles your immune system has been fighting, you don't know what battles your immune system has been fighting, whose soldiers are still living on your make-up and make-up brushes/sponges if you haven't properly cleaned them.
!Not a Ship post btw! I think Starfire was literally the first DC character I fell in love with the design of but I have never drawn her so here we go lol. Also I love drawing Jaybin he is my son that nothing bad has ever happened to.
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