Who is Cecilia. Who is that

I post mostly Sonic the hedgehog, but other fandoms, memes, and personal junk appear as well. She/Her pronouns. I'm also Ceciliavonjoy on Steam, Deviantart, FFNet, AO3, and probably other places I don't remember right now. See About for a link to the Sonic Comic Download post!

[mossworm]

[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[plaguedocboi]

It’s insane how many organs will just Make Rocks if left up to their own devices. Kidneys. Gall bladder. Pancreas. Tonsils, what’s that about???

[plaguedocboi]

[prokopetz]

Game where the ancient hero is awakened from the deathless sleep of centuries in the hour of their people's greatest need, only to find that civilisation is thriving and there are no obvious threats on the horizon; the game then becomes a fish-out-of-water detective sim as they try to figure out what woke them up, and also solve other, smaller mysteries along the way.

[nearo]

[nateconnolly]

Majoring in creative writing was a colossal mistake that ruined my life financially artistically socially and spiritually BUT i got to read aloud from My Immortal to a crowd of twenty horrified bystanders for academic credit. So I broke even

[nateconnolly]

The assignment was to bring a story written by someone else and share the first paragraph with the class. Nowhere in the assignment description or the syllabus did it specify that the story had to be good

[strawberry-crocodile]

my personal philosophy is that. we as a society like to pretend that the human brain is a machine for extracting truth, when in fact it is a machine for keeping a monkey alive and happy (in that order), and human behavior needs to be understood through that lens

[mikkeneko]

#a human brain is first and foremost made to use as little energy as possible while keeping you alive#so it will take all shortcuts necessary and looking for the truth is often too energy consuming - important addition from @maenara

[dizzyzs]

Everyone look at the cat blanket I made like .. 3 years ago

[dizzyzs]

Btw don't believe any Etsy ad or things trying to sell this pattern to you. It's been free since the 90s. It's very simple, just double crochet and color changes. Be sure to weave in ends as you go unlike me

[lesserdreams]

MY MOM JUST MADE THIS PATTERN EVERYONE LOOK

YOU CAN DO IT IN SO MANY COLORS

[such-justice-wow]

I spontaneously sent this to my brother (likes cats and crochet) and it turns out hes been looking for a free version of this pattern for ages

[cuddlyplaguedoctor]

@lankira

[zhampip]

I made this into LARGE stickers some time ago. I still like them!

[neo-pussy-deactivated20250705]

Hello skinny tgirl. Lately you've been complaining that your tits aren't growing. In front of you is a plate of food.

[verloonati-deactivated20260305]

[traaansfem]

Unironically my tits grow faster for a few days every time I eat salmon

I should probably cook more salmon

[neo-pussy-deactivated20250705]

Well yes salmon does have some fat in it! And it is good! Try and eat it with some carbs, like potatoes, or maybe blinis. Why not add some vegetables as well? Steamed brocolis, grilled leaks, roasted eggplant, and maybe some cream? That sounds delicious.

[featherboabear]

[dumbtrannybitch]

Idk who this man is but he is right. Eat girls

[commas-georg]

commas save lives,,, rip girls, you were delicious,

[prismatic-bell]

Girls can be eaten many times if you know what you’re doing.

[pixelmason]

[foldingfittedsheets]

When I was a TA for the freshman art class in senior year my students really adored me. It was so sweet. I’d had classes that were more ambivalent toward me but these guys were all about me.

I loved working with that teacher too. He was the kind of crunchy art nerd whose own kid didn’t know what candy was, who loved bird watching and wearing tweed. We’d chat while they worked and it was just a three hour pleasure rather than work.

When the class switched from charcoal to gouache a devil medium, the evilest watercolor, the students struggled. We’d have in class painting where they’d spend the whole time trying to mix one color instead of just accepting something as good enough and trying to practice other skills.

So one day I showed up to my shift and announced, “I have stickers. If you get color down for the whole composition, you get a sticker.”

They wanted. The stickers. So bad. Students who had agonized before about keeping lines neat and perfect plowed ahead. The first student to call me over I tsked at. “Putting grey on everything doesn’t count,” I chided, “I asked for colors on each object.”

The classroom worked in furious joy, young adults who had seen my bird and cactus stickers and gone feral. The teacher was flabbergasted. “Why do they want stickers? They could just buy stickers…”

I held up my water bottle and showed him a tiny 3D bubble sticker the program director had brought to my game teams space last week. “You never grow out of wanting to earn a sticker.”

By the end of class everyone had a sticker. There was more visible improvement in the work too, which surprised them since they’d been rushing. “Gouache looks terrible before it looks good. It’s okay to start messy and then refine.” The teacher had said the same thing but looking at their frantic sticker paintings they finally saw the truth of it.

[drst]

I definitely will do stuff for stickers.

[spearxwind]

You need to look up red cornetfish

OUUGUGUGGUHHHHHH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

TRUMPET GUY

[bogleech]

Horse

[ospreyonthemoon]

Worm off the string

[aceclipse]

have you guys ever realized anti ai also means things like character.ai. like the site with the fandom blorbo chatbots that scrape off actual fandom writers n shit. right. Right.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think the thing that's been bothering me about the "is it okay to use ChatGPT to plot/make characters/etc" is that at the end of the day, these are not tools that are helping your writing, they are shortcuts that are undercutting it.

These things are supposed to be hard, because you need to learn how to do them.

And listen, I know this sucks. I've got to knock off 4k of words from my current novel to make it more sellable, which seems like a completely arbitrary thing to do, but things like printing costs absolutely do factor into traditional publishing. It took me five drafts to figure out a completely obvious in hindsight plot point that explains why a character does what he does. It takes a few tries to pull together a detailed outline into a workable story, and it always will.

I would have loved to figure this all out way earlier, but I had to learn how to spot the gaps in my writing before I could fix them. Generative AI isn't ever going to bridge the gap between sitting down and learning how to work things out, because if you don't do that, you never will become a more competent writer. If that wasn't part of the point, none of us would be doing this in the first place.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Also not to harp on the obvious, but even if you are okay with using the Plagiarism Machine That Lies And Also Uses Enough Energy To Burn A Small Forest Down as a tool, it's just not... a good one. I've seen the argument that they're like calculators or synthesizers, but both exist to help you become better at something, not replace a skill or talent altogether.

There are loads of free resources that people put out there to help you right. Name/character/plot generators! Plot structures and bulleted outlines! Loads of fantastic advice that is given out openly by people who like writing for people who like writing. As much as we writers whine about doing it, you are genuinely missing out on a self-rewarding and satisfactory journey of creating something that you're proud of doing, even if no one will ever read it. It is worth the effort.

You can do better than the Grift Machine trying to convince you art isn't worth it. Both art - and you - deserve more.

[elumish]

To add on to this point, the act of figuring out your writing makes you a better writer.

The process of building your story builds you a better story. Literally writing the words, whether you type them or speak them or write them by hand, will help you build a better story. Two different sentences will give you two different thoughts--and making the decision of which sentence to write is what building a story looks like.

With GenAI, the intentionality isn't there. It doesn't know why one sentence means something different from a different sentence. It doesn't know which direction you're trying to go in. It doesn't know that you will evoke a different feeling by saying skin than by saying flesh, and so it won't choose one of them versus the other.

It won't choose anything. It's just a very energy-intensive autofill.

The same is true for building characters, for building settings, for building plot. GenAI doesn't know why something is the right answer for your story, to tell the story you want to tell in the way you want to tell it, because it doesn't know anything. It just picks the expected outcome based on what other people have done.

GenAI is just a machine filling in letters in an order that they have been filled in before. It's just averages. It's just likelihood.

If you want to write a good story, you have to sit down and write the story. You have to write the sentences. You have to know why you're writing the words you're writing. You have to make decisions.

And if you don't do it this time, you won't be any better at doing it next time.

[draconym]

I know this is the Anti Small Talk Website but small talk is one of the most effective social glues out there for getting to know people and forming friendships with them.

When I was just starting out at a job right after college I had a coworker who I thought was the nicest person alive and after a few weeks I realized this was just because she consistently asked other people things like, "How ya doing? Whatcha having for lunch? Got any weekend plans? Seen any good movies lately?" instead of politely ignoring everyone around her.

[draconym]

[nostalgicmess]

sometimes i need to remind myself that i'm writing fanfiction for free and i'm allowed to have a shitty sentence or two

[captaingondolin]

so many of my fics have remained buried in my drafts because i wrote the cool scenes first and then didn’t have “connective tissue”. but i’m freeing myself from that and just adding shitty “and then a week passed” or “they got to their destination” connections and just posting them and it’s so! freeing! try it!

[shadowen]

I can't tell you how many times I've agonized over a scene transition, only to fill in the missing space with, like, a sentence.

[sister-dear]

Write the parts you wanna write and then go in and slap scotch tape over the rest of it.

[again-please]

Sometimes when I’m feeling self conscious I’ll go and pull a book off my shelf to see how whichever author handled time transitions, and it’s really REALLY common that it’s just, like, “October came and went.” And that’s SO freeing. Just fast forward. Just do it.

[baldursghaik]

I was given a great piece of writing advice once: if you don't want to write a scene (or transition, etc), then why would your audience want to read it?

gloss over that transition, skip that scene, handwave that bump in the road. Yeah there's always going to be slower parts of writing, but if even you, the author, the person with the most stakes in the project, don't want to bother with it, then I promise your audience isn't going to enjoy it much either. You don't need to drag your heels on those in between scenes, just cut 'em loose and move on.

[ayeforscotland]

Lmao

[sadclowncentral]

nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

[sadclowncentral]

[ID: anonymous question reading: helicopter deadass said gluten tag ///end ID]

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