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~ She/her ~Hello 30's, my old friend~ EmeraldHaze15 on Ao3 ~ chronic lurker: hey, these shadows are surprisingly comfortable ~

[emeraldhazeart]

About this blog

Hi there. Please call me Emerald. I go by she/her.

I’m a very shy, private person, so I don’t tend to engage much online. But please don’t think that means I don’t care: I just sometimes don’t have the emotional energy/spoons to respond right away.

I love getting tagged in picrew, uquizes and reblog chains ❤️ Please feel free to go ahead and tag me if you think I might like something.

This is my main blog, where I post my general art, play tag/ask games, talk about whatever’s on my mind and reblog things I love. I endeavour to keep things positive and encouraging here, as well as sfw.

This blog is mostly themed around Bokumono/Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons content, but I’ll also post other stuff like Sonic the Hedgehog content from time to time.

Here's a list of Picrews I enjoy if you're looking for fun doll makers.

❤️ I post and reblog Undertale content on my side blog @emeraldhazeidentity

🐴 And I have a little art blog for my OCs: @emeraldforestocs

🦔 I have a Sonic blog now: @angelislandemerald

🐢 And a TMNT blog: @emeraldhonour

 🖊️ You can find all my writing on Ao3 at EmeraldHaze15

 I tag all my art with #emerald’s art and my writing with #emerald writes. Stuff about me is tagged with #Emerald's facets

 If you would like me to tag something, please let me know.

[animentality]

[hannerslikes]

something i've been wondering for a while: i feel there's been a shift in the @'ing or "ping"ing form of interaction since it was implemented. folks will apologize for doing it (primarily on discord, but i see it on other platforms, too), and it's made me both a bit self-conscious in doing it myself and curious as to where the 'unspoken' etiquette with it is?

how do you feel about being @'d?

i generally like it

i generally like it as long as it's not a reblog-chain/huge post/spam

i like being @'d, as long as i've interacted with the person previously

i'd prefer that only close friends/mutuals @'d me

i don't like being @'d at all

only @ me if you want to give/show me something

only @ me if you're talking TO me, not referencing me

i have my @ notifs turned off, so it doesn't matter

it depends which social media platform i'm using (pls explain if willing)

two or more answers (pls explain if willing)

some secret 11th thing OP didn't consider (pls explain if willing)

i have not a morsel of feeling for this subject and wish to lurk answers

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

if this poll, or one like it, has already made rounds: apologies, i haven't seen a variant of it on my own dash. thank! ✌

[importantcatpics]

[ms-demeanor]

Okay so when I got sucked into the phantom zone last week while watching youtube shorts a lot of the content it fed me was ADHD tips and a lot of it was either useless for me or redundant but there was one REALLY good tip about taking breaks that wasn't about taking breaks it was about RETURNING from breaks and the tip is: when you are about to go on a break, before you step away from your task (work, craft project, school stuff) decide what you'll do as the first thing when you sit back down at your task and set up your workspace to do that thing.

That means you've got an easy re-entry point to go back to doing the thing instead of sitting back down and having to make a decision or having to reorient from break mode to task mode. You have pre-reoriented and can just go back into working mode.

I've been doing this by circling what my next task on my tasklist is and bringing up the windows that I'll need for the task before I step away from my desk.

Brilliant hack, works great for me, hope it works great for you as well.

[ms-demeanor]

Oh also some knitters do this thing where the second you finish making one sock you cast on the second sock and do at least a few stitches so that you don't get killed by inertia and have one sock finished and one sock never started forever.

A while back there was a Tumblr post about doing the same thing while writing fiction - when you finish one chapter don't call it quits for the day, write a sentence or two if the next chapter do that you aren't starting from a blank page, you're continuing what you were doing before.

The same thing applies to work and homework and housework. If you finish your english homework *don't* decide that's the perfect moment to take a break, get out your algebra textbook and do a problem or two first.

Initiating tasks is a kind of executive function, but sometimes executive function is in short supply and you can bank some effort by continuing one task from another instead of having harsh breaks between tasks.

[sqbr]

tags from capillata: #the perfect time to stop isn't when you're out of energy#it's when you have enough energy left to set yourself up for the next time you return#to the thing

[inber]

Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.

Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.

That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.

[thepolymorphexperience]

Genuinely, thank you so much for this.

[insomniac-arrest]

I wish AI would stop making so many animal story posts. I LOVE animals and they are ruining the loving-animals ecosystem. And also the real ecosystem

[insomniac-arrest]

The truffle hunting cat is AI, I’m so sorry guys

[emeraldhazeart]

From the comments, asking for the reasoning:

Yeah, now I look closer, the image does look a bit weird. There's an amorphous black 'thing' in the middle background that I can't tell the purpose of. And the dog's 'harness' is all kinds of weird.

But overall, it's much harder to tell, especially at a glance, that it's genAI.

[theseventhcrow55]

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3

[periodicallypurple]

Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.

[pinnedwings]

one of the most difficult things about deciding you want to write a fictional doctor (of the non-who variety) is writing actual medical scenes. we all know that medical dramas are notoriously cliched, and i for one fully understand how unimportant factual accuracy can be to the emotional importance of a scene. sometimes you don’t have to get it write for your story to work. i have a disclaimer on my blog that i myself am just a layman, but i like to at least know what i’m writing about! in the interest of being as accurate as i can, i would like to spread that love around. here’s a list of medical fiction/fantasy writing resources i’ve found!

surgeonsblog

article i found this from^ (w/even more resources)

redwoods medical edge

^article where i found that

this article is short/basic/doesn’t link anywhere else, but i found it very helpful anyway

supposed to be good but to me, seemed difficult to navigate. (dp lyle)

this on the otherhand, is the jackpot (novelmalpractice)

tumblr blog centered around this topic

this is more about the common pitfalls/anachronisms of medical fiction but still helpful

writing medical scenes: useful links by paul anthony shortt

the last one im going to include is an article by a doctor about common mistakes in popular medical shows, i liked this one

tagging who liked the interest check on this @hesjustcarter @prodigiumamare @frankengeeks

[emeraldhazeart]

Ohmygoodness!

I've only glanced through that Novelmalpractice site and it already looks like it will be an invaluable aid to Writing!!

Thank you, OP!

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[89cats]

(by geniuslitter)

[luna-azzurra]

If you are stuck, do not sit and think harder. Change the point of view. Rewrite the scene from the other character's perspective, just for yourself, just to see.

You will immediately find out what the scene is actually about because the other person always knows something your protagonist doesn't. You don't have to use it. You probably won't use it. But you will never be stuck in the same place after you've seen the room from the other side of it.

[midwinterhunt]

Hot Writers Don't Gatekeep

the writers REALLY liked my artist resource post, so I thought i'd give y'all my dragon hoard of things i use for writing

Reverse Dictionary, you type in the meaning of a word, and it gives you a bunch of words that mean that. (MY MOST IMPORTANT OFFERING IN THIS LIST)

Slang Dictionary, what it says on the tin.

Anglish Translator, Anglish is if English evolved without borrowing from other languages and it really itches my brain (Anglish is if english grown without borrowing from other languages and it truly itches my brain)

Incorrect Quotes Generator, Put character names in, and incorrect quotes come out. Really fun way to goof around with your characters' dynamics.

Handspeak, an ASL dictionary

Library of Babel, Odds are, the finished version of your wip is in here somewhere

The best fantasy map maker i have ever used

Glitch Text Generator is one I use A Lot, does ť̷̨̢͓̤͔̤̤̝̺̯̄̔̄̌̄͗͒͋͂͋͝ḩ̵̼̜͍͚͕̏̓͊̈̉̆̄͐́͗͒̈̃̊̚͜i̵̻̐̇̎̏̀̋̌̃̇̿͘̚s̴̮̔̂̇͒͑͝͝ͅ to your text

Totally not bootleg microsoft office

Emotions Thesaurus a guide for writing emotions and their associated body language

Mythcreants, has a whole bunch of stuff you can read to learn more about the technical aspects of writing

A decent article talking about what to think about when creating a language

Trope Talks, particularly good for beginner and younger writers or people who have a hard time reading. Honestly this whole channel is a fantastic format to get information into my adhd rattled brain.

FOR MY AO3 BESTIES! Postimages will host your image forever so you can embed it into your work

Ambient Chaos, sometimes the only thing in the world that can kick your brain into writing mode is nuclear sirens and lofi beats

Radioooooo, play a station from any place and year. Particularly helpful for period pieces.

[midwinterhunt]

Food timeline, when foods were invented

[solarmane]

new fanfic writer who has marked their work completed ao3 only to leave a note at the end saying: thanks for all the support guys if you want to read the rest of the fic subscribe to my patreon :)

me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:

no.

NO.

starting to rock back and fourth.

you do not understand.

you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.

we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.

do not tempt fate youngling.

step away from the paywall.

that is how you summon the ancient evils.

that is how you wake the lawyers.

[odins-price]

Remember people, this is against AO3s terms of service. If you see a fic that does this REPORT THAT THING!!! These people may not know better or they might, but them doing this has the potential to ruin things for everyone.

[peppermintquartz]

Tell the writer to read the TOS. Writers absolutely CANNOT ask for payment in exchange for fanfic. If they won't take it down ASAP, report it to AO3.

[emeraldhazeart]

You know, just once in Mass Effect 2, I'd have liked it if, in response to everyone else's shock that the Commander is still alive, Shepherd replied with:

"Yeah. I spent a couple of years dead for tax purposes."

[tall]

[emeraldhazeart]

@acustardduckling 💚