A World of Imagination

They/Them Pronouns. Hey guys! Surprisingly, this is hardly anything to do with Skyrim. This is my personal blog so I do random shit on here

[iheartskyrim]

Writer Ask Meme

1. Tell us about your WIP!

2. Where is your favorite place to write?

3. What is your favorite/least favorite part about writing?

4. Do you have any writing habits/rituals?

5. Top five formative books?

6. Favorite character you’ve written?

7. Favorite/most inspirational book?

8. Do you have any writing buddies or critique partners?

9. Favorite/least favorite tropes?

10. Pick an author (or writing friend) to co-write a book with

11. What are you planning to work on next?

12. Which story of yours do you like best? why?

13. Describe your writing process

14. What does it take for you to be ready to write a book? (i.e. do you research? outline? make a playlist or pinterest board? wing it?)

15. How do you deal with self-doubt when writing?

16. Cover love/dream covers?

17. What things (scenes/topics/character types) are you most comfortable writing?

18. Tell us about that one book you’ll never let anyone read

19. How do you cope with writer’s block?

20. Any advice for young writers/advice you wish someone would have given you early on?

21. What aspect of your writing are you most proud of?

22. Tell us about the books on your “to write” list

23. Most anticipated upcoming books?

24. Do you remember the moment you decided to become a writer/author?

25. What’s your worldbuilding process like?

26. What’s the most research you’ve ever put into a book?

27. Every writer's least favorite question - where does your inspiration come from? Do you do certain things to make yourself more inspired? Is it easy for you to come up with story ideas?

28. How do you stay focused on your own work and how do you deal with comparison?

29. Is writing more of a hobby or do you write with the intention of getting published?

30. Do you like to read books similar to your project while you’re drafting or do you stick to non-fiction/un-similar works?

31. Top five favorite books in your genre?

32. On average how much do you write in a day? do you have trouble staying focused/getting the word count in?

33. What’s your revision/rewriting process like?

34. Unpopular writing thoughts/opinions?

35. Post the last sentence you wrote

36. Post a snippet

37. Do you ever write long handed or do you prefer to type everything?

38. How do you nail voice in your books?

39. Do you spend a lot of time analyzing and studying the work of authors you admire?

40. Do you look up to any of your writer buddies?

41. Are there any books you feel have shaped you as a writer?

42. How many drafts do you usually write before you feel satisfied?

43. How do you deal with rejection?

44. Why (and when) did you decide to become a writer?

45. First or third person?

46. Past or present tense?

47. Single or dual/multi POV?

48. Do you prefer to write skimpy drafts and flesh them out later, or write too much and cut it back?

49. Favorite fictional world?

50. Do you share your rough drafts or do you wait until everything is all polished?

51. Are you a secretive writer or do you talk with your friends about your books?

52. Who do you write for?

53. What is the first line of your WIP?

54. Favorite first line/opening you’ve written?

55. How do you manage your time/make time for writing? (do you set aside time to write every day or do you only write when you have a lot of free time?)

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[meanlizard]

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[iheartskyrim]

side blog? Mine’s a main blog!

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[libraford]

dire-sloth

you should have offered them four 12x12 squares and a bottle of glue

As hilarious as that is…

… we’re out of glue. 

Completely out of glue. The glue slime trend that has swept the middle schools in our area has maxed out all outlets of glue from December 18th to today’s date- February 6th. We keep getting shipments of glue, but they only come in 20-bottle boxes and they are completely gone by the time the weekend is out. Children are buying them by the armful. 

And I would find this cute and honestly amazing that these kiddos are getting their first taste of entrepreneurship (mine was in high school, where I made novelty school ID’s) if it weren’t for the involvement of the parents. 

Because the kids are like ‘aw, you don’t have any? Ok. We’ll try somewhere else- thank you! Where’s your glitter?’

The parents… oh gods the parents. 

Calling us up at 9am- “What do you MEAN you don’t have any glue!? ITS A BASIC CRAFT ITEM! YOU HAVE TO HAVE GLUE!”

“You’re telling me that you DON’T CARRY GLUE?”

“I’m calling your corporate office to tell them just how wholly unprepared you all are because this is the fourth store I’ve called and NONE of you have any glue.”

“Can I pre-order? What do you MEAN I have to order from the website?”

“When will you be getting more? You don’t KNOW! HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW!? Two weeks at the EARLIEST!?”

“Can you call me when you get some? YOU CAN’T EVEN CALL ME WHEN YOU GET IT IN?”

I once caught one of our framers taking a call like these and I saw her re-inact Winona Ryder’s entire range of facial expressions a la SAG awards, eventually ending in her left eye going slightly wall when the angry parent finally hung up. 

And there are some that call every single day, asking the same questions and hoping that they’ll get a different answer. But no. I’m sorry. The Glue Fairy didn’t make a surprise visit last night. We did not plant the glue seeds in time for the harvest and now there is a glue famine. The small child that we sent to fetch more glue has been captured by witches- who are now intent on raising her as their own and we wish them luck. 

One day, my brother will have children and they will ask me about the Glue Famine of 2017 and I will recall a very specific instance wherein I could feel flecks of spittle coming through the end of the phone. 

One day I shall die and a team of necromancers will raise me from my crumbling sarcophagus and the very first words from my revived, husk of a maw will be ‘WE ARE STILL OUT OF GLUE, CRETINOUS FILTH!’

And this is how I knew that 2017 was going to be a bad year. Retail-mancy: I divine the fall of our nation by the fact that we are perpetually out of basic adhesives. And its not the children that buy them that make it a problem, but the parents who imagine that we somehow have control over the entire damn glue industry. 

Here. Buy that shit online and teach your children the benefits of buying bulk, because apparently it’s too late for the fucking adults, if my previous encounters with adult entrepreneurs is any indication. 

Why you want to yell at me for telling you the truth is beyond me when you could be putting all that energy towards not sucking. GIT GUD. 

[libraford]

I just learned today that tomorrow our store will be hopping on the glue slime trend and making an end cap to make easy access to our stock of glues, glitters, and I suppose we might be adding borax to our inventory. 

Need I remind you that this is what our glue stock has looked like for the past two months:

We just got some in two days ago and its already gone. 

So you have to imagine the position we’re in here- where we’re advertising glue that does not exist for more than three days every two to four weeks because of these tots are hell-bent on selling slime to their sandbox buddies.

 We’re not selling glue. We’re selling the concept of glue. We are selling the desire for glue. We are inspiring others to covet the glue we do not have. The glue is unknowable. It is invisible, intangible, ineffable. One day the glue uprising shall be upon us, and none shall speak its name. 

So like just in case you didn’t get the message-

We are out of glue.

Glue we are out of. 

Out of glue we are.

We glue of are out.

[libraford]

Because the dozen or so rows where we used to stock our glue is now a gaping cavity of woe, our heathen customers have decided that this is the perfect space to lazily put things that they just suddenly decide they don’t want anymore. And for some ridiculous reason, the most popular thing to leave where an associate can find it is fake flowers. 

Not even the first time this has happened, people. People are attempting to build a memorial to the glue that was, and will never be again. The time of glue has passed, we shall remember it fondly. Ashes to ashes, goop to goop. 

Rest in Particulate, Glue Aisle. 

[libraford]

Its about to get…

…significantly worse. 

[libraford]

I’ve had several people contact me about an email that went out from our company, advertising Glue Slime and giving out a recipe (instead of borax, using baking soda and contact lens solution… I weep for our local optometrists). Luckily, we were sent a large ration of glue on Thursday in preparation for the endcap that we just put up.

And for a moment, the balance was restored. We could rebuild! There was enough glue to fill the dozen or so places in its home and have a good amount for the display. Sadly, we were only given a few bottles of clear glue- which is the one that people really want because…. clear slime. But things were looking better!

But little did we know… 

… President’s Day was coming. 

And the children… needed something to do… 

Here is a photo of the display on Saturday morning. 

And here it is on Monday morning:

They have ravaged our glue surplus to 1/10th. The glue that filled its home space is completely gone. I am honestly surprised that the meager 40 bottles we have left are still there, and by the time I finish writing this- they may not be. 

Why would you do this to us, Mr President?

So while we have those 40 bottles, we can at least fend off the screaming parents, but I anticipate that a considerable amount of screaming will have already started by the time I start my shift this afternoon. 

I shall scream as well. 

I scream, they scream- we all scream into the yawning void of the glue section in hopes that the Elmer, God of Cheap Adhesives, will hear our cries and grant us the glue we so desperately yearn for. We shall be united in our despair. 

[libraford]

We have reached a place in our glue stock where we are consistently keeping up with demand, more or less. We get it in on Wednesday, they all come in on the weekend and we’re out by Monday- giving people one day to bitch and moan because what would these people do if they weren’t allowed to scream at us for a whole thirty seconds?

Well, I came in to work on Wednesday and I found this at our customer service desk:

Look out world- we have the gallons!

People asked for the gallons of glue, they got the gallons of glue. 

There were 20 of them on that endcap. I saw a woman buy three of them at once (and of course she wanted to use a coupon on each and every one of them because ‘gosh- who knew that glue would be so expensive!’ Like… lady- you’re getting this at 20 cents an ounce if you get it without a coupon. It’s not expensive, you’re just a cheapskate.)

By the end of Wednesday, they were all gone. We sold 20 gallons of glue in four hours. People were laying down $60 for glue. I could feel my Great Depression-raised grandpa shaking his head from…. I dunno, probably Purgatory.

Now the entire area knows that we have the glue gallons- the word has spread. But we don’t have them in stock and guess what emotions they have over it! If you guessed ‘anger’ then you’re right! So they do what they’ve always done when they need a literal gallon of glue and there are no gallons of glue to be had: they buy a ton of individual bottles. 

But now knowing that there is an easier way to do this that is yet inaccessible to them fills them with ennui, and as they walk through the store their excitement over their hoard wanes and they put some of it back. 

Now, any person of the retail-worker persuasion will tell you that a customer never puts an item back where they’re supposed to. That would be, frankly, preposterous. So instead, as they lose their grip on their desire for glue, they leave a single bottle where it is most convenient to them- a symbol of their defeat. 

This is a fancy way of saying that I found a bottle of glue in every aisle one night because someone got pissy about not being able to buy it by the gallon and forgot to get a basket. 

[breelandwalker]

THE EPIC SAGA CONTINUES

[thenumbergenerator]

how the fuck did we get from 12x12 squares of paper the the glue famine

[libraford]

Embrace the absurdity or be doomed by it. 

[linguistic--nerd-blog]

@cannibalcoalition how’s it going now? Is the famine still surging? 

[libraford]

Thank you for checking in! Your interest in our dire situation is crucial to the spread of information on our nationwide plight. 

Since getting the gallons of glue, the phone calls have slowed down to a reasonable and manageable level. People now only call if they need to know whether or not we have the gallons and believe me: they are not pleased when they hear the answer ‘we carry them but are currently out of them.’ 

Not. Pleased. 

Purchasing smaller bottles is not an option, even if it was the only option  less than a month ago. The smiley face hastily drawn on the gallon bottle of glue in that photo taunts me- a vision of forced pleasantry for the truly, truly exhausted. After awhile all the complaints sound like goats bleating and I imagine that I am peacefully roaming the countryside. 

I have just recently had a title change and my interaction with customers is now more limited than it used to. Now, instead of running the front, I am in charge of shipping orders. I come in early, I don’t talk to anyone, I put stuff in boxes. I leave. It’s great. 

I get to work this morning and what’s on the pull list but FIVE DIFFERENT ORDERS FOR GLUE. 

Now, this would have been a major problem a month ago when we were at the very pit of The Glue Famine, but since the glue has made a second coming we’re not too worried about it. 

Except. 

They all. 

Want.

Clear. 

And I cannot stress enough just how important clear glue is to the biodiversity of the glue ecosystem. If you do not have some clear glue available in stock, you have lost 75% of your active customer base because it is that important to these people. If you don’t have clear glue, they don’t just go ‘aww…well I guess I can make it with white glue.’ They nope the fuck out and high-tail it to the next possible retail avenue, which- if all of the comments on this post are any indication- amounts to hardware stores, auto supply, and the smallest of small corner stores. 

So I have to weigh my options carefully: do I ship the requested clear glue bottles so that the people starving for glue in New Jersey are not left glue-less for another week or do I leave some for our own small community of slime children?

There is no ethical solution. 

There is no one who does not suffer from this outcome. 

This is a dilemma. I am distraught.

[libraford]

I know that I said that I would wait until the event happening this weekend to give you an update, but I came into work this morning to find this:

Our glue endcap has been upgraded to a Drive Aisle in the very front of the store. Note- the only reason it is empty right now is because it was in the process of being built. We do have… most of the materials needed for this piece. Most of them. That is to say… we can put things on it, I wouldn’t say that we would be able to fill it. 

We’re about to have gallons of clear glue. I will be keeping an eye on that particular item very closely. 

The glue is now right there as soon as you walk in the door and you will be able to know right as soon as you stop playing with the closed circuit video camera footage whether or not we have glue in stock because it will be right in front of your face. 

Oh, who am I kidding? They’ll still ask where the fucking glue is. This will just make them more angry because no matter how politely you indicate the location of the glue, they will feel like you’re calling them an idiot. 

Let me make this clear- none of us are calling anyone an idiot. No one here thinks about anyone else for too long. It is how we survive. We have created shells around ourselves to prevent every last shred of empathy from ever occurring to us. We are empty, dead-eyed, automatons. Our retail voices belong to someone else- someone more alive, someone with dreams and energy and hope. Someone programmed into us, whose cache is cleared hourly to process new insults. 

The robots cannot take our jobs away. We will become the robots. 

But this is all rising action. There is a battle ahead of me that I cannot avoid. I am on the schedule for Saturday. 

The Slime Bar awaits me as I drive into the storm. 

[rosegoldripper]

Suffer, she who enter here for WE, THE SLIME CHILDREN SHALL NOT GIVE THY MERCY.

There is a soft “plink” as the first of many parent tears come falling down. They weep with anguish as retail workers and teachers join them. And we jeer at them.

We run, screaming at play dates to contrast and compare slime types. The adults watch in horror as slime drips from our fingers, coating clothes and tinting our hands the colour of their fear. The parents do not wail anymore, but watch with grim faces. They have accepted it. The stains will never come out. They shall remain, constant reminders of the epidemic that plagues adults over the globe.

Teachers attempt to calm us, but to no avail. Slime is everywhere. Fluffy slime, fishbowl slime, avalanche slime. The same creativity you endlessly encouraged manifests into a storm of sin. Desks are covered with bubbles of slime. Slime lays strewn about in children’s hands, the oh-so-familiar motion of twisting soon becoming automatic. The teachers look on as a bright-eyed, keen newbie wails with disbelief. The others comfort him warily. It will not stop soon.

The retail workers do their best to stay out of the way, but it is in vain. We seem to move unnaturally fast as we run towards them, the dreaded question of glue and borax and other ingredients upcoming. They answer teeth clenched, and we seem to mock them as we raid piles of soon-to-be slime from the shelves and haul them towards cars. They make knowing eye contact with the parents, two sufferers sharing each other’s pain.

We are the Slime Children. We do not forgive. We do not forget.

[libraford]

Holy moley… 

[saturnsocoolioyep]

@cannibalcoalition any updates?

[thepastelpeach]

backgrounds? who’s she, never heard of her

[honey-sunny-bee]

This is beautiful

[poisonlyra-deactivated20180821]

Oh my god this is amazing, what the hell

[royallyanxious]

OH MY GO- THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN WHAT THE FREAK THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL, PLEASE HELP I CANT WITH ALL THESE FEELINGS???

[iheartskyrim]

I WANNA PRINT THIS OUT AND STICK IT ON MY WALL HOLY JESUS THAT’S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[actinganimagus]

My patronus is a piebald mare. I’ve got no clue what it means. Apart from that I like horses, but I love horses anyway.

Sounds like a horse with bad hair growth

[iheartskyrim]

A piebald is the horse that has black/brown and white spots on them like a cow, and mare means female horse :)

[jesscookie]

[punkrockgrantaire]

OMG REBLOG THIS & LOOK AT UR BLOG ITS COMPLETELY DIFERENT

[fawksman]

Me

[riprestinpiecesfuckkkshitplease]

iM  CHIR YING BC THE WAY IT LOOKS ON YOUR BLOG SEND HELP

[immortalhaxor]

oh my

[emmaontheice-deactivated2018013]

i dunt see it

EDIT***:

WHATTHE HELL.

[agent-silva-deactivated20130812]

…You had my curiosity…

[After]

WHAT THE JESUS FUCK IS THIS VOODOO?!

[orsino]

(I’ll try it

edit

WHAT)

[izaya-orihara-stupid-eskimo-dea]

im so confused what is

wait oh

[sarrahxhabibi]

[after] WTF!?!?!?!?!?! Someone get the fucking salt!

[seththewolf]

Oh my god

[gonda-deactivated20210511]

I’ll try

[agent-feather-deactivated201602]

I’m super curious now…

[tickly-giggles-deactivated20170]

Okay, lets see if this works…

[and-willow-deactivated20170622]

Dipper wyd

[lapisotaku120]

Curious ;0

[consider-it-alice]

My curiosity has me peeked ゜-゜

[horriblyticklishstar-deactivate]

@shadows-caress

[tguyjoey-deactivated20180730]

ok

[songbird7447]

sure why not

[alienpupy]

what :V

[deletederadicated]

…

[emilyplayzyt-deactivated2017100]

Oh lord I’m curious

[honey-hexes]

I don’t know what you’re all talking about Edit:: What the fuck

[bluebananapeel]

wh

[hoomanbeying]

im manly :DDD

[asksmolboris]

Hwhat

[lil-miss-eeveearchive-blog]

???

[roobz-deactivated20220823]

it didn’t work for me 

[subjugatedmind]

hey what

[lisianthoma]

hold the fuck what

[thenorthsideofthetrees]

Doubt it but okay…

[virgils-jacket]

Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back

[qualitysnails]

Hmmm

[changeling-ash]

Let’s see…

[hidy-corner-deactivated20200414]

Huh

[milomeepit]

*squints*

[onceuponatimeathogwarts]

I’m gonna be on later today

I know it’s been a while but I’m gonna be on this afternoon as Lester Papadopoulos from Trials of Apollo. Send in some asks for him!

[the-real-roonil-wazlib-blog]

I love looting bodies in video games. It’s like, how did that giant spider I just killed end up with that silver ring?

[jd-the-anime-fan]

Well… it’s just a theory but apparently because the animals you encounter have likely killed/eaten travellers before you fight them, it’s suspected they accidently ingest valuables, hence why you find them on their corpses.

[scribdyke-remade]

you know, i was thinking about this and that works for animals like skeevers and wolves, but the way spiders eat makes that impossible.

[iheartskyrim]

Maybe it likes the jewellery

[memorythief]

Ugh

All I wanted to do was marry Brynjolf or Serana. But no. Neither are allowed. So my Khajiit stays with Aela and my Breton with Vilkas. I just….grrrr. >< and of course, I don’t mod since Xbox.

Still don’t know who my others will marry….bluh…..

[scribdyke-remade]

i find romlyn to be sweet, and vorstag is very romantic.

[iheartskyrim]

I like Cosnach :)

[scribdyke-remade]

i seriously considered marrying him but the drunk male voice annoys me

[iheartskyrim]

I like it, but to each their own :)

[the-key-to-your-fart]

FUCKING DEATH HOUNDS KILLED YET ANOTHER ONE OF MY FUCKING HORSES IM SO MAD

[scribdyke-remade]

that’s why i use shadowmere

[iheartskyrim]

Yeah, when he dies he respawns

[memorythief]

Ugh

All I wanted to do was marry Brynjolf or Serana. But no. Neither are allowed. So my Khajiit stays with Aela and my Breton with Vilkas. I just….grrrr. >< and of course, I don’t mod since Xbox.

Still don’t know who my others will marry….bluh…..

[scribdyke-remade]

i find romlyn to be sweet, and vorstag is very romantic.

[iheartskyrim]

I like Cosnach :)

[jonyellowsnow-blog]

Forever pissed you can’t marry Brynjolf.

[scribdyke-remade]

forever pissed you can’t marry arnbjorn

[iheartskyrim]

Arnbjorn has a wife. And dies

[scribdyke-remade]

yeah but like what if he didn’t

[iheartskyrim]

I getchu