JaimiStoryTeller

Hello Folks: my names Jaimi, use any pronouns you're comfortable with for me, I don't have a preference. There are story spoilers, ideas, and scheduling. Drawings and sketches. I try to tag everything and love getting asks from people. Other random stuff. kofiwidget2.init('Buy Me a Coco', '#46b798', 'A824A4L');kofiwidget2.draw();

[jaimistoryteller]

Help Needed

Hiya Folks

It's been a really long while since I have had to write one of these, for that I am thankful. Unfortunately this year has decided it wants to be a bit frustrating, so here I am, asking for assistance.

Why? Well, in the last four months:

Winston passed away unexpectedly

Phone died and needed replacement

Bathroom floor tried to make off with the tub and toilet

Freezer died with no warning and spoiled almost $400 of food

Fridge is trying to die from age

Gas money kicked me in the teeth as I had to travel an hour one way, close to daily for a week as dad was in the hospital. [he recovered, but it definitely killed my budget!]

Yearly pay off for electric bill smacked me

Along with some other smaller things, means both my accounts are now in the negative, and I need to get them out by Wednesday to not lose them.

Total needed: $630

Paypal Me: https://paypal.me/jaimist

Cash App: $jaimist

Thank you for your time, please share even if you cannot help financially. Sharing does help!

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/10/2026 3 pm

Hi Folks

So I got out of the negative just long enough to not lose my account, yay for that! Then the car insurance and phone bill processed and poof, back in the hole I go.

I need to take dad to the doctors both Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th, both of which are out of town, so I need to get my account out of the negative enough that I can get gas and some food while we are on the road, since we will be out of the house for 5 hours Tuesday, and 3 hours on Wednesday.

Any and all help, including sharing, is appreciated.

$0/459

Jaimi

[itshype]

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

[jaimistoryteller]

Help Needed

Hiya Folks

It's been a really long while since I have had to write one of these, for that I am thankful. Unfortunately this year has decided it wants to be a bit frustrating, so here I am, asking for assistance.

Why? Well, in the last four months:

Winston passed away unexpectedly

Phone died and needed replacement

Bathroom floor tried to make off with the tub and toilet

Freezer died with no warning and spoiled almost $400 of food

Fridge is trying to die from age

Gas money kicked me in the teeth as I had to travel an hour one way, close to daily for a week as dad was in the hospital. [he recovered, but it definitely killed my budget!]

Yearly pay off for electric bill smacked me

Along with some other smaller things, means both my accounts are now in the negative, and I need to get them out by Wednesday to not lose them.

Total needed: $630

Paypal Me: https://paypal.me/jaimist

Cash App: $jaimist

Thank you for your time, please share even if you cannot help financially. Sharing does help!

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/8/2026 noon

Hi Folks,

Between storms and dealing with some house repairs, I ended up spending the rest of the day yesterday sleeping. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, to get over the small hump.

$480/630

You all are awesome for the help.

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/11/2026 1 pm

Hi Folks

So I got out of the negative just long enough to not lose my account, yay for that! Then the car insurance and phone bill processed and poof, back in the hole I go.

I need to take dad to the doctors both Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th, both of which are out of town, so I need to get my account out of the negative enough that I can get gas and some food while we are on the road, since we will be out of the house for 5 hours Tuesday, and 3 hours on Wednesday.

Any and all help, including sharing, is appreciated.

$0/459

Jaimi

[markodragic]

it's such a sadness to me that kids eventually lose that 'no filter' thing when they grow up. my niece asked what 9/11 is and someone explained it to her and her unfiltered conclusion was "bro. is that it"

[markodragic]

[luna-azzurra]

Romantic Subplots That Don’t Make Me Want to Eat My Laptop

✧ The enemies-to-lovers pipeline is not just “we yelled once” and now we’re making out. Where is the tension? Where is the mutual respect beneath the knives? Where is the unbearable yearning while they patch each other up post-battle, covered in blood and unresolved feelings?

✧ You do not have to pair everyone off like it’s a high school dance and the chaperones are judging. It’s okay for characters to stay single, or in situationships, or be in love with someone who doesn’t love them back (ouch, but delicious).

✧ If they fall in love because they’re “both hot and there,” I am going to demand emotional receipts. What do they see in each other that nobody else does? Give me the specificity. “He brings her tea when her hands shake.” “She doesn’t mock his cursed poetry.” That kind of slop.

✧ Consent is hot. I don’t care if they’re vampires, enemies, rivals, or literal gods at war. “Do you want me to kiss you?” with the voice drop is sexier than 87 pages of unspoken tension ending in a sudden smooch that makes no sense.

✧ A love triangle is not “who is hotter.” It’s “which future does this character want.” One boy represents safety, the other chaos? Great. But we’re picking identities, not abs.

✧ Please stop writing characters who fall in love after knowing each other for twelve seconds and one trauma. That’s not love. That’s a bonding exercise at Emotional Camp and it will implode. At least let them flirt awkwardly first.

[jaimistoryteller]

Help Needed

Hiya Folks

It's been a really long while since I have had to write one of these, for that I am thankful. Unfortunately this year has decided it wants to be a bit frustrating, so here I am, asking for assistance.

Why? Well, in the last four months:

Winston passed away unexpectedly

Phone died and needed replacement

Bathroom floor tried to make off with the tub and toilet

Freezer died with no warning and spoiled almost $400 of food

Fridge is trying to die from age

Gas money kicked me in the teeth as I had to travel an hour one way, close to daily for a week as dad was in the hospital. [he recovered, but it definitely killed my budget!]

Yearly pay off for electric bill smacked me

Along with some other smaller things, means both my accounts are now in the negative, and I need to get them out by Wednesday to not lose them.

Total needed: $630

Paypal Me: https://paypal.me/jaimist

Cash App: $jaimist

Thank you for your time, please share even if you cannot help financially. Sharing does help!

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/8/2026 noon

Hi Folks,

Between storms and dealing with some house repairs, I ended up spending the rest of the day yesterday sleeping. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, to get over the small hump.

$480/630

You all are awesome for the help.

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/11/2026 1 pm

Hi Folks

So I got out of the negative just long enough to not lose my account, yay for that! Then the car insurance and phone bill processed and poof, back in the hole I go.

I need to take dad to the doctors both Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th, both of which are out of town, so I need to get my account out of the negative enough that I can get gas and some food while we are on the road, since we will be out of the house for 5 hours Tuesday, and 3 hours on Wednesday.

Any and all help, including sharing, is appreciated.

$0/459

Jaimi

[wanna-bee]

[i-would-like-some-tea]

„Which was when people started throwing dirty shirts at them.“

Just managed to read the new chapter of Salvage by @muffinlance and couldn’t resist illustrating this szene.

[muffinlance]

All of these expressions are perfect, particularly Zuko's baffled concern.

[furiouslywriting]

When you haven't written in a while:

[jaimistoryteller]

Help Needed

Hiya Folks

It's been a really long while since I have had to write one of these, for that I am thankful. Unfortunately this year has decided it wants to be a bit frustrating, so here I am, asking for assistance.

Why? Well, in the last four months:

Winston passed away unexpectedly

Phone died and needed replacement

Bathroom floor tried to make off with the tub and toilet

Freezer died with no warning and spoiled almost $400 of food

Fridge is trying to die from age

Gas money kicked me in the teeth as I had to travel an hour one way, close to daily for a week as dad was in the hospital. [he recovered, but it definitely killed my budget!]

Yearly pay off for electric bill smacked me

Along with some other smaller things, means both my accounts are now in the negative, and I need to get them out by Wednesday to not lose them.

Total needed: $630

Paypal Me: https://paypal.me/jaimist

Cash App: $jaimist

Thank you for your time, please share even if you cannot help financially. Sharing does help!

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/8/2026 noon

Hi Folks,

Between storms and dealing with some house repairs, I ended up spending the rest of the day yesterday sleeping. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, to get over the small hump.

$480/630

You all are awesome for the help.

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/11/2026 1 pm

Hi Folks

So I got out of the negative just long enough to not lose my account, yay for that! Then the car insurance and phone bill processed and poof, back in the hole I go.

I need to take dad to the doctors both Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th, both of which are out of town, so I need to get my account out of the negative enough that I can get gas and some food while we are on the road, since we will be out of the house for 5 hours Tuesday, and 3 hours on Wednesday.

Any and all help, including sharing, is appreciated.

$0/459

Jaimi

[furiouslywriting]

Writing advice: fight scenes part 2

Fight scenes are an important part of a novel, and it's key that they're done well. A bad fight scene can pull a reader out, when by nature the scene should pull them in even harder than before. Here's some more advice for writing a good fight scene.

Use location and surroundings

Whether we're talking a battle or one on one, a person's surroundings are key to how they fight. Combat in a grass field is going to look different from in a jungle or a building. So you need to consider how the location is going to impede and/or help your protagonist. Will they get backed into a wall? Tangled in a vine? Are there scrap pieces lying around they can use as a weapon? These are all things to consider. Location can and should have an impact. So make sure you describe the location so the reader knows the limitations given.

Outline it

Depending on the scale of your fight, it can be hard to keep track of people and events that need to happen within the scene. So outline it. Colour code major players. Bullet point main events. Whatever you need to keep it all straight in your head.

Emotion and pain

These are major contributors to the tension of a fight scene. Of course, there are occassions where they aren't possible for your WIP, say if you have an invincible character. But even then there should be something to set the stakes.

Most protags aren't invincible or the perfect fighter, so show us the protags fear, excitement, sadness or anger. Whatever it is they're feeling in this fight. Describe the adrenaline pumping through their veins, the heaving breaths tearing at their throat and the throb of the wound on their arm. Give us these details and we'll be sucked in. Your protag, unless the situations dictates otherwise, should be hurt at some point! Otherwise the reader will never be afraid for them. Will never buy that the stakes are death or severe injury if they lose.

That's it for now!

[furiouslywriting]

Writing advice: fight scenes

Fight scenes are often a difficult aspect of a WIP for writers. It can be hard to construct a scene that covers everything we want, and in an entertaining way. So here's some tips to make a fight scene that works and grabs the reader.

Have clear goals and stakes

You want your reader to be invested in a fight scene, and not only that you want the scene to matter. Fights shouldn't be there just for the sake of being a fight scene. It's still a part of your plot and therefore it has to contribute.

Establish what's at stake in the scene. If your protag loses what will happen? Will they die? Will they suffer ridicule? The stakes don't have to be high, but they should be there.

Goals are important too, and can be coupled with the stakes. Does the protag need to disarm someone? Knock them out? Just last one more minute in the fight?

This all gives a sense of anticipation and reality to the fight!

Sentence structures

Make it snappy. Shorter sentences capture the urgency and the faster movement of a fight. Vary the sentence lengths, but utilise the way sentence structure adds to a scene.

Coupled with this is to be concise with your descriptions. Don't over explain your fight! We don't need to know that they "clenched their left fist, pivoted on their right foot and brought their left up to kick their opponent in the centre of their chest following with a punch from their left hand" etc. It's ok to say that they "pivoted, sending a fierce kick into the man's chest." Blow-by-blows tend to slow the scene down, when it should be quick and snappy.

Use strong verbs! And know that you can skim the less important details. You can tell your readers that "they grappled with each other, rolling across the ground in a desperate attempt to gain the upper hand." Tell us the most important parts, when one person is winning or losing, then move on!

So that's all for now! Remember that fight scenes should always have a purpose and contribute to the plot and/or character development.

[jaimistoryteller]

Help Needed

Hiya Folks

It's been a really long while since I have had to write one of these, for that I am thankful. Unfortunately this year has decided it wants to be a bit frustrating, so here I am, asking for assistance.

Why? Well, in the last four months:

Winston passed away unexpectedly

Phone died and needed replacement

Bathroom floor tried to make off with the tub and toilet

Freezer died with no warning and spoiled almost $400 of food

Fridge is trying to die from age

Gas money kicked me in the teeth as I had to travel an hour one way, close to daily for a week as dad was in the hospital. [he recovered, but it definitely killed my budget!]

Yearly pay off for electric bill smacked me

Along with some other smaller things, means both my accounts are now in the negative, and I need to get them out by Wednesday to not lose them.

Total needed: $630

Paypal Me: https://paypal.me/jaimist

Cash App: $jaimist

Thank you for your time, please share even if you cannot help financially. Sharing does help!

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/8/2026 noon

Hi Folks,

Between storms and dealing with some house repairs, I ended up spending the rest of the day yesterday sleeping. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, to get over the small hump.

$480/630

You all are awesome for the help.

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/10/2026 3 pm

Hi Folks

So I got out of the negative just long enough to not lose my account, yay for that! Then the car insurance and phone bill processed and poof, back in the hole I go.

I need to take dad to the doctors both Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th, both of which are out of town, so I need to get my account out of the negative enough that I can get gas and some food while we are on the road, since we will be out of the house for 5 hours Tuesday, and 3 hours on Wednesday.

Any and all help, including sharing, is appreciated.

$0/459

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/11/2026 1 pm - No change, still need

$0/459

[spockfan]

Spock : *blatantly showing concern while holding on to Bones*

Bones : *processing*

Spock : *still showing that he cares*

Bones : Well, we better get to the control room...

I love this scene because you could clearly see Bones trying to process the fact that Spock is somehow showing some form of emotion and it's directed towards him. His response would have been one of the following:

a) Pointing it out - "Concern Mr. Spock, isn't that an emotion?" His go-to response to Spock

b) Reassurance - "I'm alright. There's no need to worry about me." His would-be response to anyone else

c) Dismissal - "It's nothing. I'm still quite capable of carrying on." His likely response to a superior officer

He goes with none of those and just diverts to their main concern for the moment (the opposite of what he usually does). It's like skipping a cutscene because you weren't prepared for the quick time event. 😅

[246bce]

2024 Leverage Rewatch: 1x1 The Nigerian Job

sophie: *brings out chess metaphors* nate: *batting his eyelashes, twirling his hair* say less

[reflectingiridescent]

There's gold in these tags:

#every time. every gd time it gets me #that once he sees sophie #he KNOWS he's lost #there's such an unrelenting throughline to nate's conviction of sophie's ability to get people to do what she wants them to #but he doesn't even realize for a long time that it's not her implanting ideas #it's her taking what's already there #he obviously desperately needs and on some level wants company #and sophie can get him to choose it #even when he's so deep in the darkness #it's e x c e l l e n t ( @danburys )

#Eliot coming in with “you know what I think?” as if anyone ASKED never fails to make me laugh ( @sonofashepherd12576 )

#sophie plays such a FASCINATING role in the pilot #she was OUT she got OUT #she gets back in the game for nate!! #SHE is the one who convinces nate to do it! #who comes up with the permission structure for him to keep playing his little games! #parker flirts with her! #eliot clocks her as a threat! #fascinating on every fucking level ( @princessarcastia )

#nate looks back at parker because she made that metaphor first #sophie and parker are already friends 🥰 #can you IMAGINE what they'd all get up to if they decided to do this thing without nate?? just agree man #for the good of the world #leverage #sophie is so phenomenally good at what she does btw #look at this!!!! they're all on his ass and she swoops in and convinces him with one implication of ill advised friendship #also something about sophie seeing potential in parker and nate being like “ALRIGHT…… you make a valid point” ( @brionysea )

#if you look really closely you can spot five actors freezing to death ( @laser-tripwires )

[jaimistoryteller]

Help Needed

Hiya Folks

It's been a really long while since I have had to write one of these, for that I am thankful. Unfortunately this year has decided it wants to be a bit frustrating, so here I am, asking for assistance.

Why? Well, in the last four months:

Winston passed away unexpectedly

Phone died and needed replacement

Bathroom floor tried to make off with the tub and toilet

Freezer died with no warning and spoiled almost $400 of food

Fridge is trying to die from age

Gas money kicked me in the teeth as I had to travel an hour one way, close to daily for a week as dad was in the hospital. [he recovered, but it definitely killed my budget!]

Yearly pay off for electric bill smacked me

Along with some other smaller things, means both my accounts are now in the negative, and I need to get them out by Wednesday to not lose them.

Total needed: $630

Paypal Me: https://paypal.me/jaimist

Cash App: $jaimist

Thank you for your time, please share even if you cannot help financially. Sharing does help!

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/8/2026 noon

Hi Folks,

Between storms and dealing with some house repairs, I ended up spending the rest of the day yesterday sleeping. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, to get over the small hump.

$480/630

You all are awesome for the help.

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/10/2026 11 pm

Hi Folks

So I got out of the negative just long enough to not lose my account, yay for that! Then the car insurance and phone bill processed and poof, back in the hole I go.

I need to take dad to the doctors both Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th, both of which are out of town, so I need to get my account out of the negative enough that I can get gas and some food while we are on the road, since we will be out of the house for 5 hours Tuesday, and 3 hours on Wednesday.

Any and all help, including sharing, is appreciated.

$0/459

Jaimi

[jaimistoryteller]

5/11/2026 1 pm - No change, still need

$0/459

[m1male2]

Tomb of Sennefer or Tomb of the Vineyards, in the Valley of the Nobles, Egypt.

Sennefer, his titles include Mayor of Thebes and “Inspector of the granaries and gardens of Amun”, during the reign of Amenhotep II (reigned from 1443 to 1417 BC) 18th Dynasty.