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When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.
*gritting my teeth* unfortunately the only way to get better at something is to keep doing it
*chewing my own arm* you have to allow yourself to be bad at something at first before you learn how to do it. you don’t have to worry about performing perfectly
also making a mistake doesn’t necessarily make you bad at something nor does it mean you’re wasting your time. being so hard on yourself won’t make things any better but instead you might feel so pressured that you might make more mistakes out sheer anxiety
the inevitable conclusion
So 2016 is SO bad that it made the creator of this meme give us an alternative version of “This is Fine”.
oh. twenty sixteen you say.
Self-indulgent writing gets treated like a crime, but honestly, what are we doing here if not indulging the part of us that wants castles, rivals, soft monsters, dramatic reunions, found family dinners, doomed letters, and emotionally constipated people learning tenderness? Not everything has to be clever in a marketable way. Sometimes the thing you want most is the thing with the most life in it.
That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world
So anyways the Pokecology book is really good you guys
Writing tool for your fight scenes.
This is a great cheat sheet, but gonna add for the inevitable assumption and/or question that most people have: size and strength have almost zero meaning in a battle against a skilled opponent.
This means that a small, skilled woman will trash a big, strong, heavy, lesser-skilled man all the time every time.
Fights between skilled people don't care about sexism. So if you're designing characters and thinking about battle choreography, skills rule. Don't let your gender influence your battle. It's not realistic.
Another note I'd like to add to this - the original sheet does kind of mention the importance of motives for the fight, but the motive and cause for the fight are not important solely for the narrative justification of the scene happening and the moral justification or lack thereof for the violence inflicted in the fight. They're also important because they impact how your character will act in the fight, what they're willing to do, what they might go out of their way to avoid even at the cost of making it harder for themselves. The major actions the character takes in a fight should be evaluated not only from the perspective of whether it will bring them closer to victory, but also from whether it will help to achieve the specific goals the character entered the fight for. And while somewhat interlinked, those two are not entirely the same thing
The reasons for the fight are going to affect what your character does to their opponent; if they win, are they content to let the other person escape relatively unscathed or leave them momentarily incapacitated but with no injury they couldn't fully recover from in time? Or are they only going to be satisfied with killing their enemy? Or will they go out of their way to leave the enemy alive but with severe likely permanent injuries? (Of course even a character who does not care one way or the other what happens to their opponent beyond getting them out of the way for the moment may still end up killing or permanently injuring them, if that's how the fight ends up going. But whether that's their specific actual goal in the fight or not is still going to affect how they fight)
It's going to affect how reckless or how concerned with protecting themselves your character is; if their reason for the fight is purely to inflict harm to the other person with no regard to anything else, they may risk significant injury to themselves just to accomplish that goal. If they're trying to protect something or someone, they'll likely be willing to be hurt themselves to accomplish it, but they may be more cautious because if they're incapacitated, they can't continue protecting that person or thing. If their goal is to get past the enemy or enemies to some place, person, or object, they'll have to be cautious enough that they'll still be capable of continuing on and accomplishing the goal after the fight. If their main interest in the fight is their own survival, then they'll likely be avoiding risks as much as they can while still bringing the fight to an end as fast as possible. If they're a death-seeker or a would-be-martyr, on the other hand, they'll be specifically trying to put themselves in a position to be killed (while still possibly attempting to accomplish some secondary goal to make their death worth more than they feel their life has been)
It's going to affect how dirty or how honorably your character fights; in most cases, when it's a matter of life and death, most people will fight dirty, using anything they can think of to gain any advantage. But if the character feels like they have something to prove in this fight in the right kind of way, or there's something important depending on them following rules, then maybe they are willing to fight nobly, without dirty moves (whatever that means to them) even at the cost of putting themselves at disadvantage
It's going to affect what kind of end the character is willing to have for the fight; is it possible for them to be presented with a way out of the fight while still achieving the goal they entered the fight for, and when they see it, are they willing to take it and leave the fight without a clear winner or loser? Or is seeing the fight through, until one side or the other is decisively defeated, the only end the fight can have?
If they lose, it's going to affect that too; will the character accept the loss with grace and move on to the next thing to do? Will they fight even when it's pointless and they've already lost, to inflict even a tiny bit more damage or prove a point? Will they do some drastic "I can't win but I can make sure you don't get what you want" move?
All those things and more, stemming from the causes and motivations behind a fight, are going to affect how the character fights, what they actually do throughout the fight. Keeping them in mind is genuinely going to liven the scene up and make it feel more interesting and meaningful, and keep different fight scenes (if the work has multiple ones) from feeling like the same thing over and over again
be proud of ‘small’ achievements that are big for you as a disabled person. share them with trusted people, share them online, write them in your journal or your notes app. forge a space for yourself. don’t shrug your successes off just bc they don’t look like much to abled people.
the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good
i do think it’s funny when you’ve been into a thing long enough that you’ve done all the serious analysis you can do so now you’re mostly just thinking up looney tunes scenarios to put the characters in
looney tunes scenarios which are most importantly still impeccably in-character because of all the aforementioned serious analysis
The reason your snacks are unsatisfying is that you need both carb and protein.
Carb starts your engine, protein keeps it going.
No carb, engine don’t start. No protein, engine dies out fast.
Easy carb add on:
Cookie
Fruit (canned or fresh)
Chips
Piece of bread
Popcorn
Crackers
Easy protein add on:
Nuts
Spoonful of nut butter
Cheese
Roasted chickpea snacks
Glass of milk (dairy or non dairy)
Small canned sausages or similar
Sugar in there.
I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.
*genuinely absorbed zero information* got it
Near the Cosmos. Dawn flight by Stanislav Torlopov (1984)
Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head
