Kestrel

Just another tumblr user. Expect writing, animal, and nerdy stuff. I have a B&G macaw, three cats and a dog. Come talk to me about writing, animals, my fandoms (mostly Marvel, Percy Jackson, Dragon Age) or whatever my hyperfixation is. Legally an adult.

[summergirl2000]

It's so funny how everyone in the wicked fandom is kind of miserable because half of us ship a doomed relationship and the other half are constantly angry because their nothing burger ship wasn't the focus of the story.

[lesbianano]

No more limits, no more hiding 💗💜💙

[foxes-in-love]

[gaytommykinard]

"you don't like mpreg?" i don't even like fpreg

[whump-or-whatever]

Thinking about the hidden injury trope, but where whumpee really isn’t trying to hide anything, they just actually don’t realize anything is wrong.

Prime example might be with a concussion. Whumpee just has a headache but otherwise insists they’re fine. But they don’t realize that others are noticing them zoning out, being off balance, acting irritably, wincing at bright lights and loud noises, generally just seeming not themself, etc.

[for-the-ouchies]

Whumpee is skittish. Their heart rate rockets every time they're startled, and they startle easily. They feel about two seconds away from bolting at any moment.

Whumpee is skittish, but they don't flinch. Discomfort doesn't show on their face.

Whumpee is skittish and no one knows it. Maybe they wish people did know, and would be more considerate. Or maybe they're quite happy that such a weakness isn't evident.

[sunshinejojo]

"Why is it that every time I learn something about your past, it's always something terrible?"

"I'm sorry."

"No, YOU don't get to he sorry. THEY need to be sorry for what they did to you."

[notearsnora]

happy PRIDE month Ozians!

[stivkagall]

Anders | Dragon Age

[absurdcrow-deactivated20251107]

CURRENTLY SOBBING. OK SOO, RIPLEY IS GAY?!!

and lambert is actually trans?? 😭😭

[not-in-absentia-deactivated2023]

I had to check, it does also appear on screen

[necromanticalscience]

There's a better shot of it in Aliens, right at the start when they're listing the Nostromo crew memebrs!

Also I read that there are deleted scenes of Ripley and Lambert arguing and being more overtly in a relationship. Ever since I learned that it's been my favorite ship.

[gamebird]

Oh neat, I didn't know this!

(I'd heard the bit about the role being originally written for a man and they cast a woman, which explained many things.)

[uisceb]

[la-mombey]

“So what is Beauty reading anyway?”

Wicked, Gregory Maguire

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[muffinlance]

If your answer to any of those was "no", I cannot emphasize enough that this isn't just "bummer, guess it's gone forever". You can get that mobility back, it is actually very achievable with the right modifications for your level!

This is the very simple "starting from zero muscles" program I followed, highly recommend it or something similar:

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@hybridcalisthenics

[genderless-void-in-a-jar]

[just-your-average-shiz-student]

MYRA RUIZ and FABI BANG bring a Pride Flag to the stage during curtain call in the Brazilian production of Wicked

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[xalphafox]

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

[headspace-hotel]

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion