So, Tumblr just got a lot worse w/ this update, and I doubt anything will be rolled back on this hellsite. I'm gonna dust off my Dreamwidth and start making fic posts to that site. Maybe finally figure out how Pillowfort works, as a backup.
I'll still be here and blogging until they shut the servers down.
I'll be reposting some stuff to these sites as I go, so that if this site goes down, I won't lose the important bits.
Note: If you'd like to talk, feel free to send an ask/message me. But. Please do more than just sending, "hey." The "Please do more than just sending, 'hey,'" still stands (I don't engage w/ just that). But^2! Please also state something other than asking if I'm online/available (I will also disregard these).
I can't guarantee that I will respond to messaging/asks. Something like, "Hey, you like (thing)! I also like (thing)! What's your fav about (thing)? :D" is more likely to get a response. If I don't respond, it's probably bc of one/combo of these things:
If you're not already a mutual or someone I specifically followed, and left only a "hey/hi" and/or a short/vague message
Undiagnosed (something)-ism, and have no energy
Extreme caution having grown up on the "wild west" of the web (I lurked for 30-ish years, it's a habit I'm working on)
I'm shy! 🥺
It's been too long since you messaged and I'm overcome w/ guilt, etc)
One of the biggest issues of moving to England as a person who is Ukrainian AND neurodivergent is not knowing how to answer the small talk question of "how are you", but today I was reminded that Ukrainian blessed me with the phrase that roughly translates as "living is hard but dying would be a pity" and can we please naturalise it so I can use it all day every day
Okay so this post breached containment I think so I feel the need to clarify, because the vibes in the notes seem to suggest that people see this as an inspirational quote bestowed onto someone to help them soldier on. That's not how Ukrainians do it. Rather, imagine a person that looks like they haven't slept in three days and also hiked up a mountain. They are asked "Hey how you doing buddy", and in response they let out the deepest, most done with this shit sigh you can imagine, mutter their favourite curse word and THEN they say the phrase (which, by the way, is four words in Ukrainian - тяжко жити, шкода вмерти/tyazhko zhyty, shkoda vmerty). It's said as if they're trying to convince themselves that dying would, indeed, he a pity. The other person looks at them, their eyes full of understanding, sigh also and then say "well at least we're not russians".
Okay so uh this double breached containment and I'm really really scared because this was my second post on Tumblr dot com out of the two I made in total and now it has like 650 notes so I hope it'll make you guys happy to see my flatmate's mug that has The Phrase on it.
Bonus: the other side that says "what did I do to deserve this".
If Your Scene Feels Lifeless, Someone Is Being Too Polite
Stories stall when everyone behaves. Real tension appears when someone:
• asks the wrong question
• says something they shouldn’t
• notices something uncomfortable
• refuses to drop the topic
• misunderstands something important
• interrupts at the worst moment
They want something REALLY REALLY REALLY bad, but for some reason they can't ask for it -- or can't have it even if they did ask.
They don't notice something that the audience HAS noticed (like in a horror movie when the monster is sneaking up behind the protagonist, or if someone drinks a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak because they don't know about germ theory)
Takes a risk (or otherwise does something they "shouldn't" do) which the audience has to sit through for a prolongued period of time (e.g. slips away from the party to go into the host's private office and rifle through their papers before the guards catch them)
Do you think Eridians have some sort of 'rock skipping' sport, where the ones with flatter carapace shoot themselves across a lake and and the ones that go the farthest/have the best form win? Kind of like human diving competitions, but horizontal??
