Lupus Incidus

🙋🏼‍♀️ | LV 20 | Artist | Writer | Animation Student |

[writingprompts365]

A character is using something when it suddenly breaks without any obvious reason

[lupus-incidus]

Incomprehensible panic was Rory's initial reaction, wordless ramblings running through her mind at light speed as she stared at the ruined book in her hands. She had barely picked it up and turned the page when the spine simply fell apart, losing a few signatures of paper at the same time. She held the thinner half in her left hand now, the rest in a slightly crumpled heap on the floor of Law's room.

“Shit.” Rory could only curse at the problem before her, unable to take action. What could she even do? She didn't know how to fix books, and even if she did, she didn't have the materials to do so. She wasn't even meant to be in her captain's room in the first place. How would she explain not only trespassing, but destroying one of his books?!

He was an avid reader, and Rory could only assume he was fiercely careful with them as people tended to be when they were attached to something. She had known several bookworms throughout her life, and it was simple fact that to damage a book was blasphemy.

Thoughts of the many different and uniquely creative ways her captain could kill her finally spurred her into action, and Rory quickly crouched to pick up the thicker half of the book that had torn apart.

“How did this even happen!? I barely touched you, you stupid book!” Rory hissed at the paper as if it were able to understand as she hurriedly organised the signatures as best she could and tried to rearrange the book as if it were whole. “You've got Law-san for an owner, you should be tougher than that!” It was no use. The cover of the spine was torn in two, and no matter how she tried to curve it around the text block, it was clearly ruined. Maybe she could just leave it on the floor by the chest of drawers and sneak out. He might assume it just fell off during one of the Polar Tang's more complicated maneuvers that often jostled everyone's belongings around. Yes, that would do. Rory placed it down, rearranging it to look slightly askew but not as messy as it had, as if the impact were what had split The Inner Workings of the Human Body in half, and not Rory simply turning the page. Nodding to herself, Rory swiftly rose to her feet and turned to leave...

...and came face to face with her captain. He was actually uncomfortably close, so much so that she could inhale that strange scent of his, the metal tang of steel, disinfectant and the attractive musk of his very worn sweater. Rory squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, trying to ready herself for what was to come, then slowly cracked an eye open and looked up at Law.

He had one brow raised quizzically, his lips pressed into a thin line. “What, exactly, are you doing in my quarters?”

“I-I was looking for you!” Rory stammered far too quickly, her nerves betraying her guilt. Already she could feel a warm flush creeping into her cheeks, and she knew her ears were pressed flat against her head. Damn cheetah ears, betraying her all the time.

“In my empty room?” Law slipped his hands into the pockets of his hoodie, “What were you just whispering to?” he started to lean over her shoulder to look at the mess on the floor, and Rory panicked.

Before she even realised what she was doing, she had the fabric of his yellow and black hoodie scrunched in her hands as she tried to gently urge him back. “I-uh- Kachire said he needed you in the engine room, you better go!”

“You're a terrible liar. Is that my book?” Law's voice took on an edge as tilted his head, easily becoming a stone wall that Rory was incapable of moving. He didn't even stumble, even as she pushed against his chest.

“N-no!” she squeaked out. If her rosy face hadn't been enough to give her away, the high pitch of her voice just then surely would have. Succumbing to her fate, Rory hung her head and gave up trying to push him out of the room. In a rush, words barely spaced apart enough to understand, she whispered, “I'm really sorry I got curious about your books when I saw you weren't in here and I tried to read one but when I picked it up it just fell apart I'm so so so so sorry.”

Then, she waited for the inevitable. He would become angry, and would no doubt tear her apart verbally before he involved kikoku, for she had committed the ultimate sin against a book lover's precious-...was he...shaking?

Rory hesitantly looked up, and was completely caught off guard to see Law's shoulders shaking with barely contained laughter, his face scrunched up into what was possibly the most adorable grin she had ever seen. Surely noticing the way her mouth fell open in shock, Law burst out laughing, his head thrown back with the motion of it. Rory could only stare, mesmerised. She had never heard him laugh before. Not like this, anyways. He had such a nice laugh. Why didn't he laugh more often? Then again, why was he laughing now of all times?

“W-what- what's so funny?” Rory hesitantly stammered. Law only shook his head at first, working on calming his laughter, and it reduced to chuckles he stepped around her and crouched to pick up the book, examining the cover and the way the spine had ripped.

“I don't care if you broke one of my books. I'm surprised this one lasted this long – it's been creased on the spine for years.” Law snorted, straightening out and dropping it roughly on his desk. As if to emphasise how little he cared, he strode over to his bed and carelessly swept the books littered on the covers onto the floor. Even Rory, who was not particularly protective of books, cringed as the corners became dented and the hardbacks hit the boards with a loud thud. She watched as her captain allowed himself to fall onto his bed and cross his arms behind his head, eyes closed.

A long moment passed where she only stared, before Law sarcastically drawled, “What, do you want to join me?”

Rory snatched the ruined book – or, well, half of it – off of the chest of drawers and flung it at him. He caught it without even opening an eye, and she cursed his observation haki for what must have been the fiftieth time before turning and storming out of his cabin, slamming the door behind her.

If she had stayed a moment longer, she would have seen the way his mouth curved up into a softer smirk and heard him mumble, “You don't have to be tough for me.”

I think this is probably a stretch, but it's self indulgent and I had fun, so xD

Unrelated sketch of Rory cause why not.

[eunnieboo]

thinking about her

[staaryaaarn-deactivated20250418]

[onlyjellyillputinmybelly]

This uprooted a deep memory of mine and now I’m just having an existential crisis

[lupus-incidus]

Honestly same @onlyjellyillputinmybelly I'm sitting here at 3am like what the fuck I didn't even realise knowledge of this character was still in my brain

[glumshoe]

Shopping for laptops fucking sucks ‘cause I don’t know shit about computers. I’ve never had a computer with a functional webcam or microphone or the ability to play computer games made later than 2005 or a speaker that could play anything loud enough to hear from more than a foot away. How the hell should I know what I want?!

[glumshoe]

wow that would be such useful advice if only desktop PCs were small and portable and did not require desk tops on which to place them and I could take them with me when I traveled

[eamhhair]

I know this is a haha funny post, but for anyone who needs it, here's a quick-and-dirty of what you're most likely going to see while shopping for a computer/laptop (w/Examples)!

Cores/Intel Cores (Ex. i3, i5, i9)= Processing Speed= how fast your internet and other programs run. More cores is better.

Hard [Disk] Drive(HDD)/Solid State Drive(SSD) (Ex. 250GB, 480GB, 2TB)= How much you can store on your computer (files and apps and programs). A Terabyte(TB) is 1,000 Gigabytes.

*HDD is cheaper and more storage while SSD is faster, more durable, and uses less energy.

Memory/RAM(Random Access Memory) (Ex. 4GB, 8GB, 16GB) = How many different things your computer can do At The Same Time.

Ex. A computer with 4GB of RAM will probably shit itself if you try to play a game with with the internet open.

Video/Graphics Cards (Ex. NVIDIA, Intel HD Graphics, AMD) = How much visual complexity your computer can handle without throwing a tantrum. Only important if you play video games, do digital art, or watch a lot of movies on your computer. (When you're watching a video and it pixelates and lags when the action stuff happens, that's a bad/small graphics card)

[ralfmaximus]

Also the “avoid refurbished computers” tip is dead wrong.

‘Refurbished’ means it’s been in a technician’s hands recently and can’t be sold as new. That’s it. That’s all. In the US the FTC makes it illegal to sell something new if it’s been sold to an end user, so by definition a lot of perfect, ready-to-go hardware must be ‘refurbished’ in order to sell it again, no matter the circumstances.

Reasons a machine might be a refurb:

- Customer bought the item, decided they didn’t like the color, and returned it

- Customer bought the item, couldn’t figure out how to turn it on, and returned it

- Retailer opened the box for some reason and lost some of what gets shipped inside (manuals, cables, charger) and returned it

- Company bought 100 computers but went out of business before they could be installed or used

- Customer got a replacement for a damaged computer under warranty, and the manufacturer fixed what was wrong with the old machine and is now selling it as a refurb

I HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED ALL OF THESE SCENARIOS

Bottom line: ‘refurbished’ hardware has been repaired, tested, cleaned, and renewed back to original specifications by a trained technician. If anything, it’s probably MORE reliable now that it’s been doubly-tested. 

All responsibly refurbished equipment comes with a factory warranty... the only refurbs I would avoid are items sold ‘as-is’ without warranty. That’s dangerous unless you know what you’re doing, like buying stuff for parts.

A lot of my most reliable hardware -- servers, laptops, tablets -- were bought as refurbished goods at huge savings. When I go shopping for a new thing I always look at the refurbished options first. 

tl;dr: Refurbished is great!

[meteor-sword]

i might elaborate later but fanfic replies literally develop writer’s metacognition and make them better writers

[meteor-sword]

so, Metacognition is the practice of thinking about thinking or identifying one’s cognitive process . in essence, metacognition is understanding how you prepare for academic challenges, exams, or tasks, and then being able to reflect on whether you did well, you prepared adequately, and what was most effective. in a writing setting, this type of self-awareness helps you transfer skills in writing, say, fanfiction into writing academically, competitively and professionally. 

here’s an article from brown university on the subject i’ll discuss further. there are 3 parts of practicing metacognition identified in this article: planning, monitoring, and evaluation. how might this look like for a fanfic writer? 

planning: asking oneself ‘what is my goal?’ ‘what strategies should i use to meet that goal?’ ‘how much time/length do i need to meet my goal?’. so maybe my goal is to write a meet cute where two characters kiss. i’ll need to use a perspective, an upbeat tone, and forward characterization to do this. it’ll probably take 5000 words and two days to write. 

monitoring: asking oneself: is my story making sense? am i reaching my goal, or do i need to summarize more succinctly to keep it to 5k? maybe you started with a lot of exposition and now you’re 6k in and the characters haven’t met yet. what went wrong/changed? is it ok that it changed or did you not realize it got away from you? what now? 

evaluation: asking oneself: did i reach my goal? was it effective? what would i change next time? 

this is where comments come in

it is incredibly difficult to evaluate yourself. comments like “i love this!” actually do begin to touch on the evaluation step of metacognition. it means, in general, the writer is on the right track. comments like “i loved the dialogue between x and y” or “the emotions of this section really hit me” begin to answer the questions of was it effective, did i reach my goal and conversely answer what would i change next time (by adding more of whatever was specified as working well). HYPER SPECIFIC comments, like analyzing the story between the lines or pasting in a line that you really liked and explaining why, is like jet fuel for the metacognition process and i’m not exaggerating. specifically pointing out what was effective and why is incredibly useful 

i can straight up credit my writing style to all of my friends and readers who have given incredibly detailed comments. when i found a community who gave feedback like that, my writing improved a thousand times faster than before. so! i guess what i’m saying is give feedback! it goes so much further than you realize!

[unnecessaryligatures]

Wired: Leave comments because it makes your fav writers feel good

Inspired: Leave comments because it will make them write better

[disregardcanon]

Eureka-d: leave comments because it will make YOU write better too. It develops your meta cognition as well

[lupus-incidus]

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

[apolesen]

Nothing beats the feeling when you start getting comments on every fic in a fandom or ship from one person, and it’s clear that they’re going on a fic-binge. 

[xaimelarks]

Wait writers like this?

[musingsbymagpie]

Easiest way to make a writer smile! It’s how I learn usernames and start up conversations these days!

[elfpen]

I love this so much! It’s always so much fun to watch someone go down a binge and they react to a part that becomes a Big Deal down the line, and they make a comment about it, and you just laugh and wait and then like five hours later you get a review like “you biTCH HOW DARE” and honestly it’s the most rewarding feeling.

[di-se-vycpat]

Chopper be like

And then just

[narramin]

the only plothole in OP I can think of is still the Revolutionaries not noticing goddamn Burgess on their ship to Baltigo… like everyone has obersvation haki now, how tf they missed that? the only explanation is that they got blackout drunk celebrating Sabo finally reuniting with Luffy and they mistaked Burgess’ aura to the hangover

[narramin]

tbh the whole Sabo-Burgess Dressora interaction grind my gears, bc it feels like it could have gone two ways but kinda got stuck halfway between… it’s when Burgess drops the A-bomb on Sabo to provoke him into further fight. First, Sabo could have just let it go, nice and clean, and it’d have been the end of it all, would have been a nice messege, vengence doesn’t bring Ace back, etc. though Burgess just could have not fucking mentioned Ace again so that we can cry over him the 5434th time, but hey, that’s what we got.

But! if Sabo did fucking decide that his policy is firefisting dicks like him in the face, how in the goddam hell is he still alive??? i’m really pro-”dont kill villians” bc their narrative later can be so much better than the one minute thrill when they get what the deserve, espically in One Piece where we get ex-villian delights like Crocoboy or Bon-chan, but in this case it’s just so goddamn unsatisfactory. Like Sabo uses his brother’s fruit and attack to deck him?? and even says something like “revenge is best flaming hot, hoes, it was Ace through the Mera mera” so we already write Brugess off??  and then he just fucking turns up later?? and even fucks up Baltigo? it just doesn’t make any sense. any of the other two options would have just worked fine. Or even just clarifying that Sabo in fact, did not kill him.  

and I’m saying this while I’m prefectly aware of the fact Burgess can still come “handy” later, I personally think he’s a really good character especially compared to his screentime, and it’s a lot better to know most of the villians by the time we get to fight them, so it’s not a clusterfuck of “uhh, who is that and why should I care”, and we *will* get to the Blackbeard pirates soon for sure… like imagine Marineford if you didn’t know all the shcihibukai and most of the marines and the prison squad there, 80% of your mental energy would have been down the drain, to keep track on who is who, so. but this, with Burgess?? It could have been handled so much better

[lupus-incidus]

It's occurred to me that my main passion project, my magnum opus of writing, something I've been working on since I was 13 and I'm now 20, has spiralled into something much bigger than I ever planned.

It would probably be best described as young adult contemporary urban low fantasy with magical realism meets mystery and action with elements of romance, plus at some point I want to write a side story that connects to it that's set in the same universe that's portal fantasy to a world of high fantasy with themes of rebellion and again some romance...and this is all so much more than 13 year old me could have ever dreamed of creating; such a stretch from the happy go lucky story about a bunch of vaguely magical teens at school. So on one hand, I'm proud of how far I've come. On the other, I have to wrangle this jumbled mess of ideas into something coherent and enjoyable 😂

It's going to be a fun challenge, so long as I can actually convince myself to start chipping away at it instead of remaining so absolutely crippled by the fear that I won't do it justice.

This must be the third or fourth time I've begun rewriting it. Wish me luck?

/You know, to make this worse, I haven't written consistently for over two years until recently and I'm having to ease myself back into it writing a fanfiction. Something I don't at all regret and that I'm enjoying immensely and I feel very grateful that I suddenly found myself with the inspiration to write again at all, as I had begun to worry I had somehow grown out of this thing I enjoy so much. But I can't help but feel a little guilty that I'm always talking about doing, but never actually DOING when it comes to this magnum opus of mine.

[buttpoems]

[lupus-incidus]

Uh here's a bunch of random sketches and WIPs because why not? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[lupus-incidus]

I already posted this on Instagram and I'm more active there but I'm trying to remind myself to actually use my other socials and I do prefer Tumblr over Twitter, so.

Here's a WIP of a fanart for Methyl Nitrate Pineapples by @ohpineapples (I am so so so sorry for tagging you so often you don't need to respond to the at all I just have to credit you properly when I mention your fic 😭)

Another sketch dump post will follow this I think

[amritashower]

the face of regret™

[lupus-incidus]

Law's expressions are the best 😂

[amritashower]

M Y S T E R Y

[animangaedits]

© twitter | kittykkshi

[lupus-incidus]

I love this man maybe a tad too much

[hylianhick]

nope

[mingofriend]

Boom Boom Pow

[lupus-incidus]

This is too funny 😂

[mairights]

writer asks 📃

send these to a writer you know or answer some yourself!

ink: what do you do to “set the mood” when writing?

pen and paper: do you prefer writing by hand or on a device? why?

diary: how many pieces have you written that are just for you or will never see the light of day?

journal: do you ever write just so you can enjoy something to read?

novella: do you prefer to write short stories, one-shots, or entire novels?

pulitzer: tell about/link a piece where you fielt your writing was the best.

genre: what genre do you prefer to write in?

narrator: what pov do you like writing in best?

backstory: how did you come to love writing?

time-lapse: how long have you been writing (as a hobby or for work)?

characterization: describe your favorite character(s) you’ve written.

carnegie: what authors and/or books/stories have inspired you to write or influenced your work?

faulkner: what tropes do you LOVE writing? which ones are your guilty pleasure?

o’connor: what tropes/genres do you dislike writing?

dickinson: what insecurities do you have about your own writing? what do you think you should improve on?

playlist: what kind of music/songs help you write? do you have a writing playlist?

record: have you written things based off of songs? do you like to?

nobel: have you published anything you’ve written? online or irl?

notepad: can you write anywhere or do you have to be in a specific place and mood to write?

parchment: how often do you or your personal life influence your writing?

dedication: if you were to publish a book or multiple, who would you dedicate the book(s) to?

trope: what’s a pet peeve you have about writing?

input: what’s something you hate that people say to you about writing/your writing?

critic: what’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received about writing?

mifflin: what do you feel is your strong suit in writing?

houghton: what’s something you love that people compliment your pieces on?

[lupus-incidus]

I don't know if anyone actually follows me on here haha, but in case they do!