One-Shots Fun Shots

A collection of quick and easy one-shots to avoid zoom fatigue and lagging sessions.

[snippit-crickit]

runrunrunnn lil guy!!!!!!

i wanted to try traditional animation for a while and heres a cute little guy inspod by sonnyelim ; 3 and here are the seperate frames as well

[skelotan]

Thanks for reading. <3

[theninthmember]

ok I get Jax didn’t turn to the camera and say “I’m a trans woman” but it pisses me off how many people are still apparently resistant to the idea, because the show pretty much did everything short of that.

Spoilers under cut. Obviously.

like ok. Let’s just talk about the scene with Ribbit. Jax doesn’t just say she told her mom a secret that could have been anything, insert headcanon here. She says she told her mom something very personal about herself that she thought would get her off her back—and this was right after explaining that her mom was projecting all of her complicated feelings about Jax’s dad onto her and was constantly comparing her level of masculinity to his.

I can’t think of anything that plausibly fits both “very personal secret” and “might make mom stop thinking of me as an extension of my dad” save for “hey mom I’m actually not a man at all.” (And then also is something that would make her mom laugh, berate her—really viciously from the sounds of it—for an extended period, and then hug her, all in sequence.)

And then in response, Ribbit puts a bow on Jax’s head and says “Your secret is safe with me.” Which obviously on its face is about the story that Jax just shared—but combined with the action of gifting her a feminine accessory, it’s also a clear indication that Ribbit put 2 and 2 together about what Jax told her mom, and will keep that secret safe too. If the secret ISN’T that she’s trans, you lose the double meaning, and the pairing of those words and that action ceases to make sense.

Like sure, I guess you can take whatever secret you want and clumsily argue for it by making up reasons it technically fits all the criteria—not like I can stop you—but let’s be serious here. there is CLEARLY an intention you are choosing to ignore if you do that. At this point, Jax being transfem is the Occam’s razor answer to pretty much every question about her characterization and backstory. and there is a reason you are so resistant to acknowledge that.

[oneshotsfunshots]

Hi! I recently got a cool idea for a homebrew one-shot but I have no idea how to actually structure a one-shot, and all the online guides focus more on the story/plot elements and not like. How to actually put those ideas onto paper. I really like all the one-shots you make and was wondering if you had any tips/advice for a total noob on how to translate an idea into something actually playable ^-^"

I'm so sorry to this person. I had never looked at my inbox once since starting this blog.

[shoujowill]

I feel like I sometimes sound like a broken record, but I just want to point out that the "absolutely everything means something" approach to analysis does not accurately reflect how long-form TV production works. It's almost impossible for everyone to be on the same page about absolutely everything. While many background details and hints regarding major plot points can intentionally be put there for people to notice and analyse, the final product is at the mercy of so many different things: a shifting writers room, costume and set designers who have their own trademarks, the script landing differently in the hands of actors with their own quirks and inflections... the list goes on. Ideas go through so many levels before they hit the screen.

I was thinking about this after watching this great video essay about how Gravity Falls, which is my favourite show of all time, was written. Overall, it stands as an incredible example of how to plan and execute a long-con mystery with engaging hints and details -- but also a great example of how fandoms sometimes don't understand how TV production works and as a result can overly-mythologise the *power* of showrunners and details and how it all comes together. Even something like GF, which is upheld as like the golden standard of mystery shows, had its fair share of animation errors and stuff made up on the fly. IMO, the difference is that the GF production team -- unlike that of ST -- had a clear understanding of the scope of the show, and were also great at improvising and making sure they did something with the unplanned ideas they threw in there, but that's not the point of this post haha.

This is part of why the "media literacy yadayayda" stuff that constantly gets used as a "gotcha" argument in conspiracy shipping/analysis rubs me the wrong way. Media literacy isn't just about how far you can read into things. In the context of fandom discussion, it's about understanding that shows are works of fiction and thus are at the mercy of the environment it was produced in (both the product itself and what themes/meanings are communicated within it and how). You can't always analyse and make accurate predictions as if it were something completely independent of the production environment. You need to understand the context of the work and the associated limitations of said context. Obligatory 'yes we can still point out and criticise bad writing' note, but I also just want to acknowledge the nuance here and how fandom environments can also contribute to disappointment.

This got kind of rambly and might not be super concise or thought-out but it's something I've been thinking about as a kind of ex-bylr (??? or at least as someone who participated in this kind of flawed analysis when I was a younger teen. And I'm not necessarily just talking about ships here, but also about the overall show lore and how disappointing it is. It's frustrating, but also not a mystery about how it got to that point).

[nonbinary-wrath-month]

The reason why so many of y'all's feminism sucks is because you still believe deep down in your hearts that there are only two kinds of people in the world: precious, ethereal, fragile dollthings called "women", and violent, lustful, rage-fueled apes called "men". Until you throw that idea away, 3rd-grade-tier "girls rule boys drool, girls are princesses and boys are stinky :(" is as feminist as we'll ever get-- and I hope it's obvious that that's lightyears away from the bare minimum of where we need to be.

[nonbinary-wrath-month]

I don't know how I'm supposed to explain to ostensibly trans-friendly feminists that "women are beautiful soft things made of glass, men are obsessed with violence and sex" is exactly what the patriarchy wants you to believe. Patriarchy wants you to believe that being a woman and/or having a vagina (patriarchy generally believes those two things are synonymous) makes one shatter on impact with reality. It makes you easier to control if you are scared shitless of the other half of the population, and it makes you more compliant with your lot in life if you believe it is in the nature of the other half of the population to rape and kill rather than realise those were choices those individual rapists and murderers made. There is no way to make gender essentialism progressive and feminist, because it is one of patriarchy's tools of subjugation. Stop trying to make it progressive.

And I can scream all of that from the rooftops over and over again, and what I hear in reply is "Trans men really are men because no woman would ever decide to become an inherently evil repugnant rapist ape", and "You're so right. Trans women are women because they too are pretty delicate little objects I can fuck", and "You're non-binary? So are you fucktoy non-binary or sexpest non-binary?", and my patience runs ever thinner.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[annadante-deactivated20260710]

I think nothing will ever manage to communicate the complete feeling of inadequacy I have in my creative work like his video.

People rarely talk about creative envy because "what do you mean you're envious of another creative who at the same time inspires you but also pinpoints exactly what parts of your skills are completely inadequate and how can you never achieve the same level of mastery as the piece of art that inspired you."

It sounds strange, and arbitrary and clearly a "you" problem.

I don't know how to solve it but it was nice hearing it articulated.

[oneshotsfunshots]

I can really relate to my envy dissuading me from seeing good art.

[making-friendos]

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[oneshotsfunshots]

Why is every fictional duo siblings now? Don’t you people have friends?

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[oneshotsfunshots]

The other thing is that the “laws are threats” line was originally and always heightened for the purposes of a joke. Within one second, Brennan went into his brain and decided the funniest thing for this innocent halfling to be was an anarcho-socialist so he pulled out some political theory. People laughed so that became the game of the character. He escalated it. That’s how improv works.

It was never a mission statement of the media company. It was a bit that they put on a mug.

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

lets bring back sheetwares

[hostagesandsnacks]

also chlamys:

and exomis:

[hidingthemane-deactivated201801]

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

[awhiffofcavendish]

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

[goys2men]

That last one looks dope

[moniquill]

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

[hc-svnt-dracones]

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

[pendragyn]

ancient Egyptian robes

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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[marlynnofmany]

Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

[tieras]

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

[assessthatdress]

[oneshotsfunshots]

Sharing this nugget of wisdom that I use instead of challenge rating.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

re: the loneliness epidemic post, it's genuinely so so so hard right now as someone whose Job is organizing events for LGBT university students. our whole goal is to help them find peers to connect with, but it often feels like they're working against us.

not on purpose, of course, and I never want to sound like I'm blaming students for their own feelings of isolation. there are a lot of factors that make it hard to socialize, ranging from a very full class/work schedule to various neurodivergences to the majority white attendance at many campus activities to the fact that many of these students spent some formative years in quarantine.

but man, it's hard when students talk about feeling hated and unwanted by a club because no one there talks to them, only to drop that they never even try to initiate any conversation themselves. or when a student complains that they're not making any friends on campus, but when asked where they're going to meet people outside of class they seem confused and say they hardly leave their dorm for anything but class. we're currently administering an anonymous survey to assess student satisfaction with our programs, and one person wrote that they'd like to attend more of our events but don't because they don't know anyone there and don't know what the vibe will be. the solution to both of those problems feels very obvious, to me, and it's frustrating to see mild uncertainty be such a hurdle.

especially given that, again, these are queer young people, who a.) have a lot of reasons to despair right now and b.) have a lot of awful online spaces they could be spending time in instead of touching grass, it's a fucking bummer to see them so wary of hanging out in physical space with real people.

[oneshotsfunshots]

It sucks to acknowledge that I was definitely this kind of student at university. And it sucks to see myself repeating some of the same thought patterns now, with my move to LA and my attempts to forge a new circle of friends out here.

I think what could have helped me the most in that time is someone sitting me down, and telling me, somewhat sternly, that socializing is like any other skill. If it’s something you feel like you haven’t practiced much, it’s going to feel difficult when you do. And when you start, you likely won’t see results straight away, same as going to the gym. But same as going to the gym, what matters most is that you keep showing up. Feel proud of showing up. Every time you show up, you might make a friend. You also may not. It might be better, even, to acknowledge slim odds. Keep your expectations measured and all that. Because really, just showing up is still something you can feel good about.

It will be difficult. But there’s a lot of space between difficult and impossible. You’ve done difficult things before.

[creekmotel]

[tsava]

Happy Sea of Sorrow announcement day!

Song "Glowing," by the oh hellos