Queen Queso

30s; she/her or they/them; Not always the best at tagging but feel free to ask me to

[queenqueso]

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I always forget these are a Thing now but

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[theudonlord]

REVENGE on @krowfaced !!

Had SO much fun drawing this dude! I made him a little wormy in terms of anatomy, sorry i just wanted to push the pose—his design calls for movement!!! XD

I hope you like :>>

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[satans-trek]

By popular demand: Avery Brooks (Extended Edition)

[spookberry]

sweetly dreaming

[mysharona1987]

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[gonzocoded]

don’t ever kill your self because maybe someday you will get brunch with your tumblr mutual

[torstherapy]

[phleb0tomist]

so many people ive known have pushed themselves to burnout trying to deny their disabled reality, skipping accommodations, skipping rests etc. and the world convinces them that the solution to their burnout is to push even harder. it’s a huge tragedy. i know social pressures make it tough but i want more disabled people to make things easier for themselves where possible, to opt out of things that harm them when possible, to quit while they’re ahead. be that person today! protect yourself where you can! take micro breaks while doing your hobby. get that shower chair. sit to brush your teeth. lie down in the middle of the day, even if only for 5 mins. these things add up and it’s so worth it.

[phleb0tomist]

happy disability pride month! ACCOMMODATE YOURSELF TODAY!

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[winchysteria]

the only true ally

[maggiecheungs]

"What did you hope to gain by pursuing the power to grant miracles...?"

REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA 🌹 EP 29: AZURE PALER THAN THE SKY

[kallistoi]

[image description: a gifset of a clip from revolutionary girl utena. juri gasps as her locket falls to the ground and shatters in the middle of a duel. she staggers, clutching her chest where the locket used to be. end description.]

[plain text: What did you hope to gain by pursuing the power to grant miracles...?"

Revolutionary Girl Utena 🌹 Ep 29: Azure Paler Than The Sky]

[onecells]

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

GET LOVED!!!!!!!!!!

[nedlittle]

Wildfires in northern Ontario force First Nations to flee

Several wildfires are forcing members of a number of First Nations to flee their homes in northern Ontario.

“I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town. “Once we left my house finally after packing what I could in a pack sack, the fire was right behind our place. We had to run to the beach and once we got there, it was only moments before the fire had jumped over the (train) track and was coming for us.”

it has since been confirmed that namaygoosisagagun first nation has completely burnt to the ground. if you would like to help the community navigate an ongoing crisis, i urge you to donate to the anishinabek nation 7th generation, a registered charity seeking to improve the lives of first nations people. donations are going directly to members of namaygoosisagagun first nation.

if you're canadian, you can e-transfer [email protected]. if you're outside canada, they accept paypal as well. see more information HERE

[xekstrin]

hi! I read your past couple of asks on the importance of an id list/sexy turtle enclosure and could I trouble you to speak more on that? how do you figure out what goes in your sexy turtle enclosure, and how does that translate into writing smut?

if that's too much work, could you point towards the sierra simone/nikki sloane resource where they talk about it?

Sadly this was an in-person workshop during Romancing The Craft about three years back! There’s no video or blog

I did save the pamphlet though, and here’s the sexy turtle enclosure part

I’ll transcribe these pages and discuss my thoughts on them once i’m home from my walkies~

[xekstrin]

Transcript under the cut

Page one:

THINKING ABOUT YOUR EROTIC VOICE

This is about identifying what you love to write, and what specifically makes your books your books. This is very closely related to brand, but while branding is a front-of-the-house conception, this is purely back-of-the-house. You will definitely use what you come up with here for branding purposes later, but for now don't worry about making anything sound pithy or catchy.

Starting points for identifying voice:

• What makes your work, your work?

• What is your personal ethos, your mythos even?

• What is your voice?

What sets your voice apart?

What are the kinds of stories only you can tell?

Only you are this precise fusion of experience, hopes, dreams, turn-ons, random bits of knowledge and fascinations--what are the stories that come out of that precise fusion?

More starting points:

• when a reader picks up a book written by me, they can expect…. (Blank space here)

• I want to be known for writing books that… (blank space here)

• if I had to write the same kind of book for the next three years, what book would I want it to be?

The most important parts of this entire exercise are the why—why do you write— and the specifics.

Why: Why do you write? What drives you to the keyboard? What was the last story that you had to write, that energized the heck out of you to create? How can you turn that into a way forward creatively?

Get specific: Even a broad vision should have something specific to you and your work—if you're thinking your brand is something like small town romance, then you're in good company—with at least five hundred other authors. Start figuring out what is particular to your stories. Small town and they all have nerdy characters? Small town and featuring queer characters? Small town and all heroines in their thirties/forties? Get as granular as you can!

Drill down, and remember-this is for you, not for marketing (yet).

What you want to identify is what is uniquely you. Your patch of the forest.

You're creating a voice and a vision and a space for stories that readers will come to recognize as a destination.

Page two:

APPROACHES TO WRITING EROTIC

THE TORTOISE ENCLOSURE (OR THE SEXY HOLODECK):

How do I write sex knowing that my well-meaning aunt/sister/bestie/dog groomer will insist on reading it?

We hear a lot about silencing the inner editor when we write, and we definitely need to do that, but we also need to silence our inner pearl-clutcher. We have to ignore our generated projections of what we think the people around us will say.

A friend once sent me a speech by John Cleese about creativity, and he talks about this idea of a tortoise enclosure. He says that the creative brain is a deep and slow thinking brain, and it needs space away from the hustle and necessities of productivity in order to work properly.

I think we need a tortoise enclosure for erotic thinking as well. A mental maybe even physical space-that is entirely free of external voices and pressures.

Go wild.

Fantasize deeply.

You're in the sexy tortoise enclosure now and you're safe to be as dirty as you want.

Everything—plot, setting, details—comes through an erotic lens now:

Everything— not just sex—is now sexy.

Think of billionaire romances you've read-sleek cars, bespoke suits, floor to ceiling windows in giant offices. Think of Twilight. The book that launched thousands of fanfics even though there's no actual sex in it all. You can achieve an atmosphere of sensuality before you ever unzip a single zipper.

Food is sexy! Clothes are sexy! Architecture is sexy! Health insurance is sexy! Everything is sexy!

We're in our tortoise enclosure/sexy holodeck and everything is sexy here!

And remember, once you leave the sexy holodeck, if you aren't sure how your scene might go over, have no fear! If you are turned on by something, there are readers out there who will be turned on by it too.

That's the Sloane & Simone guarantee.

End transcript

So the “id list” (id as in ego, superego) was another thing they went over in person and wasn’t on the worksheet, but pretty much the gist of it was similar enough to the above two that I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say. Your id list is just a collection— written or not— of things, sensations, or concepts that always get your hindbrain going. Simone listed “broody men in greatcoats” as a big thing on her id list, for example. I’m pretty sure “big old libraries” was mentioned, too.

On my id list is, obviously, “tall women with black hair and top energy” and “stoic people losing composure”

You don’t need to know what’s on your list right away. This is the kind of thing that takes a few decades of writing to develop, I think.

But a good place to start is the next time you write something and think “i’m cooking with gas!” write down some of the things that are in that story on your tentative id list and see if they pop up again. Don’t consult your id list like a pokedex! Let it sit on its own corner and ferment a bit in darkness while you forget about it and indulge deeply in your next creative project.

A lot of the stuff in this workshop turned out to be stuff I was already doing, albeit subconsciously. When I allowed myself to dig deep and start doing them with intention, I noticed an improvement in my writing.

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