Sleep? What sleep?

This is side blog to post fics I wrote at 1 am or other random times.

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

[mythicalwashrag]

[useful-info-haver]

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

There's more to do actually, now

go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google

[vortex-vt]

We jailbreaking browsers now lmao

[writing-prompt-s]

"So archmage, how do one use magic like you? The way you do it seems to defy the laws of magic itself!" "It's easy, really, you just need to open the system console and type in- Oh right, you people aren't supposed to know about it, sorry then."

[random1amfics]

Some evil bad guy: I am the New God! Bow before me! Praise my existence-

Morally Grey Protagonist *bitch slaps that loser*: Shut up, poser. I kill Gods for fun and they talk less than you.

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[khashanakalashtar]

My computer is so quiet and reasonably-temperatured now and I barely notice a difference in utility, why is windows like this

maybe I can even play computer games again

[paintpencilink]

The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.

10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.

Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")

The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.

[writing-prompt-s]

You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?”

[random1amfics]

You invited her in and made her a cup of tea.

You needed a bit of time to process this existence of a person that yes, you accept the responsibility for creating her but not bringing it into reality.

You gave her... what name had you given her again? It's been so long. You remember looking through all those unique baby names and their meaning, searching for the perfect one that just fits. You also remembered changing it a few times.

First, it was Anika, then Hilda and then...

"Elpida, right?" You said as you handed her the cup which she accepted.

That was a good sign... hopefully.

Elpida gave you a thin smile. "I am grateful that you remember me."

"I do. Just took me a while to remember." You replied. "I created you."

"You did and you left. Abandoned me and the world you created."

You remembered that you gave her a sharp tongue and the fury of a sun.

"I did."

"Why?"

That was the big question.

You studied her.

She had black hair like yours and eyes a brilliant gold that you wish you had. She had dark blue scales dotting her cheekbones and sides of her neck to show the dragon blood in her veins. Her sword, Night Seeker, hung by her side.

In short, the person you envied and yet seeked to be.

You took in a short breath and laughed.

"I have so many excuses I could say. I didn't have time. I was too busy. I had my heart broken. I thought that I didn't have what it takes to finish it. But none of them are true."

Elpida was listening. Logical and reasonable. Just like you wrote her to be. Even if her anger raged in her eyes.

The truth was that you were afraid.

The 'Flames of Night' was your first time writing down the stories in your head. You poured your heart into it. You put everything you had into it. Each day, when you came home, you opened that little book reserved just for writing Flames of Night and wrote.

You wrote about Elpida's childhood and how happy she was.

You wrote about Elpida meeting her wise mentor who laid out the path for her.

You wrote about all the friends that Elpida made out of her enemies by using her wit and charm. One of them destined to be her true love.

You wrote about Elpida and her talent to be good at everything on the first try.

You wrote about Elpida finding the Night Seeker and going on a journey and travel her world.

You wrote so you could be Elpida and not you. You who didn't had the happiest childhood.

You who didn't have someone wise to support you and show you how you should love your life. You who stumbled on your own path blindly and tried to make the best out of it.

You who was alone with neither enemies or friends to fight, love and laugh with. You who wanted a prince that saw the worst in you and still thought yes, this is the woman I love.

You who easily got frustrated and gave up too easily and never master the skills you wished you had.

You who wished to have something to defend yourself from being hurt.

You who wished to see the world other than the grey world of your home.

You had great memories of Elpida. So the question was whay did you let her go?

"The truth is that I outgrew you."

"What?"

"I could no longer keep writing your adventures. Not when I was going on my own."

"So you just stopped."

"Half of the reason I was writing was because I was jealous. You had everything handed to you on a silver platter. I made it that way but yet, i couldn't help but resent you for it."

She waited for you to continue, eyes knowing.

"There was a day when I came home mad. My parents certainly didn't make it better. The book was there and I had wrote your wedding to Percival. And how happy you were. And I..."

You closed your eyes. Not brave enough to see Elpida's face once she learned the truth.

"I wanted to kill you. I had it all planned out in my head on how you were going to die. I nearly did it..." You confessed. "But the pen I was using... the ink ran out. So I couldn't do it."

You remember the shock you felt as you realized what was going on.

For all that you resent and envy Elpida for her perfect life. You loved her as your own child. For she was birthed from your mind. Breathed in life through the strokes of your pen.

And you were going to murder her. An innocent who didn't deserve your anger.

That's when you realized that you had to get your shit together.

Clearly, Elpida wasn't ever going to come out of that little book and magically fix your grades, make you friends, or deal with your parents.

You are the one who can.

So you did.

And you found something more.

"I got what I wanted. My own adventures, my own friends, even the love of my life. So the reason I forsake you was because you got your happy ever after. It was time for me to go find mine."

[random1amfics]

"Mother, I will leave and sleep with wild animals and live off berries if you try to drag me into another gala."

[writingmaz]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[herstories]

omg this is so helpful

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[writing-prompt-s]

Your kingdom has fallen. As one of the royal family, you are sentenced to death by a monster cage fight. The enemy sorcerer has summoned otherworldly black slime. As you are being helplessly engulfed by the nameless monster, you hear a voice, "We are not nameless, they call us Venom."

[writing-prompt-s]

When you were brought to Camp Half-Blood, you were told that one of your parents is a Greek god or goddess. You were supposed to be claimed as soon as you got to Camp, but you weren’t. When you’re finally claimed at the bonfire, your godly parent is not what people expect.

[arty-chase]

"Well, that's... that is unexpected." Chiron said.

I looked around. The campers had broken out into whispers of confusion. I turned to my cousin, who also looked baffled by the sign.

"Hey, Annabeth, is my father some minor god that no one ever heard of?" I asked, then pleaded. "Please tell me that's the case."

"Well... he's not any Greek god I heard of." She answered with a thoughtful frown.

"Oh..."

Then, I realised what she said.

"Oh."

I wanted to grab her shoulders and shake her for answers. Because what does she mean that my father is not a Greek god that people here never heard of?!

That's exactly what I did.

"She's right. Your father is not of our patheon." Chiron said in that solemn wise wizardly way. Then, he turned to address to the campers:

"All Hail, Magnus Chase. Son of Frey of Vanir, god of Summer."

-

So my dad is a Norse god.

Apparently, Annabeth, my cousin whose mother is the Greek goddess: Athena, says that she had faced the cross-patheon thing before.

Twice.

There was a Roman camp in California which sounds a year-long military boot camp and apparently Brooklyn has Egyptian magicians?

Chiron said he has some friends he can call who could connect me to Norse demigod children.

Unfortunately, he says, that he doesn't know if the Norse demigods have their own camp or not.

And that's totally unfair.

The Greeks get a summer camp.

The Romans got a military base.

The Egytians got a magic mansion.

And the Norse? It's Ha Ha get wrecked, you're on your own kid.

What is even my life?

[arty-chase]

Let's Play Who's the Male Lead in this Manhwa

Is it:

The Black Hair with Red Eyes

Blond Crown Prince

Brother's Best Friend

Former Slave turned Knight

Northern Duke

Tragic Backstory and Daddy Issues

Mysterious Magician/ Guild Master

All of the Above (Harem edition)

Other (put in tags)

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2025

[writing-prompt-s]

"So, what immortality do you have?" "What?" "Well everybody in this room has a type of immortality, I got hyper regeneration, the guy over the is a lich, the girl in leather can save and reload, and I am not bothered enough to keep talking so what is your immortality?"

[writing-prompt-s]

Three days before you're set to graduate, you are sent to the principals office for the first time. They're disappointed in you, and say the only way for you to graduate is to go back in time, and do school again, starting with kindergarten.

[random1amfics]

You protested.

They just shook their head and told you that it was the only way. Hopefully, you can do a better job the second time.

You tried to get to them before they pressed the button that would send you back.

You failed

...just like you had intended.

You woke up again for the first day of kindergarden.

For the 68th time.

Grinning, you headed downstairs and hugged your mom.

This time, it will work. You will save your family. Even if you will never graduate.

[writing-prompt-s]

You, a retired villian by choice, have just received new about your grandchild, a hero, being falsely accused of crimes he didn't commit causing you to demonstrate why you retired.

[random1amfics]

FL who had been stuck in a regression loop due to a curse from the gods.

ML who had regressed for the first time to fix things.

FL, looking at ML's terrible attempts to fix things: Damn, you are really bad at this.

FL who had fix it all before once but never bothered to do it this time bc it was so tedious and it doesn't matter when it reset again anyways and eating popcorn as ML's attempts escalates: He's so adorable if he thinks that is going to work.

FL calmly looking on as ML gets betrayed by someone who he thought was an ally: it sucks, doesn't it. He is such a two-faced bitch to me too.

ML regressed again. This time, FL just thought how about I spare this poor boy the trouble this time. And she went and fix shit.

[writing-prompt-s]

You, a supervillain, are very confused as to why your superhero-nemesis is rampaging through your lair screaming something about you kidnapping their girlfriend. Meanwhile your daughter, who has come to visit you, seems very nervous and is anxious to leave your lair.

[arty-chase]

Doctor Malice, no Dr. Leo Synder sighed as he watched the security footage of the Annoyance trashing his lair. There goes a month’s hard work. He thought as a high military grade tank prototype gets destroyed.

He turned to face his anxious-looking daughter and asked, “What did you do?”

“Well… promise you won’t be mad?”

He folded his arm and raised his eyebrow. The picture of a skeptical parent.

“That remains to be seen.”

He continued his best parent stare. Years of being a supervillain with many minions and being a parent had him perfecting the art of staring down until the victim broke down and confess their wrong.

Keep reading

[random1amfics]

Random Medieval Person: That is a great and terrible beast

Average Fantasy Reader (stars in their eyes and in awe): That's a dragon!

*dreams of Taming it and going on dragon adventures*

[screamingatanemptyroom]

Please Fix The Story! Masterpost

Summary: I don’t know who I am. I don’t know why I’m trapped in this never ending cycle of rebirth. All I know is that I wake up inside the worlds of unfinished stories, with a mission to accomplish the author’s wishes and stabilize the worlds now headed for destruction. I do my best, hoping, praying that maybe if I complete enough missions, I’ll be able to remember my past and return to my home.

It’s just fixing stories, it should be simple enough.

So can someone explain who this random villain is who keeps following me to each world?

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Reverse Harem - pt 1

Zombie Apocalypse - pt 2 / 3 / 4 

Elven Fantasy - pt 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10/ 11

Vampire Romance - pt 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17

Sci-Fi - 18 / 19 / 20 / 21/ 22 / 23 / 24

Higher Realm - 25 / 26 / 27/ 28

It can be read on Wattpad and AO3 as well!