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ming111111

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ming111111

Happy birthday! The new PMV has been posted on YouTube.

demaparbat-hp

Zuko painted his skin red each night with the even strokes of a prayer.

This was no Blue Spirit of the Deep Waters. This was Zuko and his rage. Zuko and his shame. Zuko and the cloak he donned in honor of the legend of a woman who covered her scars in paint and turned her grief into light.

Drenched in red and covered in shadows, the Painted Ghost bends lightning and flame in search of retribution.

This is Zuko's character design in Imperfect Canvass, a role reversal AU.

demaparbat-hp

Here I am, pushing the Jian Li (Akai Kotou! Zuko) = Jinshi (The Apothecary Diaries) agenda.

demaparbat-hp

Akai Kotou — Chapter V: Nothing To Fear

Read here!

“So...who is he?”

“The, uh, the one in charge of taking care of Appa. And Momo. I think.” Katara fiddles with her braid and looks away. She tries not to choke when saying his name. “Jian Li.”

The boys tilt their heads in question.

I will not blush I will not blush I will not—

“The golden-eyed boy.”

Sokka groans and smacks his face against the tatami. “Why am I not surprised?”

maltedmilkchocolate

Time blindness is the weirdest aspect of executive dysfunction and so weird as an experience to live with. It’s like you see the clock, the clock says 3pm, you look at the clock again and it’s 3:02, then 3:05, and then you look again and it’s 8pm and WHAT THE FUCK.

You don’t even need hyperfocus. But hyperfocus is like the Warp Speed:tm: version cause when that hits, it’s 3pm and then it’s the next day and why is the sun rising and when did i last eat and oh god i need to use the bathroom. And oh, also, you’re EXHAUSTED. The act of your brain tunnel visioning on something drains you (but that’s another topic).

Time blindness is…. having the general knowledge that today is Wednesday, and you need to do something on Thursday. Thursday is logically tomorrow, but the mysterious void of time is like ‘that’s like next week or something.’ It’s knowing you have to do something in three weeks on the 21st. And as the days creep closer, the 21st is stuck in a constant state of still being 3 weeks away, despite the fact it’s now tomorrow.

It’s wild. ADHD is literally living in a constant state of “There is Now. And there is Later.” and there’s no in between; no dates, no times; no hours, weeks, or months. It’s just Now and Later, and oh god why is is X o’clock already!?

watchoutfordinosaurs

Maybe I DO have ADHD….

jumpingjacktrash

god, no one’s ever succeeded at describing this for me before.

randomslasher

I spent 2 weeks “not worrying” about prepping for an upcoming class because it was still 3 weeks away and didn’t really realize it wasn’t 3 weeks anymore until Wednesday the week before the class began, then spent 3 days scrambling around to get all the prep work done.

This is a really accurate description of this really bizarre and inconvenient piece of ADHD.

sarahtaylorgibson

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

audacityinblack

You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.

Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.

First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.

Example:

Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.

Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.

There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.

There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.

There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.

Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.

Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.

Mages who only wanted to see the sun.

This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.

sarahtaylorgibson

Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice.

ariaste

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book.

just-a-jumbled-writer

Holy shit.

shiraglassman

These sound like techniques for making prose have more in common with poetry, or even with music. I just put the book on hold at the library!

wolfie170

I’d also like to recommend The Sentence Is A Lonely Place by Gary Lutz if you’re interested in poetics (that is, clever lyrical writing techniques like these)

min-min-minnie

pro hero deku constantly hypes his friends’ brands bc he loves them :’)

candid photos of when he’s out in civilian clothes show that there’s always at least 1 hero merch item on his body… blogs will religiously catalog his collection

kayrowsyrup

ADHD and Autism.

Expections

Baby uwu

Soft

Cover and pillow forts

Shy

Adorable

Reailty

Getting upset cause you misunderstood what someone meant/said

Jokes usually fly over your head

Sudden bursts of happiness and excitement

Suddenly feeling like shit and not wanting to do anything

Wanting and knowing you have to do the thing but brain and body say nope!

Feeling like a burden

Hyperfixations that can last from just a few hours to YEARS

Flappy hands

Bouncing leg

Extreme emotions

Easily discreacted

Clingy

Handsy

Not able to explain things very well cause your brain and thoughts is running ahead of what you need or want to say

Mental breakdowns cause your brain tells you that your friends not longer care about you.

Like f everything from your favorite artist and then worrying if that seems stalkerish

Being treated like a child

People using you as a way to get ‘woke points’.

I’m sure there’s more but I have no idea what else to put.

randomarchivedthoughts

well… shit

smolfairy-deactivated20150914

dere you go

oursidae

ey you lil shits

lets just talk about this here cookie recipe

this shit

the

BOMB

HOLY SHIT

I JUST FINISHED THIS AND WOW IT TASTES AMAZING

YES

WONDERFUL

1000000/10 WOULD ATE AGAIN

smolfairy-deactivated20150914

yAy

post-and-out

For magic improvements on thing that is already perfect:

Use one spoon white sugar, and one spoon brown if you have it.

After microwave, before noms, add vanilla ice cream.

\o/

fan-troll

salt is a flavour enhancer, add just a tiny dash, not enough to make it salty.

goldpilot22

Because I love you all.

purple---skye

reblogging cause i need to save this

5bi5

A note for those who have trouble measuring butter with a spoon as I do: one cup I am sixteen tablespoons. Butter/margarine bricks are usually a half a cup, so just cut one eighth of that amount

ironwoman359

These are really good! And yes, for the love of god, if you have it use white sugar and brown sugar, add just a pinch of salt, and as many chocolate chips as you darn well please. Great with icecream, whipped cream on top, or a tall glass of milk (keep in mind you gotta eat it with a spoon, you can’t dip it in milk)

Super college friendly (trust me)

heywriters

per being college-friendly, if you don’t want to go buy ingredients and/or have a cramped living situation:

most restaurants have sugar packets, and i thiiink Starbucks has brown sugar sometimes too. guesstimate from someone who does a lot of baking, about four standard packets should be a tbspn

restaurants also have salt, McDonald’s usually has it in packets. don’t dump a whole packet in, just a dash

individually wrapped butter pats are usually a “fancy” restaurant staple, so idk your economic situation at that point, but if you see'em, snatch'em. two to three of these, depending on size, is a tbspn

vanilla is expensive these days, but the flavor is 100% essential. teeny-tiny bottles exist in most grocery stores, a good size for mug recipes

ofc flour doesn’t come free, but it too is often sold in small packages in many stores, usually cheap

store brand chips, or check for lowered prices on baking ingredients around/after holiday season (I’ve gotten some nice Ghirardelli products during holidays)

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