Several Spoons

My commitment to procrastination is outstanding. I'm not a jerk, I just play one on TV. Header from @fwoopity-doo on Trigun Confessions. Icon is A Drunken Stampede by @ahkaraii

[dangerousbride]

Meryl Stryfe~!! 🔫✨ || (Extra)

[severalspoons]

I love seeing a Meryl who doesn't look like an o.o confused waif. This captures her spirit at a rare calm, happy moment, and shows off her, uh, assets without putting her in a *completely* improbable, uncomfortable pose. I love how she's holding up her gun, too. Great use of perspective here in the angle and sizing, and nice smooth linework. And there's subtle shading that just *works" and doesn't disrupt the whiteness of her uniform. The longer I look the more impressive things I'm noticing.

TL;DR I love this, draw more plz!

[draqua]

There’s a difference between a female character who exists in a story and has a romantic relationship with a male character versus a female character who exists in a story to have a romantic relationship with a male character

[severalspoons]

Yes!

And:

There's a difference between a character who exists in a story and has a romantic relationship with a main character versus a character who exists in a story to have a romantic relationship with the character.

[thevillainfucker]

it's them!!

[severalspoons]

Above by Inferna_Assassin on DeviantArt.

[glazedeye-s]

𝙴𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚢𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚜 // 𝙼𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜.

[howelldaniel]

There’s a fic on fanfiction(.)net that I’ve kept tabs on for years to see if it’s been updated or not. While I’m no longer even in the fandom it’s written for, it just has one of the greatest storylines I’ve ever read. Last time it was updated was 2011.

The other day, I decided to reread the entire thing and leave a very in-depth review of what I thought of each chapter. I also mentioned how I started reading it when I was 13 and am now 21, but always came back to see if it was ever finished because I loved it so dearly.

Today, said author sent me a private message saying that her analytics showed that the story was still getting views even after all these years, but no one ever bothered to leave reviews other than “update soon!!!”, so she never felt motivated enough to finish it. She said that me reviewing every single chapter with lengthy paragraphs made her cry and meant the world to her. She also mentioned that she felt encouraged to write the two remaining chapters needed to complete the story and that she would send me a message the night before she updates the fic.

I’m literally sobbing. I’m so excited :’)

Please always remember to leave a review when reading fanfiction!!! It means a lot to a writer.

[thesparkles59-deactivated201811]

Seriously, this is what keeps us going; YOUR COMMENTS. 

[ashleyfanfic]

And you think my ranting about it is just being salty! It’s not! Reviews can mean the difference between feeling motivated and feeling out of place.

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

It’s how I finished a fic after it sitting unfinished for half a year. Got a long ass review that gave me ideas and then I wrote the last chapter.

[severalspoons]

This is good karma and it works, can confirm.

[dear-ao3]

[severalspoons]

By contrast, I did a fair amount of research for my Regency AU rp, and yet the characters still quote Blue Oyster Cult and a poem about flight from the early 20th century because WHY LET HISTORICAL ACCURACY GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD SAPPY STORY AMIRITE?

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

this was a productive use of my time

[reblog-thisif]

Reblog this if its okay for your followers to introduce themselves to you.

[jamausis]

Just come to my ask box and tell me stuff about yourself. Your pets. Your favorite music. What you had for breakfast this morning. Literally anything you want, I love making new friends

[ivalane]

I’m also Terrible at making new friends, but I don’t bite I promise.

[quotefeeling]

“Life is a balance between rest and movement.”

— Osho

[severalspoons]

And I'm always listing to one side, unable to find the right place in the middle.

[business-as-usual-bats]

Some guy in an avengers Tshirt I just met at a coffee shop: so who's your favorite superhero?

Me too exhausted to explain there's more than one Robin: Batman

Guy: oh! Did you watch the Joker movie? It was surprisingly good for a DC film haha

Me: yeah it was something

Guy: you know they really fucked up on Justice League, but I've got to say Wonder Woman was better than Captain Marvel. Like, we get it, "yay girl power." That's great but it was so over the top. It totally ostracized half of it's audience.

Me: wow really

Guy: yeah. You know, you seem pretty chill. Maybe we could hang out sometime and watch some decent superhero movies? You know, Marvel movies haha

Me: i never asked, who's your favorite hero?

Guy: Iron Man. Like Batman but richer and cooler haha

Me: you know, Batman's rule? No killing?

Guy: yeah?

Me: i have no such rule. Lindsey, I found another one. My usual, please

Lindsey, the barista: *hands me my sword*

Guy: wow that's a poor replica of the God Killer blade, it should have more- *beheaded*

Me: thank god that's over

Lindsey: yeah. Hey want to watch Birds of Prey with me sometime?

Me: oh? You mean like as... a date?

Her: well yeah... is that okay?

Me: of course it's okay! all this time, all these years, i never knew you felt that way

Her: i don't keep a replica of Wonder Woman's sword under the counter for just anyone

Me: i never thought about it that way

Her: *writes her number on the forehead of dead guy* text me ;)

[business-as-usual-bats]

This is gaining notes faster than I thought so either we all know the same annoying guy or this is just what y'all think romance is

[severalspoons]

#you mean that's not romance?! I am disappoint :P

#oh well, there goes my dream for an irl coffee shop au with swords

[batfamquotes]

Bruce Wayne has never looked more like a DILF than when he’s being drawn by Greg Capullo

[marsapartment]

Greg Capullo is absolutely the best Batman artist. The talent his Bruce has. The range.

Mysterious and sexy.

Soulful and soft.

A wholeass man when necessary

And who could forget his boldest entry: Zero Year-Bruce. This baby Batman is a jacked, protein-shake-drinking, mid-20s fuckboi with the freshest fade in Gotham city. But. He is still soft. He has Disney Prince eyebrows and he absolutely knows how to use them.

His Bruce Wayne is so good, but then you have to factor in the most telling component in any Batman artist’s work, and that’s how they draw Robin in relation to Batman.

Perfection.

[insertepithethere]

What’s he doing out here with all this ass

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

That’s why the petty crooks of Gotham are so scared of him. He’s mastered stealth to the point where he can move around with those dummy thicc cheeks and NOT clap them to alert them prematurely.

[severalspoons]

Reblogging because I love a versatile artist drawing a versatile character (ok, mostly for ovenroastedtwerkey's commentary)

what's your favorite Bruce?

[ahkaraii]

logarithmic growth / exponential decay

[severalspoons]

#I'm not crying you're crying

My friends and I were just talking about this the other day and here it appears on my dash...

[quotefeeling]

“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”

— Charles Bukowski

[severalspoons]

Vash: "So you might as well love everybody."

[elftwink]

i will defend improvised storytelling till the day i fucking die i think stories told by people under pressure to do it fast, stories told in collaboration…. that shits gorgeous and ALIVE. have you ever gone to a writing workshop and someone writes the rawest shit in the entire world during a ten minute free write? playing dnd and some dialogue is so moving it makes you wonder how it came from your dumbass friends? got really into one of those ‘one sentence at a time’ campfire story games and ended up making something— totally unrecorded, lost except to the people who were there— that should have been in the fucking moma?

people are full to the BRIM with stories and honing that storytelling into a specific practice (ex. writing) is for sure a learned skill that takes tons of practice to do effectively but…… it’s there. it’s there and anyone can tap into it if they’re given opportunity and an audience to say it to.

look, the point of telling stories is to connect with other people. and all we’ve ever done throughout human history is connect connect connect so is it any wonder when you put a human being in front of an outlet and you say ‘tell me a story’, no one stays silent? 

[severalspoons]

Wolfwood would totally do this (Millie & Wolfwood this time)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

"Oooh...chocolate cheesecake, my favorite!"

Warning: Just this chapter. Some of the others are NSFW.

[severalspoons]

This drabble is beautiful and could have been written for an "explain your ship in 100 words" challenge

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Note: I'm talkng about Chapter 8 specifically. Warning: Some of the other chapters are NSFW. This is MistressRenet we're talking about, after all.

[direcartographies-blog]

a moment of silence for all the fanfiction lost to the ravages of time, unsalvageable even by the wayback machine, condemned to its final resting place in the deactivated archives of fansites for now-syndicated television shows

[formerandromedalogic]

#in the name of geocities angelfire and freewebs amen

[it-is-bugs]

If you know what that hashtag means, you’re old as balls.  

[severalspoons]

Me recently:

Step 1: Look up Trigun on Livejournal.

Step 2: Find Trigun communities, fanfic recommendation communities, writing prompt/request communities, and extremely prolific individual writers...which provide links to fanfic.

Step 3: All the external links and a few of the livejournal links lead to nothing.

Step 4: Do not profit.

Step 5: Reads this post and remembers Wayback Machine exists.

#old enough to remember a but freewebs