The Shards

From our world to yours!

[shardssystem]

Seeing as I primarily use this for fanwalker content (or would like to!), I’ll copy a good idea and make a pinned post of my current roster.

Liya al-Amundi

Human/Spirit — White > Colourless > Variable — Born -2840 AR (2669 ZC), Died -2813 AR (2696 ZC), aged 27.

Plane Of Origin: Melenas

First Planeswalk: Jund

Currently residing on Ravnica

Main Abilities: Possession of potential, unsparked individuals; access to host’s abilities.

Visited Planes Known: Alara, Theros, Tarkir, Innistrad, Ravnica, Lorwyn, Kaladesh, Ecruna, Sym-Po, Amonkhet, Arcavios, Mercadia, Plin, Fiora, Mirrodin.

Vasil Iashvili

Human/Phyrexian/Skeleton — Black — Born -2845 AR (2664 ZC), Died -2813 AR (2696 ZC), aged 32.

Plane Of Origin: Melenas

First Planeswalk: Dominaria

Current whereabouts unknown

Main Abilities: Physical liquid manipulation, limited consciousness infection.

Visited Planes Known: Dominaria, Theros, Tarkir, Ravnica, Arcavios.

Yri

Faerie — Blue/Black

Plane Of Origin: Lorwyn

First Planeswalk: Equilor

Currently residing on Ravnica

Main Abilities: Illusion, Distraction.

Visited Planes Known: Equilor, Ravnica, Plin, Ixalan, Segovia.

Caidi

Ooze — Blue/Green

Plane Of Origin: Ravnica (Planebound)

Main Abilities: Telepathy, Mental Projection, Limited Polymorphism.

Kolya Volowin

Human — White/Blue

Plane Of Origin: Ravnica (Planebound)

Main Abilities: Precognition.

The Coterie Of Effigies - Neris (M), Syren (F), Eyrn (NB)

Human — Blue/Black/Red/Green

Plane Of Origin: Plin

First Planeswalk: Vryn/Zendikar/Kamigawa

Current whereabouts unknown

Main Abilities: Life drain, foresight, limited necromancy, duplication.

Visited Planes Known: Vryn, Zendikar, Kamigawa, Equilor, Kaladesh, Sym-Po.

[vampireautism]

there is an IMAGE in my HEAD and i cannot DRAW IT. hatred and rage.

[flowerflamestars]

there is a CONVERSATION in my HEAD and I cannot WRITE IT. rage and hatred

[ocean-stuck]

there is a VIDEO in my HEAD And i cannot ANIMATE IT. hage and ratred

[y2kbugs-moved]

There is a GAME in my HEAD and I cannot CODE IT. Ratred and hage.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

there is a SONG in my HEAD and I cannot COMPOSE IT. haged and rate.

[gender-luster]

there is a MOVIE in my HEAD and i cannot FILM IT. raged and hate

[yahooo-official]

there is a CRAFT in my HEAD and i cannot BUILD IT. snage and snatred

[the-haiku-bot]

there is a CRAFT in

my HEAD and i cannot BUILD

IT. snage and snatred

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[pantserspen]

How to Fix Underwriting

1. Slow down at emotionally important moments.

Big emotions need space to land. If a scene feels rushed, pause the plot briefly to show how the moment affects the character.

2. Add reactions, not explanations.

Instead of explaining what a character feels, show it through physical responses, hesitation, or small actions that reveal emotion naturally.

3. Ground every scene in the senses.

If a scene feels thin, add one or two sensory details—sound, texture, smell, or temperature—to make the moment feel lived-in.

4. Let thoughts interrupt action.

A line of internal thought can deepen a scene without slowing it too much. Thoughts show stakes, fear, longing, or conflict beneath the action.

5. Expand consequences, not events.

You don’t need more things to happen—you need to show what matters. Focus on how events change relationships, decisions, or self-perception.

6. Strengthen setting where emotion peaks.

The environment should echo or contrast the emotion of the scene. Setting is not decoration—it’s emotional reinforcement.

7. Add specific details instead of general ones.

Underwriting often relies on vague language. Swap “they argued” for one sharp line of dialogue or a specific breaking point.

8. Let dialogue breathe.

Short dialogue exchanges without pauses can feel flat. Add beats—silence, gestures, interruptions—to give the conversation weight.

9. Show transitions between scenes.

If scenes jump too quickly, readers feel disoriented. A brief transition helps establish time, mood, and emotional continuity.

10. Clarify stakes early in the scene.

If readers don’t know what can be lost, scenes feel empty. Make sure the character wants something specific and fears losing it.

11. Use the “what are they feeling right now?” check.

After each major beat, ask what emotion is dominant in that moment. If it’s missing on the page, the scene is likely underwritten.

12. Expand scenes that feel “too clean.”

If a scene resolves too neatly or quickly, it probably needs more tension. Messy emotions and unresolved feelings add depth.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

machine uses image recognition to detect lice on fish and then uses laser to blast the parasites.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[shardssystem]

👍🦠👋🍕👌

Oh. Food poisoning again.

[ordinarytalk]

Recovering from autistic burnout as a high-masking adult:

To recover, you literally need to manually learn skills that most people learn as a toddler

You need to learn what makes your body uncomfortable, and what to do to fix it

If you are high-masking, that usually means that you have learned to ignore every distress signal your body sends unless it is a distress signal that a neurotypical person would recognize. People have likely been unintentionally gaslighting you about your lived experience your entire life

If you feel bad or panicked for no reason, stop and try to pay attention to your body. Are you tense? You are likely feeling physical pain somewhere. If you've been gaslit about your pain your entire life, you might not be able to identify it.

Go through a sensory checklist.

SIGHT: Try closing and covering your eyes. If this gives you relief, the lights are probably too bright. You may also need differently-colored lights

SOUND: Cover your ears. Does this give you relief? If so, you may need earplugs or noise canceling headphones. You may also benefit from a neutral or pleasant background noise, like soft music or brown noise.

TOUCH: Are your clothes uncomfortable? Your chair? Your body? Do you feel greasy, like you need a shower? Do you need softer, sensory-friendly clothing?

TASTE: Do you need to brush your teeth or tongue? Would chewing on something help?

SMELL: Is there a strong or unpleasant smell in the room? Do you need to clean or empty a trash can? Would an air purifier help? Would a pleasant smell like a candle help?

INTEROCEPTION: Are you hungry? Thirsty? Tired? How is your posture? Are any of your muscles tight or sore? Scan your body slowly from head to feet, tensing and loosening each group of muscles. Going for a walk or doing a series of quick stretches may help a lot.

Learning how to do this stuff is not intuitive, if you've had an entire lifetime of gaslighting telling you that everything hurting you isn't a big deal and you're being dramatic over nothing.

This takes time, it takes work, it's not intuitive, and it's hard. Most people forget how hard it is, because they learned this as toddlers.

If you want to recover, you need to relearn your whole body. And get over your idea of "normal" and just wear the damn sunglasses and put on the headphones. If people stare, fuck em. You're disabled and they can deal with that.

[whatbigotspost]

What a great post! So helpful.

People often ask me about my unmasking journey and express surprise to hear that such a big part of it has been 1) accepting I must avoid light/the sun and 2) wearing clothes I can stand.

I’ll play it jokey and say it like “well it took me far too long to realize that my former wardrobe made me want to jump off a bridge.” Or “turns out my old underwear was anti-autistic.” Or “for whatever reason when it’s too bright, I can’t think.”

It sounds silly to some people. It’s very hard for the average allistic person to understand how severed I was from what my physical person was feeling. It served me to be disembodied to survive for a long time. Until it didn’t.

[headspace-hotel]

eliminating all polyester blends from my wardrobe (and polyester in general) changed my fucking life

[drchucktingle]

we all know this classic way

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I love it when headlines get cut off

[jazzy-mint-219]

[shardssystem]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i need to come up with a way to say “i mean like, movies for grownups” that doesn’t make me feel like a villain

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*

[cheaphalloweencostume]

well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i think i am going insane

[mrblackhaironthestreet]

Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.

Things when bad: kids and children are involved!

Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i literally just don’t want to watch Kung Fu Panda

[cheaphalloweencostume]

okay we’ve come all the way back around. let’s pack this up. this post is done. “who asked” you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????

[lady-of-math-and-rope]

"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."

"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."

[shardssystem]

“How dare you suggest people watch movies where someone pisses on the poor?”

[entertheaardvark-deactivated202]

I’m so sorry has everybody seen this bots of new york

[saint-vore]

if you're confused about all the pumpkins and ghosts and stuff, it's actually a sort of seasonal harvest festival in parts of the northern hemisphere. yeah, it's kinda weird to think about how it's autumn down there when up here it's spring, haha yeah imagine them all, upside down, and getting colder in october when it's just starting to warm up

and can you imagine, down there it's COLD at christmas, crazy right?

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

that's nonsense, why would it be cold at christmas, it doesn't even make sense? that's a festival about the birth of something??? obviously that happens in summer.

[taifan92]

Excuse me?! What you guys doing calling the northern hemisphere "down there"?! We're north. That's UP on a map when it's oriented properly.

[saint-vore]

what the fuck are you talking about?

[knightwithahundredkings]

I really recommend the Táin Bó Cúailnge to anyone looking to get into medieval literature because it's a great story, brilliant poetry (I read the Carson translation, and the way he translates the roscada sections are beautiful) and the backbone of the Ulster Cycle, but it's also just really fucking funny. It has a very slapstick yet dry sense of humor that provides just enough comic relief to make the dramatic moments of the story even more impactful. Genuinely I laugh out loud every few pages. Go read it.

[knightwithahundredkings]

You can't make this shit up

[shardssystem]

@yarnquester

[aminta]

spotify says ive listened to my top song 644 times.... that's 3.5k minutes I've spent listenjng to one single song

[aminta]

ok i want song recs so let me know what your All-Time Top Song is according to spotify. or whatever the fuck u use. mine is Joan of Arc by Arcade Fire

[shardssystem]

TenTwentyTen by The Generationals with 678 listens.

And I know for a fact that’s a fraction of actual listens, because I have a habit of rewinding to the beginning of a song to hear it again rather than letting it loop, and I’ve seen it only track completed listens. I listened to this one song for three months straight, between 4-16 hours a day.

So yeah; pretty sure that’s lowballing it.

[shardssystem]

Join me, won’t you?

[aminta]

spotify says ive listened to my top song 644 times.... that's 3.5k minutes I've spent listenjng to one single song

[aminta]

ok i want song recs so let me know what your All-Time Top Song is according to spotify. or whatever the fuck u use. mine is Joan of Arc by Arcade Fire

[shardssystem]

TenTwentyTen by The Generationals with 678 listens.

And I know for a fact that’s a fraction of actual listens, because I have a habit of rewinding to the beginning of a song to hear it again rather than letting it loop, and I’ve seen it only track completed listens. I listened to this one song for three months straight, between 4-16 hours a day.

So yeah; pretty sure that’s lowballing it.

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[depsidase]