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[sheepibum]

Writing Goals 2026!

(alright, let's try this again)

Right, yeah, so last year I didn't even get close to what I wanted to do, so this time I'm going to give myself a little more leeway, yay! Hopefully that'll help me feel better even if I don't write as much, haha ╰(￣ω￣ｏ)

TOTAL: 3 / 10

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Things I would like to update:

As usual, let's start with the Re:Zero stuff:

1) Start, From Minus

‘Citizens of the empire, be strong’—that was the only and most important teaching in Vollachia. And Subaru was. That is, a citizen of the empire and, thus, in his own, cowardly, revolting, tenacious way, strong.

Fifth and final chapter of this thing! That I didn't update last year, sorry!!

2) I’ll find you believing I’ll be found

“I heard the big guy sent one of his generals, so that means he must be tough, right?” Subaru stared. “You mean the Emperor?” “Whatever. Mainlanders aren’t even cool.”

The second part of my Three Dark Crowns AU! My goal with this chapter is to make the people who have read the books AND the people who haven't suffer equally! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

3) Coins in a Wishing Well

A family curse. Subaru is familiar. At least Subaru’s father had loved him in spite of it. At least Reinhard didn’t need to use his teeth. It was hard to tell who had it worse, but Subaru wasn’t the type to dwell on that.

This is another chapter I've been wanting to write for a while!! This one is also based on a book I has a lot of fun reading, so you know, you've been warned

4) the difference between starlight and moonshine (Now on AO3!)

“But Subaru, you smell sooo good,” Emilia said, head full of pure thoughts and wonder. Which Subaru loved, yes. But. “I think it’s more that this world is full of perverts, Emilia-tan,” he said, because even he wasn’t about to lie to Emilia about this.

This is crack, sorry. Yes, the whole thing (～o￣3￣)～

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Other stuff from various other fandoms:

5) a constellation of blood drops [Gundam:IBO]

Now, Gaelio might be in feelings with Mikazuki, but he’d like to think he isn’t completely brain-dead. He knows Mikazuki is a deeply flawed, troubled, damaged human being. But, as his friendship with McGillis can attest to, that’s apparently kind of his type.

The last chapter of my super self-indulgent fix-it fic! Please, please let me finish this thing this this year so I can clean it up and move the nice version to AO3 (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

6) The Bridegroom’s Hedgehog [LCF] (Now on AO3!)

The Duke caught his hand in a motion that reminded Cale of a bird of prey diving toward its next meal. Something cold was slipped around his finger. Cale looked down and stared, dumbfounded, at the golden circle. Cold and—and cold, like biting winter wind. The kind of cold that cut, that ached.

The second chapter of my The Seventh Bride retelling, with plenty of revelations and surprise guest appearances. Please be surprised, please please please

7) remember me (but forget my fate) [LCF]

“I need your name.” Cale deftly swallowed the ‘our wedding shall be in spring’ that almost leapt out of his mouth. He nodded obediently. “It’s yours. What else?” “You need to pretend to be a commander.” Cale did a double take. Realized that Rosé meant it. “I’ll ask father for a magic spear. Anything else?”

We begin the fourth chapter of my TCF/LCF time loop suffering fic with a change in the POV character and my attempt to cram EVERYTHING from part one in two chapters, so that's going to be fun

8) our wishes are the right lure [Pokemon]

“What the hell kind of game is this?” “It’s a stress management assistant,” Ingo says, straight-faced. “It’s a gacha game. You poke the characters and they speak,” Emmet informs you, conspiratorially. “It’s a waifu game,” you conclude.

Second chapter for the pokemon submas reader-insert I owe the Pokemon Masters Ex gods, since I got both the twins sygna suits; as you can probably tell, I’m not going tot ake this seriously, like, at all

9) Home Is Where the Smoothies Are [Ben 10]

So many dimensions, so many universes, so many Bens. So many ways in which he could fail, in which he already has failed in some other world, in some other time, in some other way. All the versions of himself that had grown rotten, corrupted, tainted. Each one weirder and crazier than the last.

… I keep forgetting this series isn’t finished; I’m literally missing the very last chapter, but I just keep f o r g e t t i n g about it! it’s been so long!!

10) second chances (derogatory) [Persona 3] (Now on AO3!)

Ichor runs down his knuckles, staining his hands, and marks his bloody path. The one he chose to traverse just to have a god, any god, grant this wish.

I still haven’t played P3 Reload, but I bought it in december so now I at least have it!! I'd like to finish at least one playthrough before going back to this but, like I said, there are a couple of chapters that are 100% finished so we'll see!

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Things I would like to start:

11) (we’ve gone) to the dogs [BSD]

His life ends with a bullet between his eyes, no hope for Yosano to do anything at all. Just a bang and then darkness; a shimmering instant of relief before he opens his eyes again in a place and time that hadn’t been his for years. And that’s where it all begins (again).

The thing that I did not post last year, despite the fact that, like I said, there’s a whole snippet ready to be posted; mostly bc my favorite character is Oda and the fandom seems pretty intense (in a bad way) when it comes to him, so I am kinda avoiding it

12) The Souls of Starfishes [Normal Me and Abnormal Friends]

They’ve gotten better at not flinching whenever they hear the name, but they’ve never quite managed to stomp out the hope that inevitably rises in them whenever they do. ‘Hajime’, it echoes with the beat of their hearts, discordant as they may be.

Normal Me and Abnormal Friends is one of my favorite android visual novels ever, and I really, really want to finally upload something for it this this year; this year for sure இ௰இ

13) sing us a song to move the stones [Persona 3]

Minato didn’t want a rerun of last time, though. He wanted to do much better; he wanted to go for broke. Minato turned around in the direction of the alley behind Port Island Station. This was just another choice he’d have to take responsibility for.

My attempt at a New Game+ fic that’s still also on hold until I play Reload, sorry

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Other things I wish I could get around writing, but that have added complications:

Even the best laid plans

Arrested for Attempted Romance

we'll build a bridge

*sigh* I'm still waiting for the Rokka no Yuusa author to remember the series; the Ben 10 romance fic is here because I have exactly two (2) ideas I want to write, but they're both crack (shocking, I know), and one is at least a little bit R-rated, so I'm being a coward about it; and the pokemon one I have been working on, but the fandom got too intense for my liking back when I was updating semi-regularly and I've dropped whole fandoms for that before (*cough*yurionice*cough*), so while I would love to update, I've been avoiding it.... o(￣┰￣*)ゞ

There's also a bunch of LCF minifics I've been draft-writing simply because I fell in love with the fandom pretty hard, but I want to finish some of my other fics before starting yet another minific collection, so wish me luck!

[tieflingkisser]

[stealingpotatoes]

rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished

[sheepibum]

currently cleaning up (tipying in the computer) around five months worth of drafts (stuff i wrote in my notebooks) இ௰இ

i could have not let everything pile up, but i didn'ttt!!!

might have something to update when i'm done, though

(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[depsidase]

[minart-was-taken]

Many such cases

[eaissilyy]

I’ve found my home 🏠🚀

(500 Miles by by Peter, Paul, and Mary. THAT’S HIS SONG THAT’S HIS SONG 😭😭😭😭 Grace who misses home. Grace who knows there are nothing left to remember him. Grace who finds home with Rocky.)

[wolfythewitch]

all all all

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[coughdropsandsoftspots]

While making dinner tonight, I very very fleetingly, but very seriously and legitimately thought “I should watch Goncharov tonight”

And then I Remembered.

[sunglassesbot]

That it's no longer on poob?

[hornytransgirljenni]

[niktheniknik]

This is incomprehensible outside of tumblr, i love a well maintained closed ecosystem

[coughdropsandsoftspots]

While making dinner tonight, I very very fleetingly, but very seriously and legitimately thought “I should watch Goncharov tonight”

And then I Remembered.

[sunglassesbot]

That it's no longer on poob?

[hornytransgirljenni]

[niktheniknik]

This is incomprehensible outside of tumblr, i love a well maintained closed ecosystem

[nessimaki-deactivated20141106]

[dialupmodern]

Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again

[nonasuch]

batman: what’s the situation?

commissioner gordon: Harley and Ivy have hijacked an AM radio station and taken the employees hostage

batman: what are their demands?

commissioner gordon: they haven’t issued any. they, uh.

batman:

[commisioner gordon turns on the radio]

harley: —you gotta walk away, sweetie. His family sounds completely toxic, if not outright emotionally abusive, and he’s too enmeshed to see it.

caller: no, you’re right. you’re right. I gotta do it.

harley: you got this, honey. now, stay on the line a minute, I’m writing down some the names of some books for you and you can get those from Ivy after we’re done. okay! our next caller —

[commisioner gordon turns off the radio]

batman: what station is this?

commisioner gordon: WGTM.

batman: the one that rebroadcasts rush limbaugh?

commissioner gordon:

batman:

commisioner gordon: you know what, i probably didn’t need to call you for this.

[tygermama]

I WOULD PAY MONEY FOR RADIO SHRINK HARLEY OKAY? I WOULD CALL RADIO SHRINK HARLEY OKAY?

[thequantumqueer]

“alright, babe, one more reminder that my license was revoked which means i have to tell you this as your friend and not as a mental health professional: you have two options here. one of them is safe, legal, and healthy, and will have lasting long term benefits. the other one is fun.”

[nonasuch]

reblogging for this extremely accurate addition.

[powersandplanetaries]

Ivy’s segment is where people call in to ask why their succulent is dying and she yells at them for watering it too much.

[nonasuch]

oh, VERY good

[empressofthelibrary]

A few weeks in Selina gets dragged into it, and starts offering advice on caring for cats with special dietary needs and stuff. It inevitably turns into Jackson-Galaxy-esque explinations.

"My cat keeps attacking my feet."

"How often do you play with him?"

"Not as much as I should, but he has a basket of toys right there where he can reach it."

"He wants to play with you. Grab a teaser toy or a laser pointer and go nuts. He'll wear himself out in about fifteen minutes and you can go back to work."

[nonasuch]

great, now i actively want someone to start a podcast that’s just in-character episodes of batman villain radio shows

[buzzdoesdc]

You know, I actually think this would make for a really good Killer Croc redemption storyline

Cause the guy's whole deal is him lashing out at society for rejecting him because he has a skin condition (ignoring the cannibalism in certain adaptations), which means radio would be perfect for him. People can't see him, they can only hear him, and I imagine he has a sort of warm scratchy voice that sounds like he chainsmokes and it feels warm like an old wool blanket

Maybe he tells stories, maybe he does interviews, maybe he takes calls, whatever. But he becomes a fixture of late night Gotham, beloved by late shift workers and night owls, and Waylon Jones becomes a household name amongst a decent chunk of Gotham. That way, when he's eventually outed, people stop reacting like "AAH A CROCODILE MAN" and start being like "hey, it's our Waylon!"

I just like the idea of Croc being accepted and even loved by the people of Gotham

[prismatic-bell]

Plot twist:

The show is sponsored by Wayne Enterprises.

If you ask Bruce in his billionaire-playboy-philanthropist-idiot persona, he’ll tell you talk radio is the fastest-growing communications segment in the country and you’ll be left wondering how the fuck this man runs a successful business.

If you are one of the select few who knows him in his “also I am Batman” capacity, he’ll tell you overall crime has gone down since the villain-run station has hit the air, and also if Harley Quinn can talk someone out of the early stages of an abusive relationship before he—or worse, the Gotham City Morgue—has to get involved, so much the better.

(Also, Ivy sent him a very nice orchid with very clear, vaguely-threatening care instructions, as a thank-you for the funding. Alfred follows them to the letter, of course.)

[bisexualbaker]

Shelving this right next to the one where the Riddler gets a YouTube account and/or escape room business.

[myfriendsneedtostop]

It is perfect 😍😍 and Bruce would 100% sponsor it because then he would be able to ensure they stay good and don't use the station for brainwashing without involvement from the police of the Bats.

Just imagining Hatter or someone starts trying to use their portion to mindwash themselves an army and all the other rouges barge in on their segment and pummel them mid-talk. Cause-

"You are not ruining this for us Jeffrey!"

While Penguin or someone has taken over the segment and is providing live singing. And all listening just hear between the lovely singing; yelling, screams from their previous presenter and intermittent punching sounds before the song ends and all the noises seem to have stopped not that the station has muted but because they are all holding their breath.

The most tired sigh is let out before "Hand him over."

Shuffling and pained groans are heard.

Before a muffled "Good singing."

'click'

*cue ad break

[missandryifyourenasty]

I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.

[notogdenjesse]

This is one my favourite things the internet has ever made.

[missandryifyourenasty]

!!!!!!

[bioluminescently-unfolding]

This remains one of the great art objects of modern times and nobody will convince me otherwise.

[paper-wounds]

“If I Am Killed For Simply Living” — Althea Davis

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[existennialmemes]