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moth/sincosma • they/them • 30s mostly fandom, folklore, and memes

[sincosma]

About

autistic ☽ folk witch ☽ queer nonbinary ☽ writer, musician, embroidery artist

I mostly deal in high strangeness, legend of zelda, star trek, critical role, x-men, the locked tomb series, mcr, and tumblr bullshit because I’ve been on the hellsite since 2010. Pfp from surrealist illustrator Gianni De Conno.

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Fic

Link/male!Sheik: Congruent, Isometry, and Sanctuary (ongoing)

Revali/Link: Inertia

Charles/Erik: Mending Metals (ongoing)

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Links & Tags

Sanctuary Tag | Congruent Tag | Congruent Art Tag Mending Metals Tag | Selfie Tag Embroidery | My Music | AO3

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[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry

[heywriters]

^^^

[flagellant]

The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.

[jeza-red]

It's not about not using self-inserts.

It's about doing it in a way so that the reader doesn't know.

If I read the book and come to a moment where "oh, this is the author writing about themselves" my interest in the story drops by about 300%. Don't make it obvious and you'll be fine.

[flagellant]

Nope. Wrong. Missed the point. It's about using self-inserts. You can make it as obvious as you want. It's perfectly fine. The point is to have fun.

[keiachi-chan]

THIS IS ABOUT SELF-INSERTS NOT READER-INSERTS (I misread initially)

Self-inserts! Do them! I won't read em but do em anyways! You're not supposed to appeal to me!!!

Reader-inserts, however. I am not a fan (evil)

[flagellant]

"You're not supposed to appeal to me!!! But also if you write reader-inserts I am judging you"

Nope. You're missing the point also. Reader-inserts are also cool and chill. It isn't fucking about appealing to you.

[isaiahomega]

As long as they aren't Mary Sues and clay the best, most coolest person ever who never does anything wrong.

Those characters are lame, let me see then walk into a light pole or get caught acting like a dweeb.

[flagellant]

Nope. You're missing the point still. Stop acting like it's acceptable behavior for you to call the earnest creation of art "lame". Power fantasy characters are rad as fuck. Everybody loves seeing John Wick do that shit. You're not just being needlessly rude and harmful to others, you're also just flat out fuckin wrong.

[flagellant]

[mortuary9]

someone's pissed off

[nuvemzinhacorderosa]

Context: Link played Zelda's lullaby and Sheik fell asleep.

[diablo-sera-tops]

hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo writhing in agony ok? don't cry

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo screaming so much their voice becomes hoarse and weak and the pain still won't stop

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo unable to close their eyes and avoid the visceral sight of their own body

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo suffering unimaginable pain and being powerless to stop it ok? ok

[crazysnor1ax]

[retroactivebakeries]

when you were a child, the worm named LANGUAGE ate its way into your brain and cursed you to understand the letters and the syllables and the sense of speech, doomed you to commas and clauses and passive voice, took the meat of you and twisted it with words. this is why you’re able to post about maids and berries and flasks and catgirls and whatnot, so it’s pretty great. make sure to thank the worm named LANGUAGE the next time you see it!

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[mortuary9]

gn

[foxxology]

I'm so sorry

[subspaceshenanigans]

[doubleggggs]

Apocalypse

Another painting from the “If Charles Dies in the Apocalypse” series. While creating it, I imagined Charles seeing his students and friends running toward him. He saw Jean's flames but couldn't see through Erik's helmet.

(PS. I've just created a new account on VGen and I'd like to get my VGen code to open commissions.

If you'd like to support me getting my Artist Dashboard unlocked, please like this post and leave a comment—I need at least 5 unique comments and 100 likes on this post. Thank you!!

[garlicsunshine]

📣 bring back square tvs where actors had to stand in homoerotic proximity 📺

[werewolf-transgenderism]

breaking news! new beautiful photo of the best species of frog in the world just dropped

cochranella euknemos, 📸 nuqui_herping on instagram

[werewolf-transgenderism]

for everyone in the notes lamenting that this guy is poisonous: they are not! they're just pretty :) since they're a glass frog, their major defense mechanism is being translucent and hiding their blood while they sleep so they look extra translucent and blend in with leaves <3

[mckitterick]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[georgesantosapologist-deactivat]

[diagnosed-overthinker]

love it when people link wikipedia pages instead of explaining the point. The url alone conveys so much disdain and contempt. Here is the information you desire, i found it with ease.

[glowcowboy]

once i learn to express any strong emotion without bursting into tears it’s over for y’all