#iriad

[relicquery]

if I start posting art, which platforms should I post on?

tumblr only

tumblr + insta only

tumblr + bsky only

tumblr + insta + bsky only

tumblr + insta + twitter + bsky

Voting ended onJun 5

hesitant about posting on insta bc i'm not sure if my posts will automatically be fooder for meta's ai training; for twt it's bc gr*k + the whole place being a muskified cesspool of braindead takes

[relicquery]

ok poll time again

Does a story have to be published by an established publisher/publishing house to be a valid/worthwhile (however you wish to interpret these terms) work in your eyes?

yes

no

Voting ended onJun 12

please reblog & vote on this version of the post instead!

[relicquery]

yuri with a 19y/o and 24y/o - is that a problematic age gap?

yes

no but it's weird if you draw/write 18+ content about them

no

Voting ended onJun 11

if anyone is wondering who this is about: centurion (left, 19yo) & lorentz butterfly (right, 24yo) from reverse 1999

[relicquery]

2025 kin list

pick the one you think fits me the most

flins (genshin impact)

castorice (honkai: star rail)

ruan mei (honkai: star rail)

acheron (honkai: star rail)

the herta (honkai: star rail)

raiden ei (genshin impact)

cyrene (honkai: star rail)

Voting ended onOct 14, 2025

[relicquery]

omg...

[relicquery]

hi time for my biweekly stupid question poll

person a is afab she/they bi & cis (...for the most part)

person b is amab he/they & questioning their sexuality ("bicurious") and gender ("feels like a man, comfortable in a bio male body, but wants to abandon the confines of masculinity as prescribed by tradition and society"; EDIT: deems 'nonbinary' to be a fitting word to describe his current experience w/ his gender)

if these 2 are romantically involved, is it an lgbt relationship?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 30

[relicquery]

I think about him all the time

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anyway since i'm oversharing tonight. i have this practice of copying lines that i like from books i'm reading into a personal notebook. it kind of began with the notion that doing so allows me to revisit the story and the way it's told (in a way it can be considered a sort of 'rereading') (this is also helpful bc my memory is absolute dogshit from being mentally ill for over half of my life), and also allows me to learn from the book bc when i'm penning those lines, i have the chance to possibly put myself in the author's shoes and understand how and why they wrote those words. i think i'm still lacking as a writer and approaching this practice from this angle helps me to learn more about writing itself.

yet. another thing i want to be is a fast reader. so many books, so little time. one can see how the aforementioned practice sort of demands that one dedicate more scrutiny and work towards a single book, and would require time that could otherwise be spent reading other books. it is also inevitable that the longer the book, the more such lines it would contain that i wish to study, and thus a longer duration should be spent applying this practice to it.

i have definitely benefited from this practice before - it's not only helped my writing but help me come into my own voice. but there are also some instances when i wonder if this practice is banal and arises from a place of compulsion, ie. "i MUST prove myself to be a good writer. i MUST always become a better writer. it's the only thing i have going for me and my existence is otherwise completely worthless." this as compared to approaching it as a supplement to writing, which itself is something i love and enjoy and *want*, not am *obliged to*.

it feels, at times, that this practice is a shackle or weight upon what would otherwise be a swift and voracious passion for reading, where i would relentlessly devour book after book. like, am i holding myself back here? maybe it would help to copy those lines as i read them, while their impact is still fresh in my mind, or make a daily habit of this practice (ie. do this at the end of each day with whatever reading progress i had made that day)? idk. like i said, it helps but it sometimes feels unnecessary and like a method of compensation.

should i continue with this practice?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 12