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★★★★★
★★★★★ = are you even human? DAMN.
I believe I am - well maybe not. Sometimes my parents tell me they found me underneath a rock when I do weird things……soooooo who knows. {{EEP!!!!!! Oh my gosh I’m not really that good. You are definitely spoiling me and I’ll take it. (//.\\) thank you love.}}
noirsilver replied to your post:Sometimes I don’t realize how little spoons I...
I can’t tell if you’re actually talking about spoons or not. Like I’m literally imagining you having problems with spoons and there’s like an abundance of forks. I’m sorry, I have terrible understanding.
Oh gosh no xD Sometimes I forget not everyone has read The Spoon Theory. Basically, to sum up that essay, spoons are a metaphor. They represent your store of energy and therefore your ability to do things. Anything you do, whether it requires physical or emotional or mental energy, takes away some of your spoons. You can gain spoons by sleeping, eating good food, spending time with loved ones, etc. Anything that refreshes you and restores your energy, because spoons are just a metaphor for energy.
You lose spoons by...well, living. It takes spoons to go to work. It takes spoons to do laundry. It takes spoons to argue with someone. It takes spoons to eat dinner. It takes spoons to make decisions about mildly important things. Everything we do requires spoons, but most things only require a small amount so we don’t think of them as taking away from our energy aka “spoons”.
Why the spoon theory exists and is worth talking about, though, is that people with chronic illnesses (like myself) often a) start off the day with less energy (less spoons) than most people, and b) use more spoons than most people to accomplish the same tasks. People without chronic illnesses might start off the day with 200 spoons, and it only takes the equivalent of 2 spoons to shower in the morning. People with chronic illnesses might start off the day with only 80 spoons, and it uses up 7 of them to take a shower. When you run out of spoons completely, you are exhausted/burned out and it’s a baaaaaaad thing.
So people with chronic illnesses often have to plan ahead and “budget” their spoons, so they don’t get burned out mid-day. We’re more limited. We have less energy, but energy is hard to quantify, so we use the more concrete metaphor of spoons. And even little things, like responding to someone’s bitchy comment on Facebook, can require more spoons than we’re willing to budget.
noirsilver replied to your post “CATS for the fandom meme (sorry if you did some already, I just wanted...”
I love your Andromeda/Bellatrix headcanon. I think there's some truth and also a massive amount of denial related to it.
Ditto. It’s something I firmly believe - Andy may have been blasted off of the family tree and shamed the family with her actions. She might not have a trust fund anymore and she might be scowled at by a large number of the Purebloods she has to attend to at St. Mungos... but she’s still and always will be Bella’s little sister. The Dark Lord himself doesn’t even get to try anything and secretly knows better than to even attempt it. It’s just something never discussed... except for the one time someone suggested it and she freaked everyone out with a flaying curse she’d learned from one of the books as a child in the Black family library.
noirsilver replied to your post
“CATS for the fandom meme (sorry if you did some already, I just wanted...”
Your HP ships make me so happy omg I love them all?! They're all ships I absolutely adore and holy cow another Cissatrix shipper?! *dies* ily. I just started watching the 100 it's intriguing.
XD It’s not my most recent - my wife has a habit of making me ship random things I didn’t initially ship or ship full out. Oh god, Cissatrix is like... right up there in one of my number one slots. That ship has been with me for years, close to my heart of hearts. It shares the Victor’s Circle with a few other ships but it’s up there. There’s not enough fic and there never will be enough.
We finished it, we’re trying to do a rewatch but we kind of got into Penny Dreadful so it was put on the back burner but it does have a soft spot in my heart. Most of the fic I’m reading right now is in that fandom while I write my monster fic for HP lol.
I seriously can't believe I've met another Cissatrix fan - ugh I love it.
Cissatrix was a huge obsession of mine for a long time, lol. Actually the longest fic I ever wrote was Amphierotic Bloodlines which is like 270k words, lmao. I was supposed to write a sequel to it but then I… kinda of wandered off to other fandoms, lol. My girlfriend the-faint-of-heart and my friend electric-eccentricity still hound me about that occasionally xD
Idk how often you read fic for them, but I’ve written a few other stories outside of that one as well, if you wanna check my FF.net profile :)
noirsilver said:
"He's got 8 legs, he must be fast" oh Geez all I can imagine is trying to outrun a giant acromantula. Ahem.
Certainly also would be a very fast pet. But harder to ride.
"Good place to watch people in their natural habitat" I just imagine this is a zoo and you're the tour guide explaining the various tumblr users and ahh I can't stop giggling.
Well I’d say that’s basically how I feel being on Tumblr, but that would be mean to Tumblr, because really that’s how I feel about almost all parts of my life. “And here on the right, a particularly spectacular kind of idiocy is taking place.” :p
noirsilver replied to your post: noirsilver replied to your post:Recently I was...
sorry I took so long to respond. Can I read your writing? I’m interested now. I personally found I’m less patient and don’t edit enough. Editing makes a piece readable.
Sure, if you want! I haven’t posted anything in a year, as I said, other than a few minifics on Tumblr, and I’m not so proud that I’d say that everything I’ve ever posted is superb quality. xD Also, lots of fandoms I’m not writing in anymore! Not sure if you’ll be into any of them? But with all those caveats aside, most of my stuff is here on AO3. (I pulled my oldest work from 2007ish down a few months ago because it was just that embarrassing. Otherwise AO3 has everything but the minifics.)
ETA: Oh and yes, editing is necessary for me. But I do a lot more of it now. I get pretty ruthless. I’ve probably scrapped 10k of words from the biggest fic I’m working on right now, and only have 11k left.
noirsilver replied to your post:Recently I was depressed because I couldn’t write...
I’m with you here. Some days my writing is excellent, others it’s terrible. I don’t think writing is consistent and has a lot to do with moods, the times, or even what you’ve been reading
That’s true too, definitely, and good to keep in mind, though not quite what I was trying to say. I recently got back into writing after a year-long dry spell and it’s not that my attempts at breaking the dry spell were bad (well, some were godawful) it’s more that I was trying to imitate my old style and my old way of writing. Which sounds vague, I guess.
I used to go into writing having already planned it out, in my head, blow by blow. Extensive brainstorming and pre-writing, basically. I’d know what scenes I needed to put into a chapter before I ever wrote any of the chapter. And I’d do editing, of course, but my first drafts were pretty representative of the finished work.
That’s something I can’t do anymore. I’ve found that now I’m less of a planner, more of a feeler. I also don’t always know, anymore, where things are going in the story, until I just jump in and write. Then, after I have a first draft, I go back and make notes on what worked and what didn’t. Sometimes I sit and stew on early drafts for days before I crack the code of how to improve them. I do a lot more rewriting and scrapping entire scenes/subplots than I ever did before.
The finished work, I think, is equivalent in quality, and neither approach takes more/less work than the other. But I didn’t make a choice to switch styles, it just...happened. And I was fighting the switch, but now I’m working with it.
seevikifangirl said:
No problem I don't know if it actually made sense tho
Well admittedly not really, but I was grateful anyway. :)
noirsilver said:
That happens sometimes and it's awesome :D ~ *gives you congratulatory cookies*
Yay! Thank you. :D And yes, it was very awesome.
I loved Spin Control. I should reread it and comment by chapter >.< or maybe read the hunger games first heh.. Ugh I'm terrible with surnames when creating characters, I'm impressed you did all that so fast. You even created a story w/ the character.
I have an easier time with American surnames than German ones. Less associations to take into account, probably? I dunno. But thanks! :D I couldn’t do it without a story. I dunno, the two things are too connected to me.
You should absolutely reread SC and leave me comments! :D I am in favor of that plan. :D And pshaw, who needs the books. :p Heh. No I would be very curious how you’d like THG though. Do you know the movies? Now I’m trying to figure out which character is the most similar to Snape. Maybe you would like the District 2 characters. If you’d like the District 2 characters, I could recommend to you the most awesome fanfic writer. ;) Or maybe you would like Haymitch, like me. I mean, everybody should. But not everybody does.
