#pep talks

[3am-tarot]

you got this buddy

[pep-tides]

hiii!

i've never bothered to make an intro post, or really set up this blog at all, because i mostly just reblog stuff lol. but i'm really enjoying engaging in fandom spaces again and i'm trying to do more of that! so here's a little intro thing

this blog isn't for a particular fandom or anything (i do what i want), currently very into phm/bloodmary though so expect some of that :) i am also a legacy fander (had a sanders sides blog in like 2018, i miss that era) so that'll show up on here some too. also frequent audhd and chronic health posts etc

#pep talks is my tag for my own posts. if i remember to use it

faqs:

who are you? great question dude. i'm usamerican, in my 20s, she/her is fine but i don't really care much what you use for me 👍 i haven't decided on a name/alias to use on here but i probably will eventually

do you have any sideblogs? yes! check out my art on @fossilknits, sometimes. i forget to post on there but im trying

why that username? i suck at picking names for things and i was a biology student when i made this blog so i just, picked a vocab word i liked. i am also very peppy/chatty and from the coast (tides!) so i think it works ok

who is that in your pfp? that's my mom's cat louie, he's a weird little guy

can i message you or send an ask? ABSOLUTELY! i miss old tumblr ask culture so much actually. i do frequently forget to respond to stuff so never feel bad about sending a second one if you gotta

nice to meet you!! <3<3

[m3cha-r0b]

He looked easy to draw.

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

Critical Role Dream Blunt Rotation:

Caduceus Clay

Orym

Pumat Sol

Ashton Greymore

Critical Role Nightmare Blunt Rotation:

Percy De Rolo

Beauregard Lionette

Mollymauk Tealeaf

Nosomnovem

Anna Ripley

[pepperpotts-official]

Rhodey and Happy tried to assemble a barbecue grill together. It ended in mild smoke damage, one melted shoe, and an emergency group FaceTime to Shuri. She laughed for six minutes straight.

[littlemagicalstardust]

Chuckie T: Lemme holla at ya for a second, man. I know you what, 20 years? we used to live together cause we couldn’t afford to live on our own, then AEW came along and I know you see what’s going on. I know you see what they’re doing. And these guys? god bless ‘em, I don’t know if they can beat ‘em. None of them ever have but YOU have! It’s about damn time you step up man, alright? ok? come on. 

[thepossumest-awesome]

"I don't have any talent."

Neither did Bach. Neither did Van Gough. Neither did Jimi Hendrix. Neither did Edgar Allen Poe. Neither does Simone Biles.

Nobody truly has talent.

Creating marvelous things requires skill and hard work. Do you think Yo-Yo Ma has the skill he does now when he popped out of the womb? The obvious answer is no. Yo-Yo Ma has been playing cello for 65 years. He was horrible at it when he started at age 4.

There's no such thing as "talent"

There is such thing as skill.

So instead of thinking about how you "have no talent," remind yourself that nobody does.

Find something that you love and do it. Practice your instrument. Play your sport. Write, and write, and write. Pick up a pencil and fill your sketchbook with beautiful, beautiful art. Sing your heart out in your room. Work on a painting for weeks until you love it enough to hang it up. Take pictures of everything you see.

Whatever your craft is, do it. Yours is folding origami swans? Heck yeah. Create a garland of them.

"I don't have any talent."

But you have wonderful skills. You're great at this, you are amazing at that.

Don't compare yourself to others. Everybody is on their own journey. I can also guarantee you that you are not alone. I have met so many professional musicians who still felt out of place in a professional orchestra.

I guess my point is that you should be confident in your skills. you're never going to be the best, but you can be pretty dang good.

[tottwriter]

NaNoWriMo Pep Talk, 9th Nov 2025

I wrote this for my local writer's group really, but as an ex/independent ML these days, I remember and miss the site-wide pep talks we used to get, so. I hope it helps someone. I hope we can keep the spirit of NaNoWriMo alive, across our different sites and groups.

So, here we are, a little over a week into Novelling November 2025, and it feels…different.

November has changed.

The thing is, it’s changed in a lot of ways. Talking to my daughter the other day, I reminisced about the time when November was already winter. Now, I look out of my window onto trees bedecked in yellow and green. Autumn, still in in full flush.

Likewise, I remember a time when the first third of November was the big rush, the first enthusiastic sprint. When forums were alive with energy and optimism. When the novelling community came together in a rush of words, powerful enough to drown servers. Those days are also gone.

But I think, too, about the files on my computer. The notebooks stacked in my home. And I think about how the stories I wrote back then were also different. How the person I was—the writer I was—isn’t someone I can be anymore. And yet here I am, still writing.

If change is something we can all count on to continue, then I like to think that writing—creativity—is as well. It doesn’t look the same. Maybe it doesn’t feel it either. Maybe those changes are for better, for worse, for something a little harder to describe. But through it all, I think it’s important to remember what we can keep. What we can turn to fuel for our imaginations, shaping and reshaping.

In words, we can capture those changes. We can reflect, and reshape. We can turn the turmoil of the outside world into something tangible in this moment. Something which, even once we’ve long become different people, will still exist. A reminder of how different we used to be. A way to track where we’ve been, and where we might be heading next.

Because that’s the other thing about change: it’s not an ending. It’s just another part of our journey towards something new. So keep writing. Keep creating. Keep going.

Happy Novelling, everyone. Let’s see where this month takes us next.