#sorry for the incredible decrease in quality

[ask-alle]

He survived a fight or something. The only thing I’m really sure of now is that he’s not fully human anymore and he’s a lot paler than before. I’m happy to have my friend back, though.

[morlock-holmes]

OK, let me try this again: I know I got snippy and condescending and frustrated with you, and I'm sorry. I think this may have distracted from what actually actionable advice I do have to offer, so to sum up that advice:

1. Even if your ultimate goal is to find a girlfriend, you should start by looking for advice on how to make friends and how to be generally well-liked socially. This is where you're more likely to find advice like "wash regularly" or "change clothes regularly", because people are less likely to assume you already know those things when you ask those questions than when you ask about finding a girlfriend.

2. Figure out what kinds of people you are compatible with, and hang out in places more likely to have such people.

3. Unless you are somewhere designed for that purpose, people will find it off-putting if they can tell you are approaching them for the purpose of a date. This is because most people want to be approached romantically because someone is drawn to internal qualities they have, and not as part of a numbers game. For similar reasons, people will find it off-putting if they can tell you are bitter about finding it difficult to date. Yes, this means that the more you want it the harder it gets. Yes, that sucks and is unfair, but no one can do anything about it, sorry.

4. As a straight man, it may be better to ask people out to get things started. This too sucks and is unfair and I do think straight women need to get their shit together about it, but it's how things are right now. Do not do it immediately, for the reasons mentioned in point 3. Wait until you've established some kind of positive rapport that would make her want to say yes; if you ask specifically how long is best, some people might have advice.

5. Following the above steps will not guarantee you a girlfriend, because nothing will. The best it can do is somewhat increase your chances. If you get bitter about it not working, that will decrease your chances, see point 3.

Okay, right now it's not that I'm looking for advice, I'm more commenting on the fact that you are so incredibly hesitant to *give* advice for reasons I truly, genuinely do not understand.

Like, this is an anonymous ask and from context clues I think this is the third ask you've sent, but the very first one where you admit that, actually, you do in fact have extremely concrete advice which you are entirely capable of articulating, but for some reason you will only do so if somebody argues with you extensively beforehand.

And for decades I didn't know I was supposed to treat this like converting to Judaism where the Rabbi denies you three times but you're supposed to come back, I just went,

"Whelp, I guess all I can do is passively wait for something to happen and treat women like people."

Followed by,

"This isn't working, I'm autistic so I must unconsciously be doing something that makes the women around me realize I'm still a sexist who doesn't see them as human, I need to be even more neurotic about this and maybe try to convince myself that I'm totally fine never having sex or having a significant other, because wanting it too much means that I'm one of those bad men who thinks he's entitled to sex."

Which was only then, after bashing my head against this for the majority of my life, did I start hesitantly saying to other male friends that it wasn't working, and then they said most of what you said up there.

And like... Seriously, why?

You're incredibly hesitant to say this stuff out loud, and will do so only if someone really presses you, and your whole mien is that you're really pissed off that I made you say it.

But why? Why not just start with this stuff? What's the downside?

And like, for a long time all of my friends would unhesitatingly call themselves feminists, almost all "sex-positive feminists" and one of the commonplace cliches of sex-positive feminism was "We need to teach men to do better."

It's so wild to me that when I tell people, "I spent a long time thinking that sex positive feminism had something to teach me as a man about how I should think about sex" their first question is,

"Why?"

Because... Everybody I knew agreed that we as a society needed to teach men to do better and that feminism was the tool to do so, in exactly those words?

How on earth is this a point of confusion?

And again, *why* are you so hesitant to say all this stuff and so frustrated when someone drags it out of you?

[followthebluebell]

How do you decide when a cats QOL has decreased to the extent that it's time to let go?

Asking for your own experience, any decision I make is mine alone, I just want to ensure I amnt waiting too long before making the call for my little old man and hearing other people's experiences might help to reaffirm when the time is right

I'm so sorry you're in a position where this question is necessary. It's incredibly sad and hard when you realize this something you HAVE to ask. Losing a pet is incredibly tough.

My own personal rule is this: I keep a list of the five things my pet loves to do. Once an animal can't do 3 out of 5, it's time to say goodbye. I try not to include things like eating or sleeping, because that's kind of basic, you know? But I often do include 'loves this specific treat' because an animal turning down their favorite treat is in severe distress.

You also can't divorce your OWN quality of life from your pet's quality of life either. When i had to euthanize Skitten a few years back, I was aware that I could have kept her going a few more weeks. Maybe even a couple of months. But it would have represented a severe impact on my OWN quality of life because I would have been acutely aware of the risk of her dying alone somewhere in the house. There was a chance I'd wake up and she would be gone already.

That sort of stress was just... too much for me.

And that's not even covering the MEDICAL stress of handfeeding a pet, expressing their bladder/stimulating them to poop, cleaning them up after accidents, etc. I'm not going to shame people who DO do this, obviously, but I'm also going to stand by the people who realize they can't do this. It's an important part of the quality of life check, because it's not just your pet's quality of life. It's yours too and I think a lot of pet owners kind of gloss that over.

Laps of Love has its own quality of life assessment that may be valuable to you as well.

I hope this helps and wish you both well.

[okaystoptellingmetomakeanaccount]

DCRC Week 1. Translation Troubles

Everyone is going to talk about the story already. Everyone has read the story already. You can find a hundred reviews in probably 10 different languages (mostly Italian) everywhere (mostly papersera). Evroniani is iconic. That’s why I’m going to review the shitty English translation. Or is it shitty? I don’t know! We’re gonna find out today! I have no idea what I’m doing!

C’mon c’mon follow me dear little readers

Now where did i leave it? You know, I haven’t really touched it since i bought it don’t remember how long ago. The memory starts to fade when you become old.

I think it was here. I bought a darkwing comic with it and made my little brother pay for a skylanders comic to remove the shipping costs. I don’t think he has read the Skylanders comic either, but it did save me a few euros on shipping. You could also pick it up at their store or at a comic con that they would be at in a few days or weeks. I don’t remember. The darkwing comic sucked by the way.

Ah look at that! I did read the last page though. With the little translated evronian article. It’s a shame they didn’t translate those to more countries. Those were cool. This one I remember was cute. For the rest i flipped through it and read the introductory pages. All the ‘real new’ content.

And there it is! Beautiful, is it not? I don’t have a lot of American comics, but they are always so fancy. Paper quality is amazing, and in these funny plastic sheets with carton to make sure they stay mint and new and things. When it came in it was incredibly well packed and protected. Unnecessarily so even I would say. But it was really appreciated. Always like it when it’s obvious they did it because they love comics and wanted them to arrive safely. I felt almost a little bad they put so much effort while i bought so little. They sold this thing for €3 you know? I don’t know if they knew how rare these are. I also don’t know how tf it even got all the way from America to them in Zaandam. Was it Zaandam? I don’t remember. No it was not Zaandam. But it was something with a Z. Or not. The memory is bad. Have i said that already?

I think it’s funny that they describe the one-page column as a story. Even inducks wouldn’t do that! They would describe it as an article you know. Anyways. Both ‘stories’ in this issue are translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Absolute legend. I have heard he’s an actual fan of PKNA which is nice. Always makes me happy when people love the work they’re doing. Have i said that already? Have i said that already?

Alright enough with acting like a senile old man. Imma read the story now. Will be back telling what i think of the translation soon. Though for you that means after one line of white pressing enter.

Overall, the translation is fine. The slang and amount of ‘’s didn’t annoy me that much. I do find that the dialogue is overall more childish than the Dutch version. It does more explaining and tries to do all those annoying alliterative amplifiers that the American translators really seem to love for some reason.

Sometimes I do find it more expressive than the Dutch version. Almost all of the banter between Donald and Uno I do very much prefer. It’s a lot more colourful and full of personality. You don’t need a single issue more to believe that these two are friends (lovers). Gray managing to convey that feeling through the dialogue alone is a great show for his talents.

The stylized enhancing or decreasing of the size of some of the letters is fun. Though that’s a lettering thing. Thankfully they credit those too! Great job Deron Bennett!

I do really appreciate all the creative decisions and extra references in the English translation. They do take me a little bit out of the story, but it makes for a fun way to re-experience it.

Sorry, that was a bit of a short review. I’m not a very experienced translation reviewer guys this is my first time.

To make up for it; here some individual parts of the translation and my reactions to them:

found a darkwing duck line coming out of pks mouth (or beak whatever). disgusting.

Btw Freezeflames is also a disgusting name for them Coolflames. they are already coolflamed now you gotta give them a shit name too?

im sorry, who tf is ed?

It seems Jonathan is also a DonOdin shipper.

Overall, good to finally have read the only English PKNA story I own. I might have never done it if it wasn’t for the DCRC! That would have been a shame, because Gray’s translation work does add a few fun things. And like, dude, it’s PKNA in English. Officially. That’s rad. You gotta have experienced that at least once as a fan. I think. I don’t remember. Have i-

Funny thing the American and latest Dutch translations dropped around the same time. The American publication sadly stopped very soon, while the Dutch publications stopped a few months ago (still crying, because the next part of PK Pikappa should have just come out like a week ago or something if they didnt cancel it boohoo whyyyyy agony).

[mishydraws]

Very... very unfortunate life update

Hi, everyone.

Ok, I don’t want to waste your time but I wanted to be upfront about what’s going on in my life just so you all know.

Last night I got what is probably one of the worst emails that could have ever appeared in my inbox? Our landlord has given us a 60-day notice to get out. For context, my mom and I have been living here since the year 2000. We have never been late on rent or missed a payment despite every difficulty life has thrown at us in that time and this has completely blindsided us.

We haven’t spoken to any of the neighbors yet but some of the wording on the notice makes me think that they may be kicking out the entire building. Or maybe they’re just targeting those of us in the non-renovated units because we’ve been here so long and they could charge a new tenant much more with a quick kitchen and bathroom upgrade. Renoviction is a new word I just learned. I don’t know. That’s what happened to my brother at his last apartment. They kicked out everyone in his building, renovated, raised the rent, then let new people move in.

They suddenly started increasing our rent every year like clockwork a few years ago so I’ve had a feeling they’ve been trying to price us out for a while but I didn’t know they could just… tell us to leave just because they can. Rent consistently paid up and everything for 24 years.

The notice we received really doesn’t say much so it’s all speculation I guess. It doesn’t state a reason why it just says we need to be gone by March 31st.

But basically, I’m really not doing well right now in all honesty. I slept for maybe an hour last night and it’s like a switch flipped in me as soon as I read the email. My stomach has had this weird knotted feeling ever since and I can’t stand up for more than a few minutes before needing to lie down again in case I either faint or vomit… I’m not sure which but it’s been this way since last night. I had to stand up at the sink to wash one singular dish from dinner and I could barely do it. At least I didn’t see the email until after I ate last night because I still have no appetite now.

However bad I’m feeling I know my mom is probably feeling worse. She has been for a while. She’s getting older and my dad is no longer alive. Aside from my brother and one irl friend I still see in person regularly, we have no family or other support system in this country and are well and truly on our own, staring down the barrel of homelessness if we can’t quickly secure a place and move decades worth of our life there before the end of March.

All of this to say, I don’t know what our usual art shenanigans here are going to look like during this time. I am incredibly stressed to the point where I am physically ill but I also can’t pause and step away because I do need the income that I receive from your support of me/my art here. It’s just the reality. I’ve never been particularly Big And Successful with what I do so your support means all the much more and makes a real impact on my life.

I am so sorry if this dampens your mood at all today or if you notice a decrease in the quality of art I’m able to deliver over the next few months but I will try my best to keep things rolling and let you know if there’s any particular delays to expect.

To top it off, I requested a tour of a nearby apartment last night (more expensive than our current) and the name of the person who just texted me back has the same name as our current landlord. Who wants to start taking bets? I know for a fact they own a lot of property in the area so this isn’t looking promising.

Anyways. Sorry for this downer of a post. If we’re not homeless in 2 months then… I dunno. I’ll have somewhere indoors to do art? Yay? You can imagine the housing market we’re dealing with being in California. The prospect of moving at this point has always been one of my biggest fears but we’ll see if we get lucky real fast 😢

If you've ever thought about supporting my Patreon or anything else, now and over the next few months might be a good time if you can swing it. Maybe it'll help us secure a place to move if I can point to it and be like 'Look! A whole income!' 🥲 Idk man.

There's an art update in the (public) post I made if you want to see what we're at least trying to work on for sticker club through all of this.

Mishy

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[fireflyflarenight]

Dark in CRK concept art

Once upon a time, fireflyflarenight randomly thought, hmm... What if TDL in CRK??????

Here are the results of that thought

The Gacha sprite? [Quality kinda bad, sorry]

This would probably be one of the story sprites?

crk stats and descriptions

You see something in the distance. Someone, rather. They're floating, high above the raging amber flames that consume the ruins of the city. It's the infamous internet terrorist, The Dark Lord! With hands full of fire and an aura that inflicts terror, they have destroyed countless websites and lives. Their overwhelming power renders them unstoppable. Recently, however, they have been suspiciously quiet. Is the internet safe at last or are they plotting something terrible?

type: charge

position: front

rarity: legendary [or Super Epic]

skill: [how do you come up with a skill name???]

The Dark Lord slashes the opponents within range with their blades, deleting parts of the opposing team's code. The corrosive nature of the attack dispels all buffs and inflicts stun and shock debuffs while increasing CRIT DMG received and decreasing DEF. The Dark Lord gains CRIT%, CRIT DMG, and healing. The Dark Lord's ATK SPD increases if The Chosen One is on the opposing team. If The Chosen One is on The Dark Lord's team, DMG focus will be activated (The Dark Lord reduces The Chosen One's DMG received and takes a portion of the DMG received by The Chosen One.) and The Chosen One will gain DEF and healing buffs. When using this skill, they become temporarily immune to interrupting effects.

Soulstone Description: This stone holds a piece of The Dark Lord's soul. Youch! It gave you a static shock. [???]

Debuffs given to opposing team: Injury, Fatal wound, DEF Down, Shock, CRIT DMG Received Up, Stun, Dispel [Should injury and fatal wound be replaced by data corruption?]

Buffs: CRIT% Up, CRIT DMG Up, Healing Up

Random things I want to say:

These stats aren't very balanced. Dark deletes your buffs, stuns you, and reduces your max hp. That feels incredibly unfair.

^I thought it would be funny if I gave Dark cutesy eyes^

^me using scratch instead of a normal drawing app^

Some of the writing in this post might be questionable because I have a low English grade :D

Also, I used they/them pronouns for this goofy stick because yes.

[rubyreduji]

i have nobody to tell my thoughts to… but ceo!woozi has been on my mind non-stop lately 🤭🤭 like do you know how hot sounds??? ugh.. it’s been plaguing my mind… or like being rival coworkers with him at a successful company 😩😩>>> i feel like you’d understand me tbh

[minors dni]

no because you are SO right like imagine young but strict jihoon who became a ceo early on in his career after the old one spontaneously retired to go live on an island and you've been with the company for a while now (at least long enough that you were there when the old ceo was in power) and despite being one of the best employees the company had jihoon hates you

you don't know why either, it's been like this since he got the job, shooting down your ideas, scoffing at your reports, always making you redo your projects, nothing you do can make him happy, in fact it does the opposite, everytime you interact with him a look of discontent settles deep onto his face

your breaking point is during your latest office meeting when jihoon not only makes an unnecessary comments about the state of your outfit, embarassing you in front of the whole room, but also he shoots down another one of your ideas only to accept an idea from your co-worker, an idea that you pitched last week that he turned down

at this point you can just tell that he's targetting you, that he has something against you when you've done nothing but being kind and hardworking

after the meeting you're fuming and you decide to storm right up to jihoon's office, not heeding the protests from his secretary

you walk right up to his office and fling the doors open to find jihoon sitting on a phone call

he flicks his eyes up at you before saying into the phone, "ah, something has come up, i'm sorry to cut this call short, yes sir, i'll call you later, yes, thank you," before placing the phone down and standing

he walks past you and looks out the door to his secreatary, "clear my schedule" and then he closes the doors

finally he turns to you, "mx. l/n do you know how incredibly rude and unprofessional it is just barge into my office and intterupt a very important business call" he's looking at you down his nose and you suddenly feel very small

you regain your composure and stare right back him "we need to have a talk, mr. lee"

"is that so?" jihoon tuts as he walks back over to his desk "so tell me y/n, what's wrong?"

you hate him so much, his cocky attitude and asshole demeanor

"you have been nothing but unkind to me since you've taken position and i demand that it stop. it's unfair and there is no real good reason for your mistreatment against me"

jihoon looks at you bored, "i have no clue what you are talking about. if you are just here to waste my time, then i suggest you get back to work"

you want to stamp your foot like a child but you know better than to throw a tantrum "sir, every meeting you shoot down my ideas only to accept them a week later by a different person. i do twice the work, if not more, than everyone else just because you make me redo every project i work on. i'm sick and tired of it and if it doesn't stop then i'll quit"

you didn't mean to say the last part, it just slipped out, but it seems that this statement takes jihoon's interest, the look on his face changing to something unreadable

slowly jihoon stands and walks over to you, despite his height he has a dominating presence as he stares at you with firey eyes in his crisp suit, he's the perfect image of power

"do you know why i do those thing to you?"

"because you have something against me, i'm not sure what, but you do, and you can't deny it"

"i do it you because you need it. you are one of the best employees here, which means we cannot risk your work quality decreasing. every comment, every redo, every shut down has a purpose my dear y/n. i push you do your best because i know you can be better. everytime you're put down you come back stronger. that's what's so fascinating about you" jihoon grabs your chin and forces you to look at him "do you understand now?"

his grip is tight, a bit painful, but you can't ignore the way it turns you on

you've always thought jihoon is incredibly handsome, too handsome for his own good, and you've shamefully has some thoughts about him before shooing them away, reminding yourself not only is he your boss but he's also a raging asshole

"you're such a good employee, so diligent and obedient, makes me wonder what you're like outside of work. i've always had my eye on you y/n, whether you realized or not. you allure me. so pretty" jihoon mutters as he strokes your cheek with his thumb

"j-jihoon"

"that's sir to you"

"t-this is very il-illegal" you stutter out, but you already know that he knows that

"i don't see you trying to make a break for it though, now do i?" he's right, you're too turned on now, desperate for him to continue "that's what i thought. on your knees, now."

you don't waste time kneeling down in front of him, the bulge in his pants apparent now that it's at eye level

"now be good and suck" jihoon unbuttons his pants and pulls his cock out and you quickly take him into your mouth

his hands grip tight into your hair as you bob up and down on his massive cock

you move your tongue to press against the bottom of his cock as you do your best to deep throat him, his tip hitting the back of your throat as you try not to choke

"that's it, so pretty like this, go good for me," jihoon coos as you continue to work at him, tears filling up in your eyes

it doesn't take long for jihoon to cum down your throat, groaning as he does, and you do your best to swallow down his cum

you're aching between your legs now as jihoon tucks himself back into his pants, you're a bit worried he's going to leave you as you are, but then he orders you to strip and lay down on his desk

his hands find your most sensitive area and he starts to play with you, you whimper as he touches you, feeling good but wanting so much more

you're just about to get off from jihoon's touch when he pulls away and you audibly whine, you're not left without his hand for long though because soon a finger is tracing your entrance before he slowly inserts one finger into you

his fingers are thick and strong and you can feel yourself stretch out as he pushes a second one in, thrusting into you a bit

"s-sir, please" you beg

"please what? use your words properly"

"please, n-need you to move more sir, harder, faster" you pant out

you hear jihoon chuckle a bit before he does just as you asked, digging his fingers into you even more, it doesn't take long for you to open up and he shoves a third finger into your stretched out hole

he picks up the pace of his fingers and quickly pistons in and out of you, his fingers curling right into your sweet spot, the wet sound of your hole filling the room

you're a mess now, whining and squirming around on his desk as he fingers you to completion, you climax with a loud moan of jihoon's name, your cum going everywhere

despite the mess jihoon smirks down at you, happy with a job well done

"you know y/n, you really have always been my favorite"

[sorry it took me so long to answer this and i know technically you didn't ask for a fic and technically im not taking request but yall know i cannot resist jihoon]

[ladyvesuvia]

short blog note

please read!

hi! i’d like to clean up my blog.

i’ve been incredibly busy these past several months hence the inactivity and inconsistent fanfic updates. due to this, i’ve neglected and abandoned the requests in my inbox including my notifications (tags to celebration posts, random posts, and etcetera) which i really apologize for!

i have also been very demotivated with writing, so i apologize for the decrease in quality with my most recent ones.

i’d also like to apologize because i will now be moving forward from the requests i’ve received previously from old celebration events. i’m really sorry, you can always send those requests to other writers! <3

i’m also going to redo and try to revamp my blog, although i think i would very much love to keep the theme. i’m going to create new masterlists, so don’t mind the mess on your feed with masterlists full of incomplete links, they’ll be under construction.

i’ll also be redoing my taglists because i don’t want to tag and bother a now uninterested audience.

i’ve really been considering moving blogs like most of my mutuals have done for the past year but i’ve grown attached to this blog of mine, so i’m keeping this shitpost-stacked blog because i’ve made a lot of great memories here and i’d still love to make some more.

i would like to address my mutuals who i haven’t interacted with so much as i did last year. please know that i love love love you all and please tag me in your celebratory posts, i really appreciate those and i will try my best to respond and participate in them! :))

i’ll be trying to write for marvel and stranger things and stardew valley because they’re the fandoms i’m most particularly interested in at the moment so other fandoms might be dormant for now i hope you could understand that.

anyway, sorry for the serious tone. it’s my flop era rn and i’d love to get back in the game and get more notes in fanfics so i’d love prompts and more random bullshit in my ask box again come back you fucking idiots

love u all mwa