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[aeternumregina]

im so happy you’re still writing LIS! i still think about the fic from time to time and i thought it was abandoned, then i finally found your tumblr today and i realized you’re still here so that’s great! keep up the good work!

Thank you! I’m still writing LIS, actually in the middle of sending some notes to my beta right now. I promise I haven’t abandoned it! :)

[threehoursfromtroy]

do you think you'll ever write more about my boys liu and mushi? i totally understand if not, it's not their story, after all, it's korrasami! but i think they're adorable together

I’m glad you love them! I don’t have any CURRENT plans, I’m not sure there’s enough interest and honestly I don’t have a plot in mind for them. Setting something in what would, technology wise, be the modern day is oddly more difficult because that almost obligates you to write about modern day style problems, and I’m not sure I want to write about issues that are that close to what I see on the news, you know? I do have thoughts about writing for the Fire Avatar AFTER Liu, possibly including a central mystery harkening back to Liu’s time... but I really don’t know how much interest there would be much less how much time/energy I have to put into that at the moment. I still need to wrap up Little Soldier Boy, after all... Thank you for the lovely ask! I’ll keep it in mind and consider me more likely to chase any plot bunnies about those two that come across my mind! 

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

I've seen the leaks and im not gonna spoil Game of Thrones for you. I'm definitely certainly not a fan of what they did this episode (e4), and was wondering about y'all's input on it as well

disgusting, pathetic, terrible, a low even for d&d. they shit on women and they shit on poc and they SPECIFICALLY shit on the last black woman in the show. revolting. it was even worse than the leaks, because we could see her decapitated body falling down. now im actually rooting for drogon to burn the shit out of kings landing.

d&d saw that they hit rock bottom so they got some spoons and started digging DEEPER. ~mod ara

[edenprime]

i love your take on GoT, and im a fan of the series myself. My favorite characters are all GNC women (although i do headcanon brienne as trans) and arya is my #1 favorite (i think she will die sometime in season 8 and that makes me SO SAD). do you know some good GoT blogs i could follow that dont fall prey to the whole shitshow?

thank you! but why do you think arya is going to die?? she’s one of the characters that deserves the most to live! it’d be TOO LOW for the showrunners to kill her off although the ramsay/sansa storyline was that too and yet,,, 

I’m afraid I don’t know many blogs that post about the fandom, I haven’t been active in GOT’s for a long time, and the blogs I follow are mostly for the Aesthetic(tm). I hardly participate in any discussions, unless i’m asked (or it’s “b****** is the ugliest binch alive in hell”), and I don’t really follow many people that do (and the ones that did are now inactive, rip)

...but i always agree with @joyfulllfinn, aaaand @goodqueenshuri is the best person i can think of if you’re looking for arya content! <3

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[telnaga]

did you name yourself after xel'naga from starcraft

nah telnaga is from morrowind! its a giant mushroom tower mages live in

[autism-asks]

is it possible to have an internalized meltdown? because when im overwhelmed i can stay still and Not yell, scream, hit things, and hit myself, but i still feel very very strongly that i should and i really really want to.

This is something I do, and it feels different than internalizing the meltdown. This feels more like resisting the urge to have a meltdown itself. But yes, it is possible to have an internalized meltdown, which shutdowns are often called.

- Os

[autism-asks]

is this an autistic trait? i Cant do scales. like "on a scale of 1-10 how ____ are you ____?" is impossible for me. pain scales are so weird to me. today my doctor asked me on a scale of 1-10 how bad my acne is and i couldnt answer. thats not even something that requires knowing how youre feeling.

Yes, difficulty placing things on a scale is an autistic thing. It can be a result of executive dysfunction, but for me it’s also tied into logical and black and white thinking and having trouble knowing social things since those kinds of scales are pretty socially defined due to them being a way to communicate that’s based in abstract concepts.

I need clear definitions for what each number is, if I have that, I can easily place my pain on a scale of 1-10. Without it, well, I once put a ‘If I open my mouth to speak I will start crying and hyperventilating” on the verge of a panic attack at a 7.

I’ve found though that asking for examples of what each level would be can help a lot. If it’s something that can work as a yes/no thing, 1 is no, 10 is yes, and 5 would be in the middle. But, in that case, it’s important to convey that’s how you are using it since that’s not what it’s meant to be. (Idk how most of them are meant to be used, which again, trouble understanding implicit social things, but there is a pretty useful infographic in terms of using the scale for pain.

(I apologize I don’t know the source of the post where I found this scale, I saved the picture to print out and use as reference for myself a year or so ago because it didn’t just rely on the happy/frowny face things that I have trouble with.)

Basically: What Do The Numbers On The Scale Even Mean ??? is easily an autistic thing.

 - Os