#venting really

[writingonesdreams]

I don't know where I'm going with this and it's not like I want to burden anyone or something. But it's not really helping me not to talk about this, so feel free to block the #ukraine and #politics tag if you don't want to see this.

I feel bad, cause I'm upset, when it's really Ukrainians who are suffering in direct conflict right now. But I'm so scared, and I don't want to be trapped under Russia like my parents grew up being, and I don't want to be stripped of my freedom and rights and safety. And I don't understand how can people do this to each other. How they can send mothers with small children and cats in their bags over the border while sending their untrained husbands and sons to fight in a war.

But also how can you cry for peace when there is an aggressor like Putin, shooting his way through your rights and life? You can't just sacrifice a country so you wouldn't be disturbed? What kind of peace is that, when Ukriane and their people have to be sacrificed for it?

That's like seeing a bully and keeping your mouth shut so he doesn't start bullying other kids too.

Idk what to do. I feel so powerless. Just all depends from others and it all depends on power, the power itself to harm or to protect oneself, and suddenly there is no fairness or intelligence or different skills or untouchable human rights guarantee. The fact is, might rules the world and if you are unlucky enough to live in a occupied country with no armies and weapons of your own, you are on your own. You are helpless.

[izzydaninja]

When you order something and wait a while for it, but an address error and zero communication from either the brand that made the order or the delivery company that was supposed to drop it off, causes said-order to be on the trip right back to the warehouse, and when you contact them about it and try to work-around the error so it can be sent out again, you still find no change and find that it was most likely lost or destroyed and so you have to request it to be remade...

Yeah.. a very tedious process.

Everyone I have contact, though, has been very patient and understanding with the situation, so I'm appreciative of that, but it's still aggravating that no one has tried reaching out to me about anything except for someone on the brand-team asking if I had contacted the courier company yet and if they got back to me. Which I did clarify, and they tried to help further. So, yes, very nice people, just a frustrating lack of communication at most points.

I only found out the delivery failed and was being sent back when I checked the tracking number myself; I was not notified of the failed attempt of delivering it, nor was I told that it was being sent back, OR that it arrived back at said warehouse it was returning to. I had to contact them about the whole ordeal and find out what was going on, while regularly checking the tracking number. I found out about the address error (which I will admit was my own fault for not catching at the start), when checking the tracking number and had to jump through hoops to try correcting it and contacting the right people about it. Turns out, it was useless in the long run seeing as it hasn't been found and delivered and I'm now waiting for the second attempt.

Ugghh.... the joys of online orders...

[bb-bluearcher]

I just wanna scream, honestly.

Why?

Cuz...I wanna write stuff involving certain headcanons I have, regarding Uryuu...because of course, I am.

Mostly in the form of a new Quincy uniform, a physical weapon, and even a new version of his Vollstandig.

But...I don't want to make an exposition fic. It feels boring. I just wanna add these things in a fic and just mention them: like the scarf or jacket that is part of his new uniform, a physical bow he can use (like the ones Ryuken and Kanae had in the flashback), and the new Vollstandig (which he earned from Sternbild Orden!).

For anyone who doesn't know, Sternbild Orden is a Quincy faction that is unaffiliated with the Wandenreich. Basically me wanting some Quincy lore that isn't tethered to the Wandenreich.

But then, I get a little voice screaming at me, 'BuT eVeRyOnE wOuLd GeT cOnFuSeD! yOu HaVe To WrItE eVeRy NeW dEtAiL!'

Like, I do think about writing a small fic of Ichigo and Uryu (and maybe Rukia) investigating something and have Uryu just casually use his new gear, and maybe someone make mention of it without going into full detail.

I'm facing similar issues wanting to add 'Echoes': psychometric entities made of pure reishi and emotion. Remember how the Fullbringer Arc introduced the concept that even objects contain 'spirits'...which I think is animism. Echoes are sort of a corrupted or distorted almagamation of that.

But, noooooooooooooooooooo...

That stupid voice in my head is telling me that it ain't enough.

It's dumb and needs to shut up.

I mean...for crying out loud, I just posted a chapter for UlquiHime Week 2025 where I introduced my headcanon about the Beast Realm! ...And it was fine! I wrote what I wanted to write, introduced the Beastmen, and proceeded to focus on the main plot, which is...spoilers. And all it took was two or three paragraphs.

I don't need three pages or three chapters that is nothing but info-dump!

I already talk people's ears off! Why do that in writing?!

To the little voice in my head:

This is why you have no friends...

[steorransaluki]

what a damn day. (tw: pet illnesses/EoL)

there's, y'know, everything.... and while I was trying and ready to do art about nature and resilience by 10am ish, at 11:30 I got a call from home. cooper has been declining, but today he hit the threshold we'd set. he's going for his quality of life appointment tomorrow and we all know what the outcome will be. I am so, so broken.

I never talked much about cooper on here, and looking back ... I don't really know why. probably because he's always been very reactive, and some anxious part of me worried that would cause people to judge him and me or whatever. it doesn't matter now. he's my big, beautiful, brainless baby boy and we're going to give him a wonderful day tomorrow and let him go peacefully. I'm hurting--coop is the dog I got in highschool who helped me get thru the worst depression of my life. he was there for college, and covid, and grad school, and this feels like a knife to the gut on top of last night. but it's the right decision for him, and I know if I make him stick around he'll just be in pain. but damn. fuck.

[countless-potr]

Ok ok ok, I've been thinking about this on and off for a week solid.

While I understand that much makeup for a younger actor would be difficult and the cartoons depiction is not a realistic burn scar. Zuko's scar need to be prominent! It's serves a very important narrative function.

Zuko and his scar subverts the scary disfigured bad guy trope. It's design to mimic the look of fire, the "bad guy element", it narrows his eye to intensify his glare, even his hair cut is designed to show it off. And while his actions also mark him as a bad guy the visuals of such a intense person with such a striking "scary" scar leans into a long Hollywood tradition of depicting "evil" as dark and disfigured.

During 'The Storm' the audience is abruptly made to question these tropes as they are forced to think about how such a young person got such a large injury. It invites further questions about the black and white tropes of evil the young audience had grown to expect.

It's still a children's show and doesn't get terribly complicated in its grey mortality but it's a great introduction to the reality that physical appearance doesn't dictate morality. A lesson in lots of kids shows but handled masterfully here by allowing the audience to reach the conclusion by themselves before Zuko's turn without looking down on its young viewers and spelling it out.

And maybe the audience is supposed to be older because its live action (a concept I scoff at but understand is a real idea people have) but I know there's plenty of adults who need their brain rewired on the concept.

And I think we are all just fully sick of adaptations minimizing a characters original scars, or white washing, or just fully leaving out details like curls, freckles, and weight, to make the character more "appealing" or "attractive."

In the end I really shouldn't be thankful that his scar looks better then in shamalan's fucking tragedy

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Being home from college is weird. All my pots and pans, my clothes, my shoes, the mug I drink coffee out of- it doesn’t fit in the closets or the dressers or the cupboards. Nothing fits here anymore.

Nothing.

[readskiesatdawn]

Getting real sick of the "Show Don't Tell" advice being held up as gospel when it's not a 100% rule.

Sometimes you gotta tell stuff. Why? Because it can make the story flow better. Because it makes a funnier punchline. Because you want to show that a narrator is not reliable. Because the way that something is told can show something else that you feel is more important.

It's about balance, pacing, context, target audience and a whole lot of other factors.

Also and most importantly...give less of a fuck about it in the first draft. Focus on getting the story out completely and figure out what parts need more (or less!) showing later.