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idk iif you also reblogged the character bingo thing with the intention of participating in it but if you did i would like to submit my good friends Oki and Arlo <3
(Oki isn't a werewolf, he can just turn into a dog for fun)
He hehe i will participate since you asked so nicely!! Though I will happily respond to any of em.
Oki
And Arlo!
There we go!! Both of them are absolutely lovely and I want to put them both in a salad spinner and spin it for a long time /pos
okay the problem with being a very slow player is that I'm compelled to keep playing, one quest at a time, to progress FFXIV and not go play other games? I really want to try BG3 now I got a PC that can run it, but I'm also? I want to see more ffxiv story and do all the other random stuff I do
806 followers! Thank you so much!
huh that feeling when you realize you feel more strongly than anticipated about a random IP/character because a post pops up on your dash
oh gods the sideblog count poll made me realize that I'm now apparently member of a group blog for each of my main fandoms this is why I shuffle my feet and say nothing when people ask me what I did on the weekends at work 😅
the nervous beta reader anon here, what would you say to writers too nervous to share their work given the many talented writers in the fandom?
Hi again, anon :)
I’m sorry if this will be a bit long, but I have a couple of different thoughts about this.
I think it is important to think about why you want to share, and what you want out of sharing. I personally, deep down, share my writing to make it real. It doesn’t really exist for me as something ‘finished’ until I share it, and sharing it makes it done, a task I have completed.
Of course I also share because I want people to read it. I want the likes and reblogs and kudos and the comments. It is important to write for yourself first and foremost, but I don’t think we can ignore our need for validation. It is very human. Allow yourself this need. Find an ally to cry with when your stories don’t get the recognition you expected.
But I think we need to find something outside the validation that matters when sharing and writing. Is it the joy of seeing what you want our there? Seeing it being real? Telling your story? That ONE person who likes and supports your writing? The practice you get? The idea that you can now move to the next story?
Only you can know, and you need to find it. Writing only for validation will make you upset, and it will be a beast that never can be sated.
Now, I talked about validation, and you asked about talent. I think it is very very important to acknowledge a couple of things about talent. First of all, while there are things we are more talented at than others, talent never really gets you anywhere. If you want to be the best of the best, you probably need both talent and hard work. I’m not going to ever swim like Michael Phelps. But if I took swimming lessons every day, I would swim much faster than I do today. And if I had all the talent in the world, but never set foot in a swimming pool, the talent wouldn’t matter. TL;DR: Hard work is more important than talent.
That said, what does talent (or practice) mean in terms of writing fanfic? Unlike laptimes for swimming, you can’t measure the quality of fanfic. Something I think is brilliant, others might not like. Something other enjoy, I might not enjoy.
So here I arrive at the optimistic peptalk - your writing is worth it because it is yours. It is unlike anyone elses. YOU can bring something to fandom that no other writer can.
one more note - about popularity, because sometimes when people say talent, what they mean is popularity. It is very very important to remember that quality is not equal to popularity.
The Dragon Age: Inquisition fanfic with the most kudos on AO3 has 6496 kudos. I happen to think it’s not that great. Number 3 and 4 on the list (both over 5k kudos) I dislike. One of my favorite works has just over 600, another of my favorites has 13, and one of the most amazing pieces of DAI characterization has 14.
This has to do with tastes and uniqueness, but also ship popularity and timing and fandom.
btw the top fic by kudos in Supernatural fandom has about 33k kudos, the top Harry Potter one 35k+. Does this mean these authors are more talented than ALL the authors in the Dragon Age fandom? Nope. It means kudos is a measure of many other things than talent.
TL;DR (for real)
acknowledge the need for validation, and do not be ashamed of it.
find something to post for other than validation
remember that (in almost all cases) hard work trumps talent
remember that popularity is not quality
Lastly - I want to see as many people as possible write and share fanfic, and I want everyone to be brave, but if it is detrimental to your own mental health, that is ok. Knowing yourself and your limits is a strength, not a weakness.
sorry for the rambling, but this is a topic I have many thoughts on.
Hi friends!
We’re finally back from vacation. We were about one week in Denmark over Christmas and then two weeks in South Africa. It was very busy and very wonderful.
We spend a lot of good family time in Denmark and enjoyed the Christmas lights in the dark.
Then we were in Cape Town and the Eastern Cape area. We saw penguin colonies and climbed the viewpoint at the Cape of Good Hope, saw an ostrich farm and went to the beach and on an amazing safari.
I hope you all had a wonderful New Year and that 2020 is amazing.
Hey friend!! What’s your method for dealing with jet lag? Does it affect you bad or pretty easy? ❤️
Hey, love!
Usually jetlag doesn’t affect me that bad - but I think coming from 10 hours PLUS a change in season/daylight amount is affecting me. (I really enjoyed the days being longer, lol). I usually get over jetlag in 1-2 days.
that said, this is my jetlag fighting tips:
1. Do not look at the time in the place you left. No ‘I’m tired because it’s 2am for my body’ or something. Don’t speak it, don’t think it. DO NOT.
2. Do not take naps at not-nap times even if you’re sleepy (as in - I don’t take naps, but if you usually take a nap at 4pm, go ahead and do that). You can go to bed a little earlier than you usually would, but do stay up until evening.
3. Eat the right meals at the right time, especially when you arrive. This means that if you fly and it feels like morning because you just woke up, but it’s 6pm at your destination - it’s dinner time; eat dinner foods. Even if you’re not hungry, sit down and eat a little.
4. If you wake in the middle of the night, don’t get up and do stuff because you can’t sleep. Don’t lay in bed and browse tumblr. Look at the watch and say ‘it’s 2am, I need to sleep’, close your eyes and try to sleep. Even if you just lay there doing breathing exercises.
5. Do other things you usually do at the time you usually do them - if you work out every afternoon, go do that and so forth.
All of these have the same goal - resetting your body clock, adjusting your inner clock as soon as possible. I find that practice actually matters - it’s not that you are predestined to be able to handle or not handle jetlag. Since we moved to the US and travel to Europe every year, I’ve become much better at handling jetlag. It is mind over matter in a way.
This time was hard - I think the 22 hour flight and the darkness has not helped me.
Thank you for the ask! I have a few methods and thoughts about this :P
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