The Mindless

something wicked this way comes...? oh, no, it's just strange. Mind, any ig // writer // scifi, fantasy, eldritch horrors, funnies, you name it i got it // i like homestuck, csm, and utdr and no one will stop me // i post whenever i feel like it, fuck you, me

[the-mindless]

Introduction

Hello, I am Mind, I love writing. A minor, though a bit on the older side. You can call me whatever it is that comes to your mind, I don't mind (pun intended).

I like a lot of things, like Chainsaw Man, Homestuck, UT/DR, Ultrakill, MGR, DnD, Dwarf Fortress, Mob Psycho, and so on. My bucket list of what to get into next grows every day.

I post whenever I feel like it, fuck you, me. This blog will mostly be a creative venting place for all of my skits and projects, which could be seen here. Here's a more specific bullet list of tags that lead to those:

#skits For short little one-shots based on prompts or ideas that came to me in a dream (may or may not be literal).

#fanfic For fan-fiction, will be tagged with it's respective fandom.

#original For original stories from the deep crevices of my, uh,

My WIPS

ESCHATON: THE WEST RISING SUN apocalyptic, high sci fi fantasy, drama, action

A group of online kids are separated by distance and the pesky difficulties of the real world. They make plans to meet each other when they're older... That is, until one day, the sun rised from the west.

STATUS: Drafting TROPES: Fighting Against Fate, Portal Network, Magic Genetics, Acquainted in Real Life (intro) (tag)

WHY YOU SHOULDN'T PISS OFF THE DEVIL post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy, action, comedy horror

Centuries after 2023, after the Devil froze specifically every human on Earth and opened a door to Hell, the ice had finally melted away. Humanity struggles to reform, so they formed agencies of Demon Hunters, some equipped with divine power, guns, just the plain indomitable human will, or even dubious contracts with the Devils. The only thing these Demon Hunters have in common is their insanity.

STATUS: Plotting TROPES: Found Family, Demon Slaying, Faustian Bargain, Crapsack World (intro (still under works)) (tag)

[thememedaddy]

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[thebibliosphere]

Absolutely wild to find out another indie author has been referring to you as "the competition" this entire time. Like there can only be one disabled werewolf Romance novel.

I'd like there to be more, actually. I'd like them to hold hands. I would have liked us to hold hands, but alas.

[thebibliosphere]

We could have gone on mailing lists together. We could have shared readers. We could have had a beautiful Fall wedding under the eldritch glow of a blood moon. Why, why must we be forsaken?!

[thebibliosphere]

Wait, could this be our enemies to associates arc? Hot.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Absolutely insane to consider any other indie author "the competition" unless they're directly attacking you. Readers are (usually) not going out there like "hmm, which is the one single disabled werewolf romance book I will read?" More often, they will read one and if they like it, go ahead and get the other one. It's such a rising tide lifts all boats type of profession. Other books in your genre (assuming they're not reputation-ruiningly terrible) bring more readers to your genre! Ten amazing disabled werewolf romances is so much better than standing alone! It increases audience size for everyone!

"The competition" do they even understand their job?

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

also I absolutely love when one author tells me the other authors they like that write similar things! like, yes, thank you??? I have read everything by this one author and need something to tide me over until they have more out, and oh thank god they have a list for me to go through! now I will always think of them when i read something by any of these other authors! this is good!

[ijustwannawritepls]

How to Write When You Don't Feel Like Yourself

There are going to be days (or weeks, or months) where you sit down to write and feel... disconnected. From your voice, from your characters, from your ideas. Like the person who used to write your stories just packed up and left.

They didn't. They're just tired. Here's how to keep writing anyway:

Lower the bar (Until it's on the floor) You are not here to write something brilliant. You are here to write something. A paragraph. A sentence. A single line of dialogue. Movement matters way more than quality.

Write around the story Don't force it. If you can't write the scene, try: ⋆ A character ramble / journal entry ⋆ A conversation that won't be included in the final draft ⋆ A list of things the character would never admit out loud ⋆ A messy summary of what should happen Engage with the story from a different angle.

Borrow a voice until yours comes back No, not with AI. Read something that feels close to what you want to write, or watch a scene that captures the tone, then write immediately after. Not to copy, to reignite your instincts.

Write the emotion, not the plot. What is your character feeling in this moment? What are they afraid of? What do they want but won't say? What's being kept from them? The emotion leads, the plot catches up later.

Stop trying to "feel like a writer" first. You don't write when you feel like a writer. You feel like a writer because you write.

You are still a writer, even on the days it feels distant. Especially then.

[naamahdarling]

If the problem is that you want to write and CAN write, but feel like what you are producing just suddenly sucks and is below your standards, keep writing anyway.

It isn't a problem with your writing. You're either:

1) tired or going through it somehow, or have recently been through something, and that can easily make you dissatisfied with what you are producing,

--OR!--

2) you are on the threshold of leveling up, or have done so, and the asshole editor side of your brain is interpreting the raised ceiling as "I suck, actually." You don't, and in six months you won't be able to find the parts you thought were bad writing.

All of this applies to all art.

[fishymom-art]

The long awaited Fandom Etiquette comic. It will also be in my pinned post for newcomers.

A lot of people who are new to social media and fandom scene weren’t really taught how to properly act and in our age of cancel culture/rage baiting and the rise of the AI, people lost all sense of respect for one another. So i’m here to share some basic fandom and internet etiquette i have learned over the many years i’ve been here :)

I’ll really appreciate if you could reblog this for other people!!! And add some of your wisdom, if you want to and have something that you think is worth sharing!

EDIT: LMAO i wrote “formant” instead of “format” SORRY HAHA

[ellaandtheocean]

Humpback whales breaching: gorgeous, majestic, graceful, embodies all the strength and beauty of the ocean

Minke whales breaching: I will launch myself out of this ocean like a f***ing surface-to-air missile to seek and destroy my enemies

[gallusrostromegalus]

I remember an interview with a guy that did the camera work for nature documentaries and he said that baleen whales like these guys were the scariest things to shoot because “They’re the size of a train, they can suddenly appear out of nowhere in dark or murky water and they don’t make a goddamn sound. I was absolutely sure that one of them was going to hit me and well, ‘that’s all folks!’. Gave me a lot of perspective on how I handle myself when filming smaller animals now.”

[a-book-of-creatures]

Fin whales breaching: sea serpent

[fleshdyke]

levitating minke whale

[plaguedocboi]

Sperm whale breaching: wjaht the fuck

[necronatron]

I have a feeling I have already shared this, but please, take the contribution of the northern right whale dolphin.

The humble eyebrow

[thatmooncake]

@flinxypie

[the-mindless]

throws you around

irreparably destroys the economy of the local place every time you throw me into a new place

[kamikkyu]

this is how i feel when ppl say genshin has diverse body types sorry

[uhuh100]

[vrabia]

[baby-goalie-skaps]

The reminds me of when I saw the remains of an ancient synagogue in Israel and the mosaic on the floor had a section dedicated to those who donated money to the synagogue 2000 years ago. Humans don’t change as much as we think.

[wuackamole]

Shout out to our patreon supporters

[smokeinsilence]

have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it’s no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don’t

[viridianmasquerade]

I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade. Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won’t talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend’s parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a heartbeat.

[lovercowboy-deactivated20251117]

my abused ass trying to think of this positively every time it shows up:

[viridianmasquerade]

Couple things for anyone out there who’s feeling like this about this post (general plural “you”, not specific “you” directed at the person I’m reblogging from). No one is obligated to view this post or the mosaic image positively. My experiences are not universal and nor should they be. No one should have to feel like they’re forcing themselves to feel a certain way, or to apologize for not feeling it, just because of an internet post. As someone who has had to process some abusive relationships (family and romantic), I can say that ultimately it’s only you who can decide how to process your experiences and decide what to keep and what to let go of. The only right answer is what makes you feel safe and happy. Depending on the relationship or the trait or habit in question, you might keep some things but not others, and there’s not necessarily any rational pattern as to which is which. It’s okay to get surgical and cut out the things left behind in your life by someone who hurt you. Choosing to excise things that hurt you or remind you of being hurt is an act of self-love - you deserve not to be hurting. There’s nothing stopping you from revisiting those things at a later date, if you decide they aren’t painful anymore. It’s also okay to decide to make something your own even if it came into your life from someone who hurt you. I like to joke with friends that there’s a short list of good things my abusive ex brought into my life (mostly games and music he introduced me to). That doesn’t make the terrible garbage he put me through acceptable, but after we broke up I decided to separate him from things that I still wanted to enjoy. That too is an act of self-love - you deserve to still enjoy things in a way that suits you no matter who brought them into your life. There’s no universal solution for dealing with the rubble left behind from relationships that have ended, especially ones that were toxic or involved abusive behavior of any kind. What matters most is that you make the decision that makes you feel safest.

[homunculus-argument]

I think it would be funny to write a murder mystery where not only did every single character involved have an obvious motive to kill this mf, they were actually all attempting to murder him first, but the murder attempts all cancelled each other out all except for one. Two people tried to poison him but the poisons just happen to work as antidotes for each other, and instead of killing him only gave him the shits, and due to having the shits he couldn't go hunting that day like he had planned, foiling the plans of the one who had conditioned his favourite hunting horse to panic and bolt at the cue of a whistle, and the other murder attempt of tampering with his gun so that it would have exploded his whole face off.

The whole mystery isn't about who could have done it or how, but who was the one who got lucky and actually succeeded.

[terriwriting]

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of Perhaps We'd Best Leave This One Alone, Watson. There Appears To Be An Excess Of Armed Maniacs In The Vicinity.

[copperbadge]

When I was in high school a friend of mine would host murder mystery dinners once or twice a year. They were the kind you could buy as a kit -- I don't even know if they exist anymore -- and everyone was assigned (or chose) a character, then received a booklet of clues to share. The idea was to spend an evening in a one-shot LARP designed like an Agatha Christie novel.

I was a year above most of them at school so they threw a "goodbye" murder mystery for me just before graduation, and about 2/3 of the way through the game we all realized that everyone had at least attempted to kill the victim. The game then shifted from "whodunnit" to "who succeeded in dunninit" which we all felt was not only super fun but above the usual level of narrative complexity for those games.

After we solved it, we discovered that the game wasn't from a kit -- the host had written it herself and meticulously printed out the booklets in replica style of the kits. It was the best going-away party I think I could possibly have had.

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s so annoying when I say I have an irrational fear or a phobia and people try to logic me out of it. I just told you that it’s irrational.

[minecraft]

[canoncanidae]

[ouroborosorder]

”there’s no glory in suffering” and “sometimes the effort is the point” are two ideas that co-exist but god damn if I can ever tell when’s the time for which

[i-point-at-things]

👇👇👇

[bwahhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggg]

kris gets a haircut from someone with only one eye