Vantastic

Van || nonbinary || 30+ || July 30th || leo || German she or they pronouns Former names: kaichovan, mitsunaris-legs and vanamiya.

[beetroot-murdertime]

Hallo nette deutsche Menschen of Tumblr, mein Britischer Kumpel hat mich was gefragt und ich gebe diese Frage nun an Sie weiter.

Wie ist Ihr Mittag-/ und Abendessen normalerweise? (warme/kalte Gerichte)

Mittag warm essen, Abends warm essen

Mittags warm essen, Abends kalt essen

Mittags kalt essen, Abends kalt essen

Mittags kalt essen, Abends warm essen

Remaining time: 6 days 3 hours

Und bitte auch schön weiter rebloggen :) damit wir ne größere Gruppe befragen. Oder so.

Mfg, eine Rote Beete

My British friends version btw falls ihr sehen wollt was in der uk abgeht von @blueest-owl he started this debate

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[yesornopolls]

Have you gone to your native country’s capital city? (At least one of them if your country has multiple)

Have you gone to your native country’s capital city? (At least one of them if your country has multiple)

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

[thefakerachelray]

Any sci-fi media: the spaceship is a character

Me: OMG THE SPACESHIP IS A CHARACTER

[rottencore]

This post keeps making me cry laughingg

[ao3commentoftheday]

There are so many unrecognized skills rolled into writing:

knowing what kind of feedback helps you most is a skill

assessing the quality of the feedback is a skill

wrangling the emotional complexities of sharing your writing is a skill

not letting the nice comment happy chemicals unbalance you is a skill

and none of those things are even writing

(text above was originally tags from @the-very-darcy - ty for letting me turn them into a new post!)

Be kind to yourself when you're navigating these issues and remember that each of these is a skill separate from writing that maybe you haven't developed yet.

Give yourself the grace and time you need to improve on these areas too.

And forgive yourself if you find these things difficult. You're not born knowing how to do them. You get better at them with practice and with time. 💗

[mesooph]

layers

[whalemarch]

whisper of the abyss

[souwus]

bubblegum b*tch - marina and the diamonds

[driatwo]

You're hardly normal, and you don't cherish life. You just don't want to admit defeat in the limited time you have. Even so, don't I deserve an interesting ending?

[juleskelleybooks]

Readers of Tumblr, I have a question of sheer curiosity. When reading original fiction with characters you’ve never seen a visual portrayal of, do you prefer if their physical appearance is given a detailed description in the text, or are you happy to have one or two important features described and the rest left to your imagination, or do you not care/not notice at all? I guess a fourth option is preferring no description at all.

Some examples of what I mean.

Detailed:

Gabriel Quinn was a man of modest height, a little under six feet tall, with warm brown eyes and a prominent nose, dark auburn hair that swept across his light golden brow, and a delicately shaped mouth pulled into a polite smile. His physique had a soft edge that put El in the mind of some retired athletes he’d treated, and the way he leaned just slightly on the elegant cane he held in his right hand gave El some idea of what might have been behind his retirement.

Sketched out:

“Reset the game, Sutter,” one of the men said, poorly covering a belch as he pulled up a chair to the table and spun it around to sit in backwards. Some of his blond hair had come loose from his ponytail and fell over his eyes rakishly, and Nate couldn’t help noticing how broad the man was, rugged and tall like a mountain. “Reckon it’s time to have a rematch.” […]

He elbowed the other man who’d come in with him, a redhead with nearly half an inch on Farley height-wise but a bit narrower in the ribcage, something sorrowful about his visage. “Me and Callahan got paid today. Got plenty of chips rattlin’ around in our pockets.”

I’ve seen people mention in reviews their (sometimes strong) preferences for one or the other and I’m just kinda curious about which way it’s trending.

Fictional Character Description Preferences

Strongly prefer detailed description

Slightly prefer detailed description

No preference

Strongly prefer “sketch” descriptions

Slightly prefer “sketch” descriptions

Prefer no description or minimal description

Voting ended on4h

Feel free to elaborate in reblogs/tags!

[bina-binrays]

[kosmogrl]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[ilynpilled]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[pulim-v]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061]

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’m not a fan of ai, but I can accept that if someone chooses to use ai for their fics or their art, that is their choice. not something I agree with. but still not my business, and I will never condone harassment.

if anything, I think it’s better if these people feel comfortable enough to tag their stuff as ai, so that other people can avoid their works if they’re not comfortable with ai-generated contents.

that said, I think ai writers will stop tagging their stuff as ai entirely if people shame or harass them for it.

so now their stuff is still ai, just untagged, meaning there’s no way for others to know if it’s ai.

keep in mind that speculation, accusations and witch hunt harm genuine artists and writers as much as ai does, if not more.

so if you go to the “ai-generated” tag on ao3 just to harass people for using ai, just know that you’re not actually fighting against ai — you’re just being a bully and you’re also making people more wary of properly tagging their ai-generated works as such. so you’re just making sure they no longer tag their ai-generated stuff as ai. also you can be reported for harassment, and ao3 will not take your side. (whether or not you like it, ai-generated works are allowed on ao3, whereas harassment is not.)

the “ai-generated” tag on ao3 is there so people can either find or avoid works with ai (but in order for it to work, ai users must feel comfortable enough to be honest and tag their works properly, that won’t happen if people keep shaming and harassing them for it — the only thing harassment will do is make sure ai stuff go untagged, harassment doesn’t stop people from using ai).

the “ai-generated” tag is not there so that you can freely harass people with no consequences.

[aletheyass]

tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

[apas-95]

wgat did u say

[distinguishedshoeduckdonut]

Espada Hogyoku