Blast in my mind

Hello! My name is Sadie and welcome to my blog. I am a music and gaming enthusiast. FFXIV is my main jam. I also stream on Twitch under TigiiTigii. Hope you enjoy your visit!

[scribble-dee-vee]

Seeing a bunch of writing posts lately like “it’s okay if you only wrote a couple hundred words today :))”

As someone with a full time job, diverse hobbies, and a commitment to proper rest/self care, I would amend that. It’s okay if you don’t write anything at all on MOST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. You’re still a writer if you’re passionate about creating stories and putting words on paper when time allows. Life is busy and full of possibility, and that’s beautiful, actually. Kill the hypercapitalist productivity demon in your head.

[visual-sadie]

I was looking through my artwork stash, and seeing what I needed framing to put on the walls in the PC room and I found this book from a friend. I still have it, I have tried my best to keep it in the best condition through all of my moves across the world and back.

I remembered there is this little comment at the back that made me tear up a little. "And remember, let your creativity soar, regardless of how silly your ideas may seem. Who knows what they may lead to!"

We may not talk as much, but I just know you are cheering me on and supporting me through every creative endeavor. I thought I would share, for those who may need the small reminder. :) @high-stakes-gambler @dennydraws

[thekingdombytheseawithnoshore]

Saezuru fandom right now be like

[retquits]

people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry

[visual-sadie]

Cidolfus Telamon - FFXVI

Just showing my love for a 44yr old man who is badass af. *Screenshots taken by me forever ago. * Feel free to use - no need to credit

[visual-sadie]

I really need to lock the freak in and work on my OC stuff I've started writing bit here and there, and I do want to try and draw them at least. I do want to share things about them, but I am not sure where I would do that. Here? AO3? Dreamwidth? Pillowtalk? IDK. I hope people like them

[dennydraws]

Beware of the danger duo! :D I've been rotating these two characters in my head lately. I want to draw them in various fighting poses! When you enjoy the chase so much, ending the fight becomes difficult... Killing may have been the intend but it's no longer the goal... for both of them!

[lazeylily]

you understand that there's nothing wrong with wanting people to pay attention to you, right? it's not intrinsically evil, you are allowed to want to be seen. you can do it in soft and nice and good ways, but you don't even have to. you can just want to be seen.

[luna-azzurra]

Writing Advice that Will Save You from Crying over Chapter 3 Again

☽ Sometimes “writer’s block” is actually just your story being broken and your brain knowing before you do. Respect the vibes, go back. Something stinks.

☽ If you’re stuck in the middle, skip to the part you’re excited to write. Chronological writing is a suggestion, not a law.

☽ “Kill your darlings” is not about deleting every cool thing you love. It’s about not hoarding scenes like a dragon with dialogue you wrote in 2017 that doesn’t even make sense anymore.

☽ You do not need to write like your favorite author. You need to write like you, caffeinated and slightly unstable.

☽ Talking to yourself in the mirror as your character is not weird. It’s called method writing. You’re not unhinged, you’re dedicated.

☽ Aesthetic Pinterest boards and playlists are writing progress if they make you feel like a god again.

☽ You can write the climax before you finish Act 1. You can rewrite Chapter 1 thirty times and then delete it anyway. You’re not behind, you’re in hell with the rest of us.

☽ Beta readers are not gods. Take what resonates, ignore what doesn’t. If five people say your story drags at Chapter 8? Maybe listen. If one person says “make it all about the dog,” maybe don’t.

[herssian]

people who don't use or spend time on tumblr don't really understand how solid this place is for creatives and how we could be living in artist utopia if they fully undid the nsfw ban. the tag system? the dashboard? the silly anons who will send you the most insane sentences known to mankind? having your very old, shitty art make the rounds again because somebody finds value from it and wants to show their friends? no other place even comes close

[anxietyproblem]

[c3rvida3]

I think people need to understand that part of living a healthy life is having different people who understand different parts of you, so that you don't overwhelm your friends and expect too much of them, or ignore valuable relationships because they feel "incomplete".

We all want to be fully seen and understood, but it's not shallow or meaningless to just have a pal you talk about TV shows with who isn't also, like, your platonic soulmate. That's still your friend! You still enhance each other's lives with your company. Not everything that matters is profound.

I think a lot of you are lonely because you're waiting around for someone who sees into your soul instead of just plain old lookin' at the people in your life, finding common ground, and planting a little garden there. Even if that garden only grows Star Trek fan theories and memes, it's still good.

It just... makes me real sad that you guys can't imagine a friendship where you don't talk about sex and trauma constantly, or that you think these are prerequisites for "real" friendship. Like, it legitimately breaks my heart.

[darkspaceboytoy]

Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

[cannibalchicken]

your friends love you, your brain is just mean

[luna-azzurra]

Quick Tips for Writing Descriptions

⟢ PICK THREE DETAILS MAXIMUM! your reader doesn't need to know every piece of furniture. Give them the broken clock on the mantle, the smell of cigarettes embedded in the couch, the water stain on the ceiling shaped like Italy. Their brain will fill in the rest. You're not writing an insurance inventory!!!

⟢ Use the senses people forget. Everyone does sight and sound, but what about: the metallic taste of fear, the way humidity makes your clothes stick, the phantom itch of being watched, that gross feeling when you touch something unexpectedly wet. GET WEIRD WITH IT

⟢ MOTION IN YOUR DESCRIPTIONS!! (Please?) don't just tell me the curtains are blue, tell me they're "shuddering in the AC blast" or "hanging limp like they've given up." Static description is a sleep aid. Make things MOVE

⟢ Your narrator's voice should COLOR everything! A depressed character won't describe the sunset as "beautiful mauve and amber streaking across the sky," they'll think "the sun's dying again, doing its whole performance art thing with the clouds"

⟢ Stop with the mirror descriptions! :( "She looked in the mirror and saw her auburn hair and green eyes" NO. Banned. Forbidden. Find literally any other way. Have another character notice. Show through action. Slip details in naturally. The mirror thing is lazy and we all know it

⟢ Similes and metaphors: COMMIT OR DON'T DO IT! "like" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. "Her anger was like a storm" is BORING. "Her anger rolled in with the methodical inevitability of a hurricane, and he was standing in a trailer park in Florida" now we're TALKING

[ratcarney]

shoutout to the people working for hours on content that only gets ten notes. i’m kissing you tenderly on the forehead as we speak

[dennydraws]

Beware of the crazy goth girlfriend and the unstable vampire boyfriend! I've been revamping (haha..re-vamp... :D) more old OCs and it's like seeing old friends from highschool. Some are changed now, yet they still have the same vibe they got when you first met.

Her name is Vivienne, she hunts dangerous vampires. His name is Alaire and he is a dangerous vampire who hunts pesky hunters who dare enter his domain. They are both into the hunt part.

Some personal ramblings under the cut!

I had a really dear goth friend in highschool and we were the classic image of dark emo goth friend goes with pastel sunshine friend. I enjoyed a lot of the music back then alongside her. We used to swap casettes and CDs (gods, I feel ancient now) with Theater of Tragedy, Nightwish, Evanescence ... and we used to write the songs lyrics and try to translate them. My friend had rough childhood. She was very much relating to the emotions in these songs. While I had relatively care free childhood and to me all these songs were like inspirations for stories and characters. She loved watching me weave OCs and stories based on just sentences or pieces of the lyrics or just the vibes of the songs. My highschool notebooks are bloated with doodles of moody vampires.

Every once in a while I remember I have a whole folder of mp3s from these bands and when I open them, I feel like I'm 15 again. Life is carefree and all I have to worry about is my homework. My friend will answer the weird phonecall at 10pm and we'll talk until 1am about what nowadays kids will call "cringe" vampire stories. Then somehow we'll manage to get up at 7am for school. Then we'll giggle about the totally awesome thing we thought about, like some character changing eye color when casting blood magic or something... xD;

Sometimes I rotate these OCs with new coat of paint and think, what kind of stories I can weave you into? But my courage from the teenage years is absolutely gone. Back then, I could barely speak english and somehow in my mind, writing in english was the thing. I didn't care what punctuation or structure is. Now I can't write a paragraph without thinking I'm committing crimes against the English language xD;;; And no amount of my friends convincing me otherwise seems to go through my head. It is frustrating.

Anyway... rambles aside! Thank you for stopping by and reading this far or not, just enjoy the 2 Old New OCs on your dash! :D