Why can’t Tacos fly?

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[queershakespeare]

OOF 

(original text from article by devon price)

[queershakespeare]

YIKES

[aeide-thea]

[ID: Two screenshots of text from the article linked above. The first passage reads:

As they grow older, Autistic girls run the risk of being abused by romantic partners, or of not knowing how to maintain healthy boundaries in any relationships, because their supposedly higher “social skills” are often just an elaborate system of appeasement and agreeableness.

The second passage reads:

…paying the price of having done so to this day. [highlighted text] You can’t have a balanced or healthy relationship with someone else if your primary motivation is convincing them at all times that you’re worthy and good. [/end highlight]

/end ID]

[iamblz-tblr]

"Here it cooomes...!"

"You're... done!"

me @ all of this [gestures]

[usopps-froggy-hat]

ooh made ya flinch

[heywriters]

How can I get better at writing descriptions? I feel like when I am writing dialogue things flow smoothly but as soon as I have to describe setting I just go blank. I realized that I am a pretty distracted person and don't really notice details of the environment around me, I get lost in daydreaming when going around and I am completely clueless of my surroundings. This makes it hard for me to actually imagine those kind of details and incorporate them in a scene when I am writing. I don't want my descriptions to sound like a shopping list, like "The trees were tall and green and the sky was blue." Do you have any tips on how to improve with descriptions, to bring some poetry into them? Thank you!

I relate to every line of this ask, thank you for sending it. I'll do my best to answer.

You may have seen my recent reblogs of advice on this subject. I will put the links at the bottom of this answer as well, just in case you missed them.

"I feel like when I am writing dialogue things flow smoothly but as soon as I have to describe setting I just go blank."

I've found that the two things require different sessions. If I write all the dialogue first, I can only think about the dialogue. Returning later with a mindset geared toward description helps me focus on descriptions.

"I get lost in daydreaming when going around and I am completely clueless of my surroundings."

Understandable. My trick here is, when I can, daydream a scenario that requires I focus on my surroundings. Am I a spy being followed? A criminal who needs an alibi? A researcher who has to give a detailed lecture? Silly stuff like that helps me focus on the details around me, even the most banal, without getting bored. Also, keeping a notebook or writing app on hand is good for saving quick descriptions of your experiences as they occur.

"I don't want my descriptions to sound like a shopping list, like 'The trees were tall and green and the sky was blue.' "

Command of metaphors & similes ("like a shopping list") and a reliable thesaurus should never be underestimated! Also, getting very specific and exaggerating slightly can make your descriptions really pop: “In summer, the elms towered over everything, their leafy shade a respite from the glaringly cloudless sky."

Listening to recorded ambient sound can assist you in imagining yourself somewhere you're not. Asking obscure questions like "what do you call the little window over a door?" can help you describe specifics. Reading books and watching shows set in places you want to write about can give you authentic details, but double-check their facts if you can. Build connections with people who know stuff you don't and are willing to discuss it.

A "shopping list" description is fine for a first draft. If your brain won't get creative, let it be blunt and just say "the trees were tall." You can find ways later to make it more interesting, but at least leave your future self an idea of what needs to be described.

As promised, links!

Analyze stories

How to Make Your Description More Vivid

Lets Write Some Novels

Writing Exercises for Describing Locations

Describing New Settings

Show vs Tell

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[whatchyawhatcya]

[mazojo]

Bro are we having a moment or is this like??? A bro thing ??

[keyenuta]

TWST Ramble: Kalim

This isn't much of an analysis bit it is more me rambling about a few things I've noticed from Kalim(our sunshine boy) overtime I don't see much fan content on.

He's surprisingly inventive: What I mean is judging from a few personal stories, especially his laboratory one it shows how despite being unable to cook usually, Kalim was almost masterfully able to prepare and cook every bit of food with magic alone. Yes Ruggie directed him when he needed to, but the point still shows that Kalim is more capable than we think. Another is during his dorm uniform's personal story. When his two dorm mates accidentally let out a flock of seven coloured birds, instead of defaulting to Jamil he knew silver always had birds and animals around him so he took the white birds and used them for the parade, using his own Unique magic to coat them in the colors with the light reflecting through the water

He seems like he's been stunted: What I mean by this is that Kalim looks like he's been stunted in his growth his whole life. With being given everything by his parents, and even with jamil holding back from actually trying his best in a way stunted kalim's growth both as a magician and a person. Which brings me to-

He's a very fast learner: Despite his naivety, and his upbringing, when he is forced to try and learn on his own to solve a problem without jamil, Kalim absorbs the information ridiculously well and adapts to it quickly. There's two showings of this, the first was with poison, seeing jamil being poisoned Kalim drilled himself to be able to spot and recognize most poisons. And on to the second example, during the Halloween event last year, after only one lesson from rook, Kalim was able to act like a wild wolf so convincingly he managed to scar jack to the point where even after realizing it was Kalim his tail was still between his legs out of fear. And then he acted so well he drew a genuine complement from Jamil, even shocking him at how well he managed to do.

He's not that airheaded: While we all know Kalim is airheaded, and doesn't observe things that well. I think we as a fandom often forget how observant Kalim actually is. The biggest example to date is how Kalim always knew Jamil wasn't a good person and expected jamil to betray him much sooner. And tell me if I'm wrong about this, but i think Kalim might have even noticed when Jamil acted worse than he actually was when he was with him.

So yeah, all in all I think we as a fandom sometimes forget Kalim is actually more than being a ball of airheaded sunshine, he has layers to him than we usually think of.

[soursoppi]

big sect leader, small sect leader

[amurih]

If Ingo ever returns to his proper timeline, I want all wild and caught sneasels/weaviles to have like this buried deep primal instinct when spotted. He can play his little train whistle and they be like:

[lordtraco]

Dumbest idea of how Ingo got there:

Zisu: I wish I had a friend who liked training and battling pokemon as much as me

Jirachi/Arceus: 👍

Ingo, falling face down into the snow by the Pearl Clan: ?!?

[imfluentinfangirlandgay]

POV: your brother came home absolutely jacked after being missing for years and when you were out together you ran into a wild hydreigon and he fist fought it and fucking won

[rival-ado]

local train man ends up in kalos or something

[m1sosazai]

ok so i've read the fics where ingo recognizes emmet right away, or very soon after meeting, or when he sees emmet he gets flashbacks and tries to run away or something bc he thinks his brother is actually some illusioned-up zoroark or something. also those fics where they meet in their dreams, or in the rifts. which are all very good!

but specifically that one fic where ingo sees like, little hallucinations of emmet out of the corner of his eye after he gets some of his memory back stuck w me. and basically i think...

what if when the twins meet again, maybe w the PLA protag or the clan leaders... emmet sees ingo give a quick glimpse at him, then pointedly ignore him.

he can't figure out why (is his brother mad at him for not finding him sooner? has he been so traumatized by the separation that he can't look directly at him, the way emmet had a hard time w mirrors during ingo's disappearance?), but meanwhile, ingo is frantically running down his mental checklist of tasks.

1. did he get enough sleep? (yes, a full eight hours before he was roped into this meeting, plus w the baby sneasels and lady sneasel.)

2. did he have enough to eat? (yes, he had a meal at the wallflower a few hours ago... with some cake lures and berries as emergency provisions if he does get hungry.)

3. is he injured anywhere? (no, the last wounds he got, some abrasions from the debris that flew up while he was fighting akari a few weeks ago, healed up just fine.)

having checked off all the criteria, ingo slowly looked up, and despite his better judgement, very carefully met gazes with the white-clothed man with his face that was still, inexplicably, there.

"warden ingo, are you alright?" professor laventon's assistant asked him quietly.

"yes, my engine is in perfect condition," ingo lied, deliberately turning away from the obvious hallucination. maybe it would vanish when he stopped making direct eye contact with it, like it always had before - he couldn't entertain the possibility of his mental state potentially getting worse and having the white-clothed man appear outside the dire situations he'd always seen him it in.

(he didn't need more people in the pearl clan whispering about his uncanny habit of talking to the air, or akari eyeing him with concern whenever he was caught spacing out while turning to the left after she'd felled one of his pokemon in battle.)

so yeah, ingo is very used to seeing emmet whenever he gets into trouble somehow... so much so that he has a hard time remembering that he CAN talk to his twin now, in the flesh, without people looking at him crazy lol.

of course, emmet isn't going to stand for his brother ignoring him forever, no matter what he might've done or what ingo thinks, so he ends up goading him into talking to him right in the middle of the meeting (about past-future information exchange or something prolly, idk), and ingo ends up yelling at him like "not now, sleep hallucination! we're in the middle of something!" (bc most of the time he's suffering from insomnia when he sees hallucination-emmet, and "injury hallucination" is significantly more worrying to most - and also rolls off the tongue less imo - to say), which attracts everyone's attention. and the twins have an argument-sation about whether emmet is hallusionary (thank you esama for that great combination of hallucination + illusion), whether it was polite to yell at your brother (remembered or not, real or not) after not seeing him for a while, and how much sleep ingo usually got in a night.

after a while of this, rei is like "...who are you talking to, warden?" (bc honestly akari gets all the spotlight and i like to include cute nerdy assistant boy more), and ingo points at him like "SEE, he just asked who i was talking to, THAT MEANS you're as fake as always!" and emmet scoffs (still smiling in relief tho) before rei is like "actually, i meant 'who is that man who looks like you, warden?'"

ingo realizes that people can see his hallucination, somehow, and spends a brief moment horrified that some zoroark has brought his friendly illusion to life to torment him, or perhaps he's dreaming right now - before it hits him.

the illusion is... real. that's a real man standing before him, feeling very familiar, who looks just like him.

and ingo just derailed a meeting to debate with him and reveal his possibly decaying mental state.

...ingo is very embarrassed.

[glowbat]

i wanna believe the reason ingos clothes are torn up is cause he cant say no to little gremlins

[chipper-smol]

The call of the Cain instinct is magnified by the power of the wrAPPING PAPER BONK

Posting this with permission from @potentialforart

[cloudsrust]

I discovered that Ingo now follows you with his eyes in the worst way possible-,,

I wanted to get ref pics of his Warden bracelet thingy and- yeah,,

Before the update he just stared into the distance as if lost in thought so I got spooked so bad lmao. Ingo I love you but you got a natural death stare,,

[texeoghea]

cut bit in the conviction reunion scene