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buck and his new captain don’t see eye to eye…

looking back at all the 911 art I did in the short 5 months since I decided to rewatch the show 🥹

cones...？

I actually love hearing about reformed people's stories. I love hearing about people who were in toxic communities or people who used to objectively be dickheads talking about how they got out of that. How they made themselves better.

I hate how most people's initial reaction to stories like that are things like:

"How could you have ever done those things?!" "Oh my god, you believed those things?!" "Well it doesn't un-do the harm you did!"

People incessantly advocate for change but then refuse to allow people who have changed the grace of being acknowledged and given opportunities and chances.

I love hearing about ex-antis talking about how they don't spend their days being angry and sending death threats anymore.

I love hearing about ex-homophobes who realized there's no magic law about what is "natural."

I love reformed bullies talking about how they made amends with their victims and spend their days being considerate of others.

You can't scream about wanting people to change but then expect them to spend the rest of their lives stuck in the past and on who they used to be. You can't expect people to spend the entire rest of their lives grovelling and apologizing and demeaning themselves.

Instead of clinging to who they were, latch onto who they are.

Ask how they got out of it. Commend them on changing. Enjoy that there's one less cause of harm in the world.

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

The face of a man who knows his wife...

if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

awwww i just found out i have to do whats best for me even though it hurts a lot 👎👎👎👎👎

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Almost exactly a month late I have arrived with my yearly gift for@carriecmoney, this year a not so small animation for their ghosthunting au One Piece fic King Tide!

Have you ever read a fic that has a setting that seemingly is unrelated to the source material, but when you start to read it, it 1. Makes perfect sense thematically and 2. the love for the setting really shines through? that's this fic

also hi i have never drawn these characters before

so we agree buck making eddie get chased by bees because he's "the fastest runner" was a lie right. we agree he just wanted to be a menace to his best friend? bc he literally made it to the rooftop a full ten seconds before eddie did in the same episode, making HIM the fastest runner

the obvious.

really looking forward to seeing buck for once be satisfied in his personal life and dissatisfied in his professional life

from a young age i knew i wanted to give up when things got hard

The Causal Chain And Why Your Story Needs It

The most obnoxious thing my writing teacher taught me every story needed, that I absolutely loathed studying in the moment and that only later, after months of resisting and fighting realized she was right, was something called the causal chain.

Simply put, the causal chain is the linked cause-and-effect that must logically connect every event, reaction, and beat that takes place in your story to the ones before and after.

The Causal Chain is exhausting to go through. It is infuriating when someone points out that an event or a character beat comes out of nowhere, unmoored from events around it.

It is profoundly necessary to learn and include because a cause-and-effect chain is what allows readers to follow your story logically which means they can start anticipating what happens next, which is what is required for a writer to be able to build suspense and cognitively engage the audience, to surprise them, and to not infuriate them with random coincidences that hurt or help the characters in order to clumsily advance the author's goals.

By all means, write your story as you want to write it in the first draft, and don't worry about this principle too much. This is an editing tool, not a first draft tool. But one of the first things you should do when retroactively begin preparing your story to be read by others is going step by step through each event and confirming that a previous event leads to it and that subsequent events are impacted by it on the page.

bucktommy baby getting called probie is so fucking cute i gasped so violently i threw up a little. you and rc write the most incredible things and your joint bucktommy posts are everything to me. incredible collaborations, im forever grateful. thank you for the breeding kink mind meld thing u guys are doing; there's not enough of it on ao3, and you're doing the community (Tommy Should Fuck Buck Pregnant Community with his Massive Fucking Schlong) a huge service. jesus christ

thank you!!!! @rcmclachlan and i yell at each other about pregnant buck a lot. most breedable man in LA 7 years and counting. here is an exchange from last night after she posted about pregnant buck's KFC addiction:

dadvans: also i'm rereading what u wrote and before they started calling the baby probie they definitely called the baby 'mashed potato' bc of buck's cravings

dadvans: tommy said 'that baby is gonna be all mashed potato' and it stuck for a while

rc: MP for short

dadvans: MP!!!!!

dadvans: right when she's born buck is holding her and crying and through his tears looks at her little fat alien face and wails, the happiest he's ever been in his life, "she looks just like a mashed potato"

rc: And Tommy's cracking up through his own tears like, "oh fuck, she really does"

death of subcultures and death of third places are directly connected and you can’t convince me otherwise