I've Kept Up This Sort Of Side Plot In Beneath Her Masks And Its Gotten To The Point Where Nearly Half

I've kept up this sort of side plot in Beneath Her Masks and its gotten to the point where nearly half of one of the chapters I'm working on is a text conversation going over it. I've been a little anxious about posting this chapter, even though its done, because I don't know if I should bother including so much extra shit like this. It's interesting (to me). And I like it. But does it add anything? Will it ever go anywhere? Or is it just my brain going "oh hey wouldn't it be cool if" for 2000 words.

The end chapter text conversation thing is getting a little out of hand and I dunno if anyone really gives a shit about it enough for me to leave it in. It doesn't really add anything. It's not relevant to the chapter.

Uuuuuuggghhhh writing is haaaaard. Especially when you can't really make any major changes after its posted, since that sort of defeats the purpose of uploading it to begin with.

Beneath Their Masks Chapter 28 is Up!

These should all be up by the end of the year. Just a couple left!

Ann: where are you at in the story?

Makoto: I um…haven’t been going through the story lately. I’m still where I was a few days ago.

Ann: oh gotcha

Makoto: But I have been…what did you call it? Grinding?

Ann: you’ve been grinding for the last couple days?

Futaba: woah…

Ann: what level are you?

Makoto: I think I just hit level 60.

Ann: WHAT

Futaba: makoto has fallen victim to “number go up”

i cant believe how fucking skrunkly morgana looks in this bit from episode 3 of P5A

The best piece of advice I ever got was not meant as advice, but as an edict. If I was going to threaten people as a joke, it had to be so far out of proportion with what happened that it would be obvious I was joking. This changed how I expressed frustration with others. It then changed how I expressed frustration with myself.

Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”

Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”

The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.

Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”

Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.

Life changing. 10/10 Mr Muëller. Highly reccomend.

writers when they’re proofreading their works for the 34th time *find zero mistakes, there’s no typo, no grammatical error. everything looks good. hit the post button*

writers when they’re reading said works after they’ve been published like proud parents *find 52 mistakes at first glance, 38 typos and 14 grammatical errors with a bunch of inconsistencies and plot holes*

warning for discord users

If you're on the app, immediately go to your dms and then "add friends". After the latest update they allow your contacts to find you and have that option turned on by default, so make sure it's unchecked!

This is very obviously not great for a multitude of reasons, but especially for people in vulnerable positions who do not want people in their contacts to see who they are on discord and/or know they have discord in the first place. I've also tried finding out if this is a thing on desktop but haven't been able to find any mention of it, so either it's not a "feature" (yet) or they've hidden it. Either way, stay safe, and turn off finding friends via contacts!

[ID: three screenshots from the discord app with circles around the buttons to press to get to this "feature". 1: the messages/DM button, 2: the "add friends button", 3: in the add friends page, the "allow contacts to add me" checkbox. /END ID]