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I have a love-hate relationship with editing. On one hand, I love re-reading what I made. On the other, I hate having to get rid of/change things.
My brain: This scene is really cute, but completely useless! Me: Not completely! It gives a vital piece of info about the main character My brain: A detail that you reiterate in the next scene Me: But what about this? This is saying why a different character is currently missing! My brain: Go down twelve paragraphs; we know for a fact that that gets explained later in the same chapter Me: ...Do I really have to get rid of it? My brain: Yes!
Not me projecting onto my characters
Not me having them say things I wish someone had told me
I apologize for what I am going to say to you, but I have to. I am Ahmed from Gaza, married with two children. We live in the shadow of war and destruction. I lost my brother, my home, and most of my relatives. We have nothing left. I ask you to help, even a little, so that we can survive and protect my children. Any amount, even a small amount, will save our lives.
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A blushing mess of a fool, I become
Y'know, I love getting long comments on my stories, but I ever know how to respond! I'm so much better with the written word over spoken word, but my inability to properly react to a compliment seems to translate into every way of communication
I have Poor Jack (Nightmare Before Christmas) stuck in my head
Y'know, I love getting long comments on my stories, but I ever know how to respond! I'm so much better with the written word over spoken word, but my inability to properly react to a compliment seems to translate into every way of communication
So, I said this on the masterpost for Tales Of Conquest, Warnings Of Fools, but I'm gonna say it again:
I got beautiful art down for Letters Between Brothers by both AnnaRooma and Restricted on 13th and you all need to go check them out because I love their work so much!! I had a lot of fun working with them and I'm going to be riding the high of dopamine of getting their artwork for weeks.
They're both really amazing artists and deserve all of the love <2
Definitely the cinnamon apple doughnuts they serve at pumpkin farms!!
Oh! Dude, you're a genius!
I gotta go find recipes! I'mma learn how to make this stuff so that I don't gotta give my money to rich people.
(I need to get money to buy ingredients...)
I don't have a pumpkin farm near me that I can think of (I grow my own gourds), so we gotta find a recipe.
Gasp! My apples are gonna be ripe soon!
If you're having a bad day, just remember that it's going to be winter soon and imagine what will happen to all the Cybertrucks ❤️
Idk if you drink, but Salted Caramel Crown Royal + warm apple cider = 🔥🔥🔥 it’s one of my go to drinks.
That sounds really good...
I'm only 20, so not drinking age, but I don't think I'll ever drink. However, I could totally make the warm apple cider + salted caramel...but what would go good with it? Like, food/snack wise?
May your next period be light and end quickly
Hot Apple Cider would absolutely hit rn
Garlic Bread.
Lesser-known steps of the writing process:
Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once
Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards
Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop
Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere
Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off
There are people who actually believe that "government controls everything" is tyranny but "corporations control everything including the government" is freedom.
I have a very not normal way of remembering my cardinal directions.
I was raised on Never Eat Soggy Waffles, but I could never figure out which way each word pointed. Until, that is, I drilled into my head that the front door to my house faces the sunset, meaning that Never (North) is the way my bedroom window faces, Eat (East) is where the backdoor is, Soggy (South) is the kitchen window, and Waffles (West) is my front door.
Who needs a compass when I can remember the sunset?
I have I Know It's Today (Shrek the Musical), Morning Person (Shrek the Musical), and Candy Store (Heathers) all stuck in my head
They don't sound well together
OMG! I love It! I love all three of them!🖤🖤🖤
screeeeaaamssss
This is single handedly the biggest art I've done in this event (it took 3 hours to load after the file crashed) and your asking me why I reposted nearly the same photo?
It's because of the curtain, appreciate it!
Shower the author, Insomnia or Cheshire in ao3 or The Void Stared Back in tumblr and my fellow artist, Annarooma in deviant art, with some love, kudos or the deviant art equivalent of it
Check it out here in Deviant Art: Annarooma's art!
It's pixel!~ ;)
You think I was done? THINK AGAIN! Coming from our lovely Insomnia or Cheshire_the_Grinnning_Cat or @thevoidstaredback
XD *it's so ridiculously long, I just found out they use different names in each of their medias, do me a favor and check out both of them*
Go and read the delicious brotherhood of Danny and Damian, fellow dcxdp enthusiast!~
*Drops fic link* thank me later~
Check out the @dpxdcbigbang for more fluff flicks, cracks your drug dog and angst as a balm for the stab wound in your heart! <3
Week One
Kate came back and printed out the invitations as soon as she and Alfred had finished setting out the tables and chairs in the ballroom. By then, Luke and Tim had finished the list and designed the invitations, ready to print them out. At the top, there was space to write in the name of the guest. On the back, they made sure to add in the RSVP information, theme, and dress code.
Suggestions had been thrown around about having an open invitation to bring their families, practically guaranteeing that the Justice League would bring their kids, but that was way too big of a security risk. So, the plan was to put 'family' after each surname to ensure that the families were invited to come along. Besides, this was agreed to be a private event, so not even press was getting in without explicit invitation. And even then, only three people from the press were getting in.
As soon as the invitations were printed out, Tim and Luke set about the somehow even more painstaking task of putting them all in envelopes and addressing them.
"How the hell does Alfred do this for every gala you guys host?" Luke groaned about four envelopes in.
Tim shook his head. "We have a set guest list and address book for every One Percenter in the country, as well as pre-made invitations for every gala of the year. All Alfred has to do is change up the invitations at the beginning of the year, make Bruce choose who gets to be at which one, and send of the invites."
"They're all pre-printed?"
"Yep."
"That seems like a lot of work to do at once."
"Yeah, but it makes the rest of the year easier."
"That's fair."
"You guys go to some real extremes, huh?"
Tim gave him a deadpan look. "You're one of us, Luke. Besides, you really expect any less from Bruce? I'm surprised he doesn't have the names and addresses of everyone in the country!"
Luke gave a considering hum. "How do you know he doesn't?"
"Because I've seen every file on the Batcomputer. Also, it's unrealistic, even for Bruce."
"Also a fair point, but I wouldn't put it past him if he ended up cataloging everyone at some."
"Not even the government has records of every person in the country."
"You're really gonna compare Bruce to the U.S. Government? Batman?"
"Yeah, I see you're point."
It took an hour to stuff and address every envelope. It took another forty-five minutes to seal them all. And, because they're the Waynes, therefore having to be extra at everything, they used a wax seal on all of them. Two different seals, actually, one for the Justice League Heroes and one for everyone else.
The black wax on the heroes' invitations was the Wayne Family coat of arms, altered slightly after Bruce took up the cowl: A sword cut behind a shield, like most coats of arms, but there were bat wings on either side of the top half of the shield. The shield was cut into four sections; the bottom one had weighing scales; the one on the right had a magnifying glass; the one on the left was a bird; and the one on top had a W in fancy calligraphy. A string of pearls hung off the pommel of the sword, and a robin's wings and tail poked out from behind the bottom half of the shield. Finally, a banner completed the seal at the bottom reading, "Eques Caliginous"; Knight Dark.
Every other invitation was sealed with the Wayne Family seal: A W in Elizabethan Calligraphy. Red wax for these ones.
As soon as the wax had dried on all of the envelopes, Luke and Tim gathered them in a stack and were quick to send them off. Their efforts were better used elsewhere now that they were done. Mostly getting ready for patrol, as well as starting the surveillance of the rogues. The gala needed to go perfectly, especially because it was set to end just before their patrol was going to start, but none of the bats were stupid enough to not start setting up fallbacks as soon as they could.
***
Dick and Duke were on Entertainment duty, meaning they had to find both the music and ways to entertain every person in attendance. Having the guest list done made this task exponentially easier. It's be easiest if they had the RSVPs, but they didn't really have time to wait on those, so they were working under the assumption that every family invited would show up.
"It'll mostly be adults in attendance," Dick said, "But there'll be teens and kids here, too."
They were standing in the ballroom, trying to figure out how to cater to everyone. It was a hard task.
"We could have a seperate room?" Duke suggested, "Something off from the main ballroom."
"Not a bad idea," agreed Dick, "But which room? And how would we decorate it?"
Duke shrugged. "We could use one of the sitting rooms? The one by the bathrooms down the hall should work. It's close enough to hear the music, but far enough that kids can escape their parents."
Dick smiled. "Good idea! Though, what about security?"
"Um... Let Bruce handle that?"
"Even better idea! I'll go hire the live music, you wanna put together a playlist for the kids?"
"Sure," Duke started to leave the room, "You sound old, by the way!" He ran before he could see Dick's betrayed sulking.
Part 10 Part 12
I have Meet The Plastics (Mean Girls) stuck in my head
One Piece is on a 6-month hiatus that I only just heard about, so I have however much time is left to finally recatch up on the anime...
Now only I could find a place to watch it (Netflix has up until Punk Hazard, before jumping straight into Zou and Egghead which is a problem because I'm on Dressrosa) (not that I don't already know everything that happens, but I want to watch it!)
It's a good movie, really funny, but it's not my cuppa.
Love the cast, the jokes are funny, but I just don't think it's as funny as the rest of my fam do
I've never seen Spaceballs. Twin and Parents think that's horrible. I've seen Star Wars, I love Star Wars! But I've never seen Spaceballs.
Twin's been trying to get me to watch it for a while, but I've avoided it mostly because I have no interest.
That changes today. Dad wants to watch it, so we're watching it. It's gonna be an experience I can tell ya that much
I've never seen Spaceballs. Twin and Parents think that's horrible. I've seen Star Wars, I love Star Wars! But I've never seen Spaceballs.
Twin's been trying to get me to watch it for a while, but I've avoided it mostly because I have no interest.
That changes today. Dad wants to watch it, so we're watching it. It's gonna be an experience I can tell ya that much