if you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.

300k reads on GoS! Let's go!

I actually, genuinely cannot fathom that number. 13 years of working on this fic, coming up on a year since I came back to finish it and nearly wrapping up its first round of edit, and 300k reads! GoS is solidly in the top 20ish most read LoZ fics on Wattpad. And I cannot thank people enough for giving it a chance.

As a thank you, I'm planning to do a full bonus week of uploads for MoaH - Part 2 to celebrate since that's my active project. That should start this Sunday. There were some suggestions to run an event, but due to some life events currently, I cannot do that and commit to a prize. But I have a pin in it! GoS is also almost fully imported to AO3 now (should be this weekend), so maybe go give it a look if you haven't before.

I feel like a milestone that big gives me some space to get on my soap box a little. And so with a number that big, here's what I want to say:

I started Goddess of Secrecy in high school. I didn't beta read it. I didn't optimize it for uploads. There was no marketing strategy or real upload schedule. I didn't have any social media to promote it. Hell, I barely edited the thing if my current pass is any indication. I just did it. And kept going. Was I any good when I started? Absolutely not! But I kept trying. And I got better. And here we are.

You do not need to be the best there ever was to start. In fact, you won't be. No one is. But you will never get better if you don't try. It's scary, I know. But you can do it. I mean, if I can you can. There was no magic to that, just persistence. You have to start. Your story is better told imperfect than never told at all. And the world needs your stories. Get out there and tell them!

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: G.I. Joe - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Storm Shadow, Lifeline, Tunnel Rat Additional Tags: #illness, Hallucinations, Lifeline deserves a cookie Series: Part 9 of Arashikage AU Summary:

Set in my Arashikage AU. Storm Shadow falls ill shortly after joining GI Joe. One-shot grown out of control, inspired by Sick Ninjas Aren’t Much Fun by WillWrite4Fics on fanfiction. This is a repost, originally posted to fanfiction dot net in November 2010.

animal crossing x sanrio sticker sheet for aprils sticker club!!!

as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

I loathe my job and need a new one. I need all the help I can get.

I loathe my job and

need a new one. I need all

the help I can get.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

A nice little story? No such thing!

This is the first of a series of comics I'll be posting weekly about writing and woes and lessons learned from around ten years of self-publishing books and comic creation.

...Starting with my ongoing struggle to keep stories simple and manageable 🙃

New paaaage. Sort of. Haha. Older readers might recognise bits of this already.

“Rayban charity glasses event” is a scam don’t click any link in a post that says that.

Old tumblr users remember this scam back when it first went out.

Also no, this isn’t a joke. This phishing scam is 100% running its course again so watch out for your mutuals long abandoned accounts suddenly posting it. Please make everyone aware of it since most users here are newbies who have not seen it before!

adventure time slang is weird cuz like. when you first watch the show and hear the slang you're like "oh this is cringy slang but its not like awful" but it gets to a point where the voice actors deliver the slang so naturally you don't even notice it and its just. part of the world's vernacular. I can't think of any other show that's done in-universe slang like this

Finn: oh man the frappin dude just ginked up and went flipoo over the junkin fence

Me, 3 seasons into this show: wow he really did huh

It's true but it's also funnier knowing the storyboarders were usually just making Finn say fuck

this is math

i have spent years rewatching all 10 seasons and recording every expletive i hear in adventure time:

Filing these away for later.

I'm sure this will somehow be useful data for something I don't yet anticipate

Maybe being good at social media should not be the main qualifier for all creative work

Seeing the notes on this talk about all the other careers that I hadn't even considered being affected by this is just depressing. What do you mean you need to be Instagram famous to have a career as a hairdresser?

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

A national park I worked at had all the permanent rangers (I was seasonal) basically on stand by for call outs 24-7 or they were penalized on their reviews.

They got tired of it, sued, won, and the nps had to pay back YEARS of back wages for stand by time. Now they are all scheduled and if* you get called out its time and a half.

ONLY because some rangers stood up.

If your employer does this: document document document, then find an attorney

You can also report your employer to the Department of Labor

Good news! You can do this retroactively as long as your old employer still exists! And you might get some money out of it if you're owed back pay!

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The misuse of the "insult to life itself" quote from Miyazaki on AI burns my yams so bad bc the original context is being disgusted with how a characters movements are dehumanizing to disabled people specifically bc of his empathy for a disabled friend and it's such a sadly rare sentiment, this cognizance of how we casually inflict indignity upon disabled people and how he finds it disgusting, I hate seeing it obfuscated

In the video he sees character animation where the presenter comments on how the AI can be used to model "grotesque movements humans can't even imagine." And Miyazaki immediately mentions that he thought of his physically disabled friend, who struggles with movement, with the implication being that what's "insulting to life itself" is the degradation of people like him to grotesque monsters. Regardless of my feelings about AI art I don't think it's worth obscuring this humane thought process to have a rhetorical weapon