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July 11, 2023 - 23:50 UTC

Shazam emoji collection pt. 1

No matter how much I searched I couldn’t find Shazam emojis. I decided that just won’t do and drew my own ones! I prob gonna make some more later for now heres the first few of the lot!

MariBat: Vote Your Own Fic - A CYOA writing game. - Set-Up, Part 4, Final, AKA The Author's Dilemma.

The Dilemma: Last Vote gave two different types of options: Setting, or Relationship Dynamic. Or a mix of both. Soulmates was a Dynamic, and that leaves me with the Setting. I would have done specifying the Soulmate Bond Type, but I'll save it for in-fic <3

MARIBAT AWARDS 2022 WINNERS MASTERLIST

There were a huge number of ties and close calls this year (like one vote difference between the winner and runner ups and up to three way ties for second or third place)! Only a few categories had clear consensus on winners. Everyone nominated should give themselves a pat on the back! Thank you to all 109 people who voted this year!

That said, here are the winners and runner ups for each category:

Art:

Favourite Artist Favourite FanArt

Authors:

Favourite Author Best New Author Most Underrated Author Best Maribat Author Of All Time (2022 Edition)

Fics:

Favourite Fic Most Underrated Fic Best Maribat Fic Of All Time (2022 Edition)

Ships:

Best Daminette Best Jasonette Best Timari Best Dickinette Best Rare Pairs Best Biofamily AU Best Platonic (non-biological family) AU

General Awards:

Best Angst Best Fluff Best Hurt/Comfort Best Comedy/Crack Best One-Shot Best Multi-Chapter Best Rated M Best Rated E

AUs/Tropes:

Best Soulmates AU Best Historical/Fantasy AU Best Class Trip Trope Best Enemies to Lovers Trope Best Fake Relationship Trope Best Marriage Trope

2022 Nominees Masterlist

congratulations everyone!!!!! 💖💖

MariBat: Vote Your Own Fic - A CYOA writing game. - Set-Up, Part Two.

Cast your votes, and let the fic begin to be built!!

MariBat: Vote Your Own Fic - A CYOA writing game. - Set-Up, Part One.

Welcome to my self-imposed writing challenge!! Inspired by Polls and Choose Your Own Adventure style storytelling, I've decided to let the masses become the Fates of a new adventure!

We are starting off here with something simple: Narrowing down the possible main characters! Once the main Pairing and their relationship is decided by the next poll, Tropes will be decided! Where will this be taking us? Stay tuned and find out!

Feel free to ask to be added to a tag list and be notified when the next poll is released <3

Almost time!! Poll ends in less than an hour~

Maribat Calendar Poll

Place your votes!

Civil War 3 Paris v Gotham starts tomorrow. In honour of this 7 day war I’m making a 7 day poll. Who do you think is going to win?

We’re super excited for the war to start! The first prompt list was released this morning, and everything will start to be posted tomorrow!

As always: the war is supposed to be a fun CIVIL event. So while poking fun at others in good natured teasing is okay, being mean or hostile is not.

Have fun! Watch the content flow! And route for your favourite team!

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I added more to the gif. Fingers crossed it uploads correctly this time

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:

30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell

50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville

250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW

I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.

Holy shit.

This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.

So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.

Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe = 38k fic

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic

Of Mice and Men = 30k fic

Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic

For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.

(honestly shout out to all fuckin fic writers. You didn’t have to give us shit and still y'all out here living ya best life and doin something you love. Bravo.)

in conclusion: all you fic writers are amazing and deserve more love

Get Stuff Done! ADHD Edition

You know all those post-it notes that populate your world? I figured out a great way to get all of those things DONE. - I know someone else may have thought of it already, but oh well :)

Step 1: Write all the things you need to do on your sticky note

Step 2: On the back, write a number (these are points)

Step 3: Every time you do a task, take down the note and collect your points

Step 4: Once you collect enough points (10, 20, 50) cash them in for a treat! Make it fun! ADHD brains love fun!

If I want my afternoon cappuccino, I must collect 15 points.

Remember, keep it simple. Don’t just write “clean the house”. Try smaller pieces like “empty the dishwasher” and “take out trash”.

**This can be for anyone, not just ADHD folks. That’s simply who I had in mind writing this post. Enjoy!

I think tumblr just needs to work a bit on telling people about this stuff

New superhero: Crime Man.

He stops crimes exclusively by comitting crimes. He out-crimes the criminals.

The Punisher does this and the crime is murder

The Punisher doesn’t stop crime, he punishes criminals. Big difference. Crime Man is more proactive than that.

So what you really mean is like. A totalitarian government that profiles people and arrests them before they commit crimes (which is a crime)

No, it’s more like stopping a credit fraud from happening by comitting arson.

*A mugger threatening me with a knife* Give me your money! *Crimeman appearing from the darkness with a bigger knife* NO CRIMINAL! You give me YOUR money!

I love the efforts to get deeply analytical and political but op just shuts them down with no crime man does CRIME

BUT BETTER

He finds out someone’s planning to rob the bank so he robs it first so there isn’t any money left when they get there. 

Armed robbery? Hold their family hostage until they deliver their guns in an unmarked bag behind a gas station

I drew fanart

did I get it right?

Now that’s a hero if I’ve ever seen one.

Check out this amazing Crime Man comic by @micaxiii

You do the crime, you get the crime.

The plan is working!

HE LOOKS LIKE THE QUOTE ‘Be Gay Do Crimes”

He is gay, and does crimes.

Crime Man strikes again

I like Crime man

And Crime Man likes you too

¿ what are his Powers?

Resourcefulness, audacity, and a sense of humor.

By the way, Crime Man lives in Florida.

op i respect you but absolutely no part of this post required clarification that crime man lives in florida. that was already understood.

All of you people reblogging this version of the post should check out Crime Man on AO3

Updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Bring back Bart driving the Gotham rouges up the wall

Bart's real superpower: he's annoying af

Absolutely perfect, I want more of this

Also, @frostbittenbucky and @givemewallywestorgivemedeath

There are two pretty much perfect examples

That time with the Riddler, where he honestly has no clue who Eddie even is..

And Bart has a rather different way of solving Eddie’s riddles

For a sample of that story, check here

And then there was that time with the Joker where he has Impulse run “errands” for him.

And Bart’s absolute and sincere literalness being the perfect foil to the Gotham’s ego driven loopiness.

Then there was the time Robin, Impulse and Superboy were trapped in nightmares, and they escaped by swapping to each others. Bart beat Nightmare!Joker with ‘Why? Why? Why?’.