So.

I don't know what more than half of these are, but dam, does it look good...

dim sum of guangdong province/广东早茶（cantonese cuisine）

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/727841287119814656/ehh-generally-they-were-like-ask-specifics-about Can you expand on writer’s block not being real?

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Sure!

I think everyone who's ever made art has hit points where it's hard to go on making art or where a particular project isn't moving. So from that perspective, sure, a version of it is real...

But there's a particular version of it that's what a lot of people mean where you're A Writer™ and then the magic inspiration gnomes come and steal your inspiration juice. This is mostly nonsense, and quite a few author types who've actually finished long projects will tell you so.

When you sit down to a blank page and it stubbornly stays blank like your head, that's a symptom of something... and the something in question is often either depression and overwhelmed feelings that are taking over your whole life or an entirely correct instinct that your project is flawed and the next step is not writing that next scene.

Many people try to be pantsers instead of planners, get maybe a quarter into a project, and then choke. It's because they started with the kind of concept that requires planning, but they haven't planned. If your plot revolves around the characters eventually learning the meaning of life, you'd damn well better start with what you, the author, think that meaning is and work backwards. Same if your characters are solving a twisty mystery or complicated thriller conspiracy: you will not come up with a genius idea that ties everything together just by writing by the seat of your pants. If you don't go in with the ending in mind and some waypoints to write towards, you're going to choke. This is exceptionally common in grandiose fic concepts that are like "What if this true blue hero were a viiiiillain, oooooh!" where it's neat, but 99% of the point is showing us the work of getting from A to B. People write the prologue showing us the big concept and then flash back to how it all started... and then stop.

I see it a lot in projects that start with a character sheet for RP. Yeah, for RP itself, noodling along and figuring out what X would do in situation Y is great fun... but for many longfic/novel plot types, you will not arrive at a workable plot this way. You'll end up with a mess that can, at best, be used as brainstorming and completely rewritten from the ground up, using only key cool images or character observations. There are authors that start from individual characters and then see where they go. In my experience, they don't tend to be working in the genres that fic fandom types tend to want to work in. It's also something that often takes a lot more experience and skill than starting with a basic plot outline, and inexperienced writers often overreach.

It's not writer's block. It's a project that needs to be taken out back like Old Yeller.

Even the salvageable projects that are making you pause usually have some other issue like you not being clear on the central emotional themes even if you've outlined some factual plot. Or you've demanded that your characters do a particular thing for plot convenience, but you know deep down that it doesn't ring true. You can't write the next scene because there is no next scene. You need to rework the forced part till the rest can make sense.

And even more common than any of the above is people thinking that just because Danielle Steel sits down every morning and writes for eight hours, that means they can and should with no warm up or experience. Trying to force yourself to be a type of writer you're not—majorly overdoing it on any work, in fact—just leads to burnout and inability to function.

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TUMBLR SEXYREMATCH POLL MASTERPOST

I'll update this as the rounds progress.

ROUND ONE:

Lewis Pepper (Mystery Skulls Animated) vs. Professor Venomous (OK KO)

Guzma (Pokémon) vs. Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

The Warden (Superjail) vs. Almond Cookie (Cookie Run)

The Once-ler (The Lorax (2012)) vs. Megamind (Megamind)

Sans (Undertale) vs. Junkrat (Overwatch)

Tony the Talking Clock (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared) vs. Black Hat (Villainous)

King Dice (Cuphead) vs. Raymond (Animal Crossing)

Wheatley (Portal 2) vs. Doc Ock (Marvel)

Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) vs. Dr. Habit (Smile for Me)

Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs. Slenderman (???)

Jack Skellington (the Nightmare Before Christmas) vs. Turbo (Wreck-It Ralph)

Ingo (Pokémon) vs. Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

Purple Guy/William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's) vs. Spamton (Deltarune)

Alastor (Hazbin Hotel) vs. Loki (Marvel)

Arataka Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice (all versions))

Herobrine (Minecraft) vs. Benr(e)y (Half Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware)

This is an appreciation post for the air nomads ✨️✨️ I like to think bison are a lot more diverse, and are very beloved and decorated by their owners. Sometimes it’s boring in the sky too, so pinwheels and kites are added for bending fun :)

The babies can’t do much but there are sometimes bison rides for the elderly and children (or open to anyone, really.) I imagine sky bison are a lot like yaks, who naturally shed an undercoat in spring that can be used for fabric. Spring is absolutely HORRIBLE for allergies though

And also the gaang! sharing aangs culture ect by making use of appa’s fur and trying to deal with the pesky lemurs lol

I especially like the last two!

Feefal on Instagram / Tumblr

Love!

Especially the buildings that's half covered in plants.

Stourhead, Wiltshire (various, IG)

scene favs... so obsessed w the way the ink goes up his hand/arms

Zuko and Iroh through the years, from Avatar The Last Airbender: Legacy of the Fire Nation.