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Procrastinating is my life

@cherryblossomgoodbye / cherryblossomgoodbye.tumblr.com

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endoplasmian

ok wtf was going on in misthallery. no school to be found. a population of like 100 people but somehow the tritons and bardes are loaded and everyone else lives in poverty. nine children are tricking adults into buying garbage in a sewer. theres a fucking live dinosaur in the lake

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My main problem as a writer is that I don’t write because “I have a story to tell”. I write because there are worlds I want to visit, ideas I want to explore, people I want to meet, conversations I want to hear, emotions that I want to express, and impossibilities I want to make real.

Which means that I still need a fucking plot.

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Hey!  It’s the 27th of November again, which means that Professor Layton and the Lost Future (or Unwound Future, hehe) is another year older.

Last year I posted this picture (which still holds the most notes of any original post of mine by almost 200), which I didn’t manage to finish in time for the date.  I eventually completed it earlier this year.

Happy 11th birthday, you tear-jerker of a game!

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Beware the Angry Cleric

After a long and arduous fight with a young dragon, we found ourselves at an abandoned hunting cabin and promptly decided to fall asleep without setting a watch.

DM: <Swashbuckler>, you wake up to the sound of something rummaging around underneath your bed.

Swashbuckler: Oh, shit. Ok everyone, wake up!

When we look, some planks of wood underneath the swashbuckler’s bed have disappeared, leading down into a dark tunnel.

Fighter: Should we… Do something about that?

Wizard: I don’t really want to.

Cleric (me): I mean, we need to keep an eye on it. Guess we need to set watches, then.

The rest of the party goes back to sleep, leaving my cleric alone on watch, until…

DM: <Cleric>, you hear the sound of something rustling behind you.

Me: I turn around and look under the bed.

DM: You see some of the wooden planks have disappeared there too.

Me: Okay. I yell “WHOEVER IS DOING THAT HAD BETTER STOP. I’M A CLERIC AND I’M PRETTY PISSED OFF.”

There’s a sound of dice rolling, and–

DM: You see the wooden planks get shoved back into place.

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reasons why people don’t comment on fics

an incomplete list based on observations via this blog

  • enjoyed the fic but didn’t have anything to say
  • worried that a general “I love this!” wasn’t a good enough comment
  • not a native speaker of the author’s language
  • so overcome by emotions after reading that words were impossible
  • reading on a device where commenting is difficult
  • intended to come back later and didn’t
  • intends to come back later and hasn’t yet
  • doesn’t have an AO3 account (+ doesn’t know about the guest option or isn’t comfortable using it)
  • was going to say something but another reader already commented it
  • not enough mental/emotional energy to try to craft a ‘good enough’ comment
  • worry about bothering the author
  • shy / social anxiety
  • reading fic before bed and fall asleep
  • reading fic while sick and in a haze
  • interrupted while reading the fic and thought they finished it/commented but whoops!
  • didn’t like the fic / didn’t finish reading

Just to be clear, this was in no way meant to be a call-out post on readers. It was intended to explain to writers that there are dozens of reasons why people don’t/can’t comment. Writers tend to assume commenting is a binary: if you like the fic, you comment and if you don’t, you don’t. I wanted to show that there’s a lot more to it than that. 

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minamishiho

I myself especially not commenting when reading with my phone using data connection because I tend to comment very long but the moment I pressed send, it dissapears. Several times. Sometimes using wifi does that too. So for authors I loved, I’m sorry for not always commenting especially in ffn or ao3. I want to comment, but connectivity is an a-hole.

you can say that again!

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if you relate to having an idea for a story for 4 to 8 years with almost zero progress towards actually writing it down, clap your hands

This post kicked down my door, came into my house and publicly shamed me in front of God, my mother, and my cat.

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landprince

what if writers did streams like artists did

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reihyan

I think it was a Monty Python sketch that showed an author writing with a commentary like a sports commentator.

“And he’s started writing… no, he’s just written his name at the top of the page. He’s written ‘the’, a very strong opening, used in several of his books. Oh, no, he’s crossed it out again.”

  • “Ah, look, she’s opening the thesaurus again … perhaps she’s realized she used the same word six times in two paragraphs”
  • “Now that sentence is lovely, an excellent example of her style in - oh, no, she’s deleting it, never mind”
  • “This scene is clearly over, yet the brave author forges onward regardless…”
  • “She’s really picking up steam now, the words just flowing out from her - she’s stopped midsentence for some reason and is opening Buzzfeed”
  • “Choosing to google ‘which countries are nonextradition countries’ is a risk but it’s one some authors must take…”
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hawt-me33

Coming into a fandom late

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

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Accuracy at its best

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

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my-reylo

all of this shit…lol

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

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jupiter235

This gets better every time I see it. 

Being in a dead fandom…

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

The accuracy hurts.

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

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it-is-bugs

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

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teaganvamp

This just gets better..

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

Fandom hell in general

Yes.

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

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french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you

italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house

american recipes: buy these three cans of stuff and put them in a pan congrats you cooked

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svynakee

chinese recipes, as handed down from mother to child: season it with a pinch of this and some of that. you want to know the exact amount? feel it in your heart. ask the stars. yell into the void. 

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orriculum

English recipes: boil and salt it. Okay that’s it enjoy

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digitalfare

Greek recipes: You followed all the right steps but this isn’t quite right. I don’t know what to tell you.

Australia recipes: chuck it on the barbie

Latinx recipes: you will never make it better than your abuela, face the facts

Armenian recipes: spend eight days laboring over the stove. the food will be flavorful with the sacrifice of your sanity. no one will appreciate it.

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moldychesee

Canadian recipes: It either needs more bacon, more maple syrup, more gravy, or an unholy combination of the three

Polish recipes: you have to toUCH THE DOUGH, FEEL THE PIEROGI IN YOUR HEART, TOUCH IT. LICK IT. SMELL IT.

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beckyhop

Every time I see this post, I learn more about how different countries’ cuisines AND neuroses.

Indian recipes: there are 500 cuisines and that means 500 versions of this dish that has 500 spices so gl 

ashki jewish recipes: no, no. no. more onion. 

internet recipes: here is a heartwarming story about my baby sister’s third birthday that i completely made up, and a copypaste from alton brown.

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piedude

Irish recipes:

Okay but if you can never make it as good as your abuela then does Latinx food get worse with each generation?

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