daily motivation

【 kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru week 】                                  ― Day One: Favourite Character 

Anon or not, make me choose between:

Show: _______ or ________ ?

Character: ________ or _________ ?

Pairing: _________ or _________ ?

Anything: ________ or _________ ?

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これ肌色多いから消されそうだな

You know one of the shittiest parts of chronic pain? 

Sympathy has an expiration date. 

If you’re hurting because you broke your leg, people can sympathize with you, because there’s an end-date. Eventually your leg will heal and you’ll be okay again. People will coo and coddle and bring you chocolates and sign your cast because they know that’s emotional labor that they will only have to perform temporarily. 

But if you have a chronic condition that causes you daily pain, after awhile, people get annoyed with having to deal with you. They ask you what’s wrong, and when you reply with the same thing that was wrong last week, or the week before, or the month before, you eventually get an incredulous, “Still?” 

Or maybe they’re not that overt. Maybe instead they go, “Oh, just that. Okay.” As if today’s pain should somehow be fine for them to ignore because it’s nothing new. No need to worry: it’s just the same old same old. 

Let me tell you: Pain never gets easy to handle. It’s not like people with chronic pain develop an immunity to it, or that we stop feeling it. Sure, some of us get better at ignoring it, or better at living around it, but honestly? Most of us just get better at hiding it, because we get tired of feeling like an emotional burden to everyone around us.

But that doesn’t mean that we’re not hurting, and it sort of sucks that long-term pain, in addition to all the other fun things it entails, also eventually comes with a revoked right to be sympathized with, or even just treated like something other than a whiny attention-grabbing faker (or worse: a drug-seeker).

Chronic pain is real. And it sucks. And one of the worst parts about it is knowing it’s never going to end. 

It would just be cool if people could try understand that, I guess.

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‪If Reggie and Mario trust this guy with the keys to their kingdom then so do I 👑🌟❤️ ❤️❤️ Best of luck in your next big adventure, Reggie. Thank you for 15 years of fun and adventure! ❤️ Welcome to the helm, Bowser! 🐲🌟‬

character development

I'm howling, he looks so defeated

I think growing up on a steady diet of fanfiction made me hate traditional book genres. Like, I don’t care what the overall “theme” is. Gimme the tags. Is there character death? Sibling rivalry? Snarky best friend? That’ll do way more to get me into a book than slotting it into one of a dozen strictly defined boxes that tells me almost nothing.

Last time I was in a bookstore I was rifling through the paperbacks going “where the hell is the Content rating? is this ‘mature’ or are we in for actual funtimes here?  And where are the Content Warnings?  whatcha got here book?  You gonna get weird on me?”  So really, Ao3 has me spoiled.

This gave me a brilliant idea for book displays at the library. #angst #enemies to lovers #plot twist

You are a good librarian!

I only have flat shelves to work with but…. I did it.

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.  YOU ARE A GOD AMONGST MORTALS.

I found a book in the library with content tags and suddenly I realised what I’d been missing all this time.

Is there a blog for that? Like a blog where people recommend books and like give them their tags? Because I feel like that would be AMAZING

Tempted to start doing this whenever I read/reread something.

Reblogging this version for awesome librarians!

Neat idea.

That should be a wiki so people can contribute. I would!

Oh that’s a fantastic idea! Accessible to everyone both to contribute and to search and compare to the selection at any library or bookstore.

And then libraries etc. could contribute and participate by posting the website on their door or something similar.

What do you think Tumblr?

I would so love a way to quickly find a book that pushes all my right buttons, but also has tags for anything that I might have an issue with (like killing an animal in a horror; seriously that’s cheap)

Does the dog die, crossed with a wiki, crossed with good reads. Anyone know if there is something like that already?

If you can get the ball rolling I’d be happy to contribute what I know and do what I can to boost it on social media.

@maculategiraffe @kristina-meister @bibliophilicwitch @imgoingtogobacktheresomeday it suddenly occurs to me this might be a thing you’re interested in.

now what in the world would make you think this was relevant to my interests

*bounces up and down with armfuls of sparkly multicolored string* put me in, coach

OP here! If you lot wanna do this, I’m down to create some graphics for promotional purposes and the like! That’s about all I’ve got time for, but I’d be happy to do it. Just let me know!

LETS DO THIS

For anyone who wants a similar product but needs it now, check if your local library subscribes to Novelist - it categorizes books across hundreds of different axes, and is often available online with your library card!

Let’s play Writer’s Would You Ever

Send me an ask that says “Would you ever write…” and continue the sentence.

I’ll respond with yes or no and give an explanation as to why if I want to.

rb this and describe the most popular post you’ve ever made in the tags

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Ooooh seeing how they write their names is wicked helpful!

HE'S SO CUTE I WANT TO HUG HIM. I'm not the anon but thank you for sharing this adorable art!

That joke was amazing and you know it

No joke will ever meet its calibre