I think bloomers who get too heavy/grow in place should be called Rooted

I tried to write a novel. Not once. Not twice. But about 12 times. Here's how that would play out: 1. I sit down and knock out 10 pages 2. I share it with someone 3. They say "It's goooood" like it's not good 4. I ask for critical feedback 5. They say, "Well....the plot just moves so quickly. So much happens in the first few pages it doesn't feel natural." So I'd write more drafts. I'd try to stretch out the story. I would add dialogue that I tried to make interesting but thought was boring. I would try including environment and character descriptions that felt unnecessary, (why not just let people imagine what they want?) Anyways, I gave up trying to write because in my mind, I wasn't a fiction writer. Maybe I could write a phonebook or something. But then I made a fiction podcast, and I waited for the same feedback about the fast moving plot, but guess what??? Podcasts aren't novels. The thing that made my novels suck became one of the things that made Desert Skies work. I've received some criticism since the show started, but one thing I don't receive regular complaints about is being overly-descriptive or longwinded. In fact, the opposite. It moves fast enough that it keeps peoples attention. I always felt I had a knack for telling stories but spent years beating myself up because I couldn't put those stories into novel form. The problem wasn't me. The problem was the tool I was trying to use. All that to say: If, in your innermost parts you may know that you're a storyteller but you just can't write a book, don't give up right away. You can always do things to get better and there's a lot of good resources. But if you do that for a while and novel writing just isn't your thing, try making a podcast, or creating a comic, or a poem, or a play, or a tv script. You might know you're an artist but suck at painting. Try making a glass mosaic, or miniatures, or try charcoal portraits, or embroider or collage. You might know you're a singer, but opera just isn't working out. Why not yodel? I could keep listing out examples, but the point is this. Trust your intuitions when it comes to your creative abilities, but don't inhibit yourself by becoming dogmatic about which medium you can use to express that creativity. Don't be afraid to try something new. Don't be afraid to make something new. You might just find the art form that fits the gift you knew you always had, and what it is might surprise you

I can imagine them mistaking people with bright clothing for flowers like bees do

You think the zombies like the flower colors too or

This is a very cute ask and yes, I think some of them would be calmed by the sight of their fav flowers :)

Me: Hi, this is Ebony at work; how can I help you today?

Customer: Oh wow

Me: Is everything alright?

Customer: Oh yes, it’s just that you’re so good at this, I thought you were a recording at first

Me, internally: Your, “most people only call me a robot *after* they know I’m Autistic,” joke is an inside thought until you can get to Tumblr; same with the, “script writer,” bit.

Me: Ha, can you tell I’ve been doing this for a while?

Story Time:

Working in retail is really fun, and the times when major fuck-ups happen, they can be either anxiety-attack inducing, or make it possible to get through the rest of your god-awful shift with a smile depending on the customer. My all-time favorite absolute fuck-up is as follows:

This kind woman is just doing her thing. She scans her membership card from her keychain. The register beeps to acknowledge the scan. We continue as usual. Neither of us notice right away, but after I’ve scanned a few more items, I hear a very quiet, “Um,” from the lady, very polite. I look at her. She is looking at the screen of my register, blinking. I, too, look.

And lo and behold. There is a charge of over four-thousand dollars ($4,000) worth of garlic bread staring us in the face. There are no words for a minute. We’re just… in awe. How did this happen? How the hell did this happen?

She didn’t even have garlic bread in her cart.

I sputter a partial apology - I was incapable of forming actual sentences in the moment - and try to void the garlic bread. Since there was no garlic bread to scan, I try to manually remove $4,000-some from this transaction.

Well, the registers don’t like it when you try to void off more than five dollars ($5) from a transaction, so naturally it pings my manager for confirmation, but she’s not by her pager.

At this point, both myself and the lady are just… dumbfounded. She’s not even mad. I’m not even all that embarrassed. Both of us are just looking at the screen. There’s a bit of laughter, but it’s mostly just… confusion.

I have to call through the whole store for my manager on the intercom because she’s not answering. She shows up, ready to override and void it, when she too, sees what exactly is being voided.

“What… did you do?”

“I genuinely. Have literally. No. Idea.”

She voids it, and I go to finish the transaction and tell the woman her total (minus the garlic bread). My register pings. It tells me that she hasn’t scanned her membership card. Odd. I distinctly remember her doing that. The woman goes to scan her card again, and I notice that her library card is stuck to her membership card. I tell her gently, and she separates the two and scans her card.

My manager, hovering nearby still, sees this and says, “I think it mistook the barcode of her other card for garlic bread, and the remaining digits were read as the price.”

And that’s when the laughter really came over us. There were no hard feelings at all. In fact, the woman was incredibly glad that the receipt still showed the garlic bread and the voiding of. I will remember it until the end of time, my only regret in the entire situation being that I didn’t take a damn picture, because she has proof and I don’t. But I swear to God it happened.

TDLR; Library Card Charged $4,000 of Garlic Bread.

"Posts that have 50k to me" but its on a post with 150k

I think it would be really nice if the citizens of Hurricane were generally chill with Mike. Like at first they’re all freaking the hell out and hiding from him like at the end of Sister Location, but after a while, it’s just kind of a normal part of everyone’s life. Newcomers and tourists constantly ask about him, and the locals are just like: “yeah that’s just mike. He looks like a Halloween decoration and smells like death, but he’s chill. He’s always working at a Freddy Fazbears location or a haunted house and has attended every hurricane pride event since 1992. Some people think he’s that Afton boy who killed his brother back in ‘83, but no one really knows. He has Halloween decorations and Pride flags in his yard year round. Do not bother him or bombard him with questions. He is aware that he looks like that. Everyone is aware he looks like that. Don’t be an annoying cryptid hunter and let him exist. he won’t hurt you, but he’s clearly been through some shit and likes to keep to himself. Don’t question it. He’s Just Like That.”

Movie night

I love how we all came together to ship the stupidest pairing in all of fnaf history. Like really? The main character and the guy who’s played by matpat?? Absolutely and we can’t be stopped

!! 𝙁𝙉𝘼𝙁 𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙄𝙀 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙄𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙎 (?) !!

"𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨! :)"

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I made another one hehe

They are a black cat/golden retriever boyfriend duo fr

here's some diagrams of my springbonnie/springtrap design because people seem to like it a lot! : D

Was that the power of 87% ???

SCREAM (1996) dir. Wes Craven SCOOBY-DOO (2002) dir. Raja Gosnell FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S (2023) dir. Emma Tammi

love when bonnie does the thing

fnaftober day 27 - fnaf movie. you know that image of josh hutcherson holding a bigass possum