Faithie’s Writer Rants Corner:
DUDE!!!
So I am currently working on Lightsabers and Guitars Pt. 2 (you can read part one here) and even as the writer I’m like:
And like:
Like this Fic is both a Koa and Charlie love fic and I’m so for it. Like it’s just so cute and makes you go though so many emotions and just uggh.
Like there’s so many sweet baby Koa moments and I am absolutely LIVING for it. Not to mention I feel absolutely devious 😈 yet at the same time so utterly (😂 Nat…) in love with it as I am writing it. I just can’t guys. Just you wait all of you will be sobbing 😭 like:
At some points. Like I don’t wanna give anything away, but Cam gets brought up and Charlie has a moment… and it may or may not have to do with Perfect Harmony as well 😏
But that’s all I’ll say.
Also the Koa moments!!! I just can’t uggh.
Sometimes it’s wonderful to be a writer…
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in recent years, there's been a push in therapeutic circles to shift the language from "attention-seeking" to "connection-seeking" behavior.
i was an attention-seeker. i was the textbook example of an attention-seeker. i was a troublemaker. i would self-harm. i destroyed my own relationships. i was uncontrolled, dramatic, sensitive. i took everything personally. i had "nothing" to be depressed "about," but made a big show of how sad i was nonetheless. i was really unsafe about myself in a lot of ways.
the strange thing about that is: it meant others could ignore me. the prevailing wisdom behind knowing something is "attention seeking" is to say: well, since you want it that bad, you're not getting any. it meant i was lower-on-the-list of concern. it meant an eye-roll.
the belief was that: since i was obviously doing these things on purpose, it would be bad behavioral training if i was "rewarded" for it. it would "teach me" that i simply had to make enough fuss, and i'd finally get all that missing attention and love. no, it was better to ignore that stuff.
i was suffering. and it felt like - oh, it doesn't matter how loudly i am in pain, nobody gives a shit about if i'm living or dying.
awhile ago, i went through my journals from that time. a lot of them read the same thing. in them, i am convinced i am invisible. that nobody wants to hear me, to see me. that i could die or vanish and nobody would even notice. i didn't even want attention - not really - because it was always dismissive, mocking. nothing i ever did would be good enough to get someone to actually-worry about me.
that's a terrifying thing for me to read as an adult. that is a child who fully has no problem committing. that is a child who has no concept of feeling loved. the most basic human instinct is missing from her life.
i needed help. i didn't know how to ask for it. i was a kid. i was a kid in a bad home, and whenever i thought things couldn't get worse there - they almost always did.
and the ways i showed that - the ways i tried to deal with that - they made others dismiss me. i wasn't suffering prettily. after all, if i was really in trouble, why wouldn't i just march into the first counselor's office and ask someone to help me? i had the opportunities, right? what did i think would happen, exactly? that someone would finally stand up and do something? who even wants that kind of responsibility?
i heard connection-seeking for the first time about three months ago. my therapist mentioned it when we were talking about my history. it rang some kind of horrible bell, deep inside me. i don't know what she said in the rest of her sentence. i just started... crying.
"oh no", i said to her. "i think i just realized: i have no idea how to forgive them for minimizing the ways i was hurting."
how many other kids, though. how many other kids were out there drowning, snatching around for a lifevest, some kind of rope - how many were straight-up ignored.
how many of those kids aren't gonna get old.
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idk who needs to hear this but if you're a writer looking for a webcomic artist and the best offer you can come up with is a 50/50 split "after gaining revenue", then that's literally asking for free work just with extra steps.
like first of all (and i'm sure people are gonna fight me on this) writing a webcomic and drawing a webcomic is not a 50/50 split, a scene that took you a half hour to write will take them hours to draw so it's literally more like 30/70
but also even IF your comic gains revenue, it's still not gonna pay for that labor, there are comic projects out there that have been going on for upwards of 10 years and beyond who are still maybe only making like $30/month on their patreon... and you only wanna pay them $15 of that?
please just consider writing a novel or short stories, or doing tabletop campaigns, or pitching scripts to comic publishers, or learning to draw yourself (even if you're bad at it! webcomics are allowed to grow and evolve in their art!), or doing RP, or doing anything that will get your ideas and stories out there without being at the expense of a whole ass other human being doing the brunt of the labor for free
no matter how dedicated you are to an idea or how convinced you are that it's truly a unique one that's worth working on, none of that will pay for the labor and time and efforts of people who you're asking to work for free to make your dream a reality. They have their own dreams that they're working on too.
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For those of y'all who are worried about your artwork, here's quick sketches of the batfam for fun. These are real quick and easy drawings you can do that don't need skill. I'm sure your artwork is great regardless, but sometimes little doodles have less pressure
Batfam members in order from left to right:
Batman, Robin (Damian), Nightwing, Black Bat, Red Hood, Red Robin, Signal
Also, Black Bat could be drawn with similar body shape to Batman. Depends on if you want her to have a cape
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played the susan taxpayer demo by @punkitt-is-here
it's pretty fun! I like how it controls a lot like Wario 3 and Wario 4, with some added things to the moveset. the ground pounding into slopes to go extra fast is fun :3
i'm always looking like this
and i did it i got to the secret place, iunno if i missed something after but that being an enemy there scared the heck out of me i could barely grab the screenshot
excited for when the full game releases :3
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Also can we talk about how Guillermo's response to seeing how vampires never really change, how they are all stuck in these vicious and unending circles, how nothing really matters or has consequences for immortal beings, and how unnecessary, wasteful and frankly hollow it all feels in the end... is to inmediately go and try to become one of these unchanging creatures
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