thatonebirdwrites
That One Bird Writes Stuff
I write stuff. The art I post is created by myself. My writings are all my own. I also draw in greyscale. For the fanfiction that I write, I don't own any of the characters. I just like to write about adventures they have. For my own created world of Elivera, that I own and am still working on its worldbuilding in the original stories for it. For my pronouns see: https://en.pronouns.page/@thebird For my created world of Elivera see: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/elivera3A-the-lost-ones-aidanbird/ For my fanfiction see: https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheBirdWrites/works
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reblog for sample size !!
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I been having bad chronic flare-ups again, so I haven't posted as much ficlets or drawings.
I honestly wonder sometimes if what I write is worth sharing. Like not just my fandom writings, but also my original writings. I know this is the chronic illness talking, and that there are quite a few people that love what I write and think I do a great job.
But it's hard sometimes to fight against that feeling of brokenness and unworthiness.
Then Quark, my kitty, comes to look at me with his cute little kitty smile and reminds me that no matter how alone and ill I feel, I'm still loved. Even when I despair or feel forgotten. He still looks at me pleased and happy at least.
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Y'all this is LITERALLY part of my Confessions fic, except way more dramatic. Then Unraveling Realities is Lena discovering the truth of the magic part of it all. Oh, and there's consequences to Lena resurrecting Kara for my fic, but that's revealed in the sequel. Anyway, the way the gold flows out of Lena and her eyes go gold is indeed how I envisioned the scene, but she's also in a desperate state.
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#legit cackled over this#Lillian is speechless#she's had enough of them#they're just too gay for her
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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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I wonder why they picked the ones they did? There's a lot of games I played that never made this list.
I also tend to start games and rarely if ever finish them.
Some of my favorite games (not really in any particular order to be honest):
Eastshade
Legend of Zelda
Fire Emblem
The Sinking City
Elder Scrolls (Morrowind for story, Skyrim for modding)
Fallout (any of them 3, New Vegas, or 4)
Sunless Seas or Sunless Skies
A House of Many Doors
Myst
Mass Effect Series
Spiritfarer
Iron Danger
Neo Cab
Stray
Horizon Zero Dawn
The Longest Journey
Life is Strange
No Man's Sky
Tombraider Series
The Solus Project
Oxenfree
The Room (series)
Stellaris
Whispers of a Machine
GameDec
The Outer Wilds
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Aven Colony
Heaven's Vault
The Outer Worlds
Well, I have a lot of ones I really, really enjoyed that are indie games, but that's for another day. Anyway, share your favorites. I'd like to know so I can check it out.
Reblog with your score
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“if you’re working a full time job you should be able to afford to live on your own and have access to food and transportation” gonna be real with you brother. everyone deserves this. Not just people working 40 hrs a week
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For the fic I'm writing, I looked through my archives of poems I've written so I can borrow some for the fic's protagonist. And I found some that brought back the memories of the day I inscribed those words onto paper then sat down to craft a fractal to go with it. I haven't shared my poetry recently, but this trip down memory lane makes me wonder if I should.
I actually had a poetry book I made of these poems and fractals, but I couldn't find a publisher who was willing to chance a poetry chapbook that paired art and poetry.
So here is a poem I wrote on April 11, 2017:
A Ghazal: Pain
Each breath pumps my lungs against a cage
Each step rattles my bones with howls of pain.
Bitter cold nips at my face – ices over my eyes
Crystals weave into my skin, spikes of terror.
Upgraded like a computer, I am no longer me,
Fight the subtle ruse, emboldened with sorrow.
Tick Tock, the clock warbles its soothing tune,
Up I float, twisted and gnarled, bitter with despair.
Endless fractals spiral out into infinity-
each yearn to escape the searing burns.
My upgrades don’t work as designed, fiddle, adjust,
Pressure mounts — the seams explode violently.
A knife subtly pointed, a turn of the head,
Darting, knowing look stabs — deadly laceration.
Dance to the tune of the subtle flute
Cry to whispered criticism, each twist an agony.
Circular, journey back to the source eternal
Roll back to my core, a burning ember of ruin.
Speak with the timbres of angels and demons
Each laced with the spirits of thunderous misery.
Hope twists and spins like a tornado howling,
Ignite the past to sweep out the vestiges of pain.
The Fractal I created to go with it:
The above poem chronicles the pain of abuse I suffered and the start of my long, healing journey.
#my poetry#ghazal poem#fractal art#healing journey#pain#self-reflection#poetry that captures a moment in time
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Wrote this years ago
Drift on winds of time
pulsating drone spears the heart
A tremble of notes
Sprinkled atop harmony
wraps around the panicked mind.
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Feet crunch broken rocks
gloved hands release the stairway
alien landscape
ripples with mirages, heat
above the star gleams blood red.
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Hurricane of pain
stabs the mind, body with fire
energy zaps through
body freezes with a snap
My breaths hurtle in a race.
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Crescendo vibrates
Rise of melody in tune
with the soaring mind
Splendor of a red-hue world
Rapture in a dark blue sea.
Source of Inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dQ8kk73RY
The fractal I created to go with the above:
#my poetry#tanka poetry#life contained in a poem#Sharing wonders lost to time#Yes I plan to use these lines in a fic because I really do love the symbolism I crafted here#I wrote this long before I ever saw Supergirl and yet reading it again reminds me of Sam Arias
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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
#These stories have gone far beyond Tumblr#before I ever had an account here#I remember reading some of them as sent to me by others through different mediums
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There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.
This is because everything in my life requires work:
maintaining friendships
keeping up with my hygiene
managing bills
making money
remembering my basic needs
sleeping regularly
outputting creatively
All requires some aspect of work for me.
And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.
If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.
If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.
You're not dysfunctional.
You're not incapable.
You're doing your best.
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Just curious, given that comments were turned off on AO3 for a while.
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government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program
hell fucking world
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Do you happen to know the origin of the fantasy trope in which a deity's power directly corresponds to the number of their believers / the strength of their believers' faith?
I only know it from places like Discworld and DnD that I'm fairly confident are referencing some earlier source, but outside of Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, I can't think of of any specific work it might've come from, 20th-c fantasy really not being my wheelhouse.
Thank you!
That's an interesting question. In terms of immediate sources, I suspect, but cannot prove, that the trope's early appearances in both Dungeons & Dragons and Discworld are most immediately influenced by the oeuvre of Harlan Ellison – his best-known work on the topic, the short story collection Deathbird Stories, was published in 1975, which places it very slightly into the post-D&D era, though most of the stories it contains were published individually earlier – but Ellison certainly isn't the trope's originator. L Sprague de Camp and Fritz Leiber also play with the idea in various forms, as does Roger Zelazny, though only Zelazny's earliest work is properly pre-D&D.
Hm. Off the top of my head, the earliest piece of fantasy fiction I can think of that makes substantial use of the trope in its recognisably modern form is A E van Vogt's The Book of Ptath; it was first serialised in 1943, though no collected edition was published until 1947. I'm confident that someone who's more versed in early 20th Century speculative fiction than I am could push it back even earlier, though. Maybe one of this blog's better-read followers will chime in!
(Non-experts are welcome to offer examples as well, of course, but please double-check the publication date and make sure the work you have in mind was actually published prior to 1974.)
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