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Apollo: *curled up and crying in his chariot*

Artemis, concerned: What’s wrong now Apollo?

Apollo, a mess: SpIdErMaN dIeS

God of future and prophecies

Ancient Greece, 800 B.C

Apollo: *dabs*

Every Other God: what the fUCK ARE YOU DOING?

How To Get Work Done When You’re 0.5 Seconds Away From Ending It All: A No-Nonsense Guide To School When You Feel Like Death

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Important points are bolded for my fellow exhausted students. I see you and I’m with you.

At Home:

1. I know people have said otherwise, but studying from your bed is okay. I know how it feels to not want to get up. Sometimes sitting up in bed is the most you can do. I’ve found that getting dressed helps me feel a little more into it, but don’t go out of your way to do it if it’ll kill your vibe or make you uncomfy.

2. Honestly, if you’re not going to school, you probably shouldn’t be getting up before 8 or 9. There’s a fuckton of studies that show that that’s around when your brain actually wakes the hell up and is ready to take on the day. Don’t force yourself to get up at the asscrack of dawn if you can avoid it.

3. I’m probably gonna get shit for this, but it’s okay to skip class sometimes. Just make sure that you know what you need to do make up for it, have someone that can send you the notes, whatever.

4. For the love of god, eat. I don’t care if you have a full breakfast, a bowl of cereal, or the junk food you have stashed in your room, or five saltines, just fucking eat so you can have something in your stomach. Just take my word for it.

5. You know what’s trying to get you to be productive at all times? Capitalism. You know what also sucks major ass? Capitalism. Don’t buy into it. Take breaks and take them often. If you need to tap out, do it, and anyone who disses you for it can suck it.

6. Fuck the “no zero days” mentality. If you need a day to recharge, or you’re just having a really shitty day, don’t feel pressured to be “productive”. If you feel like absolute hell, the most productive thing you can do is give yourself time to feel better. Please, please take my word for it.

7. I know you feel miserable. I do too. But if push comes to shove and you’ve got deadlines coming up and you’re not ready, sometimes it all comes down to just sucking it up and getting it over with. However! It doesn’t necessarily have to be top quality material. Why? Because a 50 or a 60 is still way fucking better than a zero.

At School:

1. Slader has answers for hundreds of textbooks across lots of subjects. Your book might not always be there, but if you’re lucky, it might save you a fuckton of time on that homework. It’s a blessing. Just make sure you actually read over the answers so that you at least kinda understand them.

2. SparkNotes and Shmoop. For the love of god, don’t just use one or the other. Use both. Shmoop gives easy, casual, quick-to-remember plot summaries, and SparkNotes gives good analysis so you look like you actually know what you’re talking about.

3. Try to have at least one person you can lean on in every class. Whether it’s to get help on homework or to vent about how much the class is killing you, I swear, it helps so much. If you can make a groupchat with people, the more the merrier.

4. There’s probably someone willing to just give you the homework answers, no questions asked. Most people get it. People understand when you’re tired and not into it. If there’s a class you’re good in and you can help them out as well, then it’s even better, because there’s a give-and-take.

5. If you have time during or in between classes, try to get a little homework done. I know the minute I get home, my motivation to do anything school-related drops 644747457%. Try to get a little done while you’re in the groove. Future you will fall to their knees in gratitude.

6. Find a comfort item you can bring to school with you. Doesn’t matter what it is. Bonus points if you can wear it or if it fits in your pocket. Pick something that makes you feel a little better whenever you look at it or hold it. I wear jewelry dedicated to my gods, but it can really be anything.

7. I know people say that grades are just a number, and they really are, but if you’re like me and still stress over them anyways, for whatever reason, it’s okay. Just remember that someday in the future, there will be a time when that shitty grade will not matter and will never matter again. You’ll get to move on with your life, and no one will care that you failed some class or some test or whatever.

8. If someone is giving you hell for not liking or not being good at a certain class, tell them to fuck off and move on with your life.

I hope this post can help people like me who are this close to rock bottom but still need to muddle through. Please know that this too shall pass. Please stay alive today. Know that if any of you ever need anyone to talk to, I’m right here.

A backstory is one of the essential parts of a character. It dictates the character’s mindset, place in the world and their subsequent arc throughout a story. A character’s backstory is the key for opening the vault of character options, ideas and journeys. The reason for this principle is due to cause and effect. It is the answer for why your characters act and think a certain way. For example, Bruce Wayne doesn’t become Batman just because he wants to. He becomes Batman because of his parents death. He wants to make sure that no other child in Gotham will suffer the same traumatic event he did, so he then becomes Batman. This character is an excellent example of using backstory in writing since it uses the cause and effect method.

What is Backstory

As I said before, backstory should be about explaining how your character got into their specific state at the beginning of the story. It is merely answering the subconscious questions in a reader’s mind. Why are they acting like this? Why do they want this goal? How did they get to that specific mindset? It is a device to give a character history, so it is not like they appear out of nowhere for this particular story, but rather, they were a person all along. This principle makes a character a real person with depth and breadth.

Why is Backstory Important

Backstory is one of the key features of any character, and it should not be ignored. Backstory does not need to complicated but rather a simple explanation. A character might be struggling with parenthood. Their backstory is that they had a rough childhood that damaged the way they seek familial relationships. There. Done. All backstory needs to do is show how a character’s past has shaped their present. Not only this but backstory paves the road for character development. Backstory can provide the lie your character believes or the moral belief that holds them back from being the best that they can be. It will give you the foundations and beginnings of character development.

How to Communicate Backstory

Since backstory is events that take place in the past and not directly in the narrative, it is sometimes hard to tell your audience about it without having lengthy exposition. It is crucial to make sure that backstory isn’t revealed without context. It would make no sense for a character to start monologuing about how his parents died, and how he must avenge them when he is eating breakfast. Moreover, by pacing the release of your character’s backstory, it gives them more mystery and suspense. There are several different ways to communicate backstory while keeping suspense. You can use diary entries to communicate backstory. This concept usually has a story in a story principal and shows readers a deeper, more raw version of a character. Another way you can communicate backstory is through flashbacks or dream sequences. It is important that these sequences don’t come out of anywhere but have a believable trigger. For example, if a character is in a situation which has a similarity in their backstory, you would explore that.

Extra Notes

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Yeeteth

that same anon just sent me ketchup 15 times what did i do to deserve this

Excuse me? If I was 40 w/no kids I would STILL go to the wiggles concert. Especially if Steve from Blues Clues made a surprise appearance

i’ll be like 40 w/no kids and people will say “aw i’m so sorry for you” and i’ll be like how was the fucking wiggles reunion tour asshole i went to italy last week for fun and didn’t have to hire a sitter

Tony Stark being a dad to Peter Parker in Spiderman: Homecoming (2017) (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Signs you grew up lonely

- Chasing people who don’t want you

-Making up lots of stories and worlds

-Overtalking whenever there’s someone to talk to

-Excessive reading

-Daydreaming

-Clinging emotionally to others

-Being the ‘disposable’ friend in the group

-Excessive baths

-Talking to oneself

-Obsessive friendships

-Excessive helpfulness

Four word story:

what the actual fuck

Writing Prompt 305

Image Prompt:

by hanjihyun

5 times Peter gave Tony a heart attack and one time he made it stop altogether.

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Where Peter is Tony’s biological child and the kid just can’t get enough of scaring his father.

Words: 2835, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Borrowed child

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, James Rhodes, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan

Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark, James “Rhodey” Rhodes & Tony Stark, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Happy Hogan & Peter Parker

Additional Tags: Kid Peter Parker, Precious Peter Parker, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Hurt Peter Parker, Sick Peter, Sick Peter Parker, Tony Stark Has A Heart, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Parent Tony Stark, Tony-centric, Protective Tony Stark, Peter Parker is Tony Stark’s Biological Child, 5+1 Things, Domestic Avengers, Pre-Iron Man 1, Baby Peter Parker