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one fun difference between phoenix and apollo as pov characters is that phoenix is a completely average guy with a completely average level of pop-culture awareness, so with him it’s very easy to gauge how popular something is supposed to be - he’s pretty aware of the steel samurai, he’ll go to see a max galactica show if it’s in town, he recognises matt engarde when gumshoe mentions him, etc. like if phoenix knows a thing it’s popular you know? like he doesn’t have huge special interests or huge dislikes he’s a very follow the crowd guy, the things he’s doing are usually things maya is extremely passionate about and he’s indifferent but doesn’t consider it bizarre. apollo on the other hand is a little freak with a law hyperfixation who lives under a rock. it’s hard to gauge how popular the gavinners or the gramaryes are actually supposed to be because this guy wouldn’t know them anyway. he’s also rarely indifferent to things - he’s either absolutely loving something or telling klavier to his face he should stop making music because it’s shit. this makes him a more challenging protagonist from a world-building perspective, but an objectively much funnier one

I’ve been vibing w/ Lgbtq tiktoks, and now im in the mood to go buy a cottage in the woods and live there with my QPR bf and 3 dogs. im just... feeling many not straight feelings in this dennys tonight, anyone relate?

While I am here, I am going to recommend some good fanfictions from ao3. The incomplete ones have all been updated at least as recently as 2020, I think. Enjoy!

MHA:

Useless monster by MuteCrows (incomplete- 34 chapters)

The entire “For Want of a Nail” series by Clouds (some complete, some not)

Dis(associate) by BeyondTheClouds777 (complete)

The “WE’RE REACHING LEVELS OF FURRY THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE” series by Hayato (all complete but 1, and to clarify the name, they are all animal transformation fics)

Undertale:

Fur a good time call... by popatochisp (complete)

The house next door by Battlemaiden13 (incomplete- 63 chapters)

Our place among the stars by Nascent (incomplete- 32 chapters)

Homestuck:

The “demonstuck” series by Corvid_knight (most are completed oneshots)

The “catacombs” trilogy (specifically vanitas vanitatum, but all 3 are good) by oxfordroulette (complete)

Second best by NoBrandHero (complete)

Stubborn Flocks by 09Pyros_09Hydros (incomplete- 26 chapters)

Oh yeah, I get this feeling. 

Me: I wish there was more fics or fanart for this rarepair! I also wish someone could make some more content for this tag!

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Me: I mean, I could do that myself. Or I could continue lamenting my lack of content and never do the thing. 

Me: Yeah, second option it is!

Also terrible is this feeling.

Me: Oh man, I started this thing as a hobby and and now I am just over halfway done!

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Me: Welp, time to abandon this for the next year or more until the guilt kicks in!

Me: Wait, you mean there are people out there who don’t abandon projects they genuinely enjoyed for no apparent reason? Unrealistic. Blocked. Get 20+ hobbies you give up on in 

Me: Wow... I kinda like this fic. I hope the author comes back and updates it someday.

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Wait. I'm the author.

FML.

hey @theninjamouse, its paper flareon and vaporeon, a.k.a. Grillby Jr. and Shelly. Because when imagining what those dorks would name pokemon, I figured they would be on par with asgore. XD

please ignore my crappy camera quality, and my hands guest appearance in one shot. (,-_-)

These two were made for my crack au of theninjamouse’s undertale fanfiction, called Ocean on Fire. It’s super good!

Neither papercraft is my design, though I did print them out and put them together. Shelly here does come with a surfboard, and there are pics including it in a previous post.

Tips for Reading with ADHD

(or without ADHD, if they help regardless)

Physical print:

cover the page with a piece of paper and reveal lines/paragraphs as you read them

use a highlighter to emphasize important/interesting parts

take notes as you go to be physically engaged with the material

Digital media:

copy and paste the text into a doc/word processor

change the font size/style/colour to something more legible

make your own paragraphs and spacing

copy and paste one paragraph at a time to isolate them from the distraction of the rest of the text

install a browser extension like BeeLine Reader or Mercury Reader

zoom in on the page and scroll slowly so you’re revealing lines as you read them

physically cover the screen and reveal lines as you read them

if you do better with physical media, print it out or find a physical copy

Both:

read out loud

pace, move around, or use a fidget while reading

set a timer for 5 minutes and read in small chunks with breaks in between

divide the material into sections and read one section at a time with breaks in between

have another person, audio book, or text-to-speech program read it aloud as you follow along

I’m know I’m not the first person to say this, but any newbies on tumblr really need to understand how different this is from a lot of other social media. Particularly tiktok.

I just saw a creator on tiktok reminding followers that it’s actually a problem when someone goes back to the earliest post and watches all the posts chronologically, liking and commenting along the way. The stupid app recognizes it as spam or something and then kinda puts a halt on their account? Literally punishing people for positive engagement?? 🥴🤦‍♀️

I’ve already heard people saying years back how they don’t want to be “creepy” and go through a persons blog, liking and reblogging tons of stuff. But think how many more people are going to be worried about it now, thinking they might do actual damage! Most people, especially younger people, are so used to the way tiktok works now. So please, do not ever worry about this on here. Just remember-

You will never do any harm if you go on a like and reblog fest through someone’s tumblr blog! The only risk you’re taking is to make the blog owner weep for joy!! 😭🤣

Anyone else want to cry from stress? I’ve been so swamped with work from my classes and chores that I had almost no free time. And in what little free time I did have I mostly played Spiritfarer and read fanfiction. I haven’t spent time on my here in what feels like ages. >:(