This Is A Random Rant About Metal Family

if you use music to cope with anxiety, depression or to help with your ADHD (like me) reblog, I'm trying to prove a point to my teacher

A few doodles I did a while back for my witch hunt au series. I had done those before the chapters where written so they aren’t very accurate to the scenes ^^;

Chapter 5 will be up here soon. https://nyxglitch.tumblr.com/tagged/witchhuntau

I'm sorry but I saw ur tags on that QPR ask, and I'll be honest I've always been a little confused by the concept? Maybe you can shed a little light (if not that's cool it's not ur job or anything), but what makes a QPR "more than friends"? Cause you mentioned like holding hands and snuggling and stuff but I do that with my platonic friends all the time? I can't tell if maybe there's an aspect to this that I'm missing....

I guess it’s mostly the intent! Physical affection is not inherently romantic or platonic, if its something you do with your platonic friends thats fine! if its something you feel like you could only do with a romantic partner thats fine, too! To me, I think the main thing about QPR is how the people involved feel about eachother. (I could also be interpreting this wrong as I am no expert on the subject, myself, but if anyone wants to correct me, please do so! I am mainly going on my personal experiences as an aroace person)  Like,,, IDK it feels like sexual or romantic attraction is supposed to feel OBVIOUS when you’re experiencing it? It never was for me. For me personally, I’ve desired the committment and affection that is usually typical of a romantic relationship. But I’ve never really had ROMANTIC feelings toward another person, before. In relationships I’ve been in while i was still figuring myself out, romantically, it was mainly the sheer idea of labling it as a “romantic relationship” that kinda just bugged me? I liked the idea of having someone close to you, who just KNEW you and GOT you and could be affectionate with you. But... i didnt want that romantically, yknow? But also it feels different than Just Being Friends with someone. Personally, I wouldnt wanna raise a kid or marry someone who i only considered a friend, but a person probably would with their QPP. (thats just me though, its different for everybody) As far as I’m aware, QPR’s usually have a level of commitment that is generally associated with Romantic relationships, which is mainly how it seperates from a general platonic friendship. That’s mainly as far as my knowlege on the subject goes. If anyone in a QPR or knows more about it than I do would like to elaborate further, I highly encourage it! I guess the TLDR would be that QPR’s are basically a way to describe a relationship that doesnt quite follow the general ideas of what people usually consider Platonic or Romantic relationships.

“Something in Common.”

Some more exploration on Stevens recovery. I always thought Steven could have used more friends his age, and Peedee was always such a high contender in my opinion. He really stuck with me after Frybo aired. His more extreme character traits being cynicism and prone to hysterics is such a good foil for optimistic Steven, although those may or may not have mellowed out by SUF. I noticed a little something about the Fry family, and thought it would be fun to give Peedee some backstory that Steven could empathize with.

In SU classic, there were a few scenes that implied Steven and Peedee still hung out, but like, off screen, and he was always really busy with work. They probably only grew more distant once Little Homeschool kicked up, so I wanted to circle back and have them catch up– something Steven would have absolutely done during his recovery.

Oh my gooosh, now I’m saaaad

Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes. 

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation. 

I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.

I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear. 

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!

Seggesting a character might be ace.

Well, I was close

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Ok, finally, I have a theory! Do you remember how pink diamond looked on SU (poster? List of villains? Never mind)

She is pink! But why? Some people think that Steven hurt her, and it’s possible.

But remember, in “Change your Mind” her face became pink, after Steven pointed out her childish behavior? I think he can (and maybe Pink diamond could), similar to Blue control other gem’s emotions. He could have used this ability in the episode “Reunited” when he by touching others could fill them with DETERMINATION (sorry, not sorry).

So, where was I.

Steven can control others emotions, but right now he’s an emotional wreck. He’s mad, desperate, disappointed and guilty. And maybe, when he comes to a homeworld, looking for a way to control his powers, he has one of his “outbursts” and it affects White. If Steven shattered Jasper, what would White do? Will she hurt Steven and corrupt him? Or will she hurt someone else, which will make Steven even more guilty and terrified?