Avatar

SweetiePie08

@sweetiepie08

Writer, seamstres, cosplayer, and all around nerd. Same name on FF.net and Ao3. All my fics from here (plus more) are also posted there. Ride or die Targaryen in direct defiance of what the writers are doing.
Avatar

A note for my fanfic readers (if you’re out there)

Hi, not sure how many people who read my fics follow my tumblr but Ao3 doesn’t really have a good way of putting out a mass update, so I’m putting it here.

For the readers of my current multichap fanfics, which include Gifted Kids, Through Your Teeth, and Truth Be Told, I know that it’s been a couple months since I posted knew chapters. But I want to make sure everyone knows, NONE OF THESE FANFICS ARE ABANDONED!!!

I am still working on all of them. However, there has been real life stuff going on in the past few months that has drained my energy and made it difficult for me to focus on my writing. I’ll be able to get down a few more sentences one night, or manage a couple paragraphs, but overall progress has been slow.

Basically, I’ve just been in a writing slump.

However! The good news is, some of the real life stuff (leaving my old job and starting a new one) does have a set end date! Hopefully when I am fully transitioned out of my old job, some of my stress will be alleviated and I’ll be able to focus when I’m writing again!

If you do have questions about my fics, or just want to talk fandom in general, feel free to send an ask and I’ll get back to you whenever I can.

I look forward to continuing these stories and still think about them everyday. So if you’re a fan and you think these fics have been abandoned, just sit tight! Hopefully they’ll be more updates soon!

Avatar

At work there used to be a sign on a few things that would say like "if this bubbles, run for your life" and "if you hear thumping run for cover" and "bears can and will kill you" and really in general I wish the park service was more willing to say "you are not at home, you are not at disneyland, you can die here and you can die so badly your family will have to bury an empty casket because no one will risk their own life to collect your idiot corpse."

Avatar
lorec-x

If we're gonna make people more scared of something, it should probably be cars, infections, and heart conditions, not "outside".

THESE FACTS WILL BE RELEVANT I SWEAR:

Boiling point of water: 212°F

Crock pot temperature: 140°F-180°F

Crock pot depth (commercial, 100 gal): 3 feet, could not submerge most humans.

Meat begins to cook: 105°F

Water burns skin within 3-6 seconds: 140°F

Steak/chops/roasts are safe to eat: 145°F

Collagen melts into gelatin, meat "falls off the bone": 160-180°F

Average tourist: 30% collagen

Stomach acid: pH 1.5-3.5 (lower is more acidic)

YELLOWSTONE FACTS!

Max recorded temp of a Yellowstone pool: 280°F in Norris Basin

Depth of spring that dissolved a man: 10 feet, Norris Basin, could and did submerge an adult human

Lowest pH (most acidic) pH of a Yellowstone pool: pH 2-3 in Norris Basin

Yellowstone pools: crock pots full of stomach acid

I think if people ARE outside -- say, tourists near a spring -- they should be warned that the spring will cook them, then dissolve what is left. Because you CANNOT tell by looking.

We should be a LOT more afraid of some parts of Outside, actually.

We should be a LOT

more afraid of some parts of

Outside, actually.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Avatar

extremely dangerous roads today and i was going a respectable 20mph-25mph on a rural road, sliding 50% of the time, down a hill so steep there's warnings year round and residents outside monitoring the road. and this fucker in a raised red pickup behind me was on my ass blasting his horn the whole time. My Friend, i am in a subaru crosstrek. you say the word and i'll slam on my breaks sending your compensation waggon flying as the ice forces it to use my faggotmobile like a stunt ramp. i'll record it. i'll email your family the MOV file of your lifeless corpse smashing through the windshield and falling 8ft into the snow. i'll set it to Free Bird

Avatar
Avatar
oopsabird

god, GOD Freddie Mercury was such a fucking badass

This doesn’t do the moment justice. He took the swig of vodka, said “I’ll fucking do it darling”, and then ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT in one fucking take

Mood for 2019: “I’ll fucking do it, darling.”

Reblog for Freddie Mercury level belief in yourself this new year! 

I’ll fucking do it, darling

Avatar
reblogged
Avatar
imekitty

Being a whump writer means having to find a new way to say “it hurts” over and over again.

Avatar
angels-whump

what’s great about being an EMT is I have a whole list of ways to describe pain. So here’s that for anyone who might want it

-searing

-burning

-shooting (along with burning, these are often neuropathic)

-stabbing

-gnawing

-stinging

-aching

-pain can radiate from on place

-numbing

-tingling

-throbbing

-constricting/cramping

You can also have severities such as

-paralyzing

-debilitating

-distracting (maybe one worse pain is making whumpee ignore the rest)

-psychosomatic—other stressors are making whumpee think they’re in physical pain. This also works for limps or injuries

Lasty, one of the indicators for a heart attack is literally a sense of impending doom. So essentially your brain recognizes that something is very wrong without telling you directly. Do with that what you will. I hope this helps!

Avatar
bleue-flora

Thought I’d add on with some other words that might be helpful.

Here are some more description words:

-piercing

-pulsing

-squeezing

-thrumming

-buzzing

-suffocating

Avatar

Crying and puking, Google maps made the Gulf of Mexico say Gulf of America

Avatar
demonicae

oh yeah, I sent in a ticket to report the incorrect info (which anyone can do.)

Here in the UK it is still labelled as 'Gulf of Mexico' with 'gulf of america' in parenthesis underneath it.

The world at large does not recognise the 'gulf of america.'

This is because the US has no legal right to change the Gulf's name under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The naming conventions only extend 22KM from the shoreline. The rest is shared between the US, Mexico, and Cuba. This means only the land on America's shores up to 22KM away from them can legally be called the 'gulf of america', they cannot rename the whole thing to the rest of the world and call it a day.

Google changing the name does not make it the truth, it does not make it law... people lie on the internet all the time, and yes that includes google themselves.

Avatar
sassymccoy

Peer reviewed tags.

Avatar
Avatar
were-writes

Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?

You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.

you. you get it.

Counteroffer: Big dramatic cloak to protect your identity that you drop on the floor before every fight

I can’t believe the compromise is Obi-Wan Kenobi

“No capes!”

“Game on, then.”

Okay, but I love that Gandalf is just dropping his cloak to reveal another, slightly smaller cloak underneath it.

Avatar

One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.