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people have the audacity to ask if i'm okay after I have been listening to infinite baths by sleep token and confession by girl in red nonstop for the last few weeks

i took a photo of the moon while she was watching over me as i wrote a lab report tonight

just listened to even in arcadia (the song) and oh my god vessel sounds so hurt :(

i don't have any idea if it's true, but it feels like the album version of caramel is faster than the single version

just ordered "hold still" with a gift card i got from donating blood. it doesn't get much better than this

i picked up "watch over me" by nina lacour today after having it on my desk for almost a month now because i was afraid it wouldn't make me feel as much as "we are okay" did. and oh boy was i wrong. i don't know how she does it, but she just gets the loneliness i experience so often

i felt inspired and made a desktop wallpaper for damocles

i picked up "watch over me" by nina lacour today after having it on my desk for almost a month now because i was afraid it wouldn't make me feel as much as "we are okay" did. and oh boy was i wrong. i don't know how she does it, but she just gets the loneliness i experience so often

stayed up to listen to the new sleep token song and holy fuck it's worth every single moment of its four minutes and fifty seconds of runtime

Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

birthday blues really need to be studied more cause why the fuck am i being sad on my birthday again??? and it's not even my birthday yet, but i can feel the sadness rising up? what the fuck???

i almost forgot that it's trans visibility day today and only remembered because a friend told me. someone come and take my membership card away lol

i don't know what the fuck happened to my phone camera, but it's much more interesting than whatever i originally had planned

I love my job, but maybe it'll help someone else

this is so gorgeous

I drew Ruby in Arcane's art style because I miss RWBY and Arcane 😭

i really really wouldn't say i like my voice, but today i recorded some lines for a song idea i had and i kept the file instead of deleting it instantly. so that's a win i guess

hey girl awesome pussy. it looks like it was expensive

i've started writing in notebooks again since it kinda helps me focus more and originally i wanted to write with a pencil so i could edit it. then i lost my eraser and even though i could easily get a new one, i refuse and continue to use my pencil. something something confining yourself to keep what you have already created or whatever

sometimes i feel like a black hole

swallowing even pure light

disintegrating each and every thing whole

so i stay away, i keep the distance

afraid there's no end to this night

i'm alone in my universe

wondering when this ends

or if it just gets worse

my life starts feeling like i'm living for sidequests again. i'm supposed to play bass for my friend's band's soundcheck later this week. slight problem here.

i have never fucking played a bass before.

so lets hope my mediocre (at best) guitar skills will save me

So my problem with most ‘get to know your character’ questioneers is that they’re full of questions that just aren’t that important (what color eyes do they have) too hard to answer right away (what is their greatest fear) or are just impossible to answer (what is their favorite movie.)  Like no one has one single favorite movie. And even if they do the answer changes.

If I’m doing this exercise, I want 7-10 questions to get the character feeling real in my head. So I thought I’d share the ones that get me (and my students) good results: 

What is the character’s go-to drink order? (this one gets into how do they like to be publicly perceived, because there is always some level of theatricality to ordering drinks at a bar/resturant)

What is their grooming routine? (how do they treat themselves in private)

What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go? (Gets you thinking about socio-economic class, values, and how they spend their leisure time)

Do they have any scars or tattoos? (good way to get into literal backstory) 

What was the last time they cried, and under what circumstances? (Good way to get some *emotional* backstory in.) 

Are they an oldest, middle, youngest or only child? (This one might be a me thing, because I LOVE writing/reading about family dynamics, but knowing what kinds of things were ‘normal’ for them growing up is important.)

Describe the shoes they’re wearing. (This is a big catch all, gets into money, taste, practicality, level of wear, level of repair, literally what kind of shoes they require to live their life.)

Describe the place where they sleep. (ie what does their safe space look like. How much (or how little) care / decoration / personal touch goes into it.)

What is their favorite holiday? (How do they relate to their culture/outside world. Also fun is least favorite holiday.) 

What objects do they always carry around with them? (What do they need for their normal, day-to-day routine? What does ‘normal’ even look like for them.) 

just thought about how absolutely wild it is that I'm actually studying quantum mechanics right now. it sounds so surreal and tbh I didn't think I'd actually manage to do it

i'm so glad I was born in a time where we know about so many things in space and yet have so many mysteries left to unravel. I seriously don't know what kind of person I'd be without my love for black holes

god I wish I could just skip the holidays this year... everything's chaotic and aaaaaaaah

Love you (ALL)

You are important

The world would be a worse place without you in it

You matter

I care

There are other people who care

You will find people who care in this very thread

You matter more than you know

Don't give up on yourself

ALSO DRINK YOUR MEDS AND WATER and at least try to eat something today if you haven't already

If you can, please put one thing away, one clothing item in your closet, one piece of trash in the bin

You are doing good

Take care of yourself

You deserve good things

putting trumpets in a metal song feels like cheating. I have never heard a metal song with trumpets that wasn't an absolute banger

being friends with other metalheads is weird af. couple weeks ago i told a friend from uni that i found a symphonic deathcore cover of vivaldi's "winter" (which is quite a sentence for itself imo) and I doubted that they (or anyone I knew, really) had heard of it. and then, without hesitation, they grab their phone, begin to scroll frantically and show me the exact song in their library.

World building (Literally)

In the process of working on my novel, I’ve had to create entire new planets. Fortunately for me, only one of them (currently) requires extensive planning into the depths of the environment, since that’s a two-pronged plot point. 

I’ll preface this with the fact that I am not a scientist nor particularly gifted in the sciences despite my fascination with them. So all of the resources I have I’ve found useful from starting with the bare bones and expanding into the literal process of creating a world.

Perhaps the best single resource that I lean most heavily on is Mark Rosenfelder’s The Planet Construction Kit. This book goes into more depth than I really needed, but for someone who really wants to start from scratch it’s an indispensable tool. Not only does he go into detail on creating the literal planet (and even the solar system!), but he goes further into environments, and who and what you might find there before expanding beautifully into developing cultures and the details of whatever created inhabitants of your world would need. I really can’t recommend the book enough.

Personally, I needed a little more detail before I felt comfortable assigning climates to my planet, and that’s where I drew a page out of the site worldbuildingworkshop (here) to go step-by-step through the logical development of a world. This included the application of:

wind patterns

pressure systems

ocean currents

precipitation

seasonal changes

how all of the above affect the assignment of environment to your world

It’s worth noting that this site’s explanation is inspired from a now-defunct site that is currently only available via the Wayback Machine. The Climate Cookbook goes into even further detail, but is also a more complicated read. Definitely worth a look. (It’s still available as of Jan ‘18)

I also found that @mythcreantsblog had an excellent post on their off-Tumblr site that helped further in the effort to assign climates, with exceptionally helpful illustrations. Definitely something to check out if you’re trying to pull a planet together. (Here)

My last site I didn’t use as much as the others, but is definitely worth honorable mention for the useful question-and-answer dynamic that covers much of the same information. For those needing illustrations to follow along, the text-heavy format might not be best, but it goes into details that definitely compliment the processes that the other resources go into. (Here)

Of course, I’m sure there’s lots of other useful sites and tools out there, but these were the primary resources that I leaned on while putting my new planet together.

metalcore mixed with 80s synthesisers is the BEST genre of music. no i won't accept constructive criticism