Grand Masterlist

"What are you doing up there?"

"Hiding from you. Go away."

"You can't hide from me. My senses are far superior to yours."

"Can't get up here, though, can you?"

Hwagwitober day 10: Cheongmyeong Birthday

청명아 생일축하해요!!!

"Why didn't they just communicate?? They're so stupid!" Have you considered that communicating with someone you love and value and don't want to hurt is scary and that vulnerability takes practice and that perfect characters with perfect words make the most boring stories of all

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

"How am I going to denote the absence of certain letters in this contraction between two words?"

The humble apostrophe:

some notes: the story is 3k words. the protagonist is 13 years old. her physical description would not add a single thing to the story narratively because the story is actually primarily about her thoughts and what she does with them, i'm working with a tight page count limit actually and i want the story to be easy to read.

Whumpee was captured by a group of bandits, who intend to sell them to slavers. But during their capture, they go injured, and the injury got infected. Now they're feverish, slipping in and out of consciousness.

They wake up again, still bound and in pain, not sure what is happening. But they overhear their captors talking about them, discussing if they're worth the trouble, if they should just leave Whumpee here and moves on.

If they had the strenght, Whumpee would panic, but the sickness just pulls them under again.

stockholm syndrome but whumper is really creeped out by it

nothing better than a whumper who looks at whumpee and says “what the fuck is wrong with you”

WHAT

In honor of the Ides of March approaching, here’s the trash can I wrote on 2 years ago and only touch up in March

prophecy class cancelled due to foreseen circumstances

I bet it feels good as fuuuuck to slightly draw your sword with all the other knights in anger when a treacherous knave shows their face in the court

Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.

The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.

And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.

i wish it were as easy as it sounds

And that's the thing of it, isn't it? Failing and accepting a failure is itself a skill.

And it can be very hard to learn, especially if you come from a family where a failure is a sign that you are a failure instead of a sign that you are learning.

You're going to fail at failing well. There are going to be times when it hurts, times when your brain is telling you that you should just give up and you'll never get it. Times when a failure is going to frustrate you to no end.

And you can still learn to fail well. You can learn to see it as a sign that you're learning, you can learn to give a little chuckle and say to yourself, well, everyone screws up sometimes, I'm just learning.

It is not easy, but it is important.

this ai generated origami tutorial is sending me

I don't know what's funnier, the complete nonsense folds or the fact that one step is just. pair of scissors. famously not used in origami.

What are you even supposed to eat for dinner

And it’s like. Like it’s everyday girls.