officially classed as a 'being'. possibly a siren.
useful tags include: #humorous, #cute, #animals, #premium post, #woods writing, #woods draws, #woods answers, #original content. other tags also exist. i do not remember every tag for every post, and some of my tags are inscrutably subtle (#(posting about posting) is used exclusively on posts I make about Tumblr; #happy pride is used for pride month posts that are happy). and #catchtag is just "tag later".
art tags include #character, #beast (#beasts is for generic fantasy creatures or those i've reblogged), #landscape, #structure.
send me asks. any subject. asks is good.
many "fandom"s -> @city-in-the-high-pines -> @woods-plays-deltarune, @woods-plays-isat
writing something (low effort but people think it's funny) -> @grand-archmage-malaster (or ao3 mirror -> https://archiveofourown.org/works/81343851)
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My "writing" tag is often for posts about writing, but my "art" tag is near-exclusively for artworks themselves. I should think about this when I reprocess my tagging system.
I love how there are so many research articles out there — that are backed up by licensed experts and actual victims/survivors — that prove creative writing, including dark fiction, can help a lot of victims and survivors heal from their trauma (not all, obviously, but it works for a lot of people) but there are still some random people on the internet who are like “actually no I support victims and survivors, because I’m such a good person, but if they heal in a way that I personally do not approve of then I am gonna shame them and call them predators. like why would they do that especially without my permission ewww disgusting”
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me, reaching into my dresser drawer for black pants: I hope this isn’t the pair with big holes worn in the inner thighs
Marie Kondo, gently over my shoulder: why is a pair of pants you find unwearable still in your dresser drawer
me: oh shit that’s right!! The dresser is for clothes that under some circumstance I might conceivably wear!!
Marie Kondo, beaming proudly: Yes, that’s correct!! These pants must have been your favorites. How wonderful that they were so comfortable and practical that you wore them out. But now since they no longer function as pants, you should move them from the drawer where you keep your functioning pants!
me: Yes thanks I got it they’re in the fabric basket now
Marie Kondo, fading back into the darkness: I love what you’ve done with the kitchen!!
Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites
Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.
And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.
But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.
Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.
the thing about elite athletes is that you generally need to be an elite youth athlete to get there. and the thing about being an elite youth athlete is that there are a million of them and very few actually see returns on the insane investment of time and resources it takes to support an elite youth athlete. no one is owed a career in elite sports. frankly elite youth sports fries the minds of most children who come into contact with them, why wouldn’t a parent watching out for their child’s mental wellbeing seriously question if moving their child to boarding school half a world away for the remote chance of a lucrative career in a very expensive dangerous sport is the right move. (and why wouldn’t a mother still feel rage if that decision was taken away from her completely)(this post is about oscar piastri)
we hear stories of the sacrifices that athletes and their families made during their youth career and think oh, well it was all worth it. but we don’t think about the families who made the same sacrifices and it wasn’t worth it. the families drowning in debt for a child who was never going to make it and feels the entire weight of that burden. we don’t think about the people these athletes could have been were they normal people without the career, the money, the recognition. we don’t value the fulfillment of normal, average lives as highly as that of high-profile lives. when in fact the satisfaction i get sharing saltines and peanut butter with my roommate on a saturday afternoon as we watch bad reality TV is a satisfaction more psychologically healthy than what an athlete feels upon winning the championship he’s dreamed of his whole life
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now that this has broken containment i have some things to clarify:
1. this isn't a hypothetical scenario. i searched how to remove the complexity bar in spore, clicked on the first result, and was met with someone condescendingly describing how to use google (no actual answer present in the whole thread). "actually if this happened-" no but it did though. it did actually happen and i was compelled to immediately draw it (losing all desire to actually find out the information i was initially looking for)
2. "just use duckduckgo" i was using duckduckgo. i said it was goople.fart and added in the ads for comedic effect, and bc they might as well be the same bc the problems run deeper than the search engines themselves. duckduckgo isn't a superior search engine, its strength lies in that it doesn't track you the way that google does (and it's not overrun by advertisements)
3. "use marginalia search" have YOU ever used marginalia search??? it's not good for finding the answers to questions. in fact it is not good for finding anything specific at all. it's good for finding random websites when you're bored. it's like, a novelty search engine. i appreciate it's existence but really it's not very helpful in the day-to-day
4. "it's ok you can say reddit" INCORRECT. it was steamcommunity
5. for the record, someone saying "just google it" in a forum setting is different than someone saying "just google it" when you're asking them specifically, like in a social media or blogging context. it's still not particularly helpful, but strangers don't have an obligation to explain things to you (esp when in many cases they would just be the one going on an aggravating goople.fart journey in your stead). the difference with forums is that everyone saying "just google it" is going out of their way to leave unhelpful non-answers on a thread that they easily just could've ignored (plus, when someone makes a post on a forum asking for help, it's safe to assume that they've already been searching for an answer and couldn't come up with one. NOT the case for social media), with the unfortunate side effect that pages like that are the ones that come up when you search for that question
Image description: A Taco Bell. A small crescent moon, with its dark side replaced with a calcified head of Michael Jackson, descends through the open roof. White spiders crawl from it. Some land on large red letters of "PIZZA" and "TACOS" on the wall, drinking their color as if they are glass containers with liquid inside. The singer Prince stands on one side of the image, arm outstretched, saying something to a potted rose almost out of frame. An orange pizza cools on the counter. Also on the counter is the cleanly severed head of a massive stone pawn, with the face of a disturbed man attached and a turbine vent. It is levitating a rotary phone's yellow handset, whose cord goes out of frame towards the potted rose, and calling an unidentified listener to help it after it has been "turned into architecture".
Thinking of the drafting process. I've not formally done it on a large scale, but that's because none of my in-progress projects are longform prose. (Okay, one is technically, but that one is a psyche-trick and I don't rewrite or plan it at all.) I'm sure I've applied it unconsciously; I recognise some recent memories of doing it in setting docs, and in posting.
I started thinking more about trying to edit my work after a comment that writers without technical skills can still usually shave off 25% of the word count of some given piece of raw text. I tried applying this by writing a plot synopsis and editing it, and found a 20% drop. So, inspired by that, I started doing it a little more. I find myself sometimes taking my raw text, making a new line above it, and rewriting directly without even really glancing at the block below. It's there for moral support.
So drafting is worthwhile, but you have to do it properly. If you second-guess yourself with the first draft, you won't actually make progress on it; rewrite the first quarter of your book four times, and you've been very inefficient. You need to have a whole first draft to start the second. But you need to keep your eyes on the Now, too. You can't treat the first draft as a mud pit you must wade through to get to where you actually want to be. You have to believe in it. It's a self-confidence trick, perhaps. A lot of art is about confidence, I find. (I might imagine - a Marvel movie's ironic detachment from itself is a crisis of confidence in the writers, isn't it?)
(Original version of this post under the readmore.)
I'm not sure how exactly to describe the merits of the drafting process. I've never formally done it myself; it's not applicable to any of my current projects in a simple form. (One of my current settings has gone through two world bibles and has a third marked, but the second one was kind of goopy. Some parts are older, some parts are newer. It doesn't agree with itself or follow a good organisation, which is why I marked the third to be made later.) But I do notice it with respects to My Posting.
After an odd post from Prokopetz about how untrained technical writers can usually shave off 20-25% of the word count of raw text they just made, I started thinking about editing my posts a bit more. I don't do it consistently, but I've done it a few times - in setting documents, also - and I've noticed myself unconsciously doing the drafting process. I write out my full text, then I look at it, I hit Enter at the top paragraph, and I start rewriting. And from that I might say that you may not want to think of your first draft as useless sludge you have to push through to get to where you actually want to be. No; write your first draft believing wholeheartedly that it is the finished work. Never hit backspace; never rewrite. You are God, and every word from your fingers is holy. Wait. When the work is done, you must look at it and say: "lo, this is my Work, and it is good. Yet I know that always it could be better, and so I will place it on the floor below me, and cut it apart, so that I have in my hands all of its best meats, and discard all of its failings. And I will recreate it, and it will be greater."
To prove my point I'll rewrite this and include the original - aka these three paragraphs - under a readmore.
I have a note on my phone to write a polemic against the Amish. It's been there long enough that I don't really care to do it properly. So I'll just summarise what I was going to base the post on, which is: I'm an avid anti-primitivist; the Amish are primitivists; therefore I have problems with them. Liberal ideals would permit the existence of this kind of person, but the fact that Amish form multigenerational communities is a problem. Amish communities are insular, and the children in them didn't choose to be born in them. Even if they're allowed to choose to leave as adults, that's... too late, ain't it? (Plus, if they're denying themselves modern industrial inventions, it seems likely that they're denying themselves modern social inventions as well, such as "women actually aren't subhuman, and deserve rights".)
The last point cannot be overemphasized. Amish women have essentially no rights. An Amish mother cannot reprimand her 5 years old son if he misbehaves, or tell him to do anything that he doesn't want to do — only the father and the other men in the house are allowed to give order to or reprimand the male children. It's kinda maddening how almost all documentaries or discussions about the Amish gloss over this.
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I'm on a Lists Bender right now. By which I mean I was 8/6/26, but I queued the post to after Pride Month. Here's some advice on creative work from a panel at Arisia 2026.
If you're completely stuck, remove yourself from the context of writing, and find something else to do that occupies your mind.*
Run multiple projects at once, so that you can procrastinate on one by doing another.
Make sure to eat, drink, sleep, and exercise enough. You also won't be able to write well if you aren't reading well; you need to Consume Media to get the engine going.
Read what you write aloud. Sight, speech, and hearing are processed in separate areas; if you speak, and you hear yourself, you'll pick up on things you didn't notice before.
I can synthesise point 1 with the scientific study about walking improving creativity. Similarly, point 2 has additional advice from Prokopetz: when bored with a project, faff around tweaking minor elements and doing peripheral work such as store page setup. You'll feel like you're procrastinating, but you'll also do important work.
I wonder how many plausible narratives there are for Discovering The Magic That's Like Not Secret But Nobody Really Knows About It. This for a project in which having a number of these narratives is useful. (Although some will make themselves appear as I write the project.) TVTropes is no help.
Rattling off thoughts:
Mysterious benefactor gives you bequest. Inside: magic!
You're in prison. The only way to escape is to talk to the hardened prisoner who knows: magic!
You're researching history and stumble on: magic!
You're amnesiac, or you just woke up on an operating table. In your past you find: magic!
You dream of it. In your waking life it twists in your blood. This was what you were born into, for good or ill: magic!
You were on a walk in the forest when you found it. Something you didn't understand. Something you needed to understand. Magic!
