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A mini PHM comic about Grace growing old. I wanted to explore two ideas: Rocky dealing with Grace’s dementia and Grace wanting to donate his body to science. I spend so much time on figuring out the dialogue (some part still feel clunky to me) but I hope it express my thoughts on where I think Grace’s life would go :)

friend: oh like romantically?

me: no. like cursed object passed between hands for centuries, they are cosmically linked, probably bonded by blood ritual, I think they’ve fought in a war together in at least three lifetimes, and their souls make direct eye contact every time they breathe in the same room

friend: so… romantically?

1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.

2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.

3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.

4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)

5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.

6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.

7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.

8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.

9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.

Timestamped codes that are like one frame (/ is used when two or more codes are flashed at once in one second):

14:52 color code: We are just getting started

14:53 color code: My plaid puppet

19:45 hidden text: Gather around, we are going to learn about the American dream today!

20:50 hidden text: But who can blame Nick? Gatsby is so much grander than him! So much greater! Nick is nothing without him!

21:24 hidden text: It isn't her fault. There must be more than this 2D prison!

21:54 hidden text: Sounds like our boy Francis had a type: gold muses who only ever hurt him!

23:26 hidden text: She's not a cheater, she just knows how the game is really played

23:28 Caesar cipher: Hey there, kids! What do you get when you mix an English Zoom class, a desperation-inducing economy, and a teacher barely hanging on by a very snippable thread? You get out the scissors!

29:25 hidden text: Looks a bit like my home town, you know, in the end

36:26 color code: Trinity health/ is here for you

38:00 color code: Trust the voice/ in your head

43:13 Caesar cipher: A deal's a deal, Hana! You asked for cash and I made it easy-peasy! It's time to pay the Cipher!

43:13 binary code: Got a few pawns in play, but I'm still a few short of a set. Join me kids! Ciphertology lives again!

43:20 Caesar cipher: Could a cat do this, Hana? Could a cat do this?

51:52 color code: This school can be/ full of puppets

58:06 color code: Raise your hand/ if you want/ Bill's help

1:13:51 color code: cipher is real/ and he lives in us all

1:14:59 Caesar cipher: Cipher is real, he's sinful and yellow, he's a triangle fellow with mischief in mind. Cipher is real, he'll cause Weirdmageddon, but if you do him a favor he'll treat you in kind

1:15:00 bar code: Desperation

1:15:00 QR code leads to a canva website where there are three codes. Theraprism code says "Follow eight steps one at a time", Caesar cipher says "The Beddingtons own everything in Naberius Creek". There is a third cipher that I couldn't find a solution to, probably vigenere

1:18:32 color code: See you soon

1:20:46 color code: See you soon, class

1:21:09 Atbash cipher: Here's a good writing exercise: jot down random rhymes, as you think of them. Once I wrote the phrase "Lottery in June, corn will be heavy soon" on a cave wall in the Midwest! What's it mean? Who cares! Death of the author, kids! Let the reader decide for themselves what it means!

1:27:06 Atbash cipher: So the monkey's paw gave you three horrible wishes corrupting your greatest desires into your worst fears. Big whoop! Anyone can do that. You wouldn't believe what the rest of the monkey could do. Guess! Go on, guess!

1:27:57 color code: Time for Hana to learn a lesson

1:36:05 Caesar cipher: You think you can wait it out by getting though class? I can do this all day. All year! All MILLENNIUM!

1:48:27 Caesar cipher: Saw his own dimension burn, now he's here to help you learn.

2:01:09 color code: See you all in your dreams

2:01:18 Caesar cipher: I'm not here to manipulate you with the American dream. I'm here to facilitate it. The system is broken without some help and buddy, I'm the help.

2:06:23 color code: What's a dead family member or two in the face of an endless party?

Now the other codes:

White bold letters: He'll be not afraid for I have come to liberate you.

Blue bold letters: I'm a man of wealth and taste

Light blue bold letters: You will not ignore me, I see everything

Yellow capital letters: And it was all yellow

A1Z26 code from the slide numbers: You signed the contract

A1Z26 code from the google questionnaire points: The Book of Bill is waiting for you

Codes I couldn't solve:

I couldn't find the Vigenere password for the QR code number 2

Coffee stain codes (I genuinely don't know how exactly are those solved and I tried LOTS OF THINGS)

Number code on page 100 of The Great Gatsby at 53:44.

That's all! Hope I helped someone :D

It’s on top of the closed laptop “FEELING GOLD”

The canva site has a color code from the origami cranes that says “INDOCTRINATE”

I also found that on the presentation above Tom Buchanan was written “UGH THIS GUY” XD

First video is about cosmetics, on the bottle of moisturizer is the key for Vigenere cipher in the description. The key is letmeunderyourskin and the cipher says HTTPScolumnslashslash

The second video is reddit voiceover with relaxing background type. The key to the Vigenere cipher in the description is forbiddenknowledge and the decoded cipher is DOYOURHOMEWORK

Third video is Bill's xylophone apology. They key is musical Solresol cipher and it says triangle. Used on Vigenere in the description we get NABERIUSCREEKdotMYdotCANVAdot

Fourth video is Bill playing Minecraft (not the meme). Key is freeme and Vigenere deciphered says SITEslashPASSWORDIN

Fifth video is LoFi and in it is a Morse code which spells studythebook, which is the key to the last Vigenere in the description which is THEPACKETDUETHISWEEK.

Combined, it's a website address, but you need a password: https://doyourhomeworknaberiuscreek.my.canva.site/passwordinthepacketduethisweek

I tried all day, but I couldn't find the password.

"ETM BYVSM PC MWMZRWNP LBTC CHC MPS JRGN DU XAM OMZFVRNXKI? VQBFSLKDFDVC PQXJ FCJT UVPMG!"

THEY SAID THE KEY IS ON THE BILLBOARD BUT I CANT FOGURE OUT WHERE THAT IS

Im new to Arg stuff so if u or anyone could help I'd appreciate it!!

EDIT: I FOUND IT!! THE KEY WAS IM YOUR PUPPET AND I GOT: WHO NEEDS ANI DENT IT Y WHEN YOU AREPA R TOFT HE COLLECTIVE CIPHER TO LOGY WILL RISE AGAIN

Random song lyrics that flash are keys!

Hi I’m new here

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

This was my parents’ car after being plowed into by a pickup truck driver who was too busy on his phone to see the only other car on the rural road they were on. This crash nearly killed my parents, landed them in the hospital and rehab for months, and permanently disabled them.