Updating my tag list and general guidelines since my old one's badly out of date at this point.
I'm a transmascish bigender butch (zey/he), aspec, a physically disabled DID system with AuDHD and TraumaTM, a slam poet, and a witch.
I'm freshly out of homelessness and currently unable to work due to disability. My cash app/venmo are both $thelurkinglark and anything helps. I am willing to do gift fic/meta.
Currently watching: Critical Role Campaign 4, Dimension 20 Starstruck Odyssey, Supernatural, Leverage
Currently reading/rereading: The Hunger Games, one million comics
This is functionally a comics blog.
My AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/lyricalark/works
My squidgeworld: https://squidgeworld.org/users/larkalliance
Incomplete tag list under the cut
general tags
ryder rambles: tag commentary and original posts
to do/to write/to make/to read: self explanatory, note that to make is mostly dessert and fiberarts and to do includes political actions
ryder reads: mostly comics read throughs but any book I'm reading can go here
ryder replies: asks
i want: wishlist, shopping
current events: serious topics and politics
the ongoing situation: posts that resonate or relate to the current living situation
raised out in the cold: tag for surviving trauma/abuse
oh no that's a feeling: self explanatory, lotta trauma or relationship stuff ends up here
oh big mood: general health and mental health tag
reblogging for no apparent reason: breakup venting and aspec feelings
individual headmates get [name] tag formats, there's some overlap between headmate tags and character tag, some headmates also have emoji tags
for ex. Sansa tag: asoiaf, Austen, period drama, Disney and particularly frozen/tangled
Fandom tags
DC u later: DC comics tag
Jason Todd boy of all time: Jason Todd tag
Or girl of all time rather: this gets added for genderbent and transfem JTodd
Just Nightwing it: Dick Grayson tag
BGC: stands for "Bad Girls Club", this tag has Steph, Harper, Stephcass, BUT Mia Dearden also gets this tag sometimes bc I couldn't think of one for her and so I decided she could be an honorary bad girl
Brucie bat: Bruce Wayne tag, not always complimentary
Damian tag: Damian Al Ghul Wayne tag
Cass Cass Cass: Cassandra Cain tag
Best batboy: Duke Thomas tag
Robins tag: multiple Robins or a character is Robin in the post
Disney princess of DC: Talia Al Ghul tag
Helena Bertinelli my beloved: Helena Bertinelli tag
GCS: Gotham City Sirens tag but occasionally gets applied to other female rogues
BOP: multiple birds of prey characters or birds of prey who don't have individual tags like Dinah and Zinda
Goat: Stands for girl of all time, Helena Wayne or Karen Starr individually
Kory Glory: Koriand'r/Starfire tag
Raven Way: Raven tag
Tara tag: Tara Markov tag
Rose rav: Rose Wilson tag
Donna tag: Donna Troy tag
Diana warrior princess: Diana tag
Cassie Cassie Cassie: Cassie Sandsmark tag
Pg2: Tanya Spears tag
Still small force: Jules Jourdain tag
Amaezing Supergirl: Matrix/Mae Kent tag
Soupman: Superman tag
Soupgirl: Kara Supergirl tag
Aim for the sky: general arrowfam tag
Roy Harper the man that you are: Roy Harper tag
Jaded: Jade Nguyen tag
All the Sandra feelings: Lady Shiva tag
Yja tag: Young Justice animated tag, functionally mostly an Artemis Crock tag
Molls: Miracle molly tag
otp: goats: HelStarr tag
timeout au: functionally a general DickRoy tag
girl crush: Sofia Gigante tag
All the terrible AUs: general Slade and Slade + Dick tag
marvel tag: marvel, both MCU and 616
xmen xmen: X-Men tag
northern lights: Jeanne Marie Beaubier/Aurora tag
Lorna bby: Lorna Dane tag
Laura bby: Laura Kinney tag
Illyana bby: Illyana Rasputin tag
Tash tag: Natasha Romanov tag
Yelena tag: Yelena Belova tag
system of the moon: moon knight tag
I have thoughts: GhostWidow tag that happened by accident
otp: home: Bishova tag
otp: half of my soul: katyana tag
beautiful yet tragic: magneto family tag
rose witch: wanda tag
Street level knights: Defenders and related characters
Best girl: Elektra Natchios
SPOP
spop tag: general She-Ra tag
Adora gayskull: Adora tag
Catra meow meow: catra tag
otp: Catradora tag
Other media
spin posting: supernatural tag
wrestling tag: combat sports tag
my best guy: Seth Rollins tag
miraculous the luckiest: miraculous ladybug tag
lord rings: lotr tag
gtn/tlt: locked tomb tag
star war: star wars tag
dr whom: dr who tag
dice dragons: dnd/ttrpg tag
leverage inc: leverage tag
impatient Octobers: October Daye tag
dolls on main: dolls tag
AU tag list
MFB: Stephanie Brown longfic that features Lonnie Manchin, protests and polyamory
Devil's bargain au: Dick as Slade's apprentice, Robterra
Timeout AU: eventual dickroyjade, Dick as Slade's apprentice
Needle au: Dick as Slade's apprentice, Shado
Destroying Angel au: Dick as Slade's apprentice, RaeTerra, karababs
Defy Heaven WIP: Dick as Slade's apprentice, team defiance wip, unposted
Fireflies au: sprawling space outlaws au
Death's Daughters WIP: assassins and daughters of assassins, League of Assassins - fic now defunct and has been repurposed ingo
Winding Road AU: Talia/Shiva raise Cass and eventually Damian AU
Huntress: Breakdown: HelSofia Ocean's 11 meets Monte Cristo fic, unposted
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#like it is not a coincidence that steph jason damian are grouped #its characters authors/editorial thought batman would be better off without/that he would get through their death #and be stronger on the other side #bruce is not coming out of dicks death stronger #because dick is not “a bad robin” which is like the less nice but still true other name of the dead robins club #bc its all kids who were bad robins being dealt their sticky end for being bad robins (op's tags)
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I'm angry right now... what the fuck are these authors smoking to get their fics looking like this
These are all the same fic btw
I literally was so dumbfounded with this fic that I made this
That news article was the straw that broke the camels back. I saw the emails and Twitter posts and was like "Oh wow this is some really good use of the authors style thingy" then I saw the article and just fucking lost it
Lemme check if I can find the authors tumblr so I can yell at them for this cuz what the fuck
@evienyx found you! What the fuck is this???? What the hell are you smoking!?!?!?!? HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT SO WELL??????????
I've seen this formatting style before, a twitch chat, maybe a Twitter feed
But this?
This is a professional-level written news article. Are you studying journalism? How are you doing this? What is so beautifully wrong with you that you can make these things???????. I even made a meme about it please I need answers
For the emails, text messages, and twitter posts, I used guides, which I linked at the bottom of that chapter. Same thing for the Discord messages in Chapter 10.
The WSJ article itself (along with the Guardian article in Ch. 10), I kinda just had to figure out on my own? I went to the respective website, took screenshots of the top and bottom bars, and uploaded those screenshots to an image-hosting website so I could use them. Then, I looked up what fonts are used for WSJ articles and added them to my workskin along with the approximate colors.
When it comes to the content of the article itself? No, I am not studying journalism, lol. Astronomy and Physics rather. In fact, I got enough college credits from high school that I haven't had to take a single english or writing class in four years. In essence, I pulled up a WSJ article (or as much as I could see) and just did my best to replicate the formatting and the style of writing.
Once more, same thing for the Guardian article in Ch. 10. For the WSJ one, it was a lot of just making sure that the article was just barely walking the line of not actually being objective, even as it tries to be. That's how those newspapers and such get you.
I'm glad that all of my effort had an impact, though! The special formatting for certain parts of this fic is super time-consuming and hard, so I'm thrilled when it gets these types of reactions. Makes it all feel worth it.
Oh, I forgot about that one! That is one I had to come up with as well, lol. Maybe I’ll make a guide at some point (even tho it squishes unfortunately on mobile). I couldn’t find html code for a fake YouTube video, which was truly devastating.
1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago
2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.
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honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before
heard someone say "who even owns a rolling pin anymore" and my brain froze trying to process it. what does that mean. are u implying rolling pins are outdated technology? did we come up with a shiny new 21st century method of flattening dough of which i remain uninformed? is there now an app on the app store people are using instead??? im losing my mind "who even owns a rolling pin" people who BAKE
reaching the point of hyperfixation where I can no longer engage with it due to the nausea that I experience at the mere thought of seeing it on my screen is the closest I’ve ever been to being diagnosed with female hysteria
I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’
“Whatcha mean?”
“You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “
And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’
Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE.
I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.
no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.
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