#letssnowstreamwings

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

man this one is hard, theres always pieces i love

'I ache for you – for the way your gloved hand caresses my cheek in those tender moments,  for your sure steps through the labyrinth I must live in, for the way those piercing eyes soften at my arrival (and I am so painfully sorry I have never turned to see what they look like when I leave, for I fear I would simply run back to your arms and damn my position to hell.) My love, when I wake up in the morning it is your arms I wish were around me rather than his, it is your ring I long to wear on my finger rather than his, it is your heart I long for rather than his. Perhaps, in another life, I was less of a coward and less preoccupied with my position. Our love haunts me, and it is a ghost I could not ever want to exorcise. I live my life in our secret moments, hidden in hotels and scented with tulips and camellias and regret. There is nothing –  nothing – I want more than to love you openly.'

repetition of threes, repressed feelings, and flower language? sign me up. seriously though, this is from 'letters unsent' and despite being written in an hour for a challenge, its one of my favourite pieces - i can definitely see where my writing got influenced by edwardian lit here.

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

ooh, tough question - mainly because what it differs between writers. my main one is to not be afraid to use literary devices, they'll always spice things up, and its pretty easy to tell when you're overdoing it.

another one that was really important for me was that you don't have to write chronologically - if you're stuck, just stick a note saying [this happens in this way] and move on to a part you want to write about

14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

Don't use a thesaurus, it drives readers away.

i don't like this one bc a) i like having to look up new words i find it fun, and b) it always feels like its coming from some company executive who wants things to be short and snappy and marketable, not... yknow, your writing.

also, c) if i never used a thesaurus you'd be stuck reading the same verb 12 times. i am bad at remembering to change out verbs i need it for variety desperately

Wa2000 is adorable and small and tries really hard!!!

Wa2k’s whole thing is about taking pride in her work and she bases her self worth on it so you have to let her know she’s doing a good job, even if she doesn’t want you to know she needs the praise-

EvEN THOUGH SHE DESERVES THE PRAISE!

She’s one of the best group clearing rifles in the game and that hasn’t changed since launch, so much so that she’s like, easy mode for nyto fights!

AND ALSO SHE’S SO PRETTY!!

fuckin-

LOOK AT HER! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GIRL SO BEAUTIFUL, YOU CRIED?

She was my first SSR in the game and my first Oath and she’s been greeting me when I log on for over like, a year? two years? And I love hearing her yell at me or be all shy and flustered

also for the longest time i thought her hair was black but apparently that’s wrong

I can't believe Fi is so low on the "Hawaiian shirt" scale

lmaoo LISTEN

IN MY DEFENSE

if he was on a scale where the nulls and deltas weren’t included, he’d be at the top. it’s scaled against some very extreme vode, ok

he’s incredibly Hawaiian shirt compared to other Omegas and the rest of the clan but he’s a lot less next to Mereel and Scorch. trust me, i’m very scientific

more seriously though, as a character he reads as a lot less Hawaiian shirt than he wants / wishes to be. often throughout the series that air he carefully cultivates around himself is pointed out by different people to be more of a defense mechanism rather than how he really feels about his state and situation in the galaxy, and that he’s often providing his humor and positivity in large part in an effort to keep both himself and his squad in positive spirits---but in low moments that veneer cracks and what shines through is really a deeply wounded, deeply unhappy person exercising the “fake it til you make feel it!” sort of coping mechanism that works less and less as the war drags on

that’s mostly why I have him so low on the Hawiian shirt axis---because even though it’s what he wishes/wants to present to the galaxy, it isn’t what he is / how he really feels. post shaken-not-stirred incident, he actually starts to level out and be more true to that complicated personality within him, and this scale is mostly framed in that part of the series’ timeline.

oof it’s winter depression time johnny couldn’t you have done this during springtime

anywho let’s tackle this!

1. I’m getting a lot of things down lately re: my transition, even if I’m procrastinating on others, so I’m feeling very ambitious and maybe a little brave?

2. also I’m working on my original projects and it makes me happy & i feel productive

3. oof uhhh i always have a good book rec (and it’s only good omens half of the time)

4. im out of ideas jeeze but um I’m funny sometimes?

Uh, stuff happened.

Also, it’s hard to find much wrong with this thing.Germany just has pretty solid small arms all around which is shocking considering the state of their Air Force. But I guess it’s not hard to have the best when you’re basically H&Ks meal ticket.

The MG3 is exactly what it looks like, It’s an Mg42 with a plastic stock chambered in .308. (7.62x51mm if you wanna be pedantic.) So it’s good. 

But it’s not perfect.

The MG3, and by extension MG42, have two critical issues that would make them my second choice behind a PK variant. They cannot easily accommodate optics, as is to be expected from a gun initially designed in the 40s. The other is that it fires entirely too fast.

Like, it’s actually a genuine problem. 

At a rough fire rate of 1200 rounds per minute, which is obscenely fast, it creates logistical issues other guns don’t have to deal with. This may initially seem like a good thing but the MG3 needs more ammo to fire the same amount of time as it’s peers, like the PK or M240. Meaning that it’s users must either carry more ammo and thus more weight or have to make do with less effective supporting fire capability. 

This doesn’t make the gun bad, but it does make it less desirable. 

In GFL MG3 is a 4-star doll with pretty solid art and middling performance. (Apologies if it’s blurry, couldn’t find a better image of just her.)

… hey I can add images to asks!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! <3 I tell myself my liveblogs are alright but many time I do have hesitations, specially in this “shadowblog” of School-Life, mainly for what I already know/remember, but by the end it rolled more naturally and I’m quite interested how things will continue… after all… we just got the setting.

We know is a world with zombies and only the club is on the school, we know Yuki is sheltering her mind from it by extreme dissasociation and we KNOW that wont last (okay maybe it can but I truly doubt it) so how we go from A to B and what CAN happen? that’s gonna be fun/painful to watch.

As for the counter… you mean the cracks? I think I’ll change the approach because as an audience reality already cracked for us… the crack we should REALLY count are the ones Yuki is gonna get…