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I keep finding myself drawn to these bold, dark wall colors for my upstairs bedrooms, but I'm also afraid of making the rooms feel closed-in and claustrophobic vs. cozy and inviting, which is what I'm going for. I'm thinking along the lines of loyal blue or hunt club. They each have one window (facing south, east, north, respectively) and two of them have a slanted wall that I would probably keep white as an extension of the ceiling.

Are there any other design principles for dark walls that I should

Pretty often, when describing their writing process, people talk about daydreaming. I am not a daydreamer. I don't have a strong visual imagination, and I don't tend to come up with scenarios or let my mind wander when I'm going about my day or falling asleep.

Which sometimes makes writing feel like more of a left-brain, puzzle-solving process than a creative one. It's not a process of transcribing a story or a scene that already exists in my head; writing is how I figure out what the story even is (and this is true no matter how much I'm plotting or pantsing-- I do both). In my more self-critical moments, I think I'm just not that creative and am more of a technician, but like, the method

Obligatory "new to tarot" disclaimer...

So I was just folding laundry and listening to some 80s pop on my headphones, when I saw my deck sitting on my nightstand. This weird urge came over me, it was like a voice whispering "Cleanse the deck with the song, then draw a card. The deck wants to hear the music."

So I pulled out the cards and put my headphones over them so they could hear the sweet tones of a-ha's "Take on Me," then shuffled them in a big spread over the bed. A card popped out and fell off the bed, so I took that as my cue.

The Fool.

So I took that as a) yes, that was an extremely goofy thing to do but also b) that's exactly how the deck wants me to use it. Try weird shit

My girl is just not into winter walks. We try to take her out for a spin around the neighborhood with her coat on while there's still light, but no one enjoys it. She won't tolerate booties.

Some days it's just too bitter cold for any of us, so we skip the walk and just let her zoom in the yard if she wants to, but more often she'll just do her business and come right back in.

She has a variety of toys and we try to keep her interested/interactive, but I still worry she's bored and understimulated and too sedentary. Any ideas?

Okay, forgive me if this is unbearably basic, I'm brand new to this. I've been practicing three-card spreads to try to synthesize individual card meanings into a cohesive story/whole, trying to keep my questions open-ended.

Post title was my question, and I got this (RWS deck): 8 Wands reversed, 10 wands, the Lovers

I didn't specify card positions, which might have been a mistake, but what I'm getting from this is that I should be prepared for delays (8W reversed) and not work myself to the point of exhaustion. Work and rest need to be in harmony-- my goals will be completed in their own time and I shouldn't try to brute-force them (10W). It'll be a year of

Forgive me if the answer to this is obvious, I don't know why I'm so paranoid about this!

I've included a friend's fanart in a fic before and just credited them in the notes, but now I'm wanting to embed a famous painting in a fic where two characters are looking at it in a museum. (It's not so famous that the average person could just call it to mind, so I think the visual will be helpful.)

If the image is hosted on the museum website, and the narrative refers to the artist by name, is that sufficient credit? Should I put full credit in the notes as well?

I keep seeing people talk about semicolons as if they're the Final Boss of punctuation, but I promise, they aren't so difficult!

I'm going to put the tl;dr at the top here, in case you want to just take the simple explanation and run: Semicolons connect two complete thoughts (independent clauses) together. If you have two complete sentences and want to suggest a close affiliation between them, you can use a semicolon instead of a period.

At this point, you might be saying, "why not just use a comma for that?"

A comma is not a strong enough glue to connect two independent clauses! If you try, you'll end up with a run-on (which has a specific grammatical meaning. It doesn't just mean a

Do you have any words that you straight-up will not use in your fics? I have two:

• "nonplussed": Has two contradictory meanings, confuses everyone, never worth it. 0/10

• "indescribable": Maybe more of a hot take, but describing stuff is your whole task as a writer. "Indescribable" feels like lampshading "I don't know how to describe this." It's funny, because it rarely bothers me as a reader, but whenever I find it in one of my drafts, I edit it out and just take my best shot at describing the thing.

How about you all? (And ofc, this is just for fun, no need to reevaluate your whole life if you see your favorite word in this thread)

Edit: turning off notifications lol, the last 20 rep

I'm wrapping up my hours before I can take my test for independent licensure, and I wanted to thank my clinical supervisor in some way. She started out supervising me at my agency, but when she took another job about a year ago, she was willing to continue with me over zoom. She wouldn't let me give her a penny for it, either.

So I suggested we go out for a meal to celebrate finishing my hours (I'll pay for that, of course), and I wanted to give her something as well. What do you all think would be appropriate? We're friendly, but I wouldn't say we're friends.

edit: Thank you for the ideas, everyone! Sounds like a card and something small-ish is the way to go.

Were you on an old-school Star Trek mailing list?

Ever find a printed copy of a fanzine at a yard sale?

Did you have a fic purged during Strikethrough?

Were you an AO3 early adopter?

Did you take part in some tumblr nonsense for the ages?

If you've ever told a witch "do not cite the old magic to me, I was there when it was written," let's hear about it!

Part of the reason I love this subreddit is that it shows me how vast the fanfiction world really is. Some of the tropes/genres/writing quirks that people bemoan as "inescapable" are things I've literally never seen in the wild, including:

• OP protagonists

• harems

• strict love > marriage > babies progression

• clinical overemphasis on consent/safe sex

• epithet abuse (okay, I see this sometimes, but it's rare)

I'll admit that I'm not reading a ton these days. I mostly stick to my handful of favorite authors and whatever my friends are recommending, and that definitely does a lot of the filtering for me. It's still funny, though.

What "common" tropes make you feel like you ex

Who else is a fan of the "they're divorced 😍" type of shipping? Something about the mix of disenfranchised love, bitterness, heartbreak, shared history, intimate knowledge... baby, you've got a stew going.

Some of my favorite ex-ships are Kylo Ren/Hux (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy), Viktor/Jayce (Arcane), Chrollo/Hisoka (Hunter x Hunter, weird one but I have a whole backstory for it), and Gojo/Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen). How about you all?

I'm gonna go outside and touch grass but will be back to respond in a while!