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AKA Alivion AKA Rune Osterby on Dreamwidth Runekaster on Twitter Avatar by Swilly I am a man and I am Livejournal years old; all other demographic statistics are friend locked

I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.

I’m pretty sure that demon he made a pact with is called cocaine

no it's an actual demon like the cocaine is indeed there for him but this demon exists trust me

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

Most of what these open can be closed by pressing it again.

The scariest one is alt+F4, which closes the current window, sometimes without triggerig the "are you sure?" or "would you like to save before closing?" dialogue.

An F5 refresh can also be scary if you're in the middle of filling out a form or if you're ten miles down your dashboard and haven't bookmarked anything.

super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:

  • copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook
  • if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things
  • state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy
  • ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?
  • make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]
  • just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”
  • just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”
  • just stick a meme in there
  • honestly who cares
  • just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden

No summary at all is better than "I suck at summaries". You can leave it blank and let the tags speak for themselves.

But an excerpt is super easy, and it's next to impossible to mischaracterise the fic with one.

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Best of Sethys: 2025 🐇

That's all folks! Hope 2026 brings even more great shots! Hopefully not too many where he appears to have been run over by a small stubby tank!

OMG the disco one. And then Alivion dead on the floor after lololol

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Happy Easter! German Bantams/tyska dvärghöns. Värmland, Sweden (April 19, 2019).

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Klara and her three daughters, Vigdis, Sigrun and Signe. Klara is a Pekin Bantam (known in Europe as a Bantam Cochin), while her daughters are a mix of Pekin Bantam and Cream Legbar. Värmland, Sweden (December 7, 2025).

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shoutout to these stupid fucking promo pictures from tennant's doctor who cause they wanted cool action shots but the doctor never has any weapons so he's just stanced up like this all the time like he's about to grab ya

i can't remember who was the loon that started it, but a year or two ago we were photomanipping these into "crab be upon ye" posters, trying to make it look like the Doctor was just flinging giant crabs at the camera:

everyone i know eats rice differently . i eat it w a form , my friend eats it w a spoon , and other ppl eat it w chopsticks . so anyway

Spoon usually. The way I make my rice it isn't sticky enough for chopsticks, so a big ceramic soup spoon is the way to go.

Fork sometimes if it's Rice and Stuff with a focus on the Stuff and the Stuff is fork stuff, but even Rice and Stuff is usually spoon fare.

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