08-25-2025, 05:47 PM
I'm holding it, even though the latest SHC is out to get me because with only 2 cards from the banner instead of 3 I can't reach the full DMG boost quota and I'm back at 29 stars. I haven't worked on upgrading protocores yet, so I might manage to gain a couple of stars in the next few days, but damn. Soloing SHC is hard without all the limited myths. And fuck that specific red stella card for Raf from his GoT myth (the solar 4* pair) that I still haven't gotten from the galaxy pool. Apparently it's notoriously hard to get, and do you remember my second account I was playing with on my computer as backup? Yeah well I abandoned it out of sheer rage when one (1) week in I pulled that red card from the pool. This translates to tragedy whenever it requires red teams because I miss all the red 5* they did for Raf in the past (the spicy cards), and I haven't found proper replacements yet.
Playing with 2 LIs is way better for SHC and open orbits.
"is that okay to say out loud?"
You didn't shout it loud enough IMO. It was lovely to read and should be way more normalized. Write for yourself, write what you want to read, surprise and entertain yourself first and foremost, and the best feeling ever is when you go back to something you wrote and you go "Damn I wrote that? Good job past me"
"can i be lost and crabby?"
That is also completely relatable. On my side, I was a heavy pantser when it came to writing, preferring long-ish one shots that sometimes went into 10k but were always starting in mid-res and ending in mid-res, the photography of a moment that I then left for another photography. I was happy with it so long as I had enough creative juice to go with the flow and lose myself for a bunch of hours only to come up for air with 20 pages full of /something/. But then if I didn't get into the flow or couldn't picture a scene past a feeling or vibe, I would hit a road block that translated into oneshots getting shorter or not being completed, fics left ongoing because I didn't know how to get to the next good scene I had in mind, sentences that I would write and rewrite 100 times because they didn't hit just right etc.
I've found my way of forcing myself out of those dead ends (which tragically meant limiting my pantser and perfectionist antics), but I definitely relate to the feeling of having lots of ideas and lots of starts but not exactly knowing what to do with them.
In general I would say that so long as the writing itself is entertaining to you, then it doesn't matter if the scene is unfinished, or just the start of something etc. You can always continue it later on, or change it in the future. You can just write something to showcase how beautiful MC and the LI are in that particular scene, even if it says nothing and goes nowhere. Sometimes those are little puzzle pieces that then manage to become part of something else down the line.
"feel completely free to post a sentence here or there"
I'm definitely thinking about doing it! I'm trying to think of the logistics with spoilers though. I know that I've thought "Hm, maybe I should make the scene go X so it's not a spoiler" at least twice and I'm not sure about that creative direction, so I'm stalling a bit.
Playing with 2 LIs is way better for SHC and open orbits.
"is that okay to say out loud?"
You didn't shout it loud enough IMO. It was lovely to read and should be way more normalized. Write for yourself, write what you want to read, surprise and entertain yourself first and foremost, and the best feeling ever is when you go back to something you wrote and you go "Damn I wrote that? Good job past me"
"can i be lost and crabby?"
That is also completely relatable. On my side, I was a heavy pantser when it came to writing, preferring long-ish one shots that sometimes went into 10k but were always starting in mid-res and ending in mid-res, the photography of a moment that I then left for another photography. I was happy with it so long as I had enough creative juice to go with the flow and lose myself for a bunch of hours only to come up for air with 20 pages full of /something/. But then if I didn't get into the flow or couldn't picture a scene past a feeling or vibe, I would hit a road block that translated into oneshots getting shorter or not being completed, fics left ongoing because I didn't know how to get to the next good scene I had in mind, sentences that I would write and rewrite 100 times because they didn't hit just right etc.
I've found my way of forcing myself out of those dead ends (which tragically meant limiting my pantser and perfectionist antics), but I definitely relate to the feeling of having lots of ideas and lots of starts but not exactly knowing what to do with them.
In general I would say that so long as the writing itself is entertaining to you, then it doesn't matter if the scene is unfinished, or just the start of something etc. You can always continue it later on, or change it in the future. You can just write something to showcase how beautiful MC and the LI are in that particular scene, even if it says nothing and goes nowhere. Sometimes those are little puzzle pieces that then manage to become part of something else down the line.
"feel completely free to post a sentence here or there"
I'm definitely thinking about doing it! I'm trying to think of the logistics with spoilers though. I know that I've thought "Hm, maybe I should make the scene go X so it's not a spoiler" at least twice and I'm not sure about that creative direction, so I'm stalling a bit.
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