aelstra

🇵🇸 i will always stand with human rights // tired writer & full time student // this is mainly a blog about writing // i talk about books on @thequeerbouquiniste // she/her // aelstra on ao3

[go-whump-in-the-night]

[dick-the3rd]

I can't believe this game isn't a fanfic

Brucie Wayne dancing naked while being screamed at by the Penguin sure is something

[pearlforalbatross]

Donna Troy doodle :D

Recently watched Troyoboyo17's Wonder Woman prewrite video (on yt) and I genuinely teared up Skjaks

[occasionalvirgin]

Right wing manipulation tactics explained

[taraljc]

this is an epic exposure of how propaganda functions.

[aniseandspearmint]

Always worth watching, even if you've seen it before, bc its a great refresher for how propagandists like Kirk work.

[headspace-hotel]

the thing about getting the world changed for the better is you gotta learn how to make your ideas sound appealing and positive to people who might not agree otherwise.

But on the internet people describe their ideas in the most shocking and extreme way possible as a way of sifting out people who are "really" on their side

That is bad for forming a movement or sparking any kind of action

it's gotten so outrageous that people will have an idea like "we should have a strong public transportation system that is accessible to everyone" but they will express it like "FUCK CARS! WE SHOULD BAN CARS! IF YOU LIKE TO DRIVE YOU'RE A FASCIST! NO ONE NEEDS A CAR!"

This causes everyone to get into arguments about whether it is true that no one needs a car, and whether banning cars would make places inaccessible for people with certain disabilities.

The whole time we don't need to "ban cars" to have public transportation and it makes no sense why we are talking about it

We're never going to get accessible public transportation like this.

[mooniolex]

Red Hoooood guyyssss

[depsidase]

[spinotorso]

red hood lost days

[andyboops]

Also this:

And this:

[renviary]

scarred lovers (!!!somewhat suggestive content!!!)

[demilypyro]

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW

[possumtion]

Annoying mites that bother you in your sleep

[wordfather]

always remember when you read a tumblr post to read it through your own lens and dont think about any complexities in the world lest you may understand what is being said <3

[writingdose]

How's you've been doing?? I hope you're doing well. I want to ask if you don't mind. So, I have a request on AO3 on my fanfic (the oneshot ver where I let my readers to say the ideas they had.) Now, the thing is, I'm replying to them that I'm busy on irl and I have another request (+ other fanfic idea) that I'm planning to wrote. They said its fine but also said "dont take too long" which makes me hesitated. I want to know your opinion if what I'm feeling hesitated is really something normal and what should I do with it?? Anyways, thank you ^^

hi, anon, I'm doing great and I hope you are too!

as for your question, if I'm being honest, the "don't take too long" part from the commenter is rude and entitled. like. genuinely rude and entitled, especially if they're a stranger. (I can sort of see two close friends joke with each other like this — even though it's not something I'd personally say to my friends, not even as a joke — but if it's from a stranger? no. just no.)

there's a difference between being excited and being rude.

unless they're paying you for your service, they don't get to say "don't take to long" to you. because you are doing something for them FOR FREE. something that is your hobby. (and the thing about a hobby is that we do it for ourselves, not for someone else.) you are being kind by offering to do something FOR FREE. and for someone to respond to the kindness you give them with "don't take too long" is discouraging, rude and extremely entitling.

I would block this person if I were you. and I'd definitely no longer be writing whatever they asked me to write.

and also a message to people in general who come across this post, be respectful to fanfic writers and fan artists who are kind enough to share what they create with you FOR FREE. you are privileged enough to get to consume their contents FOR FREE. what fanfic writers and fan artists do is their hobbies, something they do in their free time, something they do as their source of comfort. they're only kind enough to allow you to consume their works for free. you do NOT get to demand anything from them. you do NOT get to be entitled or rude toward them.

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[bebewrites]

PSA for anyone who uses ingramspark, or anyone you know who does, you now need to opt out to prevent them from selling your books to AI tech companies to train their AI. 🤦‍♀️

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[maydayparkers]

Literally begging people to engage with media in a way that isn’t “strip layered characters into a one-size-fits-all babie personality that’s basically just the phrase ‘appley juice :3’ as a personality”

[maydayparkers]

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you smooth away at every rough edge that makes a well written character interesting you’re always going to end up with the same smooth sphere. And if you’re only comfortable playing around with that sphere then either you never liked the original all that much or you should probably have a long think about how you consume with media and why this is the only way you seem able to do so