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[hyunonaut]

All aboard

[aether-mae]

still grappling with the difference between Doomed Yaoi and Bury Your Gays, because theres a signifiant distinction that i cant quite articulate rn

[forestfright]

no more light

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[wanderinsect]

🫩 no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.

[morhath]

I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.

[bookaddict7342]

I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"

[morhath]

nooo I am not a beleaguered knight of the round table I am making elaborate focaccia 😭

[copperbadge]

"I hate when King Arthur has all these fussy little steps" -- Camelot cleaning staff, probably

[sreppub]

u should feed tiny tim a lemon

we lose so many robins this way :(

[sreppub]

happy birthday, tim drake

[swordbymyside]

[julia1x5-deactivated20250903]

I refuse to let this be lost in the tags

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[fishyaudio]

All the yellow wet floor signs always remind me of strange animals because they stand on four legs. Like what if they gather around leaking roofs and pipes to drink like a pack of animals seeking an oasis in the desert

This one was drawn over my photo of a metro station that I now think does anything but renovate it's roof. 3 signs and 5 buckets is kinda embarrasing

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[shapeoftheday]

restless spirits

[incendavery]

DONT ask why corvid isnt wearing a shirt bc the answer is embarrassing. (i forgor to draw it)

[imlostinwalmart]

I love you all, you can all be sexy men.

[crimson-chains]

A true story of something that happened to me at a con a few years ago! I just couldn't believe that bag saldjaldjalkd!!!

[rizsnt]

break out of your role 🌻🌟

[tlbodine]

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

[prof-grace-aspen]

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

[earhartsease]

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

[eldritchsandwich]

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

[thesaltofcarthage]

THE SLUSH FILE, WHY DOES EVERYBODY FORGET ABOUT THE SLUSH FILE

that's where your darlings go. you aren't killing them. you're transplanting them. put them somewhere where they can grow in their own light.

[shottxyz]