Greetings Fellow Human!

Starer of rocks by day, typer of words by night.

[rumoglobalheavyindustry]

the scariest thing ever

[conzoop]

happy skeleton warrior week, keep those bones strong!

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[wintersoldierfell]

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

[wintersoldierfell]

girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text

[dyrewrites]

"First drafts are always bad" does not--

I emphasize: DOES NOT mean that it is poorly written.

It does not mean the story is bad. Or the concept is bad. Or the words themselves are bad.

It means it is rough. It is unedited. It is not submittable, saleable, ready for publication. It's raw and messy and needs work.

As all first drafts do.

Even professionals at it for decades, dominating the industry, do not write a publishable piece of fiction when they sit down to write.

If you've seen videos of artists working from rough sketch to final piece you can compare the two.

Your first draft is bad because it is a draft.

Reminding new authors of this is a way to lessen the fear of perfection. To get out of your head and just write. To let them know it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be written. You can fix whatever you hate in revision. You're going to be revising anyway. No matter how great the first draft reads you will be revising it. Probably more than once. So don't worry if it isn't perfect first time out.

It is not meant to be an aggressive and cruel expectation or condemnation of beginners or some declaration that your first draft must be terrible or you've failed somehow.

That is asinine.

You are writers, you understand words and their meanings so for the love of those words would you please act like it.

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[ominous-signs]

So many hot minutes when can I get a cold hour

[ominous-signs]

Chill second? Luke-warm nanosecond?

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[thesummoningdark]

The last week has been so ridiculous even the satirists can’t take it any more

[the-stray-liger]

the fucking timestamp

[starrynet]

what’s your favorite ship?

titanic

hms terror

uss enterprise

ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)

captain ahab’s whaling vessel

ship of theseus

battleship monopoly token

mclennon

Voting ended onJul 14

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You just teleported to the last movie you watched! how is it going?

good

bad

great

awful

FUCK YOU I'M IN THE BACKROOMS NOW

dead

results

Voting ended onJul 10

[yesterdaysprint]

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

[ivy-michaels]

This comic is from 2017 and it remains as relevant as ever

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

[hiveswap]

It took them two tries to ban it?

[kvotheunkvothe]

[prokopetz]

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

[patchhap]

Statement of y/n regarding being sold to the music group one direction, original statement given on wattpad, audio recording by Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institution, London. Statement begins: I woke up and pulled my messy brown hair into a loose bun-

[enba-and-luka]