Take All The Ghosts

they/them eyeliner cryptid

[starfoozle]

Well this is a new one.

[tomb-mold]

the problem is i really do love staying up until one billion o'clock. it just cant be helped

[allthoseskeletons]

No but what if he’s been in love with them all these years and it’s just something he has to carry with him and can’t do anything with I’m going to SCREAM

[badymaru]

#mcrmadrid

[gloamglozerglam-deactivated2022]

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

[dykepuffs]

There is a really frustrating thing where some kinds of speculative story are hard to write because they will be assumed to be bad (clumsy, harmful, regressive) metaphors for real-world events or people, rather than exploring completely speculative ideas. Like:

"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.

"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

It almost feels like death of the author, like "Death of the most obvious metaphor" - If you couldn't reach for the (tormented) parallel between being an alien species and being stateless, what stories could someone tell? If your changeling-baby was neither disabled nor adopted, what would the story be about? Etc.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: writing, always come back to 'This is a harmful and regressive view of autism!', yeah man it absolutely would be, however it's supposed to be heavy metal poisoning /End ID]

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

The best piece of writing advice I can give is that you should strive to be sincere rather than original.

You can't force originality. Originality will arise as a natural consequence of sincerity. Make the story completely and apologetically yours, and originality will come by virtue of it being your story.

[mariodaymiller]

I’m a rock and roll guy.

[poetic-questions]

—Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo, his brother (Amsterdam, 15 July 1877)

[allthoseskeletons]

Love 2 be autistic trying to navigate the Irish driving test

[pansytheleia]

please vote for new European bank notes

if there is two things you should remember me by it's both loving birds and being very pro Europe.

Anyway we'll apparently get new bank notes with either historic figures or nature and I'm not telling you to vote for birds buuuuuuut -

[pansytheleia]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/

[official-kultur]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share

[feralbiologist]

you can also flip through the design candidates first if you want to go into the survey having seen all options first (or to complain about some of them in the group chat like we did all morning xD) here: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

The Clarifier would like to make just one more comment

[oldmanpusspuss]

I can't watch a television show until a demon possesses me and compels me to do it

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[shore-birds]

[walk-up-songs]

[one single bloodcurdling agonized scream] ok time to lock in

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!