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sheepfilms
The Stonewall Inn
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Noah Kahan
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
will byers stan first human second
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
cherry valley forever
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Keni
Misplaced Lens Cap
Love Begins
Andulka
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Sade Olutola
Stranger Things
Product Placement
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@ax-fantasma
Ugly Duckling sequel where the swan is like hey it's nobody's fault and I don't think anyone did anything wrong per se but nonetheless I did feel really alienated and depressed for most of my youth and those years do continue to affect me in the present day and their mom is like, so what you're saying is that you think I'm a failure and a bad duck.
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)
everyone stop reblogging this I hate to be reminded of my own good advice
tangotek....!!
love his deckedout3 skin so so so much, i finally worked something out.
so hiccups are a human thing right?
trans girls are allowed to be annoying and stereotypical and socially inept and hyperactive and hypersexual and various types of animalgirl and there's nothing you can do about it. in fact if you're mean to that skirt go spinny reddit trans girl i'm stealing your entire house
shiny duo save stars
Cis people: giving some suicidal teenagers hormones that will save their lives after a long and lengthy process of consideration and approval from medical professionals is literally grooming and mutilation of a child
Also cis people, frothing at the mouth: I NEED to mutilate this intersex baby. PLEASE let me forcibly mutilate the genitals of this innocent newborn child before it can consent because I think it looks weird!! WE HAVE TO DO IT IT'S LITERALLY NECESSARY DESPITE HAVING NO KNOWN BENEFITS
Imagine if you were floating alone in space for nearly 50 years after all your friends went to sleep and never woke up, and just when all hope seems to be lost another ship appears this weird-ass alien pops out with all this tech, somehow starts TALKING to you with said tech, and promises to help you - DOES help you, and even sacrifices his chance to go home to save you and your people - and then you find out that his name means “mercy” in his home language ???
Shit, dude, I’d have assumed God himself was sending me a message.
Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with
“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you
"how did you get into writing" girl i've been tormented by the visions since i was eight years old
how id survive horror movies:
iron lung: im vaccinated against polio so i dont need one
it: my pronouns are she/they
sinners: im an atheist
the backrooms: my house doesnt have that many rooms
Resident evil: id evict them
Midsommar: im swedish.
Get out: ok i'll leave
x: im still calling it twitter
american psycho: i live in sweden
What do you think about the idea of Adrian being extremely similar to Stratt? I don’t know if it’s common or anything but I enjoy the idea.
In part because I like the idea of like- Rocky really wanting to hate Stratt. Really desperately wanting to wish her dead. But he just can’t manage it, because he’s cursed to see all the bits of Adrian in her. They’re too similar, and he feels like he’s betraying Grace by not despising the one that shot him off into space- but it’s too easy for him to imagine Adrian in Stratt’s place and he just can’t. He can’t feel anything but agony over the idea that, if things had been even slightly different for Erid, Adrian might have been put in the exact same place as Stratt.
I do sometimes think of it! I think a variant of this i do think about a lot is Rocky (when things are calmer) learning about Stratt and seeing himself in her. Spent decades alone in space trying everything he can to save his home and finding kinship in this woman who was willing to throw her life and soul away to save earth
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.
I just found out that Goose went through conversion therapy. Transfem Jax is even more important now.
The summer between the end of high school and the start of college, I wrote a ridiculous play about pirates and put on a staged reading with some friends at an amphitheatre at a local park before a small audience of friends and family. It was never published or staged again. But I just got a message from an old high school friend I haven’t seen in years. He accidentally quoted the play in a conversation with friends, was asked what he was quoting, he couldn’t remember either, and wracked his brain until he finally remembered it was that silly play reading that we did one day in the park over 10 years ago. It made me happy. (The line was, “Huzzah for mercantilism!” by the way.)
A very tiny percentage of creators go on to be famous, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t remember little things you did for years and years. Who came up with most of the world’s most famous jump rope rhymes? Who coined some of the famous idioms we use in daily speech? Who made up ‘Jingle Bells, Batman Smells?” Somehow, all of these things stuck and spread around.
When I was a small child, I saw a high school put on a production of the musical HONK. In one song, the mother duck describes various dangers that her baby should avoid in the water, including fishing line, which could strangle him. A member of the ensemble played the role of fishing line, doing a maniacal laugh and over-the-top strangling motions, and I found it hilarious– and to this day, that’s an example I often think of when talking about how ensemble members can still stand out in theatre. The guy who played the role might not even remember that he did that, but I do.
I took Suzuki violin lessons as a kid. The teacher made up lyrics to some of the songs, and she let her students make some up, too. Now whenever I hear the instrumental of one of those pieces, I always remember these ridiculous lyrics about a skunk that we sang in violin class. I don’t even know which student invented them!
In middle school, I found a video about atoms parodying Bill Nye made by some kids for a school product. It probably had less than 1,000 views, but I think of quotes from that video all the time. They had a parody of “We Will Rock You” with the chorus, “Protons, neutrons, electrons” that I think about a lot.
I just love that this is part of human life. Our memories don’t just pick up quotes from great art, literature, and music, but little things, too.
listen. if your mutual suddenly starts referring to The Character with different pronouns, you must go along with it. that character is trans now. they’re right.
