CandyThePuppy

I've never kissed a man.

[candythepuppy]

Holy heck

[candythepuppy]

They put the cracker back in Cracker Barrel

[candythepuppy]

Thinking back to that time (last night) the air conditioner broke and I was so hot I slept on the floor in my room. Or at least tried to sleep. Around 2am hopped on call with that one on-and-off friend and we chatted for like two hours until I was tired enough to finally asleep.

He did that thing again, chat. The nervous "I wish you were my girlfriend" followed by "just kidding lol" sigh. After five years, you think he'd give up on that...

If only I had the heart to tell him I kinda liked him too. Just don't know to what extent...

We're not good for each other. That's the only constant.

[crabussy]

just saw a chair so photogenic I had to reevaluate my feelings towards plastic furniture

[crabussy]

do you see this. beyond ridiculous

[crabussy]

what are our thoughts

I understand your feelings for the chair robin crabussy

unpost this right now you strange strange man

Remaining time: 20 hours 36 minutes

[crabussy]

I hired a wizard to cast png on it. effervescent

[majesticaldiscomfort]

Remind me to make a 3D model of it in Blender so I can make a spinning GIF of it

Remind me in like. Idk. 15 hours or something.

[jade--salamander]

Do it do it now

[candythepuppy]

This is one of those threads you see being reposted on Pinterest

[aint-love-heavy]

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed

[unyieldingsilence]

‎

[jade--salamander]

It's normal to look up what a word means if you don't understand it btw. You can just choose to learn and acknowledge that it's a normal part of life.

[candythepuppy]

The smaller someone's world is, the closer they are to being the ruler of it. So that mindset makes sense.

[candythepuppy]

Had a dream where some YouTuber guy and his friends prank called me (calling random number) and we ended up playing some Roblox-like game together cracking jokes; we had great chemistry.

[candythepuppy]

They call me ironman because I yearn, man 🥲

[candythepuppy]

You know what?

*unmonsters your monster story* (The Summer Hikaru Died)

Surprisingly little of the overall plot changes, actually.

Instead of Hikaru going to the mountain for suspicious supernatural reasons, he just figured out he was gay for his friend and freaked out. 😭 Instead of dying, he quietly accepted what he was and came back down. Yoshiki still noticed something was off about him. Still the same Hikaru, but now he was acting a little differently, so he asked him about it the next year. As a result, he got a confession: "I like you." Which of course freaked him out.

But they continued their friendship, kept hanging out, trying to ignore the fact that Hikaru was in love and Yoshiki maybe had feelings as well. But it's kinda hard to ignore the growing tension for long. And eventually, they both gotta confront the possibility that they're both monsters.

Ok this topic has been talked to death already, but sometimes, just as a fun thought experiment, I like to take the fantastical elements from a story and see if the overarching narrative survives without them. The Summer Hikaru Died is one of the few stories that is just as strong without the literal monster elements, and that's why I think the story resonates as deeply with people as it does. :D

[candythepuppy]

Ik AI is cringe and shi but genuinely astonished by this random pit I fell into. So I thought I'd share.

Yes it's 1am lol. I was doing some late night doom scrolling and found a...weirdly conservative-ish part of the internet in the LAST place I was expecting. Not saying these people are actually conservative. Just... You'll see what I mean. I'll just share the comments.

No hate to anyone plz. That's just cringe.

I tried to include some opposing views, but the majority, from what I saw, were supportive. Just thought that was a really interesting find.

Lazy reporter...signing out. o7

[candythepuppy]

Over here making charts and such for my book and now I can't stop saying "stinky boi" in my head 😭

[candythepuppy]

The aliens are just waiting for humans to domesticate ourselves so they can harvest us like dodo birds.

[candythepuppy]

Sometimes dreams are weird just because of how REALISTIC they are, takes a while to separate it from a real memory.

Like last night, for instance: I was in a group talking to a few ladies about which language should be taught in the extra curricular class and I threw out German as an idea. One of the other ladies was immediately like "ew, isn't that the language with the backward letters and stuff?" ... "☝️・⁠▽⁠・ You're probably thinking of Russian." I corrected her,

Then boarded a canoe to row through a swamp with some others before capsizing our ship (their fault) and spending the rest of the dream in a tree trying to use old luggage and ropes to reach my luggage at the top, only to realize at the end I could have just gone up the stairs?

I've never been a teacher or worked in a school so idk what any of that was about.

[candythepuppy]

Kinda crazy how little I told my parents about all the CrAZy things happening in my life! HAHA!

Finding out the man you idealized since 14 and got DMs-close to was secretly a pEdoPhiLe the whole time?! HAHAH Wild, amiright?! So glad HE went to jail!

Almost getting engaged to random Discord users not once, not twice, but THREE times!? AHAH! Ohh, I was such a SILLY little RASCAL!

Almost becoming a school shooting victim at 11? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Lucky I survived!

Getting bullied so much in kindergarten I- ...hit myself in the stomach...until I threw up... so I could tell the teacher I was sick and... go home...

I don't like this game anymore.

[candythepuppy]

There's gotta be segregation in Hell. No WAY are they burning in eternal damnation AND arguing over whether Tex Mex is a valid food category.

[candythepuppy]

I think one reason Superman is such a hard character to write is because he's so intrinsically tied to US history you physically CAN'T learn Superman lore without knowing about the kkk and how it was dismantled.

That's gotta be why every time Superman is reimagined, it inevitably becomes a political warzone!

[candythepuppy]

Me every time I see a police car with its lights on: Aw yeah, it's disco time

[anointedfungalclown]

This is going straight to the pink man.

[candythepuppy]

Who is that??

Pink panther???

(finally found out how to do the thread thing)

[candythepuppy]

Vague writing tips I use all the time:

(doesn't mean you have to follow them)

Never start at the beginning. Start in the middle, or right before the end. This goes for world building, characters, items, lore, relationships, you name it.

Build your characters' "houses" on the sand. Watching that is far more interesting than what was built on the rocks.

Crafting a story should feel like a good sparring match. The plot is one opponent and the readers' expectations are the other. And the readers are hungry for a good fight.

Procrastinating? That's caused by a lack of stimulation/your mind going into autopilot. Push your current skill beyond its comfort level. Force your brain to dive head first into a specific problem you've been putting aside for months/years. Let every chapter tackle a feasible problem you need to overcome.

Plan to kill off all your characters from the start. Then force them to convince you why they should live.

NEVER name one of your characters Justin.